skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is more remembering things and not for 'quick thinking' per se - OP's goal.
There is a very interesting book on the concept of 'Memory Palace' (on which 'artofmemory.com' is based on):
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
http://www.amazon.com/Moonwalking-Einstein-Science-Rememberi...
Identifying User Intent Without Explicit Customer Feedback
I just tried to submit this only to find out it had already been submitted. Interesting article.
A whiff of crankery about this site...
You should have called it the clamshell.
I have been using Amazon Web Services and other cloud platforms for over a year now, and I never really felt that VMs were the bottleneck in any way. Can someone explain to me the advantage of containers here?

I know that containers are faster because they don't virtualize the hardware, however it comes at the cost of security.
Another rich white boys laptop for every child kind of project doomed to failure. Noble intention but little respect for the target users.
Taking NuGet as an example - you make a change, bump the version number, commit and push it. The buildserver automatically push it to your internal NuGet server. Now your IDE will notify you that there is an update to a package you use and you can update and make your own bugfix, and commit it.

The alternative with monorepo is - you make a change, bump the version number, commit and push it. You watch for the commit you need (in a monorepo this might be harder than it have to be, alternatively the developer can send you an IM) and hopefully there isn't any merge conflicts when it's done. You pull the commit, make your fix and commit it.

It's largely a matter of poor tooling.
Oculus Rift hitting market early next year
> You can't dismiss evidence ahead of time because you're convinced your theory is true.

There is no possible counter-evidence. You'd say the same thing about lots of things---for example, that the Earth is spherical.

So you are mistaken here about how epistemology works.

> many times competition is theoretically possible but won't occur since no one wants to risk a lot of capital and time and effort on what will likely be an unsuccessful venture.

That isn't borne out in reality. It's very easy to compete against a shitty product with a superior product, and there is plenty of capital to compete with any product that exists today.

> So if an unregulated Microsoft manages to lean on their competitors enough that people don't want to try competing anymore

What does it mean to "lean on competitors"? Nothing. It's meaningless. There is literally nothing a company can do to "lean on" competitors unless they use the law to do it. They can lean on other market participants---e.g., OEMs, But you can always get around that because you can start a competing OEM or get an OEM to capitulate. That's why I say I can always take the argument out one level.

I'm most likely not going to continue responding. I will if you ask a question out of curiosity, but I'm not interested in "aruging" with you further.
There are some more complex benchmarks here: http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/benchmarks/mysql-cluster/
Best way as always is by running benchmark on your specific workload, there is lot's of help to be found here: http://mikaelronstrom.blogspot.se/ if you want to get started benchmarking MySQL Cluster.
5G will cost you a bundle
You don't need a license from Windows to start an OEM and sell computers that come with a competing OS installed.

That is what Apple does, for instance.
free internet.org access is not so free after all. It's philanthropy outside, but scam inside. Let me put in to context. Most of the people in developing countries use android based smartphones. And users can't control the application connections in android phones due to its creepy structure- any app can run anytime in the background. On the other hand, mobile operators mention that any traffic other than internet.org supported sites will be charged at usual price. So, when users enable their data connection in mobile devices to use internet.org free service, a bunch of apps connect to other servers to update, and/or sync. So, users end up paying for data anyway.

If Facebook wants to do real philanthropy, they should do it right. Develop and distribute an android app that will disable internet communication for all the apps (user controlled) and will only connect to the free services.
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No, the playing field is completely fair. If you can offer people a greater value proposition, you will win in the market.
I used to work in the financial industry where lots of things are built in excel, and I have my fair share of VBA programming. What I can tell you is:

1. VBA is aweful. Sure it can communicate well with the spreadsheet, but the language is quite bad, and so is the IDE. You can't write anything complicated.
2. Excel is really good if you want to do some calculations, and it allows you to build something user interface-like really quickly.

So building some models in Excel works fine as long as whatever you want to do is contained in the built-in functions or is not too complicated to be made in VBA, but passed a certain point in complexity, you really want to use another language. Banks have some addins in C++ or C# to export their own functions to excel, and really being able to call a more flexible language like Clojure can simplify life.
What I'm wondering is if they could be using the hypervisor to just partition the CPU, and permanently assign one of the cores to the baseband VM, and leave the rest assigned to the Android VM.

Although, the article didn't say it had an odd number of cores, so I guess not (unless it's really a tri- or penta-core SoC)
React.js Drag and Drop Tutorial
HTTP/2: A New Excerpt from High Performance Browser Networking
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People Whom Still Use Old Gadgets
Rescale is hiring an applications engineer
Rescale is looking for motivated Application Engineers with a background in HPC and familiarity with cloud computing. Application Engineers at Rescale perform several important duties relating to customers as well as maintaining our extensive library of supported simulation software applications.

