skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it would be possible if you can circumvent the human sensory organs and directly feed the signal to higher brain areas. The delays in sensory modalities are anyway very diverse and not at all synchronously processed in real-time. Even within the same modality the signal is disintegrated in the brain. For example an image from the retina is processed with completely different delays in the ventral and dorsal stream. The ventral stream has latencies of several 100 ms [1]. It is still an open question in neuroscience how these different latencies are combined in higher areas in a way that they are perceived as synchronous.

So even if you are in a conversation with people directly in front of you, you do not actually have a real-time system. It takes roughly 400 ms until the image of a face of a person standing in front of you is processed in the ventral stream and is actually detected. On the other hand there is the auditory modality which is much more sensitive to latencies. But in the end the brain gives you the illusion that anything you perceive is actually real-time, although it is not. So if your brain decides to give a motor signal to actually press a piano key, then only many 100 ms later the actual sound will arrive. The perceptible latency of hearing a sound is actually only because the brain itself takes into account the delays in itself.

So in the end it comes down to trick the brain into believing something is real-time. This is for example done in multiplayer ego-shooters where the motions of other players are actually interpolated into the future and later on corrected if the other player actually changed their last motion command.

[1] Barragan-Jason G, Besson G, Ceccaldi M and Barbeau EJ (2013) Fast and famous: looking for the fastest speed at which a face can be recognized. Front. Psychol. 4:100. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00100
Have you given YouCompleteMe a shot? http://valloric.github.io/YouCompleteMe/
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This thread, more than any other, illustrates why the majority of posters should be ignored.

Approximately 50% of the posts are preceded with a variation of -

"I am just speculating but..."

Why on earth would 99.9% of the people on this thread think they have the expertise to offer an opinion of the evolution of arachnid venom is beyond me.

Fascinating article, even more fascinating watching humans debate like blind people in the dark.
Losing trust does not imply that anything underhanded has occurred.
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Like Ping? Every company has failures. Apple is much more secretive about what it is trying whereas Google is more open. As such the public sees all the 'beta' Google products, many of which will be closed down. There are benefits to both approaches.
Yes, it's a utility now as the OP pointed out.
I tried installing the apk on my Android 2.3.4 phone but I just get the error: "Parse error There is a problem parsing the package." I do have my settings to allow applications from unknown sources so that is not the problem.
I tend to think that deleting data gets it flagged forever. What are the last 5 status updates you deleted on Facebook, if you ever did it? How many dollars would you pay for your worst ennemy's deleted posts?
YouComplete does not currently work with neovim as neovim does not ship with python bindings yet.
Roughly 2997 kilometres, with C as the speed.
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Interesting, but it the app is soo slow!
Yes, its' true. It turns out that the speed of light isn't really all that fast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superluminal_communication
I wrote a small XML parsing library for a firewall API recently. Just writing about 15 functions handing data off to each other made me nervous about not enforcing types. The best I could do was write function signatures and descriptions.
No. Expertise and authority is an excellent way to evaluate claims. In this case, monks and holy men have espoused so many crazy and harmful ideas over the years that knowing they have endorsed [all kinds of fasting, not just the ones being evaluated scientifically] is not useful because their endorsements have no connection to the truth.
This is actually a pretty common misconception amongst muggles. A magician's trade is to lie with action, not with words, and most magicians I know have a very strong sense of honor in this regard.

Magicians do not often reveal their secrets, and I suppose some would even lie outright if you try to out them in public (although a good magician would find a way to ask you to stop ruining everyone's fun), but when a magician voluntarily tells you how something was not done, you can usually trust him. That's doubly true for respected magicians. I think it's a big part of what makes them respected.

Also, in the case of the bottles, cutting the bottom would not only be extremely easy to detect, it would also make the whole thing worthless. A cheap scam. Magician's consider themselves artists, not scammers.
Frankly, this is just strong intellectual dishonesty.

If you're going to harp on rigor, then you need to consider then eliminate the prospect of an honest mistake.
I hope this project merges with vim at some point.
It does have an implementation of "can't collapse comment threads", though.
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Not true, I was at Google at the time and many of us complained mightily on our internal forums.

That said, there were a disturbing number of middle-level management types that would high five every move Google made, good or bad. And I think they turn into the echo chamber that gives idiocy like this its momentum.
So true. I'm occasionally confused on which spelling to use. My rule of thumb is using "referrer" for almost all place including variable names, except for the situation when I have to manipulate the headers directly.
Curious humor == Classic too clever by half.
Do you realize how much more advertisers are willing to pay for targeted campaigns? That real identity G+ policy wasnt to stop trolls or some other bullshit, it was to build better database.
I do too. Thanks for sharing these, they're heartwarming for an old fan.

a few relevant links from there:

unofficial history of fan art projects:
http://www.avclub.com/article/check-out-the-web-cartoonists-...

