skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to agree with your sentiment about there being no check for the government, especially when there are things the government can't do. Still, on one hand, you have Zuckerberg trying to revolutionize education, while on the other hand, you have Soros and the Koch brothers inverting democracy for their personal interests. At least when the government is corrupt, you can vote them out or at worst, have violent revolution. An individual? Ask them kindly to stop? Kill them?

I think I'd feel more comfortable with corporation(s) competing with the government, because then, you could "vote against them with your dollar." Another thing which is done in government labs in the US is having labs/universities compete with each other for funding (although whether this yields good incentives for research is another story, and we're trying to find avenues for innovation that are difficult for the government, and ostensibly, difficult for govt labs too).

Finally, if we do accept this form of oligarchy (where one oligarch is the government we vote for), no doubt will we have entities which disagree with each other, say, Soros or the Koch brothers. Now, then, the rest of us just become the grass at the feet of fighting elephants[0], and I hell don't know how anyone would feel comfortable with that. I suppose the only option you have then for having a voice is to become the next elephant, and while I love hacking/disruption as the next guy, I know statistics too, and I won't delude myself I will become Zuckerberg or even four orders of magnitude near him.

[0] http://www.afriprov.org/african-proverb-of-the-month/27-2001...
If the function returned s (the sum number), would it not optimize it away?
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I reluctantly became a (medicinal) user for nausea from chemotherapy. But I didn't want to smoke it - I'd rather use an edible or a tincture. (Some collectives also sell capsules of infused oils.)

I probably wouldn't bother if it hadn't become legal for medicinal use in my state. So I could've moved the needle in this study. (If anyone had asked me.)

That being said, I have no desire to get "high" and in fact one of the few times it made me feel that way, it was a miserable experience.

The problem is that with edibles, you never know what dosage you're getting. There are some consistent "brands" but the local collectives move through them, so, particularly with the tinctures you never know what the effect will be. One dropper for one brand, four for another, to get the anti nausea effect without the more psychoactive effects.

Honestly, I'd be perfectly happy if SquabMerCo came out with commercial product that had guaranteed contents.
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Part I of the series: https://www.compose.io/articles/what-postgresql-has-over-oth...
Email Subjects with “yesterday” and “tomorrow” have higher engagement than “today”
http://bc.ctvnews.ca/mobile/fact-or-fear-conservative-attack...
Of course, and to be fair its much easier for those victims to go to authorities to get help if they're not afraid of getting in trouble for doing something illegal.

Also to be fair there is less demand for trafficked victims, if others can choose to do so "freely" or in this case with charge....
Maybe not a security threat, but a national threat nonetheless[1].

[1] http://gizmodo.com/the-annual-love-and-sex-with-robots-confe...
Not to be cynical, but doesn't matter how awesome and cheap these devices get as long as they are locked down and designed for consumption.
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I find it strange that prostitution is illegal in much of the world. Many people basically seem to be like this: if they don't like something, then they want to ban it. They don't seem to think much further than that. Alcohol prohibition is probably the best example of what happens when you ban something: it doesn't go away, but you get lots of crime etc.
That's exactly what got me interested in learning x86 assembly language. It's pretty neat to see how fast a generic loop can be when the entire executable is <10 bytes.
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I'm not sure as I'm not started playing with Jsonb yet! but give it a try.
Try

ycat https://news.ycombinator.com | hgrep .athing | html

ycat uses YQL to bypass CORS.

There are a few interesting workflows which can be done completely in the browser without a proxy: e.g. copying files from one Google Drive account to another, backing up Google Drive to Dropbox, and so on.
The rich send their kids to private schools.

Therefore, this problem does not apply to the rich.

Therefore, this problem will not be solved.
Times Square is the Times Square of NYC. One small part of a larger whole with lots of flashing lights.
total prostitution advertising is probably not (entirely) related to total prostitution occurrence. Ease, volume, and affordability of advertisement services have probably gone up with technical advances, word of mouth, etc etc.
Really?

The OP sought to put all those various forms of discrimination on an equal footing for whatever completely bizarre reason (does anyone really believe cabbies are quizzing people on their political affiliation before giving them a ride or serving them a meal?) but the color of one's skin is the only one that commonly causes quick and blatant discrimination in these situations today in the United States.