They fulfill a very general role in which problem solving will be one of their greatest assets. Application Engineers will be challenged on a day-to-day basis in dealing with the wide range of disciplines Rescale's software library provides to its users.

Some of the day-to-day duties of an Application Engineer at Rescale are:
- Provide technical support to our customers. Help them solve various problems related to the software they are running on Rescale. This requires both a high level understanding of the software and an in-depth understanding of the environment the software runs in.
- Maintain the software available on Rescale. This includes installing and benchmarking the software. Optimizing the software's performance for the environment it runs in may also be necessary.
- Build tools for automating the various technical tasks Applications Engineers perform on a day-to-day basis. Some tools that have been built by our application engineers are: an integration testing framework, an automated software installation framework, an asset management framework.

Rescale is looking for Application Engineers who possess most of the following skills:
- In depth knowledge of at least one HPC discipline (CFD, FEA, Molecular Dynamics, Weather Forecasting, Computational Chemistry, Reservoir (Seismic) Simulation, Rendering, etc)
- Good understanding of the Linux environment
- Good understanding of HPC, schedulers, MPI
- Good understanding of shell scripting
- High level understanding of web frameworks and databases
- High level familiarity with languages such as Python/NumPy/SciPy, Perl, Matlab, etc.
- Familiarity with cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and Google Compute Engine

US Person applicants only please
Interview with team building a DIY EMdrive
> Almost no rust

They're basically a cult that worships vehicles and being "shiny", I think they'd have rather well-maintained vehicles.

The cars in the first movie were all in pretty good condition, from memory.
I've heard there's a one way (readonly) link from the aeronautic side to the IFE, which is used for sending the IFE a small amount of information, used to display the moving map and sensor values (altitude, temp, etc) on the seat back displays. I'm speculating, but this link could be for example some sort of legacy serial data link with only one TX->RX pin being used.
Russian Proton-M rocket explodes on launch in Kazakhstan
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That the .org TLD is open to anyone is a shame, and that it's used like this is even worse.

I know it will probably be an unpopular view here, but I actually quite like the approaches taken by Australia (where I grew up) and Thailand (where I live and run my business now)

In Australia you have to be a registered non-profit to get a .org.au domain, and you have to have an ABN or ACN to get a .com.au or .net.au. In the case of commercial domains, while it isn't checked at registration, if your domain name isn't somehow related to your company/brand name, (or even if it is and you aren't using it actively) you can lose it.

In Thailand, your .co.th domain name must match your company name - e.g. if you have HappyHamburger Co., Ltd, you can only register happyhamburger.co.th - this means new companies don't need to rush out and make sure they get the domain matching their company name (or even that it might be taken) to prevent squatters.
The deploy-free rule updates are great - most email security systems do rules as a database to deploy to endpoints around the system to maintain performance.

The risk portion of the presentation was also informative. The "undo" is a key to a lot of good security systems.

I was pleasantly surprised by the practical and informational nature of this talk! Fairly worth the time.
Tech Giants Tell Obama to Resist Calls for Backdoor Access to Encrypted Data
https://github.com/fyquah95/blockchain-certificate/blob/mast...
Ansible Partners with Cisco and HP to Ease Deploying and Managing OpenStack
"Both Boeing Co. and Airbus Group NV, the world’s largest makers of commercial airplanes, have issued statements questioning Roberts’s claims."

Note that they didn't actually deny it completely. To me, this says they either don't want to say "it's impossible" for fear of liability, or that they know there are some holes and don't want to talk about it.

Also, comparing what the two companies said is interesting: I prefer Boeing's rather direct "they are isolated" response and find it far more reassuring in comparison to Airbus' wordy and vague statement.
Most good ideas are obvious in hindsight. ;) But AFAIK, Google was the first to do this live and in production by hacking NTP, which is (apparently?) the same as what Amazon is doing.
Two startups that are trying to destroy the banks just joined forces
PSR-7 Accepted
The Peer-To-Peer Payments Report
These techniques can also be applied to "concepts", not just objects and words. Reduced latency of human access, e.g. placing related concepts "nearby" in human memory, has similar benefits as database indexes which colocate related data. Some data visualizations help with associative thinking. "Quick" thinking may involve navigation around a high-dimensional conceptual space, which could be simplified as projections onto 2D images which can be stored in a memory palace. Flatland is a classic essay on the 2D/3D boundary.

Another way of approaching the question would be to look at people who can have "quick conversations", e.g. longtime team members. There's a shared body of experience and shared vocabulary for complex concepts, addressable by shorthand.

Memory and emotion go hand-in-hand with perception.
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I've been a Linux command line (bash) user for 20+ years now and I must say, I would really consider switching to this. I haven't even started to dig into the features yet, but the filename and parameter completion alone is enough to stop me from pulling my hair out.

