skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As another "software engineer", I can say that we simply don't ever need a tool like Jupyter for our jobs. It's excellent for exploratory programming, research, and publishing -- but it's not really meant for software development.
Interesting, thanks for the link!
Purely on the basis of training, equipment, and investment of taxpayer dollars, a pilot's life is worth a helluva lot more than an infantryman's life, and air force pilots are probably aware of this. They're like the modern day equivalent of noblemen as mounted heavy cavalry. They feel the duty to protect the peons with pitch-forks on the front lines, but they're not trained to do so recklessly. A platoon getting wiped out is a far smaller loss than losing a plane. Such are the economic realities of war. Pilot training no doubt reflects this.

I honestly don't know much about marine aviator culture, but I'd be very surprised if they don't see themselves as having more in common with marine infantry than air force pilots do. That commonality probably makes them a lot more committed to keeping ground forces safe when flying CAS missions. I could be wrong. I am speculating here. I'd welcome the opinion of somebody in a position to know better.
IDEiOT? Seriously? :)
SF to require Lyft, Uber drivers to obtain business licenses
not sure if I will find something that interesting for the cmmunity
Facebook Employees Explore ‘Responsibility’ to Stop Donald Trump
Have you considered South America? That should fix the timezone differences.

It's also physically closer so the occasional meeting won't be so painful to organize.
F-35s will not be able to fire their cannons until the 2020's (last I checked), because the software has not been written.
yes and the US Air Force is too much in the pocket of defense contractors and out of step with forces that actually wage combat in the current conflicts. They drag their feet on effective and low-cost solutions like the A-10 and drones and want spend all trillions on vanity "air-superiority" aircraft, for winning hypothetical dog fights with next-gen China/Russia fighter jets.
Medical should immediately be joint and separate -- maybe the deployed-with-unit combat medics should belong to each service, but there is no justification for the Navy, Air Force, and Army to all run separate medical and medical-logistics commands, role 3 hospitals (role 2 is borderline), stateside and fixed-base facilities like Landstuhl, etc.

Medical and Medical Service Corps are pretty borderline inherently-military, anyway; they could be a (uniformed?) federal service, able to handle disaster relief and public health, as well as treating the injured in war. We have PHS already.

(This also solves the VA vs. Active Duty healthcare difference; a unified records system and other processes for both would be ideal.)
thanks. that's what I've been using so far but no success.
If you run a large business in Africa there is a very real chance you will need to bride people, including government officials. Also, many African countries have captial controls, so getting our money back out requires breaking the spirit of the law (such as importing good and services at heavily inflated prices from a company you own in the West).

So need to be willing to break local laws and also break your home country laws if your country has laws against bribing government officials.

Many people have a moral objection to bribery or a self interest in not ever risking going to to prison (for me it's both).

In my industry every few years the Feds make a couple arrests for bribing government officials in Africa.
None of that makes it not Microsoft's fault, and therefore makes them the ones to blame when it happens.
Why is it a good balance?

All you've done is state that "my idea is good because my idea is good."

A better response would be to devolve power to CSA - combined statistical areas. These are geographic units defined by economic interactions (measured in part by commuting distances).

See, CSA's make sense because they have a rationale based in recent experience. State boundaries from over a century ago do not.
At Microsoft the joke, which was funny but also pretty much true, is that when MS invents a new "top of the ladder" engineering title (Distinguished Engineer, Fellow, Senior Fellow, etc.), Dave Cutler always gets it first. His influence on Windows is huge. As just one example, there basically wouldn't be a 64-bit Windows if he hadn't personally forced it into existence.
Considering that economic and political power is accruing to big urban centers, it will happen anyway.
> Having to deal with a radically different regulatory/trade environment from one state to the next is not helpful to business.

Of all the websites on the internet to argue this... Are you forgetting that YC made(/makes?) their applicants move to San Francisco? Again, SF didn't randomly become a tech hub because of some will or want, they just so happened to have attractive culture and conducive laws for startups at the right time.

