skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a very different question, and I think you’re radically misinterpreting the opinion of the “don’t ban books” camp.

There’s a big difference between trusting school librarians to make appropriate choices of books to put in school libraries vs. letting a politically appointed central committee maintain lists of banned books or subjects.

Only a small minority think that young children should have easy and unsupervised access to every book in the world.

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Edit: I just looked at the original source, and IMO AlexandrB is a bit confused about the poll results. There were two sections of the poll, one about books in school libraries (Tables 1A and 1B), and another about banning books in general (Table 2). The two shouldn’t be mixed up.

http://www.theharrispoll.com/health-and-life/Censorship_2015... (scroll down to the tables at the bottom)

In other words, as far as I can tell that 28% is in favor of banning certain books in general, not just for school libraries.
I agree. I have a lot of respect for youtube-dl. Great software.
Oh, I'm sorry, I missed that -- I thought I had seen a mention of it on HN, but I searched all around before submitting and couldn't find it.

Maybe that discussion was flagkilled too?
This is why we allow subdomain magic at FastMail, so that if you wanted to use myname+foo@fastmail.com you can use foo@myname.fastmail.com as well, and it works fine. Everyone accepts that form.
This seems very convenient...

Is there some blog/resource that provides an estimate of the pricing when we go this route, instead of a seperate server for the APIs.

I would like to know the rough pricing in an order of magnitude level?

Would it be twice as expensive as a django app for an application with light usage, etc?

TIA!
Oh, got you. I thought you weren't seeing anything for support. Yes, you are right technical support isn't available under the free plan. However, I have used the Account and Billing Support questions for basic technical questions. For more technical questions their forums have worked well for me in the past.
It strikes me that this is one of those "a square is a rectangle, but a rectangle is not always a square" moments. JCR seems like it fits into the content identification family; it uniquely identifies content by a hash (in the case of JCR that hash is also a path), but that hash is system dependent. That is, I can't go to a system B and ask for the hash(path) '/foo/bar' and expect to get the same content as I would on system A.

Cryptographic hashes, on the other hand, make it possible to use the same hash on multiple systems and get the same content (if that content is available).
I remember working with an airline around '01-'02. The CTO was very excited they had migrated all of their network infrastrucutre to new private lines and gotten off of that "terrible 10-dot network".

I asked which private network they switched to and he said "We switched to 11-dot, because no one else uses it and it'll be unique for the future growth of our private network."

Needless to say, he was not pleased to learn it was not private, or unique and was assigned to the DoD.
I reported this to Github privately about a year ago – specifically, I asked why there isn't some visual indication when Git's `user.email` fails to match any of the Github account's verified e-mail addresses. If you commit with a `user.email` that doesn't match _anyone_, you get a little question mark; it seemed like they could do a similar thing when you commit using a `user.email` that matches someone-who-isn't-you. Even just showing which Github user made the HTTP or SSH connection to push the changeset would be an improvement.

The tech told me that the current behavior was by design, and then pretty much said I didn't know how git worked and didn't understand Github's team/sharing/trust philosophy. I was pretty disappointed by their response, all told.
In fact, there is already a Lisp (Common, not Emacs) tiling WM called StumpWM.

If you haven't heard of it yet, it's partly because the Lisp community isn't so embarrassingly insecure and desperate for anything they can pass off as a "killer app" (see Macsyma or Emacs itself) that they feel compelled to shove it down everyone's throat.
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How about just showing who actually made the HTTPS or SSH connection to Github to push the changeset?
The standard linux ssh client also asks for confirmation before sending anything interesting to a new server.
I've found his writing about money to be distorted. For another example, see http://blog.samaltman.com/uber-vs-car-ownership . Not exactly wrong, but always off by significant factors. (Imagine having a concrete pricing conversation!) Maybe a consequence of living on funny money since a ~teen? The advice rings right, just... distorted.
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Pro Tip #1 – Free PPC from Your Hosting Company – AdFortress
http://googler700.blogspot.com/2015/03/stack-and-queue-imple...
Ask HN: What system do you use/recommend for burner numbers?
I'm simultaneously a developer with a (small) amount of savvy, and also someone who finds it convenient to give my number out to people who, in retrospect, I'd rather not give my number to.

Any suggestions for a burner solution? I've tried various android/ iOS solutions but found most lacking (and expensive).
YC Fellowship optimal cut-off from 6500 applicants
Sam Altman said they got 6500 applications.

He expected 1000 for 20 (top 2%) fellowships out of, say, 50 interviews (top 5%), their usual rate of acceptance from interviews being about 40%.

What to do with 6500 applications in order not to miss value? Top 5% is 325 interviews and top 2% is 130 fellowships. Too many to handle, not happening imho.

