skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The intimidating thing for me was always how heavy blogging software was. Never really liked the idea of centralized hosting, but hosting some huge PHP blob with a database never felt like it was worth it. I'm hosting my own site now running Hugo and I love it. I agree that most people have moved to centralized hosting, but I'm seeing a resurgence of self-hosting with static site generators like jekyll, middleman or hugo. Things like static search[1] and static comments[2] are possible with some thought. Really neat and lightweight and with gitolite, I can keep my git repo containing the blog code on the server too, setup commit hook to rebuild the site and I'm maintenence free. I have some npm postcss scripts that build my scss, autoprefix it, etc and dump it into the assets for hugo to build from all in one go.

A lot of this is unncessary, I could just be using css. I like that there's not all this asset-flow magic built out, just simple npm with bash cli. Unix philosophy and very little heavy lifting. I think there's still hope.

Now if we can just teach casual users git...

[0]https://gohugo.io/
[1]http://www.blevesearch.com/news/Site-Search/
[2]https://tlvince.com/static-commenting
As I said originally, just change the BSSID periodically. The network name is the network identity, and people deal with collisions just fine. Also, this is back to the case of non-WPA2 (otherwise the user would have to enter the secret K anyway, merely changing the process slightly).
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I don't get it.. The name that is.
Woah, it was literally your post that just made me realize what medium.com actually is.

I've only ever accessed it via hackernews links and they were all to very substantial and well written articles.
My first project Real-time news for your favorite NBA team
I hope you guys find it useful. you can leave it open in your browser and it'll send you notifications about any breaking news. www.SquadStream.com

If anyone is interested in how it works or is interested in contributing, my github link is https://github.com/ammark47/BballApp
What percent of the time is the location totally wrong? Greater than 50% of the time? If not then it's totally justified.
They were searching for a possibly kidnapped child so what is your point?
I assume it's Pact as in "death pact".
I feel like the perception that Oracle isn't evolving Java is heavily parroted by people outside the ecosystem. From a Java developers perspective they have done far more in the last two releases than Sun did after 1.5.
I love it! Reminds me of the work we did with Statamic (http://blog.pixlee.com/how-we-allow-anyone-to-make-and-publi...)
The argument has been around for a long time. The first crypto wars had their policy papers and summary pros/cons such as https://www.cs.cornell.edu/html/cs513-sp98/hw.policy.keyEscr....
See also Say's Law. Early 19th c.
Each time yet another hipster posts his unique snowflake insights about why we absolutely need yet another bloatware to build websites on this vey site (which is just static html pages over an FS storage in less than MB of code, including a dialect of Lisp and related DSLs) a kitten dies somewhere.
> Where do we get the money from? It doesn't really matter, there's plenty of it sloshing around.<

That's like saying "Restaurants have food, and there are homeless people in the city, so why can't we distribute the food from the restaurant to hungry homeless people in the city?".

If you were to distribute foods from the restaurant to the hungry people in the city, then these restaurants won't produce that food, because they are not a charity, they are in the business.

Similarly, if you don't figure out where this money would come from, you will soon stop seeing all this money you want to give away.
> they could shelter, feed, and empower 5, enough to get those people out of the system and make room for the next 5

What do you do about the 15 that you left on the street in the middle of winter, and it's -40 out? Will they get by until you're ready for them?

What other prioritization will you be doing? Maybe you'll also prioritize the most hireable candidates to the top of the list to be re-groomed for the workforce. What about those that find themselves in a less hireable state? How far down the list are they, and how long do they have to wait to be helped?

What about the people that are homeless due to untreated mental health conditions? Do you just ignore them for now? Are they the "class" of homeless that gets helped last?
> where do you draw the line?

And that's a slippery slope. What makes you think the line can't actually be drawn. I'm all for personal freedom generally though, but I think adjusting the position of the line to find it's optimal balance is a fine alternative to erasing it altogether.
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I'm so 2008 you're so 2000 and late. Seriously though. What happens in another housing market crash when they are holding a bunch of houses with plummeting values that won't sell? This doesn't seem like a very wise business model after the 20/20 hindsight of 2008. Is there something I am missing or is this a bad idea ... "but with data scientists"?
Read what 37Signals/Basecamp who has spent 15 years building their (huge) audience on their own site says:

https://m.signalvnoise.com/signal-v-noise-moves-to-medium-c8...

I think the number 1 reason is reach.
Stable is suitable for general use.

By complaining that when you update nightly you have to update your code that uses unstable features, you are in effect asking us to stabilize everything. Unstable means unstable.

> ith the idea that anybody who explicitly opts-in to unstable features and then complains when they're not forward-compatible can simply be told to pound sand.

