skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have always gotten the impression there was a failure of communication when (without lose of generality) Haskell programmers would tell (also, without loss of generality) Python programmers that Python only has one type, 'object', which appears to violate the understanding of the Python programmer thoroughly enough that there isn't really even a conversation about what is meant by the comment.

The first point dissolves this conversation (because clearly neither the Haskell nor Python programmers are confused about the execution of actual programs). Notably, it dissolves it in a way where that pesky third issue doesn't pop up (which is perhaps the worst of them all, sans _maybe_ the last).
Thanks for the link! Is it fanless too ?

the 15W consumption seems to hint it could be, but the datasheet does not mention it.
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Scalar Types and PHP
I agree with you. Every now and then I see mentions of "all-new-regex-builder" on HN frontpage. What is up with regex and desire to write wrappers upon wrappers on top of it?

I see regex like that: if you have to use it often enough, better to learn it as it is - will be more helpful in the long run. If you don't use regex too often then just google your question - there's a very high chance that somebody already wrote regex for your or similar problem.

Only tools I ever use are regex testers (like regexr.com) when I need to make sure that pattern works correctly.
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> It makes good sense to return to this concept of heating, but that doesn't mean that we have to go back to using fireplaces and carrying burning embers around the house. While the old concept of heating is more energy-efficient, the same cannot be said of most of the old heating devices.

Two problems meet one stone - hydronic heating (http://www.warmmfloors.com/ | http://www.hydronicheating.net/)
Yes. It is just a central repo that also does caching/proxying of external repositories. In many enterprises developers won't have access to download from the external internet so godep won't work.

It also has a fine grained security model and allows for security evaluations of libraries (check for outdated/insecure etc).
"More seasoned"

nice euphemism. I have a colleague who is a WP fiend -- and has an AOL email address. Not that old either.
As a Chinese, I agree with you. A lot of (let's say most of)Chinese people actually care more about making money than creating value for society. But, I think this is a short-term wave, especially starting from 1978. And in China, people need more money to establish safety of life since there are less social security and public welfare comparing to western countries. This could change when there are more social security program, more insurance, medical care. So, I don't think this is a "tremendous cultural problem".
Americans tend to under-estimate the country we live in, or conversely, over-estimate the competition. I lived in and ran a Startup in Thailand for 7 years, and therefor learned this lesson the hard way.
You probably only want to enable syn cookies when you are under heavy attack, but from the same article:

"I can trivially prevent any inbound client connections with 2 threads of syn flood. Enabling tcp_syncookies brings the connection handling back up to 725 fetches per second."

"This data compellingly supports the continued value of the syncookie and that position seems to have won the day."

Of course this refers to the Linux TCP/IP stack, the Mirage stack is completely different so it remains to be seen what measures will be effective against syn floods.
I was also talking about JVMs people actually use.

There is much more out there than OpenJDK and Oracle commercial JVM.

If you want a real product example,

http://www.is2t.com/products/specifications/
It's fair to say that but it isn't the case that someone can have an worthwhile opinion of something they haven't tried and a lot of people working with say JavaScript or PHP just have never tried a decent ML-style language in anger.

I think Stephen is a tiny bit guilty (as we all are) of that which I'll use Kahneman wording's to put: "Nothing is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it". There's what seems to be an exaggeration that whatever cost a type system has must be high... it isn't even true of dependently typed programming languages.

I also think product and sum types can be given a free pass to most complaints and while at it, you can throw in first-class function type as a minimum. And I will grant that you can stay away from ad hoc polymorphism and subtyping.
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In many real world circumstances, I don't think building a native app makes as much sense as building for the web.

However... every project has different constraints and opportunities. There are situations where native apps make more sense.
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yes, that's not unlikely, and very interesting if its the case.

the openbsd audio stuff is very interesting. and sort of odd for that platform to have.
The mirror twins of ad hominem and ad verecundiam (appeal to authority) are always fallacies, regardless of person or circumstances. To say that certain people should get away with them is itself an appeal to authority. In logic, science, or debate, the identity of the person making or disputing a claim is irrelevant. If Clausen had a concern about the data, he should have said so. If he had a concern about the reasoning applied to that data, he should have said so. That would have been "demanding rigor" as you put it, but he did neither. Instead he addressed identity, and that's where he came off as snotty.
I find it amazing how all these self proclaimed web gurus that make "pretty" blog posts or articles think that they're way of doing things is so great. This ∆ is how his blog looks on my phone. Gotta love reading two words on a line.

