skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's pedantic and also incorrect. The problem of whether an exact solution can be found efficiently can be put to rest. You might not choose to use this algorithm, but that's not really the point of algorithms research. You've just picked a strawman to criticise the wording on.
A lesser-known but highly amusing performance, “Never, Never Say Die.” The Avengers, Season 5 Episode 10.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azw87CL74Kw
I did a lot of research on graph database technologies recently and read a lot of these "let's compare X to Y" articles. What I found is that most benchmarks - especially those done by people affiliated with a given product - often tend to show a distorted and sometimes plain wrong picture.

For example, concerning the performance and scalability of graph databases the main argument of proponents of this technology is the "join bomb" argument, which states that you can't efficiently store a graph in a relational database since it will require O(log(n)) time to lookup neighboring nodes from the index when crawling the graph. However, this is of course only true for B-tree indexes, whereas hash-based indexing would give you basically the same performance (O(1)) on a graph implemented in a relational database.

Additional features like documents and deep indexes are nice of course but can be (and often are) implemented using relational databases as well, so in the end there really isn't such a large advantage to be gained from using a graph database, especially when taking into account the immaturity of many solutions in that space.
Did Michael Jordan count as a professional basketball and baseball player?
And then the scene was removed :(
> Not sure about your agenda and why you spill inaccuracies with a tendency to promote Russian goals.

Oh lol. Whatever you say I guess.
All good points, e.g. I seem to remember reading that a 747 can maintain pressure with up to 6 windows being open (not that you'd want to be next to any of them!), but I think bullets still wants fairly dense, and that tends to make them more X-ray opaque, right?

Hmmm, if we're just talking about single shot guns, you don't need to align cartridges in the characteristic rows of magazines, or the cylinder of a revolver, making them easier for the TSA to miss. Of course, you could just load a magazine once on the plane.
The best RAD tool that I know that is able to produce SPA applications (for desktop and mobile) is Visual Studio LightSwitch.
A story about a global "bond crash" that only appears in the Telegraph? The Telegraph which is bought and paid for by HSBC?
Felt the need to remind you whippersnappers about Bo Jackson!

I'd also argue that the skills needed for multilanguage competency as a programmer aren't as mutually exclusive as some of the physical traits needed for pro-level athletic talent.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Jackson
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multi-sport_athletes
Only if the conference is in Polish. :)
I love how these stories always tend to focus on the "cyber attacks" rather than the incompetence that allowed them to be attacked in the first place.

These days, if a website gets defaced because of an outdated Wordpress installation, the media instantly rallies to the victim's defence and portrays the script kiddies that did it as terrorists. And if they're not personally identifiable, they're government agents of wherever their IP addresses originate from (or whoever the current political go-to villain happens to be).

I wouldn't be surprised if this major government IT SNAFU paves the way to more aggressive "cyber crime" laws and more posturing against Russia. It'll also likely be used to make the public forget about the entire NSA ordeal (because hey, we totally need the US to protect us against evil Russia).

Keep in mind that the entire "we're under attack" narrative isn't as popular or widely accepted in Germany as it is in the US. The last attempt to portray us as having to defend ourselves against an attack was during our involvement in Afghanistan, which the public generally disagreed with (although our politicians promised unlimited solidarity to the US).

We're also in a really awkward position: politically we're very dependent on the US (up to the point where US agencies can legally do what it wants in Germany thanks to post-WW2 agreements) but economically we're also very dependent on Russia -- as is a lot of Europe, for that matter.
He's probably having issues with async gubbins. Some sort of 'rewind time' in the debugger so you could determine what happened when to get to this state of error.
>It really boils down to your language preference:

I was looking for the easiest-setup, operation, posting on web, updating content etc.

In this way I have only the preference of simple use.
Surveillance powers: New law needed, says terror watchdog
First Snappy Ubuntu Core 15.04 stable release
Pruit-Igoe is the poster child for the theory of apartment towers in the park meets reality.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt%E2%80%93Igoe
Your org is a product
Phusion Passenger 5.0.10 – improved admin tools, bug fixes
Memory diff of space, a human interpretation of the world ?
Ask HN: At what proficiency do you consider 'knowing' a language?
Lying on a resume is obviously bad, but when do you consider being able to list a new language on your resume as something you know? For example, I've written programs in a dozen languages over the last few years but if someone asked me to write something in any 6 of them I would have to look up some of the syntax to know if it needs a parenthesis or semi-colon. Is that considered not knowing it?
Robots of the Future: Inflatable and Versatile
Bear in mind the galaxy is continuously rotating, our sun is orbiting the galactic nucleus, as are the other stars around it. Right now the nearest star is 4 lightyears away, but that's not always the case and it's quite likely other stars have passed ours by much closer than that during it's lifetime. In fact our sun has orbited the galactic core many times; it does so roughly every 250 million years.

