skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have some pretty good differential evidence suggesting that they would not have been destroyed in the Greek Revolution, if that's the specific threat you're worried about. Elgin did not remove all the marbles, but only a portion, so we can easily see what happened to the ones left behind. He removed 1 of the 6 caryatids from the Erechtheion, for example; the 5 that remained in Greece are still extant. In addition, he removed about 80 meters of the Parthenon frieze; the 50 meters that were left are also still extant. These are all in the Acropolis Museum today.

Oddly neither WW2 nor the Greek Civil War caused any significant damage either. The main damage that has taken place is post-WW2 due to the rise of car-driven air pollution, especially acid rain. To protect them, the remaining 5 caryatids were moved indoors in 1979 (replaced by replicas), and the last 20-meter segment of frieze remaining on the Parthenon was moved indoors in 1993. These would probably have been in better condition if they had been removed earlier.
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Events centuries past is what we call history :)
When a nation has outlived the centuries creating a vast cultural background, people tend to care about its importance. [1], [2], [3]

To answer your question straight, the reason the return of the Parthenon marbles matters, is morality. [4]

One cannot appreciate the significance of such creations to the fullest when they are taken out of context.

[1] http://www.parthenonuk.com/
[2] http://www.parthenoninternational.org/
[3] http://www.marblesreunited.org.uk/
[4] http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/12/23/the-british-...
Python/Node/Ruby/JavaScript

Yeah, but those are scripty dynamic languages that many developers don't like.
We are using Jira (only user management) + Confluence + Fisheye with Crucible for code review over a svn repository.

I need to say that Confluence as a internal wiki works very well. And FishEye + Crucible do a really nice to do code reviews. The only weakness that I saw to Fisheye is that when do you do a search of stuff, can't spot the thing that you are searching inside of a source file. Only shows you the source file, enforcing you to relay on your web browser search that don't works well over FishEye UI.

Also, I try to search a open source (and free) replacement of FishEye + Crucible that works over our svn repository. I can't find anything that works on the same way.
They also are probably smart enough to just seek the most efficient way? I don't think hypothetical founder nostalgia is a strong enough explanation.
Pretty much entirely unusable in germany due to, roughly, half the videos being blocked. :(
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I kinda agree with him on the 'nothing changes' in Tolkien; in fact, it won't be a popular opinion, but I had difficulty reading it; and in fact I'm also bored to death with the films. In other words, I'm not a fan...

Moorcock on the other hand I really enjoyed, just because he throws his 'hero' around like a out of control puppet. It's really like a 'game of throne' before it was trendy. Poor hero will get to kill his favourite elf queen just because his sword is evil, AND will keep him alive because of it; twisted :-)
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As compact. Most of type errors will shift to compile time, instead of blowing during runtime. Profit.
Why should I adapt my usage patterns to accommodate the shitty behavior of a few websites? Also, are you sure you are in position to tell other people how to use the web? I certainly don't think I am.
Yes I'm the same way, but you really can't do anything clever until you really know a programming language well. You could implement anything using the basics of language, but for it to be a good implementation, you need to have experience with the language to fully exploit its power.
We all hate the lion killer. Does that excuse digital vigilantes?
Where are all the wonderful .NET github repos written entirely in F#? They sure do like writing about F#.
Your comment about downvoting comments about comments about downvoting, has been downvoted.
I'll admit to understanding very little about the quantum world, but isn't it more that back and forth take different times, rather than being different distances ?

Or is 'distance' at this level equivalent to time ?
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They also can't get in my head even with "lawfully authorized access", nor can they intercept snail mail after it was delivered, read and burned.

What makes them think they're entitled to my digital communications and data?
We already know that places like Facebook monitor our every keystroke and store them for posterity. Yes, they hang on, also to the text you regretted, backspaced, and never published.
It would seem utterly unprofessional, and potentially detrimental to shareholder interest, for them to not also keep track of timings and typing rhythms.
Which makes me wonder how much mood analysis, lie detection, and other psychometrics they really have collected on us all over the years, given the right kinds of algorithms to run the lot through.
Hi people of HN, I'm glad some of you like this little project of mine! BTW in case is not clear it (automatically) shows videos from exactly 20 years ago, so right now is showing videos from July of 1995.

If you wonder where I get the data is by a script scraping an awesome forum called ukmix. I also filter out low-quality videos by calculating the likes/dislikes ratio and view count (data from YouTube's API), it also tries to filter out lyrics videos and other non-official music videos. Feedback is welcome.

Enjoy.
Perhaps few see it as extortion because it is not extortion.
What the heck is stolen?

