skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's just perfect: the zero-bloat of elementary OS allows me to get my multitasking work done flawlessly, keeping firefox+sublime+atom+a-lot-of-terminals open without a glitch.

Also the dual core Celeron is fast in compiling things for elementary dev (of course just don't think to run Gentoo on it), while moderates the desire to play games.

About the 2GB RAM: as devs we are used to systems with 8/16 GB today; if you can accept that even RAM is a finite thing so it isn't an issue.

Anyway I try to preserve my SSD, so I keep my ~/Downloads folder in RAM, and at first I disabled the swap volume: the system just freezed too often. So I re-enabled the swap, but I reduced the swappiness and I plan to move it on an SD card.
The uncritical worship of data is probably the most irritating aspect of contemporary technology intelligentsia culture.

Knowing my own pulse every second is boring and misleading, but knowing someone else's pulse is just plain boring.

People obsessing over statistics is not a new phenomenon, but it used to be that the people who memorized World War II logistics details (or whatever) at least knew that their fixation is ultimately meaningless. Nowadays statistics geeks are convinced that they're contributing something important to the world by analyzing and curating their endless log streams.
When more than 95 percent of the "classified" information doesn't deserve to be classified in the first place, leaks will happen, too.
Gedit is pretty bare-bones and not really a programmers editor despite a few features in that direction.

Geany, on the other hand is everything a beginner needs and without proprietary concerns.
> Anyway I try to preserve my SSD

You really don't need to do that anymore.
What happens if you fail to complete a task on the assigned day? Does it automatically carry forward?

I used to use Teux Deux and quite liked how it did that:
https://teuxdeux.com/

No matter what I try, I always go back to paper though.
A third whistleblower / hero.

How come none in the government is charged for the multitude of illegal things that has been revealed? But there is still the insistency of labeling these people as 'leakers' instead of something more appropriate like 'hero' or 'whistleblower'.
Samsung Is Reportedly Working On A Crazy New Phone With A Wraparound Display
If I was a real pirate, I'd store my treasure in another island, or rather spend it on cannons, women, and booze.
Facebook to acquire Internet security company PrivateCore
But what about all your saved work? Reinstalling and losing everything could be a real tear jerker for kids. In fact, it's unlikely they would start over, possibly resulting in giving up on it completely given the emotional side effects.

Maybe the solution should have a cloud backup option built in that uses Dropbox or something to clone all your data. Then at least you are just a couple-hour restore away from being back online.
I don't think Kryptos counts as a mystery. It is a riddle for sure, which isn't entirely solved yet, but it is as much a mystery as the final puzzle of Fez: We know exactly who made it, for what purpose, what it contains conceptually, and that the creator is even still alive.

Voynich and the Money Pit are mysteries where none of these are true and many questions besides the solving procedure are still open.

(Though, to be honest, i strongly suspect that Voynich is the same thing as Kryptos and the last Fez puzzle: An artifact straddling a weird line between riddle and troll.)
I really seriously can't fathom how you can say that async-await isn't absolutely huge...

I remember having my brain sufficiently blown when I realized just what it was doing and how powerful of a feature this was.
On Linux, Geany is the best editor for beginners and experts who like things simple:

sudo apt-get install geany geany-plugins
Thanks for the feedback. This features us actually in testing right now and should be released shortly. The plan is to spider the site at a less frequent interval (say, once a day), and aggregate everything that's changes across all pages in a nice report. The hypothesis is that this would be useful for people with large content based sites and CMS's.
Looks very similar to GSound:
http://www.carlschissler.com/gsound/index.php?page=home
But sounds like none of those uses HRTF for producing realistic binaural audio.
There's a whole chapter on the last gasps of the British Space Program in the book, Backrook Boys

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1331484.Backroom_Boys
Someday. We have plans for most Elasticsearch customizations you could think of, but still need to figure out how to give people power and keep thing stable.
> Knowing my own pulse every second is boring and misleading

It's important that people realise that hyper-awareness of your body could be harmful. Doctors tell healthy people to avoid full body MRI scans. The reasons are the same. You become aware of stuff which is meaningless noise, but which then triggers action. Even "watchful waiting" is for some people stressful and distracting.
I'm forced to wonder which results are statistically significant.

Yet another hypothesis for tips going up in the $20 to $30 range is because for fares over $20, riders may switch to credit card payment where the fare has a clear paper-trail, while tips for fares under $20 are underreported because riders want to get rid of their singles.