Are you sure that you want to claim that these differences are categorically not helpful for business?

(Aside: this is the very reason that federally mandated net neutrality is a bad idea. Alaska has less than 750k inhabitants, 300k of which live in Anchorage. Alaska is 16.13% of this country by land mass. Are you really comfortable with denying very poor and very remote communities their right to enter into a contract for ad-injected or domain-whitelisted internet at a lower price because you can't stand the thought of your Netflix being throttled?)
Thanks for the links! I've been having a lot of frustrations with jupyter and since it's almost impossible to find anything technical on google these days, I haven't been able to find any good alternatives.
Why does the Air brand still exist? The author notes that he fully expects Apple to give the MacBook Air a processor upgrade, but not a re-design. Who is still buying the Air over the MacBook?
What to do with the rm -rf hoax question
Are you saying that your wife's severe depression came from a sense of entitlement?

If that's the case, you absolutely fit into the second-to-last bullet point.
Even Scala 2.11 has better Java 8 interop. The main change in 2.12 is that Scala itself uses Java 8 features like default methods and invokydynamic.

Using Java 8 has worked with 2.11 for quite some time already.
> inter-state travel is aligned with the self-interest of states that want to have robust economic interactions

On the other hand, Chris Christie (https://www.propublica.org/article/chris-christies-tunnel-ta...).
STOP REFERRING TO SWATTING AS A PRANK. IT IS NOWHERE NEAR A PRANK.
Conversely, isn't the content producer free to block or nag consumers who don't contribute back?

Perhaps they're better off not doing so, if it loses viewership, but that's the content producer's choice to make.
what is BLE? Bluetooth LE?
yeah, the current/official JDBC driver does not support async listen/notify so you have to do polling.

note, the following jdbc driver can do async listen/notify: http://impossibl.github.io/pgjdbc-ng/
I lived in Uganda a few years ago, and pirating movies, burning them to disc, and selling them from a brick and mortar storefront was considered a good job for young people, in the north at least. There are way more than 1.2B opportunities there. People setup power-strips in their neighborhood and charge people small fees to leave their phone for a charge. People walk around the streets hawking everything imaginable, you can buy toilet paper, fresh produce, posters and toys, all while sitting in a traffic jam. I had a guy who sold me eggs, and he was my egg guy, and every week I'd stop by and he'd sell me a carton of eggs wrapped in twine. It's just an overall interesting place with tons of opportunities and existing ingenuity.
Robert Moses wasn't working for the feds.
I have to agree with this, but there's nothing saying that drone operators can't be situated closer to the action. They can operate from a ship off-shore or even a nearby ground facility or plane.

Realistically though, a thousand kilometers of distance incurs only about half a millisecond of delay. The real issue is probably getting the latency of everything else in the chain down to a low level. e.g. One problem commercial VR systems are currently engaging is getting latency down to a level that doesn't make people feel sick. The standards for a military jet are probably a lot higher.

On the bright side, a CAS fighter flying at a few hundred kilometers per hour is probably a much easier first-step for drone replacement than a supersonic fighter. I'm not saying the A-10 is obsolete yet, but it's likley going to be replaced by drones before any other manned fighters are.
Damn it i didnt articulate the point very well and got downvoted :-( but i meant the interviewer was arrogant.
I don't think it is bizarre. What makes you think I do?

I agree that it's a great idea to delegate powers to lower bodies. But you have to decide what those lower bodies should be. I'm just arguing that the states (as currently formed and defined) might not be the best bodies.
Oh, but the beer in the South is moonshine.
Perhaps this is an Airforce/Fighter Jock fetish with speed? The A-10 isn't a super-fast super-maneuverable sexy jet, and they'd rather have more F-22s/F-35s with all of the checkbox Nth-generation bells and whistles (stealth, super-cruise, etc)?

