skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, and there is a financial proof: you can get a PPA deal. If the snow makes the output lower you just don't pay anything and the company losses. So we can assume that either the snow just falls off or that they would come clean it.
You don't get it. It is not about if there are some tools that are better for his vision or not. Each artist is different. It is what facilitates the vision, your vision. What tools best allow you to express it, those are the ones to focus on.
Unfortunately I haven't published it yet, but I can describe what I did. I have like 3000 lines of shell script to make containers, and maybe 800-1000 lines are related to debootstrap.

I have a cron job running daily on multiple machines, doing a deterministic debootstrap of Debian Wheezy on i386 and amd64.

It basically wraps debootstrap, strips down the image a bit, and stamps out the nondeterminism. Every day it has gives a checksum for i386 and one for amd64, which holds across multiple host machines (one is Debian Wheezy, the other is Ubuntu Trusty). So it is free from host influence.

The /etc/apt/sources.list just has the "wheezy" repo now (i.e. not wheezy-updates). So Debian 7.7 had one pair of checksums, and then on Jan 10 2015, I noticed Debian 7.8 was released. They changed that day, and have been stable/reproducible every day since.

Part of this is also mirroring the Release/Packages metadata daily and storing version history in Git. One nice thing I found out about Debian through doing this is that the Release file completely describes the input, since it's hashes all the way down (a "Merkle tree", basically like Git itself.) My scripts also make it so you can store versioned metadata in one tree, while keeping data immutable in "pool" (all this really requires is symlinks and file:// URLs for the repo).

What project were you working with in this area? I'm basically doing this to make reproducible builds of containers. I'm kind of surprised that Docker completely punts on this problem.
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Still have my 31 year old beeb working. That said, the PSU has had a lot of work on it and there's a ton of heatsinks added, but it's stable for 1-2 hours before crashing.

Can't get disks or cassettes to load (still got all the Acornsoft and Superior stuff), but I plan on linking it up to something like a Pi and add a custom file system to be able to load stuff up again. Interested if anyone already has mananged this.
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Researchers at MIT built an 802.11 mesh network some years back. All it would take would be one or two gateway nodes in the middle of the mesh and you would have Internet at a tolerable speed. It would also save having to lay cables over your neighbours.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~srini/15-744/papers/roofnet-mobicom05...
technically, a hook shell script could start 10 background commands, or start 10 commands using GNU Parallel.

This obsession with using a single language for everything is ridiculous and needs to end.
Single page apps are the problem. Angular made a bad idea more achievable. For this it deserves blame, not praise.

Everything else falls out from that: if you don't try to pull off a gigantic SPA, you don't need all the rest of the crap on the client side because your given unit of UI is much smaller than the entire app.

People will eventually look at angular the way they look at J2EE. "Great community support, corporate standard, lots of documentation, no one ever got fired..."
I think the Hikikomori phenomenon has been widespreading due to its popularization. imho being a shut-in has become a codified cry for help, a way to express a certain discomfort backed up by social proof. It has nothing to do with being lazy or spoiled, as implied in Japanese media like the Welcome to the NHK anime; I've yet to read the novel.

Hikikomori exists outside of Japan too. I recommend you to watch the following video about hermitism and shut-ins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70bv5gaN4LI
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Tinder uses Facebook's API heavily. It's not surprising it went down with Facebook
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> I used to think we could escape surveillance using technology. Fool's errand. We'd need an entire culture change. It's gone.

I seem to remember one of the Pirate Bay founders said something along those lines. Not even because it's "already lost" but because we need to start treating the cause and not the symptom. Yeah it's great that we can use encryption to avoid government snooping for now, but how long will that be feasible? The long-term solution would be to stop them from doing it in the first place.
We've reached a point where I don't even need to open links named "Introducing [fancy sounding name]" to know that it's yet another Javascript framework.
And Polymer.
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As someone who doesn't respond to second-generation antihistamines, this sucks. The one I take is even listed on the "anticholinergic" Wikipedia page (Chlorpheniramine). I've always been worried about the long term effects of the drug, and limit my dosage as much as possible. I guess an allergy free life is worth some dementia risk later down the line.
The vast majority of mammals have only black and white vision, quite likely because all the common ancestors the survived the K-T event (the meteor impact that killed the dinosaurs) were nocturnal.

Some groups such as fructivore primates have since re-evolved color vision to recognize ripe fruit from unripe. Thus not only our ability to see "pretty" colors but our probable instinctive liking of them as "pretty".

