skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you're running multiple rails processes on a server like this, couldn't you somehow do the initialization in one process, then fork off the new processes? wouldn't that prevent the base libraries from being copied in memory?
That's awesome. Bonus points, did you implement it on a TI?
Interesting, but sort of suffers from a few dominant trends:

- white men without a college degree marry secretaries
- white men with a college degree marry teachers

It'd be more interesting to know how occupations shift choices away from other demographic factors.
I really wonder what the researcher sitting bored at their computer looking at random data thought when they noticed the interesting event!
Software developers seem to be incredibly endogamous to me.
Mathieu's got his code up for review!

https://camlistore-review.googlesource.com/#/c/5416/
I am slightly optimistic that we will find better ways to archive important media in the future. However, there is also the danger that people will get too obsessed with the past and hold onto highly problematic issues that otherwise would just fade away. In other words, archiving stuff promotes all kinds of fundamentalism.
Thanks. I looked at smallbusiness link of BoA. They seem to not accept non-resident aliens when applying for Bank Account.

Do I have to visit US ?.
They destroyed it ostensibly so that they had a stronger guarantee that that GUID would never be generated again. That said, I suspect they understood it wasn't strictly necessary and were looking for an excuse to have some fun.

Note that even in the MAC-based generation algorithm, it is difficult (but not impossible) to accidentally generate the same one again even on the same hardware since there is a high resolution time component as well.

Random UUIDs have a different encoded version number so it's actually impossible for a modern one to collide with the one they generated.
The challenges behind creating a solution that puts user security first
As long as its a webcam-per-suspect-per-place-of-business basis and not a mass grab to do this across entire geographical areas it seems fine.

The problem is when they go nuts and try to capture "everything". The balance between the effort to keep an eye on a specific suspect in a specific case + budget/manpower/etc is reasonable vs our need for privacy.
I clicked on this because I thought it said "generators" and hoped to read some in-depth thoughts on async/await and coroutines.

You can read mainstream opinion-pieces in physical newspapers; please make HN a venue to read great technical content and not just a replacement for the workplace bulletin board. There are many of the latter and barely any of the former.
Diffbot Raises $10M Series A to Become Leading Arms Dealer in Coming AI Wars
As far as I can tell most groups seem to marry Elementary school teachers
It just depresses me that I'll never reach an Einstein standard in any thing I do :/
It's not entirely you, but I think that the fundamental problem is less with the visualization than with shortcomings of the implementation. With regards to the implementation, I have trouble reading the unselected text. With regards to the visualization itself, the switchboard-style network view is really neat, and the line coloration idea was clever, but thickness of lines is really hard to infer proportional information from. There really needs to be supplementary information appearing dynamically alongside the grid.
> Rob Pike has a lot of experience, he's seen a lot, and he knows what he's doing.

So does pcwalton. Ever heard of https://www.rust-lang.org/ ?
I'm sorry to be a bit negative, but is there any way we can keep these things on Reddit?

It's not that I don't enjoy it; my late-night Reddit session was all the more enjoyable yesterday because of Rubio and what came from that.

But I specifically like Hacker News because it generally avoids or downvotes this kind of stuff. I just don't see how making HN more like Reddit is good for anyone :-/.
Yoga instructor is missing. That's pretty much the ideal wife (lots of free time, unreasonably fit), and I'd like to know what job to obtain in order to be pursued by yoga instructors.

And DJ is missing. Which prevents us from confirming the hypothesis that DJ's do better than JD's.

http://longorshortcapital.com/short-jds.htm

Most men seek the JD to “make a lot of money” which is really just a euphemism for “power over women.” This means you sign up for four years of college and four years of college debt, ... then three years of law school with its accompanying three years of law school debt...

Over the entire course of this process the person who sought the opposite designation, the DJ, will be pulling more strange each night than the JD will in his entire life, all with a designation he obtained at no cost.

DJ is the actual opposite of a JD as not only are its letters the reverse of JD but it goes before someone’s name not after. It comes at virtually no cost, requires almost no talent or taste, and lends itself to sleeping in and having anonymous sex with women who not only are not wearing sweaters but likely do not even own sweaters.
I think we have to accept that life is messy and there won't be a perfect solution but many different tools that enable us to keep more and more stuff alive.

Peer2peer technology could be part of the solution. Spreading stuff on bit torrent doesn't require too much work from an individual.
I guess I should stop using Tinder/OkCupid, and start going to teacher meetings
> We evidently wanted a system where no state actor ever faces punishment for any decision they make

Exactly--which means those actors are not exercising "naked personal power"; they are exercising the power as state actors that we gave to them. So if we don't like what they're doing with it, we need to take it away.

