skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, because nobody is complaining about the cost of the product and everybody is complaining about the unproven claims you're making.
Burstcoin: A proof-of-capacity hard-drive based mining cryptocurrency
How about a picture of a farmer harvesting the rice he's growing with the "ultra scarce" water?

... 'Cause whatever droughts look like, that isn't it.
Did anyone find a reasonably prominent link to the source?

It seems to me as if this article is mostly linkbait simply by reason of it failing to provide anything more than vague phrases about the source: "This paper is an updated version of one I’ve referenced in previous stories, ... the team from the University of Wisconsin"

Half-baked studies frequently attempt to shout down the real hard science.
Looks like the Hachette war has spilled into Audible as well, the audiobook version doesn't list Audible either.

Side note:
The bottom of the page has a few interesting choice quotes:
For example:
""Think 10X, not 10%. Global scale is available to just about everyone. But too many people are stuck in the old, limited mindset."

Sounds like they're describing a certain rival who only owns a fragment of the mobile OS space.
Now that was something new for sure! :/
Well, you can start by not harping on how people here DO NOT TRUST ME. I mean you are repeating the message you don't want people to have. Don't you see how counterproductive that is?

Also, geez, the other thread was 8 hours ago and this one was 3 hours ago. It takes more than 5 hours to "build trust" and establish good relationships with prospective customers.

I don't think anyone can give you the explanation in a nutshell. Building trust takes time and effort and problem solving. Yelling at people or whining at them about "why don't you like me?" or something only adds fuel to the fire.
You're one of the fools who thinks that the fourth dimension is time. Get over yourself. This is talking about a fourth spatial dimension, not a temporal one.
Friendly C should also require char to be unsigned so that this code is safe:

int my_getchar(char *foo)
{
if (!*foo) return -1; // Return -1 at end of string
else return *foo; // Should never return -1
}
One of the lessons of business should be that "The Solution" is never found in a single book.

I honestly find this publication tacky.
Perhaps: http://www.google.com/intl/en/insidesearch/howsearchworks/
Hardware Crowdfunding: Where The Venture Dollars Flow
The authors explain how technology has shifted the balance of power from companies to consumers

Said without a hint of irony.
y, stop work . . . and express to them that you're looking forward to working on the next phase of the project but you need to get your invoices caught up and outline specifics on what increment you will be invoicing and let them tell you how fast they will pay your invoice . . . since you're having problems with them I'd recommend invoicing at least weekly if you're doing hourly consulting . . . if it's fixed fee I'd break it up in to week long milestones . . . so you aren't giving them too much time without invoicing/getting paid. Good luck . . . invoice often and don't offer free work/lines of credit/loans to them . . .
Why Companies Don't Train Workers Anymore
Link to the study referenced by the article:

http://research.cs.wisc.edu/vertical/papers/2013/isa-power-s...
Charter Internet Outages Blamed on DNS Problems
More to the point, char should be unsigned so that this code is safe:

#include <ctype.h>

if (isdigit(str[i])) { ... }

The ctype functions require an int-valued argument which is the value of an unsigned char: it must be a positive value, or the negative value EOF.

This is an unfriendly pitfall in the language.
Based on the quotes at the bottom of the page (as there isn't any sample chapters or anything of that nature), it'll be witty businessisms and quips, much akin to the manifesto style of "Re:work" by 37 Sig... I mean basecamp. It'll probably be low on concrete advise but instead focus on a mindset.
I wish the article would have addressed how babies get these mites from their parents. Are they present in the womb? Or do they get transferred from all the hugs and kisses?
I've heard that rice is mostly grown in areas of California where water is plentiful because it's basically swamp.

http://www.metafilter.com/142024/California-Drought-Update#5...
It would be nice if they had photos from somewhere other than a single reservoir (Oroville).
Look at page 28 of this PDF: http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2011/winter/art02.pdf.

From 2010 to 2020, the civilian labor force aged 16 to 55, prime working years, is actually going to shrink by almost a million people. So the population is growing, but more of those people are of ages where it is typical to not work, so labor force participation rate can naturally be expected to go down, even if nothing is wrong with the economy.
Can you travel faster then the speed of light if you use the fourth dimension? (my Internet ping is too high)
Why haven't China's cities learned from America's mistakes?
Think we have the answer in the source article's abstract,

" Our methodical investigation demonstrates the role of ISA
in modern microprocessors’ performance and energy efficiency.
We find that ARM and x86 processors are simply engineering
design points optimized for different levels of performance, and
there is nothing fundamentally more energy efficient in one ISA
class or the other. The ISA being RISC or CISC seems irrelevant."

http://research.cs.wisc.edu/vertical/papers/2013/isa-power-s...
Integer promotion will not help, because it may not go to a sufficiently wide unsigned type to cover the shift. (In practice it will, but unsigned int could be just 16 bits).

