skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This perspective was best expressed by Raymond Chen (here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2010/08/13/10049... ):

> Finalizers are a Ouija board, permitting dead objects to operate "from beyond the grave" and affect live objects. As a result, when finalizers are involved, there is a lot of creepy spooky juju going on, and you need to tread very carefully, or your soul will become cursed.
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That's one of those typical statistical fallacies. Depending on how you define 'urban' even Los Angeles (one huge blob of suburbia) suddenly becomes "Los Angeles — despite its reputation for sprawl — is 87 percent urban."

Seriously now?
Sure, half the population is willing to give it lip service, but we're really good at coming up with excuses, barriers, and delays, and really bad at coming up with funding. Getting a new passenger rail line built is about as easy as getting a new nuclear reactor built.
>> Astoria also opens multiple avenues for future work such as integrating realtime hijack and interception detection systems (to fully counter RAPTOR [18] attacks)

This is really interesting. I'm curious how that would work.
The article mentions the Salton Sea in passing, but left out the story of how this sea was created: the Colorado River flowed into the Salton Basin for two years after a bungled engineering job on the river in 1905.

http://www.inventionandtech.com/content/lake-mistake-0 - Click the printer friendly link for a one-page view - and I wish this had the pictures that were in the original print version.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Sea
You are correct about that, maybe even in the upper limit.

Given that you are aware of that, it makes even less sense to pretend that 1 billion people can keep eating the amounts of meat that are currently considered "normal" in the US.

Some people can eat that much, or even more. Those people probably live in an environment where the land cannot produce that much vegetable calories that are eatable by humans, but do produce the low grade, cellulose rich stuff that was typically used to sustain cattle.

In different geographies, where grain can be grown in big quantities, people would be better off eating the grain rather than feeding the grain to animals and then eating the animals. Meat can still be raised in that environment, as a complement, but probably not in the amounts we have gotten used to.
I worked at Amazon at the time that blog post was written and this was not a part of the methodology. While it's true they released press releases with BS. EG: The "drone delivery" is an example (no way they are working on that, they know it can't work, they're not dumb, but it does make Amazon seem like a tech company, rather than like Walmart (which is what it's more like.) )

This blog post is an example the BS PR that Amazon does. IT's frankly dishonest self aggrandizement.
You seem to have stated the goals but not the means. How do we achieve such a system? Higher property taxes? How will they be distributed?
1. It's far more popular so easier to find solutions to problems.

2. Used by very popular websites e.g. Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo so you get projects like http://webscalesql.org to utilise.

3. More options for client side tooling although debatable whether these are better than generic options.

4. MySQL Cluster is a more cohesive solution for clustering.

5. The most likely reason: you have bought something that needs it.

Obviously PostgreSQL has plenty of reasons for choosing it over MySQL.
I'm not sure who you're referring to by 'your' but it's not clear that any particular person's tax dollars were used.

This work is likely government-funded but certain types of research are supported by private organizations and/or donors.

EDIT: Also, this article is free provided one registers with Science/AAAS [1].

1. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/348/6237/1261498.full
Tool to export Elasticsearch index from one cluster to another cluster
In-house experience. You can always develop new experience, but if you have a lot of people who have already been cut by MySQL enough times to know it well...
The TokuDB engine for MySQL gives you amazing compression and insert performance compared to Postgres, which is useful for certain workloads.
New Open Robotics/AI Building Group Meeting in San Francisco
“Any idea why the Rust team is only white men?”
Is there any link for Android?
T-Real-Black on Black Crime (youtube)
this is my message to the world, the world needs to hear this
Alas, Only Apple
If I were you, I would learn something practical, fun to do, and have visible accomplishment. One such example is mobile device (android/iOS) programming. It will not only give you an edge over your classmates, but also you may earn extra bucks as well. If you own macbook+iphone/ipad, swift [https://developer.apple.com/swift/] is a fun language to learn. And Professor Paul Hegarty has made iOS programming much more fun to learn over the years [https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/developing-ios-8-apps-swi...] [http://cs193p.stanford.edu/]. For android programming, you can start from learning java and then jump in to Google's android course [https://www.udacity.com/course/developing-android-apps--ud85...].

