skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a chip on my shoulder for people using the term "artificial intelligence" to refer to combinatorial heuristic search problems rather than to computational agents based on statistical learning. The thing being, combinatorial heuristic search problems and first-order logic proof systems tend to solve very few real-world problems badly.
You have to remember that the specs of the two trains are quite different, with the elevation above the track being much greater in the case of Japan (as a buffer against earthquakes).
High school is such a serious thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WlvPclQnmQ
The simple answer is to work as a developer for half the year then take the other half off to go do whatever gives your life that meaning. It's simply more cost effective to do it this way than to try to find a "meaningful" job that you can pick up with zero experience that will still bring in enough to support your family.

Incidentally, if there exists a job orthogonal to your skill set as a developer that you can jump into and make upwards of half your current salary, that's a good sign you're not billing enough today.
Computation is not defined by difficulty for a human. It is closer to being defined by the ability to follow a (possibly arbitrary) decision procedure. In this violin method, a human is required to follow a decision procedure, unlike in a prism or the "Harmonic Analyzer" above.
Check out Shiny, which is a super easy platform I R to make dashboards.
And for a mature, stable ZFS implementation.
Highly dependent on your definition of normal social life.

At least in the US, it involves an orchestrated pre-arranged "play date" with parents A, B, and C driving to parent D's house in order to have a planned playing experience with D's kids' toys for 2 hours and 30 minutes, while parents themselves are trying to maintain conversation flow that's centered around discussion topics that all present individuals (hopefully) share.
I can't even imagine how great it would be traveling from San Jose to San Francisco in ~10-15 minutes (no stops).
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Umm... Isn't Title II regulation of these providers what produced the current cell phone and cable market?

Have you ever used a telco or cable company in the US? It's not exactly 'free and open'
I love reddit and has been a user for several years, but what was the pitch exactly? "Digg with only headlines and no preview?"
>Would those same people suffer an absolute difference in musical enjoyment if those two artists did not exist?

Statistically speaking, yes, some of them would.
3D-printed heart helped save a baby’s life
Yes and as per the article and my own experience that's
especially true when you think about going into food &
beverages as it's the complete opposite of what it
feels like being a customer [...]

The article mentions the founder eating fast food at least twice and I found that a nice way to express the difference between how customers see a restaurant owner and reality.
Spot on. Thanks for the insight!
Looks really interesting. Have you got any idea why they open sourced it?
I assume we're talking about incest between consenting adults here. I still think it's pretty fucked up, generally speaking (I really don't think you can have an equal power relationship between a parent and a child, even if the child is an adult), but I have to grudgingly admit that it probably shouldn't be criminal.

(I'm going to regret saying anything here, aren't I?)
Another project that tries to achieve something similar is Redash https://github.com/EverythingMe/redash
Oh, I was too lazy to sign up for testing, so I thought it was a "fill in the blank" - that's how all the vocabulary exercises I get in school work.
Level Playing Field
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8218785
You do realize you just took this in a full circle, right?

It was agreed at the beginning that the argument is compelling. To the point that there really isn't much concern with this one occurrence, but that it happens throughout the article.

Does it make for a good read? Sure. Probably is even good advice on a good technique. What it is not, is "science."

That is, specifically, this entire thread was because someone was pedantic that this shouldn't be called "science" as it was presented. And it should be noted that many of us agreed. To the point that the thread was renamed on HN.
What is it that you have against underrepresented people?

Every post about them you're there to say "Nope, it's their own fault.". I only give you the benefit of the doubt because tptacek has you listed in his HN profile. What did you experience/witness in your life that has caused you to hold these views?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7541664
2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7076550
3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1214954
4. https://www.flickr.com/photos/31110324@N03/5370871466/
5. http://www.datatau.com/item?id=3338
6. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8255165
7. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2129845
Well, that's only because non-bigots are superior to bigots, all other things being equal.
It could also point to the fact that there are a lot of new papers that don't do anything worth citing.
I'm currently travelling through Asia and I'm roughly planning to be in Chennai at the end of January / somewhen in February. Would love to meet some local HNers!
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How do the engineers account for earthquakes on these trains? I could see it being quite disastrous if one were to occur while this train travelling at 500km/h. Also I wonder what the efficiency is given that the train needs to push through the thick atmosphere at 0 altitude compared to airplanes which fly at their top speed in a very sparse atmosphere.
We use and love https://www.cloud9charts.com. They support various databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and pricing is very affordable (they even have a free plan to get started).
Google Fiber - and any competition, for that matter - do not exist in the vast majority of the country. My point is the FCC regime is not guaranteed to be better in the long run, but it can hardly be worse, and has the potential to be excellent.
Good to see you have serious plans for this language. I was always interested in Rebol, but never became any 'good' at it --- although I always like to read updates about it and its forks.
kinda funny though.. as you end up with a system that is developed more like systemd is.
You'd rather see us all live in an Orwellian surveillance society than have American corporations owned by American shareholders defend America? All right, you'll no doubt get what you want, though ultimately at the cost of the republic you claim to be defending.
Ask HN: JavaScript as a first language?
Little background, been working in startups for the last couple of years, mainly in marketing and sales. Recently started my own Magento ecommerce store that's essentially sustaining me passively so i'm looking at spending some time learning to code.