Also, color is more complicated than simple wave length. Human perception and wavelength correspond fairly well most of the time. But we actually have three different cells for detecting color (rather than say two: one for high frequency one for low). The result is we can perceive a color like purple where in fact there is no one wavelength but a blending of two wavelengths. Pedantically by the way, red is a relatively low wave length.
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Late reply, but maybe you'll find it anyway.

I struggled with seeing things through (projects, homework, household tasks) amidst a cacophonous riot of distractions competing for my directionless attention. I thought I was broken. I really did. I did my own research into numerous mental conditions because I actually thought i might have something deeply wrong with me.

Turns out, it's mostly chemical. You have no idea how freeing that was to discover, to lay down those burdens and recognize that I'm just wired differently, and that my unusual wiring can be an amazing advantage if only I could control that one thing: where my attention goes.

First day on Adderall, and I literally felt like a superhero, I got so much shit done. I'm told that neurotypical folks who take Adderall just get revved up.

But if you have ADD, your brain either makes too little dopamine, or the re-uptake of dopamine is revved up. So your brain is constantly and subconsciously seeking the reward of novelty by taking over your normally conscious ability to direct your attention (something most people take for granted).

And Adderall changes that. It gives you the ability that most people have to control where their attention goes, even if the task isn't particularly novel or exciting.

People without it just don't understand how I can say I can't control my attention, it's such an alien concept to them. I can control it, as long as its focused on something exciting and new. Tasks were due "now" or "not now", and "not now" just wasn't very exciting for my brain's wiring. Oh, look, a chicken!

It was literally a life changing decision for me. I never regretted it. Never felt like I was giving in. Never felt like I lost a part of myself to the drugs.

Hell, some days, I still feel like a superhero.

Get a referral if you need one to see a psychiatrist, unless your general physician is well versed in dosage and formulations for the stimulants (there are two major kinds and one may end up being significantly better for your particular wiring). And get your heart checked too - amphetamines and heart rhythm defects don't go together.

That's my rambling (meds wore off a long time ago!) and too-late reply, and I hope you discover it.
If I could misread that, so could everyone else :)
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Pasta pre-soaked in alkaline water will have "al dente" texture, no mush. That's just lateral take on alkaline ramen noodles.

So pretty much all your rant doesn't apply. Thanks for playing, try again next time.
See also http://www.ioccc.org/1984/mullender.c (30 years ago). Hint at http://www.ioccc.org/1984/mullender.hint
Check out GoSDC:
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/J.Kortink/home/hardware/gosdc/...

Also you can now get ethernet! (BBC Master 128 only)
http://www.sprow.co.uk/bbc/masternet.htm
It is still an open question as to whether progressive interests would be better served by having Facebook blocked. Certainly some percentage of conservative Turks use Facebook; blocking Facebook is a decision to forego something they may value. Right now they get to have their pie and eat it too. I'm not sure that is healthy.
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Repton (without the 10 minute wait :)
http://bbc.godbolt.org/?disc=sth%3ASuperior%2FRepton.zip&aut...
One doctor in the article states that the diagnosis criteria ought to include whether or not the shut-in is unhappy with the situation. A happy hermit would not be a hikikomori in his eyes.

That said, I'm an introvert myself as well. Spending time with others in a social setting drains me mentally, and I prefer being alone or with my SO. But if I never left the house for months or years, it would be quite depressing for me.

I think the issue goes beyond people who simply don't like spending time with others. People are suffering.
>>HOWEVER, HN sounds downright ridiculous when it declares that being listed in a database is comparable to being summarily executed for criticizing state religion.

Here's the thing: countries can transition into totalitarianism quickly.

1930 Germany was very, very different than 1940 Germany. Hitler's rise to power happened in the blink of an eye, before most people understood what was happening.

This is why "oh, being listed in a database is nowhere as bad as being summarily executed" should be consolation. Such mindsets breed complacency, whereas what we need is constant vigilance and an extreme intolerance for policies that grant the government more power without any oversight.
And Hindi. Nobody uses the original "chaturang" form. I never even knew this was the origin of the word shatranj until I saw this wikipedia page.
It must take a certain type of personality to be able to pull this off. I am guessing that they need to be single with no strong emotional attachments to family or love ones, relatively healthy, extremely focused on a single objective, and working on projects that do work well for small teams.
And forgive my sin of unchecking reactivate in 7 days automatically.
I'm extremely introvert and – as a student, not a neet! – I've lived the past months in a manner similar to that described by the article. I think no shut-in nor introvert gets satisfaction from such behaviour.
I think most religious people are going to claim that being critical is the same as being insulting. Can you claim that (for example) being critical about Jesus' deeds is not the same as insulting him?
A site like Facebook has a different profile though. More like email. If you cannot reach your mail, you'll read it at a later point.