Promotion of unsigned chars to unsigned int would have problems of its own, mostly because unsigned arithmetic (modulo power of two arithmetic) is inappropriate for most uses, and error-prone: it has a large, silent discontinuity right next to zero.

Alas, in fact, unsigned chars can promote to unsigned int: on rare platforms like DSP's where you have sizeof (int) == 1. Sigh.
It's easy enough to jam enough disks into a rack with these 90disk 4u super micro jbods. The thing that always scared me (ESP with rsync) is how do you get performant metadata for a few billion files? Or even tens of millions.

And raidz3 resilver must be horrible at those densities!

Again. Just curious. Email at jmancuso@expandrive if you feel like chatting. I know we offer a similar product, but we are about to leave zfs for the above concerns. Wouldn't mind sending some business your way.
moreutils for my usage contains 'chronic', which prepended to a command, stops cron from alerting on any non-error output. Big fan.
Google May Release Two New Smartphones This Year, One of Them Will Be Gigantic
> We have actually tested Bloom-like systems on non-programmers and had much better results than with imperative or functional languages.

Interesting! Do you have any link to your study? I'm interested to see your methodology and how you handled researcher bias :)

By the way, SQL is a pretty complex formal system well grounded on theory. I would never write it off as "not real". Most people don't understand SQL without training, by the way.
'White space' Internet developed to reach rural communities
How is it when used with a self-hosted plan? Also, my client machine is Windows - I see a guide to install Jekyll on Windows, but not sure if it will actually work (not officially supported).

On the theme itself, looks good. I like it.

For comments, is disqus the recommended solution? Does it slow down the system again with database calls? Security issues again?

I am also interested in having charts, but I presume integrating those would not be much trouble.

Thanks
This is how you do a real drought - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_Australian_drought

Basically 10 years of below average rainfall. Melbourne's water storages got down to about 25% at one point and I seem to recall you basically can't use the last 20%.

There were terrible bushfires in 2002, 2006 and 2009 and farmers needed a fair bit of relief from the government but life went on (with water restrictions).

The worst part of the drought was the Victorian government decided to build one of the worlds biggest desal plants (will cost the state about $30b over its lifetime), which was delayed in being finished because the drought broke.

They have not used any water from it.
Trolls drive Anita Sarkeesian out of her house to prove misogyny doesn't exist
This article has an AMAZING amount of weak conclusions and flat-out poor wording. Maybe the author was under an above-average tight deadline? Scaremongering?
She doesn't mention what methodology and practices she used to reach her conclusions. Did she study the same type of bugs in the same type of environment and climate in an area that was not close to Chernobyl or a nuclear plant? Did she take steps to avoid confirmation bias, such as double blind sampling? How did she gather and analyse her statistics? Without reasonable explanations for those and more her data is not sound.
However, in practice, continuing with an unspecified value can have catastrophic consequences. And, also, undefined behavior can have nice consequences, like terminating with a diagnostic message, which is not a conforming way to implement unspecified behavior.
Tool for potential new small businesses
IntuitLabs (branch of Intuit - makers of QuickBooks & TurboTax) are looking for beta-testers and feedback on a new platform that helps people realize their small business dreams.

our platform has three parts:
1. Small business fundamentals - a "crash course" in the fundamentals and business basics needed to run a successful small business.
2. Resource and Time Management - a specialized program that leverages data from successful small businesses in your industry
3. Connection Builder - Get connected to potential business partners, investors, and mentors that can take your product to the next level.

https://riskylessbiz.quickmvp.com/
It's true. Google's all encompassing centralized nature combined with Eric Schmidt open-door policy to mass surveillance (ie. 'if you have nothing to hide') and destroying privacy helped us realize we need to 'redecentralize' the internet and moved away from silos.
As an example, if you look closely at the alternative unemployment chart that rayiner linked to [0] you can see that the shadowstats line (blue) exactly matches the U6 line (grey) down to the very last wiggle. Until 2010, that is, when unemployment started going down and shadowstats needed to keep people shelling out $175 a year.

