skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A postcard sends an expression of how much you value that relationship. The postcard itself represents time spent by you finding a postcard, writing in it and sending it off during your vacation.

A picture posted to social media has none of this meta-cost and is "cheap".

I think in the early days of texting and social media, the act of using these tools was also high cost. Sending a message costs money, signing up for a social media account, bringing along your cell phone and uploading a picture wasn't always easy or cheap.

Decades ago, I think a long distance phone call was treated similarly for the same reasons. International calls even more so.
What about your team? Who are you?
Not as horrifying as someone installing a build script without reviewing it first...
So, I'm not a lawyer, but IIRC journalists are not legally required to disclose holdings. However, professional ethics definitely does require that they be transparent. For what it's worth ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ My guess is that WSJ just wanted to run a clicky story about bitcoin.
You have to breath into your balls!
I think it's pretty well acknowledged that he's not a terribly good writer. But he's a darn good storyteller, as it is entertaining and gripping from start to finish.
One great benefit to ricochet is that you can choose to exclude those with whom you are communicating from your COMSEC threat model, due to the lack of (mostly connection) metadata availability.
> It isn't a meaningful date for anybody

It's actually a very meaningful date to a lot of people on this planet, although I'm not one of them.

We used to refer to years past that date using a short phrase in a dead language. However, this short phrase in a dead language referred to a religious figure, which is Not OK. So we decided we'd rename it "Common Era" but keep the numbers the same because that would be a big hassle. As a result, our calendar still counts how many years have passed since the alleged birth of Christ, but because people might be offended by the words "Anno Domini" we've called it something different.

If I were in the position to pick a new calendar start date, I'd probably just go with the Unix Epoch... AE, Anno Epocha? We'd now be in the year 46AE :)
Yeah, I felt the same way but the plot and the problems were so well done I didn't mind too much. He was a programmer before becoming a writer and so his style seemed like he was just iteratively solving cool problems to me.

The movie does a great job with the characters though. One of the best films I've seen in a while!
If by wild fluctuations you mean the out of nowhere exponential price growth, I think gox shenanigans are understood by many(without the bias of millions of dollars invested) to be among the main causative factors there.

It certainly can't be easily dismissed as a probable cause.
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:t58mlr... - USPTO link.

AMA history: knowyourmeme.com/memes/ask-me-anything
price isn't true, the cheapest setup in AWS is cheaper than the cheapest setup in GCE.
If your on low margin you probably never go to GCE.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_response
I think the main thing is:

* Kosher meats are a lot of the time better than random factory farm meats. But not necessarily as good as the really expensive whole food stuff.

* Most big junk food makers get their stuff Kosher certified, to I guess not rule out any of their market. Not sure Kosher is adding much value here ;)

* Meat and dairy mixing may or may not matter to your health depending on what you read. If you find it matters, kosher can also help you on this side.
Of course it's sad they lost the native species, but otherwise Darwin's plan is really interesting. They increased the biomass of the island and got forests to grow.
> There are some one-design motorsport racing classes, but they are far from the most popular.

NASCAR would like a word with you.

Edit to add: I know that NASCAR allows more than a single design, but it's in the same spirit. The options are extremely limited.
No idea why you got downvoted, since this is hilarious.
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Isn't this single dispatch?
Let's think in orders of magnitude here. Will moving template rendering from the client to the server increase server load by an order of magnitude?

I might be wrong here, but if more than half your request is spent in a templating engine, something is seriously wrong.

Moving your code to the client side seems like an incredibly lazy way to shave a few milliseconds off your request time. Not to mention your doing so at the expense of increasing initial page load for the user, and breaking the semantic web.
So basically Variolation was MySpace, and Vaccination was Facebook?

Took an existing idea, cranked it up a notch, and sold it to the masses?
Currencies aren't really "stable" in and of themselves, relationships between currencies are stable.
This looks like simple polymorphism to me. A.k.a., single dispatch.
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To do some very basic research in math, the absolute minimum one should know is the basics of number theory, group theory and real analysis. By analogy, what's the absolute minimum knowledge for someone who wants to enter the field(as far as CRISPR goes) to at least be able to read papers and maybe do some labwork? Thanks.
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The ruling was that Indian government subsidies must be paid to foreign firms as well as Indian firms.
I have some tough questions:

Help me understand the incentivization for the "proliferation of organizations" to want to share their private trials data?

On aggregation, I recommend checking out SuperFeedr.

How many hospital systems have you spoken with? I'm well aware of the myriad of ways in which surgical device sterilization documentation is poorly tracked, but even when I've seen entrepreneurs fix it, the hospitals don't purchase the systems.

Understanding why/how hospitals purchase data is where I'd start before ever opening up the terminal on this venture.

