skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the sense that most people move there as part of being hired, yes. The though experiment is to consider the result of restricting recruiting for NSA staff to only NYC/Michigan.
It would talk to the Iridium satellites, which are claimed to cover 100% of the planet: http://www.inreachdelorme.com/product-info/network-coverage.....

Are you saying 100% coverage is not the case?
It sounds like none of them were with their future spouses when you gave them the book. I may be cynical, but marrying after less than one to two years of dating doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
Often it makes sense to have the code and the data together. I am thinking about OOP, where your classes define the data and the methods that act upon.

Having inherited a new project recently I was disappointed to see the documentation talking about following the philosophy of thin models and fat controllers (the opposite of what is considered best practices for Django, which the project is using). It means that there isn't one obvious place to look for the expected functionality,there is unnecessary repetition of code and its way less efficient than it could be if it was done the other way - models with data definitions and related methods in the same place.

I am all for separation of concerns, but I don't think splitting along the lines of "data" and "code" is the best way to achieve that.
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Hello:

I created this project because I needed a generator for a static website - not just a blog.

To accomplish this, the website structure matches the source structure exactly. In a subdirectory, you use the index.md file to specify the content, either explicitly by listing it, or implicitly by specifying the ordering key and direction. A blog would be reverse order by date, but any other scheme is possible.

In addition, this structure makes it possible to refer to other pages in the project using a wiki-like syntax. Basically, Urubu resolves the Markdown syntax for reference links over the project, instead of just within a page. This is a unique feature afaik.

Furthermore, there is support for tags, search, and templating constructs within pages. And it works well with Bootstrap.

It works great for a number of sites that I manage.

Interested to hear your feedback!
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hear hear. the UK is one of the few places in the world that a non-tax resident can buy land freehold. That means the owner pays no tax on gains and no tax on rental income (There's been talk of taxing them but how exactly?).

Here in London, all these new shiny builds with glass and metal balconies are selling (ok about 60%) to rich people overseas who are not UK taxpayers. They like new builds because they can buy off plan without ever seeing the actual property.
That sounds like it could be a "Clarke and Dawe" skit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
this sounds very inline with what my growth team is building at adroll.

would love to chat: plc@adroll.com
I think the general consensus is that R is a terrible language with a lot of useful libraries. I especially like that R claims to be inspired by Scheme, but the memo seems to have been "Make sure we f*ck this all up" taped to the front of the "Lambda the Ultimate" papers[1]. In particular, lexical scoping was one of the key innovations in Scheme and R has pervasively buggered up their implementation, from not distinguishing between defining and mutating a variable to making the default save/load procedures mutate the environment. OMG does R drive me insane (as a programming language person.)

[Saying "there is package on CRAN that fixes this" is not a solution. A language shouldn't require extensive knowledge of the ecosystem to get the basics working properly.]

[1] Scheme was introduced to the world in the "Lambda the Ultimate" series of papers. See http://library.readscheme.org/page1.html
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Could our understanding of nuclear decay be slightly inaccurate and affect these results?
There's an assumption in the use of any formula that there's an abstract, objective reality out there that you can't change. When it comes to relationships, that's false. You contribute 50% of what goes on in a relationship; how you act very often changes the reality that you're trying to evaluate.

(FWIW, many people dislike feeling like they're always being judged and evaluated, and would find someone who tries to rank-order all their partners very unattractive. Thus adopting any formula at all disqualifies yourself from a majority of partners, and the folks who are left will be those who probably like the idea of rank-ordering partners themselves. Good if you're mathematically-inclined and looking for someone else who is too, but many people seek emotional connection in a relationship.)
turns out that is the only thing this project is about. There is no web crawler, there is no external content. The grant and the money WMF is spending are being spent to improve internal search at wikipedia.
Amazon is replicating its Video business model in Gaming
New Semiconductor Material That Could Lead to Faster Electronics
Possibly - there's a blog post where they trawled consumer stores to buy drives and drives in enclosures, and then removed the enclosures.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/farming-hard-drives-2-years-a...

And the discussion on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6801334

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4631027
[Edit] Suppose I should have read the article first since it's basically about exactly this.

Sounds like he was giving a high level explanation of the 'secretary problem'.

Since an alternate name for it is the marriage problem, I guess it's not too far off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
I completely agree and one could theoretically do away with things like ANGLE! Though, I also suspect that the implementor's overhead is rather large in contrast to the current way WebGL is implemented in Chrome and FF, which is currently a relatively 'thin' layer on top of OpenGL.

On the other hand the nature of implementation in Chrome, i.e. does seem to lend itself somewhat to a command buffer approach as in Vulkan.
Apologies, you're correct. I was thinking of the colorkey filter:

https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#colorkey

This was introduced in 2.8 and does the same thing as chromakey, except in RGB rather than YUV.
Andes are dry and cold and will preserve things. People hike the Andes. People can see things from above in the Andes.