This never works in practice. We'd have too many crates that depended on nightly features. There would be 10x the number of complaints here on HN if we did what you suggested and enabled unstable features on stable. The only option would be to de facto stabilize everything.

Again, it really sounds like your complaint is just that procedural macros aren't stable. I'm sorry they've taken longer than you wanted to finish, but we have lots of work on our plate.
DDT was banned in 1972 in the US. The paper you cite is from 2011.

The fact remains that no pesticide is completely non-toxic. Compared to other pesticides, DDT is actually quite safe.

If you look at the wikipedia summary of the current position on long-term toxicity, you can see that it's not a settled issue.[1]

"Overall, in spite of some positive associations for some cancers within certain subgroups of people, there is no clear evidence that exposure to DDT/DDE causes cancer in humans."

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#Chronic_toxicity
You really want to hold up Quebec's relationship with Canada as a shining example of good integration?
I think it simply reflects that the distinctions each is making are, to a great degree, subjective and up for debate. See, for example, http://blog.ezyang.com/2012/08/is-haskell-liberal-or-conserv..., which argues that Haskell of all languages is, in a sense, liberal.
No, the lawsuit (or what remains of it since Oracle lost on all of their patents) centers around the SSO of 37 Java API's (not code implementation, but method signatures and how they are arranged). Oracle is claiming copyright on those 37 Java API's. Oracle has no such control or claim to the Scala API's.
Attempting to cite `ps`, which includes the unique pages as well as all shared pages used by the process--i.e. pages created by its parent to store such trivialities as the entirety of the Ruby runtime and the classes loaded therein--makes me question your understanding of the Linux process and memory model. Do you understand how fork(2) works on a modern Linux machine with regard to memory page sharing from parent to child? Suffice to say that nobody running a hojillion processes in Unicorn or another forking process worker--and I should point out that I have written one of these in Ruby, this isn't Unicorn magic--is suffering under the tyranny of large amounts of duplicated data. (I'm sure there are people who spin up X of a process from the jump, but they are swimming upstream and are not the norm in my experience.)

The difference in memory usage between a forked process on a shared-page/copy-on-write OS and a thread is infinitesmal. You'd have better luck arguing about having a JIT and better perf (and there you'd be incontrovertibly correct, but I don't think it really matters for 95% of everything).
Does the language-based security model of 3L mean that all programs must be written in Lisp? Single-language systems tend to miss out on a lot of cross-platform software (which is typically written in or bootstrapped using C).
Yes, but in retrospect Google would have gotten into the game one way or another. If not Android it would have either been their own in-house solution or even WebOS.
> Also, this is back to the case of non-WPA2...

Okay, I'm a little confused, please bear with me.

Are you designing two half systems, one of which periodically changes BSSID but provides no other anonymity protection, and the other which hashes the BSSID with the WPA2 PSK?

Or are you designing one system with a rotating BSSID that transmits -in cleartext- the BSSID and the hashed BSSID?
Electric cars need less energy than you might think.

Using Tesla numbers, 230 miles on 60kwh. Average person drives 13,000 miles per year which averages out to 9.3kwh per day. Split that over 12 hours and your looking at ~780watts.

Further, if it cost less we would charge cars during the day.

PS: Average household uses 31kwh per day. But, offices are really daytime biased.
The difference is that there is no nationwide licensing body, so the license issued by the "nursing licensing body" in Texas needs to be transferred to the "nursing licensing body" in Washington state. And they need to accept it and turn it into a Washington state nursing certification.

Because these are separate bodies there may be different rules, regulations, standards regarding what it takes to be a nurse.
Not if you weight by use. C, C++, Java, Javascript, and C# all have specs. Among the most popular languages, it's really only the scripting languages that have the "as our implementation does" perspective on specification. I've always used languages that have standard documents, and communities that think those standard document are very important, so rather than being unreasonable, I think of complete language documentation as the natural state of the world.

Incidentally, this isn't really a criticism, but it's precisely because I don't see Rust as finalized that it isn't. A language that's finalized but not specified is just poorly documented.
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Actually I was thinking of prisoners of the Japanese in WWII. As I said, the Nazis were hardly the only ones to number prisoners, and I suspect the phenomenon has more to do with technology than with the supreme evil tidily ascribed to losers of wars.

I'm making a general point about identifiers and protocols. The same thing applies to client MACs, which are obviously being used to track phone users with wifi on. Obviously MAC addresses can be cycled, but that takes active diligence. If the protocol had simply been designed to eschew and hide such identifiers in the first place, the entire issue wouldn't even exist.
How about some god damn version control for legal policy.

If some asshole politician decides to logroll a bunch of amendments against the interest of the people at the 11th hour. Let the record reflect -- for all time -- what type of self-serving scumbag the people that person represents elected into office.

Doesn't really apply to the Supreme Court because everything they decide goes down on paper and they generally operate a higher level of integrity than policymakers.

