skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"it would be truly liberating to simply insert a tube into my mouth that would dispense an appropriate amount of fuel"

It's Happening!
CBS sets its midseason schedule
All to me? Can they use 8TB drives instead?
Zoho has free accounts and one of the available apps is invoicing. They have all the features you ask for. You can even integrate the "here's an invoice, pay me" emails with payment processors. I've only used it for a few months, but can't complain - it had way more features than I ever needed.

https://www.zoho.com/invoice/

(it's a service, not opensource software though - I assume you really meant free or opensource)
Let's not blame WebGL for what really is the fault of the entire web stack. Decades of layering got us to this point.
That's an odd view of the relationship. The President gets to set policy, and the AG can comply or resign. The responsibility rightly lies with the President, and Cabinet officers are unlikely to resign over issues unless their own views are irreconcilable with their boss's wishes.
And don't even think about saying the even more accurate, "revolutions often happen when there is strong income inequality and limited upward mobility, the rich can afford luxury, the poor can't afford to eat, and the middle/working class -- who can afford to eat, and even have some leisure to think about insecurity, and to think about who to blame for their insecurity -- see the conditions of the poor and the luxury of rich and their own risk of joining the poor, and blame the rich for it"...

Its rarely the poor who lead who revolutions, its usually the middle/working class (and often those members of the existing elites that, either from genuine sympathy or opportunism, decide to take up their cause against the rest of the elites.)
Cracking coder – The legacy of Ada Lovelace
This is being downvoted, but you only have to look at the quacks selling (just one example, there are many more) mega-vitamin "cures" for cancer to see that some doctors are indeed fucking arseholes who have no problem exploiting dying people so they can make a quick buck.
On the one hand the stereotypical 20-something urbanite without local roots doesn't want to live in Buffalo (or Kansas City or wherever) even if it's an economically rational choice if they have options. On the other hand, if they have a family, it's not as simple as hopping on a plane and going somewhere else.

[Edit: I'd also argue that, if you can't imagine having a future in a particular locale, it may not make sense to take a job there unless it's with the explicit intent of having it be a limited time thing even if the pay is good. The networking associated with being physically in an area where job opportunities are good shouldn't be overlooked.]

There are exceptions. There are successful tech companies outside of the usual places. And certainly outside of Silicon Valley and NYC. But attracting talent for non-remote positions can be challenging.
This is absolutely correct. A non-technical friend's circa-2010 15" MBP with 8GB and hybrid Fusion drive (custom, by me) runs at full memory usage and high cpu utilization and is quite sluggish from my perspective. The reason? 150+ tabs open in Safari.

I'm not certain said friend is aware that many tabs are open or even cares, but web browsing is quite cpu and memory intensive, and can cripple even fast machines.
Containerizing in the world of Minecraft
I won't be array of arrays. It will be just one array.
Penny Dreadfuls, Juvenile Crime, and Late-Victorian Moral Panic
> And I get downvoted for saying something nice? Some

HN (and possibly its rules) frowns on "+1" or "I agree" style posts that don't add additional content to a discussion, and people will sometimes downvote you accordingly.

Hopefully that's all that the downvoting was...
Chrome ends support for 32-bit Linux, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Debian 7
The only plausible presidential candidate who'll put a stop to these kinds of abuses is Bernie Sanders. Be sure to vote for him in your Democratic Primary.
I don't have the space on my phone for every website that wants to be an app. The great thing about the WWW is that information can be accessed without having to install a special program for each provider. The web browser is plenty capable of handling Yelp's needs.

