skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first version of Windows used a tiling window manager (or whatever that sort of thing is called on Windows.)
/s/"Greater Good"/"Bottom Dollar"
There should probably have been a little more of an explanation on the post, but: 99% of the connections that touch Vertica, for us, are read-only. Actually, we have no system in which there is mixed read/write to Vertica. Either a system reads from it, or writes to it. That made it very easy for us to figure out where to turn off autocommit, and to do it without losing any of the aforementioned correctness.
Disintermediate your own employer! Marry a gardener, and cut out your suppliers as well.

Pretty sure restaurants will survive this, though their service may have to improve.
Not to mention the people that the site content was stolen from.

To me, this sounds like "As founder, I had access to all of Homejoy's data, so I just took it with me."
Who says it hasn't.
EU Toughens Against TTIP as Top German Lawmaker Blasts Anti-Democratic Deal
Question for the people who perceive ad blocking as unethical: what is your opinion on reading HN comments without giving an ad impression (clicking on the link)?

Without the content, the discussions about the topics wouldn't be available.

I generally don't read the articles that are linked, just the HN content, as it has higher value to me. (This means I have to try to avoid criticizing the source article based on comments, but I'm generally more of a lurker anyhow.)

Genuinely curious.
Note that blind belief in the latter causes the former to happen: almost everyone in the courtroom including the jury (most criminal trials are jury trials) assumes the defendant is guilty otherwise he wouldn't be in court. The notion of assumed innocent until proven guilty does not actually exist in practice.

Additionally, many prosecutors, police and people in the criminal justice system believe that, even if the defendant is ambiguously guilty of the crime they are on trail for currently, they are certainly guilty of other crimes they are not currently on trial for. Thus shading information to get a conviction in an ambiguous case is sometimes viewed as a public service. Interestingly this part of problem is not the result of malice or even ambitious DAs.
Meanwhile ... the government is hard at work reducing the available time a judge has to consider a case. It's down to hours on average, for complex cases, minutes (not even tens of minutes) for "simple" cases (ie. < 2 weeks jail).

This forces judges to have an attitude along the lines of first offence -> warning plus fine if more than 1 week jail time, second offence -> same, but rescind driver license for a time as well, offence during driver license rescinded -> jail time. It is simply not possible to consider subtlety like ... oh, say, the actual case the government has under those rules.

But of course, because the government has been so successful in reducing time spent per case, at this point, giving judges an hour per case minimum would involve increasing the size of the justice system tenfold, maybe more.
When these stories discuss "processed meat" they always show bacon.

But is bacon really processed? It is just cured pork belly, right?
> clean and neat

Really? You miss that special "concrete gray and primary blue" feel?

I think I used every MS operating system starting with DOS, and I miss exactly none of the "historic" interfaces. To the extent I get annoyed when institutional IT departments force you to use the "classic" theme on modern windows boxes ("It's faster!" - no, it isn't to any human perceptible degree, and I appreciate not having to stare at beige rectangles all day).

I think engineers have a lot of nostalgia for this old stuff, but it's misplaced - interface design has moved foward in huge strides in the last decades, learning from mistakes. We've given up excessive skeumorphism, but we've kept improvements in design, layout, graphics, and perhaps most importantly we've learned that you need someone with serious visual and UX design skills to make an interface.
Heyo!

Sorry about the attribution. I'm trying to find who controls the blog as we speak so I can have them add it. (I work at Localytics, but I'm not the author.)

We've gingerly explored flame graphs to understand Vertica behavior under load, and we still have a lot that we want to try and use it for. I'm not sure if it will make an appearance in a further post, but we've definitely used your perf_event/ftrace-based tooling. :)
The Internet Law You’ve Already Broken
I think there are a few considerations. First - this is a Garage project, so it's (probably) not being directed by the marketing team. Instead, it's some engineers seeing what's possible Second - it has to feel normal to the Android Users that try it. If it changes what they are used to, they might be put off.

But I agree that it would be interesting to see a Modern UI launcher. I actually rearranged the screens to be a bit more like Windows Phone - swipe left brings up the app list. Swipe right to return to widgets. Another swipe right will bring up "recent" stuff, which isn't on Windows Phone 8 - but there were design concepts and suggestions like that, as alternatives to swiping from the top to bring down the notification tray.
If you place all 7.3 billion people onto an area of the size of Austria, every one has more than 11m² to their own.

Of course this illustration is a simplification but it brings the world population back to perspective.
Please see the links in the "Further Reading" and "External link" sections of this article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LuaTeX
> UPDATE: There are, by and large, two broad types of writers: extroverts who promote themselves capably, but might or might not have equally good skills, and introverts who lock themselves away and aren't great at self-promotion.

