skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"this completely ignores other scenarios where people want to be hit with hot/cold and don't care what the actual temp is, or that the temp doesn't measure the sun hitting you on your bare arm constantly making you feel hotter than you actually are."

Exactly! I hate the ubiquity of automatic climate control systems these days. Everyone that has a car equipped with one just uses the "set point" knob like regular manual controls. It's full cold, full hot, or off with "in-between" settings managed via fan speed. They don't work for the reason you've stated even when used "properly".

I've also noticed that most systems refuse to switch off the A/C compressor unless you choose a set point several degrees above ambient. It's a waste of gas, especially when it's 68-70F with low humidity outside.
> This is an attempted advertisement for Ansible

Even though the author clearly states he uses Docker?
Growth is just change in total spending (= total selling). Less spending by one of the biggest spenders means less growth. The is the essence of "fiscal policy"[1]. Of course much of this is offset by the the need to fund this spending through borrowing, taxes or printing money (i.e. inflation) - at least eventually.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_policy
That's the reason I used "quasi-monopoly" above and laws talk about "dominant market position".
I never said it was a smart philosophy :)

That said, it's arguably easier to intercept and replace a CD-ROM traveling on the Internet than to intercept and replace a CD-ROM traveling in a padded envelope between the UK and wherever you're having it shipped to (though various entities - like U.S. customs - could do so trivially, other entities would have to go through the extra trouble of bribing customs - not impossible, but it's a barrier to entry for quite a few potential attackers). Such an interception also requires good timing, lest you be sitting around somewhere for a few days waiting for the package to arrive at the particular point in the shipping route you're waiting at.

Plus, if I remember right, the physical OpenBSD media is done using a proper CD press. While plenty of people could conceivably access such a press, that's yet another step an attacker would need to take to create a convincing forgery.

Really, though, this just highlights why software distribution is such a difficult thing to pull of securely. The ideal solution would be to drive to Calgary and pay Theo de Raadt to burn you a CD-ROM, but I'm not sure how receptive he is to houseguests :)
Is there an issue on github I can subscribe to for this?
Really? Remember Lantern is only an HTTP proxy. It can't access web sites that are blocked from your work?
I think that you're think of the homeless who "sleep in the rough." There are many, many homeless and near-homeless people who do not fit the prototypical image of a homeless street person, and these are the type of people who are greatly affected by rising rents.
Yes, Google has full control. That's why Google doesn't have to deal with DMCA requests (after all, he's just pointing to other links, right?), that "Right to be forgotten" nonsense and now this thing. /s

When a site is small, it's easy to control its content. When a site is considered to be the standard for something (like Google is for searching the web), then it has to deal with these kinds of things.
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> This is impossible

Well, yes, rational choice theory is based on premises which are known to be impossible, but which are analytically convenient and which produce models which are (at least, argued to be) useful approximations of real world behavior.
To convert between binary and Gray, take the xor of adjacent bits. It works in both directions.
With the exception of "Named parameters, a life sentence." every argument work for a Lisp based language as Racket for instance.
Good points, though BMW, specifically, hasn't had the greatest reliability record. Which is pretty appalling for an upscale brand (I am giving the Tesla a pass for now, since its tech is new and different).

That's why Lexus (reliability + interiors) is the bees knees. :-)
It is often difficult to know what balance one actually has unless one does all their accounting by hand.

This is absolutely not the fault of anyone but the account holder - even the most honest and pro-consumer bank out there will have issues with this just due to the way finance works.

Example - say you buy a pizza on delivery with your debit card. The card gets "authorized" right then and there (but the money hasn't gone), and your bank will show a difference between ledger balance and available balance. Now assume you wrote a tip on the receipt, and now the discrepancy further grows. Your bank shows you have sort-of balance-pizzaa, but it's actually balance-pizza and an invisible tip until the pizza join runs the batch hours or days later.

The responsible person will know how much money they have, and deduct pizza-tip from their ledger the moment they pay it - no ifs ands or buts.

You think that's ok

Never said that. Again, you seem to think it's impossible to believe that banks are bastards and simultaneously believe that people often act counter to their own best interests.
"How can they have so many poor people when the total population of the county was 9,818,605 in 2010 according to Wikipedia?"

"The Census Bureau does not produce or publish a total count of the homeless population[0]."

So it is very likely the 9.8M you quoted for the total population is off. An additional factor is that this number does not likely include immigrants who may not wish to be counted for social or legal reasons. Whereas the 9M "county residents" probably did include many homeless and/or immigrant residents.

FTA, "9 million county residents who received public assistance at any point between 2002 and 2010."

