skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not all together true. Usually trailer shots are called out at some point in the visual effects schedule of a show, and those shots are finished first specifically for the trailer deadline. The shots are not discarded and rarely "different" from what appears in movies, but can frequently be revised. In this case it is easy to see that the pterodactyl shot was a plate that could be used as a POV shot in earlier commercials and now has more of the shot done (and is likely considered to be finished, or labeled CBB - could be better / couldn't be bothered).
You're really arguing that learning about other cultures doesn't have a benefit? Cross cultural pollination not only contributes to a feeling of good will between counties, but it's responsible for lots of cultural and technological innovations. American culture is just a mish-mash of other cultures. Think about it. You eat spaghetti!
I assume every phone is a different user, and she just goes around rating apps. I am not sure if you could automate that process, but then why would the phones be arrenged in such a way that one person can quickly click on every one of them, instead of a dark room.
Just to head off a lot of confusion stirring on the net about this: The person who posted the picture is claiming this woman is doing app ratings, not some outsourced App Store submitted app approval process.
Amazon, the greedy giant with small publishers in its grip
Afaict, there is a single checkbox to click ('Allow some non-intrusive advertising') to not see white listed ads. I do not see ads from Google, MS, etc. when it is unselected.
I really appreciate Scott Adams' temperate perspectives on controversial issues. He's usually able to legitimately grasp the underpinnings of issues that most people in tech circles don't even want to countenance.

I have to agree that the overzealous apostles of Scientific Consensus that run around condemning people all the time often look very silly not-too-many-years-later. In their self-righteousness, they fail to see that they're just the same as the conservative grannies and aunts and uncles they look down upon with disdain: repeating a cherry-picked data point that they don't possibly have the professional background or academic context to actually understand, but which they fervently believe and adopt because it confirms their worldview and the people around them expect them to.

People are all fundamentally the same, and most people of any affiliation will propagate anything if they accept the authority of its source. This applies to conservative and liberal persons equally -- very few of them are even capable of deciding if an analysis of a complex topic is valid or not, let alone putting forth the effort to actually vet it. The world runs on trust.

Never trust a statistic you haven't faked yourself. Visit Retraction Watch for a frequently-updated sampling of things "science got wrong".
>Threads is a limited resource. Threads are expensive to create and dispose. Context switches are espensive. ...

Languages like Go with green threads don't have those issues. They execute about the same way languages that expose async IO do.
Or it could be weather related (like most outages), or a bad transformer, or a car running into a pole, or a ton of things...

So, you're right that we're missing a lot of context - including the duration. A 30 min outage due to an accident is very different from a 3 day outage due to a storm.

And like you said, AC can be a big drain on the grid during the summer.

(Disclaimer: I'm not sure what the weather in San Antonio is like...)
Because of drag/drop refactoring and the detail in the page journal, they have to track the history of every paragraph, which requires UI for interacting with individual paragraphs. You can't have just a big old textbox for the whole page and do things as we always have (maybe you can get close with the right diff algorithm).

So to edit a paragraph in the current UI you have to double click to get an edit box, then click to insert the cursor in the right spot. Adding a new paragraph requires a few clicks. Adding a new page and getting to that first edit box requires too many clicks.

Drag/drop as the primary mouse interaction also makes it hard to copy/paste text in and out of the wiki.

It's painful if you're used to orgmode.

But like I said, these are just UI gripes. You can see how they fall out of the fundamental design of the system, but I think focused client design could optimize editing and make it more familiar if that was a goal.
If they can't properly fact-check what they report, then what good are they? Any monkey with a laptop can regurgitate press releases these days. I suppose this is why traditional media is rapidly becoming irrelevant.
What you think is not as interesting as a precise definition, but in ignorance I'd take it. Both terms are the same thing, though, two sides of a coin, because you cannot not do something; It's imperative to do something you should do instead of doing some other thing you shouldn't, even if it is only thinking about what to else to do.

Wiktionary has 4 different, partially opposing definitions at the moment[1]. So, that's really not a notable source. The etymological source on Wiktionary is not quite clear to me either, because there's no direct relation to the prefixes di- or dis-. I guess, if you are really interested, it's worthwhile to have a look at the definitions of control theory[2], where discipline would be the application of control (as in the Olympic disciplines).

I never heard of self-discipline. To me it seems to be a self-contradiction, since a disciple is specifically someone who follows someone else. It works out if the followship is directed towards immaterial ideals, e.g. disciples not of teachers but teachings.

