skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is possible that using "So, ..." as a "full start" is a defensive measure against being interrupted?

If I end a sentence and immediately tack on "So, ..." as I gather my next thoughts and prepare them for utterance, I'm signaling that I've got more to say to everyone who might interpret a "full stop" as an opportunity to interject with their own thoughts or a rebuttal.
Don't accept business calls from someone unwilling to allow you to record it?
Best infographic ever
also add lmdb/boltdb to that list. there seems to be a convergence around a certain feature-set for embeddable key/value stores: MVCC semantics and ordered keys.
As well as comparison to LMDB.
John Carmack's First Game
Using dependency injection adds complexity. You have to reason about how the injected functionality can change.

If you use setter based injection (as opposed to constructor or parametric injection) then you also add the complexity of reasoning about when it can change.
I'm not and I wake up early. More to the point plenty of people with much weirder sleeping patterns like shift work etc are in happy relationships.

In fact a lot of people in my office work 7am-3pm.
Is the author trying to make "netflix" a verb with the same meaning as "obviate"?
Varoufakis is quite rightwing compared to his other 'comrades' who still live in the cold war.
Does anyone have recommendations on a constant DB optimized for sequential integer keys? Running LZ4 over things is cool, but using delta encoding or more clever schemes, you can work right on the compressed key data. (And even more fun if the value is also just a restricted set of integers, like an inverted index.)
Hover has a ton of TLDs.
I've literally never worked at a Java shop that used Spring or Hibernate. There's plenty of such places (I mean, just look at "anybody using Dropwizard").
Interesting. After reading your comment, I just realized that practice is common in Hindi and Marathi too, using "Accha" and "Burr" respectively (both of which mean the same as "Bon" in French, i.e. "good" in English). I guess it may apply to many other languages too.
Ask HN: How startup can find students to help in its launch?
FRIENDS, we are a startup and is looking for students at Stanford, UCLA and UCSD to help us in the launch. Generous compensation guaranteed. Where shall we post a job listing that is free and is visited by students the most?
> With friends like you, who needs enemies.

Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News.
That 57k number is cumulative, not in 2014.

The Wikipedia page gives about 32k for in 2014
I read that StackOverflow answer before and given the amount of upvotes it
received, I presumed that it had something going for it.

I was already regularly comfortably using `Ctrl-^` to switch back and forth
between the current and alternate buffers but I was also used to having
different buffers open in different tabs and selecting them using either the
`gt` family of commands or the `:tabfirst` family.

I like having the tab-bar provide visual cues for each of the buffers that I’m
working with rather than having to type `:ls` to see the list of buffers
(which can sometimes be very large as I often leave Vim running for a long
time and if I do close, I usually restore it from a session).

Like you, I’ve yet to encounter any problems with this way of working. It’s
possibly because I’ve never used any commands which utilise the quickfix
buffer (`:make`, `:grep`, and `:helpgrep`) but maybe, there’s something else
I’m missing?
> In my opinion, class sizes trends in higher education are backwards--massive lecture halls for freshman and small collegial classrooms for seniors.

You know why this is, right? It's because of massive attrition rates. In my CS class, only like 1 out of 5 stuck from freshman to graduation.
That's not surprising. Twitter is very controlling about their service. They had an open API only until they got market share. Then the jaws gradually closed on Twitter-related programs. Twitter strongly discourages client programs other than their own. I once wrote a Twitter client with spam and ad blocking, just to see what it would be like, but I knew Twitter would never approve it.
> The salinated impurities that are a byproduct of this process

That's a very inaccurate way of saying that. You are implying that that desalination creates new byproducts. It does not. Any byproducts were already in the ocean.

You just run your outflow pipe far into the ocean, and mix it with ordinary seawater and it's sufficiently diluted.
Desalination uses TONS of electricity. Where does that electricity come from? Fossil fuels. So this "solution" to water shortage actually increases global warming, which will worsen water shortages. And what happens with all the extracted salt? You guessed it - it goes right back, increasing the salinity of the oceans.

Ah, humans.

But hey, technology solves all problems, right YC?
The idea seems pretty neat. The only complaint I have is that you logo looks almost identical to bufferapp's logo -- and since they also do social stuff it seems... very odd.

A lot of users are familiar with the buffer brand, so you might want to change it to be a bit more unique.

Best of luck =)
Machine learning in navigation: detect maneuvers using accelerometer, gyroscope
I feel dirty after reading this. As if I spoke to an older person who instead of having a conversation with me and asking me how I'm doing and what I'm doing and where I'm going - sat me down and gave a talk on how I OUGHT to live my life, citing numerous examples of people who've 'made something of themselves'

In other words, instead of meeting me half way, there's an aura of 'here's how the people I look up to lived their lives, now you go and do the same.'