[0]
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-chart...
Wow... if the average is $5, this is 20,000 sales. I had no idea this market was that big, very impressive and an exciting way to make a side business out of a byproduct.
Meanwhile... http://gizmodo.com/rich-people-are-trucking-their-own-water-...
This is not a half baked study. The right comparison is being made, namely performance versus energy. Further, they attempt normalized comparisons, here quoting:

To factor out the impact of technology, present technology-independent power by scaling all processors to 45nm and normalizing the frequency to 1 GHz.
When Chinese children forget how to write
The executive order that led to mass spying, as told by NSA alumni
Now, I know nothing about Earth science, but is this not at least a little bit expected given that this is a man made lake? Can I see some pictures of natural lakes in this area? Obviously the drought is bad, because this isn't common and looks very worrisome - but how much of this is just due to this lake basically being a giant swimming pool?
coffee-maven-plugin 1.4.11 (https://github.com/talios/coffee-maven-plugin) with 1.8.0 support/defaults has just been released to Maven Central for anyone building coffeescript under the Apache Maven build system.

<dependency>
<groupId>com.theoryinpractise</groupId>
<artifactId>coffee-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.4.11</version>
</dependency>
The irony being that in trying to be everything else as well, Google's driven me away from search.
LedisDB released version 0.3 with new features
From what I've heard, a lot of CA rice is grown around the Sacramento-San Joaquin river delta, in areas the water table is so high farmers turn pumps off to water crops.

Also, keep in mind that while rice can use a lot of water (600 gallons or so to produce a pound of rice), it's small fry to beef, which is an order of magnitude more. Or if you want another beloved non-meat product for comparison, an equivalent weight in wine probably uses on the same order as rice (significantly more for less careful wineries, somewhat less for efficient ones).

Not that I'm against the state taking a hard look at all agricultural, industrial, and residential water use. Just not sure we should be picking on rice in particular...
"The ISA being RISC or CISC seems irrelevant.".

I thought these were all RISC processors when you get past the instruction decoder.
Maybe California should re-evaluate their relationship with agriculture.

"But California grows so much of our nation's food! What would we eat without them!" you exclaim. Well, I actually agree with you. For the sake of a stable society, it is important that our supply of food remain uninterrupted. Food is essential to the US, and California is essential to the US's food supply.

Fucking pistachios are not though. Tax the ever-loving shit out of any farmer growing bullshit luxury crops like that, and quit blaming regular Californian citizens who just want to take a nice shower after a hard days work for all the missing water.

Oh, and somebody fix the "save water" propaganda to include some notion of watersheds and aquifers. I've met 3 people recently who don't understand that my [mis]use of fresh water has fuck all to do with California's water supply. I am sick of explaining that my supply of water neither flows out of nor into California.
This blog post gives a good summary of shadowstats's work on CPI.
http://azizonomics.com/2013/06/01/the-trouble-with-shadowsta...

Basically, they think (without evidence) that the government has moved the goalposts so they add an arbitrary number to the official number. They specifically do NOT recalculate the CPI based on old methodology; the shadowstats guy admits this in the blog post.

Can't help mentioning this Paul Krugman post from last month, where he points out that annual subscription to shadowstats has remained the same price for the past 8 years. So much for hyperinflation...

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/19/always-inflation...
The term you're looking for is counterfactual computation [1]:

> We show that "interaction-free" measurements can be regarded as counterfactual computations, and our results then imply that N [the number of times that the computer is not run] must be large if the probability of interaction is to be close to zero. Finally, we consider some ways in which our formulation of counterfactual computation can be generalised.

1: http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9907007
What “coder” means and why it's bad
what percent of water in the bay area currently is recycled?
Apparently San Jose has set a goal to recycle or beneficially reuse 100% of wastewater (100 million gallons per day) by 2022.
Unfortunately, California (and the American West) have experienced droughts on the order of decades or centuries, and in the fairly recent past. So it could get so much worse:

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/div/ocp/drought/medieval.sh...
Is there some set of standardized benchmark objects that different companies and owners could print and compare? Maybe something that requires increasingly high precision as a function of volume so you could say "my machine goes out-of-spec at 3 cm^2"?
Blender is an amazing piece of software; it's history goes back 20 years. I never worked with 3D before and was scared away by all of the claims that Blender was too difficult. However, recent versions (2.6 and 2.7) have a completely revamped interface that is much easier to understand. It's also skinnable and scriptable with Python.

There are so many great Blender tutorials on Youtube and Lynda.com has an excellent Blender essential training course.
Southern California is a result of big government messing around with the market to disastrous consequences. If it was worthwhile for people to live in California, then the market would've built the necessary irrigation, without Army Corps of Engineers meddling.
Interesting article, but it's a pity they chose to lead with weasel words.

"One thing sits at the heart of what many consider a surveillance state within the US today."
Best soap I've ever used was a herbal thing from Bhutan. Unfortunately, ~zero supply.
Just out of curiosity, were you on a low-salt diet, or anything similar? I thought that regular table salt had enough iodine added to make supplementation unnecessary. But my ignorance of these things is quite vast, so I could easily be wrong.
Is anyone certain that the incoming rockets did not reach the ground and explode? The rockets are unguided artillery rockets fired to effect terror. It does not matter if Iron Dome disrupts their path as long as they create terror.