We've got a legacy of racism here, but also: you might have a whole raft of nasty prejudices but there aren't a lot of ways to discriminate against someone you don't know in a first contact situation. Physical appearance is the big one.
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Not sure what you mean by locked down. The amazon app store has a fair number of apps in it and it has always been possible to sideload apps from external sources, even sideloading google app services and play store (at least in the fire phone and previous gen fire tablet, not certain about the new one). I don't think it's any more locked down than Google Android or iOS.
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> If you had read the entire article

I read the entire article. Notice I wrote "I'm not an entrepreneur", implicitly referencing the passage you quoted.
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> I tried the Metro, but it didn't go where I wanted to go somehow.

Metro rail is not complete coverage, however the extension out to Santa Monica (West LA) is opening early 2016. As you say, the buses get mired in traffic all too often.
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Nothing, but giving a bad rating for race would be weird and rare.

Additionally you always see the driver's photo, and optionally see the riders photo before the ride starts, so the deeply racist probably cancel before the ride anyway.
a) You can not escape the need for locks because there is a 8" height difference of the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean. Additionally you have tidal variation.

b) The Panama Canal locks are already in pairs to allow simultaneous bi-directional traffic. They are currently building a third set of larger locks that will increase maximum dimensions of vessels transiting the Panama Canal.
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I agree. Mea culpa.

I am still active on the project and I am working to address the issues you mention, though progress has been slower than I could wish.
> it's clear that the rising generations want to live in cities much moreso than previous ones did

I don't know that it's necessarily that we want to, but we kinda have to. When you're starting off out of college with the kind of debt that your parents didn't have until they bought their first home, you've got to go where the money is. For some reason, it's been decided that packing people into open-office cattle cribs in a handful of cities across the country is the only way to do business... So we pack up and go live in shitty apartments in the city for a few years until we get out of debt-slavery and become skilled enough and connected enough that we can work from the places we actually want to live and raise a family.

It pisses me off a little bit. In my home town, I've got two hundred-year-old graves of relatives in the town cemetery, and I grew up in a house built on land that was part of a farm my great-great grandfather owned before the Great Depression. There are the hills and woods I stalked deer and turkeys in, the little mountain ponds I caught trout in, the garden I grew beans and corn and potatoes in with my family. The elementary and high school gyms I shot thousands of hoops in and poured out uncounted gallons of sweat on. I know every tree, every rock that sticks up out of the lawn enough to dull the lawnmower if you don't go around. It's home, in a way that the other places I've had to live and work since then will never be. It just sucks, because there is no work, and so I, along with everyone else in my generation, has had to leave and go out into these concrete jungles and lifeless suburbs to make a living.

Someday, I'll have made enough money, and the world will move on enough that I can write software from my living room, and teach my kids how to grow tomatoes in that same patch of dirt.
Related: https://github.com/computers-are-fast/computers-are-fast.git...
I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that "less racist than France" means "not racist". And even if you buy that silly study as an objective measure of the deeply complex topic of racism, it still marks Japan as less racially tolerant than the Anglo countries those who perpetuate that "myth" likely hail from.
How minimal do you think the North Korea sympathy is, I wouldn't think it was a majority but it seemed to me to be quite a bit.
This is extremely cool. Someone needs to do this for all the languages that are commonly used. Knowing general speeds of various calls for javascript, ruby, elixir, etc. would be great for web development.
If the attacker can run code on your hardware, they probably don't stand to gain anything from (from the standpoint of compromising data integrity) by degrading your hardware to introduce bit flips. It would be simpler to present you data corrupted in the fashion they'd like.
I'm sort of curious as to where these buildings are. I've never seen one on the US west coast.
This made me pause and think for a moment. What do rich kid schools do? I have no idea. I went to a dumb kid rural high school. But for some reason through the endless education discussion I've never heard brought up what rich kid schools do differently. Even if the answer is "but we can't do that because we're poor".

Man. Now you've got me all curious...
It's a bit scary that this was detected when the parents used a fertility clinic and were so sure of themselves that they felt the need to investigate further. There must be other false negatives where they trusted the test results that perhaps led to relationship breakups or other problems.
One thing "rich kid schools" do is filter out many students who are difficult to teach. Teaching and running a school is a lot easier if your goal does not involve teaching everyone who walks through your doors.
They should take a hint from engineering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondestructive_testing
Well so gcc -O2 will just replace the loop with s = NUMBER.
There are a bunch of commercial engines built on Postgres that implement sharding and parallel querying at huge scale: Amazon Redshift, Truviso, Netezza, ParAccel, Aster Data and CitusDB come to mind. It's a shame that none of this has tricked down into the open-source version.

There's Postgres-X2 (formerly Postgres-XC), sponsored by NTT, which implements fully consistent multimaster replication and partitioning. After many, many years apparently still isn't production-ready nor particularly scalable, and the likelihood that it will ever be merged into mainline Postgres is zero (its planner changes alone are apparently several hundred thousand lines of code).

