skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like a self-adjusting computation, in the sense that Jane Street and the paper they refer to uses, is similar to functional reactive programming. It looks like you can create observable values, and create observable computations on those values. The dependency graph is dynamic, which it appears is the improvement here over other FRP designs?

Genetic algorithms are a different sort of thing, and I can see how "self adjusting computation" could be used to describe either.
Freenet Communication Primitives: Part 1, Files and Sites
This is great. Would your friend be interested in discussing a collaboration? I'm looking to build similar functionality into HipStat.
And yet it shouldn't be, with GPU acceleration and all. Video encoding and video calling should be a solved problem.
I'm genuinely confused as to what experience he's talking about, as it sounds like the complete opposite from what I've experienced. I do know that different companies may have implemented their flat structure in completely different ways though, so that's why I ask.

The question was actually not a rhetorical jab :) But thanks, I'll keep that in mind.
>When we began to undress the bodies, we discovered something on the daughters and on Alexandra Fyodorovna. I do not remember exactly what she had on, the same as was on the daughters or simply things that had been sewed on. But the daughters had on bodices almost entirely of diamonds and other precious stones. Those were not only places for valuables but protective armor at the same time. That is why neither bullets nor bayonets got results.

clever girl
Don't abuse math max, min functions in Golang
I think arcticbull meant "just about any Apple laptop". That's my experience with Hangouts on Mac anyway.
Rough landing...
Mine too, but I'd say it is more that Über is exploiting driver behavior.

If you assume there's the $9.50 wage someone calculated above.
+ maybe some premium for being able to schedule work hours yourself.
+ surge pricing, which doesn't seem accounted for.

Transportation companies are making money on the inability of drivers to calculate their expenses properly. People are likely "more satisfied" w/ Uber b/c they don't calculate what the actual money they make.

It's interesting, b/c it makes you wonder about other questions around Uber's model in the longer term as drivers have more information.

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This brings up an interesting issue -- will driverless cars actually _reduce_ profits (of transportation companies) and _increase_ competition?
>Hangouts will bring just about any laptop to its knees.

because Google insist on forcing their own codec and encodes in pure software bypassing hardware h264 encoder block on cpu/gpu.
My favorite is the Vought V-173 (and XF5U). Also known as the flying pancake (or flying flapjack).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought_V-173

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought_XF5U

https://youtu.be/LfpTDOAfj7Y

Simple structurally, awkward looking on the ground, slow takeoff/landing speeds. Because of takeoff/landing dynamics I wonder if it would have been a safer platform for small civil aircraft. Though who knows how it would handle losing an engine.
Kid gets his face punched punched into peanut butter
Also, iStats Menus: http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/

I feel I can't live without it.
Definitely! Unfortunately I don't have a date to give you at this stage.
And yet, it's not that strange; laptop should be used on the lap, hence the name, right?

High CPU usage, fine, but for regular things that should be perfectly optimized by now like watching videos or using Skype shouldn't cause as much heat as - apparently - it does.
I think both sides are worth exploring. If you haven't seen it yet, check out http://autopsy.io/
How's that different than using a well defined binary serialization format (protobufs?) and having a controller daemon that makes sure everyone reports the same version or has the same serialization contracts loaded before adding them to discovery?

Or is it just that Erlang has this all batteries included, the way Python's popular with scientific programming?
I have a 2012 MacBook Pro. Very little use. Never even got warm. I downloaded google chrome browser the other day, and it gets hot, fan goes on high, wheel spins like regret. I can't blame it on google chrome. My memory, and cpu aren't using a worrisome amount of resources?

I am wondering why Google chrome would cause this problem--if that's the problem? From a programmer's perspective?

(I did turn off Apple automatic update, and install.)
2 dumb kids almost die on camera, must watch
MANY people in a company aren't good at leading. Not really sure why anyone would think democracy was a good way to run a company.

