skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't recommend using === in production (except for objects of classes) either but for this demonstration it let me show the copy on write without going to assembly.

Glad we've reached a common understanding, I wasn't quite sure that I hadn't missed something.
I second that advice. I did just that and built piece by piece, research options and customizing to my preferences. It takes more time and effort, but at least I understand what's going on.
No. You fail to understand that DRM as practiced by Sony et al is just one application. In one way, it's understandable if you had not been exposed to the academic literature early enough, because after a certain point, political activism, popular accounts, and corporate literature swamp anything more academic and general.

DRM is always about policing others by invading their digital space.

Or about voluntarily giving some autonomy up. In the case of organizations like Facebook, they would be giving up autonomy, such that they would only run certain audited versions of certain software. Given that such companies have large numbers of computers aggregated in a relatively small number of locations, the economics of verifying these mechanisms is much more favorable than the inadvisable "traditional" use of DRM has been.

You are not going to be able to process ideas like this properly, if your only background is uneducated Internet backlash.

Protecting your own digital space is called security. Let's be clear on terms usage, otherwise time will be wasted because of misunderstanding.

Throughout, you have been insistent on an imprecise, popularized usage of terms. I will agree, however, that time has been wasted because of misunderstanding.
I disagree. Newspapers may continue to exist, but I can't see it for the reasons you list.

First off, the news isn't tactile. The paper itself is tactile but so is a tablet. Paper tactility is not more appealing except to people that are uncomfortable with tech. Short blurbs followed by flipping through 16 pages of mostly ads to find rest of article is a level of unfriendliness that is hard to match in online news, though some sites try their best.

On archival and permanence, you're confusing the content with the medium. Try to find a permanent article from the NY times. While you may be able to find the print form, more likely you will find it in a digital medium. It has been decades since print form was the system of permanent record. Articles were being digitized in the 70s.

Online content isn't the same as online journalism. Even so there is an attempt to archive even the most obscure of online content (archive.org and waybackmachine). I doubt you can find an archive of a small town print newsletter. But you can on web publications unless they make efforts to block it.
I've used those too. Having to wire up the 'LS373 latch was always annoying though.
Interesting that you mention anxiety. After particularly poor eating, where I start to feel physical distress, I've noticed alprazolam seems to help considerably. Likewise, for some cases of light nervousness, I've noticed pepto bismol seems to calm my nerves.
"I can't tell you how many times I and others read over that"

From years of being in the graphics business I noted that people tended to miss words that weren't particularly difficult but at the same time (and same people) usually caught difficult words.

My reasoning was that people "chunk" the easy frequent words but slow down and think about every letter in the difficult words.

Some of the most common errors were actually with the city names and street addresses (and numbers) for example.
> Unpaid prioritization is sometimes necessary; if everyone in a neighborhood is trying to stream 4k video, something is going to get prioritized.

I don't understand where people get this impression. If there is not enough capacity in the network then yes, some packets have to be dropped, but there is no cause for the ISP to be looking at what kind of packets they are. Building a network where this is considered necessarily is inherently defective because the ISP cannot possibly even know what every kind of packet contains.

The only sensible algorithm for ISPs to use is to drop the packets of the users currently transferring the most data. This actually does the right thing in the large majority of cases. If you're using VoIP, your packets don't get dropped because VoIP is not very bandwidth intensive. If you're doing some bulk transfer at full bore then your transfer slows down because you're transferring more data than anybody else. If you're streaming video then you're fine as long as the bitrate is less than what the ISP can currently provide to each active user, and if it isn't then you're screwed in any event.

The alternative is begging for gamesmanship. You can easily make a bulk transfer look like a hundred VoIP streams. Especially with P2P. Building a network where cheaters get ahead and innocent but unrecognized protocols get downgraded is completely unreasonable. You can't cheat an algorithm which is completely fair to all protocols.
Why doesn't this guy just package up the database, and autogenerate the page if the page is blank. That would have more utility than mixing human and bot generated articles.
The $60 uber of shame.
This reminds me of a recent article on NYC's dollar vans: http://www.newyorker.com/sandbox/projects/nyc-dollar-vans/
Sure, but so is it possible that they are shady opportunists.

Also, am I correct in reading that they gave their companies 350k each, but the fund states it only gives out up to 250k investments?
I think the problem is that the entries are very low-quality and are being produced in such great quantities that it will be hard for anyone to turn them into passable articles.

