skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nobody would think "Wait, why is the tube turning North? We're supposed to go East!".

I need to go to the tower of london. It is east of my current location, I know because I looked at a tourist map. According to this tube map though the line towards the tower of london stop goes north. Wait, that's not right. Am I going to the right station? Should I be taking another line? Is there maybe a different station that is closer to the tower? Maybe I should take one of the lines that go straight east. Hm. I'm confused. This tube map is confusing. It doesn't match the tourist map that I'm holding in my hand.
I used incognito mode and the top hit was this page, so I guess Y Combinator will be ruling the USA shortly.
Well, they are paying around 4% GDP in debt (2.5% real, since some creditors are allowing for a non-service period), which is actually not that much. But they have a huge debt/GDP ratio (around 200%), which has dramatically increased during the crisis, specially during the austerity period imposed by the creditors. So, austerity is not working, there is not much more that can be squeezed, and the Greek worry is that squeezing more public spending will actually further reduce GDP, making the ratios all the worse. A big chunk of the Greek economy is based on public spending now, and lots of people are living off the state, because unemployment has soared. This situation is far from ideal, but what can be done? Sure, you can just force all those people under bridges, but is that in the interest of Greece or Europe?

Faced with that prospect, Greece would leave the Euro, which would be a blow to the Euro-project. We have a terminal patient, and we can help it. With a bit of luck, in a couple of decades it will become a productive member of society again.

The Marshall Plan had a lots of good reasons going for it, and probably some critique too. In the end it proved to be a good solution, which increased prosperity worldwide. It was a political decision. You could have very well argued: "those Germans, they looked for it and they got what they deserve: let them rot", but we didn't, and we are all the better off.

Regarding countering the USSR: as I have argued above, geo-politically the situation is right now very similar. The Greeks are courting the Russians and the Chinese (or the other way around). Do we want to split the European project at the Balkans?
Well I didn't downvote you, but: "Desirable behaviour" would be for a prosecutor to seek truth, not conviction. That's what I would call "normal". And guess what: there are countries in this world where prosecutors think like that: they are glad to drop charges as soon as they see someone's innocent.
Like a lot of things it depends on incentives. Individuals should be incentivised to obtain the best outcomes not to maintain the status quo.

One way to alleviate this type of thing is to pay doctors a flat rate salary, adjusted according to patient outcome (ie. significant improvement in outcomes through a novel innovation - you get a percentage raise). Paying per procedure is part of the intrinsic problem.

The system also needs to change, like many systems. Innovation and capability needs to be valued over seniority. Hard to do in the current healthcare model though (and no doubt there will always be those who figure out a way to game any system).
Alibaba and Ant Financial Plow Almost $1B into New Online-To-Offline Joint Venture
Creating a fault tolerant system using AUFS
I wish to create a system resistant to upgrade faults. On detection of a fault, the system should revert back to its previous commit. Is it possible to use AUFS to do this ?
You're thinking of a very narrow use-case for VxLAN.

What happens when your VM needs to talk to legacy networking gear? What happens when your VM(s) need to talk to a legacy security infrastructure that's mandated because of regulatory concerns? What happens when you need to route between two VxLAN domains?

You're going to need to provide the VxLAN VTEP functionality someplace and that requires hardware support in the network someplace. Waving your hands and saying "that's not a concern" won't cut it. I have a customer that's facing this issue RIGHT NOW.

And no, MPLS isn't a proprietary standard. It's open and it's available on oodles of networking hardware. It's interoperable and it's a proven technology that scales.

Developing a tunneling protocol is the easy part. Developing a scalable control plane to handle RIB and FIB state is another matter entirely. Getting all of that to operate on a chipset that can do 2-4Tbps per slot is another thing altogether.

Go check out some of the HUGE cloud infrastructure guys. They aren't using BrandX networking hardware to build their data-centers. They're using the Big-3 players.
Oh my god the Cuckoo's Egg guy! That is a crazy book. Would never have connected them, but then again clearly this is someone who doesn't let go once he gets an idea between his teeth.
Since they will be in low earth orbits the radiation effects will be significantly less than compared to geosynchronous satellites. They'll be well within the magnetosphere. As for atmospheric ionization: it won't be a problem at the multiple GHz frequencies of interest. That really only effects stuff well under 1 GHz.
Services that allow you to be sure of your website
Security is of utmost concern with companies who use or think about using an online backup or security services for their server data. I rank security very highly in the list of server tool, that you have to configure first. I'd like to share tools, I use, so that you know that your files are safe. If security is your main concern you should definitely have a look at this list of top providers in this category.
My week at Recurse Center
That's exactly what I've written.

Unless you want to assume that the court is so broken, it will willy-nilly convict innocents.

