skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theory:
Everyone works from head, so there is only one version of everything.

When you write a feature, you follow these steps.

1. Write code and submit to the main (and only) branch. Hide your feature behind a flag.
2. Releases happen from head (with no regard to your feature)
3. When you want to enable your feature, you flip a flag to turn it on.

In practice:
Things are messier.
I've never been able to make sense of these arguments. Can't parents already teach their kids that without sending them to a special school?

And what about the people who don't have some religious agenda, but simply want to get away from crazy school administrations like, well, this one? "We're worried that you might be religious, so we're adamantly against leaving you any option whatsoever to avoid a known bad local school" doesn't exactly make a compelling argument if it's your kid suffering.

FWIW, I did go to a normal, public school. Mine wasn't so bad, but some of the usual idiocy was still present, like getting punished for "fighting" when I was attacked, unprovoked and had not even touched the other party.
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I have. I tested 3 models of HP that we had on campus which are kind of aging. Here's my results in Watts:

HP 6000 Pro SFF - Core2Duo E8400 @ 3GHz -
100% CPU: 70,
Idle: 26,
Sleep: 2-3,
Off: 0-1,

HP 6200 Pro SFF - Core i5 3470 @ 3.2GHz -
100% CPU: 83,
Idle: 31,
Sleep: 2-3,
Off: 0-1,

HP 6300 Pro SFF - Core i5 2400 @ 3.1GHz -
100% CPU: 100,
Idle: 30,
Sleep: 2-3,
Off: 0-1,

It's been a few months now, and I can't remember what I used to max out the CPU. It wasn't SETI @ Home, but it should give you a pretty good approximation. When it was off, it had Wake on LAN enabled, so it still drew some power. But it would fluctuate between 0 and 1.
More Evidence for Coming Black Hole Collision
USGS Event page here:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20003k7a#...

Edit:
Magnitude 6.4 aftershock event page here:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20003k7w#...
The paper linked from the article mentions the threat model as disk access, may already know an arbitrary number of passwords, but cannot read RAM, and may need to be rebooted.

The alternative solutions does not mention doing what you suggest, but reboots would be problematic. Of course you could do the same thing for bootstrapping as they do (leak a portion of the salted hash to disk and use that for verification), but that I'm pretty sure that allows probabalistic cracking of weak passwords (assuming most passwords are weak, the weakest password that matches is likely to be the password).
So offer more. It seems like, this case of fraud notwithstanding, there's plenty of room for new participants in this market. Suppose you were to show up and offer these people an effective interest rate of 12% instead. Surely even someone with a mental disability would take $100 instead of $50 for the same thing.
If you truly assume that the world is a dangerous place that we really need to be that careful, then it's the opportunity cost of the police force of NOT preventing the actual problems (there has to be some bad things being done/ will be done that is not prevented, right? That's the basis of your argument).

And if they truly believed it was a dangerous bomb, was the school evacuated?

> Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Just because it doesn't happen in the US often, doesn't mean it won't. 14 years old are involved in violence all over the world, especially in bombing incidents.

This is not even wrong, and it's terrifying if politicians would be thinking the same way as you does here. There is no guarantee EVER that anything will, or will not happen. But due to the limited resources and capability that we human have, we have to act and behave rationally based on the probability that something will happen. A scenario that comes from an unfounded basis and human imagination can not be treated with the same weight as a scenario that has some more reasonable chance to happen (based on past performance or what not). And note that P(something) indicate the probability that something can happen (or your belief of something to happen, in Bayesian interpretation), it has nothing to do with past performance/ events. The past changes your belief of P, but probability is predicting the future.

People in certain area of the world are involved in violence all year round, having bombed dropped on their roof, their hometown decimated. Are you preparing for that scenario to happen to you in the US in the present? Why or why not?
Hey, that's scary!
Not a bad idea to setup an email alert at the USGS Earthquake Notification Service for your area if you're in a coastal location:

https://sslearthquake.usgs.gov/ens/

(or if you're not and want to get news of this kind of thing sooner)

Has anyone created an app that checks against your phone's GPS location automatically?
I agree on the phrasing issue. Both there "types" seem to require Bohr's classical observer, but as soon as you assume that observers are classical you've swept the big question under the carpet, which is, "Why is there a classical world at all?" Decoherence and similar approaches at least try to address this question, and don't fit at all well with their two-Type scheme.

Or to put it another way: observers are intrinsic to reality as well as the systems under observation, and any attempt to treat them separately will fail. But this is uninteresting, because any interpretation is going to have to acknowledge this at some level (as Bohr correctly pointed out quite a long time ago.)
You can certainly take away a different interpretation of the evidence than I do, but to me the gestalt of the man's public persona and actions add up to a picture of a person entirely driven by a desire for power, not some narrow notion of "improving transportation".

