skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yer a nigger.

God's court.

Fucken Ira Seaver is convinced he's being scammed, little pathetic Jew. Is always dropping hints he thinks he's being scammed. Loser.

I am chosen by God. I am the best programmer to make God's temple. God gave me divine intellect. I am working in the center of my expertise. I have schooling and job experience. I am not outside my expertise. I am a genius.

I had a 1440 SAT. I was a National Merit Schollar. ASU had 42,000 students, total. I was one of seven National Merit Scholars in my Freshman class. 7 out of 10,000, basically. You got luck, Mr Seaver, when you found me. Duh! God talks. Of course I'm awesome. Yer a nigger and do not know what a random number is? Am I right?
>You obviously can't just drop prices on 10 thousands socks of yours, because that would still allow your competitor to stay in business

Ah sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you were suggesting they'd have to drop prices on a range of different products.

>What's there to prevent a rich investor from entering the market and competing?

The fact that there isn't an infinite supply of rich investors queueing up to disrupt markets. And that there are likely much better investment opportunities than entering an expensive price war just to gain a foothold in a newly competitive market (at which point company C can enter, and reap the same benefits without the inflated upfront costs).
I am also getting the same error.
A surprising and interesting lesson path dependency and the real meaning of efficiency.
LibreSSL's PRNG is Unsafe on Linux
Ok, you're on. I missed the last Caltrain last night.

Edit: Never heard back. I guess this isn't live.

Edit: Just got an email. Running to Caltrain now. :)
5 ways an API is more than an API
Some really old computers have physical fuses on the USB ports that can - and will - blow if you draw too much power from them.
But, interestingly, there is nothing stopping us doing it ... I think it is still possible to game google results such that the top results for any politicians name includes "sex scandal of senator X" simply by a lot of people linking to it.

It's democratic (if you are happy for Russian links to count in your senators feeds)
So what are the arguments against what he is doing?

Seems fine to me, and sounds like it's likely to be adding value.
I don't think there is a meaningful difference in the action of the person.

And damned straight this seems creative. At least as creative as a typical snapshot. Do you disagree?
I think 'struggling' is the wrong word. http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2014/04/13/fun-numbe...
You are of course completely right; my language sensor tingled, but not enough. Thanks for the heads up, that would be the last time I made that mistake! I'll eat my humble pie now.. I'm a programmer, and, despite the evidence to the contrary, I do value precision of language.
This movie is bad.
1. poor acting
2. constant proselytizing about fairly superficial hacker culture ideas
3. plot isn't executed well. tries to create twists at the end but it simply doesn't come together.
4. lack of character development as well. a large portion of the movie is the main character giving various monologues about how cool he is as a hacker, but it still doesn't create some sort of human connection with the viewer(or at least with me). He was forgettable. The other characters were boring too.
5. the worst part was when there was an overt need for one of the characters to quite uncharacteristically tell the main character to stick to his ideals and fight for something bigger than himself. this cliche moment made me cringe.
I stuck through the movie mainly because my brain still refuses to account for sunk-cost fallacy for time. I know I'm making a lot of claims here--frankly I don't want to spend anymore time substantiating with examples. Just take my word or go watch it. Hope this helps others decide where to allocate their time though.
Fallacy schmallacy. I was talking about blogging about experiments in poisoning people (just a bit, not killing them :) Anyway, you don't think people are harmed by DRM? Of course they are. Time and water are among the most valuable things we have and DRM steals away everybody's time so a few can profit.

Let's try another hypothetical title: How To Force Your Neighbors Take Out Your Trash or, How To Write A Virus That Steals Banking Information...How To Really Embarrass Your Coworkers...9 Ways To Enrage Internet Commenters...(this is fun!)

Would you applaud those experiments? I'm guessing YES since "It stops when you start putting people in danger." and nobody is being put in danger.

(BTW, I'm just doing my own experiment here - I guess I should have said that. You're not being a very good sport though ;) Seriously - I'm sitting here trying to understand your point of view and I made some POLITE arguments. You mis-represented one of my arguments and then patronized me to the extreme, so is that the kind of behavior that you're promoting?
> Just gave the HN guidelines a thorough (and much needed) read

Music to my ears!
From the less little known things I love is the sqlite backup api. Using it, I can "copy" the .db from the OS into the memory, work on it, and "copy" it back. This is done, since changes can be made in-memory which might not have to be written back. Off course if memory usage becomes a problem, simply switching from :memory: to some kind of temp file per process would do it.

Recently I've had some success with speeding up (up to 4 threads) on scaling reads - e.g. SELECT xx FROM yy LIMIT ll OFFSET oo ORDER BY zz - where it spreads on different threads "ll" and "oo". Now this ignores the fact that the db might be changed and wont get the same results for each thread (I can't get the same transaction number from different threads/procs as I can with PG) but still works for some tasks.

