skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say it's an entirely different thing to vanish from an event than to vanish from a conversation.

Vanishing from an event early can be seen as considerate: you don't want to spoil other people's party mood with your goodbyes and by having to decline the invitations to stay a little longer or to join an afterparty. You just vanish and let others party on. The more alcohol is involved, the less anyone even notices.

But vanishing (walking away) from an active conversation without any concluding ritual or external interruption is just perceived as rude.
For SQLite users, I've released a web-based, python-powered database browser: https://github.com/coleifer/sqlite-browser
Despite the attempt of some to move goal posts, you're still guaranteed that you won't be locked in by Oracle even tomorrow. You still have the source code for the version you're running right?
I just signed up for ReadCube, thinking this meant I could at least browse articles as a member of the general public. You have to install an app on your computer and log in to view articles and use it. ReadCube Connect seems to be a Scribd-esque way to embed articles on existing pages (like a news story), not a standalone app.

You also need a link shared to you via a paid subscriber (or one of a bunch of news sites etc.) to view articles. It's "free" in a very misleading way.
Don't you have that problem already?
Perhaps I'm being too cynical, but could this effect be explained by survivor bias?
You do realize the helpful answer reveals another users username and password...
Don't worry about early downvotes. (Also, don't complain about downvotes. That only makes the signal to noise ratio worse.)
Also, as charities they probably get tax advantages.
> Good doctors are few and far between, and good diagnosticians...

This has been my experience, repeatedly. The GPs I have had aren't motivated to get to the bottom of any problem that can't be solved in one 15 minute visit, and refers anything out to specialists. The specialists have all diagnosed me with whatever issues fit their specialty. No one in the US medical field seems interested in actually finding out the real problems, just what's easy for them to diagnose or fix.

After writing this I realize how cynical it reads, but it's the truth! I'm sure there are good doctors out there -- maybe in a teaching hospital?
Put the solar panel on top of it at an angle. The roof will keep radiating heat, and some of it will hit the bottom of solar panel, but that's probably ok. Maybe can put reflective material on the bottom of the solar panel so it bounces around until it finally escapes.
In my experience (just shopping around for high-bandwidth hosting, including looking at regional pricing of CDNs), backhaul is way cheaper in the US than anywhere else, including Europe and Asia.
You would set your name servers with your registrar, such as godaddy. If dnsimple is your registrar as well as your DNS provider you may be out of luck until they come back online. The help page is here though: http://support.dnsimple.com/articles/setting-name-servers/
I went looking for examples of what you were talking about and discovered that, amazingly enough, a single human voice can even reliably produce overtones! I'm guessing these are very different, though, than what you're talking about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i61_JNc_Nc&t=1m25s

I'd love to hear some examples of a barbershop n-tet doing it too, I'm sure it's even better. But when I search for 'barbershop overtones' it's all music by groups called The Overtones :)
Neat. One of the hack ideas that I never got around to implementing was back in 2000 at the uni, when we had a bunch of 386SX's running in text mode as email terminals: pipe a video (e.g. a TV stream) through aalib on a fast server, and stream the resulting ASCII sequence, cleverly compressed, to the terminals. The tricky part would be to cope with latency well enough to avoid jerky playback (telnet wouldn't cut it).
> It spans GMT -5 through GMT -8.

Please explain.
Imagine a world where people don't suffer from aging, but that does have the problems you envision of slow social change. Would an appropriate solution would be to release a pathogen that slowly cripples everyone's bodies and minds over several decades before killing them?
From someone not at all involved in the field of computer science where this might be applied... where might this be applied in industry? Very compelling stuff, but I don't have a particular use case...
Same article, with apparently identical URL, posted 10 minutes earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8685524

Don't know how this one got past the duplicate filters...
Not sure why you're being down-voted. The comparison you were pointing out as being obviously idiotic is, in fact, obviously idiotic.

There's a far better comparison to be made with IP produced by NASA, for instance, which is automatically released directly to the public domain on the grounds that the American public is who commissioned it in the first place (for the rest of the world, it's a gift - you're welcome).
but that's the natural progression - if all you can do is move some packages from A to B, then you aren't worth very much, and when time comes that such jobs get automated, you _have_ to either skill up, or "die" off. Being able to make a good living isn't a right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plowshare
> The justification is always "speed" but my point is that is wrong.

