skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post I was replying to was discussing only direct subsidies, not externalities. The report I referenced is the one the poster's reference referenced. I don't see how an HMS report on the cost of externalities is appropriate to the discussion, considering the worldwide costs are certainly in the trillions if not tens of trillions.
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I didn't see this stated anywhere explicitly, but it looks like their Github data ends at Dec 2014.
I don't run a PC with low ram nowdays and I've had the exact opposite problem - about 6 months ago after a random Fedora update I started noticing my system would start swapping after using it for a long time (6+ hours). I tried to diagnose memory usage but every tool I used didn't sum up used memory to the memory used by programs - and it wasn't reserved vs used or whatever - the system was visibly swapping on a machine with 8 GB ram and ~4GB memory used by running processes. I would just restart the machine after 8 hours but I've never had such issues with Windows (at least past XP, Win9x was basically restart after everything).
Right. Also, I just saw that `letsencrypt-auto renew` will only issue new certs if < 30 days left on current cert.
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Erik Naggum, from Norway.
Changing the reported vote count is amateur-level election rigging. Professionals engage in much less obvious efforts - say, by suppressing turnout in unfavorable voting locations.
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Google Killing Wallet Cards June 30
Your Wallet Card will only work until June 30

Hello XXX,

Thanks for ordering a Wallet Card.

After careful consideration, we’ve decided that we’ll no longer support the Wallet Card as of June 30. Moving forward, we want to focus on making it easier than ever to send and receive money with the Google Wallet app.

Here’s what this means for you:
You can still activate your card, but you’ll only be able to make purchases with it until June 30.

You won’t be able to add money to your Wallet Balance from a debit card or bank account after May 1, but money you receive from others will still be added to your balance.

If you have money in your Wallet Balance after May 1, you can keep it there, send it to others, or cash out anytime for free.

As we wind down support for the Wallet Card, we’re excited to continue enhancing Google Wallet to give you the best possible experience when paying friends and family. We’re hard at work on new features, so keep an eye out for those in the coming months.

If you have any questions, visit our FAQ.

The Google Wallet Team
At least for b2b, my 2 cents is that charge for your product upfront. Putting that paywall in front of your product can help you immediately assess how interested they are.
Interesting, will have to check that out.
Not very. You can find various systems and modules on a chip at a similar price point and lower.

It depends on what you want on chip, if you need it broken out and if you value documentation, vendor support and community development.

I was researching this yesterday for part of a personal project.
asciinema stores the raw program output including any terminal escape sequences in a JSON format[1] and then uses a javascript terminal emulation library to replay/recreate the terminal state in your browser. The player, made up of one Javascript and one CSS file, can be self hosted[2].

[1] https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema/blob/master/doc/ascii...

[2] http://blog.asciinema.org/post/self-hosting/
http://www.transcrypt.org/

Does multiple inheritance
OCaml 4.03 will have a minimal UChar type and module, that
will allow various Unicode libraries to agree on a common type: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/80

According to the author of one of the Unicode libraries that is the only thing the compiler should distribute by default, and I agree with that, otherwise you need everything that comes with Unicode too to make it useful: normalization, segmentation, etc.
If an application needs that it can link with the unicode library, having it separate from the compiler means features and updates can be implemented faster.

Also see here on how other languages (Python in this example) got it wrong:
https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2014-07/msg00050....
https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2014-07/msg00054....

The linked introduction to Unicode (for OCaml but not only) is also very informative:
http://erratique.ch/software/uucp/doc/Uucp.html#uminimal
0. Windows.
It seems to depend on the highlighting rules for different languages.
I'm leading a small team in building an ionic app right now.

The edge that cordova/phonegap/ionic will retain is the HTML and CSS part. As well as, at least for a little while, a more robust plugin ecosystem. Though that second one will change VERY rapidly.

The other developers on my team are very much frontend & CSS types.

I would be too much of a bottleneck if I were the only developer able to write the code for the app.

If xamarin were free when I started, I may have given it more time in evaluation, but at the end of the day, I think that the choice would have remained ionic.

Even react-native isn't ready yet if you're a windows based shop. But maybe that's come along in the last couple months too.
Very interesting, thanks for the cite. I think it's important to note that those figures are for "hiring employees without previous experience in the job" because "It is largely through the quicker acquisition of job-relevant knowledge that higher IQ mediates job performance." So you'll acquire new skills more quickly if you have a higher IQ, which makes sense, but if you have two people at the same apparent skill level applying for a non-entry-level position, IQ may well not be (or may well be) a valid means of deciding between the two. This jives fairly well with the quote from Google.
The famous Stanford Prison experiment has numerous methodological flaws[0] and is most likely hokum, and Phil Zimbardo, the director of this study has exhibited numerous moments of questionable ethics. Including sleeping with and marrying one of his research students.

[0]https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201...
That's funny, because gmail doesn't verify DKIM headers. At least not when I spoof gmail addresses! Maybe because my originating mailserver is whitelisted?
Zaha Hadid designed the Broad Art Museum in East Lansing. I drive by it daily and it takes your breath away. It is clearly the best thing Michigan State has done for the community in a generation. The lady had a very special talent.

http://www.inexhibit.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/eli-and-...

