skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my experience with a ping of 60ms to ireland games like GTA5 or Crysis2 where playable to a point where you would forget that you are streaming. I tried to play Counter Strike online but for some reason even without any professional aspirations I felt kind of handicapped. For Strategy it worked quite well though.
I can't say much about stations in general, but the Macedonia station is on the far end of large parking lot full of big box stores. Hobby Lobby, Lowes, etc. I would feel safe, if also bored, hanging out there.
Why do you get to ask why? Why can't people decide for themselves what information they want to have public? Would you want a public website with everybody's health stats, or the report from every GP visit? If not, why not? It's only our bodies, everybody has physical issues sometimes, what's the big deal?
From an earlier article of the author's that he cites:

> Tell students that the fossil record often lacks transitional forms and that there are "explosions" of new life forms, a pattern of radiations that challenges Darwinian evolutionary theory.

The funny thing about this is when a fossil is found that fits into one of these gaps that creationists complain about, they just take it as more "proof" that evolution is wrong--now there are two gaps!
Interesting viewpoint on parsing HTML with regex
wrt marginal design choices like colour schemes I absolutely agree, HN people spend too much time bickering about them. But people who wilfully display static content in such a way that people can't see it should be publicly shamed, pour encourager les autres. It's been a solved problem since 1993.
> The computer won't make mistakes because a familiar is sick.

Race conditions cause mistakes. Seems similar to having your mind elsewhere.

> He won't perform slower than usual because he slept less.

Didn't clean up memoery so now your computer is resource starved and running slower.

> He won't have a urge to poop affecting is performance,

GC pause.

I feel like people often focus too much on the "implementation" when it comes to consciousness. Beyond what instinct gives us, which is really just a pre defined set of conditionals, everything we know and understand is learned, programmed in a way. I don't see why it's unfeasible that given enough time and the right environment that an AI could do the same.
I have as well and have pointed out that it is probably illegal and potentially opens them to civil liability.

I've also seen manager training materials that specifically tell managers not to even hint that salary is a secret topic as the liability involved is problematic.

It is one thing to claim that worker protections don't exist, its another to claim that you refuse to take advantage of them.
Are you suggesting scientists are "goverment contractors"? Never thought of myself as one.
> It's likely that no Tesla owners have AAA, because the car comes with roadside service, including towing.

That assumes the Tesla is that person's only car. I own 3 cars and have AAA. If I bought a Tesla I would still have at least one additional car. (Simply because my wife needs a car at the same time I do so we are pretty much a 2+ car family.) I would still have AAA.
That might have been true 20 years ago with big box retail games, but on Steam, GOG, etc. everything is the same price and many games are multiplatform.
The author's from the area, so he probably was around when Iben Browning[1] made predictions of a 6.5-7.5 magnitude earthquake in December 1990. The predictions made international news, and then punchlines.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iben_Browning
Interesting to hear that he pronounced Charon as "Sharon". How do you pronounce it?
Grid is meh, but using the shield to play PC games anywhere in the house is a win. (I use the shield portable)
And if you can put those numbers in front of a business owner, it's going to pretty much justify higher compensation than me.

But should you feel like you have to constantly defend yourself when you know the value you add, the business owner knows the value you add but everybody else looking at the sheet says "He makes HOW much?"

NOTE: I honestly don't know why you're getting voted down. I up voted you fwiw.
A lot of these games run on using really large numbers. Would a poor implementation of a big int datatype perhaps be to blame for the performance hit?
Would you consider increasing the sample size to 3 because of the fictional Snowden in Catch-22 by Joseph Heller? (He's the one I think of when I see a headline about Snowden's secret)
Great point about the Equality Index being vertical -- that's something I've been considering.

Regarding it being represented as a number, I originally wanted to include that, however, the way the Equality Index is calculated is pretty rudimentary. Creating a number representing the "amount of equality" people have is going to be pretty arbitrary, especially without enough public opinion data. Eventually, once it becomes more sophisticated/accurate, and I include more data points and surveys, maybe I will reconsider. For now, I purposely left it as an unlabeled bar so that it's a little clearer that it's a "rough visualization."
Would you mind sharing links to your apps? It'll be awesome. Thanks
Wow, I really enjoyed Cookie Clicker but this is unplayable. I just learned a lesson on how important graphics are for some people.
>>Zimmerman is of white race and Hispanic ethnicity.

What? Race and ethnicity are synonyms.

Maybe you can score some internet points but what's the use of a discussion if words have no meaning and you can make up distinctions where there are none.
Will Planned Obsolescence Kill Silicon Valley? [video]
Why do people who say this always assume they're the ones making the most, and aren't the lowballed ones?
If you are bootstrapped it is a huge barrier. And Meme is not that bad. There are others that are far worse. I once tried using Modeller purely for hobby projects (science was not even my day job) but was denied. That's a problem.
Don't understand why the down vote.
And I'm fat!
> You now can't use that header anywhere else, meaning the it's non-composable. You end up writing less, and more maintainable CSS when you treat components as immutable and composable.

