skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Delayed extents is probably a normal thing that happens in daily I/O operations. The possibility of it not actually hitting the platters permanently is a scary scenario.

"A single extent in ext4 can map up to 128 MiB of contiguous space with a 4 KiB block size."
Or, alternately, we should be funding that education by taxing companies who will ultimately be consuming those employees anyways.
The main thing I disagreed with is that any one genre has a monopoly on stupidity. Your comment is like quoting "She loves you yeah yeah yeah" to dismiss the Beatles or pop music. A high premium placed on intellectualism rather than work that engages the heart, the soul, the hips, discusses social dynamics, and so forth.

Actually I mean romantic comedies in their entirety including all of film and literature. Your perspective evinces a strong familiarity with SF and a surface impression of recent romcoms but I could be wrong.

To me SF films are mainly about technology fetishism and the social commentary is incidental.
My wife uses Nordea and they go out on a limb for her every time she needs something (and she lives in the US with me, so hardly can go into the bank for things).
High Tech Toys for Rhinos
I am also surprised regulatory agencies are allowing this. An index fund which tracks prices of a currency based on a cryptographic standard.
In the US, back in 2007, I met some dutch guys, aged 20 and 21, the 20 y/o just spend a night in jail because he was drinking in a bar. He didn't even realize, back home he was drinking legally for over 4 years (and for drinking before the age of 16 there was no real punishment). We had a good laugh, "they must have a lot of jails here" we said.

Lately the government is becoming more firm here (the Netherlands) as well. Beer drinking is now legal only from age 18 and up and serving minors is punishable by law now, a bar owner pays 1360 euro the first time but may risk closure of the establishment. Drinking in private is never punishable. For public drinking (but not for being drunk) the fine is 90 euros, 45 when below age 16. If you are sick from alcohol you will never be punished as it may be inhibiting for seeking help.
Some of the reasons were discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9509870
I don't think the export ciphersuites are present in EAP ( http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5216 )
The kids have no cost of switching to something new because they probably don't know much already. As you get older, re-learning everything 6 months feels weird since any random 14 year old can know as much (or more) than you do about the new system. Your API-level experience gets invalidated rapidly, so it's almost better to start from scratch, which only the unknowing youths can do.

Then there's a whole "stake you claim" mentality. Want to be the best C person in the world? You can't. It's too wide spread. What to be the best Go person? Sure, fight that battle for your own glory since it's new and you can take part in everything.

Lack of education/experience also creates a great breeding ground for new, duplicate, half-implemented versions of things that already exist. The older a developer gets, the more they see things they already know re-implemented as completely new but with unfamiliar interfaces they'll have to re-learn again every 6 months. It's a huge waste of human capacity to always be "new new new" instead of creating a stable and reasonably extensible base to work from. But, at the same time, we don't want to be stuck on Perl 4 and CORBA forever.

There's a tradeoff between building new things for advancing the future versus building new things just because you think you're better than all the previous research/experience that has come before you. See the case of Cathedral v. Bazaar.
http://github.com/adrivanrex

adrivanrex@gmail.com
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150518/13193831041/us-of...

And when other people leak far more relevant information? (by topic and by time)
We don't sell Sleeping Beauty you can "Pre-Order" and take the survey to get a 20% Voucher as soon as Sleeping Beauty is purchasable. We know how hard it is to build a hardware startup and we don't want to disappoint potential customers with Kickstarter or Indiegogo campaigns without delivering the product.
He doesn't sound bitter to me. He's pointing out a possible oversight in perspective.
If you're making any consistent profits these days with such a primitive setup, you probably have some pretty fantastic insights that you could be selling to a hedge fund or bank
> I think it's less about people huddled in a back room making a preconceived intention to be sexist

Usually it's more of a (usually unnoticed) bias of "he is probably more likely to be an expert than her". With that bias keeping the perpetrator in the dark sexism can masquerade as meritocracy.
> automakers won’t be able to afford to produce autonomous cars if each and every car sold could theoretically land it in court

Each and every car made can theoretically land an automaker in court under existing liability laws even when they aren't autonomous, and yet automakers can still afford to make autos.

> To force the driver of its luxury Model S electric sedan to initiate any autonomous overtaking maneuvers by tapping the turn signal. That way, in the event of an accident, it was the person — not the car — which ultimately deemed the overtaking maneuver safe.

That's not going to do much to immunize the manufacturer from liability if the system executing the maneuver is defective in a way which causes a collision in a condition in which it should have been safe to overtake, or even if the defect is simply that it fails to detect that the situation is unsafe when it is signaled to be safe, when it has sufficient sensor coverage from which it reasonably should have been able to determine that the situation was not safe.

