skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most similar real world example that works like this is the GA144. 144 cores are laid out in a grid, and you pass data from one core to another by sending it "north", "south", "east" or "west".

It's a puzzle game, though, and probably aims less at being a practical teaching tool than a set of novel and obscure problems. If it teaches anything it'd be approaching odd problems in general, just like spacechem did.
You will slow down until you are stationary with respect to distance from the sun, and then start accelerating towards it, ie, falling.
> Isn't the real conclusion that all three tools failed the test case at some point

No backup solution is perfect, anything including your backups can fail. The three rules of backups:

* If it isn't backed up you don't really care about it

* If you really care about something back it up using at least two unrelated systems, one or more remote and one or more offline (soft-offline will do).

* If you haven't tested the backups, you don't have backups.

> Which backup tools should we use for linux?

I'm still using simple hand-rolled scripts to manage backups via rsync (for an old but still good tutorial on that sort of thing see http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/) and (where consistency and/or downtime between backup start and end times might be an issue) LVM snapshots. I've needed tweak them a bit over the years as my needs have changed and as I've become more paranoid about the "testing backups" thing, but I'd have had to do that with other tools too.
Where does the self-powered light industry get their tritium? If they normally get it from sea water, it's probably easier for them to get it from this water instead.
I have a tunnel already, had for a decade. I want native IPv6.
iOS 9 allows developers to build ad blocking extensions
I seem to recall an application where the developer inserted a completely pointless delay after clicking the button before reporting completion, because people couldn't quite believe that a computer (or anything) could complete such a big important task in a fraction of a second.

Maybe this button should wait a random period of time. Its doing really important work.
I notice in the article that Coca Cola is an investor. Anyone care to explain why Coca Cola would make such an investment? I assume it's because they're sitting on a bunch of extra cash; but wouldn't it be more efficient to distribute that cash to their shareholders?
I tried to keep this as much on-topic as possible:

If what you are saying in the last paragraph about the wishes of artists is true, imagine a society with a basic income (which is up for discussion in many countries in Europe - can't speak for other parts of the world).

As many aren't paying (enough) for music and (as you say) most artists aren't doing it for the money, it seems like a perfect match? Without dragging in other sectors and other aspects, specifically for music (and maybe other forms of art/entertainment): would that be a better situation? Or are the assumptions simply wrong?
Try this: http://placebobutton.com/ It was featured on HN recently.
Gatekeeping is a complex job of managing boundaries that do not just define others but that also define ourselves. Status symbols — silk shells, designer shoes, luxury handbags — become keys to unlock these gates.

Pierre Bourdieu's "La Distinction" is a great text that investigates this topic in depth. It's (among other things) about taste. How it's inherited through generations, how it's a gatekeeping tool for jobs and status.

What you wear isn't the whole story btw. It's also how you wear it (as exemplified above ("Chavs" wearing Burberry)). One of Bourdieu's examples is art and how one speaks about it (using certain words, knowing the "right" works of art etc. Another example might be wine).

I don't know if Bourdieu is widely read in the US, but he certainly influenced my thinking about class, class boundaries, and taste. Highly recommended.
Nice, I've been secretly waiting for this, also because I knew that the design and usability would be convincing. Stripe delivers once again.

However I will have to stick to a third part competitor[1] for a while, until the following features are implemented (I imagine they are on the roadlist):

1. Some sort of app protection, e.g. a pin code
2. Multi account login

[1] http://paidhq.com/
Tuning your database indexes and monitoring cpu usage, ram usage and queued http request counts are a few that come to mind.
It seems I got many things wrong about ClojureScript. If I don't use the closure compiler, can I use any requirejs javascript library without problem?

Once you have the JavaScript version of the ClojureScript compiler, will it be reasonable to use it for compiling in the browser? That would be great.
I understood that they chose between the two versions at the top level, not at lower levels.
I read his previous book, "Code Craft", when it came out back in 2006 (I think). I preferred it to the heavyweight of the day, McConnell's "Code Complete". "Code Complete" was more like a reference book, but "Code Craft" was something that flowed well from cover to cover (to be fair, they are clearly meant to be different kinds of book; "Code Complete" is structured more as a reference book); much more readable as a book. Definitely worth a read, especially if you've got a couple of years practical code monkey experience under your belt and want to improve rather than just spending the next decade getting the same year's experience over and over.

It was also from No Starch, and at risk of repeating myself across threads, it's just nice paper and a good binding and I swear it does smell good.

Anyway, if anyone's got "Code Craft" and this one, I'd be interested in what the differences are.
A) there are much better sources for science news than the daily fail - like the paper - http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphys...