Not necessarily. Proper architecture takes time and planning and reasoning. If it didn't, we could make a program do it for us. There is absolutely a time tradeoff between coming up with the proper architecture for the application vs just using something that looked cool from a google project. The latter will always be faster at first, but not in the long term.
good for shopify, they pay like shit though
Those are physically objects that cost a lot to replicate. The cost of making digital copies of research documents on the other hand...
Thanks for the tip! Switched to NSONE.
I actually didn't know that term was offensive before reading this article.
Ask HN: Ranking social media posts
Let's say I have 10 posts from 100 social media entities. Each post was created within 24 hours of the current date/time. What do you think would be the best way to rank them - in terms of relevant content (non spammy)
Would you rather have tens of billions living forever in socially stagnant, oppressive conditions, or a few billion living in gradually-improving conditions?

This is a huge false dilemma.

Doesn't the quality of the life matter as much as the quantity?

Certainly. And the effects of aging are heavily detrimental to quality of life.
On micro-architectures preceding Ivybridge, rep movsb is indeed slow.

Actually, rep movsb/movsw/movsd has been at the top at least since Nehalem (confirmed with benchmarks), and "fast string mode" which does cacheline-sized copies has been around since the P6; you may be able to squeeze out a few % more with SSE (or MMX), but the much larger code of the SSE-based copy functions (especially for alignment) is often not a win overall. Intel only really started advertising that they made it even faster with Ivybridge.

It was the fastest way to do memory copies on the 8086/8088, and might've been the fastest until around the time of the 486 and Pentium when it could be beaten by other techniques; but now it seems that it's coming back in favour.

There's an interesting discussion about this instruction on the Intel forums here: https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/275765
I agree about what the term 'agile' has become, but in many situations (especially in startups), spending too much time and energy to make something robust in version 1 is worse than hacking it together with spaghetti code. The key is to know which mode is appropriate for what you're doing.

If we want to create more tolerance for good engineering practice, we can't act like primadonna artists obsessed with building our perfect masterpieces on someone else's dime. We're hired by businesses, so our arguments need to be grounded in business value.

"It's a shitty architecture" isn't going to get you anywhere.

"It's going to fall apart and cost you millions if you do it that way, but if you take out these less important features and spent more time on what matters, we can do it right for the same cost..." People might just listen to that one.
There's no need to merely suspect. You can be (depressingly) sure thanks to Thomas Drake, who blew the whistle on the NSA for not only not doing things the right way, but for spending gargantuan sums of money to do things in a way so wrong that the only thing done at all was something that flatly violated the Constitution.
Interesting, I had never hear of (I)Tron
Lots of coverage on HN a few hours ago: https://hn.algolia.io/#!/story/last_24h/0/dnsimple
I now love german culture. It's like finding my soulmate.
This is exactly how groups work in Facebook Chat, though there is not so much culture about them.
For half a second after I clicked through to ReadCube's site I thought it must be associated with Google because their website's design is the Googleist thing I've ever seen not actually associated with Google.

https://www.readcube.com/
Also, it's totally fair to raise an issue without having a solution or suggestion

Sure it's fair, but is it helpful? I guess in some way it is helpful to raise awareness of the issue but then what? We all stand around with our hands in our pockets, whistling away.
Tobi is how I got into Rails back in 2004. I was looking for a blogging engine and discovered his Typo project. I taught myself Rails to add some features to Typo that I needed. His code and blog were some of the first resources for Rails besides the 37signals blog. It's amazing to see how much success some of the early Rails adopters achieved.
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Woo, nostalgia! My father's TRS-80 Model 4P was "my" first computer back in the mid- to late-1980s, and I spent more time on it than an elementary school kid probably should've. (Every time a new issue of Family Computing showed up in our mailbox, I'd grab it and flip through it to see if whatever games were in that issue had TRS-80 Model III or 4 versions...)

The "P" in "Model 4P" stood for "portable" — it was a modified Model 4 that was shrunk down to something roughly the size of a sewing machine. It had a handle on the back. Tandy's advertisements proudly proclaimed that it fit in overhead bins on airplanes. I feel sorry for anyone who actually tried that.

As far as specs, the 4P had a 4 MHz Z-80, a minimum of 64 kB of RAM, one or two single-sided double-density (SSDD) 5.25" floppy drives, and an 80x24 text mode. There was an optional 640x200 monochrome graphics card, but it doesn't look like this demo is using that. (I'd bet it's using the graphics characters in the Model 4's 80x24 text mode — faster and less data to deal with.) If I'm remembering correctly, the SSDD disks held ~180 kB, so there's less than half a megabyte of data in play for this demo. I'm kind of amazed at the sound in this demo — I'd never heard the speaker in my 4P ever make any noises other than simple beeps.

