skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a road in Melbourne called "High Street Road" - as opposed to High Street.
roughly the same here. I've always been a fan of XFCE, but preferred KDE until KDE4. And I just re-installed KDE 3 days ago, still don't like it.

I switched over to XFCE for a while, until finally settling on i3. I'm perfectly happy with i3, and even if KDE pulled their heads out of their butts, I doubt I would go back.
love me some i3 :)
The paragraph that jumped out at me:

"My work on introduced me to applications where 'correctness' cannot be defined. How do I know, for example, that my program for the letter A produces a correct image? I never will; and I've learned to live with that uncertainty. On the other hand, when I implemented the routines that interpret specifications and draw the associated bitmaps, there was plenty of room for rigor. The algorithms that go into font rendering are among the most interesting I've ever seen."
>The predicted date was a little early

wouldn't say so - my first Linux machine (slackware, shoebox of diskettes :) i installed exactly in the 95 :)

>from a late 80s Lisp perspective, modern Windows fits into the "UNIX" category

while psychotropic mind-altering effects of Lisp are well known, i'd doubt that it can produce such perception changes or even in such a direction.
You don't have to take anyone's word for anything...

https://github.com/SilentCircle/silent-phone-android
Gotcha. I have HBOgo so I paid little attention.
HBO Go (in the US anyway) doesn't have "paid subscribers." Comcast customers who have subscribe to HBO as part of their TV packages get access to HBO Go as an additional service. Comcast authenticates subscribers to tell HBO Go whether to allow users access to the service. But in this case, they aren't supporting their authentication on Roku devices.
Judging by the dates on the comments, Cowen's review came out more like a month ago.
The proper way to handle such mess would be a "right to be forgiven", not a "right no be forgotten". But then, some things are easier to forget than to forgive.
To clarify, you can already pay to watch past seasons of Game of Thrones on Amazon Video on Demand in the US. It's just not included for free with Prime which as I understand is the change that's happening for a subset of HBO content.
It would still be more substantial than anything he has offered so far.

To make an assertion that a game of roulette in a licensed casino is not random is in the realm of moon landing conspiracy.

PS: I also think it's rather sad and transparent that you created a new shill account to reply to me.
I think you are misreading the "simply" as "simple". Rather, the connotation is one of an experience distilled down to its essence, not interrupted or besmirched by other, unimportant vulgarities like "the need to get from point A to point B". In fact, I would go so far as to say you are reading it exactly opposite of its intended meaning and are arguing that it should say what it actually does say.

On the Field and Stream, see my other comment nearby that has the full definition from the dictionary used. If you've ever seen Field and Stream magazine, you know the fields it talks about are not football fields, which is an incredibly narrow definition of the word 'field'.
"Metric" is the standard unless the target for your app is only the US market...
Looks interesting. I wonder if they'll add circuit simulation similar to Multisim (http://www.ni.com/video/1629/en/)
Odd. It works for me on a Samsung Smart TV. Was able to authenticate to my account (Comcast sub) with no problem.
I love Haskell because I don't have to depend on my working memory. It's so nice to have the compiler tell me everywhere some type I've changed is used, or places I've forgotten to consider possible values.
GNU Name System seems interesting indeed. If I'm understanding it correctly you could mix'n'match centralized and decentralized stuff with it, eg you could delegate .com.gnu to VeriSign. But of course there is the little stumbling block that bootstrapping FoF/WoT style network is nearly impossible.

Actually I wonder if they could have used existing PGP key network as a basis for building their own system, eg do initial key exchange based on PGP keys.
As the co-founder of the only truly global feature film VOD service I can confirm this is the case. The situation with rights is quite nuanced. An example of one small but annoying detail is the fact that content is often licensed by language, and the local distributor owning streaming rights for a given film will only be interested in the local language rights. So in practice, you may have subtitles in German, French and English, but you can only allow their use in the respective countries. In order to realize the dream of a VOD service where everything is available globally in any language is going to require a complete sea change in the mechanics of film licensing. The technical challenges are comparatively trivial.
And honestly, if they want your cell data they can get it from Room 641A a lot easier than popping up government cell towers all over the nation. On the border, though, it makes more sense to surveil traffic which might not originate from within the US.
Cool! Once that's more widely supported, that seems well worth using.
Well, it's more like weathersignal is similar to this - we launched our project a year or two before theirs.
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I was on the receiving end of a DataCo C&D and had to stop my quite-popular, burgeoning 'prediction game' site - was a huge shame. When you say "goals" in relation to [2], does that mean results cannot be published, or does that only relate to specific times of goals?
> secured by policy, not by technology

I'd say the goal can only be to maximize both, because no single factor will ever give you the best solution.