They used it as a set for the movie Batman vs Superman

https://i.embed.ly/1/display/resize?key=1e6a1a1efdb011df8489...

http://broadmuseum.msu.edu/
I thought that was a heat-sink or something. But it was just long headers and an ethernet port. 8O
If anyone involved with this is around, I'm curious why Airbnb would build something like this - cost, performance, features, all of the above? Data querying and visualization is a pretty crowded field with a lot of commercial options to choose from[1].

I'm not knocking Caravel (it looks amazing) just curious why build vs buy in this case.

[1] Tableau, Looker, Periscope, Chartio, Qlikview, Gooddata are just some that come to mind.
"Why does this work?": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22why+does+this+...
In MLs, you can often replace what would be a typeclass in haskell with idiomatic uses of functors (parameterized modules). It gets kind of hairy if you do it a lot, though.
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I wrote a shift-reduce parser for a minimalistic C-like language where the grammar is entirely specified as a static table. The precedence rules are resolved through a "should_shift" function where the parser asks whether it should perform the reduction for a matched rule, or shift one token more:

https://github.com/bbu/simple-interpreter
The exclusion would be caucases where a particular party would be in charge of the ballets and voting count.
part of it is probably recruiting
This is the smallest that I've seen. (I haven't seen much)
The concept of being right only makes sense across a dialectic of (perceived) truths. Obviously absolute truths about the state of the universe are still utterly inaccessible, and a priori truths never required consensus to begin with.
> I read somewhere else that some of the FOV tuning/shrinking has been for safety concerns as well.

This is very wishful thinking on the part of wherever you read that. Microsoft would love to expand the FOV, it's literlaly the number one bit of feedback they get on the product, but the current optics design simply won't allow it.
Totally agree, I think his management scope is a lot more significant than just attributing it to luck. 538 did an analysis and showed that based on metrics, even the San Antonio bench would be a competitive group of starters in the league. That kind of depth and how to manage it is really quite impressive because of how it goes against typical rotations in the NBA in my view.
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Arizona's voter database has apparently been tampered with or at the very least been susceptible to lax security standards.

Apparently someone has copies of voter registration forms and just copied the signature and changed party affiliation, nullifying votes (causing voters to receive provisional ballets, which generally are not counted) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1PnM6rf7X8

Here's the Arizona House elections Committee hearing, and a citizen mentions that voter registration documents have been leaked to the web. https://youtu.be/ESyXvGLMIS0?t=58m37s
Thar be dragons: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22thar+be+dragon...
Google Wallet Card is shutting down
I apologize if I offended you. I didn't mean "you" as in "you, mreiland", but as in a generic "you". I can no longer edit my post, but I've no problem if an admin edits that part to make it more explicitly general.

My use of "you" was the same as yours when you said "it makes you pause and interrupts your train of thought"; I didn't take it to mean you were referring to me specifically! Unfortunately written language is prone to this kind of misunderstandings :(
Andromeda's first spinning neutron star found
Most interesting statement: China has lost more manufacturing jobs than the US in the last 20 years.
Looks like a lot of CS homework submitted via GitHub with pseudocode / comments to aid the TA / grader.
We've got another one: "No idea" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11399852
Honestly, I think it still has its place.

HTML+CSS means we don't have to retrain our web developers but can still produce work for our clients that meets their needs.

Personally, I'd like to go more native and xamarin could enable that, but in consideration for the team holistically, HTML&CSS&js was the way to go.
I don't get it. Not even as an april fools joke.
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This is a tricky problem.

We need to remember what courts are all about. They take someone who is accused of something, and if they decide it is appropriate to do so, then they take away possessions and/or restrict freedom. That is a serious thing to do, particularly since any old person can be accused, whether they did anything wrong or not.

Thus, there are good reasons why the U.S. justice system is all about protecting the defendant. And even if the defendant is a company for whom the situation is all in a day's work, the principles still apply.

So watch out for language like this:

> But plaintiffs — the party who did nothing wrong — do not enjoy comparable protections.

On the contrary, you do not have to do something wrong to be a defendant. And the plaintiff may very well have done something wrong: false accusations, evidence tampering, etc. This is why we have court cases, and not simply mandated payment when one is at fault.

But the article is right about one thing: there is a problem here.

I wonder a lot why this issue is not solved at the level of judges. Surely, after years as a judge, one can tell when a defendant is BS'ing or needlessly prolonging a case. It seems simple enough to say, "Do this or be found in comtempt." Why isn't that the solution to so many instances of this problem?
> Anytime the police take something from you it is theft... Period

Is it? If you've stolen the goods form someone else, is it theft? Maybe it is theft, but we condone it because it rights the initial wrong.

> With Civil Forfeiture it might be legal theft, but it is still theft.

I've used almost those exact words elsewhere here at least once.

> Citation.. I know of no instances where this is the case.