It might be to reduce the amount of work, but I still don't like it, and would rather they let me use my already-existing web browser to access their web site.
I'm currently syncing on a very old MacBook and I want to move to my work MacBook. I can't Timemachine it.
I'm not sure this is a great article, but I went down the rabbit hole anyway and eventually landed on some pretty cogent thoughts from Linus Torvalds regarding flaws in the Geekbench benchmarking methodology.

http://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=136526&curposti...
How the Gun Control Debate Ignores Black Lives
we decompose an array of size 35 into: an array of size 1 followed by arrays of sizes 4, 9, 16, 5

Then again, maybe he means `mentally decompose` in terms of pretending they're separate arrays? I interpreted it as `visualize this data structure`.
Previous discussion -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10629962
Scientist says huge clumps of dark matter may lie just beyond the Moon
Thanks for answering. Now it makes a lot more sense. I wasn't aware of the follow-up articles, only the original politically-fused exaggerations.
But what if Apple's method of "ensuring the product stays out of the landfill" is build quality? What if that build quality is inversely proportional to repairability? I've had both iDevices and Android based devices and in my experience the iDevices last much longer. Anecdote, YMMV, etc.
I should add that this submission was inspired by the discussion yesterday about the 1914 map of travel times from London:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10647586

Fernand Braudel is one of those people who specialists in a field all recognize as a revolutionary figure but the general public doesn't seem to know about. In my view he's probably the most influential historian of the 20th century, not least because of his innovative way of thinking about data visualization and mapping. His work ended up leading to some very early experiments with what we now call digital humanities among his various acolytes in France and the US, back in the punched card era. Interesting guy.

Edit: forgot to mention a famous bit of lore about the book these maps came from - he actually wrote the original draft of it when he was a member of the French Resistance imprisoned in a Nazi POW camp.
>Even in our own culture it was once the norm to betroth daughters to suitors while they were pre-pubescent, and to marry them as soon as they reached puberty.

I'm interested in learning more. Can you narrow down what you mean by "our own culture", and provide a time frame? Like "Early America 1600-1800", or England in the 1400s, Anglo-Saxon culture, 1200, or Irish-Catholic 1300, or whatever. And then maybe point in the general direction of references where one could look this up. Maybe books or internet search terms?

Thanks.
You see, that's precisely what's twisting the facts to fit the theory is like. If you have a theory that it's all because of income inequality, and then the facts are that it's not the poor who are terrorists, now you have to amend your theory that it's actually the moderately rich who are afraid of becoming poor. And that's why they go on suicide terrorist attacks?!

If it was the poor who did the attacks then it would confirm the theory, but if it is not then that would also confirm the theory...

Lets bring in some new facts: terrorists are disproportionately college educated. The 9/11 bombers were all college educated and some had PhD's from western universities. How will these facts be made to fit this theory?

I'm sorry if I sound disparaging, but I've had this debate 50 times before, and the mental gymnastics to keep an incorrect theory alive are virtually impossible to penetrate to the point that I'm not even sure if there are any conceivable facts that would falsify that theory in the minds of those who believe in it.
This is a series of articles designed to teach you the basics of containerization, but it sounds like you'll come away with some pretty powerful knowledge. Kudos to the author.
Someone left my Gmail in debug mode
oooh, can we talk about the broken BSD utils on OS X next?

$ du -hs big.log
199M	big.log
$ cat big.log | time tr 'a' 'b' | md5
27.22 real 23.70 user 0.43 sys
c171314106134f6fde035b11f4354464
$ cat big.log | time gtr 'a' 'b' | md5
1.05 real 0.30 user 0.23 sys
c171314106134f6fde035b11f4354464
A post-mortem about Whiteout Mail and its open-source future
> The dollar was trading at about 0.75 to the Euro around 2009. What is a challenge in your eyes?

I can't say what adventured meant by a challenge, but it certainly wasn't that. The exchange rate with the dollar is just a function of how many euros exist. Challenging the dollar would be something more along the lines of "do people prefer to store their wealth in dollars or in euros".

See also: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2120/why-is-the-lat...

> Man, where to start? Just because a country's basic unit of currency is worth more than ours doesn't mean the country is richer. If you think that 100 pennies is "richer" than 10 dollars because the absolute number is bigger, then we're not going to have much luck dealing with foreign exchange rates.

