skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the whole JDK will be based on modules that might or not be included in potentially different profiles (for example a Java ME equivalent?), or has that been dropped ?

I remember seeing something about that in a presentation a few years ago.

I think it's a good decision from Oracle to not include much more (compared to Jigsaw) in Java 9, given the huge scope of the Jigsaw change, which might probably be the change with the largest internal code impact so far ever done in Java, or at least one of the largest (if the plan to refactor the JDK for modules goes further).
I've been 100% standing desk for about a year now, and I don't find it fatiguing at all.
Ideally when international ops come about it'd be helpful to have complete currency conversion. It's easier to work around than the whole site being dollar only.

For the time being just being able to use pounds to make the numbers clear for us over here would be fine though.

edit: sounds like that's the plan from the reply above. looks good :)
>What kind of evidence would you like?

Repeatedly verified statistics from good samples gathered as a result of experiments with controls.

>I have first hand experience of sexism levelled at various female colleagues and students of mine in computer science academia.

There is a tendency for certain personality types to lump every petty slight and personal disappointment together under "sexism", without any sort of critical reflection. The original question requiring evidence was regarding hiring discrimination in game studios. I am not aware of any game studio which even has a "secretary pool".
Around half a million dollars. Source: http://www.brookings.edu/research/essays/2014/saving-horatio...
I really have a lot of trouble with this article. It seems that it's premised around the idea that there is a wide variety of Autistics, each with unique talents and skillsets, and that programs like those at SAP should hire and accommodate Autistics in additional roles, such as technical writing, communications and PR.

But then the author also starts off with wide, sweeping statements about Autistics without citations or evidence:

> Autism Speaks, an organization despised by most Autistics and many of their parents

> many Autistics, myself included, liken [listing ASD in the DSM V] to homosexuality and transsexuality being listed in previous DSMs

As I continue to read it, I start to wonder whether the author is just upset because they heard about SAP hiring Autistics and was disappointed that his/her skill set wasn't a good match for the role:

> I would be a disaster in the coding and software testing departments, but would be more successful in a technical writing, communications and PR role

I hope this isn't the case, but it's hard to say.

I also imagine that it is a much easier sell for someone at SAP to say "we should hire Autistic developers" -- even though SAP would have to spend extra to train the people interacting with Autistic developers, that amount is dwarfed by the profitability of software developers in general. (The financially-relevant but non-tangible goodwill of hiring Autistics is just icing on the cake.) On the other hand, I feel like it'd be harder to convince higher-ups that hiring Autistics in other roles is at all worthwhile if they can't get through a neurotypical (unaccommodating) hiring process.
10+ years of being involved in fighting cybercrime. He is mostly advertising on low end forums that don't have the established social networks that would punish false reviews.
What do you mean by "It's not a file sharing service"? Isn't this a service for sharing files?
maybe opencv ?
I agree, I've read that piece, it's very worthwhile, especially with regard to the issue of being able to publish the mathematical methods built into common math environments.

Oh -- my Sage tutorial: http://arachnoid.com/sage
This concerns me...

>Finally, we evaluated whether Sandstorm handles high packet loss correctly. With 80 simultaneous clients and 1% packet loss, as expected, throughput plummets. FreeBSD achieves approximately 640Mb/s and Sandstorm roughly 25% less. This is not fundamental, but due to FreeBSD’s more fine-grained retransmit timer and its use of NewReno congestion control rather than Reno, which could also be implemented in Sandstorm.

Which tells me an attacker can disable your infrastructure more easily with the high performance custom stack by sending specialized malformed data. If you're even thinking about putting a custom stack on the net, its worst possible performance should be the same as low performance stack you're replacing it with.

An attacker always targets the weakest point.
Where did the notion of 'calling' a function come from?
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Are One-Star Reviews for Assholes?
Why didn’t the Universe become a black hole?
Seriously dismissing how crippling autism is for a lot of people, and how wildy different are the effects.

My brother is one of them, and despite is "better" than most certainly can't have a job. In fact, is too smart to be in the repetive kind-of-jobs and too crippled to havce a chance elsewhere.

A very small subset of autistic people have won the "lottery", so can complain about stuff and have a more-or-less independent live.

To think: Is like have a(several?) thin sword passing in to your brain, and you don't know what exactly it damage. That is autism.
> I think this is deeply personal.

Then why attempt to impose your standards on others?
How the Cloud Changes a Systems Architect’s Job
Fantastic detailed images of wear and tear on the materials. This gives us great data to use for creating the next Mars robots.
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"Which category do your foolish decisions fall in to?"

Moving abroad for my first job.

Quitting my extremely well paying engineer job to become a pro photographer ("how can you quit???"). I earned approximately 8 times less, for 8 years.

Asking the amazing woman out... We're happy together, it was 3.5 years ago.