Guess I just needed to cent some frustration. It's maddening seeing the terrible games being played at the expense of the people, despite the fact that we have the technology to prevent it.
> How to reduce "consumerism"? Well, you need a revolution. Or, you need to tax sales heavily. Neither are easy.

Ubiquitous virtual reality and the porting of previously matter-intensive goods and desires into trivially replicated code.
I work in AdTech and find it hilariously ironic that you're finding the constant and unmitigated discussion of adblockers in an article that discusses the constant and unmitigated flow of malvertising and dark patterns.

We built this prison.
Not really. Once it's longer than 1/4 wavelength at the frequency in question (about an inch at WiFi frequencies) it doesn't matter how long it is.
Right, but what if it costs 1/100th?
ha. That's more extreme. I was thinking more toward a hostel.
It's interesting to see shift towards. Always remind of 2005, when everyone was blogging about RoR.. Then 2010, everyone was blogging about scala. Personally, I could never find any good reason to move away from JAVA. Yes, learning multiple languages might give you better perspective on software development but when we talk about some serious enterprise software development (it's not only language but cost of development too), JAVA is good enough.

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Another thing I am realizing, over the period, specially shift in architecture style because spring (aka IOC pattern), it has made programmers better. We can't blame everything on EJBs etc any more. Early JAVA programmers were treating java as magic bean instead of putting good effort on learning & writing programs right away.

Oracle should thank Apache & Spring.. in my opinion.
Nobody is forcing you to experience that content. You on the other hand have decided that content I might like is bullshit. That is not your call.

Seriously, let people be.
Then he should look about the founations of molecular biology.)

Some viruses, BTW, are works of art, leave alone higher organisms.

The Human arts are poor crude imitations compared to that.
Housing has significant switching costs. It's not as if you can simply switch to buying a different brand of bread.

You've got to search for an alternate location, consider schools, work, commutes. Neighbors. Etc.

I can see major arguments for managing rent as a social function.

Though that depends heavily on supply and demand factors as well.
They might have at one point, but I doubt they make close to that number anymore. Samsung was responsible for half of that revenue, but Samsung didn't like the deal they worked out and heavily renegotiated it which is why you see MS software bundled on their devices.
Because of this post and these comments I'm now wondering if M:tG is Turing complete. <heads off to google>
It'd be tough to find good data on the topic, but the "fuck you, got mine" mentality seems to be sprinkled around fairly randomly among privileged people. Political leanings are often inherited and don't seem to correlate with that attitude.
Behind the scenes it's just running the usual packages for templates, markdown, minification etc., so for a fresh build it's about as fast as any typical grunt-based setup. But AFAICT it correctly detects when things don't need to be regenerated, so incremental builds are quite fast no matter what, unless you're editing templates.

I recently converted my wordpress blog to hexo and blogged about it, if you're interested:

http://aphall.com/2016/01/migrating-wordpress-to-static/
I seem to recall that Medium was initially invite only as well?
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I might be totally wrong, but isn't this a good way to get orphaned processes? Kill the parent arbitrarily with SIGTERM (I don't think this automatically cleans up the children/forked processes) and viola, you've got an orphaned process.
I'm pointing out existence certificates of each independent property. View them as two systems, or assume they can be merged into one system.

It's obviously impossible to have a publicly-available network that hides its existence to the public (while a private network can obviously hide its existence to the public completely), so each problem will obviously have different ideal solutions.
Looking at a spreadsheet and looking into the eyes of a fellow human being are two different experiences altogether...practicality and pragmatism get left behind, quite easily...
Ask HN: Learning advanced practical data science?
I am looking for a book/online resource that will help learn how to do statistical modelling for difficult cases and use data science tools in practical settings.

The books I have seen tend to be one of the following:

1) intro-level: basic python/R, linear regressors, basic random processes, basic neural network, etc

2) research-level theory: advanced statistics, novel machine learning algorithms, etc

I am looking for neither. I am already comfortable with (1) and I used to do research as in (2). What I am looking for is to gain insights into advanced/difficult practical problems.

It would be great to see something like a collection of past winners in past Kaggle competitions (there are a few such lists: do you have a favorite list?) or a Beautiful Code equivalent book for data science.

Thanks.
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But that wasn't always the case, right? I think around the time of 1.3/1.4 jemalloc was not the default.
From a technical perspective: The app stores your recordings in iCloud by default, but this can be disabled. The app can function entirely offline, and will do so, if iCloud is turned off.

From a legal perspective:

On this issue, the 'music notes' license agreement just points you to the iCloud terms and conditions. And within the iCloud terms, you get this:

> Apple does not claim ownership of the materials and/or Content you submit or make available on the Service. However, by submitting or posting such Content on areas of the Service that are accessible by the public or other users with whom you consent to share such Content, you grant Apple a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Service solely for the purpose for which such Content was submitted or made available, without any compensation or obligation to you.