The article here seems to be largely based on a fantasy (or perhaps a Tesla press release) that is detached from the principles of liability that have been applied to product manufacturers in general, and auto manufacturers in particular.
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Sensai which is mentioned in the article is hiring Java AI/NLP folks in Palo Alto http://sensai.workable.com/jobs/19235 The CTO Monica Anderson also runs the bay area AI meetup group
You need that "crud" so that you actually know what your code is doing. If the compiler automatically spins up another thread and finishes there while you return from that function without you knowing it would lead to all sorts of race conditions and other threading headaches. Making them explicit makes it clear what the code is doing.
Only 3% of Norway is farmable land. This makes it MUCH more difficult and hence expensive to make food in than for example Sweden (or the US). IF you want to produce your own food so that you won't have to starve in case of a crisis, you will have to accept higher food prices and farm subsidies.
Show HN: Hydrogen Brings Light Table to Atom
Group SMS experiment
A group of friends,14 of us, decided a trip to Vegas for a bachelor party. Since I've ventured to Vegas multiple times with a group larger than 4, I knew what communication problems could occur.

For reasons I won't get into detail, I chose SMS because group messaging apps all have their flaws and SMS is simple and everyone has it.

I decided to spend a weekend writing a little twilio sms service that relayed incoming messages to all group members.
To join the group you text JOIN Mike Smith to the number. I had other commands to ignore and leave the group.

It was a big hit, It saved time, everyone was able to keep in touch. It ended up working better than expected.

In total on a 3 night trip 8733 SMS were consumed.

I learned a lot from this experiment and now I want to turn it into a legit service for groups. To start I was thinking sports teams and vacationers where the party size is larger than 4.

I need some advice on how I should market this as a service. How should I try and form partnerships.

Thanks.
I've never heard that nickname before today.
To "ignore or laugh at" a whole family of important and interesting languages because they aren't as popular as Python or JavaScript is exactly laziness, or at best pragmatic, but has nothing to do with intellectual reasonableness.
> When running tests I am a fan of being able to split my screen so I can view the tests alongside code. Tmux worked well for this, however it comes with a few disadvantages. Pasting code between Tmux and Vim panes required use of the system register which is a pain.

I'm personally not a fan of them, but why wouldn't you use vim split panes?
Do you really think things are different in wealthier communities because they "self-police"? Calling the police in a poor neighborhood is dangerous business... not because of gang retaliation, but because of the police themselves. And as you observe, the police generally do nothing about street dealers, and what they do is ineffectual. So why even bother calling them?
It's been discussed before http://ahmedsoliman.com/2014/03/26/will-java-8-kill-scala/

and comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7478367
I don't know how or why ext4 took off the way it did. ext2/3fs' dominance was somewhat understandable, it was the dark ages of filesystem architecture (akin to the dark ages of cryptography), and no one used math or science to definitively say something was better than another.

But in the age of ZFS, filesystems like XFS and JFS have proven themselves worthy to remain in the ring as non-versioning, simple filesystems. Their resilience (now, despite any known issues in the past) is beyond reproach, combined with their speed and performance (comparing apples to apples, not journaled to non-journaled) is where it should be.

Why does any OS/distro use extfs by default for new installations? I can understand ancient machines that upgrade from ext3 to ext4 to avoid migrating data to a new filesysystem/mountpoint, but for new installations?
My coworker Isaac and I have been hacking on this nifty little tool for a few weeks now.

The main problem that we had to overcome was that test frameworks like node-tap (https://github.com/isaacs/node-tap)
spawn many subprocesses.

nyc overrides child_process.spawn, collects coverage reports for all child processes, and pulls a coverage report back together again.
It overcomes the power supply issue in an ingenious way: the battery life is profoundly extended because Sleeping Beauty only consumes power when the object is moved. When Sleeping Beauty is standing still, it remains in sleep mode and doesn't consume any power at all.
MemSQL4 Released, Community Edition and Enterprise
That seems to be the solution. I hate no fault because I trust a stranger only as long as he will suffer consequences of his actions, and under no fault there are none.

Even if we have a no fault insurance scheme for only unmodded autonomous cars that means the manufactures have no incentives to make their cars safer.
Revocable, Self-Signed TLS Certificates
Ask HN: Do you have any active management advice for investing in public stocks?
Howdy!

I'm 27 and looking to dip my toes into the stock market game and I am looking for any books/tools/resources you have used that have helped to guide your investment strategy.

Ideally I am just looking for your opinion and any resources that give me a lay of the land of all the different types of ways that I can invest in a stock. It's just a whole new world to me and I desire to get introduced to all of the players!

