skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hurd translators don't have to export virtual file systems. They go beyond that into being generic object servers and are also used to implement things like a regular Unix TCP/IP stack (pfinet), Unix process semantics like pids, sids, wait()ing, parent-child relationships, groups (proc), authentication (auth) and so on.

They're more similar to Spring's name server mechanism, being general object brokers as opposed to file object brokers in particular, as is with 9P/Styx.
The Web is better, it's vendor neutral and not depended on whims of Adobe. Sure it may not be convenient for developers but as a user it's very convenient.
Wow, surprised that this didn't really get any attention -- dailyjs.com was one of my go-to JS sites. :-(
It would be great if you can share your some of your data to play around. I think many of people here might help you break new grounds :).
They also have more serious issues such as the fact that they will only buy animals that have been killed with gas pretty much ruling out a large portion of locally sourced meat and I'd say that is far more important than not being able to speak in a public forum without approval from the company (you'll find that many places--I can't blog about what I do at work without going through legal so I don't bother).

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/farm-animal-meat-quality-sta...
For browsers that support EME, they can use the "Clear Key" key system that is part of the EME standard. It's not as secure as other DRM (because the decryption key is briefly exposed on the client), but it does not require any third-party license server like Google Widevine, Microsoft PlayReady, or Adobe Primetime. For a streaming music service, it is probably an adequate deterrent for ripping streams.

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/eme/basics/#clear-key
I don't know how much I can blame EA as a driving force in the industry, vs. the industry as a whole and the nature of corporations and publicly traded companies.

Games got into a slump for a while because the average AAA title was stuck at a $50 price tag, yet years of inflation and increased production costs were hitting revenue and margin hard. While prices gradually started creeping up, DLC/IAP/microtransactions were really all that was left to them to find new ways of maximizing revenue and shareholder value.

When you are legally mandated to do what is right for shareholders, is it really your fault that you have to optimize for what makes the most money vs. what is right for your customers, especially when the two are not always perfectly aligned?

As an avid gamer I remember way back in the day when we first started getting a whiff of microtransactions becoming a "thing." I knew it was going to be the new reality and fought it tooth and nail. To date I've only made a small handful of microtransactions to support games I truly love that have tried to do the right thing for their users.

That said, they really have brought out the worst in gaming companies and while gaming has finally "hit the masses" with mobile gaming, there has definitely been a drop in the average game's quality in the gold rush.

The reality is though that whales drive gaming, and microtransactions facilitate whales spending massively more on games than the "buy it once" model. So game developers optimize towards that, and unfortunately that tends to skew towards addictive treadmill models that have to make the game less fun to maximize revenue. At least with old school expansions and such, they had to actually make the game awesome and enjoyable to get people to buy more content for it.
I'd like to read this article on my Kindle. Is there any way I can consolidate those pages?
> You know what can translate into success for developers? Supporting Vulkan, instead of pushing unportable DX12.

Will it really?

> Reduce lock-in, support better cross platform development, and more developers will come to Windows

This is exactly what they're doing.
My startup is, in fact, disrupting the custodial stock ownership space right now and we grew out of a FinTech hackathon last year.

I'm joking of course, but it's only a matter of time until someone tries to Uber (can we make that a verb?) their way over these regulations. And fails miserably at it.
Yeah. I thought about it, and there is so much work on things like etcd and zookeeper, I would have already heard about it if multi-master MySQL was really a thing worth writing home about. But still, cool to find out they're advertising it.
Typical fallacy wherein one person believes strongly in something - in this case science - and believes that those who don't share the belief are somehow missing out on something important.

If you have a passion about anything at all, good for you. Preaching its importance to the world at large means very little to those who don't share your interest. You might introduce a few new people to a topic which they will then grow into themselves, but the majority of your words will fall of deaf ears.

Fanatics of science are especially prone to this problem, because of this idea that it's all based on facts and improving life, and so surely every single damn person on the planet HAS TO CARE.

Not to mention that the real science buffs typically can't even begin to understand that _not everyone thinks the way they do_. Brainy people tend to think everyone else alive must be as curious and obsessed with details about every aspect of life. You know what, some people are very happy living without daily intellectual bombardment.
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I'm using an RX100m3 as my pocket camera right now (after half a year, I'm still rarely using the EVF though, so I guess I could've got an m2 instead and saved a few hundred) but I've been eyeing Black Magic's hardware for a while. That EF mount 4K Cinema Camera looks delicious, although right now still a little pricey.
This seems to contradict the claim in the article. Am I interpreting it wrong?
NASA New Horizons Phone Home Livestream [video]
Being able to use something and knowing the whys are two different things. Many people know Calculus(practice), but not many know Real Analysis(theory behind Calculus, the academical bit).