Recently introduced CTE's are killer feature, since we have a bit of parent/children derived column values, and we keep filling values from the parent into the children, while with CTE this could be evaluated everytime (at some cost, but then less data being filled overall).
That's one of the most fascinating reads I've had in some time.

Some gems...

The one major important distinction that sets him apart
is his inability to consider failure. It simply is not
even in his thought process. He cannot conceive of
failure and that is truly remarkable.

He and I had very similar upbringings, very similar
interests and very similar early histories.

I know this because this is where we parted ways at
SpaceX. We got to a point where I could not see it
succeeding and walked away. He didn't and succeeded. I
have 25 years experience building space hardware and he
had none at the time. So much for experience.
Good paper.

Likewise, I would say that databases are queues.

In fact everything in computing is a queue; disk i/o, cpu tasks, people at their keyboards.
If your use case involves a requirement for master/slave replication, SQLite might be a little too lightweight for your needs.
It's really fun to write full imperative code using lenses and the State monad.

Though it's a shame that lens type signatures are quite complicated.
I use to run an ad server where numbers of requests like this per month would be considered low(we would regularly do hundreds of millions of requests per day peaking at around a billion per day). We had the added fun of requiring extremely low latency and we couldn't toss 400 servers at it either.

With chasing writes you do it in slow periods between traffic bursts since you're basically just pulling them off a queue to process so you don't need to count that in with your peak burst numbers.

Your costs seem really high too. The above system was ~$10K/month on GoGrid including 2 DB servers that were on dedicated servers(not really impressive ones either I think they were ~$500/month each), a load balancer on a dedicated server, 2 dozen webservers or so, a few support servers(admin panels, client interfaces, puppet, etc), and a small hadoop cluster.

Redis would receive the raw data, the DB stored the rolled up data and the raw data/logs would be compressed and go onto a small hadoop cluster in case we needed to process it for a new type or report or look for something specific.
This is incredibly timely. I can't wait to try it out.
It is cool that somebody is doing this. I wouldn't mind cutting and making one for my own as a weekend project though. The lenses cost $3-$4, you can get them from your local toy store packaged inside toy binoculars.
Some goods and services are dominated by up-front costs. That makes usage-based billing economically harmful by discouraging usage of a use-it-or-lose-it resource that has already been paid for. It also makes competition extremely inefficient because each competitor has to duplicate the high up-front cost of e.g. building a last mile network. The result when left to private enterprise is generally a monopoly that charges monopoly rents for access to the resource, and in cases where there is competition (e.g. because two existing monopoly markets merged through technological change, as with telephone and cable) the competition is highly inefficient because each competitor has to duplicate each other's costs. And if competition exists then the competitors are essentially required to engage in some form of explicit or implicit collusion to not lower prices, since in a market dominated by up-front costs each competitor can always gain revenue by lowering prices to gain customers, until the competitor responds in kind ultimately causing all providers to be unable to recover their up-front costs.

Having the government pay for such resources (as with roads) with tax dollars and then providing free access to the public is massively more efficient than private enterprise, because you eliminate the incentive for rent-seeking and economically harmful usage-based billing and for that matter eliminate all the overhead of billing, marketing, collections, denying access to non-subscribers, etc. But the only way to do this is if the resource can be funded in some other way, specifically through taxation.
My stuff is a combination of the left column, and other times hugely overly flexible / elegant stuff that ends up never getting fully utilised (and me thinking I should have stuck to the left column)
Once, it was a good library before JQuery :)
OK so you don't believe that people should be rewarded for their creativity, that people should have their licenses honoured in any field of endeavour.

I have sent cease and desists in the past, in the same way that I've sent DCMA takedown notices against people who post documentation I've written with no attribution, and against people who've forked my code and pretended to have authored it.

But I'm done with you now.
What about other forms of "neutrality"?

The BBC is required to maintain "balance" over political issues.

Should Google return the same results to all queries (ie no search bubble allowed?)

Should Facebook (indeed any advertiser) be required to serve the same advert no matter what the profile of the incoming request? I mean Billboards are public broadcasts not private to me, why should online advertising be different? I know it is but that's not the point.

I support net neutrality as it is commonly defined, but I think there are many other "neutrality" issues that we gloss over happily. I doubt very much Google will be happy removing the search bubble, and I would be interested in how much it affects the quality of results.
The fact they considered an IP address to be ONE number grinded my gears..
I'm not very in-tune with Wikipedia's culture (which, I've read, is very nuanced and rigid[1]), but I really don't see why this is a bad thing, given the information in the articles is accurate (and the article gives the impression that glitches are rare).

If nobody else was going to create an article about some species of butterfly, I don't see why adding that information would be harmful to Wikipedia. Does it make Wikipedia harder to read? Harder to search?

