skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's quite likely that you and the other "systemd truthers" will forget all about this in a year or two and systemd will continue just as it has.

I've been using it in my Linux distro for at least a year. It works fine-- quicker startup, handles hotplug correctly, rational management of services, and easy to add new ones.

I'm sorry, there is no nice way to say this, but the systemd truther crowd is a lot like the Obama birth certificate crowd, or the anti-vaxxer crowd. Repeating the same discredited arguments over and over. And for the most part, composed of people who have no experience in what they're talking about, so why should their opinion even matter?

Lennart's only mistake was to be bad at public relations and rather blunt about what he said in public. (I, on the other hand, can afford to be blunt because I'm just an anonymous guy, not a project manager).
I'm far from being even slightly knowledgeable in this topic, but would it be possible to build this in very deep waters? Like a massive column containing a tunnel? Seems cheaper than digging a 1km hole.
Coming from a embedded systems background (mostly in the telecommunications sector), I have a deep love for Gray Code. My fondest memory is teaching a group of software engineers how "us hardware guys" do logic minimization.

Imagine a set of deeply nested if-then-else conditions that are dependent upon a fixed set of boolean flags - this is pretty common in a state machine. Reducing those conditions to a formula that calculates a boolean value is often far less taxing on a small uC.

So I brought out one of my Electrical Engineering books (The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill), let them each read the section on Karnaugh Maps [1] and then ran through some examples using their decision networks. Watching those light bulbs come on was one of the favorite events in my career.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnaugh_map
it also controls the temperature. The pan doesn't. You also don't have to do much to clean up after, just throw the ziplock bags away. With this pan you (should) hand wash it. The pan itself isn't even close to being similar in the same class of build quality to that of a $50-$100 non-stick pan. The pan also doesn't work with induction cooktops.

I said this in another discussion, but I think this is a $200 fish cooker. I don't see the convenience. Not being able to work above 400 means you simply can't cook some things to the quality they deserve, like with steak- you can't get an amazing crust.

There are good reviews- but there aren't any reviews that say "I've been a cooking professionally for XX years and I think this is a game changer". You do, however see that in articles for consumer sous vide devices.
You can bypass the issue by using the amazing Augeas project; a universal configuration API. http://augeas.net/

At the least a universal API provides a midpoint to moving to a universal format.

It really deserves more attention and use!

(One possible reason that it's not is that people might find it a little user-hostile at first.)
They already own the kill switch. Haven't you ever been subject to a road block before?

You seriously want to compare a government controlled kill switch to a landslide or a roadblock?
> Top play uses huge tradeoffs depending on what the progamer thinks they are facing; that would require an AI which can dynamically scout and effectively adjust its build based on what it sees. That isn't even taking tricks into account.

I was thinking about that. Like what if they hired Flash to tell them everything he looks for when he scouts/scans at some time interval and then they factor them in as adjustments to build order or play using if-else statements. The possibilities are endless, but it must be a pain to test.

I never got into competitive Starcraft, because spending hours to acquire the mechanical ability in doing repetitive tasks seemed a waste of time to me. Perhaps they could build a rudimentary hard-coded bot that will aid the human player in all the boring tasks in executing a build order (base maintenance, unit building) and the human player scouts/combat micros against real players. Then later on, the replay gets analyzed and is used to train the bot in the next level of adaptive play. And the process is repeated, say the human player only does combat micro now. In each level the human requirement is reduced as the AI takes over increasing responsibility.
For what I thought was a good, short, clear intro to programming the Phi,see [1]

[1] http://www.drdobbs.com/240144160
Less and less do I trust the wisdom of the crowds, and Wikipedia. I want expertise, not the consensus of amateurs and the ignorant. Look how well the consensus of experts, or at least professionals, works at HN: useful, better than alternatives, but I wouldn't bank on it.

A story, possibly apocryphal, about Richard Feynman: He gave a strong negative review to a textbook that the other reviewers endorsed. When confronted he said he might not be the smartest person in the world, but was he more intelligent than the average of a hundred people? Certainly!

Or from a Car Talk brain teaser: Do two people who don't know what they're talking about know more or less than one persion who doesn't know what they're talking about?

What about 100 or 1,000 people? I'm pretty sure they know less, as they create in their echo chamber greater certainty and additional untruths.

(I am overstating the case for effect; there is value in the aggregate factual knowledge of crowds, and they are not always ignorant.)
I don't see why would self-driving cars change this, if regular cars haven't.

In fact, if it becomes popular to not own a car and rely on shared service, that actually introduces more friction on using them for short distances, since you'll have to wait for one to arrive, not to mention pay for the ride if you don't have a flat plan, instead of just having one parked just outside your home.
If we have enough volume that we can't use the most dense possible weight for all of it, we can find cheaper weight materials by dropping the density constraint.

