skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(warning: I am not a biologist)

The problem is that generating ATP requires sun or sugar in plants (depending on the specific metabolic process involved), and that the total amount of sugar produced during the day as part of photosynthesis is tiny relative to the amount of ATP necessary to fuel the light at night.

Consider that humans burn 100-150 kilos of ATP daily (according to Wikipedia). This is only possible because we are recycling ATP continuously, fueling the recycling process with sugar and oxygen that we consume at rates several orders of magnitude higher than what a 20 year old tree could produce in the same period.

I can't find numbers for peak sugar production in plants, but considering how many maple trees it takes to make a single small container of maple syrup, I think this is a reasonable statement to make for now. I will stand corrected if someone has good numbers. :)
I wonder when somebody is going to come along and match Rapha in everything but price.

Haven't tried them, but Torm[1] does this. Sportswool, "classic" styling, a lot cheaper than Rapha.

[1] http://torm.cc/products.html
Global Life Expectancy Increases by About Six Years
Quark: Quantum Computing Language
Checkout Rockstor https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8375236
> Even today, I still have some cases where docker will complain about not being able to create the container/file, due to some inane error. I've had to reboot machines many times just to try to get it to cooperate.

I get those, and am not using btrfs...
Sony Unveiling Google Glass Rival at CES 2015 – Nerdoholic
Nicely done. I'll keep my eyes peeled or you can IM me when you get it up somewhere.

Looking forward to it.
Jealous! I know his stuff isn't that intellectually engaging, but I've enjoyed his previous stints with James Franco while enjoying a beer and hanging out with friends. There will have to be some direct to video form to get the film out there to compensate the cost.
I would suggest that even ISIL isn't a terrorist group, at least in the same sense that the word terrorism has been used throughout the past 100 years. ISIL represents 30k mobilized personel, are made up of a huge number of disparate factions (some fighting for a three state solution - which would actually be a great improvement in the organization of the middle east, whose lines right now were drawn by the British and have nothing to do with historical or cultural boundaries), are fighting with traditional armies with traditional warfare weaponry and because they are fighting for political change in a state where authoritarian governments with financial and political ties to outside nations has limited how much they can represent their people. ISIL to me, if I use textbook comparisons, looks more like an grassroots insurgent army fighting for political representation.

Re: computer hacking considered "terrorism" - this represents yet another way "terrorism" no longer means the despicable act it was originally associated with. And doesn't that make the "War on Terror" also a "War on Hacking"? How the hell are we going to win a war on hacking?

I do hope that the OP was not using the GW Bush administration definition of terrorism...
Eleven tech predictions for 2015
There are few good changes from Yahoo lately. For example, Flickr is now giving 1TB space. The team seem to write cool technical things on their blog. Yahoo Mail Plus version is essentially free now. It was refreshing to see so many new iOS apps from Yahoo but I haven't used them so don't know their usefulness. Before Mayer, there was hardly anything at all coming out from Yahoo.
When I saw this article, I thought "I bet burntsushi wrote it". I've been learning a lot from reading your Go code lately.
The Performance Cost of Integer Overflow Checking
Fast median search: an ANSI C implementation (1998)
[Ruby on Rails] https://www.railstutorial.org/

Without question this is the single best beginner resource for learning Ruby on Rails I have ever come across. I tried CodeAcademy and a few other similar websites, but just couldn't connect the dots. Michael Hartl does an unbelievable job explaining web concepts in a simple, concise manner.

I can't recommend this resource enough.
A Robot's Last Words
I had to look it up, but apparently in spanish "loable" is pefectly valid. http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/loable
Yes people can change that is true, and I don't think anyone goes into a CS or IT program thinking this will be the type of code they write. The skills really are to think differently about code, and functional programming. Two things that are not taught in American universities(Or companies for that matter). So I feel like if I were to choose K as the language for my project which I expect to hire others to work on, I would have to build a K community in my area just to have the talent to work on my project.
The point is that if there's never a box office release, there will be no revenue (net or gross) to take a share of.
I do remember hearing there was debate if we should introduce invasive species, let alone terraform, or try to preserve life the way it is. There is also concern about it going the other way around mar's life becoming invasive on Earth or infectious to humans.

Obviously neither of our planet's life has evolved to be very fit in surviving in the other's environment. But evolution often has "arms races" where organisms evolve highly optimized weapons and defenses against them. It's possible one planet has evolved something the other has no defenses against which would give it an advantage.

E.g. on Earth, the cane toad produces a poison that no Australian predators can survive, and so they all die and the toad overpopulates. Same with many invasive species, like plants that produce poison that kill all the other plants nearby, and take over fields and native ecosystems. Or predators introduced on islands that are much better than the native predators and kill all the native life.
So I guess in your world all employees are exploited? They are doing a job, they are getting paid. What is the problem?
'My good friends, this is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time...Now I recommend you to go home and sleep quietly in your beds.'