4 full color sunday strips put out by pantsareoverated.com (Dan and Tom Heyerman) where Calvin and Susie have a daughter, Bacon:
http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/page/4/?s=hobbes
http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/page/3/?s=hobbes
http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/page/2/?s=hobbes
http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/page/1/?s=hobbes

Phil Barry on DeviantArt did 3:
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/300/8/4/hobbes_and_ba...
http://phill-art.deviantart.com/art/Hobbes-and-Bacon-2-33673...
http://phill-art.deviantart.com/art/Hobbes-and-Bacon-3-35410...

User DomNX on DeviantArt did a series called "Calvin and Company" where Calvin and Susie have twins. The content linked in the article has been removed from facebook, as well as hir account on deviantArt (best I could tell). Found it from pinterest user Potatohappiness:
http://www.pinterest.com/Potatohappiness/calvin-and-hobbes/
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/469218854897891171/
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/469218854897891153/
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/469218854897891162/
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/469218854897891165/
> that's pretty much the only thing the US government does

Besides waging bloody, unnecessary war (War of 1812, Mexican War, Spanish American War, Vietnam War, Iraq War); instituting explicitly racist immigrating policies; waging a disastrous War on Drugs at home and abroad; instituting protectionist trade policies on behalf of rent-seeking corporations and unions; busting unions; interning thousands of innocent Japanese Americans; the mass expropriation from and relocation of thousands of Native Americans; and hundreds of less memorable abuses, not to mention its complicity with several of the ills you mentioned, yeah, sure, "pretty much the only thing" the US government has done has been protecting us from "the tyranny of private businesses".
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pthread_self() pretty much returns a thread-local variable. Short of inlining the function to one mov instruction, I don't think it's possible to make it faster.

(Source: http://koala.cs.pub.ro/lxr/glibc/nptl/pthread_self.c and http://koala.cs.pub.ro/lxr/glibc/nptl/sysdeps/x86_64/tls.h#L...)
Yes you're basically right, but it is (perhaps unfortunately) a common way to express it in English. I.e. 2x fewer calories would imply 1/2 as many calories, 5x faster would imply 1/5th the time, etc.
We are trying to be bug to bug compatible with Zend PHP.
And trying to implement more and more extensions.
Google leaking your real / alternate identity can get you killed or fired or beaten or arrested, and that's just for being transgender or homosexual.
New application of an old technique: spoofing the "trusted path"; in the old days by means of a fake login prompt to harvest passwords, today with a fake "slide to power off" that blanks the screen and makes the phone play dead but with its radio continuing to operate.
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That's not possible. Read the original text on Bountysource [1], the whole idea behind the project was to make a clean break from Vim and implement changes that were ignored when were brought up on the Vim mailing list.

[1] https://www.bountysource.com/teams/neovim/fundraiser
Most aquarium plants grow excellent in this way, better than when they are submerged in an aquarium. Aquarium plants have two distinct forms, submerged or emerged, and the foilage can look completely different. The emerged form does better, since it doesn't need to compete with algae and co2 is more available. To grow your own plants, fill a pickle jar with damp miracle grow organic potting soil, and plant what ever aquarium plants you can get your hand on, seal the jar, than enjoy.
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Sure, but unless I'm misunderstanding the parent commenter they were asking for a vim plugin, not a neovim plugin right?
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Centurylink. I have the highest internet speed you can give me. But, as for YouTube: you bottleneck this site like crazy.

"Youtube, you have failed this city." -The Arrow
Even if the reaction time is higher than what we detect as a latency, it's still a bad news, but delivered ... later. :)

I left 300000 km/s, because I thought that maybe this is the absolute theoretical limit (there might be some breakthrough in reflective materials, who knows?).

Sorry for the typo of the circumference of the earth, I think I've fixed it before your comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7862387
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I use neocomplete[1] myself. It needs a Vim compiled with Lua support (there's also a Lua-less version) and is quite good.

[1] https://github.com/Shougo/neocomplete.vim
A perfectly written parallel Python app without GIL would be ideally 8 times faster on an 8 core system, compared to stock Python.

Rewriting the original program in Java would make the program about 100 times faster... on one core.

Now let's see. We deal with hacked Python, with complex error-prone thread synchronization code in Python for 8x gain, or grab the 100x gain in a single thread in Java?