You can use that header on any page and you're not going to re-use it on the same page. Why does it need to be "compose-able" at all?

Either way this is a silly argument because there is no problem here. You have a set of CSS styles you want applied to an element on the page that will never have a copy, etc? You can use ID or Class and you can even swap them with the same level of difficulty. This is entirely a non-issue no matter what way you go; it's more of a style thing.
Meh.

I am a bit disappointed, there is potential, but I think you could do a better job.

For example, it sounds like you are really just trying to demonize Fixpoint and their members, it's not very original. Note that I am not saying that there is or isn't truth in what you describe, I have no idea, but I wish you tackled this subject differently.

For example, instead of focusing on the big picture, and immediately let the reader know about Stan's personality, why don't you immerse the reader into Stan's mind. Letting him know of each and every thought going through his mind, no matter how confusing (without context) or banal those thoughts are.

Just food for thought, I think it could be way better than that, the subject has potential and you have good intentions. Only, the current execution is very poor and unoriginal.
I grew up in St. Louis and I found out about chemical testing[0] that went on here awhile ago.

I think the scariest part was that I'm sure it was specifically tested in a low-income area purposely, because the people there could probably do less about it. A relevant bit from the article:

> Spates, now 57 and retired, was born in 1955, delivered inside her family's apartment on the top floor of the since-demolished Pruitt-Igoe housing development in north St. Louis. Her family didn't know that on the roof, the Army was intentionally spewing hundreds of pounds of zinc cadmium sulfide into the air.

> Three months after her birth, her father died. Four of her 11 siblings succumbed to cancer at relatively young ages.

The fact that there probably are still people in the US government making similar decisions makes me a lot more nervous about life.

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/army-sprayed-st-louis-with-to...
Nice looking service, I might start using myself.

You have a typo on your pricing page at the bottom on the link:

"Email for Entperprise pricing."

Should be Enterprise.
Does someone have experience hosting a dedicated server on EC2 24/7? How's the performance and is it cost effective? Or is it preferable to host on digital ocean/linode?
Seconding this. I went from "HTML Programmer" to "Lead Software Engineer" (however briefly) in less than three years by changing jobs three times. It wasn't always a voluntary change, but the title improved with each new job.
You're basically combining three parts, Steam Streaming, nVidia's hardware stuff, and OpenVPN. OpenVPN and all the high-level ideas it embodies definitely predates Gankai or anything like that. Steam Streaming and nVidia's stuff are certainly going to be covered by their own patents. In theory the combination could be patented but I'd argue for "a network stream can be run over a VPN" is firmly "obvious to those skilled in the art"... network streams are network streams are network streams.

Sony et al probably have more specific patents for their own setups, but to the extent they cover this setup they'd either be obvious, or they'd be trying to sue you for doing stuff covered under nVidia or Valve's patents. This, alas, doesn't necessarily protect you, but would certainly raise some PR issues. Plus Amazon might have some questions as well, since they don't want people getting hit for using cloud services to do things; anything that smells like special cloud licensing just because you're doing X "but in the cloud!" is going to hurt their business model.

I can't guarantee they have nothing to sue over, but the costs/benefits would not seem to argue in favor of Sony suing.
It's true that they didn't violate the API documentation, but it's also true that (as your parent suggests) it probably would have been better if the API documentation had explicitly stated that `substring()` is O(1), such that this change would have been breaking. At the very least it would have made it more obvious, and at most it would have forced them to make a new method for the new behavior.
CUDA has been on my list of things to learn for quite some time. The ecosystem is just so much nicer than OpenCL... if I didn't have to support non-Nvidia GPUs, I'd have already gotten on the bandwagon.
I know this kind of comment happens a lot, and I'm not just focusing exclusively on you when I say this, but I find it hard to believe you woke up this morning, did some stuff, read this article, and at that point no longer had any faith left in our judicial system.

I'm risking sounding pedantic, but it wearies me to read sweeping platitudes like this -- no faith? You'd not sue your doctor if he cut the wrong leg off? I'm not even sure what "faith" means in this sense -- trust without evidence? You shouldn't have had "faith" in the first place, if that's the case.
Hiring Against Humanity, or How to Wreck a Startup Community
Neuroscience-based algorithms make for better networks
> Instead, white people are becoming a minority in [...] European countries.

Do you actually believe this? It's nonsense and nowhere near true. Where did you get such a distorted fact from?

