skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment prompted me to look up the GIs for brown and white rice. I checked several sources. Unfortunately GI numbers vary significantly depending on brand and preparation (and perhaps source).

Here are some GI values for rice from the Mendosa GI list...
http://www.mendosa.com/gilists.htm

The nominal GI of white rice is 73. But various brands and preparations can cause the GI of NS white rice to vary from 43 to 90. Long grain varies from 50 to 76. Uncle Ben's in a pouch runs around 48.

The nominal GI of brown rice is 68. But again, brand and preparation introcuces much variance, from 50 to 87.

The nominal GI of converted boiled white rice trends lower at 38 (Uncle Ben's) but can run as high as 87.

However from an authoritative article of 1000 foods in Diabetes Care from 2008, the GI of white rice is 89 and brown 50.
http://www.health.harvard.edu/healthy-eating/glycemic_index_...

In the end, it seems you have to be very careful about exactly which products and preparations you're comparing.
Aadhaar Meta Data of India
Considering they are only over paying by roughly 10% if you assume the current stock price is fair then they are "only" throwing away $1.9 billion. They probably can't develop their own flash technology and build a fab for that amount of investment.
> After the announcement of Amazon Container Registry docker had to make some move and this is a great one.

This has been in the works for much longer than that.

The Tutum team built a pretty amazing product that their users love, and the passion, excitement, and forethought both Borja and Fernando have around the space has impressed me since I met them in October of 2013.
I think this makes it exceptionally hard for a distro with languages like golang, where vendoring libraries is the norm vs the exception.

There were some serious issues with this on the golang-nuts fedora ML some time ago where lsm5 was lamenting about the issues Fedora faces when upstream simply won't remove vendored libs.
While I'm not a fan of this development either, the position w.r.t. darktable was frankly unreasonable: the library in question is not meant to be a system library. Indeed I believe also digikam had similar problems. Having a modicum of flexibility in this cases may be positive.
This looks like a publicity stunt.

If you selectively present anything you could possibly present in a negative light and do so without context, you can make anything look bad.

If one were to look at the ratio of such messages to praise and neutral messages, that would probably paint a very different picture.

Just numerically one can see that 1000 messages over 10 years is only 3 negative messages per day, and someone famous might get hundreds, meaning the negative ones are a few percent...

It's a bit like collecting all the [dead] comments on HN, presenting them all at once and then claiming that HN is a terrible community.
Exactly.

In Orlando, it's Paramour and/or Orange Blossom Trail.

You hit the nail right on the head here..altho it's probably not just a Florida-thing and represents the utter hypocrisy and gamesmanship of the ridiculous war on drugs.

EDIT: So I see now you are a criminal defense lawyer so that is very interesting...may I ask what percentage of your business is derived from defending non-violent drug offenders?
There is that plus the fact that they say it seriously affects the ice for subsequent shots. Curlers are a bit obsessive about the ice, but then again it plays a big role.
Google Maps and editors and other Google maps-related collaboration tools are awful, if you need human interaction.

I entered a location for the company I worked with. The company moved to another location, so I set about to change the address on Google Maps. To verify I was really the owner of the business, they decided to send mail... to the company's old address (which was occupied by a squatter at the point).

End result, now you have two locations for the company, a correct one and an incorrect one.

I also had a dispute when I edited a location on Antarctica (the Uruguayan base)... editors kept reverting the change.
Thanks, I think the biggest surprise is, well, people in the US assuming other cultures are willing to change (or mentally prepared to change) upon arriving in the US. It's not that simple. Out of sight, out of mind is one thing, but when one-on-one, it's something that takes strength and confidence to address. Not all people are comfortable in the face of intimidation or just flat-out disrespect.
We use Jira for agile and this article is pretty spot on. We finally have it configured to fit our workflow, but, that took a while. Also; Atlassian likes to change the UI quite a bit in Jira (stop f*cking with it already!) so every week or so you get to learn something new.

