skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to see settlements of this sort for wrongful arrest. Police can arrest persons without stating the reason why, and come up with the reason at a later time. The person can be released if the police don't have enough evidence to prosecute, or even charge, the person. In fact, the police can arrest you, for which you'll have a record now, and never even intend to charge you. By this point the harm is already done, and the burden is placed on the individual to have the arrest record expunged from their record; more or less presumed guilty. Many people this tactic of harassment is used with do not have the resources or sophistication to do this. Their record now makes it more difficult or impossible to get a job or receive public benefits. They are in essence being punished without ever receiving the benefit of the justice system.
I noticed a couple of grammar mistakes but nothing major. Thanks for the article! I appreciated the tips.
I might be misrembering, but I think that it was assumed for a while that perl would be used for data munging, so there wasn't much effort put into that part of the language. That's being addressed now by packages, and a lot of the uptake in R seems to coincide with work by R developers to make the language less hostile to new users. (Have you used the bundled IDE? Satan's work again.)

BUT perl + R was a really nice combination for a while.
> "Someone has to say, ‘You can’t have five pools — you can have one pool,"

Violent solutions should not be the answer to non-violent problems.
This sounds like a lot of the great advice in How to Win Friends and Influence People [1]

I read that book yearly, and learn something every time.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/0671027034/?tag=roadchoseme-20
There are lot of washable and even medically approved keyboards if you worry about that and willing to pay more:

http://www.keyboardspecialists.co.uk/shop-shopbytypeanti-bac...

For medical use there is even one with UV sterilization:
http://www.keyboardspecialists.co.uk/5032-vioguard-self-sani...
Yes, the overall mentality of anyone I talk to is don't even approach Lightbank. Word on the street is they are terrible for entrepreneurs to work with. It doesn't help that Lightbank has seemingly had high turnover and my limited interactions with them in other matters have sent me mixed messages. Again, it's a shame. Brad Feld from Foundry replies to almost every email he gets. Chicago needs a guy like that.
Thanks, I'm collaborating on a local accesibility project that aims to produce braille signs (door signs for example) with 3D printers. The first experiments were using OpenSCAD. I started to experiment with JSCAD later as it's possible to use it on the web and/or NodeJS, etc. A cool feature would be to print the 3D model directly from Atom, with one click :)
In everyday English, when someone mentions sugar, they are probably talking about sucrose aka 'table sugar'. And you are correct that sucrose consists of a glucose and fructose molecule bonded together.

In a more...official or scientific context, "Sugar is the generalized name for sweet, short-chain, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food." as Wikipedia puts it. That means that sucrose, glucose and fructose (and many others) are all considered to be sugar.
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Very nice. A few dollars well spent. Great experience on my 6S+.
This wouldn't explain why it used to be so good in the past though.
It can mean anything, and that is why it is hard. Many old school statisticians can not work with anything other than csv, excel spreadsheets or basic sql queries. Munging is the conversion to a nice format that can then be used for analysis.
thanks, we modeled few parts of our app based on waze.
Living is slowly killing me. My birth is the cause of my death...
I really please with my hhkb pro 2.
The topre keys are perfect imo.
Why I resigned from my first job in a month
Saw this recently:
https://medium.com/why-not/how-we-re-doing-stats-at-howdy-29...
True that, "La Grande Bellezza" was awful, yet it managed to win an oscar for what is worth.
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I'm practically fused to my Macbook Pro's keyboard and trackpad arrangement.

I'm getting the new versions of the apple wireless keyboard and trackpads in a few days and I want to be able to toss them into a tray that holds them the same way that the macbook chasis does. I'm finished drafting a custom tray for it, and I'll be 3d-printing it this week! :)
First off that isn't really true.

