skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you actually seen this happening ?

I have terabytes of new data arriving per day that needs to be verified, ingested and translated. There simply is no way to do this via online or stream processing. If you ingesting clickstream or Twitter data then sure it will work. But more often than not you need to work with sets of data. And for that batch processing is the only option.
This is a silly question to ask, and I don't think most people ask it (or at least, not in this way). For almost anything any team can do, you have to assume there will be five other teams, just as good or better, doing the same exact thing.

So the right question to ask is "what is the distribution edge of this particular team?" For example, if you're first to market and have incredibly high growth, there is a good chance it will be impossible for other teams to catch up.

Product complexity is almost never a competitive advantage, and I think most VCs understand this much better than you give them credit for.
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider…and Wanted Felon (2014)
All I can think is your time must have very little value if you can read nontrivial books 100 times.
Could one use some form of cell tower white-list as a countermeasure to stingray? Or is it a purely passive attack?
The Periodic Table of VC Bloggers
Doesn't have to touch the board. Just the coins. It's semantic distinction, sure, but if the jailer is capricious enough to envision this challenge, he should be impressed by a solution's cleverness.
As it happens, I recently completed a machine learning class, and I used Julia for almost all of the exercises. The core language is outstanding for this use case; IMO, where it suffers is lack of third-party libraries. I wasn't able to find a visualization library I really liked, and for the more advanced work, I wound up using PyCall[0] to call out to Python in order to use Scikit-learn.

I'd say give it a shot. Julia is a really impressive language. I find it as easy and expressive as Python, but it's blazingly fast, offering near-native performance.

[0] https://github.com/stevengj/PyCall.jl
The company seems very cool. One off topic thing that I can't help but note - just loading their homepage requires 113 HTTP requests. It's crazy heavy with tracking and designy tags.

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/ZMQov/https://farmlogs.com/
People have already pointed out why. In addition, let me point out why it is also no more powerful than a Turing machine.

If you accept physicalism, then thoughts arise as the result of electrical, mechanical, and chemical processes. As far as we know, those processes are governed by laws of physics which are all computable to arbitrary precision. Assuming that our thought processes are not infinitely sensitive to random perturbations, then the human brain can be simulated by a Turing machine.

Thus, everything we know about nature indicates that the human brain is no more powerful than a Turing machine.
It's worth mentioning that much of the code that integrates with React internals is based on the work in react-art: https://github.com/reactjs/react-art

This is the same technique used by Netflix for their React-based television UI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNC0mRYGWgc
Unfortunately, I run skydns for service discovery, and having multiple dns servers on the same machine is a PITA. I should note, for anyone considering skydns, that skydns + etcd + docker is circular dependency hell :)
Damn; I wouldn't have thought farmers would be a good group to target software towards, but it actually makes a lot of sense. Out of curiosity, I wonder how these guys actually manage to get those millions of dollars in savings.

Nice to see a new startup is trying and succeeding to make a positive difference for some pretty critical customers :)

Going to keep an eye on this group for sure. Something tells me they'll be around for a while.
Was the 1.0 release not major, or not stable?
> So the real question is this: do those features (spiking, conduction delays) actually make biological neural networks capable of computing something that Turing Machines and Artificial Neural Networks cannot?

Are Turing machines proven to be able to compute anything computable, so isn't this known absolutely to be a "no"?
Does the EFF plan on suing every last one of those companies?

The EFF isn't suing anyone. They filled an Amicus Brief on a case started by South African plaintiffs.

And the difference between what IBM did and those hypothetical cases is that there were actually US sanctions that (allegedly) forbid them from making those deals, so what they did was not only immoral but probably illegal.
I just downloaded this app. It's great! I love this app.
Humans are pretty bad at following instructions reliably and correctly, so maybe more like a turing machine with some probabilistic error rate.
As an early user of FarmLogs (and as a programmer), I found it really useful. All I wanted to do was find out average rainfall on my land and make a way to denote the prime spots for crop planting on the land (purely as a hobby). It was super useful and intuitive for that, something that I couldn't get to make happen easily trying all sorts of things with Google Maps, various mapping APIs, and Google Earth.
Seems like nothing really exceptionally different in 2015. All the projects or ideas the author mentioned have been around for quite some time, at least since the early 2000's. Also, Turing completeness is not a strict requirement for intelligence. That line of thinking has fallen out of favor in recent years, in the same way that comparing the brain to a steam engine has. I think we are increasingly realizing that the brain is not a magnetic pin and the world is not a piece of tape. Intelligence could be solved via artificial neural networks or statistical techniques, so it's not clear to me that a continuous conscious experience requires swapping out one neuron at a time.
You can also guess Kanji readings just by looking at them. The largest class of Chinese characters consists of the "phonosemantic compounds", which consist of a phonetic part (how to say it) and a semantic part (what it means). Over 90% of Chinese characters fall in this class, but I'm not sure what rate you'd encounter them in Japanese. You can start doing this fairly well once you know... I'm not sure... probably in the vicinity of several hundred characters.

