skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It looks like just not-invented-here bloat

To me, the real advantage are:

- native multiplexing on a single TCP socket. No more connection pools, no more domain sharding...

- the server is now able to send data at arbitrary moments.

Here's a concrete example: how would you do a webchat ? You need bidirectional communication, potentially initiated by any party. Easy solution: use websockets.

With SPDY/HTTP2, you can use POSTs for sending messages and Server-sent events for receiving messages. You don't need to pool them, you don't need something-over-HTTP like websockets is; you just use standard HTTP semantics.
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Sure they do in certain contexts. But every action on Facebook except for private messages has to be this way because of the nature of the platform. If "real life" encompasses "every human experience" then there are many many opportunities in which you can be honest about yourself, be candid, be true to your own whims and desires, without giving much consideration as to what other people will think about it. Facebook is then a subset of real life where certain types of facades and maneuvering are the rule.
My only gripe is the blurriness of the dog icon when it's enlarged to be your own avatar.

Can you not increase the resolution slightly? I'd like my dog-face to be chiselled and clear - not all blurry and chinless.

Otherwise this is pretty amusing.
>Also, "real life" is overrated.

Yeah, let's all live in the network. Or commit suicide.
Do you want your location along with your credentials to your lol cats forum in the wild ?

Depending on what site you're going to, you can be screwed pretty easily.
> On 6 June 2014 water vapor was detected being released from Churyumov-Gerasimenko at a rate of roughly 1 litre per second

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67P/Churyumov%E2%80%93Gerasimen...

I find that pretty amazing! That's a lot of water coming off one comet just being sprayed everywhere.
Why Microsoft? Microsoft vs. Linux
You must have a magical car that has absolutely no blind spots! Which one is it? I'd like to consider purchasing one as my next car.

My current car will give warnings if it sees cross traffic approaching when in reverse. It has warned me a few times when someone is driving way too quickly through a parking lot and my view has been blocked by parked cars.

Things like this are REALLY useful. You just don't realize how useful they are because you haven't used the technology yet.
"Talking to real people" is a very low barrier to qualify "real life". In that sense ham-radio is real life too.

As is being confined in your house for decades and communicating with snail mail correspondence.
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Rebol comes built-in with nice date & time features.

While it doesn't have all the bells and whistles you would get with a 3rd party library like the one posted here it does have an advantage that date & time are both first class datatypes:

>> type? 6-Aug-2014
== date!

>> type? 01:20:59 ; 1 hour, 20 mins and 59 secs
== time!

>> 6/8/2014 - 5/8/2014
== 1

>> difference 6/8/2014 5/8/2014
== 24:00

>> yesterday: now - 1
== 5-Aug-2014/13:12:33+1:00

>> yesterday/day
== 5

>> one-hour-twenty-mins: 1:20
== 1:20

>> one-hour-twenty-mins/minute
== 20

>> one-hour-twenty-mins/hour
== 1

>> two-hours: one-hour-twenty-mins + 0:40
== 2:00

refs: http://www.rebol.com/r3/docs/datatypes/date.html | http://www.rebol.com/r3/docs/datatypes/time.html
Thanks! I completely agree with you and that's exactly why WorldNews was born. The extra things is disturbing but also makes the site slow and use a lot of data.
> except generally more cumbersome

you're doing it wrong.
"In a study of 11 older patients"

Is that a big enough sample to draw any conclusions?
Is is more complex - why is that inherently a bad thing?
> If you want to be in Nature today, you need attractive claims and flashy graphics already. And the peer review is just not working, they are favoring already famous people and ideas.

Citation?
Oh those displays are so ugly... Someone please hire Michael Okuda or someone else who has this thing called "attention to detail" and knows how to make displays that don't look like crap.

But yeah, I know, no profit in making things look nice; it's enough to make them just not repulsive. It saddens me that in the last 20 years we've developed many technologies straight out Star Trek and others, and yet they don't feel like from the movies mostly because no one cares about aesthetics in real world.
I think it is mainly dependent on the person. I love computer games and I spent my share of allnighters on them, but when faced with depression I don't even want to play.
It looks like it's only in a triangular orbit while approaching but it will eventually be in an elliptic orbit.
Just dissolve the tablet in a spoon of water. Will pass through the stomach fast enough. Also there are PPIs which can help with ulcer risk reduction... I mean, between cancer and aspirin...
IIRC, Microsoft has already stated that IE will support unencrypted HTTP/2.
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I'm not trying to shift the burden here, but the point made was along the lines of "HTTP2 is rubbish" - I've seen this a lot, with little to back it up.