Filenames are getting very long w/ so many special characters, this is great. I also like the idea of having a web based config. I really won't miss wrestling with bashrc and bashconfig in vi. Definitely will try this.
Why cloud computing leaders must hang together or hang separately
I wonder how much demand there really is for it. Many (Japanese) people I know would rather stick to bank transfers

Even if that's correct... you're talking about how Japanese people like to pay for things. Stripe entering Japan isn't about allowing people in Japan to pay for things using credit cards; it's about allowing people in Japan to get paid using credit cards.

Sure, Japanese companies will have a higher proportion of Japanese customers, but this will be important if they have any customers from outside of Japan.
Scientists create timelapses by pulling data from Internet photos
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Integrated Euro market for financial services creates a European Fintech boom
It would be very uncommon to perform a token rebalance (or bring up replacement nodes) under a network partition, since those nodes are fine. The idea is to be tolerant to a network partition, which multi-master is, not to then attempt to patch up a whole new network while the partition is in place. That could easily bring down the entire cluster.

Data is only typically shuffled around when a replacement node is introduced to the cluster.

If you have multiple independent network partitions that isolate all of your RF nodes, then there is no database that could function safely in this scenario, and this has nothing to do with data shuffling.
OT: Does anyone have information about the modular desk in the second picture? Any pointer would be appreciated.
Singapore’s Postal Service Reinvents Itself for the Digital Age
Both projects seem to be quite mature, but according to the git history, mineserver is older. The first commit of mineserver was on Oct. 12, 2010.

https://github.com/fador/mineserver/commit/399bca07f66b2882b...

The first MCServer commit was about a year later, on Oct. 3, 2011.

https://github.com/mc-server/MCServer/commit/cc2b15a2335db9a...
Appeals Court Upholds Apple’s Patent Victory Over Samsung
"Like most phones, the H3 won’t power on without a battery connected"

Instead of a battery, I often use a constant voltage constant current 3.7V SMPS regulator board to switch on my old phones when I want to experiment with them. Connect the positive lead, ground the other two leads, and most of them (i.e., 7 out of 8) turn on just fine.
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Consciousness Does Not Compute (and Never Will), Says Korean Scientist
If I understood the text correctly, AWS adjustments are "linear" and not curved like in the Google adjustment:

lie(t) = (1.0 - cos(pi * t / w)) / 2.0

described here:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com.au/2011/09/time-technology-an...

I think I'd prefer the curved one. I don't see the advantages of the linear one except the less human capability needed to implement and test it.
LOL there is also "Very Simple Control Protocol" here: http://www.vscp.org/
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A URL in with "ass" in the domain will almost certainly be blacklisted on a school network.

When I was at school there was an online amazon like site for electronics called "egghead.co.uk" which was blocked for having "head" in the url!!
How to import from china
Mongolian yurt
Despite Challenges, Hong Kong Startups Begin to Take Off
Don't forget "Vanishing Point"! :)
I think everyone has the capacity to be a quick thinker.

The two main components to being a quick thinker are not what you think.

The first one is a competitive spirit. If you have ever played any sports and you
have felt the desire to win, this will get you half way to thinking quickly. Train yourself
to be able to look at the problem and give up many different possibilities rather than just the smoking gun fix.
Sometimes in a enterprise environment fixing the smoking gun is the most inconvenient. Being under pressure and
using the competitive spirit can be one of the most satisfying jobs.

The second one is know your environment. You have to know your environment from
top to bottom and everything in between. You have to be able to visualize the problem
from inside and out in order to narrow the problem down to its core. The first thing you do
at a new job is to find the documentation for everything and study it.

This vision of the environment could come from many different crafts whether it is a Network Engineer,
Software Developer, DBA, or Systems Engineer. But you have to be in a position of knowledge about the entire infrastructure.

In order to recall knowledge/experiences from memory quickly you have to be an expert pattern matcher. Sometimes its a new
problem that has never been discovered or documented but very rarely. Search google for the main topic and if you find a gazillion answers
you know its a common problem. If you cant find anything you know someone has changed something or broke something and is more than likely
a misconfiguration. How do you gain the knowledge in the first place? Reading. Reading books and blogs and stack overflow and everything you can get your hands on.
You wont retain all the knowledge but you will remember that you found a fix for it at one time or another and can search for it again quickly.
3D Printed Robot Arm with Raspberry Pi and Wii Remote
What you call "lobotomised the interface" is what made so many people switch back to Firefox. That's the type of interface most people are looking for.

I'll also add that there is a button that lets you delete all private info (cookies, history, etc.) acquired in a certain period of time: the Forget button [1].