That in itself is a broad swath of a statement, and not necessarily true.

Why does being an extrovert have to be correlated with being and impostor, and introvert just simply these poor humble victims whose talents are overlooked?

What I saying is, if you're looking for work - applying for jobs is never the time to be humble. And if you are already confident, being humble won't help you.
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Couldn't easily work out how it compares to git/svn/mercurial/darcs/bazaar.

A comparison to any one of those would do wonders for the landing page.
I'll buy them too. For every access point to our neighborhood/gated-complex.

As long as the privacy implications are solved, and reasonable. I don't see any reason why local communities can't use this to prevent crime by excluding undesirable individuals from gaining access.
"Also, I'd be shocked if this didn't open Anderson up to civil liability."

FWIW: It doesn't.
Prosecutors generally have absolute (not qualified) immunity.

See Connick v. Thompson, 563 US 51 (2011) (https://www.oyez.org/cases/2010/09-571)
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The line it clipped could have been invisible on camera
From the article "All couples will now be allowed to have two children".

So it seems China isn't so much ending its one-child policy, as augmenting it by one to a two-child policy. This means the brutal and cruel enforcement will continue, only it will kick in at the third child instead of at the second.
‘I’m a petitioner – open fire’
Future historians will regard it as the #1 contribution of Xi's presidency.
To be fair that's the article quoting "officials" and the article directly mentions other attempts a paragraph later.
I always had HIGH hopes for LxY http://www.lyx.org/ for people with issues with LaTex but have just decided that people really need to learn to write code for typesetting and wish that Latex would produce a better syntax. I have high hopes for LuaTeX.
I also was expecting what you were, but I still think it's neat, or at least I think my kids will.
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Possibly slightly off topic, and not something I would normally comment on, but wow - what a lot of adverts! Desktop browser and aside from the full screen ad you need to click through on load, about 3/5 of the screen is adverts.

I've been torturing myself over the idea of having a single banner ad on my site (decided not to for now), but this is something that makes me want to finally give up and install an adblocker.
Wait, hang on, what's the backstory here? Was Jesse being harassed over Adria Richards? Dusty's blog says they were getting threatening phone calls and such.
Seems fairly easy to me. Pay 18 year old boys $10k to get a vasectomy. Watch birth rates plummet. Captialism gives us systematic inequality, we should use it to fix more problems
I'm someone who only has limited amounts of energy (as in, sustained hard thought and focus), combined with a tendency to get hung up on briefly fascinating, but ultimately irrelevant details. My approach to making progress on projects is to keep a very short list of things that I think I really can make progress on, along with a few footnotes about what imperfections to ignore, followed by a paragraph about why I think I can make progress on these items.

Then, on any day where circumstances are in my favor, I can look at the list, pick something, and start doing it. Or, if I disagree with the list, then the immediate task is to fix the list. Anything I no longer agree with, or don't have the means to pursue, is removed. It feels important to me that the list remains concise and focused.

I think that I'm now better at switching off, being able to do other things, being able to unwind, partly because the list gives me the confidence that I'll be able to pick things up again tomorrow, without needing to wear a furrow in my brain in the meantime.
Whenever something like this happens I am always left wondering if it would be better to legalize and organize some sort of "locking service" which goes around the (national) IPs, finds the holes, breaks in, fixes the hole and sends a message to owner (if it is possible to determine who it is).

I think I am mostly aware of the implications, but I wonder if net effect would be positive...
China is getting really good at assembly robots too.

However if the process can be completely automated then why not do the manufacturing right where the bulk of consumption is going to happen to reduce shipping costs which are always growing.
> It could indicate that judges are overeager to convict

Judges don't convict, juries do.

Just thought I'd clear that up.
Let's build a tiny eco system in a large centrifuge and see what happens.
Does PIL use a linear colorspace for downscaling? I coudn't find it in their documentation. My intuition says that your sample image would look much better if it was downscaled in a linear colorspace, especially because of the thin bright lines disappear in the legofied image.

I recommend imageworsener for downscaling, its homepage links to many good articles about this topic too. AFAIK imagemagick can be tamed to use linear colorspace for downscaling, but it doesn't do it by default.

http://entropymine.com/imageworsener/
Or use this app:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/surgeprotector/id925613132?m...
leave this kind of pointless platitude with no facts or sources to reddit please. they love that kind of shit over there.
Yes, including transfer in those numbers is misleading and dubious.
I hope you mean whitelisting instead of blacklisting? otherwise, where would you get the list of "undesired" (whatever that means) individuals?
I love how clean the documentation is. It seems like oftentimes new methods are implemented as an afterthought (if at all). I would need to read the article to know what's it doing under the hood, but felt like it would be very easy to tinker with while I did!
Harvard-born on-demand moving services startup QuikForce expanding on East Coast
In this case, the prosecutor was clearly wrong. But what is the flip side of this? If the client admits to the defense that he's guilty, are they bound to defend him, knowing that they're already in the wrong?
Have you tried tex4ht? Maybe it doesn't produce nice output by the default, but it is extremely configurable and it should support all LaTeX out of the box, unlike other solutions such as Pandoc.