Semi-related trivia: The "best" word processor for the Model 4, SuperSCRIPSIT, was laid out on its program disk in such a way that the drive head's stepper motor played something that almost sounded like a song when it was loading itself off of the disk. Even ~30 years later, I can still hear SuperSCRIPSIT's loading sound in my head...
Attack of the Mongolian Vowel Separator
As often said, I came to make a similar comment. The "history is dirty" part may not be totally correct, though: the controversy over squaw may be due to modern hypersensitivity. It is widely believed that this term is used to refer to female sexual parts, this simply is not true, e.g. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaw#Claims_of_obscene_meaning or http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/squaw.html.
Show HN: Victor – Concise data structures for .NET
Lowest bid policies are not just stupid, they're obviously stupid. So not only do you have an obviously stupid policy, you've got the obviously stupid system that settled on such an obviously stupid policy in the first place. Given this mountain of stupidity, it is safe to conclude that the government is not being run nearly as inefficiently as it could be in the absence of such multifaceted idiocy.
> enables you to create P2P web pages ... All the great stuff is actually on Mozilla's website.

That doesn't sound like P2P. Could Mozilla access call content and metadata?

EDIT: Others say it's P2P and end-to-end encrypted; so what does Mozilla's website have to do with it? Can't they at least access metadata?
Nuclear-tipped torpedos were commonly used for ASW during the Cold War. In fact, I think the P-3s that flew out of Moffett Field on ASW patrols almost certainly carried nuclear warheads. I imagine Steve Jobs tripping on acid in the orchards of Santa Clara County, with nuclear armed P-3s going off on patrol overhead.
I am afraid a language change is not going to help your burn feeling
Regarding rate limiting, must really suck to live in Qatar and be behind a proxy server with a single IP address with the whole rest of the country...
The browser will ask you, before it allows a particular website access to your camera or your microphone https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/02/cross-browser-camera-captu...
I like "deliberate" programming -- though, the syllable count may be too high.
FastMail: Security – Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability
"The charming side of Richard helped people forgive him for his uncharming characteristics. For example, in many ways Richard was a sexist. Whenever it came time for his daily bowl of soup he would look around for the nearest "girl" and ask if she would fetch it to him. It did not matter if she was the cook, an engineer, or the president of the company. I once asked a female engineer who had just been a victim of this if it bothered her. "Yes, it really annoys me," she said. "On the other hand, he is the only one who ever explained quantum mechanics to me as if I could understand it." That was the essence of Richard's charm."

A good counterpoint to the "I don't care if you landed a spacecraft on a comet, you're still a sexist pig" crowd.
How to Convert 2D Video to 3D AVI
The trouble with notation systems is that the primary thing they need isn't to be easy to learn, but rather to have a ton of people who have learned it. I've seen lots of alternative notation systems, particularly in pedagogy, and from my experience people tend to hack up their own systems for jotting down ideas or composing, but mainstream staff notation is very adequate and has an insane amount of momentum.
I've had Elixir on by backlog of languages to play around with for a while now. This weekend I actually got a chance to sit down and poke around for a while. It was really enjoyable, love the tight integration of pattern matching. The ecosystem surrounding the language also seems very nice: The REPL, the mix build tool, and the nice integration with unit testing, are all very attractive features of the platform.

I took the chance to write up my beginning experience playing with the language, trying my best not to look at the docs. You can find the write up here: http://bjg.io/learning-elixir/

There also seem to a bunch of existing resources for getting started:

- http://elixir-lang.org/getting_started/1.html

- https://howistart.org/posts/elixir/1

- http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/elixir/
>I think ZDoom now supports these

This has been true for a while. There are now high quality voxel replacements for almost all sprite objects that aren't monsters.

It would be cool if at some point in the future, game artists could make clay models (like what Adrian Carmack did), but instead of converting to multiple sprite models, scan them in 3D to produce animated voxel models.

