skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite programming keyboard is an old IBM Model M. So I've been told that the spring action is bad ergonomically for people who type a lot, but I spend a lot of time thinking and only type in short quick bursts, where the spring action is actually quite useful.

So we definitely don't "type a lot" but we do type, and aspects of the keyboard's design can effect these bursts.
I do it by overcompensating so there is no chance I am too close to the cyclist. If there is not enough room (e.g., oncoming traffic) then I wait until there is an opportunity. I can't see cars broadly introducing this technology before we're not the ones driving them.

FWIW, I worked on a "citizen jury" that recommended the adoption of the one-metre passing rule in my state. The default opposition on the jury was "what if there isn't enough room?" Many didn't think to presume that give way rules could apply in this situation. No one raised your point about equivalent technology. I guess the difference is that I am good at estimating one metre but poor at estimating 60km/h.
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Ok, I'll take the other side of that theory.

China doesn't massively censor its society based on what the authorities decide is correct?

You can't get any more of a controlled, politically correct society than China when it comes to censorship. They're the actual definition of political correctness censorship.

How about porn in China? The authorities decided long ago that was politically incorrect, and it's illegal.

How about Japan censoring - for 70 years - all sorts of aspects of what they did during and before WW2?

How about Singapore's censorship dictatorship, where Lee Kuan Yew ruled the news media there with an iron fist, and directly dictated what was culturally and politically acceptable. The very definition of political correctness based censorship.

Is your theory that South Korea has an open society when it comes to political correctness? I completely disagree, they outlaw anything even remotely pornographic, and they block all pornographic web sites. Again, the definition of enforced political correctness.

Then we can get into Thailand, which is censored heavily by their political correctness machine; it regulates everything from speaking out against regimes to pornography.

How about Indonesia's anti-porn laws, the very definition of enforced political correctness:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-10-31/indonesia-passes-tough...

This only begins to touch the surface of the political correctness censorship rampant in Asia. And that's all before we get into the really bad examples, like Myanmar and North Korea.
There is another model, though I'm not sure it works for IOS. The Subscription model. You get access to the full game as long as you continue to pay for it.
As a cyclist I don't mind cars that are only two feet away, or even only one foot if they're not going that much faster than me. It'd be pretty awful to be ticketing people for only being 35" away (especially since riding in a 1" band is not feasible on most streets, so most of them wouldn't even be the car's fault), but on a lot of streets you could be pretty much continuously writing tickets for passing 6" away, and blaming a lack of instruments for that would be like blaming a broken speedometer for going 50 in a 25 zone.
I also feel like iOS has gone downhill. I know they were trying to get away from skeuomorphic design, but I feel they went too far in the opposite direction. Everything is flat, it's hard to tell what is a button that can be clicked on sometimes (usually it's just a blue label with no distinguishing background), and there seems to be a frequent lack of contrast generally.
That's something that have been happening for a while but, as always, first they came for the undesirables and nobody said a thing.

The Syria civil is going for as long as the term "Arab spring" exists, with protests and the beginning of armed conflict going as back as 2011.

With access to means of communication not controlled by the state the start of this conflict was very well documented, in real time even.

From something happening (a mass protest, a shooting of protesters or policemen, takeover of public buildings) to the post of the video on Twitter or Facebook sometimes not even 15 minutes elapsed. It was all there, live, unedited, raw. Anyone with a mobile phone could show the works exactly what was happening, from all sites involved. All it took was to make a page on FB or an account on Twitter or YouTube and to push "upload".

Or so they thought. See [1] and [2] below for context. Lots and lots of footage, pictures and live testimonial were "scrubbed" by overzealous application of the TOS, usually motivated by organized mass report of content.

It is very sad because not only they believed that, for the first time they could broadcast their message without cost or risk of censorship (they couldn't) but also a very valuable piece of our collective history was lost forever.

Thus first they came for questionable content from a sensitive subject of a conflict in the other side of the world. Now they can apply the same reasoning at home and people will have little recourse because the precedent was set. More and more we hear "first amendment only applies to the government, not to private companies" and that's true but doesn't make it any less sad to cope with the repercussions of this deletionism.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/02/the...
[2] http://www.vice.com/read/facebook-and-the-crisis-in-syria

P.S. Sorry for the long rant.
Curated content can be useful and efficient for a readers time if they want to visit a site with a particular content. It allows a site to focus on a core relevancy and limits the hivemind effect. IMO there is value in both curated and community driven sites. The key is either site is upfront about what they expect to offer.
Back in 1999 the Interface Hall of Shame did a takedown on the Quicktime 4.0's interfact - and noted it violated Apple's own human interface standards. Worth a read. http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/qtimeno.htm

(I also saw irony in a page with poor color contrast telling you to avoid poor color contrast)
Molecular Programming Project
Yeah I agree, the date and time selector was MUCH better before the flattening!
I built Haystack with two other engineers and then founded the Everstore team which works on Haystack/F4/Cold Storage. I moved off of managing Everstore to focus on Traffic in fall of 2011, so F4 and Cold Storage happened after my time, but I worked on Haystack and the storage management layer above it for five years.