It's gross.

The last line sums it up - "Those are the people we want to be."

We? Since when does the author feel he's so much better than everybody else, that he feels qualified to tell the readers of the NYTimes what they want to be?

This self-help nonsense is completely out of control. Folks are struggling to feel financially secure and a million writers/public speakers, etc have cropped up, explaining how you just need to do X to make that go away.

Not really, nothing is going to make the feeling of 'I am expendable' go away when it is true, except being delusional. People are eating it up of course but please...
a positive mention of systemd somewhere would be a good start. Hell, a positive mention of systemd anywhere on an openbsd package maintainer's site would be worth settling for.

As for dbus objects, GNOME calls systemd's interfaces to dbus, not dbus directly[1]. Calling dbus, which is already fully supported in *BSD, would be far preferable, and we might not even be having this dicsussion if they did.

here's another post with a tad more information on what GNOME needed in order to work on BSD (or even Slackware!)[1][2]. There was a lot of work in this release, and in no way am I attempting to diminish their work. I merely wished to make it clear that systemd was an obstacle they did not reimplement, but rather overcame with the use of shims.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9363060
2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9362050
3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9362054
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think Apple watches are a pretty neat idea."
I think the challenge is we are currently in the middle of a transitionary period towards full automation of "shitty jobs." Basic income is a logical model once those shitty jobs have been commoditized: there is no need for the jobs, and the people who normally would only be qualified for those jobs need to survive somehow.

But we're not there yet, our economy is still reliant upon a large number of people doing "shitty jobs" in order to grow in general, and more specifically to continue this push towards further automation. This is the challenge: you need a way to alleviate human suffering during the transition towards a greater world for everyone, but the most obvious way to do that (basic income) may halt the transition itself. What we probably need is something that looks more like a bridge than a final destination, but any such bridge starts to resemble the experiments in communism that cost the world so much during the 20th century.
I completely messed up a freelance project,seeking options to end this
"no" at the end of a sentence, after a comma, to mean "isn't it so?", was common in Mumbai (Bombay) from many years ago. Interesting that it has started being used in the States now, which I've noticed on other forums and in personal interactions too. My guess is that it came into use in Bombay English via some Indian language, where it is a normal way of speaking.
Pretty sure that this posting is a scam.
There are many paths to achieve this kind of good character, but in my (somewhat biased) opinion, Sufism is one of the most richly developed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tazkiah
> In recent decades […]

When was this written?
Yes, just create an account on NAO and press "m" to write to the current player (who might then reply to you with "#" or "E-"). People often give each other advice or commiseration.

And there's also a #nethack IRC channel where sometimes players and watchers will comment on ongoing NAO games.
I've watched the videos and this is the most incredible thing I've ever seen (ok, probably not, but it is amazing). It is really strange it didn't get more upvotes.
Is the source for the guide available anywhere? I like the ideas in this a lot, but I think that I would need to play around with a concrete project built in it in order to really grok the practical implications.
I fail to see the problem:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{letter}
\signature{the user}
\address{the user\\right here}
\begin{letter}{Receiver\\somewhere over the rainbow}
Bla bla bla
...

Not very different and you can ensure your letters look great.
It's not buddy, It is a personal assistant on Whatsapp, a small A.I project we are working on. Working on a one pager to go with it.
Thank you for honoring me and my opinion, even if you feel I am incorrect.

Further, thank you for confirming that GNOME depends on systemd directly, and not merely dbus. This was the crux of my issue, and why this port was non-trivial. Had it been dbus alone, which already is in ports, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

but it's relying on systemd's "public and stable" (which we won't get into here) interfaces to dbus. not dbus directly. By depending on systemd, they are not only getting out of maintaining "OS portability gunk", but getting out of supporting any other OS that doesn't use systemd. do you see the difference here?

there is no systemd-portable, such as OpenSSH offers. in fact, Lennart Poettering has stated that such a port would not only be non-trivial, but something he does not wish to happen. if there had been, we might not be having this conversation either.
You can have several different functions that all close over the same state. This situation is analogous to an object with several different methods.
Pixar is still battling with lots of legacy cruft. They went through a phase of hiring the best and brightest directly from MIT and the like.

This resulted in an explosion of tools written in odd ways with obscures languages each with their own odd DSL to interact with. (Something that most VFX houses that survived the late 90s/early 00s suffer from.)

Part of the reason that Rhythm and Hues went bankrupt is that they were the last bastion of "we make all our own tools"

The battle Pixar had to rebuild/replace marionette cost millions and took years. It got so bad they were seriously considering Maya instead. (I thought they had actually bitten the bullet and bought a sight license, however it appears that they wrote presto instead.)