[1]http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/discipline
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_theory
It looks pretty much the same with remote jobs removed:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/135901/whos_hiring_pie/B...
Someone needs to make a tshirt:

You can be replaced with a small REST API.
Someone should downvote you for implying the government is not satisfying us 100%.
By default that uses 400 iterations, the current recommended is 10,000. Try it again with 10,000.
I'll have to agree to this.

Electricity is electricity, water is water, natural gas is natural gas.

But Internet traffic isn't a homogenous substance.
Or they could fire him and just hire somebody closer to their office.

I'm playing devil's advocate here, because I also sympathize with the story. But money really does rule all and cold business decisions are often unpleasant.
Music Recognition: The Shazam Algorithm
Monty Oum, animator at Rooster Teeth, has died
“Mobile Wearable Gaming”: No-tech Playable T-shirts on Kickstarter
Do you need to pay royalties to Microsoft in order to use DX12/DX11 in a commercial game?
I don't understand how people can disagree with this. He's perfectly correct. How often does one cite the price of cigarettes to quit smoking them?
Thank god, we still need somebody to write that API.
> Well, it doesn't really matter how old the pipes are as long as they continue working and provide water that meets the EPA/state standards for health.

Actually, it does. Water loss due to deteriorating infrastructure is becoming a significant issue as water supplies get strained. The EPA estimates that the average US water system loses 16% of their water during distribution, and about 75% of that can be prevented or recovered by maintaining and upgrading the systems.[1] Here in Texas this is a serious issue because our reservoirs are increasingly strained by population growth.

[1] http://water.epa.gov/type/drink/pws/smallsystems/upload/epa8...
Writing OpenDaylight Applications
The difference between performance and High-Performance
Also having been there, my admittedly fading memory remembers OS/2 as doomed before Linux was really an function parity option. And OS/2 wasn't really put up as a alternative to Unix (certainly IBM didn't want to cannibalize AIX); rather it was the server OS and upgrade to Windows that Microsoft customers were screaming for. Microsoft effectively killed off OS/2 the day they said "forget about OS/2...what you really wan't is this nifty thing we've got cooking called NT", no matter the effort IBM continued to pour into it.
are you an anarchist or something?
I have a sinking feeling that all this will result in is a situation where monopolies are given out to the existing players and no one is forced to do anything to upgrade the existing service.

It's naive to think it would be anything but this. We like the Internet as it is today but for some reason we need to have the FCC control it in order to try to keep it the way it is.
Bytes are bytes.
Personally, I have found NoScript for be sufficent for my needs. I don't mind advertising, but what I do mind is ads that pop-up, animate, or move. NoScript seems to take care of most of these.
First, researchers can't get funding unless everything they do is world-shattering and of clearly superior quality. This is why you'll never see a published paper with a title like, "We did X. It failed. This is probably not that important, but might be interesting at some point in the distant future." More importantly, you'll never see an article in a top journal titled, "These other guys did X, and now we have verified they're not full of beans by doing X too". How science is funded is directly responsible for both the titles we see in academic journals and the research that is actually done.

Second, even if a journal article isn't over the top in it's claims, the press releases about it will be. Journalists want to sell copy and generate page views. If what they're supposed to be reporting bores them, they'll get it wrong in an entertaining fashion more often than not. I'm sure Scott Adams and many here have heard that "Butter is healthier than margarine". A scientific study examined several margarines on the market and found that many brands contained a high percentage of saturated or trans fat. Based on the theory that saturated and trans fats are worse for your health than unsaturated fats (which is still supported by science) they concluded that some brands of margarine may be no more healthy than butter, which is mostly saturated fat (with some trans). A newspaper reported that this study proved that Butter was better for your than margarine, which was factually wrong based on that study, and then printed a retraction two weeks later. However, the damage was done. Dairy produces seized upon this single article and launched an ad campaign extolling the evils of their competitor. The "butter is better" myth persists to this day. The truth is still the same. Some margarines may be no better than butter, but others are.

I'd like to point out one of my own great disappointments about health and fitness: Medical doctors don't seem to know any more about it than the next guy. You'd think medical doctors, through their study of the human body and the many maladies that can affect it, would be the perfect people to tell you what to eat, what not to eat, how to exercise, etc.. They're not. Their profession is entirely focused on spotting problems that require medical intervention and then giving that intervention. When the body is healthy, the best thing they can do is leave the patient alone. This is because every medical treatment carries with it risks and side-effects. As such, an optimally running human body is the least interesting thing in the world to a medical doctor. Furthermore, they're taught to maintain patient confidence by seeming to know more than they do, and they take courses that teach them specifically how to do this. Yes, faking that you know more than you think you know is a course medical doctors take (Source: sibling who is a medical doctor). Asking the typical medical doctor about diet and fitness is like asking a used car salesman about fuel and oil mixtures for a F1 engine.
Batch (a suite of 300+ icons) is now free, read why (2012)
Of course they have. Well, everything is nice and dandy until your actors never block. As soon as you start blocking, your async model has the same problems as threads have. And you cannot really write real-life systems without blocking actors.