I don't think "it's not written by a human" is a valid argument for factual information, and I've never seen any evidence to suggest that it should be one.

EDIT: I found this bot's edit log! https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Logg/Lsjb...

Here are a few articles randomly picked out of the latest 1000:

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urochloa_plantaginea

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachiaria_vittata

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutriana_repens

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andropogon_decipiens

After looking at these, I'm beginning to see why there is some backlash. There are literally thousands of articles here that read "X is a species of grass. It got its name from Y and is described in Z catalog." The only people who would need this information are botanists, and they already have their own specialized sources. I'm still not against bot-produced content, but I understand why some people oppose initiatives like this.

[1] http://www.gwern.net/In%20Defense%20Of%20Inclusionism
One thing that seems to get me is most of this sort of action is defensive, they propose a new bill and the population has to respond on mass to have it rejected and put us back to square one.

They then go away, rephrase, and we're on the defensive again. Eventually, people who only defend will capitulate. You can't win if all you do is defend.
I've not used it much, but SQLite Database Browser seems quite good: http://sqlitebrowser.org/ - it is opensource and cross platform.
This reminds me of a PC game which included an automatic crash reporting system, and would also periodically conduct stress tests to be able to identify (and therefore automatically exclude) machines that looked like they were producing random memory errors. (The usual cause of which was overclocking.)

Software crashes due to hardware issues are generally not software bugs.
The article says that SQLite may not be a good choice for large datasets. Assuming the other constraints (concurrent writes) are not a concern, why not? Assume a 750GB-1TB dataset of time series data, which fits on an SSD — what system would work better than SQLite?
Absolutely! The other wonky thing with my health is that I have had Vagal Atrial Fibrillation (VAF) in the past (which is rare for someone in their 30s).

One trigger for VAF is indigestion in the stomach, which irritates the vagal nerve, which messes with the heart. The vagal nerve also runs into the brain, so I bet there is some form of two way conversation happening between the stomach and brain being facilitated by something like the vagal nerve.

To your point, when I was heavily symptomatic, I felt depressed (deeper then just being sad about my situation), and changing my eating habits cleared that up, and in your case, fixing the brain chemicals seemed to have benefitted your stomach.

Its just a guess on my part, but this is really all fascinating stuff.
The article mentions that databases can be up to 140TB in size, and yet it also mentions that it may not be a good choice for very large datasets - does this mean that approaching the upper limit is not recommended, or are we talking about something even larger?
I remember I figured out 'interfaces' about 5 years after starting to deal with them. I'm not proud of that. I had no books, so... still.
I also occasionally double-take on an 'off-by-one', and happily will spend 2 hours tracking down a rookie mistake I've made.
Half the crap they ask you at an interview (thankfully haven't had to do one in 15 years) I wouldn't recognise, but would have probably done IRL about 1000 times.

Cliche as it is - the better you get, the more you realise how little you know.
How would one go about destroying someone’s political career?
The Galileo has some interesting caveats, like a much slower CPU than even the Raspberry Pi and the GPIO, PWM, etc going through an IO expander chip on the really slow I2C bus. (Apparently there's a Rev2 with some native GPIO pins now, presumably not compatible with the Rev1 unless you use Intel's official abstraction layers.)
Bullshit title. It's because of cheap tricks like that that I stopped reading The Verge. It only lacks the "other languages hate it!"
You still hit the problem that it's possible to make a program that can output every possible permutation of every possible song. Saved as midi files you could actually realistically do that for short songs.

How can you extend copyright to include such a thing?

Simple, you wouldn't. Yes, but this is already covered in the concept of sufficient creativity.

Also, pre-computer automation was not as impossible as you might think, some examples: A double pendulum with a pen, a spirograph, a sand bucket on a rope, a spinning top with paint.

Also covered by "sufficient creativity" for trivial combinations of such machines. Now, if it was a system which balanced the spirographs and double pendulums in a tangible and describable way as to produce a finely balanced effect.

And see this reply from someone else... generated artwork has existed before computers, and it is not copyrightable.

Yes, but the degree of automation we have today completely changes the technological landscape in such a profound way, that anyone should be skeptical if such laws still apply.

I have not completely decided if I would agree with your proposal or not, you would need to be much more specific about the limits of where copyright would not apply.

Common sense and the market could resolve a lot of the potential problems you see. What use is a tool like a spirograph if you can't use the output freely? Tools with restrictive stipulations will eliminate themselves from the marketplace.

Things like a program that simply enumerates all 32x32 pixel images are transparent enough that a judge should be able to adjudicate properly. I can see, however, that there would be more complex cases, and the cost to society may not be worth the potential damage IP meta-squatters would incur.
Parametric advertising doesn't create a class-based system of access to information or business opportunities.
Long drive, capped rates as already mentioned. Also once there you cannot immediately pick up another passenger - you have to go to the central "taxi pool" where you get to line up with dozens/hundreds of other cabs for the privilege of picking up a fare.