"In mathematics, the quaternions are a number system that extends the complex numbers."

Naturals are a subset of integers. Integers are a subset of rationals. Rational are a subset of reals. Reals are a subset of complex numbers. The latter are a subset of quaternions. It's not difficult to construct each number system. If you look inside any undergrad math textbook, you'll find exact same writing style showcased in the Wikipedia article on quaternions.
Lambda Calculus Madness
Hurd has been in development since 1990. Revisions of the linked page go back to 1996. I'd have to do more digging to figure out when Hurd transparent FTP was actually implemented.
The GNU/HURD was doing it in '94 too.

... well maybe not '94 specifically but the first check-in for the ftpfs code is from '97.

http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/hurd/ftpfs/ftpfs.c?root=h...
I am the author of this code. If you're interested in getting started with it right away then check out Eucalyptus: https://github.com/yahoo/rtrace/tree/master/Eucalyptus

I wrote Eucalyptus as the primary unit test for rtrace but its a fully functional native code debugger. Here is an example of how you can configure it using Ruby to trace calls to malloc() and print out some information:

https://github.com/yahoo/rtrace/blob/master/Eucalyptus/examp...

If you're interested in contributing, the signal handler in Rtrace could use some cleanup. Helper methods for interacting with procfs and the process memory are always useful too.
What kind of fires?
What does rosemary do to your brain?
Material design concepts and code
you must be funny at parties
Thanks for your interest! I would also like it to receive more attention, but I guess technical superiority isn't much correlated with popularity.
Holy crap. I hope the guy who designed those lens caps didn't get exiled to Siberia or something.
Good point, but I am talking about this kind of thing in general.

There is this reddit comment that reminds me to post this for example: https://np.reddit.com/r/self/comments/3cudi0/resignation_tha...
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"In 2013, I presented the paper "Empirical Evidence Suggest A Need For A Different Gravitational Theory," at the American Physical Society's April conference held in Denver, CO. There I met some young physicists and asked them about working on gravity modification. One of them summarized it very well, "Do you want me to commit career suicide?""

"What worries me is that it takes about 70 to 100 years for a theory to evolve into commercially viable consumer products. Laser are good examples. So, if we are tying up our brightest scientific minds with theories that cannot lead to empirical validations, can we be the primary technological superpower a 100 years from now?"

...

I get the feeling that proposing something bold and wrong in physics results in a 'crackpot' label, effectively ending your career. So if you want a career, stay away from making bold predictions. Stay away from testable new ideas!

Perhaps the attraction of string theory is that it never leads to testable specific -- and therefore possibly wrong -- predictions. There are infinitely many permutations of string theory, all of which are mathematically potentially valid. So you can publish forever on string theory and never be wrong.

Reminds me of the old Star Trek TNG episode where they killed the Borg collective by giving it an impossible but mathematically valid shape to contemplate. It contemplated, and contemplated, and contemplated, and... stopped doing anything else. Since the halting problem is unresolvable, it's possible to contemplate within the bounds of any Turing-complete mathematical system forever.
"The volunteers in the room with the rosemary infusion did statistically significantly better than those in the control room" ... [ in 'future memory', or 'remembering to remember' tests ]
Intel bought Altera; the are or were doing fab work for Achronix, which they invested in as well.
I was looking for this exact link and Josh's site seems down(HN effect :))..

that page lets you appreciate the vast emptiness within which we live..

this link gives some extra details until the page is up
http://gizmodo.com/this-scale-model-of-the-solar-system-will...

plus some great links in the comments.
Alas, that seems to have also been reduced to simply meaning "JSON over HTTP", instead of taking advantage of Hypermedia, but there is hope with more articles, such as http://www.infoq.com/articles/programming-semantic-profiles, being written.
My understanding is that it was exactly the opposite: the Shah was too meek to assert himself and reign in his courtiers, some of whom were up to some very evil stuff. And of course, it didn't help that people really were after him (remember, he was the rightful emperor whom Mossadegh served; it really doesn't deserve to be called a coup when the emperor fires his Prime Minister, as was his constitutional right), and so his government felt justified in searching for people…out to overthrow him.
See Chapter 1 of the Unix Hater's Handbook. http://www.csf.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/BioComp/training/...
What useful JavaScript frameworks still haven't been built?
Boeing Just Patented a Laser-Powered Nuclear Fusion Engine
It's just a matter of collecting and tagging enough. We've been working on it with our new operational data tagger. Keep an eye out for a future post! :)
Reminds me of when I was doing some consultancy for large oil/energy trading company in London. There was huge DR initiative going on at the time, and one thing they realized after surveying the business is that, if worst came to worst, they could still conduct business if they lost every other business system, as long as e-mail was available.
Right. You don't want to try to learn something mathematical from the Wikipedia article on it - Quaternions are a great example. The trouble with most of the writing about monads is that it's all at the level of the opening paragraph of a Wikipedia math article.