Ad I said, your libertarian claims are very funny. Out of reality, but funny.
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Are your classical playlists public? I've given up looking through Spotify's catalogue for the reasons you outline.
Very cool. As much as fun as the hype or hating is, I like to hear from frontline people how it goes.

Will have to invest some time in it sooner rather than later!
Unless the people are humans or elfs (hence orcs) or dwarfs or hobbits - then they aren't influenced or changed at all by the power of the ring.
The fact that the characters are somewhat like woodcuts might also be owed to two things:

- Tolkien was a linguist, not necessarily well-versed in the craft of literature. Writing good believable characters is extremely hard; moving stick puppets around (Dan Brown comes to mind) is practicaly the default-state, entry-level of writing.

- the books were his answer to the edda. I can't find a sources on this but I believe part of what he wanted was England to have a set of epic myths commensurable with those in the edda - this motivation certainly influenced the overall style of the stories.

I wouldn't call the analysis necessarily wrong or completely unconvincing (the pdf linked here shows his ideas much better), but I would call tendentious in that it looks like everything that doesn't fit conveniently is left out.
Many real-time applications can tolerate some packet loss, and if packets arrive out-of-order there's no benefit to re-sending them. I'm thinking of real-time games and VoIP, for example. TCP is a bad fit for these use cases. The only thing that works across nearly all routers is UDP.

I'd be more interested in making UDP more secure (and learning more about best practices) than to "avoid using UDP as a transport when possible".
I think YouTube is one of my main reasons for using a VPN here in Germany. I try not to use the german internet without my VPN switched on for a couple of reasons but that's definitely the most annoying one.
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SSL link doesn't work.

http://www.breeze.pm/
I would argue not. These paradigms actually encompass other models, and it that sense, they are pragmatic conservative choices (in a sense, "minimal").

You can program functionally in Python. It doesn't really gets in way of doing that, which cannot be said about functional languages, they are often designed to prevent you programming imperatively.

Dynamically typed languages can be understood as having only one type, so it's in a sense a type system that encompasses all the other type systems. For fans of typing, Python added optional type annotations, again, as a very conservative choice.

Interpreted - again, it's probably easier to write interpreter than compiler. Once you get into compiling, you have to make some more choices, which Python conservatively forfeits.

That is not to say that these choices aren't cultural (for example, most people are more familiar with infix notation, although even here there may be pragmatic reasons - the exactly right amount of parentheses). Just that it tries to encompass various tastes and be conservative about it.
that has to be one of the absolute most asinine concepts of insanity ever unleashed on the public. Only someone deprived of all sanity and logic would assume that the censoring of certain words would prevent someone from being subject to abuse. You are obviously incapable of the capacity for such understanding, what with your brain cavity filled with fish entrails and pig excrement.

I say the above as a bit tongue in cheek. I've made similar statements in the past regarding being asked to implement a language/bad-word filter on a sight. By contrast, "That is the most fucking bad-ass thing I've ever seen," is a positive statement but uses words that would normally be filtered. While the former statement is completely insensitive and insulting without using any "bad" words.
It is free for commercial use, the site will be fixed, it is a mistake in the 5min page.
This is all wrong.

Small underground tunnels covering entire cities with autonomous delivery bots on wheels which automatically take the fastest route from any given A to B with a generic size/shaped payload are the real solution to this issue.

Horizontal drilling technologies mean that we can bore a 30 metre long tunnel while only digging up the first 3 metres.

Imagine all the industries this would revolutionise. All shopping and food ordering would become completely price and quality-driven, as realestate prices and premium spots are no longer relevant. last 10 mile package delivery would cost tens of cents.

Automated subterranean transport is the REAL future of automated delivery.
Yes. We stick with memcached. Every node in our cluster has an uptime of over 3 years handling up to 5000 requests a second so we're quite happy to leave it. In fact it's the most reliable thing I've ever seen I think.

Redis looks nice but I suspect that it may be easy to lean on it too much for functionality. We were looking at it for a couple of tasks but haven't found much motivation to move yet.
Google Doc does that as well
That would be... disturbing. Fortunately it's not true, as you can see for yourself with the chrome developer tools.
What service do you use? I've considered it from time to time, but i don't know which ones are reliable/useful/sanely priced.
For those who didn't notice, the video was published on March 6, 2012.
When you sign a volume license contract with them it grants them the right to do it.

The immediate cost savings is all the business sees.
I really like the idea of adding a Slack channel to the problem statement. I always have questions, and channeling them through a recruiter via email is a pain.

A lot of take home problems are very unrealistic, so it's difficult to make the trade-offs that you'd normally make when trying to ship software. Being able to ask someone on the team what their intentions are would be super helpful.

