skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question: does anyone have anything resembling an idea as to what the hell the linked page is talking about?
"This is wrong and I won't tell you why" is not very valuable; opinions are ten-a-penny on the internet.
Ask HN: Is your HFS+ partition formatted using case sensitivity or not? Why?
I was wondering if people here are using case sensitivity on their filesystem and the reason for using it or not. Thanks.
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I was just arguing that hackers, hacker culture, and programmers/hackers as a socioeconomic class are far more powerful than artists as a socioeconomic class.

They're also arguably more powerful than the RIAA, MPAA, and even governments-- in this particular domain. Sure they can be arrested one by one and sites can be taken down one by one, but overall the hackers are winning and the old stalwarts are losing.

Look up the difference in average income between a musician and a programmer. Who's "punk" now?

I'd also like to point out that Apple is far more valuable than any record company, and Google is practically the gloved hand of the U.S. State Department. The technology industry -- which opposes strong copyrights for a number of reasons -- has far more political "juice" these days than ailing record companies.
re: "red-head scarf", I'm skeptical that the artistic intention was that it was a scarf for redheads being repurposed for white hair. Though I have not read the story so that might be part of the plot for all I know.
Lounge tickets are valued at about $25, because thats where the market puts them at. The lounges charge $50 or better at the door.
To be clear: Rust has quite a few smart pointer types, but because Rust makes regular references completely safe, people just use those a lot of the time. For example, very few functions are written to take `Vec<T>`s (the equivalent of C++'s `std::vector`), because they can simply take slices (`&[T]`) which are just a pointer and a length. Storing a slice in a structure isn't unsafe in Rust, so people do it all the time. The same goes for strings (Rust's `&str` is equivalent to C++'s `std::string_view`). It is also very common to pass references directly into slices, strings, or other data structures rather than copying, allocating, or moving, since it's completely safe to do so. You end up only really requiring explicit smart pointers for recursive data structures, or in very rare cases where you need complex ownership behavior.
Politics didn't make taxi medallion expensive, they gave it free, it's supply and demand that made them expensive[1].
Taxi are not useless, not everyone is able to use and app on his smartphone and some people want the simplicity to hail a cab. But the taxi license starts to decrease.
Banning UberPOP is about consumer protection because VTC or taxis are professional that had an exam, special insurance, they pay there taxes, unlike UberPOP which is about transferring the costs on insecure workers and unsustainable jobs that don't take in account of all the costs of doing this job.

[1] : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxis_parisiens#Le_prix_de_la_l...
I was replying to what you said. His hyperbole regarding unintelligent customers was the behavior that was called out as not nice, professional or intelligent.

His piss-poor use of hyphens (see what I did there?), however, isn't hyperbole. Hyperbole is a rhetorical device (and the greatest thing ever!), and unless he intended to evoke an emotional response in his readers by their incorrect and non-poetic application, it's just bad form; Being from the UK has bugger all to do with it.
That is a very naive point of view. Governments don't work like Yelp or Hacker News or something. There are people that represent or have the support of powerful lobbies which make things change. In this case, the taxi union. The article even talks about this move being in response to threats by the taxis. "With Paris taxis threatening to create traffic chaos on Monday with a go-slow action to protest the ride-booking company, an Interior Ministry spokesman said that Uber’s low-cost service, UberPop, would be prohibited in France as of Jan. 1."
Any VNC app allows you to view and control your screen. I like RealVNC. The corresponding app on Android and iOS is called VNC Viewer. There are several companies/projects that offer this functionality.
Then why did you post the original comment?

Besides, your comment's wrong, and people should know that.

No, don't expect me to say way.
So there's no run-time dynamic linking? Or is it possible, but only with additional metadata files present? Or maybe the assumptions are statically verified according to the interface and it is assumed that they are never broken by clients?
What kind of interesting uses are you referring to?
I have my own odd way of rewarding CC-licensed content:

If it has no DRM but is 'all rights reserved', and I really want a copy, I wait for a chance to buy it at a deep discount.

If it is released under a CC 'non-commercial' license, I buy a copy at full price.

If it is released under a CC license which allows commercial use, I pay extra for a copy (at sites like www.leanpub.com) or buy 2 copies.

At any rate, I would gladly pay for a copy (or two) of PAPL if the option were available and a CC license declared.

