skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like your beef is with the researchers or their teams for choosing a paid access publication, not Nature then.
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I like the idea of shared annotations. Or more specifically I like the idea of Science as a conversation. It has always frustrated me that papers are formatted for print and don't include hyperlinks, and it's difficult to add comments or corrections to a paper.

Like others though I am not sure I believe that publishers should continue to exist in anything like their current form.
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> There where actually a wide range of effective treatments for infections before antibotics.

Antibiotics have been a key vehicle for human life extension. If you think the effect of honey(not sure what hunny is) on a topical wound is anything close to what a modern antibiotic is capable of, you are not paying attention.
Not all research is funded by tax payers.
A friend of mine was told by a doctor that he had AIDS as it fit his symptoms and he had been an inter vinous drug user long in the past (what drug counselor hasn't?). Didn't wait for test results. He was a bit peeved and relieved to find a negative test 2 weeks later. He had the flu.
This is such a nice initiative. Too bad it didn't get more traction here to get to the front page.
My company refused to buy me an iMac 5K, what can I do?
not true. Currently only about 95% of people who have ever lived have died.

We might be the lucky 5%!
`gcc -E foo.c` will just run the pre-processor and print to stdout (including expanding all the `#include`s, so it's a bit verbose).
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How is that in any way relevant? All ARIES write-ahead-logger systems are single-writer to their logs too. No matter what kind of BS they sell you about high concurrency with fine-grained locking, it all funnels thru that single bottleneck.

The fact is that LMDB's single-writer design is not a concurrency liability in real workloads.

http://symas.com/mdb/20141120-BuildStuff-Lightning.pdf

http://symas.com/mdb/#bench
> Also, a realistic simulation of global wind patterns isn't actually that hard. Since it's only long-term trends that matter (at least when it comes to shaping overall climate), it's not like you'd have to calculate detailed fluid mechanics models. A simple model of Hadley & Ferrel cells (which is key to having realistic deserts) would get you most of the way there.

I enjoyed the entire article, but this was the main thing that stood out to me as well.

Fluid dynamics on a spheroid are extremely well documented, and incorporating them will help derive a lot of familiar features that are a necessary consequence of them. Trade winds, Hadley cells, predominant ocean currents (etc), these are all things that can be easily applied to the appropriate model.

Particularly when you look at precipitation, the reason we have massive bands of dry and wet areas is because we live on a giant spinning ball.

In any case, really interesting to read!
I think your last paragraph gave a fine moral. I wonder how many people who could have lived died because their support disappeared? The quicksand kills so many because no one is left to throw a lifeline. It's so very hard to believe in yourself when no one else does.
I don't find it slow. Which parts of it is slow?
I'm not a huge fan of the query window and yeah the continual view can be a bit confusing.
I agree with you. I made my own open-source note-taking software (built it with love <3), and even though I use it a lot, it does not, will not and can not replace my notebook.
Every time I need to put a program in discussion board comment to prove a vague point about program design.
Latin has it in festina lente -- "Make haste slowly."
It is likely some amount of both.

Studies have shown that there is a higher prevalence of people with perfect pitch in countries where tonal languages--languages in which the same series of sounds made with distinct voice pitches can denote entirely different words.

However, the percentage of people with perfect pitch remains tiny, which is not what I would expect if it was due to training alone. It seems like it might be helpful enough for musicians that we'd have turned it into a method by now if training alone reliably produced good results.
The search change doesn't bother me at all -- Google search is just three (?) clicks away and it took zero effort to reset it for me.

What I was really looking forward to in this release was:

- JS template strings: `Hello ${'world'}`
- Direct jQuery event in the inspector
Similar to what I was thinking amateur doesn't mean stupid or lazy it just means someone who has little or no experience (yet) but has an interest in the subject.
I am not so sure. The point of "slow programming" is the same as "slow food" and "slow democracy." I think you have to see the three together. The point is to slow down, deliberate, and then do. That doesn't mean long iterations, nor does it mean deferring progress. It means ensuring solidity of the progress as you make it.

