skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the right approach to sunset an opensource project from a big company, so people don't need to discover the project is dead by checking the last commit date, which happen quite often these days especially when the key developer of the opensource project left the company.
How long can coffee napping be used, and what are the after effects?

The article says the test subjects used it to good effect for 24 hours. I wonder if the following day was a compete productivity waste.
From the API design / pedigree side, sure. But that's a given, and a tangent to the curiosity I am trying to have sated :)
This is being worked on, in that 10.x is going to be supported for at least 2 years, and in the future there has been talks about 5 years of support per major release. The minor releases will get dropped sooner, upgrading is mostly painless anyway (from 9.1 to 9.2 was very simple) so it shouldn't make much of a difference.
Thanks.

Last night I went shopping and for a mobo looked at the
Asus M5A97 as at

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A97/specifications/

and that Web page says that the mobo will use ECC (error correcting coding, as I recall, use 72 bits for each 64 bits the programmer sees).

Thanks for confirming that the AMD processor also supports ECC.

Next I'll wonder what Windows Server does in case of ECC detected errors, correctable or not! Is the OS willing to disable blocks of memory that are giving ECC errors and report the situation?
[pdf]VMS roadmap
> If spilled paint on a canvas, and accidentally produced a fresco by Raphael, would it cease being beautiful (because it took no skill to make?). Do you go to art galleries just to be impressed by someone's skill? Is art a talent competition?

I'm less interested in the skill than the beauty. But that seems to be missing from a lot of modern works. I don't want my art to be political, or self-aware, or even particularly thought-provoking. Or at least, I don't want it to sacrifice beauty for those goals. Random paint splatters are, I think, less beautiful than Raphael's frescoes.

> Furthermore, what is unapproachable about a collection of furnace ducts? It's not to hard to understand. Just a pile of ducts. Does art always have present you with a puzzle to figure out, or contribute to some theory? Why can't I say "Look, a pile of ducts. Neat, huh?"

You can, but I see equally appealing piles of objects every day on my way to work. If something's worth elevating to a gallery I'd expect it to be better than the things I see out there in the world - otherwise why bother with a gallery at all?
Hidden message in Google Maps?
>http://www.vividads.com.au/

What does this link have to do with anything?
WhatsApp is still a FreeBSD shop AFAIK.
What would the "right" target be?
Article passed through Readability: https://www.readability.com/articles/bxlkncll
Good for nothing
Actually I think he's done quite a bit of teaching along those lines in the last three days. Several students seem unhappy with the lesson...
Idk... I'm struggling to see why an average user in the overclocking/high-end pc market would run into the 64 gig limit assuming the high end market has a relatively short part lifetime. I mean if you're in it for the video editing then the sky is the limit but for an average user? A user could ram-cache 4 hard drives with a 4gb buffer each, power up the entire adobe suite including Illustrator, Photoshop, start a browser session with 100 tabs and 10 video streams, torrent client, email client, backup client, vpn, a couple modest ftp and web servers, a transcoding media streaming server AND crysis 3 and still likely have 10-20 gigs to play with. I think if you need much more than that running concurrently you probably should be starting to think about server hardware.

If you think 64gb will be an easy limit for an average user to hit in the near future I would love to hear your envisioned use case.
Say hello to x64 Assembly, part 1
I'd say learn to program, but thoroughly learn a domain to apply it to as well. Ideally you'll pick the domain right, but learning what's involved in learning a domain thoroughly is itself hugely valuable. I don't know exactly when, in your educational trajectory, to advise what though. Probably depends partly on the particular domains you're considering.
I agree. This comment seems off-topic. Not sure why it's the top comment.
My co-worker seems to think it's related to the Zodiak Killer.
Peter Bagge's comic critique of modern art:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080517130730/http://www.reason...
Leak seems to imply unintentional. A third option is that they could have sold your data. I assume you checked that your email isn't publicly listed anywhere obvious on a profile or anything?
Stross answers that.

My response is "under your feet".
This is sadly true IMHO. In many respects, the marketing campaign is the artistic endeavor. I can sort of see how this fits into the historical continuum, eg in a few centuries ago the church and the aristocracy were the commissioners and arbiters of art and in that highly politicized context artists produced portraits of the powerful and religious allegories because that was what the market demanded. Nowadays artists produce work that is reflective and glorificatory of global manufacturing supply chains and ultraspecific brand identity and are handsomely rewarded for their personification of otherwise abstract corporate values - Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons being the leading British and American practitioners of this post-modernistic aesthetic.

