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but they are not a cuddly

most types are not, but if you ever have the chance try to get to know KuneKune pigs. They are rather small, hairy, friendly domesticated pigs originally from New Zealand. See [1] for some pictures. Anyway they are very cuddly, for example when I call ours (whistling works but they usually see/hear/smell me before I need to call them) they'll come running over. If you then start petting their back they lay themselves on their side because they want you to rub their belly. If you sit down they'll try to come sit on your lap.

[1] http://americankunekunepigsociety.com/color
He does mention in the comments that he only published the story once he was out of the country. Certainly publishing it while in Mexico would be courting disaster.
I'm a student with an OSS project, so that's good to hear. As long as you have this great policy about OSS, I can't complain!
This is a bit of a click-bait heading; and it makes me click on the article. But then the only thing I'm interested in is what those 10 lines of code are (before reading anything). I scroll through, don't seem them, and loose interest. I know this is a bit off-topic, but maybe getting people to click on one's article isn't the most useful metric to optimize for.
The technical founders of Google, Facebook, even Apple all went to world class schools.
Yeah. Lately there's been a lot of people recommending that you just copy and paste code. Dependency management for the future.
It's unfortunate, but this is typical behavior. I really wish it would stop, though.
This. There is a very big difference between unifying tribes and unifying nations.

W.r.t. the Commonwealth, even then the Commonwealth fell apart for three major reasons, viz., the so-called Swedish Deluge, the Khmelnytsky Uprising and the abuse of the liberal political system by the nobility with foreign meddling playing a major role. The second was ethno-religious in nature and the third driven in part by conflicting interests. (Indeed, the Polish Enlightenment differed from the Enlightenment in the West precisely because it dealt with the problem of too much or misallocated freedom.) The dispersion of military might among private armies (in some cases the sizes of private armies of wealthy magnates rivaled the royal armies in size) coupled with conflicting interests prevented the Commonwealth from being able to mount a coherent and unified defense against Russian, Prussian and Austrian dismemberment, and ultimately destruction, of the state. And while it lasted, even though the Commonwealth was a vastly freer place that permitted the peaceful coexistence of many different ethnic groups and religions, it nonetheless was held together by a dominant group with a dominant ethos, viz., the Polish nobility.

In other words, empires suffer from tension when they impose their will on the constituting nations, but they also suffer from a lack of coherent and unified interests among its members. The EU suffers from both.

On the one hand, you have the federalist impulse wishing to beat member states into submission by asserting a "soft" German dominance over the continent against the wishes of its members. On the other hand, you have the same politicians possessed by this impulse maintaining that they respect the individuality and alleged sovereignty of each state. We respect cultural differences, but we completely ignore them when gerrymandering policies. All members are equally important, but our policies favor the interests of certain members over others and have in place a voting system that privileges might over collaboration. The migrant crisis undermines the Schengen Zone. The Greek crisis undermines the euro zone. Nord Stream undermines the idea of common energy policy. The Ukrainian crisis undermines the idea of common foreign policy. It's easy to wallow in shallow sentiments in the absence of crises, but it is precisely during crises that the substance of such unions is revealed. The truth is that the EU is creeping dangerously toward a point of no return. Instead of serving as a platform for nations to find common ground and collaborate for mutual benefit, it has contributed to the opposite through its incompetence, its arrogance and its Brummagem unity concealing the real political interests at play.
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> The ones they end up taking are just as good

I disagree with this sentiment. humans are individuals and unique. none is "just as good" as another. each is different. the college admissions process treats human beings as fungible commodities. like ears of corn at the grain silo.

> The schools have a huge incentive to admit students who will succeed. They have no incentive to admit all such students.

what does succeed mean? some of the most well-regarded members of our society were poor students, or dropped out of college when they were young. some of our most damaging criminals were excellent students and graduated from Ivy League schools with honors.
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This is a great point and illustrates that Harvard tries to get people at the peak of their academic/intellectual careers.

By comparison, a lot of the people they miss out on, tend to develop later in life. Steve Jobs didn't turn Apple around until 1997 when he was 42. Obama didn't get serious about public service until he was in his 30's after being a lecturer at the University of Chicago.
I like the idea, but I am not sure how stressful it is on the animals with that flashy screen.

It could be nice if the screen was a place where they could choose to play, not directly where they live as it seems to be on the video.