What would you take as a cut-off then? How would you justify your numbers? Would top 3% interviews (195) and top 1% fellowships (65) be optimal?

Discuss.
Non-paranoia theory: the state wants to make an empty gesture to appease the unruly masses upset about unpopular laws without actually changing them. What a show!

Granted, I am not familiar with German systems for changing laws, but if we doesn't like prosecutors enforcing unjust laws, we should change the laws to make publishing state secrets legal in limited cases (e.g. when it serves a public good), not make show of firing a prosecutor who is enforcing laws and about to retire anyway. It simply isn't wise to rely on prosecutorial discretion for justice to persevere over unjust laws, as that's simply not their role in the judicial system.
http://googler700.blogspot.com/2015/06/learning-gprs.html
It does this for Ebay and flights too. I quite like the Google Now updates from this. That said the Now service seems to be stagnating. I've not seen any improvements for a long time. I quite like my early experience with Cortana on a new MS phone. Looking forward to the software wars on developing better PA devices.
Flat-out the most useful resource in my Philosophy undergraduate work. Any new concept I encountered would be investigated on this website.
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Yes I can confirm that US high schools (public ones at least) do not let their top kids fly freely. I have a high schooler who made USAJMO as an eighth grader (and later USAMO/MOSP as a ninth grader). The high school, which is a top area school, just did not care and insisted that he took Algebra II with the rest of the 9th graders. The school counselor might have been well meaning but was more likely just following the rules. At least the teacher had the wisdom to excuse him from homework after recognizing that he is the real deal, but the system is inflexible enough that he had to sit through the class instead of getting adjusted to one more appropriate for him. His friend who is a national winner of USAMO had to do the same thing in a different school, to the annoyance of the algebra teacher there (how do you even teach a USAMO winner in an Algebra II class?).
Location: Orlando, FL

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Technologies: Java, JavaScript (Node, Angular, jQuery, d3, Grunt, Bower),
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Canadians are one of several invasive nonnative species that are becoming a growing problem here.

The current strategy to combat this is to release sterile Canadians into the wild to reduce herd fertility, adding the release of contraceptives at Sharks and Barracuda games and Digital Moose gatherings as they occur.
It takes some extra clicks but: "These are some of the results of The Harris Poll® of 2,244 U.S. adults surveyed online and in English between March 11 and 16, 2015"

See that "online"? That most likely folks who were enthused enough by this issue tended to be the ones that answered. This is not a protocol to obtain a random sample. And it's a fairly small non-ramdom sample at that.
Sure, if you manage to reconfigure every single gateway you'll ever need to use (and assume that every network has a single gateway).
Presumably, since up further in the CoC you're expected to be welcoming to people of all races/sexes, you can't treat white people like crap. This technically wouldn't be "reverse racism", but should still be prohibited. I have very low expectation that this framing would be recognized though, based on how these things have played out before.

It is also not clear to me if the CoC applies to behavior outside the community, or re. nonmembers.
You can salvage something from that idea: github is in the public eye. If they do something fishy, you'll probably now about it a month later.

So, for your login service you scrap github periodically, and only trust things that have been there a month ago already.

(A bit like ssh being vulnerable to MitM attack on the very first connection, but not afterwards.)
This is a most excellent idea!

Btw, did you actually return incorrect price data, or did you just insert random bytes, etc.?
> It has to be, otherwise the system would not work; what I mean is that you cannot design a crypto currency whose ledger is not public information.

I specifically addressed this misunderstanding in this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twynh6xIKUcat 38:48
while explaining this work: https://people.xiph.org/~greg/confidential_values.txt

You can think of it this way: When you sign a message you prove knoweldge of a private key (discrete log of a particular public key). Everyone can verify the signature, and yet they do not learn anything about the private key they didn't know before seeing the signature.

There is no conflict between verifyability and privacy.
I got to my linux workstation, cloned the git repo and dug into the code. Could not figure out how the limitation worked though. Turned out, it did not - the problem was specific to my mac's git. So yes, you can author files from 1970 - it is not a big deal. Thought it was kind of a weird limitation.
On the whole, this may be true but there are available diverse methods of making inequality more tolerable, many rather independent of growth. If growth soothes covetousness, it is only in a way subject to hedonic treadmill effects. But, education, meditation, medication, censorship and many other tactics could lessen such effects in ways not necessarily subject to diminishing returns.

For example, one can look at these photos in many different ways:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/income-inequality-los-an...

From such a distance, a trailer like the one I was born in does not seem much smaller than a mansion. None of this was around in the year 1491. If I had the only building, say, a trailer, in the state of Wyoming, and then someone builds a mansion that I can see, it does NOT necessarily follow that I suffer more. Besides, never forget, growth is always what creates inequality in the first place. Before the seeds sprout, bean plants are of equal height, and it is nigh impossible to keep them equal in height, although with sophisticated bioengineering or grafting techniques it may be possible.