That you don't see the same thing demonstrates your own bias to give certain people and behaviors more room for doubt. Which is fine, as long as you recognize it's still a bias. We are the same kind of meat-machine, with the same bugs. Don't try to act like you're above it.
This is actually a really interesting question. They would have to show size at the inside otherwise sweeping under Reg NMS would be impossible (you have no way of knowing how many shares to clear the protected quote). Also they already have a prop feed (IEX TOPS) that already shows size/price at the inside.

Under their proposed Rule 11.330, they only have two prop feeds which are the TOPS feed and a last sale feed. So no full depth feed. They would be the only US equities exchange without a full depth feed, but it looks like that's what they want to do.
The Immortal Brain: Would You Go for It?: 13.7: Cosmos and Culture
Another from CNN Chile https://twitter.com/grasswire/status/644292083423928320
Analysis of trusted ROOT certificates in ios9
Makes sense, but why? Was someone paying him a share? Was someone telling him he had to do it to keep his job? Most people won't forge something unless there's something in it for them.
Yes, you sync you workspace to a particular revision and work within that. Syncing is a manually triggered process. And generally speaking, people changing APIs are required to find and fix all users (which isn't that hard with the infrastructure available). There is still some churn created by the constant stream of changes, but it's usually not on the changing APIs level.
And how did they pay expenses if they had no capital and no revenue?
http://tridiv.com/ looks sick, but I'm not sure what feature they need that's missing from Firefox.
According to Google Maps, I'm approx 2500 kilometers (1600 miles) from the epicenter.
Yes exactly, the IPFS daemon running there looks at the Host: header and uses it to build an `/ipns/<the-header>` path which it will resolve and respond accordingly.
With interest rates at zero, any stream of income is going to be attacked ferociously.
It's hard to say why there is so much churn. The churn related to changing schools pretty much can't be about pay because you get paid the same amount no matter where you teach unless to change districts, and even then you might only get a couple hundred dollars a year more. But changing schools can get you a better administration or a better pool of students to work with.

However, if you get offered a 9-5 job for $100,000 and you are looking at making $48,000 after several years experience ... you start imagining what you could do with an extra $50,000 a year. Just think of the compound interest!!!

If you can make lots of money, you almost owe it to yourself to get it. But who does that leave us to educate the kids that are going to run the country when we are old? Do we really want to leave that job up to people who can't do anything but teach (so they live and die by the dreaded tenure system) and people who don't have experience teaching (and will soon leave to make money in industry)?

Also, not all states have unions or tenure (my state included) and those states to not have industry-competitive salaries and they do not provide better educations. If unions were the problem, wouldn't we see better results from non-union states? Wouldn't it behove non-union school districts to out perform/compete union school districts to keep teachers from unionizing? (or is the fact that they can get laws passed saying that teachers cannot unionize better than trying to be competitive in the job seeker market?)
As a fairly modern example, let me suggest "Physically Based Rendering" by Pharr and Humphreys [1]. It is a complete (and fairly large) book in the LP style. There are couple of sample chapters available online that you can view [2][3]. To me, one of the real advantages is that you can present the code and commentary in a logical structure that goes in an orderly progression of concepts for human understanding rather than the more strictly physical structure that a compiler expects.

[1] http://www.pbrt.org/

[2] http://www.pbrt.org/chapters/pbrt_chapter7.pdf

[3] http://www.pbrt.org/chapters/pbrt-2ed-chap4.pdf
As always, TheEarthquakeGuy provides clear and up-to-date information on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/3l8fse/79magnitu...
You claimed most criminals were setup by the cops, it seems very unlikely you have had any interaction with either side.
Just classic DNS -- you set a TXT record on that domain, and IPFS uses standard DNS resolution to get the value of it.
Ahmed Mohamed: Homemade clock boy to change schools
Mirror here: http://mirror.xwl.me/2015_chile_earthquake00.mp4
It's because profitability is a real world concept with factual right and wrong answers---that we might not know at any one time, but can be figured out in principle.
California's Fire Problem is Becoming a Smoke Problem
Of drills and holes and Ronald Coase
I didn't know that he needed to change school for no reason before this article...
The $180k isn't NPV, unless you have a 0% discount rate. The payment schedule from the root comment was $500/month over 30 years, which comes to $6k/year. So this year you would have $14k more by accepting the $20k.

For the $20k lump sum to be worth the same as $6k/year for 30 years, you would need a rate of return of 43% (if my Excel-fu is correct). It would be better to take the $6k/year and take $20k as a cash advance on a credit card.
I don't really feel like being a bank, though. There's already plenty of competition for loans, this is just a case where predators are soliciting customers who don't understand that, and probably don't even know that the product they're signing up for is a loan.

Maybe it means there's room for better marketing by banks in this space, although there can't be that many clients. It may be that it's only worth targeting this group if you rip them off outrageously.
The pop star and the prophet
> Evolution is punctuated equilibrium and human beings haven't directly witnessed this to the same degree that people have in physics.