— Chamberlain, 1938

Appeasement, it works.
I do think that the ransom makes the North Korea explanation less likely, unless NK reached out to #GOP after they were not given a ransom and offered to pay?

The other explanation seems to be that #GOP would demand the movie not be shown to confuse the scent of their real motive (revenge? lulz?) (but this is also questionable IMO). It also seems unlikely that an ex-employee would use the same IPs from previous Korean state sponsored attacks, although maybe they could have bought access to these servers on underground forums? Others are suggesting that this is entirely invented evidence - I see no good reason to believe that.
If Btrfs is as bad as this proposal makes it look, why did the folks at openSUSE make it the default file system for the root partition on openSUSE 13.2?
Responding to the spamming bit: I think this should be taken lightly. I mean, ANYONE could post up those links.
Apostle Islands Ice Cave Visitors Will Pay $5 Fee #icecaves
Acronyms, traditionally, are by definition pronounceable as words. Things like "U.S.A." where you only pronounce the letters are called initialisms.
Because capitulating is the sure-fire way to get the hackers and terrorists to stop? Fuck if we don't just congratulate them on a job well done, and help write the playbook for the next decade of cyber-terrorism.
It saddens me that people look at this and don't see a new experement demonstraiting the initial paper was wrong. Instead they treat it like the old paper was right and the new experement just added pointless clarification.

Sorry, if someone following your procedure as written would fail to replicate your results then your paper is flawed and it should be withdrawn. Otherwise labs have a huge incentive to fudge things slightly so they get a little longer to explore the new information without competition.
Okay, so you think that this is is a manufactured lie. I understand your position now - it seems consistent to me.

I'm not sure that I personally buy that the evidence is manufactured - that there is motivation enough from the USG to invent that evidence. But this is where there is reached an impasse. There just isn't enough information at this point to really say. Either speculation can be right.

It'll be interesting to watch as this continues.
Not really an RTOS. I hear it's more an "event loop and some interrupt handlers," much like the firmware in the Kinect.

(We went through a "we need an RTOS" phase on the Kinect. Eventually we ditched the thread stuff we wrote, which made things a lot simpler -- if you don't absolutely have to have threads and can get away with computing stuff in a main loop, then do that. Threads introduce all kinds of synchronization and inconsistent execution time nonsense that you should avoid if you can).
Except when it is not. In Venezuela we are facing similar problems and even when people have the money you can't buy what you need, not even if you are on a elite.

It has more to do with the incompetence in economic areas rather than a capacity of making wealth.
It doesn't matter if the movie sucks.

With this much publicity surrounding the movie, people are going to want to find out what the bug deal is. Trust me, the first weeks of release the numbers will be through the roof. After that, I'm sure they'll fall off a cliff.

This is already a cult classic and it hasn't even been released.
We moved from Azure to Gcloud. We are currently using Gcloud's compute engine as we didn't want to get too dependent on the App engine. In comparison to Azure, gcloud VMs are much faster in terms of performance. Managing google VMs are much more easier. For example, migrating a gcloud VM would take only a few seconds even across data centers. Google's support team in India didn't really help, so we designed our own architecture. While google has many interesting features like autoscaling API, global load balancer, cloud storage etc, of which most of the services are in beta stage. We use it anyway, and haven't faced too many issues.

The only place where we had to look for an alternative cloud service was when we attempted to set up our own CDN on https. Google currently supports it's global load balancer only for port 80 and 8080 and they suggested we use DNS load balancer which we didn't like the idea of.
P.s. we have not worked a lot with AWS. So I do not know much about AWS. From what I hear, AWS is currently much better and gcloud is good upcoming competitor. Overall, we serve 20 million API requests per day on google cloud without any infrstructure issues so far.
Yes, loable would be the equivalent in Spanish.
You Can't Turn Fat into Muscle
i'm personally fairly irked about the massive shift towards "cdn all the things!", i have noscript blocking third-party assets and a larger number of sites is broken for me every day.

rather than cdns, there should be an sha or md5 hash sent with every asset, like an etag, so that things need not live on a specific domain to be pulled from cache.

EDIT: those downvoting, care to state your case?
For this film, maybe. It won't generate anywhere near as much publicity the 10th time it happens.
My 2013 Moto X still hasn't gotten the Lollipop upgrade so idk if thats true... On second read I guess you didn't say "timely" upgrades
iPad Air 5 "even thinner with an attached keyboard that gets out of your way ~ we've boiled it down to the essence of what a tablet should be"
Festive spices and their intoxicating history
I heard on NPR they are trying to bring back the American Chestnut, which is being killed by a fungus from Asia. To be able to plant this genetically modified tree outside of test beds will take 5-10 years in just regulation issues alone. So even if they made this bioluminecent tree tomorrow (Which in itself is impossible) we wouldn't see these on the side of the rode for another 10+ years.
Interesting, how did you turn out? And how did you turn out different from other people (with a mentor)?
>he throws the guy down three flights of stairs!

