skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't appear to work in Ubuntu/Chromium v37.0.2062.120 (64 bit)

Error Code: M7357-1003

I guess that is because WidevineCDM is missing (proprietary "Content Decryption Module").
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Someone recently posted a thread referencing Teddy Roosevelt's quote on 'critics'. That seems to apply well here.
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7-it-is-not-the-critic-who-c...
It's the default production Rails 4 error message. On development it gives you a stack trace.
Did you watch the interview? Jessica flat out states that he is a great father. And the fact that they haven't fought in the years they've been married once about something as huge as YC says enough about their relationship.

My point wasn't to deify Paul Graham but to give respect where it's due. There is plenty of criticism doled out on HN daily, what's wrong with a little praise?
You also need NSS >= 3.16.2.
CppDepend 5 released it's free for the open source community and universities
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The recommendations I've read say you need 1GB RAM for system use (assuming a dedicated file server), and then as much RAM (ideally ECC RAM) as you want to give it for caching data.

If you're short on RAM (sub 4GB), you might need to change some of the default settings to avoid problems, but RAM's fairly cheap nowadays, so unless you've got an old machine, it's not likely to be a problem :)
The World’s Last
Hopefully all of the negative publicity that Comcast is getting will have an impact on some of the regulators and they decide this will not benefit any of the current users for either company.

I can only hope at this point.
Yeah, it was a pretty glaring omission. You'd think it would be there from the start. I don't know about the others but I can't imagine they're not streaming as well.
They sandbox it by only allowing you to drag and drop files. Make a domain for yourself and you'll see.
The CSS Zen garden made sense in an age where people hand-wrote their pages. But today any CMS could achieve exactly the same results with plain html + tables - the pages are already rendered on the server (or in Javascript) based on a template + content (probably in markdown or some such).
The API has comment support, I'd love to see that. However as of now it's read-only. To make it read-write you'd need to fully integrate firebase. This is just a firebase mirror of the data. Discussion forums with threaded comments don't really make sense for realtime updates. I don't think they have Windowing functions either, so you'd get only the latest x comments or the best x comments, and you couldn't "get more".
What sites are you searching? I built a web scraper to help automate my job search in NOLA

http://nolatechjobs.leesome.com/

I'd be happy to share the code with you and you could switch out the sites I'm scraping with the ones you look at. The whole thing runs on a cronjob that just re-generates the HTML every hour.
> While I suppose ircle could dynamically resize the area for nicks based on the length of the longest nick that has posted a message, that could be pretty inefficient

XChat does exactly this. So do a few other clients still.
It's not actually possible to force someone to lobby for something. How could you be sure they were really trying? They could just hire really bad lobbyists or run really bad advertising, for instance.
no you shouldn't have too... the database seems to be the bootleneck. on my plan heroku limits concurrent connections to 20. just try to sign up again...again, sorry about that, i didn't carefully plan to be on the frontpage
i got the same message when location wasn't filled
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See here: http://www.marco.org/2014/10/08/the-magazine-shutting-down

and here: http://www.loopinsight.com/2014/10/09/the-magazine-shuts-dow...

for a couple more perspectives (tl;dr - readership decline, running a magazine is a lot of work, and Apple lost interest in News Stand)
Respect the efforts of small and indie Android Developers
I find I often have to go to chrome://components and redownload everything.
I think you're confusing depression with temporary sadness. Depression is a terminal illness.
Keyword filtering!

Also: don't fail the form if I don't enter a location.
Some good feedback on the website: https://medium.com/@troysk704/attendance-gov-in-4e87acae39b7
This is awesome, but I see a lot of complaints from people who can't get it to work. In the past, I've used netflix-desktop[0] to watch from my Ubuntu partition. I've found that it works exceptionally well.