∆ http://i.imgur.com/WQ3Um9d.png
Did you get paid to post this? We don't usually get commercial JS libraries on the front page.
I find your and the parent's arguments really interesting.

For me Go reminds me so much of Java 1. And it seems to be getting pulled by the community in the enterprise Java direction e.g. generics, annotations, dependency injection, broad frameworks and the simple, tightly focused tooling direction.
I wouldn't mind that, it's not having any way to do queries that is frustrating.
Here's the cached version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
What I hope for is not US coexisting with China, EU or any other state. I hope that more freedom-leaning countries open up to immigration and blur or erase the concept of being a citizen. In fact I hope everyone sees the current status quo as immoral rather than just not optimal. NWO ftw
Fair enough.

Over the long term, rent usually fixes to a certain % of "All in" housing costs. (Usually close to mortgage payments plus upkeep plus condo fees)

The difference is that rent is a short term costs, so for startups they're not eating the 30 year home ownership cost, just the monthly rental differences.

It is a generationally regressive tax only to the extent that parents die with no assets left. If they die with positive assets, then the value of their homes gets handed to their kids.

The CA system is painful for other reasons. At the outset, it's a tax by people with good credit on people with bad. (You can't get the tax benefits of home ownership unless you have good credit) The bigger issue is the nature of the taxation... Because tax increases on houses can't rise as fast as the homes themselves, new homeowners pay a penalty relative to the value of the house. (If you and I both both buy homes in the same neighborhood. You paid 500K 3 years ago, and I pay 1mm today, my tax burden will be almost double yours)
Have you seen Singapore real estate prices lately? The same 2-br condo (Parc Vista @ Boon Lay, never a particularl desirable location to begin with) I used to rent for $1000/mo back in ~2005 is going for ~$3500/mo now, the building hasn't gotten any newer in the meantime, and this is actually a bit cheaper than it was two years ago.
That's the exact one I have. It's definitely not a "plug and play" router, but I love it. My only real beef is that most everything on it requires a much larger level of network administration knowledge than any other hardware.

I'm also scared that I'm going to open up my home intranet to the world every time I tweak some of the advanced settings.

Not trying to dissuade anyone from using them, but it's light years away from a DD-WRT-based router.

OTOH, the ability to run VMs on your router is magical. I have yet to do that, but I'm itching to do something like putting the unifi management tools on it.
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So you could just check if the frame i is similar to the frame n-i?
The 2960 series has 8 and 24 port models, that are fully managed switchs - VLANs, management, anything that you can do in the IP Base IOS.

See the bottom of this page for models the 24 and 8 switches are what you are looking for. http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/switches/catalyst-2960...

Also, if you want a cheaper options the Dell Basic switches are fully managed and have just about any feature you could want.

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/powerconnect-2800/fs

Unless I'm missing something that you are looking for.
"Irregardless" is not a word.
The weakness of the type system becomes a problem pretty quickly - simply having a different implementation of an adaptor, be it per language, transport or even simply type of node makes for an endlessly leaking abstraction.

That's what I felt that overlapped with the GP's comments on composing complexity. It's not so much that you _can't_ implement multiple cases (not to the nth degree, just a handful), it's that the abstraction leaks painfully.
So, that's a business that shuts down gracefully. They clearly identify their last date, and, continue to serve a useful function (for their customers, at least) right up until that date. They even continue to take new customer business right up to 30 days prior to their last day of business.

"Kindly note that RapidShare will stop the active service on March 31st, 2015. Extensions of STANDARD PLUS and PREMIUM will be possible until February 28th, 2015."
Some perspective:

How the US dollar became so important: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/07/16/331743569/episode-...

US GDP per capita vs China's GDP: http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&m...

In a nutshell, the cost of an iPhone is ~5% of China's GPD per capita, but will continue to shrink as they grow.
Google’s Time at the Top May Be Nearing Its End
Torrentfreak has some good editorializing and context around this shutdown:

https://torrentfreak.com/file-sharing-icon-rapidshare-shuts-...

"Hoping to clear up its image the company made tremendous efforts to cooperate with copyright holders and limit copyright infringements. Among other things, the company adopted one of the most restrictive sharing policies while (re)branding itself as a personal cloud storage service.