There were a few things that were interesting or novel about Haystack. CDNs were only giving us a 80% hit rate on photos, and even back in 2007 when we first starting working on Haystack, that was an immense number of misses to serve from the origin. That heavily informed the design goals of Haystack, which were to have a very I/O efficient userland filesystem that used direct I/O to squeeze as much iops from the underlying drives as possible. We also wanted zero indirect I/O, so we used an efficient in-memory index so that all seeks on disk were to service production reads versus indirect index blocks or other metadata. Lastly, Haystack is very very simple. We made it as simple as we could and eschewed anything that looked too clever. I actually think its simplicity is one of the things that made it Hard. It would have been much easier to design something more complex.

If you have any questions about the Haystack paper after reading it, I'd be happy to answer what I can. Just send me an email.

Regarding the datacenters, you're kind of simplifying it, but that's okay. There's a lot more orchestration, automation, and integration, and I wish I could give you a tour of one of our OCP datacenters so you can see it firsthand. There's plenty of things I wish I could talk about on the datacenter front that I feel are truly amazing and without precedent, but I can't until they are public. There's an excellent chance that they will become public and likely even part of OCP in the future though. I'm really proud of how much of Facebook's datacenter architecture has been shared with the world for free. It gives me warm fuzzies all the time.

Anyways, thanks for the fun thread, and let me know if you ever want to talk storage sometime.
Often due to client decisions or pressure in my experience.
That's for A* on a complete visibility graph, which is much faster than on a uniform grid. I only added the link so that the reduced terminology is clear to everyone.
That's a good point.

I don't expect the Let's Encrypt CA will be willing to help keep servers (or certs issued to them) a secret -- for example, the certs are likely to be published in Certificate Transparency! -- but you're right that the ACME DNS challenge doesn't require the server to be publicly accessible and doesn't even require the underlying subject name to exist in the publicly-visible DNS.
It's less effective at even that much than it could be, e.g. any game released on Steam can be cracked in a largely homogeneous fashion.

(Which is exactly the value point I'd be working to improve if I was working at Steam and trying to convince more titles to release there.)
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> This is one of the problems with the narrative. "Reddit" is a disparate set of small communities loosely bound by some overlapping users and a URL.

> America is bad.

It's my understanding that when you visit reddit without an account, or when you first sign up for an account, you get a list of default subscriptions and it is up to the user to manually unsubscribe from the defaults and manually subscribe to different subreddits so your analogy isn't very accurate. A better analogy would be something like "every new immigrant to America is placed in Wilmington Deleware with $40 in food vouchers." Unless I'm misunderstanding, all new users get the same experience and in my opinion it is a bad one.
Were the devices still running Android? Or are there "real" Linux distros with Android device deivers?
That may be true, we'd have to consult an attorney.

But what is undeniably true, is that whoever got the money from patented multi-tools since the collapse of the Roman Empire was a THEIF and a PIRATE. The original "IP" belongs to somebody else! And they deserve their money!

I call for an international inquiry from the WIPO to determine who actually invented the multi-tool. After that, it should be a simple matter to determine heirs, get today's multi-tool PIRATES to disgorage funds, and award that money to the legitimate IP owners.
Do you think no one is trying? Should researchers just ignore all results until the underlying theory is found? What if we don't find it for another 50 years? I find it incredibly hard to be critical in this situation.
Metrowerks Codewarrior has fond memories for me too (although I have never had a problem with Eclipse aside from bloated J2EE bundles like WSAD etc. It's easy to set it up to be quick and unobstrusive I've found).
No, I meant what I wrote.

"belief that rent control policies inflict more costs than benefits in the market for housing is notorious as one of the few conclusions of economics held across the ideological spectrum"

Define your terms. What does "inflict more costs than benefits" mean? What specific policies are we debating? Stop arguing a straw man ("rent control") by referring to the authority of "economists agree", and you'll realize that there is an easy, clear argument for the other side here: social stability.

The only thing that "economists agree" upon, is that price caps lead to shortages in efficient markets. That's it. They vehemently disagree when you start asking about policies that don't cap prices, but instead, aim to control the rate of increase in prices in order to reward long-term occupancy. Moreover, there are huge differences in circumstance that must be considered in order to have a productive debate: in a place like Houston, where land is cheap, the arguments for rent control are far weaker than in San Francisco, where Global Wealth has suddenly, spastically decided that this tiny, 47-square-mile city is where All the Monies belong, as of ~2010. (Great for Global Wealth, but bad for the people who lived here before the rich gained a new investment fetish!)