> A common myth is that if a currency is worth less than $1, it's weaker than the U.S. dollar, and if it's worth more, then it's stronger. Your Latvian friend is trying to pull this on you, but it's nonsense.
"Most people need to keep on top of things, but my role is to get to the bottom of things.". What an epic quote! Totally relished reading through this. Thanks for sharing!
UIUC is one of preeminent comp sci schools in the country. It is where mosiac was founded. It kind of shows that it helps to go to a good school even if not an IVY.
"they closed the exhibit because they didn't want the visitors to see the (potentially unsettling/traumatizing) injuries on the baboons"

Have they tried closing the Zoo and releasing the animals back into the wild. Zoos are a nineteenth century anachronism, designed for when that was the only way people could get a look at such exotic animals. Last time I was in one, the animals looked tired, stressed and listless.
Virtualized Containers: jeVM
BI or an analytics solution would be more all-encompassing than an ETL tool (Alooma) and a database platform (Redshift).

ETL is much more than just moving data around. I haven't dug too deeply into Alooma's offerings, but it does appear to have workflows for more than just data from system A to destination B. Some of the important things to look at in ETL are change-tracking for slowly changing dimensions, business logic transformations, and mashing up data from disparate sources against conformed dimensions. Master Data Management is its own practice, but is intimately involved in ETL. Some ETL tools include Alooma, SSIS, Kettle.

Beyond ETL there is the data warehouse platform which usually consists of a RDBMS, sometimes with an OLAP layer as well. OLAP is distinguished from something like Redshift, which is a columnstore RDBMS, by including a metadata layer with the data. MDX is probably the granddaddy of OLAP languages. Think something that a pivot table can speak to directly. The data warehouse can really be any RDBMS product.

At the data warehouse layer, there's much more than just flattened source tables. A good deal of effort needs to go into the dimensional modelling for end-user consumption and reporting. We could take an aside for Inmon vs Kimball here, but it's spurious, because Inmon recommends dimensional data marts for end user consumption, just like Kimball - the data warehouse is never exposed in the Inmon methodology and dimensional data modelling is required for either.

If we are utilizing an OLAP engine, then there is a lot of measure definition to be done, encapsulating a lot of the logic that is displayed in the single-purpose queries of the article's examples. The data model will be based on the dimensional model from the data warehouse, but there's a lot more metadata in an OLAP database, which helps make self-service reporting much easier. Many more people are comfortable building a pivot table than even a simple SELECT statement in SQL. Some OLAP engines are SSAS and Mondrian.

Regardless of whether we have an OLAP solution, we need a presentation layer (typically several, as there are different types of reporting needs, and different strata of sophistication among end users). This is something like Tableau, Qlik, Quicksight, Cognos, Power BI (all prior products purport to cover varying degrees of the data ETL and modelling process in addition to providing a presentation layer), Crystal Reports, and SSRS are just some samples of many in the commercial space (I'm not as familiar with open source presentation layers).

This is just a high level overview of the major components of a BI or analytics solution, and fairly barebones. The article spoke to ETL a little, and at best hit tangentially on data warehousing and presentation.
The tethering happens after the upper lift stage is exhausted. It's then spun from a tether for the duration of the trip, then disconnected before the deceleration burn to orbit Mars. There's no mass exchange while the tether is connected.
"The benchmark has two performance modules, which give you an idea of how fast the device would be in web browsing and email. The result for iPad Pro is tepid, with performance just beating the Nexus 9 and its Tegra K1. "

OK then... just how 'slow' are these tablets at browsing?

Considering my ipad mini 1 isnt 'slow' at web browsing, does this matter? I've never even noticed the speed being an issue.

This article basically amounts to "those benchmarks are stupid! look at these benchmarks!!"
I created a file organization app Blik (http://www.burntcaramel.com/blik/) sold through the Mac App Store.

