skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They ask the Church's servers.

The Church is meticulous about good record keeping (which is what makes them so good at genealogy in the first place), and every official member of the LDS church has a unique member identification number, used for things like tracking donations, ordinance records, and, of course, genealogy. Nowadays, the vast majority of these records are digitized and you can access them online through Church-owned-and-operated websites. If you happen not to be in the system yet (maybe you were baptized in the jungles of New Guinea and have only just made it back to civilization), it's pretty simple to meet up with a bishop or clerk who can verify your paper records and tell you what your membership number is, which will let you set up an account on Church websites.

So, to summarize, the Church knows who its members are, and knows how to associate them with online identities. When one of them wants free access to Ancestry.com, it's basically the same process as "Sign in with Google" and such- you tell Ancestry that you're LDS, Ancestry asks the Church's servers if you're telling the truth, and the Church's authentication system teels Ancestry to let you in.
Context Makes Our Devices
While we're making doc requests on this topic, could you address passing function pointers between C/Rust at some point? Sorry if this is already obvious to more experienced Rust users.
It does if you compile with Clang - VS is just a front-end after all. If you're asking about MSVC however, it's incomplete.
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This seems obvious in hindsight.

We know that thinking causes physical effects on the brain. (I mean: half of our (limited) understanding of the brain comes from measuring bloodflow.) So yeah, of course something that's affected by bloodflow (like, say, cancer) will be affected by thoughts.

The better question is: is there a strong enough effect from actual thoughts (as opposed to direct neural stimulation, which is what this paper uses) to cause the same effect?
Waaaay ahead of you: I'm a genealogy nerd and I built an open source archival records management system (Apache Solr + MySQL + PHP) called LeafSeek to do just that. Won second place at the RootsTech Developer Challenge for it.

Website: http://www.leafseek.com
Background article about how the project came to be: http://www.leafseek.com/blog/leafseek-gets-published-in-avot...

I currently work with two major non-profit genealogy groups to put their record collections online for free and easy searches, without handing them over to for-profit groups like Ancestry. So far we're at 700,000+ records online using my code, and the newest "big" addition is the Israeli State Archives agreeing to put their British Mandate period marriage and divorce certificates online via one of the non-profits using the code.

I'm planning on launching the system as a multi-tenant SaaS one of these days, once my kids are a little older. :-)
Or have not sent an email to that person before.
I believe these days WoW merges underpopulated zones so those ~20 players per zone are across a bunch of servers while ~50 players in a zone may be all in one server.
HN, Seth Godin blog, Zenhabits, James Altucher blog, Swiss Miss

In that order :)
to each his/her own. I've worked in both settings before and I felt like I was dying in a cube.
Back in college, you probably had a lot more free time to seek out new music to listen to. There are lots on confounding variables. Maybe your budget for entertainment was such that you could only afford to go to concerts or buy CD's (compared to going on a vacation, or buying an expensive meal at a trendy restaurant, or fancy bottle of wine). Maybe you were more willing to go to "bad" side of town to see a new unpopular new act. Maybe since you've graduated college, you've found other hobbies that you care more about than music. We're the same age, and these are some things that I've noticed happening to me.

According to the article, when you become a parent your music taste stagnates as well...
My wife and I play - but we have no friends who do. I am envious!
Yesod's great. There's a bit of a learning curve, but it comes with a LOT of batteries.
I think I might make the lunatic version of this.

When you email ian cuss like a sailor and spit a lot. Challenge him to a fight in the first three sentences. Tell him star wars > star trek to throw down the gauntlet. As him about his mother.
Well done, this is actually well executed and quite useful to quickly check translations for menus, dialog boxes and so on
Can I have the .press please?
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I don't think it's obvious at all, and yeah, absolutely.
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Why is that? I tend to agree that middle management is a trap. If you don't get creative control but have to push other people to work on things, it can be worse than being a grunt, because your job is actually to enforce directives that you don't agree with. If it's bad to follow a stupid rule, it's even worse to be expected to make 10 other people follow it and to discipline (or even fire) them if they don't comply.

Middle management can often be the worst of both worlds. I don't know if that's intrinsic to the job, or just intrinsic to how organizations conceive of the job.

The sad truth, however, is that most people have no options other than climbing, because so much of this industry is "manage or be managed". It's at the point where I would generally not take a job without a manager-equivalent title at the VP/Dir level unless it was a small organization or one that I knew well, even though I have no need to be running a team. Ideally, you want to be a programmer in terms of what you actually get to do, but VP-equivalent in terms of being able to get shit done, be listened to when you need something, and avoid undesirable and distracting work being dropped onto you.
Google Removes Image of Android Robot Peeing on Apple Logo from Google Maps
But beware lag time.

