skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 4 Java Garbage Collectors – Wrong Choices Dramatically Impact Performance
Python files vs Paraguayan domains
Am I the only one annoyed when Google Chrome tries to lookup for a Paraguayan domain when I search for a python file (e.g alignlib.py ) directly from the adress bar?
Is there a way to prevent this?
Thanks in advance.
Oh, I know. God do I ever know.

I use a password generator. My defaults are _long_. But the nice thing is that I can pass it most constraint rules reasonably readily to create a valid password if I need to fit another use-case.

I don't use Ebay, but that sounds particularly annoying. Conversation on G+ suggests that the copy/paste defeat is to combat copy/paste exploits elsewhere, though by that point you might as well declare game over anyhow.

I'm definitely _not_ using "Monkey123" everywhere. But a lot of sites get a perfectly cromulent password ... and a mailinator.com email address (also randomly generated). I never use the same tokens twice (mostly registration-required but no real utility / long-term state storage).
Foucault's Pendulum is best read as a satire. I wasn't told that it sort of was before I read it and found it maddening. The moment I realised Umberto Eco was mocking everybody who believed this stuff was important, it all made much more sense.
The recruiters are probably right but you could always just put (aka Software Developer) in brackets of something if you want to represent yourself with the title you were given.
Automating this would be nice, but it's not that hard to do manually.
The funny thing about the article is that he tells us that gamers don't own the word "Gamer" and gamers that don't agree with his view of the word gamer can suck it.
Which is basically how every tumblr blog seems to work.
:(.
Well, Lisp has a lot of syntax. It just looks and works different. For example the syntax of IF is:

if test-form then-form [else-form]

Examples:

(if foo 1 2)

(if foo 1)

That means: after IF there are exactly two or three expressions.

LET looks more complicated:

let ({var | (var [init-form])}*) declaration* form*

Example:

(let ((foo 10) bar)
(declare (integer foo))
(setq bar foo)
foo)

Note, the notation with parentheses is not the syntax of the Lisp programming language, but of symbolic expressions. The Lisp syntax is defined on top of s-expressions. Not every s-expression is a valid Lisp program.

For example the following are not valid Lisp expressions, but still valid s-expressions:

(if foo 1 2 (3) (4))

(let a (declare (integer 10)) 3 + a)
The statements saying that this may be a sample of Edicarian fauna are pretty speculative. From the original paper:

> We are aware that the similarities to some of the Ediacaran forms may be independent responses to the same environmental necessities, rather than being evidence of homology.

They found similarities between this and some Ediacaran fossils, but that does not mean that they are related. There are other extant animals with similarities to some Ediacaran specimens with no relation between them.

The speculation can be falsified by analyzing this creatures' DNA and find at which point it diverged from other known life. I hope that is possible!
Tangentially related: a humorous response to a similar question on Quora.

http://www.quora.com/What-do-grad-students-in-math-do-all-da...
Who’s your friend on Facebook?
Here's a list of self-storage startups
https://angel.co/self-storage
Not fully manual is it?
As somebody who manages developers, I'd rather not have to do that. Not because I don't want to pay, but because I want my team to choose conferences that interest them, not simply because they tick boxes on an agreed career road path and align with what I think they should be learning.

There might be more benefit for some developers to go a conference on circus skills or screenwriting or photography than on Ruby, but I can't justify that to the board without sounding a little crazy given we're a Ruby shop.

I'd rather if that's what interested them and helped them grow as individuals they just take some leave and go and do it. We'll "pay" in being flexible about time off where we can be.
We've heard it all before, VIA.
The speculation can be falsified by analyzing this creatures' DNA and find at which point it diverged from other known life. I hope that is possible!

According to the article, due to the way they were preserved that's sadly not an option with the current samples. They would have to catch new specimen first.
There's actually pretty strong evidence to suggest very long-term family trends in wealth. See Gregory Clark's The Son Also Rises:

http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/the_Son_Also_Rise...

Related:

"The cruel key to individual prosperity: choosing the right ancestors"

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/cruel-key-individua...

"Your Ancestors, Your Fate"

"Surnames and a Theory of Social Mobility"

http://economics.uchicago.edu/workshops/Clark%20Gregory%20Su...

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/your-fate-th...
Sweat the Product by the Numbers
This sounds like emperor Chin's quest for immortality to me, e.g. pure hubris (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Shi_Huang#Elixir_of_Life). I'm really not looking forward to a world where a few rich and powerful old geezers are cementing their power through being virtually immortal (think of a mix of Kim Jon-un or Fidel Castro, but in a corporate setting like the russian oligarchs). The youth and new ideas will be subtly supressed by the 'better arguments and wisdom' of the elder. It would make a good dystopian science-fiction book though ;)
I tried Tokudb as well and below are the stats comparison for complex SUM and COUNT query.
Please note that the number of rows and size is exactly the same and there is a partition on a Date column

Table size 10GB and rows 12 Million

Also note that I am using the default settings of Tokudb

With Tokudb - 1 min 41.38 sec
With Innodb - 58.17 sec

So almost double.
How about entering:

python alignlib.py
> So it was deprecated and killed.

