skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting points; I've a few rambling thoughts about them:

* I don't think many people are so extreme as the 'opposite of nationalism'. In fact, I think that nationalism (or more broadly, the basic tribalistic instinct) has such an natural, powerful pull on people that it will never need to be encouraged.

* I think it's great that many people moderate their nationalistic instincts now with reason and compassion. Not only did millions get slaughtered for the nation (or the race, or whatever), but they murdered millions more. The moderation of 'tribalism' with liberal ideas might be one of the most important changes in humanity's history.

* Unfortunately, I see nationalism and other tribalistic ideas as rapidly spreading again. It's promoted by state school boards in Texas and Oklahoma; many national leaders push it, for example in Russia, China, Japan, and South Korea (off the top of my head). Outright religious 'tribalism' is rampant in Europe and, to a degree, the U.S. The EU's unity is under serious strain, Scotland almost succeeded from the UK, and parts of Spain and other countries are discussing the same. Nobody stands up for the value of the liberal ideas and institutions that kept the peace since WWII.

Arguably, there are two kinds of political movements (and leaders), those that bring people together, and those that play on tribalistic instincts and divide them. One kind has much better results for humanity.
Nobody has an offer as good as the one the U.S. made to Denmark.
One of the really surprising things when you visit the Colosseum in Rome is how modern a structure it feels. Rather than ruins, it feels more like a construction site, a half-finished stadium for some up coming Olympics or World cup.

It's not just two Greek amphitheaters dug into facing hillsides...it's something on a completely different level.

All this despite being left in complete, abandoned ruins for something like a thousand years. Then damaged in earthquakes, stripped of stone (probably also concrete blocks) for other construction, legend has it's been used by monastic orders, as a wool factory and other crazy uses.

This isn't modern reinforced concrete, it's just concrete.

If you wonder around Rome you come across possible the pinnacle in concrete work in human history, the Pantheon. I've heard that we still don't know how they produced the dome, another nonreinforced wunder construction that's survived for millenia. Again, survived earthquakes, wars, and other uses, and again a huge structure that feels amazingly modern in size and scope.
You can use "netsh advfirewall firewall" commands to view rules. And you can use "netsh exec" to execute a script to modify rules. Unfortunately the "dump" command is not implemented, so there is some work involved to turn the "show rule" output into a script.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd734783%28v=ws....
Thanks I had not seen that before.
Everyone is working on HIR/MIR at the moment, because it will enable a lot of different kinds of work to happen in parallel after it lands.

The stage it's in is "Niko has a draft RFC that he hasn't published yet." Then there will be discussion, and then implementation.
B is for BMW.
The least costly line I know of is Pullmantur. Their repositioning cruises across the Atlantic are frequently under $50/day for a solo passenger.

US$37 / day at current exchange rates and including taxes and semi-obligatory gratuities:
http://www.pullmantur.com.br/pt/cruzeiros/-/cruzeiros/posici...

US$39 / day:
http://www.pullmantur.com.br/pt/cruzeiros/-/cruzeiros/transa...

Heads-up: English is not the primary language of most passengers, but from what I've read, the crew can accommodate it.

Norwegian also has some that are under $100/day including taxes and gratuities. The one below is $968.95 for 13 days ($75/day), assuming you take the promo where the cruise line pays for the gratuities.

http://www.ncl.com/cruises/STAR13DVRPDLMIATPA?itineraryCode=...

(click all the way through to the final pricing page - the first page isn't what you get charged)
This is a phenomenal practical look into not only really useful debugging tactics, but also helps make sense of the inner workings of Angular and its Javascript underpinnings. Great article!
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Are Sedgewick and Kleinberg on the same level? So if I do one can I skip the other and move to say Algorithm Design Manual or CLRS?

From your comment it seems Knuth's book(s) to be the last (and for the mastery.
>These days I just let my JavaScript code generate my markup for me.

React?
The book Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World has a chapter on concrete. The self-healing concrete was completely new to me. Definitely worth a read, and not just for the concrete chapter:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18222843-stuff-matters
No. I noticed it too. In the license he revealed his possibly real name and email id, but tried to be anonymous in the blog by using an ID looking like a Bitcoin address. Or maybe he just wants you to send him more Bitcoin for the code.
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As a United States citizen, if I go to another country to do something that would be illegal on American soil, I am still committing a crime in my home country and can be subject to bring prosecuted for it when I return: unless Google is willing to exit France and close its French offices and shit down its French data centers, then they should absolutely be subject to French law everywhere, as they are a single entity operating globally. Essentially: you have the situation backwards: Google "can't have its cake and eat it too", and by "participating in international commerce" it has to abide by the laws in every jurisdiction in which it wishes to participate, not picking and choosing the laws based on where it happens to be a the moment.
Yes that would be a bad way to do structs in Haskell. Instead you would simply use Haskell's record syntax, ie. data Person = Person { firstName :: String, lastName :: String, age :: Int }

You could also easily define more specific types like for example: type Age = Int, which should prevent somebody from creating a person where they use a zip code for that person's age.
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This is a terrible article.

