skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You reject phobia as a real illness?

No, science rejects phobia as a real illness. Haven't you been keeping up with current events? The NIMH recently ruled that psychiatry (the treatment branch of psychology) is pseudoscience, and they will no longer accept research proposals based on the DSM, psychology's "bible", for the simple reason that it has no scientific content.

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-rats-of-n-i-m-h

And you already know this -- or you should. This means you're directing your questions to the wrong person. I didn't reject the scientific status of psychology, the NIMH did.
Superbooks: High-tech reading puts you inside the story
When the sole reason you're doing an AMA is because you're promoting something - in this case Thiel's book that's about to out - you can do a brief appearance and get enough exposure. He doesn't care about doing an AMA otherwise, I bet.
I've used task rabbit a few times, but I won't ever use them again after this change. The way that it worked before let you post any task, and find the exact right person, at the lowest possible price (thanks to the bidding system). Now they require you to pick a tasker before you can even specify what the task is or know whether the taskrabbit is available on a certain day, which makes zero sense. It's a shame, because I deeply admired the user experience of the previous site but this new one has gone off the rails.
I felt the same way when I saw this article. My cousin's daughter was recently diagnosed with cerebellar hypoplasia (a missing or smaller than normal cerebellum), and it's been pretty terrifying for them. They live in a rural area where no one has ever dealt with the problem, and they're spending insane amounts of time and money on therapy (in a city an hour away) to help her learn basic skills. She celebrated her 3rd birthday this week and she can't walk, talk, or even stand unassisted.

On one hand, this article thrills me to think that at some point, her daughter might lead a relatively normal life. It's heartbreaking to see the way she suffers right now - like there's more going on in her head than she can tell us, and you can see the frustration on her face when she tries to do things or get her point across. On the other hand, I'm hesitant to send the article to my cousin because I know everything related to her daughter's problem is deeply depressing to her as she's dealing with a frustrated child who makes very little progress from day to day.
Finding Fibonacci's Using the Strassen Algorithm
Isn't that the type of cell the 777 use(s/d)? I think Elon Musk very addressed the issue pretty well.

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/elon-musk-boeing-7...

"Large cells without enough space between them to isolate against the cell-to-cell thermal domino effect means it is simply a matter of time before there are more incidents of this nature," he adds.

"Moreover, when thermal runaway occurs with a big cell, a proportionately larger amount of energy is released and it is very difficult to prevent that energy from then heating up the neighboring cells and causing a domino effect that results in the entire pack catching fire," says Musk.

"They [Boeing] believe they have this under control, although I think there is aUnfortunately, the pack architecture supplied to Boeing is inherently unsafe," writes Musk in an email to Flightglobal.

"The fundamental safety issue with the architecture of a pack with large cells," writes Musk in an email. "It is much harder to maintain an even temperature in a large cell, as the distance from the center of the cell to the edge is much greater, which increases the risk of thermal runaway."
> The restaurant industry in SF is very competitive and very non-capitalistic (e.g., very hard way to make money), whereas Google is very capitalistic and has had no serious competition since 2002.

Either situation could change very quickly. A meal delivery restaurant chain could take SF by storm and rake in billions. A startup could launch tomorrow that begins rapidly stealing Google's market share. Nothing prevents this but the lack of people willing and able to do it.

Private individuals are free to upend industries without fear of unreasonable government interference. This is what capitalism is and it's alive and well in most industries.
I've never understood what "the open web" has to do with Javascript vs. native binaries.

Right now, we write in a variety of languages (ClojureScript, CoffeeScript, etc.) to produce opaque minified+concatenated blobs of JS-targeting (or asm.js-targeting, even) object-code. Sometimes, we just take raw machine language and re-encode it with Emscripten! Nobody can read any of this without a process that exactly fits the term "decompilation."

