skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From Wikipedia: "Blame is the act of censuring, holding responsible, making negative statements about an individual or group that their action or actions are socially or morally irresponsible."

This guy didn't "analyze a problem". There was zero intellectual contribution. He called people stupid for taking a risk and then being unhappy when they got a 1-in-a-million negative outcome.

If you want a longer version of why blame impedes risk analysis, try the book I recommended upthread. (Or pretty much any book on retrospectives will have a shorter version.) But the short version is that you basically have a choice between the emotional activity of blame or the analytical activity of analysis. Because humans.
> between their toes

This is not a thing. There are no large veins between the toes, and circulation in your feet is pretty poor anyway, not to mention hygiene and infection issues... There are some veins on the foot that can be used, but it's fucking painful and I wouldn't recommend it. If you use clean works and rotate injection sites regularly, there won't be any real visible marks. Not to mention that any needle marks are not going to be obvious to non users anyway.
"independently generated from the same initial specifications"

For all we know, if the spec required a counter of 100ms intervals, all N implementations could contain the same bug.

N-version avoids random, but not systematic bugs.
It was not obvious to me how to save my work, other than as a webpage.
I file it under "funny" but certainly it is nothing unusual or surprising. Software, like anything else, has faults and breaks. Even on an airplane.

It mostly is funny to us, developers, because we have all been trying to convince our bosses that "it will never happen". That object_id being an int4 sequence? You would need one object a second for 70 years to overflow. And yet, somehow, it does, e.g. because someone loaded data with object_id set to 1.9B and the sequence followed from there.

P.S.
My favorite pastime? Watching Aircraft Disasters series in an airport. Not brave enough to watch it during the flight yet. Karma might be a bitch and I do not want to test it 10 km up there ;-)
It looks nice. But as long as it's a Composer package, could you set it up to use the autoloader? Then, using it as a dependency will be easier.
Is "state feedback" synonymous with P-only control?

I've got an intake valve at work that we're controlling with P-only control, It basically iterates based on incremental voltage being proportional to current error in valve position.

Just trying to brush up on my lingo.
My parents don't rent a ski house. Neither did these people. So I think your example isn't so useful here.

I also don't understand how your (not unreasonable) belief on Uber has anything to do with AirBnB.
WriteRoom (http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroom)

DarkRoom (http://jjafuller.com/dark-room)

iA Writer

Write! (http://wri.tt)

To name but a few of these distraction-free writers.

Write! is cool but Windows only. iA Writer isn't free but Dropbox integration and mobile version justify the price for me.
Well of course that's correct, but it's wrong to take that and then make the conclusion that the GP does - that building a technology business these days doesn't actually involve much technology because everything's so ubiquitous. Scaling anywhere past MVP requires extensive and deep technical development. Any competent web dev might be able to reach something like YouTube's MVP, but it takes a lot more than that to build anything from then on.
Another thing you can do is reduce the range of tick counts. Say you have a 32 bit tick count which increments a hundred times a second, but the longest period (biggest delta between any two live time values) you care about in your module (driver or whatever) is well within 30 seconds. That's only 3000 ticks. Then, whenever you sample the counter, you can mask it down into, say, the 13 bit range [0,8192): effectively a tick counter that rolls over every 81.9 seconds (which you treat correctly as a 13 bit value in your calculations like is_before(t0, t1) or add_time(t0, delta)).
To paraphrase Nobel prize winning economist Paul Samuelson, everyone has predicted 9 of the last 5 recessions.
"The Long Emergency", James Kunstler Peal Oil blog:

http://kunstler.com/writings/clusterfuck-nation/
Sometimes I think of Youtube as a modern Library of Alexandria[1], a repository of knowledge that could only exist through patronage and containing a sizable amount of resources that are valuable in their uniqueness. A failed YouTube would represent a loss of equally epic and/or mythical proportions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria
I just used the default settings. Didn't know about WAAS - thanks for pointing me to it.