So Pixar isn't the chocolate factory of awesome it used to be. The long hours and the rampant wage fixing somewhat tarnishes the image.
I wonder if this could be extended. The human visual system has some pretty major limitations in terms of sensitivity to different parts of the color spectrum. We know there are some rare women who have a mutation causing them to have much greater sensitivity to different portions of the spectrum that normally-sighted people perceive as blue. We call these women tetrachromats.

I, for one, am giddy at the idea of augmenting our senses to all be super-sighted tetrachromats. The whole notion of literally expanding the way we see the world has always been exciting beyond words. Maybe it's a result of having grown up with Geordi on Star Trek TNG...
"I don't rule out the possibility of building robust self-sufficient off-world habitats. The problem I see is that it's vastly more expensive than building an off-world outpost and shipping rations there, as we do with Antarctica -- and our economic cost/benefit framework wouldn't show any obvious return on investment for self-sufficiency."

I think this is what eventually acts as the great filter.

In that by the time it is cost benefit approved to do something, the resources have already been depleted on something that would rake in more tokens in the short run.

and unless we manage to blow the atmosphere away, eventually nature moves in and covers everything up (what is uninhabitable for modern man don't seem the phase the rest of the animal kingdom much).

As such, the blue spheres we spot may be places that has come and gone already. But the only way to know for sure is to go there, and that is highly unlikely to ever happen.

Damn it, we keep finding new ruins in the Amazon constantly (never mind various deserts etc). It does not take long for nature to reclaim a region once civilization has gone bye bye.
Why would you watch them? Did you manage to figure out what he 's talking about or if he even has a concrete proposal? His modest proposal is nothing but generalities and unfinished arguments. I voted for his party but this guy lives in the world of half-assed academic hypotheses. He will probably end up resigning and go back to teaching in whatever country claiming that the world wasnt ready for him.
Be sure to checkout Tarantool[1]; it uses Sophia for on-disk databases

[1] http://www.tarantool.org
Intel and Cray Land Contract for 2 Dept. Of Energy Supercomputers
I'm a lecturer at a large university -- my class sizes are usually on the order of 75 students. During my office hours, I use this style almost exclusively whereas in my lectures I am much more predicate-based.

I agree with you -- this works spectacularly when you're in a 1-on-1 or 1-on-few setting, but in front of a class it breaks down very quickly.
Nutanix's plan to take down VMware
I'm not saying that the cache should be fully associative, I'm saying that instead of each bucket being a power of two, make it a prime number -- eg, 67 byte cache lines instead of 64, for example, seem to me like they would prevent quite a bit of aliasing with common data sizes.

There would be more circuitry to divide the addresses. I haven't done too much with hardware (only some light FPGA experience), so I don't know how much extra, but it doesn't feel like it would be prohibitive. I could be wrong.

(If you're aware of someone doing analysis on that, I'd be curious to see it -- I haven't seen any.)
It's probably coincidence, but the timing of the Guanzhou ban (discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9349116) is certainly interesting, given this development.
Well, so does "well" :)
"Since when does the author feel he's so much better than everybody else, that he feels qualified to tell the readers of the NYTimes what they want to be"

You must be unfamiliar with David Brooks' output. He's thought of himself as "that guy" for YEARS...
That was never really an issue - grab the tex distribution for your platform, install and done.
Jessica Alba She showed off her gorgeous body by wearing nothing but a bikini
Yep, that's what I meant. Since beginning.
Man, this is great. Thanks so much for putting words around it!
Who says we're not that?
Turning arbitrary geometry into light sources is now bleeding edge technology?
Totally agree with alain94040. Come up with some crazy experiments to run and weave travel into it. Off the top of my head:

* Visit an elderly center, tell them you're traveling, and let them request certain attractions in the city you're in. You GoPro the whole thing and upload it for them when you're done.

* Come up with an interesting question and ask people as you travel e.g. "what do you think of americans?" , "what do you think of america?". Share the responses on a blog.

* Go to Cuba and capture the density of wi-fi signals you get. Document it in such a way that someone besides you could rerun it in the future.

Count me as jealous. Have fun and good luck!
Can you please give me your email id so that I can send full details there.
Re: squatters...how many websites do you (reader) use when looking for X where X is even in the domain? For hosting, I use digitalocean, not hosting.com. For shopping, I use Amazon or overstock or some named store, not name-of-thing.com

When I'm searching for reviews of something and get results for "exact-thing-I-searched-reviews.com" or "best-name-of-thing.com", I immediately know those are spam and not worth visiting, since no business / forum / self-respecting personal site would call themselves something so ridiculously specific.

TL;DR generic name domains are useless since no established reputable companies use them. Look at the top Alexa 500 and consider how many related to X even have X in the domain name.
Why would you assume it's a coincidence by default? These discussions about the China export ban have been going on for the past 6 months. Plenty of time to set-up some kind of deal.