Several different readings is a bit of an exaggeration, it's more common to just have a kun'yomi and on'yomi reading, and on average I think the number of readings you'd know for a character is between one and two.

Purely from personal experience, I hear adult native English speakers (including myself) mispronounce words all the time! It's a common mistake to pronounce a word as if it were borrowed from e.g. French when it was really borrowed from Greek or Latin. So if you want to know how to pronounce "ch", you might say /ʃ/ if it's French and /tʃ/ if it's English. This seems to me like another variation on the same problem we have with reading Japanese, where characters have Japanese and Chinese readings.
The software revolution is making it possible to create world-changing companies relatively quickly and with relatively modest resources.

I wish there were a bit more meat as to HOW they did this. Or a link to a meatier write-up of the path they took from idea to present.
As the EFF notes, US sanctions alone made it illegal for IBM to make those deals.
“It's done in hardware so it's cheap”
https://packages.debian.org/experimental/gcc-5

Debian has gcc-5 in experimental. A fact I'm taking advantage of because I want to get Docker working on my sparc server but gccgo is broken on 4.9.

It was fixed a few months ago in the gcc repository but the bleeding edge gcc repo has a broken libsanitizer on sparc. David Miller made some patches but gcc won't accept them(has to go through upstream) and upstream(llvm) have been ignoring them.

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59758

So I'll have to disable asan or convince llvm to accept davm's patches and then wait for gcc to merge from upstream.
GHC 7.10 Prelude: we need your opinion
I'm honestly failing to see why you're being downvoted and the parent comment isn't, considering that you're pretty much spot on as to why the KLWCC is pretty much irrelevant. Even the U.N. doesn't recognize them to be legitimate.
But this allows anybody to depend on something that somebody else wrote even if he forgot to publish (for whatever reason). It reuses the upstream github namespace instead of creating many artifact group ids when random people publish somebody's else package
Not sure if this is what you're comparing it to, but be aware that Prometheus' approach is fundamentally different from StatsD-like approaches where you send every event or a subsampling thereof to a monitoring server.

Prometheus is state-based, not event-based. It only stops by your monitored instances once every couple of seconds and gathers their current state. E.g. for counting events, clients simply expose cumulative counters over their lifetime which they can increment locally in memory, and Prometheus comes by for example every 15 or 30 seconds and stores the current counter state.

The HTTP traffic incurred in this case is not really a problem and you'll usually run into bottlenecks at other places (like storage sample ingestion) before you run into network transfer bottlenecks.
>> Only 10 percent of drug users have a problem with their substance

My politics generally agree with the author's main point, but this statistic seems disingenuous. Surely the percentage varies significantly depending on the drug. I know plenty of people who smoke marijuana and don't have a problem with it. Yet the only people I've known who had problems with methamphetamine or heroine have all ended up hitting rock-bottom or dying. Granted, people are more open about marijuana use than those other drugs, so my observations are biased. But I'm skeptical of the author's statements in that regard... I haven't read the full article yet, but she doesn't seem to address this.
It almost certainly does not restart the process.

In my short time poking around, my belief is discoveryd gets wedged into a state where it thinks DNS queries aren't resolving, and so it doesn't try to resolve them. I'm not sure what exactly is going on there, either all the queries are blocked somehow on some long-lived query that has no response and no timeout, or discoveryd thinks the network is broken and is waiting for it to come back (those are just guesses). Either way, the command tells discoveryd to restart any outstanding "questions" (which presumably means queries). When I had the issue, that was sufficient to flush out whatever it was that was blocking everything, as my machine instantly started working properly again.
I should clarify, there are lots of smart people using and occasionally contributing to node outside the inner circle of core contributors, many of whom will be using node (i.e. not io.js) for a long time. I was wrong to suggest otherwise.

I agree io.js has generated some of its own hype; that's why I'm surprised Joyent has distanced themselves from it. Node is coasting on a lot of previous hype, but io.js is poised to steal the proverbial thunder. "Node is stable," AKA "Node isn't going to change or disrupt anything," is meanwhile a powerful argument, maybe especially to Joyent's customers, but that isn't always a good thing (think IE6), and it definitely isn't a good way to build hype.
Damn, well good for them. Hope they made out with some profit from that and it wasn't an acquihire. I like those guys.