I once interviewed for a job at one of the most recognized and big Perl shops in the world and didn't get invited to face to face because I "took my time" with their puzzles. My response was that my first drafts were faulty, and that I preferred to program slowly because I could deliver more code, faster, and better by taking my time with it. In the end, their loss.

Deliberation is important. That often means slower apparent progress but faster progress overall.
I find it very hard to convince my students to pull out a pencil and a notebook before they start coding.

"Draw some pictures. Make some notes. Write a function that you suspect will be tricky. Make a flowchart. List the methods that will have to be in that class. Write out how the user will interact with it. Try to list all the pain points for the user. You can write it any way that helps you think. Make up a notation if you want."

Yes, the assignment is due and they need to get code on the screen. But one of these days I'm going to give them a programming assignment and tell them that I only want to see their notes.
Also in the largely-agreed camp, and probably unsurprisingly I'm about the same age. But unlike some I don't have a problem with the word "slow." Yeah, it has negative connotations, but it's clearly meant as an ironic counterpoint to the culture of speed. Whatever, as long as it will get the young guys I work with to figure out what the problem is before trying out a solution, I'll be happy.
Off topic: Why is this article dated December 2nd? It is still December 1st everywhere in the United States. Perhaps it was published after normal business hours on the 1st, thus defaulting to the 2nd as the official date? Just curious.
That would be cool, but would make the app more complicated. Think about all the other languages. You would have to include tons of runtimes. It's better to leave that to other apps/frameworks/tools.

I like to keep Quiver simple and lightweight. Quiver app is only 8MB unzipped, while Evernote is over 160MB unzipped.
Shared mutable state tends to be only in a core data store or scheduler/thread manager, a small part of a distributed system.
Sometimes, yes. And sometimes not. If, for instance, the author would have discovered that forEach worked differently, and there was some function that JS provides that worked cleanly with a readable name, then the article could have concluded that it makes sense to use that.
I see "Query bookmark" in the TODO list. I've been looking a simple, clean PostgreSQL "bookmark manager" that will just hold and execute my saved queries. Would really like to see this feature implemented.
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I'm probably missing something in the definition of "thermal window".
Maybe their servers use UTC.
Your joke was a poor one, one that Feynman would probably have demurred.

The story was decently told, whatever your view of the later TED performance. It gives the reader yet another aspect with which to view Richard Feynman. The reader comes away with more respect for Richard Feynman the man. And a little bit more understanding of Richard Feynman, the genius.

(The Long Now Foundation dates from 1996. Danny Hillis has been involved since the beginning. I believe the Danny Hillis / Richard Feynman / Connection Machine story dates from not long after. Which is long before TED.)
Nature Publishing Group is based in London
For anyone interested in an alternative, I'm working on Brainstorm, an open-source note taking application that runs in the browser.

Its fuelled by markdown with syntax highlighting support. Since Brainstorm likes looking at things, you can also embed images (and .webm video using html <video>)

The demo currently has no restrictions on who can and cannot edit notes. This won't be a problem in the future.

Demo can be found here: http://brainstorm-notes.meteor.com

Github: https://github.com/Azeirah/brainstorm
The underlying software coreos relys on is a tightly coupled implementation defined api, then arguing that docker isn't following the "Unix philsolphy" is hilarious I wont touch coreos due to this. I also won't touch docker due to its NIH syndrome of reinventing things, poorly.
The term "agile" deserves a preceding apostrophe, as in 'agile, because there are two letters (the 'f' and the 'r') being trimmed.

I fucking hate that nonsense. It's a total scam.
Sounds like Libertarian propaganda. /s
That's a sweet, sweet synth.

Now I'm kicking myself for selling my gear. I had an Alesis Ion. So much fun.
Still a long way to go, but this is a huge step forward.