And now right after we discover Intel can't sell to China anymore and therefore China can't have the "more powerful supercomputer in the world" anymore (at least for now), we find out that DoE, a US government agency, kicked Nvidia and brought in Intel to build the "most powerful supercomputer".

Yeah, I don't think it's a coincidence. Sounds like a way to not make Intel too pissed off about it and sue the US government over the restrictions (which it could do, but now won't.
Ask HN: How to create a on site version of my SaaS?
I have a SaaS built on open source software.

I want to provide a package that they can install on their servers.

Some customers want to run the entire infrastructure inside their own company.

What is the best way to do this? Create a virtualbox image?
Looking at price trends of desalination and solar power leads to the conclusion that by 2050, the 100km coastal region everywhere could have access to affordable water, and by 2040 in the western world[1].

Personally i think that water consumption will greatly decrease in the future, because of the great water saving potential of synthetic biology as a way for growing food:

In theory using synthetic biology and making basic food components[amino acids, fats, flavourants, etc] can make all the food the world eat, at a land size of rhode island with something like 1/1000 less water than today, generating around 1% of greenhouses gases , and at something between 5-20 cents/pound.And molecular gastronomy and food science know, or are rapidly learning,how to make it into tasty food.

As an example for that, there's a company(prottero) that uses synthetic biology, and already making sugar at 5 cents/pound - 1/2-1/3 of the cost of regular sugar, with 30x the land efficiency.

So yes, i think Malthusians will be very disappointed.

[1]http://www.syngentafoundation.org/db/1/1299.pdf
No, they still can ask for money. Read my comments above, I actually defend their right to make paid download the default. What they cannot do is take code released under the GPL, themselves likely getting it for free, the accuse anyone who copies their modifications without paying them of "cheating the system". They can even outright sell that software and not allow $0, that's fine, but someone will likely put a mirror up, and that person isn't "cheating the system", is playing by the same rules everyone else is. For the record, I have paid for (some) GPL software, and I still don't think it's any less valid to get it for free (most free software I have ever used is also free as in price, so...).
That's misleading. It's not technically a byproduct, but taking literally tons of salt that was spread evenly throughout the ocean and dumping it out at high concentration at the end of a pipe has significant (and bad) ramifications for the ecosystem at the end of the pipe.
It seems Markov Logic nets can scale to really big problems:

* https://code.google.com/p/rockit/

* http://i.stanford.edu/hazy/hazy/tuffy/

But they seem to be getting less and less coverage in probabilistic programming. Perhaps they are considered too inexpressive?
It is a matter of attitude, approach and social savviness, rather than the 'method.'

Give somebody who's socially savvy the socratic method, or something else, they'll do well. Give somebody who argues with people any method, they'll fail.

The key takeaway here is 'argue' - if you argue with people, you are not doing it right. There's really no situation in life where that's necessary or the optimal approach. Most people don't know this, so...

It is a lot like yelling at or hitting people - if you don't realize that if you stoop down to that level more than a couple of times a year, YOU are the asshole, no amount of socratic or otherwise is going to help. The standard for behaviour simply needs to change.

Once you raise the bar to 'talking down to people is not acceptable' - all of a sudden you'll find that arguments don't happen anymore, who is there to argue with? It is either a negotiation or a conversation that you are choosing to have.

Most teachers don't know this. The amount of talking down to kids is incredible, they just don't know any better.

I saw 'A most violent year' recently - it is a great example of how to handle stressful situations. Should be mandatory viewing for all adults really.
The question is whether we would actually profit from having more color pigments or if the additional information would just get lost at the level of optic nerves or in the brain, especially if you treat grown-ups.
Ask HN: Does anyone know a turnkey listing platform?
Hey I am looking to use a turkey tech platform that let's you create a listing website. I'm wondering if anyone knows any good ones that take very little setup time?

The equivalent of Cratejoy.com for listing sites like yellow pages.

Thanks!
I'm not sure I see your point. Greece has a perfectly
democratic way of getting rid of its debt: default. Russia in
1998 was the last big European country to do so. Iceland's banks also defaulted on some wholesale depositors a few years ago. Greece has (partly or
fully) defaulted on foreign debt already on several occasions in the
past. Greece has in effect already defaulted on some of its current
debt, although it is not always called a default. Moreover Greece is
getting extremely favourable interest rates and repayment schedules on
its remaining debt.

The real question is: why is Greece not going the democratic way of
defaulting on its external debt? And the answer is, as you know
well, that Greece wants to continue receiving all that sweet EU money. Why
stop a good thing?

... impose non-sensical demands ...

Have you considered that not everybody thinks that fighting corruption,
tax-avoidance etc is non-sensical?