You may experiment with arduino or any other embedded systems. You will learn a lot about electronics, and basic computer structure. Embedded systems are integral parts of IoT.
I've been using bitcoin for a couple years now and have never went through an exchange. You can easily purchase person to person. Theres an app called Mycelium for this, amongst other services. There are even bitcoin ATMs, which even though they use exchanges, the chance that the exchange collapses in between the time you put in your cash and get your bitcoin is nearly zero.
Umm. When you train you train against a cost function...
I've been getting those notes from registrars for 5+ years (at least) - I treat them as spam. I've never had a registrar suspend a domain.
Oh. Even monster movies like 1931's Frankenstein don't count? (Which grossed $185 million in 2015 terms.)

Well, OK. I guess you can argue the "infantilisation" of society from the narrowest possible definition so that it represents just one particular modern fad. I guess that means you get to believe society is newly infantile up until the novelty of realistic superhero movies wears off?

My mistake, anyway. I thought there was a debate over "this fad means society is more infantile than it used to be", not, "superhero movies specifically mean that society is now infantile". The first argument is common but wrong and easily rebutted, the second one wouldn't've been worth the time.
Go here for more detail: http://mroomsoft.com/apps/xemhdfilm
No screenshots, no example output. I just can't get excited without some visualization candy. The final rub, Java is such a nightmare to deploy.
Lazy Loading with PHP HTML and JavaScript
Fun fact: Steve Jobs worked at Atari and Steve Wozniak worked on Breakout. Also, the ATARI 2600 was made available the same year as the Apple II, Commodore PET and TRS-80.
everybody go check out my positive message to the world, ON youtube, T-Real-Black On Black Crime
How about... MySQL runs some of the most popular websites on the internet. I know folks on HN like to nerd rage™ over the newest/obscure technology (see rust, see ocaml, see erlang), but the reality is, what works, what has mindshare, and what is easy to scale with a team.
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Your understanding of Los Angeles is incorrect. The average Angeleno lives in a denser neighborhood than in all U.S. cities except New York and San Francisco.

http://www.austincontrarian.com/austincontrarian/2012/09/the...
The odd point i would add is that Amazon are betting on it with Aurora. While Aurora is not really MySQL, the fact that they decided upon the MySQL API rather than PostgreSQL really says a lot about the market penetration of MySQL and that its truly got some life left in it yet.

Personally, I love PostgreSQL, it's my preference in terms of a db engine...but i have to agree with a lot of the above comments (excluding pt 4 about cluster - thats a world of trouble in my experience)

http://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/
Why Is APN Such a Popular Search Term?
Agreed! Not every thesis is great, but most research isn't great either. Good students write good theses and I've found many with whole chapters on important topics that are just glossed over in the research papers.
This is not a post about Bubbles
Feedback – pretty please
This same thing (i.e., using recurrent neural networks to predict characters (and even words)) was done by Elman in 1990 in a paper called "Finding Structure in Time"[1]. In that paper, Elman goes several steps further and carries out some analysis to show what kind of information the recurrent neural network maintains about the on-going inputs.

It's an excellent read for anyone interested in learning about recurrent neural networks.

[1] http://crl.ucsd.edu/~elman/Papers/fsit.pdf
I think differently about this than you do. When copying across mountpoints, I often do something like

tar cf - . | (cd target; tar xf -)

of course nowadays on OS X I prefer to use "ditto", but that's pretty much the same thing.

Then I at least do something like "du -s" on source and target to see if they're more or less the same size. And I do some "ls" operations to see if things look OK. Or if it's important data I'll run SHA256 on all source and destination files and compare results.

Then, and only then, do I delete the source.