We have to do better at finding a way to teach this stuff.
For every startup failure that has granted someone the skills to succeed later in life, there's someone who has had their entire life torn apart putting their all into a startup, whether that be founder or an early employee.

We really need to drop the facade that working a startup will always be beneficial to you, or lead you to wealth and/or success. Sometimes, its going to tear your soul from you and you may not come back from it for a long time.
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That's got to be the most inadvertently HN-clickbait headline I've ever seen.
Is Transparency the Music Industry's Next Battle?
Evan Miller's essays are great reads, but I'd like to see Evan (or others) take into account rater reliability and independence. Back in 2000 I worked on a search tool that used such measures to provide (seemingly) more accurate ratings, as well as detect (and reduce the affect of) "voting rings" or "sock puppets".

I'm sure I'm not the only one to have thought of that, but have not seen references to such calculations.
> It is reproducible, it is recoverable, it is not a problem.

I can't wait to use this excuse for any future bug. "Yeah, it happens, but you can recover from it, so it's not a problem".

Let me try it now with a problem we're having in staging: "You keep getting kicked out, but can log in again and keep working? Yeah, it happens, but you can recover from it. It is not a problem"
When physicists can't be employed as physicists they go into finance right? So all of the unemployed string theorists will go into finance?
That has nothing to do with dubiousness. The only argument to be made there is a lack of consistent standards.

Your point about Hyderabad leaves out one rather important detail: it was an openly-hostile, pro-Pakistani and anti-Indian state smack in the middle of India; that too a large part. From a political and national-security perspective it made absolutely no sense to leave a sovereign, hostil state in the middle of India. Keep in mind the administration was trying to keep the country together and not get it fragmented.

It wasn't as if India suddenly annexed Hyderabad. There were negotiations going on as well as well as diplomatic overtures. Towards the end, everything was made quite clear when the Prime Minister of Hyderabad, Laik Ali, stated "India thinks that if Pakistan attacks her, Hyderabad will stab her in the back. I am not so sure we would not."

Considering the situation, anything other than annexation would have been foolish and would have put India in a far weaker position and could quite possibly have led to further fragmentation as well.
I dabble in this stuff on occasion and enjoy reading about it. My first favorite was Danny Hillis' story [1] about designing sorting algorithms using genetic algorithms on a massively parallel machine. He also showed the power of co-evolution: both solutions and tests evolve. Later, I saw the HUMIE awards [2] show off what people have accomplished. Then, there was the nice article [3] on John Koza's Invention Machine. Plenty to get a person interested in the stuff.

Yet, most of it happens in academia and paid industry with a lot of good information not easily accessible to non-experts. There's not as much momentum in developing easy to use tools and frameworks for most use cases like we see with, say, web applications. This limits the field to people willing to put in significant time in understanding the subject, the methods, their strengths/limitations, and the various implementations out there.

Nonetheless, I at least enjoy reading the abstracts and know I could contract a specialist for a certain applications.

[1] http://kk.org/mt-files/outofcontrol/ch15-d.html

[2] http://www.genetic-programming.org/combined.html

[3] http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2006-04/john-koza-has-...
Class action lawsuit against Stratasys over Makerbot [pdf]
Have you thought about the Support Vector Machine?
I've got a very similar anecdote.

Added songs to iTunes outside of the iTunes store, and months later went back to play the song but couldn't find it in iTunes.

The first few times I chucked it up to me being crazy and misremembering but by the third and fourth time I was sure I wasn't.

I started putting my iTunes directory in a git repo but that didn't highlight any files that got spontaneously deleted which made me wonder if they were really gone. I checked the filesystem and they were right there where they should be.

I'm glad to hear that it wasn't just me, for the longest time I though I messed something up because my friends who use the iTunes store almost exclusively had no such problem.

I'm still on the lookout for an acceptable iTunes replacement that is open source and that can talk to my newish iPod. (Smart playlists are a must)
That makes sense if you're focused on being the cost leader in that segment, such as Kia or Walmart. But Google has no long term desire to be in a market unless it is advertising. I think they will be in a bad situation when cost pressures mount over the next years.
While Nadella is doing the right thing for today, at some point Microsoft will have to divide the past - Windows - from the future. Courier could have done that for mobile devices. Something like that will need to happen because PCs are on track to become a < 200M unit/year business, which would be less than 15% of mobile unit volume.