Second, do you ban them or do you threaten people with your tiny amount of sandbox internet power, because that's what this looks like.
Pretty cool. I also found this while ago: http://firstpr.me/ – shows your first pull request and contribution to the open source community.
This is just the street art version of a fresco.
This is more or less an explicit version of the implicit tactics which, implemented as a whole, comprise the credit score system in the USofA. For a very direct take on the topic (there are other works on the issue, as it is backed by a fairly large school of thought) check out "The Making of the Indebted Man" by Maurizio Lazzarato. [1]

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/making-indebted-man-0
I don't see an email address in your profile, but you (or anybody interested) should feel free to email me. If you're in SF, glad to meet for coffee.
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I pulled out my old Minix (1987) book, which I keep for nostalgia. Tanenbaum on p. 202 writes:

> The simplest algorithm is first fit... A minor variation of first fit is next fit. ... Simulations by Bays (1977) show that next first gives slightly worse performance than first fit. ... Another well-known algorithm is best fit. ... Best fit is slower than first fit.... Somewhat surprisingly, it also results in more wasted memory than first fit or next fit because it tends to fill up memory with tiny, useless holes. First fit generates larger holes on the average. ... one could think about worst fit... Simulation has shown that worst first is not a very good idea. ...

> quick fit ... has the same disadvantage as all schemes that sort by hole size, namely, when a process terminates or is swapped out, finding its neighbors to see if a merge is possible is expensive. If merging is not done, memory will quickly fragment into a large number of small, useless holes.
There's that, but I'm not sure that's the end of it, France has seen similar decline despite pretty extreme cultural protectionism.

Globalisation seems to be more of a "culprit": once upon a time, a country's local cultural production had a semi-captive audience (there was less foreign content and less of it moved from the original country to others, leaving more room for local production) and a much easier time competing (lower budgets, lower technological finesse and lower economies of scale all around).

Today, there's more high-production-quality quickly-available content than ever, between more people being able to consume anglo content directly and home-grown sub scenes, international mostly-anglo content is easier than ever to access for individuals, and going the other way it's much harder for local content to break international markets because the accessibility is much lower the other way around, which means it's harder for local content to recoup the same production budgets.
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I wouldn't worry too much. How many of those bacteria are completely harmless or even beneficial? (think skin flora)

That said, I recently cleaned the keyboard of a shared computer at work using ethanol because it was really gross. I also regularly vacuum the one I have at home.
The movie Gomorra is great, as is Il Divo.

I'd be interested in a list of good Italian films since the year 2000. (That's just an arbitrary cut off.)

Especially if they have ahem YIFY try before you buy samples.
Huge irony in Leslie Vosshall's suggestions. She is a HHMI investigator and has "made it". Telling others not to try for the top 3 journals which is the EXACT path she used to get to her spot is insulting. Basically don't do all this stuff she did to get ahead because you'll make the system worse.

It's like Mark Zuckerberg telling young programmers, don't start an internet company because society is suffering from all the evils of internet.
This is a beautiful post, so poignant and so true.
This is perfect, thanks! I've added it to the issue tracker: https://github.com/hyphen-reader/hyphen/issues/9
I don't know if it's my memory failing me, but something about it feels a little bit off. I looked at videos on YouTube and I think it's because of the timing. I get the impression that right now it's moving much faster than it did originally.

Does anyone else get the same feeling?

In any case, it's still fun! A great bit of nostalgia.

Personally, I was a bigger fan of the maze [0]. Although watching this video made me a little dizzy.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRL5durPleI
Yeah, what's up with that? There are two 1970s and two 1980s commits in the git repo before we hit the real golang stuff (in 2008!). All the old commits do is author a c "hello world" program. Any idea why those are there?

https://github.com/golang/go/commits/master?page=727

EDIT: I just noticed that they're labeled as being by Brian Kernighan. What?