My pet peeve is front-end tests that ask you to write maintainable code, but you're not allowed to use any libraries. So instead you have to create your own tiny MVC/templating/helper libraries just for the project - but obviously they won't be as good as something you've spent more than 4 hours on.
On the other hand, Windows 10 collects these data by default, according to their privacy statements.
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Atlassian do have products that cater to non-programmers as well, like Jira, HipChat, Confluence and some service desk application. I think Atlassian would naturally be worth more than GitHub, simply due to the larger potential user base.

I don't think we know what profits either company has, and without that information it's hard to know if the valuations are realistic.
If I had $100,000 I would select a software idea that really solves a problem and develop it open source. I would be the only developer so would probably need $2000 per month. So I would be able to program roughly 4 years with the money. Of course I would publish the code early on and when there would be enough traction I would found a non-profit organisation that would oversee the further development.
Yeah sorry, it uses the API of YouTube with USA marked as origin. I could fix it by using the JavaScript client API of YouTube for non-americans visitors; it has a rate limit so it may not work so well though.
How easy/quick is it to transfer files to it (without going through the Internet)?

Where and how are the annotations saved? Can you bring them back out of the device and see them on the PDF still?

Thanks
It's weird. When people are texting, most of the faces remain wooden. Nobody wants to look at a wooden face.

Students wouldn't like to use it in the classroom because video is data-consuming.
Which is pretty nice... beyond the language of SQL, relational databases that support full ACID compliance are important for a lot of scenarios. Usually you have to sacrifice a portion of that in order to scale horizontally, or when a single system can no longer keep up.

There's been enormous progress in database reasoning the past decade or so, as more companies have needed to reach the scale of Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon and others... Not every instance needs that level of scale, but many businesses are also trying to reach very high levels of availability, which is an issue with similar solutions.
This has nothing to do with your monitor in reality

Brightness: energy/area

Which has several uses for a laser, especially as it goes more bright than anything you should be looking directly at
Indeed. This is good motivation for you:

http://i.imgur.com/Q8NtKTk.png

Cache hits versus misses. The latter may result in multiple SQL queries whereas the former are returned from the cache. Imagine the cluster we'd need to support that!

That's over 28 days for reference.
It hasn't even really started yet.
Maybe that is because clang supports much more than plain C? Also, they have set a very ambitious goal with the friendly error messages for C++.
That's very true which is why we wrangled the architecture off the database folk :)
I'm not particularly a fan of take-home tests. But comparing that to mumbling at a white-board, while a software engineer is pretending to be an expert psychologist at analysing your ~train of thought~, and unfortunately, more often than not, someone in the board is only paying attention at how much of an WASP male you are or pass by it, where you need to do a task that you only repeat at interviews for a job that will not require that...compared to that, give me take home interviews any day of my life. Yes they are free work, but at least they are free work related to actual work. Live coding in the whiteboard performances are not part of the work. And the stress argument (that programmers must be able to deliver under stress) there are categories of stress, social anxiety of a live performance is not the stress we deal at our works. Sometimes I do good whiteboard coding interviews, sometimes I do bad whiteboard coding interviews, none of the situations I felt the merit was of the code or my knowledge of the subject, it is not a proof of how well a programmer does his job, is a somewhat related way of knowing if somebody knows who to code something and if he does not feel too nervous to code on a whiteboard instead of a computer to a bunch of strangers testing him. If you add that to the fact that some interviewers like be to randomly arrogant, you're missing some really nice but perhaps shy coders.
This is awesome! Will definitely use it to throw a quick stream of older Music Videos up on the television. It would be cool to see a list of that month's videos or be able to customize the stream a little.

For those who miss place to discover current artists through music videos, I built http://kikbak.tv. It goes through blogs hourly to create a top 100 chart for the day. Artists spend so much money on music videos and there are no popular discovery platforms! I truly miss mtv, so let's rebuild it somehow.
Most cloud services can be pulled from your business at any time for any reason. This includes gmail and Facebook, and also payment processors.

(Personally I can't understand hosting your source code offsite in the first place if you're a business and not an open source project, but it seems to be popular)
You say this, but plenty of cities (Chicago, London) have small gauge underground railroads which used to be used variously for mail and coal - they're all now abandoned.
"... given my experiences with Tesla and SolarCity, I am hesitant to foist being public on SpaceX, especially given the long term nature of our mission ... Public company stocks, particularly if big step changes in technology are involved, go through extreme volatility ... This causes people to be distracted by the manic-depressive nature of the stock instead of creating great products."
> Another example of the low social status is those horrible open offices, like a call center. Ugh.