I think these artists are making a serious and successful artistic statement, albeit a highly indirect one. At the same time I find it sort of deplorable because I think art should be an intimate personal experience rather than a spectacular sociological one. Somehow I derive much more enjoyment from my own failed or inchoate than I do from most of what is promoted to me as art, with artists' statements that read like so much ad copy.
ummmmmm, twice the number I get from my current 64GB non-ecc system?
Well put. The biggest win won't be in giving the 1% of YCombinator applicants some kind of "unfair advantage" (something I disagree is even possible), but in growing that 1%. And that starts by letting potential entrepreneurs know the startup scene is even an option for them.
At Gateway to Hamptons, Ku Klux Kaln Advertises for New Members
>> Our users, of course, won’t be charged for this insurance.

So, where the money came from?
I only really noticed the difference when I stopped taking Oxycodene. My evidence is purely anecdotal, of course. I was on it for about 2 months, with about 3 months either side w/ Tramadol, so not quite long term, but long enough.

I wouldn't classify it as a dumb feeling - more of a passive state, but when I stopped with the heavy opiates I noticed an increase in productivity - I spent much less time working and achieved a much higher output. Of course, that's not an option for some people.
Most Valuable Programming Language in Future
Thanks for the feedback. I will strive to improve the design.
Haystack looks interesting ;)
Correction: humans haven't travelled beyond low Earth orbit since 1972.

No human has ever travelled beyond Earth orbit. I believe the Apollo missions may have achieved Earth escape velocity, though their destination was Lunar orbit, which remains within Earth's.
4real dog hardcore gamerz only use arm procs.
Angry birds4life.

Seriously though, what are you talking about?
I think the only issue is that the middle digit needs to become a 'breaking change', the last digit anything which isn't, and the first digit should be left to the maintainer to increment as he/she sees fit. It seems like that's how most people care to use it, and it also bypasses the '0.x.x is special issue'.
Last I checked there's a distinct shortage of programmers in America (which is where I assume you are since you said you took an AP class). But don't take my word for it, I don't need the competition!
Our second car was parked for 9 days next to where we live, but out of sight. Law says can only park 48 hours in one place, but not a problem unless someone complains. Someone complained, for no reason we can think of (plenty of parking in the area.)

We went to load the car with supplies for a big annual event we put on, and...no car. Had been towed almost a week previously. Figured it out a day after the event during biggest snowstorm in several years. Towing, ticket, storage, incredible hassle for no discernible reason whatsoever.
The container_of macro is intended for cases where contained objects are at some (possibly compile-time variable) offset into a structure. Eliding type-checking, it reduces to the simple cast in this particular case.

Not to say that it wouldn't work, just that it isn't really necessary - casting a pointer to a structure to a pointer to its first member (and back) is perfectly portable. Perhaps even idiomatic. (Though the casts in that gist seem to be backwards?)
Was it before obamacare? Out-of-pocket max is ~6000 now
I mean stop it in the sense of the perspective of the photon. I don't know enough physics but I suspect that from the photon's perspective it hasn't stopped. This is because there is no time elapse from the photon's perspective. The other points in my previous post remain valid. I think!
The incentive to use Bitcoin is near-zero transaction fees. Merchants can and do share those savings with customers.

Any future where Bitcoin fails will still have near-zero transaction fees because the technology exists to enable that today. Describing such a future without describing what has outcompeted Bitcoin seems incomplete.
> Don't get me wrong: funding bias is a problem, but it gets overstated.

Hardly. It is in fact far worse than you are attempting to imply, and is covered in detail in Bad Pharma[1] which is well worth reading.

A snippet: "Drugs are tested by the people who manufacture them, in poorly designed trials, on hopelessly small numbers of weird, unrepresentative patients, and analysed using techniques which are flawed by design, in such a way that they exaggerate the benefits of treatments."

[1] http://www.badscience.net/2012/09/heres-the-intro-to-my-new-...
One thing that puzzles me about the Chromecast compared to other Google/Android devices - why has Google locked it down so much and not released a bootloader unlocker? Is it for publisher/DRM-type reasons (given that the Chromecast is primarily for playing content on your TV)?
> $10mm/year in lobbying can virtually guarantee that legislation remains in their favor, which blows any kind of product R&D in terms of ROI out of the water.

This is oft-repeated, but doesn't stand up to any sort of logical scrutiny. You think there aren't dozens of parties with interests adverse to Intuit who could pony up $10 million to lobby for the opposite position? I think of this every time someone mentions lobbying by telecom or media companies: for what Facebook paid for WhatsApp, it could purchase all of the lobbying efforts of the top 10 D.C. lobbying firms for the next half-century. You think the Facebooks and Googles of the world are above buying legislation in business-critical areas like telecom policy or copyright if it were that cheap?