> LeMay also oversaw and championed the enforcement of the total blockade of Japan by filling the waters around its port cities with aerial-dropped mines, which, for example, caused shipping through Kobe to plummet by 85%. This campaign was dubbed, with a refreshing lack of hypocrisy, “Operation Starvation.” Thus, the starvation of little Setsuko/Keiko was not “collateral damage,” but a premeditated murder.

Newsflash: people kill other people in wars. Including civilians. Wow, I would have never imagined. And yes, you try to kill as many people as you can, because that's how wars stop, when the losses are big enough that you consider capitulation. Japan's military indoctrination gave the US not much choice anyway, since they were ready to fight till the last man.

> LeMay was instrumental in the US shift from high-altitude bombing with general purpose explosives to the low-altitude incendiary bombing of Japanese cities that resulted in hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths and the famine-inducing ruination of the economy. He later became a tireless advocate for bombing Vietnam, as he put it, “back to the Stone Age,” and for bombing the whole world back to the Ice Age by launching a nuclear first strike against the Soviet Union.

That's a complete misunderstanding of the thinking of LeMay. There are many documentaries/books about him, and you can read "Command and Control" if you want to get a good view of LeMay and why he acted like that during that period. Whether you liked him or not, he was a rational person. His idea of nuking the Soviets first came from the fact that for some time, the US had clear superior nuclear power vs the Soviets, and that one should not wait until the Soviets develop enough bombs to be able to destroy the US if they decide to strike first. If the Soviets had decided to strike first, it would have destroyed the US chain of command and left nothing for retaliation - that is why LeMay started the SAC program to have bombers constantly in the skies with nuclear weapons, "just in case". That program lasted until after the fall of the Soviet Union. And bombing the Soviets first when the US had a clear advantage (in the early 50s basically) would not have resulted in the whole world being destroyed, most likely only the Soviet Union would have paid a hefty price while the losses in Europe/US would have been less.

Seriously, don't write about History if you know nothing about it.
Android was tiny and far away from launching when it was acquired. And the YouTube acquisition was definitely considered crazy at the time.
We're not machines, we're human beings, and it is humanity's nature for a person to love their own parents more than other parents, and for parents to love their children more than other children. What's inhumane is preventing people from doing what comes to them naturally via excessively high taxes, and force people to provide for everyone else who they hardly know[2].

Love is not equal, and that is just a fact.

Mohism[1] - where everyone love everyone else equally - is dead. It will die once again.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohism#Morality_and_impartiali...

[2] See nursing homes, poor public schools.
> According to news accounts she reached out to him 24 hours later

...in his pants ?
Another bad day for Microsoft. Another good day for linux.
I agree that versions should be named rather than numbered. Well, I guess that's an implementation detail. What really matters is having the equivalent of branches in a version control system. That way the main branch can use migrations a, b, c, d, and e. And the release branch for the legacy version that backports bugfixes but not new features can easily use migrations a, c, and e and skip b and d because those went with features that weren't backported.

In Python, sqlalchemy-migrate does this wrong and Alembic does this right. I worked on a big project that used sqlalchemy-migrate, and this caused us pain. It's difficult for a large project to change database versioning systems, so it's important to pick a good one from the start.
The beginning does not tell you how they die, though. so yeah, there is a spoiler.
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Pool implies chlorine which isn't quite healthy.
Read the whois. NZ is New Zealand, no?
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Where did you hear that? I'm unaware and couldn't find anything about it.
Yes, you don't "upgrade" your mobile phones GPU (or any hardware except the SD card), but many people change their smartphone yearly (and sometimes faster). So there's the "upgrade path" for mobile GPUs. I actually find it amusing that a phone or tablet with a new SoC has a "better" GPU than my 3 year old Core i3.
Have you considered simply contributing to the service at http://www.hostip.info/ ? They seem to be doing what you describe, and have been around long enough to have reasonably good information (in my experience)— I'm sure they would make use of any additional data, or hacking on their backend, which you might provide.
> I mean, it's an 18-year old movie. What did you expect?

Huh, like people who are 15 years old who would not have watched it yet ? Do you think people watch all movies that came before them ?

> I mean, it's an 18-year old movie.

