skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what? They are legal in quite a few places already (and electric bikes in most countries for over a decade), and they will be legal in NYC very soon as well.
I tried that as well, but installation wasn't trivial. I think the author pushed it to PyPI yesterday, so I'll give it another shot, thanks!
We don't support BeagleBone yet. However, if someone want to send a free hardware sample we will do our best to support it.
This is pretty incredible and playful. Probability and state would be fascinating; I wonder if this wouldn't be best achieved by having 'Type' actually be thought of as 'Attribute', so you could have a "beautiful(simple(plant)))" turn into "dead(simple(plant)))", having the attribute itself perform as a state.
Ditto - and I agree, underdog doesn't quite feel like the right word. It's more like yesterday's champion coming out of retirement to deliver some good old-fashioned ego checks on today's cocky up-and-comers. Either way, it's fun to watch.
It is absolutely about extreme cultural values. Some times extreme cultural values are good things, sometimes not. Some cultures fight to the death, others do not. The overwhelming evidence was that the body count, on both sides, of an invasion of Japan would have far surpassed that of the dropping of the bombs.

To be fair to you I am not singling out Japanese culture in this scenario. The World Wars, and history in general, are replete with cultural significance, from cultures that abandon a sense of self in attack or defence, or both, to those which view themselves as culturally superior such that occupation is preferable to annihilation. None is better or worse than the other, but the idea that different cultures manifest different responses to the same stimuli cannot be controversial, and that therefore how different cultures are treated by others is necessary.
Author's terminology seems muddled. The first bullet is correct, but only on a technicality, and it fails to point out that strictly there is no "Linux container," only an emergent and weakly cohesive combination of features that as an artifact create a so-called Linux container (as opposed to being a well-defined atomic unit/OS resource). The third bullet equivocates archive formats with application containers.
Sodium batteries are irrelevant, as they have no advantages over lithium batteries (except maybe a slight cost decrease). At the same time Japanese engineers prototyped magnesium-ion batteries, which will double capacity of Li-Ion:

http://www.japantoday.com/category/technology/view/japanese-...

Can't wait to see them entering mass production.
Thanks so much for saying this. I gave up on ever being like my peers, the heavily-linear-thinking types, in maths (deciding factor for not pursuing maths post-grad). Any recommendations for math texts that take this visual or different approach?
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What Are Steroids? And What Can They Do to You?
Flash vs. HTML
You can get the original video clips by following the source link in the Ars article. https://www2.rsna.org/timssnet/media/pressreleases/14_pr_tar...

When you're no longer using Ars's Flash player, you can slow down playback in most desktop browsers. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaEl...
To me the perfect example of when you want to use tiny-types is when dealing with values in different units, say, temperatures in Celsius and F. They're both floats, but mean very different things. The extra typecast you have to do before calling a function with a float is a good sanity check.
What I find curious about all the container discussions and narrative is the strange lack of context. Sure discuss Docker but also discuss namespaces, cgroups, overlayfs, aufs, and all the other critical enabling technologies where a lot of major problems with containers exist and will be solved. For instance user namespaces, cgroups are not namespace aware, how to integrate overlayfs or aufs so they can be mounted by user namespaces seamlessly.

Surely these projects and developers need support and focus. Or else it become mere marketing for companies that have the funds or ability to market themselves. Do we just talk about libvirt without context or understanding of kvm and xen, how would that be useful or meaningful?

An ‘immutable container’ is nothing but launching a copy of a container enabled by overlay file systems like aufs or overlayfs, a ‘stateless’ container is a bind mount to the host. Using worlds like stateless, immutable or idempotent just obscures simple underlying technologies and prevents wider understanding of core Linux technologies that need to be highlighted and supported. How is this a sustainable development model?

Docker chooses to run containers without an init. The big problem here is most if not all apps you want to run in a container are not designed to work in an init less environment and require daemons, services, logging, cron and when run beyond a single host, ssh and agents. This adds a boatload of additional complexity for users before you can even deploy your apps, and a lot of effort is expended is just managing the basic process of running apps and managing their state in this context.

Contrast that with LXC containers which have a normal init and can manage multiple processes enabling for instance your VM workloads to move seamlessly to containers without any extra engineering. Any orchestration, networking, distributed storage you already use will work obviating the need for reinventing. That’s a huge win and a huge use case that makes deployment simple and slices all the complexity, but if you listen to the current container narrative and the folks pushing a monoculture and container standards it would appear there are no alternatives and running init less containers is the only ‘proper’ way to use containers, never mind the additional complexity may only make sense for specific use cases.
You used to be able to install Mac OS X on UFS volumes but unfortunately they removed that option in later releases :(
> it would be like the US wiping Texas off the map with nuclear weapons because the Federal Government was unpopular there

No, it would be more like attacking Richmond Virginia prior prior to secession in an attempt to prevent the massive deaths of the American Civil War.

