skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Insert the word 'miniscule' into those sentences as per OP and you may get different answers. :)
I still wish they would clarify the language in their ads. When they say 'everything attached to your computer, all your external and internal drives completely unlimited for $5/month" they really should clarify they have no way to back up a NAS device.
My wife is getting her Master's in bioinformatics from a prestigious university. No joke on the day of the final exam her professor showed up to class 25 minutes late and said he only had one copy of the exam because the photo-copier wasn't working. Everyone got A's. And there is no accountability.
When I follow [1], IE8's numbers are (from Jan) 2.56%, 2.61%, 2.13%, 2.19%, 2.26%. So they don't look to have grown at all.

If anything they've declined a little, although this may be within the margin for error for the sample.
Bashing the Nadella Microsoft is a poor taste.
Of course ecosystem should also be recreated:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Park
I know i am a stranger, and i realize i am probably alone ITT, but she has begun to slide inexorably towards the cliff. She looked in my eyes and did not recognize me.

I know i am supposed to be sad, or angry, but i feel excited. This is such a special thing that is happening. I guess this is why i will always be on The Fringe. Everyone else is questioning god or questioning fate. I just wish i could question her; get back as much data before she slips into the singularity. I am sure this all seems pretty fucking insensitive, but i guess i just dont care anymore how it seems.

I want answers. I want data. But i guess I'll just have to wait until it is my turn to jump.

To anyone here, to anyone that may read this: what an epic fucking ride. What a gift life is. What an adventure death must be.

What a wonderful world.
I've taken courses in quantum mechanics and quantum computing, and I put in the effort to try and actually develop some intuition as to how they work, but I still don't have the slightest clue as to how you could build the actual physical substrate for performing those kinds of computations.

Then again, I don't feel like I understand classical computers all the way down to the metal, even after taking courses that supposedly explained that. No matter how much I learn, my mental model of real-world computing is not all that different from what it would be if I had simply decided to believe that, at the bottom, code just runs on magic.
+1

Einstein was, in fact, so good at math that at 15 he passed that portion of a university entrance examination (although he failed every other subject).

A very real example of a super-intelligent human, which normal people regard as "learning disabilities" due to their own inability to comprehend or cope that intelligence - as has been demonstrated in the comments section of this post.
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This is a pure guess - people downgrading back to Windows 7. Maybe new laptop buyers install Windows 7 because they don't like 8.1, IE8 is default on Windows 7.

Could be a lot of things, but it is a good chance that this has something to do with Windows 7.
Please note that i was just looking for the missing default case. It might still be the case that the bug is not in precise..

The patch also replaces atomic_inc() with futex_get_mm():

-	atomic_inc(&key->private.mm->mm_count);
+	futex_get_mm(key); /* implies MB (B) */

And your links are using atomic_inc().. What that means with regards to this bug? I don't know.
We have servo-shell as an HTML UI[0], which is pretty nice.

Windows support is still a while away. You can help out[1], though!

[0]: https://github.com/glennw/servo-shell

[1]: https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/1908
Hey neat, that's similar to how Flux works, architecture wise. It's really nice in practice, and I've been looking for an excuse to play with some front end functional languages, I'm going to check it out for sure.
Windows Phone is now officially Windows Mobile again
False dichotomy.

Many people believe that they have the right to do whatever they want, but only up to the point where it begins to interfere with other people's rights.

The rest depends on your definition of "interfering with other people's rights."

Someone could reasonably believe that subletting is well within the limits of his/her principle whereas noise is not. Others, meanwhile, could argue that both are violations of the principle.
You can see from this there is a general trend downwards in usage, but there are sudden, periodic, upswings in usage such as December last year.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#desktop+mobile+tablet-browser_ver...
This is all his shares.
Well, technically a NAS isn't connected to your computer. It's connected to your network, which your computer is connected to.
I'm making a real-time communication iOS app, we're using Firebase[1] to quickly build it's real-time features.

There's to be a lot of hate on here towards using such services. Is it really a better option (flexibility, owning your data & price wise) to spend the time building your own system and having to hire engineers later on to manage/develop it?

[1] https://www.firebase.com
The zen master said: we'll see.
Neither. It's bad design riddled with technical debt. The body is inefficient and a resource hog. It was built fast and in harsh conditions. Nothing was planned or structured, it just went with whatever was needed at the moment.

This is why your life is like the bell curve of a company. Start. Gain traction. Adapt and grow. Solidify your position. Admire the view from the top for a while. Start losing touch with reality. Start going on a downwards spiral. Become irrelevant. And then have a sad and lonely death.