But then it doesn't matter much what the prosecutor does, then the justice system is utterly broken.
> unions are plague, nothing to be proud of

> Unions are why we have the forty hour/five day work week.

Just for the record, these two statements don't contradict each other in any way. What unions did 80 years ago and what they're became now are two completely different things.
Spaceship, Ruby Library That Exposes the Apple Developer Center API
If/when production is free you don't even need to compensate the creators. They can get whatever they want, like any other guy, and they'll create only when they feel like it and not (say) once per year to pay bills and buy stuff.

However there are goods that are scarce by definition. Example: that house on the beach you've been dreaming of. Even if you don't mind getting a different one (maybe in a different place) there will be only a finite number of houses on the beach all over the world. So, even in that kind of society we'll need something similar to money to get access to scarce goods. Hopefully that will be linked to the value or the social stand of a person. We almost always measured that as price times the number of sold items but there are zillions of other possible metrics, especially if the price is zero. It could be who has the biggest free gun but that's undesirable, so probably some form of police will be necessary.
Hey DeepMind, what causes cancer?

> EVERYTHING!
Skyrim and Fallout 3 are in my eyes counter-examples for using an SSD, since you basically have only the two loading times and afterwards it's streaming. Maybe if the Quicktravel takes too long on the HDD.

> If you have the monty and the means why wouldn't you do it?

Oh, sure then :) It is only a waste in the relation of price per gigabyte vs. the possible performance improvement ingame.

> You're comment is very 'matter if fact' and baseless.

See http://www.hardocp.com/article/2013/12/10/hdd_vs_ssd_real_wo... if you want another source.
We try and make sure that the Chromium blog (http://blog.chromium.org/) always covers new features as they make it into the new Beta. Imho you should be able to read the beta blog posts on that blog and not miss any new developer shiny things. Also fwiw we're going to try and do a better job of making the release notes link to the appropriate beta blog post on the Chromium blog, I agree we've done a poor job on that in the past.
No it a scale set by everyone who has thought about this issue for more than five minutes. Are you really telling me that you would let your own child die so some animal can live? If so you either have no children nor should you.
I love that this thread is #1 and "Who will replace Sepp Blatter" is #7 at the time of this post :D
4 reasons why hiring is failing
http://rghost.net/6kDYqvpp9/image.png got backlink :)
I get the Hillary "answer" and I'm not US based.

Interestingly, this HN thread is already the top search result, despite this thread only being an hour old.
> It really forced people to write java all the way. This meant the JVMs could really evolve unlike the Python and Ruby ones.

Java's FFI is horrible; Python and Ruby are mediocre. LuaJIT2's is fantastic. Not so surprisingly, Python ate Java's lunch in places like scientific computing, where it is much more beneficial to build on existing work.

Python is hard to dethrone from that spot right now because of momentum, mostly - but if the competition was started again, I'm sure LuaJIT2 would take the crown (Torch7 is based on it, but that's the only one I know).

I think my bottom line is: If you want your VM environment to be self sufficient, have horrible FFI like Java. If you want your VM environment to thrive with existing codebases, you have to have at least a mediocre one like Pythons. But you can have the best of all worlds like LuaJIT[2] - and that's who Oracle should be copying.
I need to go to the Tower of London. This tourist map tells me I need to go to Tower Hill station. I'm currently at X, which means I need Y line, it's 4 stops away. I have no idea how long it's going to take to travel those stops. And I don't know how far I'm going to travel.
It's much better than this:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/d158fc7f36a25e19791d2...
Show HN: A micro jQuery plugin for rendering HTML forms read only
And I think that:

1) That will never be a priority. We have so many things which are more important to us, and it is just such a difficult problem to solve because of:

2) Whenever (by some magic coincidence?) we are able to feed the whole world population by better distributing the available food, we will do what we have always done: increase population above carrying capacity.

As said, we are fighting against a very basic mechanism of life: overproduction of offspring. It is an uphill battle.
Does anyone actually care whether commit messages contain a period or not? If they're lower case, title case, sentence case, it's completely irrelevant
Isn't the LaTeX stylesheet for your thesis usually dictated by your university? It was for me at least..
Technically, compare is ==. = means "trash the left argument, then interpret the the right argument as a boolean". :)
I was recently advised to use the "commit messages are subjects" style, but I get a pang of... something, every time I have to omit the full stop (I always type it out of habit and then press backspace).

I agree completely with Antirez, messages are not subjects or titles, and we should make them as succinct as possible, not force ourselves to write something that leads into a full-text piece only to omit the latter.