So as a driver your choices are to wait forever in a line to pick up a fare from the airport, or beeline it back to Manhattan as quickly as you can with an empty car. Neither are great choices.
Hahaha, in the right setting (on The IT Crowd for instance) that would be hilarious. "What is your IP address?" "Twelve."

The fact that they were being serious and the that it has very little to do with HN made me flag this post. Nothing to see here.
Api On Rails Ebook Discount
All the time - I doubt half the things I do today were even covered by my CS course. I had to teach myself documentation, agility, politics, testing and if I am honest functional programming, parsing, and stuff I should have learnt but did not pay attention.
a year looking at the news through this system tells us there is very little intelligence in the news...
Tkinter – Redirecting stdout / stderr
Considering the fact that the rules and culture of Wikipedia seem to want people to write like bots, I don't see any issues with letting a real one do the writing for us!
you might be right: i did a new test with nginx+libressl static and the results are very similar: https://www.mare-system.de/static/bimages/nginx-libressl/per...
It was a good write up. I've used SQLite to store small molecule structures for several research projects and it has never let me down.

One item I had hoped to read, which often is mentioned on SQLite reviews, occurs in the area of "When would SQLite not be a good choice?", specifically: "very large amount of traffic... Very large data-sets." I have always hoped for some (even wild) estimates of when that 'very large-ness' occurs. because in my hands, 17 million small molecule (inchi) structures don't even cause it to break a sweat. Will i hit a wall some day?
i have never gotten a good answer to why lush [http://lush.sourceforge.net/] failed to be a succesful goldilocks language in this space. the only real flaw i saw in it was the lack of lexical scoping; other than that it looked like a great solution to the same problems julia is addressing.
Yes, the feds contribute some of the money in exchange for a lot of the rules. That doesn't change anything of what I said - your original question is independent of federal involvement and could equally apply to privately owned Catholic schools.

Have you changed your viewpoint? You previously said "I don't have to trust the authors since I can see and evaluate the test for myself." Now you're okay with seeing only a synopsis of what's in the tests? Why do you still trust the authors if you can't see the actual test?

If you could get the same synopsis of the questions that the teachers ask, then wouldn't you also be satisfied? Why not?
This is something I could test/validate quite readily. Challenge accepted.
I'm not going to Google it, I don't know what you're talking about. I assume it's some 'thing' that's impossible/hard to solve. I'm sure someone will solve it if it's possible. It won't be me.
Here is a well-illustrated conversation on the respective roles of questions and answers:

http://kiriakakis.net/comics/mused/a-day-at-the-park
Great idea. I'd only be interested if I could buy a ticket at the last possible minute instead of scheduling in advance.
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.

For people who do serious article writing, I imagine this might be considered as a "cheapening" their work. For instance, I imagine some editors also resent the notion that encyclopedia editing is somehow reducible to plugging facts into the right templates. Of course the bot's authors don't really believe they are creating articles as high-quality as good human-edited entries, but the emotional reaction on the part of other editors is at least something I can comprehend.

I'm not really in tune with Wikipedia, so this is mostly conjecture.

edit: reverted edit, added first sentence of 2nd paragraph.
I have nothing at stake in these launches but every one of them makes me nervous, I almost can't watch them. At any moment, boom.

The launch video was beautiful though, the water vaporizing and forming a could around the rocket is awesome, the inside view of the engine was amazing.

Can't wait to see the landing video!

What about the location of the landings? Have they been on target?
an updated version is available, now with nginx+libressl statically linked
The Rpi is now a totally open source platform

The last time I looked, it still requires a binary blob to even boot, and despite Broadcom releasing (partial) documentation for the GPU, and claims that it should be possible to replace that blob, I haven't seen any advances on that front.
The Web from its inception until about ~1996-97 was like this.
To answer your question:

Proponents of net neutrality are asking the FCC for new regulation on the internet in order to prevent ISPs from prioritizing certain traffic over others. If we were to shut down the FCC, ISPs would be unrestrained.

In other words - the problem with the FCC is not that it is actively doing bad things, the problem is that it is not doing the job we would like it to.
>Predatory pricing.

Offering a lower price to consumers than your competition is not coercion against a competitor.

>Buying up necessary capital.

Offering a higher price to suppliers than your competition is not coercion against a competitor.

>Paying other companies to not deal with you

Entering into exclusive deals with other firms is not coercion against a competitor.
The argument against would be that 2.7M articles containing no useful content is not helpful. (Assuming, which I do, that the articles do not contain useful content).
Michaelochurch has another blog post about exactly this.