skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zookeeper Quorum Management
Adding and removing nodes from zookeeper cluster is very painful especially when you are going to replace the entire quorum with fresh set of new machines. You need to make sure that all the applications which are using zookeeper should have updated list of quorum machines. This means you need to keep the list of quorum machines somewhere else where all clients can query to get the updated list of quorum, maybe like consul. I would like to know how everyone manages it.
The economist article linked here references (and uses in their rankings) data from https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/, which is put out by the US Dept of Ed. Looks like there's some additional metrics in there that may be useful.
You still don't get his point. You're trying to think up solutions but that has nothing to do with what he said.
Ask HN: How would you value a team?
I've been kicking around some ideas on how to model a pre-revenue, pre-product company that might be trying to raise money just on team. So in real life they probably have a product idea or something, but lets say they don't, or no one cares yet because they're just a great team with great pedigree. This team is going to start a company but can't unless they have salary. Think ex-googlers or something who want to branch out. This is also the calculation you would do to value an acqui-hire.

Doesn't it make sense to value the company as the future value of an annuity that pays our their profits doing consulting work? The biggest problem with this is that they're hopefully not going to be doing consulting work if they're building a company, but at the same time, this is a common occurrence.

How far off base is this in estimating the value of a company in an acqui-hire or pre-product stage?

Wolfram has a good calculator if you want to play with this.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=future+value+of+annuity

According to this, a $1-1.5M valuation per employee is typical.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-typical-deal-structure-of-an-acquihire

How would that play into a future value annuity model?
Compare with the petroglyphs and geoglyphs discussed in Dr. Anthony Peratt's 2003 paper, Characteristics for the Occurrence of a High-Current, Z-Pinch Aurora as Recorded in Antiquity:

http://plasmauniverse.info/downloadsCosmo/PerattTPSv31-2003c...

The timeframe (8,000 years old) mentioned in the article generally fits with the timeframes given in Peratt's paper. So perhaps these earthworks are further evidence of ancient peoples recording (in some sense) a stupendous "light show" that defied explanation and ordinary human experience.

Additional publications on the same theory, by Peratt and other researchers:

http://plasmauniverse.info/NearEarth.html
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I've watched a lot of horror movies and none of them came anywhere close to scaring me. It's too easy to remember that they're not real. Donnie Darko however has scenes I'd call "philosophically scary", and knowing it's not real does nothing to lessen the impact. Despite not being officially horror I found it more horrifying than any horror movie.
I don't understand the need to use the word 'Whites'.

Heroin has spiked and whites correspond to ~70-80% of the population, so obviously there will be many white addicts.

The 'Drug War' exists to fight heroin usage overall; it's not targeted at a race.
It assumes you select a school that is focused on your field of choice, so if you pick an art school, your preference is for art, and if you pick an engineering school, your preference is for engineering.
People including whites, hippies, etc. had been complaining since at least the 70s. We bad similar policies in white countries, we still have them in Asian countries and African countries. Just because you see coincidence does not indicate cause.
they probably could be, they make these types of pop out boards in china now. I honestly dont know if they could ever be sold in a big box retailer type store only because of the margins/shelf space required for them. If everything made sense business wise I see 0 reason as to why this could not happen in the near future.

The one thing that I am not sure anyone has brought up, is this is a relatively small market. You are talking about big box stores, along the coasts of tourist rich surfing areas.
Has nothing to do with what he said.
Hard to take your article seriously with statements such as "...Levels 1 and 2 of the FIPS140-2 certification are just a marketing gimmick".
Even harder to believe Jakob took the time to respond.
Here is what I want.

I want the car to avoid the collision, record the whole incident, and submit it as evidence to penalize the other driver.

The penalties could take the form of a lawsuit. Or could take the form of tagging the incident, and submitting the video where the other person's insurance company can automatically pick it up, examine the evidence, and then change rates.

That way we not only prevent accidents, but we start to address the minority of reckless drivers that put all of us at risk.
This.

This is very close to the cliched observation that the best way to get rid of a law is to enforce it strictly.
How do you bridge that chasm between personally not seeing any good use for something, to declaring that it should be outlawed for everyone?
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> Why is it so difficult to imagine neolithic cultures built these things

In fact it's incredibly insulting to everyone involved, and basically everyone who has ever lived, that without the use of modern tools they couldn't possibly do anything of note.

'Ancient Aliens' is a big fuck you to those who actually did the work.
This is always how it goes; everyone knows it will be mandatory eventually so manufacturers milk it in premium packages for as long as possible.

NHTSB just made backup cameras mandatory and those have been around for a long time.
Imagine my distress, when I find that this is a lie:

This is a haiku,
Because this line has seven,
And this line has five.

