skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go would benefit immensely from the ability to bind to JDBC drivers for database access.
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Ahhhh! I killed the digital ocean droplet that was running the tile proxy for urban scratchoff last week. Sorry to those who were interested in using it, I'll try to get it running again this evening.
Thats exactly why I mentioned an application such as a casino - the vm will provide guarantee of a payout. People will pay for that, but they won't pay for you to run 3D games on the thing.
Ask someone if they would sell their TV to buy lottery tickets. They'll say no, because a TV delivers lots of entertainment value.

Lotteries don't. Calling them entertainment is just an excuse for scamming money out of people. Calling them investment is just trying to confuse things.
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> Find team building activities that can be conducted via video-conference.

What kinds of things have your tried? or would recommend?
>According to the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries, lotteries took in $70.1 billion in sales in the 2014 fiscal year. That’s more than Americans in all 50 states spent on sports tickets, books, video games, movie tickets, and recorded music sales.

One should be careful when making this sort of comparison-- at least from the standpoint of the overall economy. The cost of "producing the lottery" is more or less fixed relative to its revenue, i.e. its marginal cost is free, but it's not necessarily free for the other good they're comparing it to. For consumers to increase the number of movie tickets they buy or books they buy, more theaters have to be built or books have to be printed. The cost of producing the extra consumption goods is relevant, precisely because there is nearly zero cost of producing the consumer good that is a lotto ticket.

In other words, money is changing hands (mainly from the poor people's hands into the government's and from there who knows), but resources are not being consumed like they would be if we were constructing new movie theaters all over town. That particular aspect of the lottery is actually praiseworthy and might be missed by a simple comparison of consumer spending on it vs "all these other forms of entertainment combined".
This is the main thing that jumped out at me. Any Ubuntu other than an LTS is not meant for end-users, as it is deprecated in 6 months.

Why did they go this route instead of 16.04 LTS?
Same here. Gitlab is soooo extremely slow. Even on their own site many pages take several seconds to load. And no one really seems to care.

Gogs is a great relief.
Makes sense. But how can a Kickstarted project be a loss leader? Or are they bootstrapped, and using Kickstarter funds to subsidize loss?
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which proves the anecdote comment above is probably BS
Have you been to a restaurant lately and noticed the tables of people not looking at each other but at their phones?
Apple is already operating a private hedge fund to deal with their excess capital.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braeburn_Capital
This repo includes basic queries like those used by "Top Books on Amazon Based on Links in Hacker News Comments" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10924741).

Previous discussions about HN's dataset on BigQuery:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10440502
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10979365

Apart from these queries, what do you want to know about NH content?
Which would likely be a violation of anti-trust law, as we learned in the 90s.

I hope GitBucket posts the email from Github.
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I would expect one can export a constexpr function from a library (that seems necessary to me if one wants to write (most of) the C++ standard library in C++).

If so, a workaround would be to hack together a library that exports a constexpr function that converts floats to their bit representation (that might require assembly or binary editing of a library containing a function that does that by casting) and calling it from the C++ constexpr. Such a workaround would support negative zero and NaNs.
Hello, it's 2016. Did you heard Java or C#? Or even Delphi?
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There's a reason the New York State lottery motto is "Hey, you never know."

You could enforce monthly purchase limits based on income, you could require an accurate demonstration of statistics on every ticket, you could raise taxes and double ticket prices, all sorts of things that would get the primary market - people who buy tickets and really can't afford it - to buy less, but...

Hey, you never know.
> Are you okay with people making "stupid decisions" like smoking in public places?

Yes, because mature adults recognise that smoking in public places is no more offensive than poor bathing hygiene, and less harmful than woodsmoke.

> Society works when we look out for each other - and not let people do whatever they think is "right".

What is right? The majority? That's just a synonym for might.
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Speaking of drugs, and registry, one big problem would be its an extremely expensive small time form of money laundering.

The way to destroy money laundering would be to eliminate small returns of $2 on a $1 ticket (at maybe 5% odds).

The lottery is a very expensive way to get clean traceable money, but often enough not much clean traceable money is required.
> "barring negative impact on others"

You think taking what little money poor people have from them via allowing them to spend it on lottery does not have social consequences ?
It's not just a worry. I've interacted with users at multiple sites who have actually lost data because the rebuild windows are so long that they had three effectively-simultaneous failures within a RAID-6 set.
What I find odd is that, even though they appear to be publicly released, they still develop their own project in GitHub! Anyone know what's holding them back from self-hosting?
This is attacking a straw man. People aren't trying to guilt-trip white people, although guilt is a negative, unintended side-effect of the real effort.