[0] Google netflix-desktop, or here's a decent install guide I found on the fly: http://askubuntu.com/questions/419255/just-installed-ubuntu-...
Finally. Working with Chrome 38.0.2125.101 (64-bit) on Linux Mint 17.
The home education community in the UK had a huge amount of information up on Tripod and similar sites, pointing to all sorts of useful resources for those who wanted to teach their kids at home. I'm not sure where they post information these days. Probably in Facebook groups.
This is a very try-hard comment. Paul Graham is someone to believe in. Definitely a great guy/hero. If you cannot realize this, then the fault is in you.
Does /r/politics accurately reflect the political makeup of the US? No. Why would you assume /r/technology is representative?
Yes, massive pension, mutual and investments funds voted via proxy on behalf of all shareholders of their funds. Yeah sure, shareholders overwhelmingly voted for it... I don't think that means what you think that means.
One of the huge problems of the Lisp maschines was that they where quite happy with taking money from military and other huge copperation and did not really try to compete with in that market.

They where also not quick enougth to get at least a subset of there software running on other hardware.
I still haven't got my head around the 'growth' thing is how is it applicable to software/hardware startups that are NOT developing products for mass market.

For example, if someone in telecom industry creates a product that can only be sold to operators. The time it takes to convert an engagement can be upwards of 6 months. In such cases, what would be a good growth metric with which to measure your progress?

Now, we can chose not to call such companies startups but that doesn't solve the problem.

I am sure there are many knowledgeable people on this thread who can provide some insights here. Any pointers to read will also help.
Yeah, I vaguely recall him reading a fair amount as well (I was pretty young, so details are hazy) but there are limits on that, especially when you're in rural Virginia dozens of miles from the nearest bookstore or library.
Yes, it is, because that's the market Tesla is in! They're selling a $90k car, this is the market.
If it's approved then it may actually spur some action to fix the market. TWC and Comcast are the two most hated companies in the U.S. Once they merge it won't take long before some politician or attorney general figures out they can score serious popular approval by going after what will be the most evil company in the country.
The pthree.org article you linked to is my blog. It is not the official ZFS documentation nor the official ZFS on Linux documentation. It is only a storage administrator (me) explaining what I know of the inner workings of ZFS.

However, thanks for linking to my blog! :)
This is another great example of the difference between Chromium (free and open source browser) and Chrome (proprietary, branded fork of Chromium).

Amusingly, the previous workaround for running Netflix on Linux used Firefox (running under a patched version of Wine)[0], though it looks like Netflix is unlikely to come to Linux for Firefox in the near future[1]

[0] http://www.compholio.com/netflix-desktop/

[1] At least until Netflix switches over to DRM-ed HTML5 video, and Firefox implements HTML5 DRM.
Maybe it doesn't address the "issue" of portability because it in fact is a portable program. Maybe it doesn't address portability because it's an article about reverse engineering a game. Maybe it doesn't address portability because the code is meant to illustrate his process rather than for others to port it. I still don't see how your criticism is relevant at all.
Android is a very diverse ecosystem
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_human_admixture_with_mo...

I've been looking for this!

The disappearance (really, the admixture with other hominids) of pre-homo sapien hominids is fascinating to me. I asked a similar question on reddit a while ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/27g6xx/homo_...
"For a start I think it would be really awesome, if the terminal could display html (+css)."

That's scary. My browser is a very complicated tool that does a lot of complicated things and has a huge attack surface.

OTOH, the terminal is incredibly simple and does almost nothing. That has been a very useful division of labor these past 20 years and I'd like to keep it that way.
I am amazed at how stupid these applications are. I just signed into Conspire again (tried it a year or more ago) and it sent me an update email like this: "You are losing touch with [X] and [Y]! Email them now". You mean my mother and my father-in-law? Both of which I have specifically linked as such in my Google Contacts? Thanks for that advice.

Same goes with these other services: Rapportive, Nimble, Mingly, Xobni, etc. They apply superficial statistics and send a daily alert that some person I exchanged one email with last year should be contacted. How about reminding me to keep in touch with colleagues from my previous job? Or a colleague leaves my company...therefore in 2 months send an email saying hello. Those would be useful reminders.