The government also uses forfeiture to take the profit out of crime, and to return property to victims. No one has the right to retain the money gained from bribery, extortion, illegal gambling, or drug dealing. With the forfeiture laws, we can separate the criminal from his profits -- and any property traceable to it -- thus removing the incentive others may have to commit similar crimes tomorrow. And if the crime is one that has victims -- like carjacking or fraud -- we can use the forfeiture laws to recover the property and restore it to the owners far more effectively than the restitution statutes permit.[1] I've referenced it multiple times at this point.

> That is part of the problem with CF, I do not see that as a Good thing. You are denying a person a right to a fair criminal hearing if you take all of their assets before conviction.

That's one side of it, and it's definitely a problem in some instances. What about someone using the money they've stolen from you to defend themselves? What about people in organized crime using money from that enterprise to defend themselves?

> I believe all drugs should be legal.... using Drug Dealers as and example of why we need CF is a fail for me

Can you not come up with a single other group that you don't agree with? What about contract killers? Or embezzlers? Or con men? I expect if you disagree you should be able to come up with a general rebuttal to what is obviously meant as a general example.

Keep in mind my assertion here is not that civil forfeiture is good, but that there are some useful aspects, and before abolishing it outright, we owe it to ourselves to at least rationally examine the pros and cons, and see if we can mitigate the downsides or possible change the law instead of abolish it.

1: http://www.fed-soc.org/publications/detail/forfeiture-is-rea...
No names were called. An adjective was applied to the rhetorical content. ;-)
The only April Fools jokes I enjoy are absurd things that someone has actually implemented in code/hardware/etc. Anyone can write a ridiculous fake blog post about being acquired by $ARCHENEMY_COMPETITOR in 5 minutes, but it's been done before dozens of times and is just a waste of everyone's time.

You could also see this as wasted effort, but they probably had a lot of fun working on it.
The only place where following instructions without understanding them is a prerequisite and concerned to be a good thing is a slave labor camp. Or being on lowest positions in the military.

Resenting arbitrary unexplained authority is a healthy natural response.
The U.S. Is a Big Oil Importer Again
Can anyone summarize their model? Can they automatically withdrawal funds from the borrowers via mobile bill subscription or something? Is this like a low-interest payday loan? How does it work?
It's quite tricky to create HR software that works for the US and UK market, especially when the offering is free and they make the money from selling pensions which will almost certainly be a UK-centric provision.

So while US companies might be able to use it, they'll miss US specific functionality that US HR apps offer.

Source: I built and run http://www.staffsquared.com, a competitor to CharlieHR (but we're not free!)
So the default behavior is to only email root unless crontab is edited, therefore most people would never receive an email (in case of renew failure), if they only followed the instructions given.

Otherwise mail is sent to the owner of the crontab.
Canonical answer: http://foundrs.com, aka the co-founder equity calculator.

If you have just met 1 month ago, your chances or not making it long-term are above 50%. I'm sure you're aware of that. What most people don't do, to follow-through with that fact, is to require vesting. There has to be a way for such an unstable team to blow-up and break up.
I often code errors that say to contact support. I have assumed it would help get problems reported more often.
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Odd, they completely ignore Perl.
That's not 'the problem'. That's the disagreement. You claim it's not a legitimate tool. I say that it is. We obviously disagree and this is going absolutely nowhere.
Do you have a self-hosted option? What's your pricing?
Did the update today and gave it a try but it looks like it still complains on the imports, but JSX parsing did still improve at least!
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I don't think that solves the polling and exit polling problem at all, it only partially solves the recount issue (you still need tons of people to cooperate illegally), and it introduces huge new risks like people filming the caucus.
I get that it's easy to bury your head in the sand when it comes to these things, but there is a major league problem with the police here in SF. They are accountable to nobody and continue to harass and intimidate everyone, not just minorities.

A lot of people don't understand this.

It starts off with minorities because, being minorities, they don't have the political clout to do anything about it.

The downtown decision makers don't care if some black or brown kid gets his head split open for not moving fast enough when the police ordered him to leave.

They don't care until it's someone that is important to them. When it's John Q MiddleClassSuburbanWhiteTeen who gets arrested for a made up offense, it's too late to fix the problem. At that point, the machinations are already in place to abuse everyone.

What they do to the minorities, they'll eventually do to you.
Much better to have two screens, one for the content and another to display any errors to the watcher. Or maybe one screen that is either broken or it's not?
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No yet, but it is on our roadmap. We have had several customer inquire about it. Drop us a note on our site and I will ping you when it becomes available.
This sounds like a job for Dead Man's Snitch.

https://deadmanssnitch.com/
They're stopping support for the Google Wallet card, which was a physical card.

It looks like the Google Wallet App is still supported. So, in that sense, Google Wallet will continue to exist.
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A functional requirement is like adding a room to your house. A non functional requirement is defining what the construction material is and what the construction standards are.

What you describe is like constructing a house, then once it is constructed, specify it needs to be earthquake resistant.
That should be specified as an upfront requirement not a story.

If you construct it, and it was already earthquake resistant, should not be a problem. But if it wasn't, you will need to rebuild.