Also, check out BaseHealth.com.

Onwards & Upwards!
Pure coincidence.
There exists a political climate where any negative effects are seized upon as evidence that cannabis should remain banned, however inapplicable (for example because they are a small study of chronic users after a week's withdrawal). In such circumstances it is often couterproductive to hold nuanced views.
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It depends entirely on the quantity of data.

For huge datasets, Snowball will be fastest & cheapest (literally shipping data).
"What's a Snowball?"

Animated YouTube by Amazon explains:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9uc2DSZ1wL8
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Headlines "Easy Targets" for Quibbling
I went to try it but don't see it as an option!
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I feel like I'm in a bizarro world reading this "interview"... they're just describing web sites before "web 2.0" (around when Google Maps, Prototype, jQuery etc. came along), but talking about it as if it's a new thing.

Maybe I'm missing the joke, except none of the comments here on HN seem to give any indication that anyone is aware that you can build websites without javascript (and in fact that's how most websites were built, and some still are). Everyone's talking like "in the beginning, there was javascript... but now we have these new things called HTML and CSS which let you finally get away from it!"
This is 400 _registrations_ per second not logins. On the test hardware, Passport can handle 1,000 logins per second. Remember that the server this test was run on is 10 years old and has crap hardware. Running these tests on a modern box with new Xeon CPUs and a 2400MHz bus would probably double or triple those numbers.
> and (IMO) there's not really any downside.

Well, the downside is that it's literally in one header file. Besides being gigantic, it's extremely annoying to search and parse by hand - this is an issue when that's also serving as the documentation. Especially in this case, it would be much nicer to have a "nuklear" folder with a bunch of separate (appropriately named) headers. The single `nulkear.h` header could just `#include` them as necessary.
If a tool encourages bad habits, it is in some sense the tool's fault. On the other hand, overuse of JavaScript isn't encouraged by JavaScript-the-language so much as by how it fits into the overall web platform.

It was an interesting point about SPAs being partially a symptom of god-awful slow backends, fake article or not.
I didn't mention that because it wasn't in the official blog post, but you're correct.

My assumption is that AWS has their own dedicated fiber/private connectivity between edges and regions.
If NYC decided to punish littering by imprisoning you, your entire family, and all of your descendants in perpetuity in some of the world's worst labor/torture/starvation camps....NYC would be pretty spotless too.
I wish this was defined by pep8, but sort of glad it's not.

Much python code uses single quotes, with double quotes for doc strings. Except where it is more convenient.

More convenient places include structures when escaping strings. "Joe's easier here's why." Is better than 'Joe\'s easier here\'s why.' Also structures which are JSON structures too (makes copy/pasta easier).
> I'm sure that there will soon be a minimum price for fresh air in smog-choked cities like Beijing.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/15/asia/china-canadian-company-se...
we'll never find an asteroid that's miraculously
made almost entirely out of Bitcoin

I think we're more likely to find a very fast way to compute sha256 hashes than a 10T+ gold asteroid.
Neat idea. I wonder if the scaling/cropping algorithm is smart enough to handle 4:3 images without chopping people's heads.
Now that you mention Ajax, I don't see where HN does ajax when voting. The only javascript on the page is for hiding the vote icon after voting.
I've never heard augmented reality described as essentially a fancy HUD. Every other example of it I've seen on the web describes it as what these people are trying to call mixed reality. They are just trying to create a new term that they own.
I probably will never visit St Helena, but it makes me kind of sad that such remote places end up getting an international airport and an influx of tourists.
It used to be common for RTTI to require jumping through extra hoops (i.e. adding compiler options) but it's supported by default by most C++ compilers these days.
Congrats, here's one person who agrees with you. It's like Bloomberg has given some hipster interns full access to design the website. They probably think it's so awesome that they're using all the dynamic components
3 years seems to be the time it takes from shiny wearing off to realizing stuff isn't so great after all.
The Bogleheads website is a great community in my opinion. Their Wiki is here https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page.
My daughter hung her postcards over her bed. I caught her in the middle of the night looking at them with a flashlight. ;)
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This seems right in the wheelhouse of a financial newspaper like the WSJ.
All known drugs of abuse increase dopamine and likewise cause decrease in dopamine during drug withdrawal [1]. Since the participants in the study in question were chronic cannabis users who stayed abstinent 5-7 days before the brain scans [2], it is plausible to attribute the results to the cannabis withdrawal. It would be interesting to see the results of a similar experiment where the subjects were given enough time for their brains to normalize the dopamine receptors (let's say at least a month). My hypotesis is that their dopamine levels would be closer to normal.

1. http://perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org/content/2/8/a012229....