The sun would have accumulated material from the nebula it formed in as it drifted though it. The stars near us now are not the ones our sun was near when it formed though (except by extemely unlikely co-incidence), as each star is on a slightly different course round the galaxy, like water droplets in a very slowly rotating cyclone.

If another star were to pass by very close, it could be disastrous for us as it could severely disrupt the planetary orbits in our system, but that's fairly unlikely and there's no prospect of that happening for many millions of years at least. The space between stars is vast, even by comparrison to the size of stars themselves and their solar systems.

EDIT - on that last point, 4 ly is ~250,000 AU (the distance from the earth to the sun). If we asume out solar system is 100 AU across, that's still only 1/2500 the distance to the next star.
... and those designers are beginners who A) can't read, and B) don't have years of practice in industry-grade tools and techniques? If anything, replacing something like 3DS-Max or Maya in the workflow is probably harder than replacing a code editor. And there are several other disciplines than 3D modeling involved.
Yeah but now these lawmakers get to pat themselves on the back for doing absolutely nothing.
>> "No you wouldn't. A search engine is difficult to build, expensive to build, and hard to do right. Instead they offer users Google as default (which the majority of people would want) and a more private alternative in DDG.

Um, Apple replaced Google Maps with their own Map service which is hard to build, expensive to build and they still haven't gotten it right. Despite that, I want Apple to do the same for search so I can remove Google from my iPhone.

>> "I could continue going through the article explaining how it is utter rubbish but it should be pretty obvious."

This is why Apple fanboys have such a bad reputation on the web and spoil perceptions for those of us who own Apple products without subscribing to the fanaticism. Stop the snark. Respond to the actual argument.
It's not in Poland, it's in European Union. What is the problem?
Ramda actually uses data as the last parameter usually, whereas lodash has it as the first.

However, I agree, the readme doesn't quite show the full power of Trine. Trine has `partial`, which allows you to do partial application as so: `parseInt::partial(_)`, that would create a function that acts as parseInt but only takes one argument. This is in sync with the partial application syntax proposal: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5c4f6ea07ad3017d61be

The rest of the functional goodness, such as autocurrying are still undecided upon because in my personal experience autocurrying in JS is awkward and leads to bugs that are hard to debug. I'm also considering compose and a combination of compose and partial (e.g. apply a function to a parameter at a certain place), but again subjectively, composing functions like that has reduced the readability of codebases. JS already has first class functions which allows composition pretty easily, the only problem is that it's overtly verbose - I'm still hoping to see the single arrow function land in JS some day. :)
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Dunno if what he said is true or not, but when I was a member of IGDA, I left after the board refused to kick out Tim Langdell (that is a trademark troll) and Michael Capps.

Michael Capps is Epic president, and he ended admitting he joined IGDA board in first place to stop IGDA from forcing studio hands in fighting crunch, when Capps joined, IGDA most high profile work was to try to fix the crunch culture, Epic felt threatened, and pulled that stunt (send Capps to join IGDA and undermine the efforts against crunch)
I'm not even aware of anyone who managed to go pro in two of those

There are a handful of athletes that have played both pro football and baseball, Bo Jackson probably being the most famous.

Michael Jordan played pro Baseball and Basketball, but was never a good baseball player
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I'm really hoping that someone uses our recent work on Ensime to bring vimside back to life. Hopefully provides a lot of the 'missing' features that vim (semantic/type info), accurate completion etc. But its going to require a Vim expert to step up and fix the integration.
I wish I could just use C#, but unfortunately there is no way to avoid JavaScript these days.
In that case it comes down to economics, specifically: do the benefits of using a second or third best tool outweigh the costs of using a tool that is not the ideal. Or would the benefits conferred by using the best tool outweigh the costs.
From Space to the Cloud: NASA Embraces Cloud Computing
(Disclaimer: I'm the author of vim-go [1])

I think vim-go has a really nice balance here. Part of the strength comes from the excellent tooling the Go community created. Each tool is orthogonal to each other and they are pluggable and reusable. So vim-go for example uses these tools to create wrappers around it and blend it like it's a part of Vim itself. It's not a IDE of course, however it feels like that.

I think the most important thing here is providing a orthogonal tools and well defined boundaries between them (which the Go tools have achieved already). Once that is established, more greater and better tools can be created upon on it.

I look for other language plugins from time to time and each time I see the same thing. The language which the plugin is build on itself doesn't have the sense of "orthogonality". So it makes it difficult to create plugin and support it. Once the underlying language and the community get the sense for it, the tool(in our case the Vim plugin and ecosystem) will improve itself too.