I've wrote some basic tutorial about tex4ht configuring [1], lot of information can be found when you search TeX.sx for tex4ht tag [2], for example how to use Mathjax for math rendering[3] or how to include Javascript libraries and some responsive CSS[4]. You can ask tex4ht related questions on TeX.sx or on it's mailing list[5], there is also a issue tracker[6].

[1] https://github.com/michal-h21/helpers4ht/wiki/tex4ht-tutoria...

[2] http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tex4ht

[3] http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/265815/2891

[4] http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/239944/2891

[5] http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex4ht

[6] https://puszcza.gnu.org.ua/bugs/?group=tex4ht
And this is why my wife won't let me use wechat. Many of my laowai friends had a lot of fun with that.
Applied for the first time and we were a no-go. Great to have found this thread, lot's of positive feedback and agree on lot of inputs on paving forward! We'll be continuing on our path forward as well to make a dent in how professionals network with elloBEE (http://elloBEE.com).
Pitch Your Idea with the 'Star Wars' Method of Storytelling
The Contest Between Gravity and Quantum Physics
Everything you say rings true to me. So, I sincerely wonder, why hasn't a drive for higher profits fixed this problem?
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Then your problem isn't the license. The problem is your government.

I.e. If the license becomes a problem, it's because you've got bigger problems.
By using the exonerative voice, a liar avoids committing to a particular narrative. They can easily back away from a statement by saying "I only said baggage is subject to being searched. I didn't say they were searched."

That said, I don't think the exonerated voice is a particularly skillful one. A careful listener can easily pick up on that.
In Oklahoma? They clearly say it is the first in the state.
This is the problem here.

As an embedded developer where every cycle counts I have come up with the same question as the poster above why bother with such languages. If a switch processes packets at line rate with the use of ASIC's why not have some similar development in the world of big data.
That smoking spy icon in Ritchie's screenshot gives me flashbacks to mid-90s childhood. I remember seeing it around quite a bit for a while, but can't remember where. Anyone know where it's from?
Having worked in a USDA/ARS lab as just a tech, I can note a few things that might be of interest (my observations only of course).

1. Industry connections are very deep in USDA/ARS.

2. Managers are scientists. This is a double edged sword. Often scientists are not very good managers, but managers without deep science knowledge would cause other issues.
So you're saying the conviction rate is between 87% and 100%.
As soon as I saw that, my first thought was that the interface has gotten worse. I realize they've crammed a lot more stuff into it, so maybe I'm being too critical. I'm pretty sure Apple can do better though.

I have an iPod Touch and I wanted to listen to Beats One in iTunes. I had to go to Google to figure out where it is. Hint: it isn't part of internet radio.
AirBnb just announced they're testing a product similar to ours. Any advice?
Hello,
For the past year I've been working on a startup built as a marketplace for people to list, discover and book getaways offered by locals anywhere in the world, as long as it has something special about it. This means that one can discover, list or book a local activity (culinary, cultural, sightseeing etc)+ accommodation, all in one place.

We launched in September and are working on building traction. But Airbnb just announced they're "reinventing travelling" with trips "handcrafted" by locals who live there. (source http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/10/26/airbnb-tests-booking-your-entire-trip-with-new-journeys-service/ ) And come December, they'll be testing their offer for San Francisco.

Our tool already offers such "handcrafted" short trips all over the world, not just SF. But we obviously lack the traction and marketing budget behind AirBnb.

Do you have any advice on what we can do to prepare come December? Did any of you guys experience something similar? Should all our team's effort be put in a drawer now?
Obviously, any feedback on how we could improve our tool (spoty.com) would be greatly appreciated.
Needs an option for "lego resolution/scaling", i.e. 1x1 vs 2x2 vs 4x4 blocks per output pixel. For times when I want to make a more detailed (hence physically bigger) Legopic from, well, a pic.
In case anyone is wondering, on Linux you can take a screenshot of the current virtual console by reading from /dev/vcs. The numbered devices allow you to read from a specific virtual console, and each device has a 'vcsa' counterpart that includes colour and cursor information.
Agree. Maybe the "Why a new version control system?" blurb from the FAQ.
This is the very last thing I need.
Can you post this dialog? I have trouble understanding how they gave a solid "No" on something which warrants much consideration.