As far as I can tell, you cannot make your recordings available to others within Music Notes itself, so the first sentence is the most relevant one.

However, if you 'push' the recording into iCloud Drive or Garageband & share it from there, the other part would apply. Even then, the rights Apple claims are only slightly more general that what they'd need -- and since its 'solely for the purpose for which [it] was submitted', they'd have no claim to use them in their ads.
Uber plays hardball with early shareholders
True, though there are studies from elsewhere, which provide also a sampling of methodologies for determining a minimum living wage, dating to the early 19th century.

A living wage means just that: what is required to support a worker, their family, including children, and educate them, to provide the next generation of workers. Adam Smith discusses this at length in Wealth of Nations (Book 1, Chapter 8: https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_...)

You'll find other examples in Richard Meier, Science and Economic Development, 1966, dating to California during the Great Depression.
Oh yes. And he did it very well but by no means is Oracle a shining beacon for innovation.

but I'm more along the lines of: What the fuck did Oracle do for the rest of us vs. Google?

I mean now he's just trying to make a last money grab from Google.

I'm a google fanboy so there it is.
The money gets distributed somewhat equally? I beg to differ...

I live in DC and if there's one thing government spending does, it increases the number of Lamborghinis on the road. A lot of the new money around here comes directly from government defense spending going to consulting firms which has a strong tendency to make the rich even richer.
Spoiler: yes.

I wonder if there's anything in the rules to deal with the fact that a game might never complete.
Numericaly sortable date [YYYY+][mm][dd].[HH][MM][SS],[NNNNNNNNN]
date -u +%Y%m%d.%H%M%S,%N
20160122.044145,052215000

Absolute dates with nanos as seconds since epoch
date -u +%s.%N
1453437715.409682000

Hyphenated,"chunks", with nanos and TZ offset.
date -uIns
2016-01-22T04:41:03,121501000+0000
I have trouble imagining a comeback because Forth's unique value is in staking out the tiny-and-simple end of the efficiency frontier. But Lisp is almost as simple if you can spare more resources, while if you're OK with complexity there are compilers that optimize better.

It'd be nice to be wrong, since I'd love to work in a system where every bit is handcrafted and known to me. I didn't quite get there back in the 80s in my summer job at FORTH, Inc. but it did teach me a bunch and I enjoyed scrounging out a few bytes here and there.
Thanks for the mention, guys (Reilly, FollowUpThen Co-Founder here). This little script seems great for tinkering with new email productivity ideas.
To save people a search, http://www.toothycat.net/~hologram/Turing/index.html
I disagree. The RFC you are citing is effectively just syntax sugar baking the `try!` macro into the language; it doesn't allow you to express anything you couldn't express today with `try!` and closures.
How much does it cost to be the #1 search engine on iOS?
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They were looking for a missing child.

"And sometimes, it’s not just a phone that’s missing, but a person. In June, the police came looking for a teenage girl whose parents reported her missing. The police made Lee and Saba sit outside for more than an hour while the police decided whether they should get a warrant to search the house for the girl’s phone, and presumably, the girl. "
Ask HN: Worried about health
Hey guys so I've been spending a lot of time in front of the computer working on my SaaS for the past two years.

Mainly I'm concerned that this sedentary lifestyle is having health impact.

I also have aspergers and what I can explain as avolition. Like I can't even take care of myself, neglecting food while coding or just overall spending too much time working or just playing pc games, reddit & youtube.

So what mind hacks or even work out furnitures did you introduce in your life to be more proactive?

Like this time I want to actually address being healthier, I'm 28 and having some health issues I believe caused by being a shut-in and working on my SaaS for like two years straight before making any money.
If there is a truly unstoppable loop (considering usage of the word "may" or such optional ability to continue or break a loop) then the game is considered a tie. There are tournament rules regarding players intentionally drawing out the game (it's against the rules), but I don't think there's any rule against a deck that simply runs long (or really long).
Extensive discussion 3 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10433774
They don't have to be mutually exclusive, but it is important to understand what the primary motivation for an arrangement is, because it helps you predict how the arrangement is likely to change with changing conditions.

If the primary motivation was to help the seasonal employees, the program might have looked significantly different.

Amazon is being shown in a very bad light in this article, but it seems fair to say that both Amazon and the seasonal employees went into this arrangement with unrealistic expectations.

HOWEVER, One side clearly has much more power than the other, and when you wield enormous power and fail to provide help that is clearly needed and you are clearly capable of providing, I think it is easy to predict that you will not come out looking good.

You have to wonder whether Amazon knew things could turn out this way when they approached the YWCA.