And for some reason she seems to think that the attempted murder of a liberal is an honorable act.
Why are people surprised Hollywood capitulates to fear? It's a generally risk-averse industry. That's why Fast and Furious 7 is coming out soon.

The precedent for this was set 70 years ago when Hollywood execs decided to blacklist purported communists and fellow travelers. Several movies were never distributed because of alleged left-wing sympathies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_of_the_Earth).

As a curious side-note, North Korea's GDP is 12.4b and Sony's market cap is 22.8b.
If you terminate SSL at the CDN, if you don't own the network and CDN, won't that leave your data open while in-transit between the CDN and the app servers?

I'm using cloudfront and aws, reluctant to let cloudfront be the root CDN because of this. Anyone got any insight?
I've been using it on 2 home machines, for the home partitions, one using a HDD and one SSD. Been at it for over 2 years now, and I don't think I've ever had any filesystem related hiccups. Granted, they don't do anything special, just home stuff, but one is at around 75% capacity, so I guess you don't need that much extra disc space.
I wasn't aware that yelp provided a dataset, that's very interesting!

Since I had this very problem as I was working on using the output from sentiment analysis to modify sentences so to invert the sentiment polarity (positive to negative, negative to positive), the datasets I found were never general enough (movie reviews, many domain specific terms, hard in the text generation step), or had a lot of noise (twitter dataset).

Though evaluating the system was very hard, due to the reasons you stated, inter-annotator agreement was beyond terrible.

I'll have to look into if other review services expose their data as well, seems appropriate.
Just to be clear - the loading job keeps running when the kernel error messages first start happening at 21:14:09. But after 21:21:31 the loading job makes no more progress. The kernel error messages continued until 22:19:23 when I killed the job, but nothing further got written to the DB in that intervening hour (based on looking at the filesize, which admittedly may not tell the whole story). The job stats were set to output once per 200,000 ops. It's of course possible that it was still making some progress, but dropping from 3203 ops/second to something less than 55/second is pretty drastic, and at that rate it would have taken weeks to complete the load.

As another note, I also tried to use mdbm_pre_split() at the beginning of the job. That churned for 10 minutes at the beginning of the job before adding any records, then started processing at its normal speed, and then quickly degraded into the same state.
I wonder how this will affect the web standards that are pushed by Facebook traffic, like Open Graph.
The Russians fighting a 'holy war' in Ukraine
Leveraging Static Typing to Manage Object State
Very valid points here Neuen. But most programmers are paid by the hour - not by lines of code. My argument is that agents should be compensated hourly as well.

Programming is something that is taught at the highest level of academia, and requires a tremendous amount of skill, brainpower and discipline to deliver a quality product. I don't think you can compare it to to showing apartments.
There is not much skill required or education to be a rental agent (a few weeks of school and written exam, like a driving test). If you can operate the camera on a mobile device, post an ad on craigslist, and open a door lock - you are in business.

My argument is that renting out an apartment in Manhattan is similar to selling the latest iPhones as soon as they hit store shelves. The product sells itself because of the high demand and limited supply. The skill of the salesperson at the Apple store is not very relevant, which is why they are compensated hourly and not on commission.
I doubt it would collapse or even undergo anything much of note. I imagine if Kim Jong Un was assassinated, he would "retire" and be replaced with someone else. The government is much more than just the one guy.
Interesting. I remember reading the Project Wonder mailing lists and the creators and maintainers of it were certain that Wonder wasn't being used by Apple for anything "public facing", but they strongly suggested it was used a lot internally.

I've always wanted to work for Apple... care to share any thoughts?
India set to debut GSLV Mk.III launch vehicle with prototype crew capsule
Is there a reason your CDN couldn't talk to your backend via SSL too?
> Here’s the rub: when you put CSS (a static resource) on a cookieless domain, you incur an additional DNS lookup and TCP connection before you start downloading it. Even worse, if your site is served over HTTPS you spend another 1-2 round trips on TLS negotiation

Unless you're using SPDY, using a different domain doesn't add any more TLS overhead than using the same domain, right? I didn't think that browsers reuse connections to the same server.
The extreme detail that went into designing the arenas seemed to consume all the resources of the project.

Let me guess, every arena had a bike shed off to one side?
Brochure: http://isro.org/gslv-mkiii-x/pdf/GSLV-MK-III-X-brochure.pdf

Live telecast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBIcP7V8MKo and http://webcast.isro.gov.in/
Idoubt the latter, but sure, there would be a group of vocal detractors. That's the greatness of living in a free country; people are free to have their own opinions, but we still get to watch the movie of we like (or, at least, we used to be able to...).
Cantonese, Italian, Korean stand out as smaller languages. Hindi isn't present despite being the fourth largest language in the world. Bengali, Punjabi, Javanese, Wu, Malay, Telugu, and Vietnamese are all more popular than Korean, French and Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Persian and Turkish still more popular than Italian, Cantonese.