It's like an MVP product that serves customers vs a product loaded with features that only the developers wanted. The A-10 is boring and simplistic and old tech. Forget the fact that the F-35 is expensive, buggy, not the best in any category, and gets owned by earlier generation jets.
Anecdotally: I picked up Okasaki's book on Purely Functional Data Structures as a way of learning FP (to learn Haskell). All the examples were written in Standard ML, so I then started picking up SML. I heard that OCaml was more widely used than SML, so I tried OCaml. The libraries (which stdlib do I use? why is this JSON parsing lib so complex?), build toolchain (oasis? make? corebuild? ocamlbuild?), and cross-platform story of OCaml was another hurdle on top of just the language that I didn't want to deal with.

Ironically, I then jumped to F# since I figured at least the tooling had to be better (since it was a .NET language). I have zero experience with the .NET stack, and my entire use-case for Windows is "use Steam to stream games to my Linux machine hooked up to the TV."

The tooling in a non-VisualStudio, non-Windows way is actually pretty good; Installing Mono is easy, and from there I'd recommend grabbing Visual Studio Code and the Ionide plugin for it. (Or, if you're a vim guy like me, vim-fsharp is also pretty good).

Paket for dependency management is good and kinda like what you'd expect to see in the Ruby world, and and FAKE is a good build system so that you don't necessarily have to touch the nasty MSBuild stuff too much.

There's another project, Forge, in the works for automating away MSBuild's nonsense so that you don't have to deal with it (too much), which is good.
For some background on the direction of the Jupyter project, check out this recent talk at PyData Amsterdam (http://pydata.org/amsterdam2016) by Min Ragan-Kelley & Thomas Kluyver.

They talk about how Jupyter has "evolved from a Python-specific tool to a general data science tool that supports many different languages."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T385txAYSt8
I think you have a pretty naive and overly optimistic view of human organizations other than the US federal government.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

In general very large organizations can be problematic. Very large organizations with massive (universal) scope are at even greater risk.

Unfortunately, what's the alternative? We've tried devolving tasks back to private organizations and smaller governments. Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't.

I find it interesting how so many people on both side of the "big government/smaller government" debate apparently don't have the word "sometimes" in their vocabulary.
will def look at this as it was in my plans to use some aws gpu instances for a couple of days.
Actually, the A-10 is "broke" in the sense that it can no longer perform its mission in a modern air defense environment. The current fleet is also old and wearing out.

That said, there are plenty of military commitments that involve CAS in environments with minimal to non-existent air defense. The sensible thing to do would be to replace the A-10 in kind with a fairly cheap, modern version while working on a more expensive, more survivable complement. That makes too much sense for the Five-Sided Playpen, though.
I don't know if it's fair to blame the TPP-- it seems that everybody everywhere was independently converging upon this. The EU, for instance, moved from 50-year copyright terms to 70-year in 2011.[1]

It's yet another case of a motivated special interest.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/sep/12/musicians-copyr...
Computer industry luminaries salute Dave Cutler’s five-decade-long quest
Probably the longest time-to-knowing-what-the-hell-this-thing-actually-is I've ever seen on HN. Clicked on the link, clicked on a Github link, clicked to the Github root, clicked on the link to the project's site, clicked on the first item in the table of contents, got a vague idea what it was.

I feel grumpy and old. :(
As mentioned in the article, the Air Force has already paid Boeing to rewing the A-10 fleet and subsequently extend the lifespan of the airframes out to ~2030-2040.
I've found that searching through duckduckgo with the !g command improves results. Try it out. :)
Was more impressed that it's part of the system architecture from the start, instead of being grafted into the setup later.
62 People Own Same Wealth as Half the World
Anyone knows why Debian/Ubuntu is still on version 2.3? Is it because the Jupyter devs are all Mac aficionados?
I still don't get what we're supposed to call the new 9.7" iPad Pro. That's a mouthful. The little one? Or is that the Mini? The mid-sized iPad? The smaller iPad Pro?
(answering my own question)

- there is a glut of high-tech, mainly web, companies and employees.. when we would be better off having more traditional engineers.

- we are rushing to grab what’s left of this glut, before it falls apart.

- our work has no value. It's the spinning wheels of an exercise bike.