So, where you work software devs are in an open-plan space and other roles have their own office?
Haven't used it too much myself, but people seem to be happy with http://www.transifex.com/
And keyboards, different devices I.e. laptop vs desktop.

You could use it as an indicator and trigger a warning email.
It's interesting that the PG article is cited. I've always had mixed feelings about it.

On the one hand I agree that wanting to use Lisp for a startup is probably a good indicator of technical strength (yes I'm saying that people that pick Lisp as their first language are smarter than the average).

On the other hand startup financing is all about the hyper growth potential and it would seem to me that basing your technology stack on Lisp could be quite the hinderance. The job market is already tough and finding people with a deep understanding of Lisp to start working on an (assumed) nontrivial Codebase isn't easy.

I guess Clojure and "allowing" (or migrating to) Java could be an option?
Then again some hypergrowth startups don't need many developers (WhatsApp)
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I find this rather confusing. I have some chops, but I have nothing public in open source. I have always been employed to do what I do. Also, I am really not going to put something on github now... my time is really expensive (I'd have to apply for a budget internally of non-billable hours. It really is pretty expensive).
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The sound is not particularly intrusive or loud, and you clicked on a link that said "Listen" in the title.

Generally I dislike websites that randomly start playing sound (and follow the same tab-close behaviour), but this was not ill-advertised or unexpected.
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Okay, but this is again about single points of failure. Don't have just one person who is able to make the changes, don't rely on Github.

I agree that the ToS clause is very broad, and that (if the email is real) that the timeframe is short.

But that seems to be standard across different providers.

For example, Google will close several types of account without warning.
As a taucharts developer, I would give you a "best comment" award :)
Actually taucharts is moving to this direction. We want to simplify API for dashboards and composite charts to allow users create "visual stories". Stay tuned :)
These sorts of techniques have widespread applicability. Who needs facial recognition when you have kinematic behavioral analysis? Just imagine the trove of data you could pull from existing information sources if you had unlimited analytical time and computational power? As computing power becomes even cheaper and various analytical techniques become better our "effective privacy" window in our partially-anonymous society will grow ever smaller.
For anyone still reading this, I'm interviewing the JAXA engineering team this week. If you have any specific questions you'd like me to ask, reply to this comment.
Indeed!

From a superficial inspection, Hutter's back catalogue features 89 * @inproceedings, 3 * @book, 12 * @techreport, 51 * @article, and 1 * @compression prize

Over an elapsed period of '87 (from before he had completed his masters degree) to the present, on a published_artefacts/year basis, Hutter is more productive than MIRI.
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Success/Failure would be independent between runs. Ie if you fail, you just run again.
We moved from lynq to slack, and the first thing I noticed is I have a gigabyte less memory. Slack eats memory worse than atlassian products.
The point is the nature of git means I don't really need any of them. They're convenient as a public dumping ground (Github) or "backup" (Bitbucket) with a decent web ui, but if they disappeared it'd make very little practical difference for me (other than recruiters having to find me via another site).
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Only part of that results in lower barriers to trade. Mostly that reads like "follow these rules, update your processes and factories to these other specifications" - significant barriers themselves, just upstream from the actual trade.

More significant is that there is little transparency and a, seemingly, active avoidance of public discourse about the rule-setting. The rule-setting is where the power lies, and that's what most of the objection is about.
'The robot will come with applications for office reception and customer interactions and greet shoppers, tell them about products, and entertain them by performing or playing games, all while recording data about their reactions.'

Sounds like mainly targeted at entertaining humans who are waiting ? Maybe a dog could do the same, or is that too old fashioned thinking ;-)
When they were starting their company there was no Python/Ruby/PHP to choose over Lisp, and Java wasn't as mature. Lisp was actually quite the RAD choice at the time.
"A lot of low level crime could be eliminated if people's communications could be accessed at will by law enforcement"

Such as?

Keep in mind that eliminating low level crime is often very low priority for law enforcement: they only do this under pressure or when expecting some bonus for it.
There's a lot of crime that they could fight but virtually don't.
Also, most endemic low-level crime is best fought with policies and eliminating poverty, not by pinning petty criminals after the damage is already done.
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//Type "Hello World".
robot.typeString("Hello World");

//Press enter.
robot.keyTap("enter");

Whoever designed this interface didn't think much about consistency.
> This is a setup that works really well, amongst other things, for communication between people in long distance relationships

Having had a job that involved distant communication I don't think I'd have used this approach. It requires high data usage for the video, so why not just add the audio stream and be done with it?

My wife and I recoded little video snippets through the day and synced them each evening. Hearing all the background noise and clatter was part of experiencing 'home' for me.