In fact, we're considering rolling our own app to handle tickets/hours because of it.
The World’s Oldest Working Planetarium
Can you please give some specific examples of the obstacles presented by the OSM license to the projects you mention?
The new Type Cover also works with Surface Pro 3 as well....
Correct. That and passing mutable backbone models as props went poorly back when we did more of that. Mutable props are hard to reason about and go against all of the recommendations for React props. (There are plenty of good use-cases of backbone out there though.)
Should people living entirely on public assistance then pay 100% tax?
Sounds like the states should be on the hook rather than the corporations. Sneaky sneaky Netherlands and Luxembourg. Betraying your own union for self gain! How unsocial of y'all.
Because a German citizen has several ways to make the BND accountable through the legal system, including voting to change such legal system; but he has no recourse against the NSA (short of starting a war).

You are mixing political responsibility and legal responsibility.
Ask HN: Is there a Hadoop alternative built on non-Java technologies?
For distributed or "big data" scale computation Hadoop has been so successful that, one is not able to find information about any alternatives that exist. For one, it will be good if any of the ML family of languages/ LISP etc., had an viable alternative. There are Python bindings that exist and DSLs like Pig/Hive simplify things a bit. But beyond that, without knowledge of Java it's hard to navigae the Hadoop ecosystem. Hence this question.
Okay, then I just don't get it.
I work at Udacity where our goal is to make education and opportunity accessible to anyone around the world. I would imagine we fit your bill.
I'm sure that in legal circles, there are a whole host of similar "law hacking" examples. This seems like a particular ingenious approach. I'd be interested to learn about other circumstances where laws are creatively misused to achieve noble ends. (The examples where the law is misused for nefarious ends are too numerous to mention).
Hmmm, when did the price decreases stop?

I last bought some high capacity drives in 2011 just before the floods in Thailand zapped the industry, and I now note I can buy twice the capacity, 2TB -> 4TB, for $35 less.

There could be demand issues, as companies like Amazon, Google, Backblaze, etc. etc. buy them in mass quantities to offer redundant cloud storage.

At the other end, SSDs have got to be eating the lunch of small-moderate capacity SAS enterprise drives, and if not now, soon enough the basic sub 1 TB drives that workstations and laptops come with. I'm very conservative with these sorts of things so I avoided jumping on the SSD bandwagon, but a recent failure of one of my Seagate 15K system disks prompted me to buy one of Intel's lowest end, lowest capacity datacenter SSDs (DC S3510 80GB) and I don't think I'm going to be looking back....
Yeah, it's mostly the printer we lack.
Reverse engineer, apologies. The idea is to gain understanding, not simply to get a disassembly (that's an automated process and a 1:1 correspondence between binary and assembly code remains).

The harder part is to figure out what it all does.
I think I flew the orangey-brown one in EVE Online a while ago. Got podded in nullsec. Shame about that.
That's what I was looking for, thanks.

tl;dr:

> The Surface Book is a very interesting take on the Ultrabook by Microsoft. I’ll need some more time with it to get a full review completed, but initial impressions are that it’s a solid device with a great display, a good keyboard, and a generous trackpad. The overall device is not as thin or light as some other Ultrabooks, but generally those don’t pack in 70 Wh of battery and a real GPU. Stay tuned for a full review soon.
The opposing argument to Open and Free is that the main argument is that they need money for journals because they are peer reviewed. Peer reviews cost money. The integrity of the journal and science cost money. Therefore we are befitting science by having a pay wall.

So they take grants and federal money put the results behind pay walls and say they are doing us a service.

That is flawed.
Coping When Co-Workers Leave the Company
I'm sure you know more about the Swedish and German library systems than I do.
Yes, Medium Can Pay Your Mortgage
The US is worse of in this regard. The EU has rules about state aid that the US doesn't. In the US, states give enormous tax breaks to companies to set up a factory in their state. In the EU that sort of thing is illegal.
You're right, they don't spy on POTUS's phone, just USSecState's phone.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/16/germany-spied-j...