- technology is not progress, in the broader sense. quite often the reverse. but because of our jobs and interests, we fool ourselves that we are partaking in progress.

- technology is a man-made disaster. at best it is domesticating us. a moderate view would be that we are too dependant on it, and it’s getting too late to stop. it is oppressive and alienates us. at worst, it is enslaving us.
My favorite aircraft ever - I loved it at air shows [1 - 1978] as a kid and later when my son and I played the A-10 Cuba [2] video game together.

[1] https://www.oceanaairshow.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-10_Cuba!
I've been expermenting with Mustache under the hood lately, so I'm interested in template implementations. It seems odd, you've chosen an odd middle-ground of "support arithmetic" and "no real heavy logic".

Having played with the subject a few times, I've come to the general feeling that it's best to choose a hard line on one side or the other - either the mustache "pure logicless" or just do straight string interpolation (assuming the language provides a good syntax for multi-line string interpolation - C# almost does except that you have to escape all your quotes. Dunno if other languages to better).

Any particular reason why you chose to support some logic instead of none or all?
Ask HN: Does your employment agreement include mandatory binding arbitration?
Several technology-company offer letters I have seen recently include a mandatory binding arbitration clause that governs employment-related issues.

Should that be a red flag? Should it be avoided? Obviously I never plan to sue (or be sued by) my employer; I do a great job and any place I choose to work is somewhere I'm sure I'll love. But it seems like this stuff seems pretty scary from stories in the mainstream press like http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/02/business/dealbook/in-arbitration-a-privatization-of-the-justice-system.html .

How common is this kind of clause in agreements these days? How flexible are employers about negotiating it?
House Passes Bill to Sabotage Net Neutrality
This is kind of misleading. grep has an option to enable PCRE matching (the -P flag), but it by default still uses a combination of Boyer-Moore, Commentz-Walter (like Aho-Corasick) and a lazy DFA.

Also, Rust's regex engine (which is based on a lazy DFA) is giving PCRE2's JIT a run for its money. ;-) https://gist.github.com/anonymous/14683c01993e91689f7206a186...
That's exactly what I do, actually. :p
Bluetooth Low Energy yeah! Trying to keep the headline brief.
RTD is more or less controlled by Denver and Denver based beuracrats in practice, however
Strange, likewise.
It sounds like the problem is government.
For instance, Kotlin is using the same collections library
as Java. So there are no adapters or conversions needed.
Scala has its own collection library instead.

Years ago Scala tried the same thing Kotlin currently tries to sell as the hot new stuff. That approach was abandoned altogether, because. it. just. doesn't. work.

It's a death by thousand cuts. You can keep sprinkling compiler magic on top of it, but it will be an ongoing game of whack-a-mole. See all the typesystem unsoundness and how they had to abandon (non-)null annotations for existing code because it just didn't scale/work.

The whole concept of having mutable and immutable collections within the same API hierarchy that Kotlin tries to sell is also considered to be one of the remaining design issues of Scala collections.

Those were terrible times. So happy that Scala doesn't do that anymore!
We don't always change our minds, even when presented with sufficient reasons why we should. We get locked in to our positions, and don't give a real hearing to opposing views. Truth and logic don't always win the day, even with us.
I have no idea if this project has legs, but I enjoyed reading about the concept of Swedeshi and being reminded that Ghandi successfully sought political independence by pursuing financial independence. I have my own hypotheses about the importance of independent stuff. My confidence in the viability of it sometimes falters. This was a nice read on a day when I have been wondering "Why bother?" about a lot of things.
Happy to provide more context, but for my money's worth, top three are Tile, TrackR, and these guys.
But for VR you can just have a ultra wide fov camera and then allow your pilots to look around that field with zero latency. The only latency would be with actual commands to the drone which shouldn't cause any problems with VR anyways.
It's compile times, those are very easily tested and measured.
> To play, you’ll need a computer with Minecraft and a child who’s familiar with the game.