The ocean is deep. Sediment drifting down from above layers the debris. Ocean currents disperse the light aluminum fragments that remain from the ocean impact.

An undersea landslide covers the fuselage or it slides down into an underwater canyon, separating and breaking apart.

I vote "forever".
Ha ha ha! As an American living in Japan, who doesn't even particularly like rice, I would have once thought so too, but have learned that's not true in the slightest. That would probably be like saying to somebody in my native Northern California, "Hey, grapes are grapes."

I have also learned rice is not the only foodstuff Japan makes that kicks ass. Peaches, garlic, strawberries, and melons are among several plant-based foods I have had here, with a quality that I never experienced back home in US and A (or anywhere else). (Of course, one perfect, individually-wrapped peach night cost $8, but that's another story.)

Then of course there's the beef...
I sincerely appreciate your thorough and well reasoned response, and thank you for taking the time with it.

1) I agree, perhaps I was trying to allude to visualizations being more than charts. ggplot's charts are absolutely gorgeous and simpler to make than even I remember them being in Lotus 123 for DOS. However, there are some things in the periodic table of visualizations (http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table...) that it can't do. And what about hybrid combinations in the same chart? Could I have a bar chart where the bars are also mini-spectrograms? I can instantly think of how to do this in SVG or Processing, but I'm not sure where to begin with ggplot ... maybe it is possible. Of course why would you?

1.5) I guess I don't want to pay someone else to do the custom thing in D3 that the statistician can almost do with their code, or try to get a regular web stack developer familiar with D3 to actually get it working the way the statistician says.

2) Yup, totally agree!

3) I think Shiny takes a lot of liberties and makes a lot of assumptions that users of it can't even express to me are important to them because using Shiny completely hides the underlying concepts of how it is implemented. I guess I would definitely call that magic. You're right there's quite a lack of magic in most of the language and packages, however.

4) I think data science can/should/does embrace the web. I think the modeling stack shouldn't be on the application server, but a trained model perhaps should be? I also wouldn't trust the stability of R for performance critical API calls without a lot of redundant instances and a lot of load balancing.

Anyway... the real problem is that you're also absolutely right. There is quite a bit difference in opinion between the tooling of an analysis effort, and the robustness expected by IT.

Thanks again!
> Israel is threatened by Iran and Iran's leaders have said they would wipe Israel off the map.

This was not said, it's just Zionist propaganda. Even the Washington Post says so ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/did-a... ).

The fact that this lie is repeated over and over shows you how thoroughly Zionist propaganda has propagated through the US media.
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I must admit I have little faith in any electronic device solving sleeplessness (aside from medical issues). White noise generator...maybe...if you can't fix the underlying issue - bad environment.

For me a combination of right temp (coldish), melatonin (500mg), flux (the PC app) and rooibos (because no caffeine) does the trick.
Some quotes from the link scott_s provided:

"The company's CEO said the total cost of ownership of the new mainframes is about 50% lower than that of the company's sprawling server farm."

"However, mission-critical workloads that typically run on mainframes aren't a good match for public clouds, because mainframes are far more reliable. Public clouds such as Amazon's Amazon Web Services sometimes undergo unscheduled outages, and often the system must be rebooted in order to apply security patches or upgrades. For companies that require 100% uptime, public clouds simply aren't feasible."
I like the idea that it is not for blogs, wiki links and focus on navigation. That is great.

On the other hand, it seems to require a lot of configuration.
There's a fascinating short companion (of sorts) to this, which is a MathOverflow question written by Gowers: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/58061/how-can-there-be-top...
I'm a Post-Doc in a small social sciences department in a major university, and am probably the department's ranking R-geek. I did my dissertation, and much of my current work, doing modeling, analysis, and even machine learning in R.

In many ways, I owe much of my success to the power that R has allowed me to wield. Multicore lapplys and ggplot2 are my life these days. But even with this, R drives me absolutely batty, and the documentation, even battier.

I may be competent relative to most, but R feels so taped-together and idiosyncratic that even on my best days, I just feel like a newbie who's built up an army of ugly hacks.

Someday, I'll learn more about the python stats tools and do my stats there. But for now, R it is. Troll on, you crazy bastard.
I don't think looking at their emails between winning and losing as if they are equivalent is a fair comparison. Bernie won New Hampshire by 22%, Hillary won Iowa by 0.2%. Delegates in the primaries are allotted proportionally so winning by 22% gives you more delegates than winning by 0.2%(ignoring the different quirks of comparing a primary to a caucus, and super-delegates). Obviously any candidate would take a more triumphant tone after winning by 22% than by 0.2%.
Wow, this is pretty poor analysis. You're casting your net far too wide, and also if you're basing your numbers on Tinder swiping, you're making the big mistake of thinking that the women in your local area are similar to the women worldwide. Sign up for Tinder Plus and start swiping in someplace different; if you're in some nice metro area in the US, try some place on the opposite side of the country, in a rural area, and see what you think of the women there. Hint: I swipe left for women who have pictures of themselves with rifles and dead deer. Those women will be more common in some locales than in others. (Same goes if you're into such women: you're not going to find many women like that in the NYC area.) Better yet, set your location to someplace like Mumbai or something. See if there's anyone there you have anything in common with.

