skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I met him when he was visiting Vancouver a few years ago and had exchanged e-mails with him a few times. It's really sad to see him pass away.
Prohibitively expensive might not specifically reference to the monetary cost of the class. You could probably scrounge up $100 a month for Kumon even from much lower income families, but many children in lower income families end up having a real opportunity cost in going to a summer class. The parents may not be able to drive the children to the class, the children might be pressured to get a summer job to help pay for the family, etc.
Modern C# allows you to define a code path where GC is not allowed to run. I'm not sure if unity allows for this.

I'm also not sure about the new c# -> to native compilers coming out.
I don't know about the East Village specifically but, apparently, the notion that Manhattan skyscrapers are only built where the bedrock is close to the surface is false.

http://observer.com/2012/01/uncanny-valley-the-real-reason-t...

(And, by way of another data point, the tall buildings in Boston's Back Bay are built on landfill.)
Zoning - The proliferation of areas zoned R4-R6 in NYC is nuts. They should be removed in all but a few places - don't want to totally ruin the "fabric".

IMO, there's a lot of R7/R8 that could or should be R9,R10,R10X or other mixed use.

http://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/zoning/zoning-map-table.pa...
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Coding for evolving software design
I felt the same way initially, and actually found it pretty easy to tease out the important parts...but then again I do spend a lot of time with math in my free time and I feel like a lot of people here do as well.

I understand where this critique is coming from. My sister teaches 6th grade math to a class where ~80% doesn't speak english at home. She's just now beginning to expose them to simple problems (10 = 2x, solve for x and the like). She's basically dual-hatting as an english teacher and a math teacher, and it's significantly more difficult. That limits time she has to expose her students to more advanced concepts, or some of the funny more beautiful parts of math. Not saying the SAT shouldn't change...understanding real world problems is important. But there will be demos that face disadvantages.

Perhaps change the url? This is the larger discussion.
Main article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/09/us/sat-test-changes.html
Bootstrap has not been a part of Twitter for quite some time now.
One of the things I like about Gene Wolfe's writing is that he doesn't make up words, and I believe that this extends to names as well. Severian, Vodalus, Palaemon, Thecla, Dorcas are all names used in Book of the New Sun that already exist in the historical record.

In Book of the Long Sun, at least in the city where the story takes place, the men are named for animals or animal products (Silk, Horn, Musk, Remora), the women for plants or plant products (Mint, Rose, Hyacinth, Mucor), and the androids for minerals or other non-living things (Marble, Hammerstone).
There may be plenty of people who agree with him, but "Joe The Plumber" is a straw-populist agitant persona manufactured by the Republican party.
Broadly correct. Differing Muslim cultures had different approaches to the problem, we generally consider Persian miniatures to be well-painted (though without perspective), and they typically just make a token line through the throat of human subjects to suggest they couldn't really be like the drawing (the prophet Muhammad is generally shown with only a glowing face without features to avoid even coming close to the problem of poorly representing him). Of course, it's no coincidence that visual arts in the Islamic world took patterns (which we still call arabesques) to very high level, and also calligraphy, as they don't have any representational worries.
Does anyone think something based on something like SMOG readability to check grade level + something like uClassify [or some other machine learning API for age:text correlation] would go a decent way towards fixing this?

For sites that actually care about this sort of thing and aren't doing the legal minimum?

[i.e. Take a 500 word sample from the user over their initial posts, test it against SMOG to see if it meets a minimum grade level. Test it against a machine learning tool to see if it estimates reasonable age. If it doesn't pass, disable the account and ask for ID and/or parental consent form]
It might be you're correct in general. The last few years, my team has worked with go fairly extensively for this sort of work, and it is a single line of go and a very short nginx block to get running.