Couldn't you have the weight grip the sides of the tunnel with gears attached to a generator/motor (inside the weight) so the weight wouldn't rip itself apart? It would be the same machinery that ordinarily would operate the pulley at the top, just moved down into the weights (cause with this, you would need no more pulley). (To illustrate why it wouldn't rip itself apart, imagine gaps on the weight every 100 meters.)
What image formats are you hitting that Preview (I'm guessing you're on a Mac?) won't open?

BTW: gthumb opens it A-OK. So, maybe the issue isn't the openness of the format, but the openness of your platform?
OK, so that's a conclusion you've reached from a sample size of one. Try commuting on one of the LSD buses and you'd come to the opposite conclusion.
TellOthe.rs: The Startup So Evil It Had to Die
Sure, sometimes. Can't say it's been an issue for me. I'm sure it's more or less frequent depending on which ports you favor and how far you drift from release. (And it goes without saying: open source, send patches, etc.)

To be fair, I've found fewer excuses to not stay current on the OS since freebsd-update. cvsup and building your own source worked fine, but it was a little tedious.

pkg has done the same for the ports tree. If you just need the tool on the box now, pkg install bash. If you care about how the tool is configured, cd /usr/ports/mail/postfix; make config-recursive && make install clean. It all just works, works well, and works well together.

There have been some threads on HN lately about the frustration of changing the UI for the sake of changing the UI. FreeBSD rarely surprises me. When it does, the documentation usually sets me straight. (Or a few minutes browsing <https://docs.freebsd.org/mail/>.)

I lived through a lot of This vs. That flame wars and I've learned to roll with whatever the choice is. At the end of the day, they're all just tools I use to do my job; I use whatever tools are in vogue. But as a professional user of tools, FreeBSD is a very well designed tool and I wish I got to use it more. It makes my job easy.
.. provided that the taxpayer has been a Spanish resident for at least ten out of the fifteen tax periods before the last tax period.

While not amazing for people who have been living in Spain all their life, this isn't really a big deal for foreigners moving to Spain to set up a business?
The key figure of merit for comparing energy storage is not $/KWh, but rather $/KWh*Number of cycles. Li-ion only has about a 1000 cycles. Assuming one cycle per day (solar charge during day+discharge during night) in 50 years there are 18000 cycles.

The figure of merit for Li-ion is 250x1000=2.5e5. My estimate (and those of others) is that this costs up to about $2000/KWh. So the figure of merit for this is 1000x18000=0.9e7. Two orders of magnitude better than Li-ion.

Edit: I am ignoring the cost of capital, interest rates etc. Somebody should do this analysis.
What did the rock do?
I use IrfanView on Windows most of the time. It's small so it starts up pretty fast and changing quality is a few short clicks away (most of the time the options on the save dialog are enough). I don't even have to upload it to somebody I don't know, it works offline too and I even managed to teach it to my mother (she uses the batch tool now). So it can't be that hard.
I have a lot of resilience from a lot of life experiences. This not having been my first crunch time also helped me cope - I focused on getting as much of a good night sleep as I could (typically 6 - 7 1/2 hours a night, usually ended up closer to 6 - 7 1/2 is my optimal amount), and dosed on lots of caffeine if not well-rested. Exercise is also important.

I did have to sacrifice all other interests thought during the time period though. All I know is, I'm definitely taking a vacation in two months.
From the article:

"To emit html that references either a JPEG or a WebP depending on the browser, you need some way that the server can tell whether the browser supports WebP. Because this feature is so valuable, there is a standard way of indicating support for it: include image/webp in the Accept header. Unfortunately this doesn't quite work in practice. For example, Chrome v36 on iOS broke support for WebP images outside of data:// urls but was still sending Accept: image/webp. Similarly, Opera added image/webp to their Accept header before they supported WebP lossless. And no one indicates in their Accept whether they support animated WebP."
Google's car is just one approach to the problem. Not every autonomous car project out there relies on pre-mapping.
What's the math look like for the side of a mountain or hill, where you pour a concrete channel and put wheels on the weight so it can be rolled up and down the hill. I'm just wondering if there are places like in the Rockies where this idea would be viable.
Ziploc bags are made of polyethylene and have no plasticizers. They are as safe as you can get with plastic.
Public APIs is also a directory - you could now use the apis.json data to keep that directory info from getting stale. That's the point of the http://www.apisjson.org + search combination.
I don't think you have any clue what you are talking about. First of all, you are comparing apples to oranges.

Commit to a single DC is not the same thing as metered bandwidth to thousands of customers.

- Running fiber to a DC is way easier than running it house that could be in the middle of nowhere.

- Commit != selling bandwidth by the byte. I think you fail to understand this. I don't have the time to explain this in detail to you anymore as I've already spent more time than I wanted to writing the rest of this.