Effectively, then, in the current model, the browser is just obeying this contract:

1. When you encounter a <script> tag, download the specified binary (for the Javascript Abstract Machine, the world's most verbose ISA);

2. resolve its CORS origin to calculate a default permissions set, and boot it up within a fresh VM/container/sandbox circumscribed by that permissions set;

3. allow it to manipulate various browser APIs (e.g. the DOM, WebGL);

4. give it the ability to request additional permissions (for e.g. storage, or location information) which you will then prompt the user for.

So what's the difference if the binary is encoded in some other way? What's wrong with Native Client, or Android, or even Java, if it's run under this same "contract"? Javascript is no more open or closed than any of these. They're all relatively opaque and require decompilation to comprehend or learn from. They all only act through browser APIs. They all talk to servers using "open web" REST requests. And--this is key--a web browser could be taught to debug them in just the same way it debugs Javascript.
I'm confused, didn't Kevin do this with Milk? This really feels like a double déjà vu. What's the angle? Why do basically the same thing you did before?
Or maybe not. He mentions rsnapshot in the article, which uses rsync under the hood. This implies rsync would have a very good chance of handling a large number of hardlinks... since it created them in the first place.
>Facebook provides plenty of reason to leave Facebook.

While true, G+ doesn't actually address any of those reasons.
There was a similar follow up question on Reddit. Unfortunately he didn't answer that. It would have been interesting to hear his perspective.
Linux web browsers Midori and (Gnome) Web
Exactly.

I work with a number of medium sized businesses of which you can clearly tell who have had and who havent had major downtime due to these types of hardware failures.

Many people who have never experienced issues have no interest in even forming a basic DR plan, but the ones who have just start throwing money at you the moment you mention it.

Buying more stuff is WAY cheaper than slowness and downtime, and penny pinching on this count is going to cause so much additional heartache for what will in the end cost more anyway.
At one time there was; it was called the Internet. The archive still exists, but it's been made harder to browse through due to being jumbled up with javascript and cat gifs.
The offer is quite different actually if you look at it - Rackspace will take everyone with a credit card at the moment. Rackspace is stuck on a custom implementation of many things too - no real neutron networking, custom plugin for auth, very limited network management (even compared to public hpcloud). Then again they have new performance/SSD flavours available.

There's also a big push for providing ready, packaged cloud infrastructure using HP Helion. That's not exactly what Rackspace guys are doing.
If we're talking about someone who obviously cannot take care of himself then I'd agree, but in that case the law assigns responsibility to some legal guardian.

For the rest, note that getting drunk will also mean you'll have less control over your own thoughts, decisions, etc., but this shouldn't affect the responsibility we assign to any consequences of that.

I'm arguing against the idea that a philosophical argument for the complete non-existence of free will should affect our social construction of responsibility. Similarly, even if there is a biological or psychological cause to a crime, if someone cooks up some elaborate psychopathic plan, the law should assign responsibility regardless.
> Griefers have empirically demonstrated that websites can affect mental processes by using flashing images to trigger epileptic seizures.

That's true, but the conclusion you draw has a logical defect -- an epileptic seizure is not a mental process, it's a physical one. It can be started and stopped by electrical and other kinds of stimuli.

When you hear "epilepsy", think brain, not mind. When you hear psychology, think mind, not brain.

> Music in psychological warfare and torture is well documented.

Indeed it has, but there's no reliable science on that topic. The reason is there's no repeatable, objective way to gather evidence.

> The Amanda Todd death is sufficient to show that words have the power to kill.

The Amanda Todd death is sufficient to show that there's sometimes a correlation between words and death. To turn a correlation into science ... shall I go on, or do you know the rest of this old tune?
There is even a community for it: BAARF - http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/

The main reason is not only the rebuild time (which indeed is horrible for a loaded system), but also the performance characteristics that can be terrible if you do a lot of writing.

