skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you start out knowing that you are writing something that will be trashed, why would you invest yourself in it?

This basically boils down to: why would you make a high-risk bet? The answer: Because they sometimes pay off big.

I like building things to last. But building something to last when odds of success are 50 to 1 against is foolish. If you are trying to test a startup idea, the only sensible approach is to bet the absolute smallest amount necessary to find out if the idea is worthwhile.

I've built great systems for ideas that didn't work, and it sucks. For example, in 2004 I put together a team and spent 9 months building an awesome implementation of an excellent idea that was just 5 years too early. We were all really proud of our technical work, but since we ended up with a trivial number of users, it was all, in the end, wasted effort.

Later I realized, thanks to people like Eric Ries, that the thing to do early on was to invest just enough to see if there was something to the idea. Most things won't, which means you save enough time to rebuild the few that do properly.

The "think through your ideas" thing is a false hope. You can only think so much about limited data. People can be just as happy working on something they're planning to throw away. Artists often do plenty of sketches before they do the real one, and software developers can do the same.
Nicely said. I never understand how some people who claim to be 'intellectuals' (whatever that means) seem incapable of grasping the following truism:

Change happens. Something is gained. Something is lost.

I mean, it's fine to lament the passing of a world, but Jesus, get some perspective.
lol. this knowledge is just the consequence of a mis-spent youth. ;-)
We had these labs as a base for our course on OS development. Original tasks seemed to be very good - even if you did something wrong, the tests would probably catch it. But those who made our course decided to introduce some changes, which led to the following proportions of spending time: about 0.5-1 hours for the task itself and continiously growing number of hours for debugging, first mistakes in their code, then the bugs we introduced ourselves. My first hacking experience, indeed.
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Nasty malware, it's tricky to deal with but I don't think it's necessary to reinstall OS.Try restore the computer back to a normal point where everything was functioning perfectly.

Another solution is manual removal. Delete its main component, remove its main folder in Program files and get rid of suspicious extensions in browser. These normally help you fix ads issue.

source:http://blog.doohelp.com/guide-to-get-rid-of-ads-by-unisales-...
Same can be said of the libertarian notion of liberalism. Many Americans of both stripes tend to be authoritarian.
A friend of mine has been trying to get me to learn awk, sed, perl or grep. Honestly I only have the patience for one at the moment, which do you think is the best (taking the ease of learning into account)?
Thank you for sharing this, buddy. I'm glad you're better and doing fine.
> Frankly, copy/paste is a superior code reuse mechanism at this scale.

The one advantage I see to having borderline-ridiculous packages such as this is that they do One Thing Well [1]. Yes you may copy/paste an isObject() function or roll your own, but then it becomes your responsibility to make sure it works for your project, and arguably far fewer eyes on it when it doesn't. As long as the project's maintainer is dedicated to making this the best way to determine whether a variable is an object, I have no problem using it.

Although, I do find the 57 commits irksome. Most of them are just upgrading dependencies (code style checkers, etc.), "fixing" indentation, and in one case 7 separate tweet-sized diffs to the README on the same day, as if this guy has git commit/push bound to Ctrl+S in his editor.

[1] http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html
Sure, but it's consistent (I think ~15% or so based on some anecdotal evidence), so you can still use the data effectively.
How is it possible to be sure of that, though? If they're a contract mfg then by definition they've already signed a contract that says they can't do that, so if they do it, they've broken the contract.
I'm more familiar with publishing books than I am with publishing music. Getting a publisher for a book has traditionally been very difficult. Self-publishing is now a viable option (you have access to a retail channel that reaches a huge percentage of book-buyers). It may not be the best option for everyone, but I do think it makes contributing to literary culture possible for more people than ever before.

I also think that people having the ability to buy books (or music) from anywhere, and to choose from an effectively unlimited selection is something that ultimately benefits literary culture.
I became an entrepreneur first. The effect was that I was now actively looking for opportunities. Most people have opportunities for making money around them, but they don't notice, because they're not looking.

There are many hazards to this approach. I could have simply failed to find anything, and failed. But it's certainly viable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_emulator has a bit about the legal implications.
Very few arrests are necessary to maintain public order, especially in the short term.

Nobody is going to die if you don't arrest a guy for jerking it on the subway.
This is more true for alcohol than it is for black market drugs.

While still generally easy to find, its a bit harder to go up to a random sketchy looking person and ask them for drugs in a new city that you don't have a network of friends and contacts in.

