skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Phoenix has red light cameras as well, because of numerous scofflaws from south of the border. I have no idea how effective they are, but there are still a lot of horrible accidents.

To reduce if not halt such incidents, we should simply build crossing gates as at railroad crossings. When the light is turning yellow, a gate lowers, with flashing red lights and clanging bells. When the light cycles to green, the gate lifts. Problem solved.

Alternatively, hire more traffic cops to enforce the laws. It costs money, but the carnage on the roads calls for some kind of a real fix and not just a cosmetic patch like cameras that merely bring in more revenue.
so your fix involves time travel, and you think that's reasonable?
Exactly. Copyright doesn't do what he thinks it does.
If games are a coin flip, I believe the answer to your question is "no". Every team plays exactly 6 division games, 6 conference games, and 4 non-conference games. Those are the only non-points-scored, non-coin-toss variables in the playoff algorithm, so if no one has played a game yet, every team is identical.
Some would already argue systemd is already fsckd.
Are there any coin flip scenarios left? That is, scenarios where seeding couldn't be decided until the final (random) tiebreaker?
Rightfully so, IMO. Would hate to see another idea getting lost and forgotten because of copyright BS.
This seems to be the summary of the article:

>These errors are not random; there is a method to the muddle. The filmmakers see their hero above all as a martyr of a homophobic Establishment, and they are determined to lay emphasis on his victimhood.
Time travel? Huh? I'm only stating that if the OP does not want his filesystem checks taking place on boot, rather than Ctrl-C them on every boot, to just disable them completely. Who said anything about time travel?
True. I was thinking about a tool that would give you a list of regexes, ranked by some factor that aims to get at the regex pattern that'll be useful. For example, if I gave it, [name@email.com, name2@something.com] it would give all kinds of regex patterns, but ideally point to [a-z]@[a-z].com
Didn't CoreOS just remove btrfs because it tended to break?

Also: https://rudd-o.com/linux-and-free-software/ways-in-which-zfs...
Bad code is only one kind of "technical debt" and it's the worst kind. Technical debt could also be choosing not to add a feature. If you document the shortfall (say, your system won't scale beyond a single-node database, because you aren't going to need that for at least a year) and why it is there, you can mitigate the damage and make it possible for future users and maintainers to figure out what's going on.

Code quality problems are, as expressed in the OP, an unknown unknown. It's rare that anyone has a handle on just how bad things are, until it's too late. Also, there are sociological issues with legacy rescue projects that businesspeople, who'd rather think of programmers as fairly interchangeable, don't like to contend with: maintenance is only effective if done by high-quality programmers, but it's expensive and often hard as hell to motivate good people to do it. A pat on the back and a 10% bonus won't do it, because it doesn't come close to offsetting the career costs of doing undesirable work.

There is an apocryphal story about a trader buying chocolate santa futures and forgetting to sell them on. Eventually a truckload turned up at the Wall Street headquarters.

This has little to do with the subject itself, but this has actually happened, sort-of. Futures contracts usually don't include Wall Street as a delivery location, so it's not like the trader ends up taking physical delivery at the workplace. The contract will specify where one must make or take delivery, and most delivery locations are in the Midwest or Plains.

When a trader fucks up and has to make or take delivery, there are services that handle it, but it's expensive. If you get stuck taking delivery of, say, $500,000 worth of butter, you'll probably have to pay the agency 50 cents on the dollar, or $250,000, to handle the task of getting your surplus butter to a wholesaler. It hurts pretty bad.
It's really not hard to add a kernel book param if you're booting via grub
no! the whole point of this post is to complain about the attitude of debian devs.

for you to suggest "not getting yourself in this situation in the first place", well, that's exactly the bullshit behaviour that i think most of us find utterly abhorrent.
This is impossible in certain jurisdictions.
I love trolling from Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Every single answer is "you are holding it wrong". And people wonder what is wrong with systemd and its proponents ....
Yes, but by publishing under the BSD license he has relaxed his rights, and he cannot retroactively change that.
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his issue is not that fscks happen. his issue is that he cannot safely stop them when they happen.

so, you've given some information about setting the fsck counter to 0, so that it never happens. the only way anyone in this situation could utilise that information, would be to go back in time, run this command, and then boot again.
A lot of that, a lot of NIH, and a lot of bad behavior and very bad management.
sigh i don't even.
The other answers to your question are not correct. In some countries, authors' "moral rights" can include the right to withdraw the software, saying "I don't want you to continue distributing the software", which is similar to retroactively revoking the license. For the situation in France, see:

http://ifosslawbook.org/france/
("Moral Rights" heading)
According to that thread, it has been on the TODO list for 3.5 years with no further signs of being implemented.
There are at least three addons that allow viewing network activity with Firefox:

https://getfirebug.com/
http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/live-http-hea...