From reading some forum posts, it seems you have to explicitly enable WAAS - I'll give that a try and see how much it helps.
Real time systems will be running a RTOS: VxWorks or QnX or something equivalent to that.

They'll definitely build a prototype using Linux but they won't get that certified so it literally 'won't fly', it's just a means to speed up initial development.
History Is a Tree
That would be the major countries from the Commonwealth of Nations (ex British Empire), which we already do for sports.

I think the bigger selling points are the shared similarities in Legal systems, Privacy laws, etc...
these are awesome, but I see them more as band-aids, rather than attacking the real problem.

Defining the problem will vary depending on our individual political and philosophical bent, but in general, we can start discussing broadly when they should be encounters in the first place, the factors that lead to them, and reduction of such encounters.
patio11 sells progress. Your folks sell motion. There is a difference.
I did recently find a local office that does pelvic floor physiotherapy for men, and I would like to give that a try. I admit I'm skeptical (or perhaps pessimistic is a better word), but I have seen many anecdotes from people who have had some success with physiotherapy (although nobody ever seems to claim to be completely cured).

But thanks, I'm glad to hear that you are doing better.

To be able to have a painfully spicy green curry and a thai iced coffee again one day would be pretty awesome.
That's an insight I'm unable to have, from the outside looking in. Thanks for your perspective :)
PID is the hello world of Control Theory which can be used to solve very complex control requirements by iteratively processing feedback. For example these quad-copters juggling use CT even though you may think this is only possible with some kind of machine learning algo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CR5y8qZf0Y
I haven't read this before. Thanks for the link!
Startups' New Money Machine
There are - to my knowledge, feel free to correct me - no real time linux versions (or even any version of linux) that are currently certified for avionics (DO-178B certification is required for that, there are multiple levels and I don't know of any linux distro (or just the kernel) with that certification).
How does Vim support this concept? I mean what does happen when you go back 30 steps then type something new?

I've been using Vim for a few years now but never heard of this before. This interesting to me.
Dandy blend is excellent and comes very close to giving me the "coffee fix" without the actual coffee.

Is supposedly very healthy as well.
The new employer just needs your details to identify you correctly with HMRC.

You can give them sufficient detail without handing over your P45 or income data. I have never given a P45 to a new employer and it has never been a problem.

It's possible that your tax code will reveal some information, if you're still in the same financial year, but this is an unreliable way of calculating salary.
> There are no profitable 30minute episodic videos on youtube that aren't pirated.

I'm not sure what you mean by this sentence. Are you really suggesting that there aren't people / companies that make money with longform, original Youtube content? Or are you missing a "high quality scripted fiction" in there?

If not, here are a couple of episode lengths of shows I watch on regular basis:

* TableTop: 30-45min
* Day9TV: 90min (!)
* Nobbel87 lore videos: 20-30min

Niche content? Yes. But in all three cases it's their primary occupation. So those are profitable, longform Youtube videos. And they are far from the only ones.
You cannot grasp the true form of copy-protection's attack!
Death to C
> If you upload to youtube, you loose exclusive licensing rights

Can you explain more? If a small producer uploads to youtube, they cannot upload to any other platform (eg iTunes)?
Could you expand on this comment? It seems to agree with what I said.
Agreed. Especially considering that the majority of law enforcement are there to do the right thing for the right reason, I believe that we need to be careful to not send the impression that we should assume there is an assumed potential for wrong-doing in every person with a uniform. Just as important is an avenue for sending videos to relevant organizations of criminal executing criminal acts.

The economic divide is the first place to start in terms of fixing this issue in the long-term; raise the dignity of life of every person in this country and I believe the road to healing can begin.
Oh YEAH. Java's absolutely NO good at all for server architectures. Good thing no-uses it for that purpose now.

