skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A ban you choose to participate in (since it by definition only affects people who choose to be devout Christians to the extent that even interacting with homosexuals is forbidden, a philosophy which I'm not at all confident is in the bible, who also choose to own a business devoted to serving the public) seems more tolerant than a ban which is forced upon you (since nobody chooses their sexual orientation).

Do you disagree? I'm not arguing that it's completely tolerant, but unfortunately we have a case where one person completely refuses to tolerate the mere existence of another so I think it's clear that one hundred percent toleration is off the table. Since one person is choosing to be intolerant and the other isn't, it doesn't seem unreasonable at all to place restrictions on the person making the choice; if they feel that the inconveniences are too much, they're obviously welcome to rethink their choice. You can't really ask that of a gay person.
They need a third amendment flowchart too. You never know when you might be unjustly asked to quarter soldiers.
'I will design a logo for your startup, you can pay what you want for it'
I really don't think Larry meant that to be condescending.

The "worst" I could imagine is that he was poking a little fun at Ruby programmers. I'm sure he was just trying to be funny, but sometimes it's easy to misinterpret what people mean when you don't actually hear them say it, but only read it in print.

I'd be very surprised if the comment was at all malicious.
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"I talked to historian William C. Davis, who wrote The Rogue Republic: How Would-Be Patriots Waged the Shortest Revolution in American History, about this odd, short-lived country." To me, this summarizes a lot of popular history writing in a nutshell. A professional historian or writer finds an obscure, odd but interesting moment in history, and writes about it, making it seem larger than life and perhaps more important than it really was. A very short lived self declared West Florida Republic certainly qualifies as obscure, and in the grand scheme of things not particularly relevant.
How to Manage Programmatic Ad Quality: A Survival Guide for Publishers
[Funny]Have you heard of JADE computer?
> The Surface Book easily solves that problem, but I've seen reports that the battery life is only about ~3 hours with the screen detached as a tablet.

Which is why MS presents it as a "clipboard mode", and later descriptions indicated that the expectation and intended use was 80% "laptop". The Surface Book is a laptop first and foremost.

> it would not be usable in its ideal form factor.

Clipboard mode is not the ideal form factor of the surface book. If you do not like the Surface Pro's kickstand, you may be more interested in the iPad Pro whose keyboard stand seems stabler and "full surface".
It doesn't look very comfortable to me. I don't want to feel like I'm balancing the kickstand on my legs. And what if I'm laying down?

The only way I'll know for sure I suppose is to actually try it.
Choose your favorite country that isn't Zimbabwe or North Korea, and then find a good or service that people (choose your favorite %-ile) have less of today than they did before free trade.

If you can't find such a good or service, then free trade has helped consumers.
Seems like they don't care about solving problems, but instead, profiting from them. ;)
While I agree on the app front, which is not really that relevant to me, I still believe that it came a very long way in terms of UI and usability.

The one thing I dislike is the mail application (well, one day when I have the nerve and gumption I'll actually figure out how to attach a PDF, I think it has something to do with OneDrive and compatible applications, but I digress) and that there's not really an alternative to it.

In terms of usability it feels to me snappier and more logical than the IPhone of my girlfriend. Even after almost two years it doesn't feel like the performance is degrading.

If they don't kill the platform I plan to stick with it.
I suppose these obscure stories make for good website clickbait too.
Give a man a fish, he becomes dependant on your fish. Yes, teaching him to fish takes longer, but it's better.

> how are you going to even think about getting education?
You start with an education on how to survive better. You don't need to start with an advanced education.
I think the Surface tablets are superior hardware compared to the new iPad Pro, HOWEVER, since I'm mainly going to use the iPad Pro for art, I'm afraid the apps on iOS are actually going to be cheaper and better.

I've been surprised by the quality, low price, and useability of of iOS and OSX creative apps. Hype, Pixelmator, Sketch, and Over. Are really good tools, and they are cheap.

The Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.) are still the best tools from a feature perspective, but they are expensive, and they are now on a subscription plan. I don't make art for a living ... I do it for fun ... so I can't justify spending that much money every month, for something I might or might not use.

I have rented Creative Suite to use for a month on occasion (to edit a Wedding video and to design some invitations), but day to day, I'm usually messing around in Pixelmator these days.

The only thing I miss from Adobe is Lightroom. There's nothing like Lightroom. I'm stuck using the last non-subscription version of Lightroom, and will probably never upgrade. Pretty sad about that.

I wish there were products like Pixelmator and Sketch for PC.
> Clipboard mode is not the ideal form factor of the surface book.

You misunderstood, or I wasn't clear enough. It's the ideal form factor for me when waiting in an airport.
I run a small organic food business on the side and I'd be happy if someone offered me to test our products. We can't afford it and have to rely on our suppliers.

That's especially true if, as it appears from the quote, the results would be treated anonymously. And for these roasters the risk is even lower because the danger is not to the consumer.
I left the Drupal world right before Drupal 7 was introduced. While there were many reasons for this, the speed and insane db structure (and resulting queries) were a big cause of my switch. Another big issue was the fact that while Drush and the Features module made it easier to avoid having to click around in the admin interface, I still had to configure too much through the Drupal back-end UI (with much of this configuration stored in the db, which I understand in context but still really hate).

Have these issues been resolved in later versions? Because there was a lot about Drupal that I did like.
Late enough to miss the market window, delivered only a fraction of the promised features, less than the Danger Sidekick which it was supposed to build upon.

The official Windows phone unit was doing its best to kill the Kin, it had to switch to Windows CE, it was required to support Exchange, and a lot of the code supplied to the Kin group, especially for Exchange, was in horrible shape.

Ah, and another example of this sort of bad Microsoft behavior: When they bought Danger, they ignored its contractual responsibilities to T-Mobile and expected to immediately repurpose Danger's technical employees. Oops, T-Mobile refused to put up with that, and those employees had to spend some time developing the last Sidekick models (and all this had a morale crushing effect, above and beyond that of being absorbed by Microsoft with its stack ranking el. al.).
So, what is a freestart collision?

The two messages from OP have many bytes in common. I would expect a hashing function like SHA-1 to give wildly different outputs given similar inputs due to the avalanche effect.
If it turns out that there is a definite trend of increasing force used by law enforcement, I certainly don't expect them to release that data voluntarily. If it's not in their favor, they'll attempt to bury it.
I have the SP2 and it's almost impossible to use on your lap as a laptop it doesn't stay put.

The keyboard is not hard enough to type on comfortably and there aren't enough points of contact to prevent the damn thing from constantly sliding and tipping over.

The SP3 might be a bit better, the keyboard is supposed to be considerably better but as far as the SP2 goes the best way i found to actually use it on your lap is to lay it pretty much flat, using the kick stand never worked for me.
Medium API
> MUBI has spent years cultivating that audience with a selection of artsy, obscure films that don't usually appear on Netflix or Hulu. (It originally launched under the name "The Auteurs," before rebranding in 2010 as MUBI — a play on accented pronunciations of "movie," and after a city in Nigeria.) On Monday, the titles available on the company's US site included Bernardo Bertolucci's 1970 classic The Conformist, and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, by Chan-wook Park. Occasionally, it features more mainstream movies like Sin City, currently available on the French site, though the majority are far more obscure. A new title is added every day as another drops out, meaning that only 30 films are available for streaming at any given time.

In defense of Netflix (not that the "Goliath" in this comparison needs defenders)...but "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance" has been available on streaming Netflix for, as far as I remember, the time that I've been a customer, which was basically when streaming started. "Mr. Vengeance" is the first in "The Vengeance Trilogy" that includes the more well-known "Oldboy" [1] and "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance"...I think the entire trilogy has been on Netflix for years (including the regrettable American remake of Oldboy, but can't fault Netflix for having it...)