While I don't mind Python getting faster, threading should be the last thing to try before everything else is exhausted in order to make Python run fast in one thread.
YCM is great. Depending on the language though you may need additional plugins to get "smart" completion into Vim. For instance, tern.js does this for Javascript:

[1]: http://ternjs.net/
Fascinating insight into a bit of Jobs life that is mostly overlooked, except as a "He used to be a hippy" anecdote. Steve Silberman does a good job of teasing out the bits and assembling a better vision of Jobs's belief system, and how it informed his work at Apple and NeXT
It's worth noting they appear to be working closely [1] with Valloric to ensure that vim plugins will easily work with NeoVim.

[1] https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/582
My problem with Google+ isn't the unification of Google's social platform. That makes absolute sense. The problem with Google+ is that it's way too opinionated.

It's a platform, not a product. A platform has to bend to the needs of its users, and those "users" aren't necessarily the people posting the comments - it's also the people hosting the comments on their YouTube pages and whatnot.

I appreciate wanting Plus to be backed by a "real" ID, but pseudonym support that fully anonymizes the user (and controls over whether pseudonymous users are allowed to post to your pages) should have been a day 1 feature, for example.
Speculating here, but all that method needs to do is access some thread record struct. The big question is whether it does a context switch to access this struct in memory every time. Maybe the struct is in some read-only memory, and can be read from user space, but not written?
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Among other differences, your relationship with Google is consensual, or at least largely so. The most extensive data collection Google does requires you to explicitly interact with its properties; tracking via ads and embeds often enables the sites you visit to sustain themselves, and, even if you want to quibble about how "consensual" that is, is trivially mitigated via free, brain-dead-simple browser extensions.

Put another way: you can enjoy the internet yet have little or no data go to Google. You cannot use the internet or the telephone in the US (and even, to an extent, in many foreign countries!) without data going to the NSA, with questionable benefit to you.

edit: typo
Types are not the only way to ensure correctness (and they aren't even the only thing you should use, even when they're available) - did you consider using tests?
From memory (I think one of the dev's comments on HHVM or Hippy a while back) Hippy started after HHVM was already underway. Hippy was mostly a proof of concept, to see if PyPy would be a viable strategy for a PHP runtime. HipHop was more so the logical followup to HipHop... I think being forked from the HipHop interpreter they were using for development.
By merge you mean replace, right? Because at this point the trees have diverged enough to make a merge a nightmare.
I'd prefer to try to riddle it out without resorting to cutting the bottle open. That would take all the fun out of it. If you had a reliable way to cut bottles and reassemble them with no telltale marks, then a single trick would explain all the different bottles. Much less interesting than if each bottle required a unique, clever solution.

Ignoring the wood for a moment, I'm focused on the padlock. Suppose it's not a real padlock. There are stripes on it which, to my eye, look like they might be corrugation. Perhaps it's hollow and can collapse like an accordion.

Edit: Or, per the description of the second-to-last bottle, the lock is broken down into parts and reassembled in the bottle.
I would imagine that some amount of adaptation will happen automatically. You have many kinds of bacteria in your compost, and the proportions will automatically adjust after the sealed ecosystem has been running for a while. Some strains might completely die off if they can't get the chemicals they need.
I didn't read it that way at all. I can see how it can be read that way, but it can likewise simply be read as making it clear that Google cares about advertisers rather than users.

Whether or not a subjective interpretation is that she is "trying to lump" Google together with these companies, she did not come straight out and make such an allegation in the article. When you then imply in your comment that she did, it's a bit rich to accuse her of "unfair lumping" afterwards.
I'm trying to solve a few related high-level problems. One, is that I want Valgrind-like debugging for the kernel. In my last kernel DBT system, I was able to do some pretty neat things, but actually using the DBT system was hell. A lot of this had to do with some of my poor design decisions (e.g. quick hacks that revealed interesting research areas, but were never refactored into good code).

Another problem that I want to solve is turn on/off pervasive profiling. This will sound similar to kprobes / systemtap / dtrace / etc, but what I want you to think about is something like "tainting" some objects (like injecting radioactive die) and then being able to observe their entire lifetime. I want to make it easy for someone without 1) domain specific knowledge of parts of the kernel, and 2) the ability to change the kernel source code to be able to answer the following types of questions: "if I write some data to a socket, how long does it take that data to go out over the wire, where are hold ups, etc."

Specifically for DBT, you hit the nail on the head: I am patching jumps in the code cache to point to other blocks in the code cache. Your suggestion is analogous to a copy-on-write tree/graph. I will have to think more on it, as it is interesting.

