skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At what point do you have to consider yourself an irresponsible parent if you leave your kid in public school while being able to afford homeschooling ? Are we rapidly approaching the point as a society where our public education feels more like daycare ? If that's not the case how do we measure it and where do we draw the line.
I noticed the same. It could easily be fixed by specifying "...revenue from selling a combined total of..."
I noticed the quotes around "socialism", but to be clear - there is nothing in the US constitution that stops democratic socialism (which in itself is way beyond where "socialism" is used as a slur). I guess my point is - using the term socialism without defining it as social democracy or some other branch of socialism is confusing.
No kidding. Unfortunately, it seems people sometimes get kind of snarky with these discussions, which I don't like. It starts to remind me of the Comic Book Guy.

I would encourage everyone to be civil and patient, and if you have the time, expand on what you're writing so that those of us who are not experts can learn something.
hey! VHS is actually a tribute to the old "Video Home System" :) We also name our releases with 80s movies, here are some examples of the latest versions:

- 2.63.0 Coming to America
- 2.60.0 The Terminator
- 2.59.0 Full Metal Jacket
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All "natural" means in this context is that the person died independent of the actions of self or others, its the "not manmade" definition. Had a friend go with an aneurysm at a little younger age. Its horrifying to have those nothing you could do scenarios. Hit me much worse than the overdoses, suicides, or car accidents, and I'm not really sure why.
Elon has done back of the envelope calculations and believes that Mars colonization can be profitable at a cost of around a half-million per ticket, with a free return for anyone who decides they want out.

At that price point, moving to Mars is something you can fund by selling your house. If enough people want to do it, he could make a lot of money that way. In addition to going down in history.

If he is wrong, well, it is his money. And every step along the way to building that capacity can be justified by ventures that are making money now.
That's fine, and is something you'd be able to do with PageSpeed.

(But I'd really love a way to distribute binary modules anyone could just use, with no additional compilation.)
This guy should be captured and killed. Most FBI agents are very dedicated to trying to protect people and doing something like this should be an act of espionage and dealt with accordingly.
Assuming students still take the SAT with pencil and paper, having multiple choice answers is the easiest way to implement automatic grading.
It's great that this uses NaCl and was built in a cabin in the woods in Vermont, but have any qualified third-parties reviewed this solution?
> Point being, there's no room for compromise on the abortion issue from the left.

Did you mean left? There's lots of discussion on the left about what time limits should be set; or how many doctors you need to persuade; or what conditions could extend the time limits; etc. But from the right there's a blanket "no abortion, ever, for any reason", with fucking stupid comments like "First of all, from what I understand from doctors, that's really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let's assume that maybe that didn't work or something. I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child."
> Regardless of what you think of her, you have to admit she's on the far end of the political spectrum.

"Women should be treated as equals" and "harrasment is bad" are opinions on the far end of the political spectrum? I think I just became an extremist.
> Is that reasonable? If so, isn't FB's market cap a little silly?

Facebook's market cap is $267.7B, which would be totally justified at $115B in revenue.

Also keep in mind that the 1.27% is not fixed. Advertising has fluctuated as high as 2% of GDP, which leaves plenty of growth potential for Facebook and Google.
It's a privately held for-profit company. Who knows what the owners want...
> a lot more expensive than a few multiplications

It's "t" times the few multiplications, because each one gives a 75% success factor. This is equivalent to doing multiple hash functions.

> and would use a lot more space

Well, yes and no. A Bloom filter is space-efficient, so it depends on what you compare it to.

If you have both lists in memory then each verification test can be run in constant memory.

But suppose you sort in-place? This cuts your overall memory use in half. You can use some of that saved space to construct the Bloom filter, then sort, then construct and compare the result.

It's also possible to compute all "t" values first, then sort in-place, then compare. This is another sort of signature. I don't know enough to tell if this will require more or less space than an equivalently powerful Bloom filter.

> "What do you want to gain by augmenting the data with position information?"

It's a linear time check, rather than O(n log n). But at a cost of n * log(n) bits (or n*32 bits if we assume 32 bit indices.)
The first feeling I got was "Papyrus Code". I see potential, and it's certainly better than anything I could do. I like H&Co's fonts but I'm not really feeling this.

Right now, my terminal/code font of choice is Triplicate (http://practicaltypography.com/triplicate.html).
Clock drift is a real thing in distributed systems.