It could be interesting to test out different feedback, like smells, sounds or maybe even haptic feedback.
The problem it's not a tool that actually monitor activity on the network at all, you are better off getting a router with 3rd party firmware support or a slightly better home router which many even come with SNMP these days.
4.85 milliteslas. Too bad the unit usage in the business is a bit wonky.
That's what I thought this was going to be. A relay DHCP server seems cumbersome.
I dunno...I'd imagine it wasn't too much different (barring the introduction of broadcast and other mass communication). There was polite, "courtly" speech and there was "vulgar", common speech. Just like today, you can go to any bar or playground or even plenty of workplaces and hear people swearing or using other language among their peers which would deemed impolite in other situations. In the same way, medieval citizens probably wouldn't call the local lord a fucker to his face or swear in church (or to their grandma) but they certainly did among peers.

How you talk to friends versus how you talk to those in positions of authority or respect is probably one of the first examples of "code switching" many of us learn as children.
This is a great point. I love iOS, and would buy real tools for it, but I'm reluctant to shell out $50+ for a tool that I know will get six months to a year of updates before the dev makes a new version, cripples the old one with popups and OS update breakage, and I pay full price for it again. Not to mention that I'm buying on faith, as there's no way to test before the cash changes hands.

If Apple ever wants iOS to have anything Pro about it, it's going to need to offer optional paid upgrades and timed demo periods.
I've moved away from Keep for one reason: Keep on Android downloads everything. One day I was trying to figure out where my space went and found Keep with hundreds of megabytes in space used. I was it was a true cloud service.
Don't most routers support SNMP? Seems like another good vector for data.
As they say, the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire.
Show HN: Yupp, yet another C preprocessor
Very cool! I really hate getting a bunch of visio flow charts to describe processes - those aren't things that I can easily modify without having the proper application. Does anybody know of other tools that take some sort of simple language and converts it into a flow like this?
I will check it out, very thoughtful!
I believe you about openWRT awesomeness, but unfortunately, my router isn't fully compatible, so I tried to come up with an alternative.
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Reads nicely until page 20 when things start getting redacted. Why would that be since the court found these things oughtn't be legally withheld?

edit: Ah, the blog post explains the order doesn't go into effect for 90 days.

https://www.calyxinstitute.org/news/federal-court-invalidate...
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Some places rear dog breeds for meat. Mostly they are for special occasions as they tend to be on the expensive side. While westerners aren't used to eating dog, it's not that unusual in some other places. These places also do enjoy pet dogs, and the dogs aren't interchangeable, they breed specific ones for meat.
> Pigs are smart; way smarter than dogs.

Show me a pig that can herd sheep with the help of humans whistling and shouting words.

> I guess dogs must not taste very good, or we should be eating them instead.

A couple of Swiss cantons would disagree: http://www.thelocal.ch/20121227/dogs-still-eaten-in-switzerl...
That's fucked up (and here goes my karma).

As a human being you don't need a real live creature to play on your touch-enabled device du jour to get the same `entertainment'. What's in for the pigs ? Forget that, it'd be even more fucked up if the pig was rewarded for playing with colors on the wall (because don't fool yourself, those flashes of light are going to be stressful in the long term).

You want to get back to basics and connect with a pig ? Even - wow! - feed them with apples, breads or old lettuce ?

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edit: No, I am not a PETA poster boy, I like meat.

edit2: could someone kickstart or crowfund something to give those pigs a fucking straw litter ? How about paying for the game and buy something for the whole group of pigs.
No but when the GPS tells you to drive into the lake, you shouldn't drive into the lake.
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Well of course: they prescribe an enormous laundry list of things you must do to be accepted and they accept the ones who restructure their entire lives and personalities (or their parents force them to do this) so they may obey. They select for obedience to authority and so they get the obedient.
One correction: Futures are not necessarily run on a separate thread pool. If that were always true, they would offer no performance advantage over the thread-per-function or thread-per-request model, and would burden us with more complex code.

The advantage of futures comes when they are used in conjunction with AIO, they provide a decent abstraction for dealing with it. The performance benefits come from using AIO, Futures just provide a convenient way to deal with the results.

If Play was built on Tomcat instead of Netty, and you made various blocking calls inside the functions called by the Futures, you wouldn't get any performance benefits.
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I acknowledge that this could be completely invalid, but a Halloween mask sits in a closet, while a Facebook/Twitter follow can be (assuming the user or the algorithm don't bury it) more powerful than any campaign link to voters, well, ever.