This battle is quite asymmetric, as Israeli precision bombs can target particular multi-story buildings in Gaza after advance warning.
What do you think of instant films for Christmas named after you?
The one argument I can make is that MIPS is too simple. But I would only make this claim on the simplest of in-order single or dual issue implementations. Think of a memcpy loop: 32-bit ARM and PowerPC can update the pointers as a side effect of the load and store instructions, but MIPS can not. You could make similar arguments in favour of ARM's thumb instruction set (more work done per 32-bits of instruction loaded with low decoding overhead vs. x86).

For implementations more advanced than this... I don't think you can make any such claim based on ISA. x86 may be at a slight disadvantage due to decoding, but that's about it.
Still no generators/yield support :(
I understand what the expression means, and that's what I meant (though perhaps I could have been more clear). *nix (and libc) are exceptional in that they got first dibs on the symbols they wanted due to being there first. So it proves (while justifying) the rule that you have to prefix all of your symbols unless you're Thompson or Ritchie in the 70s. Even now, in newer C features, extra acrobatics are done to avoid name collisions (_Bool in C99 for example).

But this is really a side issue to my original point: C++ and PHP are categorically different since there aren't strong alternatives to C++ for many types of problems. Though it is possible that other languages are eating at the edges of what C++ is good at.
These sorts of mistakes get made even at google. Not every product is websearch.
In the original video, at 2:54, you can see the red trim in the upper right come unstuck. The new design is obviously more well thought out and way more pleasing.
The Nail in the Petrodollar Coffin
I read "Now Google works". I thought to myself, finally!
I wouldn't call X86 RISC. Granted, RISC doesn't have a clear definition anymore these days and is more or less a marketing buzzword.
Netflix open sources internal threat monitoring tools
105 Ways You Can Make $1,000 Fast [pdf]
Generics in the CLR are a direct result from MSR. .Net would not have the nice generics it has without them. It even came down to specific deadlines and code deliveries MSR had to make.

The same team also delivered F#, which might have a large impact on keeping .Net competitive. Not only because features trickle down into C# (like async). But also because there may be lots of people only staying on .Net due to having a good language option. (That's just my own impression. I'd personally leave .Net without F#. I'm probably overestimating the impact.)
We made a similar decision - evaluated many, chose nvd3.js. It needed a new custom chart definition, but it has been responding well for our use case (enterprise monitoring software).
A 3D printer is a good "force multiplier" for a small workshop, but not that useful by itself.

For example, I use it to print custom gaskets for the circuits that I make and sell -- this results in less installation errors, which is worth it just for the replacement units.
No, mathematically speaking the 4th dimension is no different than the 3 that we are used to dealing with, and is held to the same physical constraints.
> Real, per-person voting (there's probably a term for that?)

I suppose you mean direct election[0]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_election
True. I think the problem is that, when blinded by the "we're going to be huuuuuuuge" mindset, it's easy to forget that shit needs to work at the small scale first.
All good points, but remember, they're still significantly less value-dense uses of water than things we're being hounded to stop.

For example, how much is it worth to me to blow 50 gallons of water in a shower. Maybe 5 cents at least? That water is valued at .1 cents per gallon.

In contrast, a pound of beef at the ranch costs maybe a dollar. 100 cents to 5000 gallons of water makes it valued at .02 cents per gallon at most (because it has other inputs).

The rancher should still cut back way before showers.
Perhaps you have never seen the Swedish girls of tinder.

http://tindernasuecia.tumblr.com/
Adanaxis is an open source space shooter game that lets you move in all 4 axis, or rotate continuously along any combination of axis. All models are 4 dimensional.

Needless to say, it is confusing to the point of unplayability past a certain point, but utterly fascinating.

You can grab a copy from your Ubuntu, Fedora, or Arch repos, and it is certainly worth trying to wrap your head around for an hour or two, if you are into that sort of thing.
The Need for JSMESS Speed
Good job guys - I do think there's space for a broadly applicable solution in this space. The main selling points for a solution in this area, for us, are:

(1) a strong remote registry implementation (available hooks, preferably auto-matched to auto-detected languages present, perhaps using file/libmagic and language syntax versioning); and

(2) the ability to spec default behavior remotely in a company-wide registry, but then to override at two levels: that of checked in files within the repo, and .gitignore'd local developer-specific prefs.

I'm definitely going to look at this further. To speed adoption, I'd encourage you to avoid assumptions around people's de-facto desire for all but the most basic levels of linting (iffy warnings, etc.), ie. make sure the defaults are very light touch ... but useful. Convenience is key.

However, please don't encourage curl-based installs!