We have sentences for crimes that are way too extreme in many cases because we told lawmakers with our votes that we wanted them to be "tough on crime" and that we wanted them to wage war on drugs. We have prosecutors and cops who have essentially unlimited discretion for the same reasons. We have a legal system that favors the rich because incumbent politicians who favor their rich donors have a re-election rate in the high 90's even though their approval ratings are in the single digits. The system we have is not "naked personal power"; it's the system that we, the voters, voted for. Democracy is working exactly the way it was designed to work. Burning it to the ground would not make it work better; it would make things worse. The way to make it better is to change the incentives of those who make the laws, by telling them different things with our votes.
The conclusion of the article:

When all is said and done, and a few dozen more presentations are finished, nothing will really be different. The world will mostly be the same. In that way, the Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon shares the same fate as nearly every other hackathon it lambasts.
Nice visualization! Maybe they should have limited the colors to just the primary ones. I had a hard time figuring out the gradients in the middle.
> My suspicion is that they will follow the US example and throw billions at the banks in an attempt to right them.

My suspicion is that China will actually let a few banks fail before the government steps in. And China culturally prefers to find scapegoats - it's easier to say the bad action taken by a company is not reflective of the company, but the result of a few criminals who betrayed the rest of the company for personal gain (this rationale is often used in government corruption cases).

In any case, if they let a bank or two fail, then anger about economic losses is redirected away from the government and towards the corrupt, greedy bankers, and the government is the knight in shining armor that comes and heroically saves the day. The US did the exact same thing with Lehmann - they found the bank that was more fucked than the rest, let them fail in a controlled manner, and it sent a signal to the market that "this is serious, equity will be wiped out, but it's not financial Armageddon". I expect China to send the same signals.
Is this article based on anything substantial?

They lost $44m in 2014 but raised $77m in 2015.

The article refers to a report saying SoundCloud is heavily reliant on “further capital investment” to continue operating. Isn't that just another way of saying they're currently not turning a profit? Wouldn't that have been true of YouTube prior to acquisition?

I'm not familiar with FACT. Looks like it may be a legitimate music industry publication. Looking at the other SoundCloud articles, it seems about 50% of them are in some way negative. That suggests to me that they might have an agenda they're pushing.

http://www.factmag.com/tag/soundcloud/
I find it interesting that many of the IT/Engineering/Tech jobs have a high degree of connectivity to elementary/middle school teachers. So the high salaries are helping to balance out the crap salaries.
Note this is a stellar black hole merger of several tens of solar masses.
Imagine the disturbance of a galactic core black hole mergers of millions of stellar masses. These are probably much rarer, but do occur when galaxies merge.
To get media attention?
little dependency is the keyword.
Learnings from founder who raised $450K for a social enterprise that failed
I used to produce tech/progressive trance back in the day as a hobby (you can checkout snippets from some of my tracks from SC link below) and remember when SoundCloud first came into the picture. It was a great platform to connect with others who dabble in music production and share tips. It has since become the breeding ground for up and coming EDM producers. A really cool place on the web and it'd be a shame if they closed down shop.

https://soundcloud.com/sergei-a
> I see none or very little of that in English speaking communities.

Are you sure? Or do you just notice it less because the place names mean less to you personally?

Palto Alto / Silicon Valley / San Francisco Bay Area (roughly the same places, right?) get mentioned all the time.

You know what's in Redmond, right? And what's in Utah? :)

Wwhen a news article talks about popular software/service being developed outside of California, they usually spend a little paragraph or so on the place (blablabla cold winters in Maine blabla data centre bla--just made that one up btw).

Greetings from the land that brought you Python, a shortest-path algorithm and compact-discs ;-)
Improve your business with the new text analysis API
Probably because that's not tracked as a profession beacuse it's not really one. You are tracked by what you actually learned. People become stay at home mums/dad in the relationship, not before.
Facebook Design Resources (now includes computers and displays)
So you're telling me that giant ass arc was caused by induction??? Holy crap!
john the ripper?!
IRS blames cybersecurity issues on Obamacare
NodeJS developers ought to be embarrassed at how absurdly huge their dependency trees are.
Interesting how they try to make database migration sound like a good thing.

"By migrating your database, you will be able to backup your entire database periodically and on demand" - woohoo, finally I can spend time doing backups instead of using a cloud service doing it for me!
Most interesting connection I saw: "Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs" <-> "Unemployed, with no work experience in last 5 years"
Some people further want the Bernie Sanders plan of having post offices do banking (including such short term loans), so the lines can be choked with people trying to figure out banking while you just want to pick up your package.
In Nix, it's very easy to make a minimal mutt variant by removing the python input.
On the other hand, we may well detect the 3 solar masses radiated away as energy. That decreases as an inverse square law, so as one solar mass is about 10^30kg, and 1kg gives off about 10^17 J, we're talking about an explosion releasing something around 10^47 J. For comparison, a 1 kiloton nuclear bomb gives off about 10^15 J.