We for example more than doubled the throughput of Cassandra by dropping RAID5. So the saving of 2 disks per server in the end required buying almost twice as many servers.
Cutting the cord on soft robots
> not having a cell phone in the modern world is not really an option

Er, what? Less convenient to be sure, but not having a cell phone is fine...
What did you do when the infatuation with Angular wore off? Did you see the project through to production release? Was your employer satisfied with the outcome?
Awesome Node.js: Curated list of delightful Node.js packages
I see Mumbai is going to become more chic.
It's true. We should have never let the public on the Internet. It has been downhill since then.
Respectfully, I think you slightly misunderstand the relative economics of being an author and being Peter Thiel.
Everyday Objects Optical Illusions
Rsync seems a better tool for this. Can be run multiple times and it will just copy missing blocks.
Nice presentation. I guess I'd direct him to the enron data set if I didn't have to register at his site to suggest this.
Do you have any opinion on 'consistent histories'?
Test Driven Development: Part I – Background
is the headline false? or is it a negligent reader who doesn't assume "with a contract" was implicit? equal parts both as I see it. don't throw stones in a glass house, so they say.

anyway, the title of the article Is irrelevant with respect to my explanation. and it should be. determining how misleading a title is would be the job for another algorithm.
An Inconvenient Latency
Where does the code live, though? :)
might be worth it actually. if it doesn't increase, and if they can market with it. haha
Throw away the first one and write it better the 2nd time around?

Not sure, I'm confused as well.
> You seem to be really caught up in this idea of hard-core gang members.

I'm not. The vast majority of the gang members driving around shooting each other up are not "committed fully to lives of violent crime." But they are still "bad, antisocial" people. The 19 year old who mugs someone in a gang initiation ritual is still a bad person even if you can explain his behavior in socioeconomic terms.

> Is it the only policy that we would need to vanquish poverty and crime in the US? Of course not.

Obviously the drug war contributes to poverty and crime in the U.S., I'm not denying that. But the comment I originally replied to stated: "Interesting to see an effect of the drug war manifested on a map." As if that state penitentiary wouldn't need to exist without the drug war.

People dramatically overstate how much the drug war contributes to violence in the U.S., because their world views (usually individualist ones), don't grapple well with a world where a meaningful percentage of the population is bad and antisocial. If only the government didn't prosecute this drug war, they say, we wouldn't need these prisons! People would get along! But the data just doesn't support that narrative. Look at this chart of spending on drug control: http://cdn6.theweedblog.com/wp-content/uploads//us-drug-addi..., and cross reference that against the homicide rate chart I referred to earlier. You can clearly see that most of the dramatic increase in homicides between the minimum in the late 1950's and the maximum in the 1980's and 1990's happened by the early 1970's, while drug war spending didn't really start until 1973 and didn't really ramp up by the 1980's.

We're not seeing the product of communities ravaged by the drug war. What we're seeing is that the drug war has become the focal point for communities that were already disintegrating before the drug war even started.
is anyone aware of similar articles for any of the BSD flavors or other operating systems?
Weren't these requests, which Yahoo objected to, intended to stay secret, by the wishes of the government?

Consider if Yahoo refused to honor the requests, and began accruing the fines. Presumably, if they didn't pay the huge bill for their fines, what would happen?

Surely, $250k/day would rack up fast... As I see it, eventually Yahoo would rack up such a bill that they couldn't afford it, and any collection of the fee by the government would force Yahoo to close its doors. At that point, surely they'd have to reveal something to the general public about said requests, and the fines, and everything else going on behind the scenes...
It's the same, just later. He probably feels he's learned from his previous mistakes and can do it better this time.
npm, Inc. and Scalenpm
Did I hear that right? Did they say OMAP 3? I didn't know anyone was still using OMAP3 outside of charity organizations trying to provide very basic tablets to children living in terrible conditions in the third world.

Why they gotta be so cheap on their flagship smartwatch?
"As I see it, eventually Yahoo would rack up such a bill that they couldn't afford it, and any collection of the fee by the government would force Yahoo to close its doors."