The real effort is for white people to understand their privilege. The article addresses this:

> not all white people are majestically privileged

This is simply untrue. There were explicitly, literally racist federal housing policies until only a few decades ago. Law enforcement is still racist. For example, more black people are arrested for drug use than white people, even though all races use drugs at roughly the same rate.

The degree to which white people are privileged varies a lot, and some white people are genuinely not benefiting at all from their privilege. Society should do something about that. Solutions for black people should serve people of all races.

White people shouldn't be guilt tripped, but they shouldn't argue that they don't have automatic advantages from being white, either.
It's originally intended as a commercial product to make smart home type stuff and the hobby interest is a bit of a lucky accident. It's still pretty new by industry standards so it's just starting to appear in products, mostly very cheap wifi-enabled plugs and stuff. Itead makes a pretty sweet wifi-enabled switch for about $6.00 shipped that is hackable to put your own tailor made firmware on. Pete Scargill has a great writeup on them and I have one myself that I put in the wall to control my overhead lights. They're remarkably well made for how cheap they are.

> http://tech.scargill.net/itead-slampher-and-sonoff/
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The poor do a lot of dumb things: They don't track their money, they rack up credit card debt, they don't plan to minimize taxes, they depend on payday loans and check cashing services, they drink and smoke and do drugs, they constantly overdraft their bank accounts, they spend too much on entertainment, etc. The middle class are better with this, mainly because they have more money and so are less likely to be fined for non-payment.

I know some family approaching 60 who are still paying off the house, 2 cars, and an RV. If that wasn't bad enough, they play the lottery every week because "somebody has to win".

I still think we should abolish social security, but after seeing countless examples of people racking up debt buying stuff they don't need and then depending on it in old age to avoid starving, it's almost enough to make me think it has some merit.

I feel like that entire line of thought with government-enforced retirement accounts leads to increasing taxes on the poor since they can't be trusted to responsibly spend it. Which actually might be what a lottery is.
> It looks like that person is withdrawn, isolated, sucked into a private world that we cannot access.

If only there was global network where we can participate isolated communities while most of people around us don't understand why we sucked into that so much... oh...
Spend some more time around casinos. Watch your opinion change as you realize what depressing things it says about our society that we let people weep on the pavement because they've lost their house on a literal crapshoot.

Spending a good bit of my formative years in Biloxi seriously changed my attitude around all of this.
remember when you searched for a technical term on Yahoo in the early days, found nothing, then searched on Google and it finally understood what you meant by "c++"?

the same now happens. i search Google, get lots of high profile sites. then search Bing and finally got that one forum thread that helps me with some obscure programming issue that haven't showed up on stack overflow yet.
can you share the online course?
For me lotteries is one of the reason, I have grown skeptical of State.

1. They Lie, Lie about funding schools and lottery is the only way to do it.

2. Lie about the Prize money, the advertisements of lottery are untruthful and a private entity would be charged with fraud.

3. The practice of gaming the game, i.e. they try to make lotteries popular and sink a lot of money for advertising, they claim 50% goes for prizes but of the remaining 50% a lot goes to advertising than going to schools.

4. Taxing the winning, splitting the wins. Even if you win, you will be short-charged depending on the number of winners.

5. Exclude non-State entities from having their own lotteries, State monopoly.

6. Corporate tax cuts are pretty much common in states that aggressively promote lottery, lotto and video poker.

Even if it is entertainment, which it is not, Government should not be in it. I am not against lotteries, they need to competitive and have should have a level transparency, that is currently lacking since the law makers are the law breakers.
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It's not a matter of water consumption, but of cost due to power consumption.
And many people, like my parents, have a well. So the water just goes back into the ground for it to be sucked out again anyway :)
walshemj's comment was clearly referring to cases where the expected profit of a lottery ticket is positive ("pot odds are such it does make sense to bet on the lottery"). I'm working from walshemj's assumptions about how risk and benefit should be measured, which is in terms of monetary value.
As I said elsewhere, it takes nothing more than a printer with ink and paper. No terminals, no coin-collectors, nothing else. We shouldn't antagonize a ruthlessly efficient method of revenue because people make bad decisions.

Whether it's killing a man or providing jobs to miners, the dynamite doesn't care.
Fair enough but honestly, I pretty much find this true:

* Google

* DuckDuckGo [ Although with the Ad changes, if I don't have an Ad Blocker enabled, this tends to beat Google. As such, it tends to my default since I use JS blocking. ]

* Yandex / Bing
That's a little much. They do offer a Search API [1] (well, until Friday). Just not terribly surprising it wasn't any better than Bing (since it is Bing).