2. http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mp201621...
Intelligent Investor and it's even denser cousin, Securities Analysis (both by Graham) are often touted as must reads without the recommender actually reading them.

I have read both and you can safely skip most chapters. I can summarize for you, that based on your description in this post, you are what Ben Graham calls a Defensive Investor, as you want to preserve capital without being able to make significant time or resources towards exploring companies in-depth.

The modern way to be a Defensive Investor is to invest 50-50 in a stock and bond ETF/index fund, such as VTI and BND. It provides broad, safe exposure that mimics how you would have done it in Graham's day. If in the future you find wanting to put the time into your investments, that is when I would consider becoming an Enterprising Investor, at which point you should read that chapter in II, and read Margin of Safety.
Not likely - connectivity in both places is pretty dire (although the saints are to get a cable landing in a few yrars, to go with their shiny new airport this year), and part of my purpose to going to the middle of nowhere is to unplug.
If you don't mind me asking, what are some of the books? We share similar styles of 'buy lots of things about a particular topic'. The Civil War is one of those where I've investigated very little, so any recommendation can jumpstart a bigger, much more invested search.
The problem is that there are pros and cons to every stock. Weighing them and getting the timing right is incredibly difficult though.

So if someone makes an elevator pitch for some stock, what I would be asking is why these pros are going to outweigh these cons.

And that's where we're back to square one where everything is just opinion and ituition, albeit better informed, which has to count for something.

I'd like to add some sort of quantitative discipline into the mix. And I mean something that has some statistical credibility.
There's some secret magic going on using moisture and phase change to drastically up the efficiency and storage capacity. It's not just a simple compressed air system which, as you noted, doesn't work. No idea if their current system will work or not but it's complicated enough that they've spent 7 years trying to get it right.
I think the big problem is that Google does a poor job cleaning up user generated content on their own properties. Google Groups, Google Drive, Feedburner, GoogleSites and Blogspot are continuously used to deliver phishing/malware. It also doesn't help that google sometimes hosts those on it's google.com domain or uses their google.com domain to redirect to those sites.
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There was another long article about this a week ago with almost an identical title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11416795.
i don't understand what this has to do with multiple dispatch. only the this argument is dynamically dispatched on. multiple dispatch is the same idea, except with more than just the this argument being dispatched on, allowing you to define custom methods for any combination of possible arguments and getting to the right one at runtime.
Indeed. It does allow you to offload the scalability problems to your users though, and they won't easily tie the draining of their batteries to your site/app.
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1) I do not see how that's multiple dispatch. In C++ parlance, it requires C to be virtual, but that's it.

2) For symmetry, I would make C abstract in the parent class, and create two subclasses, one implementing C, one implementing C'.

3) Having done that, the logic defining the order of the steps can be moved into the parent class.

4) If you want to mock things, it may help to make A, B, and D overridable in the parent class, too.
I thought the framing device did a good job of covering for the thin characterization. We were getting his broadcasts to historians on the chance that he didn't survive. There were several places in the book where it cuts out for a few hours or days after a major setback, presumably while he goes through the cycles of grief before deciding to press forward.

The movie was pretty good, the only thing I really missed from it was the infamous drill scene. That was a real emotional kick in the book, but I understand why they killed it for the movie (trying to keep the NASA folks from becoming a total sideshow in the third act).
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I don't think it is really that "harmful" if you eat/vaporize it. That being said, it certainly does reduce motivation/focus when used to excess.
Bettridge's law of headlines is out in full force today.
Anno Domini isn't "fairly arbitrary latin" it is very meaningful. CE doesn't stand for Christian Era, it stands for Common Era. There also is not a year 0, it goes from 1BCE to 1CE. Year zero probably doesn't exist because it doesn't make sense for how we count things, you don’t say "it is the 0th year of the common era."

the astronomical year numbering system actually does use year zero but they also use negative years rather than BCE notation.
> I ask why are you focused on the negative?

Well, I'm not. Of course there can be, and there are positive medical effects. The issue is, most users aren't using for real bona fide medical purposes.

These are the same users who reject any notion that their favorite pastime may indeed be causing them long term harm. I ask, why reject it? Alcohol can have good effects in moderation, but when abused it causes long term harm as well. Why treat it any different?

> There is much research to be done. Let's wait and see how it turns out.

Indeed there is. Most of the claims of harmlessness are based on bad science conducted decades ago! Unfortunately, no matter how many studies are published since then, people cling to the old invalidated data which furthers the narrative they desire most.
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Exactly! Man imagine parenting the next generation. Advising the children will be so hard, since many key advices that he/she gained via their own mistakes. Game less read more. Party less study more. Whatever it is.