Snark aside, I agree that there isn't full reciprocity when it comes to espionage capabilities, but BND is a capable spy agency with the resources to perform its mission.
Vice flexs just a bit
Interesting to see Vice use their platform to hijak major traffic flow to aid their jailed journalist. Can't remember ever seeing CNN or any other major news platform be this direct.
It might be cool if you had the same UI but instead of who the person is in terms of their relation to you, different archetypes, ie. The Gamer, The Cook, The Farmer, The Fashionister (is that a word?), etc.
Programmable Blockchains in context: Ethereum's future
Unless you're talking about casual games that reality is never going to be realized. AAA games are written as close to the hardware as possible/feasible, as you probably already know. For every developer willing to develop against an abstraction like the Web, there will be others unwilling to give up that performance.
Mossberg: The Steve Jobs I knew isn't in this movie
> So if we apply the standard of intelligence agencies violating the laws mean a country is unfit for storing EU data, then many EU nations are now unfit to store this data

The difference is that EU citizens can hold "unfit" actors responsible, if they are from their own country (or even continent, via the ECJ); but they cannot do anything against the NSA.
> They didn't really "move" plants around; they were expanding production on different markets to meet needs on these countries and continents, and also withdrawing manufacturing in some places

Ah, the tactical decisions. "We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction."
Messing with Their Rhythm
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What difference does it make if a German investor contributes capital to a U.S. business and as a result makes money that doesn't get taxed by the U.S.? (And could be taxed by Germany.)

The U.S. government could perfectly well fund itself by taxing only the income of its residents, who are the ones benefiting from its sovereignty. You could argue that foreign investors are benefiting as well, but only in a way (capital investment) that also directly benefits U.S. businesses and investors, which in turn will pay more salary, dividend, and capital gains taxes.
In all other cases I'd want the compiler to break my code. The problem here is that this technique is very fallible, the chance for false negative, undetected errors is high. It's risky because there's a ton of cases where you won't get a compiler error. It's unduly making you feel safe, which is not a good thing in my opinion. This is mostly why I think it's risky, because you feel safe when you shouldn't.

With keyed-fields, the worst case is that you have uninitialized fields, which typically doesn't cause much problems and get caught quickly where it matters. With unkeyed-fields, you might have code that compiles but sets unexpected fields. Things that would otherwise panic, now just keep working without you noticing, until strange things happen and you have to review all initializations and remember the struct layout every time you see the struct being created.

Personally, I don't like both techniques anyways. It's too error prone. I'll prefer writing a small constructor where I handle initialization deliberately. It's not super Go-ish but at least I centralize all the issues surrounding struct initialization in 1 place: the constructor. Then when I change what fields go in the struct, I change the function signature and the compiler breaks and doesn't let things fall through silently.
3 Things to Know about the UK Tech Nation Visa Scheme
Assad Makes Unannounced Trip to Moscow to Discuss Syria with Putin
The OEM's participated in a race to the bottom in an effort to maximize how many people bought PC's. This caused damage to the Windows/PC brand. By the time they pivoted to "ultrabooks" the damage was done and these brands were seen as low end/discount unable to produce quality PC's.

I'm not sure that Microsoft could have stopped that, even if they rolled out a "high end" Surface like device 5 years prior.

It believe it's the lack of a low end product that makes Apple, and now Microsoft attractive to premium buyers.
This article explains how to automatically identify, tag and categorize user uploaded images based on their content. Code sample included for Node.js, Java, PHP, .Net, Rails and more.
Who cares. Both lack a trackpoint.
> This is a great article to remind us how bogus that argument was.