More interestingly, there's Postgres-XL, which is apparently a merger of Postgres-XC and a different implementation called StormDB that was bought by a company called TransLattice. (TransLattice also sponsored or acquired an earlier project that went nowhere, Postgres-R.) Unlike XC/X2, they say they aim to contribute changes back to the mainline, and they also claim their distributed query model is superior. With the commerical support behind it (it's used as the basis of a commercial product), it's possible that this is something that will be usable. Unfortunately, it seems very quiet and not very open-sourcy; most of the development seems to be by just one guy [3], and nobody seems to be using it in production at this point.

[1] https://github.com/postgres-x2/postgres-x2

[2] http://www.postgres-xl.org/

[3] http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgres-xl.git;a=summar...
That is very true and thanks for telling from the other side.
Hope that Koreans and Japanese will get along.
Check out basic income.
If only we have GPIO on these tablets!
I have to seriously question the accuracy of this study. I'm an obstetrician (cesarean surgeon) and I have never noticed texting to have a positive effect on my patients. From my observations, it seems to cause them a lot of stress (and thus increases the pain) and it almost certainly increases the duration of the procedure (because I'm busy texting and am just sort of jimmying the scalpel around with my other hand).
As mentioned I think you are confused about what consistent means.

By the ACID definition a database can either be consistent or not. It can't sometimes be one or the other (unless there is some bug. I was referring to the CAP definition which I assume is what you are referring to. And by that definition HBase is absolutely strong consistent.

And that second link was pretty bad (with all respect to the great guys over at Datastax). It is benchmarking a release candidate build of MongoDB (2.8.0-rc4) where quite a number of important fixes went in before GM. They should have just waited until 3.0 was released.

Also it would be good for that Call Me Maybe test to be redone considering that stale-read bug has been fixed:

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-18022
This is by far the biggest difference between the two.
No shit. Public school is all about teaching to the tests. There's no time to actually learn anything useful, because everything is focused on bringing up the state test scores, which influence funding. Not only are you spending all this time teaching what is going to be on the standardized test, and how to structure essays and do your work according to what the test graders expect, but there's the two weeks taken out of instructional time just to take the damned tests.

So you see everything that doesn't support that goal get stripped back. Home economics? Shop? History? Real literature? Gym? Programming/technology/spelling/philosophy? Nope, we're going to spend 80% of your time honing your five-paragraph essay skills and pushing everybody kicking and screaming through pre-calc.
California's per person tax revenues are some of the highest in the entire country. So what you're saying is if the gov't could only have a bit more money everything would be great?
It looks like you can install custom android roms (eg cyanogenmod) on Amazon tablets (eg https://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=otterx - see other Amazon devices in the sidebar too)
Not really, for both points.

For the first: they are still afraid of getting in trouble, and their foremost fear is their exploiters, not the police.
Being forced into prostitution is not a crime, and they would have always been protected by the police.

For the second: there is surely a non-zero amount of people who might have chosen to practice prostitution and didn't do it because of the law. That does not mean that they don't end up being exploited.

Many victims of human trafficking might initially agree to participate in a prostitution business, but still end up in an effective slavery condition.
The amount of "self employed prostitutes who chose to do it only when it became legal" is higher than zero, but very very tiny.

Mind you, I am in favor of legalizing prostitution, I've just grown very disillusioned by the effectiveness of it, though I'm confident things might improve in the next decades.
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I attended a private Catholic prep school. One thing we didn't waste much time on was standardized testing. In my five years at the school, I only recall taking one standardized test, aside from the sat/ act.
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Copying is much easier than inventing.
Times Square used to be a lot racier place before the Disney Store moved in...
Many of the strategies listed seem to fit under the umbrella of "growth hacking." Although I am not currently utilizing these sorts of tools (maybe soon!) it is fascinating to understand and see how websites are innovating and competing to get my attention and eventually, they hope, my money. A good example is the site Buffer. I'm not sure what specific services they offer but their brand is steadily embedding itself in my mind. I constantly come across quality content from them, making it more likely that I'll come to them if they offer a solution to a future business problem I have.
In reply to tsotha, 1801 Century Park East, Los Angeles, CA 90067 is an example. At least it was when I worked there after law school (ahem some time ago).
Just because there's a height difference with locks, doesn't mean some kind of singularity would develop without them. Either the height difference would disappear, or continuous currents through the canal would maintain it.

In the Panama canal, they benefit from keeping the inland lakes above sea level so that they're deep enough. If they were connected to the sea, they'd lower significantly and even more excavation would be needed to make a path for ships.