> To be clear, while Bail Organa was deeply involved in the foundation of the Alliance to Restore the Republic, it was a separate entity and Alderaan was not in a declared state of war with the Empire. Furthermore, Alderaan was an important Core World with a large population and significant economic output.

You still haven't addressed the core utilitarian argument; did the destruction of Alderaan save more lives than it cost? While it might have appeared to be destroyed simply to punish Leia, it's extraordinarily unlikely to have happened for any reason other than the express directive of the Emperor, a master manipulator and politician whose sole goal was maintaining power over the entire galaxy, who clearly felt the destruction of Alderaan was the best way to achieve that goal.

I would say the only reason the destruction of Alderaan cannot be justified is because ultimately it did not prevent the ensuing civil war. Blowing up a planet would have been a tremendous deterrent, however the Empire quickly lost that ability due to an asymmetrical suicide attack by jihadists. (akin to the US Cole bombing)

Had the Death Star remained a credible deterrent, the Rebel Alliance would have withered, unable to obtain the backing of the planetary systems necessary to build and maintain a credible space navy.

You comment amounts to little more than a weak justification for the pervasive poverty and lack of economic opportunity which followed the destruction of the only source of stability in the galaxy.

#palpatine2016 #vaderdidnothingwrong #deathstarwasaninsidejob #protontorpedoscantmeltquadaniumbeams
Any misdirection seems to be the fault of the exchanges.

Isn't it common to both buy and sell contracts in complex arrangements, where various aspects of each individual transaction "cancel out" other aspects of other transactions? Assuming you buy 1000 contracts and sell 1, you are net 999 contracts? How is that different from any other options trading strategy?
Apparently it was commonly used in home plumbing as well, argh.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10357115
And Holmes "sounded" like a competent CEO for Theranos. This is science, the competence is not in appearances but in the data.
to replace the smoke of cigarette, they could just use artificial smoke ;)
but except for photographs, this would not be welcome by the public
No, I am an international student here :-) but thanks for the advice
Derek blogged about other (truly) fearsome stuff too such as FOOF

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/thi...
Sodium isn't toxic, 5 grams of lithium can kill you.
The part that I found particularly interesting is towards the end of this article. That using stereotypes [as priors] makes people more accurate. And ignoring stereotypes makes people less accurate.
DMCA notices cannot be used to enforce your trademark. Github would have to side with you in a counterclaim, if they even accept the original claim.

http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=13f9814f-b56e-...

Edit: I just went through all of the lego trademarks you linked (good call) and none of them are even close to matching a description/category for this library.
yeah but it's paid, needs internet access, and requires some sort of setup. Plus, most OS X devs would do this ONLY for IE. Which is a barrier of entry.

Downloading and installing IE browser on OSX is a much better solution. And this way, you have a browser that people can use casually as well. Since it has awesome ES6 support, that makes it even better for JS Devs.
It seems like a lot of dynamically typed language programmers are catching on to Go and it's the best thing they've ever known. Generics are just not that hard. They are not the difference between a comprehensible codebase and an incomprehensible one. The only reason they're not in the language along with higher-order list manipulation among other things is because of the idiosyncrasies of Go's creator.
IIUC, you say Docker is a step backward from both Chef/Puppet and Heroku buildpacks. Why do you think it's a step backward from Heroku buildpacks? Because a Docker image is the whole userland, whereas Heroku buildpacks deliver application slugs that run on a base maintained by the platform? I see a couple of problems with the Heroku buildpack approach:

1. Because buildpacks don't run as root, they can't take advantage of apt and the whole universe of Debian/Ubuntu packages. So it's common to see buildpacks pulling binary tarballs from S3 and dropping them into the slug. That is a step backward to me.

2. The set of packages in the base platform, at least for the Heroku Cedar stack, is very ad-hoc. I get the impression that it was largely based on what was needed to get Ruby and common gems to work.
My school experience made me not care about math as much as I wish I did. Or rather, nobody "made" me not care as much as I wish I did. That was my fault. It's more like when I started school in my country of birth math was _forced_ on us and we _had_ to be good at it. When we moved countries this was no longer the case and I allowed myself to fall into math-mediocrity.

I did my first few years of school in Ukraine, where the importance of math was drilled into us regularly. My grandmother was a retired teacher and insisted on us learning our multiplication tables before we started first grade. My mom absolutely loved math and drilled its importance into us. At school math seemed like one of the most important subjects. We'd get a lot of homework in all subjects, but my most concrete memory of homework was sitting sometimes for hours in my room at home solving math problems.