B) this isn't necessarily retrocausality. Could equally be evidence in favour of the pilot wave formulation of QM. No spooky time travel, just a standing wave that guides the particles.
yes, that person transferred me and then one or two more transfers later I had some actual tech person who went "oh yeah, we do IPv6, I think, it's a business feature. How you get it, I have no clue."
It took another two months of probing and poking and unanswered call requests to B2B sales, to find out that in theory I could get a business connection, but it would cost me 10x as much with the only benefit being native IPv6. (It would be still over a crappy VDSL2 line at identical parameters).
I don't get the big deal on ads - I find the ad-block crowd dramatic, entitled and annoying and the internet without ads sounds like a huge pain (basically only going to sites I am subscribed to or that have organic advertising instead of explicit ads).

Just thinking back to my childhood, the things/toys other children got had a much bigger affect on me than what was advertised on TV. I think this is a non-issue.

Maybe I overestimate people, but I don't really see how by the time you would be more influenced by ads/media than your peers you haven't figured out that the person creating that ad is paid to sell you that item regardless of their personal feelings, the truth, etc. They're a way to find new things - I never even knew a product like "Power Swabs" existed until I heard their ad. I didn't just buy them, when I got home I looked up their reviews and decided against the purchase.

I've discovered a lot of stuff through ads, honestly mostly through targeted ones online - I don't really think of everything that makes my life better. I don't know how people are narcissistic enough to believe they will independently think of everything they ever want so that they can research a company that makes that. As long as you are cognizant of the motivations of the person creating that advertisement - why live a life afraid of the effect advertising may have on you?
I've done a fair bit of contracting, and most interview processes are ridiculous imo. You can't glean anything much of value from a face-to-face interview with a software developer; at least, it can range from the fact they either can't answer questions, or they can answer them perfectly with all the right idioms and (language)-speak. Doesn't really help to determine whether they'd be a valuable asset I don't think (well, the former you can dismiss, but the latter you can't rely on solely). Of course, there's a lot more you'll get from the interview related to interpersonal skills etc.

I think a coding test is vital... that's the first step in filtering out the ones that can talk the talk versus people that can write nice code. I had to conduct interviews for a team in another country at one stage, and I had (supposed) PhD students that couldn't write a Hello World in the language of choice. Had they have been selected just on their resumes, they would've got in easily.

Then beyond that, there are fast learners that can pick up anything given a bit of time and become the leaders in the group, then there are people that can't. Interviews I don't think will find the former.

Then at times these people will get thrown together on teams and you wonder why there's friction... because you've hired some people that aren't helpful, and the others in the team know they'll have to carry them. For expensive jobs, I think its worth taking the time to do a few rounds, provide some good coding challenges, and not to be too pedantic about things if you think the candidate has the experience to pick things up despite not having learnt the latest * framework (of which we seem to get new ones every day).
Maybe I missed some subtle parts of this, but I'm not from the US and I didn't read the original piece as being specific to the US.
That brings back memories, I did exactly the same too. The logins were shared with the Windows machines so after nabbing the password of our maths teacher, a few friends and I went through his account vandalising his PowerPoint slides to add subtle nonsense. Poor guy didn't know what on earth was going on during his lectures. Also found out the 'debug' login for the switches and used it to rather destructively mess with the network, much to the chagrin of the sysadmins. Good times!
In the browser, Javascript (outside of webworkers) is single-threaded, and while running it blocks the browser run-loop (for the given webpage.) This means the page can't accept or respond to any incoming events. It's "blocked" from interaction.
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This is 2015, 2MB files shouldn't be news worthy for a text editor. We seem to be bloating software faster than hardware improvements can offset it.
Wow! 2MB! If only, you know, practically every other editor hadn't already reached this lofty milestone, like back in the 80's, then this might actually be a thing. But in 2015? Wow. Webtards at webscale! And beyond!
Yay Spotify!
What is a "longer timespan"? Minutes instead of seconds? Days instead of minutes? Month instead of days?

Automated trading systems only really make sense when you are trading a pace that is too fast for humans to reliably execute. If you have time for human intervention it is much better to produce a system that simply spits out reports and recommendations that you can act on (or not), rather than having a system trade automatically. If nothing else it can save you from losing all your money due to an unfortunate off-by-one error or something.
I have $25/month Heroku professional dynos, and I keep maxing out 512MB ram, any advice on what to work on to lower that? It's ridiculously high I know, but worth a shot.
Oculus – Oculus VR
They have at various times done music promotions and own label streaming services and deals with Spotify.[1]