Jesus on a bike.
I think "stealing a trade secret" is a reasonable shorthand for "stealing the exclusivity, thereby reducing the value, of a trade secret".
This is a special case. If there were gravity acting on the ball the integrator would be required to maintain altitude.
They are meaningful within their own contexts.
Evaluation of C, Go, and Rust in the HPC environment [pdf]
It stores your undo history as a tree so you can have multiple "heads". Check out https://github.com/sjl/gundo.vim to see a screenshot, I'm sure you'll understand then.
Yeah, I misread. You're right and I know people who have lied and got away with it and those who lied and didn't.
Is the title misleading? (genuine question)

I've read articles (mostly from religious sources) trying to say the exact same thing about the heart (because, not surprisingly, religious texts speak about the heart as the seat of the soul/mind).

So I'm a little skeptical of such claims
Can the clang+LLVM toolchain generate a PDB file that can be used by WinDbg? Can it generate .obj and .lib files that can be statically linked with those generated by Visual C++?
The judge also knew that they knew this. I wonder if they had to pay fines or extra costs for wasting the court's time. It seems to me that this kind of case is much more egregious as far as wasting time and money intentionally and that there should be incredibly heavy fines when it's done intentionally.
I figured you were drinking something like that. The other one has a bit more of a kick to it while still being just spices and herbs and does not contain 'rooibos' which I'm really not a fan of.
hacked? some impossibly oversized circles have taken over lol
Until people see that there's a problem, I don't think they'll do any of that.

How many people did the LA police beat before and after Rodney King? But it's that incident that was video-taped and broadcast. It was those officers who got charged, and it was two of those officers who went to prison.

The root problem here isn't the standards of the police for when they can talk with someone. It's that the citizenry doesn't think there's a problem and/or doesn't care to look. Which is not unreasonable; they just aren't experiencing the problems. Making sure they see what actually happens is a great way to fix their ignorance and consequent indifference.
I've heard of recruiters doing this with the sole purpose of discovering what their competitors are paying. Depending on how far along in the hiring process you were, it may be that she actually had no interest in hiring you but was simply polling for salary information.
Was this log in terminal or in editor? While there is some lag in terminal because of network latency (same as with normal ssh connection), i never saw any lag in the editor, so it must be some bug triggered by specific browser/os version, did you try contacting their support about this?
Electric Fish Christmas Tree (2014)
Wood was mostly used for fuel back then. The turn of the 20th century also marked the end of the sailship era and the end of wood as a major element in ship construction. Other uses for wood were sleepers for railways and whole logs for utility poles. Incidentally, US aircraft carriers had wooden decks in WW2 and wood was still an element in airplane construction.

In the last few decades chipboard furniture and managed tree farms further reduced deforestation.

Keep in mind that the conditions US colonists found in the US: a massive, dense, virgin forest were not natural. The massive depopulation of native peoples allowed forests to grow thick and create the illusion of an uninhabited land. Normally people manage the land, usually unintentionally from just living on it.
I think the metrics are doing well in that unemployment is down, the stock markets are up, and housing prices have mostly stabilized.

Unfortunately, that ignores:
- the labor participation rate is dropping steadily.. because long term unemployment is up.
- the Fed has pumped $1T (yes, trillion) into the market each of the last 5 (6?) years.
- wages have been stagnant and have only now reached 1998 levels.
- education - previously a ticket into the middle class and beyond - has been devalued by poor standards but simultaneously the price tag has increased dramatically.
I think that Twitter as a highly targeted ad platform would have been a disaster - if it truly lived up to that potential it would be a creepy place to visit: where the entire environment is intimately tailored to you in an effort to sell you something. I prefer it as a communication platform, myself.

How can Twitter make money? Personally, I'd say they should monetize the "whales" who use it as an advertising platform. Charge the celebrities who use it to promote films. Charge the corporations who use it to market to their followers. Charge for commercial use of the API.

