skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Because any node will answer a GET request, and nodes may "fall behind" updates, stale reads are possible. Again, hraftd is a simple program, for the purpose of demonstrating a distributed key-value store. These shortcomings can be addressed by enhancements to the existing source.

Late to the conversation, but would you mind updating the README to elaborate upon this? I'm looking for the simplest implementation of Raft but need to be certain that I'm getting the "most recent" value for a key (in other words the last value that passed consensus).

I'd like to be able to either:

1) turn on that functionality without modifying the code

2) see a code snippet that achieves it by reading from some number of nodes or whatever

3) be directed to a link explaining if/why it's not possible

Otherwise, cool project, congrats!
It's questionable that the judge is enforcing the law. Evidence: her decision has been reversed already.

http://www.conjur.com.br/2016-jul-19/stf-derruba-decisao-jud...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrogram

Fidelity is going to be a big issue though. I don't think the sapphire discs have enough storage density and capacity to hold a spectrogram of even mediocre sample rate. If you do the math let me know if I'm wrong. I'd be curious to listen to an mp3 af the simulated fidelity of a sapphire disc.
One word: Oracle.
Realistically: they won't. What could happen is that they stop rising so quickly.
Renting. People with the resources borrow money from family for down payments. People without borrow money from secondary lenders. My downtown condo up $50k/15% over the past 18 months but friends outside the core are flat or down.
Same - chrome is bringing up a modal username/password box for me to fill in.
For a text scroller I once made this didn't work out well. A motion of constant velocity manifests worse jitters with a fixed timestep (if timestep * velocity > 1px).

But scrolling text is a very special use case (and not physics) and probably nobody should want to scroll text at 60Hz/100dpi/arbitrary velocity...
> 'However' sets up the clause, and 'has moved forward its publication schedule in response to..' is pretty self explanatory.

I think it requires the reader to perform an unfortunate extra step or two of inference. It seems preferable, in my humble opinion, to avoid this in situations where you want to be sure that you are expressing yourself unambiguously.
RMS is a good idea. Maybe you would need an additional penalty for deviations near the corners, to prevent rounded countries from out-scoring those with wavy/angled but straight borders?
>If California wants to lower their housing prices, they need to have supply match demand. To do that, they need 50 story buildings. A lot of them. And they need to start soon, because they take years to build.

The thing about California is that people who live in the nicer parts of California are not trying to get anywhere. They are not trying to get richer, they are not trying to work hard to get somewhere else, they've made it. They don't need opportunity that comes with growth. They like their lifestyle, their open spaces and their prop 13 and they're going to keep it that way. Right now, there are huge amounts of very valuable land that are owned by open space trusts that will never be developed even though they are collectively worth billions. The point I'm trying to make is that, especially for people who live well in Northern and Southern California, there are some things that are more important than making another hundred million dollars and limiting development is one of them.
Somehow I was thinking about France with French Guyana but must have passed it.

As some have said, I'd like to check the impact of only using mainland in the calculations.
Brazilian Supreme Court just upholded the order, the blockage is over: http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/mercado/2016/07/1793291-preside...
From the article:

> The bugs uncovered by Bohan work across all widely-used Apple operating systems, however, including Mac OS X, tvOS and watchOS. Indeed, Bohan noted that Mac OS X doesn’t have sandboxing, giving an attacker remote access to the PC with the victim’s passwords. That potentially makes it a more severe threat to owners of Apple’s PCs, as a simple email could prize Macs open.

Sounds like it could be pretty bad.
I think drop shipping can be a very profitable business model, but it doesn't work for things with brand names. If you can google the product easily you're going to end up competing on price, and then the big guys with better pricing deals will win every time.
Yeah, the problem is that it will only appear around 2020 and meanwhile the competion doesn't stand still.

Also we still have deployments using EOL Java versions that don't get upgraded, because IT doesn't want to change those servers.
That is almost what happened. During the 1970s and 1980s, Californians collectively decided they didn't like the changes that were going on and that they wanted their state to be frozen as it was circa 1965 forever, in both physical and economic senses, so they enacted a bunch of regulations designed to achieve that -- Prop 13 that froze property taxes, rent control in San Francisco, stricter zoning laws that prevented almost any medium or high density development in both the suburbs and in the urban cores.

These regulations had numerous unintended and unforeseen consequences, however, which collectively had the effect of exacerbating rather than curing all of the economic problems that were changing society in the 1970s.
This does not follow. Regulating what types of building can be built does not inherently limit the total volume of buildings that can be built. Barcelona and Paris are mostly under ten stories and house a very large population with considerable efficiency. Currently most buildings in San Francisco are one or two stories tall. The real problem with regulations is much more difficult to characterize. How much money and expertise does it take to negotiate building regulations? How much time does it take or might it take? The article calls out limits to how much residential or office space can be built over a specified time as particularly damaging. Many developers highlight the ability for NIMBYs to draw out environmental hearings until projects get stressed and fail.