In 1999 we moved to the US. School was very hard, but mostly because of the language barrier. I excelled at Math because a) it was something I didn't have to know much English for and b) it seems like for the first few years the things we were taught in Math class in the US were things we had already learned in class in Ukraine. Aside from the other kids laughing at my "weird" way to do long division on the board I was really good at it. The thing is - I wasn't good at it because I was enthusiastic about math at that point, just because we were going over stuff I had already learned in Ukraine.

As I started middle school I was still ahead of everyone for a couple of years, but eventually our US schooling caught up with our Ukrainian schooling. Suddenly we weren't going over stuff I already knew anymore, and our teachers didn't seem to drill math into us as much as they did in Ukraine on the whole. My grandmother was no longer there to insist that we practice aggressively and my parents kind of adopted a more Americanized attitude as well, I think.

By the time I graduated high school (by that time in Australia), I was "ok" at math - maybe a little above average. But I wasn't excited about it and didn't go out of my way to really internalise the concepts we were going over in class.

I now regret this deeply. I had the perfect opportunity to learn, both with that original approach from Ukraine and parents who were _very good_ at math. But I fell into complacency when importance of math wasn't pushed onto us as much anymore and didn't learn as much as I wish I did. I think I would be a much stronger programmer today if I had, and now I'm considering taking some sort of math course independently to get better.
Someone once said that the public cloud was never about virtualization but rather automation. I would contend that the container revolution we're going through now isn't really about containers but ultimately distributed system platforms. And if it changes the way many have traditionally approached problems great!

My main point is that we're really just at the beginning of all of this. I'm not picking on Docker (I'm actually embracing containers) but rather pointing out that many of these next gen solutions are only tackling the basic use cases right now. While I'm excited there is so much more work left to be done. Implementing many of these solutions still requires a bunch of engineering effort and I'd like to see more turnkey solutions. The developer end is definitely getting easier and more productive but the operational end is getting more complex and still not solving some use cases everyone has. How many different ways can different companies implement HA MySQL for example?!

There are tons of other platforms out there that have recognized and solved many of this class of problems for years but the Cloud and microservices are actually starting to make this worse as adoption skyrockets. Platforms are not really a new thing, we went through this with JVM Platforms a ~decade ago, Heroku style PaaS ~five years ago, and now containers + cloud today.

I guess this is what progress looks like :)
Do you think there is a case for developing 'proof of concept' pilot plants with subsidy even if the price of oil is so low that there would be no commercial business that could be carried on?

Just so that if/when things change in the future the technology is well known?

(I'm in UK, politics around subsidies a bit different)
To be fair, Shivetya didn't back up his claim either; in fact he almost made it sound like roads and buses cost nothing with his last sentence, which is exactly why I asked that inconvenient question.
>I'm pretty sure most men feel the same deep down.

No, actually. If I wear my body down so much that I'm dying of work-inflicted wear-and-tear, I damn well do want society's empathy and help. "Manhood" and "self-glorifying martyrdom" are not synonyms.

One's ordinary contribution to society shouldn't be cast-from-hitpoints, especially not when it will get you an unremembered early grave. This is the year 2015, not D-Day.
Heh, seems like the exact name for the linked article would be "The Traveling Mathematician Problem"
Googling this isn't going to be fun either.
Docker chooses to run containers without an init.

I don't think Docker chooses one way or the other, and people do run Docker with an init: http://phusion.github.io/baseimage-docker/
Would you buy this HUGE cell phone case?
Depends ... are you logging in with it?

There's all manner of things that it will do.

1) try to see if there's a real internet connection
2) check if it's the latest version
3) log in with your google account
4) sync passwords
5) update shared history
6) update chrome apps

I've probably missed some things out, but that's what I can think of, off the top of my head.
Yeah, Telstra was forced to lease copper to any ISP who wanted to use it -- but I strongly suspect anti-competitive business practices on that aspect (delaying hookups to non-Telstra customers, etc.)
"The result was a relative preponderance of lab researchers with Ph.D.s and a dearth of people with technical, operational experience running energy facilities. "

Yep. But the plummet in energy prices alone would have doomed it.
Wow. Well said.
Cool! I wonder if this could be useful for generating passphrases somehow.
Why would you pay a news website for content? The content is what you pay them with.
The real power of relational databases is:

* it's fantastic for many kinds of queries you didn't have in mind when you created the data model

* it's good enough for most use cases

* it's been around long enough that safety and correctness features like transactions, foreign keys, UNIQUE and NOT NOLL constraints etc. are well implemented and understood.