But I'd say some of the benefits were:

- Server push support
- Multiplexed requests/header compression/other performance improvements
- Mandatory encryption support

Downsides are (from what I understand):

- Not a plaintext protocol

There may be more downsides, which I'm happy to hear about.
So even if they live in Brazil, you are supposed to call them Native Americans? That seems a bit weird to me.
Complexity is bad, all other things being equal, because it takes longer to implement, is more likely to contain bugs, etc..
We did a huge amount of benchmarking for Java Threads used in a very large data processing node. You're comment about the costs of context switching are borne out by our tests. We found that the best number of threads was equal to the number of CPUs in the node plus one. Any more threads decreased the throughput due to context switching (it was linear with our application ... to a point). Any fewer threads resulted in idle CPU.
I realize I don't have a well argued set of reasons. But sometimes you just look at something and think there has to be a better way than this.
Because democracy without an underlying system of values is indistinguishable from a tyranny by the majority (in other words, it cannot be two foxes and a hen voting on what's for dinner). That underlying system of values, as I understand, is the constitution. A law can be unconstitutional even if the entirety of congress votes in favor. While specific needs of American society have changed, I don't believe the values espoused by the US founders have changed a great deal over the past two centuries.

Disclaimer: not an American.
You can take a look at Eris by ProjectDouglas, a framework for building your own Distributed Autonomous Organizations.

They are also working on solutions for mirroring blockchain-based smart contracts with their counterparts in the offline legal system.

https://github.com/project-douglas/eris
> The detailed explanations and behind the scenes looks are really interesting, meeting such tiny piece of rock 400M km away is just crazy.

What makes this even more crazy is that the space craft cruised 31 months powered down, from Mars to beyond the orbit of Jupiter and then back. The precision required to accomplish this is tiny!

The mission controllers must have had a pretty good confidence before giving the ok to power down.

Huge accomplishment and magnificent engineering. Hats off to the guys in ESOC and other ESA facilities.
It fails when bucket_size changes.
I'll concede that passive surveillance would not be possible. However, I think that benefit is marginal - AFAIK, unencrypted support in HTTP2 is optional and won't be supported by browsers in any case.
It's very interesting to consider the effects.

But why should we link death with the release of copyright? While temptation of assassination is probably reduced with extra-long copyright duration after death of author, it's a lot saner to assign a fixed-duration copyright from the original release date, not from (whole life of author + fixed duration). The problem goes away if you have a fixed duration from the start.
FWIW, I’ve read of ton of research and the consensus is that open floor plans do hurt morale/individual production, but private offices hurt communication/team production.

I’ve also seen some research (which I cannot recall right this second) - which suggests team offices of 4-8 are ideal where you get some of the communication/team productivity without the full disruption of an open office.
Right, but obviously that's not the case here - there are actual benefits of using HTTP2. The fact that it's more complex doesn't necessarily (and I would argue, definitely doesn't) outweigh that.
Starting with the assumption that centralized system are generally wasteful compared to decentralized systems [1]: Why does middle-management exist? As a class of worker, I mean. They are a vast body of employees who do nothing directly towards consuming input resources and transforming them into output products and services. They exist solely to organize the people who do real work into a large, hierarchical organization. But to what end?

From a labor and trade perspective, the most efficient transaction is Person A making a thing and Person B buying it directly from Person A. There is no additional overhead of management, transportation, holding stock in display rooms, etc. But it's impossible to make those sorts of connections on the daily, hourly, minutely basis necessary to make an economy flow.

The best answer I've ever gotten was "it's more efficient!" So we've been told, but has anyone checked? And to which, the best answer I've ever received was, "well, it hasn't been disproven." Because of the key role of distribution in an economy, we accept these other inefficiencies.

But is that absolute? I think we are seeing proto-elements of decentralized distribution in sites like Etsy (which serves only to connect producers to customers) and Amazon (which both connects trading entities and performs stock warehousing and shipping for them, but doesn't actually produce anything of their own). We are only now entering an era of eCommerce. Everything before now has been "commerce as it has been since the industrial revolution" just on the Internet.

[1] and I do acknowledge that it is an assumption. But I think it's a stronger position than "bigger is better".
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grandparent refers to the risk of having all your stuff available to the same provider, so skype's track record is not all there is to it.
I've been waiting for something like this to arrive for a while. In Israel and the West Bank, services called sheiruts act as mini-buses; they're taxis that pick up multiple passengers going in the same direction, usually for the same price as a public bus ticket. When buses are scarce, they are a really useful service. Could UberPool be like this?
That it's possible to write nontrivial programs using immutable data (see Clojure in particular), which makes debugging highly concurrent applications much much easier. That it's possible to achieve precise control over effects with only a moderate amount of overhead. Look at the perennial debate in Ruby-land over whether you should test at the unit or the integration level. In Haskell that's not a choice, it's clear from the very type of a function whether it's a pure function or a function that makes use of context. And when debugging this lets you rule out whole swathes of your program as areas that couldn't possibly be causing the problem (contrast e.g. in Java I've spent days tearing my hair out only to discover that a problem was caused by a bug in a getter method - by convention getters are short and simple and can't possibly go wrong, but there's nothing enforcing that at the compiler level the way there is in Haskell).
I didn't mean "real life" as something opposed to "living in the network" (whatever that means). I meant "real life" your non-geeky friends tell you to get. Also "real lifers" tend to use social media much more than "nerds" (posting mostly photos of food, babies and such nonsense).
> and it's amazing it has that much residual thrust available.