Remember, you're not paranoid if the computer really is out to get you. :)

Edit: if I'm rearranging files and directories on the same filesystem, I'll just use "mv". But years of bugs and glitches on NFS and such have left me with a good healthy paranoia about copying data in general.
The number of times i get excited about a tool then realize it wont work on RDS. I made a comment about Aurora above (i really don't work for Amazon i promise!), while I'm truly excited about this tool, i'm also fearful that it'll have even more compatibility issue than MySQL RDS instances do. If it was not for some of the monitoring tools we've got setup (in particular New Relic) I would really find day to day insights frustrating to gather.
FCC's Open Internet Order Won't Stand Up to the First Amendment
The significance of the meta-circular interpreter (2006)
He said he's a technology entrepreneur, Europe isn't exactly the best place for a tech startup.
I have a domain registered under my real name and personal email address. Coming away from the article, my understanding is that my domain is liable to sniping if I step away from the Internet for more than two weeks (e.g., I go on a trek into the jungle somewhere) and don't take steps to have a friend or colleague keep tabs on the issue. This seems like a straightforward and obviously undesirable scenario; I wonder what came up in the ICANN consultation when it was discussed.
As I'm going through a new round of job interviews, this article resonates well. It's kind of sad watching (and being subjected to) some otherwise great companies still going at it the old way as described in the second paragraph.
Thanks!

No kidding. These arrangements are much more entertaining and informative.
Yeah, I know that about Haskell, but my question was about FP in general. I didn't know that about HN. I'll just have to keep looking I guess.
Erlang isn't really new...
DevOps: Collaborate and work together to ensure continuous delivery
PostgreSQL predates MySQL by some 10 years. Or 15 years if you start counting from InnoDB, MySQL was really a toy before that.
I somewhat agree on this as far as interviewing goes, minus the project part - that part is too unreasonable/unfair/disrespectful.
Web spam 2.0:

1) Take the entire works of several popular content creators in a given field, complete with links out to articles etc.

2) Concatenate them into a single file

3) Train this thing to generate new articles

4) Create a map of popular articles that other people have written, to articles you have written on similar topics

5) Replace the originals with your articles

6) Publish millions of articles that can't be detected as spam automatically by Google

It's like bot wars: Spammers can train their robots to try and defeat Google's robots.
"Old-school" Markovian language models (the vast majority of what's being used in production today) are mostly word-based but for text applications with tons of data, high-order character models are competitive with word-based models. (http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W05-1107)
Played around rolling deployments a little using Ansible and tagged github releases. Here's a screencast with some pics for anyone who's interested @ https://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/47-zero-downtime-deployme...

Workflow is to just mark the node down for maintenance via socket cat, upgrade it, then mark it back on-line.

# mark node off-line
echo "disable server episode46/web1" | socat stdio /var/lib/haproxy/stats

# update app code
git pull tagged release version

# mark node on-line
echo "enable server episode46/web1" | socat stdio /var/lib/haproxy/stats
‘Deep learning’ technique enables robot mastery of skills via trial and error
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I feel rather silly commenting as a voice of dissent here, against a man who cannot defend himself, but here goes.

These are rather obvious metrics that a child could have drafted. Are you smart? Can do you do things? The problem is that these are subjective measures.

A smart person, who sets the world on fire and gets things done, perhaps like Aaron did or could have done, has a different perspective than say a 50-something product manager. They may see smart as seeing the future, where the programmer may see smart as knowing x86 assembly. And the fool may see smart as someone who talks in technical jumble.

There is no golden key to hiring folks. My experiences say that in a good company, the manager needing help should be in charge of hiring who he/she deems fit. Some may, perhaps rightly, cry nepotism and other factors may run amok. But putting that weight, and risks, on the manager is the point. If they hire an unqualified buddy, they are responsible and ultimately fail with them. I don't really see this as different than Aaron - someone who has their own metrics.