It's also not the first time Macmillan have tried something new - their whole Digital Science arm (which includes ReadCube) is focused on innovation and disruptive publishing tech: http://www.digital-science.com/
I just checked this out, you do not have to install anything. From their website: "ReadCube Connect is an HTML5-powered interactive PDF viewer."
I presume this update will please many people, because they can now see whether or not an article they're contemplating purchasing actually touches on desired areas or not.
Good thinking on their part!
I do the same in C++. I use Ragel for blasting through regular strings, where little extraction or semantic analysis is required, and use a full-blown recursive descent library for everything else.

Parser combinators are elegant but, at the end of the day, I find DSLs like PEGs, Ragels, and good old regex easier to read.
Nature is published from London, the article was probably embargoed for publication on December 2 at midnight local time.
I personally prefer RSS over email, so I've built https://github.com/raquo/hnapp for the task. Just thought you might want some code to get started.
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If they're stupid enough to allow non-unique usernames I wouldn't bet on getting a helpful answer like that :)
What are games, but apps intended to relieve the pain of boredom?
I moved from Zerigo to DNSimple, and it's been awesome until now!

What can you do to prevent this in future? Can you run multiple DNS providers simultaneously? So, ns1/ns2 go to DNSimple, and ns3/ns4 go to another provider?
That's really too bad, because the only way for me to spawn containers programmatically is shelling out.
Because maybe the internet is global and not every site on the internet is US time?
The Problem with Native JavaScript APIs
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I largely agree w/ the argument here, but "slow" is going to be self-defeating nomenclature, and is also inaccurate. Business doesn't want slow. So if we're pitching slow, we're setting ourselves up to lose and the speed-hackers are going to win.

I think a better adjective would be robust. But I'd hate "Robust Programming" become as much of an abortion as "Agile", now an excuse for micromanagement and business-side mediocrity, has proved itself to be.
The thermal windows refers to the fact the earth's atmosphere is pretty good at letting through longer wavelength IR than shorter wavelength IR.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atmosfaerisk_spredning.png

As an example. Visible light is that little bit all the way to the left. That entire big chunk on the right is the thermal window that they're talking about.
You are welcome. Let me know if you have suggestions.
Ya...no. Maybe toy distributed systems, but not the larger ones industry works with. Let's put it this way: if you have no shared distributed mutable state to worry about, it's not really a distributed system, it's probably doing parallel computation or something similar (like via map reduce).
Like others I would probably install if open source or in the store. Of course you are entitled to do as you choose and this isn't a complaint.

How are you liking Swift by the way? I'm really enjoying it.
I know doctors will hate that, but you do have to do your own research.

My mother was on phen fen for weeks even after telling the doctor she had chest pains. Only after she read a newspaper did she find out how horrible it was. The doctor was clueless and careless.
Hi Jess -- good on you for being skeptical. Honestly curious about two things:

1. Why do you think OP's wrong? You don't really state, in either this thread or that one.

2. What our your sources for OP being incorrect? Semi-anonymous internet posters can keep trashing each other ad infinitum, and without any sources (that I saw, maybe I am wrong) you don't present a convincing argument against.

Thank you!
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Also there is sympathetic vibrations. So for example if the rest of the orchestra is playing a note that is an open string on your instrument, that string will vibrate even though you are not touching it.

You also get a similar impact from overtones.

So what happens is at a certain point is that you might not perceive the pitch difference, but you can detect a change in the timbre of sound (quality, tone, resonance).
The complexity of a problem doesn't tell you anything at all about the complexity of a solution. Many problems that we face are "angels dancing on pins"-type problems, where the only 'complexity' involved is all the hoops you have to jump through to defend a flawed perspective. And on the other hand we have these coin-flip-prediction problems that only demand one bit of information, but are completely intractable by our most advanced methods.

Complexity is not a useful way to think about problem solving. Nobody solves complex problems.
Yes, but in addition to being a mirror, it absorbs heat energy and emits it as infrared light in specific frequencies.
Since the device emits energy within a narrow range, perhaps it be possible to build a top-most layer that acts like an antenna for that range? Then you'd have a pump that absorbs heat from the environment, squeezes in into a narrow band, and emits it into a wire.