BTW, thanks for this resource!
Maybe scaling as in "scaling a team"? But yeah, it sounds weird.
Sometimes writing about it (publicly or not) can hone your thinking and get the thoughts out of the front of your mind. It can be therapeutic if done in moderation.
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"Parisian taxi associations had brought the case against Uber, accusing it of unfair competition"

"Unfair competition" is apparently the newest word for "competition."
Ditto, I've noticed this as an extremely common style of communication on this site, and I often have difficulty reading through the comment threads for this exact reason.
The SICP picture language is based on the same paper by Peter Henderson.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-15.html...
Autism is a catch all just like Cancer is a catch all. It works to get you into the ball park.

Yes you are 100% right BUT also 100% wrong (just semantics I don't know if we really disagree) there are subsets of Autism and Autism is a thing scientifically and medically. Just like depression is a thing that you can't get a specific test for doesn't mean it isn't a thing. Having adopted two boys with a very mild form of Autism called Aspergers, most doctors use to use the term High Functioning Autism. You can also have sever Autism, AKA low functioning Autism. When working with children or parenting I can specifically look at where they are. So while every person is unique you can be categorized as high functioning or low functioning autism and given many other sub-categories. The only reason why I say this is that many people dismiss early diagnosis and then their child doesn't get early intervention. The earlier the interventions start the better the outcomes.

Interesting note is Korea was saying they have almost no cases of Autism. Then the medical and scientific research conducted in Korea showed they had just as many children with Autism they just went undiagnosed medically.
The idea behind regulating personal transportation, aka taxis is because of the big external effects. If there was a free, unregulated market for taxis, obviously fares would be much lower and there would be much more taxis on the streets. However this in turn decreases the experience for the individual passenger (more traffic leads to longer rides) and much more importantly causes traffic lags for all other users of the road - most notably for the transportation of goods. So while a completely liberated taxi market might work out for the passengers (especially outside of rush hours) it most likely won't work out for the economy at large. This is an inherent problem when you have a liberal market (transportation) which uses a publicly owned good (the streets) which can't be priced appropriately (or only in a limited way - see London).
Journalists want to tell stories--because people want to hear stories--and science is pretty much the anti-story.

The vast majority of research is simply not story-friendly. Stories are a tool for making facts meaningful to readers, and except for those in the field, "significantly faster and more robust way of registering two images" or "new limits on the 17 keV neutrino" or even "some genetic markers of this form of cancer vs that" simply aren't meaningful[#]. People will get up in the morning tomorrow knowing those things and live their lives as they did the day before.

The average number of meaningful conclusions from an experiment is much less than one. To get meaningful conclusions you need to put a lot of experiments together. This is why theorists get so much press, because their work often covers a great deal of experimental history. Unfortunately, theoretical work is also often nonsense, or over-stated, or wrapped up in a story that makes the theory of the Higgs Boson look like the work of one person rather than four or more (Higgs himself has been quite clear about this.)

Bridging this gap between story and science--if it can be bridged at all in an honest and effective way--is one of the great unsolved problems of the age of science.

My own contribution to this problem is a novel--Darwin's Theorem--which curiously enough is based on some highly speculative ideas about the mathematical foundations of evolutionary biology: http://www.amazon.com/Darwins-Theorem-TJ-Radcliffe-ebook/dp/...

[#] all examples from my own work, some of which has ultimately had moderate real-world consequences, particularly the image-registration stuff, but even there it took 20 years for anything very interesting to happen.
I see you miss the point completely. These are observations of mice behavior not mice experience. No one has any idea what the mice are experiencing.

Interesting study though.
Busy making changes to new app and need feedback before I start full steam
Hi all,

We have been live for about 3 months now which has been going really well. Getting good traction from event organisers but we feel that we have more work to do to really keep retention high and give it that more "word of mouth" growth feels.

Venteo is a way for you to have all the pictures taken at an event e.g. a birthday party where you want to see everyones perspective straight away. No more asking friends to send them via email etc.

Here is the link to the site: www.venteo.co
Link to app: http://itunes.com/apps/Venteo

We are making a lot of UI changes to the app to make it really give the energy you get when at an event. Also a lot of changes in terms of slick features which should have been there from the beginning.

Really look forward to what you have to say. Please let me know if the UI confuses you or what ever comes to mind.

Thanks a lot
To be fair, we don't know how much worse the text was prior to bringing an editor on.
You might as well use the full length haiku - you wouldn't be exposing it to an external service, you wouldn't need internet access or a program installed, and you can probably type it faster than the IPv6 address. Using dictionary words for a passphrase is actually fine as long as the phrase is long enough. Figure out how much security you need (128 bits if you're going with the IPv6 example).
Thanks. Videos in a playlist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mffhPgsl8Ws&list=PLP941GogrX...
He says it to Peggy, who is distraught and in the hospital, after just giving birth to a son and immediately giving him up for adoption.