I predicted everything Conspire was going to send me today: stats on how quickly I respond to emails, % responded to, message volume. Who cares?? It's just comfort stats: feels interesting but actually isn't.

I am desperate for a semi-intelligent personal contact management system. Or at least a dumb one with a really great editing interface. The level of intelligence in these app is so slow I actually wish it were zero so they would stay out of my way!
Google must respect efforts.
Works for me in Fedora 20! Chrome 37.0.2062.120 and NSS 3.17.0-1.fc20.

edit: Did try Firefox and it does not work due to required DRM extensions. This is a great step forward, hopefully more is to come.
The same can be said for other filesystems. The issues that fsck has been abused to automatically fix on them simply do not happen on ZFS. Failures so severe that they kill ZFS have should have analogous failure states on those filesystems too. People do not hear about such failures because they cannot be distinguished from the more typical issues that affect such filesystems.
You just pushed me to hop over to Sonic.net, thank you.
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Does this work on Chromium (the FLOSS base for Chrome) or only the Google-branded Chrome browser?
So why does this work? Is Chrome 37 for Linux now being shipped with support for Encrypted Media Extensions, i.e., HTML's built-in DRM, with Netflix relying on EME? Or has something happened with Moonlight to support Netflix DRM? Or what?
> a highly advance pattern recognition system filled with auto complete from a huge database of pictures (which to this date hasn't been replicated - face recognition doesn't count it needs to recognize cars, signs, people, animals, pavement, trees, obstacles, etc.)

I expect that, after the first wave of clumsy LIDARing self-driving cars, all the car companies (Google especially) will be collecting exactly training data from the cars' sensors to build exactly this kind of model. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if that was what the Google car was really about, in the same way Google Voice is really about collecting speech training data.

The best part of this kind of training data is that it all comes pre-annotated with appropriate reinforcements: even if the image-recognition sensors aren't hooked up to anything, they're coupled to the input stream from the other car sensors and the driver's actions. So you would get training data like

- "saw [image of stopsign], other heuristically-programmed system decided car should stop, driver confirmed stop."

- "saw [image of kitten standing in the road], other heuristically-programmed system decided car should continue, driver overrode and stopped car."

Etc. Aggregating all these reports from many self-driving cars, you could build an excellent image-to-appropriate-reaction classifier.
I've hardly used it myself, but apparently Microsoft's PowerShell pipes typed objects between processes:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd347728.aspx
100% agreed, reading this is like being 8 and walking down a path with your hero holding your hand explaining about whatever is mystifying you. It's that pleasant.
“I Am a College Dropout” or Learning vs. Being Taught
A collection of subtle loading effects using CSS transforms and animations
Most recent results I can see to compare to (Google, Yahoo, Quantcast):
https://www.quantcast.com/inside-quantcast/2013/12/petabyte-...
Chromium PPA builds are around 47 weeks old. (v. 31)

https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ubuntu/stable

Chromium packages on Ubuntu have basically been abandoned.
"Exactly as you indicate, even in "classic" terminals we have features like unicode support, color, geometry reporting, mouse reporting, window title manipulation, arbitrary cursor movement, etc."

Is that true ? For instance, I am not aware that (for instance) the OSX terminal app does mouse reporting or geometry reporting.

Does default xterm ?
Plenty of snow in California :)
The unix dataset already works on list and map data structures.

lists: ls -1 | wc -l

maps: ps -ef | grep 'tobekilled' | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill

would unix be better if it were

cwd.files.count

and

processes.filter{name = 'tobekilled'}.map(kill)

?

maybe for the newbie who paradoxically already understands functional and object-oriented programming, I'll grant.

But the 'pipe' ("this is a bucket brigade") has always been pretty easy for people to grasp.