The purpose of Wikipedia is not to be a collection of all the factual information it gather. You or I might wish for it to be one, but that isn't what its creators mean for it to be. Each individual article is expected to meet Wikipedia's guidelines for relevance and to have some minimal level of quality. If it isn't possible to write a good, encyclopedic article on a topic, Wikipedia's stance is generally that it should be deleted (or, if the article is just overly specific and the information is relevant to a broader topic, the article might be incorporated into a section in a more general article).
"Play fair" ?

surely information wants to be free? :-)
Why not just price it as $/month for X transfer, with $/GB above that rate? That'd be simple, transparent, no damage to the market structure of internet businesses, no future anti-trust cases, and we're straight-up paying for the infrastructure that we, as consumers, are using.

Is your case that more money would go to network improvements with the backroom deal routine? Have you considered that the backroom deal routine allows a lot more room for pocketing money and not really investing in the network?
Related... anyone know what happened to Induction? https://github.com/Induction/Induction looks like the guy who started it lost interest and no one picked it up?
You either have to be registered for OSCON with that email/name or wait until OSCON begins.

Just a guess.
Notes on the Synthesis of Form is a lot more systems-theoretic. The algorithm is more or less recursive min-cut partitioning which is now well-researched.

There is, however, a real logistical problem is getting the input requirements, massaging them to identical conceptual scope, and then connecting them together so you can perform said decomposition. That is a massive, massive bottleneck.

That's why it's so telling that Alexander abandoned the technique in his thesis in favour of using the building site itself, in effect, as a computational medium.
Haven't been back in a couple of years. I think I'll be visiting in a few months though. What's your secret to finding work and paying rent, isn't it expensive there?
I second east bay. 19th St BART stop in Oakland is a great hub.
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Is a 64-core model in sight at all?
>First, LibreSSL should raise an error if it can't get a good source of entropy.

Comments for getentropy_linux.c explain this http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libcrypto/cryp...

We have very few options:

- Even syslog_r is unsafe to call at this low level, so there is no way to alert the user or program.
- Cannot call abort() because some systems have unsafe corefiles.
They forgot to mention that they're faster than Caltrain.
https://github.com/chanks/que/blob/master/README.md is a postgresql queue that had been benchmarked at 10k/a on AWS.
Not Sam's (and pg's) usual style of super-pithy and easy-to-read writing. Did this get rushed out the door?
I may be showing a bias against buses here, but the ride will be infuriatingly tortuous.

Bus routes attempting to operate along train stations are always convoluted routes forced to go back and forth between main roads and the stations, trying to drop passengers off at the same transfer points as the train.

It would better just drop people off along El Camino, instead of looping round and round through those stations.

Not that it's dramatically worse than having no option, of course. Just that it would drive me crazy as a mode of transport, if you're expecting it to behave like a train...
Not even a little. I put some thoughts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8033871
This is awesome.

I wonder if he would considering adding some element of readability algorithms to it.
Seconded. Most of my late-night travel is completely unplanned -- I can't imagine scheduling a 4:00 AM trip the day before.
Are those mappings in the book you linked? Or something you just came up with?
My problem with that theory/scenario is that the stage is designed to land on its legs. When the test vehicles land they have very little angular momentum, presumably these tests would mimic that. And if the momementum was managed, then at engine shut off it would drop vertically into the water, and then fall over as the counter pressure of buouancy was not stabilized by the landing legs.

If you've ever seen loggers drop tree trunks in a river you can imagine what that looks like, it starts out vertical, then reaches point where it displaces enough water that it is essentially floating (but unstably so) and then rotates to horizontal around the point on the trunk that is at the surface of the water.

I totally understand that this isn't an intended landing mode :-).

Thinking about how they manage fuel load, it made me wonder how I would do it, do you hover until you've exhausted all fuel? Or do you just shut off the engine? And at flameout are you out of volatiles or just some volatiles (like LOX)and do you have the 'gas tank' issue that auto mechanics deal with where residual vapors can be explosive.

Would love to sit through the briefings on this stuff.
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You might like: http://foundmagazine.com/
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> ...Reading the article, I think some of it is more of a "why?" than a "why not?", since the articles are factually correct but are mostly just lists of facts and not really something you couldn't find in any number of other resources.