I had to look it up too. You are right, the quote doesn't exactly explain itself.
Mine is not, because Adobe won't allow installs of Photoshop on a case-sensitive drive.
This explains the strangely-located hyphens I've been seeing in a book I'm reading currently. This must be exactly how the book was submitted.
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"The Autist Spectre" sounds a little like "The Holy Spirit".

Did you mean "autism spectrum"?
Reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP_word_list , which is less poetic, but designed to be unambiguous when read over the phone.
The preview of Moonstruck (the book in question) is also available through Amazon. Here are the first few hypens I can see:

"There could be no-one there, ..."

"...into a razor-filled muzzle ..."

"... sleep, muscular, brown-furred monster."

"... through her blood-soaked fur."

"... propelled backwards in mid-leap, ..."

"... the red-haired woman ..."

"... a tall, grey-haired man ..."

"mid-thirties"

"mother-in-law"

Not my style of fiction, but most of these don't offend my sense of grammar either. I think "mid-leap" is the only one that slightly jars.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html

Warren Teitelman originally wrote DWIM to fix his typos and spelling
errors, so it was somewhat idiosyncratic to his style, and would often make
hash of anyone else's typos if they were stylistically different. Some
victims of DWIM thus claimed that the acronym stood for ?Damn Warren?s
Infernal Machine!'.

In one notorious incident, Warren added a DWIM feature to the command
interpreter used at Xerox PARC. One day another hacker there typed delete
*$ to free up some disk space. (The editor there named backup files by
appending $ to the original file name, so he was trying to delete any
backup files left over from old editing sessions.) It happened that there
weren't any editor backup files, so DWIM helpfully reported "*$ not found,
assuming you meant 'delete *'". It then started to delete all the files on
the disk! The hacker managed to stop it with a {Vulcan nerve pinch} after
only a half dozen or so files were lost.

The disgruntled victim later said he had been sorely tempted to go to
Warren's office, tie Warren down in his chair in front of his workstation,
and then type delete *$ twice.
That's because they're a huge international airline and they have to keep things kosher.

GS is a special invite status reserved for celebrities and high ranking politicians. My assumption is that they need that space so that they can load the person from the tarmac or have them check out of the airport. Thats speculation, but those individuals do have different needs from an airline. [Also onboarding needs as well as that they don't enter from the jetway]
Thanks! We're pretty early in our use of HLLs within the system but are already managing to get some really cool data off of them. I'm excited to see where this all goes as we build out the system over the next year.

Your last-accessed time point is exactly right. Storage systems used to be able to do a lot with file system-level metadata, but with the size and opaqueness of VM image files, those techniques have become a lot less effective. We're currently exploring how we can use HLLs in combination with a couple of other techniques to do things like clustering co-accessed data and then managing operations like prefetching and demotions over much longer time frames than are typically done in OSes and storage systems.
I remember being a student and not having a big budget for books. Now I have a small apartment, and no space to put the books I have.

Abe Books ( http://www.abebooks.com/ ) provides a good place to look for used copies of books. A significant portion of the books in my library have stamps on the pages indicating that they were discarded from really nice institutions.

Of course there are always free-to-read blogs, but unfortunately, good C++ blogs are harder to find than other, newer language blogs.
"In the UK we have the NHS, and even though the waiting lists can be long (because these are the areas that tend to be the first to go during budget cuts), help is freely available."

Help is also generally, if not universally (I just can't guarantee it since this is often state-level), available in the US for all manner of developmental issues. And, uh, I didn't have any problems with waiting lists, either, with either of my children.

(The portrayal of the US as some sort of vast health-care wasteland often has more roots in politics than reality, which is not to say that there aren't problems, and even in some cases severe problems, but nevertheless, the problems are often greatly oversold because it benefits certain people very much to do so, a fact that should never be forgotten in these discussions.)

The biggest problem with these resources is people knowing they exist at all, and also, as mentioned by others, denial on the part of the parents. (My wife and I have generally avoided denial but we can certainly see it in our extended families.) My wife and I know of at least two other children that we believe are probably autistic or something (not trying to diagnose, just observing an awful lot of similarities to the other autistic children we know... you get to know many of them when you go to the meetups), but the parents won't even hear the word "autism", let alone have it checked.
That wasn't their point.

In most of the world if a product's price tag says X then you pay exactly X at the register (e.g. £2 sandwich costs exactly £2 in cash, you hand then exactly £2 and leave).

In the US that is not the case. Almost everything has a "hidden fee." You go buy a $2 sandwich but pay $2 + 6% ($2.12), if you get food in a restaurant you pay $price + 15-20%, an advertised $30/month cell phone plan is actually $45 after "taxes and fees," and so on...