The Lennart bit was a joke. The OP's post was so histrionically overwrought that I responded sardonically. Apologies if you were offended.
I'm surprised that hasn't been recommended. It's hard on the AWD system, and Subaru recommends it: https://www.subaru.com/owners/resource-center/vehicle-care-t...
For the curious, the (max) price of those instances is $6.82/hr, so 206 * 6.82 * (23/60) = $538.55 --If they did it with non-reserved instances in US East.

If they used reserved instances in USEast, it drops to $181.

Obviously there are lots of costs involved beside the final perfect run, but it's an interesting ballpark.
RSpec testing guidelines
This is exactly the problem we're trying to solve with http://bowery.io. There's so much amazing OSS that's hard to set up, making it hard to focus on the actual development/coding/research you want to do.
Please do - I liked this first article very much and would look forward to a follow-up.
I doubt the CPU gets too hot. We're talking about something like 5% utilization. There's a pretty large difference in power consumption between a constant 5% and zero, but there's also a pretty large difference between 5% and 100%. If you run an iPhone at full blast it'll last a few hours before the battery dies. If it's completely asleep then it'll last days. Constant listening would probably cut the standby time down to, fairly wild guess here, a day or two. Which when combined with normal usage over the course of a day could make the difference between making it until bed time and needing to recharge in the afternoon.

For the iPhone 6, Apple claims 10 days standby time, 50 hours audio playback time (which uses dedicated hardware for most of the work) and 10-11 hours of internet use. Which doesn't isolate the CPU, of course, what with the screen and radios, but should give some idea of what's going on.
This deal is sadly going to go through. It's all based on anchoring and based on the industry's first "offer" to the FCC and other regulators:
1. Let us create a "fast" lane and a "slow" lane. This allows Telcos and ISPs to raise rates and gain even more power than we already had.
2. Let us, as the #1/2 player in an oligopoly, merge with the #3/4 "competitor". This allows us to provide better service, etc, etc, etc.

#1 is ridiculous and the public push-back has been strong that it likely won't happen (let's pray to God it doesn't).
However, in the context of asking for industry-wide de-regulation (that still might go through), a merger between industry leaders, which happens all the time, doesn't seem that ridiculous. Plus, having an FCC chairman who used to be your head lobbyist helps the merger even more[1].

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wheeler
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Also, I don't see anything physically connecting the front and rear tires - this is where much of the drivetrain wear comes from on AWD/4WD vehicles.
Right now when I look I usually use Indeed and StackOverflow. I gave up on the big boys (Monster, CareerBuilder, Dice) because the sites are so polluted by recruiters and the filtering tools are so poor.

I'd love to try your scraper. I've thought about doing something like that before, particularly since I have started doing lots of web scraping for work and I am much more comfortable with it. Do you have any issues with sites that actively or passively discourage scrapers?
I was born in 1989 and my experience is very similar.

As I came of age on the internet in the early 2000s, there were enough vestiges of stuff like Usenet that I was familiar with it but it was clear it was in terminal decline. And I always felt bummed that I missed that era.

Another thing that I really like about this project is how it combines new and old technologies. Like how it's a "standard UNIX computer on the internet" but runs on Amazon's cloud. Collaboration is done via Github. You sign-up via a Google Form. We have these amazing infrastructure tools now which didn't exist 10 years ago. It's really something to see.
I didn't realize that was a very controversial paper.

If the timelines are correct though, that wouldn't have been offending rms yet:

> rms: That was not the end of the GNU projects involved with Lisp. Later on around 1995, we were looking into starting a graphical desktop project. [...]

>

> At the time, TCL was being pushed heavily for this purpose. I had a very low opinion of TCL...

--

JOs paper appears to be published 1998, 3 years later, citing papers from 1996.

[edit: formatting]
Oracle advice on how to configure ZFS and Oracle Database

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris/con...

Some picks:

Free space is important 10-20%.