EDIT2: Oh, it's his original hello world code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Hello,_World!%22_program What's it doing there? Just for novelty's sake?
Out of curiosity, why don't you like systemd?
Who nonetheless didn't feel like his life was secure enough to marry and raise a family right then.
Ahh you beat me to it (it being praising Eric Hameleers) :P Slackware is a better operating system thanks to Eric. Native Steam, multilib, leave it to Eric to make these things simple for others to use. I owe the man more beers than I can afford. :)
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Try writing it out longer with different kinds of freedom. It's only doublespeak because you oversimplify.
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Slack has package management. It doesn't do automatic dependency management. That said, Slack's packages are built in such a way to make dependency resolution relatively painless to the point where it's almost a non-issue.
I always start with an empty commit[1] for two reasons:

1. It's slightly harder to edit the first commit afterwards (say, to replace a working title with the actual project title before publishing, or to fix authorship or whatever).

2. I create a lot of small repos, all the time, so I have a shell alias for "init, commit, add .gitignore, commit".

[1] git init && git commit --allow-empty -m 'Initial commit'
Sure, there are a lot of application, but are there is any company who is extracting all that value ? Which one ?

Why there aren't more ?
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The human eye can't see UV light, so I guess it is converted to visible light when used as a backlight. But here's an article about someone experimenting with a UV light to desinfect their keyboard: http://www.pcworld.com/article/237186/can_a_uv_light_kill_th... (lots of pictures of agar plates)
If v1 wasn't successful enough to generate funding for v2, it worked exactly as intended: It proved that investing in more engineering in v1 was't necessary.
Not sure why the author complaining about VM & cloud ?

You can get real machines through APIs not from Amazon, but you can from other providers like: Rackspace and IBM/Softlayer (and others). He even links to Bryan Cantrill, so pretty sure Joyent can deliver containers (even Docker ?) on baremetal if you want them.
Perhaps this problem is worse among biomedical journals? I've routinely had publications in ACS journals that go from submission to acceptance within two months, usually closer to one---I hear the same from colleagues.
I really don't like how this app uses its own typography for the UI. Including wobbling bouncy menus. It just doesn't do it for me. I prefer consistency with other apps that I use.
Anything you want from a GNU/Linux-based operating system. Slackware is a great base operating system and its simplicity is its strength. For me it was very easy to get familiar with and feel at home in.

One thing that it has over probably all other distributions is its stability in terms of software selection. It still defaults to Lilo over Grub, it didn't switch to systemd, and installing Slackware 15 or 14.2 when it comes out will be exactly the same experience as installing slackware 14.1, or just about any version preceding it, I'm sure of it. :)

It has one thing to make it genuinely notable: it's the oldest surviving Linux distribution out there.
That would be, indeed, a poor memory allocator implementation. But unlike what parent said, it's definitively not a failure of the best fit algorithm.
Well... assuming your first contribution doesn't predate github ;)
How do you handle the clueless? How do you handle the director of development who wrote the system the company is based on yet refuses to learn anything about relational dbs or why storing megabytes of data in the session makes it impossible to scale?
Elena Ferrante is the huge exception.
I'm glad I'm in programming languages, where we usually publish in conferences instead of journals and you can get a paper out in 7 months if you want top-tier, 4 months if you want mid-tier, or as little as 3 months if you just want it published somewhere respectable.

And really you can shorten those timelines by a couple of months because people make their papers available as soon as they're publicly accepted.
Post R 3.1 there are far fewer deep copies (e.g. modifying a list or adding a column to a data.frame no longer copies the whole thing like it used to).
Yes, I think devs sometimes forget that this is the bleeding-est of bleeding edges. Hell, I can't even get a normal Digital Ocean server instance to programmatically drop and recreate doing minimal things like creating a user and setting SSH keys. I suppose if I wanted to learn something heavyweight like Chef or Puppet I could, but for now, I just maintain a list of commands to run, and understand that Digital Ocean servers can't quite be treated like livestock just yet, though I can fake it pretty well. Eventually Digital Ocean will get around to making the platform changes, which are all already in feature request.

Engineering time is very limited and the support cases are exponentially large. The author wanted MongoDB supported in the hard case. Well, that means you also need to support 4 or 5 other, similar databases the same way.

