skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha! My Redis instance just fell over :) Things should be back to normal now. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Seems like if you just search for 'Virginia' Google Places will plop you down in a rural part of the states where there aren't any banks within the default 5 mile radius. If you expand that search area a bit (or select a city) you'll see more options.

Thanks for taking a look!
There's plenty of scummy things he's done. The one that sticks out in my mind is when he faked cancer on reddit to try and make some stupid point about sexism, it never panned out. Just angered a lot of people who lent their sympathy.

He's just a trash journalist and I'm not going to give him any more clicks than he already baits people into.
From the comments on the announcement thread:

If you're wondering why this is all so vague and weird...here it is for you:

- Reddit got funding and as part of that wanted to share some ownership with the community. Basically, they would like Reddit users to own part of Reddit.

- The thing that made most sense was to create a little database that distributes these "shares" based on activity.

- They can't call them shares, or even indicate that they represent partial ownership of the company because the FCC [sic] considers that the creation of public stock, which should be on a regulated stock market.

- There are currently a number of bills at various places in congress that would de-regulate this a bit, but none that I know of that would make what Reddit wants to do (and should be able to do) legal.

- So...boom...their response is to be suuuuper vague. Which I'm fine with, since they're dealing with a very large and terrifying bureaucratic institution.

http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2pt25f/announcing_redd...
Performance of Python runtimes on a non-numeric scientific code
A Verizon Billing Classic: $0.002 = 0.002c
They are terrible.

I didn't realize the low ceilings were for acoustic reason. They're depressing. Isn't there another solution?
Super cool! Would love to hear more about your self-publishing experience -- mind if I shoot you an email?
Heyas! Love the idea behind this, but a question about the product itself -

Is there going to be some way to ask for and filter out information for effectiveness etc. depending on the use that you're trying to address? For example, I just looked up gabapentin, which was basically ineffective for treating my non-shingles/diabetic neuropathic pain.. and I can only break down the info by age and sex. Same story with montelukast, great for my asthma but far from a one-pill wonder for my allergic rhinitis despite being marketed/approved for it. Would love to see data like that without having to dig around in the individual comments or for studies!
Tangential plug for a great "hard" SF read, http://www.amazon.com/Diaspora-Greg-Egan-ebook/dp/B00E83YOEI... - your comment would make good liner notes..
Maybe a little bit OT, In z/OS, you can see if a process has been put to suspended state because some other process is eating cpu and it keeps historical data about it. Is there a way to achive same thing for Linux? I am reading brendangregg's performance book, however I could not see anything related to this so far.
I want to agree with you, but I do believe in preserving species.

I suppose what I want is to have a more interesting world. If we allow all this interesting data to die before we have the technology to truly capture and reproduce it, it is gone forever. Which in most cases would be ok, I guess, as new things could arise to replace them, right? Newer and better things?

Unfortunately, that can't happen if we never give it space to happen in. We monoculture our world in the name of utility, so the only species that can exist are the limited set we have chosen.
Bad timing for such a vulnerability with the holidays and everything. I don't have time for that.
Is it possible to have a threading model without an OS kernel? In other words, is it possible to package the rust runtime with an embedded execatable and run threaded software without the OS? Or does threading inherently require the OS to do the thread scheduling, etc.?
Sony is an important member of the MPAA. You know, those people who have deep pockets to lobby (read 'bribe') the US lawmakers into things like DMCA, SOPA, and the copyright provisions of Free-Trade agreements.
The cipher subpackage is importing a third party package `github.com/apexskier/cryptoPadding` and uses only this part of it:

https://github.com/apexskier/cryptoPadding/blob/master/pkcs7...

I think it would be a good idea to avoid that otherwise small dependency with some copy-pasta/vendoring.
Good that there's serious money being sunk into alternatives to electric cars, more is always good.

But I'm seriously tired of the fact that all articles about fuel-cells enthusiastically exclaims that "it's only byproduct is water!!!!", as if hydrogen was some sort of magic alternative to hydrocarbons. It's not, it's an energy transmission medium, not an energy source.

For fuel-cell cars to work, you would need to have energy some place that consumes water and splits it into hydrogen and oxygen, releasing the oxygen into the air, and the hydrogen into containers that can then go into some sort of infrastructure such that individual cars can be filled up with it as necessary.

And if you think about the amount of gasoline infrastructure that exists, we'd have to pretty much duplicate that, or convert that, into hydrogen shipping infrastructure, which is a pretty tall order.

But for electricity, we already have the infrastructure. If you have a house, you have a place for filling up your electric car, and you have a method for paying for the energy that your car consumes, and there is a way to move the energy from wherever it is produced to your house.