Disclaimer: I definitely realize that active management is not always better than just investing in an index/mutual fund. However, there is no fun in that :). Plus, I am looking to try my hand at least once in my life so any advice you have would help me tremendously!
Well, all right, but then if you interpret the type system using a univalent approach, what do you get?
Ack, fatfingers on my Nexus—I of course meant "sometimes".
Human exposure in pesticides from food [pdf]
You are correct. I do not know the complexity or the merit of the other competitors, and I might have made my comment based on my current knowledge of the technology involved (knowing that it is not very complex).
The failure of the Doha Round (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doha_Development_Round) strongly suggests that nowadays successful trade negotiations must be secret.

By the same token, they must be handled by our legislature in "fast track" style, a straight up or down vote; modifications by definition negate the negotiations, secret or public.

In between ... well, such a measure should get fully discussed in public. That huge, thousand and multi-thousand measures get passed "in public" without taking the time for serious analysis, let alone public debate, which I assume is what people are really worried about, is a general grave problem in our political system, and decidedly un-American.

But if you say "no secret negotiations" and/or "no fast track" you're also says "no 'free trade' agreements". Which might be the right thing, but it should be admitted by those pushing this line.
Actually, the two are very related. While one is bound by law enforcement and the other is a "voluntary expenditure" they both accomplish the same goal, taxing those who have the least to give.

And while we are involved in a discussion of human psychology. Maybe consider the mental aspects of extreme poverty and you can see that purchasing lottery tickets is not exactly voluntary but a desperate attempt to change the course of an exasperated existence. Just a thought.

For example. Drinking water is voluntary but if you go without water you might get the feeling it's a little more than a choice...
Ok, we changed the url to that from https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=785672. Thanks.
As soon as he said, "These are images of the real world", I immediately thought they just looked like high quality renders.

Wonder if there's a kickstarter in their future?
I thought juvenile records were not used to determine sentences of convicted adults. Is that true?
The data is small compared to processing required. Laptops aren't that slow. They are as fast as the fastest "servers" from a few/several years ago. Finally, most employees proly don't have laptops, OP misspoke.
I get the impression that the general population doesn't actually fully understand what the government has done.
Fear of surveillance haunted bin Laden
Just curious, where did you find that definition of "capable of flying"? Because under that definition a glider ( unless it is a motorize glider ) is not "capable of flying".
Oh look, a sweeping claim about evil Whitey being responsible for Everything Bad backed by absolutely no data or evidence. Shocker, that.
Polite Russian teenagers fight rude drivers withstickers(desktop has english caps)
I tried to make it clear that my statement was predicated on whether or not you've listened to it much. Not because it's impossible to be correct in your appraisal of something with little exposure, but the weight I give your opinion is a function of both your exposure to the topic, and the variation the topic exhibits. I think TAL has quite a bit of variation in message, topic and to a lesser degree quality. I don't think limited exposure will, in the average case, produce very accurate opinions about it. Of course, I don't truly know how much exposure you've had (which I also tried to allude to by using "I can't imagine," which is meant to be left open for correction).
I was an early WePay user back when they offered an online invoicing service. Was sad to see that go, but it was great while it lasted. Nice to see that they are having success in their new orientation.
Web API is the easiest thing you can use. I switching from desktop programming to web and creating restful services in web api allowed me to do a lot with little and also teach me a thing or two about REST. I highly recommend it.
One of the few ways to do high level IPC in .net.
> HN submissions should have some standards for stories that will create the appearance

HN has such a standard: the guidelines ask for titles not to be misleading or linkbait. (Not an opinion on the current bug.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't get it. This seems like a ploy by google to trick users into leaving their microphones open so they can collect data. If you already need an internet connection to visit the url it gives you, why not transmit the url via the internet. This would more secure anyway since you could just choose the people you want to sync with.

Am I just missing something?
A brief history on the naming of the fruit company: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzzOwRx3D1E
On the other hand, that's the normal way of running small events. There are a number of annual events that don't have a limited company organizing the thing and can't raise a 10k-100k float from those organising it; they have to operate in this manner.

You have however confirmed the value of having a "sweep paypal money into an unconnected bank account ASAP" operations rule.

I do wonder whether anyone's ever taken them to small claims court over an event like this and won, possibly by default.

(The original article is a straightforward violation of the Consumer Credit Act, I believe)
I've been on projects where we used Rackspace cloud servers or Amazon EC2 for HIPAA-compliant insurance enrollment systems. There was extra paperwork and we did a bunch of security testing, but it wasn't too bad.

