skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have always found it to be extremely annoying when I hear people talk of senior citizens being "On fixed incomes", like I'm only making this much money because I choose not to be rich.

"Fixed incomes" does not refer to the fact that they are at the cuurent limit and could not currently do better(which is how you seem to be interpreting it), but rather that it is fixed over time, with no prospect of increase. For many seniors, this is the case at least in real terms (i.e., considering inflation). Many seniors income is dominated by things that are either fixed in nominal terms (and thus shrink when, as is usually the case, inflation is positive), or which are adjusted only for inflation (which are fixed in real terms, even though they grow in nominal terms.) That is, over time, their income is either fixed or declining in real terms.
Thanks for the detailed, informed post!
> I don't know how you "explicitly ask for unsafe code" in Ada

You need to import a virtual package and some times also make use of specific pragmas.

Ada, and Modula-3 are very much "into your face" in what concerns unsafe code.

For example, if you intend to do a conversion between data types without guarantee that the target can can hold a valid data representation, you need to import Ada.Unchecked_Conversion.

And do something like this:

http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/docs/95style/html...

Same applies to everything else deemed unsafe.
Wow that is awful, I understand why they thought it was a good idea but hopefully this incident will change their mind.
It's not even necessarily about "easier to find"; it's about "more convenient to keep track of".
It also lowers your average length of account. If you have two cards for 10 years, your average account age is 10 years. If you open another account, that instantly drops down to 7 years.
Crony capitalism index
Not sure why anyone would downvote this, it's a huge factor. It's a well-known phenomenon. The emotional impact of the stuff you listened to in your early days of music fandom is often much greater than even your favorite music as a jaded music fan 20 years later. If that's combined with being a teenager (or younger), those associations are even stronger and more permanent, to the point where that music will always seem to have some intangible, emotionally resonant quality that seems to be missing from the stuff you get into later in life.
Bricolage in the late noughties was this. Salon ran it for a fair amount of time. The company I work for currently uses it, although I think we're one of the last ones, and since it's not really getting any updates anymore, we'll likely be moving off of it in the near future.

It made some really novel decisions on the Admin UI spectrum, and it's not terrible for content managers as a lot of open source CMS software tends to be, but it never gained traction. My familiarity with Perl isn't what it should be, so it's always painful to try to dig in to debug problems as well.
True, and that seems to be largely because of drugs and nihilism
Indeed, the word apologize actually does mean apologize
> Your salary will rise with inflation

Hourly wages in the US have, on average, grown slower than inflation since the 1970s.
I can second GeoNames. Sometimes it's hard to beat free. We take a couple files from their dump[1] (primarily the city data) and import into a database. We can then geolocate a lat/long to the closest city.

1. http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/
Of course. If we lived in a world where good, productive, experienced developers were cheap and plentiful, we could do things very differently. As it is, it can be more efficient to pay cheap developers to continually patch (or even rebuild) big balls of mud than pay expensive developers to build it properly in the first place.

And I'm not going to complain, because I benefit from the current system.
Why should there have been any morals in the first place? Does nature by default have morals?
Followup: found the following comment on a UMG watermark thread:

> This watermark is embedded in UMG tracks on Rdio, Spotify, iTunes, Tidal, and others.

I would subscribe to a service that allowed me block watermarked files.

[edit] removed patent tangent
>The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists will release on May 9 a searchable database with information on more than 200,000 offshore entities that are part of the Panama Papers investigation.

...

>When the data is released, users will be able to search through the data and visualize the networks around thousands of offshore entities, including, when available, Mossack Fonseca’s internal records of the company’s true owners. The interactive database will also include information about more than 100,000 additional companies that were part of the 2013 ICIJ Offshore Leaks investigation.

>While the database opens up a world that has never been revealed on such a massive scale, the application will not be a “data dump” of the original documents – it will be a careful release of basic corporate information.

>ICIJ won’t release personal data en masse; the database will not include records of bank accounts and financial transactions, emails and other correspondence, passports and telephone numbers. The selected and limited information is being published in the public interest.

https://panamapapers.icij.org/20160426-database-coming-soon....
You're absolutely right. In the case of Boston for example, while prices are fairly high overall, I'm sure you can buy something in Roxbury or Dorchester for relatively affordable prices. Similarly in New York, I imagine there's affordable housing in Brooklyn--just not in Williamsburg. Even Manhattan probably--above 150th Street or so.

Gentrification does happen incrementally. Look at Shoreditch in London. But it does take time and has at least some negative effects in spite of being mostly desirable.
Connecting Hadoop and EDB Postgres to Shrink Big Data Challenges
And I'm still trying to figure out why everyone thinks this is a big deal.

Lots and lots and lots of companies end up at some point representing 50% of all sales, products, or activity in their market.

Hell, even Starbucks was opening coffee shops so fast they were targeting owning half of all coffee shops on the planet.