"Who are you to tell me to avoid partying!? I ran a deep internet search on you dad. I saw how you lived college! Why cant I do the same!? What kind of hypocrisy is this?!"

This mindset is one we are all familiar with. Its part of youth. Its going to be very challenging to parent in the future where people can find out everything about each other with simple searches.
Yup. That's why I'm going now - last sailing, first flight out, it's going to change pretty fast over the next few years.

I want to go to Tristan (and Inaccessible!) too, but it's going to have to wait for another trip, as I only have so much time off, and the sailings don't work for me. There's one place that'll almost certainly never get an airport.
It will be released by tomorrow.
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I have the dongle with USB, HDMI and USB-C. I have not hit a scenario where I was searching for another port, and I've had the machine since launch.

Honestly, it's a great laptop and is far more functional than those (who have not used one) are lead to believe. My only gripe is video playback can be laggy with hi-def videos. It sounds like they're trying to fix that problem with the new model.
Assuming you have tuples, does it matter? Python doesn't have multiple returns either, but it fakes them convincingly.
You can't upload through Cloudfront. It's a good analogy though, you can think of this feature as a "CDN for uploads", if you'll excuse the abuse of the CDN acronym.
It's almost as if the government had been lying about it for decades and people became suspect of any claims being made.

But you're right, I'm really interested in learning the actual science around it so I'm happy that work is being done. I suppose that perspective doesn't lead to the need to comment.

And it's not only the "sins-of-choice" that cause long term harm. Life itself has quite a few negative effects and is the leading cause of death, after all.
Mr. Vorhies seems to have forgotten to take into account the adoption curve in his predictions -- not that I think his predictions are wrong, but I think 2025 is waay too early for that change to take effect to anyone other than the 1%, bleeding edge, early adopters. The other 99%? Probably decades.

From my point of view, what I see is that most large organizations haven't even started using standardized, one-stop-shop accessible data warehousing practices, and aren't headed to hit that target by 2025. What you find is strong data-driven processes in areas like shipping, warehousing and production -- these guys know what's going through their chain down to the individual proton. But in most cases I've seen, the service and enabler departments, be it Finance, HR, IT, etc. are way behind on that curve. This isn't due to the technology itself, of course, but because mindsets need to be changed. And that can in no way happen in 10 years.

That being said, I think we are seeing a very distinct technological acceleration ramping up in the next years, when Machine / Deep Learning takes off in full. The immediate conclusion is that it shouldn't be surprising for ALL 3rd-sector jobs to eventually be fully automated in the near future. Call it The Deep Wave.

Links: This Stanford School of Business panel, held in 2014, has the best 20-minute breakdown of the possibilities of Deep Learning. Given by Steve Jurvetson (investor in Tesla, SpaceX, Hotmail, Baidu, etc.), its scope is genius, and I think it's a must-see. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czLI3oLDe8M

Edit: clarification.
Using custom resources, like LWRPs, doesn't provide the same flexibility. Most of the time you fall into making something which works akin to the `cron` internal resource which doesn't provide managing an entire system but instead a single entry which means you get neither automatic cleanup nor automatic fall back [to an earlier value]. It also means there's no good way to stack configs. You can (obviously) build a resource which manages the entire file/subsystem (poise does this, for example), but even then, you don't get the ability for everyone to override things later in the run... and we want the final service owner to be able to change anything anyone before them has set. It's a key part of being able to scale people... and for us to have such a small core chef team (4-5 people).

In addition, using simple hashes and arrays makes it much simpler for your average software engineer to make changes they want - they have to learn little to no Chef in the simple case... even not knowing ruby they can figure out variable assignments.

The monolithic repo works well for us given we use grocery-delivery (github.com/facebook/grocery-delivery). We have no environments (see my ChefConf keynote in 2013 for a full breakdown of how we do run things) and no cookbook versioning... we run directly off of head. We use a combination of taste-tester (github.com/facebook/taste-tester) for general testing and and sharding (see `node.in_shard?` and `node.in_flexible_shard?` in the `fb_helpers` cookbook) to control the speed of rollout of risky changes.

To be clear we use no precedences at all except `default` - using other precedences will in fact likely break our model since it causes the node-read code to merge things rather than treating it like a single hash. The model here is last-writer-wins always.

As for tests, people consuming these cookbooks are simply assigning variables, so there's not a lot to test in a wrapper cookbook. "Did the attribute get the value I assigned it" doesn't seem like a useful unittest... that should be covered by Chef's unittests itself. For our more complicated cookbooks we've unit-tested the API and where we could we released those (see fb_fstab), and we have some other unittests we haven't yet been able to release that hopefully we'll come back around to.

Hope that helps,
- Phil