Returning to a better paying job, in spite of some success and reputation as photographer ("how can you quit???"). It was in february.

Deciding to move abroad again... in october this year if all goes as planned, I'll start a digital nomad life, working remotely for a startup.

Also I had a cerebral infarct when I was 32. It was 10 years ago. Please don't wait for such an event before you realize it's time to take your life where you want it.

One thing that might help you: recently, I heard a Ted talk about intelligence. In a word: the clever choice is often the one which will maximize the choices you have further down the road.

When you feel like you're stuck, almost any move will do. Standing still will not.
It's not a file sharing service as in one does not (hopefully) use it to share copyright material on a forum and spread it to thousands as it gets deleted after a few days.
Nothing, of course. I just find the macros that give you a "modified environment" to run some code short and sweet.

with-temp-buffer is another example: a macro that bridges the functions for "string manipulation" and the ones for "buffer manipulation", since you start writing stuff this way:

(defun replace-in-string (str from to)
(with-temp-buffer
(insert str)
(beginning-of-file)
;;; Here you can use all your normal text editing commands
(replace-regexp from to nil t)
(buffer-string)))

Lots of dirty manipulation, but from outside its a pure function, and doesn't change the editor state in any way after it runs.
The controllers may be able to order it but the lights are supposed to be wired so it's impossible. E.g. grounding the green lights thorugh the cross direction green lights so you can't illuminate green in all directions at once. Or something along those lines.

edit: s/opposite/cross/
Why not make the serial numbers also a EC digital signature?!
Note that Windows gets a huge benefit from being the effectively monopolistic system that dictates the terms for software and hardware (thanks to huge investments, granted. DirectX or the CLR didn't pop out of Zeus's forehead fully-formed).

So HW "just works" with Windows because that's what (and most of the time all) it's been tested against. For example, remember that the Linux ACPI coders have resigned themselves to "Windows is the Standard" whenever they have to deal with buggy hardware that doesn't follow the specs.

As for software, well, it's actually an amazing technical feat that Wine even exists. Amusingly, people don't have that complaint on OSX.

Linux has its share of flaws, but those you cite are unfair.
Is money all that matters? A quick look at extrinsic motivators
New co-living space for startups on Rhodes Island
It was sarcasm. I'm implying the most common societal deterrent used in the US, based on my observations. I honestly have no idea how we could deter stealing in society. If I were to be serious I'd say the biggest source of the issue is horribly imbalanced wealth and power, but really it's a tough problem to solve. I definitely believe that Law/Justice is important though!
It's great to look at correlations between Rust, C++, and Haskell. Rust programmers are very interested in Haskell, and Haskell programmers Rust; which indicates that Rust's design has a lot of influence from Haskell. C++ programmers are talking about Rust more than anything else; which shows that they are likely interested in moving to Rust.

This is very exciting to me, because I believe Rust is going to be a great replacement for C/C++, and if anyone understands how to create quality programming languages, Haskell programmers do.

TL;DR Rust is going to be the new C++, and the new Lisp. These are exciting times.
I hear this a lot. Unfortunately the science does not support the idea that sitting on a ball all day will significantly strengthen your core, but it may habitually force you into a better posture (or it may not - be careful). Functionally you'd have the same effect from sitting on a padded stool without a back.
If you have 1%, most likely you are an early employee.

There's a formula: VCs and founders get reach, early employees get screwed and employees get their market salaries.
What is "too much"? So what should we do? In school, we studied in class by sitting on the school chair. That habit continue in campus. Also, some worker are forced to do their job by sitting (e.g. taxi driver, pilot).

Btw, The article said that 8+ hours and it applies to woman.
Any billing structure can be a bad fit for a particular business model. In the early days most startups might save money using AWS just because their requirements are so small, eg dropbox when their data still fit on a conventional server would have cost a lot less on S3 especially with even a tiny bit of redundancy.
Do you remember “Color”?
The open access tool I had in mind:

https://www.openaccessbutton.org/

"What is this about?

"People are denied access to research hidden behind paywalls every day. This problem is invisible, but it slows innovation, kills curiosity and harms patients. This is an indictment of the current system. Open Access has given us the solution to this problem by allowing everyone to read and re-use research. We created the Open Access Button to track the impact of paywalls and help you get access to the research you need. By using the button you’ll help show the impact of this problem, drive awareness of the issue, and help change the system. Furthermore, the Open Access Button has several ways of helping you get access to the research you need right now."
I don't know what he means, but I can give my own perspective (primarily ex-gamer, used to play a lot of Q3A, Doom, and similar):

FPS games used to have very simple orthogonal game mechanics. Large amounts of complexity would arise from those small lists of simple game mechanics. A 'board game equivalent' to this concept might be Go (or if we are being less flattering to the video game industry, Draughts/Checkers). This orthogonality was best showcased in weapon design; you'd often have less than 10 guns, which each behaved in completely different ways and were best used in completely different situations.