"The anti-piracy measures seemed to work, but as a result RapidShare’s visitor numbers plunged. The dwindling revenues eventually cost most of RapidShare’s employees their jobs."
I assume something has broken, but this article makes no sense to me. It's full of sentences like:

"If is very similar to , and is different from , then we do not need to compute to know that and are also very different."
I've never been a huge fan of the "snapshot and pray" school of backups. This tool does it right and supports S3 and Azure storage (equivalent to S3).

https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e

Also: Azure SQL is $15/month and includes restoration of the database to any point in time in the last 14 days. I LOVE Postgres but finally gave into this value proposition.
Merriam-Webster disagrees with you.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless
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some prior research on this:

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Loop Findr by Collin Burger

http://loopfindr.tumblr.com/

http://golancourses.net/2014/collin/05/12/loop-findr/

https://github.com/cyburgee/loopFindr

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Microsoft Research: Automated video looping with progressive dynamism (2013)

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/hoppe/proj/vid...

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/196137/videoloops.pdf

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/d02f3198-7896-...
I am free. Email me at kovacs@gmail.com

I did get things working and am working on a ruby gem that I'm hoping to be able to release for general consumption but in the mean time for folks using ruby here's a snippet that will get the simple case working once you've setup a bluemix app and bound the speech to text service to it:

https://gist.github.com/kovacs/72ad554a773a62818d46
UT Austin is also a top 10 CS school. It also has 30 credit hours to graduate, which appears to be a three semester program. https://www.cs.utexas.edu/graduate-program/masters-program/c... .

Georgia Tech, another top 10, has a 36 credit hour Master's program, at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/future/masters/mscs and says that a full-time student is 12 hours per semester, at http://www.registrar.gatech.edu/registration/gradfaq.php , so it's a three semester course, or at most four if someone does part-time for summer.

You didn't apply to Princeton, since all MS students are initially enrolled in a thesis-required track, says https://www.cs.princeton.edu/grad/degrees , though there's the option of switching later. That's a two year full-time program.

CMU, which is a #1 school, is a three semester Master's program, says http://www.csd.cs.cmu.edu/education/master/index.html .

Stanford, another #1 school, says that most graduate with a Master's in two years, says http://mscs.stanford.edu/classes/planning/ , making it the only top 10 school I've found so far which fits your description.

I'm not saying you're wrong - you know your program better than I - only that it looks like two years is the expected maximum for a MS degree in a top 10 school, so you'll have to explain why it took you 25% longer than expected.

Get a job. If you don't like it, line up another job then quit the job you don't like. Make sure you know your visa situation so you can do that.

You got the MS degee with a focus on breadth of studies. That of course means you won't have a deep understanding of any one topic. Some MS programs have more of a focus, but otherwise that's a PhD track program, which isn't what you did.

Your other option is to apply for a PhD, if you really want to go for deep studies. I advise against it.

Again, I am no expert.
Right, but we don't care about past chips. Moore's law applies to the whole market at the same time, so today's special network chips are still much better at what they do than today's general-purpose chips.

It's kind of stupid to say that today's general-purpose hardware can do what yesterday's special hardware could do at a faction of the cost, because the specialist market has also moved on and wants the performance of today's special hardware.
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When Megaupload (and some other sharehosters) died, quite a lot of interesting things just disappeared from the net.

I'm talking about things like small tools that were shared on e.g. xda-developers before Github came, about fan-mods for games etc... The 'big' ones continued living, but if you now e.g. search for a special kernel/ROM for your G1/ADP1 you are mostly out of luck.

It's sad that there's basically no way for an organisation like archive.org to archive things from sharehosters given the unclear (or quite clearly black/gray) law situation and also the missing cooperation with the sharehosters themselves.
I don't think it's rendering correctly for you: http://i.imgur.com/vCmW52W.png
Do you have Javascript enabled?

(The page is running MathJax to convert MathML to HTML + CSS)
This is what I've been looking for. I didn't want to have to create something like this myself, but wanted to be able to reuse older smartphones lying around. I don't know if I want to use JS though.
It uses MathJax to render LaTeX. Probably you have blocked the script or it's not loaded.
In England: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curricul...
Just a (cheap) shot in the dark, but I suspect that readers of "low tech magazine" might not shower every day either.
Whether he died because he either ate a poisonous plant or starved, the issue is the same: lack of proper preparation for a food supply.
Then you want to run ElasticMapReduce[1] against your S3 buckets.

