skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suro collects arbitrary data, and Atlas is for numbers (time series numbers to be more specific). So metrics generally go through Atlas and logs go through Suro.
I can't be bothered to go through it, and I do film post & production for a living, so it's not any lack of technical capability.
Well, I'm not sure if you charge for consultation. But I do have one major question.

My app idea is just like twitter (But better, At least I think so). The developer in China has suggested that we build it on Parse. Good idea?
Upgrade to the new Mozilla Chrome^w^w Firefox.
Too bad their shitty mail service does not play nicely at all with Firefox. Seriously, Yahoo Mail does not even allow me to attach a PDF when I'm in Firefox.

There's a raft of other functionality issues which drove me to the decision to migrate 15 years worth of emails out of it.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc. Everything I've read indicates that this warrants more investigation, but causality has not yet been assigned.
They would also have to pay the added HEVC licensing cost for Flash Player, which is substantially more than H.264 was.
You're not the typical browser user. Most people have no clue.
It's easy to give away a 4k torrent when you haven't had to pay anything for the right to distribute it or invest in the necessary infrastructure. If there are quality problems or whatever, there's no obligation to fix them. People have much higher expectations when they're paying, even if they're only paying a small amount.
Honestly, I meant mass-protests, blocking of work, passive resistance, and the like.

I don't think the situation is bad enough to warrant violent revolt (yet).
I tried to use duckduckgo too. but I gave up because google is a very integrated experience, it can search map and has gmail, google news. duckduckgo needs these additional services to really compete with google. openstreetmap isn't as powerful as google map.
Scientists don't ask this question publicly because it's either so stupid or so callous that no intelligent human should ask it aloud. The cost in human life of continued global warming is astronomical. The cost in physical property is too great to even fathom.

Global warming makes the world inhospitable for important parts of the food chain. That means many of the natural resources we require for everyday life would become extinct.

Rising coasts would destroy thousands of years of human habitat and displace hundreds of millions of people (maybe more than a billion). Where would those people go? Who would pay for them to move out of the way of the coasts?

Not to mention the massive amounts of pollution that would fill coastal waters and the destruction (or salination) of vital farmland.

Many already-hot cities would become too hot to support human life. Entire island nations would sink under the sea. Important sources of fresh water would become undrinkable.

Again, in case you didn't get it last time: this is literally the dumbest question I've ever seen on HN (or almost anywhere outside of Yahoo Answers).
Same here. Amusingly, it actually took me a day or two to realize that the search engine had changed (I finally noticed that the emoticon in the tab was different).

It's true that Yahoo's results are sometimes noticeably worse than Google's. The result I want can often be at the third or fourth position on the page, rather than first (where it most often is on Google). Given that Google is obviously personalizing my results based on my query history (unless the Rust programming language is really the world's most popular interpretation of the term "Rust"...), I'll be curious to see if Yahoo does the same over time.
Firefox also automatically updated my default search on every device to Yahoo, even though I deselected that option.

I was pretty pissed about that.
We're having a discussion about global warming, which is a geological process affecting an entire planet. Of course no solution or management paradigm will be convenient.

Taking your argument in the opposite direction, is it reasonable to assume consumers will give up their gas guzzling cars? Or install power charging stations in their garage? Those two inconveniences pale in comparison to the devastation of losing all our coastal cities.

Again, though... Cities would "submerge" as part of a gradual process, and not all simultaneously. It doesn't happen overnight. There are technological measures to delay it, and even to manage it. Levies, stilts, barges are all increasingly economical options. Humans have adjusted to major changes throughout millennia, and it seems naive to assume they would be incapable of applying breakthrough civil engineering technologies to the problem of mitigating global warming's effect on coastal cities.

(And you're right, I actually don't have any idea what I'm talking about. But this seems like a nice forum for a discussion including alternative perspectives.)
Right, we already have incredibly bitrate-starved 1080p. But now you can have four times as many pixels for your compression artifacts!
>How do you arrive at absolute moral values if they are not God-given?

By not defining morals in terms of "what a great authority figure in the sky will reward or punish".
I'm a social libertarian but that's all.

Presumptive comments on hacker news which add nothing to the discussion are neither welcome nor warranted.

You'd do well to refrain from them in the future.