I think the difference was that django wanted python running through WSGI; the go servers expect to be running behind the scenes and just using nginx as a proxy.
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I didn't think someone so young could die of "natural causes", but apparently even dying from the flu or sudden heart failure qualifies as a natural cause: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_natural_causes

Ooof. Terrifying.
I think that's by far the fastest way to solve #4. Seeing as how I didn't have a pencil, I wasn't inclined to solve the system algebraically. I just ruled out C&D for being too large, and figured it was B since C was only just barely too large, and A was clearly too small. I think this is a legitimate way to solve the problem and a useful problem as well. I'd be happy if I met more people who could estimate and guess at math solutions.
Or alternate title, "Sanders Supporters Want Accountable Wall Street Bankers".
> 1. Modify the license for django to stipulate that companies using the software must display a highly visible 'powered by the free version of Django' badge on their website. 2. Allow that notice to be removed for x per year.

People would just stop using Django for new projects. That's a very silly requirement that would turn a lot of people away. That's basically a freemium model. Anyway if it's OSS I can just fork the project and do what I want with it. If I can't, it's not OSS.
Facebook is keeping a tight lid on their core metrics around how effective their mobile advertising platform is. IMHO nobody really knows yet how effective mobile advertising is in the large, we're still in the early days. It'll all come out in the wash over the next decade or two.
Are you saying things would have turned out better if your parents could have taken some sort of action against I-Dupe?
We updated our build servers compilers to VS2015 two weeks ago. we did not link the failures to compiler errors until today.
We are now in the process of reverting to VS2013 compiler, and reverting any C#6 code.
We have noticed at least 2 different occurrences of this problem, just in our code base... Any switch statement on a Nullable<long> will fail. The fix is apparently coming in VS2015 Update 2.
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As everyone else has said, I would prefer that (if I were browsing with no filtering).

Here's the trivial client blocking method: OCR and break the result into different groups by page location, font size and color; the article will be the largest groups of text with the same font. Large images and charts that were part of the original article would be cropped out and re-inserted into the final document. Within a few days you would see a browser extension made with adaptable filtering for most sites that used the monolithic PNG.
Really annoying too - I seem to always get the test and I hate the computer vision tests so much more than the old text based ones, they seem to always take way longer for me and I always miss an image or two the first time.
Never knew the guy personally, but he was certainly one of my inspirations. RIP. :(
$2975 for a 360sq ft apartment furnished with niche transformable furniture, and access to communal lounges, roof deck and grill. Unfurnished is cheaper :)
This sort of "static tax analysis" makes tax increases look like they'll generate more revenue than they would really do. This, in turn, makes the policies sound more affordable since the tax revenues are exaggerated.
What "high risk"? Y-Combinator invests a very small amount of money from extremely wealthy people.

It's "high risk" in the same way your buying a lotto ticket might be termed "high risk".
Thanks! I did use CMS loosely or just incorrectly, as others have pointed out. My recollection is that most of the tutorials at the time were baked around typical CMS scenarios. But, I hear you. It's always good to have something you love! :)
Considering virtually every major mobile game is unity these days, is this really an issue?
I find this wording sloppily ambiguous: "The food truck's revenue from selling a total of 209 salads and drinks in one day was $836.50."

On initial read, I thought it was saying 209 salads and 209 drinks. Now, obviously the question would be trivial and the total revenue impossible it that were the case, but I wish in general that math questions were written much less ambiguously.
I don't understand. How is using ForkExec, Wait4 forcing you to use threads? What do you mean with "You basically can't do anything with file descriptors or containers at all with this model."? It is possible to pass a ProcAddr containing a SysProcAddr to ForkExec with fds, chroot, namespaces, &c.

Attached simple demo code of what I mean with ForkExec, Wait4.