[1]: https://github.com/fatih/vim-go
(Maybe it was XKCD that gave me the idea?) But I remember thinking it interesting that humans are the chemical/physical process that creates those highest elements.
What do you mean by "better" or "worse"? Music is certainly alive and well and I am absolutely spoiled for choice. My musician/dj/producer friends are all busy, happy people.

The recording industry's "good old days" were mostly before my time but producer and musician Steve Albini, who was around back then, called the record industry out in 1993 in an essay succinctly titled The Problem With Music http://www.negativland.com/news/?page_id=17

Here he talks "about the advantages of the internet, the death of the major label system, copyright law and that ‘purple dwarf in assless chaps'" http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/17/steve-albinis-k...

Article and video here...
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/17/steve-albini-at...

An excerpt:
In contrast to what almost anyone else will tell you, Albini believes there has never been a better time to be involved in music – as a fan and as a musician (excluding, perhaps, the megastars): “I see more bands and I hear more music than ever before in my life. There are more gigs, more songs available than ever before, bands are being treated with more respect, and are more in control of their careers and destinies.

“I see them continuing as a constellation of enterprises: some big, some small, most small but all of them with a more immediate response from their audience and a greater chance to succeed. It is genuinely exciting.”
I guess it depends on community. I lived in Bath and both got and spent some Bristol pounds on Gloucester road. Then again I did hang out around people who like greens a lot.

I also heard about Portland bucks while I was in Oregon, but nobody had those unfortunately. I'd really like to get some in the future.
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has been accurately described as "never the calmest man in a room", so the first cut of such a bot would be really simple ^_^.

Seriously, he's been lots of fun to read since the start of the Clinton administration, but after a while you learn to apply a mental filter. For that matter, much of the British press is way more ... passionate than ours, that's one of its charming qualities. Along with oddities like the tabloid Daily Mail doing a lot of good reporting along with the celebrity articles, often better for US events than US media.
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acc created „7 minutes ago“ - nuff said
This is to avoid multiple versions of Trine required by libraries (or the application itself requiring a different version of babel-runtime) causing the different versions of `babel-runtime` to be included multiple times, which would be a problem especially for browser applications. Trine itself is very small, but if each module introduces a dependency to babel-runtime, it would be another case of "npm downloads the whole internet". :/
Yeah, the latter.

See here http://www.techrepublic.com/article/developers-are-calling-i... for instance

Or here http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/11/polyglot-programming-what-i...

Basically the big G is your friend?
I use it on my desktops, but feel kind of like I'm littering. I would like to pay for the content if possible. Also, where do I get ad block for IRL. Some airports have ads on their escalator handles now.
For a moment there I thought 'n automated' was some kind of obscure complexity class I'd never heard of :)
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Mainstream music sure does suck now, but music in general is better today than it ever was.
The Wagner-Fischer (1970) algorithm they mention (AKA Needleman-Wunsch,
Lowrance-Wagner, etc) is quadratic in time and space. It might never get any
better than that in time - an improved version with linear space complexity was
presented by Hirschberg in 75 - but that doesn't mean execution times can't be
improved. Today there are various variations of the same family of algorithms
with ever improving execution times. Some adapt the algorithm to massively
parallel setups with hundreds of GPUs, others use speculative execution, some
use approximations, and so forth.
you fail to provide any valid counter argument.

from a naive standpoint i would call apple's point hypocrit, from a more cynical I'd call it an attack on the business of a competitor (while using the services provided by the same to empower their own products).
>Like all gun laws - or laws in general :)

I think there's a sliding scale of effectiveness for any laws banning stuff - like, if you want to stop piracy then for some people you'd need to somehow destroy all Tor-related infrastructure, but for your steretypical grandmother all you'd have to do is DMCA the one website they've used.

Similarly, if it merely makes it HARD to do something, that's often worth the effort.

Of course, when you're trying to prevent professional aeroplane hijackings, that's basically useless and not worth the effort.
We haven't had a successful hijacking since 9/11, in spite of the TSA being grossly incompetent and ineffectual. The terrorists aren't chomping at the bit. The current system of aware passengers, Air Marshals, and reinforced doors is doing the job. Mostly the passengers. We need regulation of 3-D printers like we need regulation of flower arrangers. Bureaucracy, the fear that somewhere someone is doing something without permission.
> Please stop spreading this nonsense. I expected better from HN.

She may not have been removing anything, nor any of the other admins, but lnanek2 does bring up a strong point, albeit indirectly: She is hated by a majority of users on reddit. And she's hated because of her bogus lawsuit she now appears to be dragging out, and how her husband is in serious debt due to running a ponzi scheme.