My conclusion for the results of the study is that rider sympathy for the poor medallion owners of the world varies based on the fare.
That doesn't sound like any scientific method I know.
Glad you posted that, as I'm interested in seeing this discussion continued (re. my admittedly late post in that thread).
Lots of negativity here. I juat grabbed the Flame from upstairs again to test a browser feature. Now I remember the one single point of cannot-use.

Keyboard? Usable, merely annoying. XMPP? I.. would even fall back on SMS. Mail client: It works, kinda. Not well, not nice, but it exists.

The single one rant-worthy FxOS thing is the 'search'. It seems they integrate some weird recommendation engine. And that feels like browsing the web, ca. 2000 and no adblock. It even comes with predefined 'categories' (looks like folders, but it will search the web for 'games' for example and list the lowest of the low, the worst corners of the internet, the online scum - as 'apps' on your phone). Hrm.. Damn, that really turns me off every time I give it a try.. Can you rip it out/disable it? Nope.
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> Also hard upper limits on GC time are very helpful for those cases where allocations can't be reduced any further

Yes, but 10ms is too long to be useful for games. I'd rather take 1ms every frame than 10ms sometimes.
Free speech is at an all-time high in the sense that you can call the president an a-hole and not worry about going to jail. It's not the curb on this kind of speech that will make it 1000x worse than Orwell. Technology allows surreptitious monitoring and undetectable influence on your actions.

Imagine if you had secret and unfettered access to your friends' email, texts, and phone calls. Further imagine that you can spoof sending emails and texts. You see that Alice is interested in Joe and you don't want them to get together. Don't you think you could sabotage this from ever happening without either of them knowing? I do.

The government (or corporation) could effectively hellban you. They could drive you around by remote control and you wouldn't even know it. Surveillance is Orwellian. Secret surveillance is 10x Orwellian. Stealth surveillance plus subtle control is game over.
You answered that a lot more succinctly than I would have. Credit vs. cash really is different.

It doesn't hurt that most of the time I'm in NYC, the taxi drivers "have broken credit card machines" or ask me if I can use cash to save them from the processing fees. Usually the currency in play is $20s and it's easier to just round up then calculate and fumble around for change and small bills.

For big fares, credit is just easier to deal with than a wad of money. The cabs all have touch screens for selecting the tip, I suspect there's some kind of psychology on that tip selection screen which explains the ending 5 and 0 fare tip dips.

And as for anything, as the price goes up, the tip goes down. If I go to Olive Garden with my wife and spent $30, I give them a $6 tip, because the waiter was nice, asked me how everything was and my water stayed topped off.

When I go to Per Se's or Le Bernardin's and drop $300 on a prix-fixe dinner, do I really want to tip them $60 because I got near enough the same service (but it involved 4 people) but they kept my wine glass topped off all night? No, but I might give them $50 because that's a nice number, is more than 15% (so I can make sure I can come back).
You can both be right. It is true that this apparatus presents an unparalleled opportunity for the suppression of free speech. It is also true that, compared to Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany, Crusades-era Europe, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, etc. we are nowhere near the historical maximum of such suppression...

...which makes it all the more important that we quash said opportunity now.
That is excellent. Thank you!
At the end, they say that the stone has been lost since 1930.
You should just convert to .svg the white icon, the rest of the button will look better in CSS.
Where can I meet these hot 70 year olds?
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"
Thanks very much!
We started originally with monthly pricing but decided to experiment with per check pricing. I'd be keen for any feedback on what the subscription price should be and how many monthly checks should be included in that.

Thanks for the feedback around the scrolling - I assume this is on the content site? Can I ask what browser/os this occurs on?
The similarity of the history of this island to the history of many software projects I've worked on is amazing.
I have no idea. I suspect there's some kind of influence there. But I can think of enough anecdotal cases where it doesn't seem to be true to rule it out as a complete explanation.
Symfony2 and AngularJS
That irritates me too. I just fixed it. :)
>'I am seriously considering purchasing his book.'

In my opinion, you should go ahead and do it.

It's available on Safari where I'm a subscriber, but I grabbed a copy anyway - it's not just good, but pretty damn unique in that it supplies a wide breadth while maintaining good depth of coverage.
I agree. What they're currently doing with the data doesn't even approach the totalitarian system from 1984, but the amount of data they are collecting on us (and the amount of data there is to collect) is magnitudes greater than Orwell could have predicted.

Basically, the framework is there. All it will take is one overzealous nationalist, one religious extremist, or one extremely greedy, immoral, charismatic corporate puppet and their resources for evil are bigger than at any other time in history. Look at how well Hitler tracked Jews with basic 1940's punch card technology. Imagine if he had had access to the NSA databases of today. I apologize for going all Godwin's Law here, but it seems relevant.