Question is, is there any reason not to pick javascript as a first language? Been hearing alot about Node.js and Meteor, any downsides to picking it over something like ruby?

Would be great to hear your thoughts.
> push out something to their users to help educate them

That is not going to happen b/c it would draw the users' attention to the problem of mass surveillance being conducted (be that explicitly or implicitly) by tech giants for the gov't.
The NSA has drastically increased its powers and data collection under the Obama Administration.

1) Snowden said these programs have gotten dramatically worse under Obama. He has said that numerous times.

2) Prior to Obama's election, it didn't have all the tech companies lined up into XKeyscore. That was put into place on his watch.

3) The NSA also was not yet illegally tapping into and stealing bulk data from these companies via interception, to get around collection restraints.

4) The NSA's massive Utah data center was built during his Administration.

5) In 2009 Obama's DOJ admitted to illegal surveillance abuses, and claimed steps had been taken to correct such. They lied of course, they did the exact opposite: they massively expanded surveillance.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/us/16nsa.html

6) The U.S. Marshals Service overflight program came into existence during Obama's Administration. The service was initiated in 2007, and the flight program was put into place by the Obama Administration. Worth noting: he also didn't stop it, he expanded the program.

7) The NSA began actively helping other agencies illegally (eg the DEA), via parallel construction, during Obama's Administration. This practice has massively expanded under Obama's watch.

9) Obama also loves to use the Espionage Act to persecute journalists that act to reveal the dirt of his Administration.

10) The Obama Administration continued to lie about the programs. The Obama Administration continued to refuse to admit their existence. The Obama Administration massively expanded all surveillance programs. This is all continuing right now.

11) During Obama's watch, the Stingray device has gone from being a piece of military technology, to being handed down from the Federal level to the local and state level. During his Administration, efforts have been made to expand illegal surveillance from the domain of the Federal Government, and to ensure widespread surveillance at all levels, so the Feds have a greater total access to communications.

There has never been a more abusive surveillance President in US history. And there are another easy dozen items on this list, of abuses by the Obama Presidency when it comes to surveillance.
This is awesome and does almost everything I need.

The only thing on my wish list is the ability to embed charts. (So that I can generate charts here and embed the chart into admin dashboards)

Thanks for sharing this
That's weird. I haven't kept up with the latest *nix gossip, but isn't the very principle of the system is that it is open and fully configurable/modular/extensible? What does it really matter in the end what system you use if you can make whatever system your own? (serious question)
I love programming, and think I'd do it even if it didn't pay well, but I'm not sure you can do that forever. Most people get married, have kids and so on, and can't keep up the intensity with low pay.

Also, there's a lot to be said for creating a viable business - "working on your business, rather than in your business" as the quote goes, that can run without you.
I never really understood why someone would downvote me for offering up something I built for this community.
Perhaps a deamon on your server that pings the cdn every minute and checks whether it's down?

If it is, you can flip a switch that tells the code to use the local repositories until the service is back up.
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Reading your comment (and rereading the article about Scott Adams) I came to think that maybe the most successful people are those that can create a passion matching the needs that exist at a certain time. This view fits well with my personal experience.

Regarding Apple I always thought it was
all about the tech in the beginning, for both Steves.
Only one of them developed a passion for business.
It also doesn't feel right to me when I learned it for the first time. But if you know that "=" means "almost equal" when doing float comparision, it is very convenient in practical use. For example, if we want to compare two float variables.
In Red:

if float-1 = float-2 [
; do something
]

In other languages:

if (float-1 - float-2) < EPS {
// do something
}

Obviously, Red's way is more natural and readable. :)
Hm, I would imagine a university like Carnegie Mellon had plenty of money, or that they could use some centralised computing resource to do the work.
I don't think the current vote was a referendum on the NSA any more than it was a referendum on guns, as some have alleged. However, we shouldn't discount how the resulting political alliances will affect policy: http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/the-nra-controls-con...