We're not talking about propellant residue, that was very well planned ahead.

The spacecraft carried about 1.5 tons of propellant at launch. That gives the spacecraft a delta-v budget that is several kilometers per second.

The next thruster burns (on the triangular "hyperbolic orbits") will be tiny, in the order of centimeters per second.
Thanks again! What would examples of business networking groups be? How did you you hear about business speakers?
I put up all I have to say on the subject at: https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/bloat/2014-August/00...
Aspirin's action (activation etc) is well defined at chemical level. Of course, we probably don't know the entire pharmacokinetic/pharcodynamc action of the drug. But if the patient is not on other drugs that could interact with aspirin (e.g. anticoagulants, β2-blockers, antihypertensives, etc.) why not take half if not one aspirin per day?

Depends on the organism, some tolerate aspirin some ibuprofen, some nimesulid, some only paracetamol.

But Aspirin gas proven itself over the years extremely successfully as an anti-pyretic, analgesic, anticoagulant. That's not common among drugs.
As kogir mentioned elsewhere in the thread, ImageMagick is not designed to be used as a long running process, it will destroy RAM and likely lead to stability issues.

I think with OSX they used the right tool for the right job, because, as always, there is never a perfect solution to any problem on the trilateral axis (good/fast/cheap).
Indeed. Wording is important.

I meant that the known mechanism that you have mentioned does not explain all its reported benefits. Specifically in the anti-inflammatory effect, it seems like inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis (via COX enzyme binding) is not the reason[1].

As aspirin has so many potential benefits, it seems to me that it has to have some effect in some very basic and common site and the mitochondrial respiratory chain is a good, if not best, candidate.

If you are interested in uncoupling and free radical production, Peter[2] has a good amount of info about it.

At any rate, aspirin has many knowns unkowns; that´s what I meant in my original post.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2213311/

[2] http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com.es/
> Sasha […] originated in countries of Central, Eastern and Southern Europe as a diminutive of Aleksander and Aleksandra.
In 2014, 97% of top supercomputers are Linux based.

http://readwrite.com/2014/07/01/linux-world-domination-compl...
SPARX is a game from New Zealand designed to teach basic CBT techniques to teens.

http://www.beckinstituteblog.org/2012/04/a-computerized-cogn...

There's a niche in the market.
If you want to see something highly functional but also out-of-the-movies sharp, try redeeming an iTunes gift card on a Mac via the built-in camera.
Here is a thread about issues in serving it efficiently https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mechanical-sympat...
I can't speak for anyone else, but I certainly do.

Regardless of the form of PKI employed, there's going to be a cost associated with validating the identity of the parties you're communicating with.

For the average Joe, certs that require domain ownership validation are pretty cheap these days -- certainly on par with domain name registration fees. As with domain names, people need to just start treating it as a necessary cost of running a website.

To be clear, I am far from a fan of X.509, but I'm not holding my breath for something better to come along (and be widely deployed) this decade. So let's use what we've got.
> It looks like it's only in a triangular orbit while approaching but it will eventually be in a elliptic orbit.

Yes, exactly. But since the comet is highly irregular in shape and mass distribution (both are still unknown at this point!), the orbit won't be a perfect ellipse, not even close.
> If no negotiations were needed, then anyone could have picked up and done a low-budget adaptation and called it a day.

And? Anyone can do a low-budget adaptation of Alice in Wonderland and call it a day.

Copyright is supposed to incentivize authors to create more work (by having a return on 'investment'/time put in). Not to restrict those who can create 'work inspired by others' to the uber-rich.
If you are a decent enough developer, getting proficient in Angular or Rails should not be that difficult. I say back yourself, and get studying, you can do it!
On this, Alan Watts offers some sage advice: "If you get the message, hang up the phone."
I still believe that programming is not for everyone. There's experimental evidence that programming classes have two bell curves--the ones who think right and can succeed, and the ones who don't. More personally, I've tried to teach CS at various levels, from primary school to university level, and the divide can be very clear. It isn't about ability or intelligence or background, some people simply seem to be unable to think in the right way, like the mental model in their head is trying to match on the wrong criteria for this specific area.
I don't quite get why the 'Substitutability' code snippet fails? Is it because the both vars 'point' to the same RAM address initialized with '3'?
If that is the case, I would argue the language is somewhat broken, or at least it`s a major caveat ...
Please explain?
Fair enough, but I don't see a reason to single out computers as something dividing one's goals between good (not related to computers) and bad (related to computers). I personally don't care about sports or typical tourism, and I'm a bit tired of being called a "no-life" for that.