I'll make this easy for you: your argument is that "rent control" is bad because economists say it's bad, and #{STANDARD_FREE_MARKET_ARGUMENT_GOES_HERE}. Fine. Mine is that the real world is more complicated than economic theory, and that while "the free market" may be better at allocating wealth efficiently (that is, indeed, all the free market does), there's a higher value: the moral right of occupancy is worth some economic inefficiency. We should provide incentives for long-term tenancy, because such tenancy produces social stability that is better for all of us in the long run. I don't automatically value the free market because someone told me that it's good in econ 101 -- in this case, I hold another value paramount.
Every forum works like that - there's (at least one) admin and a set of moderators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transhumanist_Wager
Because of the hashtag? The duck boats are the "where", and I don't think mentioning them requires or proves an agenda.
This isn't limited to community driven sites and has existed long before the word "social" had anything to do with computers. It used to be if you posted controversial things to your website, you had to contend with the company you bought your hosting from.

Facebook and Twitter make it easier, but this is nothing new and has nothing to do with curation.
It's still hypocrisy. Also, I think there are some unmoderated forums.
The internet has a public reputation as being open and free. This has never been the case. You've always had to charge for access and you've always been in danger of having your content taken down at somebody else's discretion. It used to be taken care of by your hosting company or your ISP. Now it's taken care of by Facebook, Twitter and Hacker News.
PA law is actually four feet, but given the width of bike lanes this is sometimes physically impossible.
I was kind of hoping CloudFlare would be serving the static version, but I guess that isn't happening.

EDIT: Apparently the "Always Online" feature takes a while to activate :(
Here is the actual PDF of the course: https://9d0df72831e4b345bb93-4b37fd03e6af34f2323bb971f72f0c0...
Locked threads, deleted threads, comments from pg requesting that particular people stop arguing, a flagging system where some people's flags have greater weight, hellbanned accounts where the person doesn't even know they've been banned (there's some poor schizophrenic guy who made an operating system called LoseThos that posts occasionally), badly editorialized submission titles.

But, that's what moderation looks like, generally. Every social structure is moderated in some form.
So... we got a new plataform who is better to a specific range and eetimes says "TI Obsoletes FPGA"? That's what i think when i post it.
But with intel buying altera and they starting to use FinFET technology , i'm quite curious how XILINX,TI and other will react.
It's hard to see how it could be economically efficient to have a year's worth of apples in the producer's inventory. Surely they should be trying to keep the capital tied up in inventory as low as possible?
What I find more interesting than the device is a quote from the officer, "Their attitude will determine whether I issue a citation. If they take it and just throw it on the seat, then I know I wasn’t effective. Then in that case I would issue a citation."

Does this seem extremely subjective and arbitrary to anyone else?
or this:

http://usingcsp.com/
Unmoderated forums have the potential to violate US law. As a result, none last for long. Even 4chan, while anonymous, has never been completely unmoderated. It has to comply with US laws on child pornography and hate speech.
I really like the book "Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning" by Christopher Bishop. It's packed full of all the latest-and-greatest algorithms.

WRT your question, an interesting "feature" of that book is that it was published just before deep neural networks started taking off, so there's no mention of DNNs in the book. You can see what the world was like right when they started taking off.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8550156
Walking improves creativity
If you can personally demonstrate the effectiveness of a better way than calling out people causing problems, I am sure plenty of people will follow your example. But if all you have to contribute is armchair carping, don't expect anybody to take you very seriously. That's not a novel position here; few programmers on HN weight highly the advice from non-programmer managers on how to program.

Also, I agree with arrg that you're being ridiculously hyperbolic. The guy spoke to the world; the world spoke back. The guy wasn't "destroyed" or put in front of "a firing squad"; he's still a functioning human being who is employed and everything. He apologized and as far as I know the apology was generally accepted. The only people I see bringing this up now are dudes apparently sore over the fact they are no longer beyond criticism for various sexist idiocies that, yes, no matter the intent, are part of how patriarchy is maintained.
> I wrote an extremely similar README file!

Very similar, to the point that I initially thought you had copied/plagiarized it, until I went and checked.
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There's two ways to ensure that you aren't inadvertently running afoul of drinking and driving laws: you can either not drink, or wait a large amount of time after drinking before you drive.

Same with passing bicycles - you can give them so much more than three feet that there's no chance that you're within three feet of them, or not pass them until there is that much room.

Three feet is the minimum. The expectation isn't that drivers should try to get as close to three feet without going over.
It's possible to make freemium without wait timers. See Hearthstone, League of Legends.