Find people who are GOOD at leading, make them leaders. If you have bad leaders, of course that's a bad thing, but "WE DON'T LIKE BOSSES" is a horrible way to tell if someone is good or bad at leading, it's just teenage angst.
Fortran 2008 is actually a pretty cool language. Much better than the old versions. I get upset when people judge Fortran based on the ancient versions. Its like saying Windows is terrible because Windows 3.11 is terrible. Well, yeah, 3.11 was terrible, but if you use it nowadays its your fault.
I guess we'll just have to disagree on all of those points.
I was deeply disappointed with the syntax… there are so many compromises because of underlying semantics that the ‘rubyish’ layer on top is very clunky.

It does cut down on a lot of Erlang boilerplate, so it’s still a better option… but I’m hoping someone will give it a third try.
I don't normally do this, buts hard to not nitpick this time.

Why would you split a story into 50 tweets? Its the hardest way to read content.
Thanks for the feedback. What specifically turns you off about this idea?

The goal would be to provide support and motivation. It would be an opt out feature. You will be able to make your account private.
Thank you to everyone who has provided feedback. I have tried to reply to as many as I can. I greatly appreciate all of your comments, the good and the bad!

Please keep the feedback coming. This is exactly the reason I released this app early! :)
Ask HN: What is it like working at Netflix?
I'm considering accepting an opportunity at Netflix, but I'm not sure what the environment is like. Can someone at Netflix or who has worked at Netflix give an objective description as to what it's like there? I've read that everyone there is very smart, and the bar is set extremely high. I am very good (amongst the top people in every group I've worked at), but I'm not a god so I'm worried that I'm not good enough and that I will be let go within a month. Are things really that competitive and cutthroat as I've heard, given what I heard was a 10%/quarter turnover rate?
what about in a year? i bet you would list different browsers and versions. my point is, "modern browser" doesn't mean anything and it change as time passes
The standard example of unexpected esoteric physic application is the Special and General Relativity corrections of the GPS. 100 years ago nobody thought that we would ever use that small correction or that everybody would have a special-and-general-aware device in the pocket.

Another cool application is the superconductors in the NMR devices. They can see what is inside your head and even do something equivalent to a chemical analysis (with NRM spectroscopy) without opening it. The first superconductors experiments used Helium at 4K, so they were only a laboratory curiosity.

For everyday use, I like the giant magnetoresistance. This is my favorite case to explain that strange quantum effects have real world direct applications. Just start talking about the spin in electrons. Then explain that some magnetic conductors have a different value of the current with spin up and the currents with spin down. Then add the sandwich with non-magnetic conductors. At this moment it looks like a weird laboratory experiment. Then suddenly explain how it is used in hard disks heads: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_magnetoresistance
The idea that Erlang/OTP is an OS is something promoted by Garrett Smith in this talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZGHzI9F5YE), and the idea that it is intentionally OS-like has been promoted by the Robert Virding and Joe Armstrong (https://twitter.com/rvirding/status/386612140242915328)

And two different lisps:

* Lisp Flavored Erlang (http://lfe.io/)
* Joxa (http://joxa.org/)
I don't think panpsychism is common in dualism - the vast majority of dualists are not panpsychists. The argument of the paper is that "the United States is conscious" is a probable consequence of materialism. For your point to succeed, we'd need an argument that panpsychism is a probable consequence of dualism (or idealism, or so on), as opposed to merely a possibility compatible with it. Since materialists need to ground mental concepts in physical ones, they run the risk that their attempts to do so may have a broader scope than they intend (as this paper argues). Dualists don't need to ground the mental in the physical, so they don't run that risk.
Do you happen to have a link to the XPC port? I just did a cursory search but couldn't find anything.
They need to be rational and look at what the issues were (if any) and try to solve them. This has to be looked at from a social perspective too, a more social and leading person will get a raise as it's perceived as knowledge.
Thanks. It's hard to read intent, but that's partly why phrases that typically carry an acerbic or sarcastic payload are best avoided here.