So now I must update it:

Senryu is three lines,
Seventeen syllables max,
And knows no season.

You know, in barely related news, Dwarf Fortress now supports the invention and spread of poetic forms in the world generator. I'm sure that any one of those procedurally-generated forms would be acceptable for passing jokey-jokes around the Internet.
One of the problems of being British (a crime I suspect the GP of) is you don't always know what is British slang
Is current profit really the best metric to measure the success of an AI department? I doubt many people bought iPhones because of Siri. AI development's biggest impact on bottom line is still probably 5-15 years away.
Somewhat, because African Americans explicitly asked for harsh anti-drug laws in their communities.

http://i.imgur.com/NkyayV0.jpg

The country was (more) racist back then, but we can't forget that the Black community was the first anti-drug community. Harsh drug laws were just how things were done back then.
Having done exactly this type of integration with legacy systems I think a point that gets glossed over is that it's the startups themselves who are full of engineers who think that the whole world has moved on to using NoSQL Node.js RESTful JSON APIs in the cloud (that buzzword soup was intentional) when the reality is that the majority of established businesses are using unsexy and what they would consider to be "legacy" technology.

So you have companies like one I was recently a part of integrating a Node web app and API with SOAP and SAML end points and suddenly it's everyone else's fault that things are hard when really you probably should have thought through those tech stack choices before you started.

I'm not saying the article is wrong. I agree with it wholeheartedly but there's a lot to be said for not researching the market you're about to jump into thoroughly enough before you begin.
Your point about the rats is well taken. It does make for good click bait and over exposure serves multiple interests beyond simply informing the public.

I worry about the homeless as a vulnerable population who is disproportionately threatened by wildlife in an urban setting. Whether it is from plague carrying fleas on rats running around an encampment or a group of coywolves or a mountain lion deciding that this particular human sleeping under a bush in a park might be prey.
Sunrise here was 8:25.
How to implement integer addition
Also the ones I've seen are much, much better than Blair Witch.
The thing is, coyotes aren't aggressive. Or particularly destructive either. They have the benign appearance and demeanor of shy dogs. It would take a lot of effort to witness a coyote being violent. As prey, you'd likely never see a coyote being aggressive towards you until you're being jumped by the pack. So in most situations there's no evidence they are anything but cute and harmless. That's their adaptation.
One of the biggest barriers to preventative healthcare is that it doesn't pay -- at least not quickly enough to make business sense for an insurer. There's a famous paper that looked for cost-saving interventions in preventing heart attacks and strokes, and it concluded:

"As they are currently delivered, almost all of the
prevention activities are expensive. If applied fully, using
current protocols and the reference assumptions about costs
(Table 2), they would increase health care costs by $8.5
trillion over 30 years (Table 3), or $283 billion per year, or
$1700 per person per year (data not shown). The only
cost-saving activity is smoking cessation."

You can read the full paper here. It's from 2008, so perhaps some entrepreneur will be able to find the breakthrough that finally bends the cost curve:
http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/118/5/576.short
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Ask HN: Online python interpreter?
I've used a few, but im looking for one, where I can use non-native libraries in like requests, etc. all online.

Does anyone know any? Thanks.
> We have already established that O(n log n) is the lower bound, and we have reached this lower bound. This is where big O stops being useful. A metric that compares equal for every relevant algorithm (mergesort, introsort, pdqsort, timsort, smoothsort, heapsort) is not a useful metric.

With the explosion of cores and special purpose hardware, it is interesting to think of how long before sorting network routines are more practical. Dropping the runtime to O(lg n) would be enticing. :)
I'm most productive from 5 AM to noon/one PM...how about we let people work at the time that suits them best?
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Apple know who the best people are. They will search them out.
If they haven't already, then maybe Apple's priorities lie elsewhere and this is all moot.
I don't agree that we should eliminate the demand for drugs. It's really none of your business what people choose to do with their own minds or bodies, or what substances they choose to use, and you have no business trying to manipulate their desires.

What is needed:

1 - Legalization and regulation like that of regular prescription and over-the-counter drugs to:

1a - Make sure drugs are pure, labeled property and are not mixed with undesired compounds.

1b - Stop imprisoning and killing people over what they choose to do to their own minds and bodies.

1c - Stop the violence and corruption caused by the illegal drug trade.

2 - Much better education about how to use drugs safely and constructively.

3 - An end to the stigmatization of drug users.

4 - A sincere and well thought-through tackling of the issues (like poverty and mental health issues) that lead to self-destructive abuses of drugs and other substances.
Many people often try to optimise for the world view of themselves, rather than their own experience.

Instead, when one starts to optimise for ones own experience, the idea of falling short of expectations doesn't arise.

