skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sigh, my secret worry is that Steve has been publishing stuff like this ever since his blog went silent, only now it's for Googlers only. His essays have been and still are so very much worth reading for anyone in the software field.
People are being overly sensitive. Don't worry about it.
As far as I know this immigration flowchart is still accurate (possibly with certain omissions for things like for fancy Australian visas):

http://reason.com/assets/db/immigration-flow-chart.jpg
Ironically, this article is on a site that has a mixed-content warning (i.e., there are both HTTPS and normal HTTP assets on the page).
The notion that Python spends most of its time in its C code isn't particularly insightful. That's how interpreters traditionally work. It just raises the question of why that C code is slower than other interpreters.

Personally, I don't mind Python's speed. I don't use it for runtime speed, I use it for development speed. If I need runtime speed I use C++. Lately, though, I'm getting to the point where I write Common Lisp about as quickly as Python and it typically runs 4-5x faster than Python, so I've just been using that.
> They are no longer the bottleneck anymore, however; the issue is that we don't have enough residency slots, and the funding for those comes through Medicare[0].

Can you elaborate? I don't understand what dynamic is being alleged with this often-cited reference to limited residency funding. If there really are (quasi) monopoly profits to be made, why would government funding limit that? That is, if it's really lucrative to become a doctor, but you have to do a residency, but no one will pay for it, then potential doctors should be happy to eat the costs, knowing that they can lay it back from later high salaries.

Let me put the argument in another context to say why it doesn't make sense: "demand for passenger air travel is through the roof, with revenues at hundred of times the cost of a flight. But we can't increase the number of flights because the government won't purchase more airplanes to give to the airlines."

In that case, it would be a poor argument: buy the new airplanes with the passenger revenue; you don't need a government subsidy there.
Well, yes, that student is pretty amazing. Must be a way of measuring the connection density as implicitly suggested by another poster - neural network perhaps squashed together but structure preserved?
> She also took to Usenet newsgroups. In 1996, these newsgroups were the internet’s social backbone, a primitive and more tribal forerunner of Facebook.

Oh, irony. I know what the author means but to someone that knows Usenet from 1996 and Facebook from 2016 this must sound like an insult.
> Generally, countries with good human rights record (Western democracies) would be constantly out-voted by authoritarian countries with large populations (China and Russia, and with some less authoritarianism but still poor human rights record, India).

Did you notice the irony in your comment? You praise the "good record" of Western democracies, but do not want a "democracy" within UN, because in that way, the idea of democracy would work against the "Western democracies". That seems to be some kind of "selective democracy", i.e. only apply democracy when it works to your advantage.

If you really support democracy, why not embrace it in the UN and let the decision be based on votes?
Is this type of thing really that important now that we have stuff like the ESP8266 that is tiny, has WiFi, and has good power saving features like deep sleep?
Actually, best human rights record of those existing.

Nobody's perfect, but let's not try to confuse things.
We love you to! Most of us, anyway.
His father was killed in Pakistan!

Section 377 was enacted by british, the only opponents to its repeal in the current pending supreme court case are Catholic and Muslim organizations not a single hindu organization. And oh several ministers in the ruling party have called on supreme court to render it unconstitutional. So get your facts straight.
It's not so much it being slow due to the VM, but the distro of Linux I use (xubuntu) just doesn't have a liquid smooth feel to it.

Windows and OSX both have an extra layer of superb smoothness added to them.

Real time audio processing and screencast recording doesn't lend itself too well to being ran in a VM. Neither do games.

Dual booting is also the worst experience ever, even with an SSD. You completely lose your focus and open work, it's the ultimate context switch.
>A promise to cut subsidies was first made at a G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh in 2009, but since then very little progress has been made

So seven years and counting.

>[U.S. Secretary of Energy] Moniz said the United States would eventually need legislative action in Congress to reach longer-term emissions goals, but he said that he believed public pressure for Congress to act would mount as sea levels rise and “Mother Nature’s voice” continues to get louder.

Translation: Nothing will be done until things take an unambiguously disastrous turn -- if then. How reassuring.
Hey Dan, thanks for adding features! Looking forward to it. :)

Any chance of open sourcing and letting us contribute?