Q3A examples:
gauntlet: the only melee weapon
machine gun: hitscan, accurate, fast rate of fire, low damage.
typically available on spawn.
shotgun: hitscan, inaccurate, slow rate of fire, large damage when close.
must be picked up.
railgun: hitscan, accurate, slow rate of fire, devastating damage.
must be picked up.
lightning gun: not-quite-hitscan beam, medium-short range, high damage.
must be picked up.
etc...

Modern games, typically aiming for some perverse sense of "realism", typically lack this sort of weapon orthogonality. You get typically get the basic categories of "assault rifle", "sniper rifle", "handgun", "submachine gun", and "something that shoots explosives", which is all fine and good, except each of those categories has half a dozen or more variations that have very boring differences. Like 6 pistols that only differ in clip size or damage (with one or two clearly being the dominant weapons in all situations). For a concrete example of a game that I think suffers from this: Watch_Dogs. 10 different handguns, but the only one that it ever makes sense to use is the handgun that you start the game with (accurate, silenced, and semi-automatic. yeah there are the automatic handguns, but why would you use them when you could just use one of the automatic rifles? The game gives you absolutely no reason to care about the other handguns).

That's just weapons. I have observed similar trends across nearly all other game mechanics in modern shooters. It is like game developers forgot how to create complexity from a small list of simple mechanics and instead just pack games full of shallow features.

When you play or watch a game, try the following: Imagine that all the models and textures were swapped out with generic low-poly abstract placeholders. All handguns are small thin blue boxes, rifles are all long thin teal boxes, etc. Does the game still play well? If it is Quake or Doom, then the game plays exactly the same as it did before. If it is a modern game, then chances are several pointless redundancies become obvious and several previously "neat" game mechanics become obviously shallow. They have several "different" game mechanics that are different from each other only in the model, texture, or animation used.

Mario-Party-esque "Push X to perform [every damn action in the game]" stuff is another biggie for me. Incredibly lazy stuff which apparently appeals to modern gamers.
NB: ~19 kt, not 13, as discussed in the Triple-E Wikipedia article elsewhere in this thread, for 37% fuel savings.
Eh, everything is a two-edged sword. Nature doesn't design "bad" things. It just tosses stuff out, sees what doesn't fail catastrophically. Whatever doesn't die out is called "the fittest" by humans.

Cystic Fibrosis protects against Typhoid Fever* which is likely why it is so much more common in some populations than others. Sickle Cell protects against malaria, so if you are born into an area with malaria and an inadequate medical treatment for it, hey, having the gene makes you less likely to die, not more.

I have raised two special needs sons with multiple issues. I have found it very valuable to look for the so-called silver lining or, perhaps more accurately, to try to look at their characteristics as objectively as possible and assess not only what's bad about it but also what's good about it. This article may or may not have much real scientific merit in that it may not have much solid research to support it. But the general idea that it posits -- that dyslexia (and other "disabilities) may have an upside -- is extremely sound and should be talked about a good deal more.

* http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/may98/niaid-06.htm
There's an interesting startup that I think does that. It's called Facebook.
I remember a lot of bloggers such as Steve Gillmor writing about XMPP nearly everyday on Techcrunch Enterprise around 2009. He said it was going to change everything about corporate software. I repeatedly pointed out to him how ridiculous that was (it was just XML, managers don't care about XML, etc) and to which he replied I had my 'head in the sand'.

It was favored among the tech-hyperbole people who turn concepts like 'cloud computing' into meaningless phrases. But that faded away pretty fast.

Unfortunately Google decided to abandoned one of the actual good use-cases for it when the dropped XMPP support from Hangouts (by default), which still upsets me.
You only need 3 cases if you need to distinguish between the parent and the child. I can imagine designs where the parent and child are both going to exec the same program and so all you need to check on the fork is for success or failure.
I think he means that the link to the file is not intended to be public but restricted to your contacts only. People might use it as a sharing platform if they want to tho, I don't see what could prevent them to do so and that's why I asked the question in the first place. I'm sure that A sending a pirated file to B won't have a huge legal impact. But if A put this link on a forum and 5000 B's are accessing it... I think you should enforce some kind of download throttling to limit the access to the files. Or figure out something! I really do hope only right minded people will use it for noble purposes but come on, we both know that if your tool get some traction (and it looks really good so I dont see why it shouldn't) people will start messing with it and you won't be able to handle all the delete requests yourself!
dnscache is not the authoritative server. The link in your previous comment even mentioned this explicitly.
> most of the photons will traverse it undisturbed

But then why is the speed of light in glass smaller than in vacuum?
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No, there is ionizing radiation and nonionizing radiation. X-rays are ionizing radiation with photon energies higher than visible light. THz RF radiation is nonionizing and has photon energies that are less than that of visible light.
> Not actually true. RGB is modeled after the mechanism by which humans perceive colors (using red, blue, and green photoreceptors).