If I have a 5 second lock that expires at 12:01:00 and my clock is off by 1 second I could write at 12:01:01 potentially after someone else has a lock, or worse, after someone else has written.
It looks like English is at the bottom of the README.

https://github.com/alexazhou/VeryNginx#installation
By messy, do you mean like creating a working environment that encourages people to commit felonies in order to accelerate sales? Because usually employees get screwed out of stock in hyper-growth start-ups that raise hundreds of millions at unsustainable valuations, not go to jail. No one typically has to worry about breaking the law in order to meet absurd sales goals. You think maybe just maybe Parker kind of painted the company into a corner by telling investors like Fidelity and TPG that Zenefits could become a $100 Billion market cap company and that they're leaving money on the table. Zenefits fall from grace will become the cautionary tale from this technology boom. Disrupt an industry all you want, just don't put your employees freedom, or your own, at risk.

Also, invoking TK is pointless and shows that you can't distinguish apples from oranges.
"arbitrage scheme in an exchange, where the quotes might vary over time" - The nature of arbitrage is that the profit opportunity is available at a single moment.

What I interpret your explanation as is more akin to trading - Buying backs at a time and waiting for odds to fluctuate at an exchange for a sale.

Although there is no (simple) way of doing a pure arb between a bookie/exchange, all the popular exchanges expose existing liquidity in a market and you can quite safely reduce the risk by double checking available liquidity at the exchange in the seconds before placing your back bet.
Is this going to make it easier to enable stub_status module without compiling Nginx? (or buying NginxPlus)

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_stub_status_module.ht...
And if you're obese, like he was.
These are almost what were called "coffin hotels" in Gibson's Neuromancer, but there at least they were cheap.

Nobody writes cyberpunk fiction anymore because it's no longer fiction.
Some of my favourite are the ship names in Ian Banks' culture series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the_Cult...

They're all great, but here are some examples

* Only Slightly Bent
* God Told Me To Do It
* Ethics Gradient
* I Blame My Mother
* I Blame Your Mother
* Poke It With A Stick
* Don't Try This At Home
* Contents May Differ
I posted requests to my Twitter, FB, and G+ accounts for people following me there to also follow me on my GNU Social account - it seems to be working because I just made a bunch of new GNU Social connections in the last hour.
MYTH = Republicans are Pro-Life

Abortion is not a Democrat or Republican issue Don't fall into that lie. The Republicans had the White House and both Houses and did ZERO over the years they had this. The Connecticut Republican Platform is Officially Pro-Choice if a party wants to say they are lying for your vote. With Obama and a divided house the number of abortions are at a all time low since Roe v Wade as well as Teenage pregnancy.

There are 3 Republican US Senators who and 4 Republican Representatives who get 100% funding from the Republican Party. Where I live Charlie Dent is (R) and is Pro Chose and got everyone's backing when he ran against a Pro-Life Democrat. Think that will happen here is we will have a Pro-Life Democrat running for US Senate and he will have zero support from "Pro-Lifers" even though his record is much better then his opponent.

I am a Pro-Life Democrat and we have a Pro-life Democrat Senator and a Pro-Choice Republican. My "Pro-Life" friends supported the Pro-Choice candidate due to the Myth that Republicans are Pro-Life.
Google Scholar is a great resource for these sorts of research-oriented questions. I hope you continue to find it useful.
Where Pennsylvania Station in NYC (and Madison Square Garden) sits today was once a grand station building designed by McKim, Mead, and White. When Penn Central went bankrupt, the air rights were sold off and the railroad station was moved completely underground. The demolition of the old Penn Station was widely regarded as essentially cultural vandalism and arguably played a role in a shift of attitudes toward a more preservationist mindset. (Others argue that this storyline is an oversimplification and there was growing pushback about 60s era urban renewal in any case.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Station_(New_York...
At least in Manhattan you get decent transit.
This is a rare case of me seconding your question. I'm stumped also.
Generating all those binaries would still be a pain, but you're right that containers could help.

We'd also need to write a script that looked at your nginx install and figured out what would be the right precompiled module to download.
Report on Post-Quantum Cryptography [pdf]
We could go example / counter example all day long. The highways cut through living neighborhoods destroyed the southern Bronx and it's never recovered. Development can be done well or it can be done poorly, but to decide which is which we need to first agree and what we are trying to achieve. Personally, I don't think much of "character of the community" arguments. If you want that move out of one of the quaint bedroom communities in Westchester, Nassau or Jersey.

@misiti3780
The original Penn Station was a beautiful, light filled, Beaux-Arts style building. It was knocked down to put up Madison Square Garden (a sports arena) and an office building. The current Penn Station is a depressing, underground, dirty warren. The NYC preservation movement has its beginning in the uproar over tearing the old one.
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You might research what the favorites have said in the past to get an idea of what they would say in that situation.
I was talking about consul and etcd.
>Anyone trying to reach you has to be OKed by you.

It's got nothing to do with other people. When your company goes under, and historically speaking most do, someone will buy your DB. With all your debts, you won't be in a position to refuse. Who will the buyer be? What countries laws will they operate under? Will /they/ be willing to protect my contact data? Or will they sell it to telemarketers for a quick buck?