Or, I suppose you could park a Stirling engine on it and generate power from the thermal gradient it must be producing.
Their definition of "free" is interesting. Only paid subscribers can search for articles, and apparently others can view articles only if subscribers share links with them. For many purposes, articles might be "free" but still hidden from the public.
I fail to see how Rocket is going to end any better than Docker.

It's already tied to systemd-nspawn (though arguably you could make this pluggable to support other process babysitters).

Infact, Rocket as it stands is just a wrapper around systemd-nspawn and little else.

They harp on about this new ACI format but it isn't really anything new and fails to solve the problems that currently face Docker format, which is a sufficient amount of metadata to properly solve the clustered application and networking problems.

I am all for things that do one thing and do them well, but right now Rocket is just systemd-nspawn which is just a more platform specific LXC in my opinion.

Note: I don't necessarily agree with everything Docker is doing either, I just don't think Rocket is a productive way to fix it.
I wonder if this would be useful for spacecraft?
Yes, finally! I've been working around this by making users inside the containers that people launch jobs on, but it would be much easier if they could do it individually in their own namespace (not using a docker group either).
Be prepared to name research projects that do not receive government funding in the first or second degree. (That is: receive funding directly, or from grant-making organizations that themselves receive substantial government funding.)
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If you don't understand the human brain, you shouldn't be trying to use it to answer questions like this. ;)
I made two example audio files in Matlab for a previous discussion. Both are of a major chord (root, major third and perfect fifth) made up of three sine waves. One is in equal temperament (frequencies f, f * 2^(4/12) and f * 2^(7/12)) and the other is in "just intonation" (f, 5f/4 and 3f/2).

Here's equal: http://vocaroo.com/i/s1a539BsTA8F

Here's just: http://vocaroo.com/i/s1bLClEDtLsO

The most apparent difference is the wobbliness in the first one.

(try opening both at the same time!)

EDIT: I mixed them up previously, now correct.
Any Gates Foundation research is now required to be immediately available at publication as well:

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> a ring

Well, a sphere of expanding energy, anyway. Just like the shell of TV broadcast energy that leaves the planet. Also, we rotate and move in space, so less of a sphere and more like a windy tube.
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I think you could combine the two in parallel. A problem with solar panels is that their efficiency drops as they heat up. It might be cost effective to use these panels as heat sinks for a solar panel for passive cooling.

That said, the material is specified to have a cooling capacity of ~40Wm^-2. You normally assume something like ~800-1000Wm^-2 for incident solar radiation, so I'm not sure how economical using something like this with a solar array would be.

Really cool though.
Though it's a different beast, the (Smallest) Federated Wiki shares some similarities with this. It uses a JSON format and allows different paragraphs to use different plugins, including a code plugin:

http://fed.wiki.org/view/choose-plugins/view/about-code-plug...

It is also cool in that it's a federated wiki. If you're not familiar with the idea, consider listening to this recent JavaScript Jabber podcast with Ward Cunningham:

http://devchat.tv/js-jabber/135-jsj-smallest-federated-wiki-...

It's a great concept and you can set up a federated wiki on your own machine with "npm install wiki".

Edit: Sorry for failing to only provide an alternative without commenting on Quiver!

Though I am clearly excited about fed wiki, I also intend to buy Quiver because it meets specific needs that I have with easy image inclusion, export to HTML and I may even have a use for the presentation mode.

Nice to see ACE used this way... I worked on ACE some years back and currently work on a web tech-based desktop editor (Brackets).

Congrats on a great project!
Can you explain why the foreign earned income tax exclusion won't work? I would think the foreign earned income exclusion would apply only if you pay taxes on that income to a foreign country, no?
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If your company has a BYOD policy, it should include the FYI that IT might wipe your device if you quit or get fired.

That's the bad news. The good news is this feature of Exchange also gives you the ability to remote wipe your personal device from Outlook Web Access (i.e. Exchange webmail) if it gets lost or stolen.
"Looks like" is usually about as far as people get when they start down this road. If they make it down the road, they arrive at mess. Just look at what OpenStack has been through :)

So then, I guess docker could just run the two servers, one internal as root and one public as not? That's a pretty quick fix.