EDIT: also you may want to look into segregation and post-segregation, where white Americans were given low cost mortgages and black Americans were pushed into projects.
I'll take his salary, thank you very much!
Current LCD screens have three colors per pixel, Red, Blue, and Green (RGB). Common graphics chips store the three colors as eight bits (byte) each, so 24 bits per pixel. So a 500 by 500 pixel image would have 3 by 500 by 500 bytes or 750,000 bytes. The Windows BMP format stores images this way.

GIF files reduce the number of colors to 256 by using a table in the file that has 256 entries of 3 bytes. The image is reduced to one byte (an index to the table) for each pixel. Then that is heavily compressed.

JPG (simplistic description) stores the difference between pixels, losing some quality.

GIMP is a free, open source image manipulation program. One feature is a color picker where you can enter RGB values by slider or hex value. Then you can draw lines, dots, etc in that color. It can export the resulting image in many different file formats.

All of the other image or photo editing software has this feature.
My critique isn't aimed at computer science research--it applies equally well to other fields using computation to produce results.

There are a lot of projects (and I won't name names, because I've got friends here who work on them) whose results cannot be reproduced, because they ran on some weird-ass combination of a weird libc, using a weird build system, running on weird hardware environments (especially common in HPC), with weird one-off data sets.

They report the results using this setup, and then the setup is gone forever. The code is probably not kept correctly in source control, and generally the community just takes them at their word that the results they get are authentic.

When you run millions of iterations on some crazy quantum solver, it's hard to spot if you're wrong. If others can't at least run the same result, science becomes a matter of anecdote.
Searching for FBI in Hacking Team wikileaks emails offers interesting reading
What I Got Wrong in the Peanut Butter Manifesto (2013)
I recognize that people may consider comments like mine to be cynical.

However, consider the phrases "jangled software approaches" and "old formal methods". Those appear to be used in a negative context. As I think people in the past are equally clever and insightful as people now, with the same sorts of optimism about "human health, science and lifespan", I regard those negative comments in a different sort of light. They have a certain cynicism about the past.

Why weren't the people of the 1960s "geared toward true highly innovative discovery and data interpretation"? Was it simply the lack of data? But this was also the era which coined the term "information explosion", and developed new industries to handle it.

If it is simply the lack of data, then surely in 50 years time people will say that Venter, Google Calico Labs, etc. themselves were hayseeds who used "jangled software approaches" that weren't "geared toward true highly innovative discovery and data interpretation", no? Your baseline requires knowing the human genome, but someone else's baseline might require the genome for 1 million people.

If so, then my belief is that such descriptions carry little intrinsic meaning, and mostly mean "we know more now then they did then."
Minor >> Underutilized may not be the best way to think about it. There is a lot of redundancy that affords protection against mutations.
The author says:

"I accept that I cannot change anything with complaints."

I respectfully disagree as both a complainer and the implementer of things that people frequently complain about. Not everyone can fix what's wrong with their software (even when it's open source). Not everyone knows how or where to give feedback. Sometimes all you can do is complain publicly, hope others see it and help make the right people aware.

While I hate it when I write code that is broken or that people don't enjoy using, I need to know about it. I sometimes go to forums where our users help each other with our software. When I see complaints, I give the person a link where they can explain their problem or desire in detail. It's extremely helpful to us and to them.

Even if you don't reach the intended people with your complaint, saying it out loud can be incredibly liberating. It allows you to walk away from it. Just knowing that others are frustrated by the same issue makes you feel less alone.

I understand what it's like to be around people who are always negative. And I understand the posturing and snakiness in our field. I agree it needs work. (Was that a complaint?) But it does serve a very important set of purposes.
Probably, yes, assuming you mean "will effect the severity of your sentence".

Intent matters.
> A multi-cellular embodied intelligence can acquire information about the patterns of the physical world by growing in it - the code is compact because much of the necessary information can be acquired during embodied growth.

Not sure why you think "embodied growth" is essential here; having a compact code base that can be supplemented by information during maturation obviously has some utility, but why would you think embodied growth is critical to it?

> A disembodied intelligence such as AIs can't rely on external storage and acquisition of information during a cellular growth stage

AIs aren't disembodied. They have physical substrates, just like natural intelligences.

I don't see why something like cellular growth is necessary for "external storage and acquisition of information" during development. Even if it were, however, just as natural multicellular organisms are coordinated colonies of self-reproducing cells, artificial organisms (intelligent or otherwise) could be coordinated colonies of self-reproducing machines.

