skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have mixed feelings about this article. On the one hand, I accept that Canadian immigration policy is among the best in the world. Further, Canada is more accepting of immigrants than many countries, perhaps because we have had better experiences with them, or perhaps just because of general cultural attitudes.

However, it confuses the issue to bring in the recent refugee crisis in Europe. As several other commenters have pointed out, accepting 25,000 hand picked Syrian refugees, while laudable, is on a completely different scale than 1,000,000 refugees of random backgrounds flooding across the border.
That is why I said 'almost', not 'only'. I'm not personally aware of anything else like this other than starting your own business. And starting a successful business is far harder than teaching yourself programming.

Computers are not dangerous of themselves, they are dangerous when you rely on them. When you screw up software it's really easy to hit the reset button at no cost. When you screw up fixing a device, it might cost you money.

Also in construction you usually need some sort of formal education for the better paying jobs. Plumbers, electricians and so on have certifications, licenses apprenticeship programs.
I'm not really involved in web development much, my comment was more general though. It's surprising the number of people in an environment where threading is a real option that don't really understand it very well.
Did you open the paper and browse through it? It'd be interested in seeing what he has to say. Just because we can't observe something yet, doesn't mean we can start playing the ideas of what proofs for such things would look like.

In the science fictional world of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, the characters discover that neurons are able to store so much data because they exist in different quantum states; that much of what happens in the brain is unobservable by conventional means.

..of course that's fiction, but we find crazy stuff in nature all the time like the species of Snapper Shrimp that able to generate crazy hot super heated cavitation bubbles.

We don't have any working models on how consciousness works (or even what it really is), so anything at this stage is worth documenting. As science developers, we may find ways to test these hypothesis in the future.
I don't know if I'd call it good, but pgAdmin is a free/Free option that, well, works: http://www.pgadmin.org/
Well, you do tend to get different reactions to the "make this group richer by making this group poorer" train of thought from the different sides of that equation.
The only thing missing here is some tacky, irritating animation, but I've even seen that being rediscovered in some recently posted articles...
Yah, it would, normally, in other States. This is called "flaring", but I imagine California has environmental 'protection' laws limiting or preventing these systems from being used. Most wells have emergency flare systems that burn excess gas if a formation surge occurs (faster than it can be captured).

Regardless, this situation is unique because the well is very old... and leaking in several places. I don't know of an existing system that can safely pump an Oxygen/Production gas mix to another location and flare it.

Hopefully the well casing isn't compromised or the whole town could explode (Hutchison, KS a few years back).
As someone who always uses \x, having it become a default setting in .psqlrc is a useful one.
Querying JavaScript in 2016
Tarsnap's design means the keys never leave your possession; they're never escrowed. You can do this with Microsoft and Apple products, but it's not default.
I wasn't aware of the distinction between templates and macros in Nim, it does indeed sound powerful.

I'm also glad to see Nim having purity, its incredibly hard to go back once you've tasted it!

The Emacs macros I mentioned aren't saved anywhere; the similarities in syntax between C and D makes it very straightforward to write dumb macros on-the-fly and forget them afterwards. For the most part D improves on C's syntax by fixing a lot of its shortcomings and the macros merely reflect that.

One example would be to convert "#define foo 1" into "foo = 1," to be put inside an enum declaration. Another would be to remove the DLL_EXPORT references (as D does not require them). The function definitions themselves barely change at all :)

One thing I'm also curious about are compilation times. My D program still compiles under 2-3 seconds even with recursive reflection of 100+ aggregate types, outputting meta-data and code for every single type and field (to handle serialization, generate on-screen editors, resolve dependency graphs and more). I haven't found any other systems language giving me this much power for this little compilation times.

This even includes transforming my regex expressions into D code during compilation so the regexes get the full power of the language's optimizer.

I'll definitely keep Nim in mind for my next pet project, right now I'm getting over 30k LoCs in my D project and really don't want to switch languages halfway through! :)
I think the OP is worried about Amazon closing down Prime Photos, so which back-end storage provider actually stores the photos is irrelevant.
I was with you until here: "'that's the way we do it' doesn't hold water in my mind."

One way people can mean that is pure exercise of authority. "My way or the highway." I agree that's bunk.

But there's another way to mean it. Take driving on two-way streets. It doesn't really matter which side we drive on; driving on the right works just as well as driving on the left. But it matters a lot that we pick one and stick with it. Why do Americans drive on the right? That's just the way we do it.

As somebody who used to do page layout, I appreciate the convention of putting punctuation inside. As a programmer, I appreciate the convention of putting it outside. Neither is "wrong"; they're both fine ways of dealing with something. But in a given context, I think it's important to pick one; otherwise you get editing chaos and a bad reading experience.