In short, trying to put out any 'guide to hiring people' is a short sighted goal, seeing as everyone has their own experiences and views. This is really no different.
For iOS and Android ?
Adding fuel to your fire: hardware will often be implemented with multiple SIMD compute units (transistors are cheap!), and pipeline multiple SIMD calls. With instruction sets like AVX, the length is increasing.

SIMD is non-controversial: it's just like another ALU instruction but maps the inputs to the outputs differently. Doing something more exotic, like VLIW, is an uphill battle. However, as seen with GPUs, that can be fruitful.
I fail to see how word-based models are character-based models with manual feature extraction. Word boundaries are read directly from deterministically tokenized inputs.

And, as I mentioned upthread, it has been known for about ten years, long before the current neural net revival, that high-order character-based models are competitive with word-based models (at least in terms of perplexity).
This is said a lot about personal appearance as well.

Frankly I don't personally care about either, so long as the work is good.

As for their side, perhaps it can work as a good reverse filter.
Banning porn can be seen as wanting to ban oppression/exploitation. Freedom is not absolute -- because at some point one persons freedom interferes with another persons freedom (AKA your freedom ends where your fist meet my face).

A lot of people will pretend that porn is about freedom, that selling sex is about freedom, that selling drugs is about freedom... And while you can make arguments for all those things, that's not to say that any kind of legislation by definition is "anti-freedom". Legislation can be a means to enforce freedoms too.
I think Spolsky originally made this line of thought famous in 2006:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing...

http://www.amazon.com/Smart-Gets-Things-Done-Technical/dp/15...
>> newest/obscure technology

> Erlang isn't really new...

But is it (comparatively) obscure?
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Python and MongoDB as a Platform for Financial Market Data (2014) [video]
Because equal access doesn't mean every group will be evenly-racially- and gender-distributed. Just read the title again to yourselves; doesn't this sound ridiculous? Maybe we should pass a law that all software projects need to hire an equal number of diverse participants...
10% is not a big chunk. To leave $70m ($65, actually) on the table they would have needed to price it "perfectly" and it would have been considered a dud. With a strong opening day and a solid few quarters they should be able to float another 10% and pick up $200-300m. And you're worried about $20m or $30m.
I agree, I would not recommend Hadoop for a startup to install and maintain it. There are several datawarehouse as a service offerings out there. More recently there was a rise of good and cheap cloud based systems and Redshift got a lot better as well. Much easier to integrate, probably lover TCO too.
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Does nginx has the same problem of "small time window" downtime? I was guessing reloading would be more gracefully handled by having a single process binding on http/s ports and child processes which contact upstream servers. That way there is no "small time window" while reloading.
Did you also grow up in the SV?
> I feel rather silly commenting as a voice of dissent here, against a man who cannot defend himself, but here goes.

I agree. AS being dead makes it difficult to discuss issues related to him.

I don't view AS as wise sage. I always found he was a bit of a self-promoter; a bit of a loose cannon. A person who was a hacker, but like some millennials, the validation from publicity got to his head.

It's taboo. If you attack certain things on the merits - certain people will believe you're attacking all freedom of information - because they relate AS to some sort of representation of it.

Burglarizing MIT isn't hack in the sense of hacker culture. MIT hacks were clever. Burglarizing for the attempt to swallow data isn't clever - it's a hammer.
You can't just casually link to that page and claim it's talking about San Franciso. It's comparing the LA mega sprawl to SF-Oakland-Fremont. Fremont! The very definition of suburbia.

So yeah, if you head off from urban areas and include their low density suburban outliers, LA looks kind of sort of urban. But now I'm just repeating the grandparent's point: people who care about urban-ness are likely to consider both Fremont and LA suburban hell holes.
Soon I hope, I want to write software that runs a million times as slow.
You'll find this article helpful if you are wondering what all factors to consider while choosing a JavaScript charting library:

http://davidwalsh.name/13-factors-choosing-javascript-charti...
Pflugerville ISD teacher resigns after being accused of using racial slur
Application Weezchat: vous allez devenir accro au tchat en ligne
+1 Here are some business dashboards examples from FusionCharts:

http://www.fusioncharts.com/dashboards/
Google Reportedly Developing 'Brillo,' an OS for the Internet of Things
>"If you ask people at parties to name their greatest strengths and weaknesses or to estimate the number of piano tuners in Chicago, you’ve got bigger problems."