The argument I'd make for "why?" is that Wikipedia is more accessible and more reliably available than most other resources. I mean, if the government of the Philippines had a web-based, up-to-date list of towns with some basic information, it might make sense to offload the effort of maintaining that information to them. As it stands, though, not even the US has such a directory -- so Wikipedia picks up the slack (or at least it does for towns in the US).
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"But let me say why age seems to have the effect it does. In the first place if you do some good work you will find yourself on all kinds of committees and unable to do any more work. You may find yourself as I saw Brattain when he got a Nobel Prize. The day the prize was announced we all assembled in Arnold Auditorium; all three winners got up and made speeches. The third one, Brattain, practically with tears in his eyes, said, ``I know about this Nobel-Prize effect and I am not going to let it affect me; I am going to remain good old Walter Brattain.'' Well I said to myself, ``That is nice.'' But in a few weeks I saw it was affecting him. Now he could only work on great problems.

When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you. In fact I will give you my favorite quotation of many years. The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, in my opinion, has ruined more good scientists than any institution has created, judged by what they did before they came and judged by what they did after. Not that they weren't good afterwards, but they were superb before they got there and were only good afterwards."

excerpt from You and your research by Richard Hamming
Perhaps they're expecting people to have parked at the train station?
And when you go bankrupt because you're unable to run your business, you'd consider that completely voluntary?
It makes sense. If I say this proposal hurts companies like ACME Tech. Then they should just be looking for ACME Tech's comments.

But I wonder how it balances individual impacts versus business impacts. Is a thousand people complaining "This ruins my ability to watch netflix" as significant as netflix same comments in terms of its business losses.
It's a good film, if a little amateur.

Reminds me a bit of the style of Primer.

Much less cringeworthy than Hackers. 6/10
The harm in using bots in this way, I suppose, would be that correcting potential misinformation would be much more work intensive than adding the information in the first place.

It seems to me that the wikipedia model works because/when corrections are at most as costly as introducing the error.
Specifically on the topic of photography though - Do you feel that the owner of the object of your photograph should get paid every time the image is shown though? Where does that end? For instance, if you shot a famous building - do you think the architect should get paid? What about the construction workers? The current owner?

That was really my main gist. Sorry for not being sympathetic. I thought I made a pretty good argument. I was not trying to be impolite, but I can see how it could be taken as such. Could you just answer that one question? I'm really interested in the fine line that is being discussed here.
yes, i know, but accoring to the blogpost below it should be no problem for newser browsers when using tls 1.2, but might e usefull to keep compatibility with very legacy clients, no?
disclaimer: i'm not a crypto-guru, the ciphers used are copypasta'd from https://www.ssllabs.com/projects/best-practices/.

https://community.qualys.com/blogs/securitylabs/2013/03/19/r...
The level textures are not working for me. It loads some junk from other programs. Moving objects have normal textures. I have a late 2011 macbook pro with hd 3000, os is 10.9.4. Not sure if it is worth fixing for an older model like this.
I used to like watching the article counts on this page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias

But then the Dutch started using bots to inflate their article count... which was ok for a year or two but then other wikipedias started doing the same thing. Now I watch edit number of edits.

I don't care that bots are used, but article counts are completely useless in comparing wikipedias and it didn't used to be that way. Sure there were better measurements, but article counts were still pretty good.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Wikipedi...
A joke for you
Dr. Leroy, the head psychiatrist at the local mental hospital, is examining patients to see if they're cured and ready to re-enter society.
"So, Mr. Clark," the doctor says to one of his patients, "I see by your chart that you've been recommended for dismissal. Do you have any idea what you might do once you're released?"

The patient thinks for a moment, then replies, "Well, I went to school for mechanical engineering. That's still a good field, good money there. But on the other hand, I thought I might write a book about my experience here in the hospital, what it's like to be a patient here. People might be interested in reading a book like that. In addition, I thought I might go back to college and study art history, which I've grown interested in lately."

Dr. Leroy nods and says, "Yes, those all sound like intriguing possibilities."

The patient replies, "And the best part is, in my spare time, I can go on being a teapot."
Well, technically, IP addresses can be represented by a single integer:

2130706433 == 127.0.0.1
I just spent the last week-and-a-half on Maui for vacation. I was thinking about how I could get to work from there for ~3 months out of the year...

I came to the conclusion, in my own little thoughts about it, that Maui s best suited for remote dev/sysad/ops work if anything.

While I wa just thinking for myself - it could be expanded to a contract support/ops/development company that lures talent there via the fact that it is maui....

I don't know anything about the housing costs - but food was pretty expensive.
That's definitely more like it. 256k is a reasonable chunk. Although at $20 and 144LQFP, it's a pricey and kind of chunky part. It exists though which is nice.