We've been using their private npm registry at Brightcove. Time to try out npm proper and it's newer features. We were having too many automated builds break due to npm flakiness before. But it's been 6 months at least since we went off of it and a lot has changed.
SproutVideo founder here. We actually introduced an import tool for DailyMotion Cloud users to easily import their videos into a SproutVideo account. DailyMotion Cloud was a product of DailyMotion. DailyMotion Cloud is shutting down on April 12th. DailyMotion has offered to migrate their users to their main platform but that puts several serious restrictions on content such as:

* Distribution of your video catalog on Dailymotion.com
* Monetization of your video catalog
* Compliance with our content moderation rules

For many users, this is simply not a viable solution. SproutVideo offers a very comparable platform and we've already had several former DailyMotion Cloud users import their content. Companies can have very large video libraries and migrating to a new video hosting platform can be a lot of work. To that end, we created a tool that will allow former DailyMotion Cloud users automatically import their libraries into a SproutVideo account. Hopefully that clears things up a bit! http://sproutvideo.com/dailymotion
Incredible. How do they do distribution? Quite a feat to reach so many farmers in 3 years.
It is odd that you would choose Twain as the contrast to Hemingway. They are, to me, so very similar as to be categorized as the same kind of literature in my head. I enjoy them both, and feel they are excellent purveyors of the craft of the American novel.

There was a great anecdote in one of Asimov's autobiographies about Hemingway, which has stuck with me for years. I am on a tablet at the moment so I won't try to find it, but the gist of it was he went to see an editor when he was quite young and maybe unpublished. The editor asked him, "How do you think Hemingway would say it was raining outside?" And Asimov replied he didn't know. The editor answered, "It was raining outside".

I am pretty sure that koan-like piece of advice shaped Asimov in pretty good ways...and also summarizes Hemingway surprisingly effectively.
It all began with a strange email (2012)
The terror in the first scenario is not a product of the robots themselves, but the existence of a democratically unrestrained power in full command of the machines.

I hate to sound so single minded, but this is just one more reason to opposed gerrymandering, closed primaries, restricted access to the polls, private campaign finance, and the revolving door between government regulators and their charges in private industry. Every one of these acts as a wedge between government power and accountability to the people. Individually, they're bad. When they all start working together, the rot really starts to accelerate.

By the time the RoboCops are announcing that you've got 20 seconds to comply, it's because we've lost any way to dislodge their operators.
PETA should make it illegal for animals to take drugs.
right on. just like non IE was still unkown to most users until recently! in fact, even today you see the ocasional reddit post asking why they should not be using IE.
I haven't built Rust recently ( :-( ), but doesn't it also have support for atomic operations in the standard library?
> [Drew Houston] reverse-engineered Apple’s file system so that his startup’s logo, an unfolding box, appeared elegantly tucked inside. Not even an Apple SWAT team had been able to do that.

With "Not Even Wrong" incoherent nonsense like that, Forbes doesn't belong on HN.
From the article ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuala_Lumpur_War_Crimes_Commiss... ):

The former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Param Cumaraswamy, has suggested the tribunal is a private enterprise with no legal basis and questions its legitimacy.[13] The tribunal does not have a UN mandate or recognition, no power to order arrests or impose sentences, and it is unclear that its verdicts have any but symbolic significance.[14]

The KLWCC seems to exist solely to bitch and moan about the United States and Israel. It reeks of strong anti-American and anti-Israeli (and very likely pro-Islamic) bias. This isn't to mention that its founder has a reputation for antisemitism - beliefs that make for a very handy explanation as to why the United States and Israel are the only countries which have been the subject of condemnations by this particular organization.
See also the official announcement blog post by SoundCloud: https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/prometheus-monitoring...
That's great news. What do you consider a "properly implemented patch"? I would think the most bulletproof & simplest patch would simply allow the default index (index.docker.io) to be reconfigured to something else in docker.conf. Would you support a patch that did that?

Edit: And perhaps https://registry-1.docker.io/v2/ as well?
They should have used a large cartoon style boxing glove contraptions instead. Same demonstration, less dog cruelty looking:
http://cache3.asset-cache.net/gc/165927334-boxing-glove-cont...
Humanity Raises a $9M Series B to Build Out Its Workforce Platform
Hi cofounder / lead Pachyderm dev here. Pachyderm actually does a lot more with MapReduce than batch processing. We need to work on making this clearly in our marketing. The way this works under the hood is pretty cool though. Pfs is a commit based filesystem, which means that we think of the entire world as diffs. When your entire world is diffs then you can transition gracefully between batch processing and stream processing because you always know exactly what's changed.

