skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely the best part is the link to this image from JP Morgan's report on "Unicorns Vomiting Rainbows":

http://imgur.com/VJ4zvWH
For those who missed it, Debian Project Leader Neil McGovern gives details [1] about how licensing issues were resolved so that ZFS can be in Debian now. It is distributed as source-only dkms module.

[1]: http://blog.halon.org.uk/2016/01/on-zfs-in-debian/
If people are still +1 commenting (and they are) it is still an issue and not solved by showing the number of subscribers.
It's not even that tough. Just guess "piano" and you'll be right 40% of the time. If you get a second guess try "violin".
I was quite surprised by the analyst's assertion that Samsung has the lead. Certainly on manufacturing (especially since Apple doesn't actually manufacture them) but their chips in general?
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Finally loaded. Here is the blurb from their website:

UK Open Banking

A demo of Open Banking APIs in the UK

In February 2016, a group of experts from the banking, FinTech, security and open data communities published a framework to deliver an open standard for Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for UK banks. This work, led by HM Treasury, aims to increase competition and innovation in and around banking to improve outcomes for customers and thus further support the UK’s world-leading FinTech industry.

The European Union is rapidly advancing legislation (PSD2) that will, upon implementation in the next two years, require banks in the EU to open their payment and transaction systems to certified third parties. This is a good moment for the UK to take a leadership role and influence the EU and beyond.

We took this opportunity to reveal the first Open Banking API sandbox specificaly targeted at supporting discussion around the UK Open Banking standard. The sandbox we are showing today provides a selection of API calls relevant to the UK Open Banking Standards report. Feel free to explore the calls. We believe our technology gives the UK a tremendous headstart and access to a vibrant Fintech developer community.

Click below and enjoy!
User-submitted food photos & prices show 28% Argentina food inflation
Beginnings of a Swift one in the corelibs version of Foundation: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/mast...
This thread sounds like people living in sodosopa blaming Kenny for beeing poor. Tanks god for not being a part of it! Go Redskins!
Ubuntu 16.04 will have ZFS support in the kernel, via a kernel module. They are not using FUSE.
Someone leaning on your car and then getting into a street fight ought to qualify, I'd say. The other incidents don't seem safety related, just weird and possibly uncomfortable.
Circumstances may change and at that time it may be in Israel's best interest to appear expansionist. But for now and for the foreseeable future, it will probably help keep the peace if they aren't.
Inspiring story...

This is an excellent example of a startup finding a niche, with the added bonus of providing a much-needed benefit to society...

Win/Win...kudos to Neverware!

Think I'll pull a couple of old Dell laptops out of my closet and rig them up to give away to a couple of kids I know...
There is simply no justification for the level of backlash he is receiving. None.

>But we don't publish it on the internet because of some grandiose vision that our words will suddenly shine light on the issue and spur someone to action.

Sure, we all just step over the homeless, ignore the problem, and go about our day. Justin expressed his frustration, and guess what we're all talking about now - that uncomfortable thing we all choose to ignore.

>But when you can't even make your argument without using pejorative language, you've failed.

Then the author of the Washington Post article failed as well. Wielding the might of a nationally syndicated newspaper to rant about "tech bros" and publicly eviscerate a single individual is disgusting.

>And this reaction is what you get, so the rest of us can see this isn't how you fix the problem.

So unless we can provide the solution to a problem we're not allowed to complain about it or expression frustration about it? That sounds like a great way to suppress any conversation about the problem. And judging by the current situation in SF this is exactly what has happened.

Well guess what - by writing that article this "tech bro" has brought more attention to the problem of homelessness than has been paid in years, and although it all could have been written with more nuance, it's a hell of a lot more than most people are doing; which is exactly nothing.
I've debated jumping from perl only dev into the python world for a couple of years now.

I've got a list of Django youtube vids queued up on my plex server right now. But I was thinking yesterday (while in the shower of course), perl has perl6 (which may or may not take off). But what does the future of python have?

Python 4,5,6? Any real innovative changes or just more of kicking the can down the road (such as perl5)?
>Here, the price of gas has gone up by 6,000%. That's a lot! Except that in absolute terms, the price has gone from $0.02/gallon to $0.11/gallon

...It looks like you are missing a factor of 10. 6000% is 60x, so as near as I can tell gas was $0.002 per gallon, and now is rising to $0.11 per gallon.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-17/venezuela-...
another reason to fight global warming !
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> And there are studies that show walking is just as good,

I'm not sure I've ever actually seen one of these studies that show walking is as good for overall health as strenuous exercise. It's hard for me to believe, mostly because I do a ton of walking and find personally that the benefits are nowhere close. But also, "walking is just as good" seems mostly to be the rallying cry of out of shape people who don't want to exercise because it's hard.