And their strategic positioning certainly also benefits from this move.
Antr, you gesture to "substantiated, well supported, warrants/subpoenas/etc" but fail to ask the more relevant question. Private banking enterprises within Switzerland have provided tax haven services for U.S. and European capital for many years, beginning in the post-WWI period when tax competition was minimal. The 1920s and 1930s were halcyon days for global capital fleeing the warring nations. Switzerland had a lightweight and liberal government, and banks had an appetite for alien capital when few others did.

Quoting Farquet 2012:

In a subordinate position before the war, notably with regard to the competition of France and Germany, Swiss bankers took advantage of the new international context to affirm themselves as figures of substance in the financial world at the beginning of the 1920s. Although, for example, the cumulative balance sheets of the major Swiss banks represented only 26% of those of their French counterparts in 1913, they subsequently amounted to 73% in 1929.

The Swiss financial centre was particularly renowned in the sector of cross-border wealth management. In fact, foreign capital flowed en masse towards the Swiss haven in the interwar years. According to a [League of Nations] report, owing to the importance of foreign assets, in 1929, Switzerland possessed by far the highest per capita total of bank deposits in the world. The lack of a reliable balance of payments, as much as the absence of the legal obligation for Swiss banks to publish details regarding their accounts, nevertheless prevent an exact estimate of the total amount of imported capital. Banking balance sheets indicate a general trend, but are inadequate sources.

A committee of experts working on Swiss history during World War II who, exceptionally, had access to the in-house archives of the banks, showed that holdings of securities, generally in off-balance-sheet bank custody accounts, represented, in the two biggest Swiss banks in 1931, more than three times their balance-sheet.

[http://www.ehes.org/EHES_No27.pdf]

End quotation.

Needless to say, the confiscatory tax rates in the U.S. during the late 50s and 60s made going after Swiss accounts attractive. But the Swiss were having none of it.

So are the two situations you mention genuinely at opposite spectrums? Or is Switzerland's special brand the product of a persistently muscular political consensus that, after more than fifty years, may now be flagging? And if the latter is the case, then the OP asks a fair question.
This is pretty interesting, but unfortunately their intro page doesn't do a good job of explaining why. (For instance, they use the word "unprecedented" without really saying what makes Arrakis different from previous exokernel-like designs.) I'll try to summarize what I got out of skimming the paper[1]:

When you have multiple applications running on the same machine, you need some way to safely share resources between them; for example, incoming network packets are a resource. A kernel handles this by keeping a data structure mapping sockets to processes, and demultiplexing data that comes in from the network card. Hypervisors work the same way, except at the level of virtual machines rather than processes.

Arrakis does the same thing, but relies on hardware support in the network card to dispatch packets to the right process. This relies on a standard called SR-IOV[2] which allows the OS to configure a PCI device to present itself as multiple virtual subdevices. The kernel programs the NIC to dispatch packets to different buffers depending on the incoming MAC address; after that, packets can be dispatched with no kernel involvement at all. Similarly, you can tell a disk controller to present a particular extent of a disk as a new virtual storage device.

The blurb about memory protection seems to be a red herring, because as far as I can see they haven't done anything to change that. There's still a kernel, which handles requests for resource mappings, and processes are still isolated from each other. But once they've requested the mappings that they need, the normal execution path doesn't involve any syscalls, and so there's no kernel overhead. The real contribution of the paper is designing an API around this idea and proving that real applications like Redis can be ported to it.

[1] http://arrakis.cs.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/...
[2] http://blog.scottlowe.org/2009/12/02/what-is-sr-iov/
That's pretty awful from the user point of view though. It's bad enough to have to pay - much worse to pay a randomly fluctuating amount and feel like you need to count your pennies every time you add a feed to your reader.

Definitely would not advise this model for a feed reader.
> The Bushes and Clintons did not derive political power from wealth.

In the latter case that's pretty clearly true, at least as to their own wealth (as the Clintons weren't particularly wealthy independently of their political success), in the former case, not so much.
It's hard for anything but policy to protect against denial of service (legal attacks against the company). Even if you have technical security which prevents compromise of data, they can shut the business down.

CALEA means you are actually prevented from building/operating some kinds of privacy tech within the US (PSTN voice without wiretaps for sure, and PSTN-interconnected VOIP is a gray area; a mobile-focused VPN would be a gray area too, although not as dark as some.)
Inside vs outside isn't really a problem actually, the pressure is effectively the same. The bigger issue is altitude changes, which even small amounts can cause noise...but there are ways to filter that out.
It really needs some cleanup and some extractions for public use, but we have a set of rake tasks to do all that and a bit more (e.g. reindexing into a new index and flipping the associated alias)

https://github.com/asquera/elasticsearch-rake-tasks
In reply to many comments about the lack of safety of the approach: They claim that "[they] demonstrate that operating system protection is not contradictory with high performance".