How does mRuby do GC; does it ref count? I don't think lisps could really afford to be ref counted, unless you pool the cons cells into groups that are ref counted. My implementation was a dual semispace collector which didn't help matters wrt space.
FYI if you live in China, you can buy a kit (including machine-cut cardboard, velcro and lenses) for <50 RMB ($8). Magnets and NFC can be bought cheaply from other taobao sellers.

I made one by hand myself, and bought kits from two different vendors.

- the one I cut myself works, but it looks like trash and is not durable. Also, the lenses I used distort too much

- the one from the first vendor is great. The design has been modified so that the lens holes are a little wider, to accommodate the wider lenses supplied: http://tb.cn/qdMexXy

- the one from the second vendor was almost as good, but the doesn't have the slightly wider lenses/holes

If you're using an iPhone, I recommend the app '3dtube' for watching 3D videos. Also, search the App Store for 'durovis' to find other compatible apps.
I spent a few weeks in Myanmar last year when I was trying to figure out what to do next.

It was an incredibly striking country -- probably the most interesting place I've been other than immediate post invasion Iraq or post-fuckup Afghanistan.

The strangest thing is it is politically in the same position it was in 1997 -- new elections coming, and if things go well, it could IMO surpass Thailand, Malaysia, etc. in 50 years. If things go poorly, it'll remain the basketcase of Asia.

It was crazy seeing so many people with cellphones, virtually none of which had SIMs or cell network service -- they were just using them as wifi tablets. Everywhere I stayed tended to have wifi (ranging from independent smaller hotels to the UN-hq Trader's Hotel in Yangon), and I had a BGAN, but getting a SIM was quoted as hundreds of dollars, so I didn't bother with buying a local SIM.

It was also probably the country with the friendliest and most pro-American people I've encountered in a long time, too -- and they really liked Obama specifically because he has been the one to lift most sanctions (but not US direct investment, yet).

If I had to make a far out of the money bet on an Asian success story, I'd bet on Myanmar -- the free trade zone near Thailand looks like it could be a big win.
This is a great idea. I do wonder how many people taking the southbound shuttle on Fridays or Saturdays will be drunk!
So, to answer the original question: I'm a self-taught hire, and currently performing very well (I'm told) at our company. After a bit of a learning curve, it's working out splendidly for everyone involved, on both the finance and happiness scales.

To answer your follow-up: I got lucky. They took a chance on me, being pretty decent with front-end dev and a quick study. I think the company culture here may have had something to do with it as well. Being a consultancy, our primary concern (wrt developer talent) is the ability to write maintainable software on a deadline. As long as you can do that and get along with coworkers/clients, little else matters. It's as close to a true meritocracy as I've ever found, and that's the kind of environment where autodidacts like us tend to thrive.

Make sure you have the chops or are an extraordinarily quick learner, have decent social/teamwork skills, and find somewhere that prioritizes your ability to perform in a work environment over what may or may not be printed on a piece of paper, and you'll do fine.
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Can't the LibreSSL process just reseed whenever it is started? I guess forks don't actually copy the program counter so they'll have to go through main, right?
Statewide franchise agreements are usually layered. For example, there is a Delaware cable franchise agreement, but the City of Wilmington has its own provisions. Also, e.g., many places in Maryland have granted Verizon FIOS franchises, but in Baltimore there is no FIOS because the parties got stuck on a build out provision.
Is there an "Uber for X-Service in Maui/Hawaii?

Where X coud be boat/yacht/helicopter/whatever?
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Nope, forks actually do copy the program counter.
The comments don't justify why going to the sketchy entropy is better than SIGKILLing the process, except with:

> This code path exists to bring light to the issue that Linux does not provide a failsafe API for entropy collection.

Trying to make a point about Linux doesn't seem like a very good reason to me.
this is really awesome. was always hoping caltrain would introduce that - never occured to me that you could hack the system like you guys are - very amazing and wish you best of luck!
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Precisely.

And that, of course, is also how buses operate that replace portions of the subways that are temporarily out of service. For example, I sometimes encounter it when I come home late at night on Boston Orange line, which has a lot of construction (they are trying to insert a new station inside an operating segment) and an occasional late-night or weekend replacement of subway service with a shuttle service. I never remember that tonight it is going to be a bus and, in any case, I have to park in a parking garage next to a [redacted] subway station where I have a monthly parking ticket.
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