I had the pleasure of being the person who removed support for it from Mozilla's codebase: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788293. Over 11,000 lines of code removed. Everyone on Mozilla's JS team was happy to see that code gone, because it had caused endless problems over the years.

I gained even more joy when I discovered that this removal had temporarily inconvenienced the NSA: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788293#c74.
If you can get some data about predicted release dates for other countries, that would be nice.
I'm probably an edge case user but I don't save stuff to Pocket because I want summaries of stories. I save them because I want access to the actual content.

For example, I do save articles I can just read. For that, a summary service would be great BUT that is true with or without Pocket. On the flipside, if I saw stuff like a blog post on technical code someone wrote about for something, more than likely I want to save that reference for later (true for a huge chunk of stuff I save or the type of things I save).

That said, I came across several people who have either worked on summarizers or talked about it but nothing seemed to have ever took off on those. I can't speak for others but in general I prefer to read content for myself.
UrbanSitters
BGP is actually a pretty simple routing algorithm once you get your head around it. Certainly no harder than OSPF. I got my head around it originally back in the late 1990s and haven't touched it since and still can remember big parts of how it works.

Spam pays a lot. I mean, like, a lot. So it doesn't surprise me that some people can basically choose their own hours, work on something challenging and get paid well for doing it, all for a crime that Russia will never extradite them for, is going to be happier doing that than sitting in an office 9-5 and every other week on 24x7 on-call babysitting some Cisco firewalls.
Planes don't always fall straight down. From that height they could go a long way. It would be hard to keep them over empty land and still close enough to enough people to use them.

While it's true that we might have had them sooner if we were willing to use RTGs, it seems like solar tech is good enough now.
Agreed, they remind me of 70s psychology books:
https://www.google.de/search?q=seventies+psychology&safe=off...

I hereby coin the term "depressionism" - you heard it here first, folks!
99.999% certainty humans are driving global warming
Research credit unions and UK "building societies".

Many of them around today pre-date the bigger banks by some years.
From the title, I expected something about escaped biological experiments. Ah well, this is interesting too.
Techniques for Actually Distributed Development with Git
Curious but why do you see this as valuable?

Secret exists to confess anonymously within your circle.

General social networks to connect to your connections (FB, LinkedIn, etc).

An insane list of failed startups that try to get strangers to connect but no one actively seeks meeting strangers for the sake of in general.

I am having a hard time seeing why I'd want to connect to anyone anonymously in my area that don't fall into the above categories but I'd love to hear why you think it makes sense
That's one of those "It depends" situations. I've reviewed most of the charting libraries that have been posted in this thread and although yes they have come an extremely long way from 4 years ago when we picked Highcharts; all of them would still need a lot of work from our end to add extensions to be able to build all the charts we have in our products using built-in Highcharts options. But like I said it depends, a startup might not want to pay that money but that $3000 for 5 dev Highstock license is way less than the salaries needed for 5 devs to write the custom extensions in order to use something else to meet our needs.
Gigabit networks are not that rare. There is a community network in Czech city Plzen with 22K members. It was build by volunteers over past ten years and still growing strong.

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
He did copyright everything. Explicitly. In a very short license where one third of the conditions of use was:

>Neither the name “Markdown” nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

Gruber is not being irrational. He is operating under a different paradigm, which he explained last time Marco Arment was on his podcast. He is approaching this from the view that the optimal markdown implementation for a code site like GitHub is different to the optimal markdown for a commenting site like Reddit. Standardisation just locks in a suboptimal implementation for everyone. Whether you agree or disagree, it's at least a rational viewpoint.

The creator of the project let you do anything with it other than use the name markdown for a derivative product. They went ahead and did that. A completely unreasonable move that is just spiteful.
It's usually the smartest ones who get away.

Spend 7 years for a chance at tenure?

In many fields, spend years in a postdoc for a chance at a tenure-track job?

Not smart.

The image that the smartest, most promising ones stay in is just false. Most of the cut-offs in academia are crabshoots. Smart people realize that. The intense competition makes for horrific working conditions, at least until tenure. Smart people realize that as well. Some of the competition is based on ability, but a lot is based on politics. Pick a 'hot' topic. Focus on one field, don't do anything interdisciplinary. Make friends with the people who will write letters. Play department politics. Teach just barely well enough -- to leave enough free time for research. Play the grants game. Etc. None of that is fun.

So smart people go elsewhere.