So, inverse square that explosion... 1 light year is about 10^16m, so we square that and get 10^32m, so we're now talking about ... 10^15 J.

So, unless my maths is all off (which is possible), if this happened about a light year away, whoever's on the side facing towards the blast wouldn't get to observe very much because they'd feel as if a 1kt nuke just went off above their head. Not a great way to start the day.

Chances are it would wipe out life on Earth too, through the ensuing side-effects like lighting the atmosphere on fire, sterilising half the planet, significantly heating up the oceans, possibly even stripping part of the atmosphere away, etc.

For a great novel based around a strikingly similar premise to what was just observed (and the main reason I even bothered to calculate this), Diaspora by Greg Egan is a fantastic book.
Well, you wouldn't expect to, right? That's a category that doesn't exist UNTIL you get married i.e. you're not a househusband/housewife until you're a husband/wife. That's obviously a somewhat contrived subset, but admittedly this is ONLY looking at married couples.

I'd be more curious how it handles change of career, for example.
Ask HN: What does a Node.js server look like in production?
Is there any videos showing/detailing what a nodejs server looks like in production? I only have experience with Oracle Weblogic for production stuff
Cisco ASA Firewall Has a Wormable Problem – And a Million Installs
Dark Web Suppliers and Organized Cybercrime Gigs
That may true for Go, a language which still does not have a great dependency management story. I'm not sure this proverb is universal though.
Thanks for the comment! Aside from providing me with a fascinating article, it finally solves my uncertainty about 'jenever' being linked to 'gin'. I've been trying to explain what it was to my expat friends, and gin is something they understand.

(still can't get them to enjoy raw herring though, which is traditionally paired with gin, especially when the new catch, Hollandse Nieuwe, is in...)
I guess it's not much of a surprise how often Truck Driver comes up considering it's one of the largest professions in the US.
Also de-duplicating dependencies is pretty big. For instance, in Java land, I have a project built in Camel, and Camel is deeply in love with the Jackson JSON parser. So I use it there.

On the other hand, I've been learning to use GSON's parser in my Sponge plugin (a Minecraft server) because the SpongAPI dependency pulls that in anyway.

Albeit, both libraries are dead simple to use so it's a bit contrived, but I see a lot of projects that would pull in Spring's RESTTemplate into a Camel project when they've already pulled in CXF or have Apache's HTTPClient readily available via other dependencies.

(And no, URLConnection is terrible. TERRIBLE.)
Devs have to run `npm install`. It's run for every commit in CI as well. Slow npm installs is bad for your project.
That's pretty much a C/C++ problem though. I don't think I've ever had to translate types in C# or F#.
Bernie Tax Calculator
Agreed. There is a de facto anonymity in public which is being reduced by mass surveillance. I generally eschew slippery slope arguments, but it's hard to ignore these points mid-slide.
The judge said that the webcam provided them the same view, from a public place, that agents would have had if assigned to watch the guy 24/7. (It seems to me that the view from ~30ft up is very different than one from the ground.)

Is there a line where the surveillance would NOT be legal? Could they have had a drone circling his house? What about a satellite? Do you have an expectation of privacy from ABOVE your house even if you don't have it from public roads?
Obligatory essay from PHK on the effect the author describes:

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257

History continues to repeat itself. Fake reuse and proliferation of unnecessary bloat are two of those recurring themes. Fight it whenever you can. The old TCL, LISP, Delphi, REBOL, etc clients and servers were tiny by modern standards. They still got the job done. Strip out bloat wherever you can. Also, standardize on one tool for each given job plus hide it behind a good interface to enable swapping it out if its own interface isn't great.
Needs to be built in to HN really
Yeah, I found so much new music from grooveshark broadcasts.
So now people are trying to give Google more highly sensitive personal information?

/facepalm
The usability of the page is pathetic. First, the fonts are too small. If you enlarge then you can't scroll horizontally to see the rest of the titles because the lines get in the way. Didn't anyone think to make the graph clickable instead of just mouse-over. And on top of everything we have the heading of the site that floats and gets in the way. Fucking hell. Someone saw the graph and said, wow let's just use it because it looks awesome. Sure it looks awesome if you have a couple dozen labels, not a gazillion of them
I'll link to the facade pattern, since last time I mentioned it people went a week or so before realizing it wasn't a term of my own invention:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facade_pattern
They should sell sonatype for this.
There are many companies providing high bandwidth optical links. One is just about to go under, they were charging $50,000+ per link. [1][2] Most are prohibitively expensive -- the field is ripe for someone like Ubiquiti to come in with some 'disruptive' pricing.

[1] http://www.aoptix.com/

[2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/08/anova_takes_slice_of...
Yes, this! Praise effort. Tell them it's okay to fail, heck it's even GREAT to fail because each failure puts you closer to success.

