skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rest assured, those of us here in the southern hemisphere are not susceptible to that kind of hype.

In AU summer very much started (both officially and by popular understanding) 23 days ago - as it does every year - on the 1st of December.

Having seasons that match calendar months is terribly convenient. It also aligns with our experience of hot and cold -- January is typically the hottest month (the middle of the three summer months) and July is typically the coldest month (the middle of the three winter months). At least in the more populous urban areas of Straya.

The British approach of starting a season on the solstice / equinox has always seemed somewhere between weird and quaint (more towards the inconvenient end of weird).

Not least because the shortest / longest / median day varies drastically - I think up to 4 days variance? - depending on where we are in the leap year cycle, but also (IIRC) based on where you're standing in relation to the dateline.

I wonder what the appeal is of sticking to variant, non-calendar delineation of seasons? (I appreciate that's what the article attempts to explore .. but they don't seem to answer the question.) The author suggests January and July are the months with the most extreme temperature, so it presumably isn't related to any north / south hemisphere landmass disparity skewing temperatures.
For reference, working 40 years at $30,000 a year will earn you $1.2 million. Earning $640,000, or ~53%, more is certainly substantial.

Edit: The $30,000/year reflects current incomes, the $640,000 lifetime difference is based on 1987 dollars, like @twoodfin pointed out.
It works out to greater than double lifetime earnings using the adjusted $1.3 million figure.
Many people wanted the juvenile to be retried retroactively as an adult, "because this case is special".

India should:

1. Not pass knee-jerk laws, it takes a long time to undo the damage.

2. Do away with the death penalty.

Mobs of 'concerned citizens' always turn into sadistic assholes when they know their anger is righteous. But once the punishment of death is off the table, there would be one less way to cause serious damage.

You should see how the discourse in India has become, with good people suggesting more and more creative ways of torturing the rapists; disembowelment, chemical castration, and reversed re-enactment of the original rape have all been suggested.

A national exercise in revenge is sickening.
Good, kind people braying for blood is sickening.
Wish I could. As a Canadian though seems ITAR would block me.
Most providers activate the cards and send out a welcome letter via snail mail. If it bounces, the card get's deactivated. Doubt there are any providers who allow fake details forever.
The longer it has taken, the longer it will take
Worth pointing out for the people complaining about lack of space that IME the postman writes at most a surname in the Name field and an abbreviated address (e.g. "42 Fake Street"), ignoring the postcode altogether - so the Address field is effectively double-height or so.
> Does anyone know what specifically changed to allow a landing attempt on land as opposed to barge?

I believe the main concern was not putting what amounts to an ICBM into Disneyworld. Hitting the barge (even though they hit a little hard each time) proved they could hit within a few feet of where they planned reliably.
> Update 2: Earlier this afternoon, Chris Vickery confirmed that the three IP addresses that were disclosing user information have been secured. The issue wasn't a hack, but a misconfigured MongoDB installation.

> The source of the configuration error isn't clear, as neither the ISP nor Sanrio has answered questions on the matter.

A MongoDB database open to the outside world on a public IP address?
A very poor precedent has been set, unfortunately.
Most reviews for this phone were out 1 month ago. Theverge took its time.

Continuum is the most promising feature of the phone. It actually becomes a "real" computer, even though this is just the start.

I think Microsoft is doing the right thing lately by leveraging its strength, the desktop.

Reviewers are always blaming the ecosystem. But imagine the future when smartphones get more powerful and the Win32 windows app can be distributed through the Windows Store (this will arrive at some point). The phone would naturally gain the ability to run a win32 app when plugged to a screen.

The phone would run both Win10 Universal apps and any old windows app that's been there since the early ages of the PC era. The ecosystem would become suddenly a lot better and the phone more interesting.
> In Germany there is no law that could force us to submit to a gag order or to implement a backdoor.

Meanwhile, Germany's largest ISP (Deutsche Telekom) is handing over all data of its daughter companies in neighboring countries (in many of which Deutsche Telekom is in a monopoly position - handling most of the Internet traffic) to Germany's intelligence agencies and has supposedly been doing so for about a decade already.