If you want a bleeding-edge PaaS with corporate support, you should expect to pay corporate prices. If the project / organization doesn't allow for that, then either the requirements or the mindset is off-kilter.

I think the what the author is really mad about is the vendor lock-in. That used to bother me too, until I realized that learning new platforms is done on my employer's dime and not mine.

A few more years, and some other challenge will be on the bleeding edge and this one will be mostly solved, meaning that open-source community solutions will exist that you can build once and forget about it. Knowing most devs, they'll spend all their time complaining about whatever the new edge is instead of marveling at how much easier things are now compared to the 'bad old days' of 2015.
Here's a little bit of constructive advice. There are several places where you've made a "comma splice" error. That is, a comma (,) was used when a period (.) or semicolon (;) should have been used (or alternatively, a conjunction could be used). Example:

> We’ve interviewed a bunch, during one of the interviews after the candidate was done presenting, he looked at me, I looked at him, he did OK …

This should be instead:

> We’ve interviewed a bunch. During one of the interviews after the candidate was done presenting, he looked at me, and I looked at him. He did OK …
> I have never used a more convenient package manager than sbopkg before. Dependencies can be cleanly recorded and built with queuefiles.

http://idlemoor.github.io/slackrepo/index.html
UnityScript seems cool but it looks like I need to download a 350mb executable to run it so I guess it's for a different use case.
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Arch isn't at all bare bones, that's more of an outdated humblebrag than anything else. Actually, neither is Slackware.

I find sbopkg and SlackBuilds.org to be better than yaourt and AUR. sbopkg's UI is just top notch (ncurses-based).

Slackware uses sysvinit with flat rc scripts as opposed to the traditional System V setup of numbered symlink farms. Much cleaner. Arch uses systemd.

Slackware's pkgtools are much more minimalistic than pacman. They're shell functions that manage local tarballs. In addition, you have slackpkg for fetching remote updates.

Slackware actually double-functions as both a rolling and stable release distribution. You can either set slackpkg to track -current, which is often bleeding edge yet surprisingly robust, or stick to official versions like 14.1.

Slackware's installer and setup utilities are all ncurses-driven rather than pure CLI as in Arch. I actually find them much more capable. The only pure CLI part of installing Slackware is disk partitioning, the rest is a highly detailed TUI menu installer (similar to FreeBSD if you've tried that).

Slackware has a very strict devotion to not patching upstream packages at all, with exceptions only in the most critical circumstances. This means that you're pretty much always using vanilla Linux userland as it is, and so if there's bugs, you report to upstream rather than to the distribution tracker. If you're a developer, this is great.

Slackware's package management can alternate between binary and source-based.

As such, I'd recommend Slack. It's venerable and rock solid.
Comcast will be getting charged to peer with other network operators, this new service does reflect the costs that Comcast will incur. The answer might be for Netflix to install their own CDN hardware at Comcast data centres.

Another company using the same business model is BT in the UK, they have their own sports channels that don't count towards your usage limits.
Let whoever wants downvote me, but I'd just like to bring people's attention to what your 2nd paraghraph says.

...to me it often is Ubuntu's apt breaking itself (and even reporting this back with cheerfullness I cannot understand) just in time for a save-home-dir-then-wipe-and-install-latest-ubuntu action sequence :)
I think in this case it's a question of why there isn't more competition. Clearly if Comcast's charges are unreasonable or capped at an unreasonably low amount it should in theory be corrected in a marketplace where customers can flee to a competitor who isn't fleecing them. Except obviously they can't where Comcast enjoys a monopoly, is fixing prices with other competitors or prices are set externally by a "regulator" unanswerable to consumer groups.