Why is this being downvoted? Parts of reddit are open sourced.
This is complete drivel.
This really is a more complex question then it may seem. One of the reasons I haven't yet upgraded my production system is because I want to be able to keep my system up-to-date. Now, having to manually patch the FreeBSD source tree once a new upgrade lands is a bit of a pain. The point of the article is really about exploring where we are and where the FreeBSD community is headed.
For some context about KPN (company doing this) and LoRa (wireless standard involved):

- KPN has pretty much 100% country-wide 2G/3G coverage [1], so this is unlikely to be about long-reach aspect of LoRa;

- Frequency licenses are extremely expensive [2] and hard to obtain;

- KPN is silent about whether they use licensed or unlicensed spectrum for LoRa, apart from noting that frequency is "low" [3], while they didn't obtain any particularly low-freqency license recently [4]

Chances are this is just a land-grab for 433Mhz. [EDIT 868Mhz]

[1] http://www.sensorly.com/map/2G-3G/NL/Netherlands/KPN/gsm_204...

[2] https://www.telegeography.com/products/commsupdate/articles/...

[3] https://corporate.kpn.com/press/press-releases/kpns-new-lora...

[4] https://corporate.kpn.com/press/press-releases/kpn-obtains-h...

EDIT: Yep, they are going unlicensed, according to the site weitzj has pointed out: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/wiki/LoRaWAN-Frequencies
Show HN: StepLock – Unlock Android apps by walking
That second thing is actually cruel, esp. late ones. Hitler would have liked all of it as he was in the quest of getting rid of not only non-Arians but also chronically ill members of his own "race". It should have been shunned, instead it is defended like some human right.

Edit: I see parent is downvoted and upvoted time and time again. I did not downvote, as my issues are not with the fact that some people have weird ideas about big X, but rather with almost how parent is almost jokingly throwing this issue around.

And don't worry about me, my downvotes on this are expected, earned and worn with pride although I don't usually make comments luke this.
126 killed including 25 children in Baghdad
I would suggest Hacker's Delight too; the Chapter 2, Basics, is freely available at the website [1]. Pretty sure that the linked algorithm is also there (don't have a copy right now so can't check).

[1] http://hackersdelight.org/
Dev here - I had this idea while commuting some time ago and decided to code a little app around it: StepLock works like your standard app blocker, except that to unlock apps you have to walk a set amount of steps.

Just add any of your apps to the block list and set the number of steps you need to walk that day. StepLock will monitor your usage and won't let you use the app until you walked that specific amount.

The only thing is that the app use the "new" generation step detection sensors which are designed to be low power and have a minimal impact of battery, and are only present on newer-ish phones. Sorry in advance if the app is not compatible with your device.
You should really read my whole comment instead of jumping on what you guess is in the book and what "study" you think the author performs.

As noted in my comment, the author looks exclusively at white people. More importantly, he looks at a variety of long term (aka multi-decade) studies from a variety of US sources and analyzes that data.

But if you want to keep arguing straw men, please feel free. I won't interrupt further.
A problem in the author's piece is putting India and Pakistan at the same pedestal. Consider this:
(1) Till date, not a single person has been charged in India for being homsexual. Being a homosexual is a crime in India. Yes, its a colonial legacy and in spite of indian bureaucracy being slow, people in govt are working to get rid of it. The less we talk about Pakistan, better it is
(2) Indian metropolis have a vibrant LGBTQ community. Suffice it to say, that there have been many pride parades in different cities of india. Contrast this with Pakistan, where a pride parade organized by US embassy in 2011 sparked protests.
(3) Author's claim about Sedition charges on university students - There have been massive protests against the govt in India because of this. Govt made a mockery of themselves with this action (as is evident). All the guys charged with sedition are still expressing their dissent against the govt and more forcefully now.

(4) To any of you who have been to the countries of Indian subcontinent, I am sure you can see the difference.
Tcl and Python (among many others) were also designed by "University coders". When it comes to language design, academic origins tend to have little bearing on how "practical" a language is.
I think it's very pythonic.

Can you give examples?

Also, "clean" JavaScript can look like CoffeeScript which look very much like Python/Ruby, you can almost say that "clean" versions of languages tend to converge to something like that for some ppl
> behind because it subjugates

Since 1951, there has been equal vote for every Indian citizen.

Equal voting rights for all citizens was not true even in the US until its voting rights act of 1965.
He doesn't seem to think that would.