This is exactly the misconception I was talking about when I said that RGB is modeled after physical processes and not after human perception. There is no such thing as a red, green, or blue photoreceptor. There are three types of cones: L, M, and S; there is also scotopic vision with its own response curve. The L, M, and S cones respond to a gamut which cannot be reproduced with any RGB system that uses real primaries. Or, put another way, no RGB system with real primaries can specify all the colors we see.

Instead, RGB is a simulation of a physical system which uses three light sources: red, green, and blue. That's all it is. For example, imagine that you have three LEDs, or three phosphors, or three lasers. It doesn't matter. The point is that RGB simulates these kinds of physical systems, not the systems in the human eye.

On the other hand, Lab and XYZ systems are modeled after the perception of light. The experiments which lead to the creation of the XYZ color system had subject participants match the color output of an RGB system with that of a monochromatic light source. This experiment allowed us to use a well understood color space (RGB) based on a physical process to test how human vision worked.
I liked Wave as a Google product, and I like Apache Wave self hosted. I have tried getting friends and family interested in using a self hosted instance, but not much interest. They like Facebook, go figure :-)

That said, a self hosted Apache Wave to small teams seems like a good tool for collaboration.
When you blend in 100M 'spacer.gif' images, it can skew the result.
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This one page paper with one figure and six data points from an author nobody knows in a journal nobody has heard of is right. The generally accepted models of radiation dose must be thrown out the window.
Just sharing my thoughts. That's like, my opinion, man.
simpler question - the Universe's end game - given currently observed dynamics does it lead to one gigantic black hole inside very thinly expanded very cold vacuum (with CMB temperature practically 0 instead of 2.7 degrees K today) or to many of such black holes and what would be their distribution?
I don't think this is a possibility. While you could get some sort of feedback loop going (fish gets hit it gets shocked, fish hits it gets food or something), there would be no way for the fish to understand the massive amount of information they'd need to grok from the game, so they'd just be getting all this random stimuli with nothing to attach it to.

I can't see anyway to bridge the gap of making the fish understand the stimuli in relation to what's going on in the game. I would imagine the same is true for rats.
You are correct sir. And as an added benefit, it keeps you nice and limber.
Posing him as an opposition to Snowden is not right, because Tye was only able to blow the whistle himself because of Snowden's leaks. "Tye said he never would have even learned about 12333 and NSA capabilities short of Snowden’s own actions."
He's a part of a new generation of whistleblowers and leakers, none of which could have done what they do without Snowden. Not to overly lionize Snowden, but it just goes to show that once the dam develops a crack, it's not long before it's gushing.
After a year you probably get used to it but at first I imagine it would be fatiguing. Unless you are already very active.
Stream seems to be down, here's what was on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHrRksz-XLI
Here's an alternate version I'd written to such identify files. Using the git command line, invoke the following function from within any git repo:

most-volatile-files () { git log --pretty=format: --name-only | sort | uniq -c | sort -rg | head -10; }
Am I erupting yet?
I can confirm that FishPlaysPokemon uses OpenCV. There's a wealth of knowledge and tutorials, so if you just want to isolate certain color ranges (what they're doing), I guarantee there are tons of resources. There's also Python bindings to make things even more friendly. After that, it's some simple math to figure out which quadrant it's in and then trigger the correct button press.
We always seem to be creating some kind of global mayhem here in Iceland. The latest one regarding a volcano that may, or may not be on the verge of erupting on a grand scale. So, here it is, the big news. Am I erupting yet?
The Midichlorians Made Me Do It: Can Microbes Explain Religion?
Most of the "problems" listed here are UI and client (and people) issues which the author (who runs an email startup) places at the feet of his competition, and they have nothing to do with email itself.

The reason no one has tamed email is that email works just fine - and an argument that everyone should just switch to a particular startup or app is just absurd.
Two unrelated questions. Why would I prefer this over NSD?

Are ragel parsers really 100x faster than bison parsers? Off hand, that seems atypical and more likely the result of other changes.
It's here: http://briankoberlein.com/2013/11/07/massive-issues/
I'd be careful. I'm not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice, but that page only refers to posession. I seem to recall things existing that are legal to have, but illegal to purchase.
It's amazing how important organisms that live in our intestines (and other parts of our body) are to our health, mood, immune system, and even our offspring.

Related:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Microbiome_Project

http://commonfund.nih.gov/hmp/overview
Many thanks - that's exactly the discussion I was looking for :)
You're attributing one thing - suspicion of a particular denomination - to something which it may not be related to. It may simply be due to how common a particular denomination is used in the cash economy.

In the Eurozone, €50 notes are very frequently used - it would be unusual to be specifically suspicious of that denomination - while €100 notes are far more rare.