Any DB model that wants to challenge the ubiquity of RDBMS must address these points, and offer something on top. So far I haven't seen anything that would come close. Sure, there are lots of specialized use cases and specialized tools that are great in some areas (like geospatial data, graphs, time series, ...), but nothing that I'd use as a default choice for a project with vague requirements.
>Calling someone through-and-through evil and despicable is more isolating and condemning than calling them a pansy.

Actually, I think it's worth testing. People have worked in deeply irrational, amoral ways before, you know.
It's much harder with oil at 40ish/bbl.
And untold millions died because of Japanese leaders' cautious stupidity. It seems like there are lessons to be learned here? Let's start with, whenever there are positions that are culturally unspeakable, you have a problem. Perhaps another is, whatever idiocy a foreign nation's leaders are spouting, it's a good bet nobody actually wants war (cough cough Putin)
Fuck this narrative of rivalry.

Scientists working in the same field have put out a study that disagrees with the first study. This is not a severe blow, it does not debunk the first study, it does not imply some sort of rivalry. Science is cooperative. We all want to find the truth.
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Depression itself is, I suspect, something rather like cancer—the underlying problems can come from many things, but the symptoms may appear to be similar.

ECT worked for me, but probably wouldn't work for everyone. Most treatments may be described like that—IMHO, the only universal treatment is therapy. This doesn't mean we should throw the rest of the treatments out the window. If the hammer works for the job, why look for a nailgun that doesn't exist?
Owing is one of the bases of all relationships. You are free to say that you do not wish to be owed anything, but that does not actually free society from its obligations to you, nor you from your obligations to it.

Just sayin'.
> Have you explored holographic algorithms/encodings[...]

As far as the wording in mainstream science is, holographic algorithms are something entirely different, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_algorithm.
Where Go falls on this line depends on your conception of a programming language. If you look at a language as static definition that doesn't change with time, it would be easy to see Go as too simple. But looking at a language as an organic thing that grows over time, I think Go's simplicity and resistance to change generally gets it about right. To many modern languages suffer a complexity problem from years of accrued features.
The shorter "!s" is equivalent to "!sp". Also, "!spi" gives you a StartPage image search.

https://duckduckgo.com/bang?c=Research&q=startpage
What inference rules for unreliable data do you suggest?
> To spend less time on the road? Or maybe just to remove the necessity of having to focus all our attention on the act of driving itself?

I would say yes to at least these two; the only reason most people care about congestion is that it negatively impacts these two. Autonomous vehicles may not "fix" these issues, but they might be one step towards fixing the issues.
>The destruction of Alderaan, then, is more analogous to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki than it is to a “genocide.” Yes, it was horrible, and yes, it would be nice if it didn’t happen. But it was an attack on a legitimate military target and defensible under Just War Theory, an attack intended to save lives by deterring other major powers from beginning conflicts of their own.*

It always amazes me that people think that (enabled by specially crafted and promoted nationalist histories of course -- especially the kind taught at school).

First, the war was ending and Japan was surrendering, they just had a few save-face conditions instead of total surrender.

Second, those two cities were not military targets -- cities full of men, women and children, civilians.

Third, the main issue was not Japan, but to do a live demonstration of the new assets, and instill fear on any post-war (that is, cold war) enemy.
> The US seems like a very cool place, with so much potential, but increasingly, i'm considering putting it on my personal blacklist as far as destinations to look for work go. I just can't imagine living in fear of some concealed-carry-permit holding goon deciding to shoot the place up.

The US homicide rate is around 3.8 per 100k. That is higher than much of Europe (UK 1.0, Finland 1.6, Norway 2.2, Germany 0.8) but not to the point that it is rational to fear coming to the US.

Would you fear taking a vacation to Bermuda or the Bahamas? They have much higher homicide rates than the US (7.7 and 29.8, respectively).

Also note that homicide rates are taken over the whole country. They vary considerably from place to place within the country. For most tech jobs that a typical non-US HN reader might come to the US for, you'd almost certainly be working in a location that has a much lower than average homicide rate, and would be making enough money to live in a place with a much lower than average homicide rate.
There is absolutely no point in debating the past or the original text of the Second Amendment.

Post-Heller, post-McDonald, it's moot. The Court's word is Constitution.

If the anti-gun (really, pro-authoritarian-state) minority wants to ban firearms: they should lobby for a Constitutional amendment (which will undoubtedly fail), and then lobby for each individual state to ban arms - keeping in mind, some states have arms in their constitutional documents as well.

And then, once all of the appropriate legislative and political actions have been completed, this group can have police (who will need firearms to actually enforce this law, and most of whom are pro-private-firearms themselves) go door to door and round them up.

What could possibly go wrong?