It's a 27 years old movie actually. Get your facts right.
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Any company that installs adware on an operating system you paid for [1], and even forcibly reinstalls it after you remove it and block it, clearly doesn't give a shit about user experience or your privacy. Some Linux distros will also remind you to update, but they aren't paid updates and anyway you can turn those updates off if you like, and they won't come back.

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3035583
Clearly, the norm is phoning home now.

Google perhaps sets the benchmark, every single action you take in Google apps, whether native or web, is tracked extensively.

As far as I know Chrome OS isn't an exception.

Perhaps we need firewalls to protect us from our own software.
it still boggles my mind that Rome has working sewers that were constructed more than 2000 years ago and there is every indication that they will last another 2000 years of continuous use

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05xxl4t
What if colleges started offering this as an alternative to the basic MS Word class most schools make everyone take? Then people who didn't know how to use a computer would be too intimidated by it, but students who already knew the basics could move on to this more interesting course.

You should still be able to test out, though. That way, if you're totally uninterested, you can test out of the MS Word class and move on.

I think there are enough students sufficiently interested in computers that they'd check out the harder course if its name didn't sound too obscure.
Completely agree with OP.

Although I'd personally recommend Kleinberg's book. I feel that it has a better narrative and is very well written IMO.
Is this because the upscale neighborhoods were more likely to have phoned to do the reporting?
CLRS is the way to go.
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Computer literacy and computer science are two different things with two very different pedagogical objectives.

Often times, when people say "computer literacy", they mean popular software competency. It often means ad-hoc comfort with specific software interfaces and solutions.

So if I've learned the steps necessary to attach files into Gmail, browse in Safari, download and remove apps, use Dropbox, and so on, then I'm considered computer literate. At one time, employees were expected to type in DOS commands. Now command line is considered hacker territory.

Almost everyone in the world is living very high away from computer science, and instead they are living in the world of corporate designers. They are living in a world where people at Apple build app experiences called "Mail", "Calendar", "Reminders", and you swipe left to delete. Soon you'll be asking Cortana or Siri to do things for you.

In that designer world of proprietary software and aesthetic trends, what does computer literacy mean? It sounds like a class on Microsoft Word or Outlook. It sounds like a class on how to use the App Store.
I would much rather be subjected to economic sanctions than bombed, but I guess I don't speak for everyone. Maybe some people prefer to be bombed.
> This would require lawmakers to agree on the intent of legislation in addition to its affects, which would be categorically harder because different people may favor a policy for different reasons.

While that doesn't seem like the main intent of such an approach, it certainly sounds like a beneficial side effect. New legislation is not a thing that should occur particularly often, or lightly.

> It's also a handy way of nudging updates to the laws to keep up with current times.

Agreed. (You'd also need to have some requirement to prevent any omnibus renewal legislation.)
> The coolest piece of mathematical software I’ve come across in the last few years is Chebfun, http://www.chebfun.org

Oooh, nifty! I've never heard of this. Wonderful idea.

I'm thinking this really needs to be ported to Python.
Sounds super shady ... !
This article rightfully praises the Ghibli movies for their non-Manichean stories, especially when compared to Disney or Hollywood blockbusters. Yet I'm surprised it missed an important example: in the first film entirely directed by Hayao Miyazaki, Nausicäa is far from an angel. In my eyes, she is Miyazaki's most ambiguous character. Warning, spoiler ahead.

When her valley is invaded, the peaceful Nausicäa runs to the room of her ill and bedridden father. He's dead, surrounded by soldiers. She screams, seizes her father's sword, and enters a killing rage. Truly, even a young and sweet girl can feel hate and killing intent, and she may even act accordingly. Nobody's born an angel nor a demon, but we can all become insensitive or cruel. Just read Primo Levi or Herman Langbein to see how most people transform in a few weeks. Anyway, that sequence made me cry.

I'd also like to mention the opening of this movie, inspired from the medieval "tapisserie de Bayeux" that relates England's invasion in the XIth century. The ballet of robots along a burning city is incredibly beautiful and moving. How stunning that Miyazaki starts his first film with the artistic beauty of a war scene!
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Hold your hand up and make and L with the thumbs and forefingers of both hands, palms facing away from you:

1) "L" is your Left hand.

2) Is the patient facing towards you? "Left" is the opposite side on them.

Two rules that will revolutionize healthcare forever.
Well, Saddam's was one of the worst regimes since the Nazis. We really can't do anything right as far as intervention, at some point we have to accept we can't make things work out in other people's countries and there will always be evil rulers we can't do anything about.
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Actually I have no idea if Bing created it or not.
Lots of them. "Prop shop" can be a glorified term for someone trading out of their personal funds.
At that time I think it had to do with disproportionate smartphone penetration (since it was a smartphone app, not a phone number, you just tap it when you see a pothole and it sends your geodata).

