skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my understanding the docs are correct:

> split_iter() yields lists of non-separator values.

-> returns a generator of lists

vs for split()

> Returns a list of lists.

Note that the examples in the docs always wrap split_iter() in list(), hiding the generator step from the visible output.
This is the problem that Stellar (https://stellar.org) can solve better than Bitcoin. Unlike Bitcoin which takes 10-30 minutes to confirm transactions, Stellar takes seconds with its new consensus system (https://medium.com/a-stellar-journey/on-worldwide-consensus-...). This eliminates the need for mining which consumes a exorbitant amount of electrical energy. Stellar is also built to work with a diverse set of currencies (USD, EUR, CNY, BTC etc).
> bundling software is exactly what got Microsoft into trouble

Yes, if "bundling" is equivalent to threatening to "cut off Netscape's air supply", then, yes, "bundling" is exactly what got Microsoft into trouble.

Otherwise, no, "bundling" doesn't properly describe what happened.
We used to do it over 10Base-T, which is slower than a lot of residential connections now. Well, latency will be higher over the internet, but bandwidth will be ok.
One returns a list of lists, the other an iterator of lists.

split_iter() docs say, "split_iter() yields lists of non-separator values," whereas split() docs say, "Returns a list of lists." Still, I'll look at clarifying it. ;)
I wish he hadn't made so many modifications.
Eh, isn't there a huge different between just orange glasses and safety glasses that are designed to block blue frequencies?

I have the Uvex S1933X glasses, and they're amazing. I have pretty cool LED lighting in my apartment and can make my whole living room any color I want at night. If I set in to pure blue and put on the glasses, it's like being in pitch blackness (except a couple of items glow brightly).

It's not like looking at things with an orange tint at all, even though the glasses are obviously orange.

That being said - the benefits I get by using them is amazing. It's weird how much of a difference it can make, I get tired quickly after putting them on in the evening. If I forget to put them on I usually end up staying up too late, getting too little sleep and often ruining the next day. Personally I find it way more effective than flux.

By the way - blue light isn't just a negative thing, but also a huge positive. In the morning I use a Philips goLITE BLU HF3332, and it really improves both my energy and mood quickly after just a few minutes of usage.

Those two simple items, a blue light and a pair of blue-blocking glasses, have improved my life significantly. Try it out (especially the glasses, it's just $9).
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I've tried to use non ascii characters in passwords. Specifically, I've tried using japanese phrases as passwords/passphrases. Most software reject them. Or when they accept to register them, they would fail to recognize it on login. Sigh.
There is the new "split-index" mode to avoid this (see "git update-index" man page). The base index will contains 250k files but .git/index only contains entries you update, should be a lot fewer than 250k files.
On Laptops this can actually be rather hard. Many manufacturers use somewhat odd drivers for their keyboards, trackpads, and other components.

I know what I am doing, and I still budget a good couple hours worst case to get all the drivers up and running again.
I think that you are correct, that some technical details are definitely needed for comparison... To me, this matches up against Azure Files (which is CIFS/SAMBA based)...

Though, even if redundancy isn't a factor, it's nice that you can have network file shares without having to run your own dedicated instance in a given cloud. There are plenty of situations where having a common networked filesystem makes sense across a few servers for purposes of sharing some information, without it being physically on all of them... seeding static content, or user-uploaded files for example. It makes a given solution simpler to implement initially (though other considerations may take hold as a site/application grows).

Typically Azure seems to perform better in terms of storage i/o over AWS. Though, if you are disk constrained in ways you can't reasonable scale horizontally, then you may be better off with something using local disks, and your own backup strategy on something cheaper (Linode DigitalOcean, Joyent, etc).
I always found weird Jawbone did not include this as a standard feature...
Yeah, but they'll be constantly posting pictures of themselves on Instagram, so they won't be hard to avoid.
To put this in perspective, as of 11/2014, the aggregated computing power of the top 500 supercomputers is 308.9 Petaflops (http://www.top500.org/).
Actually, there was an episode of the "Travel Like A Boss" podcast, which is about digital nomadism, where the host and others were taken downtown by the Thai police after a raid on a co-working space. After the police found out that they were paying to do work at the co-working space on unrelated businesses and weren't being paid by the co-working space they let them go without charges [1].