It’s purposefully very simple, as I hope to not expand too quickly and make something new that is also complicated. But I actively develop it and have some interesting features in the works, such as something similar to Smart Folders. Also, I love users’ feedback!
Isn't Rand Paul also making similar promises on the Republican side?
It looks like it's just a scoreboard on top of the existing Khan Academy.
The point is that there are a lot of people in the general (non-scientific) public for whom performance matters. Whose "fault" it is that performance matters for them is irrelevant.
Dan Geer at his important talk at Black Hat:

The central dynamic internal to government is, and always
has been, that the only way for either the Executive or the Legislature
to control the many sub-units of government is by way of how much
money they can hand out. [...]

Suppose, however, that surveillance becomes too cheap to meter,
that is to say too cheap to limit through budgetary processes. Does
that lessen the power of the Legislature more, or the power of the
Executive more? I think that ever-cheaper surveillance substantially
changes the balance of power in favor of the Executive and away
from the Legislature. While President Obama was referring to
something else when he said "I've Got A Pen And I've Got A Phone,"
he was speaking to exactly this idea -- things that need no
appropriations are outside the system of checks and balances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT-TGvYOBpI#t=642

http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt

While Congress has been occupied with infighting and stupid political theater, the Executive branch has been taking a lot of their power.

Is it "making war" when Congress is clearly abdicating their responsibilities? It has certainly done more damage to the country than any army has ever accomplished.
Udemy's blog post linked from tfa:

https://blog.udemy.com/maintaining-the-integrity-of-our-udem...
Facebook should not be the basis of a web of trust.
Apple's fortune started to change when they started building devices centered around the user experience. Focusing on performance is a dead end for hardware suppliers as there'll always be another company out there who can compile the same components for a cheaper price.

The iPad pro's customer target was focused on the creative type, hence their top notch stylus response. They're out performing wacom in many areas so that alone grants them a customer market.
Except "do no harm" is woefully inadequate because it fails to take into account opportunity cost. They are doing TONS of harm by failing to allow willing people to try new medicine and advance science and the human race, all because they have some warped sense of morality that's got horse blinders on.
Maybe you exhausted your 'allowed page quota'.
Yeah, my memory goes back to the late 90s where there was kendall sq proper (area around the T stop), Cambridge Center, 1 Kendall and the Galleria and not a whole lot in between any of them. Tech Sq was there too although no one ever went there except if they had to go to tech square.

Even though the distances are all the same everything seems so much closer now just because it's almost a single contiguous entity now instead of 5 min walks through parking lots and empty space just to get to the next building.
This seems pretty similar to pi-top:

- https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pi-top-a-raspberry-pi-lap...
IF this were the case, then the solution would be a whistleblower. Or someone hacking into the system, who makes the information collected public.

Of course this person would face even more risk than Snowden ever did.
> The same one who came up with "Au jour d'aujourd'hui".

That one is indeed beyond stupid.
And even "aujourd'hui" is long and strangely build. Its english counterpart "today" on the other hand couldn't be shorter.

> but the movie english, the book english and the internet english is a poor subset of english.

I'm confused by your statement. Especially on 'book english'.
Where else would you find proper, complete English ? Maybe you meant that today's litterature is poor ?
And even concerning 'internet english' I find that in places like HackerNews or Reddit one enjoys a high level (from my limited point of view) of language. And, returning to my point, I find that equivalent people (in this case middle-class higher-educated STEM) use a strinkingly broader lexicon on the english side compared to the french.
You're right, I was mistaken. The limit is a user limit.
Full resolution image with text readable is at https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/styles/blog_main_wi...
Ask HN: Any HN'ers in Portland, OR?
Hey guys, I'm in Portland, OR for 3 weeks, visiting from NC. If any of my HN peers are around and would like to grab a drink or something, give me a shout. Email: prhodes@fogbeam.com
I like using https://gist.github.com for making random lists. It is so easy to just drop stuff in there.
This press release has a few more details, such as, PageRank.
http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2012/how-does-cancer.htm
The processor Stallman was using wasn't open-source. The MIPS instruction set was opened up, but most of the implementations weren't.
That's great until you have a family. People don't like having to uproot their kids if things go south.
They are, hands down, my favorite company at the moment. Been a loyal customer of them for about a year now. One of the few companies I will go out of my way to recommend to people.
The NYC metro population is over 20 million.
I'd suggest an escrow system but their coupon system seems to make this problem nearly unfixable:

