skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asking a mathematician for their favorite constant is like asking a painter what their favorite color is. I like Tao's diplomatic answer.
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Don't most operating systems memory-map executables in anyway? As long as the code is never paged it in shouldn't make any difference.
Occasionally, yes. The oddest computer-related dream probably occurred when I was taking a computability course: cars entering and leaving parking spaces in a dream that had to do with the "pumping lemma" for regular languages.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songdo_International_Business_...

Gale International holds 61%, Posco 30% with Morgan Stanley Real Estate holding the final 9%. Infrastructure, labor and funding are being provided by the city of Incheon.

I don't know who owned the original area. But I imagine as these things go, regardless of who owned the tidal flat property Songdo is being built on (and my guess is that the answer was "nobody" since it would be under water most of the day), the government would end up owning it as an intermediary using South Korea's relatively strong eminent domain laws.

There's a long history in South Korea of displacing people out of traditional areas in the name of development. Projects like Sejong City and the new Pyeongtaek development (where the U.S. military is relocating to) are all large eminent domain land grabs in fairly rural areas. The tradeoff is usually a guaranteed apartment or some subsidy on a new apartment in one of the new developments.

It's tough to do development on a large scale in a very small country with even more limited usable land. Land reform in South Korea is one of the oldest government issues dating back thousands of years.
What's interesting to note here is that the points totals have been removed for the top 10. It used to show vast differences between the "leading pack" and the rest... of the order of 20k karma points or so!

I guess the rationale for this change is to stop the silly competition (if there was any) once at the top of the pack. I'm not sure there ever was such a competition, mind you. I was #7 once upon a time and it never affected my posting habits.
Ask HN: Which languages use method.object() order?
I read http://verraes.net/2014/09/objects-as-contracts-for-behaviour/ today and liked his idea of putting method calls before the object.

So rather than write 'invoice.pay(anAmount') or 'appointment.reschedule(aDate)' you would write 'pay.invoice(anAmount)' and 'reschedule.appointment(aDate)'

Are there any programming languages which allow this? Has it been tried and failed?
> neither ElasticSearch nor Postgres cope very well when you start mixing multiple languages in the same document.

I've done okay with that with Solr -- but it's a hard problem. If you really want to meet the needs of fluent speakers of all languages. You can do kind of sort okay in Solr trying a multi-lingual unicode-aware analysis, but to do really good you probably need separate indexed fields (with different analysis) for each language, and may need code to try to guess which passages are in which language.

It's a hard problem, but I suspect Solr gives you more flexibility than ElasticSearch to try and work out a solution (in some cases having to write some Java). Although it doesn't come with an out-of-the-box best-practice solution (I don't think there are enough solr devs who have this use case day to day; solr dev is definitely driven by it's core devs business cases).
HealthKit is losing people's data
If you were going to do this for science, a good start would be to analyze the intro of shows in question, using rudimentary tools such as md5sum on a per-block basis.

You would then quickly discover that the chances of huge gains would be small, without ever even looking into the ZFS aspects.
you don't need to use multiple cores for that, although you could -- but in general, anything you can do in multiple cores you can do identically in one core, the only reason to use multiple cores is for performance when you have so much corpus that one machine can't handle it.

But yeah, Solr gives you a lot of flexibility, perhaps more than ElasticSearch (which is both it's pro and it's con, for 'on the path' use cases I get the impression ElasticSearch requires less thinking in configuration than solr. although i have not any direct experience with ElasticSearch).
Hasn't this been the case with people using SSL on Amazon's ELB?
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Judging from your analysis, you couldn't tell the true motivation of a protest if it bit you on the arse.

Protests are shows. That's why they call them demonstrations.

And given signs are for informing people outside the protest, it is no surprise that folk will write an English one if they know there will be an English speaking news crew around.
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Thai food in NJ/NY is in a sad state. The best Thai food in NYC doesn't hold a candle to an old lady making some gai gap tiam on the street of Chiang Mai.
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Also, they target much more tech-savvy people who run the latest media player with the latest codec on the latest OS. There is much more chance that the evolutions in the material is readable by consumers; there is less backward-compatibility to support.
Yes but that's a very broad observation that I suspect many people could have arrived at. Generalization is important but if the person doing the generalizing is so ill-informed about the details of their world I think the likelihood of their generalizations being correct is rather low.
Pay per Click campaigns, using PPC landing pages, are a major traffic source for many websites. It doesn’t matter if you’re using Google Adwords, Facebook Ads, or even sponsored Tweets. Your marketing budget will have a significant chunk set aside for advertising campaigns.
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Oh come on, stop it with this culture war stuff, you can still call them 'Christmas Parties'.
It seems like the interesting thing is that it's a purely functional API. I don't thing they were trying to demonstrate that the language is fast.
It may not be entirely accurate; I can only go by the complaints I hear from my Chinese friends, and my limited experience with CloudFlare-enabled websites when I'm in China for short stays. However it definitely has significant impact for Chinese users.