Yahoo is about to get $20bn+ in cash in about 2 weeks, so they can hold out these fines for about 80,000 days.
My point is somewhat similar to yours. R+D is only one reason pushing drug prices up. But some life saving drugs are cheaper in India because the government subsidizes their cost, which doesn't happen in the US.
Another take on Apple Watch's function(s)
In fact, 17e9/432e6=39.35 B/file, pretty spot on. Seems like there's some room for optimization

It does not suggest there is a possible optimization. cp needs to store the pointer and the path itself in memory, so it is more than 8 bytes. ~39 bytes/file means the average path length was 15 bytes (8-byte source device + 8-byte source inode + 8-byte pointer + ~15-byte path = ~39 bytes). I guess one theoretical optimization would be to add to Linux a system call to open a file by device+inode number. So the pointer+path would be replaced by a fixed 8-byte dest device + 8-byte dest inode (so 32 bytes/file). Or since the destination is only one filesystem in this case, you would just need 8-byte source device + 8-byte source inode + 8-byte dest inode (24 bytes/file). In this latter case, the 17 GB hash table would have shrunk to 10 GB, which could have help completely avoid the swap in the OP's case.

Edit: correct, I do not account for unused space in the hash table, for simplicity. So read all my numbers assuming a ±10-30% range. However it seems that the OP who quoted 432e6 files meant 432e6 file names, not inodes. So if the average inode had, say, 4.3 hardlinks (IOW 4.3 names), it means the 17GB hashtable only had 100e6 files in it, so 170 bytes/file, so 170-8-8-8 = 146-byte pathnames on average (±10-30%), with sounds more reasonable.
Archive.org respects robots.txt. Nothing unilateral about it.
I've never seen such an aggressive and hostile copyright notice in a forum signature before. It's not entirely clear that you can even claim copyright over trivial online comments.
This is reminiscent of the teacher and philosopher Diogenes [1], who lived in a large tub in the Athens marketplace. Alexander the Great is said to have been so impressed by Diogenes' minimalism that he remarked "if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_of_Sinope
How about FreeBSD guest on Xen with Linux dom0?

https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen
How do you program the circular screen on this thing? Is it a radial coordinate system (which would make it hard to draw parallel and perpendicular lines). Or is it a rectangle but you have to keep track of when you're inside the circle? Or maybe you're not even allowed to draw on the thing and you have to use higher level api functions?
I'm surprised this didn't happen a decade ago.
"...you can't purchase and own housing in quantities of 36 square feet..."

And in most of the US, you still won't be able to do so. Or, more correctly, you won't be able to place the dumpster-home in a desirable location and use it as a permanent residence.

Most municipalities have minimum house sizes as part of their building code. You could potentially put the dumpster-home on wheels and get it approved as a mobile home, but you'd still be limited to areas that allow mobile homes.
And it's interesting and useful for scientific computing where you already have an MPI environment and distributed/parallel filesystems. However, it's not really applicable to this workload, as the paper itself says.

There is a provision in most file systems to use links (symlinks,
hardlinks, etc.). Links can cause cycles in the file tree, which
would result in a traversal algorithm going into an infinite loop.
To prevent this from happening, we ignore links in the file tree
during traversal. We note that the algorithms we propose in
the paper will duplicate effort proportional to the number of
hardlinks. However, in real world production systems, such as
in LANL (and others), for simplicity, the parallel filesystems
are generally not POSIX compliant, that is, they do not use
hard links, inodes, and symlinks. So, our assumption holds.

The reason this cp took such large amounts of time was the desire to preserve hardlinks and the resize of the hashtable used to track the device and inode of the source and destination files.
It would be interesting how this would get reported in their 10Q and 10K. Either way investors would question what this odd charge is about. Id say take the hit and report it in a subtle but not so subtle way. It would almost act as a warrant canary.
I was thinking about that because it seemed like a cost they could just afford to ignore ($91m/yr), this was probably not the limit of the penalties they could have faced.
It's not a fully functioning living space. It's a small bedroom with underfloor storage. There is no toilet, no water supply, no perishable food storage, no washing station.