Within Europe/EU in particular these types of hidden fees are actively combatted. Just within the last few years a few airlines (e.g. Easyjet) got into trouble for charging both a credit card or debit card fee (approx. £3-5) which wasn't reasonably avoidable and wasn't mentioned in their adverts.

The US in general is rather consumer hostile on the grounds of "business freedom."
If each kid has a ticket, you can check a bag under their name. Why do you need 2 bags?
What Are MOOCs Good For?
"Autism is a thing scientifically and medically."

i don't think you understand how "science" works.

you're an idiot.
Needless Crunchtime- run or rough it out?
Startup had non-coding CTO and a Lead Engineer coding in PHP. New CTO (in his 20s.. warning sign #1) joined back in February (this one codes), and the Lead Engineer ended up leaving. I joined ~6 months ago.

The first two envelopes were already opened by the new CTO (previous guy, equipment) when there was simply a lack of interest in investigating the actual issues because "PHP is digusting/stupid, ______ is an idiot.". (keep in mind it took a single guy two years to build the product)

Language choice? Golang. CTO thinks VIM is the one true way and everyone else is a heretic, but everyone on the team except for his buddy from another other startup greatly prefers an IDE. (there's also "80 cols" or the PR gets rejected: warning sign #3)

Original schedule had us starting at the beginning of September and launching at the end of December. Feature requests on the old product moved the start to the middle/end of October. The finish date moved to the end of November. (that didn't happen)

Delivery date has been dictated to be the second Monday in January. CTO is working 11/17 days until then, his buddy 13/17- they're the guys who are (still building) the core of the product in Golang, and are the in-house knowledge resource for how the core product downcasts almost everything to interface{} when fetching from the database.

What particularly concerning is that management at that level didn't/couldn't smell a horrible idea (the rewrite)

Not sure if I should (or any combination of these)

- just put my hours in

- yolo, take off same days as management

- take a bunch of vacation to job hunt over Christmas

- go to the CEO and say something to the effect of "What are you smoking that makes you believe the CTO taking time off during crunch-time is a good idea?"
Here's another visualization based on this one:

https://www.windyty.com

This is also a cool demonstration of the Poincare-Hopf theorem (the "hairy ball theorem", more colloquially), which states that the sum of the indices of a vector field equals the Euler characteristic of the surface the field is defined on. In this case, with a sphere, that Euler characteristic is 2 (it's the same as for a cube, where you can use Euler's formula V - E + F), which means the sum of indices is nonvacuous, i.e., there is at least one zero point of the vector field.
I don't know which reduction you'd use exactly, but efficiently solving Weather Modeling would be positive for most everybody. I wouldn't reduce it to vertex cover, for example, but 3SAT solver might be a more useful tool.
Not cheaper or more relaxed! Between my hotel and Porte de Versailles (the convention center) was literally one straight road, with a one-way system.

Was 15-20 minutes to walk it (Google Maps says 18min), under 5 minutes to drive in one direction, 5-10min the other (due to one-way road).

Metro was easy sure, 300m to nearest station, then 2 stops on one line to Porte de Versailles - but that takes fractionally more time than a taxi, and is less pleasant than either a taxi or walking. I think 5 nights in that hotel and I probably walked it 60% taxi'd 40% - don't think I used the metro once.

Overall however I agree with your praise of the Paris metro. That said, I've been to Paris probably every other month for the past couple of years, and 50+ times in my life, and use 90% taxis... because they're easier, because the cost difference to me is non-existent (company credit card) and because most of my trips to Paris are cramming in meetings and therefore time between them relaxed in the back of a car with my laptop out catching up on emails is much needed.
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I agree that science has been incredibly useful and reliable in predicting the physical world. That's the point. Consciousness is an unknown. We can't see it, touch it or measure it in any way. Does it have a mass or a shape or a size? Science hasn't done a very good job of explaining consciousness at all.
Do you have pm information?
The latest (5th) edition of "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" by Hennessy & Patterson covers GPU (among many other things). One chapter on data parallelism covers SIMD, vector processors and GPUs. Very good overall IMHO, but better check the content to see if it suits your expectations.
There's no reason that handling your own keys has to be something that you, personally, have to bother with. Just because you don't interact with the key handling doesn't mean it can't happen in a safe and secure environment on your local machine.
Yes there are plenty of implementation concerns, but that doesn't mean they're insurmountable. It's so possible, in fact, that ongoing work is happening in exactly this space. See https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/ for example.