They're already breaking rules of past elections where a "gaffe" would be endlessly regurgitated by news anchors until the candidate agreed to a heartfelt exclusive sit-down apology with some network. Trump (perhaps unwittingly) has figured out that the direct relationship of social media makes that irrelevant, and is taking full advantage by belittling his social media inferiors.

The candidates with good followings are basically getting free focus group testing - I wouldn't be surprised if Trump ran with immigration after floating dozens of wild causes and noticing that immigration had a particular resonance.
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The EU parliament doesn't elect, if you don't understand the difference between appointment and confirmation I can't help you.

The EU council and commission can issue directives, decisions and regulations without involving the EU parliament, the EUP is mostly for show it's opinions and recommendations are shafted there's a good reason why it looks like a circus filled with Neo-Nazi's/Fascists and Marxists (or at least that's how the extreme right and left like to call each other) with representation which is completely skewed from the geo-political reality within each member state.

The EUP still haven't degraded to the point of being a utter kangaroo court like the UNGC but it's not that far. If you think otherwise there's no point of continue to discuss it but if you follow EU politics you can easily see where the power lies and how and by whom pan-European policy is driven: hint it's not the greens, the pirates and the golden dawns in the EUP.
Can someone explain the purpose of this database? The page doesn't give any hints.

(I get it's math-related, but what is it useful for?)
"Just as good" in the sense of "equally viable on the scale used by admissions", not in the capital-G sense of Good or in a hypothetical "equally valuable as human beings" sense. Yes, they are different, but those differences are often not relevant to the task set before the admissions committee.
There was mobile communication. Skywalker and C-3PO used a 'comlink' to communicate when Skywalker, etc. were in the garbage mashers. And the Storm Troopers use a comlink, which has a transmitter that breaks down often enough that the Command Office wasn't suspicious when TX-four-one-two couldn't respond.

On Hoth, Skywalker on his Tauntaun uses a comlink to talk with Solo. And Solo uses a pocket comlink to talk with Transport to say that he and Leia have been blocked by a collapse of the ice corridor and will be using the Falcon to leave Hoth.

There are other examples of comlinks used as practical mobile communication about equivalent to a compact walkie-talkie.
> Great colleges are extremely hard, and in top programs kids are always fighting for life to not get kicked out.

This is a lie when it comes to non-technical degrees at elite colleges like Harvard. Most people get A's. It's a joke.

Edit: source: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/12/3/grade-inflation-...
Worth pointing out that Rand Paul has 2.06 million likes and he's polling at 2.7%.
Dogs are regularly eaten in some parts of Asia.

Allegedly this practice goes on in America, without the consumer's knowledge.
Discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10217555
> It is a tragedy how politicians decide to use their brain in general.

The terms "politician" and "brain", when put together, result in a null pointer.

A problem has been detected and Congress has been shut down
to prevent damage.

DRIVER_IRQ_POLITICIAN_ATTEMPTED_TO_USE_BRAIN

If this is the first time you see this Exception: BrainUseAttempt
message, restart Congress. If this screen appears again, follow
these steps:

....
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I might have started with DOT. I get that this is more specialized, though. Nice work.
Didn't he start at Occidental and transfer to Columbia?
Short attention spans are good
When battery gets low enough, a sleeping MacBook [Pro] will actually wake up from sleep and hibernate to disk all by itself.

(terminology: 'sleep' is suspend to RAM, requires battery to keep active. 'hibernate' is suspend to disk, no battery required after RAM copied to HD—obviously requires enough HD space to run the persistence.)
What happens if you violate one of these orders?
That, and because development is way easier.
There are some routers providing these information through their web interface, but I haven't found anyone that provides these info through SSH. Any ideas how I could grab that information?
It's largely a guesstimate (open only to around a third of neighbourhoods in a country with population <300M; assume less than 1% of potential user base of ~100M is active on a daily basis) and so entirely possible I'm wrong, though I think my penetration figures are reasonable for this type of network, particularly with the company afaik purposely not announcing any impressive engagement metrics or milestones for user numbers.
I don't like some of Uber's ethics but its execution overall has been exceptional. There is one impressive technical component around matching up riders along the same route. Otherwise, the Uber service is mostly just well-executed technology. But where Uber is way beyond others is operations, scale, marketing, etc. All worthy characteristics even if they don't resonate so much with a pure technical crowd.

