skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man v Marathon: One scientist’s quest to propel a runner past the 2-hour barrier
It does a discredit to any other better substantiated or more reasonable opinion you have stated.

For better or for worse when most people hear a new statement or opinion coming from someone they will trust it as much as they trust the least believable thing they have heard that person say.
I'm sure it helps, but you still have a runtime dependency on Ruby as well as something to unbundle the bundle. Maybe this isn't a big deal, but it's not as easy as a single static binary.
Last year the Supreme Court affirmed a religious right to a beard:

http://www.npr.org/2015/01/21/378774424/supreme-court-rules-...

(I searched for "supreme court prisoner rights")

I'm not lampooning the religious right to a beard, I'm suggesting that the atmosphere in the courts may be better than you think.
I heard through the grapevine that it was total amateur-hour, drunk American bro nonsense.

This article doesn't really dispel that.
Possibly rotisserie chicken is a bad example, at least there is an urban legend that the smell of roasted chicken makes people buy more at grocery shops. That means it makes them money even if they sell it for $1 or any other price - if the urban legend is true it is subsidized by increased sales of everything else you would buy there.
Thanks for the downvote. Let's close this discussion.
Anatomy of a File System
Thanks for the reply but I was looking for a usecase. e.g. with spark i was able to do X. I don't even know where Spark would be applied to.
Honestly I'd expect to see the most Go hate on a thread about scala. The design principals of both languages are completely at ends with each other.
If the company could get away with paying their workers $1/day, the would do it and still make them wear diapers.

Unions are good at solving these kind of problems.
This was pretty entertaining. I think I want to see if I can get this game now.
Caltech Professor Emeritus, Author Tom M. Apostol, Dies at 92
I think this is going too far in taking the criticism of an edge failure of capitalism as an attempt for wholesale elimination of capitalism.
It would also seem possible for a spouse or other alternate driver of the car to have disabled those safeguards.
> This system, "Encrypted Media Extensions" (EME) uses standards-defined code to funnel video into a proprietary container called a "Content Decryption Module." For a new browser to support this new video streaming standard -- which major studios and cable operators are pushing for -- it would have to convince those entertainment companies or one of their partners to let them have a CDM, or this part of the "open" Web would not display in their new browser.

Isn't this just a standardization of the status quo, with Flash/Silverlight? Why is it that I always feel like I'm being sold a bill of goods when I read EFF pieces?
Microsoft finally gets the bugs out of Surface Book and Surface Pro 4
The use of the word "helps" makes it pretty clear that it's not intended to be the only thing working to avoid collisions.
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This sounds like a very US-trigger-warning-safe-spacey stance.

I think most people on this planet are able to consider each point at its face value.
Yeah it did. You can find the technology quotes on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24OXzIRIiMQ

> “He held his arm too stiffly, and so was thrown back repeatedly, until at last I seized his forearm and snapped it back against itself. His training suffered while the arm healed, of course, but I felt this was a lesson he must learn early, and well.”

I know that my brother had difficulty with this quote. The mental image of someone's arm being jui-jitsu'd off is pretty powerful. My brother would click "OKAY" as fast as possible to avoid listening to the quote.
Can you explain the actual danger you're imagining rather than trying to be pithy? Because I have no idea how you envision this "breaking through skin." The car isn't even moving fast.
The Internet Archive uses Redis for a lot of things. We use it as a read-only cache for all of the metadata about our "items" (books/videos/etc). We use it to store information about "save page now" pages in the Wayback Machine, so that you can immediately replay a saved page. (The main Wayback index is 60 TBytes; not in Redis today, maybe someday.)
I agree with the consensus that you need a lawyer to navigate you thru this, but if you fire them without their being made aware of their actions constituting harassment you are liable. Further if you do not conduct an investigation that involves all parties you are liable. I have seen more grey area cases where a complaint is filed and it comes out she is married, things went to far and now it gets walked back as harassment (usually due to a husband finding a chat log). Not saying this is what's happening here but that's the point you don't know, you have one side of the story and acting on one side of the story puts you in a bad legal position. Further harassment requires a warning that the actions are not appropriate and constitute harassment (documented) by either the individual or a supervisor and a second violation before it is actionable. This often gets construed with sexual assault which is actionable immediately. Basically the TL;DR is "get a lawyer before you do anything".
I'd be more careful with any offering from Atlassian. They recently increased significantly Crucible/FishEye prices. IIRC unlimited plan used to start at 200 users, now they added more tiers but kept the prices of the original tiers.
I learned about Apostol's death from a post by a very astute mathematical biologist, Lior Pachter, who was once a student of Apostol's. The post is "The Ice Cream Cone Proof,"[1] which nicely illustrates Apostol's brilliance as a teacher.