When facebook comes up, people will catch up on "lost facebook time" most likely. Over the course of the week (or even day) it will most likely even out.
I left my job to make video games, mostly solo. I'm financially able to pursue this lifestyle for the foreseeable future.

> One of the nice things about having a 9-5ish job is that I have to go into the office on a regular basis (not necessarily every day).

You hit the nail on the head for me. What I miss most from a normal job isn't money or status, but simply being around other people. I never once thought that I would have felt this way.

I'll be joining a coworking space when money permits, to be sure.
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1. Yes, see https://github.com/daGrevis/hndrx

2. Obviously,

3. With explicit permit from user each time it's needed (like it's for webcam);
Google+ was actually down as well, but fortunately neither of their users tried to log in during the outage.
Bowing to tyranny makes you a part of that same tyranny. Still, it's facebook, so I'm not exactly surprised.
> Decisions like that are made in the open.

Yes, and rarely. I've spent 5 minutes trying to think of such an example and failed, maybe you have something in mind?

> If they want to log RFID tags they have to spend a billion dollars putting readers everywhere, at which point people rip the tags out and the readers are useless.

Lol, you throw out a cost like it would be some sort of problem for them to spend money that isn't theirs. You know how you keep people from ripping the tags out? You require manufactures to install them in every vehicle manufactured after September 1st 2007. If people actually start tampering with this legally mandated safety device, lean on the states to add it to the vehicle inspection requirements... for safety. But few will tamper with the tracking, er, safety device - because it adds convenience to their lives and they can't even be bothered to install PGP.

> All of those things failed. Nobody gets tired of winning.

Only the clipper chip failed. Also, I'm tired - as are many of my friends and coworkers. Up until two years ago about 80% of my time was spent as a security researcher, I burned out. I'd like a systemic fix, because I'm tired of the game.

> ... not having mass surveillance. You're arguing the opposite ...

I argue the opposite as a method of harm reduction, I thought I made it clear in my top post that an end to state spying would be ideal. Where you and I part ways, I think, is that I believe that it is impossible to prevent and verify. You seem to actually believe the whole "consent of the governed" thing.

> ... only practical to do it according to the rules with probable cause rather than in bulk in secret.

Until they start monitoring power consumption, in the interest of finding grow houses. [0] Or monitoring sewers in the interest of catching bomb makers. [1] Please don't suggest that we add this to the cat and mouse game, where I now need to invite strangers over for pee parties and hook my dryer up to a noise generator that randomly turns it on in order to stay ahead in the privacy game.

[0] http://www.computerworld.com/article/2469854/internet/bitcoi...

[1] http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/sewer-sensors-detec...
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Both muslims and their western apologists have such huge issues over it, that anything critical at all including the most highly legitimate comments or use of any form of parody at all is immediately decried as 'racist' (even though a religion is not a race) or 'islamophobic', their favourite snarl word.
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nitpick: they're actually registered in New York, not Delaware.
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Well, starbucks was intentionally founded to be a "third place".
http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=www.sourc...

"Of the 10 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 0 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent."

What about bundleware fail?

http://httpshaming.tumblr.com/post/95068402386/filezilla-sou...
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Tiny fix: Red is high wavelength within the color spectrum. It has a low frequency, if that's what you mean.
Or it could be a power issue brought on by this little bigger than average blizzard that will hit the Boston area the hardest where, incidentally, Akamai is located.

But sure, couple of script kiddies might be responsible as well. It's usually one or the other.
The first can be countered with a system that uses mobile as a primary or backup.

Some systems, e.g. alarm.com ones send a signal to the monitoring centre when an entry door is opened, then if no disarm signal is sent (e.g. the control panel was destroyed), they treat that as an alarm and dispatch police. It's also possible and done by some companies to hide the main control panel somewhere unobtrusive (and mute its speakers) and just place a remote panel by entry points as well as a remote speaker.

As for upstairs, that's people being foolish. Myself, I would never accept one that didn't protect upstairs entry points just to save a little bit of money. As they say, a fool and his money^H^H^H^H^Hsecurity are soon parted.
This is called "comparative advantage". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage

This description of it by P.J. O'Rourke in "Eat the Rich" uses the respective talents of John Grisham and Courtney Love to explain it.

http://appliedabstractions.com/2004/11/30/ricardo-explained-...
"Problem solving" is perhaps the wrong phrase here. It's more like "information gathering", which is an important step in problem solving.
We all draw a line between "critical" and "insulting", but everyone's line is different. What you consider insulting, I might not, and vice-versa. From your link, it sounds like the banned content was the cover of the latest Charlie Hebdo[1]. Personally, I don't find that insulting or critical of Muhammad. Others may think differently, and they have every right to.