I don't think framing this as a net neutrality issue will get you very far - it's clearly monopolistic behaviour and you should be writing the DOJ looking for antitrust proceedings ...
So it does... I mispoke. But it isn't the same as yum or apt-get. (which is ok w/ me).
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Don't worry about some asshole picking apart stuff. Your writing is clear enough that if someone has a hard time parsing it - that's their loss. I've been in Saas for over 10 years helping sales and marketing teams convert and close at higher rates. The article hits home for several tech founders who understand customers but don't understand prospects. The post captures some learnings that many other people never ask or dig into - but make all the difference. Thanks for sharing, I've shared it with several people who will not think this is obvious - and they won't need to "pickup a standard book" to learn some snippets.

Question: how much better does the salesperson perform compared to your previous attempts? How long will you give him to prove himself?

SaasTr is a great sales resource if you're looking.
The vox link is at the top of the comments now, so potato, potato
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Many HN posts are about sharing cool things. Expressing outrage a commercial product changed a feature? Seems a waste of hot air and lowers the quality of this site.
Not at all. The creative collapse which caused this decline only happened in the 80ies as everywhere else but lasted until 2000, longer than everywhere else.
It happened to kill the major italian studios and producers de Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti. Cinecittà went almost bankrupt 1997. Scorcese almost killing off again Cinecittà with his fatal Gangs of New York epic didn't help, Passion of Christ and the fire in a big Cinecittà hall 2007 neither.

But since 2000 Italian cinema is the most exciting in Europe again. They are the only ones who successfully experiment in new visual aesthetic with the new available camera technology. It's not only Paolo Sorrentini (Camera: Luca Bigazzi)
* L'uomo in più (2001)
* Le conseguenze dell'amore (2004)
* L'amico di famiglia (2006)
* Il Divo (2008)
and then his famous ones, but also Zapruder Filmmakersgroup (Nadia Ranocchi, David Zamagni, Camera: Monaldo Moretti) with "All Inclusive 3D" (2010), Luca Guadagnino, Salvatore Maira, Michelangelo Frammartino and in the last years many more. Compare it e.g. to the current decline of the french movies.

The directors with which the decline of the Italian cinema started were
Gianno Amelio, Guiseppe Tornatore, Roberto Benigni, Gabriele Salvatores, Franco Zeffirelli and Silvio Soldini. They should rest in piece.
Thanks Johnny!
Agreed.

"Talk to people about themselves and they will listen for hours"
Is venture capital killing startups?
Soviet cinema had lots of masterpieces without "fair allocation of capital" (and lots of corruption one would presume).

And I wouldn't call the Hollywood situation of giving multi-million dollar budgets to BS like Transformers and spare change to far better movies a "fair allocation" either when it comes to artistic merit.

When it comes to art, allocation of capital and "efficient markets" just means more popular works get more money -- it doesn't say anything about their quality, which is part of what the article is about.

(Expecting accusations of 'elitism', I'm not talking about esoteric, self-congratulatory arthouse films either. The Godfellas for example, a mighty good movie, is anything but that, or Pulp Fiction (or, at their era, The Searchers, Vertigo etc.).
Hi st3fan,

Sorry to hear that. What consistencies are you referring to?
If people can get past the poor English (and seriously, his English is much better than my Hebrew!), this is a great little article about salesmanship.

I particularly like the bit about concluding with something concrete. That's great advice
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Actually, if you zoom in on the Netherlands - by far the most adapted (okay, also naturally changed) coastline since Roman times - you can see a thin blue line indicating the contemporary coastline.
It felt too restrictive to me. Things were changing without me asking for them and that was preventing me from learning. One of the most egregious problems was forcing the change from text logs to journalctl binary logs.
Even if it is legitimate, it's probably not fooling around with for a net sale of $1500. There's too much due diligence.

Good luck.
Well, isn't it up to taxpayers to allocate the money and to the voters to elect officials who will spend this money on this eBay lot?

Because yes, it belongs to a museum, but right now it's private property. On sale. So, if you want to take it to the museum, you just have to pay the price.
Understood. Yeah, this sounds like a job for awk or some such specialised tool.
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