But when Congress had a 14% approval rating right before being 95% re-elected, you know our democracy isn't exactly letting us vote on the issues.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/nov/...
No idea what you are referring to, Reuters is blocked in china.

The radiation thing is probably just face cover, it is just too expensive to build into the city.
Hello, I just have to ask, are you suffering from mental illness? If you aren't, it may be a good idea to get to a GP/Doctor and get checked out. Your comments on this thread read EXACTLY like some of the writing I have read by a family member with Schizophrenia. Feel free the flag / down vote me, but if you aren't aware then it could potentially help a lot...
I've been keeping an eye on Elm for a while; it's a very intriguing idea, but I've yet to see much other than little demos like this done with it. This seems to be the chronic case of gaming in the FP and Lisp worlds. Lots of little demos and experiments, very few mature projects.
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You could try writing your experiences in a book.
This is pretty cool! For anyone interested in a paid solution, I saw a demo by http://www.looker.com/ at AWS re:Invent. It connects to your database (can be run on premises), can generate the required SQL so analysts can easily use it and looks like a very cool service for business intelligence. The person I spoke with said they were planning to open source their customized d3 visualizations.
5 Most Embarrassing Software Bugs in History
Well if someone asks me then I would never ever recommend him to pick javascript as his first language. Actually javascript is a very different language as compared to other languages, its a prototype based language which is not easy to swallow at first, I have seen many experienced developers who have been into web-development for years using either PHP or Rails even .Net but they are really weak when it comes to javascript. I would recommend you to pick up either PHP (which is really easy to understand) or ruby.

let see what others say
In general, the idea is that you build your dashboards in redash, but it would be a nice addition.

Feel free to open a PR with an embed code, or at least opening an issue about it.

BTW This is developed where I work (not by me) and is used internally for BI and some monitoring (though we use graphite for system metrics mainly).
From your first link, a comment by tptacek starts with

I do not like where 'yummyfajitas logic takes us and would thus like to find ways to disagree with him, but much of what he says checks out.

What if it's just that? What if what he says is simply true?
The TLDR:

The biggest difference was memory usage: "FreeBSD is just too good at managing memory. My server earlier used to consume over 1 GB of memory for running PHP, MySQL and Nginx. Now, it doesn’t even touch 500 MB! It’s always less than 500 MB. Everything is just same, configuration, etc. Only OS changed"

Later in the article, a recount of desktop memory shortage issues under Linux and much improvement under FreeBSD. He even reports single applications like Chromium performing better and with no swapping.
Given that this study is about pesticides, not herbicides, and glyphosate (RoundUp) wasn't one of the chemicals tested, I don't think there's any evidence for that here.
OK, thanks.
I'd suggest that this was quite an unusual example.
It seems that his lover must have made a complaint to the police.
> Daly City is essentially the worst of all worlds: -- and it's an undesirable eye sore on top of it.

104,739 residents (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daly_City,_California) would probably disagree.

Also, outside of San Francisco proper, Daly City is the only destination served by 4 BART lines.
How is heating it up for 2 minutes to dry it off going to cause rust compared to the 20 minutes you spent cooking with liquid in the pan?
Relevant: https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamj...
Shanghai authorities are not really known to let popular opinion sway their urban development programs, so I suspect there is a tad bit more to it.
Well, she does mention in this post why she was wrong about the avocado oil, so there's that at least.
A Point of View: Are we really interested in saving time?
no. And I hope not.
I moved to FBSD for positive reeasons: ipfilters and stuff vs packetfilter and ezjails.
It makes you feel linux still cool, but you want that simplicity and power back (jails vs VM).

I must admit shellshock and last security flaws also made me aware of my love for bloatwares. I find it sane to question my former choices.
Much more oxygen as it dries. You are not supposed to boil water with cast iron, you need oil when cooking which protects it from air.

The point is don't warm it to dry thinking it will rust less since it's wet for less time. Just let it dry in regular air.
Your comments on this thread read EXACTLY like some of the writing...

Care to elaborate on why that is the case?
It matters because if it "invades" your distribution of choice. Imagine you've been useing a distro for years and grown to love it and now systemd is being forced upon you of you make the next major upgrade.