But then and now, even close to 100% smartphone ownership, I think it's the same thing with disproportionate app penetration. What social groups actually use foursquare and twitter and with what frequency?
Please note that Pompoko is not a Miyazaki movie. It is Takahata's.
Much of the comments mention that you should buy the .com until your startup is well funded (stronger). And that exactly the whole point of this post is make it stronger since the beginning.
And if you want a bit more luxury and want to be paid for it, cruise ships are hiring IT staff all the time. You could be incredibly under paid but still see the world.
Aaaaaaaggh. Solaris x86. I know of at least one firm with 30-40,000 instances of RHEL that had been a Solaris shop. The firm tried Solaris x86, Sun essentially abandoned the platform and the firm's internal engineering board said "Never again." I'm sure that story played out again and again. What a colossal mistake.
Yea, but you can't blame the CDC for people having bad habits. It's not their fault.
> It's a 27 years old movie actually. Get your facts right.

That... I mean... That just proves my point more. Jesus. I'm sorry that I apparently made a blunder in my quick mental math and provided a more conservative answer than the truth. Stop making it sound like it ruins my entire argument, especially since my argument wasn't even based on the exact number of years.

Instead, my argument was that after a certain amount of time, it's pointless to worry about spoilers because enough time has passed to actually give a person a chance to have watched the movie if it interested them. Stupidly declaring everything a spoiler just makes it so that it's impossible to talk about a movie and have a real discussion, as this article does. If we worried about spoilers for a 27-year old movie, this article wouldn't exist.
Not a nuclear physicist, so this is my armchair layman's "why don't they just..." analysis.

But doesn't nuclear fission work off of neutron bombardment? Why not build a hybrid reactor where the "shield" undergoes fission while the core is generating fusion and perhaps they can produce a useful amount of power, perhaps with the fission "shielding" powering the magnets or some such?
Datalogix is another: Our database contains more than $2 trillion in offline purchase-based data and we’re able to convert this data, and any CRM data, into an online universe.[0]

[0] http://www.datalogix.com/audiences/online/
> While they are often linked, they are not the same

Well sure. If you're eating more calories than you're burning, you're gonna have a bad time.
In many ways, it's really just a matter of measurement power. An illuminating illustration of this is posed by how far away do you need to be from another person to see them disappear over the horizon [0]. Turns out it's like 6 miles. I have terrible eyesight, so without telescopic optics, I'd never have been able to measure this.

Rather, I'd have to rely on local measurements. And that'd nail me too: the Earth only curves about 12cm / km. So if I could only resolve a local rise-over-run of 1/1000, I wouldn't be able to fail the null hypothesis that the Earth is flat. (But if I could manage an order of magnitude better, I could!) And given that hills and such are all kinds of lumpy, and large bodies of water are rarely still, getting even that level of resolution without advanced optics would be difficult. (Though if you can be sure you've got a straight enough stick...)

So I think it really comes down to how well you can prove or measure anything. Once we had telescopes, there really wasn't too much confusion about the spherical nature of the planet. (And people had suspected for a very long time the earth was - at least in some way - round. Eclipses give that away a bit.) But the details really give us the resolving power to be sure. That and it helps to get away from local measurements - get up really high, and it becomes easier to tell (and IIRC some early experiments measuring the size of the Earth took advantage of really large height differences).

After all, Newton was right, too. But add a few extra zeroes to the solutions, and we start seeing some deviation from our relative measurements...

[0] http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/QQ/database/QQ.09.02/shirley3....
A very interesting concept. I like the sea but hate cruising. For me, a cruise is basically a hotel pushed into international waters (or some other legal fiction) for purposes of cheap labour. But a freighter seems a different matter. I'm not saying that they pay people well, but at least taking care of me won't be their primary job. A freighter has a job, it has a purpose for going somewhere beyond labour laws.

And I'd bet good money there is far less risk of norovirus on an freighter than on the floating retirement communities that are modern cruising.
it's not so much that there's a lot of stuff up there, but it's moving around at absolutely incredible velocities, so the territory an individual fragment can cover is continent sized.
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They aren't different processes. Eating is calorie intake. Exercise is burning calories. The "counting calories" necessarily involves taking into account both. if you live an extremely sedentary lifestyle, you need to eat fewer calories. The more you exercise, the more calories you can intake.
Funnily enough, earlier today I re-read an old article of mine talking about retiring in the 2050s, which includes the quote "I, for one, will be reaping the rewards of my Greenland Viticulture investments."
I think it has to do with how tight Google Services and Android are. Android is less of an operating system and more of a Google services device in your pocket (mail/docs/photos/etc)