I don't see freemium disappearing anytime soon.
There are no U.S. laws on "hate speech". "Hate speech" is not illegal in the United States.

https://popehat.com/2015/05/19/how-to-spot-and-critique-cens...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015...
Anybody knows a book on similar topic with lots of practical examples and exercises? By "practical" I mean that instead of mathematical definition of covariance and example of how to use it in R/Python author would provide us with some real world use case where we're trying to obtain some information about the real world, given some data. Like list of water temperature measurements over the years, number of pirates… you've got the idea.
The north side of Bernal Hill above the Mission in SF has a sprawling blackberry patch. It thrives there. It's quite wonderful.
Yeah, I don't see how pretending to read a pamphlet in front of the officer demonstrates understanding or future compliance.
Why did crime plummet in the US?
Judging 45 miles per hour is a lot different (and difficult) than knowing how far three feet is.

I think the device is used partly as education, partly as a method for capturing the exact distance. It's less about "how far is three feet?" and more "I have proof you were closer than three feet".
A lot of nice solutions have already been posted for talking. If you want to show some code, a shell session, your dwarf fortress, etc., you can look at screen/tmux with a shared guest account:

# you type:
$ screen -S session1 vim file.txt
# and they can type (as the same user)
$ screen -x session1

# or with tmux, you type:
$ tmux new -s session1 vim file.txt
# they type (as the same user)
$ tmux a -t session1

You can try it out with two terminals on your own.
In the end, the only way to control your content is to host it yourself.
And if you decide to ride in the middle of a lane while on a bike, should the car drive in the other side of the road to pass you? This tool is arbitrary and will not change the problem, lack of dedicated bike lanes.
The 3 feet is a minimum. The idea is just to leave a reasonable amount of room. If someone passed a post at speed with only 3 feet of clearance they would be checking to see if their mirror was still there.
It's not impossible. If there isn't a safe distance to pass a cyclist you have to wait until there is a safe distance.
It was intended for low latency services that mostly wait on I/O. These services don't compute enough to need parallelism. Especially when you can just fork another process or FFI to a C library with proper threading if you need it. It is necessary that they be concurrent but parallelism introduces a LOT of complexity beyond that.
What's wrong with using 'wall'
Now if they'd only come up with some device to make sure cyclists stop at stop signs and red lights.
I realize this is quite an aside from the topic of the article, but... it's beautiful. It looks like something straight out of the "maker" movement: Appropriate use of off-the-shelf components, rugged enough for its use, "do things that don't scale" manufacturing, and probably appropriately designed for the anticipated number of units needed, numbering maybe a half dozen at most.
Hear, hear. There have been times that I'm certain the cyclist I was waiting to pass was annoyed that I wasn't passing in city traffic but the law says three feet so I give them three feet. In the main it's because if I passed with less than three feet and something happened, including the cyclist losing control, I would, of course, be crucified by law enforcement and the cyclist, assuming they survived the incident.
Nope. You still rent bandwidth from your ISP. If you're doing something they don't like, they can and will shut you down. Whether we like it or not, everything on the internet exists at the whim of one company or another.
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It's very difficult to read "Quantum Mechanics as Quantum Information, Mostly", in particular because it mixes the equations with unrelated comments like:

> A grain of sand falls into the shell of an oyster and the result is a pearl. The oyster's sensitivity to the touch is the source of a beautiful gem.

> Last year, I watched my two-year old learn things at a fantastic rate, and though there were untold lessons for her, there were a sprinkling for me too.

A better reading material is the solution of a simple exercise, that explains the difference between the usual approach and the QB approach. (Is there any differences in the results?)

Someone has suggested the double slit experiment, because it's nice and easy to explain with words, but the continuous distribution makes the calculations difficult. I prefer the three Stern-Gerlach experiments because it's discrete and the math is easier. I think I read that experiment in a Feynman book, but I don't remember the exact citation. (The SG in the middle is the equivalent to the double slit.)

I just found this PDF that explain clearly the situation: http://docslide.us/documents/spin-and-quantum-measurement-da... . It's the "Experiment 4" (subsection 1.2.4, page 10). Can you explain the differences between the usual and the QB approach in this experiment?
hence the "-ish"
My statement was that "Islam" has virtually no influence on Europe culture. First of all, that doesn't include everything a Muslim does, for me, Islam is a religion with values and rules.

The mere existence of Muslims following their own cultures in Europe does not constitute an influence in its own. Not even when they interact with other Europeans. Influence on European Culture would mean that Europeans change to adapt to Islamic beliefs. Which they largely don't, except sometimes in very negative ways.

You probably overestimate population trends... Yes, the Muslim population will increase, but not without bounds and much less than some people seem to believe...