1. http://www.travellikeabosspodcast.com/episodes--show-notes/e...
That is a reasonable analogy but the question is whether or not your in-house support will do a better job than Amazon.
I've taken a quick look at it and looks very interesting, can't wait to fully read it this evening. Thank you!
I hope it pulls a change to allow it and other instances to vote on changes based on novelty, and of course, vote on whether or not other instances should be able to pull vote capabilities.
This is cool! I'm forever bewildered by the seemingly unreasonable effectiveness of fuzzers at finding bugs.
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I have some ideas and would like to realize them in a small game. I know nothing about 3D and have some experience in 2D game development so I think the ideal case for me would be a 2.5D game engine (like in Diablo 2 or Fallout 1/2). I'm looking something in C or maybe C++, multi-platform (Windows/Linux/BSD/MAC).
Can you please recommend anything?
>Linux is almost there. It's a crap shoot for me, unless it's running in a VM. I never know which kernel update will fix my trackpad/break my sound/wifi and which will fix the wifi, break suspend, fix sound, but break xrandr or some other archaic XWindows-related technology.

Apple could easily write fully functional Linux drivers for their hardware if they wanted to, but they choose not to.
some implementations of NFS use "silly rename" to get delete on last close semantics.
http://nfs.sourceforge.net/#faq_d2

I think that's limited to v2/v3 and not fully general or reliable.
I wonder how long until someone accidentally breaks it. Nomic has judges for a reason, this one'll just crash...

Love the idea though.
Hi everyone

Bec from Atlassian here - I head up global campus recruitment at Atlassian.

We have an internship program in our Sydney office, and we definitely welcome applications from international students. We have had a number of students from Europe (and other global locations) intern here throughout the year. Generally our internship program opens around June, and majority of students complete their internship over our summer (Nov - Feb), however we are definitely flexible on dates (especially for international students), as well as length of placement. You can find out more at atlassian.com/graduates

A few things just to note from my experience recruiting for internship programs (broadly speaking):

- A large number of companies in Australia do not offer internships to international students - best to check online before submitting your application

- You typically need to organise your own visa to enable you to have work rights in Australia. A good place to start to look into visa options is the Australian Government's Immigration website: http://www.immi.gov.au/Work/Pages/Work.aspx

- Most internship/vacation programs run over our summer (end of Nov to end of Feb) and are typically around 12 weeks in duration

Hopefully that has helped you all a little!
I posted this as an example of a language designed for verifiable correctness, predictable performance and a reactive design, and yet is completely imperative and full of side-effects. It is simply a demonstration that the pure-FP style is required (or even directly related) neither to verifiable correctness nor to reactive programming.

The debate on the relative merits of various programming styles will continue, of course, but Esterel is an example that may contradict some notions that are a result of some fashions.

Also, this categorization from Chapter 1 is interesting:

Computerized systems can be divided into three broad categories:

* Transformational systems compute output values from inputs values,
and then stop. Most numerical computation programs, payroll programs,
and compilers are transformational.

* Interactive systems constantly interact with their environment in such
a way that the computers can be viewed as the masters of the interaction.
A user calls for services, the system listens to him when
it can, and it delivers the services when they are available. Operating
systems, centralized or distributed databases, and the Internet are
interactive.

* Reactive systems, also called reflex systems, continuously react to stimuli
coming from their environment by sending back other stimuli. Contrarily
to interactive systems, reactive systems are purely input-driven
and they must react at a pace that is dictated by the environment.
Process controllers or signal processors are typical reactive systems.
1) Do note that most college professors receive no training or education in teaching. That's not what many are hired for; it's sort of peripheral to the job. It's not a CS-only problem, either.

2) The post does not advocate racial segregation, but desegregation. And as noted in the comments, interventions targeted at improving learning for women/racial minorities/veterans/distance students/etc tend to improve learning for everyone.
Am I only one who read this as "the null processor" and thought it's a dumbed-down CPU for educational purposes?
This is pretty impressive. It beats average human performance in the history category, but is outperformed by humans in literature.

Note that part of the data preparation process includes building a dependency-parse tree. From the abstract I'd thought the model was learning to do that too, which would have been very impressive.

In general this approach is somewhat related to [1] in that both rely on knowledge representation similarities. I'm not entirely clear about how this groups approach interfaces the learned model and the IR querying.

[1] Open Question Answering with Weakly
Supervised Embedding Models http://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.4326v1.pdf
ffmpeg and libav - maybe not "before" the GitHub era, but outside it.
Amusing and thought provoking. Does anyone have any idea how this would hold up in a court of law should some something malicious come of this repo? I would imagine not well.
I can't imagine people calling Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme are worse for its image than all of the Ponzi schemes
Hi all! I am one of the winners of the tournament, on the ogre side.

The CodeCombat blog seems to be down. I've got a post on my own site about my strategy which might take your fancy in the meantime:

http://michaelheasell.com/blog/2015/04/08/zero-sum-my-winnin...