Microsoft will find that making a universal desktop-to-phone OS is in practical terms not doable. It is a car-boat-plane.
Looks useful, but I find the 2 1/2D (almost-3D) graphs make my head hurt. I find 2D graphs work really well and can look aesthetically pleasing without making them harder to interpret.
I'll say it again, one glance at the post title and I knew it was Levine. His title's are always one point.

>Here are three stylized facts about stocks

Hmm..."stylized facts", I'm going to have to remember that phrase, it's a good one.
Right, cuz competition sucks and never did no good for nobody, man!

Would we have ever gotten to the Moon at all if it weren't for the competition between the USA and the USSR?
Ask HN: Which Node projects need contribution?
I and a couple of my friends have decided to spend 10 hours a week contributing to an open source Node project, we're unable to however pull up the right projects. Suggestions/Help?
That is not particularly insulting. That is the support agent doing more than any other company to compensate for a fuckup.

Particularly insuting would be if they shut down your account after making the complaint, or something like that.
We would need a verb that encompasses general infringement of laws that isn't trademarked. Also it would have been called someone trying to YouTube their way back a few years ago.
Tesla CTO: Batteries and Solar Will Lead to Cheap Electricity Within 10 Years
New Horizons makes contact with Earth after historic Pluto flyby
New Horizons phones home
HP is an authority in char* though.
Lasers are terrible examples, they were invented in the 60s and an absolute upper bound on their introduction into the consumer market is 1982.
Did you factor in the possibility that after ten fails the device is wiped?
Rethink Music Releases Report on Transparency and Fairness in the Music Industry
Just to put it in perspective, 72 seconds on 9.5 years is 0.000024% tolerance.
Cool. Have you found the MCMC approach to be less robust than clustering? It seems like this may be the case due to probability model assumptions.
You know what can translate into success for developers? Supporting Vulkan, instead of pushing unportable DX12.

The days of the average developer writing directly to a low level 3D graphics API are long over, so this is mostly irrelevant. Even so, the funny thing is it's likely that once Vulkan ships, writing a Vulkan only Windows game will be viable as long as AMD, Nvidia and Intel have decent Vulkan drivers even without Microsoft support. Using Vulkan on Mac might be impossible, as Apple is pushing their own proprietary API, Metal, on Mac OS X.
They stand on theory that started to come together ~1900.
I think this angle is under appreciated. People think you incorporate in Delaware for the taxes, but the "real reason" is the large body of established case law.
Well literally the main thing their site does is publish really long strings.
Considering Zero Cater used to continuously market themselves as a group that would "feed the world" [1] I'd say Zesty is quite demur in comparison.

Why are these catering companies branding themselves like charities?

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8733320
Most of them already have. The number of strings postdoc has already slowed to a trickle.
Vulkan is due to be standardized later this year. Isn't competition here good? We've gone through the open source route before with OpenGL, and the result was an API that went its own way, ignored new developments in graphics hardware for years, and had a fractured API with hardware-specific extensions only finally unified in recent versions.

So I suppose AMD, Apple, and Microsoft should have held off on pushing "unportable" Mantle, Metal, and DX12?
I think a good middle-ground would be to have more narrowly scoped behavior. Not quite implementation-defined (as I believe that requires the implementation to be consistent in its treatment?) but for instance "Integer overflow will result in the integer taking an unspecified (and potentially changeable) valid value for that integer". I'm not sure whether that particular example sufficiently covers the requirements of the optimiser, but defining it as "May cause any of the following results, but not nasal demons" would perhaps be an improvement?

DISCLAIMER: I haven't done any C programming in years, and I wasn't particularly good at it, even then.
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Having a personal vendetta against 'string'ly typed programming, upon seeing the headline, my head involuntarily perked up like that of a meerkat.

(The OP headline was previously "Strings Are Dead")
The term is very commonly used in economics and finance.
For the ease of others (your link is broken):
http://www.wall.org/~larry/
I don't see anything really worse about it.

That's just what people like to say without any quantifiable metrics (usually just with some random data points about this or that bug, but not quantifiably compared to previous releases).

Millions of people use it everyday for professional work, including in film and music studios, where stability and timely performance are much more paramount than for some corporate cubicle running Excel.

I've not seen anything actually actively deteriorate. The Finder is much better, Spotlight is much more robust than before, apps run fine, etc.

There have been bad moves, like the change to their custom DNS responder thing which was not ready for production. Or some glitches here and there. But I've seen such things all the way down to 10.1 were I started. There will always be bugs when you add new features (and even when you don't add anything, as technologies around your OS also change).

Plus the upcoming release is a "Snow Leopard" like bugfix affair too, which will help things.
They are, I can't find Damien Conway's talk from a few years ago, the whole thing seemed so clean and capable. I hope these guys keep trying new things even if it looks like vaporware from a distance.
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Napstering?