So the story for electric car adoption is "You don't have to take trips to the gas station anymore!", but the story for fuel cell car adoption is "You have to take trips to a new type of gas stations that don't exist yet!". That's quite a hurdle...
http://engineering.richrelevance.com/bandits-recommendation-...
I personally think this is overhyped. There won't be a replacement for wide screen size and the ease of using keyboard and mouse for most businesses. The only space this might make sense is in retail or some very small business where they can't afford an ERP (yet). Having said that bringing your own device to work when vulnerabilities are especially highlighted would be a tough sale for any reputable business.

In short, mobile will thrive in social contexts but thats where it will stay. Just because we created a tiny PC with a small touch screen won't change the way businesses purchase technology and adopt them.
Yeah I'm thinking more like connect some of the major cities. Maybe Denver to Chicago to Austin? I'm not an expert on the geography between those places though. I'm just spitballing. The Hyperloop doesn't really make stops. Its designed for long distance end to end trips.
The social coding contract
That's sort of the problem with UG, though - it's either so strong a claim as to be almost mystical claims about "the mind-brain" or some such nonsense - and therefore nigh-irrefutable - or so weak as to be basically a truism - "whatever languages all have in common, that's UG!"
> Not familliar with pcmcs, what are they?

They're performance monitoring counters, which are complicated programmable things on most x86 chips that could cache misses, cycles, etc. They don't come with a sensible way to selectively grant user access.
It's not clear to me what you think the "wave or particle" interpretation is, nor what you think is wrong with it, nor what you think you've heard "serious physicists" say.
Not without actually - ya know - trying.
Maybe I misunderstand, but you seem to be saying that anything with equivalent intelligence is "human" and that doesn't make any sense to me. If we discover intelligent aliens which evolved completely separately from us, they may be smart but they would never be human. An intelligent machine would be the same.
Qutebrowser –  a keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5 and QtWebKit
Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modeling and Design (FARM) 2014
Notch moves on up into the $70M megamansion that Jay-Z and Beyonce wanted
When you have one data source and only a handful of data points and that data is not reproducible, you're not doing science. Everett might have some interesting hypotheses, but what he's doing isn't what you could call peer-reviewable. Linguists who have aspirations towards hard science will, for that reason alone (not to mention the theoretically tenuous/unpopular nature of his claims) dismiss him pretty quickly.
Which sane distributed database relies on UTC or similar wall clock?

When I did my distributed DB course way back when I was at uni it was all Lamport or vector clocks...
I used to compose return with a series of pure functions as well, but I found that using liftM seems cleaner.
I'm a colemak user. Out of all the changes that colemak provides, the best is the optional replacement of capslock with backspace.

I do like that all of your fingers are used on the home row, but ultimately all the other changes are much less important than the backspace thing.

If you're on the fence about changing your keyboard layout, just make that one change.

Capslock takes up very valuable keyboard real estate but is essentially unused. I move my hands much less because of that change. It also seems more logical.

If you're a vim user that uses it as an escape key, well... at least you already kinda understand the uselessness of capslock.
Right, but if you're getting your energy from home solar panels, then having the car at work all day complicates things. If the batteries could be easily swapped out, then you could always have a pack charging during the day while you drive about with the other one.
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wow. where can I find this information?

This would be a huge selling feature for me to jump on meteor.js again. Would love to have SQL in meteor.js but again the mysterious "DDP" and it's reliability and ability to scale still remains doubtful.
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Fire up a Tor browser, it's probably all over the dark web. Part of me wants to dig through it because I'm just nosey, but I don't need a new way to waste time.
One-stop performance analysis using atop
Scientists use language and logic to translate monkey sounds into English
No it isn't. Randomness, complexity, computability and understandability are related but distinct concepts.

Some problems are simple and random, some others are complex and deterministic and you also even get some problems that are are simple to state, deterministic, provably uncomputable, yet still understandable, such as the Wang tiling problem.
The only game-changer I could see there would be if we could make some sort of in-your-home hydrolyzer, so that you just connect water and electricity to it, and it connects to your car to fill it up. That's on-par with the convenience of an electric car, if we ignore the safety issues of hydrogen gas leaks in urban neighbourhoods...
You don't have time to remote in and do an `apt-get update; apt-get upgrade`?
>We've built systems that are very fast, but almost no one knows why they are fast

It's pretty simple, all code can be modelled as a fluid flowing through a landscape. i.e. imagine a river (which represents code), it courses over the land and there are "cliffs", rocks and hills (representing bottle necks/loads).

The reality is as bus's got wider and transistors were able to be packed closer, it just allow for more water to flow faster. There's no big conspiracy at all. Because software ultimately can be expressed as a circuit.
We interviewed with StartEngine, but weren't impressed. There is no actual structured program (e.g. office hours, dinners), their graduates have a poor track record of raising money, and they have had no successful exits.
You're right that people mostly don't care about intelligence itself, but rather see it as a means to an end.