If he said he needed to quadruple the world output, I might furrow a brow. If he said he needed 8 times the world supply, I'd think he was nuts.

Double? That's just a really big growth market.
The current rule is something like 1,200/year. There are about 143,000 bald eagles in the US. The 4,200 number is set at a level which they think the species can sustain. I don't know why bald eagles would be more likely to be killed by turbines, but apparently they are:

http://www.fws.gov/midwest/wind/wildlifeimpacts/index.html

"Not all bird species are equally vulnerable to wind turbines. Eagles appear to be particularly susceptible."
When discussing income, there are two measures, "nominal" (the number of dollars) and "real" (the amount of buying power, which is the number of dollars adjusted for inflation).

Social security is fixed real income. Annuities are fixed nominal income.
EDB Replication Server Is First to Adopt Faster WAL-Based Postgres Replication
Somebody will want it. I also have no idea why would somebody, but somebody will.

May take longer than 10 years to the prices get low enough for those some people that want to pay. But a suicide mission to Mars is very likely. And won't bring us any closer to definitively living in space - investments on our next models of smartphones will probably be more relevant.
At least one American was named in the Panama Papers: Igor Olenicoff.
"Boaty McBoatface" was just irreverent enough without being offensive that it should have been a perfect choice to gain a bunch of free publicity.
Soccer and sports in general are the spaces reserved for tribal and pre-civilized behaviours: rooting for one team against another, chanting, cheering for a victory or for the defeat of the opponent (in confrontations that are purely symbolic).
Those who take this behaviour outside of the stadium often tend to salute their comrades with a straight arm, and resort to knives and sticks to prove their superiority outside of the pitch.

Or, you could see it like this. Europe has seen enough of nationalistic pride and of masses chanting in the streets. It didn't end well, and we know it. The USA don't happen to have made the experience yet in first person, though they certainly have a second hand knowledge of it.

Pride in the accomplishments of your own nation is a good thing. However often it clouds your perception of its faults and wrongdoings.
Of what? The new rule allowing for 4,200 to be killed each year is a simple Google away. The conjecture that house cats don't kill many eagles is just common sense, and if that's what you're referring to then I assume you're just making a joke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_embrittlement is caused by hydrogen diffusing through the metal, not by cold. Cold actually slows the diffusion.
we are monkeys clamoring for attention and power in a constant prisoner's dilemma. At scale it pays for some people to be giant dicks
>Are England supporters chanting after a soccer match aggro-patriotic douchebags?

Yes
It does for some people: http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Names_ending_in_-face
Yes, but for 99% of code written out there there is nothing to gain from faster code due to undefined behaviour.

I am coding since the mid-80's, always been a fan of Algol lineage of programming languages, with C++ being the only exception to it, as it allows many similar features.

Never have I had a situation where better performance thanks to undefined behaviour was an advantage for the use case we were trying to solve.

I think outside games, HPC and winning compiler benchmarks there hardly an advantage exploiting it.
Greg Egan is one of the most mind-bending authors I have ever come across. He's like Charlie Stross on crack. I highly recommend his short story collection Axiomatic.
FAA chief to impatient drone industry: “Sorry we’re so slow”
FWIW, I would call that courtship, not dating.
'Tis very nicely done.

I wish I had the time or talent to turn this into an actual shell.
Lots of people buy real estate in can Vancouver and leave it empty instead of renting it out. It is a safe place to park money and the hassle and wear of tenants isn't worth the money they pay when the market has been going up so much.

I've heard there is a city in Australia that also has loads of empty condos bought by investors... Surfers maybe?

Buying a house and not living in it or renting it is definitely a thing
By the time the rocket lands, there's very few fuel left, basically you see a near empty Pepsi can. It's as stable as it can get.
Save your web researches on Pickant
Yeah and I like how he goes in on 'Agile Gurus' and then at the end of the article plugs his continuous delivery conference like it isn't the exact same thing in a different hat.
In a first for GuitarPang, a guitar with a serious lack of weirdness, but…
I sadly have to agree that Trump, as repulsive as he is, is actually the better candidate. Clinton is a downright evil person. A callous war hawk with little regard for other humans. Trump is just a racist egomaniacal narcissist but I doubt he has the blood thirst of Hillary.
Sir Davey McDaveface, even.
The less number of blades - the higher efficiency, should be an odd number to avoid standing wave and symmetric too. Thus 3.
Extremely unlikely.
LTV = Lifetime Value = How much money you make off your subscriber over the lifetime of their subscription

USP = Unique Selling Point = Why your subscription gives the subscriber something they can't get anywhere else
However, even over the course of the '80s singles sales plunged from their '60s/'70s level, so those later long runs at #1 aren't as impressive in absolute terms.
I knew I would get down voted, because the collective group-think mindset is very strong around this particular issue, and Americans have been programmed to think its acceptable to make these kind of cult-chants when they do something special. It is a special event - most definitely - but the cult-chant ruins it. Very obnoxious.
What would you like to happen? That people stop doing things they feel enjoyable in order to achieve a requisite level of gravitas that would satisfy your aesthetic sense about how society should present itself?
You might also like PoC||GTFO: https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/
As a hiring manager that gives take home tests rather than testing on site, I feel on balance it gives a better idea of what they're capable of than a barrage of on site tests & technical questions. Given the option of spending half a day on site and half a day at home coding, are you saying you'd prefer that over a full day including half a day of whiteboard and programming with people watching what you do?