This makes me wonder if "pulling a geographic" is more successful for people with substance abuse problems that do not stem from alcohol.
what version? B+?
Stuff like Mumbai attacks or the North Hollywood Shootout.
Stealing physical hard drives is really the only thing being protected against here, as far as I can tell. It seems that any instance in your account can access any encrypted volume in your account - there's no access control. I imagine Amazon is working on that, but right now if someone were to e.g. get permission to spin up an instance with stolen API keys, then they'd have access to all your encrypted volumes. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

I've actually rolled my own device encryption in the OS layer using LUKS and puppet. The puppet master is heavily locked down, and holds the decryption keys, which are only available to the correct client and then only ever stored in memory. So this provides somewhat more defense in depth than the AWS native solution.
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I remember with a pair of earbuds getting a little informational thing on the correct volume.

Their rule of thumb is if you are incapable of hearing and understanding what people are telling you without taking out your earbuds, they're too loud.

I tried this out, and found that I'm actually fine with the volume bar being maybe 30% of what I used to. Basically, put your earbuds in, play some music, and try to talk to someone. If you're unable to then you might be playing your music way too loud.

(For people using earbuds to drown workplace noise out, I'd suggest an ambient noise program like noiz.io. You can train your brain to filter ambient background noise, and its better than trying to 1-up the sounds in your office)
While I appreciate the article, having hearing loss is not like losing context of an image such as not being able to see the bear on the tricycle. It's more like the image is fuzzy and depending on the factor of loss, it might be a bear or it might just be some fuzz:

http://i.imgur.com/vKn7oTf.png

Audio compression, especially when using psychoacoustic principles, helps by lowering the noise of the unwanted sounds e.g "probably not a human voice" or "not a bear" in this case and increasing certain frequencies for a person's particular hearing range so they can "see" the image better.
Sure, we all settled relatively steadily on fruitful common ground in the end, and that's all that really matters. I just think it's ironic that people toot the RISC horn so hard in these threads when modern high performance RISC chips are much closer to the Pentium than vice versa. So many people miss that RISC was inspired by CISC microcode, not the other way around, and that the existence of complicated OoO RISC chips basically proves the RISC hypothesis (that you could keep the architecture simple to make it easy to crank clock frequencies up and up) false.
> "ears-þerl for buttocks" ...

> "“Fart”, which is believed to have existed in Old English as feortan

Perl, Fortran ... priceless!
Not a linguist, but there is a popular idea that many Anglo-Saxon words only became profane when one had the option of instead using the French (Norman) words. After the Norman conquest. Once the French became common, using the old version was seen as crude.

This also explains pig vs. ham, cow vs. beef, etc. The farmer raised the cow; his lord ate the beef.

Here is my point: This article was frustrating because it did not squarely address this theory. It feels to me like the article is avoiding the elephant in the room. This theory is too compelling to me to discount simply because we don't see certain words in writing. I wonder if this article is drawing hasty conclusions.

The swear words had to have come from somewhere, and the above explanation still seems to me to be the most compelling explanation.
To each their own, for me it's neither garbage collection nor sleep. It's having an organized todo list that's been prioritized.
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> assumption: java surely isn't as bad as they say. reality: it is

What exactly are 'they' saying? Java is a fantastic choice for server-side code.
> Listen closely, and try to remember what morse sounds like in the movies. It's there in the background, and once you hear it it's obvious.

I'm a ham operator from the days when Morse was required for all licenses. They really relied on the fact that the captors were not trained (otherwise they would have picked it off, it is obvious if you've spent quality time with a keyer), as well as the captive soldiers were trained to receive at a fairly good speed (it's too fast for me, but it's been years since my last conversation via morse code. Damn internet.)
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I have tested converting sed/awk lines to perl in a few base scripts that worked on a fairly large amount of data. Oddly enough, in every case, perl 5.18 performed at LEAST 1.5x faster, sometimes as much as 3.5x faster. Obviously anecdotal evidence, but recent versions of Perl seemed to have gained some good speed.
There is an Amazon API for that, but since you're trying to curate for only the best watches, manual work best.
If you're looking for someone to blame, I highly recommend the guy that sued Apple because the iPod could be loud enough to cause hearing damage:

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/7bf03be0-94de-11da-9f39-00007...

Apple eventually won and the case was dismissed, but the lower maximum value followed from that lawsuit.
I really love the border transitions. These are actually a breath of fresh air from most CSS animations I see posted.
There is worst: http://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-Diamond-52-49-Braided-Cable...