This is generally one of the things that's frustrated us about the Hadoop ecosystem. Hadoop's implementation of MapReduce, which only supports batch processing, has become conflated with MapReduce as a paradigm, which can be used for way more than just batch processing.

Hope this clears a few things up!
But did it, always?

Could it be that the primitive humans that used these substances adapted better to their environment compared to their non-indulging peers, and we're more likely to be direct descendants of them?

Not saying you are wrong, or right, but rather that it would be naive to dismiss this idea based on some notion of genetics and evolution. At some point the choices we made as a species in the past comes directly into play with the natural evolution our genes and culture.
Really like the xray view for direction and to find the bus stops. How do you make the overlay tracks the orientation well? Do you use both compass and accelerometer? I can see myself using this a lot during baseball season.
Any interaction with a file descriptor can already fail (eg. pretty much anything can potentially give you EIO).

Using fuser() in that way is racy, and how is kill() any better than returning a possibly-ignored error anyway? You can't do program-specific actions because the point is to enforce "You did have permission to open that, but now you don't and you aren't allowed to keep using it".
> Are identical in having normal binary downloads as the primary installation option.

I don't believe I said that MongoDB recommended their packages over compiling from source.

> And you seem to be implying that vendor supplied repositories are somehow unusual.

Nope.
> You're a different person than you were 5, 10, 20 years ago, and you'll experience the same book differently as a different reader

Besides, good literatures are of multi layers. One might miss some the deeper layers in the first few reads. There are also some subtle points the authors try to convey. They usually requires multi reads for most readers to get them.

My wife reads some classic novels many times. I think I am a very good reader. But she has much deeper understanding than I have, explaining to me what other meanings a plot conveys, why a sentence is constructed this way rather than another, although they sound the same for normal ears, etc. in literatures both in English and in our native languages. She always finds something new each time she re-read a classic.
> (esp USA), civilians are effectively not allowed to put any limitations or guidelines on how the military or intelligence organizations use new technology

You do, of course, realize that the President is a civilian? And as Commander-in-Chief he absolutely does have the ability to put limitations or guidelines on how those groups use their equipment. And let's not forget congress, which is comprised entirely of civilians and could financially neuter military and intelligence programs if desired.

There are plenty of countries where there is no civilian oversight for the military, but the US is not one of them.

> If a piece of technology allows the military to capture instead of kill a supposed terrorist, will they do so? What is legally binding them to?

That's a good question. I think the preference would always be to capture if there is a possibility of gaining intelligence from the captive. If you were interested in bargaining with adversaries, it would be wise to capture at least some of them (prisoner exchanges, that sort of thing). However, if the intelligence gain would be minimal and you already have a stable of bargaining chips, it might be worth more to have a guarantee that this particular terrorist won't be in the fight any longer.

As to what's legally binding, the 1907 Hague Convention says that it is forbidden "to declare that no quarter will be given." This would suggest that surrenders from any lawful combatant would have to be accepted. To take the current example, I do not think ISIL fighters would be considered "lawful combatants" primarily because they do not respect the international laws.
In other news, the issues list [0] just keeps growing by the day, apparently with few or no devs committed to ensuring show-stopping kernel interoperability bugs [1] get resolved in a timely manner.

I want to love you docker, but the experience of using your products is often sooo painful!

[0] https://github.com/docker/docker/issues

[1] https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/4036

Karma-wise I'm sure there will be hell to pay for my impolite outburst.. Sorry for the offense! Just calling it like I see it.
Care to elaborate? I don't see anything wrong with this and can't imagine how it "sums up everything that's wrong with programmers and the community in general".

It's a very clever and interesting piece of automation.
Do you think it'd work well to use your <text> component as the start of a canvas-based text editor?
I don't think the first sentence of this article still holds. In 2011, the UN convened a global commission on drug policy which stated: "The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Commission_on_Drug_Poli...
Indeed do many things come to pass.
I agree with your argument, but I do want to point out (since I think people here sometimes forget this) that the "5 other teams" thing starts to break down once you leave the traditional Silicon Valley product domains.

When working in VC, it was refreshing to talk with someone not doing social/mobile/local/consumer. Once you branch out to industries like Mining, Oil&Gas, Agriculture, Automotive, Manufacturing, Logistics, Insurance, etc. just having 2 bright software engineers working on a problem at all was often enough to provide an edge.

Insurance is a good example. That industry move $2T every year in the US, which makes the US ad industry look tiny. However, it only sees maybe 1/20th the number of SV teams.