There isn't a correct answer I guess, nothing will suite everyone.

Edit: changed to a less snarky response.
American lawyer here.

American lawyers can provide the services provided by Mossack Fonseca.
Damn dude, you and your friend white vinyl have some very awesome work up. Keep it going!
Utah Tea.

Well the next thing you know Elan's a billionaire.

The kinfolk said "hey move away from there!"

They said Californi' is the place you oughta be

So he loaded up the truck and he moved to Beverly
SpaceX is a company full of highly-dedicated, ridiculously hard-working patriotic Americans who went to prestigious American universities - both private and public - and is run by a extremely ambitious and innovative legal immigrant.

The company embodies everything that makes America great. Chant away.
Thank you for that explanation. I was surprised I did not hear from it as I was raised in a strict religious community[0] and never heard about this.

[0] Not sure what it would be called in the US but something very strictly Christian where you cannot do anything on sunday, not only not work, but also not drive cars etc and in are not allowed to have (own or use) TVs, radio's, computers and have special schools schools which teach them this kind of thing. Thinking (yes thinking), at any moment, about anything that is not allowed, will land you in hell. The ordeal made me an atheist at a young age, but I remember the teachings well.
> Now try to do a retrospective to figure out how the mistake was made, so it doesn't happen again

What? It doesn't affect my point in any way. I looked at multiple other man pages for services before posting, and noted that of the ones I checked, they all listed options for the service and/or command. I stand by other other portion of my comment (whether you interpreted them as I meant, or in some more negative light that might induce the negativity I feel from this reply).

I noted my reasoning on why I didn't find your example entirely compelling, but also noted that there could well be other examples that fit the criteria of what I considered more problematic.

I still believe the man pages are lacking quite a bit with respect to OpenBSD equivalents.
> nicotine is hardly bad for you at all on its own.

Incorrect. It is also used as a pesticide and is highly poisonous to humans.[0] You don't get to make that decision for me, do whatever you want in your own home but on public property cut it out with the bullshit. If you can't go a few hours with that drug maybe you need to reevaluate your life.

"In December 2002, approximately 250 lbs. of ground beef was adulterated with nicotine sulfate by a supermarket employee and subsequently sold to the public. Soon afterward, reports of illness associated with ground beef purchased at a single store were identified. Authorities suspected the ground beef was tainted with Black Leaf 40, a banned pesticide containing approximately 40% nicotine as nicotine sulfate"

[0] http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/search/a?dbs+hsdb:@ter...
Trash pickup? Janitorial services? Plumbing? Construction? Is this a real question?
Given that they changed their name, I am surprised they left in the part which when romanized is the slang for penis (didi).

Does that seem odd to you, given how much the Chinese enjoy those sorts of linguistic games?
But there have been morals for a long time.

So either humankind is part of nature, and then it's safe to conclude that nature has morals (no matter how little right now, it's certainly part of humankind), or we're out of nature and there's no advantage in pointing out that nature has no morals.
I think that it is well established that placebos, in general, that involve breaking the skin are more effective than ones that don't (ISTR this was an significant issue with some research that claimed to show acupuncture was better than a placebo, but used a placebo treatment that did not involve breaking the skin.)
Gwern compiled an excellent assessment of nicotine as a supplement.

https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine

This regulation is disingenuous and misinformed, if only because vaping solutions don't contain nicotine as a necessary component any more than bubble gum or throat lozenges do. The regulation seems to try to cover for this by including new rules for only other optional ingredients: its flavorings.

Conflating it with tobacco smoking is their basis for passing as a protection measure for children, but it bears little in common, chemically or medically, with it. When ultrasonic models appear, they'll piggyback off of existing regulation to include them, but it'll be a bankrupt argument.
It started for me around on the Mountain Lion to Mavericks upgrade, so whatever changed then.
You know, there are some of us who like the fact that Javascript is a dynamic language that supports functional programming (FP) style.

For us, "being like Java" is not a plus. My IDE already does a pretty good job at type inference while I am editing, as well as displaying the comments about each symbol as I click on it.
>I've found a way

wow. If you're not bullshitting, and your method is scalable,reliable,and cost-effective congratulations on changing the world.
I'm the maintainer of LiteRumble [1], which is the official continual rankings of all Robocode bots. The Robocode install includes a client, which (offline) runs the battles that then get uploaded to the LiteRumble server, similar to SETI/Folding@home.