Hopefully the CodeCombat blog will be up again soon. :)
I wanted to have a working cluster from scratch which meant not using saltstack and any of kubernetes helper scripts. So I wrote a bash script to do the same here : http://blog.shippable.com/multi-node-kubernetes-cluster
et voila! http://investors.cray.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=98390&p=irol-newsA...
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I trust you are accurate because of your username.
i'm surprised to see so much badness in the original code.

it kind of takes away from the rose tinted view i have of the past being dominated by awesome programmers who got the most out of the hardware...
Feel free to create a PR that adds a judge system!
Remember, most professors do not get any training in how to teach. It is sad but true that learning about pedagogy is a big step for us. Maybe CS needs some of this pedagogy-discussion.
The point is that over time using artificial sweeteners causes this intolerance.
The general ASRS reporting form can be filled out by almost anyone, not just an airline employee. Most typically it's pilots, including general aviation pilots.
From my (limited) understanding, a foundation is a legal person that owns itself. Thus with a foundation, the bot could own property.
You're not. If you find it, sign me up.
Stop drinking all that diet soda you heathens!
One of the first things that come to mind would be to add the ability to shell out and run npm, so people could add dependancies.

Then of course, I would add a backdoor that allows me to update running code without involving github. Might want to try to break out of whatever chroot is going on and subvert the image.

I'd suggest an out-of-band once a day full image restore.
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Computers are bad at high-stress, quick decision bursts when they aren't exhaustively accounted for in the programming. If you've ever done any real-time process control you'd know that. High-stress, quick decision bursts are the ones that kill you, not the boring, rote ones.
Yeah, that's something the Ceph and Gluster teams have been working on to integrate with Kubernetes seamlessly (or at least, easily). The gluster core drivers for volumes landed recently, and self service service on demand FS is a goal.
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Shouldn't he test his model on another dataset besides the one used to generate it? Maybe it's overfitted. It would have been nicer to see the whole thing developed with only a decade or two of data, then shown to work for all the other decades too.
Better make sure you get those years right if that's your padding :)
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This doesn't seem portable: https://github.com/mahmoud/boltons/blob/master/boltons/tests...
http://www.isogenicengine.com/ is isometic gaming engine i have used it a long while ago ... look at it
for (i = 100; i >= 0; i-=1) { console.log(i) }
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Its already up for a change to remove the bit after ownership claims.
Maybe it would hold up if the bot was decentralized. For instance, it could be run on many servers around the world, administered by various people. Those servers could come to consensus in some way to define bot behavior, and could even send/receive money (e.g. Bitcoin multisig).

I don't think any court could take jurisdiction over an entity that lives in many countries. And even if one server got shut down, many more would still be active.
IANAL, but there's no way this would hold up.

a) Software can't own property.

b) This looks like it's running from the author's own system, with the author's explicit consent. Their property, their responsibility.

c) If I launched an autonomous drone that picked its own targets, I would still be liable for its actions. Or, if I rigged a car to drive forward in a straight line, I couldn't say "but the car did it!" when it ran someone over.
Do you think you can enable issues on github? It may help organize some of the work going on.
Depends, I work with a number of HA Drupal sites, and Drupal 7 can do most files in S3 but it still likes to put generated CSS/JS files and tmp files on local disk. In most of these cases (or for already existing sites) it's usually easier to just use NFS or Gluster instead of trying to force everything to S3.

upstream issue: https://www.drupal.org/node/2044509
Not a pilot, don't know anything about flying. Got it.
I am a huge AWS fan, and user. Look at my accounts for the sums I have spent over the years. I lover new AWS services. But, this is my main complaint with AWS -- don't announce until you have usable numbers and workable examples for early adopters!
While scummy, that doesn't necessarily mean that Aspartame is dangerous.
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The idea that the "software owns its own code" would not hold up in any court that I can think of. Building a system that spans jurisdictions, making it difficult for a court to claim the ability to rule on it is beside that point.
That so much does not in any way describe "the computer landed the plane". At all.
Why would people not interested in technology want to learn programming?
Made a gun sounds Android app
Malthus wasn't a pessimist and I really wish people would stop projecting their views onto his work.
There's not supposed to be one. It makes no sense to say "How InnoDB lost it is advantage" so it's not supposed to have an apostrophe. It took me decades to internalize that rule, and even now, I accidentally do the wrong thing.

http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/its.html
>>I am skeptic about the safety of all artificial sweeteners - especially ones new to the market

Stevia is not artificial and has been used in Japan for decades. It is recognised as a mainstream sweetener. It's also used in Canada, for example, though not so widespread yet.
That might be an issue with scheduling of the virtual kernel and the host kernel.

I've found nfs to be much faster and more reliable than sshfs or smbfs for VMs, using either qemu-kvm on linux or virtualbox on OS X.
I seem to recall - though I definitely can't think of any specific examples - of there being plenty of things "only Apple apps" can do, be it on OS X or iOS. Seems like anything around security, limitations on extensions and such (though many of those are policy, not API-based).
> JWZ used to say that Linux is only free if you don't value your time.

My reply to that has always been that Windows is only $300 if you don't value your time. (Preserving archaic cost of Windows to match JWZ quote.)