Germany is doing a lot of the things its politicians have criticized the US for.
> Illegal to have open Wifi, that is true :-) (I think it's a 125 Euro fine)

No, it is not illegal per se to have an open Wifi, but there is the dreaded paragraph of "Mitstörerhaftung" - that means in lots of cases if someone does something illegal over your open Wifi (say copyright violation), the person who runs the open Wifi will be liable for it.
They're going to need both you (a farmer) and me (a nurse) on Mars, that's for sure buddy! :)
The obvious, the easy, and the possible
Did the keyboard shortcuts work for you? I can't get them to work (even tried adding some flags to check whether they are being caught or not and they don't seem to reach hotkeys.so's code, ever, for me)
Strap+on+sex:+Το+απόλυτο+ξέσκισμα+από+μία+escort+-+Golden+Diamond+Escort
Creating a Virtual Printer Using Node.js [video]
Mouse middle button do not work on that "website". Welcome to the future!

Edit: the <a> element has 12 on click listeners, seriously what kind of monster does this on <a> element? That is 12 listeners more than <a> elements need to work in any browser from 1993's mosaic, through your android fridge to your smartwatch. /end of rant
I agree with those concerns, and I definitely don't mean to suggest that people who chose not to use the client all believe in conspiracy theories about the developers' intentions.
Maybe want to checkout engines from Wärtsilä.

They have gas capable engines (50DF series, 50cm cylinder bore) with ratings up to 975kW/cylinders and up to 18 cylinders or 17MW per genset at 60hz.

They're not the only player in that field. Fairbanks-Morse sells the Colt-Pielstick PC2.6 line with 750kW per cylinder at 600rpm and up to 16 cylinders for 11.5 MW @ 60hz. They also sell MAN 48/60 engines that go up to 21MW and MAN natural gas 51/60 G engines up to 18.5 MW.
Reuters headline:

"Hello Kitty fan site exposed, but no data stolen: web host"

"There is no evidence any data has been stolen, the Hong Kong-based company hosting the data said on Tuesday."

http://in.reuters.com/article/us-sanrio-cyberattack-idINKBN0...
> attracted a more adventurous userbase?

That statement seems accurate without "a more adventurous" - I think with Java 8 more people are using Java because they want to instead of because they have to.

e.g. professionally I've used Java more than any other language, it's hands down the language I'm most familiar/comfortable with, yet when I start a side project for myself I've never considered using Java (usually using Ruby or Scala). With Java 8 removing many warts and bringing in a lot of great improvements I'd actually consider using it for a side project.
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Should Startups Have Ping Pong Tables?
The text on the placard that the girl is holding in the first picture of the article is exactly why more debate was needed on the issue.
Just a point - let's not call 'shaming' what might be 'harassment' or worse.

Shaming someone attempts to make them feel bad about their actions. Attempting to get someone fired, and spamming them with threats is not shaming...
> A compiler has to manage a lot of state too, but I've yet to hear compiler makers trying to figure out why they have so much logic in their controllers, and why their views are too big (because nobody would write an MVC compiler).

No, but they do write entire books about how their parser uses recursive descent or LL(1) or about how they do code generation.
Tutanota?

https://tutanota.uservoice.com/forums/237921-general/suggest...

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jun/58

Emphasis on the "no".
Because every transaction has to be stored forever, on every single client. This was the easies method to prevent somebody from makeing the blockchain serveral terabytes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njos57IJf-0

It's a bit silly, but entertaining. It doesn't get too technical, but usually gets the generic facts right.
Surprisingly in Canada! Despite the fact than _normally_ in many places there is some/lof of snow by the first week of December Canadians keep insisting: nooooo - winter starts 21st December! Same oddity for summer.
I'd argue that that "five line" should be at "acceptable". If the other app stores are all excellent and one is merely "good" it shouldn't necessarily get a sub-five rating.
Ask HN: What's the current best FLOSS solution for internet backup?
Suppose that Egypt-style internet shutdown happens. It would be great to see people set up a big mesh network with some resources (Wikipedia backup?) easily available. I imagine that if many people opened their Wi-Fi routers, bridged them together and reconfigured a bit, this could be done rather easily... I wonder if there's already user-friendly software that could make it possible to pull off. Does FLOSS community have any healthy project for this kind of scenario that I should know about?
From what I understand, ScreenOS wasn't even made by Juniper, but rather by a company which they bought.