That is: Some languages aren't suitable for general use. Some aren't... and then they are. But popularity probably correlates with how suitable the language was at least two years ago, and maybe more like 10. (Call it 5 as a compromise.)

So popularity doesn't tell you that the language is unsuitable now. But I agree, there is a correlation. Programmers for the most part aren't stupid sheep, afraid to use something new.
This is neat. Reminds me of http://www.hemingwayapp.com

Anyone aware of other stuff like this or want to shamelessly promote something? I'm interested.
I'm 99.9% sure that DannyBee understands this, because he's a smart guy, and that he's saying "that's how it works in marketing".
You don't actually need to scan all the images, just transcribe the main points of the data (names, dates, places), make that data searchable, and then provide information about how a user could go about ordering a copy of the original data if needed.
Reminds me of something I saw on the news here in Colorado just yesterday: Somebody who runs a haunted house supply company is leaving the state "because of legalized marijuana" – apparently he can't find and keep employees who don't come to work stoned. You get what you pay for!
I am just so lucky WoW started after I was done with education. In fact I picked it up during a recovery from knee surgery. I figured if I couldn't walk in the real world, I could explore an imaginary one.

It's a beautiful place. The thing is, you can't explore it without levelling. And it's also pretty vast, at least the size of zone 2 in London tube terms. So I ended up spending a lot of time there.

I got so deep into it I even attended a wedding. I mean where the IRL players got married and their characters and online friends got together.

Anyway, there is something about the way it's constructed that gets boring after a few months of playing time. It's as if there's two games: levelling and raiding. Raiding is where your friends are, so levelling is what you have to do to get your friends the Tank/Healer that they need. (Nobody needs DPS).

It would be cool if the content just scaled so you could level everywhere, instead of having a predefined optimal quest/zone path. On your third character it does get tedious, because everyone levels by doing solo DPS.

Perhaps there is also a smarter mechanic for gold grinding. When I was playing there was always some zone that was optimal for finding the best ores, so I'd just fly a loop of that each morning.

Lastly, is it really hard to generate content? I mean of the type "here's a warrior, a druid, and a warlock, find us something to do that can't just be googled". Maybe smarter minds have thought about this than me, but I thought it could be worth a stab.
Wow. I can't believe it's 2015 and both Chrome and Firefox are still battling text antialiasing bugs.
Not sure what you mean by "object oriented C". It doesn't support C++ presently (something I'd love to see improved); there are some projects that do Objective-C interop; if you just mean C that uses structs in an OO-like way, it shouldn't be that different from any other C.
being exposed to currently-popular music causes you to listen to it less?

Wouldn't surprise me if that were true. I learned to avoid the pop music radio stations because while lots of it is good, even more of it is crap and annoys me.

I find lots of new music I like, but most of it isn't popular. It's generally something I track down from a commercial, or I hear a few times on the local public radio alternative station, or heard in a movie. Heck, I discovered I love Concrete Blonde from a TV show 25 years ago.

I find that having Xbox Music & YouTube available makes me listen to a lot of stuff I otherwise wouldn't find.
The scaling zones of GW2 were not very popular for those of us that played in the beginning. Traditional MMOs allow your character to gain power. The power gain of your character is a large reason for many of the game systems to exist. To develop a system that takes away all this character power that you've gained felt boarderline 'slap in the face' like. Stripping character power is never a proper solution for an MMO.
The sceptic in me says that what the average person writes on the web that's easily and accurately traceable to them says relatively little about their preferred email communication style (if the algorithm had access to their "inbox" and "sent items" it might be a different matter.)

I'm intrigued by whether the advice it offers focuses on mimicking their own communication style of whether it gets a bit more clever and human, and advises people (e.g.) to phrase things in a very deferential manner to somebody who gives the appearance of pomposity.
Talk to the attorney, do not shut them off, ever, and work through the process. Sometimes it just takes a third party to get involved to bring about a reality check for everyone. Sadly people will let their emotions get in the way of better judgement, more sad, people will spends tens of thousands of dollars on attorney's over a contract worth less. It happens.

If you haven't seen this: http://creativemornings.com/talks/mike-monteiro--2/1 it is worth the watch. Basically, people will try all the time to downplay what you are worth, or decide what you delivered should be worth less etc. But it isn't all people, and generally you can start seeing the patterns after being burned a few times.

Also, anytime a client ends the agreement and there is any turmoil, don't work for them without payment up front (or demand they bring past due invoices current). As sad as this sounds, its your leverage and frankly their issue is not your emergency. EMT's are trained when they respond to 911 calls to remain calm because its not your emergency, kinda seems harsh, but its reality and the same applies to things like that in consulting.
You're welcome! there's a small number of groups out there in this Tuvan style, but Huun-Huur-Tu is probably the most well known.

