skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

Fine without a warrant, or fine with a warrant, and why?

The argument against "a mass grab to do this across entire geographical areas" tends to be that it is both unjustified (no specific suspect/specific case) and that no such warrant was (or can be) issued. Law enforcement tends to dodge the issue with a "no warrant required" claim. But if we want to make judgements about what is right or wrong, I think it's important to separate these different aspects.
This is one of the interesting connections on the chart. My theory (being an ex-welder as well as a dancer) is that both of these are strongly one-gender dominated professions - almost all my welding friends were male and almost all my dancing friends were female (in three different states no less). And for the majority of marriages up to this point in largely heterosexual historical data, you don't meet many people of the opposite gender to marry in your regular day. The one exception is when set workers (male welders) are around a stage all day where the performers (female dancers) are doing the show. So you get these relatively few places to meet a potential mate that turn up in funny combos.
Hah I stopped worrying about stack trace length when I started writing Scala ;)

Usually only 1 or 2 lines of the trace matter, you learn to skip the rest pretty fast.
Budapest gets Bitcoin taxis
Here's a program for market-based healthcare reform:

1. Eliminate incentives for employer-based insurance. Give legal protection to insurance cooperatives, where individual people could come together to buy insurance as a group.

2. Eliminate restrictions on buying insurance across state lines. This will take care of state-level regulations that drive costs up.

3. Eliminate artificial caps on the number of seats in medical schools, currently set by the AMA with government backing.

4. Loosen other requirements for medical licensure, like four years of undergraduate study in a totally unrelated program. Why are the people of America paying for Doctors' underwater basket-weaving courses? This and the previous point are a political minefield, so you can accomplish mostly the same by letting Nurses or Physicians Assistants to do most or all of a doctor's job. People can still choose to spend more on AMA-approved doctors, but it should be their own prerogative with their own money.

5. Institute an (at least initially) government-backed catastrophic insurance program for when people have ridiculous amounts of medical bills that they can't afford. This is probably what the market would have produced over the last century if not for government meddling.

6. High-deductible plans + health savings accounts are actually a pretty good idea. It puts people directly on the hook for their routine medical expenses, so they shop around and find lower prices.

Milton Friedman wrote a great piece with some of these ideas in 2001: http://www.thepublicinterest.com/archives/2001winter/article...
I don't agree with the author on some of these points but its seems perfectly fine for what it is given that the title is "Why _I_ don't use ggplot2" not "Why _you_ shouldn't use ggplot2".
Site down, try the cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3...
*Pedantically
What do you think about that?
Just need to make sure it's not weighted enough to remove the All Stars coming from worse (<= .500) teams (Carmelo, Drummond, Wall, Kobe, Harden, Davis, Cousins).

On a side note, I'd say the reason Lillard (I can't speak for Rondo) wasn't selected is more related to the over-abundance of top tier guards in the West this year, rather than the Blazers' win percentage. He's the only player in the top 10 PPG that isn't an All Star, and he's been leading Portland to a much better year than pretty much anyone predicted.
Who Is Holden Caulfield? A Natural Language Processing Approach
> It could be that those who use large number of dependencies just prefer less dynamic languages when dependencies are very explicit and manageable.

Tell that to anyone using NPM.
> My sister and her friends are all pretty educated women.

What do you mean by this exactly? PhDs? MDs?

> These days, they're all still single and reaching/past 30 and no man can scratch their itch.

Could you give examples of the occupations of the rejected suitors?
Jurisdiction and Jurisprudence?
B2B Social Media Strategy – The Bitter Business
"Sun made java fast. Google made javascript pretty fast."

But there's a lot of daylight between what you call "fast" and "pretty fast". For all the effort that has been poured into Javascript, it remains a slow language for general-purpose programming. That's why asm.js could speed up JS as much as it could; if JS was already "C fast" nobody would have needed or used asm.js. And nobody would talk about Web Assembly if JS was already that fast.