Cheers.
So I'm still not sure why people just don't go to say Kickass Torrents and forget about TPB.
Though it would be cool if you could SSH into an A320 flight management computer from your apartment :-)
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This is actually pretty uniquely American. In Australia, for example, the major universities are within the major cities, often downtown; there are hardly any "university towns." As such, there's no real need to move out of parents' home if they live in the city, parents generally are more adaptive and respect the autonomy of their now adult children even if they're still living upstairs. Obviously this dramatically lowers the costs of university. In addition, there's a higher concentration of jobs available to work while you study in major cities, instead of just hanging out in dorms or frat houses playing video games with all your free time like many American students do. Juggling these responsibilities while studying and being close to your family will make one "grow up" and develop a solid work ethic much quicker than the extended summer camp that often American universities become.

Sports are handled by amateur leagues abundant in the cities, not affiliated and part of universities. Not really the tribalism you see with big American schools amongst alumni either, not like what I grew up with in Texas, which is really off-putting and absurd.

Overall, I think both systems have their advantages and disadvantages, but I think the Australian way is just healthier for everyone.
I think we have an extremely robust understanding of exactly what would happen from reducing atmospheric CO2. You seem to be overstating the danger of that one. There is a lot of unknown territory around things like dumping iron into the seas, or spraying salts into clouds. Nobody knows all the pitfalls there.

There are other avenues with less possibility of side-effects, e.g. launching something into space to partially block the sun would have a direct impact.
Why do you care about it in the first place? Also what is your definition of good programmer? Just make a function? Make a class? Make a big app?

IMO you don't need to learn too much math before programming to be a good programmer. Basic operations are good enough, if you need more you learn as you go, you'll never know what you need. Lazy learning, like lazy variable loading.

The test you are making are more like problem solving which is closer to what programming is and not math. Of course basic math (+, -, /, *), but what it really matters is knowing what operations to do. The operation itself is the easier part.

A better test would be to make a chose between which approach to take to solve a problem and explain the rational behind. That is what will define a good programmer.

Also what better indicator you want than programming itself? You'll never make a choice based on this.

Also one thing is to figure out how to solve "here are 3 consecutive integers with a sum of 69. What are they?" than solving "here are X consecutive integers with a sum of Y. What are they?". Same in "Adriana’s age is 1/3rd of her dad’s age. If her dad is 36 years old, how old is Adriana?" vs "W’s age is X of Y’s age. If Y is Z years old, how old is W?". The complexity increases a lot.
This is a big driver for the success of the bootcamp phenomenon. I'm a cofounder at one of the schools, and I can say that if college catered to career switchers, I would not have an easy market to serve.
I don't work in the financial sector so I can't say that I'd use this regularly. It certainly seems like this would be a huge time saver because it distills a lot of information from different sources into bullet points filled with relevant information. Nicely done.
I think the intent was more along the lines of "Matz is nice and therefore we should be nice", but in making it shorter and snappier it now uses a more ambiguous piece of the English language.
Because everyone's comcast would choke and die?
- The $15,300 in payroll tax is over and above your 100k. If you are going too call that a tax on you, then you need to call your income $115,300 for the purposes of the % calculation.

- You can't subtract the opportunity cost of not working from your income when you make $115k, because you've made the decision to work and earn that salary.
- The EITC is for people who work (hence the "earned" part). If you chose to go exclusively on govt assistance, your max EITC is $11 for a family of 4: http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/Earned-Income-Tax-Credit-Do-...

- I don't doubt that there is a measurable amount of disability insurance abuse, but the fact remains that you probably have a disability that prevents you from doing child care. The poor still often have to pay for childcare. In any case, the average annual benefit for a family of 4 comes to about $24k, not $30k: http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/quickfacts/stat_snapshot/

Subtracting the opportunity cost of not working from vs working at 115300k muddies the comparison. It's more sensible to compare the two scenarios separately:

115300-15300(payroll tax)-6500(fed tax)-4000(CA tax)-8000(foodstamp equivalent food cost)-2600(typical employee cost for PPO-health program)= 78900

vs.

12000(ACA)+8000(food stamps)+11(per EITC comment above)+24000(per disability citation above) = 44011

Even this comparison isn't apples to apples. In the $100k figure, are you accounting for the employer paid portion of health-insurance (and the lower rates that those in a employer-negotiated plan pay?), any tax-free employer retirement plan contributions, and other pre-tax benefits (DCAP, flex-spending account, employee health insurance contributions?). If you own a home, are you accounting for the mortgage interest and property tax deduction?

I do agree with one sliver of your argument: making financial progress on $100k income is challenging for a family of 4 in VERY high cost-of-living places such as the Bay Area, where that remaining 79k easily gets eaten up by childcare, housing, food, transportation, etc.

Is the standard of living on the $115k salary equivalent to that of a family of 4 on govt assistance? I don't know, but I doubt it, and I would bet on the latter's standard of living being significantly worse. Neither situation is easy street.

