skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This initial discussion is just about the container image format and we would really like to see convergence on that front.

As container runtimes Rocket and Docker have different design goals though. As one example, Rocket is designed to be a standalone tool that can run without a daemon and works with existing init systems like upstart, systemd and sysv. We needed this standalone property because on CoreOS containers are our package manager and the daemon can get in the way of doing that correctly.

It is ok that Docker and Rocket have different design goals and both can exist for different purposes. But, I think we can share and converge on an image format that can be used by multiple implementations that includes cryptographically verifiable images, simple hosting on object stores and the use of a federated DNS based namespace for container names.
Some of the memory overhead is intrinsic to the language: every object can be synchronized on.
> Anthropogenic GHGs are nothing but uncontrolled geo-engineering, and either we can predict their effects accurately or not (spoiler: we can't). If we can, then we can predict the effects of other forms of geo-engineering comparably accurately.

Without addressing the first sentence or its "spoiler" (preserved only for context), the second doesn't follow: our ability (or inability) to predict the effects of GHG emissions in the ranges relevant to evaluating the effect of actual and reasonably-possible human actions with regard to them do not really have much bearing on, say, our ability (or inability) to project the impact of changes to (for example) solar energy input that are outside of past experience.
There exist related bugs in bugzilla, frex https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=825578 .

The css invert filter was very recently added to Firefox. Haven't played with this but sounds like it could make the job easier, so maybe FF will catch up here.
I get that this is preprint, but the reference on page 8 has an overfull hbox with a rather high badness.
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Aha, I didn't know about the difference between POSIX ERE and GNU ERE. Thank you!
Are you saying that you cannot represent the interests of those people? And I am not sure where you computed $200, one fund raiser is one fundraiser, no additional donation required.

If a homeless man says to you, "Mr. Loop, I am homeless and a veteran, and an alcoholic, and a deadbeat father, I deserve help from the government I fought for." You would tell him, "Well good luck with that." Or would you say, "I will see about getting your requirements heard."

The point is why is it "their" problem that they can't talk to the government effectively? Aren't they also citizens in this land?

I completely agree that for people who, for what ever reason, are unable to participate in the governance of the country, will be unable, by their very circumstance, to affect change. And you may very well be a member of that group. But if you are not, is there any reason that you couldn't be their voice if you chose to?

The way our system works is you get out what you put in. And there are people who are unable to put in, but there are also people who can put in for them and serve as their "influence" in the bigger picture. People and even the news media will tell you that they don't exist, and that the world is full of corruption and greed. That sells more newspapers I guess. But have you met your city council? Talked with them? Your county supervisors? If you haven't because you've been told it won't make a difference you have been lied to. And you can put that lie to the test by seeking those people out and putting yourself out there to help.

Yes, there are people with bogus motives in office. And there are good people in office. You can't really tell who is who without talking to them though. And when you find the bogus ones and get them removed, well that helps everyone.

And, as I started this conversation, it takes time. And there are set backs, and sometimes the bozos win one. But you take the long view, the commitment that you will continue to push for a better version of the world. You may find more support than you expect.
While it matches that of a physical circuit breaker, I think the choice of naming is a bit unfortunate. Closed means the operation is open to new requests, while open means the operation is closed to new requests. This is confusing when compared the normal Java semantics of opened and closed. I think this is an instance where the skeuomorphism (of sorts) was taken a little too far.
I don't know if there are design choices I'm not thinking of, but my big gripe is that if I am streaming from my mac to an airplay enabled TV, and I click a link to the app store in my browser, my TV pauses.
You'll uninstall Iron after you've read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRWare_Iron

"Although SRWare claims 'Iron is free and OpenSource' ... Iron 'is entirely closed source and has been since at least version 6'."

Or this:

http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.ht...
> maybe he deliberately inserted a vocabulary error so he could ... hunt them down and destroy there credibility

Masterful.
In case you missed it, he's disagreeing with the article. Replying with more opinion (not fact) from the article is not an effective rebuttal...
His argument was that most of it was open source, or modified open source with licenses that required contributing back the source code. Basically, it sounds like he grabbed his stuff because he wanted to get his utility functions and open source modifications.

Here's the piece in Vanity Fair where the general consensus was that what his actions indicate his intent was defintely not to steal valuable IP. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2013/09/michael-lewis-goldman...

Witness this exchange:

“Did you take the strats?” asked one (meaning Goldman’s trading strategies).

“No,” said Serge. That was one thing the prosecutors hadn’t accused him of.

“But that’s the secret sauce, if there is one,” said the juror. “If you’re going to take something, take the strats.”

“I wasn’t interested in the strats,” said Serge.