> and it certainly wears down the body less than your alternative.

That's an odd way to put it. Exercise doesn't "wear down the body". It builds it up, quite literally if we're talking about resistance training. But even aerobic exercise builds up the cardiovascular system measurably.
It really isn't.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenBankProject

Github: https://github.com/OpenBankProject/OBP-API/

API Documentation: https://github.com/OpenBankProject/OBP-API/wiki

API Explorer: https://uk-apiexplorer.openbankproject.com
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I have been working in Business Intelligence for almost a decade now and you are spot on with you comment.

Every BI tool sells an entire ecosystem with it that ties the purchasing organisation into the platform. It is shocking to see that none of the things you mention exist as FOSS.

Unfortunately a lot of the open source BI tools out there are really still very immature compared to the commercial products.
> Congress doesn't have the legal power, in the constitution, to give agencies the power to make laws (Even if they call them "Rules")

What? Sure they do; there's nothing in the constitution that forbids congress from making a law delegating its authority to the executive (the idea that all of administrative law is unconstitutional isn't supported by anyone in the legal community to my knowledge). Agencies can't just make up rules that say whatever they want, though; they're limited to being able to regulate the things Congress has empowered them to regulate, and they have to say what their authorizing legislation is in the text of the rule.

In general, this is what we want. Congress should be deciding what gets regulated, and experts in the subject area should be deciding the specifics of the regulation. Example: Congress decides that not every quack snakeoil salesman should be able to put whatever he wants in a bottle and sell it as medicine, so medications should be regulated. But members of Congress, by and large, are not doctors or otherwise medical experts, so they should defer the business of deciding which medicines should be allowed, how they should safely be produced, etc., to experts. Hence, the FDA.

In the case of the FCC, Congress decided that, spectrum being a precious commodity, somebody needed to regulate how it should be parceled out so there was enough to go around and people didn't step on each other's toes. But again: they're not radio engineers, so they're not equipped to decide what the right power levels are, which parts of the spectrum should be used for what, and what the best enforcement mechanisms are to make sure people play by the rules. Hence, the FCC. In this case, they proposed a rule requiring manufacturers to put software safeguards in place that prevented end users from being able to make otherwise-compliant equipment exceed its legally-allowed broadcast power levels. You can think that's a bad idea (I do, too), but it's pretty clearly within their regulatory purview.
ZFS is nice but as far as I understand the Linux version does not yet have support for copy-on-write clones using e.g. "cp --reflink=always", which to me was reason enough to choose BTRFS instead. Apart from this the two systems seem to be quite comparable (from my limited user perspective), with BTRFS having quite good Linux support as well. Maybe someone more experienced with the COW functionality could comment on that as it would be very interesting to hear how other people deal with this.
How is binary files to "Snippets" different than a dropbox / s3 / slack link? I guess that there is some convenience factor (1 product), but given that binaries and snippets are not version controlled seems out of place.
In some cases, the student knows the legal issues and drops out first to avoid the Uni claiming IP ownership.

Some quick research suggests that funding may play a key role, particularly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act . So perhaps the IP claims are less important if the student is developing things on their own time, on their own dime.

You might also like to read this:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120517/02521218947/notab...
"tldr: Want a JIT? Use PyPy."

or spend some time helping with Pyjion to add a C API to CPython for plugging in a JIT of your choice

- https://github.com/Microsoft/Pyjion
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https://github.com/OpenBankProject/OBP-API seems to be related to them.

The snazzy writeup suggests loads of people are involved but the project has a pretty low number of contributors. Is this the whole organisation or a subset of people doing some work relating to the concept.

The idea of a common API is really fantastic mind you.
Government is mandating the prices. It's not worthwhile to produce it. There is nothing related on demand here on this case.
And you can blame the city's policies for the high rents since they've absolutely refused to build more housing.
Sorry to be a downer folks, but Canonical is violating GPLv2 by merging ZFS into their kernel tree. The CDDL and GPL are incompatible.

https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/700073945064611841
Humanity and biology in general is a precursor to addictive behavior. One of the major reasons people self-medicate, is because they think they are their thoughts. They indulge every whim and emotional impulse as if it is a command line directing their life.