I don't think this is really true. For most important effects in large domains of physics, directly witnessing the underlying processes is as impossible as directly witnessing the history of evolution (to the extent that "directly witnessing" is even meaningful -- on a detailed level, all witnessing other than of ones own internal subjective mental states is through several layers of indirection.) We witness them indirectly, through various media whose mechanism are explained by other well-tested scientific theories.4

> If there really was a "guy in the sky" he could have absolutely made a bunch of stuff and "planted the evidence" all over the place to fool people. But if also for some reason, he always handled the laws of physics just the way things are now, we wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

IF there's really a "guy in the sky" exercising arbitrary power over the physical universe, even if he had not always handled the laws of physics in the same way, we couldn't necessarily tell the difference, since he would also have the power to make it so that our perception of evidence we examine at any given time (including our present recollection of what we might have done in the past) is always consistent with physical law always having been the same, even if it wasn't, and even if our actual observations in the past would have differed.
Mirror here: http://mirror.xwl.me/2015_chile_earthquake01.mp4
agreed. unless this agreement goes both ways and ensures IP protection, I can't imagine this is going to get much traction with these companies.
Cool, thanks for the advice.

It's tricky to figure out good algorithms for moving from any arbitrary view to any other, with easing and timing etc. Sometimes the pan/zoom is just moving a little bit, in those cases zooming all the way out and back in again would be wrong. So you've got to take all of that into account with some good heuristics in an algorithm.

Tricky, but also kind of fun, I'll take another go at it sometime.
That's true, but there is precedent for this sort of thing being viable. Lawyers, for example, are trusted third parties that provide this sort of protection in certain cases. We could, as a society, decide that providing political anonymity is important enough that we establish a profession whose job it is to provide it.

I'm not saying this is necessarily the best option. All I'm saying is that it's an option. If there's one other option there may be many other options. We ought to spend some time thinking about them rather than simply accepting as dogma that anonymity is an unalloyed good, and that anyone who challenges this view ought to be downvoted into oblivion.
The ranking algorithm (and other restricted stuff) is in Piper, but locked down as to who can browse it, check it out, etc. There's some magic in the build system that lets you compile/link against it without needing to see it.
What is a "line of code"? out of the 2b lines of code google has, how much of it was auto-generated? how many of those lines are config files? This is a very silly article that has little to no value.
WW3+WHATS+GOIN+ON+WITH+EASTERNS+MOVING+WEST?+-+YouTube
A Spamhaus DNSBL alone drops 99% of spam with almost no FPs. Add DROP, fullbogons, and greylisting to increase the percentage further. None of these methods read the message body, and there are plenty of other options as well. I self-host and receive about 5 spam messages per year, all without looking at the message body.
> Facebook Messenger has been around since the launch of Facebook. I've personally been using it over 7 years in various forms.

And it was a crap experience on mobile until it was pulled out of Facebook into its own app.

> Of course it does, because it has no features.

It has the most important features for good individual and group chat.

> you can't send stickers or GIFs

That's a feature.

> you have to physically open the app to send a message

I'm not sure what that means. I have to open the FB Messenger app too? Maybe it's different on android.

> it doesn't have link previews

Again another point in whatsapps favor. I hate link previews in FB Messenger.

> You can't send money with it

Not really much of a feature because of all the setup involved. It's got potential and if it could tie in with the host operating system or payment providers etc on mobile it could be really great.
What is your present valuation? Do you have plans to raise any investment?
I am deeply confused by IEX. It seems like anyone who knows anything about HFT thinks the narrative proposed in Flash Boys is completely ridiculous and mostly incorrect, including what Brad Katsuyama says. Is there something else interesting about IEX that people outside the industry don't really understand, or is it an entire company of people who have deeply flawed ideas about HFT and how it works?
(IPFS author here)

You're hitting on some really hard questions :)

the gist is that you use a "record system" that has some transport guarantees, for example relying on a dht has certain kind of properties, as opposed to relying on pub/sub over trusted nodes. IPFS has this part as pluggable, though we're focusing on a large public DHT first. DHTs are pretty robust today, though yes have weaknesses we're working on.

now, the key is that, on top of that, you build assurances around cryptographic freshness (i.e. "trust this record for a certain amount of time"). of course, "certain amount of time" varies with your notion of time (e.g. NTP, vs blockchain times, etc), so the user gets to set that.

if you're interested in how the "record system" works and will evolve, take a look at https://github.com/ipfs/specs/tree/master/records -- though admittedly this is not complete or exhaustive, as we have A TON to do and are focusing on pushing out reliable code.
CWEB: the second most effective way to keep people from reading your code, after simply writing it in Lisp.
Possibly. I know for sure that I would love to have access to this market. I would be happy to offer a much more fair price than the existing players are paying. In a ZIRP world, who wouldn't love 12%? Or even 8%? We're all banks, whether we like it or not. It might not be worth it for Citigroup, but a $100m market is definitely worth it for you and me. Just look at LendingClub and Prosper.
Perhaps. Or perhaps they got ripped off. We don't know enough from the hypothetical with no details except a hypothetical present value and full value.