[1] http://www.coca-colacompany.com/coca-cola-music/every-song-h...
Tech Startups Woo Investors with Unconventional Financial Terms
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Tweak.js – (Yet another) lightweight component driven MVC Framework
You would have to put in at least $25k to do anything serious, since the pattern day trading rule would definitely be triggered.
Now do this for the Hadoop ecosystem. I'm ripping my hair out because of the complexity of it all. I get that distributed is difficult, but this just feels like too much. Abstraction upon abstraction upon abstraction. Hadoop is this thing over here, but now we have this other thing built on top that is way better. But actually that thing also sucks, so we built a whole layer on top to abstract away the badness of that other thing plus two other alternatives to it. Oh, but that wasn't good enough, so now you can write queries in this other language. And on and on and on it goes.
Ion thrust of course has the advantage that it keeps working if you get farther away from the sun. But for the inner solar system, light sails are very promising.
Thanks for the tips. I will be sure to check out those books. I will also take a look at some open source projects!
If you are interested in the history of ideas, it makes a big difference if a quote is by the real Da Vinci or some 20th century novelist.
It doesn't say which version though.
I thought of the same thing. I do not think, that you buy status symbols to move to an upper class, I think they are uniforms to identify yourself within your own class and move to the top of it.

Excessive manicure, hair extensions etc. are expensive but seem like a stupid investment. They (in my mind, subjectively) lower your social status, because they are uniforms of the lower class.

Moving one class up, a big car is expensive, but you still will not be accepted in the (upper) middle class if you do not have a proper job or you wear a uniform of the lower class. The question arises whether your house is paid of or not and why you bought that car if it is not

The farther up you rise in the Bildungsbürgertum [0], the more subtle the indicators get: Do you use foreign words, that indicate your French/Latin language education? Which instruments do your children play? Do your children play football (soccer) or tennis?

The point of these status indicators is, that you can not fake them easily. You can not pay of your house if you do not have a proper paying job. You have to get a certain education to show of certain skills. If you have these things you already belong to the respective class.

Edit: Wanted to add one more thing: My most favourite social status indicator is the number of children. It seems to me, that having more than 3 children is an indicator of either the lower class, because the marginal costs of an additional child are mostly paid by the state, or the upper class, because you they can handle the marginal costs on their own again. The middle class often does not want to pay these costs.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildungsb%C3%BCrgertum
I'm sure I've read a study that claimed that in communities that will be assumed to be poor, more obvious shows of wealth are more common. Which seems a fairly common sense result and would explain a preference for a white t-shirt with an expensive logo rather than a plain white t-shirt. And generally the core functional requirements (warmth, shade etc.) of clothes must be a tiny fraction of what we use them for in society given fashion, tribalism and status signalling.
Well said! ;-)
In terms of timespan, I was thinking days/ months. So it would take the aspect of human intervention and analysis/ research out of it (perhaps the system could still prompt the user for input, the user would just not have to monitor markets and positions actively). I don't know if this makes sense.
Wow, thank you very much for this! Doing a release right now.
Meteor, Cordova, and Famo.us: The Chill Way to Build Apps
I have a few more details on it (I wrote the linked article)

Coca Cola invested $10M back in 2012 as part of a $100M round.

I know that before they invested, Coke and Spotify had an existing partnership including integrating Spotify into Coke’s music websites and Facebook page.

At the time, the Director of Global Entertainment at Coke said:

“Music has always been a huge part of Coke, I think since 2008 or 2009, you've seen us ramp up from the global perspective, and I think Spotify is the next evolution of Coca-Cola music. It's going to be interesting to see how Spotify accelerates our global music strategy, and how the brand can facilitate that conversation where people discover music and share it amongst each other.” (from an article on AdWeek)
It is pretty important if you are actually interested in history and in the thoughts of persons of historical significance. Misattribution of quotes is a distortion of history.
Wait a second, this is not domain name. This is an IP address, it is 46 bytes maximum. Thanks for posting this, but I don't see any issue with this.
Most musicians make their money performing, not from recordings. Recordings are seen as a kind of marketing expense, with customer purchases as a demand signal.

Basic income also has the side-con of being a generally obviously and trivially terrible idea.
I wonder how much this has to do with Larry Page's meeting with Steve Jobs in 2010-11.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.ie/2011/10/how-steve-jobs-influ...

http://www.androidauthority.com/larry-page-and-steve-jobs-ad...
I can never get my head around bitcoin miners. They spent huge amount of energy to find the right combination of 1s and 0s which can be converted to legal tender. Would it not be more beneficial for this energy be spent for science or medical research? Am I too cynical?

edit: spelling & grammar
A Tip for Social Media Marketers
Show HN: My Property Tracker, with automated data entry
Hi everyone - OP here.

We've just launched our startup - www.mypropertytracker.com

This is actually a pivot of our original startup (by the same name). The initial version had some early traction, but we struggled to get the product/market fit correct. From talking to lots of customers - it became apparent that whilst we were a "nice to have" program, we were not actually saving anyone any time with their property paperwork.