There would also be fascinating effects of strong currents through it, sea level changes, fresh water lakes becoming salt water (sorry local people!), and fish migrating.
Regarding ergonomics: keyboards are intended to be used with two hands, so if you're trying to type Ctrl + C then your left hand presses C while your right hand presses the right control key. That way you don't fatigue your hands and makes Cmd vs Ctrl something of a moot point.

Of course with the right hand on the mouse, the left hand is often used to perform both key presses. If this causes you pain, gaming mice offer programmable buttons which you could configure to give you Cmd/shift/Ctrl or other common modifier keys (or just copy/paste macros). I've seen this done to great effect.
Is it efficient if it takes so long to get to market that the product is irrelevant by the time it gets there?

Is it efficient if the product is buggy and insecure because it's inherently more difficult to program in assembly compared to Python or Java?

Is it efficient if the product is not extensible and inflexible because every engineering decision went towards efficiency, which is inherently opposed to flexibility? (Early binding is inherently more efficient than late binding for all the same reasons it is inherently less flexible.)

Or do you insist on defining "efficiency" solely to mean "machine efficiency" instead of thinking like an engineer and understanding the concept of trade-offs where no decision is inherently worse than any other?
> Perhaps "for profit" is just never going to work in education?

Well, government-run certainly isn't working, at least in the US. Charter schools (like Kipp) seem to be doing a lot better.
... wherein you learn how slow Python is, and learn that the author severely underestimates how fast optimized C can be.

Many of these questions are heavily dependent on the OS you're running and the filesystem used, and of course the heavy emphasis on Python makes it hard to make good guesses if you've never written a significant amount of it. I mean, I have no idea how much attention was paid to the development of Python's JSON parser; it's trivial to write a low-quality parser using regexes for scanning, OTOH it could be a C plugin with a high-quality scanner, and I could reasonably expect 1000x differences in performance.

Interpreted languages tend to have less predictable performance profiles because there can be a large variance in the amount of attention paid to different idioms, and some higher-level constructs can be much more expensive than a simple reading suggests. Higher level languages also usually make elegant but incredibly inefficient implementations much more likely.
How is this self-serving? How does it directly benefit Zuckerberg?
So let see if I understand this--if as a test subject your task is to perceive two different criteria in the same scene concurrently, performance drops off dramatically?

Sounds about right. Take video games. Whenever I've tried one of those indie/experimental games where you need to deal with multiple problems simultaneously, my brain enters this anxious mode where I keep flip-flopping between paying attention to qualia A or qualia B. It's such a stressful mode. God, Towerfall is hard.
It has one star on Yelp.

At the time of writing, there are only two reviews total, one of them obviously post-Odom.

just 12 of the state’s 16 counties

Just? 12/16 = 75%. That's not "just."

Who is editing this stuff?
Seems like this is a big deal for criminal justice system.
This is actually a useful site for learning about the costs of code. What would be more useful is if a multi-language version were developed which I imagine could turn into a pretty cool open source project.
The reason California's per person tax revenues are some of the highest in the entire country IS because California needs to offset the greatly reduced tax revenue from properties. The problem is that this status quo benefits the wealthy (who tend to own many properties) at the expense of middle and working classes.
If that's the case, it seems like it would be a pretty easy problem to fix: allow schools to suspend/expel students who are repeatedly disruptive or violent in class. From a utilitarian perspective this would probably be a net win, in that whatever the disruptive students lost from being expelled would be more than made up for by what the students who actually wanted to learn gained from not having the disruptive students interrupting the learning process.
I think it's not that clear cut. "run code on your hardware" what does that mean? Running code as root? Certainly. Regular user? Certainly. In some form of sandbox?
Hmm.

I you accept that running Javascript in a Browser or PDF-Reader is "running code on your hardware" then thousands of people have run code on my hardware.
It doesn't usually matter because the sandbox protects me from obvious attacks like accessing the file system.

The sandbox won't do nothing to prevent certain instruction patterns or memory access patterns. I don't know if that's really feasible but I see the possibility.
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I don't see how that would help. Maybe we're thinking of different things.
It's not just the disruptive students - you've got the special-ed students, and all the students that are what my mother (an elementary special-ed teacher) refers to as "dull-normals" - those who don't really have learning disabilities that would get them labeled, but are just not very smart (80-100 IQ). Then there are the ESL students, and all the other categories I can't think of at 3AM...

Public schools have to service all of these students, until they graduate, drop out, or age out.
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Is the whole thing available? Pity if it only surfaces on per page basis.
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