Sorry, but if you can't find a way to let me wipe my data, even if it takes 6 months while your backups cycle, I'm not interested and never will be.
Nginx doesn't really have a module API. While lua reaches deep inside, loadable modules already have to be compiled for the specific nginx version, which means this module isn't in a different situation from any of the others.
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Oh interesting.

I did not mess with memcached, just django + gunicorn + nginx... was pretty nice performance for simple webappy stuff.
Interesting, I knew the answer to #3 immediately, but didn't realize it was a slope/intercept equation. Looking back, #2 is basically the same question.
There have, in fact, been multiple fork() implementation for Windows without kernel support. They weren't very efficient, but IIRC, only in version 1.7 (at about 15 years of age), did the Cygwin fork() implementation start to use kernel support.

And that still does not answer my question: In what way is the "NT kernel subsystem" different from a user mode library? Either the underlying kernel supports the features you need, or it doesn't. From my perspective, there's an NT kernel (with the so-called Native API) and a few libraries that make it look like Win32 or severely limited POSIX or at one point in time OS2.
uh... compare & swap is most certainly possible to write safely for the sole purpose of either obtaining a lock or failing (and perhaps retrying).

or, are you one of those people that think it is not possible to walk down the sidewalk safely? the CIA radio signals are putting the CPU into backdoor mode, right?
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>> "No, I'll make a bigger contribution in this phase of my life by being able to pick and choose, not being so manic, having time to step back, a little more time for what I'll call discernment rather than just activity."

The last, and most telling quote in the article, in my estimation.
Innovation on Tap
I just got a GNU Social account last night. Things I like: you can tun your own server (no vendor going out of business problems); it is easy to remote follow people; I picked up some followers by asking people on Twitter/FB/G+ to also follow me on GNU Social.

I plan on posting a lot to GNU Social and see what the experience is ike after a month or two.
North Korea 'could soon have plutonium bomb', says US
OK, I see that there is a lot of stuff like chroot and UIDs in SysProcAttr [1]. I think they have added a bunch since I last tried this.

But the point still stands... you get a subset of the OS API. Everything has to be "canned" into that struct and you can't execute arbitrary code between fork and exec.

Especially with containers, this is a never-ending target... They apparently have user namespaces, but what about network namespaces or IPC namespaces?

[1] https://golang.org/src/syscall/exec_linux.go

Now, it might be good enough for your application, and it probably IS good enough for everything except a full-fledged production quality init system. For that case I would be worried about running into limitations.
You can rip that baby out (AKA C Section) and that baby lives. There has to be an issue when a 30+ week old fetus (Latin for little one) can be ripped apart piece by piece inside a mother's womb but if anyone did that to a new born outside the mother's womb that would be INSANE.
Sadly, probably not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11066250
I'm struggling with whether this is a "good" thing or not. On the one hand, I can see how it might increase the scores of privileged children relative to the scores of underprivileged children. On the other hand, should we really divorce math from the "real world" just to make it easier to cram for the test? In college and in life, you need to use math for applications, not arbitrary one-line computations.
The fine is pretty easy to justify and is all that can be assessed against Zenefits the corporation. And since it's well funded, multi-million dollars would be warranted so the fine is substantial enough.

It would be a lot more suprising to see them go after employees or look at prison unless there were agravating factors like actually defrauding the buyers with regards to the nature of the coverage.
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> This guy should be captured and killed

This breaks the HN guidelines. On this site, please comment civilly and substantively, or not at all. Your comment would be fine without that sentence.

Your other comments in this thread make it sound like you're knowledgeable about this space in a way that most of us aren't. The way to communicate here is to share that knowledge in a civil way, so we all learn something.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11064557 and marked it off-topic.
Blood biomarker for Alzheimer's disease
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Once you realize the economy is a massive pyramid scheme, do you say there's probably a better way to do it than let the people on top exploit everyone below? Or do you say "Great, I'm the smarter, more successful, and inherently better than every other person in the universe I just haven't realized my full potential yet. The pyramid scheme means inevitably when I rise to the position I deserve I can stomp all over the peasant underclass"?

That's what the quote is about.
I'm not distributed systems expert, but I don't see any attempt at responding to:

> 1. Distributed locks with an auto-release feature (the mutually exclusive lock property is only valid for a fixed amount of time after the lock is acquired) require a way to avoid issues when clients use a lock after the expire time, violating the mutual exclusion while accessing a shared resource. Martin says that Redlock does not have such a mechanism.

The section "Distributed locks, auto release, and tokens" talks about why Martin's solution isn't right (I'm not well-read enough to tell if that argument is correct), but never actually argues that Redlock has a mechanism to avoid violation of mutual exclusion due to timeouts.