Her and her husband are not nice people. She even says as much in her interview with Katie Couric, she says "I'm not likable". I sort of have to agree there. The CEO of a website that cannot function without its community needs to be a pillar of that community. This isn't some hedge fund company or a company making widgets where a sociopathic and ruthless CEO flourishes, this is a very intimate community-driven company and the CEO needs to reflect that. The CEO needs to be the epitome of that.

By all accounts, she's straight up out of touch with what reddit even is. She even screwed up sending a PM earlier yesterday and instead posted it as a submission to a subreddit, and was getting made fun of for it. She literally doesn't know how her own website works.

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy those hate subreddits are banned. But completely unreleated to the current drama, and these are my thoughts even before this whole thing started: Ellen Pao needs to leave reddit, like yesterday. She's quite literally the worst CEO for a site like reddit.
If you learn Ukrainian, you should be basically halfway there.
The Greater Fool theory is an at least somewhat formal concept, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory for a start.

I find it to have a lot of explanatory value.
That kind of conspiracy is just too fragile to be believable. While the opsec of such coersion operation with a company full of unpatriotic foreigners sounds like an absolute nightmare, it's also much much safer and much easier to build your APT attack vector not be caught by your targets' AV solution.

Kaspersky is also much easier to control than most AV vendors, Eugene has often been quite positive about Russia spying on its citizens more aggressively than the US does, and he has deep connections with other powerful people of Russia.
(Disclaimer: Max from ArangoDB here)

The purpose of this benchmark series was not to provide a comprehensive test of all these databases. We only wanted to demonstrate that a multi-model database can successfully compete with specialised solutions like document stores and specialised graph databases.

I agree to your comment about graph databases, the crucial thing is that the neighbors of a vertex can be found in time proportional to their number, and that the queries involving an a priori unknown number of steps (graph traversals, path matching, shortest path, etc.) run efficiently in the database server and can be accessed conveniently from the query language.
I'm just curious. In the entire lifetime of checking references, has anyone ever not hired someone based solely on a reference check of someone who was given to them by the candidate?
I am unfamiliar with the paneláky, but I would be surprised if they were built at a comparable speed. While I am aware of large building shells which have been constructed on this sort of timescale, they still required many months/years of fit-out afterwards (plumbing, electricity, fine interior finishing). what is unique about what Broad Group is doing is that they are assembling fully fitted-out modules, which are essentially ready for move-in the day after construction is complete. The only historical analogues I'm aware of are things like Moshe Safde's Habitat 67[1] and some Japanese "metabolist" buildings.[2] But those have been architectural experiments without any real financial viability. What Broad Group is doing is unique in that they are making it commercially viable at scale.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_67

2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolism_%28architecture%29
Interesting. Haven't thought about this kind of businesses and you're right, there might be many more such developers than people like me.
But then wouldn't this require a bigger team with vast expertise or a lot of time compared to a more normal approach, and it will only result in marginal performance improvement, which might not be important in most of the regular projects?
This is so wrong. Just because it's NP-hard (optimization problem, right?) it doesn't mean that there aren't very-very-very good heuristic algorithms that can make the search significantly faster than exponential in the vast majority of the cases. Take a look at SAT solvers and see how deep the rabbit hole really goes.
I think the parent comment is trying to say that the article did not provide any valid counter arguments.
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> If it had been faster ...
> If it had been slower ...

Isn't the inflation conceived to be as fast and long as necessary so that inputs to baryogenesis give result with hydrogen to helium ratios that are in line with experimental data?
cough Sinclair Basic ;-)

Timex's Basic really only added a few extra commands (on err, stick, delete, free, reset and sound IIRC.) Everything else was identical.
It's just a question of thinking about it. For example, having an easy way for users to mark an image as "ad" coupled with a shared DB of URLs (many users marked this as ad → auto-hide for everyone).
What a bummer. He'll always be Scaramanga first to me. Although Saruman was probably the role he was born for; apparently Sir Christopher read LoTR every year and understood Quenya.
7 reasons software developers should learn marketing
Not in the extended edition!
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Reassessing Airport Security
Fortunately Germany has high net migration, and the world's population is not shrinking.
The repository was updated two months ago. The last release of Java 8 was more than a year ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_8#Java_SE_8_.28March_18.2...
This discussion[1] is an interesting read on the topic.

As fas as I remember, OpenStack was originally built around KVM.

Hyper[2] (Docker images on hypervisor) is currently based on KVM too.

[1] http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/376890-xen-and-kvm-who...

[2] https://hyper.sh
Guidance for startup CEOs in the hot seat
You have a marketplace of alternatives to choose from.

Why would you think that demanding that a hardware company should develop a search engine is a better alternative to companies that have chosen to try and invest in search?

I am totally baffled by this mental leap.
LWN has a nice list of upcoming conferences, note that not all of them are held in English speaking countries:

http://lwn.net/Articles/646594/