One of the first things I learned after getting my Ph.D was to go where you were in demand. I switched from my most desirable field to my second (which was more in-demand, and had a younger, more startup culture), and immediately, the amount of respect, independence, flexibility, and just about everything else went up. Difference was like night-and-day.

Always be in a position of leverage.
True CloudOS
I think the article was using "branch" colloquially, rather than in some technical sense. And it's saying "may be" rather than "is".
I spoke to Glen Ropella of Swarm about him in 2009 when I was writing a paper and Glen said this: "Most of the people I know related to Swarm refer people to me when they're looking for Chris. It's no mystery, though. He decided awhile back to leave the Swarm/SFI community for personal reasons. So, he's out there. He just doesn't want to work on that stuff anymore, at least as of the last time I talked to him. ... He may well want to interact. I don't know. All I know is I haven't heard from him in awhile."

Chris, if you're out there: Hi!
Thanks good to know. Will give this a try for prototype and then roll our own backend later.
I partially share your views, but, if you've not already, I'd highly recommend watching one of Aubrey de Grey's talks on the subject. He offers a very different viewpoint, which made me reconsider my thoughts on radical life extension.
Xbox System Update: 2.0.16767 CFW Info – Xbox360 Firmware Modding
I'm reminded of Dawkins talking about essentialism a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8250473
I can't help but think of that article yesterday about how we're avoiding the Big Problems (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8261098). It's crazy how much money and brain power people have invested in HFT which is essentially just turning time into money with no benefit to society. What could the human race have achieved if the same amount of effort was focused in other areas?
> For 15 years the Scottish Parliament has been a fiscally lopsided institution. The money comes from a block grant from the UK Treasury. Westminster decides how much tax we all pay and how much government there should be in relation to the economy but not how it’s spent.

> You can see why there’s little room in the Scottish national discourse for a party that says “vote for us and we’ll cut your taxes; vote for us and we’ll make government smaller”.

I'm not sure how this follows. Can someone clarify?
Made me remember a series of books from '70s-'90s in Poland (about computer programming), somewhat similar in style, although I thought they were more so before googling. In case you'd be interested:

http://imgur.com/JvhuomK

http://imgur.com/Ktnec4l
Dyson's 'truly intelligent' Eye 360 robotic vacuum cleaner is finally here
> without any particular viewpoint or opinion directing the text

You say that like that's a good thing.

I know that a lot of rubbish has been written about HFT and algorithmic trading, but it's sad that no one seems to be able to write about its merits without starting a flame war.
You might enjoy reading [0] - one of my favourite articles that dwells upon economic/game-theoretical concepts I addressed in my comment. It's rather long and somewhat specific, but IMO well worth the time to read.

[0] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
No valid concerns about corruption or ethical question marks have been raised in this whole misogynist harassment-fest.

The few plausible accusations leveled so far have all been shown to be false.

A short summary of the ones I've seen:

Accusation: A developer 'slept with journalists for positive coverage'; the 'proof' was that a Kotaku author she slept with gave her game a positive review.

Reality: No such review ever existed. The author she supposedly slept with wrote about her game once, long before either of them ever met (nobody is able to dispute this timeline). Kotaku explicitly denied the accusation and supported this version of events.

Accusation: Victims of these harassment campaigns are faking all the harassment in order to get attention, get money, and somehow ascend to the highest echelons of game development.

Reality: Well even if the original harassment was 'fake' (have fun proving that), there's certainly real harassment now, in part from people who believe the original harassment was fake and want to punish them for it.

Accusation: Involved parties 'sabotaged' a game jam/charity drive for personal reasons/competition.

The only concrete variation of this accusation I've seen is 'The Fine Young Capitalists', a pretty sketchy thing that purports to be a charity game jam for women. Other than their shady business terms for the participants, if it's on the up-and-up it's a nice idea. Continuing on the premise that it's TFYC:

Reality:
TFYC is basically a one-man funding campaign to theoretically do nice things. It's not operated by a well-established group with a clear track record. Before continuing, perhaps read this statement by TFYC's operator:

http://www.thefineyoungcapitalists.com/PeaceTreaty

By their own admission:
Any actual sabotage was not actually committed by any of the harassment campaign victims, merely an unnamed 'associate'.
The 'sabotage' went no further than a link to a publicly accessible facebook page.
The damage done to the campaign was largely a result of the operator making transphobic remarks in some sort of interview (this is indirectly referred to in the above post). The harassment victims had nothing to do with it, and the appearance of transphobia is what drove the business partner away and cost them money.