Ask Erlang programmers whether they have dealt with this kind of stuff.
High-def radar images of near-Earth asteroid captured
Actually, it would appear that scientists did, in fact, kick everyone in the balls for 20 years:

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/6/the-s...

Perhaps it was accidental in most cases. However, in the field of medical studies, the withholding of studies with negative outcomes (and their data) could be rightly described as "highly unscrupulous" researcher behavior. And this has apparently been de rigeur in medical studies for some time, and continues today:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/05/scandal...

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that published results are near worthless, if those publishing results are allowed to withhold studies. You just do studies until you get the results you want, and then publish that one.

So, it is difficult to blame people for doubting things, when there is evidence of widespread "hacking" of results by so-called scientists.
Just think how much progress we could make in neurology if we could open up prisoners' brains and tinker around with them?

Or to link back to the nutrition topic, what if we could just take prisoners and replace their intestinal bacteria with different mixes of gut bacteria? Continue to feed them a control diet and see who lives, who dies, who gets fat and who loses weight. Obviously, that experiment would be terrible -- but we'd find out pretty quickly what the "magic formula" is.

Could we bioengineer a gut bacteria biome such that an otherwise unmodified human could consume crude oil as a source of nutrition? How about one that can't get drunk because the bacteria break down the ethanol right in the stomach? We probably could -- but many people would die in the research process.

I'm not saying that we should do this type of research -- but our lack of ability to do it has hampered our understanding of the human body, and will continue to slow progress relative to other scientific fields where such research IS ethically possible (e.g. building the LHC to understand subatomic particles).
Seems like this could be about app store ratings, but it seems more likely that this is about manual testing. Wake me up when there's some more (credible) information.
At Lavaboom, we simply check against the 10k most used passwords (in memory), but we plan to move to 1 million soon (on disk – account creation is relatively infrequent for the slower access speed to not matter).

Our problem is that we SHA the passwords on the client side, so each password is 256 bits long. The resulting hashtable (or bloom filter) is still a reasonable size for disk storage, though.
Say goodbye to your occupancy permit, which will probably cause mortgage default.

You won't be kicked out of your house for canceling cable.
Shouldn't that analogy read:

code no true C programmer would write : heartbleed :: code no true rust programmer would write : (exercise for the reader)
Easy upvotes.
It is in the same way it's possible to ethically recruit non-prisoners to take part in diet research.

That is - it is not ethical.
Gaming the system will always be apart of the game.
Wheeler is apparently basing the 'light touch' Title II regulation on similar regulations applied to mobile video (but not mobile data). Does anyone have some examples of the applications of mobile video being so regulated (The YouTube app on my phone? Probably not?) the kinds of regulations imposed and what the results have been?
Ah interesting, as in: she's the person who rates your app if you "buy" some ratings?
Nice work, clean looking. There is something to be said for a simple but useful app.

I were going to ask for one more field, I'd like to see a field for the task owner (could just be simple text) at which point I think it would definitely work for simple project management.

Of course a status field, notes and comments would make it a more complete system, but I think certain types of projects can get away without those things.
How complex environments push brain evolution
Since he's a Go fan, he might prefer lightweight threads running in an event loop rather than real threads with their context-switches. Moreover his concern is syntactic, not semantic: so maybe he'd like something which "looks thread-like" but "complies-to-CPS" too.

Some Microsoft engineers are working on a nice solution to the thread-race-condition problem with a somewhat different approach: pretend your threaded environment is a DVCS. When you want to spawn a new lightweight-thread, think of it as a git clone. It makes its own changes to its own state, then you can eventually pull its changes into the present state -- so you get deterministic threading if you've got a deterministic merge algorithm.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/revisions/
I think there's also a general problem with people interpreting what's communicated to them. They need great storytellers to get across the correct information with the correct nuances. Otherwise you get media institutions with bogus headlines and misleading quotes to build hype and panic. Fox News is notorious for this, but most media prefers to sell snake oil over science because people want a simple message. Unfortunately science is not always simple.
I'd consider that equivalent to a utility not chlorinating the supply, or having sediment issues; both are unexpected and undesired behaviors which can be corrected.