I feel bad for taking a substantive subthread off-topic so I will detach this digression from its parent and demote it.
The Chromium issue was fixed recently. Try updating your Chromium to at least 43.0.2357.132.

The VirtualBox issue is long standing, it's caused by the fact that vbox is setuid. Try this:

env KDE_FORK_SLAVES=1 VirtualBox
Something about this comment really annoys me. It's like you are disparaging high achievement by others just because it's not in a field you are personally interested in?
Thanks! Please let me know how it goes for you!
If C++ would implement something like restrict (in the standard), we could hide it in the usual C++ way and may be a very performant library with all the benefits of C++ could become feasible.
Or hearing a story from someone who just ran up to you and is out of breath.
That behavior seems in line with the kind of behavior that caused us to domesticate cats in the first place. During the summer, food is abundant, and during the winter, we store it. Cats can find more rodents in storage during the winter.
That behavior seems in line with the kind of behavior that caused us to domesticate cats in the first place. Historically, during the summer, food is abundant. During the winter, we store it. Cats find more rodents in storage during the winter.
I don't find this to be true at all.. I believe the comparison to very superficial.
So and where are IP rights of the still living former Soviet topographers? Is Mapstor paying royalty to specialists still operating at the 5th Cartography Enterprise in Minsk?
British have been pirates for ages. Old habits never die.
That's great. Now with that Swift 2.0 is quite stable it makes sense.
eh. i don't fully buy this. it's a nice sentiment but if you are pursuing something intellectual it's safe to assume that you have goals or dreams or you were raised correctly or you at least have a purpose. i know people who do drugs just because they are bored. 6 months later, addict
See previously https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
"I'll Be Me", a recent documentary about musician Glen Campbell, addressed this directly. The movie very bravely and directly addresses his and his family's struggle with Alzheimer's, following him on his last tour, as he slowly but surely loses his mind.

One of the most fascinating things was that his ability to play music was the last thing to go. He'd be on stage performing, unable to even remember his children's names (or that they were his children) when introducing the band, but he'd then shred up a storm on the guitar. He'd sing songs he made famous back in the 1960s, with a teleprompter to keep the lyrics going. But he could play music!

Another interesting side of the documentary was how he used his tremendous personal charm and charisma to get around the failings of his memory and thinking. If he couldn't answer a question, he'd turn it into a joke or change the subject, easily leading even professionals off the scent. On the other hand, the movie followed his most personal interactions, the near-violent outbursts with his wife and closest friends that only got worse as the dementia wore on.

Fascinating documentary. I highly recommend it if you're into this subject.
It's not quite accurate to equate 'democratized management' with 'no management'. Anarchized management might be a better term for the kind of wild west bossless system at Valve. (I mean anarchy as an organizational system, not a casual pejorative term).

The author does make a good point that organizational structure and decision-making is an area ripe for innovation and improvement. And it does indeed seem to be one where new companies have a distinct advantage over existing ones.

A lot of the things people dislike in traditional management hierarchies are also things that are ultimately bad for the company overall and its shareholders - excessive politics, slow decision-making, etc.
I remember seeing this concept appear over the years. I suppose this means they solved heat dissipation and vibration issues?
So the basic argument goes: "Doing space research/exploration will yield scientific and technological breakthroughs to help our problems here on Earth."

Ok I buy that. I agree we need to spend some % of our societal resources on basic research.

The real question is - what is best bang for the buck when doing basic research? Opponents would argue that space research (specifically exploring other planets) is a very expensive way to do basic research.

I'm all for exploring space because I think humanity needs to, but does the basic research argument really hold?
Self Consciousness with NAO Bots
As a former Soviet geodesist and forest inventory specialist, I must tell that military 1:50 000 maps are extremely accurate. What was intentionally skewed are civil 1:250 000 maps. The highest resolution and the best accuracy have been provided for so called forestry maps (1:10000).
Well, the EU is preparing to invest 315 billion euros, and they chose a software startup to illustrate the kind of business they want to invest in.