If people could separate themselves from their emotions, if they were taught stoicism, Buddhism or how free will and the self is a (likely) an illusion, then maybe they'd be stronger.

I can't elaborate, but I know people worth hundreds of millions of dollars, that are young, beautiful and have everything, but can't handle life, and tried to kill themselves but why?

Because an obese corrupt doctor told them that he knew the mysteries of the brain, and that they need to take a lighter form of methamphetamine every day for the rest of their life to be normal.

As Dr. Carl Hart explained, adderall is basically meth-
http://www.vice.com/read/a-neuroscientist-explains-how-he-fo...

That person is in college, and the social acceptance of taking adderall to succeed is scary. If you can handle a low dose, great, I'm all for practicality. But most can't and the idea that amphetamines can cure a lack of focus is pseudoscience.

So excuse my tone, but I don't believe in what you said. The problem is behavioral choices (health, what you read/watch/interact) and learning how to deal with one's own thoughts and impulses, not mythical theories on brain chemisty.

What you are saying is often the cause of the problem, not the solution.
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That's more or less the norm for secular israelis, regardless of ethnicity.
I think it illustrates the "hardness" of Random Decisions Forests and "smoothness" of neural networks quite well.
'Helicopter money' might help U.S. economy
If Uber ultimately goes public, then the owner will be society. The medallion owners largely were individuals who had the access to credit and leveraged in as the values rose.

There is a lot more transparency with Uber, however if they achieve a near total monopoly on transportation such as Google did for search, the end result from a consumer experience standpoint may end up the same, with different trade offs.

The alternate issue, the employees/drivers, won't matter in the long run because there won't be drivers whether it was Uber or medallion holders.
I think the best case for moving to Python is for the tooling around math and data science. If you're build other types of web apps in Perl and looking to switch to something else. I'm not sure Django is going to offer you a ton of benefit for the switching cost, IMHO.
Ah ok. I thought that was Gen Y but it seems Gen Y is synonymous with Milennial.
What sets Apple apart from Googles and Facebooks is that it's the only company that stores the data in way that Apple itself cannot read it. This is why the others have little to say on the subject - there is no issue of a "backdoor", because there is no wall to begin with when it comes to Google or FB, their business model depends on reading and analyzing your emails and posts.
The government subsidizes housing through:

- low interest rates (reduces interest payments)

- tax deductions (mortgage interest payments, etc).

Low interest rates, in particular, caused prices to rise dramatically, putting a lot of people in a lot of debt and making house ownership out of reach for many others.
True. Although the Android JsonReader class does force you to write your own parser (it is itself merely a lexer). This is really inelegant.

What I'd really like is a way to write my POD types as normal:

class Foo {
int bar;
String baz;
ArrayList<String> blah;
ArrayList<Xyz> xyzs;
}

class Xyz
{
String name;
int value;
}

And then just write this to parse it all.

...
Parser<Foo> p = new Parser<Foo>();
Foo f;
try {
f = gp.parse(input);
} catch (JsonParseException e) {
...
}

I'd be willing to accept having to annotate some of the fields, (but other than that, this should be possible to do).
emacs package don't exist yet as far as I know. But the API's are open and should be easy to write. I think that the hard part would be the UI for displaying variables and stacks.

The server side code is not open-source, mainly for use of internal technologies. But why do you really need it? Google offers it's usage for free.
Seems like a legitimate case for BitTorrent? It's always my go-to download method for Linux ISOs.
So handy!!!
Here's the 7th. Every Bitbucket Server admin has a double-digit long list of watched issues. And to go on, plenty dive into Atlassian, because of the ecosystem, but the ecosystem is not at all symbiotic i.e. the products are built separately, implement same functionality, same UI concepts in totally different ways.

I know the link is not about the onpremise version but given the onpremise solutions' quality, bitbucket.org is well.. In the same bucket.
Adding 'seams' into the monolith (and exposing this typically via REST or AMQP) is the most effective way I have found.