Perhaps I'm missing some background here: does such a mechanism exist?
I don't how you would take into account all possible factors to make a perfect comparison, but objectively looking at the research and data available on this topic, it's clear to me that the USA is lagging in STEM fields.

Some tech companies do hire from abroad because it's cheaper, but there is a real skill deficit in STEM fields and there are just not enough skilled people available to recruit. This has been openly acknowledged by the tech companies, universities and the Government.

The question is not whether the USA is lagging in STEM, it is what should be done about the fact that the USA is lagging in STEM fields?
Penn station used to be as magnificent as grand central, but was torn down and replaced by a mire of grimy tunnels.

It wasn't the original owner's fault, they were going bankrupt and were being forced to sell off their assets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Station_(New_York...
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Just moved here, and I was curious what the community up here was like.

I was spending most of my time in SF advising early stage startups, connecting good startups with VCs, angel investing, or doing small engineering projects for startups to help get them off the ground. It took quite a while to build up a good network in SF, and I figured HN might be an interesting place to start in the Seattle area.
When writing fiction, way back when, I'd just flip open a phone book, point, and run with it.
This is precisely why "Kaladin the Paladin" (he doesn't actually fit the archetype, but it's close) takes me out of it. It's not that it's too weird, it's that it's not weird enough.

Plus they call him "Kal". It's relying just as heavily as Morrowind was on pre-existing expectations, just different ones (worse ones, imo).
I immediately think of a thing from my kite aerial photography days called a picavet http://scotthaefner.com/kap/equipment/picavet/ a sort of angular momentum assisted stabilizing rig.
Thank you... Definitely going to follow this very closely, makes a ton of sense
Apple Music UX Problems: An Example
"Regarding his statement to Barack Obama about intending to buy the plumbing firm that employed him, Wurzelbacher later said that the idea of buying the company was discussed during his job interview six years prior.[9] According to MSNBC and Fox News, court records show that Wurzelbacher made $40,000 in 2006.[19] Dun & Bradstreet's report estimated that A. W. Newell Corporation, the full corporate name, had $510,000 in annual sales and eight employees."

He discussed the idea of buying the company once. Given the state of his finances, the likely situation is that either he was betting on winning the Powerball, or he was just dreaming about buying the company.

He is the poster child for this phenomena!
VTech not responsible for leaking your data (in the future)
Middle class america is in a reverse depression - every other class is doing quite well.
At what age do kids take this test? I find it bizarrely simple compared to the college entry exams at my country...
Yes. There was a temporary whitelist while Firefox MSE was still in development (to workaround some API incompatibilities on some video sites), but the MSE whitelist was removed in Firefox 42 (November 2015) allow all websites to access the MSE APIs:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1185611#c6
#1 is not equivalent to being single threaded (every go program is multithreaded), it just means there only 1 thread for user goroutines. Every call to wait will block and spawn a new thread. If you force it to stay on the same thread, you block the runtime, and your entire program.

An init system has to call wait, that's one of its primary tasks, especially on orphaned processes it inherits.
Aggregation Theory
Looking at the example, the cc generator code is so small that one couldn't reasonably consider it to be a significant enough program. In general, I don't like license FUD (who's actually going to sue you) but given how trivial the code is, surely you can reimplement your own version of a ~100 line script?
Also the riots in Baltimore caused a lot of destruction.
As most Robert Moses stories go, it's about car culture and using highways and other physical barriers to enforce some bad socioeconomic policies - which was very common around the world at the time. In the end, they ripped down the old iconic station to build arguably the ugliest sports stadium in the world (Madison Sq Garden) and equally unimpressive #1 Penn Plaza.

Note that the tracks and platforms haven't changed much since 1905 with the exception of the demolition of the "Northern" yard and highline when they build the Javitz center.

The new WSY will be build atop the existing platforms... so 3 iterations of station on top of unchanged train platform in a bit over a century.
If you are just a tourist who does not own the title to a banana plantation or anything like that, are you still at risk?
React-at-Rest: An opinionated toolkit for building RESTful web applications
Um.... duh?

This is the essence of the Snowden revelations: there are no meaningful restraints on the NSA. We can safely ignore everything they or other government representatives say about their activities and assume that the NSA is spying on everyone, all the time, through every mechanism possible, and will continue to expand their reach indefinitely.

Of course they are going to spy on us through IoT devices. That's a given. The interesting question is this: what would we have to do in order to make those spying efforts unproductive?
I follow about the same procedures now as I did in 2013. One difference: I now do online banking on my iPad. I don't install many apps on my iPad, and I think (hope!) it is a fairly secure device.
AI Winter
It's much easier to slide into poverty, then to slide into wealth. For many Americans, six months of unemployment... Or getting sick will do it.
Thank you for taking the time to write this, it complements PaulHoule's comment very well. I will definitely follow your advice :)