The implication that the one system is free and time-consuming and the other moderately in price but not time-consuming is entirely false. At the time, for many requirements, configuring and administering a Windows machine would have been more time-consuming than for Linux. It's also glossing over the fact that you can't horizontally scale your $-per-cpu/server solution once you do have the configuration worked out, without going back to the well for more money.

This amusing and glib quote also deliberately glosses over the "freedom" part of free software, which is essential. For example, I wonder if Google would exist today if not for a free unix workalike.
I think that works in theory, but in many real world cases it actually takes a human to map the data into a subset of salient features. It's not simply a matter of excluding irrelevant dimensions.
> zeroing of all open files when there is an unclean shutdown. None of those were true

That one most definitely is at least partially true. I had experienced this several times using XFS on my home Linux machine in the early 2000s. I use JFS now, but supposedly this bug/misfeature was fixed some time ago, thankfully.

Edit: indeed, the linked slides themselves back me up on this; just three slides after the one quoted by the article, we have "Null files on crash problem fixed!"
Sorry, looks like it isn't public.
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FYI: In windows (desktop versions) it's only now in the "Enterprise" version, and apparently will be removed in Windows 10. Not sure if there are limitations to which server versions are currently supported.

CIFS/SAMBA in Linux has been pretty good, imho for the past couple years... though I still get some occasional wonky behavior from my NAS box.
This is really cool. I've been participating and its interesting... right now its "coming alive" and still has no useful feature, but soon....
Denying tech sales to China, at this stage is just causing minor nuisance. In not-so-far future China is going to be much stronger economy than US ever was. If they want the bigger computers, they will have the bigger computers. Just calculate any "damage" done with those export rules on Chinese military - is it $2B more that needs to be spent in order to get the same capability? Or $20B? You can just watch that money float right past you to their domestic HPC and CPU industries. In effect, US is trying it's damnest to make China competitive in the one major high tech export industry that it still has undisputed world leadership in.

Only circumstance this would make any sense would be if you were sliding fast and inevitably to open conflict, and causing them setbacks worth of a few months to a couple of years would be vital. Since that is not the case, this has nothing but "strategic blunder" written all over it.
You didn't read the part where your solution has to begin with "for(int i=0;" with nothing before it.
Facebook makes RocksDB. The MySQL forked you linked is maintained by Facebook. The blog post is from a Facebook engineer who works on MySQL at Facebook. The tweet linked in the blog post is from a Parse engineer talking about using MongoDB with a RocksDB storage backend. Parse is a Facebook product.

I don't see how any of that is attacking MySQL or MongoDB, just their stock storage engines.
You do? I think I see blinking red bars around his username...
its legal in plenty of other places and the bulk of research (some very recent) seems to show that it is very safe within the constraints of those studies, with the well documented and understood exception of people with phenylketonuria.

this makes it very hard for me to believe in the corruption argument, no one individual has the power or money to do something on that scale. maybe its a coordinated effort, but such arguments strain credibility. even if we assume corruption, it is not relevant to the safety discussion if we have piles of evidence that something is only dangerous in well understood cases.

on the other hand, we will never really know for sure, and we don't even have a complete picture until enough people have been consuming it for long enough 'in the wild'... but the same is true about anything discovered recently.

and of course, the individual case you point out is shocking regardless as to the safety of aspartame.
This is not interesting. If you read the comments you'll see people complaining that it compared an O(N^2) string append method to an O(N) disk append method.

Plus, the link to the research PDF in the Slashdot article is now broken. It should be http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02678 "When In-Memory Computing is Slower than Heavy Disk Usage".

That page comments "This paper has been withdrawn by the authors for personal reasons. No further revisions"
Correct. This is quantitative analysis 101. A training set and testing set.
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For some reason, I don't think it's coincidence that Guangzhou Supercomputer Center got put on the US Technology “Denial List” and Argonne awarded Cray a 180 Petaflop sale.
Laws change. I'm just trying to make a statement about this exact issue.

If an entity on the internet can't directly be controlled by anyone (kind of like Bitcoin), who is liable for its actions?
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9 Fingers "making of" video, where the Spaceballs dudes videotaped their highschool friends for the dance shots:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgriMuXZ3QY

I think Jannicke, the state of the art girl dated Paul (Lone Starr) at the time. They were all teens when they made this and Paul was one of the by far youngest democoders in the scene at the time.

Interview with Jannicke (look how young everyone is):
https://web.archive.org/web/20050307132321/http://spaceballs...

More context in Borzyskowski's work:
"THE HACKER DEMO SCENE AND IT'S CULTURAL ARTIFACTS"
http://fullscream.com/wp-content/uploads/borzysko.txt

Raw #5 diskmag:
http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=9511

One day I'll really take the time to write a properly researched history of this very unique era..