If you're curious about my project, then feel free to reach out to me :-) My email is on my HN profile.
I'm going to be a bit contrarian here: Google should have forced the issue and made it less painful. This "decline decline decline" business was a freaking embarrassment.

The correct approach is "Your youtube account is now part of your Google account. Create a Google account if you haven't got one already for this. If you need to use a pseudonym, you can attach a pseudonym to your Google account and that will carry your Youtube information".

No declining, because that was a soft promise that Google had trouble keeping.
Depending on the wording I would assume that the small lights in a fridge or a small flashlight or maybe even Christmas lights count. I think those should fit through many bottles pretty easy.
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That argument would have worked better if you'd not implied she'd written something she hasn't written above. If she'd made the direct claim that Google sells this data, you'd have had a point.

She didn't.

That she made claims about "saleable data" does not imply they've actually offered it up for sale.

See, that's not how words work.
Presenting services in user space has always been a benefit of microkernels, which is welcomed considering that I frequently make use of FUSE or OpenVPN.

The only concern for me is performance. Though I believe the service server provided by the Hurd would outperform FUSE, I'm not sure that it is worth the overhead of all other parts in the entire system. If the performance decrease is negligible, I'll be happy to use the kernel.
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Yes, I can't stress this enough. I'm an investor in Patreon, but I've also been working closely with artists (like Zach) for the last few years as we've managed + run their crowdfunding campaigns on kickstarter and the like.

Patreon is the next stage in the evolution. It is my belief that this platform will spur the second renaissance for creators who can at last focus entirely on their art without just one well-funded patreon (e.g., Harper Lee and To Kill A Mockingbird).
Exactly. If they'd required you use a real name under the hood but allowed you to present different pseudonymous "facades" for each Circle, and then let you just tie things like Youtube to a given facade? That would be wonderful.

It really seemed like that's the direction they had in mind at the start - understanding that you have familial relationships, online relationships, professional relationships, and letting you compartmentalize those.

But that was just an organizational tool. We needed it to be two-way - in that you need to control your identity as it relates to those circles.
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That's not really heresy considering the existence of Typescript. You're probably right about it needing sponsorship from a big company. Adding type checking to a language is difficult enough, but the tooling around it is what really makes it powerful.
There are a lot of ideas out there on how to do optional runtime type checking in a Pythonic way. My contribution is ensure (https://github.com/kislyuk/ensure), for example check out the ensure_annotations decorator (https://ensure.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#ensure.ensure_anno...).
Go is almost as fast as Java. Which is to say Go is respectably fast. They should get kudos in the language developer man hours metric. Considering how new they are, how few people have worked on the language, and the results achieved, the result can be counted as an accomplishment.

It's a small and elegant way to achieve a particular pragmatic result. That always deserves respect in my book. (The JVM deserves it too for slightly different reasons.)
The huge success of Facebook and Twitter, the Social Network movie (October 2010) and the introduction of Apple’s iTunes Ping (September 2010) probably added a lot to this momentum.
One of the things that struck me when I worked at Google was that its early rejection of anything that smelled of management or process directly led to the emergence of "Just get things done" sort of mantra, but the scale of early screw-ups limited the ability to get things done only to 'trusted' (generally low employee # folks with a track record) people. I managed to push a project through, in spite of the fact that I wasn't a low numbered employee, but it took 6x longer than it should have and required a crap ton more politicing than it would have if a different person had pushed it. (One person I knew there, given the combination of their history and reputation, could have probably gotten it done in 3 or 4 months)

What that does is greatly magnify the influence of a small number of people and completely nullify the influence of a large number of people. At the time I left, there was some institutional awareness of this issue (heaven knows I had shared it enough with the leadership) but the 'fix' (random injection of 'management' was itself not going well).

And all of that to say, that it takes both good people and good structure to make this happen. I realized I wasn't plugged into the organization at a place where I could make that level of change occur. So when I read the article I recognized a bit of self awareness in Sergi at his over sized influence in a negative way on the product, and a dysfunctional organization which could not guide, or if necessary prevent that influence.

The irony is that if Google was as well managed as a place like NetApp under Warmhoven or GE was under Welch, it would mega-corp scary. (Granted it still can be to an extent, but quite extremely so)
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>They could have just surveyed users back then to find out where they were screwing up, but in typical Google fashion, that would have involved actually engaging with their users, which Google is borderline allergic to.

Yup. Google never grew out of that phase--the Steve Jobs Phase, I like to call it. Obviously when Google started they knew what users didn't even know they wanted. Efficient search. Great webmail. Etc. But then Google (should have) realized it was a business with customers who aren't always idiots. It did not. It still really hasn't.