But more importantly: Government-enforced censorship bothers me, even when it's of content I find insulting or offensive. I don't like the state deciding what I'm allowed to see or hear. I'm mature enough to make those decisions for myself.

1. https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/charlie-hebdo-...
Facebook status[1] on this seems dry. Hoping to see a tech blog post soon on this issue.

[1] https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/39399836411226...
Well more properly python doesn't have a "main" function. You just directly execute the initial script, which will import other modules, define functions and classes, etc, and finally (hopefully) execute something.
Thanks, that's a very helpful explanation. (A partition key is optional in Kafka - the DefaultPartitioner just computes a random partition regardless of key.)

I am having trouble visualizing this in NSQ:

> [A server] might consume and acknowledge multiple messages to produce one new message

I can imagine a server consuming multiple messages and performing a single write to e.g. ElasticSearch or Cassandra - in this case it doesn't matter that the batched write is a random subset of messages. But I can't imagine consuming multiple messages and emitting another message - at least not without being able to reason about what partition of data was present on that server. For example, I can't detect an abandoned shopping cart because a single shopper's events will be scattered across all servers.

Maybe I'm thinking of this wrong - can you give a live use case for consuming multiple events and emitting a single message in NSQ?
It's possible to configure most motion sensors to not detect pets by adjusting the height they scan at and/or their sensitivity (most say they won't detect pets under a certain weight). Not to mention that if there is any evidence of a large dog (cats being too small to trigger any decent motion sensor), a "Beware of Dog" sign is just as much a deterrent to break-ins as an active alarm.
Is coconut water as magical as everyone says it is?
Not an impressive site..

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What happened?

The owner of this website (blog.durandal.io) has banned your IP address
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That's why relying on a single link for anything is a bad idea - if a system is known to use a landline, it's trivial, especially as in most parts of the US phone lines are aboveground, to cut the phone line before breaking in.
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The trouble with that analogy is that water and electricity (just about) are absolutely essential to our day-to-day lives; a specific social media site isn't. Facebook needs to appeal to the trend to keep in business. Hugely popular social networking sites have failed in the past, precisely when they've fallen out if fashion.
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Not sure about the biology, but there is some evidence from physics for this.

The speed of light is constant in a vacuum, but different for different wavelengths in a medium. This is why shining white light through a glass prism causes it to disperse into many colors -- they each travel through the medium at slightly different speeds. Interestingly, the refractive index (how much the light slows down in a medium) is higher for larger wavelengths like red in the color spectrum. So technically, red light travels slower than blue or green light in a medium (eg. air, water etc.).

Of course I would delays in this would be absolutely tiny compared to delays due to neural processing .... but hey who knows, maybe we can tell the difference!
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lol, ok buddy - being described as pedantic by a person who just helpfully volunteered the revelation that normal people don't have moats is just too weird.
Frankly, I am amazed technical marketing at Semi companies get the specifications right as often as they do. They typically don't get to bother engineering all too much and even if they typically have worked in engineering before they probably didn't work at an architecture level.

Seems entirely plausible this information had not made it from engineering to technical marketing and/or been missed in a review.
Hmm, but there's lots of livestock that doesn't generate methane (and she/he did specify CO2 there).
Wow, that's messed up. Might as well have a big "burglary decoy" sign above that door too. Something makes me think letting agents have trouble getting the same price for that flat...
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Can you elaborate on what these pre/post-"build commits" did and why they were needed?

If these commits were used to adjust version numbers in source files, the following trick should eliminate them: Check out the release branch into a working copy, adjust the version numbers in the working copy, and then copy the working copy to the tag's URL (as in: cd working-copy; svn copy . ^/tags/1.0)

If this was a maven project: The maven release plugin is doing this wrong and performs 3 commits to an SVN repository per release...
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I'm from Turkey and this situation is just pathetic.

It's just "if visitor.country = 'turkey' then post.visibility = false".

Every person in the world except people from Turkey can see everyting. We are putting our head in the sand and screaming "trolololo we can't hear you".

A whistleblower account on twitter? disable it to users from turkey. A youtube video with phone call transcripts about corruption between prime minister and some corporation offical? disable it to users from turkey. Same conversation uploaded to soundcloud? meh, just disable it to users from turkey. What about a paper about some government corruption? disable slideshare.

Everyone knows what a corrupt country we are. except us.