Face it, you're probably going to only be interested in certain types of women, who come from certain cultures. I'm going to guess, for instance, that a conservative Islamic woman from Saudi Arabia is not going to be of interest to you, nor would a village-dwelling subSaharan African woman who lives in a mud hut.

Finally, most people want to date someone who lives reasonably close to them so they can meet them in person and get to know them. That limits you more than anything.

So, instead of ~700M women in your age range, that should cut it down by a few orders of magnitude.

And speaking of Tinder, you missed the other part: the women have to be interested in dating you. How many of those women on Tinder have "liked" you? Probably not that many. And out of those, how many have actually responded when you messaged them? Probably only a fraction, based on my own Tinder swiping. (A lot of people there don't seem to be serious about meeting and dating.)

When you consider all the real-world factors that people use to gauge a mate's viability and set a minimum standard, the pool of dateable people becomes much, much, much smaller.
I used to go there in the early days. The UI was intuitive and neat products used to get hunted daily. The last straw for me was the ebooks that showed you How To Launch on Product Hunt. These ebooks and lists were like a whack-a-mole popping up every day getting voted to the top. Also how you can't comment unless you're invited by an insider killed it for me.
There's no barrier to entry on anything solar-related. A wise investor would assume that serious competition will occur prior to reaching a trillion-dollar jackpot.
Tell that to Hugh Heffner?
>> it is not to a bootstrapper's advantage to publish what they're doing to people other than their customers

Good point.
Somebody should make a simple alarm clock with wifi to sync time via NTP. I guess once you open that can of worms, most alarm clocks add other features, too.
If we're going to be really picky, they didn't make the film for their film cameras either.
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"until some post-Nasserite forces in Egypt got together and decided to kow-tow to Israel and the US during the Camp David accords"
Youre describing the camp david accord as if some jewish cabal took control of the administration of egypt. Egypt simply realized life would be better if it didn't go to war with a formidable enemy every 5 years (that is literally the average from 1948-Yom Kippur War in 1973), and it left the soviet orbit and aligned itself more the US.

>No foreign aid
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/united-states-wit...
and it was even offered during your hero Nasser's regime
ZFS is *the* FS for Containers in Ubuntu 16.04
If they only switch in one phase won't that cause imbalances on their power grid? Hyuk.
Hmmmm, yes. I have made an error in my logic by looking at peak production thanks for pointing that out.

Upon some digging I found that the Wanapum Dam in Washington (The one I was referencing) generates around 4 million MWh, or 4000 GWh per annum. Though the wiki is a little vague, not sure if that's max capacity or average. And looking on the Grant County website, it says that the dams construction cost was around $90 million, so a bit more than I previously stated.

On the other hand, the Quarzazate solar station will produce an expected 370 GWh per annum, according to the wiki. So, 10 times less power. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that the ratios still stay the same?

Edit: I was reading the wrong section of the wiki, phase 1 is 370 GWh. 2 and 3 add 1100 more. 1470 total.
you're right, I meant crossing the chasm not jumping the shark
I disagree with you, so I would continue this conversation, but it really doesn't matter which of us is right :)
Looks like a real solution instead of just a text editor like others out there.
Growing up in the 80's and 90's I thought the same thing about video game graphics. How could this stuff get any better? Whenever I get too satisfied about how far things have come in always remind myself of that. At some point computer graphics will be so realistic we won't be able to distinguish it from reality.
That's not true actually. You can be HIPAA compliant while storing data on AWS. https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-compliance/
The CEPL [0] project could be of interest to you! Pretty great approach to OpenGL from CL.

[0] https://github.com/cbaggers/cepl
Recruiters aren't going to give you a good idea of where you are. They largely know clusters of keywords (Rails, Ruby, RSpec) from what I gathered. When I last used recruiters I had ~1.5yrs experience and one said "I think you're at a Senior Engineer level..." And I thought "You have no idea what you just said".

Talk to a more senior engineer you know, or go get to know one to get this feed back. They are more qualified.
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Egypt gets Foreign Aid since 79', Jordan got economic and military aid since 1951 and 1957, respectively.
Black September started on 6 September 1970.

I agree with you they were bought off, but was it better for them to be at a constant war with Israel?