So we've slightly pivoted and re-launched with "automated data entry". Following on the many blogs of advice from people like pg - we are doing something that doesnt scale. Instead, we now accept people emailing documents to us, and we do the data entry on their behalf. We also have iPhone and Android apps that people can use to take a photo of their documents and send directly to us.

The goal is to be as simple and quick as possible, making our customers lives easier.

Early feedback has been extremely positive - but it is still to early to see how traction will go long term.

I'd appreciate any constructive feedback.
Lol the post reads as such a joke.

"X has been part of Y since inception, we've always had our eyes on broadening the scope of Y to the X-generation. We want to really expand upon our base and help X seek Y in new ways. Thanks, Mike"
I once made the mistake of trying to edit a 50MB SQL file in Sublime Text. It took about 10 minutes to open. Once it had, every edit I made, every line I scrolled froze Sublime Text for another 2 to 3 minutes. I can only presume Sublime Text reads and renders the entire file at once, re-rendering on each edit, even if your window only shows 100 of the 10,000 lines. I love Sublime Text, however it is just impossible to use for large files. I suppose this is why we have stream editors like sed.
There are lots of features:

* Asynchronous SNI - you may load cert/key pairs on the fly and let bud know which backend do you want it to connect the incoming client to

* Asynchronous OCSP stapling

* TLS ticket rotation, with possibility to scale to the big cluster

* x-forward frame for SPDY, and soon for HTTP/2 too

* Lots of other features, but nothing bud-specific
You're going to need queues is you want to make it scale.
Belgian authorities detained terrorists by intercepting WhatsApp messages
FYI, you might not need FormKeep because you can POST forms directly to Zapier
Facebook offers businesses free Place Tips beacon devices
I used to use a discussion forum website that didn't encrypt cookies. A friend created a 1x1 pixel transparent flash app that read everyone's user name and password and transmitted it to him.
Do I dare to say this somehow shows the relative unimportance of design?

Google is/was quite successful before they got design (let's say success in this context means something like: a large audience).

And even when they decided to get design: it took them a relatively short amount of time to get things "right".

I agree Material Design looks very nice. But I think functional value (just picking a term here) is so much more important, by an order of magnitude.
Why the U.S. government won't explain how to secure an encryption 'backdoor'
https://www.opendesk.cc/lean/standing-desk

And you can even make it yourself!
Or textpad. I regularly edit 400Mb files in that no problems at all, running macros and all sorts. Shame it is unicode challenged though :(
The Government Wants Names of Online Commenters Who Trashed the Silk Road Judge
How can I put a bit mask on /dev/zero so that I can write any byte but zero?
Just curious , what's that suppose to mean in HN?
No, that is presupposing that the way the system works is honest and just. I don't agree with that at all.

The earth is bountiful enough for a person to live off it without working (hunter-gatherer). Is it her fault that she was born at a time when all land and productive capacity has been appropriated by those who came before? Is it somehow noble for her to sell her body into labor to work in a society that can feed all without making her into a wage slave?

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence becomes an act of rebellion." - Albert Camus
Sublime Text's performance highly depends on the line length of the loaded files. A 5 MB JSON file as one long line can kill ST, but neatly formatted in 50k lines is no problem.

For this reason, I generally use Notepad2 to handle larger text files (5 to 300 MB).
I had to check: I became a paying member of Spotify in 2009. That's a lot of money spent on music I never would have done if not. Before that, I had maybe bought 2-3 albums in my entire life, growing up when piracy was at its peak.

At the same time, I think it's weird raising this kind of money so late in the lifetime of the company?
Papyros – We're starting to implement Material Design window decorations
Plot – a program for plotting time-based data without hassle
"LZFSE" most likely refers to a Lempel-Ziv modeling phase that converts the input bytes into a series of either literal or copy instructions, followed by a Finite-State-Entropy encoding scheme which "provides the same level of performance as [an] Arithmetic coder, but only requires additions, masks, and shifts".

Here's some explanation of FSE:
http://fastcompression.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/finite-state-...
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A +1 for Notepad++ on this note.
>> "At the same time, I think it's weird raising this kind of money so late in the lifetime of the company?"

They need it to survive as their losses are continuing to grow.
Ask HN: How to deal with the tedium of programming?
I'm still excited about the possibility to build things, but I can not get my enthusiasm up enough to learn the latest technologies. Any way out? I can't really take time off because I need money.

(Context: I've been programming since I was 12, 30 years ago).

Edit: Thank you for all the replies! I can not comment individually at the moment because of HN posting limits.
I did the same except that I put the file onto a network drive so that I could access it from a less conspicuous location. Also, made a crude chat program in a similar manner.
Nice, I'm not sure what's going on there.. But considering the fact someone getting threaten by the company,there must be something with this script :D