[1] https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2016/05/09/the-ice-cream-c...
You really should have read the article before posting.
No it doesn't.

And you're still ignoring the part where I said it doesn't matter if it was designed intentionally this way or not, it shouldn't behave this way, regardless.
Gitlab has the ability to do that.

http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/workflow/merge_when_build_succeeds....
I dunno, makes sense to me. Annexing one nation will make all the others fear and hate you even more, of course they'll denounce you. A big part of the game is figuring out how to walk the line between expansion and alienating the other civs.
No, it isn't, which is why I didn't say it. This is the internet though, where there is always someone willing to be a prick to make a point though, and it's rarely worth the time to rebut.
It's on GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/sid_meiers_alpha_centauri and I was even able to play it on OSX--- GOG has packaged it with a Windows VM.
Maybe. I don't love creating parts or footprints for Eagle. (I haven't used KiCAD enough to form an opinion.) I've never used Altium, but I've met plenty of people who love it and rave about it. Given that, I can see how it's a sensible market to pursue.
Facebook showed me an ad about an artist that I "Like" on Facebook- they had a concert coming up near me in a couple weeks. This was a band I liked, but hadn't been following closely, and wouldn't have known about their concert otherwise- they had never toured anywhere near me before! Bought a ticket and attended a great show.

This is the one and only time a targeted ad really was useful to me, but it sure was useful.
I think you've confused "Generosity" and "Passive Aggression".
Good post. I'm curious about something else in addition. I've heard from friends in teaching that there has been a massive increase in administrative overhead and concentration of power both at the school district (superindents, sub-superintendent, deputy-sub-superintendent) and the school level (increased power and poorly targeted accountability for principals+other school officials). These friends have told me that this has made their job less fulfilling and that the union gives them a way to advocate for themselves in the face of these developments. Is that something you've heard as well and do you think pay increases would be attractive enough to alleviate those issues?

Also, I keep hearing that we're spending more per pupil than ever and yet none of that money seems to end up with the people who most deserve it: the teachers. How come? Is it all going to that administrative overhead? Or are things like operating costs for school facilities going through the (literal and figurative) roof?
> they responded by accusing him of intentionally activating the feature and misusing it

This is the real problem here. When it comes to safety systems, PEBKAC is just not a thing you can claim. It's always a UX issue.

Just ask the designers of that Chernobyl plant.
One comes immediately to mind: financial services for the poor. Check cashing, payday loans, overdraft fees, etc.. Fortunately the CFPB has been fighting in their favor but the scales are still tilted in an extreme direction. It is a social injustice that the middle-upper classes enjoy mostly free banking while the poor have to pay a significant portion of their income to access liquid cash.

Disclaimer: I work for a startup that provides low-cost banking services to the poor. http://www.onefinancialholdings.com/bee/
I don't care what he attacks, he's talking out of his ass and he's not shy about it.
I have been using git for years and I still find its interface completely inscrutable. I have given up trying to learn it in a way that makes it make sense, and simply use a handful of everyday commands I've memorized by rote and look everything else up when I need it. I can't think of any other piece of software I actually use which has such a messy, non-predictable interface. Even 'make' eventually succumbed to rational analysis when I finally managed to suppress my nausea long enough to dig in and learn it as though it were a real language.
The double-park feature isn't available unless you disable the dead man's switch operation.
Alas, there is this problem at public schools too. What helps over the long term is for families to have the power to shop, so each family can look for a school that is affordable for their family with characteristics that are safe for that family's children.
SVN is command line tool, just like Git. Which UI are you talking about? TortoiseSVN? Or are you talking about commands and parameters to svn executable?
Totally agree. It's really easy to break redis if you're not careful. When I wrote my module I made sure to do lots of random input testing, stress testing, and running things in valgrind to make sure everything is kosher.
Now, that's an ode to the Internet of (Shitty) Things (https://twitter.com/internetofshit?lang=en).
Will Lightbend be supporting this project in any way?

The reason I ask is that I see on GitHub that you are the only contributor so far. This project is quite a large commitment for a single person, I'm hesitant to play around with Scala Native without knowing more about future plans for support, milestones, etc.

Having said that, this project looks awesome. Nice work so far!
vyte.in does it in a more general way.
There are over a billion people who would have to spend 100% of their income for four days or more to afford that $5 chicken.
A lot of people feel uncomfortable standing up for criminals, so it's easy to prey on them. The problem is when we put them in a position where their only way out is to commit more crimes.
So the peer reviewers usually aren't paid? I thought many were.
M-x calendar is my go-to cal substitute on platforms that lack cal (coughWindowscough). Though, now that Windows 10 has a Linux subsystem, I might just use cal everywhere.
I mostly agree, but isn't it plausible that a centralized standard allows DRM to become more prevalent? Right now lots of copyright-able content is begrudgingly released freely to attract eyeballs, but that could decrease if DRM becomes more seamless.
Really, you think that "X helps Y" is compatible with X being intended as the sole thing performing Y? If so, we clearly speak fundamentally different languages, despite the superficial similarities in spelling and such.