I do not understand the desire to compare problematic internet service to sewage-pumping through the potable water supply. Are you desperate for superlatives which will make the internet service providers look bad?
>As a libertarian who knows tech, I'm on the government's side here

That's an oxymoron.

The core reason internet service sucks for the vast majority of Americans is because state and local governments grant monopoly status to the ISP cartels. This move by the FCC does nothing to remedy that and consequently will not solve the problem. If they require higher "standard" of internet without doing away with the monopolies, for the vast majority of people this will only mean a higher bill.
Internet access is already subject to tax, barring this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Tax_Freedom_Act
You can't always intelligently dissent from what you are told by the government without an insider providing you details, however.

We don't even know what our own government is doing in our name. We need its secrets so we can hold them accountable to what we are actually willing to have happen.

Otherwise, we are mere passengers or rubber stamps for their bad behavior-- which is the case, currently.
That seems like an awful lot of iPads for one person if she's just doing manual testing.
R A Fisher is now promoting Bayesian analysis???

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Fisher+%22prominent+opp...
Given their past exploitation by businesses that were supposedly trying to help them, perhaps they are now wary of any businesses that claims to be trying to help them.
Somehow like that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O4fMlOogh4
Some interesting speculation about branding and hoaxing that are pertinent here: http://valleywag.gawker.com/the-shanley-show-was-the-whole-t... .
> Butthurt libertarian detected

This violates the HN guidelines and I'm afraid some of your other comments have as well. Please re-read the site rules and try harder to follow them:

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> and from here on out I'll be derailing to rant at a more general 'you' than you specifically

At least you warned us, but how is this at all related to the comment you are nominally replying to?
My landline telephone is very satisfactory. I've never encountered any service disruptions with it. In fact, I can't think of a single time in my entire life where I've picked up the phone and not had a usable dialtone on the other end, or where I've placed a call (to another landline) and received a bad connection.

The single time I had a problem with how it was billed, I called the state regulator who worked with my telco to sort out how taxes were being calculated. It turned out that they were billing me correctly, but couldn't explain it over the phone.
(Just trying for clarity, not arguing against or opposing your point)

In an earlier comment you used as an example of an unforced error "we wrote our custom database engine that only ever runs serverside in C".

Are you saying (with this comment) that for such use cases, developers should use Java/Python/Go/Lua (vs C/C++)?
That can buy one expensive bike!
> Do you communists even listen to yourselves?

> And where the hell do you get this

> Do us a favor

> whatever your mind twisted it into

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Ask HN: Have you ever written docs for an open source project you're new to?
So I've occasionally, upon trying to join an open source project, been told that the best way to get started was to write documentation for it. In fact, that if you're new you are a great person to write documentation because you know what is confusing.
I've been programming for about 8 years now and thought I would be able to do this by the time I graduated uni or had a few years in industry. That's happened and I've never actually been able to do this successfully and always ended up walking away in frustration. Has anyone ever written good documentation for an unfamiliar project? How do you go about quickly getting an understanding of the conceptual structure of the project from a high level?
And then they try to make up for it with free meals and a "family" feel while underpaying his work ethic and loyalty. It's a common trick.
I think there's no proper to learn something, but I find useful to have several resources available. For example it could be interesting to read the source code of jQuery (or something smaller such as http://zeptojs.com/ or https://lodash.com/) and to read a book at the same time (http://eloquentjavascript.net/) and why not trying to make parallel between them. Also don't hesitate to google stackoverflow for javascript question as it is likely that you'll found any answer to your questions.
To finish I think having friends or a mentor will help you a lot.
Adding viable competitors is how.

Title 2 will make it so other companies have a chance to exist on the government sponsored lines. Once Comcast sees its lifeblood spilling into the streets, Im betting their CS will be as sweet as pecan pie.
>monopolies are given out to the existing players

Why would you think this?

>a crappy connection forever

Or this? Just last week, the FCC raised its definition of broadband, against the complaints of incumbent ISPs.
I love how the upvote system encourages pedantry.

It's clear that Parent is saying "Comcast delivers shitty service" -> "water utility delivers shitty water".

It's a (possibly unintentional) pun, and I'm quite certain that Parent was able to get their point across regardless of technical inconsistencies.

But don't let that stop you in your quest to nitpick on the internet.
I agree entirely, it is comparable to a power outage (, which happens quite often both at my residence and place of work).