What truly amazes me is how complacent we are about it as a society. 1984 was obviously popular for a reason, but when the set up for that book is staring us in the face, we don't even seem to blink. Maybe we'll be different when (not if) the abuses of this kind of power start happening...
Actually I get paid in United States.
From the article:

> these nanodiamonds can detect molecular abnormalities at a much earlier stage, essentially stopping cancer from spreading any further

> Current methods are unable to detect small tumors or breakaway tumor cells that lead to something called micrometastatic tumors, which can go undetected at the source and lead to the spread of cancer throughout other areas of the body.

From pg's essay Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas[1]:

> It will seem preposterous to future generations that we wait till patients have physical symptoms to be diagnosed with cancer. Cancer will show up on some sort of radar screen immediately.

> (Of course, what shows up on the radar screen may be different from what we think of now as cancer. I wouldn't be surprised if at any given time we have ten or even hundreds of microcancers going at once, none of which normally amount to anything.)

[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
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"Hero" is incredibly biased language. No journalist should use that term for Snowden outside of the opinion page. (For what it's worth, I personally view Snowden a hero.)

"Leaker" is a factual statement that is focused on a person's activities, not his or her motivations. And it doesn't pass judgement.
You'd probably get the same or better compression with a general-purpose compression algorithm, much less one specialized to the purpose.

PNG optimizers are not exactly designed for compressing data-as-images.
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This happens daily, it is what the NYT calls a "government official speaking on the condition of anonymity". Try Google, you get multiple matching articles every single day.

It is gotten so ridiculous that the "public editor" of the NYT felt the need to whitewash the practice in one of her columns:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/opinion/sunday/the-public-...

Of course, it highlights the virtues of the "investigative journalist", having to disguise the identity of his vital sources.

That, by and large, remains a fantasy. The most important tool for a journalist is his phone, and he uses it daily to call all the same "sources". These sources then relay some juicy factoids (fully adherent to the party line), which is repeated without being questioned and with anonymity granted, to a government official speaking on a government telephone line. The whole setup is so bizarre; of course no one gives out actual leaks on a freaking telephone line. It is no longer 1950.
> You mean that really important stone which somehow got misplaced—or put into a fireplace

On a total tangent: People used to just hack up important monuments all the time if they thought they could use them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avebury

> In the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods, locals destroyed many of the standing stones around the henge, both for religious and practical reasons. The antiquarians John Aubrey and William Stukeley however took an interest in Avebury during the 17th century, and recorded much of the site before its destruction.

> The majority of the standing stones that had been a part of the monument for thousands of years were smashed up to be used as building material for the local area. This was achieved in a method that involved lighting a fire to heat the sarcen, then pouring cold water on it to create weaknesses in the rock, and finally smashing at these weak points with a sledgehammer.
10ms is an upper bound. Games typically don't do a lot of allocations during gameplay, so it's unlikely that Go's GC would be an issue for most gaming applications.

And, as I mention whenever this comes up, Minecraft is written in Java and suffers from huge GC pauses, yet it's one of the most successful games of the last decade.
After you buy an SSL certificate, Heroku charges $20/month to use it. You can circumvent this with Cloudflare, but they also charge $20/month for SSL. Is there any easy way to use SSL on Heroku for $0-5 / month?

(See http://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-way-to-use-HTTPS-on-Heroku... for one possibility.)
It stays on that day, however on Sunday when a new week begins all of your tasks that were incomplete from the last week get moved to the current week.

Also Teux Deux looks great, I'll try to see how they do things. I too tend to resort to pen and paper, but I'm working on making Weekly my replacement.
I honestly don't see the benefit of this. If I understand it correctly, a bunch of people watch ads, causing the price to go down. But only one person gets the discounted price, and everyone else who sat there watching ads gets nothing? In other words, the majority of people using the site get no benefit.
The crypto strength of a self-signed cert is irrelevant because a MITM can generate their own self-signed cert with the your website's name.
"leaker" has mild negative connotations.

"Whistle blower" has more positive connotations.
Pricing hearthstone cards with unique abilities: VanCleef and The Twilight Drake
> If you want to optimize for a nice current life for that person you give money, if you want to optimzing for getting back to work without starving then you given physical goods.

If you want to optimize for getting back to work in an economy which is rapidly changing, you provide (1) resources which are flexible in form so that people can address different reasons why they might be out of work and the different needs they have to meet to get back into work, and (2) you provide aid in a form makes it easy for people to benefit from work income as additive to the aid.