Almost $14k!
There are so many snake oil hifi cable/accessory companies that at least somebody must be buying this crap:

http://wathifi.tumblr.com/ (which is where I found the cable in question)
There are great numbers of people out there with more money than sense. That ratio can reach staggering heights.
See other comments in this thread such as (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8854139) that reach a similar conclusion, but do so in a reasonable fashion.
Since my co-worker and I have been maintaining Tilestache, I am glad you included it in your tutorial :)
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But but but it's low-distortion and low-jitter!
Being emotionally affected by traumatic events is normal for humans. Being affected to the point where you're unable to live your life, when minor stressors make you feel as though you're under attack and respond accordingly, where you're abusing drugs and alcohol to get by - that's where it becomes a disorder.

> Ino way am I advocating Political Correctitude. I hate that shit.

There was zero need to include this, it's entirely irrelevant to your point.
Serious question: Has anybody found a simple way to explain digital vs analog to a non-technical person? I've been asked this a few times, and even though the concept seems so simple, I have yet to find a good, intuitive way.

Because any people paying $5,000 for an Ethernet cable quite clearly have not grasped the concept.
> and the cult-like mentality within the company that prevents them from improving it.

The apple devs I've spoken to over the years have confirmed that there is, indeed, an overbearing 'cult like' mentality within the company.

However, I think it is the apple-worship from outside the company which plays a larger role here.

Like all companies, Apple exists to make money. As much as I dislike the developer agreement, it has served the purpose of helping apple to control their devs and users, and has helped apple to make money.

Apple will end these policies when their financial health requires it. Given the readiness of many devs and users to forgive, defend, and rationalize on apple's behalf - and given apple's ongoing financial success - I think its going to be a long time before this changes.
IMNSHO, it's 'whatever you want it to be'. It causes specific measurable changes to brain function and anatomy.
This brings to mind the 19y/o with the 1000yd stare I met not long ago. Shell shock isn't just something that happened a long time ago to your uncle who was in 'Nam. It lives with us here and now every day, and it's sad as hell. That kid will never function normally again most likely.

Much of modern combat personnel management (rotations, leave etc) revolves around minimizing the inexorable insanity that comes from exposure to mechanized slaughter.
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Interesting article. Thanks for posting, varunsrin! I've been following development of SoundFocus for awhile.

I'm profoundly deaf. This is a technical term classifying the degree of hearing loss; to give you a sense of where this fits, the typical classification range is mild, moderate, severe, profound, total.

Between a combination of hearing aids and lip-reading, I've done a reasonable job of integrating into a hearing society. Not perfect, but ok.

I've often wished for a different approach to correcting hearing. It crystallized for me after I read this article by Jon Udell: http://blog.jonudell.net/2014/12/09/why-shouting-wont-help-y...

In that article, what Jon found was that his mom would hear best if you spoke at a low to medium volume close to her ear - this worked better than any shouting at a greater distance could accomplish.

And it should be easy for you to simulate - get a friend to talk to you from 50' away - you can still hear them, but there's some detail loss that wouldn't happen if they're 3' away.

I still benefit - a lot - from MBC, but if someone could come up with a way to make the incoming sound sound as if it were right beside me, man, that would really help me understand people clearly.

One non-technical solution, that people use to ensure that deaf people can understand you clearly is to enunciate consonants audibly. An example of this is is the word "red" - it becomes "erREDdead". I don't know if there's a name for this so I can't point you to a page describing how to extra-enunciate all the letters. As useful as it is, people speaking to me like that always makes me feel like I'm dumb, because they sound dumb saying it. Clearly I have issues :-)
It is pretty trival to write a BF compiler to C, each instruction has a clear C equivilant and the parser is dead simple to write as well. It is less then an hours work to write a naive BF->C compiler
That is insanely horrifying...

I recently wanted to go to Rio, and then had a few people tell me I was completely insane and that I should never go. One of the guys who told me this knew a lot of people executed there, so I took his advice and stayed home.

I'd still be open to another opinion though...
>When you’re exploring new places to experience, Airbnb Neighborhoods combines local editorial content with the handy, need-to-know information alongside professional photos to explore a place without having to leave your chair.

I see a conflict here. How can you explore a place without leaving your chair? (pun-intended)
"The first commit of 2014 was to bump the copyright date, but then jsing jumped the gun and bumped it again at the end of the year, resulting in a copyright year one day shorter than the calendar year. Last commit, for the curious."