Cognitive processes, possibly exacerbated by the consumption of deleterious media, can induce suffering in humans at any level of wealth; many are brought to deepest anguish because they cannot live forever, they can believe that "reality is broken" because they maladapt their motivation systems to video games (I'm talking about me here), etc.

Income is becoming more and more equal; some people are upset because this is happening across national borders and think they deserve more pay for the same work because of their birthplace, but I think this is ultimately untenable—it is natural that we are in anguish because our cost-of-living is higher, but it is getting harder and harder to starve. Once we have our daily bread, toleration of life is somewhat up to us.

I think the starkest problem with inequality is the often subconscious worry about attracting a mate, even in those with no intention of procreation. Perhaps this downward pressure on birth rates is unavoidable as carrying capacity is met or exceeded.

As for the fear that the economy must grow or collapse, many economies have shrunk before. Surely, I must admit one could define collapse so as to make "The economy must grow or collapse" a true statement.
How is Interana compared to ELK?
Why I Oppose a General Pardon for Historical Convictions for Homosexual Offences
There's a big difference between the data structures, yes, but the basic logic for message sends is still pretty similar. They both boil down to a simple lookup in a data structure and a jump. Would you really characterize the difference between a vtable and a hash table as "you actually pass a message, that first must be interpreted" in the case of a hash table?
As an Irishman, I can see where she was coming from. I was channel hopping one day and stumbled across a documentary, can't remember what it was about, but the people in it sounded Irish[1], but... off, somehow. There were little accent and vocabulary differences. Then one of them said something utterly Canadian, and that's when I realised that it was actually Newfoundland.

[1] To be precise, like as if they're from the south east, around Wexford and Waterford.
Books with refs to violence: 45 SHOULD, 48 SHOULD NOT
Books with refs to sex: 51 SHOULD, 43 SHOULD NOT
The Bible: 80 SHOULD, 13 SHOULD NOT

For a country of christians, shockingly few seem to have read the bible!
I had the same result, and was rather surprised. It's probably because I have a DSA key.

Aren't these published by github too?
Agreed. When I first started out I never could have guessed it would become my favorite language. Apple did a lot of great things during my tenure writing ObjC - GCD and ARC are probably the best. I couldn't believe how easy it was to write performant code, both for powerful desktops and power-starved mobile devices.

It was the first place (pre-ARC) that I learned to manage my own memory, and the first (pre-GCD) that I learned to be as safe as possible in a multi-threaded environment.

If in fact Swift is the death-knell of Objective-C, I will be sad. I've written C and C++ and Python and Go and Scheme and Lisp and on and on (Java, C#...) and it will remain one of my favorites for years to come.
What does the Java interop look like?
In my day (ca. 2000) there was no "forced to give an F" and in fact it was very common for exam-takers to draw a line, write "everything below this line I did after the time limit", and get partial credit for it.
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If every test takes a minute then the database is probably not the culprit. I would suspect the test suite does something really stupid which a faster database would not fix.

We have a slow, unoptimized test suite (it does some really stupid things) which hits the database in most test cases and it still manages to complete 6166 tests in 4 minutes on my laptop (this includes setting up and tearing down the database).
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There's also another leak which isn't really shown here and that leak is that, with just a public key, you can offer to servers and they'll tell you if it's present or not.

Using this you could scan the internet (given 6-12 hours and a shitty VPS that you can throw away this is quite possible) for someone's public key to find all of their servers, which could lead to a bypass of DDoS protection, identification of a Tor hidden service, etc.
Also an Idaho resident. I, too, am very grateful this got struck down. Just like I was glad when same-sex marriage was legalized with Butch being so against it. I absolutely love Idaho, but I very much dislike our Governor. Unfortunately he rarely does what the people want, and only makes decisions based on his own beliefs and sponsors, as you mentioned.
I guess I don't understand where Erlang would fit in your (my) stack.

If you want to handle millions->billions of external client connections, you may want to be able to pack as many on to a machine as possible to reduce costs (the difference between paying for 5,000 machines vs 10,000 machines). If you want these to be secure connections (which I do), there is significant CPU overhead in encrypting and decrypting all network traffic. Even if you aren't doing encryption work, there is still significant CPU work in managing large numbers of sockets. Implementations may also vary significantly in the amount of memory required to support the connection, affecting costs and machine count.
> What you say makes no sense. There is a server , you just don't manage it yourself.

Specifically, each Lambda function is a containerized app...
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> pumping water into high reservoirs (don't know the english name)

It's just pumped storage! :) Easy to remember.