That's a total count of distinct residents over 8 years. The 2000 census shows a population of about 9.3M[2]. But that .5M increase isn't just people who moved (or were born) in the county. Due to geographic mobility/migration[1], births, deaths, etc, the people who lived in LA county in 2002 are not necessarily the same people who lived in LA county in 2010.

FTA, "who received public assistance at any point ... 2007 to 2010 recession also drove many out of their homes".

Just about everyone I knew took government assistance during the recession. Whether it was food stamps, mortgage help, school lunches, unemployment or whatever. So the statistics maybe a little skewed since it contains a period of significant recession. (unemployment isn't technically public assistance, because an employee pays into it, but for people I know, it's still lumped in the same category as the other types of help)

[0] - https://www.census.gov/2010census/news/releases/operations/c...
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_mobility#In_the_Uni...
[2] - http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/00_SF1/DP...
How Nebia Is Leveraging the Research of Giants to Disrupt Static Consumer Spaces
Just saying. If you haven't already, I'd definitely send them a bug report and dmesg; that all seems very abnormal.
If that's what this specific set of objections are about, then the article does a spectacularly bad job of explaining the issue.

This seems simple enough to be handled by a site AUP. If Yelp's AUP said their content could only be used be aggregators in the case where it was clearly linked back, then it would be up to Google to comply or not use the data in an infringing manner.

If Google attempts to strong-arm Yelp, it's up to Yelp to capitulate or buckle down, but a case on what someone "threatened" to is different than a case on what was actually done. In the U.S. laws often take a while to challenge in court because they have to actually be exercised before they can be challenged.
>Tesla wins by far in terms of...luxury

Except it doesn't. One of the biggest complaints about the Model S is that its interior belongs in a specced-up Accord, not an S-class competitor.
Can You Solve This? [video]
It doesn't look like a particularly radical change from any other so called modern curly bracket language to me. It also doesn't seem to have any native multitasking/multiprogramming features, at least none were mentioned on the Swift2 summary page. Anyway, what sort of students are we talking about here? If they are physics or engineering students then they will have to learn whichever language that the tools they use needs, if they are CS students then surely the language itself is one of the objects to be studied in which case there ought to be more than one.
I agree with everything you say except for the "easily" part. Sometimes you have to make a cognitive effort; said effort is by definition harder than not making the effort. But the payoff may be worthwhile!

I don't subscribe to the notion that for something to be worthwhile, it must be readily apparent and "easy" to understand. Especially in the context of FP, where most programmers -- but this is changing, thankfully! -- are traditionally trained in imperative languages, which means for them learning the FP "purist" mindset implies a significant effort.

My grandmother (R.I.P.) could never learn how to use an ATM. For her, using one was daunting and too much of an effort. It terrified her that she might make a mistake and push the wrong button. Back when she was young, ATMs didn't exist and she didn't need them. Her solution in modern days was to ask a helpful relative to use the ATM for her. Does this mean these hellish machines are "a solution in search of a problem"?
Cross-Compiling a Bootable GNU Hurd Image from Linux
> do you ask them to leave the city because there isn't anywhere they can afford to live?

I would expect most people in that situation to make that call on their own. Personally, if my choices were to live in a homeless shelter in SF or in an apartment in Cleveland, I'd head east. But the point is that the City does have a lot of programs to help people who have a job and family in SF but can't afford market-rate housing. Someone in that situation has many options, of which leaving the City is only one. Someone lying in a pool of vomit on Tehama St. waiting for his fourth SFFD pickup of the day doesn't have any of those options.
I don't follow your logic. He said it justified a quick end to the war against a strong adversary. Iraq barely put up fight against the American war machine. If anything, Bush and Cheney wanted it to go on a little longer so they could funnel some more money to their military-industrial buddies. I'd hate to sound like some talking-points liberal but at this point I think that part is already accepted as fact.
I wasn't referring only to Windows 10 with the "new strategy" comments. Microsoft have been pushing away from traditional server/workstation software towards more on-line services, consumption over creation, and mysterious cloudy things for the past few years, with Windows 8 and Office 365 for example, as well as purely cloud-based services like OneDrive. But Windows 10 seems to be the betting-the-farm move on the OS side, with a degree of permanent connectivity and reliance on remote services for some of its basic operations that is new, and a degree of compulsory updating and privacy intrusion that is also far beyond any previous Windows version.

Nothing about this seems like something I want as a user, but in this discussion my point is that very little about it seems like something I'd want if I were Microsoft either. It's playing away from their strengths and proven successes, and into the two fields (on-line services and mobile) where they have consistently lagged behind and had their lunch eaten by other big players.
Mailinator's API: Closing the Loop for QA
Maybe after they open source Swift they'll have some free time to work on Steve Jobs' announcement that FaceTime would be an open video calling standard.