EDIT: to clarify, the demo code is not intended to work like init, just to spawn a couple of processes and wait for them to terminate.

package main

import (
"log"
"syscall"
)

func main() {
cmds := [][]string{
{"/usr/bin/sleep", "4"},
{"/usr/bin/sleep", "5"},
{"/usr/bin/sleep", "1"},
{"/usr/bin/sleep", "2"},
}

for _, cmd := range cmds {
if len(cmd) > 0 {
if _, err := syscall.ForkExec(cmd[0], cmd, nil); err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
}
}

for nwaited := 0; nwaited < len(cmds); nwaited++ {
var w syscall.WaitStatus
pid, err := syscall.Wait4(-1, &w, 0, nil)
if err != nil {
log.Println(err)
} else {
log.Println("pid", pid, "exited", w.Exited(), "exit status", w.ExitStatus())
}
}
}
Good points. I would also like to say this;

I don't know how anyone can have this conversation without mentioning global economics, demographics, and debt. In short, everything matters. The dynamics are complex and the dominant policies have been nothing short of "extraordinary" e.g. negative interest rate policy (NIRP) implemented in various countries around the world.

If the bulk of the US population are one paycheck away from financial disaster[1], the advertising-based service providers have a lot more to worry about than aggregation theory.

[1]https://www.google.com/search?q=most+of+us+are+one+paycheck+...
I wonder what will happen once there are no more problems left that 99.9% of humans can solve in a short time, but computers can't.
> but not to the barge, which is what they need for larger payloads (since returning to the launch site requires fuel)

To be clear, landing on the barge requires fuel too, just not as much.
As someone employed in building complex systems, I appreciate the takeaways listed during the discussion:

RethinkDB’s engineers noted three takeaways from tracking
down this bug. First, fuzz-testing—at both the functional
and integration-test level, can be a powerful tool for
verifying systems with complex order dependence. Second,
runtime invariant assertions were key in identifying the
underlying cause. A test like Jepsen can tell you that the
cluster can exhibit split-brain behavior, but can’t tell
you anything about why. The error messages from those
leader and log order assertions were key hints in tracking
down the bug. Rethink plans to introduce additional runtime
assertions to help identify future problems. Finally, they
plan to devote more attention to issues which suggest—even
tangentially—consistency errors.
There are plenty of services that are paid and not set up in your best interestes (Profit Accumulator is the most popular these days).

If you're interested I highly recommend the MoneySavingExpert Matched Betting forum - http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=41

It is free, unbiased (lots of the specifically tailored sites like PA mentioned above have affiliate deals which reduce the amount you can earn) and active.

Discussion on the MSE forum is restricted to what they define strictly as "risk free", not "EV+" opportunities, but that's a healthy start.

Their definition of risk free is making a guaranteed profit regardless of the outcome - Either natural arbitrage or an offer-dependent forced arbitrage.
I didn't know the teachers were the ones earning the grades. See the posts above that cite what happens to re-gentrified areas, where the social-economic make-up of a school changes but the teacher make-up does not.
My guess is that easy & reliable micro-payment system emerges.
>> Of course, they claimed it was the result of a "sophisticated" attack, which is government fail-speak for "We left your data on a bus, and a hobo took it".

No it isn't. The hack of OPM was very well publicized. It was a long time project of the Chinese government to break into OPM's computers. I don't believe everything I read, but in this case I know is exactly what happened.
I really can't stand not being able to thank all the amazing people that release stuff on Github. Every time I use their stuff I just want to high five them. I really needed a place where users can give back a little to the open source community, even if it's by simply saying "Woah, Dude, that's amazing!" :)

Thanks to Andrea Buran for the cool design ;)
For one thing, you lose GPL compatibility.
I read a lot of scifi and have generally been impressed by the naming. I dislike Cratylic names when they're trite but authors like Phillip K. Dick and Gene Wolfe manage to pull them off. Neal Stephenson uses them humorously in Snowcrash (the protagonist's name is 'Hiro Protagonist'). I can't say I'm a fan of Asimov's names in the Foundation series - not Cratylic, just a bit off sounding. "Bayta Darrell" doesn't give the same brain-feeling as "Severian" or "Paul Atreides".
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Some RV's are nearly twice that.
Didn't the Chinese government more or less admit it was behind the OPM hack?