I was introduced to it through an English professor who had been pressed into teaching a Junior Technical Writing class in my undergrad and thought she might connect with us by having us study Feynman's writing. Did she ever, I remember she played a short documentary (linked below) on Feynman's quest to go to Tuva and the music was like instant frisson juice.

I became obsessed with Tuvan music for a few months after that class ended and hunted down everything I could on it.

Here's the style in the wild

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTCJ5hedcVA

And Feynman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXVTpxuSU3M
Philadelphia BMD. New York State Census records (State off-year, not Federal). Swedish BMD (previously available online, then pulled down). Czech BMD (ditto). The list goes on... Check the genealogy blogs, of which there are many, for details.
Scaling Amazon ECS Services Automatically Using Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Lambda
This is CP: you have chosen to sacrifice availability by making operations fail when replicas cannot be contacted due to a partition. The concept of "partition tolerance" ends up heavily overlapping with the concept of "availability" to the point where trying to make tradeoffs between the two without sacrificing consistency is essentially nonsensical. As put by Coda Hale: "You Can't Sacrifice Partition Tolerence".

http://codahale.com/you-cant-sacrifice-partition-tolerance/

(Sadly, Coda deferred to someone important after writing this article, someone whom I don't think bothered to think through how much more beautiful Coda's explanation of a "partition" is than the AFAICT impossible-to-discern one that supposedly was being used in the original paper :/. I frankly think the final "update" to the article should be ignored. FWIW, in the first "update", it is pointed out that Eric Brewer actually have a very positive shout-out to Coda's article.)
The Developer as CEO
It doesn't load more than 30 projects in the dropdown menu when I try to setup my repository.
All the worse, then.
I agree. The walmart in my town is always dirty. I don't like shopping there because of dirty the floor is.
From Another Article: The compact design of LiquidPiston's lab engine currently tips the scales at 80 lbs for the 40-hp model. It would weigh less than 50 lbs in production, the company claims, far less than a comparable 40-hp diesel that would tip the scale at around 400 lbs. [1]

How on earth do you get a 400lb diesel engine that ONLY produces 40HP. First, when comparing engines for power production, you should really talk about kW production capability, not HP. Engine's HP is only half the story, you also have to talk about it's torque.

I know rotary engines are a cool technology, but something about this smells like BS.

[1]http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a8174/liquidpistons-hyp...

Edit: citation added
i dont think they would decline immediately, peer pressure and societal norms still push popularity in their face. I'm just saying their divergence from the mainstream might happen much sooner, and continue into old(er) age, and not plateau like it seems to on the graphs these folks are showing (look at 33+, it's relatively flat).
152-year old art museum just added blockchain-ascribed digital art to collection
I recently did silithus again....it reminded me why I hated it so much in Vanilla. Especially because you had to go there to get your cooking to 300
Trust isn't for "little children." Trust is what makes the world go round. I trust that my bank won't close overnight and steal all my money. I trust that the food I buy is safe for human consumption. I trust that random people on the street won't attack me because they feel like it.

"Hoping for the best" (or perhaps "trusting that people won't screw me over") is actually an extremely good strategy -- far better than not trusting anyone with anything. I can hire third parties to cook my food, do my taxes, handle my banking, even babysit my children after a background check (where I have to trust the background checking company) and a brief interview. If I couldn't trust people, I simply wouldn't be able to function in the modern world.

So I have a company, who I have paid to store my data. The company has been good so far, I use their services frequently, and I have every reason to trust them (they've had my credit card info, and my family's for years, haven't screwed me over, haven't lost any other data in all this time...) The company is shutting down, and they explicitly tell me that they will let me download all of my data, including text conversations. I download the data, only to open it weeks later and find that the company has failed to do what they said they would. In this one particular case, the strategy of "trust" has failed. However, in the long run, it's made my life a heck of a lot better.
> A mixture. One of my proudest moments at Foursquare was March 2011 at South By Southwest. In my keynote there, I described it as if we just pulled a Mr. Miyagi on you guys. You think that you’re checking in to get points and badges — and meanwhile we just made an awesome personalized local search engine for you! You think that you’re washing a car but you’re really learning karate! This is what we wanted to do all along. From that moment, Foursquare was about search and recommendations — a smarter search engine that learns about where you go. But by that point, people were so into the game stuff that they either couldn’t see or didn’t see it.