However, it's a really good means to an end. Future people may not care about intelligence by itself, but they'll still augment their intelligence with computers because it's a really effective way to have fancy cars and nice houses and such.

This, of course, already happens. How many times have you heard programmers talk about how painful it is to program without an internet connection? It's a frequent refrain among the ones I know, limited only by the fact that it's pretty hard not to have an internet connection these days. We constantly use computers for intelligence augmentation already.
> Employers should give them powerful, mobile-first business apps and not worry too much about their productivity, even if they run out of office to meet a friend or go to the gym in the middle of the day. They’re always on, even when not physically in the office.

Meh. As an engineer, I'm pretty skeptical about this. I only use a mobile device for work purposes when I need to communicate - email or chat. The rest of the time, I spend making things on a text editor/browser. I certainly don't wish I was productive on the walk to the coffee shop.

I think when you're a BI tool primarily used for research ("I am seeking the answer to this question"), you're probably going to be used on the desktop more. Think the Bloomberg terminal - people use these tools in the office, not on the go.

Conversely, when you're a "pull" tool - people check your app to see if there are updates - then mobile seems more important. Mobile is for constant consumption.
You misattribute the motivation. He wants to play.

Implementing a BigNum calculator using APL concepts is one way to play. I do this all the time. I'll implement something that will never be in production somewhere or useful to anybody purely for the learning experience and challenge of it.

[EDIT: spelling]
Having gone thoroughly through the book, this is quite an accurate description.
Where I am wrong? This is a straight-forward translation of non-OO Python code into Haskell, isn't it?

So there we can't see any "benefits" of truly-OO (original code has been written in a "functional style") or pure-functional approaches (the code has no "benefits" being converted into a pure-functional language).

Lists and Sets are "classes" in Python, but it doesn't matter, because implementation of "basic" types does not alter the behavior - sets could be implemented out of Lisp's conses.

Btw, knowing who the author is and seeing some "functional patterns" in Python code, it is very probable that original corrector has been prototyped/written in Common Lisp, then re-written in Python, and now re-written in Haskell.

The point was in an elegant algorithm and compact implementation, not in language of choice or in particular programming paradigm.
The relevance of the GP's statement lies in three controversial-sounding assertions that are rapidly becoming irrefutable:

1) Most people are dumbasses

2) Often willfully so

3) This has troubling implications for democracy, representative or otherwise

These assertions, if true, affect everything in our public and private lives, including the development and dissemination of the story at hand.
looking forward to it, especially the pro/cons of open sourcing a saas because I largely see only cons (opening up code to competitors, bypassing the need for purchasing through your saas).

This textit project is quite interesting I might actually give this a go and build something.
Tech investors plowing money into future farms
The article does mention price: "While EVs take hours to recharge, the fueling cost is a fraction of the roughly $45 a hydrogen fill-up will cost."

That's more expensive than gasoline, but as of a few months ago the price difference would have only been about 30% compared to my relatively fuel-efficient Honda Fit. The gap is larger now thanks to the recently plummeting gas prices in the US, of course.

> And also Hydrogen cannot be regenerated from breaking which makes it less efficient than full electric.

As the article doesn't mention but Wikipedia does, the Mirai also has a battery and supports regenerative braking. It's basically a hybrid car that uses a fuel cell instead of a gasoline engine.
Interesting comparison but, by my understanding, epsilon greedy and A/B testing do not solve the same problem.

Epsilon greedy is a method for minimizing regret, that is the expected loss you occur from choosing options that are sub-optimal.

A/B testing's goal (or one of many goals) is to maximize the chance that, after the test is over, you select the best option going forth.

So e-greedy makes a conscience choice to not maximize its statistical confidence in certain options because it is trying to exploit the things it knows to be good. Meanwhile A/B testing is trying to balance the exploration so it can have that statistical confidence.

Hopefully someone with more expertise can chime in but I think this is the gist of it.
Or "common sense". It's pretty easy, I just read the list of ingredients.
All particles in the universe forming the bits of an enormous, ongoing calculation?
FBI isn't about criminal issues anymore now that they got into the CIA/NSA club about a year ago. In case you missed their change in direction, their new mission statement says the primary function of the FBI is "national security", not "law enforcement".

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140106/00442525768/fbi-a...
The strongest evidence of a North Korean tie isn't what happened - it's what didn't happen. They didn't release The Interview on torrent sites. Whether this was the work of the NK government, or one of their brainwashed citizens, it doesn't really matter. Their objective was to stop the impending embarrassment of their Dear Leader, and that is exactly what happened. NK was at a bare minimum the cause of the hack, and was almost certainly the perpetrator.