Life is lived in ones own experience and each person to himself is the most important entity. Going through mental suffering is very hard, unnecessary and I hope everyone that does go through it, comes out of it.

I wonder if this is the same Jesse I knew of. So much energy, so much capability to do so many things.
io.js made a lot of noise about this, and has reached a "compromise" position that is indistinguishable to the end-user - or is LTS going to take V8 version bump over its 2.5-year life?

No?

Then take your scare quotes and bang your drum elsewhere, because from where I stand, the new boss is pretty much the same as the old boss.
Neat! That's very good handling of "as intended". Being explicit about it, having a warning phase, then moving to "more correct" to match the intent, and missed edge cases.
Great keyboard, will help me alot with coding. I will set up few key combinations and it will make my life way easier! must have for coding and gaming.
Came here to add this. It's the best in years.
SEC to vote on crowdfunding regulations
Or even better. Get people out of the car driving business altogether. We suck at it.
Right, but packages _in_ npm are still managed by npm. If it were to change the package format between major versions, there could be problems. At least, that's how I read the OP.
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Well i mean were close. With all the current Mass produced boards made by like JS (for example). They are glassed in china and should not cost even close to what they charge for them.

The only problem is profit margins from the companies that actually are able mass produce boards.
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I got a few for you that show his way of doing things. The Lilith system was a start. Its approach of simplicity, layering, and consistency will help if you're lazy. Only a few here because I'm lazy after the huge posts I've been writing. ;)

Lilith System
http://www.cfbsoftware.com/modula2/Lilith.pdf

Main project page
http://www.projectoberon.com/

Old system with links and ports (HW diversity or learning)
http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/archives/systemsarchive/sys_geneal...

How he compiles it
https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/CompilerConstruction/...

Turning programs into circuits
https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Oberon/286.pdf

His hardware description language
https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Lola/LolaCompiler.pdf

A guy who inspired his approach & did safe languages + OS's, including bullet-proof concurrency in 80's ;)
http://brinch-hansen.net/

There you go.
What do you mean? Isn't it just a time-travel movie?
I read it as "There are people who work, make a moderate income, and don't have any specific physical or mental issues that would preclude them from being housed - but they don't, because the financial threshold is simply too high."

But yeah, it's a pretty useless sentence.
Parent comment doesn't say that BW was the first, just that it inspired a bunch of movies. Which is far more true of it than Cannibal Holocaust.
Can anyone recommend a code formatter for perl? ('rm' does not count!)
Those working on a secret project don't benefit from public evaluation and extension.
Much of this is the weight of copyright restrictions. There is a ton of material published between say 1940 and 1980, that is still under copyright but hopelessly out of print. As physical objects, they're getting old enough that soon they won't really be available outside library/archival settings. It's many thousands of books per year for decades, lots of original research and writing.
Though KeepPass clears the clipboard (mainly to prevent the user accidentally pasting their passwords somewhere else, like a public forum).

I would think if you had something running locally on a machine with an unlocked password database the KeepPass client would also be vulnerable to all kinds of gui scripting (Applescript, WSH, etc.), it's designed to let users copy and paste passwords, after all.
Pretty good list of recent horror from The AV Club

http://www.avclub.com/article/25-best-horror-movies-2000-227...
If this is passed, it'll democratize the fundraising process, and millions of Americans will suddently be able to invest alongside VCs.

On the other hand, history has shown us again and again that "small" investors make really bad decisions, and these rules initially existed to prevent such investors from harming themselves.
I can't really imagine an extinction event that could touch a world that cannot support life as we know it.
The problems with that approach are:

1) You're limited to a surge rate of ~1.25x, no more. (Maybe a few more percent if you pass through the safe rides fee.) Edit: and, per sibling, you're giving away business if you increase general rates.

2) You're giving up the extra profits you'd make at the very times when your product is most profitable and valuable, crippling the business model. It would be like if Facebook waived the price differential between general vs targeted ads.
You're right, of course, it DID predate BWP. But it did not inspire a genre. Perhaps because so few people saw Cannibal Holocaust when it first released? It was a film that gained an audience gradually, on video for many years after it came out.
I'm scratching my head here. Bloomberg casts Apple as the outlier for its secrecy. In reality, companies which publish their results openly are the outliers today. In the post-golden-era-of-Bell-Labs-and-industrial-research era, publishing is not much of a priority for most companies. Expediting research projects to commercialization leaves little time for going through peer review and publishing. A note on incentives: most companies these days reward R&D employees for commercialization and revenue resulting from their ideas and inventions. Even if they pretend to allow publishing, one can be quite sure that the publications are impacting the careers of authors within the companies in a minimal way, compared to deployments of products and services resulting from their inventions. Apple, Amazon, going one step further from all the old industrial and defense conglomerates, just seems to dispense with the charade about allowing publications. The Amazon example is particularly weird, because what they did (committee approving release, etc.) would be standard practice in most R&D labs, other than the usual exceptions of Microsoft Research, Mitsibushi ERL, etc.
I am a proud alumnus of Rice University and I see that it is on page 64, fifth from the bottom. Also, even more surprisingly, very near the bottom is Caltech.