I haven't tried it but I expect the developer edition does too:

https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/developer/
A license doesn't "relax" rights, it grants rights to others (and sometimes/in some jurisdictions also can limit how the copyright owner can make use of his rights)

If you give someone the right to do something and don't specify how you can take it away, you can't take it away again. Without termination clauses a license is a contract thats valid indefinitely.
The money goes to corrupt officials and contractors, the Russian 1%. Apart from some normal stuff they spend it on luxury goods – iphones, bentleys, jets, yachts, depending on the level. Showing off your status like that is exceedingly popular in Russia.

At the same time, Russia produces very few such goods and thus much of this money simply flows out of the country. Besides, rich people spend a much lower percent of their income than the average Ivan does, so they park their savings offshore – in foreign bank accounts, real estate, etc. The reason they do it is because anything they have in Russia can be taken away in a matter of hours if they ever find themselves on the wrong side of the power field.

So yes, as you see corruption leads to capital outflow which is a real problem in Russia. In fact, we had some new laws passed to address that, not sure about the extent or effectiveness.

You're right though, Russia is beginning to see resource exhaustion – easily accessible forests, oil fields, etc. are gradually drying up. That's why we're ramping up arctic research for example. So while oil money won't last forever, we could have used it to kick-start our economy and infrastructure. There are so many talented engineers in Russia.
You should read this: http://www.supermemo.com/help/fi.htm

Learning to 100% is a fallacy. It is more efficient to learn to about 90% - 95%.

Future learning does not always depend on past learning. You don't need to have memorised the double angle formulas in order to start learning group theory.

Really the whole problem of when/what to learn has been comprehensively solved by supermemo et al. The unsolved problems are in formulation of learning material.
The lesson that I'm taking from this is he should have talked to a lawyer.
For test case generation, I'd argue that you want the opposite of a time initialised random number generator. You'd want a deterministic seed for your random number generator, so you can repeat if required.
Interesting that the patent was filed 17 years after initial publication of the algorithm.
No. You missed it. The OP stops filesystem checks happening fairly regularly. The great thing about computers, is identifying when you are repeating a behavior, to either have the computer automate your behavior for you, or to change your behavior entirely.

I am fully aware that the OP wants to cancel the fsck(8) in progress, and I am aware of both of the Debian and Systemd bugs in place to address the issue. Arguing on the Internet about whether or not he can or should Ctrl-C an active check, certainly when bugs already exist for both projects, is pointless.

Instead, to prevent additional filesystem checks, there are tools to make this possible. Unless he likes getting frustrated that he cannot press Ctrl-C during a check on boot, which doesn't seem to be the case. His system is booted now, so he has some options available to him:

* Do nothing, so the OP cannot press Ctrl-C on the next check.

* Disable filesystem checks from future boots.

* Switch from Systemd back to SysV Init.

The concept of "going back in time" during an active check, to change a kernel parameter, so it doesn't start to begin with is a strange one. Bugs have been filed, it's even on the TODO for Systemd. So, why not discuss alternatives to the issue until it's fixed?
Talk of a misleading title. This is not even the journalistic principle, which says if a question is posed in the headline, the answer is "no". The title question is "not even discussed" in the article. Which is ironic, considering the "Not Even Wrong" criticism of string theory and multiverses.
You might want to take a look at colout [0] which does pretty much this, but has a few advanced options such as fading colors by percentage found in the output of a command

[0]: https://nojhan.github.io/colout/
>- Subject assessment would happen at much smaller increments and students do not progress until they understand that content block 100%.

I don't think this is a good idea at all. It sounds extremely discouraging.

This system is lovely for people always at the top of the class, who get to thrive with exactly the knowledge and content they need (assuming they have stored it in long-term memory, rather than storing it just long enough to pass through the immediate barrier), but it's terrible for everyone else.

You see this pattern already in compulsory education: 'I don't really get this topic' becomes 'I can't do this topic' becomes 'I can't do this subject' becomes 'Why would I bother?'.

It's a lot of work for student and teacher to get back from this point, if they ever manage to. Your system encourages this, and so almost nobody will graduate your system in 8 years; anyone who faces such overwhelming blockades will naturally drop out rather than overcome them. I contend that your idea is worse than the existing system.