I believe there is a win-win here. Of course Microsoft wants a feature that applies as much as possible to its market (which appears from the list of languages not to include Eastern languages outside of Chinese and specifically excludes all of India). The US government wants as much foreign intelligence as it can get, so it makes sense to focus on more popular languages.

Do you believe that speech understanding will not be incorporated into the Skype PRISM program?
>Unless you're using SPDY, using a different domain doesn't add any more TLS overhead than using the same domain, right? I didn't think that browsers reuse connections to the same server.

This isn't new to SPDY: HTTP/1.1 has keep-alive.
I would wager that those Americans don't know what "unacceptable" means in a culture where we have agreed to explicitly _accept_ such things as a measure of protection of free speech.
Can't speak for Cloudfront, but I do know that Cloudflare has mitigated this problem. When you set up SSL, you have the option to force SSL from end to end. Of course, this approach means that SSL is terminated twice, once at the CDN and again when the user receives it, and this also relies on the assumption that you can trust Cloudflare with your data as it passes through their internal network.
michaelochurch is many things, but I don't have any doubts in my mind that one of his talents is writing a lot, and writing it really fast.

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/
The Space Between: Tracing Eighteenth Century Smugglers
>We have eyes: we can see who we're talking to

And yet your security would still fail visual inspection if there was an evil twin brother.

>Of course when you start mixing people and computers, your security is only as good as the weakest link (the computer).

I disagree. It's almost always the human, except in cases where the human is very well trained in security.

Most of the problems you talk about have analogs in the real world, and existed long before computers were at thing. Set most people in front of a camera and tell them to look for shoplifters. Set a trained specialist (or thief) in front of the same camera and they will far more often see the theft occurring.
Lots of people with handguns inside theaters increases the chance of someone losing their temper and shooting someone dead for throwing popcorn, like in the case of that retired cop in Florida.

Fights inside cinemas are vastly more common than mass shootings and people massively overestimate risk in stressful situations, especially when they cannot see properly, so I would expect that if there were self-selected people carrying concealed handguns to every single screening, for this to not to make people safer.
I am very disturbed by the implications this has for the next decade of cyber-warfare. I don't think it was a physical attack the theaters were actually worried about. The unspoken fear is getting hacked as badly as Sony, since they have establish they can pull that off, and the theaters know they can't defend against it. The physical threat gives them an easier 'out'.

I thought the article actually mentioned this angle but I was trying to find the quote and don't see it now.
What do you guys think of having the absolute minimum page with inlined everything (even images) that just shows a simple progress bar - it loads the rest of CSS/JS/whatever.

I've done it once for a large front end app, and it worked pretty well - the user gets an almost instant webpage and sees that the stuff is loading.
Convert 2D Blu-ray to Glasses-free 3D Blu-ray for LG Optimus 3D P920
Morning Routines: Optimizing Your Startup Sequence
Windows 10 on VirtualBox – resolution problem
> Arguably the high food prices reduce obesity which is really important

I don't think it's the food prices, because the cheapest foods tend to be the ones that lead to obesity (among other health problems). Fast food burgers and white bread are not expensive here in Japan, but fresh fruits and vegetables are.

I think there are many factors, but the pretty great universal health care system has to be a big one. As a working adult in Tokyo, I receive tons of preventative care and thorough annual check ups. It's cheap, and virtually all health care for my kids is completely free until they turn 15.

The lack of equal access to health care in the USA is almost certainly a reason that poor people die 5 years earlier than affluent people[1]. I would guess good access to health care is a big reason that Cuba does so well on that front, despite its obvious economic obstacles.

[1]: http://news.rice.edu/2012/06/21/poorer-us-citizens-live-five...
Should I build a personal finance site for engineers?
Before I transform my live financial education class to an online product, I'm trying to determine if engineers would use an online product that helps them develop a financial plan. The plan lays out timeline to pay debts, improve credit score, budget expenses, save money, and build wealth through owning rental properties (property managed by third party). We're doing this successfully now, but want to scale it online. I think engineers would be a terrific initial segment. Am I right or wrong?
I think theaters are afraid of cyber attack and not a terrorist attack (physical)..... I guess pretty soon a cyber attack will be classified as a terrorist attack, legally speaking.
Then people will be holding laptops against their faces in the street.
If HN was anything other than a shithole, dang would blackhole all this whiny shit about how hard libertarians have it, and how evil all liberals are.

Fortunately for y'all dang is a piece of shit who loves toxic shit on HN.
Surely protecting the rest of the world from bad hollywood trash is more "good" than "evil"?