Also, on a gross basis, Uber's 20-25% take rate makes it wildly profitable.
"people just aren't interested in the guy" isn't accurate - "people who use social media aren't interested in the guy" is. The candidates with low numbers on social media seem to also be the candidates whose supporters are less likely to be on social media.
gb is promising, but doesn't feel like the complete solution quite yet.

The author only hesitantly added support for managing dependencies, which is done through a separate "plugin", gb-vendor. It maintains an internal manifest file which only the gb-vendor tool is supposed to manage. It's not like NPM or Ruby's Bundler where you the manifest file (package.json, Gemfile) is what you edit to produce the vendor tree. Support for branches and tags seems to missing, as does any notion of versioning, so of course semver is not on the table.

I understand the Unix philosophy of keeping dependency management and building separate tools, but I suspect that what most Go developers want is a fully integrated solution. I know I do.
I think the interview is worth watching entirely as it's so much more than a rejection from an elite institution such as Harvard. Rejection from KFC, from even middle school -- these stories are just as powerful if not much more so.
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(OP) Good idea - FWIW the numbers look proportionately the same if filtered through that.

Interestingly, Hillary actually towers over Sanders in terms of authentic Twitter follows.
I worked for a summer at Intrade.com during 2008.

It was a very flawed company (and CEO) but it's a pity it's not around during this election. US Presidential elections were one of the few things were it had enough data and people putting money on it's markets that it's predictions were excellent. (Though I think in hindsight I got the job by telling John Delaney the immediate market highs for the Republican's post-Palin entry was a temporary bounce and Obama would win because the economy was the main issue, the Democrats were polling far far higher on it - guess a political degree can sometimes trump market sentiment :)

In fact, I think it's a pity (with the exception of how badly the company was run) in general that something like Intrade is not around. If I am legally allowed to speculate/gamble on oil futures, I really don't understand why I can't be allowed to speculate/gamble/hedge on geopolitical events.
Java programs got that way not because of language, but because teams of thousands of developers managing same codebase for decades. Explicitness and non-magicness are extremely valued in that environment.

Imagine you're refactoring a code written by employee #12340 that was written 10 years ago. With Go, you'd go file after file decomposing the program to finally figure out that if he just used a word to implement an interface, you only had to read that file and a javadoc. Long class names are still easier to look than signatures of functions.

Java emphasises abstraction. Go emphasises composition. Both have its uses, but what I was refuting was people claiming that Go is better than Java which I think is extremely uninformed conclusion.
iOS development will always be native for me, the tools are not perfect, but they feel right, I can get stuff done in no time. Android on the other hand... I can't express how much I loathe the tools and language. So much that I stopped caring. React native might be an alternative.
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It amazes me how much web performance has actually gone DOWN even as Internet speeds go up. Even Google pages can take upwards of ten seconds of load time now. Coming from a company that made a big deal about how speed matters and they were going to punish slow-loading websites. And this isn't even uncommon, this is just how the web is being made now.
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Ask HN: I own nextlesson.com what should I make with it?
I bought the domain back in 2003, and I have always had an interest in education for kids. I have a 2 year old now, so it makes more sense to make something now. What type of educational based concept/site do you think I should make?
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Microsoft is desperate to push people to upgrade, because the value of a new version is non-obvious to most and the normal upgrade path is getting a new PC. They are making a choice to do something that is worse for them in some ways because having people using the newer versions is very important to them (as proven by them flat-out giving away 10).
And they also broke people on the wheel. Usually progress is a good thing.
I thought this was interesting and very well put together. Can anyone with more of a CS background provide any additional context here? I gather from the article like there is a small but growing domain of these "relational" languages.
Cisco routers in at least 4 countries infected by highly stealthy backdoor
Do you want to give us a time-frame so we can go create http://www.reactnativeandroidforwindows.com/ and put a countdown timer on there?
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Yeah, to me the big surprise was that this car isn't coming within the next two years. I don't think it should surprise anyone that Tesla would have a Model S challenger within 5 years. I thought for sure Tesla would have strong all-electric competition by next year at the latest.
Why in the world would they bet on Jeb Bush over Trump or Carson? Look at the actual polls, Bush is doing worse and worse, while Trump and Carson are rising:

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

http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/rise-of-the-a...

(yesterday's numbers)
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Just to save time and practice skills. It's faster, since it doesn't require passwords, and more responsive and beautiful, since it uses bootstrap.
I think the parent's post point was that for the price of a Raspberry pi, you can buy a router that __does__ support it.