This is so incredibly arrogant. It's not that people couldn't see it or didn't see it, it's that they didn't want it. The game features made 4sq unique and fun. People don't want a "personalized local search engine" because there aren't millions of restaurants and bars around where they're at right now. It's just not that big of a problem to find a place to eat and yes, while they do an ok job helping out if you are looking for that, so does Yelp.
Weird. I was just reading William Hertling's Avogadro Corp (http://www.amazon.com/Avogadro-Corp-Singularity-Closer-Appea...) and the premise of that book is that someone builds this product exactly. Unfortunately, it very quickly goes all Skynet/HAL on the world.. oh well.
Yeah...It's been less than a year since I've left New York but even then, so many places have closed down/opened up...and this is completely independent of the downtrend in user-supplied data to Foursquare.
We do not have that sort of collateral drafted yet, but it is something we would like to be able to offer folks such as yourself. Real time results are something that jumps out at me with respect to Full Contact. There are times where they do not have the record immediately and that can hinder some businesses depending on the use case. The added data-points offered is also something that stands out to me with respect to both. Perhaps the carrier or line provider data is important because you may need to know if a phone number is a Google Voice number. Or if you are looking for address and some bit of social data such as hometown or education, that might be a combination you can only find with EveryoneAPI.

As I mentioned we will be working to develop some collateral to that end. After well over 10 years in the data space I would say that the best way to compare is to do a batch > 1000 records head to head. :)
Not just that you downscale, but that certain parts of the game, like dailies, actively encourage you to go to low level zones to do stuff.

The PVE side of GW2 have a bunch of other issues though.
Akka Wins 2015 JAX Award for Most Innovative Open Source Technology
> unless you're really into just having fun - which the game mostly does not encourage

This is the exact reason why, no matter how many times I tried over the years to play this game with friends, I could never stay attached for longer than a few hours. There seems to be less and less emphasis put on enjoying the experience of exploration and being in a space in modern online games, and more emphasis on rote activities for the sake of progress.

And thus I return to single-player games, which I certainly do not mind. There is a seemingly never-ending stream of creative ideas coming out of that space.
Last October I tried using that repo to compile Rust to C and it proved to be totally broken (i.e. not Rust's fault). There have been a bunch of commits since then, so maybe it works these days... shouldn't be hard to test.

However, don't expect it to generate code that's portable between architectures with different pointer widths.
This will break some websites that are not configured properly -- for example, a server that has several sites but only one of them uses https. Trying https on the other sites would default to the https in use. I've seen this happen on some servers we run internally.

In short, there's no way to know if you're actually seeing the correct https version of the site.
> It's easier to manage your information diet when everyone around you stops trying to push their content into you.

quoted from emphasis. remove money from intellectual property and you remove some incentive, from both good actors and bad ones.
I don't know about his boss, but when I read that he responded "Done. Absolutely. It's taken care of." when offered the story, I knew I was reading one juicy story! One he was super-excited to write!

I stopped reading shortly after he let the cat out of the bag that that wasn't his actual response to the stated story.

so - worked on me!
Pricing Strategy Lessons: How hipsters are driving up beer prices
There are many, many areas of IoT that have no hype at all because you don't know about them. There's tons of stuff in the consumer world that makes no sense: do I really need my fridge to tweet me that I'm out of milk?

However, when I lock the door of my production machine shop for the night with machines running unattended, I really want to know if my live-tooled lathe that needs to run as much as possible to pay for itself jams at 10:30 pm so I can go back and fix it.

Having my skid loader send a message to my PC because the engine has been running awfully hot for the last few days isn't hype, it saves me a big repair bill. And so on...

I led my company's IoT project years ago and Field Service can't stop saying how much it saves in service costs to be able to get data streamed directly from the machines to the servers where they can look at it instead of having to schedule a service call.

That's where IoT shines: saving business $$$
TCO is supposedly becoming an increasingly dominant metric in the sever space, of which FLOPS/watt is probably more important than IPC. So in many server segments a class-leading "WPI" (we need some kind of name) with decent IPC could actually lead ARM to victory.
There are tons of empirical studies showing the effects, good and bad, of patent systems using historical as well as more recent data. For instance studies of historical fairs have shown that the introduction of a patent system greatly increased the rate of innovation in fields where other protection was not previously available. On the other hand there are studies showing that patent tickets in some industries caused slowdowns in progress. There is significant evidence of various benefits and costs. The problem is, these pros and cons are not directly comparable so nobody can say one outweighs the other.
The only way this would be a killer feature in my book is if it analyses my entire inbox to generate the result. It would be more realistic since it is actually based on email and not published writing samples, which are not always indicative of communication.
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I'm guessing this is just for mobile, but you might be interesting in this pic from the article https://i3-vso.sec.s-msft.com/dynimg/IC794253.jpg

Also, a quick google turned up this: http://www.ishani.org/projects/ClangVSX/