Even as Netflix's blockbuster selection has faded (with the ending of the Starz deal, and in comparison to HBONow)...I've never had a complaint about their selection of the most well-known and recent foreign indies. "Let the Right One In", "The Hunt", "Force Majeure", The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy...though sure, they could always have more (and obviously, I don't know enough of the foreign scene to know all of the gems that they don't have).

But I imagine the problem for Netflix isn't that they do a shitty job of curation...but that the deals end up not being financially valuable to them, as it was in the Starz case. Ang Lee's movies ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Lust, Caution") were long-time selections, but I've just noticed they are no longer available for streaming.

edit: if you liked Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is definitely worth checking out. But whereas Oldboy was entertaining on top of being emotionally extreme...I'd argue "Mr. Vengeance" is much more of an artistic achievement, but at the cost of being "entertaining". In fact, I get a little ill at the thought of re-watching it, even though I own it on DVD.

[1] http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/oldboy-2005 -- Ebert's review here is so glowing that not only did it get me to seek out Oldboy, but it changed the way I think of foreign movies in comparison to Hollywood.
how are more goods and such a universal positive?
I agree. A couple of the problems it would address is hardware quality and what consumers should expect from a new windows machine. Microsoft can establish a good baseline or a high end halo product like what they've done with their expanded surface line.
Even if the competition beat you on everything. Freeing the economy and focusing on the product you make best, even if competition beat you on that product it is still better overall.
People might also want to walk into my living room and remove my television set from it. I can't stop them wanting it, but I can stop them doing it. If you threaten my life, liberty, or property, it is ethical for me to defend those things, regardless of whether your threat is the product of malice, ignorance, or negligence.

If you intentionally get yourself infected with a zoonotic pathogen and start cavorting with one of the carrier species, at minimum, you're going to get a severe beating when the town finds out about it. If you don't take care of yourself as a person, someone else might take care of you as their problem.
Marketplaces: How to Solve the Availability Problem
A Nutritious Post Workout Beer??? Yes Please
If you have worked with Rails in the past (like me) then the Phoenix website is perfectly fine: http://www.phoenixframework.org/docs/overview

Even if you do not know Rails you should give it a shot. But if it somehow does not fit your needs please come back and let me know. I'm sure there's something out there.
Try checking how much space the Bing apps take up, preferably before you've used any of them....

Windows 10 is actually quite economical in the space it uses. Remember, the full OS runs on 32-bit tablets with only 1GB of RAM and 32GB of storage.

The MacBook means giving up the touch-screen, tablet and high-end pen functionality that you would get with a Surface Pro.

Also, it seems a little inconsistent to worry about the space taken up by Bing apps while contemplating a solution that requires two whole operating systems and a VM ;-)
Do you mean that you want to hire people as LuaJIT maintainers? That would be exciting news. If you have any details to share I would be happy to start pointing good people in your direction.
Then you're looking for a tablet with an optional keyboard. If the Surface Pro seems dodgy wrt support the iPad Pro may be a better fit, the keyboard seems to provide more support than the Surface Pro's kickstand: http://cdn.maypalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/iPad-Pro-k... (I don't know how flexible it is with respect to viewing angles though)
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How does DuckDuckGo index content? Does it use its own spider?
That's fine talk for a person who this year had 21 July 2015 - 7 September 2015 off work for summer and will enjoy a Christmas holiday from 17 December 2015 - 5 January 2016

http://www.parliament.uk/about/faqs/house-of-commons-faqs/bu...
I doubt it is. Either the FBI is just joining the ranks of groups asking for more Police transparency or the FBI director is trying not to look like a complete idiot by latching on to a cause no one can have an issue with to divert attention from the fact he keeps asking for encryption backdoors.
Fair points. As for the design, it can always be tweaked, but I have gotten positive feedback around the simplicity and minimalist look so would have to think it through.