One of the best ways to get a student to understand content they are completely stuck with is to introduce and apply it as part of a more advanced topic or more practical context, i.e. just move them on from the part they are stuck with and let them continue, coming back to earlier topics where relevant (and as a necessary reminder to the others). The existing system works well in this respect, at least.
I built this over a weekend for fun. I'm trying to figure out if such a use-case exists for anyone. Appreciate your feedback :)
lol. Welcome to a 1984 press release (for the stiff above the neck: wheat production, up, 18 %).
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I've seen that behavior and it is annoying. I has assumed it was due to memory constraints.
This is why, in matters of law, you should consult a lawyer.

Stuff you remember from TV is not the law.

Half-remembered Slashdot debates are not the law.

The law is the law. It varies from place to place and from year to year. It is large, complicated and subtle because it covers everything humans do, which is a large, complicated and subtle problem domain.

Seriously. If you have a legal question: see a freaking lawyer. A few hundred bucks to change the entire course of your life is a bargain. It's less than some plumbers.
"I think the author of the algorithm implementation would have benefited more from..."

Well obviously the meta argument, taking a step back, is if the community insists on porting to ruby, doing all the work for him, such that the happy and cooperative leader can now collect sweet support contracts from MORE corporate users and increase the resume fodder value of his original product...

What looks better on dude's resume:

Author of a Java library with 1000 users resulting in $50K/yr support contract revenue

or

Author of a multiplatform Java and Ruby library with 2000 users resulting in $100K/yr support contract revenue

or

Author of a Java library, got into a fight with the ruby community mostly because I don't know the difference between licenses, copyrights, and patents, and now I've only got 500 users and $25K/yr of revenue
The GPL actually has a clause agaisnt revocation in section 2:

All rights granted under this License are granted for the
term of copyright on the Program, and are irrevocable
provided the stated conditions are met.

How does France work against this?
And why can't you take it away? If I give someone a permit to cross my bridge, I can revoke it at any time. Usually when something is perpetual, you have to write in it: "perpetual" for it to actually be so.
The patent is for Metaphone 3, a new version of the algorithm that was released in October 2009 and improves on the previous ones. The differences are why the Ruby gem, which already has Metaphone and Double Metaphone implemented, got a discussion going about porting Metaphone 3 from Java.

Edit: wording.
I happen to know about this "France problem" because for a while it affected the OCaml distribution (it has now been resolved by some French-specific legal wrangle).

I don't know how this affects the GPL specifically, but you can be pretty sure that if the GPL doesn't contain France-specific French-language legalese to work around it, then it's likely to be revokable whatever the license says. Of course this only affects you if you're in France or have French contributors.
The numbers in those tables are an example of scary addition. Quoting from the text describing the table:

For example, an overnight PDCF loan of $10 billion that was renewed daily at the same level for 30 business days would result in an aggregate amount borrowed of $300 billion although the institution, in effect, borrowed only $10 billion over 30 days. In contrast, a TAF loan of $10 billion extended over a 1-month period would appear as $10 billion. As a result, the total transaction amounts shown in table 8 for PDCF are not directly comparable to the total transaction amounts shown for TAF and other programs that made loans for periods longer than overnight.

Your fully unreturned is incorrect, many of the loans used to create those totals were payed back the very next day after they were made.

A more interesting analysis would show a plot of the outstanding loan balance each institution maintained over time.
You are making all sorts of assumptions when the views of others were clearly expressed in previous comments. You seem hell bent on your own talking point regardless of that the actual comment's point was. Either you are being dense or you are trolling...
I don't that there is any basis for your assumptions about the poster. What makes you think that he takes every opportunity to stop filesystems checks? Did you read a part of the message that I did not?
There is no such things for the Pi. OK the complexity is higher but for me, exposing GPIO interface doesn't just make the platform an open platform and though, C64 was not more open.

It's hard to find good doc of that level for modern product which plays the game of the openness. Well, I didn't check yet the Novena project.
If you are able to view this, it is a "United States Patent Application Publication" that is found by following the `view pdf` button on the above link:

https://drive.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=patentimages.st...

Searching on the USPTO website returns no related patents:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html

The indication, to me, is that the patent has not made it past the application process.
> I don't think this is a good idea at all. It sounds extremely discouraging.

On the contrary, struggling to get everything done by next week and scraping by with a 55% pass mark is extremely discouraging.

Being able to take as much time as you like to understand the content until you get it all 100% sounds much more encouraging to me.

By way of anecdata, a researcher who had experimented with this approach in australian schools for teaching math came to my faculty and gave a seminar last year. He and his organization found that the students were, as predicted, vastly more encouraged by the mastery learning approach. Actual learning rates were also on average 2x as fast.

> You see this pattern already in compulsory education: 'I don't really get this topic' becomes 'I can't do this topic' becomes 'I can't do this subject' becomes 'Why would I bother?'.