I don't know if this is realistic, but it seems better than what is happening now.
It is a Hausdorff space that is locally homeomorphic to the Euclidean plane, but not paracompact. Manifolds are usually defined to be paracompact because this implies the existence of partitions of unity which have many nice implications:
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/98105/why-are-smooth...
Is that a good thing, though? I'm not a gamer, and there are times when I take a break from YouTube and Reddit because it can be difficult to discover new content without the results being dominated by gaming (especially Minecraft).

To an outsider performing random searches, it would seem our civilization is based on games, guns, fingernail polish and BDSM.
Show HN: Efficiently searching compressed text files
> Why not spend it on a nice suit and accessories

'Cause I'd rather invest it.

I guess for one-off things like weddings, fine, but other than that, not my thing.
> Any competent web dev might be able to reach something like YouTube's MVP, but it takes a lot more than that to build anything from then on.

That goes for all web start-ups. An MVP can be duct-taped together but for major scaling you'll need to have all your ducks in a row. But that's fine and totally expected. It would be entirely wrong to build your MVP using the tools you'd use to scale through 6 orders of magnitude, your competitor would be able to cycle much quicker in the first 6 months or so which is when you'll be adapting to market, business model and opportunities suggested as feedback from early adopters. If you're going to do that with a fine-tuned crazy scalable solution you'll simply be dead.
I don't feel sleepy after drinking coffee, I simply don't feel it having any effects on me whatsoever. That being said, I can't stand the taste of it either, so I've probably had less cups of coffee in my life than some people have on a daily basis. Tea though... that's another story ;-)
I found my therapy for depression in the mountain dogs
IFE and other "passenger amenities" are not considered critical-to-flight, and it definitely shows in their reliability (or lack thereof)... the avionics are designed to a much higher level of reliability.
Can you share some of the credits or maybe host? email in profile
>And I think it’s interesting to explore how unusual that is relative to many other areas of technology, because there are so many innovations that were good for society but the people who came up with them ended up with very little.

Okay, co-founders sometimes end up with a fair amount money. However, early employees that actually built the company are often forgotten and given a relatively small sum of money. Not sure if SV really changed that.
Boeing787 software problem halt the plane if they’re left turned on for too long
Rooibos actually contains something called quercetin which some people have said helps with prostatitis (which I didn't discover until after I'd been drinking it for a while). It adds a little richness and bitterness which I actually like.
Newbie here. Can anyone share their experiences with Rust?
But he is saying that he experiences the same ramp-up in the mornings without caffeine, so what he thought was the experience of going from uncaffeinated to normal appears to have been unrelated to the caffeine and was actually the experience of going from just-woken-up to awake.
> we should [not] assume there is an assumed potential for wrong-doing in every person with a uniform

The whole American experiment is built upon the notion that you basically can't trust people with power. That's why we have a checks-and-balances system. There is a potential for wrongdoing by anybody with power. Power corrupts. Take a look, for example, at David Simon's take on Baltimore. As far as I'm concerned, the Baltimore PD has been corrupted as an organization: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/04/29/david-simon-on...

That is not to say that the majority of people don't want to do the right thing. But by creating structures of accountability, we are helping them to do the right thing.
I think that the conversation covers lots of knowns and unsurprising actions on both the suit wearer's and the suit observer's side of perception. The real conversation should be how to rid the world of formality? I personally feel ill every time I have to wear anything that others consider formal business wear. I was a technical project manager (forgive me) for a few years and I felt like a traitor every time I sat with a group of engineers who all were wearing what makes us comfortable: GNU hacker t-shirts, jeans and Dr. Martens (or variations thereof).

When I see suits, I think of keywords like "deceit" and "materialism" and "shallow". I also feel like people in suits are being subjugated, no matter how high up the totem pole they think they are. I grew up painfully poor, so I assume much of my opinion and reaction to seeing a suit comes from feeling the vast economic divide between me and people in suits, much the way I feel a sickness and anger when I see people in cars like Mercedes, BMW and Jaguar.