[1] https://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/
cAdvisor is pretty good at what it does. At its core, it's a metrics collections daemon that iterates over cgroup controllers and sends them to a backend server for centralized alerting and long-term retention. It does other helpful things with the docker API such as extracting container labels so that you can rightsize resource allocations based on workload metadata. What's not to like?
How many external adware/metrics sites can one page hit? This one hit 38
Note Ghostery's list of site hits, to the right.

original URL:

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/03/23/sfpd-cites-tour-...
note to author: imdb.com is the 'Internet Movie Database'
I think Apple's motivation to maintain security a lot simpler. Apple had to demonstrate to the Chinese government that its devices were secure and could not be used to spy on Chinese users. If Apple gives up on that, they'll lose those sales.
I would guess the only feature gogs has over gitlab is low resources and easy install, which for someone like me who does solo side-projects and likes to commit to my home server, is enough reason.
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*(in June)
I expect it's eligible for the same protection as any other creative work. You can paint a painting in the same style as another artist, but if you straight up copy every stroke from someone else's painting it's copyright infringement.

There has to be a line somewhere between "I own the copyright on the appearance of this painting" and "I own the copyright on the appearance of text documents showing 12pt Times New Roman on a white background" where it no longer qualifies as a copyrightable work, but I wouldn't be surprised if GitHub's page layout fell on the copyrightable side of it.

For another example: magazine page layout. If you designed a magazine and a competing publication in the same industry lifted your design pixel-for-pixel, it'd be lawsuit time. If a satirical magazine did it to imitate your publication, they'd be doing it under a fair-use exception for satire. GitBucket is more like the former.
Just pondered... there might be everything already be installed in a typical linux system, "split" does the right thing and can pipe into a command. Probably not the most efficient (making several copies of the data), but certainly enough for a proof-of-concept.

$ dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1M | \
split -b5000000 -d -a4 --verbose \
--filter="gpg -e -r 0x6AC3E4EC >\$FILE" \
- recording_
executing with FILE=recording_0000
executing with FILE=recording_0001
executing with FILE=recording_0002
(...)

• -b500000 split at 50 megabyte input file size.

• -d decimal suffixes (0001, ... else aa..az..zz)

• -a4 : suffixes of length 4 (0000)

• --filter="" : filter through pgp, intended output file is in variable $FILE

• - : read stdin

• recording_ : prefix output files with this string

$ file *recor*
recording_0000: PGP RSA encrypted session key - keyid: 8F74FAFF 29C8C7C2 RSA (Encrypt or Sign) 2048b .
recording_0001: PGP RSA encrypted session key - keyid: 8F74FAFF 29C8C7C2 RSA (Encrypt or Sign) 2048b .
recording_0002: PGP RSA encrypted session key - keyid: 8F74FAFF 29C8C7C2 RSA (Encrypt or Sign) 2048b .
(....)
Most humans do not pause to consciously inspect the URL and header of every single one of the hundreds or thousands of pages they look at every day, no.
The 701 uses NiMH cells so it is very easy to work with compared to a li-ion pack. Here's an example:

http://www.conradshome.com/thinkpad/701/battery/
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All examples you give have a high likelihood of hurting other people.

How does buying a lottery ticket hurt others?
i stand corrected, and your linked article is even from june of last year as well

i commend the oculus team for addressing the issue for the consumer product

that said, i think digital stereoscopy is the wrong direction for vision manipulation

there are many minute issues similar to ipd that need to be addressed, an engineering analogue to the curse of dimensionality

if one looks at the history of stereoscopic viewers it is clear they failed to usurp their two dimensional counterparts and i think it of interest to question why that may be
Drop 'public' not 'var'
Haha, yep
this in no way effects whether one is trusted for payments.
oh, I scrolled down and only saw the purchase option.
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Learning there was such a thing as IPv6 NAT wasn't quite as depressing as learning about a forgotten historical genocide, but close.
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I'm concerned the browser will crash after you open 3 tabs.

Ubuntu Desktop is really really memory hungry. It is currently using 8gb RAM on my Desktop which has been steadily increasing since last restart.

The only thing you can possibly do on this thing is use a not very power hungry text editor. No VMs, no machine learning, no data processing and no games. If they had maybe 8gb RAM, 128 gb storage with a faster CPU, it might have been interesting.
I also think that Nix/Guix are the way forward... Guix really needs an installer/Linux package, though

Just yesterday I added a few tasks to the ansible playbook for my workstation to automate its installation:

https://github.com/berdario/dotfiles/commit/4e92cdb00dbe135f...