By the way, for reference, VCs invested $48 billion (~= 44 billion €) in 2014, which was the top year since 2000.

http://europa.eu/workingforyou/en/content/eu-launches-€-315-...
This. The VM and everything about Erlang in general is designed for this particular task. Just sit down and learn you some Erlang - it's a bit weird and alien, but it's not so hard and you either do it or regret not doing it.

You could, I suppose, hack something together using multiple JVMs per machine (avoid global GC) and Akka and implement some custom live diagnostics, but if you're really doing a telecommunications project there's no real shortcut. Plain Akka will cut it in many cases but it's not a thoroughbred like Erlang. Give up, Erlang just can't be beaten at its home turf by a framework.
Talking, arguing for materialism also means that one separates materialism from 'the rest' or 'the other ways of seeing the world'.

This means that anyone calling themselves a materialist must also have a concept of this 'rest'. But what the heck is it if you fully believe in a materialist world?
Reminds me of the 'made in X' fallacy.

#!/usr/bin/env python
from subprocess import Popen
Popen("/usr/bin/some-fortran-binary")
print("Once again python saves the day.")
That would be claim the right to do so by more efficiently organizing the workplace so as to produce value most efficiently?

The self-organisation described is not pure mutuality, it's just delegation from the shareholders, who currently trust that the organisation's self-organising will most likely give them the best return. Ultimately they have the right to reorganise you.
How can any modern article on spam not have a single reference to spf and dkim?

There is nearly zero need to read the contents of an email message to determine 'spam' / 'not spam'. And if you read the PDF paper from 2006, you'll note this is exactly how it's done at Google.

Google has its own internal reputation system, but it also relies on external services too. In short, a spammer can buy a clear shot to gmail inbox.

E2E has nothing whatsoever to do with spam mail. The only thing E2E will do for spam, is generate mountains of encrypted spam.
pulsar for clojure
Selecting the Next Librarian of Congress
I get extremely uncomfortable with any keyboard that's hotter than my fingers. Why do people put up with this? ThinkPads aren't great either, though a Broadwell CPU is fast enough that I can leave it throttled to 700MHz and day to day Visual Studio (except compiling) and Firefox usage is fine. This way it stays under skin temp.
I would like to note that the chapter "Another Look At Automated Theorem-proving II" seems quite ill informed, and very hostile, to me.

For instance, to my knowledge the Hashed El Gamal proof in Easycrypt checkes the whole proof, not just the hops. (If I understood Remark 2 correctly)
Thanks for noticing! :) Indeed, I've been working with a certain segment of the population through my roles as the national coach of the USA IMO team and as a math professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

However, after being appointed to the national coach position, I realized that the USA would not be able to consistently deliver top results unless we lifted our mathematical level across a broad base. It seemed that technology could provide the solution to that problem, in the sense that it's possible to crowd-source the scripting of automatic virtual tutors, which can then be replayed (for free) on mobile devices throughout all regions, rich or poor. Thus, expii.com was born.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11SdySDDrMk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6WVbFIz43M

-- Po-Shen Loh
Maybe it's because intellectual pursuits are themselves an addiction all their own?

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-06/uosc-fk062006...
tl;dr: Java FX was convenient for data visualization. all computation software still not java, mission control and other realtime stuff definitely not java.

To be fair I worked with netbeans as well for a while and definitely like it better than eclipse. never tried Java FX because Swing is so convenient once you get the hang of the layout managers and you can drop to Graphics2D anyway for everything else.
Ideas for choosing your next language foray
Another interesting side of the documentary was how he used his tremendous personal charm and charisma to get around the failings of his memory and thinking. If he couldn't answer a question, he'd turn it into a joke or change the subject, easily leading even professionals off the scent.

My dad did that kind of thing as his memory went. I think it is self preservation. It is really dangerous to let people know how impaired you are.