> If I can, you can. I've even given examples with links to order pages. Not that I recommend FDCservers, mind you.

Uh still wrong, and not even close even if you include FDCservers.

1GBPS $2500/328717GB = $0.007/GB

10GBPS $15000/3287170GB = $0.004/GB

Where's the $0.001/GB?

A page asking you to contact their sales team is not an example. If you are buying transit you need to be in the proper DC and you need to colo. This is out of reach for most programmers that deploy on EC2 or Digital Ocean.

> How much money do you have on you? There's a bet I'd like to win.

You're probably going to make another flawed comparison that you can get tier 1 bandwidth lower than HE by buying some absurd amount of commit. Feel free to prove me wrong with actual quotes.

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showpost.php?s=8394951450d19c2...
This is kind of irrelevant. Sure, these are problems that will prevent the technology from existing for at least another 10-20 years probably. But there definitely is going to be a future with self-driving cars. These things just need to perform better than a human, which isn't that hard all things considered.
"Ridiculously", with poofy italic fonts.

Since I'm guessing you're on Windows, Notepad is unicode-happy and you can paste into it.
No. Generated at the time the browser executable is built (by the vendor, linux distro, etc), and hence shared by all the people using that browser executable. So, only good for identifying the browser, platform, OS and features, and much less so the users.
I have had good luck with https://www.arpnetworks.com/
Well those are dumb problems but sniffing UA doesn't really fix them. You'll still have clients suddenly broken.

....what the heck is an animated WebP
Pretty much. Rocketry isn't as fundamentally difficult as many people make out, and a lot of the stagnation in spaceflight is due to bureaucracy and excess risk aversion, not fundamentals. SpaceX had succeeded due not to being absurdly better at engineering, though they are good, but at striking the right balance of innovation, pragmatism, and risk.
I agree with this based on my fuzzy impressions of my own past experience, but I never did any careful explicit tests. It’s too bad the original source image used for the comparison in the document you linked is really crappy quality with terrible artifacts though, and the resizing routine is the fairly unimpressive bicubic scaling (or in the first example nearest neighbor). Makes the comparison pretty useless IMO.

I’d love to see a similar comparison starting with a much better source image, but I don’t have time to do the tests myself right now.

I’d also love to see a comparison of (a) a high-quality image downscaled using a very high quality resizing algorithm and then JPEG compressed versus (b) JPEG compressed first to match the size of image a and then resized in-browser by various browsers’ resizing routines. There was a pretty big difference between the way browsers resize images the last time I checked a few years ago.
I don't understand why they need to dig holes to do this. Why not build something equivalent onto the side of a cliff?
Is there a link to actually read some stories on the site?
Uber’s black week: Media focused too much on threat to journalists
Facebook changed even its ads targeting rules and becomes real moron champion
One aspect of Basic Income that seems to be forgotten quite often is the absence of guilt. The poor no longer need to feel guilt or shame about welfare, it's a right they share with everyone else. Those who don't need it can spend it on luxuries without the guilt associated with 'wasting' money.
That's a good argument for the image host to sniff the UA string in the course of content negotiation.

It's not a good argument for crafting html that bypasses content negotiation.
Isn't the problem more that the browser can't be given multiple sources and types and allow it to chose what it believes is best?

User-Agent sniffing really does need to die. Part of me wonders what use UA headers serve beyond sniffing and analytics. EDIT: or the Accept (and content-type) header, but that's a next to worthless header anymore :-\
Flash doesn't just have a set list, he uses his general intelligence exhaustively during games - and he still loses a lot from being too predictable, too routine, producing the same responses to the same stimuli - even though his macro mechanics and builds are utterly top-notch.

Players triple and quadruple guess each other as they decide what build to use, where to place a proxy, how to scout, whether to scout, how to fake a proxy or allin, how to pretend like you're faking a proxy or allin but actually do the allin or a different proxy or allin or just do two half baked allins in a row to fake out your opponent into your real timing attack which might actually be a double fast expand while they're confused.

When you scan a player and see a tech lab on a starport, are they building banshees? Are they faking you out? Even if you've run stats on them, maybe they have a history of never building banshees, and they're using it in a key game because they know you won't expect it.

So any single action in the game has to be placed into a context. Depending on that context, a tiny factor which is irrelevant in one game can be key in another.

For me, the mechanical things are a zen thing. It's almost like a sort of meditation; your mind falls into these practiced routines, but you have to juggle all of them at the same time, choose which ones you can afford to let fall (since you can't do everything at once,) and then have your higher order tactical and strategical decisions on top of it. I haven't ever done anything else which engages my mind in the same way, and it certainly wouldn't do so without the mechanical demand you can never truly fulfill.
If it were just incomplete science, I'd have no problem with the path we've taken, but it wassn't just a case off incomplete science. It was a case of a handful of scientists deciding on a hypothesis, then fitting data to it. When others rightly complained, a campaign of personal attacks began. Those same scientists got themselves into important positions with organizations like the AHA, giving their arguments a strong appeal to authority, not to mention giving them a huge soap box. Even that probably would have self-corrected, except politicians got involved. In the late 70s, the McGovern commission decided everybody needed a low-fat diet, which eventually entrenched the dogma in all NIH-funded studies as well as government provided food programs like school lunches and food stamps.