I see you have big plans for China :) Looking forward to seeing your new data centers coming online. How do you plan to solve the mandatory ICP Registration problem for your customers?
I don't think OP did it in the post, so I'm also inclined to believe that he did not see deduplication in part because of that.
As always, the lawyer wins ;)

(hint: avg 52+)
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ZFS supports byte-level deduplication where it can compute anchor points so that it works on unaligned data. However, quite a few a few assumptions about the entropy of the data set could have been inferred from the "iTunes TV Show" file choice, which clearly means the files would be compressed and encrypted.
Haha, this comment could nearly pass itself as parodic :)

But as a matter of fact, I do from time to time, although I don't really see it as a way of improving my productivity.

But I think you're onto something in the sense that often not feeling energetic of focused comes from the presence of parasite emotions or a sense of disorder. So it actually might help.
Actually I think I was still only using Real back then, but cannot really remember.

I would need to go dig into my Zip floppies collection, a few thousand kilometers away from my current location.
Is it then a regression then from telephone and postal mail times ?
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Very cool!

Glaciers can also be seen on Street View from Iceland since some time back. Here is one example, Svinafellsjokul, where I visited last year. It's a powerful sight indeed.

https://www.google.se/maps/@64.0087795,-16.8807936,3a,75y,13...

Edit: Here is a view from further away where you can see the glacier coming down both sides of the mountain:

https://www.google.se/maps/@64.0056525,-16.9436632,3a,75y,58...
Rubbish.

Normans [1] were the direct product of Viking conquest and settlement -- one of many instances in which the Vikings essentially did not lose.

Would you similarly claim that the Varangians [2] were somehow not Vikings? or were "losers"?

[1] http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/418283/Norman

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangians
If I recall correctly, after the courts struck down the proposed move of the capital, people wanted the development to continue anyway, but have the city be refocused as Science and Tech city (being relatively close to Daejeon and KAIST)?

The last that I had read, under President Lee, the city was renamed some kind of generic "special administrative district" instead and most of the government offices started moving anyways? So it's basically going to end up being the capital, just not called it until the GNP and the opposition parties can get it together long enough to pass a constitutional reform.

> If South Korean government were really serious about addressing the problem of over-centralization of Korea (hint: the present administration isn't), they wouldn't have built yet another new city reachable by Seoul's subway system.

I have an notion that someday most of the country will be on Seoul's Subway system, you can already to Seoul from Sinchang after all. That's half-way to Daejeon! ;)
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I'm beginning to suspect Turing consciously captured the moving target definition when he conceived of his famous test.
I fixed a double-delete bug just this month in some c++ code.
Consent yes, though I can't fully parse "procedures established by". What procedures are meant here?

https://cabforum.org/wp-content/uploads/Baseline_Requirement...

"The CA MUST ensure that the certificate is issued with the consent of, and according to procedures established by,
the owner of each Domain Name"

EDIT: Here are the established authorization procedures:

"11.1.1 Authorization by Domain Name Registrant

For each Fully-Qualified Domain Name listed in a Certificate, the CA SHALL confirm that, as of the date the Certificate was issued, the Applicant (or the Applicant’s Parent Company, Subsidiary Company, or Affiliate, collectively referred to as “Applicant” for the purposes of this section) either is the Domain Name Registrant or hascontrol over the FQDN by:

1. Confirming the Applicant as the Domain Name Registrant directly with the Domain Name Registrar;

2. Communicating directly with the Domain Name Registrant using an address, email, or telephone number provided by the Domain Name Registrar;

3. Communicating directly with the Domain Name Registrant using the contact information listed in the WHOIS record’s “registrant”, “technical”, or “administrative” field;