Small disclaimer: I'm also the author of Pew ( https://github.com/berdario/pew ), an alternative to virtualenvwrapper... and I'm working on a small program to try to automate further what pypi2nix/guix-import do to automatically package Python stuff for Nix/Guix... Until that'll be really easy, I think that whipping up a new pew virtualenv to try something out quickly is still the easiest thing (especially for people not used to Nix... I know: otherwise you can also use mutable virtualenvs on top of Nix)
And also 'The Last Question' is superb!
Fun, Thanks. Noticing that 'Pokey' in the 8-bit Atari emulation is actually the analog in/sound chip--ANTIC was display.
I think you're selling the politicians a little short. The big difference is that political arguments tend to be created conclusion-first, while engineering arguments tend to be created logic-first.

The political arguments aren't illogical. They just tend to be created for a purpose, so most of what they tell you about is how much effort and skill is being invested to further that purpose. Conclusion-last logical arguments tell you more about how the world works.
I'm new to HN and the main thing I notice ( and like) is that people here don't seem so obsessed with mundane rubbish.

BBT as example - low level comedy with canned laughter that relies on silly stereotypes for literally everything. Faux-geeks love it - the people who 'know everything about tech and gadgets' but can't read a line of code, the populist sciencey crowd rather than the science people themselves.

I'm not american so maybe just cultural difference but everything about is always seemed too try-hard and populist.

If HN spurns those hangeronners then I'm happy. Happy-ish anyway.
My father once won $100,000 from a scratch off ticket. It was a $20.00 scratch off ticket. I gave him crap for years over it because between playing Keno, and buying other scratch offs, he's probably spent close to that trying to recreate the effect.

The thing is, he's very serious about his lottery. He enters every losing ticket into a second chance registration on Maryland's lottery site. (This was how I got him to start using the internet, actually) He won a few times and knows what he's losing. He's not bad at math. He's not rich either, he lives off of a very small military pension and has a job filling vending machines on a route.

I've pressed him again and again about how stupid the lottery is. I've pointed out the math, the bad odds, the addictive design of the games.. you name it. His answer remains the same. A shrug and "It's fun." I have since realized after spending afternoons with him at the places he likes to play, that it's his own odd social network. He knows all the employees, the other regulars. He complains about politics to the other players. He sweet talks the old ladies behind the counter. It's his excuse to leave the house. He keeps making his mortgage payments, keeps making his wife dinner every night, and takes care of his mother. If he wants to blow his fun-money on lottery at this point, I've just quit arguing with him and I go play with him when I visit. Losing 40 bucks to spend the afternoon with my old man is a bargain, in my eyes.
What do you mean by managing dependencies? You upgrade to an OpenSSL version that fixes hash X and be done with it? I don't understand your point.
Thank you for this informative comment (where do you learn more about the interesting stuff?).

Isn't there a nice way to have it both ways, i.e. automate all changes in a script, and roll it after each image update? Assuming most things that may need to be hacked away don't see breaking changes after each update?
Let me see if I have this straight: the advantage of the Rift over the Gear VR is that the Rift lets you move around and the Gear doesn't. But the Rift has a (fairly short) cable, and the Gear doesn't. Is that right? Because the problem seems so obvious that I almost feel a little foolish pointing it out: cables and movement don't play well together, particularly when, by design, you can't see the cable.
Great, now the Uber app comes with recruiter spam. I am trying to catch a ride, do not #$%^ing disturb or distract me from this task.

I got this ditty in Austin a couple weeks ago and it annoyed the $h!+ out of me and all I wanted was for it to go away and never return.

Yep, Uber reached someone they might not have otherwise reached and then proceeded to make an extremely negative impression with it.
Sorry, but even with 2GB Gitlab is painfully slow. And it also happens on gitlab.com where I assume resources are optimized. Loading times of up to 3 seconds for a stupid list of issues are not really acceptable for a web application in 2016. In fact, they never were.
Really, people should pause before calling behavior that does not conform to their model or their own preferences "irrational".

The typical argument goes like "Expected monetary payoff is negative, therefore buying a lottery ticket an irrational decision" -- but this ignores, for example, the possibility of winning a life-changing prize, that would provide enjoyment far above and beyond what e.g. investing money spent on lottery would, and there is no reason why this possibility cannot compensate for the expected loss. Technically speaking, claims of irrationality implicitly rely on assumption of concavity of preferences, but there are good reasons to think that it's not always correct.
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Ummm what happens when you apply your argument to allowing them to spend it on alcohol or cigarettes or a car or a thousand other things? This is a flawed argument my friend. No one group has a right to enforce their social, moral, economic or other ideology on another group based on what the enforcing group thinks is "right". That's a slippery slope with extra grease on it.
I'm pushing static routes over OpenVPN tap to get IPv6 assigned to remote LANs. In my (very limited) experience, the MAC-based IPv6 don't reach the Internet (http://test-ipv6.com for example). However, they do get revealed via WebRTC in Firefox (default install). IE and Safari block WebRTC by default.
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