Abstract of their latest paper:

Recent device hardware trends enable a new approach
to the design of network server operating systems. In a
traditional operating system, the kernel mediates access
to device hardware by server applications, to enforce pro-
cess isolation as well as network and disk security. We
have designed and implemented a new operating system,
Arrakis, that splits the traditional role of the kernel in
two. Applications have direct access to virtualized I/O
devices, allowing most I/O operations to skip the ker-
nel entirely, while the kernel is re-engineered to provide
network and disk protection without kernel mediation of
every operation.

We describe the hardware and software
changes needed to take advantage of this new abstraction,
and we illustrate its power by showing 2-5x end-to-end
latency and 9x throughput improvements for a popular
persistent NoSQL store [i.e. Redis] relative to a well-tuned Linux
implementation.

http://arrakis.cs.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_detection_and_correction#...
> The Critical Engineer deconstructs and incites suspicion of rich user experiences.

I've read that a dozen times and I still have no idea what it's supposed to mean, is this meant to be a Koan?
I talked to the founder. He said they'll provide circuit simulation. They can integrate with a web based circuit simulation platform as well.
_wmd, hyc_symas
I understand the principles of LMDB operation, the worst case scenario is lots of random writes that hit random pages in the db file. In such case the I/O will be heavy and random also, which leads to bad performance of disk operations (not so bad with SSD ,though). But you're right, if you avoid the worst case LMDB shines.
"The App Engine way" involves writing a lot of things from scratch that normally you wouldn't have to, and spending a lot of time on kinds of optimization that you are unlikely ever to need. This offsets that perceived benefit in terms of developer time.

You could argue that it's good to spend this extra time because it makes your site more scalable. But if you ever reach the scale "the App Engine way" becomes relevant at, you are likely paying an order of magnitude more than you would if you bought dedicated servers. For all smaller cases, you are prematurely optimizing for scalability.

App Engine's reliability is easily overstated. App Engine has had a long history of issues with their services like datastore. When datastore does not function, there isn't any reasonable way to build a backup storage system because the platform is so restrictive. Frankly, backup services are cheap, and there are plenty of hosted database services if that's all you need. Ones which don't lock you in forever.

So, yeah, sites built on App Engine do go down for various reasons and still have to be monitored just like anything else. Except that you can't use any of the usual tools because the platform is completely unique and the underlying software is proprietary and completely secret to you as a platform user.

App Engine apps realistically only run on Google's servers. So even in the best case, you must have a lot of pure faith in Google. Because if you have reliability problems, problems with the platform's restrictions, problems with the terrible support or if the price skyrockets again, or if the platform gets wound down... you will be absolutely forced to rewrite your whole project to move it off of App Engine. You really won't have any idea that this is going to happen until man-years have already been invested.
@Tormeh, yes most US states do, but they're small (zero to nine percent, typically). I said US import duties were low, not nonexistent.
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If you're willing to get your hands "dirty", you can self-host on a vps, it's damn cheap those days. DigitalOcean is a favorite around here, but there are also more "professional" companies like Linode, and more cheap options like my favorite Ramnode.
And then there's the concept of 'vanity addressing', though usually negated by postcodes/zipcodes - where affluent/"good" suburb is adjacent to a "less desirable" one - I'm not familiar with the geography, but for example where someone might say Beverley Hills, but give/live in Culver City's ZIP. Or in Melbourne, when I worked for a utility we'd get a lot of people who'd quote their address as Mont Albert, with a Box Hill South post code.
Even after reading the article I find the simple explanation quite convincing.

Is the explanation for static electricity from rubbing dissimilar materials together also not entirely correct?
Why would anyone watch the entire series if they didn't like the episodes they started with?
>>>> "The meme seemed to be that Abramson was in fact terminated because around colleagues and staff she was a tough taskmaster who didn’t mind running over anyone who stood in her way, traits we admire and respect in men holding similar positions."

I think, to Gold's end, we should really be questioning "who is this 'we' that admires such men?" Frankly, I can't stand being bossed around by anyone, regardless of their sex. It's why I haven't worked in a traditional office for over 4 years, and why I had such a terrible quality of life the 6 before that.

Where is all of the cooperation and mutual respect that all of these corporations espouse in their employee handbooks? There's way too much "for thee but not for me" coming out of CEOs.

Corporate culture is sick and, at least for my part, I want nothing to do with supporting it.

>>>> "I don’t know what character traits other people are teaching their kids but bossy and pushy are not high on my list. Empathy has a place in this world and in the workplace, and so do compassion, boldness and vision. Leaders that succeed today don’t run over their employees, they lift them up."

That is exactly right.

It's something I fear with my own business plans. What happens if this project takes off and I have to hire people? How do I find people who share my vision of humane business practice? What happens when we make three orders of magnitude change in size? How do you create a system that doesn't end in HR cargo-culted hell?
Physic is already a word, means medicine.