But yeah there's a lot of things. Pumped storage is a big one, The International Renewable Energy Agency in their roadmap for 2030 for example call for just 150 GW of battery storage, but a whooping 325 GW of pumped storage.

There's other ones, too. One of them is storing thermal, heat energy in caverns, or in rocks. You can then extract when you need to, so you could take wind energy at night when there is barely any demand and use it to electrically heat up rocks, and store the energy for the next day.

Molten salts is similar but different.

Ice, same thing for air conditioning purposes. At night you use excess electricity and essentially run a big fridge on your roof to create ice, and then use that to cool the air during the day.

Those are all thermal storage. Then there's say pressure based storage, like compressing air and releasing it when you want to.

Flywheels are also a thing, you have a wheel and rotate it really fast using energy, and then just slow it down and capture the energy when you want to. It sounds pretty ridiculous but it works and there's various ways to reduce friction.
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"he has +300 employees, you can't personally monitor everyone all of the time"

This is complete and utter bullshit. The whole animal cruelty issue has been in the news for years and to say you did nothing to investigate your own operations or do anything to monitor the activity is negligence. I saw the video too!

I have a friend in the Dairy business with around 150 employees. His entire operation is video monitored around the clock.

I just don't buy arguments like this. I see them as excuses. Your friend may be a good person and all but not doing more to prevent the bad apples is just no excuse in my book.

The sad thing is people need to be kept in check. For if the video never came out, this dairyman would probably have continue business as usual since he never bothered to do his own audits or install video surveillance.
> But that's exactly how you presented their supposed argument: "Caltech students don't cheat because they're not representative of the general student population"

No, its not, which is why you had to present a "quote" that isn't to advance that story.

I presented how they would reject an argument from the general population, not positive argument for the absence of cheating at Caltech.
Coincidentally, there is another thread going on right now, "A Eulogy for Objective-C".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10003438

Since Obj-C is considered a descendent of Smalltalk, it's pros and cons are briefly mentioned as to the motivation behind Obj-C.

Here's an excerpt:

But there was a problem, once again, with this idea of the whole image that took over everything. You had to really swallow the whole Smalltalk build, you had to go all the way in to this world, and you were going to give up everything you had ever done before to become part of the Smalltalk image. Then, when you were done, you would ship this image to people, they would start it up on their computers, and it would take over everything.
you are... not alone.
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This appears to be a press release, not actual content.
Hardware vendors have been releasing incremental updates for 3 decades. You aren't supposed to buy every year.

In what world do you think it's a good idea for vendors to not upgrade hardware?
What? I'm born and raised outside Vancouver and now live in Los Angeles. There is definitely a difference between my lack of accent and Canadians in BC. but yes, they don't sound like my ex-pat colleague from Nova Scotia
Why is the US DoD permitted to own a /8? They are the greatest force against peace and for suffering the world has ever known. Their robots kill civilians daily and they have compromised the security of the Internet for the sole purpose of expanding and maintaining their power. Every ISP has a duty to block traffic to and from 11/8 until such a time as the DoD relinquishes it to the proper authorities for distribution to legitimate users.
I love mailinator!

However tricking site scrappers may not work perfectly if the site scrappers maintained a list of websites in their "whitelist". Say if I am scrapping mailinator.com for domain names, if I see gmail.com or yahoo.com, I might just not put them in my database because they are in my whitelist.
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To be honest, unless the creators are in on it too, this still reflects poorly on Philly and the US as a whole.
Is creating a new nation for the world's refugees a good idea?
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Yeah, the point of docker is you build one image, test that, and share it around and that image should always work. The build is a different story.
Yup. Canadians often pronounce "a" as "ah" vs. "awh". A great is example of the Mazda brand. It's mahz-dah in Canada, but moz-duh in the US. Even the commercials pronounce it differently in each country.
Even if it's a Chinese person asking in Chinese, the results can differ dramatically merely if they're seen to be accompanied by a non-Chinese person. If you want the best deal, not only have a native ask for you, but hide before they do!
By academic, I meant academic problems that Swift solves such as increased type safety...

Not academic research as in we did a study of developers who write iOS apps and determined that type safety as implemented in swift helps great developers write apps faster. (F# on the other than has a great type system that doesn't get in your way)
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Yes, but please, do not put it near Israël.
"On any given day, in any police department in the nation, 15 percent of officers will do the right thing no matter what is happening. Fifteen percent of officers will abuse their authority at every opportunity. The remaining 70 percent could go either way depending on whom they are working with."

- from http://www.vox.com/2015/5/28/8661977/race-police-officer

So if K.L. Williams, "who has trained thousands of officers around the country in use of force", is right, the 15% bad actors (your "overwhelming minority") turns into 85%. That is consistent with not just the survey troym links to, but the experiences described by those people victimized by police injustice. I doubt many HN readers are in that population.