Only because we are forced to progress without even trying to fix "I don't really get this topic".
I am sure you will find plenty of famous people educated traditional way.
And where is the list of not famous people who were educated using Montessori method?
Hi Daniel, congrats on launching. I found out about your service via the recent ping.gg thread [1].

I have some questions/feedback:

* How about a screenshot and feature list before I sign up. e.g. I can't tell if Monitority supports string or regexp checks against the content, custom request headers, etc.
* You mention "Registered users" and "Members" above, is that the same thing?
* I'm left a little skeptical and wondering what's the catch when I see just always free for unlimited URLs. I'd like to at least get some idea on monetisation and what might later be paid services.

What would make me switch from my current monitoring service:

* Throttle messages. I don't need 27 SMSs in 5 seconds just because the data centre goes down.
* Customer service (theirs is pants though Pingdom's is good I think)

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8774257
Kahneman attributes a lot to 'luck' of what experts achieve especially when it comes to predicting something. I am a bit surprised that PG does not give 'shear luck' its fair share.

I am assuming that many (most?) of the startup founders, when they are being interviewed by the potential investors, are 'complete strangers'. By focusing objectively on ideas than subjectively or intuitively on people doing them, they believe that they mitigate the so-called risk. I am not convinced that by judging people rather than by judging ideas (in supposedly short amount of time) the chances of succeeding go up, because if we are often wrong judging ideas, what makes us good at judging people who are ever changing too?

Of course, there is an undeniable 'credit history' part wherein if a 'successful' founder comes back with another idea, many investors are ready to 'shower money' on her/him -- I don't find anything majorly wrong with that attitude, but that alone does not guarantee success, I believe.
Up until recently your insurance could change over night based on medical status and when the insurance company finds out. Financial information is completely different. Also medical information is protected under a specially designed law. It's not just private information, it's your medical condition.
What processor is it? Or at least: how old is it?
Its doubly bad in that its a historical survey containing no new results. I assumed based on the headline it was an editor trying to be "hilarious" when reporting a new paper claiming internal inconsistencies destroying the theory. The obvious analogy of fabric unraveling when strings break loose and all that. If, someday, string theory does "unravel" due to internal inconsistencies (IF!) then this would be a legendary headline for the paper, or for journalistic coverage of the paper.
Code has bugs. The less code you write, the less bugs you have. It's pretty simple really. OpenBSD has always done this well and taken a lot of criticism for it.
His opening sentence makes it pretty clear that he's executed Ctrl-C enough that he's familiar with it, likely executed it more than once, and expected it to work in Systemd.
I guaranty you would feel differently if you had AIDS and didn't know it.
I agree with this. We’ve had this discussion on HN before (at least once) [1]. And the claim that Turing “bore the [chemical castration] with fortitude” is ludicrous, and the more likely explanation is that he had erected a facade of equanimity. I still dislike the film’s portrayal of his death because it was too cowardly to point fingers and actually show his state-induced suicide – or too anxious to show it as ambiguous, just like the film couldn’t even bring itself to show him kissing another man, instead resorting to a female love interest. The film makers can cry “historically accurate” all they like. In reality, it’s anything but accurate to put such emphasis on a non-homosexual relationship.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4150781
> Actual learning rates were also on average 2x as fast.

Compared to a control group, or to the national average? To me, 2x seems extremely low for a group of students receiving special or individualised treatment - but please do link.

> Only because we are forced to progress without even trying to fix "I don't really get this topic".

Not 'only', I disagree.

There are existing systems like this: e.g. certain learn-to-program websites. How many people reach the end point?

Anecdotally, everyone I know who has tried code-learning sites experiences getting stuck (sometimes on a broken problem) and they soon drop out - they don't see the point of progressing any further.
Yea, now we can't stomp around and espouse how Capitalism
doesn't need government oversite--Period! Personally, there's a
part of me that wanted the banks to fail; and see what arose
from the ashes, but that's another story. (Some banks like
Jamie Dimon's bank didn't need or want the money). I think
what bothered me about the whole process is the
economy is better for some people--people who have assets, or have skills that are currently in vogue. The average dude just getting by, and relying on interest from their cd(because they can't afford to speculate anywhere in life)
was not given a party gift in this recovery. There were a
lot of smaller banks who weren't in trouble. They weren't
in trouble because they were located in the right communities, and were very consertative. Meaning they only
lent to people with a lot of equity(sure bets), gave very little interest on any financial instrument, always charged fees for eveything, counted on the fact that a lot of people
just drop their money in the bank and never touch it, but
are Very nice, and remember your birthday--Hello Bank of Marin. I think Obama foresaw the future and figured the only lasting gift he could give to the middle class and the poor was access to the health care system--even though they
(the Republicicans) insisted on bringing in private Insurance companies?
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