[1] http://aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce/
Well the link text was removed and the link to the comment or story became just the timestamp recently, so if MiniHack doesn't use the official API that would explain it.
The article uses a lot of MathML, which seems to be parsed for display by the MathJax JS library.
That is one hairy regex. Now the inverse would be even better. You modify the railroad chart and the regex updates.
>say to make more money and pursue a higher standard of living

There is no evidence that increasing the amount of labor a person engages in can have any effect upon improving their standard of living. Since 1980, compensation of workers has been totally divorced from the value of the work they provide to their employers. Whether they earn their company $100,000 a year or $1,000,000 a year, they will be paid mostly the same. It is more valuable to companies to suppress the 'market rate' of valuable positions than it is to lose individuals due to underpayment.

It seems to me that very few people realize the consequences technology has had upon daily life. It has radically increased the productivity of individuals - and guaranteed they see no benefit from it. It has expanded their work life to encompass more and more of their total life. It has contributed to workers being seen as interchangable, disposable cogs. It has destroyed economic mobility entirely (on the national scale).

It has also inspired in the whole of society (so far as I can tell) an unreasonable faith in a sort of thought process that I've seen best described as 'systems thinking'. People are willing to lie down and accept as immutable any sort of 'process' or 'policy' that is ever defined. If it is 'policy' that you must sit in an uncomfortable seat, well then you simply have to accept it. You can't hold the person who provided you with the seat responsible, they're simply following the policy. And policy is formed by, supposedly, very well-informed beings of wide understanding who could not possibly explain themselves to regular people. When someone suggests that people should not be restricted in a particular way, the very first question they will hear is "Why should people be allowed to do X?" Restriction is the assumed norm. Each action a person can take, whether in their work life or personal, must be justified as a useful and integral part of the overall 'system' of society.

I fell in love with computers when I was 9 years old. But I studied philosophy alongside CS. While I still spend both my work and personal life working with technology, I try to do so in ways that do not cause me to fall into those philosophical tar-pits that seem to have ensnared nearly everyone else. I was a teenager in the 1990s. I still hold on to some of the hopes for technology ushering in a better future. Hopefully we're simply suffering from some growing pains and before long we'll look back at this time period and say 'what was wrong with those people? Why did they let employers yolk them like slaves and wring profit margins out of them simply because they used a computer to generate titanic amounts of value for the company?' We would think it very odd if an employer proposed paying someone less because they were going to use a hammer to build a chair. But if someone is going to use a computer to do 300x as much work as someone doing a thing manually, we find the idea that they should be paid 300x as much similarly nonsensical. Why?
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The idea is that frame 0 is similar to frame 0, and also that frame n is similar to frame n. (The resulting gif is 2n - 2 frames long.)
torrents are a reasonable solution for sharing those kind of programs.
I think your annotated exception and interpretation of this phrase is something of an overcorrection here. Leaving aside how the author may feel about his own hobby and what justification you have for speculation on the point, the word "weird" is a versatile one and could very easily be a way of saying "uncommon" or "highly specific."

"I don't think retro computing is a weird hobby" would seem to say all you want to say, but in a sympathetic and positive way that doesn't turn things around on the author.
I don't find the truth of whether he was poisoned by an amino acid or an alkaloid to be very enlightening.
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I think, because, the contract is between you and the carrier you should be okay. Even if you sell your phone to someone else you're still obligated to pay your bill or terminate early.

Carriers aren't stupid. They sell you a phone at a quarter of the price because you will pay nearly if not more than $100/mo. and they have recouped their loss by the end of April.
Will the real Photoshop killer please stand up?
Agreed, the system isn't the "C64 of the 2010s" that it's been proclaimed to be. Unless there's a wave of success stores out there that I haven't seen. Mostly it's people using them as beefier Arduinos for their projects.

But I wouldn't go as far to say all the Broadcom blob-nonsense is the hindering factor. That's completely a non-issue if we're talking about education. The reason the C64 and Apple and BBC Acorn were they way they were was because they booted right into a programming environment.

Where's the autostart environment for the RPi?
Not really; nothing guarantees that someone keeps seeding them forever.
Thanks for the reference, at least you cared to search and show it!
10% of 25,000 for that particular exam does sound a lot, and that's probably why it made national news in the first place. Does it mean 10% of all Chinese students (in China) cheat? Is it a proof that "Cheating among Chinese students is pandemic."? Definitely Not. I can find way more examples where 0% of Chinese students cheat in national level exams (actually, I probably can't, because "nobody cheated in the exam" won't make the news). Does that mean "Chinese students never cheat."? Of course not either. I'm not trying to be the PC police here, but I'm just baffled that a sweeping claim like that got used as the basis of OP's thesis and everybody seems to be agreeing with it. I thought HN's audience could do better than that...