This is obviously wrong. If their methodology says that Caltech is in the bottom 2% of US colleges, then one concludes that their methodology is worthless, or at least that what it's predicting is not very closely related to the quality of the education provided. I suspect that many Caltech undergraduates decide to pursue grad school and academia, which is not an especially lucrative career, and which is probably not highly corrolated with political leftism or "reefer madness".

I can also tell you that my friends at Rice who were looking to make a lot of money after they graduated, by and large succeeded.

In summary: Bullshit.
> Cyber espionage shows no sign of abating

It's not clear how the public can evaluate this. It's necessarily kept secret by all participants.

What is abundantly clear is that it's far more profitable for states to surveil their own citizens than anyone else, and some states like the US, UK, and AU are going to extreme lengths to do so and make it legal.
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I made a simple DIY ranking system using the same College Scorecard data last week. Here you go: http://bsudol.com/1PUPohk

You can select which variables are important and how much, and it generates a top/bottom 50 list.

This was inspired by this article from NPR (http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/09/21/441417608/the-new-...)
The amount of data is also a huge challenge. The HL7 "standard" for patient data exchange is huge - thousands of potential data points with tens of thousands of options. The IDC-10 code set allows more than 14,400 different codes. And that's just the tip of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICD-10

The US ICD-10 Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM), for instance, has some 68,000 codes. The US also has the ICD-10 Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS), a coding system that contains 76,000 codes not used by other countries

The size of some data also makes exchanging it difficult. A typical MRI image is 5-10 MB with sometimes over 1,000 images in a set, and some patients will receive multiple MRIs over the course of treatment.

Scale that to millions of people, and you have some idea what larger healthcare networks are dealing with (and why the VA system has had so much trouble).

Note that this data also has to be _perfect_. Incorrect or missing data can cause real harm to real people (and serious legal trouble for the company that fucks up).
A multi-source dataset of urban life. 30+ GB of telco, social, electricity data
Other places are different. In California specifically, I saw many people with the obvious right of way actually stopping to wave someone else on. When that person still cannot go for whatever reason, they wave harder and make a big production. The few times I was able to simply walk behind a car after it passed, they invariably had some out-of-state paraphernalia on the back.

I'm surprised there aren't more rear-end accidents from such unexpected behavior, but I guess everyone is used to the culture of hurting oneself to show piety.
But you can't really have Enlightenment without at least some system of trade. From the Italians forward, they were parts of the same phenomenon. Colonial - Mercantilist - trade was consonant with governance at the time. I don't know of anyone prior to Adam Smith who wrote at length decrying it. And it's arguable that Orwell's "Burmese Days" was one of the first treatments of the psychological costs and moral problems of actual colonial subjugation.

The rest is just judging those in the past by modern standards. Still, finding sources outside the usual canon is of vital importance.

Whiggishness in general is under assault.
To elaborate a bit, references are "smart pointers" in the sense that they have extra semantics on top of regular pointers, but they also aren't like what most people refer to as smart pointers.

Rust's &T (references) are entirely checked at compile time, and generate the exact same code as a regular old C pointer would. No wrappers, extra allocations, reference counts, move/copy/whatever constructors (not that Rust even has those, but are important for C++ smart pointers).
Can we just go ahead and put the clocks forward 3 or 4 hours then? Mornings are not worth living anyway, and we could have glorious evenings where the sun sets at 8pm in the winter, and at midnight in the summer. Wouldn't that be lovely? :-)
A lot of comments here seem against the "racial angle" of looking at the drug war. But the fact is that the majority of drug users are white, and the majority of the incarcerated are black. I don't think you can address either issue independently.
Coke, shroom, acid, horse users (midfle class)in past decades were dealt the same zero tolerance policies with no effect, this surge is seeing a different response in light of new acceptance of recreational drugs and in light of the failures of past policies.

None of these drugs were the typically used by black communities. Crack cocaine was however, and special laws were passed in New York City to make the punishments for possesion / sale up to 118x greater than being charged for an equivalent amount of powdered cocaine.

If you really are trying to move away from the racial lens of the drug war, how do you explain the racist pretenses under which prohibition laws were passed, as well as the targeting of minority communities in policing and prosecution?

To my untrained and minority eye, compassion for drug users and the disgust with the drug war seem pretty well correlated with people seeing people they identify with going through the system.