“But that’s like stealing the jewelry box without the jewels,” said another juror.

“You had super-user status!” said the first. “You could easily have taken the strats. Why didn’t you?”

“To me, the technology really is not interesting,” said Serge.

“You weren’t interested in how they made hundreds of millions of dollars?” asked someone else.

“Not really,” said Serge. “It’s all one big gamble, one way or another.”

So if the essence of the crime is theft of a trade secret, then you absolutely have to conduct an independent investigation that a trade secret was involved, and that it was stolen to have probable cause.

The precedent here is a large corporation can use the government as an enforcement arm, and will be taken completely at face value. Simple allegations by individuals are subject to investigation prior to arrest, as should be all allegations.

This boiled down to Goldman calling the FBI, and less than forty-eight hours later arresting the person Goldman told them to arrest. They didn't interview any witnesses or consult with any experts other than Goldman employees.

That's terrifying.
Huh? My parent is upset that Joe-Random has less clout. My point is Joe-Random has no credence, which has absolutely nothing to do with "high status". Woz has credence about disk controllers. Big banks have credence about finance and trading. That is as it should be. Joe-Random does not deserve equal clout on matters of disk controllers, finance, or trading.
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>>Even if there were dozens of potential providers, apartment buildings wouldn't want to accommodate dozens of companies running wiring through their building or putting equipment in their telecom closets.

I don't see why this is such a big deal. Where I'm from, different telecom companies come into apartment buildings to set up boxes and run wires and everyone is OK with it.
Metaclasses are awesome.

But the moment you put one in your codebase you have a ticking time bomb just waiting to blow up in the face of some unsuspecting programmer who doesn't know how they work. I've seen this in production with Django forms. Someone had to extend a form class and couldn't do it and couldn't figure out why, they had to ask me for help. (We wrote a little factory function to make the form instance first and patch it after but that's damn rude to have to do.)

The point is this: there is a HUGE conceptual overhead to using metaclasses, huge. People like me will read GVR's "Killing Joke" article for kicks, because we like the feeling of our brains catching fire and exploding. But junior devs' brains should NOT be exploding at work! (For goodness' sake, he named it after the Python skit with the joke so funny it kills you from laughter, the English use it on the Germans in WWII. He named it that for a reason!)

If you want to use metaclasses do it in your own home and wash your hands afterwards.

Seriously though, please only use metaclasses in your production code (anything you want other people to use, and that isn't some experiment) if you absolutely cannot think of a simpler, more conventional way to accomplish what you're trying to do.

And, really, Python is so powerful and expressive I don't think you will find yourself stumped very often.
Don't forget about compatibility. You can be reasonably sure that font icons will display the same everywhere. CSS-based icons are all over the map compatibility-wise (display issues across browsers).
Create a chrome user for each google account. There is then a hotkey for quickly switching between users.
> No omnibar with custom search engines by keyword.

Safari 8 has this feature. Not as elegant as the way Chrome handles it, but you can search domains you've previously searched by typing in the first few characters of the domain and hitting tab.

> Closing multiple tabs is annoying, because they resize.

Not sure when this was changed, but tabs only resize once you've moved your mouse away from the tab bar.

I switched away from Chrome a year or so ago when they changed the new tab page to have the huge, redundant search box and fewer frequently visited pages and haven't regretted it. I find Safari's UI to be leaps and bounds better than Chrome's, scrolling is much smoother, and it drains my battery way less than either Chrome or FF. There aren't nearly as many extensions for Safari, but the ones I use (1Password, Reddit Enhancement, etc.) are all available for Safari.
The correlation between individual upvotes and comments isn't really what's the post is about, it's purely an illustration and has no impact on the topic extraction or interpretation.
For what it's worth, I did check the correlation coefficient between the two sets (it's 0.81)
Maybe if they saw blatant, copycat visuals (ehem, Bing), but not name-wise: I've never seen someone try to start a search engine called something like "The Better Google"
Google's profit model isn't to enable, it's to collect & warehouse massive amounts of sensitive user data.
The Firefox Devtools team even did an Ask HN[1] and then folowed up 10 days later[2] with the feedback they got.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5325445

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5393864
Yes, that's right.

The study claimed to have removed people who can't drink alcohol for medical reasons and then it claimed that people who drink upto five drinks a day live longer than the corrected non-drinking group.
Are you really complaining about your 300 mbps Internet capping out at 100 mbps? Come on... :P
Tree Style Tabs looks like it has a potential to allow querying HTML via SQL. I have been thinking about this for a while. I do not have a concrete idea for an application, but it would be cool to retrieve titles of all open sites in certain group/tree. Almost like some sort of scraper.
Reading the title I thought to myself "Why not just link the WSJ article then?"