As for ignoring the other part, I explicitly acknowledged in my original reply that this would be a valid criticism, and it's not something I feel strongly enough about to argue.
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You are replying to the CEO of Gitlab... :P
A subversion server is not a CDN.
> I think most people on this planet are able to consider each point at its face value.

Humans have a pretty strong demonstrated tendency to develop positive or negative emotional attachments to pretty much everything, including sources of information/arguments, and see the world strongly filtered through those. This is, while it can be misleading, an important evolved survival mechanism in terms of attention/resource management.

Most people probably can, by expending effort, mitigate that to a certain extent, but that doesn't negate it completely.
While this article seems to be rather accurate, there is too much revisionism around Japanese history and the international community is heavily biased when it comes to them.
Google’s answer to Amazon's Echo is code-named ‘Chirp’ and is landing soon
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> something that DRM isn't preventing you from doing something you're otherwise not supposed to be doing anyways.

And what would that be?
Ambiguous phrasing.

The title is inaccurate which makes it an inaccurate title [0]. Not that it is an inaccurate title for HN's guidelines of using the article's title. I did not call it a "titling issue" but an "inaccurate title".

[0] I'm now a member of the tautology club.
ICC bars go at the back of the trailer. The car crashed into the front.
Of all the ways of limiting phone use, is this a good method.

Why not just limit duration?
The new pricing model is about 9x more expensive than Bitbucket, for a given number of users. If your cost-concerned, I can't understand why you should reverse your decision.
With the current version of git, have they already implemented Unicode support?
Last time I checked, git treats UTF-16 text as binary.
You've missed the reason for that opening statement.

tombrossman said "...it must be noted that this isn't a guarantee of security." [0] (emphasis mine). I used the pretty-much-worst-case attacker in the first sentence of my opening paragraph to support the second sentence in my opening paragraph, namely:

> Security isn't binary, it's a gradient.

There is not a "guarantee of security". There are only "things that a given security strategy will protect against, and things that it won't protect against". If you want to expand the set of things that a security strategy protects against, you always need to pay the costs mentioned in the third sentence in that paragraph.

Now, to address your comment:

I'm not sure what the "this sort of thing" to which you refer in your comment is. Would you be so kind as to clarify?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11673722
A true voucher type system that made schools competitive would help with that. In the current system you either work for the district or you don't. A voucher system would include many employment options and even a reason for them to advertise and promote their teachers competitively.
Seems similar to this:

http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol4/p539-neumann.pdf
100% agree. Reminds me of the Diablo 3 art debate: http://www.diablowiki.net/Art_controversy
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This probably means a return to piracy for a lot of people. Sure, Amazon is still an option, but their quality to file size ratio has always been substantially worse than Apple's, and that's something that really matters when you're talking about downloaded music.
I don't see any claim in the article that teacher quality matters more than student quality. It's about interpreting teacher quality relative to the quality of other teachers as a dollar value.

There are two paragraphs, early on, that address or interestingly fail to address student quality. The first fails to address it:

> The quality of the teachers in our schools is paramount: no other measured aspect of schools is nearly as important in determining student achievement. The initiatives we have emphasized in policy discussions—class-size reduction, curriculum revamping, reorganization of school schedule, investment in technology—all fall far short of the impact that good teachers can have in the classroom. Moreover, many of these interventions can be very costly.

Replacing the students with better students is an easy and effective way to see much larger gains in student achievement. It is not proposed as a policy reform for the obvious reason that it doesn't do anything to help current students; it serves the needs of the school, not the students. (Imagine giving some parents who are trying to get their son to pass calculus the advice "toss out your son and get a better one". This works if "your son" refers to "whoever happens to be the son of this fixed couple, which may vary day-to-day", but not if "your son" itself refers to a fixed person.)

The following paragraph reports the range of teacher-to-teacher variation in quality (emphasis added):

> Indeed, the magnitude of variation in the quality of teachers, even within each school, is startling. Teachers who work in a given school, and therefore teach students with similar demographic characteristics, can be responsible for increases in math and reading levels that range from a low of one-half year to a high of one and a half years of learning each academic year.

That clause I've emphasized is an admission that the impact of student quality is high enough to make measuring the effect of a teacher difficult.

Anyway, according to this article, the difference between getting the worst teacher at a school (-0.5 grade levels) and the best (+0.5 grade levels) is one grade level of achievement. Fifth graders differ among themselves by much more than five grade levels of achievement.

> his claim, with evidence shown, is that teacher quality matters more [than student quality]

What evidence are you referring to? I see several estimates of the size of the impact of teacher quality, and not even a mention of the size of the impact of student quality.
Maybe, but realistically not every problem needs a market constructed to fix it. They could just find
providers that offers better prices.
Yup similar to that. Our next blog post in the pipeline is going to reference this paper.
Why Gandhi Is Such an Asshole in Civilization
FBI gives non-response to FOIA regarding Amazon Echo tapping
> The whole criminal justify industry in the US

I swear, if I had a dollar for every humorous freudian slip I saw on HN...
I didn't say "x being intended as the sole thing performing Y", I said, "It's designed to avoid collisions from the front and sides.", which it was.
This explains a lot: http://kotaku.com/why-gandhi-is-such-an-asshole-in-civilizat...
This looks super interesting. Would love a print version, though.
How Linkedin Blew Its Chance to Take on Salesforce
This definitely feels like an advertisement for Subversion. It spins all of these comparisons against Git.
It's a loss leader -- something sold at a loss for the sake of attracting customers to a store. Maybe they go to the store with the specific intention to buy a chicken, or they choose the store over another because they can get a chicken along with other stuff that they need. Either way, they end up spending more money on other (profitable) things.
Neither is three:

https://i.imgur.com/NVsdNIE.png

https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/4e9yjw/competition_...
Do you mean mine or the OP's, which evoked my response?

> ... why you'll want to use a linked list instead of just plain arrays
no mention of "cal -y" which should have been the default most common use option IMHO.
"Scala code is like Haskell fanfic."
Python's list comprehensions are a specialization of Haskell's list comprehensions[0].

I think Scala was influenced by Haskell's list comprehensions.

0: needs citation, though I remember reading something semi official about pythons comprehensions being influenced by Haskell. Maybe Python.org's page on Haskell.
> Thunderbird & Firefox, the only browsers that were designed with the intelligent and free user in mind

That's not remotely close to being true.
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What kind of behavior do you expect out of software in "beta"?
I worked with svn for years and I'm having a real hard time coming up with a project use case where SVN would be preferable. Between hg and git is a much closer comparison, but svn, no way.

Sometimes it's OK to just say one thing is better than another.
The linked article describes with a Duopoly is, but not why one would be a problem.
What's more, those teachers would actually often still do the job for those poverty wages in spite of the diminishing benefits for the love of their students and the job. I just watched a local school's entire population of teachers ranked as "distinguished" leave this year (8, my spouse included) because the administration and overhead simply aren't worth it.
I really hope not...
Here's a really funny one:

https://worldofvnc.net/browse.php?id=440

I wonder whether anyone connected and upgraded him to Windows 10...
People who can't assess statements objectively are probably exactly those people whose opinion I couldn't care less about.

Perhaps this is exactly the filter I want to have.
Agreed. I see the statement "It's being developed at EPFL by one engineer" as a very high risk that once this student graduates or moves on to a different university, the project will be abandoned and die.
1-3s? That could really lead to serious problems for such features. Normally such stuff must be guaranteed to be displayed in less than 200ms or something around that.

I'm currently wondering if this a safety relevant feature (according to ASIL/ISO26262) and whether it would be even allowed to run such a feature on a component that is not designed for safety related environments which require realtime behavior (a QT UI running on Linux certainly doesn't provide that, and even lots of other automotive software stacks including Autosar give only limited guarantees).
It would seem that EU Regulators agree with this sentiment:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36266924
Brazen Kickstarter scammer promised a $100 3D printer, built a house with funds
Would love more public details on all the workings since there doesn't seem to be more interest in making the thread protocol itself public as others have mentioned. We (https://flair.co) were skeptical of 2.4Ghz radios and so far that has been a good move but maybe one day you will be able to change out physical layers?
Ya play is where I started, then I moved my app into Scala.JS land.

Had some cool parts to it, but not sure I was sold on the overall experience. I hate JS so bad and want to avoid it, but I kind of felt like I was mostly trading evils. Maybe if I worked at it enough it would finally get better? Not sure
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Agreed, but that said I'm a recent convert from Scala to Go. Not sure I'd go backwards (no pun intended), boilerplate aside.

Having standardization on things like channels in the language makes for a much nicer consistency in the language. Scala has 8000 ways to do anything, half of which involve an exotic DSL. I'll take plain and simple please over esoteric and unmaintainable.
(Guessing you meant to respond to me)

Excellent, I'm glad that the "big data" world is starting to look at database literature in terms of how it does execution, as there is much to be learned.

Most of these systems are extremely inefficient (looking at you Hadoop), when they don't really have to be. Efficient code generation should be table stakes for any serious processing framework IMO.