It said no money had changed hands from the sale of
Mr Hunt's course "as the fraudulent instructor had
created coupon codes to allow students free access
to the course".

I'm guessing those coupon codes were sold on some other platform (or perhaps used as bait to get traffic that was monetized in some other way) allowing the fraudster to profit directly without money ever flowing through Udemy's hands.
LITTLE GIRL HIP-POP CHRISTMAS SONG
That's great they took down the content but they failed to mention compensating the content creators who in all likelihood generate income from the videos that have now been viewed (free or not) by Udemy users. Way to maintain integrity.
"If you don't like it, don't buy it" doesn't seem to exist any more.. everyone's entitled to everything being how they want the world to work
At a wolf preserve, we were told that one of the packs was currently leaderless, with several betas vying to be the alpha. This was apparently an unusual situation as it had gone unresolved for quite some time.

This was precipitated by the previous alpha being tranquilized and brought to the vet, where the alpha died. The thinking was that since the other wolves did not see the alpha actually dead, it created a lot of confusion for the pack. They've since changed policy.
That doesn't sound like it at all. Medium's document model is a list of paragraphs, and that (according to your link) is it.
"The good news is, the good actors in the Udemy system are much greater than the bad. On average, over 15,000 courses are uploaded to Udemy per year. So far in 2015, we have received 125 DMCA notifications"

The fact that only 125 DMCA notification have been filed doesn't mean the number of copyright infringing videos is low. Most people never know their content has been stolen.
That sounds interesting. Could you share some details? Which parts of Golang reveal so much about Python? I'm using Python and I'm thinking about getting more into some compiled languages of similar expressivity like Nim or Go.
>The benefits are not the problem - you have a lot more generous benefits in Western Europe and UK and still they have lower incarceration rates than US.

...That doesn't seem to me to be a proper control population.
Airbus patent shows modular, removable aircraft cabins
A few years ago there was that entrepreneur who was executed (!) for seeking funding improperly. I'm not sure guarding against seizure in the case of corruption charges is what people are thinking of; corruption charges might be unrecoverable.
>To build a version of master, you have a gemfile / package.json that, if it follows specifications, will correctly tell you everything, down to the version, that should be installed.

You can set specific versions, but the default behavior is to do >= or ~ versions, at least in Node. But you could potentially go in and change the references to =version# to get a version closer to the one the developer built -- but even then there's no guarantee that the latest build hasn't had a more recent download of the packages, with newer versions than those specified in package.json.

But I didn't know this about go package importing. I'm a bit disappointed that they didn't at least make it possible to import @ a particular hash.

You could look at the last check-in and pull versions of each of the dependent repos as of that date, if the latest builds don't work.

>"experienced" and "NodeJS" don't go together so often in my book

Touche.

But I've encountered similar issues with Ruby, TBH (allegedly senior developers who turn out to be slow and not as experienced as I had hoped), and it happens that the JavaScript developers I have around me seem stronger than the Ruby developers. But more and more developers are training every year; I read one article that alleged that junior developers outnumber senior by a factor of something like 18-1 at this point. So I'm statistically likely to be surrounded by an insulating layer of junior developers no matter the language I choose. :)
Really? What about:

1) Games with graphics.
2) Code compiling
3) Video rendering
4) Running a lot of things at once

I could go on and on. There are a TON of computing tasks that go between "need a dedicated, specialized machine" and "your phone can do it"