What lobbying does is help you tap into a base of support that already exists. In the case of Intuit, their lobbying dollars go to supporting Republicans and Libertarians who don't want to make filing taxes easy. The cost and burden of filing taxes is a major hammer people use to chip away at the whole concept of progressive taxation. It's a major selling point of proposals like the flat tax or consumption taxes. In a system with employer withholding, it's the only major reminder of how much the government is taking out of your paycheck each year.

That $10 million doesn't guarantee Intuit favorable legislation--it leverages a deep divide in the polity that happens to advance Intuit's specific interests. And at the end of the day, almost all effective lobbying, at least at the federal level, takes that shape.
I'm a big fan of recreational weed (ideally sativa strains), but my experience with indica strains for pain relieve is not good. I find that rather than making me forget about chronic pain that I currently experience (neck cramps, sore muscles, etc) it makes me remember/re-experience pain from years-old injuries. Surgical scars I got when I was in my teens and haven't felt since suddenly have dull unignorable sensations of pain. A toe I broke a year ago starts hurting again. Etc.

Nobody that I have mentioned this too has ever said they experienced the same so I've usually just written it off as some sort of strange psychosomatic thing, but the article's passing mention that "marijuana doesn’t replace the pain relief of opiates. However, it does seem to distract from the pain by making it less bothersome." makes me wonder if something is actually going on here.
50 startups, five days, one bootcamp to change the world
John Conway Teaches Calendar Calculation
Build Neighborhoods with Cafeterias
Dog Poops, Ice Bucket Fail
Tanker with $100m Iraqi Oil Vanishes Off TX
What’s wrong with your pa$$w0rd?
One of our students[0] at Monkey Project Organization[1] through Google Summer of Code[2], wrote a complete co-routine implementation for the Duda I/O[3] Web Services stack.

The feature is called "dthread" or "duda-thread" which aims to expose Channels and generic co-routines functionalities, you can check the following relevant links:

a. The co-routine implementation:

https://github.com/monkey/duda/blob/master/src/duda_dthread....

it does not need mutex or anything similar, short code but a lot of thinking behind it.

b. Example: web service to calculate Fibonacci using channels:

https://github.com/monkey/duda-examples/blob/master/080_dthr...

the whole work will be available on our next stable release, if someone want to give it a try, just drop us a line.

[0] http://blog-swpd.rhcloud.com

[1] http://monkey-project.com

[2] http://www.google-melange.com

[3] http://duda.io
Creating a cloud-hosted realtime pubsub server in 10 minutes
notwithstanding the hyperbole, I'm not seeing the excessive aspect you mention. By international standards, Americans' maximalization of second amendment rights is bizarre to the point of being self-destructive (as exemplified in this shooting incident). I don't need to hear an entire articulation of the water cycle every time someone observes that heavy rain makes things wet.

Clearly we're not going to agree about this.
Multi-Factor Analysis of Y Combinator’s Summer 2014 Class
It's a marvellous fact that the Apollo missions achieved escape velocity, or close enough that they could have done so with small design modifications.

The calculation is fun:

The kinetic energy required to escape Earth's orbit entirely is: G M / R, where G is Newton's constant, M is the mass of the Earth, and R is the radius of the Earth.

The kinetic energy required to get to the Moon is: G M / R - G M / r, where r is the distance to the moon.

To compute the ratio of the second quantity to the first, note that the GM factors cancel. So the ratio is:

(1/R-1/r) / (1/R) = 1 - R / r

The distance to the moon is about 60 times the radius of the Earth. So:

Kinetic energy required to get to moon / Kinetic energy required to escape Earth's orbit entirely = 1 - 1/60 ~ 98 %.

In other words, the Apollo missions had at least 98% the kinetic energy required to escape Earth orbit's entirely.
So essentially what Ember and React have done? Nice to see
Excellent! Just 2 days ago, somebody here was complaining about shortage of asm programmers, and I suggested them that I'd personally be interested in a hello world x86_64 tutorial to rekindle my interest in asm...and today I see this posted! Exactly what I wanted, thank you.
I think many people would agree that the price discrepancy does have a lot to do with branding and marketing strategy.

Intel is a larger wealthier company and they assumedly pour a lot more money into R&D than AMD. If you go purely by market capitalization, Intel is about 50-60 times larger and AMD. That's not necessarily a fair measure and ignores a lot of variables but it does help shed a little light on the situation. In addition, AMD's business model has them focusing a lot of their attention on niches that intel doesn't seem as interested in. For instance AMD continues to develop new ARM technologies that could provide a very important market edge for them in the future as small "internet of thing" like devices start to emerge and become a part of people's daily life.

Here's a decent article on the subject: http://analysisreport.morningstar.com/stock/research?nav=no&...
The $10mm/year is the meager carrot. There is an implied stick, which comes in the form of much stronger support for opposing candidates come the next election cycle.