Answer: Paywall
Yeah, it's unfortunate that most of the houses are pretty hideous. Each has 4-5 different clashing facades in varying shades of beige. Angles, jutting edges, and warts sprout out all over the place. There are some nice looking units though, not all are ugly.

One of the better things Mueller does is have sidewalks on both sides of the street pretty much everywhere, while the rest of Austin is lucky to have sidewalks on one side of the street every other block.

That said like most Austin neighborhoods, you can get around inside the neighborhood on foot, but traversing between neighborhoods requires a car. Mueller is trapped by high traffic fast roads on all sides and the result is that pretty much everyone has cars.
> Haskell uses Maybe to denote the absence of a value

A Haskell programmer could use an empty string for that, or given a Maybe could do this:

fromMaybe ""

But no true Haskell programmer would do that.

> you can write and run a bash program that aborts after attempting to access an undeclared variable

Yes, and perhaps the bash programmer could likely eliminate that fault through testing, perhaps about as likely as the Haskell programmer could get the Haskell compiler to accept a program at all!

> The claim I did make is that entire failure modes which are present in bash aren't possible in Haskell

And therefore Haskell programmers are more likely to write correct programs?
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i try to change posture and routine. rotate you habit and pattern of what you do. this way you not stuck on doing same thing over and over again. sometimes just 15 mins or 30mins break would make a tremendous difference
Meh the issue here is not chrome or Firefox... It's that people still use IE and more people are using Safari with all of its broken features... Both chrome and Firefox are open source and can be excellent browsers. Neither are limiting the content we can access via the web. Both agree to support the web as a platform. Contrast this with safari and IE and you see IE avoiding WebRTC due to an 8 billion dollar purchase of Skype and a safari avoiding WebRTC because of FaceTime... I'm not even sure the state of webgl but can only imagine it's worse...

The two browsers and opera are the only browsers I plan on supporting...
Well, heartbleeed is a fiasco that would have been avoided by this—a vulnerability that rust shares without these secure destructors.
You are confusing mitigation with security.

Zeroing out memory after use is mitigation against security flaws like heart bleed. It's not a security feature in it self. Although you are right that the secure process is probably just the better solution anyway.

It's sort of like the arguments for DRM. Of course pirates will always break it, but we can still mitigate it in a number of ways.
Not all entries in your address book are "people" either. Are any of them mailing lists? (Like open source projects or whatnot?) They will get this spam also.
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In that case I don't see how the image format ties into any of what you just said. Seems to me the image format is completely irrelevant. Docker's format could be augmented to include all the security features you want and rkt could just use docker containers. That's where the confusion is. It is clear that the image format is orthogonal to all the other issues you mentioned.

By the way I don't have a dog in this race and am not rooting for either side. Just from purely a technical perspective and resource use the fragmentation is now starting to feel something that is mostly driven by public relations and marketing. As someone that tries to use the best tool for the job I now have no compelling reason to choose either format and run-time which means I'm just going to wait it out and both sides are going to lose contributions from independent open source developers because their effort is going to be wasted.
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I wonder how many are Android users. iOS gives users the option of preventing apps from accessing contact data.
"Apple would be looking to make such an enormous leap from its core competency — building great consumer electronics".

Don't electric cars fall into the category of consumer electronics?
I don't know if this the title is right. Beats human in ... what, the speed of neural nets? (In image recognition, by the way, as the paper explains.) I also don't exactly understand what is the breakthrough here -- there are plenty papers, hardware, etc. that speed up some process significantly. 10x speedup won't bring a huge breakthrough in deep learning in general.
I can see this ruining a few relationships this Valentine's day. I love it!
DMCA - the law to protect platforms - has very interesting implication of silo-ization of the tech. Any tech, like in "tech"nology civilization.

Marching into the brave new world of silos, a car is an easy addition to Apple platform, while GM would need to build a platform to add to their cars.
The phrase "exceeding the accuracy of human raters" is a bit puzzling--if a human misclassifies something whose true class was determined by another human, who is in error?
Probably this one?

http://ferd.ca/queues-don-t-fix-overload.html

Queues and similar things help flatten out the spikes, but they don't add capacity. Like many of these tools, use with discretion.
You don't think that giving an address book full of good addresses to known spammers is a bad idea?

Oh, it's okay as long as they send messages to those contacts using their identity, so it's not traced back to you ...
Personally, I've been answering very technically detailed questions in terms of micro-blogs on Quora.

However, on S.O., sometimes when the question is not too obvious or asking an exact thing the Admin tend to mark it as vague and get downvoted.