It's not a "You are talented or not". Sure some people start out with an advantage but everyone has to hone their skills through practice and effort.
1. L1 - EB1 is probably your best shot.

2. Do not disqualify EB-5, with a right connection or contact, it can be painless, since you get GC in 3 years. Also if you invest in what is economically distressed area 500,000 would suffice. (especially since you have start-ups with exits 500K may not be out of your reach).
No, _arg's initializer would not work in C89 if any of the arguments was not a constant.

void f()
{
// line below is bad C90, but good C99
int array[2] = {g(), h()};
}

from http://www.drdobbs.com/the-new-c-declarations-initialization...
Nearly every forum I have enjoyed has been destroyed by over moderation.. Which made Reddit a joy to use at first but most of the subreddits are over moderated
Your post advocates a

( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante (X) Physics-based

approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)

(X) The amount of energy involved would likely destroy the planet.

(X) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers

Specifically, your plan fails to account for

(X) The relative sparseness of non-dark energy in our vicinity

(X) Huge existing software investment in SMTP

and the following philosophical objections may also apply:

(X) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses

(X) I don't want the government reading my email

Furthermore, this is what I think about you:

(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.

(I'm sorry, but I couldn't resist)
Reddit companion extension alerts you for new replies, with no requirement to keep a reddit tab open.
account -> email mapping isn't necessarily public, the email hosts transiting the email don't need that information leaked. it's about preventing info flow.
I have no problem with this.
>> that shortly after the detector came online we just happened to observe the exact moment a billion years ago that two black holes collided?

Counterintuitive, but yes. Because it happened billions of years ago, it happened a long long way away. The sphere of objects billions of years away/ago is far larger than those closer to us. So such a detector should be detecting exponentially more very old objects than new ones. Given the rarity, I would expect nearly all detected events to have happened long long ago in galaxies far far away.

Also, models point to such events being more common in the distant past where there were more black holes (primordials) floating around than there are now.
Yes, mind-boggling. 3 solar masses converted to energy in just a few seconds.
I went and looked at the source, and while I find it hard to follow, it's clearly not just implementing the 10-30 line function you're hoping for. It's doing lots of other things.

An enormous portion of that code lives under static-module, which appears to do some kind of bundling/codegen/code swapping logic. So it depends on a parsing library for JavaScript.

I don't know if this is a good design, I don't follow the exact functions of this library, but I'm completely unimpressed by you having a drive-by reaction of "4 megs for this library?" It feels like you just scanned the library and decided it was wrong, without asking what it was trying to do.

In the same vein, what I want to see from this discussion is people delving into specifics. The original article did that a little, but I want to know more. What are the actual costs of tearing our dependencies? Which dependencies are worth suffering through? Perham uses the example of Net.HTTP. What do the various HTTP clients add to it? Are they just more terse, do they help to avoid various pitfalls, or do they actually "abstract" in such a way that they lead you to write bad code?
So many libraries in the wild aren't "well-tested, heavily used", though, and sometimes it is really hard to differentiate between popular and good.

At the end of the day, the only person who is responsible for the quality of your proje t is you. You have to figure out which parts of your project are key to your operation and which are just window dressing. If your job is to make a blogging platform, I would expect many features of formatting documents to be reimplementations of other people's work, because you have to know you are relying on yourself for your core purpose.

I also don't understand the heartburn other developers have over knowing "OMG L, THERE IS SOMEONE ON TEH INTARWEBS AND THEY ARE REINVENTING THE WHEEL". It smacks of fear, a fear that is ultimately rooted in insecurity. If a person was secure in their knowledge of their skills, their ability to understand problems and fix them, then there should be nothing to fear from a dozen or a million different libraries doing the same thing and running into one or two of them on one's next project. It is just a matter of course.
There's also the issue that no member of the public would legally be allowed to attach a camera to a utility pole like that.

Nor would they be allowed to create their own temporarily-installed pole with a camera on the top.

So to me, the public view argument only holds if the public was capable of it.
I looked at a couple. Probably for the same reason a girl in the mall looks at how other girls are dressed. And my analysis... OMG such a slut! (kidding... but I do like looking at other people's work).
Few days from now and this option will be live
Little dependencies are fine. In fact, they're usually preferable: it leads to less code going unused.
You just described his exact problem. He's confused by react so you tell him to use redux. He's intimidated by gulp so you tell him to use webpack.

It doesn't matter what he uses, he just wants to write code and everyone telling him to use some other marginally different tool is just contributing to the paralysis.
If we can keep our heads cool, and priorities right. We can get very significant.

Wherever we went on earth we've colonized quickly. If we can do that to space, universe might be our backyard.
Technically, that file wouldn't fit on the 3.5" disks I used in college (400K Mac and 720K PC).