As for the icons, my theory is that devs are free to add whatever skills they want to their own portfolio or resumé anyway, but they're going to ultimately be responsible for demonstrating that knowledge to employers, clients, etc, so it probably wouldn't be beneficial to them to exaggerate their skills. I do see your point though.
In addition, neither the video nor the FAQs clearly explain the basic technical details that users look for in a device
Online courses and time on campus = a new path to an MIT master’s degree
You're forgetting the direct example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

He was convicted of 19 counts of insider trading in Qwest stock on April 19, 2007 – charges he and many others claim are U.S. government retaliation for his refusal to give customer data to the National Security Agency in February, 2001.

Given the iffiness of such charges when it's your own company's stock, we have to at least entertain the proposition that refusing to work with the NSA is a ticket to Federal prison. Qwest is said to have been the only big company that refused.
The Miranda warning is layman's explanation of the right. It does not define the right itself. For example, if the police rush to the scene and A claims that B hit her, they can ask you "did you see B hit A?" and you don't have a right to stay silent.
Why won't they (mubi.com) tell me how much it costs?

No prices listed, and clicking links that seem like they would take me to that info send me to the 'subscribe now' nag dialog.

That's close-tab-and-forget-about-it behavior.
Yeah! I have always been bothered by the dismissive attitude of the high tech elite toward privacy. Scott McNeal, Eric Schmitt, Mark Zuckerburg - they all had this coming. I hope this holds up.
AVX 2 is required to get the wider integer instructions, so this would require Haswell processors.
MS tried controlling OEMs in the 90s and was shot down by the DOJ. I'm not sure if you want a strong MS again, even though its obvious now that the ruling was over-reaching.

Its only now that a lot of those provisions have expired that it can start being slightly tougher with OEMs - making its own products, making its own anti-virus, selling non-crapified computers in its own stores, etc. MS's hands will always be tied from this questionable ruling and the threat of another similar ruling in the future. The rise of mobile is probably also helping as MS can easier claim its not the sole monopoly in computing.
The Consolite Compiler
Thank you automation.
Thanks - amazon already tried to sell me this The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling which I'd probably go for. I'm guessing the content would be similar but more database agnostic which suits my preferences.

I feel comfortable doing the reporting and scripting but it would be good to validate my ideas for the designs when I get some hands on experience - hopefully soon!

Maybe a new question but I wonder if the data warehouse has been superseded a little by the whole big data / multiple data sources thing?
On Training Computer Science Teachers and Adjunct Instructors
I would love to, but I'm probably severely under-qualified (apart from having used LuaJIT extensively). I'd probably get lost pretty fast while delving further into the inner workings of the compiler, a domain in which I only have superficial knowledge. I can learn, of course, but it looks pretty steep. (And no, I do not have a CS degree, which seems like one of those useful things to have when working on a compiler.)
Looking for developers for sports platform
We are a fast growing startup looking for a development team/partners for our platform. This would be an equity incentive based plan.
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More than 60 pig genes edited in effort to enable organ transplants into humans
There was recently a case where someone tried to claim a violation of the third amendment, but that claim was rejected. Some interesting arguments.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
Sure, but I think that having one global flag to remove bound checks is useful as it allows you to measure this bounds checks performance impact easily.
And then when you know how long it takes to find an index out-of-bound error and you see that the removal performance improve is small.. Well, you remove the flag.
A question from 2011, back when SO allowed more free-form discussion questions.

An obvious thought is, given that most of the comments are about Python 2, what's changed in Python 3? The top answer (chained comparisons), hasn't changed. Indeed, I've only noticed a couple of changes.

re.DEBUG is not something I knew about. It does look handy, though watch out for the cache. Interestingly, one thing has changed. Under Python 2, "a * " was identical to "a{0,65535}", where the maximum value 65535 was taken to mean 'unlimited'.