Mortality is the inevitable result of our actions. We could fix it. But we're too busy thinking like a business.
It seems unlikely to me that enough people are tech savvy enough to downgrade a version of windows but can't (or don't want to?) switch from IE8 - which we can probably all agree is not a particularly nice browser
You''d have thought on Hacker News of all places at least one person would pop up saying that they had AB tested user engagement with consistent and inconsistent variants.
Hacking the Algorithm of Life
I expect the letter Dr. Goldberger referred to, was the one to Dr. Hale.

Goldberger was quite specific that Einstein asked that the telescope be pointed right at the edge of the sun. I've studied german but not in enough depth that I could translate Einstein's letter.

One arc second is not far from the limit of the resolution of an amateur telescope. While in principle the larger telescopes could resolve finer detail, atmospheric turbulence leads them not to resolve much better - they can see dimmer objects, but not more clearly. It is only in recent years that adaptive optics, faster imaging sensors and more-sophisticated image processing algorithms enable better resolution.

I don't know but expect that when the 1919 expedition confirmed GR, it was done by measuring the positions of multiple stars to determine that their positions were, on the average, out of place. The scope they used was not that big, as they had to carry it out into the African countryside.

The tensor calculus used in GR is quite complex. To reduce that to specific predictions of the star locations would require quite a lot of arithmetic. Back then they would have used logarithm tables and adding machines.

I am willing to concede the Einstein could balance his checkbook, but numerical analysis is hard enough to get right on a modern computer, it is quite hard when done the old-fashioned way, with logarithms and the like. It would be easy to write down a single digit incorrectly, or to not carry the computation out to enough significant figures.

Dr. Goldberg was also quite specific about Einstein's computations - not his theory - being "wildly inaccurate".

Finally, that article brought back many memories for me, some good some bad. I love the Huntington, I love Mt. Wilson but I had a rough time at Caltech.

I was, for a very brief time, a solar astronomer, but at Big Bear Lake.
What you likely want is the graph from the full paper, at http://www.gradeinflation.com/tcr2010grading.pdf .
It supposed to identify one item, so the fact that it got "tree" seems to be a correct response to me.
I've been writing Java for 15 years and I never knew about breaking out of arbitrary labelled blocks!
In a different article, someone downvoted a comment in which I requested a reply, rather than a downvote of the parent.

Tonight's activity leads me to believe my cyberstalking friend from Kuro5hin has finally turned up.

It's hard to say, he's generally anonymous.
>million or more American casualties ??
Isn't that PR language itself?
Is it me or is this a misleading title?
While I haven't tried curl, it is common for regular web pages - blogs, articles and the like - to take quite a lot longer to download with Safari or Firefox.

I can see the problem when I do a traceroute.
by dumb, I meant, just because our clock says the time is so and so doesn't mean the time itself has slowed down. Maybe just the clock is having a bad day(acceleration).

If I travel fast for years will I be younger when I return home to my twin? or just my clock will say so?

Sorry, going really off topic.
Fix commit and OP claims bug was introduced in [1], which has been never backported to 3.2.x, so I assume lack of default case was not a problem before that commit.

> And your links are using atomic_inc().. What that means with regards to this bug? I don't know.

It means they are simply old versions and they were never affected by the bug, if we believe the commit message of the fix commit and OP.

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b0c29f79ecea0b6fbce...
Thanks for this, appreciate the feedback. I'm going to think that over. My initial idea was to just feature a few products that I really value and talk about them in detail. The router on the site for example has been great, so much so that I got one for my Mum also - so it has an extensive review, billion 7800n in case it matters.
The issue is, first, if there is a 'dumb' clock (and an accompanying 'correct' clock), then there would be a special reference frame in physics. What you can do is make a convention: "I'm measuring my time in reference to the instantaneous inertial frame A of my location on Earth", and other nearby users from other inertial frames can adjust their clock rate using Lorentz transformation (I need not even mention value synchronization), such any user from A will see the clocks going at a fixed rate. Second, after adjustment, all users with different velocities will experience their clock going slower.

This is the special relativity view and it creates the twin paradox: if your time is going slower and no reference frame is special, couldn't we say his time is going slower instead? Who will age faster? This isn't really a paradox in special relativity, since in SR (i.e. assuming all observers are in fixed inertial frames) the observers can't "age" to meet at a later time: their clocks will diverge, but they will get away from each other so they can never compare how they are aging -- indeed this is a symmetric position. Once you allow them to change frames so they're able to compare their own aging, some frame will have to experience acceleration, and hence break symmetry. That is, the paradox resolves in general relativity.