I would also like to understand ZDoom's code at some point (esp. the voxel parts), but not quite sure where to start with that.
Trapster is shutting down
> Of course things like UPNP give the machines control over the router so making this moot

Yep this was exactly my point
New Facebook terms of service article
Many of the normal rules aren't implemented (flips in the air, jumping off of rocks if you click at the right time, etc.).
See comments above you; It's not, unless you're hypersensitive.
I agree with this. It's enough for a small blurb about the companies, the technologies and link/email for more info.

If it's possible, it might even be better to limit by number of lines. The example I posted uses only 470 words but over 100 lines! I think around 15 lines should be plenty.
I work in industry and I recently had to implement a special purpose templating language for our product. For various reasons none of the off the shelf ones quite did what we needed.

As a result I had to write a parser and interpreter. The thing about a lot of these computer science things is that you don't need them until you do. And then when you do it's nice to know about how they work.
> Do you need a provider that supports 'zone transfers'?

No.

> Or is that only to keep things in sync automatically?

Yes.
It's believed to be inborn or somehow acquired spontaneously at a very early age. There are products that claim to teach it, but there's no scientific evidence. Years ago I tried a few, and my impression was that it's mostly snake oil, and even if some rudimentary progress is possible, it's definitely not worth the effort, better expended on improving relative pitch and other aspects of musicianship. Wikipedia agrees:

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_pitch
"[...] there are no reported cases of an adult obtaining absolute pitch ability through musical training; adults who possess relative pitch, but who do not already have absolute pitch, can learn "pseudo-absolute pitch", and become able to identify notes in a way that superficially resembles absolute pitch. Moreover, training pseudo-absolute pitch requires considerable motivation, time, and effort, and learning is not retained without constant practice and reinforcement."
John Carmack on shadow volumes (2000)
The problem with the CoreOS tools is that they're pretty tightly coupled. We looked into using fleet to manage our deployments. Unfortunately, it relies on a minor feature of etcd and cannot work with Consul, our corporate standard. Flannel? Yep, again, tightly coupled with etcd.

I like some of the ideas behind the CoreOS tools, but until they start playing well with others, they're a non-starter for me. I'm not interested in tools that try to lock me into other, inferior, tools.
Old DnsMadeEasy customer here (used them for several years before moving to AWS). They were rock solid. We used them for hosting DNS for major cruise lines (fancy, very fancy ones), as well as other large Fortune 500 clients.

Their interface is pretty bad, but the backend is hardy.
So wait...Yahoo! is the default search engine but you can only import contacts for Firefox Hello from Google? I don't even.
Heh. My dad's a jazz pianist and the quip is ingrained: "You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish." Dramatic pause. "Sure you can. You use its scales."

Heh. But seriously, folks...
Notes on Intel Microcode Updates (2013)
You're right, but people want to get fancy with hosting at the apex (domain.com), even though it kills important functionality (CNAMES) forcing the adoption of hacks (ALIAS and ANAME records).
Why is conducting thermonuclear tests tests on our own planet so dangerous. The physics is simple enough that we can have a good enough idea of how large an explosion it will be. The explosion is small enough that it can be safely conducted over a large uninhabited region (such as the ocean). It does not cause a runaway chain reaction that would spark fusion in all of our atmospheric or oceanic hydrogen.

The only civilization level danger of thermonuclear is that if it becomes weaponized, mass produced, and used as a weapon. However, in this case, it does not matter where we conduct the tests.
“abcbcbcdeffgggfgfabdcbgfddffgggfgfcdab” puzzled in 7 functional languages
The best and most concise way I've found to explain this is a systems focus.

We aim to focus on systems, because it is the most efficient way to work. By using good methods, designing complex systems well, and spending adequate time designing, we achieve a net speed increase, productivity increase, cost decrease, and additional positive benefits such as programmer morale and overall quality.

In my mind, quality is the genesis of everything, but you do have to word that really well so that the overlords comprehend the consequences correctly.
" Nature's internal costs of publishing run at £20,000–30,000 (US$31,000–47,000) per paper, an extremely high charge to load onto authors or funders rather than spread over subscribers."

What in the digital world would make it so expensive to publish content ?
Incidentally, cheesy musical puns are the norm for barbershop and other a capella groups. Aural Fixation, Decibelles, Chiefs of Staff, Vocal Majority, Clef Hangers, and so on.
The secret Hollywood procedure that has fooled us for years
The app container specification has socket activation in it. This is going to essentially tie it to systemd. Otherwise you will need another daemon running to do the socket activation, but then that would seem to be a "fundamentally flawed" execution model.