So I'm not convinced that the blame for this backdoor can be placed on Juniper's shoulders.
Is there any better articulation a of an object lesson in the power of government subsidies?
Time to revive the old joke:

Q: How do you smuggle a nuke into America?

A: Hide it in a bale of mary jane.
No, I mean the three mugs up front yakking away distractingly.

If I were to make a suggestion, it would be to house the loud employees in a large sound-proof booth, but I suspect that would only lead to yet more downvotes here...
The big difference is that generic dispatch is resolved dynamically.

I haven't yet found myself reaching for monads in Racket (or writing much non-Redex Racket code) since tonyg wrote that post, so I don't know if there are any odd interactions to watch out for.
Found when I Googled for more information...

"Hello Kitty and Minnie Mouse arrested after fight over tip money in New York's Times Square."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/hello-kitty-minnie-m...
I just installed GNU Emacs on my PC and it seems you're right. I swear that never used to be the case; or maybe I've only ever used emacs on headless servers so it defaulted to the terminal renderer? Weird - but sorry for arguing with you on that point.
Um, not really. On BSD, you're using jails and startup is virtually instantaneous unless you want to define start orders and staggering.
This probably won't be a popular opinion on HN, but as much as people usually make fun of reviewers citing design, it does matter to me and many other people. I'm not saying I would REFUSE to own a device that wasn't pretty (and honestly even some of Apple's stuff strikes me as a little ugly) but design does matter, especially when you're a multi-billion dollar company and you could easily locate and supply some designers to wrap your electronics in a spiffy housing.

To me, it's less about you should have something pretty, and more about why don't you have something pretty? It's not like a case made of silver plastic with a few chrome bits or maybe something in matte black with accents is massively expensive to make.

This is especially true for Windows Phone I think, because it has such a rep already for being dull even by Blackberry standards.

FTR: I had a Lumia Icon for about a year, and dumped it for the same reason as the author: Ecosystem was glitchy, the app market was way out of touch with Android and iOS in terms of quality and diversity, and the iPhone 6+ finally offered an iOS device of a decent size which was my final beef with it. Sold.
I needed a refresher on trig last year for some robotics simulations I was working on. The trig lesson was extremely helpful: http://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-trigonometry/

And fwiw, I finally learned an intuitive understanding of radians by reading the Tau Manifesto (not on BetterExplained). It would be awesome if BetterExplained used tau instead of pi in the lesson on radians, but that's a minor nitpick for a very helpful set of lessons.
Yes, this has been my experience in the UK too (and probably everybody's). It may be a cultural difference but rows of local shops are not the preserve of gentrified areas. Anywhere people live, you will find these sorts of shops, because people will buy stuff from shops that are within walking distance. If anything, they seem to be slightly more likely in the poorer areas, presumably because there are more people who will want shops within walking distance.
I'm not a "good person" indeed and as far as I know I don't need to be a "good person" to have a valid opinion and a vote in a democratic system. I too lived in france and I recognize your mentality. And yes, I believe the paris attacks (including charlie hebdo) are the result of immigration and if you can't make the connection then "there's nothing I can do to convince you" of anything.. All the terrorists involved were muslim immigrants or born in families of muslim immigrants. If their background and religion is just a coincidence please enumerate how many non-muslim, european or asian immigrants to France became terrorists and how do you explain that ? I'm sorry the truth is so offensive to you..
That's exactly US/Canada definition. And winter solstice is "midwinter" in many European countries in fact.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Networking_hardware_c...
High-volume online shopping putting strain on shipping firms and causing delays
> But how is `a = read(); print(a)` not explicit?