All this is well explained on wikipedia (much better than I can do).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_paradox
That is again just the clock going haywire.
This is every remote worker's dream company. Glad it worked out for these guys. Looks like so much fun.
$9 pocket chip computer
I would imagine many, if not most, people's leases don't allow them to rent their places out. You see many listings that require discretion regarding entry, particularity as to where to park on the street, and forbid talking with neighbors.

NYC might be an exception as it seems like subletting is a big thing there.
Yeah, probably. I just like it more when wrong people are angry. Calm, reasonable but also wrong people make me uneasy.

Say that you encounter a conspiracy theorist. When you point out that his theory is crazy, you don't want him to propose to agree to disagree, right? At that point, I feel like I might be wrong, because I'm the most argumentative. Get what I mean?
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Here's the catch (there's always one), I don't have any work to show you, but I will mitigate your risk by delivering your MVP before expecting any payment. Prior to beginning work, we will agree upon a due date and functionality - when I meet both of these requirements, only then will I expect payment.

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>the grades were multiplied by a factor ~1.3

The point is that a grade is an ordinal quantity (somewhat). You don't get anything useful from multiplying grades by any "factor". Anyone in danger of thinking otherwise should not blame the graph. Fast food articles such as "Top 10 secrets of misleading graphs your profs don't want you to know" are probably more culpable in that regard.
Well, if you hadn't studied those topics in sufficient depth, the examiner would doubtless decrease your mark for writing crap. If they weren't relevant, your mark would be decreased for writing irrelevant things.

I suspect your comment was tongue-in-cheek, but I'm sick of humanities-bashing. If people don't like culture, that's fine, but they don't have to go around oozing their contempt.
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Try googling my name. :-/
Love that variant.
Much more relaxing.
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You need to be careful about this. When I was in high school the state government (NSW in Australia) removed the scaling from difficult subjects. This meant that doing a subject designed for morons (for example 2U Maths in Practice - we used to call Maths in Space) would be normalised to the same mean as higher level maths (4U). The smart thing to do if you had any mathamatical ability was to enrole in moron maths since you would of course be a star and get a very high mark. A few of my smart friends did this - the problem was by the time we graduated the universities had rebelled and introduced their own scaling and anyone who had done maths in space was scaled down to nothing. More by stubbornness than genius I chose to avoid this path and selected all hard subjects which turned out to be the smart thing to do in the end.

I guess the moral here is do what challenges you and don't worry about anyone else.
You argue that humans are not above nature, yet we are the only species that can instantly (and silently) communicate about abstract topics from and to anywhere in the world.

Humans have the unique ability to notice that animals go extinct, we even have the ability to be gods and decide to bring the species back from extinction or not.

What is lost by losing the NORTHERN White Rhino when the SOUTHERN White Rhino is the same creature, just located in a different area?

Allowing the Northern White Rhino to go temporarily extinct is an amazing ability that ONLY humans have ever had. We can easily bring the species back when we solve the poaching problem. Right now poaching is too expensive to defend against while ensuring a high-quality of life for these animals.

Yes, the poachers will still hunt, but it will be more costly for the poachers and hopefully that will deter them somewhat.
I don't think entrepreneurs or developers can look back on their mistakes with the same regret as surgeons or medical people. Watching a startup fail or a complete failure of a payment system is probably nothing compared to the opportunity cost involved when its someones life.

I barely have the emotional maturity to handle a breakup -- never mind a mistake that cost someone their life or even a finger. Certain structural engineers or medical device engineers might face such decisions but the vast majority of devs and tech people don't.
It is great in theory. In practice, the last auto-update caused a WSOD on my site without any helpful debug log (both on WP and server log) until I manually disabled a (popular) plugin by editing its php file.

I wonder how a less tech-savy person would have resolved that. Even being tech-savy, I had to ask someone for help.

Updates of core and plugins are always very scary to me.
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Works fine in lynx.
I imagine it's very frustrating for them. It also wastes quite a bit of other people's time. And, they're wrong, so the whole thing is a waste.

Just take up fishing or something. Or if you really want to get into physics, enrol in a PhD program, or even some online courses.

Physics is weird and unintuitive, but that's just because we're living in a simulation which was sloppily coded by the lizard people.
To me, any website implementing good accessibility (http://www.w3.org/WAI/) is likely to be perfectly viewable and browsable per what you said. But most webmasters don't know about WAI.
Implementing chat application with Pony lang
I'm really happy. This will greatly reduce the work for maintaining our nodejs addon and also encourages us to continue investing in nodejs.
They have not. Acceptance rates are increases. The school makes more money by having more students.
I am concerned that the public consciousness is growing ever more aware of algorithms, without any real understanding of what algorithms actually are.