EDIT: wording.
EDIT2: formatting
Don't forget the expatriation tax: http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Expat...
You made me launch my old Yahoo account to be sure it's still there.

Then I tried to respond to an email in Yahoo! Mail, and EVERYTIME I HIT THE LETTER 'i' IT POPS UP A CHAT DIALOG BOX WTF. Sorry, but it's really frustrating.
Or, by convention. They are what makes our society cohesive. Darwinism selects for societies with functional values.
What he did instead is that he fled to our biggest foe ..

No, what happened was that he attempted to fly to a relatively neutral country in South America, and the U.S. government (rather stupidly) revoked his visa while in transit.
We've used it to predict failures as well as a data source to predict scale up and scale down events. It hasn't been used for DDos prediction, but I see no reason why it couldn't.
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According to the NYT they have more than 1000 employees. Usually costs are approximately 2*salary, so assuming $100,000 per developer, we get $200 million, which is what they claim as software development costs. So at least the order of magnitude seems right. I guess the salary and costs are actually less, but there are even more employees.
There's also Chan's algorithm
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan%27s_algorithm)
Discs of TRON was originally intended to be a fifth mode in the original Bally/Midway TRON, but was left out because of a couple of reasons. Some say there wasn't time to finish the mode, some thought the mode was fun enough to break out into it's own title.

And it does not deserve to be forgotten. Playing Discs of TRON in the "environmental" cabinet with stereo sound is a nice experience.

Anyway, here's some fun background on the TRON game, including some original design documents:

http://arcarc.xmission.com/Pictures/Tron%20Lost%20Documents/...
Part of a more strategic move I believe for Yahoo! to get back into the search business. When their 10 year contract with Microsoft is up I would not be surprised to see them switch to a new index of their own making. What has always been interesting to me about search though is that the two big players who have a lot to gain by having their own search index (Facebook and Apple) have so far chosen not to go there. Putting on my prognostication hat I see Yahoo! shipping on a new index in 2016 and being bought by either Apple(most need) or Facebook(most likely) in 2017 :-)
"We've always done it this way" are the seven most expensive words in business. Catherine DeVrye (2000)
Besides the two discussed in the linked article, there have been many other attempts to build systems where the OS and all the applications are written in a single language:

https://github.com/jon-jacky/Piety/blob/master/doc/precursor...
Yes.

There need to be wholesale architectural changes as well. If there's a convincing argument that a monolithic kernel can be made secure, I haven't seen it. Device drivers are simply too dangerous to be running in kernel space, for example, along with much of the rest of what we usually get in the kernel (filesystems, TCP and UDP stacks, etc).

No binary should ever be run without the kernel imposing an appropriately restrictive set of policies on what it can do.

And there needs to be more sophistication in approaching how applications work. For example, a good argument can be made that binaries shouldn't be allowed to open their own file handles under most conditions. Your word processor shouldn't be the one putting up an open dialog and opening anything you point to in your directory tree because that's how it can be talked into dumping your entire home directory to a foreign server. It should have to ask the OS to put that dialog up, and then accept the file handle(s) it's handed by the OS.

And then there are protocols that are broken by design, which we haven't even touched on.

Everything, from top to bottom, needs to be rewritten with security in mind. Not sure how that could realistically happen, unfortunately.
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That would defeat the purpose of their existence.
Good enough, will test. Thanks!
I meant that the diversity makes it annoying because things that were good jokes suddenly turn ugly. So I do have to ask what is it that is not ok now. Because alright - not everything is ok, but I'm also sure that not everything is not-ok neither. Because if everything is not-ok, then nothing is ok and the only thing left for me to do is write in pure logic, probably in some language like lojban.

Tomorrow I'll write "real hackers use vi" and someone who has never programmed and has no interest in it will correct me that they're offended - they like the article, but don't self-identify as a hacker, so my usage would offend them. That's fine, I can use other words and people can only get offended at a finite set of them, but I do need to be told where my mistake is.
Seems like I struck a nerve... Must be a good discussion question...

Even stupid questions need to be asked. Otherwise how do you know they're stupid? :) at least I'm glad you didn't mention quora. Fortunately I asked it in writing, not "aloud", so hopefully that allows me to qualify as an "intelligent human being," at least according to your particular set of standards.

All of this devastation you speak of... What would it look like? How would it play out? Would it be immediate? Who is responsible for fixing it? Could urban centers adjust to rising sea levels and flooding? Are there technological measures that would make such an adjustment feasible?