And in its current incarnation, you have to have air conditioning or a roof that's open where you have to be constantly on the lookout for rain.

It's a cute project, but it's not a fully-functioning living space.

Edit: Also, introduce a second person (most cultures are into pairing off as a social norm) and you need to pretty much have the entire floor as a bed, meaning no floorspace to store the bookshelf or plant, and having to move the bed every time to get at storage. Maybe some sort of sliding bed/couch thing, but those aren't particularly cheap.
Happened in 2008, revealed today.
That's pretty disgusting. So much for market disruption, eh?
Memory Capacity of Networks with Stochastic Binary Synapses
Bankruptcy for RadioShack Is Probably Unavoidable
Yeah, I question that rebuild. If the array is being used along with the rebuild, typically the rebuild process gets put to a lower priority. I've seen IBM enterprise RAID 5 storage arrays take forever to rebuild if they were the main storage for a high transaction database.
Too bad we already threw Yahoo under the bus the first day the PRISM slide with their logo appeared.
the original comment was articulated just fine. the point is that science of all varieties has proven wrong over, and over, and over, and over, and over. science is a constant reevaluation of things we "know".

thing is, we don't know what we don't know.
Thanks to throwaway000002
Just wanted to pass along a thanks to throwaway000002 for some much needed advice that I sought a few weeks back...your suggestion on contacting http://www.highline.vc/ panned out. Really appreciate it! If anyone knows this person, please pass on my gratitude.
I understand the counter-points to this, but I'm inclined to agree with drcode. We've seen a stream of "I lived in X" stories lately, most of which include sleeping somewhere, but not really living there - trunk of car, dumpster, etc.

Sorry, but in most of the US, indoor plumbing (or something close) is generally considered a requisite for a "home".
> didn't Kevin do this with Milk?

Yes. He did the exact same thing before. Copy a popular category of apps that's probably on its way out already, and promise a 'fast pivot' if it doesn't work.

> What's the angle? Why do basically the same thing you did before?

If I had to guess, I'd say it's something like: 'I'm loaded, being a VC is soulless, and I think Snapchat is dumb because of [reason]'.
[video] Alibaba IPO: Jack Ma's Original Sales Pitch in 1999
Yep, we can read the first sentence of the article too!
Imagine what kind of secret programs are being pushed today that we will hear about in 2020, or longer. I have some guesses but they are so absurd I would be laughed off hn.
So that's the price of having principles.
Sometimes I hang out here too.
Cool. That's actually fun to try out. http://plnkr.co/edit/JybIMrHpUzGyr39cV5oz?p=preview
Somewhere between instragram's explore view and snapchat's functionality.

I'd like to see some more creativity...

I hope he still does http://foundation.bz/ interviews those were the best product to come from KR in awhile.
Dev boards run KitKat on quad-core Snapdragon 805
The best thing about prolog is how naturally search happens: state facts and rules once, then query them in many different ways. The worst part is, as the paper describes, constantly having to curb this search so that Prolog runs efficiently for normal deterministic code.

Another missing piece that this paper picks up: in the real world we want to generate options in order of likelihood. The Alchemy project for AI incorporates probability this way. My understanding is that it doesn't unfortunately doesn't scale well.

http://alchemy.cs.washington.edu/

Shameless plug: I revisited Prolog in recent times and wrote Marelle, a tool for test-driven sysadmin. The language is clunky by today's standards, but I still haven't seen nicer syntax for writing non-determinism.

https://github.com/larsyencken/marelle
Yes, the threshold for poverty/adulthood/homelessness/health/etc varies by location and era
Not bad at channeling Jobs. Congrats. He could do it better than Cook for sure.
It's a square with the corners cut off. You can preview it when you're laying it out, or testing it in the emulator/on a device.
I'm not sure why the MTA is making this a limited release.
No access for the handicapped.