Since the guy is a journalism professor, it's his job to teach students how to work in a professional journalistic context. Whether or not students personally think the comma should go inside or outside is irrelevant. They need to learn how to work within an organization's professional stylebook. Those things are filled with debatable points, because if everybody saw it the same way, there'd be no reason to write down a rule for it.

In docking points here, he's doing the right thing. He's not just demanding conformance with his personal preference. He's demanding that they learn how to write like professionals.
Is there not a wide range of web developer talent available in the marketplace?

Certainly some teams are more sophisticated than others and can achieve a higher level of site design.
eventually. But not all of them were testable at the time, or only testable to a limited extent.

The atomic clocks/airplane experiment is a good example a test that came way later.
Yes... When it made a point.

The bare skin in these photos have little to do with the content of the article.
I am not a graphic designer, but I did work in the publishing business earlier in my career, and this is exactly how I was taught to lay type up by hand: The quotes go somewhat over the period. There are similar things going on when you put quotes at the beginning of a line: They hang out a little over the margin.

If you have a period, like this. “Followed by a quote, like this,” The space between the period and the quote will be smaller than the space between a period and a capital letter.

Most of this matters most with large type, such as titles or block quotes.
Amazon Cloudfront is a CDN. A significant portion of a CDNs job is to be highly redundant and to handle DDoS.

If you're comparing Amazon's offering to Linode, you should really compare to the protection Amazon offers on EC2 and similar VPS-like products.
How exactly is a driver HIPAA compliant?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10585505
I think a big issue too is what environment you are using.

If I am doing .NET of course I will use Visual Studio. If I am doing something else of course I won't use Visual Studio.
> I think there is some kind of truth in the way many hikers and meditators want to keep those things "sacred" in some way, regardless of what religious or romantic theoretical framework they use to justify that. If you try to use nature, or meditation, to alleviate the stress from your life, in an instrumental way full of expectations, I can easily see it gradually losing its efficacy, if it becomes yet another maintenance strategy and you lose the sense of noninstrumentality, free exploration, suspension of ordinary pursuits, etc.

There's a book by Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, that has a lot to say on this theme. I have mixed feelings about the book overall, but it's quite relevant to this concept.
Why is this the year for the 51% attack? I'll take a shot in the dark and assume this is post block reward halving?

Followup, will the attacker be a nation state actor or not?
Can you expand on what a HIPAA-compliant driver is? (I know what HIPPA is, I don't understand what that has to do with driving people around.)
Just an aside: I'm running Windows 10 Pro and Bitlocker is off for all 4 of the drives in my machine. This machine was setup from a fresh install of windows 10 shortly after it went live in July. Only a single data point, but apparently there are cases when Microsoft does NOT encrypt the drives.
There is another plan for unlimited video for $ 59.99: https://www.amazon.com/gp/drive/landing/everything/?ref_=cd_...
Actually, I'm trying to figure out if this particular disaster is a underground storage facility or if it's actually a production well. Details are scattered about and it's kind of hard to find information.
I zoomed in on this comment to tap the upvote button, and the voting buttons disappeared. So hopefully it wasn't a downvote.

To respond to your comment, it seems that brain damage, psychoactive drugs, and transcranial magnetic stimulation are all evidence that, even if a "consciousness" can't be split in two (contradicted by your reference), parts of it can be removed or altered by altering matter, so it's still most likely a simple physical process.
Debugging Microservices in Production [video]
I wish people spoke more about noise insulation in apartments.

If I don't have a baby, I don't want to be woken up in the middle of the night by crying babies. If I don't have any children, I don't want to hear them yelling all day long.
CCC Videos (English)
Very cool. Not necessarily new, but it seems like an individual hacker which is always impressive. Companies like Blippar (https://blippar.com/en/) have recently been acquiring any company or team that is doing this type of work.
And in fewer cities/regions in the US, at that. Though, granted, the sudden and mysterious hypothetical death of Uber would probably motivate Lyft to ramp up in all those other markets, too.
I think other animals, such as certain birds (crows, parrots), might be conscious, maybe octopuses, but that's just my pet theory. To be sure, we'd need a definition of what consciousness is exactly (more than "I'm pretty sure I am conscious, and other people, too") , and probably really good brain scan technology, far better than what we have now.
If you meant a link to information about the new site, go here:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sonemic-cinemos-glitchwav...