AIs are not disembodied; they obviously are embodied in physical machines. And there's no reason an AI couldn't acquire information during development,
They thing they make a good thing to make it open. They are wrong. It may be ok to share their calculations, it may be ok if the CEO tells how much he makes. It is not ok to share full names of employees. And if they do they should make it internally. This absolutely helps nobody outside the company. Really Buffer, you're making me angry. Privacy is something I decide and not my company in this case.
And since p and z are synthesized in the lab how would this escaped organism eat?
You get $10k more for living in SF over Nashville. Seriously, $10k? SF has to be somewhere around 50% more expensive than Nashville.
How do I test this?: Wild Instantiation
"...it’s very easy to envision a future where CPython is used for command line utilities (which are generally single threaded and often so short running that the PyPy JIT never gets a chance to warm up) and embedded systems, while PyPy takes over the execution of long running scripts and applications, letting them run substantially faster and span multiple cores without requiring any modifications to the Python code"

IMHO this is the most sensible and logical approach and doesn't break any existing code. This also seems like what will likely happen anyways. Out of all the options PyPy-STM seems like the best approach because:

"pypy-stm is fully compatible with a GIL-based PyPy; you can use it as a drop-in replacement and multithreaded programs will run on multiple cores."

http://pypy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/stm.html
Somewhere, someone at Valve is noticing this and pitching it around as a new service idea :O
> Not sure I understand the benefit, it's denser, on the other hand from what I understand DNA generally does have much in the way of size constraints.

I'm a layman, but they could use the new base pairs to code for unusual amino acids allowing for proteins with novel chemistry.

Also, I think DNA is pretty much only used to encode information, but RNA has important chemical roles (e.g. ribozymes), and the new base pairs open up similar possibilities with that.
You only need to stop every 30 min if you are doing 200-250 km/h, which is hardly an issue, since such speed wears you down a lot
Source:been there done that
I was wondering the same thing last night, pronunciation on Wikipedia seems to support either "Sharon" or "Karon".

(If you didn't know this, you can hover over each letter in the IPA pronunciations to see how it should sound).
If you get onto the front page of Hacker News, you can show that to other publications (such as Ars Technica or Techcrunch, for example) and they are more likely to write an article about your company. Then you can take the Ars Technica post and show it to Business Insider, etc, and then show that to The Guardian technology section and then, if you're lucky, show that to CNN or whoever.

Getting a front page post on Hacker News shows other news outlets that people are interested and that it might be worth covering. It can be the first rung on the press ladder.
At my current employer, we run about 10k+ EC2 instances 24/7.

DO / Linode will mostly be cheaper and proooobably offer a better price/performance ratio. You will however get a lot less options (especially GPU wise)
Sure! My previous employers were also great places to work, I've been pretty fortunate in my career. I can understand my response may feel generic, if we were having this convo over a coffee or beer, I could tell you in greater detail.

If I was someone just after the money, I could choose to go downtown and work in fin-tech. Everyone has their own motivations, values and desires. Buffer fits very well within mine!
This reminds me of Agar.io.
What's the maximum number of users you can support at any given time?
Here's the paper in PDF: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/commit/papers/2015/mendis-pldi15...
I see. When compel is used with an object, it always means "to force". And advertising textbooks go out of their way to clarify that ads persuade but they do not compel. Though you could call an ad "compelling".
Was...this supposed to be funny? The parody is unmistakably lazy, "gay dating app for Muslims" is just a cheap attempt to score points at the cost of already marginalized groups, as are the "crying women"...
Sure, with old syntax you can do it as well:

>>> print('%(language)s has %(number)03d quote types.' %

... {'language': "Python", "number": 2})
I always pronounced it "Sharon", but apparently the Greek name is pronounced "Karon". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_%28mythology%29
the KaTeX doesn't seem to render on mine:
http://i.imgur.com/5GMaIAq.png

Personally I had never heard of KaTeX - since Khan Academy didn't consider MathJax fast enough they optimized it
https://khan.github.io/KaTeX/
Bug in single-server Raft membership changes
>I've never understood how people can get a degree in something with little market value and then be confused as to why they can't find gainful employment.

>We spent a lot of time discussing cost vs. benefits of each type of degree.

I think you answered your own question.
what makes you think there isn't a neighbor making more than you?
[dead] stories are often, perhaps mostly, killed by software.
Pie – a toolkit for creating plugins for Go applications
I wonder if part of OnLive's problem is that their primary competition (people buying XBox etc and playing from home) was highly giftable, both the initial hardware purchase and the individual games.
As someone who works in technology, but has only a cursory understanding of BGP, I find BGP's trust mechanism flabbergasting. Would anyone like to explain why it remains the preferred protocol and what improvements are in the works to mitigate the effect of these sort of hijacks?
That seems rather short sighted. Science is often described as standing on the shoulders of giants, you can't do that if everyone has to start from scratch. Sure it doesn't have to follow NASA's coding guidelines but it also shouldn't be utter garbage that no one besides the authors can figure out.