$10 million is nothing; any lobbying group worth a shit can cough up that. You could probably fucking crowdfund it if you found a cause that 'the internet' cared enough about. But to make a difference you also need to convince your congressperson that you also have a stick and are able/willing to use it. Good luck crowdfunding that. A company like facebook has the money to have a stick, but these sort of tech companies are typically politically inactive enough to raise doubt that they would have the motivation ever use their stick.
Intel isn't performance per dollar, it is absolute performance. Performance per dollar I think the 8 core AMD parts still fail to mid range CPUs and maybe even ARM chips, just due to their insanely low cost, but it would take a bunch to get enough performance to use effectively in a workstation or server environment.
"Our users, of course, won’t be charged for this insurance." Of course. For now.
Lets hope this doesn't start like Sid Meiers Story ...
> "The cost and burden of filing taxes is a major hammer people use to chip away at the whole concept of progressive taxation. That $10 million doesn't guarantee Intuit favorable legislation--it leverages a deep divide in the polity that happens to advance Intuit's specific interests."

How are these not the same exact thing? I don't think anyone is claiming that lobbying is akin to submitting a payment for immediate legislation approval. We are all well aware that there are politicians and voter bases that may side with a company like Intuit. But in either case, the money is being used to influence legislation, whether that's a sure shot or to tip the scales. Rather than legislate based on the merit of both opinions (eg. paid vs free tax filing), companies are introducing often personal financial incentives for politicians to dig their heels into the ground by claiming that a particular opinion is Right and True. Deepening the divide does nothing more than cause people to bury their heads further into their ideologies and works against progress.
A Monstrous Paradox
I don't know anything about these researchers and the article did nothing to change that. It threw out some heavy allegations with no evidence and no indication that they'd done any real investigation of anything.

I'm filing this under clickbait. I don't know if it happens to be true or not, but the article did not give any real evidence.
It's easy, but it is not as easy as it should be. They should be able to send me forms pre-filled for all of my sources of income (In my case, and in most cases, they already know all of that information. Some may still need to do some data entry.) What takes me a few hours could take me a few short minutes.
I'll go against the grain and suggest you start at the beginning focusing on the simple things.

If you cannot write a simple application in the language without resorting to documentation/google you are not at the level where you can easily learn and apply the more advanced concepts.

Get a good beginners book that contains plenty of exercises to work through. If the language contains mainly familiar concepts then you should be able to complete the book and its exercises within a day or two and feel comfortable using the language.
That's exactly what we have here though, the 'base' chan_t structure is contained inside of the chan_unbuffered_t structure. And I disagree with your second point, I consider casting structures directly like that to be bad practice. It's ugly, error prone, and not guaranteed to work by the standard since struct ordering isn't guaranteed (IE. The standard doesn't say that 'base' will be at the beginning of the struct.).

That said, it is 'portable' since in general no compilers reorder the struct members, but container_of is guaranteed to work, works for multiple members in a struct exactly the same way, and will reduce to a simple cast when your offsetof is zero so there isn't any performance penalty in situations like this. IMO there's no reason not to use container_of in this case.
Hi Nilay!

-- Evan from TQHN.
In the world of superlative virality, honest products will eventually prevail
It's entirely likely that the dark patterns mentioned above are part of the driver in the context of the article. Knowing and avoiding those dark patterns likely tip the sociological balance of the network towards a less fulfilling place.
The scenario described would indicate that there were delta's between the testing environment (where the DR strategy was tested), and the production environment. It was probably related to OS updates/changes being applied over time, resulting in a configuration that changes. I've always found it good practice to build and maintain a staging environment that mimics the production environment in all aspects. When configuration changes (aka security patch) are needed, they are tested and validated on the staging environment before they are deployed on the production environment. This gives you an opportunity to test and validate the results in a non-production (aka no rules, no SLA's) environment. Part of this involves validating that procedures such as DR will continue to work as expected on the new configuration, before it gets rolled out to production. From my experience, this methodology minimizes scenarios of unexpected behavior in the production environment (aka downtime). I would recommend this methodology (or anything similar) regardless of the OS/distribution you're using.
All bark and no bite.

Citizens of the US haven't stood up to any immoral corporate practice and had a significant impact in decades. For example, the makers of OxyContin could (completely hypothetically) manufacture an opiate so powerful it rivals heroin, encourage doctors to prescribe it at many times the necessary rate for true medical pain-relief, watch millions of lives get ruined by addiction to their supposedly safe drug, and no group of people will ever get together in protest to put more than a couple percent dent in their profits.
The true meaning of Facebook likes and shares
"Is pot an effective painkiller if you need to really think while getting relief?"

A low-THC strong indica strain leaves you rather clear-headed (I do not personally find them to be effective for pain relief, but others claim good results).
ExtJs is still alive and well.