Swift is not open source. It might be in the future, and if they do follow through, the release is slated for "later this year." I hope they do, but I also can't blame anyone who decides to wait and see.
I'd also argue that a super simple language like Scheme (or stripped-down Racket) would be pretty close to ideal for a pure intro class.

Introductions should be about learning how to reason about abstractions, and how to transform problem-solving from what's going on in your head into code. When you start out with something so rigid like C or Java you really confine a student's ability to reason about a problem because there's so much syntax to keep track of.
Sure, but which world do we live in?
Michael Karesh sort of calls out Tesla for producing such a problematic vehicle in today's TrueDelta email update. After the 2015 Lincoln MKC, it's the worst new car on the survey out of dozens of models.

Repair rates are hovering at 90 repairs per 100 cars for all Model Ss, 2013 - today. 2014's is, ironically, 102 repairs per 100 cars. Compare that to repair rates of 30/100 being average (Minis) for new cars and 1-3/100 being good (Toyotas and their ilk).

http://www.truedelta.com/Tesla-Model-S/reliability-1095
> make a mere subclaim that the logical school will prevail.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but if you mean that programmers will write code in languages that are directly tied to logical proofs (through the type system), then I'll take that bet.

> E.g., how many advanced physicists today are using their own, highly divergent language for writing their theories (not their code, notably).

Writing programs is not (or no longer) a scientific endeavor. I think software development is much more similar to the work of an architect. Some crucial parts can and must be verified sufficiently, others may have different MTBF requirements, other aspects are just aesthetic, very often you need to cut corners to meet budget and time requirements, and above all, your approach must be pragmatic and take into consideration that the building will need to be maintained and renovated by people other than you -- people with varying qualifications -- long after you've moved on to other projects.

> desire to get things done over getting them done consistently or well.

Perhaps, but what makes you think this desire will change? (I don't think it should change, but that's a different issue)
Even on OSX it's not all done in PID 1; the post isn't quite right about that. I believe plist parsing is done by launchctl, not in launchd itself.
I'm concerned about adding ngnix to the system as that's a fairly significant change to a working system. There are a lot of variables and sites involved.

I've considered reverse-proxying entirely within Apache to avoid adding ngnix another layer. But this really hinders some of the advantages of node which makes me wonder if it's worth even doing. It seems like node is best when it can handle the requests directly.

Your advice here is pretty much the most common answer.
Hadn't heard of Harvey before. Looks like an interesting take on Plan 9; I'll definitely have to try that one out.
North Dakota Bill Versions: HB 1328 (actual text and video of drone bill)
> I also think that .NET is not a good starting language

Well, that's sort of obvious, in that .NET is a platform for which many languages (VB.NET, C#, F#, Python, etc.) are available, not a language.
I don't deny the utility of bikes. But does 'sharing' just become 'giving bikes away to early commuters'? Because essentially the same people are getting the neighborhood bikes every day.
What I'd really like to see, and Tesla is already beginning to do it, is modular, upgrade-able cars.

Like, a new engine, better in-car entertainment, better sound system, seat-heating, cruise control, distance control, semi/full automatic driving... if I could e.g. buy a stripped down Tesla as a student which I can then (given, of course, I don't crash it) upgrade over its lifetime as I put some money aside, instead of having to buy an entirely new car when the old one is still perfectly functioning.
python code to generate this thing:

def graytree(n):
for row in range(n, 0, -1):
d = 2**(row-1)
yield ''.join(str(((i+d)>>row)%2) for i in range(2**n))

for r in graytree(6):
print(r)
> hochreiter is genius!

It's really impressive to me how farsighted his work on LSTMs was.

In any case, I'm glad you liked the post.
It has hit a few news outlets, but they seem to be incapable of linking to the actual text and video of the bill.
It's certainly not required by a any means - if people are good and do their jobs well, then you don't need that. It might be harder to recruit people in some cases if they don't care about your product or service at all, though. There are some industries / technologies I don't have any interest in, and wouldn't work for companies involved in them. So there is some value in having employees care.
Just made one: https://github.com/flarum/core/issues/274
That ! cracked me up. I was yelling mentally.
They can regulate whatever they want. Tomorrow they might pass a law that makes it illegal to display the Google logo. That has no impact on Google's rights.

In some countries, women are not allowed to leave the house unless accompanied by a man. We recognize that women do have the right to do so, and that countries that disagree are stupid and wrong.
The amount of money SF spends on homeless people is outrageous.

$230M / 6,700 homeless = >$34K per homeless person per year
Doesn't the design philosophy of a complex piece of software matter? Doesn't consistency of philosophy provide power by enabling separate pieces to integrate smoothly?

There's a legitimate discussion about tradeoffs to be had, sure. But at least since Fred Brooks it's been quite clear that conceptual integrity is valuable. And the concepts behind Unix have been shown to be consistent and powerful; Plan 9 demonstrated that there's still unexploited potential there.