Money is better for both than a standard-issue set of goods.
I block tracking at the domain level via a custom hosts file: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

Actually, I went one step further than this, I dump that hosts file into dnsmasq and set that as my primary domain controller for the home network. So anything connected via WiFi or ethernet (phones, tablets, laptops, etc) will also have tracking blocked.
You can do reference counting asynchronously, though.
As a Swede who's been living in Toronto (and been on Teksavvy), I really have to agree.

The caps are really limiting, and worse than that they're something you have to be aware of to not get stuck with overage charges.

The lack of symmetric options is really a problem too. What good is an 'unlimited' upload cap if the bandwidth is 10% of what your download speed is?

It's awful. The Canadian broadband market lacks competition and fiber availability.
haha, I see that the context is cached now ;)
Lawless Legends: Ray-casting Apple II game in development
I wrote a blog post that showed how powerful JVM compilers like the new Graal can be with removing allocations. I can show a test case in Ruby running on Graal where there are many complicated objects that cross many method boundaries, and they're all entirely removed.

http://www.chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/pushing-pixels/

Graal can do normal escape analysis, and so scalar replacements, but it can also do partial escape analysis - that is doing scalar replacement even if an object will later escape.
> I really welcome the links to the better measurements and graphs.

Simply look at the picture you referenced and fully understand what it says. Read the accompanying paper also.

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but even the "generational" GCs present their own problems

Every memory management scheme has pros and cons, yes.
17.42:1 by mass or volume?
Huxley is a great tool for testing. I think there is a big problem to solve around visual regression testing (I also think visual "unit testing" could be an interesting concept).

Obvious.io is focused on website monitoring, if you think about New Relic monitoring your backend and perhaps Pingdom monitoring your webserver, then Obvious.io is about the customer - does your website look like it should for them? And does it look right consistently over time.

On a side note though, we do have an API in the works so technically if you wanted to plug obvious.io into your CI pipeline, you could do that quite easily. E.g. you want to check that your release into prod is visually the same as the one that's currently in UAT.
If you are interested in seeing more of fishing from the perspective of a fish, I highly recommend Leviathan [1]. It provides a very interesting look at the industry

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(2012_film)
Mine is called PlanitWide (http://www.planitwide.com) - a travel focused startup.

The first thing my co-founder & I agreed on is that we wanted to avoid having "trip", "travel" or anything that was a variant of those two words in the name.

The reason for that is that there's a really long list of travel startups that have those 2 words in their name and we felt we'd risk getting lost among them if did too.

However we absolutely wanted a name that had some correlation with travel & specifically our solution - which explicitly meant not having a nonsensical/unrelated name.

Secondly, the vision for our solution is for it to be a one-stop shop for any kind of travel, for any kind of person i.e - PlanitWide would be the starting and end point for planning any kind of trip in the world.

So we wanted the name to embody:

a) the holistic nature of this vision in terms of planning trips and

b) it's global nature in terms of destinations and who could use it

From there on it was playing around and coming up with (what we thought) were interesting plays on words and phrases that met all of these criteria

One of those words was Planetwide. On a whim we substituted the first "e" with an "i" and serendipitously stumbled onto a name that we thought was perfect. We tested it out with people we knew and unanimously got a great response.

Of course the domain name was also available for cheap which just sealed the deal.
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Would this allow one to recompile X86 binaries to another architecture?
Lysterr Helps Write Ads When Posting Items for Sale
We built a simple app to help people list items for sale online. Let us know what you think!

Highlights: You can send/share the posting on Facebook or via email, you can chat with other users about their items to make a deal, you can search for items nearby and we offer quick templates to help you write the ad.

Any thoughts, comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

The Lysterr Team

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Coming soon for Android..

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A download cap of 300Gb on a 150Mpbs link is hardly generous, which is what Teksavvy offers in Ontario.

It's a joke. And the only reason is to make you pay for the more expensive connection. Maybe also to hand you additional charges.
I just donno man..this is easily the funniest comment in a long time.
Get to know the man who started the Zeitgeist movement
If the government were to figure out who this is, perhaps through the process of elimination and internal spying, my bet is that we would never hear about it and that the person would disappear silently to a CIA operated Polish prison.
The two cultures. "ratio" and "intellectus". Positivism and interpretivism. Deleuze and Guattari's smooth and striated space. the external world of rationality, brute facts and "qualities" vs the internal world of feeling, intuition and associations.

Is it fundamental? I don't know, but there's a lot of culture behind that distinction.
Note: the development tools (but not assets) are available at the github page: https://github.com/badvision/lawless-legends, along with a tutorial on the raycasting code: https://github.com/badvision/lawless-legends/blob/master/Doc...