That doesn't prove the data was well secured or that the attack was especially sophisticated, but surely China is a capable adversary.
Those are historical reasons. With modern construction techniques skyscrapers can be built virtually anywhere. In any event even eleven to fourteen story buildings which the geology could certainly support (Stuyvesant Town and the Riis Houses are those heights), would be a big improvement over six story walkups.
Docker is Linux-only :)

There are tools like docker-machine facilitate running Docker under Linux VMs non-Linux platforms though.
> They want people to be able to decide what they do with their own bodies.

I actually understand the argument. For all the rest of you know, I actually wrote the above response myself (I didn't, but I could have).

The counterargument is that there are absolutely two people involved if a woman decides to abort on her due date. Even in liberal Western Europe abortions must be performed before certain gestation dates.

Now, this sort of absolutism makes a kind of logical sense. The kind that also makes legalization of heroin a defensible position. And there are smart, compassionate people who want to legalize heroin. Just not the President and every candidate in the Democratic primary.

Point being, there's no room for compromise on the abortion issue from the left. We could be talking about eight months versus seven months, what counts as a "medical exception", what forms of enforcement are fair, etc. But we're not. There's absolutely no room for compromise.
I wonder which demonstrates more intelligence - picking the winner of the game, or who the MVP will thank first?

It seems like Madden ( or a computer AI ) could do the first, but only a human could do the second.
> which is intended for their Mars project

Space X is a for profit company right? What's the profit incentive of going to Mars? A marketing ploy? Does SpaceX not have any investors besides Elon Musk to answer to about spending?
Huh? what does this have to do anything?

> Purposes and Goals of Rankings

> 1. Assessment of higher education (processes, and outputs) in the Web.

> Hospital activity is multi-dimensional and this is reflected in its web presence. So the best way to build the ranking is combining a group of indicators that measures these different aspects. Almind & Ingwersen proposed the first Web indicator, Web Impact Factor (WIF), based on link analysis that combines the number of external inlinks and the number of pages of the website, a ratio of 1:1 between visibility and size. This ratio is used for the ranking but adding two new indicators to the size component: Number of documents, measured from the number of rich files in a web domain, and number of publications being collected by Google Scholar database. As it has been already commented, the four indicators were obtained from the quantitative results provided by the main search engines as follows:

Size (S). Number of pages recovered from four engines: Google, Yahoo, Live Search and Exalead. For each engine, results are log-normalised to 1 for the highest value. Then for each domain, maximum and minimum results are excluded and every institution is assigned a rank according to the combined sum.
Visibility (V). The total number of unique external links received (inlinks) by a site can be only confidently obtained from Yahoo Search, Live Search and Exalead. For each engine, results are log-normalised to 1 for the highest value and then combined to generate the rank.
Rich Files (R). After evaluation of their relevance to academic and publication activities and considering the volume of the different file formats, the following were selected: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), Microsoft Excel (.xls), Microsoft Word (.doc) and Microsoft Powerpoint (.ppt). These data were extracted using Google and merging the results for each filetype after log-normalising in the same way as described before.
Scholar (Sc). Google Scholar provides the number of papers and citations for each academic domain. These results from the Scholar database represent papers, reports and other academic items.

so they compared hospitals by googling them?
IBM will just need to focus on what they are good at. And Cloud Server / Softlayer just isn't one of them to be honest.
That sounds like utter baloney.
Awesome concept, I want something exactly like this. As others have said, improve your onboarding!
Feynman’s proof of the Maxwell equations
Very true. I did DoD/IC contracting for 16 years before finally getting fed up and going into the "real" world last year. There are some very talented and intelligent people working as govies and as contractors, but for every very good person there are at least 4 turds.
That's a very good anecdote, and definitely a better datapoint than my own experience. Anything that's giving young coders an entry point is a good one. We can hope they don't run into metaclass difficulties in their early days. :)
I applaud Teach for America for the effort, but I'm not sure that's really that successful. I graduated with more than a handful of people that went into TFA, and around 90% of them burned out hard after a couple years. Most of them had no teacher training, and, really, no cultural context for understanding the cultures they got dropped into. Inner city ghettos, Cajun Bayous, and Appalachian hollers are a different world than white-bread East Coast suburbia.