He says that polyunsaturated fatty acids are the cause of most diseases.
But the Modi that the world has been seeing is highly democratic, visionary, hardworking, tech savvy and result oriented. I'd argue that a human being, especially a politician cannot transform from what press had shown earlier to what the world has witnessed in last two years.
Clearly the press got a wrong POV about Modi earlier and I'd not hesitate to say that it was a strategic and intentional propaganda from Modi's opponents in the country, as he's made life hell for the corrupts in his state Gujrat and they were clearly frightened as he'd be the face of the party in future for national election.
Free link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/jet-stream-crossin...
Mac and Unix do this right. Yes, there is a lot more permission granting, but it seems to work just fine without people raging at it.
The astonishing thing is that China works as well as it does after the utter madness of the so-called "Great Leap Forward."
To be fair, that probably evolved to train and further facilitate survival in the long term.

But, yes, animals often produce suffering. In fact, they've been doing it for a while before we got here. But animals are largely doing it out of instinct, not because they've reasoned out and concluded that it was the "right" thing to do.
Well, since humans are conscious and are able to communicate with each other clearly, we can tell pretty well what it means for a human to feel pain. It's far less clear what it means for a pig. But if you believe that humans and pigs feel pain in a very similar or basically identical manner, then what justification can you have to eat pigs and cause them that pain that you think they feel?
> no such thing as slow language, only slow implementations

My interpretation of that (and perhaps I'm reading too much into it) was that for modern-day 'retail' tasks (taking an HTTP request, querying a database, dispatching workers, running business logic, and returning a styled webpage) that going for low-level languages over high-level languages did not bear out as much improvement, esp. reconciled against development time and code flexibility.
I don't know if gender is a binary, and as someone with the entitlements of a straight male, I'll never have to interact with that question in the same way individuals who find themselves incorrectly described by a binary version of gender do.

That said, this article has a lot of problems, the most glaring one is right here:

"If gender really is a spectrum, doesn’t this mean that every individual alive is non-binary, by definition? If so, then the label ‘non-binary’ to describe a specific gender identity would become redundant, because it would fail to pick out a special category of people.

To avoid this, the proponent of the spectrum model must in fact be assuming that gender is both a binary and a spectrum."

This argument falls apart on any real inspection.

For example, lets assume I convinced everyone in our town that there is only night and day, no times in between; just blue or black sky. Now, one day a stranger happened upon our town that believes dusk and twilight are not really night or day, and because of that, a strict interpretation, such as the one I've convinced the townsfolk of, might be out of place.

Now this stranger, when communicating to the townsfolks, uses the terms "day" and "night" in his arguments to convince th everyone of the more subtle, continuous nature days. He even talks about different "portions" of the day and night as being distinct times of day.

Should everyone in the town somehow jump to the conclusion that the stranger believes days are both binary like the townsfolk were told, and more complicated like he professes? Or is that a really big stretch without any legs. Why would him using terms that are well understood, or based off of other well understood terms, be indication that he hold both sets of believes?

When communicating about long held beliefs, its both respectful as well as affords faster understanding to use classical terms and new one intermixed. More importantly, to use terms that highlight the differences between the perspectives being considered. Its just an effective way of doing Graff's classic "They say/I say" approach to entering a conversation. And the author attempts to turn that into some weird dissonances is a rather weak and disingenuous move.
I didn't have the right hardware for a Hacintosh but I needed to do some testing. I followed these instructions to run El Capitan on Virtualbox. By giving it 4 cpus, I was able to get reasonable performance.

http://techsviewer.com/how-to-install-mac-os-x-el-capitan-on...
Guide to modern Object Pascal for programmers
I'm also switching from 0-1 to EB1-A. Premium processing only applies to the I-140 part (qualification for the category.) The I-485 adjustment of status still takes at least three months to be processed before you get the actual green card. The big advantage of the EB1 here is that I don't have to wait 9 months for the labor certification. Hopefully I'll get my advance parole a little sooner so I can travel again as having applied for the AOS I'm unable to re-enter the country on my O-1.
Was this comment necessary? No one cares what you think about the domain.
Thanks. This flowchart is awesome
Reddit Codebreaker
You realise that the government has been laying fibre to the door for 90% of the population. Or to put off another way 90% of the population will have direct fibre connection by 2018, and most in cities have it already.

And while it can't compare to Europe access to countries like Australia, the Pacific islands, and south Asia is quick and convenient.

The startup scene in Wellington has exploded, the government funds incubators and lots of companies are fueling each other. Check out the likes of atomic or 8i
Before I deleted my Facebook account the first time I had ~> 2,000 friends. These were all people who knew me or of me, mainly from my community. My wife has topped out well above that. She still uses it.