Generally speaking, game development & games journalism are deeply intertwined, incestuous, corrupt industries. But guess what: None of these people are targeting any of the actual sources of corruption in big-budget AAA game development or coverage - many of those are really big, easy, obvious targets. By some incredible coincidence, they're targeting vulnerable minorities working on small game titles or game-related works, many of them women. Some of these targets don't even charge money for their work, making any actual harm from supposed 'corruption' near-zero.
It's too late for the corrupt people in the industry now.

Women, minority and queers alike are supporting #gamergate and they have made it clear that they're #notyourshield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgW5NRUfs44
Robot controlled by rat brain
Discourse is supposed to solve this problem, and Jeff Atwood is involved in both.
It's also quite possible that the whole idea of time travel seeming probable stems not from being actually possible, but from human brain cognitive bias of memory. In our head, past events are almost as real as current events, therefore creating obvious illusion of possibility of traveling in reality just like you travel in memories.
I'd never heard of asciidoc before this thread. I suspect asciidoc suffered from being associated with docbook? And perhaps it's just that Perl was much more popular for writing forums in than Python, at the time.
Looks nice. But the centered text is bad for a steady reading.
Oivo hits Kickstarter with a tiny iPhone charger powered by four AA batteries
This is just a table to stuff you with Amazon cookies. If you click any product, you get redirected to its Amazon page with the affiliate tag. Understandable attempt to make money but feels dishonest to me.
Where does ASCII come into it? UTF-8 plain text supports RTL fine. The point of markdown is formatting that looks ok in plain text and can be prettified into HTML. It ought to work when that text includes RTL.
I've just recently started trying to use it for some hobby Android coding (tired with Java), and for now I have very positive experiences. Feels refreshing, it reinvigorated my will to work on this project, also no bugs encountered yet. Slightly more on this here: http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/a/11178/4980
It could be that our current economic system implements a pretty terrible resource allocation algorithm, where many workers' jobs consist in undoing the efforts of employees from concurrent companies.

In trading, a quant's job is to outsmart or outspeed the other bank's team. They invest considerable brain power, effort and money into producing incremental improvements that are quickly rendered meaningless by the work of the team in the building across the street.

Another prime example is advertising, a zero-sum game where competing brands fight to undo other brands' brainwashing efforts and replace it with their own brainwashing. A waste of the time and energy of million of humans.

Some more ideas on the subject: http://www.sphere-engineering.com/blog/15-hour-work-week.htm...
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Evidence shows that about half of all clinical trials have never been published
Are there any banks actually using this? Or is it more like a suggested spec draft?
Scotland's parliament does have tax varying powers but has never used them . So, it takes the block grant from the Westminster parliament and decides how to spend it through something called the Barnett formula.

Scotland is essentially a socialist country (and socialist isn't a dirty word here). There is a sense of fair play and looking after the poorest in society - a party that would propose a tax cut for a smaller gov. wouldn't do well in the popular vote in Scotland.

Does that help?
The issue comes down to how the money is distributed and spent. The current Scottish Government has control over something on the order of 75% of the money spent in Scotland (the other 25% coming from central government in Westminister on reserved matters like defence). Conversely, as it currently stands (ignoring the new rules from 2016), the Scottish Government only has control over something like 15% of tax raising powers (again, everything else coming from Westminster).

Thus, if you were a party who wanted to promise cutting taxes to the population you could, but you'd have very little impact on the taxation's bottom line. I actually don't know what the Barnett formula says about money the Scottish government doesn't spend from Westminster (wondering if you could in theory as a party in Holyrood decide just not to spend the money you were given, as a forcing tactic).

Regardless, all parties (in both London and Edinburgh) and the Scottish population are in agreement, the situation of controlling spending but not tax raising is an unfit state for a government to be in.

[edit - make my 'all parties' comment clearer]
King has finally done it: they've released a complete ripoff of Bejeweled
Touch display? Nah, don't need it. But it would be nice if someone made a cheap netbook with a display of similar resolution that tablets have.
Candy Crush Saga wasn't enough of a clone, apparently. They had the revolutionary idea to use "gems" this time!

I really hope that they finally face legal karma as a result of releasing this one.
I really disagree, RTL should be defined in Markdown,.. as the ZEN of Python says:

"Explicit is better than implicit."

this is a case where indicating RTL should be done explicitly, letting the parser/browser or whatever do the work still won't help. Why?

think about a mixed text of one sentence/line where there's only one word in Arabic at the beginning and the rest of it is Latin... the browser/parser or whatever will think of it like LTR text because the sum of latin words > sum of Arabic words. which is False.

A live example of this is Facebook. it does actually a Layout detection based on the content's language in comments. but it sucks in many cases. try to write a comment in Arabic with a mention of someone's name (the name in Latin) to see what I mean.

so IMO, neither dir='auto' nor the parser can detect this implicitly, we still don't have the AI for smarter detection, even if we have, there are cases where you want RTL regardless of the content. thus it SHOULD be defined in Markdown.