If you're looking for something more advanced, you'll have to use something like this addon [2]

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/forget-button-quickly-d...
[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/selectivecook...
Ask HN: Is this a Machine Learning Problem?
Why do people assume good faith motives when talking about corporations? It should be the opposite, they're going to harm you. Sorry -- rather, the actions are amoral, the end goal is making moves that will make them more money. So it's very obvious that there's something to be had in this game, and introducing ads is one possible result.
Developers have highly sensitive and well-tuned B$ detectors. The marketing "techniques", e.g. SEM, SEO, CRO, Social - which you mention - are seen for what they are - manipulations of perceptions for unproven value propositions.

Developers are more interested in how your product solves their real problems.

For example, instead of your question, you could have posted a link to a blog entry where you state a problem and show how your product addresses it.

Anyway, as a gross generalisation, it is hard to generate much revenue quickly by selling tools to developers. They are more inclined to try before they buy. The value proposition needs to convince us that the return on investment is significant and worthwhile. If there is a comparable open-source solution then that is likely to be adopted.
> If you prefer polarized opinions you can find that on any mainstream news venue

I'm fine with balanced opinions but there is no need to do the back and forth multiple times through the same article.
That's kind of an extreme case right?

Must be hard to study medicine in that school....
SQL Server 2005 and newer continued to invest in the XML datatype which was a poor product choice in hindsight.

While I applaud this product feature, I'm not convinced of the value of storing JSON in a relational database (any more than storing XML).
Facebook serves ads only in countries where it is actually profitable to do so. Why would this change?
Dont worry, you will be able to emulate it through a browser in your watch in 10 years :)
The science behind Australia’s spooky ‘spider rain’
A permanent fix for this is to create a file called .hushlogin in your home directory. I do it on all my machines.
My guess is, the leap second will be inserted, just as scheduled. And you'll get the famous message in your kernel log (dmesg):

http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/kernel/time/ntp.c?v=2.6...

Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC

If ntpd gets notified of an impeding leap second via its peers (or the connected radio clock, GPS receiver, ...) it will set (struct timex*)->status |= STA_INS via the timex syscall (which it also uses to steer/speed-up/slow-down the clock).

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/adjtimex.2.html

The stock linux kernel works such that if ntpd will have set the STA_INS flag via adjtimex some time before, the kernel will do the leap-second insertion at the end of the UTC day.

If you disable ntpd and it doesn't reset this flag (which I doubt it does, but you'd have to check), the kernel will insert the leap second on its own, even if ntpd is not running.

If you disable ntpd, and either ntpd on termination (which I doubt), or you via the adjtimex syscall, clear the STA_INS flag, then the kernel will not insert the leap second. After UTC midnight, the clock will then be one second off, and a restart of ntpd will slowly steer the clock back to correct time.

For playing with all of this, there's a adjtimex tool which can display and even change the timex values:

➜ sbin ./adjtimex -pV | sed 's/^/ /'
mode: 0
offset: 0
frequency: -344608
maxerror: 16000000
esterror: 16000000
status: 64
time_constant: 2
precision: 1
tolerance: 32768000
tick: 10000
raw time: 1432018768s 308111us = 1432018768.308111
return value = 5
Honestly, watching this movie I felt like an 8 year old at a monster truck show. Such satisfyingly clever and innovative designs of the vehicles, all REAL machines and not just CGI... really jaw dropping. You just don't see that kinda thing these anymore. I'm still excited by it days after having seen it.

17 years to make this film, and so many chances for it to have died. Amazing the perseverance it must take.
nostrademons made some excellent points. I agree with him and also will emphasize that it is a wide spectrum.

Very few "senior folks" are never interested in the "how" and "what". It is just that you go through a cycle where initially someone else drives a lot of your projects; then you find yourself working independently on many projects. As you pick up more and more projects, you start delegating/helping other people pick up more work. Enabling you to do more things. Now what title you have is a function of your companies internal procedures. If you are new, I would worry more on aggressively just doing more and more projects. Till you feel comfortable going beyond the nitty gritty of programming to the why we take up one project vs the other; technical tradeoffs, business risks etc.
"Oh, our eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Net,
We are ramping up our market share, objectives will be met.
Soon our browser will be everywhere, you ain't seen nothin' yet,
We embrace and we extend!"

Battle Hymn of the Reorg
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http://www.businessweek.com/1996/29/b34841.htm
Incidentally, they might've also issued an open invitation to make tunneling more widely known amongst the Internet(.org)-using population.

https://github.com/matiasinsaurralde/facebook-tunnel
I'm actually wondering why don't we make things out of liquid stone (aka lava).

Like 3d printing but with stone. I guess the next years will figure this years and we'll go all neoclassical with granite statues, pylons and stuff.
What we need to do is remove all these limits on the amount of data we transfer. If they really want us to use wireless for the home and on the go, they really need to remake the entire pricing plan, as it should have the same service as my landline fiber (unlimited Transfer).