> The money to Egypt and Jordan is money being given indirectly to Israel
I'd very much would like an explanation on this.
Would be more interesting to find out reliability figures for high-throughput data-center models of hard drives instead of backup drive models, with low access rates.
I'm not saying they're necessarily wrong, but remember this is from a company with a financial interest in seeing more job-search activity :p
It's funny you bring up python; I say this not as a comment on your thesis, but related, since I often hear the "python is slow" trope but that's only half true, you can typically write python that is plenty "fast enough" (As a day-jobbing data pipeline engineer) if you're implementing with an understanding of what things will drive you into the mud. This goes beyond just understanding the tool you're using, fundamentally writing an O(N^N) or something is going to hurt even if you're in C#/C. Have seen that plenty, frankly, more than I've seen "legitimately slow python"

Anyway, this was just a thought rolling around in my head given the discussion.
Drinking the urine of pregnant animals for fertility isn't as crazy as it sounds. The drug premarin is made from the urine of pregnant mare and is sometimes prescribe to help with conception.
The simple answer to the "mystery" is a scenario about a "lone wolf" with the determination and the capability to direct the plane to the middle of the ocean and die with the plane.

We saw a confirmed example of such a guy almost exactly one year later (8 March 2014, 24 March 2015):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525

The rest are just the details.
If people still use PHP I'm sure Python will be fine.
Yeah, I feel your pain.

There is no way anyone can eliminate bullying completely as you yourself mention - nor do I think it to be a worthwhile pursuit.

Some amount of friction is good.

Being weird is definitely going to be a problem - I have a buddy who to this day (almost 30) has trouble relating to people and he ranks it as the number one challenge in his life. His parents could afford to put him in sports but didn't think it was a good idea...

You mention how you guys couldn't afford to put you in a sports club. To that I'd say two things: one is that sports should absolutely be free the same way school is free and two - it's a bummer that your parents had kids and couldn't afford these things.

To bring it full circle - it boils down to the parents so often, doesn't it? If your parents could afford to have you participate in extra-curricular activities that you excel in, so much of this childhood angst would be alleviated.

It breaks my heart to hear the shit my friends have gone through and how incompetent so many parents are. The only silver lining is that hopefully - you'll recognize how to make sure your own kids don't have the same difficulties and as a result - the world's a better place :)
Send them to this guy, maybe: https://archive.org/details/apple_ii_library_4am&tab=collect...
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Someone else has pointed this out elsewhere but it's a bit odd to compare israel to scandanavian countries rather than the middle eastern countries that surround it.

So let's ask the same question again: is Israel's behavior arrogant?
Possibly, but not really when compared to Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Syria or Qatar
Compared to others, I believe configuration is minimal. Also, there is a companion site to get started immediately, and update as you go:

http://urubu-quickstart.jandecaluwe.com
I feel like this would depend where in the BIND code the size restriction is being enforced.

Sounds promising, however.
Moving Mountains of Data to AWS
Ah, this must be the unintended side effect of Play requiring developers to declare their apps having ads. :-/
Looks awesome! I'm excited to try the API documentation tool.

FYI if you haven't clicked on the animation on homepage, do it...it's addicting
And there was a lot of questioning over whether she had won when she was sending those defeatist Iowa emails. A few days later, the Des Moines Register - which endorsed Hillary - called for a top-to-bottom audit of the primary in an editorial called "Something Smells in the Democratic Party" http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/editorials/ca...
This is probably my biggest problem with the Harmony remotes—since there's no feedback, the state management gets out of sync. Which usually means drilling into the menus to get it back into sync or getting into the troubleshooting wizard and answering a bunch of yes/no questions.

After 3 different Harmony remotes this is really what killed it for me.
On Linux and Windows, the NTP update daemon "sanity checks" the new date. It refuses to update the time if the new time is "too far" from the current time. Is the Mac any different on this front?
You forgot to say that Clinton has 394 delegates and he has 44. He has 11% of her delegates even after he "won" NH by 22%.

Plus nobody is polling a Sanders win. He will lose in South Carolina by up to 30%, Florida by up to 40%, and just barely scrape by in Nevada (within margin of error).

He will be out after Super Tuesday. He just doesn't have the right demographics (people who actually go out and vote). Even if he is super popular with all of the wrong demographics.
You could buy every solar startup as soon as they get to X size. Also hardware startups do have significant barriers of entry.
I'm not saying it's a difficult or particularly hard problem it just costs more and I have a personal dislike for adding more things that require pairing to my life.
Yep I'm seeing it too. Thanks! Ubuntu just released this:

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2900-1/
According to what I have read, "it depends":

http://blog.udacity.com/2014/11/data-science-job-skills.html

http://www.informationweek.com/big-data/big-data-analytics/3...
Syncing (and its related attributes of backup and redundancy) are more useful, and Dropbox facilitates both that and sharing. So what's your angle? :)