>In an environment with a high
rate of data update (or churn), it is advisable to maintain a certain
amount of free space. ZFS is a copy-on-write file system and relocates all writes to free disk space.
Keeping a certain amount of free blocks allows ZFS to easily find space in big chunks, allows ZFS to
aggregate writes and reduce the write IOPS demand on hard disks. Streaming aggregated writes can be
50-100 times less demanding on hard drives than doing small random writes. Therefore, the incentive
for keeping free space is high, especially in a high churn environment, such as an active OLTP
database.

>The number one
rule for setting up an Oracle database on ZFS is to set ZFS
recordsize
equal to
the database block size for the file systems that contain the Oracle data files.
recordsize = db_block_size
CSS seems to be one of the worst designs in IT industry, isn't it? See http://www.zazzle.co.uk/css+is+awesome+mugs
I was thinking maybe it's the fact that I didn't get enough sleep last night but I didn't find this amusing at all
http://hnapi.github.io/?id=8438270
Didn't mean programming either. I wanted to add my sense of the absurd burden put onto normal users with computers. These are systems full of cruft (historical, economical) that is impossible to understand really. Always moving for so-called "progress" and fed through authority (which user would ever question the way MS Office or MS Windows works ? they don't know anything else). So most of them will lose any sense of logic when dealing with these machines/OS and I can't blame them.
Fuck TWC and Comcast
You have to put spaces around your * 's to keep HN from italicizing everything.
On the other hand, think about how coyote urine is produced as a commercial product. I doubt they just hire people to go collect it in the wild...
This Device Could Detect Dozens of Cancers with a Single Blood Test
I did the Stanford iOS course and the Big Nerd ranch books for 2 months, before I got hired at a startup doing iOS. Biggest challenge was getting stuck and not having someone in person to show me the way.
I feel like any field of research has a base set of knowledge and skill sets required to do high level research. One could say that biology research is filled with "Microscope Bullshittery" or Paleontology is filled with "Fossil Digging Bullshittery".

A base skill of doing computer science research is programming.

Can you program without computer science? Absolutely. Can you Computer Science without programming? I would say no. Being able to look at and understand how to use a language or library is just something required to get to the last tier of computers science knowledge. I think every researcher would love to get rid of their bullshittery, and often they have lab technicians or interns do it for them but in the end they all had to pay their dues and have to know it in order to mentor and help those below them.
> It should make us angry - he was elected to stop the madness, and it seems like he is running business-as-usual.

It should make us angry, but not because he didn't fulfill his promise -- I think the public made a huge mistake taking a politician at his word. Rather, we ought to be angry for two reasons.

One, because he simply doesn't have the power to stop it. The machinery of the state, and the industry that keeps it propped up, have a momentum all their own.

Two, because he stood alone in the face of this madness. The Democrats could have reigned all this in in his first term, with investigations and criminal charges for the perpetrators, but they preferred to move on to other business, which it turns out is the same as the old business.
I find it sad, that in an academic setting no less, a PROFESSOR is telling his students it's BULLSHIT to know how the systems that are vital to their work actually function. He sounds like the guy that goes to jiffy lube because he doesn't know what an oil filter is, and thinks that it's "bullshit" that anyone does. I just want to turn the key and go! That's great, but as an academic you should also want to know what the fuck happens when you turn the key. And encouraging your students to devalue knowing how things work under the covers... I think he needs to find a new line of work.
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Indeed, I would say that the work done getting e.g. OnLive to work would be extremely relevant to people driving remotely: if you can be competitive in an arbitrary FPS game streamed to you across the continent—in a direct adversarial contest of reaction time against people playing locally on their own hardware—then I'm pretty certain you can drive a car using streamed data. Especially since, unlike with games, drivers won't demand "excellent 1080p graphics and HD sound"; just something usable to get around. The car-side computer can do a lot of pre-processing of its own outputs to get the streamed data rate down to something useful.

The real problem, I think, would be making sure the (presumably cellular) connection to the car doesn't drop or suffer from latency spikes. If the car companies teamed up with the cell companies, there'd probably be big pushes to put 4G or WiMax microcells on every power-pole running down streets and highways, and even more in cities, to ensure cars remain online.