4. Communicating with the Domain’s administrator using an email address created by pre-pending ‘admin’, ‘administrator’, ‘webmaster’, ‘hostmaster’, or ‘postmaster’ inthe local part, followed by the at-sign (“@”), followed by the Domain Name, which may be formed by pruning zero or more components from the requested FQDN;

5. Relying upon a Domain Authorization Document;

6. Having the Applicant demonstrate practical control over the FQDN by making an agreed-upon change to information found on an online Web page identified by a uniform resource identifier containing the FQDN;
or
7. Using any other method of confirmation, provided that the CA maintains documented evidence that the method of confirmation establishes that the Applicant is the Domain Name Registrant or has control over the FQDN to at least the same level of assurance as those methods previously described. "

IANAL and I'm sure that CF has had this double checked, but I still think it's a bold move to issue certs on their own account.
A web server can be configured to send a default ssl cert if the browser does not support SNI, but can still route the request to the correct virtual host based on the HTTP Host: header if the customer clicks through the warning.

The following two https sites exist on the same IP:

grepular.com
emailprivacytester.com

If your browser doesn't support SNI, then the cert for "grepular.com" will be returned by default. So browsers which don't support SNI will not notice anything unusual when visiting https://grepular.com/, but will get the cert for grepular.com instead of emailprivacytester.com when visiting https://emailprivacytester.com/

Unless you have IPv6 support, in which case the sites have different IPs so SNI isn't required (exactly like cloudflare have just done)
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I am pretty sure Cloudflare will verify that you are owner of the domain.
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I found this thread because the same thing is happening to me. I wonder how wide-spread this actually is.
I have read his summary of his qual linked here before, and upon reading it this time I also read a few additional. My takeaway is that it seems like it would be a lot of fun for the profs to conduct these interviews (most of the time, with probably a few utterly disastrous one thrown in for good measure).

Unrelated: why was your post not repliable when I first saw it? I refreshed the page a few minutes later and the reply button was there. No idea why that happened?
Understood. But how does that work in cloudflares case? Since they magically upgrade 2 million websites by the end of the day I cannot imagine all those sites have those verification files available.
Ask HN: As a digital nomad how do you manage your bank accounts?
As a digital nomad how do you manage your bank accounts from abroad, what is the best bank to make an account with, that also has worldwide coverage and easy to find ATMs so I am not charged every time I withdraw cash.
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If this is a Blackboard competitor, that's good news. Google definitely has the bankroll and patent magazine to go toe-to-toe with them, which could open up a lot of options in the higher education space.
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An obvious inconvenient side-effect of this approach would be that if expressions are still typed left-to-right it would be very difficult to provide the kind of tab-completion that is common in IDEs and text editors, since the information necessary to narrow the range of a search only becomes available as you finish the expression.
5 years ago most sites didn't even bother to SSL a lot of their pages and then firesheep came along to show us all how much of a security hole that was.

Harking back to "Oh, but we used to do X back in the day" is a really silly thing to say. Do you still string concat your SQL variables perhaps?

The Snowdon revelations showed that the NSA were happily hoovering up all our plaintext emails because the tech companies were naive enough to decrypt at the edge instead of the source, leaving their internal networks open to easy tapping.

This is the situation Cloudflare have setup.

I am also conflicted, cloudflare is great, but it's obvious that in 5 or 10 years time the next Snowdon will reveal cloudflare was infiltrated on day 727 of cloudflare's life, Gordon Brown brokered the deal with jgrahamc to sell out personal privacy for a pardon for Turing (joke!). It's such an obvious internet security weak point and it's made itself an even more obvious one now.
It surprises me, a bit, how many people don't seem to understand the contradiction presented by publishing a book on typography through a platform that doesn't allow control over typography.

The issue isn't aesthetic, it's fundamental. And to note, I'm not sure anyone's ever blamed HTML with being designed to consider typography, beyond some basic contextual tags.
For most of the common template instantiations, the standard runtime's shared library provides you with deduped versions that are likely already in memory, and most linkers are smart enough to make that dynamic linking very efficient.