If you meant the place where you find music in RYM, here:

https://rateyourmusic.com/customchart

I would say that another good place to find music is user lists. For example, here's one of non-Anglo pre-WWII music:

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/uaxuctum/pre_ww2_music_from_ou...
You're not engaging with my actual point. Post-hoc delineation of topic branches without the effective loss of linearity is superior. Prove me wrong.
Embrace what you can't avoid or how to manage technical debt
No, I'm obviously not in an objective sense, but my _subjective experience_ is that I am. That subjective experience is what we're interested in studying. That's what people are referring to when they say they are conscious.
Tool for making a supply of strangely named files
The difference is that antibiotics weren't a tool to make more discoveries. They were an immediately applicable medical breakthrough (which also happens to be a useful tool, for example as a genetic marker). CRISPR/Cas9 is just a tool, not an immediately applicable therapy.
If you run the right interpreter (e.g., ruby-2.1), it will know what paths to load gems and libraries from. So that's not the problem.

As others mention, scripts typically just run "ruby" (via shebang or directly), which will pick whatever is the default.

Debian/Ubuntu have the "alternatives" system, which is designed to solve this for any kind of program, but it's virtually impossible to use by humans; there's no single command to switch between versions.

Fortunately, the ruby-switch package [1] wraps the terrible UI in a single command to switch versions. I highly recommend it.

Of course, this switches the version globally. To get per-shell Ruby versions, you will need the other tools mentioned in this thread.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/Ruby
The Hottest On-Demand Startups of 2015
Don't really know Crystal but it seems to me that it is statically compiled which means you need to find the type of 'a' at compile time. The approach you suggest is more commonly used in dynamic languages and involves keeping at runtime a tag on every single value that indicates it's type (memory and speed overhead). You would be trading compile time with run time. Also it seems that not only it is statically compiled, it produces a static binary in the target platform. If, like others suggest in this thread, you were to optimize at runtime instead of generating the alternate paths, you would need a bytecode representation of the program embedded in the executable and very likely a virtual machine with the optimiser and capability to hot reload code. Any of these options would be a substantial departure of the current path the language is taking.
The real difference is that you can't force the FDIC to 'insure' your 'debt marker', while a bank can. If there were no deposit insurance, depositors would actually have to worry about the soundness of their bank - and probably would demand 'full reserve' banking.
This video shows the gas coming right out of the pipe:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/12/infrared-video-of-hug...
It's a humorous quote from the Simpsons.
As someone put it. I never knew, you die one piece at a time.

This disease scares me. Dying, head first like that. Its common enough that it will probably happen to you or a loved one. Its easier not to think about.
This would make an excellent screencast (not a request)!
Url changed from http://gizmodo.com/heres-the-most-complete-ocean-floor-map-e..., which points to this.
Having been dealing with some sound problems lately: I have to observe that American cities are loud compared to most overseas cities in my experience. Everything about them is louder, and I'm not sure why or how it got that way, and why it isn't seen as something to remedy. Particularly when we want to encourage increased density and inner city living. While attacking the problem through better design and insulation is one way I also think we need to look at the amount of noise produced outside too.
I lost my Grandmother in November and though she was never diagnosed with Alzheimer's, she did experience a long, sad cognitive decline. Seeing someone who was once so feisty not quite remember to change her Brita water filter was very difficult on my entire family.

Needless to say, I understand what you mean by your grandfather's passing being a relief to many. Good on you for having the courage to write that - it is a very common thing that far too many people are afraid to express.

I am sorry for your loss.
Here's a comment from myself just a few days ago that highlights a few of them - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10804931

And actually content copied as well to make it easier to digest:

If you're looking for a list of other clients some of the others ones include:

- Postico OSX - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/postico/id1031280567?ls=1&mt...

- JackDB (web based) - https://www.jackdb.com/

- SQL Pro for Postgres - http://www.hankinsoft.com/SQLProPostgres/

- PGAdmin - Slightly outdated but still feature rich and fully cross platform - http://www.pgadmin.org/

And of course there's always psql which is all CLI, but incredibly flexible.
Those cases will always exist, IMO.

Suppose a bank was robbed by one person described as 5'10", medium build, wearing a dark blue hoodie, running north on Main St. and two people were seen minutes later running north on Main from the bank matching that description.

It's perfectly reasonable and there's a societal interest for both to be stopped and contacted, even though it's CERTAIN that at least one of them is uninvolved.
A townhouse I used to live in had a two-story open area with a loft for working. It looked terrific, but sounded like a bus station, with awful echoes. Adding curtains helped some, but nothing could be done about all the flat drywall surfaces. I'm thinking that the houses of the 30's-50's, with all the built-ins, were better for this because they broke up the flat surfaces, and thus the echos.
Are you using \x or \x auto? \x auto will automatically format it to the size of your screen for when things wrap or don't. I've found it's more often than not what I actually want.
I'm waiting for SequelPro to add Postgres support before I make the switch. It's an amazing product.
Amazon relaunches the same products all the time. It's a soft launch until it gains traction or dies.
Yeah, comparing city parks to national parks is silly. A green space designed by government workers and built using modern technology is not the same as Yellowstone or Yosemite. Municipal parks, lawns, golf courses and playgrounds are not "nature" in any reasonable sense of the word except in the sense that they're not supernatural.
Why the Maker of This Hovering Vehicle Won't Call It a 'Hoverboard’
Greg Smith, the author is a former colleague and friend. His book on the performance side is definitely one of the better ones out there, but it's a few years old now and definitely more about tuning disks and storage more so than advanced usage. Sadly, I don't have a better one to recommend for the advanced user.
"But it was nothing like the shops I've worked in before, obviously, as there are no customers in sight. This opens up Amazon to a whole new world of efficiency: no smiling faces, pleasant décor, snazzy lighting or a pretence that anyone's happy to be there."