In both cases the projects were controlled by marketing departments who were much more concerned with cost per customer than with maintaining total control over every aspect of the system.
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Show HN: Wifič – Couchsurfing for Wi-Fi
For $200 you can get something like this [1]. Low power Atom CPU, RAM, and two NICs included so you can throw pFSense + Snort on it easily. You can add a USB wifi dongle and make it an AP.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008KB5YCK/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl...
This business would be even that much more important. Why would I want my car just sitting at home when it could be working while I'm working?
Youtube on desktop shows the english subtitled version.
System perspective: channels do not necessarily decouple
I've noticed and felt uneasy about their UX around Paypal credit. When checking out, the option is "Use Paypal Credit" or "Use Paypal Balance" -- in standard jargon, of having 'credit' or 'credits' at a payment site, to me those mean roughly the same thing. I've almost made the mistake a couple times, but caught myself. To others it surely could be deceptive, and probably did cause errors. Totally scammy.

It's really bad. I complained but got no response, and it's not a surprise. I'm glad that this (among other things) didn't fly.
You're definitely right. "critical" in this context means it has a critical severity as a Debian bug, it doesn't mean everybody must stop what they're doing right now and patch their kernel.

If I interpreted the commit message correctly, this bug is not a new thing at all and it has been there for years, but it has been noticed only lately, which means we're no better applying the fix now than waiting until distribution packages ship it.
New DC Health Tech Accelerator Open for Applications
Today we open for applications to the Relevant Health accelerator for the inaugural class of health tech startups for fall 2015. Go to: www.relevanthealth.md
Mine goes to University of Michigan...which is a different country altogether.

Just tried @Obama, Guantanamo Bay Detention camp.
FOVE:The World's First Eye Tracking Virtual Reality Headset
Maybe a better approach would be, instead of the songs that nobody has listened to at all, show us the songs that have been played 1-10 times, or 1-20, or 10-20, or...

Might help weed out the worst of the worst, while still helping to discover something that is mostly unknown.
Bump for TransferWise. They're a treat to work with!
>They don't want "viable", they want blockbuster.
They want predictable profit. If machine learning will allow producers to make better predictions on niche market - they will go there too
What's kind of interesting is how things can be the same, too. My daughter has committed herself to a career in food. She's not going to college. Instead, she managed to get a job as a prep and line cook under an internationally-known chef, mostly through luck. This job will teach her if she can deal with being a line cook. If she can hack that, she'll do this for a few years, then maybe head toward having her own restaurant, or something else.

This course is not fundamentally different than the course of chefs 50 years ago. What is different is that she can learn so much over the internet - about what chefs are doing elsewhere, about new techniques. Meanwhile, she's developing a style of her own, based on 19th century techniques she learns from old cookbooks and the internet - ways of cuisine so old they feel new today.
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> Their resilience (now, despite any known issues in the past) is beyond reproach

How is resilience characterized for filesystems which are not widely adopted and thus exposed to diverse usage scenarios?
I use AdAway from F-droid repository. It supports custom hosts files and exception. The only gimmick is it requires root.
> I specifically select my AMEX to pay because it has the highest transaction fees for them.

I thought I was the only one.
Politics, that's why.

But XFS and JFS have had their share of corruption bugs too. I don't believe any were long-standing bugs, though.

Wikipedia mentions that JFS has a misfeature where write can be delayed so long (indefinitely) that a power outage can cause major data loss.

Didn't Suse ship with JFS as default out of the box for a very short period of time?
> design your messages first and then figure out what the URLs should look like.

This is exactly what WCF let me do though and I wasn't limited to using HTTP like the others you listed. I was able to use a full duplex binary tcp channel instead.
The Hallmarks of Cancer
Looks neat. I'm all for anything that helps with discovery. That seems to be one of the hardest parts of making a successful music service.
Summing up: you are harvesting identities and then spam them. It is not just unethical, is ilegal under the CAN-SPAM act.
5 skills developers should be learning right now
Well I thought it was parsing actual music, but in fact it's

1. grab an artist’s top-10 albums

2. generate genre-tags from artist-tags

3. Cloud-based classification with Google Prediction

4. Guessing an artist genre based on their album covers
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- FIrefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

- GitHub: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

It works well on both mobile and desktop Firefox. Less resource-intensive than Adblock Plus. Too bad mobile Chrome doesn't support extensions yet.
!@(*#& I was one of those tricked by this scheme which is 5,000% obviously deceptive. There is ZERO chance that Paypal folks were unaware that people would accidentally use the credit product.

I wrote them a complaint and changed the default but never heard back. FUCK YOU Paypal, you MUGGED me and stole money from me.

I am CERTAIN they end up getting more than $25m out of this scheme. This settlement just means they have to share the profit with the UK Gov.

We need a class action suit in the U.S. demanding they return the late fees they criminally charged people like me.