The alternative is to 'screen scrape' the data returned from calling the monolithic application via the interface exposed now. For example, calling a website page, parsing the HTML data returned, and extracting what you require. However, the code/algorithms you have to write are typically complicated, and the resultant code often fragile and highly-coupled
The political argument against it is "I don't want a single dime of my money going to worthless scumbag lowlifes who are too lazy to get a job" or "anything the government does is by definition wasteful, the private sector needs to handle this problem like all problems" -- the same one that galvanizes the right against welfare, regulations, healthcare, etc.

The conservatives we have in the US are so extreme they make even the ones in Canada look very, very liberal. A proposal like that here would induce horrible rage and kicking and screaming about "the free market" and "entitlements". Someone would be called a communist. Maybe impeached. Conservatives run on platforms of removing programs that help the poor, not starting new ones.

There's a reason the blog poster addressed his open letter to the chief of police, and not to a local homeless charity with a check attached. He doesn't want to help solve the problem, he just wants to whine about it really loud to powerful people without doing any work or spending any money and hope it goes away.
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I think it's worth trying.

However it's important that you wrap this in the proper words [1] not just plop the links on the page.

You need to explain the links but without apologizing for putting them there. You can even say perhaps that you were asked to do this (because you were). And don't chicken out and say you are donating the $$ to charity or anything like that.

Depending on how you write this, you will minimize the whiny blowback (if any). That said, running a business is not running a popularity contest to the tune of the most vocal commenters on HN or reddit or wherever.

If you are not doing so already you might want to issue traditional press releases with your results as well.

Of course if you do the links (and I would try this for more than one quarter) if it works or if it doesn't work you can then do a blog post on that!

[1] In the business I am in we charge for a service that our other competitors give away for free. By wrapping it in the proper words we often get a thank you instead of a complaint.
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Well, she's not wrong. The situation with the Roma across Europe is a weird one that's completely separate from the homelessness situation.

[All of this is a simplification, and I'm omitting a lot here. The gist ought to be correct, and, I hope, fair to all.]

There are certain cultural barriers when it comes to the Roma. When you have an itinerant population like the Roma (and in Ireland and the UK, Travellers), you will naturally end up with with a conflict of some kind between the settled and travelling populations in a given area, unless both populations are familiar with one another, and even then the opportunities for discrimination are huge. The situation with Travellers in Ireland and the UK isn't as bad as the Roma situation, as the itinerant Roma population is self-isolating and can't speak the same language as the host settled population, whereas at least Travellers can speak the same language, so they're not as isolated from the settled population as the Roma are.

With Travellers, the core issue is that the trades that once allowed them to afford their lifestyle are no longer useful to society at large, so their opportunities for employment are few and far between, which unfortunately leads a greater number down the path of criminality [aside: the vast majority are decent people, but when you're deprived of opportunities, that's going to lead some people to crime]. Add to this that the modern state practically demands a settled lifestyle for things like taxation, education, healthcare, &c., which even further alienates the Traveller and settled populations. Now, you could suggest that they just settle, and some do, but people tend to be attached to their heritage, so for many that's not a runner.

With the Roma, all of that is even worse because they have the added language barrier and an even bigger cultural barrier. Moreover, you also have a trafficking problem surrounding some of the Roma where they're exploited as beggars, and sometimes worse.

So yes, the Roma situation is a completely separate situation from that of homelessness in general, and one nobody has any good answers for yet.
Couple of iterations still and wear down suddenly won't matter anymore!
Apple has an architectural license from ARM, which allows them to design their own cores based on the ARM instruction set. They used ARM cores in the beginning, but they're designing their own cores now. (The GPU is still licensed)
Presumably, if the exam is well-designed, you can't pass it without understanding the material, which you could learn over however many hours you like. Requiring both an exam and a mandatory number of hours seems redundant.
How much better this letter would be if it were reframed: we can't ignore the pain, struggle, and despair of the homeless; we need to do more to help – and here's what I plan to do.

San Francisco, like many other towns, is a troubled place if you look closely. Homelessness is a complex and overwhelming problem with no easy solution. Addressing it in a practical, effective, and humane way will take concerted action by government and the residents of this city together. There's no other way.

As real as the author's discomfort and frustration may be, his words stink. Here is someone who neither recognizes the full potential of his undeniable privilege, nor sees its true limitations. He wants change, but having already paid for it, is entitled to it (he seems to say), and so the burden rests on others to fix the problem.

Justin Keller knows what a good society should (literally) look like, but he doesn't understand how to get there. I'm hoping he doesn't lack the empathy and humanity his words and tone suggest.