Can we stop global warming? If we can't, if we can only delay it, then why should we avoid talking about questions like this? Shouldn't we have a plan for dealing with it beyond "delay it as long as possible?" What do we do when we can delay it no longer?

In 2040, there will be at least 9 billion people in the world (barring an extinction event of course). What do we do with all of them? How do we feed them? How much additional infrastructure do we need? How much space do we need for storage and production facilities? Can we build floating cities? Should we? Is it inevitable all coastal cities will sink eventually?
Ah. Ha. Ha. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFbDZyHxL2g
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HOTEL MY PHONE app lets you borrow someone else's phone and use it as your own
Couldn't agree more, execution is all that matters, and getting distracted over a taken/contested name is wasted energy.
In the video they say that they're close to 1B/min.
http://youtu.be/tHrT6kQR7vw?t=36m
It exists but it's slow which is why it's not standard in many video editing platforms yet. Encoding speed for 4k using the Divx encoder is <1fps. So a 2 hour film owuld take about 48 hours on an i7. I think there are some commercial codecs that are a bit faster like the Cinemartin one, but they're about $500. Makes sense if you have a small rendering farm, but limits demand at the bottom end of the market.

Of course you can just distribute the decoder, and of course the decoder is much faster (Divx is 28fps ont he same Core i7 IIRC). But the # of people with 4k displays right now is really tiny compared to the install base for HD, like I'd guess <<1%.
Browsers aren't like Windows 98. You don't need to reformat or defragment from time to time.
> How do you arrive at absolute moral values if they are not God-given?

Its just as possible to assume moral axioms directly as to assume moral axioms prefaced with "God says". You can do this either for detailed rules, or for high-level rules from which detailed rules are derived by reason.
Firefox still doesn't have per process tabs(yes I know about nightlies), so it's a no go for me.
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I guess asking for the solution isn't the purpose of the game.
Does this apply when all the major browsers (save IE, though it's been a while) update unobtrusively?
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"There is exactly 0 danger of running out of creative people, regardless of whether or not they get paid."

I consider this abusive, exploitative, and mean spirited in the extreme.

"Yeah, we enjoy their work and it enriches our lives, but no way we're going to even slightly inconvenience ourselves to support them. Let the artists starve... there'll always be more where those came from!"

You could say the same thing about underpaid Chinese sweatshop workers I guess... "there's always more where those came from!"
I think you underestimate the sheer power of propaganda, when it's well organized and all-penetrating. Moreover, how many Russians can read anything but Russian?
Is it based on first-hand experience with atmospheric models or something related? If so, could you elaborate where robustness comes from?
You can correlate most anything with most anything. I'm not saying don't try, just to don't give correlations much credence in and of themselves. Thinking globally, what are the odds a coincidence doesn't happen? And when you exclude outliers, you may be excluding the most profound subjects, just as when you include non-outliers, the subjects may not be able to generalize outside the system of measurement.
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Actually, the real explanation is much, much simpler: back in the postwar era, nigh-universal university education was sold to the new middle classes as triply a way to solidify their economic position, a way to gain both status and acculturation relative to the upper classes, and a way to avoid being thrown into wars.
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Most log platforms are designed for hoarding
Nope. Pinch to zoom "works", but it's the same zoom increments as Ctrl - and Ctrl =.

I've been using Firefox for a few years (switched back from Chrome), but it's IE for me on the Surface until someone else does proper touchscreen support. The only time I open Firefox on here is when I need a bookmark that's synced from my desktop or phone.
A lot of files that end up on our machines come from the internet, and, at least on OSX (in most browsers), downloaded files are tagged with origin URLs [0].

It's a small step from there to a companion tool that crawls your filesystem for URLs, and attempts to classify them based on a keyword analysis of the origin.

[0] https://code.google.com/p/understand/wiki/MacOSMetadata
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One of the most useful applications of Atlas (while working on Netflix Reliability) was creating alert conditions that would scale dynamically with changes in volume via the use of double-exponential smoothing (DES). It was very easy to create alerts that compared and combined multiple signals using the features in Atlas Stack Language. I am so excited to see it finally open-sourced!
An arcade nearish to me had the environmental cabinet, complete with it's customer controller hardware.

This particular machine would give you small electric shocks from the controller which I thought was part of the game, but I now realize that was probably an electrical fault with that particular machine.
> Do people flock to torrents? No one I know does.

Who do you know? I estimate 80-90% of the people I know who are technical download "pirated" movies via torrents or usenet. Most also use paid services like Netflix and Amazon Prime but the content on those networks sucks.