Most companies won't even respond if they don't intend to fix something, that way they can claim they're working on a fix when it all blows up in their face.
however determining the exact speed at which a vehicle travels through the scheme could not be done without ALPR

Of course it could. One way would be to ask for volunteers (compensated or not) to put stickers on their cars which would uniquely identify them.
I always try and imagine how big things became that way. We watch football in huge stadiums, but I like to think back to a time where people would just get together on Sunday and watch a match - and as they got more and more interesting, people decided that we need more space and built bigger and bigger stadiums.

It feels like this with all this 'sharing economy' stuff. Restaurants probably started off (many, many) years ago just being people inviting others over to eat - over time the best hosts started to charge more and more, and bought bigger and bigger places to host more and more people. Soon there were enough people doing this that it needed to be regulated.

It's like we're going in a circle.
Hey, that should have been fixed last night. There was a small bug when I pushed some updates last night.
My sense is that families having cooks--at least in some locations and for some levels of income--used to be more common than it is today. I suspect that some combination of changes in lifestyle and availability of prepared food (e.g. takeout, frozen food) in various forms has made it less common.

The basic idea written about here isn't unreasonable. However, I'd posit that most of the people who want to eat well but don't want to spend the time cooking would also have trouble with the planning for someone to come over to their house at a specific time.
An update to UBlock Origin was rejected by the Chrome Web Store
That's the thing with Linux - if you don't like the default DE/WM because it changes too much, then use one which doesn't. User friendly distros pack things like Openbox or i3 with some sensible defaults.

I am always "sudo apt-get install i3" and "git clone dotfiles" away from a configured tiling window manager if that's what I'm after.
I need to take a transfer from Fort Lauderdale airport to Miami in a few weeks and was looking at pricing. Uber was definitely the cheapest, assuming no surge pricing. A scheduled private car is going to be close to $30 more than an Uber.
"Seemless" should be "Seamless" (home page)
You mean, it is not a problem because the planet can support that many? Or do you mean it is a problem, but it will solve itself? I don't think either is correct. The first is only true today because non-First World inhabitants are living on a much smaller ecological footprint than Europe and the US. However, that footprint is increasing rapidly. The second reading at least acknowledges there is a problem, but I think you are underestimating the correction required. I think the correction will not happen (at all, or fast enough) through natural means.

We are already at more than twice a sustainable population level. Even the most generous estimates I've seen place the Earth's carrying capacity at 7.7 billion people. But most estimates say that the Earth can support 2-3 billion people at modest levels of first-world consumption. The more our planet will be stripped of its resources now (whether through overfishing, destruction of forests, or climate change), the lower the sustainable planet population will become.

Put differently, we need to lose at least 5 billion people in the next decades without replacing them with a younger generation to be able to sustain the emancipation of emerging countries. It's not about population growth stabilizing, we need both massive negative population growth and halving of current energy use in developed countries. The only "natural" means through which I can see that happening is massive food shortages or horrific wars, and I think it's a pretty safe bet that the former will trigger the latter. It's also a pretty safe bet that our global society will disappear in that scenario, so I'd rather we have better solutions before that happens.
Bootstrapping the New Yorker
So where do we opt out? How do we keep the X letter agencies from mining all the data? Thinking about this, the whole smart city idea always seems like a game of Russian roulette in Pandora's Box to me. Once we start something like this, there is no way of going back.

I know that the main goal of this project is to reduce Co2 output and use energy more efficiently. See http://www.greendigitalcharter.eu/wp-content/uploads/2012/05...

But why network an entire city? Arguably a smart power grid would be the first option instead of what appears like a wireless network in monitor mode. Although as of right now it appears as if the network is only open for researchers http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/02/bristol_smart_city_r...

YOUTUBE VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROKydMx9EGs
And people wonder why I would prefer to have an IBM Watson powered robot treating me. (Actually I would prefer the doctor required to work in conjunction with Watson. So many simple errors would be caught).
Yes. That's a problem, certainly. I'm just pointing out that Stripe's "are you PCI compliant" process is pretty low-key.
While I am happy to defer to someone who I think is a bit more connected through previous relationships to what's happening at Oracle, I will say the one thing I take issue with is the way they phrased the earn-out. It's based on net revenue, not income. This is Larry we're talking about, there's plenty of ways to make the revenue of Pillar look good enough to get paid, even if it's not REALLY making any money. Sell a database, get a "free" Pillar system. But hey, the Pillar system is what you really paid for, we gave you the licensing for free!
Looks cool, but what is the configuration of the db doing that it takes so long? 50 seconds of the 80 second video is waiting around for the configuration of the database...