It is definitely true that the bytecode interpreters that pretty much all the dynamic languages started with were not the last words in speed, and things like JITs and such have sped them up a lot. When the dynamic interpreted languages were routinely 50x slower than C, there was room for improvement. But there seems to be a wall at around 10x slower than C for general-purpose programming [1] that the languages are having a hard time penetrating from what I can see: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-programs-... (Bizarrely, they've broken out into two graphs, with the slower languages getting graphed first. It's actually one big graph, I think.)

Having heard people say for many, many years that "languages don't have speeds, only implementations do", I no longer believe that. After vast quantities of time and effort have been poured into the dynamic languages, they're still slow. Just not as slow as they used to be, and often with significantly larger memory footprints to get to "not as slow as they used to be".

NB: Pity LuaJIT is no longer on that site. If you design your "dynamic" language for speed, you can do a lot better. But I've not seen proof you can design a language for convenience and dynamicness and then come along 15+ years later and make it C-fast.

[1]: I have to qualify that, because any JIT worth its salt can optimize certain very advantageous code down to C speed. As the benchmark contains some of these tasks, you can see the dynamic languages with decent JITs reach their tails down to near C-speed in that graph. However, being able to optimize code that loops over integers and adds them up to C speed or even beyond if you automatically use SIMD doesn't mean that you're going to C performance in general.
>If your mom gets murdered

I wouldn't be happy if the police screwed up for any reason. But violating rights in one case makes it more likely that rights will be violated in other cases. Better to let one guilty person go free than to injure and possibly lock up a hundred innocent people.
A breakdown of Dark UI patterns at funimation.com
I hope not. That would be incredibly boring.
Thank you for that link - a relentless, yet sensitive, dissection of religion and Christianity.

I have some creationist acquaintances who need to read this!
Yes, it's voluntary. If they had a warrant, it would not be "voluntary." I can imagine businesses telling them to come back with a warrant. When asked, in court, they installed the camera, they can answer "because we had to."
Disagree, torrents are a great solution for the most obscure stuff and very cheap. You just have to be the seed.
Sanders plan will adversely impact the bay area, and home prices in particular. If you're making over $250k, the social security phase out goes away, you have 2.2% of extra income tax, and 6.4% of new payroll taxes. Add in 11% for CA, and you could easily be losing 70% to tax all-in at the margin. It'll be tough to get employers to pay an extra $100k a year to cover a $30k rent differential. Considering that you can already afford much higher quality housing with a higher standard of living outside of the bay area on half the money, why stay out here? San Francisco is gross anyway.

This plan will push the bay area in particular far to the right on the laffer curve. What'll happen to US GDP growth if the tech industry starts imploding and moving out? It's possible to make more in the bay area than in the rest of the country, but if you're only retaining 30% of that excess, all of which is soaked up by long-time landowners and the insane cost of living, why bother.
Anyone who thinks being a homemaker is not a profession has no clue what it entails.

I was married to a stay-at-home mom for 12 years. When she moved into an apartment and left me with the 4,000 square foot house and our three kids I realized just how ridiculously easy being a stay-at-home parent is when you have kids in full day school. I'm a software engineer that works 40 hours per week from home and I have no trouble keeping up the house, the kids homework, the kids activities (karate, cheerleading and basketball right now) in addition to a full time job. For home cleaning and laundry I hire kids from the local university for $10 to $15 per hour from Care.com for a total of 3 hours per week.