I'm not sure what you mean. At no point does it indicate that the adoption tactic ever failed; in fact, the article seems to be at pains to show that adoption routinely and reliably secured most or all of the rights that marriage would have, and swapping adoption for marriage now is little more than a change of paperwork. Based on this article, you would have to say that marriage equality wasn't needed to secure the basic rights like inheritance, hospital visitation, etc.
10 Hungarian Startups to Be Excited About at Web Summit Dublin 2015
I don't know, I thought it looked pretty cool and I didn't even know it was an electric car.
Speed with Ease – NoSQL on the Google Cloud Platform
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0BKIRj9...

I'm getting an Internal Server Error on the original page.
It's a cool demo but I wish it wouldn't autorotate. Makes clicking the door interaction point much more difficult than it should be. A pretty picture over usability decision.
It's probably a good time to start looking at using the Fetch API [1] for making AJAX requests instead of using jQuery or Backbone (or even XMLHttpRequest). Support seems to be growing quickly and Github's polyfill [2] can help cover the gaps.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API
[2] https://github.com/github/fetch
I agree. The Surface Pro 4 is an excellent device, definitely an achievement in the 'laptop replacement' game. No OS fork is a huge win to me.

As an ultrabook user currently, I'm targeting the Surface Book outright for my next machine. It simply has all the features I need (and a little more in the real graphics card) and even has engineered benefits for things I don't want now but will probably want when music software catches up (good touch input). I saw a lot of complaints following Apple showing off their "one plug to control them all" design because of how hardware interfaces and musicians/DJs/performers love redundancy and back-up plans, so I'll be interested to see if they start taking market share away from Apple...it'll be slow, if it happens, but I'm interested!
React.js Meetups around the world
Sandisk official press release link:
https://www.sandisk.com/about/media-center/press-releases/20...
It should be in good company at least, I don't think any 1G electric cars will age well (it's hard finding old parts for cars these days, but I imagine finding old software will be quite tricky).
Go in many ways is a bold step backwards in software engineering.
Looks like there's a massive amount of reviews for the SB coming in today:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/3pmrt1/surface_boo...
Strangers on the Shore
Do you have any specific questions? I don't feel like a source is necessary here because this is generally accepted as fact and has been reproduced countless times. There is no science showing caloric timing being significant (physically) in terms of weight management. Mentally (as your sibling comment points out) sure, but physically absolutely not. You don't get fat from eating late, you get fat from eating an extra meal late.
>Also the code is faster, likely because it doesn't have to load another module at runtime.

Sure, but common sense would guide programmers about such tradeoffs. The extra time spent loading an additional library dependency would be amortized over the total execution time of the program -- IF -- the program makes repeated use of the library.

If a js file only has a single getElementById() call, substituting that with a JQuery library to get the "$" syntax would be overkill.[1] Howevever, if the javascript has many complicated DOM selects and bunch of animations, the extra JQuery load time can be justified.

One of the reasons to use a library the author didn't touch on was "insurance against unknown edge cases." For example, I could attempt to write 50 lines of code to uppercase a lowercase Unicode string. However, my attempt would have bugs in it. Instead, it would be more prudent to use the ICU library. It's a hassle to add that dependency and it's many thousands of lines more than my "simple" program but the ICU developers covered more edge cases than I ever thought of.

[1]http://www.doxdesk.com/img/updates/20091116-so-large.gif
> don't think you'll find many people in the military who think 'oh I'm already killing this guy with the AK74 who's shooting at my buddies,

That is exactly what's happening when they act on incomplete intel, don't care to double check, (we just attacked a Doctors Without Borders hospital last month). Yet we still pull the trigger.

So I think we'll find quite a few in the armed forced would and did approve those kind of actions.

> But those aren't 'innocent bystanders'.

You seem to be very sure of that. I am not.

> They're enemy combatants in all meanings of the concept, and 'fair game' (sorry again if that sounds callous again).

Now with a bit of pr gymnastics we can of course say "anyone near this person who may or may not be our target is an enemy combatant", and then we solve the problem and sleep better at night. And I think that is pretty much what's been happening. That is why I pointed out to your comment as an example of the problem.