The really unfortunate thing is these scientists will likely be remembered for this misguided direction, rather than the huge steps they took in figuring out how to even approach nutritional studies in large populations.

As Feynman said, you have to make sure you aren't fooling yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. I would argue there was (and continues to be) a lot of self-fooling going on in the field of nutrition. Fortunately, it seems to be getting better, perhaps because of the influence of biochemistry and physiology.
> > Python simply requires you to be consistent throughout the same file.

I like Python but this is not actually true.
you only need to be consistent within a block, or be more deeply indented than the outer.

You can have different indentations for the if and else clauses!
Hah! I remember learning about K-Maps in my Digital Logic class and it blew my mind. Gotta love them.
Your parenthetical is actually a necessary condition for the rest of your sentence to be true.
"The money comes from various organizations, including AIDS foundations, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Protestant churches in Germany's Rhineland and Westphalia regions."

So this was straight up a cash infusion. I don't think anyone questions that if money gets injected into a local economy that this improves the standard of living. This isn't Basic Income, this is a new way to distribute aid.

Still, congrats to the project it sounds like they are going good.
How are you going to hang a 280 000 ton weight, and more importantly, how are you going to move it up and down?
I don't think that article made strong arguments.

Using nearest-neighbour resampling on the low-res image is an absolute joke. He didn't even look at an objective quality measurement (PSNR). The human visual system is very sensitive to edges, and the high-res image has more pronounced blocking artefacts. Downsampling a high-res image is an unnecessary load on the end user, the 8x8 block transform was chosen for good reason.

I'm not necessarily saying the low-res is superior, but I disagree this ad hoc method is the 'best' way (compared to optimising the coding).
If philanthropy became a bigger part of our culture, I believe we could achieve something similar to basic income. Of course, that starts with individuals getting in the habit of giving and encouraging others to do the same. A couple things I have found:

1) The starfish parable ("it made a difference to that one") is the right mindset. It can be daunting when you consider how much is needed compared to how comparatively little is in your bank account. Instead visualize at what was made possible by your donation.

2) As a general rule, I think it makes more sense to give habitually over the course of a career than it does to wait until the end of your career. This probably applies more to stable jobs than startups, though.
Me too. Since they have an API, it would be really nice if someone could make a WordPress plugin.
The real problem is that IE & Safari doesn't update frequently enough, and so sometimes we have to create hacks that target certain browsers - it's unfortunate, but those browser vendors need to do a better job moving to a continually updating browser model.
Just noticed that this was written in 2009. Any updates on the experiment in the five years since then?
What is the best WiFi for Coworking spaces?
7 launches this year. 3 Nasa. 4 commercial.
Former employee calls ZocDoc a 'frat house' where females are regularly harassed
PSNR is not a very good test of human perception though, and optimizing for PSNR has had unfortunate consequences on image resizing algorithms IMO.

Whether downscaling a high res image is an excessive load on the end user depends a lot on the end user. From what I understand (but I’m not an expert, so please correct if this is wrong), bandwidth is the main bottleneck not only on I/O latency but also on CPU use, not image rescaling. I’m guessing even mobile phones of the last few generations don’t even break a sweat when downscaling images (can’t they use GPU for this?). As always, it would be a good idea to actually test CPU use / latency / battery drain from rendering images at different sizes/JPEG quality levels on the target client device.
Unless you esat a lot, then your body makes relatively little. I love the way our bodies manage cholesterol, including dumping it into the intestines and recycling it if necessary. It's a beautiful example of how well our bodies regulate themselves when fed and tested well. My body has told me it needs 236mg/dL of total cholesterol right now. You couldn't pay me to mess with that.
Even if companies were willing to be forthcoming about profitability and the terms of acquisitions, there are probably fiduciary and other legal requirements that would preclude that.
Ask HN: Removing yourself from online directories, any negative consequences?
I saw this article [1] and it seems like something I should do? I show up in a lot of those directories if you search my name. I've heard people say that doing this only "validates" that my info is real to those sites. I've heard the same thing about unsubscribe links in emails, that clicking them only confirms with the spammer that you are a real person.

Is there any evidence to these types of claims? Any downside to actively trying to remove my info from these types of sites?

[1] http://www.computerworld.com/article/2849263/doxxing-defense-remove-your-personal-info-from-data-brokers.html
you shut your mouth, I want a faster commute :-)