We could know more if we looked into details of individual cases. Like, say, the Washington Post did.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/how-compa...
It will be interesting to see if the US Government, who wants backdoors, will condemn China for wanting backdoors.
Currently in Santiago, building shook for well over a minute. No damage here though
This doesn't surprise me. People are paranoid about bombs and terrorism, and most average people have never seen an exposed circuit board. To them anything with a circuit board and wires looks like the bombs they've seen on TV. I've had an arduino hooked up to an ipod for an art installation confiscated by police. Of course part of the problem was lack of communication by the administrators who had given approval for the project.
I have yet to see any 'evidence', or personal insight. Yet you seem to think you understand a man, whom you've never met nor interacted with, and his deep personal motivations. Based upon his 'public persona'. You don't see anything odd about that?
Obama to China: Stop hacking U.S. companies, or else
> No, because his english is horrible, and then he said, during a press conference "we’re here in Germany, we talk Deutsch!".

You're confusing Westerwelle with Öttinger.
Author of the article here. I did not intend to imply support for the conclusion that Galleanist anarchists were to blame. To the contrary, I feel the response of the public was misdirected and the response of the government was heavy-handed. Hence my phrase "the orgy of misguided justice."
Yes. The correct way to phrase it is "Fucking worthless morons who would be dead if not for the shitty welfare state".
Sorry, I misinterpreted the meaning of the verb "worth" and worked backwards from what I assumed was the NPV. (and pulled a 20-yr term out of an orifice instead of the 30 years in TFA, whoops)
I wonder why they're using a "magic shoebox" instead of a call market a la http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/wellman/?p=40.
> Sacco and Vanzetti, who were victims of one of the most spectacular miscarriages of justice

Nonsense. They were guilty, as subsequent investigations have demonstrated.
We've been really crappy at marketing this but we have a multiple repos
answer that is semantically close to identical to a monolithic repo.
Any work flow or command line works identically in both (there are a
few corner cases that don't work but almost 100% of the stuff works
like you'd expect).

It's sort of like a partial clone, you can clone any subset you want,
work on it, add in other parts, the tool takes care of making sure the
stuff you add in is lined up (if you cloned a week ago and you add in
another repo, it's rolled back so it matches time/commit wise).

If you want to search for something it's the same command in a collection
of repos as it is in a monolithic repo:

bk -U grep refactor_me

but truth in advertising, that searches only what you have populated.
The google answer is "ship grep to the data" so they'll search everything.
Google wins if you have their datacenter. We win on UI, it's the same
everywhere.

Our design is much more tightly coupled than Git's submodules. We manage
the subrepos so that they are in sync just like files are in sync.
What I mean by that is if you have two files modified in the same commit,
you can't pull that commit and only get one of the files updated,
they are both updated because that's what happened in that commit.
We've provided the same semantics for collections of repositories.
Git doesn't, getting those semantics is an exercise left to the user.

We get better performance because you can clone as little as one
repository, what we call the product. It would be easy and fun to put a
Unix distro in this system and have the top repo just have a makefile and
you type make X11 and it populates the compiler, libc, the X11 sources,
and builds them.

It's commercial so maybe that's uninteresting but if you want submodules
that work and scale in performance, we might be worth a look (sorry for
the marketing, if that's against the rules here then I'll learn how to
delete a post).

Read more here, comments welcome, it's beta copy:

http://www.bitkeeper.com/nested
its related to the discussion inasmuch as the parent comment is related to the discussion.
HeartFlow Is Hiring Software Engineer in Test, Python
Looking at the latitude, can Tsunami go as far as Australia/NZ?
The Lampster -It looks like a robot, comes custom painted!
I don't understand that scenario — isn't message B the message thread 1 is waiting for?

And to be fair, it does significantly reduce the risk of deadlock by avoiding the complexity of explicit mutexes and condition variables.
I live in Great Falls and go to the park all the time. I was on the edge while reading this blog. I am so glad your little one is ok. Sounds like your wife acted calm and did all the right things.
Just because Flash Boys presents modern electronic exchanges incorrectly, does not mean that some people aren't worse off in the modern HFT world.

In particular, large block buyers, who previously got to take advantage of inefficient price discovery to get better prices have been negatively impacted. It is in their best interests to make it possible to buy a very large amount of traded products without the price changing.

IEX is built from the ground up for those market participants and none of them have any misunderstanding about how the market works. They just don't like it.
A theory of jerks