It doesn't tell me which of the calls is effectful and which is pure. It's clear enough at the direct level, but if I'm calling methods that I don't know the implementation of then the =/<- distinction when using monadic style is very helpful.

> That's only to explain the typing. Java's checked continuations are an effect system, and the list of thrown exceptions can be viewed as a list of effects a function may have. That's how you can ensure that a function calling read and print will only be called within a context that implements a handler for those effects.

So if I do "a = read()" what is the type of a? "(String effects IO)" or some such? If it's "string, but only allowed inside the scope of a method with IO as an effect" then it's the same problem as checked exceptions.

> Off-topic, but that is a myth (there was an unscientific poll about this in the last JavaOne conference).

Hmm. I wouldn't expect conference-goers to be a representative sample, and it doesn't match my experience.

> The difference between continuation-effects and monads is that a function making use of continuations can use multiple effects without requiring nasty monad-transformers (and that's exactly the problem Kiselyov wanted to solve with his handler system).

Since you're emphasizing it I'll ask: how do you express effects that don't commute? EitherT[Writer[Log, ?], Error, Value] behaves very differently from WriterT[Either[Error, ?], Log, Value].
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SpaceX successfully lands first stage of a Falcon 9 – A space first
I am unaware of any country that makes a significant effort to tailor instruction to very high ability students in any systematic way. This certainly doesn't occur during primary school age anywhere in the Anglosphere.

I'm also not bullish on the positive effects of primary school on cognitive skills full stop. Unschooled children are only a year behind their counterparts in public schools on average. That's a really small effect for the difference between more than five hours a day of purposeful instruction versus none whatsoever. The same study does show children in structured homeschool doing one to five grade levels better depending on what's tested so there almost certainly are students who benefit from earlier more advanced reading instruction but the implications for mass schooling are unclear. If we can't even have children in different classes by ability level instead of age group I don't hold out much hope for sane educational policy.

The Impact of Schooling on Academic Achievement:
Evidence From Homeschooled and Traditionally Schooled Students
> there are lots of anecdotes about Islamic refugees throwing Christian ones overboard, or maltreating them at refugee centers and so forth too.

Especially when your main source of news is the daily mail.
Why do game developers prefer Windows?
they make money by mining bitcoin, if the value drops then their return, even if they sell all BTC immediately, would be affected. They just spent $100m on a new mining facility so to trash bitcoin would be to write off that investment. They cannot make good money by screwing over bitcoin without screwing themselves over.

Best case scenario is that at the end of the effective life of this DC BitFury decide to doublespend their coins to allow them to spend all bitcoins once, however by that time their relative % of the network will be less than 50%.
What's the shame in that.
Adding annother "Google Reader" replacement for TinyTiny-RSS. There is some jiggery-pokery" that needs to be done, but it does nearly everything you could want (I wouldn't mind getting the behind the cut reveals)
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At the end of the day, the whole point of ggplot is to produce a graphical representation of some aspect of the data. How much information can you possibly cram into ONE graphic and have it be readable by a human? Your problem is really a data reduction problem and not a plotting/graphics problem.
Qualcomm's FastCV Computer Vision SDK
This feels much more offensive than the act of capturing video, but I can't justify that feeling. There's something so wonderfully disobedient about neutralizing cameras with lasers that I'm tempted to ask: is this legal? Does the potential for damaging the camera carry any liability?

Lastly, just because you could use lasers to neutralize cameras doesn't mean you can. In trying to to make a point about the ubiquity of cameras, the author reveals a challenge in fighting them:

> Video cameras the size of postage stamps can be procured for under $100, and will certainly become even smaller and cheaper.