If you need anything on the Literumble which would help with an integration, don't hesitate the let me know. Discussion about developement of all Robocode related things happens on the RoboWiki [2].

1. http://literumble.appspot.com
2. http://robowiki.net
There's a response crew? Like, people? Are they on a boat nearby? I may have misinterpreted "drone ship". :/
I admittedly (probably obviously) don't know much about investing. I have some of my savings in Betterment but kind of want to get into something more active. But you make a lot of sense here, thank you.
Sorry, I'm relying on my memory of a show I saw like 20 years ago. I know nothing special about aviation. But I just found a contemporary thread about it here from other homebuilt aviation enthusiasts.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.aviation.homebui...
> So it's not plausible to get all the way back to the launch site.

I never said return to the launch site. I said return to land.

> if you had done any cursory research instead of just announcing that

Unnecessary to speak that way in order to make your point unless you are trying to specifically make someone feel bad for voicing their thoughts.
(as in posts that don't make any argument, whether you agree with it or not, or add anything to a discussion)

Let's say someone here posts "fuck off" or "you're an idiot". Please explain how that can be interpreted as constructive to a discussion here.

Edit: Wow, people who childishly downvote certainly don't like to be called out about their childish downvoting. :)
The Chilean nitrate mines are pretty interesting - short write up here http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/nitrate-towns-chile

There was also an episode of the Discovery documentary Forgotten Planet which covers it
> Everytime they visited a port could have been, "Hey, Boaty McBoatface is coming to port this Saturday! Why don't you bring your kids to a fun science tour?".

Since the research vessels advanced submersible ROV is being named "Boaty McBoatface", they still essentially can, though to be as accurate it would have to be "Hey, Boaty McBoatface is coming to port this Saturday onboard the Sir David Attenborough! Why don't you bring your kids to a fun science tour?".
Just to elaborate: due to wave action and leverage on the underside of the hull, parts of the deck of a ship can accelerate downward faster than the acceleration from Earth's gravity, and while the deck underneath the rocket has fallen faster than the rocket and its heavy engines it can also lurch to a side. Even if the center of gravity makes it equivalent to a sheet of rolled steel, so that it wouldn't tip over, it could become displaced, then go overboard or cause unwanted damage.

While I suppose that the rocket could be heavy enough to lower the center of gravity of the entire vessel below the troughs of any waves enough to make it incredibly unlikely, it isn't just the prospect of tipping over that makes it important to secure cargo.
Well, it's a couple hours from the coast (about like Houston). I lived there. I said that the relative handful of desirable cities are mostly coastal. There are many cities that are less in demand. Many are (unsurprisingly) inland. However, there are also a variety of coastal cities that are not fast growing. [ADD: Mostly in the Southeast although there are also some smaller cities on or near the Pacific Coast in the Northwest like Eugene.]
This must explain the appeal of Pittsburgh as a future startup hub, well this and CMU.
I take Genesis as an answer. An answer to a big question. Why? So there is an answer and people can move along.
This one is missing

http://www.amjtj.com/en/projekty/vysokokapacitni-li-akumulat...
Is just something I and the other contribs try to do with love, without pretending we are going to save the world. I wish this vision was a bit more common

So much open source is the result of, as is traditionally said, developers scratching their own itch. That's not to say that the developers don't start a project to "fix all the things wrong with the current options", but this is a more pragmatic view than the "this software is the final ultimate solution to problem X" that things eventually grow into having attached to them. I think a lot of proposing things as silver bullets grows out of the community as it gets more popular and is more the users proselytizing their flavor of the week rather than the core developers presenting it as something it's not.

The commercial side is, of course, a different beast, where salesmenship is required for any kind of longevity.
Distinct, not unique.
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> At least they only bricked the knockoffs.

As opposed to what? Making them burst into flames in the hope of burning the person's house down? Bricking is pretty much the worst thing you can do.
Quake 3 doesn't work for you? :)

http://media.tojicode.com/q3bsp/
All optimization algorithms tend to get stuck in local optima. It's great to try to tune the parameters through experimentation, but he only had enough compute time to run the full GA once or twice.

Generally I think it's best to use a small population, or even just hillclimbing. But with the smaller population it should run and converge much, much faster. Then you can run it multiple times, and take the best result.
10 Habits and Things Only Computer Programmers Know
Have you been able to quantify the exact pricing per month?

From the looks of the git repo it's at least 65 cents per month but then there's a number of other services with no price reference.

What would you estimate it would cost per month to host a blog that gets 50 comments per month and what would the cost look like at the end of the year given costs would rise over time due to needing to store more info.

For argument's sake, let's assume no AWS free tier.