Quite often the easiest way to identify a criminal is to look at who benefited most from the crime.
Once again, downvotes are leaned on in lieu of wit.
On the other hand, when the sales dude sends that quote that you wanted blind without any due dilligence, and you order the wrong crap, what happens?

"Boss, these idiots from <insert vendor> don't even know what their product does!"
That is a fascinating example. What is a situation and sentence in which you would use it? How would you write it in German? How would you write it in English?
It also says: "if you disconnect from the Internet, your connection will be usable when you reconnect.". The same logic applies if you restart your network interfaces on the server.

I'm open to being proved wrong here, but as I've already said, only been doing this for several years now, so I'd need a counter argument to explain the mechanics of what's allowing the connection to reattach rather than "it's not possible" :)

edit: hmmm, re-reading the latter part of keep alive article I posted, it does seem to imply what your saying. So how come my SSH connections aren't nuked then? Is this just a property of TCP/IP (I'm not a networking guy so ignorant to some of the lower level stuff)
My thoughts as well. Reminds me of another discussion within the last week or so, wherein someone rejected the idea that we're living in a sim.

My thought was, "a simulation versus what?" What makes our Universe a simulation or not a simulation? How does one define "simulation"?

It's kind of an artificial construct based on our acceptance of the current "reality" as somehow possessing this amorphous quality of "realness" in the first place.
If the guy actually wanted to get the price he was quoted, he would have been able to, but instead he wanted to be a jerk and make a video
> "To my knowledge, most rail in the Western U.S. is built to handle cargo"

Definetly true.

> "and I imagine that's much heavier than commuter trains"

Also definetly true. A double-decker Amtrak passenger car clocks in at around 70 tons. Freight cars can be an order of magnitude heavier.
Plan 9's libthread [1] implements cooperative threading entirely in userspace library. This is apart of Plan 9's fork() [2] syscall which allows both forking processes and creating kernel-level threads.

Thanks to libthread being orthogonal to processes, it turned out to be easily portable.

[1] http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/2/thread

[2] http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/2/fork -- this is what linux' clone(3) syscall was modeled after.
ntpd shouldn't be running as root on modern Linux systems anyway. It supports using capabilities to drop all privileges aside from the ability to set the system time, and I think most distros have it configured that way.
I regularly speak to people who do not seem capable of understanding fine distinctions. It's not difficult for me to believe that a people/tribe that has little use for numbers might not have the concept of large numbers at all, other than as a catchall word with no exact quantity.

Just yesterday on reddit, I was arguing with someone who claimed to speak English as their first language who could not understand what I meant when I pointed out that the idea of "illegal content" was nonsense. I explained how it might be illegal to get content by certain methods, but that didn't make the content itself illegal and that the crime was in the action. He seemed to think that the computer file itself was illegal, even though he admitted that an identical file on another computer might not be illegal.

A tribe that's never needed a scout to be able to tell a leader that it was 5 Roman legions and not 6 that were on the march... why would they have a word for 5 or 6? It's not as if they care about whether one has 5 or 6 bananas, the distinction is pointless on that level.

Likewise, a person who has never needed to make a distinction between the exact circumstances that might get them in trouble with the authorities might never understand the difference between "illegal download" and "illegal file".
You might be right, however I wouldn't expect an IP change to reattach since that would be a massive security vulnerability.
What you seem to be saying, is that because you know of no measured and intellectual discourse in the United States, there is none.

Maybe you're looking in the wrong place.

Honestly, yours is truly a superficial, fake-sophisticate straw man, devoid of facts or information and pandering to the most simplistic anti-American tropes. I was happy to ignore it, but this caught my eye:

> I guess they don't know (and acknowledge and take part of the responsibility for) the role of the US in creating the current situation in Korea.

I'm curious what you mean by that.
Excellent metaphor. I agree.

No one (to my knowledge) is suggesting "conspiracy" or malicious intent, or even incompetence. Hardware designers know what they're doing, and on the tradeoff between maximizing performance vs. making performance simple, the former is usually the best option.
It sounded like Patrick's point was that vendors who force you onto the phone are vendors who will win, if you measure "win" as "more sales that close, with a higher price."

But it depends on the business and the product, of course.
Show HN: An universal app banner that deep links on first install
Nope, nope, nope. Reproductions can never have their own copyright. Really: No matter how much work someone does in tracking down and scanning public domain art, the "work" in question is still in the public domain. Only authors get copyrights, not "sweat of the brow" labor.

You can get a copyright in any creative changes or additions you make to a public domain artwork--the things that you are the author of.

It is sometimes a violation of Internet norms to fail to give credit to someone who has originally scanned something, but this is not copyright.
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