I think if you want to fix the disadvantaged areas of the country, you've got to reverse the brain-drain that's sucking the best and brightest people out of these communities. Decentralizing the economy would be a good first step.
Stock price declines correlate with -0.59 R^2 to revenue growth
Or not, because there would be a lot less business transacted in Manhattan as well without skyscrapers and therefore probably less demand to live there.

But I'm not arguing your basic point. I'm just saying that you can have a lot of high rises and still have very expensive housing. Building more tall residential buildings may indeed be part of the answer to astronomical rents in a given city but they're not, by themselves, the cure-all they're sometimes portrayed as.
I normally stand back, emotionally unaffected by executives and their pursuits. But that "Developers, Developers, Developers" video of Ballmer and the all the pointing and laughing makes me feel very sad. I get pangs every time I watch it :s. So to your comment, yes it's clear he cares
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This is really gonna help me study for my OS midterm tomorrow- thanks!
French data privacy regulator cracks down on Facebook
Oh man, you guys are bringing back some highly emotional memories for me. Mine was slightly different, but with the same result. In my case it was Diablo I and rather than giving away my items, some guy tricked me into taking a town portal that led to a tight room packed full of higher level mobs that he had kited back to the portal. Of course, I died instantly. And in Diablo I, being killed by monsters (as opposed to being killed directly by another player) made you drop all of your equipment. Internet Jerk, being high enough level to handle the mobs, then popped in, killed everything, and stole my gear.

I was devastated at the time, but now I can look back on it and laugh. It was just a game and it definitely taught me some hard lessons about trusting people online. (And also some lessons about how creative people can be in exploiting weaknesses of a system.)
DVT is also considered a natural cause, and if you sit all day, you're at a higher propensity to die from it: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/deepveinthrombosis.html
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That doesn't seem too surprising. In rich areas, kids are off going to their private tutors and private after school activities. In poor areas, the kids need the extra push that a significant portion of them aren't getting at home.

Plus, in the case of NYC, rich PTAs more than make up the difference between what the state provides and what the students receive.

http://www.thenewyorkworld.com/2014/08/06/pta-2/
> 50% is a guess based more on the linked article that shows the internet share of advertising's growth rate is slowing down

That's mostly due to the explosive growth of mobile, which it seems that graph leaves out.
There's some coverage of that in the "You must be joking, mr Feynman" book.
I'm sorry, but a council with more than 40 member organisations sounds a lot like lip service rather than anything substantive. How will this council do anything? The post explains why they need one, and says who they are, but doesn't say what they'll do apart from "tapping into their expertise".
Happy Safer Internet Day!
Do they actually provide support? Like an email address where you can get questions answered? That's a lot different than just stapling an invoice to the free license that everyone gets.
There are jobs where everything is perfect except pay... This is when it's hard to risk and take a higher paid job.
In my particular case these are really custom applications for data collection and analysis. One wants to be more "mobile first" and another does want to be "web-oriented" to make it easier for users. (Plus, one is VB6 using Access as DBMS and the other is a hodge-podge of Access and Matlab.)
I can't help but wonder if Django wouldn't do better with a multi-licensing strategy like MongoDB uses. Asking for donations typically doesn't work out so well.

I see a lot of underfunded open source projects. The whole internet seems to run on them. OpenSSL was one prominent example. I don't think it is coincidence that they are almost always BSD type licenses.

To me BSD licensing just seems like the starving artist living on the good will of a few wealthy donors. Donors who frequently end up steering the project. Multi-licensing seems like a healthier approach.