Right now it isn't really that bleak, because some distros still give you a choice, but people are worried that the choice will be sacrificed in favor of easier maintanability in the future.
When the large japanese quake occurred I remember reading an article about how the Japanese Shinkansen have an automated system that will put on the brakes in the case of an earthquake. Within 2 or 5 seconds if I remember correctly.
Choosing the epsilon requires numerical analyis expertise or lucky cargo-cuting: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/comparing-float...
I'm sure FreeBSD is probably better at memory management than Linux (considering his Desktop issues) but wouldn't it make sense for the OS to nearly max out memory usage as long as applications can make use of it?
The striking difference: with GMail I could actually keep up with my mailing lists.
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When making gravity simulations you need to "cheat" a little to make the planets and the stars keep a stable orbit.
It makes one amaze over how stable our own star system is.
I suppose that might be true, but have you actually done the math here?

If it dries say 50 times faster, does iron rust more than 50 times faster at 400F than at 70?

I have no way of knowing either way, but I've got a cast iron pan that belonged to my great grandmother and I remember my grandmother heating it to dry it off. My mom did the same with it, and now I've done the same--no rust.
> wouldn't it make sense for the OS to nearly max out memory usage as long as applications can make use of it?

Yes, Linux uses spare memory extensively as caches which can be dumped immediately as applications need the memory for usage.

Unfortunaltely, he didn't mention how he measured memory usage on both OSes.
Good approach, +1. The "grow now, grow faster" route is not the only way to build a business, leave alone a sustainable one.

> I’ve continued the long-distance friendships I’ve long been part of.

WoW? :)
One has to be careful when looking at memory usage to judge these kinds of things, though. Linux has a tendency to use memory unused by applications for its own purposes, because it's not being used anyway and it might as well do something useful with it.

Oftentimes this ends up being something like aggressively caching file data so that it doesn't have to write to disk very often. While this does get labeled as "used" memory, it can very quickly be freed up by the operating system by evicting this cached data back to disk if that memory is needed elsewhere.

This can make Linux appear more memory-hungry, but in actuality a better description might be that Linux is more effectively using the resources at its disposal. I'm not saying that this is what's happening in this case, but it's a possibility.
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A network of seismometers to detect foreshocks all over the islands and a system to send an automated stop signal to trains. It worked in 2011 when all the high speed trains were successfully stopped ~10 seconds before the 9.0 mag quake hit:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/16/national/shinkan...
It's odd, because he says that GNU can't run without Linux (it can, see Debian kFreeBSD, which has a FreeBSD kernel and GNU userland, also see the numerous GNU ports to Win32, starting with Cygwin and MinGW). He also says that Linux requires GNU which is AFAIK not true either (Android uses Linux but replaces the userland with its own Apache-licensed tools).
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this is the answer. right here.

just don't pay retail.

cast iron is for hipsters
Sigh...

> [..] if there are no mention on the page it is being edited to accommodate for mission updates then it's completely understandable people would frown over number shuffling [..]

Did I say I feel cheated ? No. Did I say there was a conspiracy ? No.

The web page has all the qualities of a static web page (no `live update`, no `last modified` label, etc.) and it's on the ESA website which gives it some kind of an official vibe. Yet, they are updating it to reflect mission objective changes (which is totally fine as far as I am concerned, by the way) which lead to confusion and questions such as "Did they just changed their stated goals to accommodate for the fact Philae is going to operate for a short time than planned or expected ?". Add to that some Internet tweets about how "it smoothly perfectly gone well and all the data we wanted are there" and someone goes back to the FAQ and spot changes (1 week turn into 2.5 days).

Allow me to take you for an idiot as well: It's not complicated. to understand that web page is a bit misleading. It doesn't relay the information that the mission parameters and objectives changed (and of course I know they changed, were likeley to, etc.). If you go back to that document in 20 years you'd have no idea there was some problems with the landing.
U.S. sets sights on 300 petaflop supercomputer (Berkeley and Oak Ridge)
Or more plausibly, because they are behind a paywall.
See olive oil if you live in a colder country (and supermarkets don't heat enough)

Maybe you can bring it to room temperature (to something like 25C) before using
Going forward with ggautoblocker
> The desire for a level playing field also partly explains why Chrome and Android are so important. Without Chrome, we’d be at the mercy of Internet Explorer or other web browsers when users want to get to Google

Except that Chrome download notices appear at the bottom of Google's homepage for non chrome users, or at least have in the past.

I see where Matt is coming from here but when you are dealing with Google as a competitor, rivals are going to try everything to get back market share. If Google is going to use its competitive advantage in search to push its other products why shouldn't anyone else?
Oh they do, they fill publishing quotas

More papers, more grants

However, if I'm not mistaken, 10 years ago the buzzwords were telemedicine, so if your article was about cryptography just stick somewhere that it could make telemedicine safer or something.
Everyone willingly liberates the non core parts of it's business. Google should apply these principles to search, support and ad-sense rev share data
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