This is a level of pedantry that deserves respect.
It's not even very useful is it? shouldn't there be another check for !(Array.isArray(x)) ? Otherwise, checking for isObject(foo) will still not guarantee that foo.bar won't fail.
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Oh, I didn't mean to imply the book wasn't (well didn't appear not to be) great value. I'd be happy to pay ~20 GBP for a DRM free epub version. Not sure if I'll buy the paperback.
This is not a good measure, because different earphones have different efficiencies.

And the type of earphone changes the efficiency as well: The sound from the Etymotics all goes to your ear, but the others waste some sound out of your ear.
I sometimes wonder if this is just an elaborate money laundering scheme.
I use mine as a VPN gateway, web cache, media streamer, and source code repository. Sometimes I even use it as a pleasantly-silent desktop, since it's on the same stand that holds my monitor and keyboard/mouse. Because it's right here in the house, latency and bandwidth are great. Because it consumes so little power (even with an external 2.5" disk drive attached) I don't worry about leaving it on all the time. It's just a good do-everything workhorse, that also happens to be small enough that I could toss it in a bag and take it on the road with me if I felt like it.
There are many people who feel that the large amount of collateral damage from drones only inflames people against us. There's a lot of truth in that. But still, take the case of Bin Laden. He was living down the block from Pakistan's West Point. It seems logical to conclude that quite a few important people in Pakistan knew he was there.

So maybe it doesn't matter? Maybe the additional people we are alienating already hated us before we greatly increased the number of drone strikes?

Aside: the cynical me would bet even money that 95% of the 3rd world people who profess to "hate" us would jump at the chance to immigrate to the USA.

As for "justice", in order to remain happy living in the USA I have to believe that, overall, this country is basically good, that we're perhaps the best country in the world in terms of allowing people "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness". I do believe that.

I'll leave you with the title of a book that was published about 19 years ago:[1]

Pick a Better Country:
An Unassuming Colored Guy
Speaks His Mind about America

Ken Hamblin's basic point in that book is that we might not be perfect, but it's hard to find a country that, overall, is better than the United States of America.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Hamblin
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Just a guess, but I'm in my thirties with a family. I use Twitter and Instagram. I like that Instagram is keeping a trail of moments that I want to keep and return to - photos of my children, etc. I'm also likely to have more discretionary income than a teenager and to perhaps be more useful to advertisers driving money in to social networks. Maybe Facebook's changes and direction are judged only on the financial return and if each change is boosting that, then so be it.
I have tried meditation a few select times and over two sessions in the same year, I had the same experience. I found that I was in some sort of odd state, neither asleep nor awake. I did not have any recollection of my body. But my thoughts were strikingly aware of reality. I felt an overwhelming connectedness to essentially everything. I googled for the sensation and the closest match I could find was an Hindu word: turiya. I have no experience with this domain and have felt actually quite lost since I have never encountered anyone who had a similar frame of reference. It was quite overwhelming and has not happened but those two times. I do not indulge in any narcotics or mind altering drugs. Very unusual experience.
I think what mentioned by NathanKP is closer towards Samadhi than Vipassana :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samadhi
Is $200/day a lot for a highly effective antibiotic?

Genuine question--my experience is that a serious hospital stay racks up charges starting in the high five figures (and the sky's the limit), and if there's an antibiotic that's merely a couple thousand a day, it'd certainly be very cost effective.
I've never understood why either users or developers put up with all of Apple's crap.
Running pinball machines.

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Possibly the most extreme example I've come across of flawed digital audio logic was an article I was linked to recently co-written by one of MacWorld's technical editors describing in detail the differences in sound quality between various hard drives and SSDs [1]. The audiophile world can provide a laugh now and then.

[1] http://www.enjoythemusic.com/hificritic/vol5_no3/listening_t...
Vancomycin is used routinely (at least in the three hospitals I work in) and it is far from a last ditch drug. That has shifted to Linezolid and Daptomcyin. In the three hospitals I work at, medicine doctors must consult Infectious Disease doctors for approval to place patients on those therapies.
it reports no problems at all.
I took the class (6.828) last semester at MIT, and the labs do a great job of handling a lot of the annoying x86 stuff so that you can focus on the more interesting parts of writing an OS.

I know this because for the final project my partner and I ported the OS to 64bit. Although the number of changes was not too large, we spent hours debugging low level x86_64 stuff. Although we learned a lot, I think it is a good idea the labs provide the boilerplate.