Well, to soften this up a bit, this is what it is like at every warehouse in the world. Of course it isn't going to be anything like a nice tidy whitecollar office job. The article sounds a bit like it was written by someone with no prior experience with this type of work.
It cuts both ways.

If you had a baby, you wouldn't want them woken up in the middle of their nap by someone coming home and turning on a TV, closing a door, or something else equally normal. If you had children, you'd want them to have a quiet place to study and rest, even when the twenty-something neighbors are throwing a raucous party.

I think most people, including parents, both don't want to be disturbed and don't want to disturb others.
Nvidia Jetson TX1 Used in Drones to Build 3D Maps in Real Time
came across this by @joshkaufman https://vimeo.com/71250239 , "shut up and take my money". A framework on coming up with ideas and validating them
I'm white upper-middle class, and I got multiple "talks" of how to interact with police, from my family, from cop friends of mine or cop dads of my friends, and from a book I bought on the topic. My kids will get the same from me and my brother (who's LEO).

It's not (and shouldn't be) just a black youth thing.
No self respecting physicist would claim to have deep understanding of anything. The entire process of scientific investigation runs on self-doubt. To keep things grounded, theory-experiment-new theory cycle is essential. If you can't verify your theory then you are as well be doing philosophy.
> ... the actions taken by these men to hide their
> identities aren’t shining examples of the art.

I look forward to Torrent Freak's follow-up article, detailing the shining examples of pirates we all should aspire to become.
This should also be targeted at the people that run technology companies:

- You're playing music? Huh?

- You have a dog in the office? What? Yip yip yip yip.
Still, no playback for 5+ min of video which makes it not usable for me.
nothing was relaunched, it's just a landing page. i'm not sure why this is on HN.
What We Can Learn from Aviation, Civil Eng, and Other Safety-Critical Fields
I recently bought a license to Postico (https://eggerapps.at/postico/) which is the successor to PG Commander. Switched from pgAdmin which is functional, but Postico's UI is nicer.
I have mixed feelings about this particular case, because on the one hand, yes, I want artists compensated fairly, and on the other hand, I do hold the belief that Spotify is putting a good-faith effort towards paying musicians and "rights holders" day in and day out.

I'd like to see this case actually go to court, if anything so that it would force all three parties - Lowrey, His Label(s)/Management/Publisher(s), and Spotify - to provide some documentation regarding how this system actually works. My understanding, for good or ill, is that Spotify points the finger at royalty collection societies / labels / publishers / etc when possible (and not forbidden by contract or NDA), and royalty collection societies / labels / publishers / etc tell artists to blame Spotify. I'm not fond of the murky arrangements what so ever!

Getting a good, clear understanding of the mechanics would be nice, well, for other artists like Lowery. Could this case show that Lowery's own management and labels haven't been doing their part to get him his money? I'm curious. Will the case ever go to court, or is it maybe more of an avenue to try and get a settlement check? I could see that happening too.

I might be in the minority as an independent, but I've been quite pleased with the reporting and transparency by Spotify, iTunes, et al by way of my distribution firm, and therefore have no real basis to feel compelled to try and join the suit.
You do not need consent from the wealthiest to simplify tax code. They have very few votes.
Parts of some of them were confirmed rather quickly.

Other parts of some of them are still unconfirmed, and a subset of those are still well beyond our foreseeable capability of testing. Black holes are one notable prediction that we have virtually no way to confirm.

What's your point? I'm not saying Einstein got things wrong, I'm saying that immediately dismissing science which is not immediately testable is risky. Especially as more and more of the low hanging fruit is picked – cutting edge scientific ideas are going to be more and more difficult to test.

Compare the Cavendish experiment to the Michelson-Morley experiment to the Large Hadron to... Creating a black hole?

Seems to be a steep increase in difficulty. It should be expected.
The software was unusable, they abandoned the product in a broken state and they didn't provide source code. Whether that counts as "screwed" depends on what expectations you consider reasonable.