Suits make people think differently. But for the right reasons? I will never "suit up", personally, by choice.
"Always prioritize the substance of what you're doing. Don't get caught up in the status, the prestige games. They're endlessly dazzling, and they're always endlessly disappointing."
As more in this field comes to light, it makes medicine's overuse (imo) of antibiotics very concerning.
On the assumption that there's a complicated control algorithm which, unfortunately, does arithmetic on (now-then) tick-values everywhere... but this algorithm has been extensively validated to be correct on the non-overflowing case, and it will take a while to find out how it handles discontinuities in its time scale.

Then the simple "raise service-needed signal" would be a valid workaround and easily testable local change for the next two years until the extensively fixed-algorithm went through testing and certification.
Nope. There's nothing rough about

npm install jquery

If you want to build it from source, use the management tool that jQuery was designed to use, and was designed to support jQuery.

It would be just as ridiculous to complain about how hard it is to build ffmpeg from source by using npm as the package manager.
>> PID is the hello world of Control Theory...

While that's true, it's surprisingly effective and as a result is very widely used.
In full screen mode, the entire screen goes black. It still accepts input, but I can't actually see what is being typed.

This is on Mac OSX 10.10.3, using Firefox 37.0.2.
I make no judgement. Parent post said you don't get serial content on youtube, and that's just false. You do.

If you like watching Minecraft it's great - there are thousands of hours on YouTube.

FWIW Once you start watching something YT tends to recommend more of the same.

Watching this "World's smallest v12 engine" video leads me to more engine engineering videos, no Minecraft in sight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3KdpzL3Hkk
Well, there's Go.

Java was supposed to fix all of these problems, but it's a mess in its own way. There's no perfect language.

Almost simultaneously with C the Pascal language was introduced, completely safe and easier to learn. It enjoyed a period of popularity, and for a while it was widely taught in high schools and universities. Some big systems were built in Pascal, but every big Pascal app I've ever seen relied on external code in C (or assembly language) because Pascal is hobbled to enforce safety (see Brian Kernighan's article "Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language, http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html). Some of Pascal's faults were fixed in Modula and Oberon but those never got any traction.

To be absolutely safe the language is either crippled so it's missing important features, or it requires a runtime to sandbox everything, check pointer references, do garbage collection, etc. And that slows things down.

I don't see C going away any time soon in embedded software, which is where bugs and vulnerabilities can be most dangerous and where they are hardest to fix. It's not much of a disaster for a video game to crash, but it can be very bad if piece of hospital hardware or a flight control system has a latent bug.

There are tools that can analyze C code both statically and dynamically -- the language is not just old, it's mature.

I'm sure someone is already rewriting the Linux kernel and all of the Unix-y tools in Rust or Go or whatever. I won't hold my breath.
What about storing data for analytics? Wouldn't it be better to use ES than Postgres for that?
Ya, but then you would also probably use a separate controller for each dimension.
Steuard himself would hopefully point out that although being a physics professor grants his opinion a greater weight than those of us who are less informed, to claim that he is automatically correct would be fallacious.

Politeness in this regard is preventing appeals to authority.

I personally disagree. The money has been allocated to a section of NASA designed to research exactly this sort of theory. Pulling funding from these people would be like telling Ernest Solvay to put away his wallet.
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Why not uint64_t thisVariableIncrementsByOneEvery10ms?
Nice demo. Thanks. FYI http://nikital.github.io/ is 404.
I just posted this paper[1] to HN. It's an bachelor thesis comparing Rust, Go, and C for high performance computing.

The author claims to have 'moderate' experience with Rust and C, at least.

It includes a story about how the Rust version actually caught an error in the C and Go implementation.

1: http://octarineparrot.com/assets/mrfloya-thesis-ba.pdf
Qt is also one one of the options. With it you get apps for all the platforms.