Try out the Subreddits for the exact questions or IRC channels.

I've used subbreddits for Rails and it's IRC, there are many nice people whom at least direct you to read something that has the answer.

I agree with you that sometimes StackOverflow is just a sausage fest of sad sacks whom never see the sun-light and have 20K upvotes (Which makes me rage quit every time I get downvote from them).

But still they might be able to answer your questions.
Nice of Elon Musk to open source Tesla's patents, will make things easier for Apple.
Sounds cool! How it differentiates itself from Sensor Tower and alike?
Seems a bit snarky?
Not if this is anything more than an academic exercise. Nice effort, but SVG and, to a lesser degree, icon fonts, are better for this sort of thing.
The stripping clause only comes into place when you distribute the code, just as the GPL's copy-left requirement only comes into play when you distribute the code.
According to the new definition of broadband, I now only have one. Cable. DSL drops off the chart as it's only 1.5 Mb/s.
At first I thought this was crazy. Then I realized it's all about extending Apple's ecosystem of hardware + software + services. Better together. Plus, they make their profits off hardware.
True, thanks for catching that! I'll fix it up.
Some of the categories are quite surprising, for example:
space-nasa-tesla-rocket-launch-star-CHINA-nuclear as space;
ruby not as programming;
com-http-www-EMACS-LIST-org-book-pdf as junk;
Those seem very specific, or plain wrongly classified. Maybe you can show them individually, just as a big dump of generated graphs? No need to make another post about it though, but i'd like to see them in context. Thanks!
Is twitfox.com, manageflitter.com and tweepi.com legit?
Those website uses Twitter API and automated bots to scan, search, favorite, retweet... I remember tons of them did this and all disappeared because of policy violation (Twitter ToS). But those three seem to be around the longest. Are they NOT violating anything? I am just curious.
Netflix's Hystrix is another implementation of this pattern.
Very interesting, but what is Wall Street Journal's success rate with Apple rumors? I know it's higher than most, but that was probably due to Walt Mossberg (who has left WSJ in recent times).
It accelerates training. From the conclusion: "We have presented a novel mechanism for dramatically accelerating the training of deep networks"
PS: The human being beaten was a guy from Stanford who did the validation set for this specific image recognition task a while ago (he somewhere said that he could reduce the error rate to 3% given a second chance ;)

This same week Microsoft released a similar result, but without such an important new approach for networks.

The important chart really is on page number seven.
> btw: feed EMI Beethoven, and "she" produces Mozart. i.e., when probabilistically combining several key-signature-normalized Beethoven snippets, some of the results were identical to larger snippets of Mozart (who was, as you may have guessed, a big Beethoven fan).

I think you may mean the other way around; Mozart war 15 years older than Beethoven, and died before Beethoven's career took off.
It looks like significantly better training accuracy is achieved in a small fraction of the number of training steps previously required. ~14x speedup in training is a big deal; that speedup would enable training many more models (trying new research ideas) in a given period of time.
Thanks! I've tested "stopped" states and have it on my ToDo list, but need to just take a moment and get it done.
I don't understand: what legitimate reasons do they for being anonymous?
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Tylenol (J&J) has the advantage of being able to create 3 dozen products with the same ingredients and get a piece of shelf space every time because inevitably someone is going to come in and ask for "the red Tylenol for back pain caplets".

I wonder how many different kinds of sildenafil citrate we can get up to: "For night time sex", "For day time sex", "lay back and relax sex", etc, etc.
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#firstworldproblems ... It's as if people are not thankful to have good connectivity in the first place. Try living in a developing country, a heavily firewalled country, or on a boat for instance. You will learn to appreciate wired US broadband.
Worth the performance trade-off for who?

For my own use cases, Chrome drags my whole system performance into a gutter and shoots it full of bullets.

In other words, it’s not just a “trade-off”, but rather Chrome is completely and utterly unusable, while both Safari and Firefox handle the load with no problem.
We rented an office for the new company a few months ago in a building that had just been rehabbed. The building owners had arranged to bring Comcast into the building, but for obvious reasons we wanted to avoid Comcast and called AT&T. AT&T couldn't run cable to the building without significant modifications to the building's wiring. All the conduit intake was installed by Comcast. The "phone closet" was full of Comcast equipment. There is, so far as we know, literally no way to get any service in the building besides Comcast --- unless we owned the building and paid tens of thousands of dollars for new telecom buildout.

Getting a new telecom service into an existing building is, in fact, a big deal.
Enter WSJ headline into Google News search box. The corresponding link bypasses the paywall.
>Ah, but are we paranoid or in possession of multiple personalities?

Maybe for the former, the latter is true without a doubt.
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