The Unix philosophy argument may be wrong in a particular case, but it shouldn't be derisively dismissed.
I came in here to say that pricing yourself at $10 (or even 20) is de-valuing yourself for a potential great product.

IMO the maker of this should charge $40+, which feels like the range that a good email client could easily be worth. We're all still suffering with terrible, bloated free email clients!

(Chuckled when I see one commenter was saying how expensive it is! I guess that's why I shy away from b2c sales).
A Tesla requires more forethought and effort for long trips. I won't dispute that.

But my point is that for a gas car, getting gas and not running out of a gas is a constant thing even when you're not on a long trip.

When I had a gas car, every so often I would get in the car ready to drive 60 miles out to the countryside or something and realize, nuts, I need to get gas on the way.

I never let this happen to myself, but I see friends suddenly realize they need to stop and get gas while on a local drive of maybe 40 miles round trip.

And even if you're on top of things and never let it happen, you're still spending a few minutes every week filling up the car.

With an EV, for any trip that's within the range of the car, it's zero effort and zero thought. EV owners definitely don't have to "constantly be planning in advance." For 99% of drives you don't have to even think about it. Just unplug and go. For the 1% of the time you're making trips, then you have to think about it.

My point is simply that the EV isn't worse in this way, it's just different. It's a tradeoff. If, like most people, you mostly do local driving with very occasional road trips, the EV will be less effort overall, not more.
Well, sure. I don't really mean we don't care about the path, we care quite a bit about the path, mainly that it gets from point A to point B directly and doesn't hit things, and that it is somewhat as smooth as possible (easy on the actuators to follow). We have a 3d map of the environment we build from the ground robot to directly test against while we are flying to make sure we don't hit things.
There are many different Googles.
The anecdotes are totally useless. You could replace "For 999 days [the airbnb founders] didn't see traction. But, they believed." with "For 999 days [the airbnb founders] didn't see traction. But, they brushed their teeth." and walk convinced that dental hygiene is somehow key to success.
All 3 aren't widely used in the EU. Especially not in Germany where the people from the EU who said these things coming from.
Also the biggest price aggregator from Germany, Austria and others, are still rising and rising according to Alexa.
I mean less people go through searches to these sites however thats caused by the fact that they have a really easy name.

What the EU government does is toxic. It does what it get's told by smaller companies that aren't satisfied with their sales. Thats more than toxic since it changes the free market, however thats what the european government always did, they don't make goods for the people they make goods for the money.
Because ten women and one man can give birth to ten babies every 9 months (the next generation will be hideous, but one step at a time!). Ten men and one woman can only give birth to one baby in the same time period.
PoloTech – The next evolution of wearable technology
Global sea levels rise three inches: Is that a lot?
EnterpriseOps
Thanks.

That website also has links by car (to see how a particular car does across different racetracks). The Tesla P85D page is here:

http://fastestlaps.com/cars/tesla_model_s_p85d.html

Not very many runs yet, but we can get a glimpse of how it is doing from the four tracks listed.
Programming Challenge: spreadsheets vs. code. Which is faster?
>But we still need to factor in X and Y sometimes because there will always be areas where that X or Y advantage will cause disparity.

But why do we care about gender anymore than disparities that are the result of different X and Y when the population is divided by f. Why is f = gender treated differently than f = height, eye color, parental income, weight, amount of time spent playing games per week > 10, number of veggies grown in the garden last year < 20, or any other metric we can come up with?

10% of people have gene ABC123, then 10% of every group must be made up of people with that gene? Only madness lies down that path.
"The internal management application of this is that it’s always a bad idea to set one’s employees too much against one another. You want to find ways to differentiate people’s roles. Frame it this way: If you were a sociopathic boss who wanted to create trouble for your employees, the formula you would follow would be to tell two people to do the exact same thing. That’s a guaranteed formula for creating conflict. If you’re not a sociopath, you want to be very careful to avoid this."

Love this quote. Especially relevant in large organizations, where the probability of such conflicts occurring by chance increases with headcount. And it's especially worse when execs encourage it.
Admittedly, navigating bureaucracy and discovering relevant available services does seem to fall within the wheelhouse of library science.
Swift is inherently tied to the OS X / iOS APIs (just as Objective-C is). It's a one platform language and will never be (and never intended to be) a general purpose language for all platforms.
Tame explosive growth with elastic databases
Many Psychology Findings Not as Strong as Claimed, Study Says
That is true. As we all know, if you use Google, you're the product being sold.
When did parents get so scared?
Earth-Like Alien World Could Have Vast Oceans
I'm curious, for those who oppose the nuking of Japan---would you also oppose the hypothetical nuking of Germany before Normandy?