There is a distinction between a computer program and an algorithm.

The public experiences buggy software implementations, with the result that the press reports on the disturbing influences over our lives. There is no discussion of provable correctness, resource consumption, the halting problem and so on.

I've been at a loss for years as to how to adequately explain algorithms to people who don't know anything about computers. Commonly I saw that "an algorithm is a general method of accomplishing a specific task on a computer. An algorithm for changing a flat tire would work on any kind of car." yet that fails to satisfy.
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Have you considered the possibility that your instructor is not infallible and may have been in error.
Awareness of fallibility is an important driver of reliability.

I met my surgeon on a gurney just before a shoulder operation, and joked with him that we had considered writing "not this one" on the good shoulder. He smiled, and then handed my then-wife a pen, saying "Write that. Things like that happen all the time." And I felt that much more confident in him, because I think people who know they can do something stupid are so much less likely to actually do them.
I'm a non-programmer [I've only made programs in BASIC, Fortran, C, C++, assembler, smalltalk, javascript, BASH, probably a couple I forgot (does Maple count), and most recently python (lol - I mean to say my level is 'interested amateur')] but I found this [1] quite a nice reintroduction to javascript the other day.

It gives a good review of javascript syntax, goes over the intricacies of the loose typing system and variable scope, covers some detail on avoiding memory leaks and some browser specifics (which I think are probably out of date; I didn't review it thoroughly I was playing Minecraft at the time) and gets up to anonymous functions and closures.

Aside: Incidentally if someone would like to explain closures to me I'd appreciate it - I don't really understand them.

Code Academy's [2] javascript looks very basic but Code School [3] seems to have better beginner stuff - I've done their git/jQuery courses before and they were quite well done.

HTH.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/A_re...

[2] Avoid for javascript, very basic: http://www.codecademy.com/courses/getting-started-v2/0/1?cur...

[3] https://www.codeschool.com/courses/javascript-best-practices
There's an underlying assumption of 'grades matter' that may no longer be true. I think this assumption has been becoming less relevant as more people look to see what you did rather than what marks you got. i.e. I believe more people are interested in evaluating your body of work these days. I think this is a good thing since it would allow students to be more rigorous in their learnings for two reasons: 1) students are seeking true knowledge and demonstration of mastery instead of an artificial comparisons and 2) they can be more risky as they learn since the consequences of arriving at a wrong conclusion are minimal.
You will be younger. What "really" happened is a question for philosophers, but every measurable periodic physical or biological process, including your own ageing, will have behaved as though time really was running slower. (And how could it not? We can use any such mechanism as a clock - Galileo, possibly first physicist, used his own heartbeat to time falling objects).
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I get my best ideas while wandering around alone at night.

I invented quite a novel, lossless bitmap compressor during a boring commute along highway 1 - again at night - between San Mateo and Santa Cruz. The format I invented in the office though. The compression was quite conceptual, the actual file was file of all manner of petty details.

I'm puzzling over documenting it online but strictly speaking it's not my intellectual property.
As anecdotal evidence: Where I work we use Node in our projects and today is the first time I've ever heard about io.js.

Make of that what you like.
Is the .tk domain not considered unprofessional nowadays? It reminds me of the crappy websites we made back in, what, 2003?
Planning the work day works well for me too. Great list in here by the way.
> endlessly discussing secondhand 'ideas'.

Sounds like 'memes'
I'll try lay-mans this for you. Time doesn't really slow down.

You have a reference frame, your reference frame simply describes something along the lines of "where you are". "Where you are" could be how close you are to something massive (a star, a planet) or how fast you are moving.

If you have a watch on your own wrist it will always tick at 1 second from your own perspective (ignoring extreme cases like black holes, where your hand could be in a very different reference frame from your face). It will always be correct and time will never slow down or speed up. It will be exactly the same 1 second that everyone in the universe experiences from their own perspective. However, if someone looked at your watch with a telescope from another reference frame it would be ticking faster or slower than their own watch.

This is where relativity gets its name from "something in RELATION to another." Without checking your relation to something else you can't determine that time flows at different rates.

Think of time as a smooth river. The further along the river you are the more time you have experienced (our classical notion of time does not exist, it has been replaced by distance). If you move into the area of the river that has a strong current you will move through the river faster but from your own perspective the water and people directly around you will still be the same. You would only be able to tell that you are in a strong current if you could see someone who is in the weaker current.

Therefore our clocks do exactly what they should be doing, measuring 1 second by ways of our own frame of reference.