True, for embedded systems this can still be a painful waste... But I'd argue if that is the case, you probably should be very explicit about using/not using STL libraries.
> Deciding whether or not life is worth living

This rankles. Why does life have to be "worth" living? What is the yardstick of value you're judging life against? Life simply is. Unless you're in extreme chronic pain, I can't see why oblivion would be preferable. You'll get there eventually anyway, no need to rush it. In the meantime there is more than enough here to explore for one lifetime.
You can still click on individual usernames to see karma. tptacek has 193,243 and patio11 just crossed 100,000 a week ago.
> Facebook distracts you with “privacy settings”, but those apply to other pets in the aquarium, not its overseers.

Indeed. I have argued before that the "privacy settings" are actually harmful. You should be making everything publicly available, because why would you give facebook access to this data but not your friends? Unfortunately this is contrary to what most people think. Of course, facebook doesn't actually allow users to make all the data available, in fact it's not even available to the user himself.
There is still link time if the types are shared across shared libraries (which happens a lot).
Yes, because with postal mail (a.k.a. snail mail) it was both technologically hard to open and scan mail without detection, and expensive to employ the number of people necessary to do it. With phones it was not hard at all technologically, but still expensive to employ people, and it was also rather expensive to record and store the data thus obtained.

Today, the technology to scan everything and keep it forever is trivial, and storage is very cheap.
Right you are.

So a pure SNI test using https://sni.velox.ch/ on IE6 on WinXP does produce a warning dialog, "The name on the security certificate is invalid or does not match the name of the site".

Clicking OK clears it for the remainder of the browser session.
> a coding style which 'looks and feels' almost dynamic

Exactly. Templates let you do compile-time duck typing. That's extremely useful in so many scenarios.
Gordon Brown brokered the deal with jgrahamc to sell out personal privacy for a pardon for Turing (joke!)

To be clear... I was opposed to the pardon; it was the apology that I was after (and got).
If given the choice to target users based on GMail data or targeting users based on Facebook data, I would take the former. GMail data would provide you with a much clearer and nuanced profile of someone, even if GMail has only 1/3 - 1/2 the user base. Facebook should do well with consumer brands though.
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Of course using HTTPS is no guarantee that the site doesn't leak your data in any other way. But never before has it been this easy to create a false sense of security: give the impression that connections to your site are encrypted, while in reality it's plaintext for half of the route.

I think this will ultimately dilute the value of HTTPS as we know it, and can only hope that it will lead to the adoption of better alternatives.
dewey is correct, DRM/encryption is not the issue.
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I hope so. But I'm still trying to figure out how. The only way I see they do it is that they check that the nameservers responsible for the domain actually points to cloudflares nameservers. This check doesn't seem to happen for http traffic, so it would be interesting to see how that works with https.
I'd like see some kind of solution where submissions don't disappear so quicky.

I think it would be great if there was an "old" button next to "new" in the header, in which submissions of the past month (or so) show up, ordered by a score that allows for old stories to be bumped back to the top, like

points * age * comment rate.

It would probably also help if new comments would be highlighted.
Reminds me of the DVD sets of Sailor Moon I made years ago where I spliced the same video sequences in for the intro and outro. I never got so far as deduplicating the henshi sequences because there often are different voice-overs during them.
Agreed. It has been a few years since I was in college but the Blackboard software had a long way to go but they were the main one on the market.

Would be nice to see some competition to encourage growth.
WYSIWYG can be counter-intuitive. I would prefer a large textarea for entering Markdown and a live preview aside (like the Reddit Enhancement Suite does).

A good think with Markdown is that learning can be incremental: at first, you just write some text. Later, with the preview, or with a short guide always displayed under the textarea, you learn that you can do some formatting.

On the other hand, people using WYSIWYG will go the other way: the will first see they can do a lot of stuff, and later get confused when stuff does not behave in the expected way.
Bit off the subject, but think putting a computer on a race track (with driverless car, of course) might be a good AI exercise. Although the physical conditions are a bit extreme, it's a more controlled environment and would be easier to optimize.

Perhaps a Nürburgring test would be comparable to turing test?
The verification file are needed by CA issueing cert. I don't think said CA are on your spoofed wifi.
How is it suicides are beneficial for our society, but population control through reducing birth rates and stopping glamorizing babies are seen like the biggest crime again humanity?
Perhaps I'm just in a bad mood today, but really, why must technical articles be festooned with meme GIFs featuring abusive language and children injuring themselves? What does it add? If your content is so boring to you, or to your prospective audience, that you think it needs livening up with that sort of garbage, maybe just don't write it in the first place.