> I think all of them have thought and think much more and harder about what it means to kill a person

Why would they? Their lives are not in danger. It is fun to do mission and pad stats. Are the people who blew up the Doctors Without Borders going to jail at least for manslaughter? Nope. So why stop?

> this is a major psychological burden, something that literally haunts them at night.

Unless there is a draft going on that I am not aware of, they got into it on their own will. Not sure what they expected? Travel, see the world? This is especially true for those signing up after the Iraq War. Still looking for WMDs I guess...

> do it because they're sadistic subhumans who get off on the idea of making children in an already bad situation on the other side of the world orphans.

Yet they keep making children o the other side of the world orphans. Do you know in Yemen what mothers tell their children will happen if they don't go to sleep on time or don't pick up their toys? They tell them "the drone will get you".

> So, if we can get past the 'killing people with drones is immoral no matter what' rhetoric,

That's not the argument here. But we can at least talk about why are even killing anyone in Yemen to start with, with drones or otherwise.
> By their own governments I assume.

Which itself was held at gunpoint by Moloch[0]. That's how it works - everyone has to play and lose because those who don't play lose first to those who do.

[0] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Both Microsoft and Amazon have deeply integrated Swarm & Compose, with more coming.

Both Microsoft and Amazon offer the Docker Subscription service on their respective Marketplaces and have active campaigns to promote them.

There are Docker Machine drivers that operate with every major cloud provider, allowing you to spin up new Docker nodes in seconds.

And as mentioned elsewhere in the thread, swarm integrates with Mesos and you can imagine any pure resource scheduler/framework can be integrated. Our goal is to provide the Docker experience to developers while being able to target disparate infrastructures, some of which are built purely with Docker and others built with an aggregation of tools.
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That doesn't hold in curling. Sponsors aren't putting together teams. Teams are self-assembling. Some of those teams then look for sponsors to offset their costs, but others don't even look for sponsors; the $ amounts are just so very small....
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If I'm already in the market for a MacBook Pro with retina, is this comparatively cheap or expensive?
How much does being first matter here, though?

A self-driving taxi service is not easy to scale because in addition to good maps of anywhere you want to service, you need to own and maintain physical cars (starting with nightly cleaning on weekends). This isn't an app, and being popular in California won't help you operate vehicles in Barcelona.

On the other hand, once someone makes a good-enough software platform, they can just license it to any local Addison Lee-type taxi/minicab company that already owns the cars and has experience maintaining them. If that someone is Google, they might just give it away like the rest of their products.

Uber got relatively large adoption by largely avoiding trying to scale too much horizontally, by using local drivers with their own cars - routing is the only thing they've done (and it's not as good as local knowledge). They claim to not be a transportation company at all, they just connect contractors. That sort of thing won't be possible with self-driving Tesla taxis.

Plus, we don't yet know if Tesla is any good at making non-premium cars.

Regarding incumbents trying to avoid cannibalisation - are you familiar with carshare systems operated by BMW and Daimler?
I try and not comment about this too much, but the text on the Docker site is stupidly hard to read. The font color, #7A8491, has a contrast ratio of 3.8/1 (black on white has a ratio of 21/1), which is barely above the w3 accessibility standards for _large_ text (18 point, or 14 point bold - higher for the thin stroke text the Docker page uses (Helvetica Neue Thin)).

Fix this, please, Docker. A few more points towards black isn't going to destroy the look and feel of your page.
Again Open (access) and Free (publication) are largely orthogonal. For instance PLOS journals are Open Access but not Free Publication, the publication fees funding edition and review.
Sorry! The i8 is still a good looking car anyway.
"Arguing against" is always okay. It's okay to be wrong. What's not okay is squelching conflicting opinions with violence so that neither you nor anybody else has a chance to stop being wrong. How many decades of astronomical progress did we lose to Urban VII? How many scholars or potential scholars in other fields suffered a chilling effect from seeing that proposing new scientific theories could bring the Inquisition down upon their head?