Well, it looks like I'm going to have to find better things to talk about...
Did you try to run that code under ReactOS too? I would assume (I've not checked) that they follow the NT kernel design -- so should have similar "architectural" performance -- even if I doubt they've had as much time to hand-tune the details.

It'd be interesting if running under the VMS/NT thread/fork model could be seen as a reason to deploy some apps on ReactOS rather than Linux/BSD. Would also be interesting if one could see any difference running a multi-core KVM guest on ReactOS vs a Linux/BSD guest/container/jail. Although I suppose one would need to dedicate a hw nic to see any real results (avoiding the host OS/VM scheduler etc)?

Note-to-self: something to play with...
Their feeling of guilt about their history is the reason they care about freedom at least a little bit more than others.
Really? So just have a nice conversation and ask questions?

Of course you want smart, curious people who can learn things and do stuff. These "guides" are just various elaborations of (sadly uncommon) common sense. There's no secret here.
That's $SPACE or a descendant (maybe TREK73).
Very true. But why not put up a few square miles of solar arrays in the Southern California desert to power it?

Desalination is an activity well suited to an intermittent power source. Need more water? Just build another plant and a few more square miles of solar cells.

It might be expensive, but it would certainly be a lot more useful than Governor Moonbeam's high speed train from nowhere to nowhere.
Now you can build your own DIY phone with Arduino
I observed obese people - they all eat simple carbs. Why? They are addicted to dopamine, they tremble and get depressed if they don't eat sugar and carbs. They overeat, that's the reason they are obese.

For a non-obese person calories also don't matter because if you eat equal amount of calories using sugar, almonds or olive oil, the effect will be completely different
Actually, they are no longer owned by Demand Media, rather they are a brand under Rightside.
IMO rating would be a difficult thing to do as there are many factors[1] to consider. What best for one use case, might be the worst choice for another. A more qualitative comparison would be more useful:

http://www.fusioncharts.com/javascript-charting-comparison/

[1] http://davidwalsh.name/13-factors-choosing-javascript-charti...
Oh come the hell on. Not a conspiracy or anything like it. Just pure market forces in the presence of a market failure. Regulatory capture is normal and happens all the time. We should just point it out.

Watch the responses, see whether flagging what I think they will be in advance is a useful thing or not.

Grandstanding from an anonymous account? Really?
SLAC gears up for dark matter hunt with LUX-ZEPLIN
I avoided this article for a while because I thought it was going to be about mediocre devs copying-and-pasting code from development blogs into 'enterprise' software and the impact that it had on morale, or culture, or whatever.

What a pleasant surprise!

It did quickly remind me of Amazon's 'press release driven development'. I appreciate the desire to promote, but I wish some popular, public art was credited.
> Microsoft IE has 55% market share.

Only according to Net Applications.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Sum...

Chrome is the #1 everywhere else.
You'll notice in the article they say this policy was only enacted by ICANN 5 years ago, and hasn't even taken into effect for EasyDNS yet.

i.e. Just because it hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean it won't now.
I think AS wrote a blog post. He probably didn't have the experience to back it up.

I don't hold it against him. An ordinary young person being a young person. Nothing special. Nothing to be embarrassed about.

Also I don't think he cared about the hiring much - his specialty was never upper management.
Has anyone who played the original tried the iOS version?
Ah fuck. https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/files/2015/05/How-...

In that diagram, I imagine my history, IP, etc getting compromised at every arrow location. Dammit. Mozilla had been doing so well when it came to freedom.
Far less secure you mean? https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdf