skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bernie has described himself as a "secular Jew who does not practice any religion". So if he doesn't practice any form of Judaism, to what extent can you say that his Jewishness is not racial? What else is it?
>I think there is noticeable deterioration in music quality of the top hit during the past millenia.

Just to nitpick, I think most of us know too little about the hit music of 1016 to tell. The English top 10 probably included coronation songs for Edmund Ironside and then Cnut, but apart from that, we don't know much.

But I agree that much of the hits I've heard since 2000 are mostly crap. I bet it is because I'm getting old.
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... which is food for thought for the Ubuntu world, now it has Ubuntu on BSD and Ubuntu on Windows NT in addition to Ubuntu on Linux.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11415985

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11416376

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11326457
Very nice. Skip reading the replies there though, just makes you sad.
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To see your name on a large ship you need to be old. It's the sort of thing for people who are well into retirement, if not recently deceased. Pick someone younger and you may look foolish should they become involved in something later. Given the public nature of the naming, they also want to go with someone popular. So they want an older person, who the public knows, and that has a history of doing something for the environment. Nobody else covers those three areas like Attenborough.
I've been following Bernie's run very closely (and am the foolish pollyanna type that still has his fingers crossed for a miracle in California)

But, if you look at Clinton/Bernie he underperformed in States with "closed primaries" meaning people had to declare party affiliation months in advance. (New York was almost a year ago) independents and swing-voters weren't allowed to say "hey, I actually like this Bernie guy."

Bernie did overwhelmingly well in places with open primaries. On two occasions he "beat the polls" (IIRC -Indiana and one other had Clinton's chances of winning at ~99% and he came out with victory) open primaries are being credited with contributing to that phenomenon. People who have never voted are coming into the mix for Bernie

If you look closely you will also see a couple States where there has been either "gross incompetence" or voter suppression / electoral fraud.

People's part affiliation swapped without their knowledge, budget cuts forcing extremely long lines, running out of ballots.

In some areas around electronic voting machines, the disparity between voter counts and exit polls are higher than the ones seen at the Ukrainian election which was declared fraudulent.

In Chicago for example there was an "audit" where the observers saw the clerks alter their tallies to match the expected number.

I know that it's all very "tinfoil hat" sounding, but there are a number of places where the disparity is highly suspect.

Edit: (Apologies, I started pasting in references for my outlandish claims and it got wiped because of a mobile-page-reload and have now got to decide whether or not to throw my phone out the bleeping window :))

Here's one reference covering a few points about the electoral fraud thing:
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/its-not-just-arizona-elec_b_9...

The examples have gotten more egregious since it was written though.
I disagree. I think it's fine to disregard juvenile name suggestions, and the supposed disappointment in the Internet will be forgotten in a couple of days.
Indeed. TBH they were incredibly lucky to land an inoffensive name that sounded fun, and should have made the best of it. Alas, British upper class is not exactly the most dynamic bunch...
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What I meant to say is that if you have an overflow in those cases, the results of the expression is definitely not what you wanted - this is going to propagate and "damage" other expressions. Applying the optimization in that case might produce a different result. An example is this new transformation from the blog post: (a * C1) / C2 -> a * (C1/C2), where a * C1 might overflow. For 8 bit numbers with a = 106 and C1 = C2 = 17 we get

initial: (106 * 17) / 17 = 10 (overflow) / 17 = 0

optimized: 106 * (17 / 17) = 106 * 1 = 106

So in this case the optimized version gives the expected result - it's still different than the initial expression, so it falls under the "undefined overflow" optimizations category.
Microservices, or how to force programmers to write kinda decoupled code
Hello everyone!

We have been working at my company for a few months decoupling our 5 years old monolith to a bunch of 'micro' services (we are starting to drop the 'micro' part...) and I am totally confused...

What kind of utopian code needs to have the monolith for a kinda smooth transition to services? Let me elaborate

Our code is a f?_ing mess. Domain objects using injected services, business logic in aspects, the most coupled tests that you have ever seen (really), defining constants at the very end of the class (fck this particular piece of code!) and so on. It looks like the code has been written without any kind of affection by the 'gurus' who now are Big Data experts or Data Science (duh!) in their new roles (never our fault!).

We were aware of all of this but we didn't imagine how much it would impact our architecture migration (noobs!) So now we have our classic huge monolithic and a bunch of services (5 in production and 8 WIP).

Developers don't want to spend any time in the monolith because it sucks, we are expecting to have more and more (and more) services so the system's administrator and operations guys are close to explode, due to the highly coupling the entire system needs to be deployed at the same time which we solved using green blue deployment but it sucks.

All the code problems now become code and infrastructure problems. What was a highly coupled code, now is a highly coupled infrastructure. We had only one scalling problem to solve (the monolith) and now we have N problems.

I knew that the migration was going to be frustrating, but not this much... The ammount of technical and non-technical problemas it's too damn high!

Beware of micro/small/any service architecture! All your coupling problems are going to shine!
if we go by number of followers on Twitter, Trump will be winning his way to the white house
Indeed, and I think the same is true of vaping. If you're blowing obnoxious clouds indoors, sure, you should be asked to stop and, on refusing, ejected. This, as with the fragrance example, does not require regulation.
How can they advertise "High quality loans" that pay 6%-12%? That sounds super shady. Plus they take a 0.25%-1% spread on top of it!

This should be marketed as high yield, super risky investments, but they try and make it sound that it is great and safe. It's one thing to have good originators, and another to have bad credit loans that actually get repaid.
“busted” for using code that works without introducing bugs to show you understood It... Whether, let alone how, they violated the license is not a subject of the article. Expecting code review to detect plaigarism is..
Writing code is editing an encyclopedia, not writing poetry.
Python (and many others) is a typed interpreted language. It's not statically typed, but it is typed.
If so, then why did they offer the juvenile public a chance in the first place? It's not like nobody expected shenanigans
Yeah but when visiting in Lynx, it displays fine. Lynx is the yardstick I use to judge a website. There are countless .GOV sites like this made on old Windows 2000 machines with Frontpage installed, but my point is the information is still communicated. It probably doesn't matter about some spagetti JS lumped in. I assume any sensible person will have JS turned off when visiting a URL like that anyway...
We need to quit naming things after people in the first place, it's always egotistical and political.
12g but empty. A structure meant to survive being filled with 10+ times (fuel+upper stage) it's own weight will survive 10+Gs without effort. In other words, the stress of a 12g acceleration isn't much different than the stress of the stage sitting on the pad a few minutes previously.

The overall structure actually goes through all sorts of stresses, not all of which are measured in G. The combination of push from the rocket and air resistance compresses the rocket from both ends, something that isn't reflected in G numbers.
I'm disappointed.

If an organization decides to use a social media contest like this to promote themselves, they should have a social responsibility to adhere to the demands of the people.

"Boaty McBoatface" was a good name.
> But all non-Americans who are watching and also feeling a lot of pride in what the company has achieved instantly feel alienated when the chant gets going because it's exclusionary.

Yes, it is, and yes, as an non-American I feel alienated. But I suck it up. Because I'm just a supporter. A fanboy, for a lack of better world. In reality, this is not my success, but the success of men and women working there, almost exclusively American. They have the right to chant however they like and I don't see the reason to make a big deal out of a bit of national pride. Not compared to what they're doing.

Also Musk, who's the driver of the culture there, doesn't seem very nationalistic, so I'm not worried they'll try to turn this into USA space hegemony.
the world has changed... in older generations you were allowed to be patriotic without being dumped on
Dude, there's literally nothing you can say that will change people's mind on this subject. It has long since crossed into some kind of identity subject.
I apologize, I didn't realize how much of an injustice a 404 could be.
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The first-past-the-post voting model is broken and virtually guarantees a two-party system where voters must vote strategically for candidates they don't support to avoid their least-preferred candidate winning. For instance, you may prefer Bernie Sander's policies but still vote Hillary if you think she will have a better chance against Trump in the election. Or you may prefer other Republican candidates, but want to avoid Trump going independent, splitting the voter base and handing the victory to the Democrats.

I think this is a huge problem with the current system, as the lack of candidates they agree with make people get disillusioned and stop voting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo
kdbus is mainly delayed because the kernel devs are unconvinced. In the last thread I read (which was likely over a year ago), there were architectural issues with the design that nobody on the kdbus side was willing/able to fix or explain.
I don't know. It feels like a missed opportunity to excite kids about research.

Can't you just see the series of children's books about Boaty McBoatface and all the incredible science adventures it has—a Magic School Bus 2.0?

Many people taking themselves too seriously. It's a shame.
It seems you are using bash and need to up your shell game, allow to suggest zsh which allow for thing such as:

!!:s/status/stop/

This will recall the last command and substitute status with stop.

!-2:s/status/edit/

Will recall two commands back from history and substitute status with edit.

See http://reasoniamhere.com/2014/01/11/outrageously-useful-tips...

For added awesomeness have a look into history-substring-search[1], zsh-autosuggestions[2], zsh-syntax-highlighting[3].

[1]: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search
[2]: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
[3]: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting
I think Benjamin Lawsky read the wikipedia article on "Regulatory Capture" and took it as an instruction manual.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/benjamin-lawsky-to-step-down-as-...
Banking, Investing/PE, General Management (Leadership ?) in that order
You need votes from only 4.5% of the 220 million Americans eligible to vote to get your party nomination in general election.

Using ballpark numbers to present the idea:

You have country with 220 million Americans eligible to vote. 16 percent of all age-eligible citizens voted in the 2012 presidential primaries. That's 35 million. If those voters are equally divided between the two parties, and winning party candidate gets roughly half of the votes, they get their party nomination with 9 million votes each.

Checked the numbers and they check out. George W. Bush, with his 10.8 million votes in 2000 is the record holder in the GOP side. Trump will likely break this record.
same as emacs: alt+b
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Eight years. Both parties have had eight years to find candidates. This is what they give us. Talk about scraping the sludge off the bottom of the barrel.
Disappointing. It's as if UC Santa Cruz had chosen "Sea Lions" over "Banana Slugs".

http://www.ucsc.edu/about/mascot.html
We're dealing with a group of people with strong ideas about space. They probably won't pass on much of the savings, but for a different reason - they need the budget for Mars project. That's the whole purpose this company exists in the first place.
Well TIL. Thanks. Also amazing suggestion.
> I think there is noticeable deterioration in music quality of the top hit during the past millenia.

Despite being one whose personal preference is for music that's over a couple of hundred years old, I think your comment comes across as elitist. It's fine to have personal preferences, but I don't know how you'll justify such a claim.
Actually, the primaries are proportional.
What kind of impact does a tiny niche device have?

In other words, how many people are buying this emergency phone?

Nobody ever won big by finding a tiny niche.
FTA:

But why couldn't the main vessel itself have carried the name?
Here's one reason: imagine the ship were to get into trouble at some point in the future.
Imagine the headlines.
Remember, the places it will work are extremely hostile; they are dangerous.

I can sort of see the reasoning there. “4 dead after Boaty McBoatface sinks” would be a difficult headline to take seriously.
Animals don't operate on the principle of "run the tank until it's empty". If they did, they would frequently die for no good reason by getting caught out at an inopportune moment. Imagine if, whenever a car ran out of gas, it exploded. You'd probably keep your car close to full, and that is what animals do too. In normal health, you can go several weeks without needing to eat.

Higher energy use means we store more energy than other animals need to. We do balance energy intake against energy output, very precisely. But we still need greater reserves, and those reserves are fat.
Wow! Big year for Leicester!
Browser vendors do 'phase out' old behavior and phase in new ones. I understand "don't break the web", but as someone else famously replied, "the web is a self healing mechanism". Look at what browsers have done re: forms submitted over HTTP.

A maintained site that relies on window.opener should, after a 24 month period of angry console warnings saying a change needs to be made, actually make that change.
Purpose of ship is to research and bring awareness to the public. Attenborough did that - the awareness part that is.

Seems fitting.
He's actually said that he doesn't think that systemd is that bad. He didn't like the way that they submitted patches initially. He said that he doesn't have a problem with the approach and he said that people make too much of the "unix philosophy" because passing bits of text between programs really hasn't been the way that unix systems have been designed for several decades.
Oh, that's clever! It prevents the entire ship from getting the (unofficial) nickname Boaty McBoatface, because people won't want to confuse it with the official name of the ROV.
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Windows 7 actually has that ability, too! I even think that change came with the new graphics driver model (WDDM) in vista.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Display_Driver_Model...
Tab completion has its limits. Using zsh and some added awesomeness from fish:
sys<alt+f> and it completes to systemctl
sys<ctrl+e> and it completes to the full last systemctl command I used

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting
> I'm not sure if a third, or a new option [...] as you say, could be better than the years we've been moving the world using sysvinit or upstart or others

* 1. System 5 rc

* 2. upstart

* 3. systemd

* 4. "third, new, option"

The "Uselessd Guy" critiqued the thinking that underlies this strange way of counting to three that is being employed here, in http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/ .

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11641426 on this very page.
I think it should be named "UBoatyMcUBoatface"
I'm surprised that they made no mention of Mister Splashy Pants [0]. Greenpeace went through the exact same thing, but stuck with the funny name - which turned out to be a really good move.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Splashy_Pants
Might this be because of the higher % body fat in women?
Add new bands for higher value properties.

Reduce payments for everyone in the existing bands, and hike the payments dramatically for the new, higher value bands.

As with income tax, have the most wealthy paying the majority of the tax.

This is a slightly less crude version of the 'Mansion Tax' Labour and Lib Dems have previously proposed.

If you own a £5m property which is appreciating even at an extremely conservative 2% pa (£100k), you should be paying a lot more than £2k pa in tax.
One time I was writing this long story in a text editor that crashed so I stopped writing. Nevermore.
In this case, the site is enforcing HTTP - you can't view it on HTTPS.
I would hope stories about Sir David Attenborough would stir a more adventurous spirit in kids than a funnily named boat.
> there is no fundamental morality in the universe

How about this: Morality may not be a fundamental property of the universe, but since we, created by the universe, shape and experience morality, it can be argued that morality is an emergent property of the universe.

And in my opinion, some of the most beautiful things in this plane of existence are emergent properties of simple systems.
SpaceX already have their little cadre of deniers - an offshoot of the "space isn't real" and "moon hologram" berks.
And here is the distinctly not-American quirk of singing the other country's anthem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHSaHRd4Q48
And they did this in the dark! ;) (yes I know it does not matter)
Vs "Four dead after Sir David Attenborough Sinks?"
> I sense that with your what you're trying to find a why. There is no why.

A textbook case of the Münchhausen Trilemma.
Cultural. I'm not a practicing Catholic but I still enjoy some of the cultural aspects of celebrations like Christmas and Easter.
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Except that they are on this site and have been so I quit using a single account to ever post anything. If you are actually a contrarian good luck ever even getting to the point where you can downvote other posts.
FWIW. I was wondering the source. This is top 5 per Billboard (in the title). Is Billboard the global leader in tracking hits? (just inquisitive)
What's "DevOps"?
What about submarines - aren't they referred to as "boats"?
78% of active Reddit threads mention Hitler
I've actually managed to get a crowd of Brits chanting U-S-A before.

We're so saturated with American culture that we do this naturally. We know all about the constitution. We care more about American politics than our own. We feel put out that we can't vote for Bernie.

Every so often I get reminded I'm not actually American, and it's a bit jarring.
Repharse - non US credit card with CC from a country where spotify isn't launched.

But they do allow you use spotify anywhere from the world if you have premium.
I agree, I'm going to start using it unless someone can tell me that there's something wrong with or it is prone to misinterpretation.
As others have pointed out, it is a boat in the nautical terms. But the initial ship was not. I had hoped they would have used that argument to dismiss the name "it's not a boat but a ship". (Ships can carry boats, arguably any ship is also a boat but don't tell a captain of a ship that).
As much as I love his comic strip, I'd be wary of his political analyses.

He thinks he's a trained hypnotist(hypnosis is total baloney) and he thinks he has awesome persuasion skills. Oh by the way he thinks that Trump has awesome persuasion skills as well.

I don't think there's much analysis that needs to be done for the Trump phenomenon. He is a narcissistic douche, exuding "success" according to the contemporary American standards. The mass has been completely brainwashed for the past decades, with regards to what happiness and success looks like. Case closed.

There are no magical persuasion skills at play here.
There's significant argument in aviation community about how checklists should be designed as well.

I personally don't think an 8-page checklist (6 pages for normals) to fly a Piper Cherokee or Cessna 172 is the safest approach or most sensible operational tool. Many pilots seem to agree and make up their own checklists that they actually use with only the "killer items" and I think that probably increases safety; certainly it increases safety over the 8 page checklist that stays in the map pocket for the whole flight. Why doesn't the factory do that? Well, if they remove something from a checklist and a pilot comes to grief, they're thinking of how it will look in a courtroom. "No charge to add something to the list..."

You'd probably enjoy reading Checklist Manifesto by Dr Atul Gawande: http://amzn.to/1ZlTjoJ I read it years ago, but I seem to recall he did cover some of the processes and social aspects of checklist usage.
What I got wrong about Donald Trump
Yeah, I was surprised to find out a serial connector in my brand new (2015) motherboard. The previous motherboard I had didn't have headers for serial although there probably was one or more hidden on the board.

You could plug in a VT10x or a similar dumb terminal in your brand new PC :)
Maybe not bad per se, but from a British perspective, it's certainly quite strange.

I would never identify my own or my company's achievements as evidence that the UK was great as a nation. I'd be doing the same in whatever country I lived in. In some ways, we achieve things despite being in the UK rather than because of it. Crushing inequality, expensive education, corrupt politics, lack of housing. These are not very business or tech friendly and are less of a problem elsewhere.

Aside from that, feeling proud because of other people's achievements just because you were born in the same country as they were is not really very common in Europe as far as I can tell.
I just tried installing it on Debian. I couldn't figure out how it works within 10 seconds, and it made my CPU spike all the time that it was installed, so I just removed it. So, maybe it has usability problems. Its vital signs aren't great either. It seems to be the work of a single person, Christian Grothoff, although that person is still active handling bugs in Mantis.

Lots of svn commits, and I'm still cloning them into hg to get a sense for how development is progressing. There are 39k commits total. Takes a long time to grab them from svn. From an actual svn checkout without converting, I can see that there are many commits, several per day, but there hasn't been a release in two years. Maybe they need help with a release manager?

My overall feeling is that this is a very good idea that just needs better packaging.
Well tell that to Blizzard and all the thousands of other developers where asserts are used in production code, I guess.