> however, gossiping and drama over facebook is even worse, because it can haunt you forever

Yes, and the people who do that gossiping and dramas tend to be the same that tell you to "get a life". People's behaviour on social networks reflect their behaviour in real-life interactions.
This is the first step in developing the techniques required to sustain life in space without having to haul everything up Earth's gravity well. If we can get good at this, then it changes the entire economics of space.
I think jeroen94704 is saying "With the masses of the comet, and the spacecraft being relatively close"

[comma added]
I interpret your final paragraph as suggesting that copyright should be of short fixed terms, for some meaning of 'short'. Is that right?

As to the rest of what you said, isn't it somewhat obviated by the article, it saying that the Doyle estate has been making money from his works, despite them being written around a hundred years ago? I'm wondering if I misunderstood something.
Affiliate revenue (of the sort these criminals got from pushing weight loss products) is pocket change to Russia. I am curious, though, so some quick napkin math is in order..

1.2 billion accounts

Modestly estimate they sent emails/posts with 200 million

5 emails from each account

Click rate of 0.01%

Landing page -> offer conversion rate of 15%

Credit card details conversion of 5%

$15 commission on each lead

= $112,000

Even if you tweak that to send more emails or use more accounts, the number is still going to be somewhere around $10-15 million. Not that much.
Wait, since when did functional programming imply immutability? I think fifty years of lisp would like to have a few words with this fellow.
LastCall (simple cron job monitoring tool in PHP)
Something seems off on the second code example under "Safely Reusing Ports". `s.connect()` is inside the try/except block, which is great, except that both cases in the `except` re-raise something, which means the loop will only ever execute once. Am I misreading that?

Not that that takes anything away from the functionality, of course. CloudFlare is great and I'm excited to see that they're offering web socket support.
Aspirin is very well understood, Wikipedia has a very extensive article about how it works. It's a pro-drug, when activated takes a place. Search for Arachidonic Acid pathway if you are interested.

Also, By binding free radicals ( a we'll know, side-effect of aspirin and Vitamin C) you get less chances of getting cancer for one.
> There's experimental evidence that programming classes have two bell curves--the ones who think right and can succeed, and the ones who don't.

Do you have a link please? Because "Camels and Humps" has been retracted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8059900
> I think copyrights should be perpetual.

Here's Spider Robinson's take on this dystopia:

http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html
Ham-radio is real life as well and I know a lot of radio amateurs who are very reasonable and intelligent people, and who owe a lot of their skills to their radio hobby.

It's this stupid meme in the society that doing "technology" is somehow "less real" or impoverishing in comparison to things like sports or tourism. But why would it be so?
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They fill hidden parts according to symmetries they find in the object’s geometry or make use of model’s textures or user-defined input if there is no symmetry.

> For areas of the object that do not satisfy the criteria of geometric symmetry and appearance similarity, such as the underside of the taxi cab in Figure 1, the assignment defaults to the stock model appear- ance. The assignment also defaults to the stock model appearance when after several iterations, the remaining parts of the object are partitioned into several small areas where the object lacks structural symmetries relative to the visible areas. In this case, we allow the user to fill the appearance in these areas on the texture map of the 3D model using PatchMatch.
Any time I use the word "ill", I need to explicitly tell the auto-correct not to change it to "I'll", regardless of context.

Also, given that "I see the house. I see its eaves." and "I see the house. I see it's tilted." have the same opening, I can't see how a computer could possibly decide correctly between the two.
The hardest part is not so much modeling the comet's gravity, but modeling the aerodynamic effects since at this distance from the Sun outgassing is already taking place at a substantial rate.

It's a big blow to the flight dynamics team that the copyright arrangement for the pictures from some of the onboard scientific cameras makes it impossible for the FD team to use them. Sponsors of the instruments keep denying the permission to guarantee that no competing science and publications can be made before they publish.
zero fraud (thanks to transactions being irreversible)

These are not the same thing at all! Irreversible transactions just means you can't get a refund when you're defrauded. Bitcoin allows recipients to defraud senders at will. I suppose this is popular because the existing system with credit cards defaults to allowing the public to defraud the merchants, but it's not an improvement overall.
Beyond everything else, someone should have stopped and said "Wait, this is level 4 stuff we're implementing in level 7. There has to be a saner way"

I also find the naming very disingenuous. This is not even an HTTP-style protocol, it should not be named HTTP2.

As for people who want to require CA certs everywhere: Are all the free certs out there accepted by all browsers? (Honest question).
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> The mix of 16-bit and 32-bit instruction lengths is reminiscent of ARC.

MIPS has also MIPS16..