You might think going from 2000 friends to zero Facebook would be a big social change. It wasn't really. Beyond about 10 friends (well below whatshisnames number) Facebook didn't increase its social value to me. At 2,000 it was just a time waste.

I don't really need to know what is happening in the lives of so many people. My real tribe isn't that big. Facebook didn't deepen my relationships either. It didn't enrich my life.

I got back on about two years ago and added plenty of people. By then Facebook had become this kind of Twitter for idiots/drudge report/unmoderated Reddit/MySpace so I deleted it.

I recently created an account (my third) and I think I have about 5 friends on there. I added them mainly because a real friend died. It's not a great experience. My feed is full of stuff friends liked and stuff I don't understand why Facebook thinks is relevant to me.

Facebook's land grab worked. They're huge but their product makes me feel like I walked into a dirty gas station bathroom.

Maybe I'm naive but couldn't a product that deepens relationships (quality not quantity) be a more stable long term business?
Because it helps the species on net. Also, you know, nipples on men. Evolution isn't that pragmatic.
It was fixed in 4.8 https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52080
50k Euros per month? Something tells me that's not right
As someone that did not live through pre-Eternal September Usenet, what did it have that Facebook and Reddit do not?
His name Aatish means fire or fireworks in Hindi.
Surprisingly he does not explain that in the article.

Given recent history of blasts in India from uninvited visitors, why should Indians not want their consulate services to inquire about people's backgrounds and intentions ?
How an “investor” from Silicon Valley almost kills our company
Great institution, though a bit expensive. I heard about it through a blog post by Stephen Fry, who is a big fan: http://www.stephenfry.com/2011/12/londonlibrary/

I did not join, but did go on one of their public tours, which was really interesting: http://www.londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/public-tours-events
In the near future? Please. Think of all the daily horrors humans commit towards one another and you'll see we're still way off from that future.
Thank you. I think a lot of people believe the system is intentionally racist, but if there was a sudden large influx of applications from Australia those folks would face the same issues as Indians and Chinese do right now.
Do you know of a study that shows real cost breakdown of medical care by payer type, including these cross subsidies to Medicare? Somebody must have put this together.
Who cares? You're not using it because it's performant. You use it because it's fast to code in and to ship. If you only care about performance, write C or Java or an assembler and extend your ship date.
He was still smarter and more versatile than most chimps, dogs, or any artificial "intelligence" built so far.
Similar to the case of Armin Meiwes and Bernd Brandes.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/dec/04/germany.lukeha...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes
India lives in several centuries at once.

Homosexuality is technically illegal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_India
but you can be openly gay, married to your partner
and receive national honors from the President of India.
See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Rodricks
http://www.nri.goa.gov.in/wendell%20Rod.jpg
Python's philosophy chooses simplicity over everything else. Simple grammar. Simple bytecode instruction set. Simple CPython implementation. Simple threading model (GIL). Simple data structures. Adding a highly sophisticated and complicated JIT on top of that makes little sense.

It's not so difficult to create a high performance language that's much like Python. It's just not possible to make Python fast without abandoning some of its founding principles.
You're forgetting multiprocessing. That manages to get round this by running multiple Python interpreters. Big problem is passing objects is dog slow as everything has to be pickled either way.
Celery has a worker pool of separate Python processes that jobs can be offloaded to. It side steps the GIL because it doesn't use threading.
I use bpkg for one of the stated reasons on the project homepage:

Besides installing shell scripts globally you can use them on a per-project basis.
You've got to be joking right? How is the situation any different than Rahul Gandhi being Congress's Prime Ministerial candidate?

Or Laloo Prasad Yadav being Railway Minister?
Callous as in "indifferent to suffering". That seems a fair description of nature.
I would suggest a great resource about that:

http://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Bit-Twiddling
I don't know, I've never bothered to read tmux' docs. As I hear from colleagues, there's none, apart from more friendly learning curve (dvtm doesn't try to handle sessions).
> At the time JavaScript was looked down upon by most professional programmers as a toy. A toy that had buggy implementations in various browsers, that lacked the strict typing of C++ or Java, that didn't have classical inheritance, that had no good IDE, and, worst of all, that you could create some terribly confusing bugs with.

This is how I still view JavaScript.
Because there is than money. A lot of the things I value, America is not very good at or it does not think of it as important. So I'm not envious :)
i saw a banner ad for "grams", made to look like the old google logo

it's on "deepdotweb.com" so i assume it's for some illegal drug site

really put me off of using that site