This side of the pond we use British to mean "not American, originating in United Kingdon". I say this as a Canadian. For parts of our English that differ from American, like colour, we say "it's British". Our dictionaries say the same thing too:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hak6bs1hpnpu3rb/Screenshot%202014-...
:D thank you for posting

You seem to have laid it all out exactly, your attention to detail exceeding mine. What you've been saying is exactly how it works in Common Lisp.

Again, I do appreciate you explaining the specifics here, so let me just ramble why I think you're right and I still think "Lisp has no syntax". I did not take a Compilers course, but I call em like I see em. proceed at your own boredom

I guess my real problem is that I can't write down the line between syntax in Lisp and semantics. Many things are mere consequences of particular implementations, so I'll just list 3 scenarios.

SBCL could, ostensibly, update IF to be a compiler macro (defined with, say, COND). Gasp, I know. Would that break any code? Or would it just break the ANSI standard? Speed aside, how much does it matter?

SBCL could also change IF so the true & false parts are swapped. A criminally stupid move, sure. Then it's definitely not Common Lisp anymore. They'd've changed the calling convention. Note that the lexer wouldn't change at all, just the parser (pretend there's a separate lexer/parser, even though popular Lisps are all self-hosting). This seems to me a change in semantics, though I understand why one might argue it's a change in syntax.

SBCL could also do a third stupid thing: change IF so the test-case is wrapped with square braces, like (if [> 2 3] x y). This would be a major change, of course, and it wouldn't be Common Lisp. But the reader could be rewritten to handle the new characters and all the source code could be changed. This would definitely change the syntax. Note that the lexer needs tweaking, but the parser remains exactly the same (you don't even need new tokens).

If the syntax changes, the lexer changes. If the semantics change, the parser changes. The interface between the lexer and the parser is the List. Presumably, one could write a Lisp program in & a runtime for JSON lists instead of sexp lists, but I fail to see the benefit. Sexps are nearly the Ur-language for lists, unless you aren't trying to be a subset of ASCII (e.g. binary encodings). C-style arrays are no fun:

----main.lisp
{"defun", "factorial", {"n"},
{"if", {">", "n", 0"},
{"*", "n", etc},
{etc}}}

What a terrible syntax on such a beautiful semantics.

Anyhow I've been thinking about Lisp a lot today, and now my brain is kinda tired, so I'm going to go take my dogs for a walk. Thanks for the thought-provoking discussion.. :)
> You become invested in an idea by your own thoughts and actions as well as statements to others.

While I've observed this is true for most people, it isn't true for everyone.

I'd rather be correct than be right. It's one of the characteristics of people with a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator of INTJ. (And perhaps a few others.) I've also heard it called "strong opinions, weakly held" before.

I'm pretty sure both those with this characteristic and those without it spent a fair amount of time being greatly annoyed with eachother.
Impressive, thanks for sharing!
how is this better than, dropbox+truecrypt+tor?
> they've done a good job cherry picking the best of Scala while avoiding the kitchen sink baggage that Scala hopes to shed somewhere down the road

Sometimes I have the impression that some people just repeat stuff they heard on the internet without any actual experience of their own...
As I was doing some Rails work anyway I used Rails plus a little bash script and wget to crawl the site which I then deploy. It has it's limitations but I was able to get it all built quite quickly and didn't need to learn any new syntax (I've got the hang of Markdown since so I might do it differently if I did it again).
For simple images with text and flat colors, maybe use PNGs instead of JPEGs. The inline images have some painful artifacting going on.
That's why Arrakis provides that functionality through a library.
Article> Obviously, things like commuting are not recoverable but certainly I can scale back my random articles, Facebook and television watching.

Commuting time is not obviously unrecoverable. You could move closer to work. Doesn't work in all cases, and doesn't happen overnight, but if you're interested in tightly managing your total time on earth, and you're commuting more than 30 minutes a day, you've got to look at that wedge of time as in play.

(Someone could argue that the 30 should be 20, or even 15. Fair enough.)
If you like this concept, you may also find Mirage[1] interesting. Mirage compiles the application code into the kernel to run directly on the Xen hypervisor. (Thus system calls become ordinary function calls. They do some tricks to maintain security.)

[1] http://www.openmirage.org/
I don't disagree. If it wasn't clear from what I wrote, I just think the comparison with Apple was gratuitous. Saying Apple gets this right when they don't do it at all makes no sense to me.

I guess as a consumer I have to ask which I'd prefer: this slightly broken Microsoft process, or not learning about products at all until they go on sale. I actually do prefer the Microsoft process.
Godwin

Edit: There is a huge gulf between Hitler and a juvenile crime or since-paid debt.