My soon-to-be-ex wife used to spend over 8 hours per day on Facebook. Not surprising considering she was literally sitting at home by herself for 8 to 9 hours per day. Her mom was a stay-at-home mom as well and she used to brag about sitting around at home all day and then when the husband would surprise her by coming home for lunch she would grab the vacuum cleaner and pretend to vacuum. Keeping up a house and taking care of kids over 5 is not a full-time job. Don't get me wrong - you can make it a full time job by being incredibly inefficient, doing things for your kids that they should be doing on their own and doing inconsequential things that don't matter to anyone if they aren't done. But other than that, being a stay-at-home parent is not even close to being equivalent to a full time job.
Yes, I think this visualization would be FAR more helpful if the weighted lines were adjusted by the relative population in each group. Or at the very least make each group a different sized bubble so you aren't surprised when so many lines seem to keep going back to it.
Pandora Is Said to Have Held Talks About Selling Itself
https://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11074587
This is correct, I would highly highly recommend reading "Deoptimizing Ruby" available here, http://chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/deoptimizing/ for more information on WHY making Ruby fast is hard and what the Truffle+Graal does to make it fast.
Estimates about the frequency of observable events are not yet very good.
Also, Sun making Java fast was due to Hotspot, which was inspired by work on Self, the successor to Smalltalk.
What do you mean ‘we need more time’? Project schedule estimation in software
Google Will Further Block Some European Search Results
They did provide a license.

Research purposes only.

Explicit license must be obtained for commercial use directly from UCLA.

I don't think it is a trap either. I think it is exactly what their department's legal advisor told them to put on there or is boilerplate they even put in a printed document of the algorithm or any research paper.

It doesn't need more than that just because it is open source and it doesn't need a well-known OSS license either.

Now, I hope they DO go with a more detailed license that is "more" OSS friendly.
This is why archive.org is so important.
Transitioning from SPDY to HTTP/2
Most software developers stay single?
Worts part: the search implementation is very poor.

Typing "Teacher" will give you the following options Postsecondary Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Other Teachers and Instructors, Preschool and Kindergarten Teachers.

However it will not give you Elementary and Middle School Teachers.
As the end of the article discusses, this means that scientists have a whole new way of observing the universe. What we saw before was mostly along the EM spectrum—radio waves, visible light, etc. This is a way of looking at distortions in the actual fabric of spacetime.

Hard to say what the practical applications will be, but it's akin to asking Galileo what the practical applications of a telescope are. There probably aren't any if you're a 17th-century merchant or something, but a few decades down the line…
We clearely need quotas for female truck drivers. What an absurd disparity!
Just to give you an idea of why you might be getting downvotes, the HN guidelines say:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence,

> the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ok, we replaced "open-sourced" with "published" in the title above.
The jvm isn't really penalized because the concurrency model tends to be threads, rather than processes, so you don't pay a per-worker cost for a large library. Plus the jvm will optimize only the actually used code, including de-virtualizing.
Funny you bring this up.

I was on a date last Thursday and this girl (29 yrs old) was constantly trying to figure out how she was better than me....IN EVERY FACET OF LIFE.

For example, she went on and on about how she is a badass since she went to the Amazon forests to a nice touristy shack with a guide and a bar. She told stories of hammocks, mosquito nets, snakes, insects and other wild stuff.

After a long time, she finally asked, "Tell me something about yourself...what adventures have you done? Or do you just do some programming stuff" (stereotyping of software engineers is rampant)

I simply smiled at her and said, "I backpacked through the forests in India without tour guides and ate wood-fried insects for lunch" (all true)

She was surprised....and all of a sudden, the average me piqued her interest. She couldn't believe that I had done better than her in pretty much everything.

Now she wanted me....but I didn't...not anymore.

I'm 27. I want practical, non-judgemental girls...not massive egos.
Going back to the "discovery" of microwaves for cooking food, the story I heard was a radar tech noticed a chocolate bar melted in his shirt pocket.
Doplhin's text reflow works on some sites but doesn't work in HN. If I zoom a page of comments I have to scroll right and left, which defeats the purpose of zooming. Do you experience the same behavior?
Using APR to describe payday loan seems fine to me, because the major problem with them is when people get stuck perpetually rolling them over. Each individual loan may only last one pay period, but the debt can last a long time.