If it can fit in one line, make it fit, otherwise summarize the change as well as you can. Our goal should be to have to read the least amount of text to understand what the change is doing, and the hierarchy is: short commit message > long commit message > diff.
He has also written Cuckoo's Egg, a book about his hunt for hacker that broke into computer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg

This was really fascinating read for a young nerd around very early 1990's.
Immortan.
I'm not so sure.

Schools, by design, are not interested in encouraging critical thinking or creating independent and free individuals. Rather, the focus is on organising children and creating reliable, predictable, obedient citizens. As award-winning former teacher John Gatto puts it, “school was looked upon from the first part of the 20th Century as a branch of industry and a tool of governance.”

The financial elite and their philanthropic organisations together with lobby groups and governments have been able to mold society by funding and pushing compulsory state schooling for the masses.

Also, schools have become bastions of various ideologues (feminists, multiculturalists, moral relativists etc.), most of whom are not particularly clear thinkers. These people spend most of their time divided between pushing their own brand of BS and fighting for tenure with little concern for true educational reform.
"Because the other side doesn't have a viable candidate" Glorious two party system, how is that even remotely called democracy by anyone?
Did Apple invent the usable tablet OS with a decent amount of software?
Ultra-accurate time for the punctuality freaks out there
If you believe Steven Pinker (and IIRC Jared Diamond) then hunter gatherers had a much higher chance of being brutally murdered. That'd probably be a down-side.
This is incredible. I LOVE stuff like this. It makes me so happy that people like this still exist in the world. I say 'still' because I feel like they're a dying breed. The rationale behind everything he's done is laid bare and it makes sense! People like this don't ever let a detail like "I have no idea how to achieve this" stand in their way. Everything is a challenge or problem that needs solving.
It was interesting to read the Cyberpunk by John Markoff after the Cockoo's egg, because this book covered the same case from the crackers point of view.
I would prefer seeing answer to this question from prediction markets, not analysis of websites aka "experts opinions". It's much easier to understand mechanism that generated such prediction and you know that those people actually bet their own money on result.
Absolutely, EEG is great in the neurology clinic. Its just not great as a "self-development" tool or a "brain-mind" interface the way a lot of marketeers would like to claim.
"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem." - J. P. Getty
Java is a much bigger exception than Haskell, a heavily runtime-checked language with significant established codebases in which generics were retrofit with the foremost goal to minimise their backwards-compatibility impact. Witness C#, a very similar language whose team decided they had a low enough userbase yet that they could afford to break BC and introduce separate reified generic collections[0].

And just about every other language (Haskell very much included) was designed with generics from the start.

Haskell is not an exception, Java is.

[0] the C# team knew all along the language would have generics, but generics were not ready for 1.0 so they were pushed back to 2.0
Not necessarily, wasn't for me (Oxford, just for specificity). Some universities do mandate, but they do that in .doc format for example. Tell them you write your thesis in LaTeX and often it can be "oh, okay...."
Beats me. I also wonder why OLED screens only seemed to be used for military HUD/goggles -- and not for the civilian market.

I recall one pioneer from MIT bashed glass, pointing to his experience with having a single image in a different focus area/off-center as being uncomfortable for prolonged used (or maybe even harmful).

So that might be one reason (similar to how everyone realized in the 90s that VR made people throw up -- no market).

As for a smart-rod -- I really liked Canonical's push towards a viable use-as-phone-use-as-computer OS. It's an obvious idea that I think is already "proven" by stick-pcs and chromebooks. The cpu of a previous-generation smart-phone is enough for many tasks.

Another "proof" is what's happening with Samsung's Gear VR IMNHO, eg: http://vrjam.challengepost.com/updates/3462-meet-your-mobile...

Not sure if VR might not actually be an area where going wireless might break down though -- Oculus has spent a lot of effort getting the latency down. Still it seems it should be possible to do a lot of the 3d stuff along with head tracking in the head-set, and do more complicated physics modelling on a more powerful device.

Either way, I'm hopeful that we'll see more meaningful separation of devices as bluetooth (as I understand it) keeps getting support for lower power in one end, and higher bandwidth in the other.
One of the few subsciption services that made it big, congrats to them.
Isn't it true though? Hot running water > vaccines > smartphones. Even the 'poor' in this country (Australia) have smartphones, drive a car, smoke and drink.

Doesn't everyone want a better world for their kids? And then complains about the younger generation having it easy. Ironic I suppose.

Has there ever been a time in the past when life was easier for young people? I mean generally speaking, in the developed world, despite all it's problems.
No, many universities only require a front page, the rest is up to you.

My university doesn't even provide this front page in LaTex ...
Well, I'm not sure about that. The top of my bowl is the top-half of a doughnut if you will: it really does not seem to have an edge. At what point does an "edge" appear?
Do you read it primarily online?