One thing that helped with my dad was respecting his reliance on muscle memory. I moved back home for a year during my divorce with my two special needs sons in tow. My oldest son had a lot of memory issues when he was little and had also been very reliant on muscle memory -- basically, habit. He had an intuitive understanding of how to relate to his grandfather and we set some precedents in how we interacted with him that helped other family members cope better with the situation.

One precedent we set was just leaving food at his place at the table. No one else ever sat there and that had been true for many years. It was HIS place and only HIS. So if he saw food there, he assumed it was and he could decide whether or not he wished to eat it. This returned some control over his life to him and reduced the fighting about trying to get him fed. Other family members soon followed suit, just leaving food at dad's place at the table and letting him discover it and make decisions about it on a time table that worked for him, without having to fight with him about food anymore.

Memory is a fascinating and multi-faceted part of human cognition.
Er, the article in question was written about Mozilla...
An analogy that might help morale about the reverse split: "Instead of each getting eight pizza slices (opening price $0.25, strike price $1), you each get one pie (opening price $2, strike price $8)."
Fun fact: cocaine is technically legal in the United States for medicinal and, apparently, research purposes. There is a single US company licensed to import coca leaves: the Stepan Company, which extracts extremely pure cocaine from the coca leaves, sells the spent leaves to the Coca-Cola Company (which uses them as an ingredient) and the cocaine to Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, which is presumably where UC Berkeley sourced the cocaine for this experiment.
It's in Kip Macy's work branch: https://github.com/kmacy/NextBSD

/lib/lib[asl, dispatch, launch, mach, osxsupport, xpc].

The XPC stuff is mostly Jakub Klama's work, I think.
The demo video touts them as "eco-friendly", and I'm assuming they mean relative to traditional pneumatic tires, so how are they actually better in that regard?
Oh and about the X thing, do you have a Haswell processor? And are you using the VGA driver for X? I had that, bought a $20 ATI card, works fine now, 3D acceleration in KWM and everything.
Ah. Yes... This is mostly how I began my long awkward journey from the JVM, Ruby, Node, et. al to Elixir. Let me give you the one tip that'll make this way easier:

Use the right tool for the job. Not the one you like best. Just because you can use the blunt end of a drill to hit a nail, doesn't mean you should give up hammers... You might even break your drill!

If your problem's solution requires extremely concurrent, high availability, low latency, throughput then you must use BeamVM. The JVM will be too slow and largely memory inefficient compared to Beam.

If concurrency isn't needed, or isnt applicable (parallel, or synchronous, problems), then it's not the answer nor is OTP. E.g. I wouldn't dream of writing and image processor in Elixir-- Beam isn't the right tool to solve that problem.

Also, checkout dialzyer if you think you need type safety. It'll catch plenty of stupid mistakes... I had that urge (for types) coming from the JVM, or a non-functional non-dynamic language, but it's actually a straw man. I'd highly encourage you to get past classes, and state, so you can really enjoy the platform for what it offers-- it's pretty eye opening.
Ask HN: How can I protect my personal info for TLDs that don't offer whoisguard?
There are certain TLD (like .fr and related) that have restrictions and don't offer whois guard. What is my best bet in protecting my information if I were to register one of these domains? Is providing false or inaccurate information an option?
I do because I far prefer the Android experience for a "daily driver" but having access to iOS is valuable as a "tech" person. Plus, iOS is streets ahead for podcasts. The author said they "never saw that in practice" so just wanted to be a single data point here.. maybe this is far less likely outside of a tech/fomo audience.
Maybe I'm just dense. Do you mean X11 server (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System) or something else?
On a related note, if you've got a free hour, there was a recent talk at BSDCan 2015 by Maciej Pasternacki on Jetpack, a container runtime for FreeBSD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8phbsAhJ-9w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ74mgkzLxc
Regarding (c), if your program is written say Agda[1], the code can come with a proof that it has the mathematical properties you want. Or rather, your implementation might simply be the proof.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agda_(programming_language)
Stochastic rain generator from the author of myNoise.net