It's a tough area, because they can be extremely useful, but the exact same product can be a lifesaver or an anchor depending on who's using it. And naturally people who are most strenuously for or against tend to focus on the aspect which favors their argument.
I'm the guy who is constant complaints and always has problems. It's pointless talking about it cause they'll just ask "what do you need" I need things that aren't even culturally acceptable. "Get help" Help doesn't help. I just want the end.
Deoptimizing Ruby (2014)
But gravitational waves are a phenomenon without equivalent. Nothing like that had been observed before. (Am I wrong?) W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶L̶H̶C̶ ̶d̶e̶t̶e̶c̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶H̶i̶g̶g̶s̶,̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶e̶x̶a̶m̶p̶l̶e̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶h̶a̶d̶ ̶b̶e̶e̶n̶ ̶f̶i̶n̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶p̶a̶r̶t̶i̶c̶l̶e̶s̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶m̶i̶l̶l̶i̶o̶n̶s̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶m̶a̶n̶-̶y̶e̶a̶r̶s̶,̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶ s̶o̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶n̶d̶s̶ ̶ t̶o̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶s̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶o̶n̶l̶y̶ ̶n̶e̶e̶d̶e̶d̶ ̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶c̶e̶r̶t̶a̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶'̶v̶e̶ ̶f̶o̶u̶n̶d̶ ̶ i̶t̶.̶ Why are the researchers certain that their equipment and methodology results can be trusted to such high degree, if there ever has been one positive measurement?
Isn't the real story here that this guy was acquitted of murdering a police officer and was thus targeted by law enforcement for retribution? His 2010 felony conviction was for "evading arrest", which is what led to him being deprived of his 2nd amendment rights and thus set the tripwire for this violation. But what would you do if you knew law enforcement had it out for you for killing one of their own?
HN threads are supposed to be conversations. It wouldn't be much of a conversation if people never replied to each other.
The type of sandwich determines your costume colors and decoration.
For some of the couples, yes. Some more might result from corruption or fraud (e.g. "I'll make sure my colleague processes your paperwork... he'll make sure you get accepted")

Or, less cynically, some could be because it's easier for spouses of someone who is in the bureaucratic system to navigate/utilize it.
Thanks for the comment! We are new here, so probably were missing something. What we intended to do was just collect people's opinions about the idea we have worked out. Will try to fix that in next posts - thanks for catching.
As others have pointed out H-1B is very popular on college campuses as they are cap exempt and come in on the lower end of the "prevailing wage" scale (because they are typically young and inexperienced)

An interesting/alarming trend is that education institutions are "hosting" private companies as a sort of satellite office, where the developer is an employee of the university (to get around the H-1B cap) but all work is directed and owned by the company. So Acme Co. pays the PCU $20/hr and PCU pays the H-1B $15/hr and pockets the $5.

Ah the tangled webs we weave when at first we aim to deceive.
Tree shaking is helpful but not enough. It makes dependencies more fine-grained and binaries smaller by removing some false sharing. But library maintainers still have to be careful about true sharing, where a function calls another function, which in turn pulls in something big (like a lot of data stored in a constant).

You need both tree shaking and a community dedicated to keeping code small.

Javascript has the latter; it's not universally true, but lots of JavaScript libraries pride themselves on small code size and few dependencies.

That's great. But you can't stop doing that work just because you have a tree-shaking compiler. For example, there's a lot of work going into making Angular 2 apps reasonably sized and dart2js doesn't magically make it go away.
Must be funny working at Google and knowing the inside scoop (watching people speculate). So, here is my wild speculation about a similar secret project. There was a talk given by Dick Sites (from Google) [1, 2], where he talks about performance monitoring across the Google fleet. Very technical and useful if you are into monitoring (highly recommend it). A large part of his talk is dedicated to issues and limitations with off-the-shelf CPUs. Given that AWS has custom chips (talked about at Invent a few years back), why wouldn't Google solve this issue too, they have the talent and money.

[1] http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/SDI/2015/slides/DatacenterComputers.p...