>>> import re
>>> pat = re.compile("a*")
>>> s = "a"*65555
>>> len(pat.match(s).group(0))
65555
>>> pat = re.compile("a{0,65535}") # this is equivalent to "a*"
>>> len(pat.match(s).group(0)) # I expect 65535!
65555
>>> pat = re.compile("a{0,65534}")
max_repeat 0 65534
literal 97
>>> len(pat.match(s).group(0))
65534

Under Python 3.x, "a * " is now {0,4294967295} instead of {0,65535}.

The only other changes I noticed on the first page are that print is no longer a statement, and "rot13" is no longer an encoding.
If I understand correctly. I think that the parent comment is concerned about NASA favoring the research of technologies that have a potential for marketization rather than others, more "moonshot"-like projects.

Commercialization is good, as long as it does not leak everywhere.
Obligatory Absurd Notions: http://www.absurdnotions.org/page93.html
"It is unacceptable that The Washington Post and the Guardian newspaper from the U.K. are becoming the lead source of information about violent encounters between police and civilians. That is not good for anybody."

I'd say that's a pretty good example of the freedom of the press doing work that's in the interest of the public. Just because it makes the FBI look bad doesn't mean it lacks merit. Maybe his quote is taken out of context though, in that it's "unacceptable" the FBI can't fiddle with the data for its own ends.
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It's 4.99/Mo which it clearly says after the sign up dialog.
What is the best way to get bitcoin without associating it with your identity (credit cards, debt cards, etc).

Accepting pre-paid cards is fine too
The only thing I miss from Adobe is Lightroom. There's nothing like Lightroom. I'm stuck using the last non-subscription version of Lightroom, and will probably never upgrade. Pretty sad about that.

Lightroom is actually available for purchase separately, I think it might be the only Creative Suite product that's still available that way. Just search Amazon for Lightroom 6 or buy directly from Adobe.com.
I could not help myself, I had to get a surface book, it may end up in the pile of things with great potential but I had to give it a shot. Two devices were in the running for my 2015 tablet HW refresh, the Lenovo Yoga 3 and the iPad Pro. This sort of came out of left field.

It has a lot to live up to, I use my iPad every day and for a variety of things, but something I always wanted to do on my iPad, sketch, wasn't very satisfactory. And while I liked the Surface Pro 3's pen experience, its battery life was a challenge and some key Apps weren't there.

So long battery life, a better drawing experience, and a useful typing experience, and, for bonus, I can stop carrying around a laptop as well? Well if this thing can pull that off its a win for me, and I'll just put vmware workstation on it and run Linux when I'm doing my embedded work.

But the other thing it has done is really highlight the impact of market windows. Had the iPad Pro come out last year, or even in Q1 of this year, I would be using it already and probably not be buying the Surface Book.

For historical reasons the first thing I bought to try to do what I wanted was the "Touchbook" from Always Innovating. Detachable keyboard, touch screen. But not enough battery life, and the screen's resistive touch screen was not very useful. I also have the Illiad 2 from iREX which an an epaper display with a watcom stylus, loved the pen, and the readability of epaper, but very little app support and challenging storage options. For a while I've lived with both a laptop and the iPad. I'm really curious if this new box can meet my expectations.
Let me just throw these tangentially relevant facts into this thread:

Deaths by police

in California: about 100 p.a.

in Germany: 8 in 2014

Population:

California: 39 Million

Germany: 82 Million

Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/police-i...
Oklahoma used wrong drug in January execution
In one notably hierarchical organization, the US Navy, blame certainly travels up. Captains who have been off-watch and sound asleep when a subordinate did something wrong can find their careers ended.
Maybe if the machine running the code is the machine that compiles it, or if you have a good way to send processor-specific binaries to the right places.

More useful, I think, would be a runtime check far enough up the stack (i.e., away from tight loops) that it doesn't affect performance. Probably doesn't even need to be that high, it'll branch-predict correctly every time but the first iteration, and the binary bloat probably won't hurt your icache because the number of instructions you ever actually execute stays more or less the same.
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