The DM people are quite smart. Their target demographics for the print version and the online version are very, very different. The online pitch is trashy gossip for women in the 20-40 age group. The print pitch is different.
The problem is that if your repo maintainer is encouraging you to use a title as a commit message it implies a different level of information content.
commit -m "Features Aboundin: A new wave"
vs.
commit -m "Added initial project structure for new wave feature."
Biu.js – an alert replacement
When using Git's mail features -- remember, not everyone uses GitHub -- the first line of a commit is a subject line. It's good practice to just think of it that way. If you write sentences in your subject lines in e-mail, I guess, that's up to you. Don't take it from me, read the Tim Pope counterpoint, with eight extremely good reasons for concise subjects in the closing paragraph:

http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messa...

Strong disagree with antirez on this one. Even vim filetype gitcommit disagrees. (Try it on the "smart synopsis" example.)
The only thing I care about is whether there's an empty line between the head and body of the (Git) commit message.

I don't care whether the lines are too long, whether they're nicely capitalized, whether they end with a dot. These are all things that tickle my OCD gland but I've learned to ignore them because it is ultimately useless and a waste of my time to get worked up about it. If the summary and description are good enough, I'm a happy man.

(I'm talking about reading others people's commit messages here. I try to make my own commit messages adhere to the scriptures as declared by his Holiness himself: https://gist.github.com/matthewhudson/1475276 (which, I now note, makes no mention of the length of the header line).)
The 50 character limit on the first line of a commit message really bugs me. I try to stay within 50 characters but sometimes I don't care. I can't always fit what I want in 50 chars and adding a second line can be too much. This is the worst kind of thing around tooling, these types of conventions, in this case because that's how Torvald's wants kernel git commits formatted. I am not committing to anything Torvald's cares about.
Census Information Visualizer for Myanmar (Still a prototype)
For first time in 30 years , Myanmar released census data . So we built a search + visualizer for it. Powered by Python + Pandas + D3 + web2py + uWSGI .
It isn't free to poach and onboard employees, but it's less than the cost of training in a huge number of industries, especially if the training comes with a recognised professional qualification attached to it. If I spend a large fraction of their annual salary on supporting them through a qualification I might well give them a pay rise afterwards, but a competitor able to extract similar revenue per head from trained staff can always afford to offer them a bigger pay rise after I've picked up the tab for their training. I'm only in profit whilst providing training if I can pay my staff less than their marginal revenue product for long enough to cover that overhead; ideally it would be before they've finished and got the certificate but that's not always possible.

And hence, in the original example, the company providing the training ending up spending $111k on their member of staff over the course of the year to head off a competitor's $90k offer, even if the employee isn't worth $111k (Considering your original contribution to the thread was to argue the competitor wouldn't pay $111k, I think accusing me of missing the point is a bit rich...)
Not at all. It's an interesting thought. I doubt it's possible to that extent, though. There certainly are some superstar programmers, but they have nowhere near the reach in mainstream culture as someone like Taylor Swift has.
I thought the default style(s) were the results of years of micro tweaking and deep studies of the impact of character positioning and flows by Knuth and that only the default \LaTeX{} style could give that 2% head start or that A instead of a B++ for any essay.

Now we add blue titles ? And sans serif font ?

Sarcasm apart, it looks good. Some links are 404 on the page though (classic thesis, etc.).
Really loved the concept. A very good resource.
The 50 character convention has nothing to do with Linus Torvalds.
And that's not even the highest distance between two OSI stations. The two furthest apart are apparently Marylebone and Paddington (0.8 mi).

http://www.oyster-rail.org.uk/osi-list/
This is now entirely self-referential. Also interesting, I guess :)

http://i.imgur.com/VMrkvTn.png

Edit:

Changing language to English helps.

http://i.imgur.com/HnG9v4k.png
Seriously? That would actually not be very surprising at all.
I also prefer treating them as sentences and prickle at the level of enthusiasm for no dots. In the end consistency with others is more valuable though. However, the article is entirely unconvincing to me, despite being on his side - the removal of a dot and writing succinctly are not mutually exclusive.
I find it a lot easier to read a commit log when it's consistent in style.
I was just responding to your suggestion that the GP should might have been sarcastic.

Anyway, this is the frontiers of large-scale natural language processing. Who knows what latent features it might pick up? I don't know about the techniques in use, but it's conceivable for a present or future system to encode the biases represented in its corpus.
Is it me or the entire "Kosher Commit Messages" movement really gained traction with the widespread adoption of DVCSes?

I really cannot recall contributors obsessing that much over SVN, CVS or VSS commit messages. Now, you could change these after the fact, but still.
The go tool has no distinction between development builds and production builds; every build is a production build. This itself is a manifestation of Go's opinionated philosophy.

https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Compile_packages_and_dependen...