[2] https://vimeo.com/121396406
I've never personally gotten into SoundCloud but I fill a similar void using Spotify. They have a constantly evolving set of background music playlist under "Browse" > "Genres & Moods" > "Focus".
All the cute nurses I've met are married. They seem to get married at a young age (20-23).
Yes, a public member could charter a plane, and that would be fine.

Utility poles are generally owned by a private company though or the local government and are regulated.

Members of the public are not generally permitted to hang things or attach things to them, and since they are usually located on private property or property that the local government has rights to, the general public also isn't generally permitted to place things on them.
bandcamp and mixcloud
Using a very, very simplistic chart and dataset for comparing base graphics and ggplot2 is cheating a bit. Base graphics can become extremely unwieldy when dealing with nonunivariate data, especially if you want specific theming.

The ggplot2 code is not formatted one-function-per-line like the base code. It may be slightly more LoC for base graphics, but it's very clear what is happening with the ggplot2 and design, which is a far more important attribute than LoC.
We are a small team working on something of moderate complexity.

We don't do a lot of request/response and most of our services interoperate asynchronously. The overall system is eventually consistent and we keep close tabs on the latency for changes propagating through the system. Different pieces have different latency requirements.

We don't have any services that exist solely to wrap a database -- in fact, most services read directly from databases. Updating them, however, is done by a single service.

We use S3 and Kafka as coordination points for large amounts of data.

We use DNS for service discovery.

Most information flows unidirectionally through the system. This + async everywhere means no race conditions.

The format of messages between systems changes very, very rarely. This is largely in part due to how we have segmented functionality -- most of the time, services just need to inform another service that some change or event has happened -- then the service itself contains all of the logic for what that means.
The passerby could attempt to stand there 24 hours a day for 10 weeks looking in the same direction but I expect that at some point during that time period the they would harassed by local law enforcement concerning the nature and purpose of their "loitering".
Type your search into the search box labeled "Select a job..."
> some sort of quasi-democratic-in-name-only oligarchy led by politicians and mobsters.

That's exactly how I'd describe it. At least under communism the leader wasn't most likely the richest man in the world.
I do take it seriously. I'm no super-programmer. Rob Pike is a better programmer than I am.

I just disagree with him on this one thing.
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/07/06/has-being-si...
For sure, a small team can do the work. The question is: who will pay them to? Your five smart compiler friends could maybe get contract work making specific hotspots a bit faster for some specific medium-sized company.

But who is going to finance them rebuilding the whole approach from scratch over several years, in a way that benefits a whole platform rather than just their company, and shelter the team from short-term priorities and reorgs?

That takes a big company that has an enormous economic stake in the entire platform.
Meant as not a generic search tool like ES. This is just for logs.
I watched a video of this guy wowing some 'scientists', and was not impressed.

His arms were folded in front, close to his chest. That helped tremendously to maintain core temperature, even with ice surrounding the rest of his body. In a way, it was cheating; but no one had the temerity to point that out...
Linux kernel bug delivers corrupt TCP/IP data to containers
Our Medical Data Must Become Free
I believe the issue is that we don't know of they are rare at all. Perhaps they occur quite frequently. That is the big question.
Music, Magic and Mayhem with Tesla Coil
TSO really turbocharged bulk TCP transfers, so now 2 GHz can drive 10 Gbps as long as you're sending >=64KB chunks. This has made performance brittle, because 10 Gbps of small packets requires 10x-100x as much CPU as 10 Gbps of bulk traffic. Also, receiving requires more cycles than transmitting.
Systemd v229 has been released
The fact that my salary goes up every time I switch jobs is actually incidental to the fact that I have been fleeing toxic project management practices for a decade...

Got too much to do? Add process. Got too little? Let's add s'more process. Complaining about process? That needs some process. Stand up, sit down, turn on your webcams and do a little dance.

Despite every tract for the past decade decrying this as the death nell of a healthy company culture and efficient engineering teams.