Blocking cameras is one thing; finding them is another!
Wild bees are least abundant where they're most needed, study says
Agree. I just set up a Slackware system for testing purposes, and I am amazed how easy it was. Slackware is one of the oldest Linux distros ever, and it was actually my first distro. After a long journey to many other distros Slackware brought back the good feeling of having control over my machine. There are still a lot of customizations to be done (enable TRIM for SSD etc.) but nevertheless I like it because I know that my machine does exactly what I want it to do.

KISS is a magic principle that just works. The Unix/Linux world should never let it go.
http://modern.ie/ — it has a link to VMs.
That would be amazing. Has anyone checked that the new Q is not simply the SHA-256 of "Hack the Planet"?
I'm a big fan of rubber duck debugging, but working strange hours its not always possible to find a person or a rubber duck when you need one.

So I built Remote Duck, now you can rubber duck debug with people 24/7. They won't talk back, but boy are they good listeners!

Still looking for more volunteers, if you'd like to help a developer debug their code just submit (http://remoteduck.com/submit) your video.
It's a little more complicated than that. Assuming you are correct about the 6 Chinese miners controlling > 50% of the hash power they could indeed collude and support a new block size.

When the first large block arrives the blockchain splits effectively creating a new currency. Old Bitcoin and New Bitcoin.

It's the Bitcoin infrastructure in terms of exchanges and wallets that will decide which of these coins will be the winner.

Basically if you have 1 Bitcoin before, then after the split you will have 1 Bitcoin in each chain.

The market will decide which of these coins will hold value. It's not the first time the blockchain has split.
The subscore at the bottom of the article for "ecosystem" was given a rating of 6 (out of 10). To me, a "6" would mean "above-average".

6 out of 10 is not above average. If you got 6 answers right out of 10 on a test, you'd call that "barely more than half right". This is how American review scores work: they're based on school grades where anything below 8 is pretty much unacceptable.
Happy Holidays from Unbabel – 2015 was awesome
Yes but in practice you can't convert that much BTC into USD that quickly.
Hm? The menu bar exists in fullscreen apps. Move your mouse to the top and it will appear.
Also check out AppGrid [1], a window manager for OS X 10.9+ that uses vim-like keys to move and resize windows. (Keys are configurable.) See the Releases tab for a pre-compiled binary. I've been using AppGrid for about 3 years straight every day.

[1]: https://github.com/sdegutis/AppGrid
As a 950 owner I'd say that review is harsh but fair. At this point I can't recommend to anyone that they buy these phones unless they've decided that both android and iOS are not for them and still want a high-end phone. Frustratingly the user experience is becoming more like android with every wp version increment, and the whole reason I went to wp in the first place is because i didn't like android (or iOS) as a phone ui. maybe a surface phone will turn things around next year...
I just wanted to compliment you on the thorough job you did on the ggplot tutorial. In my wanderings, I haven't found anything that comes close, (the great) Dr. Wickham's materials included.
It would be kind of funny if in a few years the stars align and MS's monopoly on the desktop somehow leapfrogs them into the front on phones.
It isn't just another launch, every future launch with this same rocket is now an experiment. It can't have the same reliability rating because a second launch hasn't been tested and these aren't freshly machined parts. Every piece in the rocket has experienced a level of wear and tear that previously launched rockets didn't have. Maybe it's exceeded the amount of cyclical stress it can handle? Who knows, but most satellite companies wouldn't pay the same for a re-used (never before been re-used) rocket as they would for a brand new rocket because of the increased risk. I would not be surprised if they did in fact give a discount to the payload of anyone who rides this same rocket. If they don't give a discount the only reason someone would purchase a spot on it is for the prestige.

Note: The never before been re-used part is probably the most important factor here. Once they have re-used rockets a few times they'll have a reliability factor for these situations.
That's why Anvil has the lightweight concept of "renderable" - it's just a lambda with view hierarchy declaration, which can be put anywhere you find appropriate in your architecture - in activities, fragments, in self-contained components, in special dedicated "view" layer classes, you can move common parts into separate styles module etc etc. Since you have the full power of your programming language you are free to refactor it any way you like. Anvil has no restrictions on that.