Hilarious, and true. Oh, I hope someday to be asked how one plays Minecraft...
Municipalities (and counties, parishes, etc.) never had any power to begin with. They have never been sovereign entities, in the US.

States have always been (partially) sovereign, and there is a clear trend over time of them becoming less so.
Two entire states? Try 9. Both Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, New Hampshire, Vermont, Delaware, West Virginia, and even New Jersey do not have stations on this map.
This is exactly it. The Air Force brass is all fighter jocks these days.
>> "which I disagree with but whatever..."

Seriously consider how irrational that may sound at the very least to me; which to say if you're able to explain why VR is not hyped or why people being irrational is not puzzling - I'm happy to listen and more importantly, acknowledge that I've been unreasonable.

Otherwise, to me, your just supporting my view of the situation.
- People who like having a USB+Video port - Don't want to buy expensive adapters (at least the less expensive ones)?

- Performance (CPU wise)

- Price

I would rather ask why are people buying a macbook over a macbook air? The macbook air has a better price/performance ratio. And the form factor cannot be a logical argument... The macbook air compact enough to fit in everyones bag.
I never understood what was(is) the point of going so thin for our laptops and phones. There are so many compromises to make in order to get there. I am almost sure it's done to satisfy tech reviewers that set trends for consumers rather than a consumer's need (need/choice/wish/desire/etc.).
> I must admit that I don't understand how the number of characters corresponds to bits of entropy. Know of a resource that explains this?

There are 26 letters; mixed-case doubles that for 52 choices; digits add 10 for a total of 62 possible choices for each character. That means that 2 characters have 62^2 possible configurations, 3 62^3 and so forth. If you take the resulting number and calculate the ceiling of its logarithm in base 2, you get the number of bits needed to represent it:

(ceiling (log (expt 62 11) 2)) → 66 -0.5038376
I don't like most advertising, but humans worked to acquire status and assets long before there was advertising. In fact, they even would risk their lives and kill for them.
Thank you, I appreciate that.

I sent him an email 14 hours ago and haven't received a response. I'll wait a day and if I still don't hear from him, will contact you.
This might be right, but it's irrelevant to the thread you're in, which is about whether the claim about subtle toxicity is something we should believe.
That works for passwords, but not for everything. What happens when someone goes "Oops, didn't mean to drop those nudes into my gallery of vacation photos"? Are they irrevocably published? Or can you unpublish them and hope that nobody noticed while they were up?
That's not the point. The point is many US companies can't sell products there whether it's "really" Russia or not.
Why not round up and call it the 10" iPad Pro vs the 13" iPad Pro, just as we call them 12", 13" and 15" notebooks, even if we're off by a bit?
Sadly telnet is still in use in some places. As of ~4 years ago, I was using it on medical devices!
Can we use a smidgeon of this grand technology to stop the unwanted telemarketing calling from phone banks, autodialers and robocalls, all of which ignore the 'DoNotCall' screening procedures?
With great difficulty it seems.
Correct; smaller states having a larger voice is by original centrally planned design.
These statistics almost always willfully ignore the fact that many of these people have negative net worth; it's entirely possible that I personally have more wealth than 10 percent of the world simply due to their having negative wealth.
How many square feet does that $800 per month get you?
All I know is that it works. I do not agree with everything, but the opposite idea that every women is an angel is also not true (except for Mothers).
Your capslock key is broken.

Also, it clearly is a prank. A dangerous and reckless one, but the idea is still to have a giggle at someone's expense.

I don't see how mischaracterizing the intent of this act will help us fight it.
Clean, meaningful syntax! Great job!

Edit: Why spread the ugliness of "endif" and "endblock"? Why not just "end"? Why have the unnatural "elif" as well?
Anyone can have an attitude of entitlement. I have observed it in both genders and in various life circumstances. Focusing on women shows your bias.
I do DevOps. I don't need a powerful rig, but it does need to be light as I'm married to my macbook air (it does not leave my side when I'm on my on-call rotations).

If the air is truly being killed off, I'd probably go buy another one or two refurbed to keep as spares for the next 5-10 years.