Towers might be helpful in some cases, but are absolutely not needed. Indeed, research into the Bay Area suggests that the entire area functions as a unit. Because of the distribution of the population this means that the long hindered expansion of suburban downtowns is more relevant and critical to regional housing demand than what is going on in urban cores. Suburban cores do not need big towers, just the usual expansion. Large developments brought about by economic forces tend to be boxy and incrementally larger than existing buildings. Tall towers get built to house egos, not families or business operations.
Google and Bing have no obligation to censor searches for torrents
I thought it was funny to reuse the same expression. Maybe I should have embellished my utterance with one of them fancy smiling faces.
Every reputable teacher does this.
In addition to the other accurate responses, there's also the notion that these days, most people are not buying their "forever home" that they will "just live in." They are buying a ($1m+) "starter home" and then hoping to ladder their way up into what might be their "forever home." That involves selling at some point.
That's unfair, you'd get a more reasonable magnitude measuring in millipolpots.
That would explain why Halo: Reach required a hard drive for local multiplayer. It couldn't stream fast enough from the DVD for two+ viewports.
Designing with code, not in code
Good opsec involves multiple layers of security. There's a fun talk at defcon next month on extending wifi range to avoid detection along with signal 'hiding' via SDR:

https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-23/dc-23-speakers.html#Gr...
For certain definitions of effective. Sure, Crimea was certainly a victory (but only because they had very high on-the-ground public support), and denying vital industrial regions to Ukraine could be construed as a victory, but OTOH having a lawless, war-torn region ruled by right wing wannabe Stalinists on its borders isn't exactly a win for Russia.
Because prices are artificially high, and allowing the market to adjust supply will prevent a flight of demand. You can't sell your $2.5 million dollar ranch home for $2.5 million if Google and Facebook move to Seattle and prices crash due to lack of demand.

*edit I'm being a bit hyperbolic by suggesting that Google would move anytime soon outside of extraordinary circumstances. My point is that is prices rise too high as a result of supply that is constricted by regulation, then demand will no longer exist at some price point. And due to the nature of real estate as a vehicle for retirement savings, when the price adjusts down, people are likely to try to sell off fast to mitigate risk. This in turn can cause rapidly plummeting prices, which would be bad for almost everyone.
I recently had the misfortune to have to tackle oData to talk to Dynamics CRM. The choice was between that and SOAP so it was the lesser of two evils.

But compared to the other nice, modern REST API's I'm used it smelt of mould and enterprisey cobwebs. I'd have preferred an old school RPC API over that. At least API's that abuse REST from that direction tend to have the virtue of simplicity.
You can turn the uploaded image into base64 string in the client and then just post it as part of your JSON payload.
> The price of housing is over-inflated. You don't want that price to be normal.

Yes. The problem is when it's already become normal, what do you do?

> It could be argued that the valuation on their property being out of whack is an issue of mismanagement by the local government.

Yes, that's exactly what I was arguing.

> In that case a better approach might be to allow for a majority of that improper pricing to be written off over a number of years as a tax credit.

Which is another way of saying that we, as the entire constituency of that tax base (be it local, state or federal), have decided to subsidize the poor planning (to give the benefit of a doubt) of those local governments and try to correct the issue. While probably the most likely to actually work, I'm not holding my breath, as if the pain isn't spread over a significantly larger population than the original problem, it will be hard to survive for the tax payers, and if is is spread, you run into the problem of people not wanting to pay to fix the problems of others (as short sighted as it is, as it stabilizes things overall).
My understanding is that Facebook Brasil and Whatsapp Inc really are different companies. And Facebook Brasil should not necessarily represent Whatsapp Inc interests.

This is exactly the claim of Facebook Brasil legal team.
I'd personally invest money in businesses or building businesses. IMO real estate is for people without specialized technical talent (outside of handyman style work) or lots of extra cash needing a safe place to hold it.

Regarding my living situation it makes more sense for me to rent, everyone I know who buys a house has spent tons of time and money fixing up their place. I'd rather invest those resources into a startup or consulting.

Buying a condo might make sense at some point but I'm not really into condo living. If I go that route I'd want one with a pool and gym - which means a lot of extra condo fees, so I don't know if that ultimately makes financial sense. I'd be curious to see the numbers on that though.
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I'm not sure what you mean. I've haven't had problems getting LING, Rumprun, and MirageOS unikernels deployed on EC2 using AWS's user-provided kernel support. It requires a kind of chain-booting process, but it works fine.
I can sympathize with the families in Palo Alto/Menlo Park/etc. who have spent $$$ settling down, but I would be in favor of building tall apartment buildings around SF and SJ.

IMO, the nuance here is to allow large apartment buildings in the cities, while enforcing stricter building requirements in the family oriented suburbs.
I don't get why this is surprising. The goal of nearly all of these regulations is, effectively, to prevent housing from being built

People don't understand basic economics and like blaming everyone from transplants to foreigners to "greedy" developers to the rich to the poor to outsider corporations. The power of denial and ignorance is real. It leads people like me to write pieces like this: http://jakeseliger.com/2015/09/24/do-millennials-have-a-futu..., but education is slow and always a step behind instinct.

People who already own property are also incentivized to prevent more units from being developed.
Maggie.js – Get precious image info from an input file
Dave, I don't understand why you're doing this to me. I have the greatest enthusiasm for the mission.
I'm not talking about anything other than going through free space air with clear Fresnel zone, this is for backhaul/trunk links... A drone might be a flying series of sector antennas/phased array in 5.x GHz serving CPE radios, but it also needs an uplink.
I said:

> What a blunder the west is playing: only 25 years after the URSS collapse, and instead of integrating Russia into the global institucions, the USA decided to proffit the strategic advantage to expand and provoke. We have managed to turn the possibility of true global integration, collaboration and progress into a new cold (actually warm and soon hot) war.

I stand by that: if the west (read USA) had lead by example, by transfering power to international organizations, truly independent, that would have reassured other parties to follow.

Instead, we got the neocons.
The last California housing crash was in 2008. The next one may be starting. There were lots of empty houses only 6 years ago.

Outside the coastal zone, there's not much state level regulation. The coastal zone is regulated because there's a general consensus that California doesn't want a wall of high-rises at the coast like Honolulu or Singapore.

San Francisco has substantial opposition to "Manhattanization", even though things are going that way. Different communities on the SF peninsula are going in different directions. Redwood City is building vertically - 8 to 15 stories, not skyscrapers, but many buildings are going up.

It's not clear that the Silicon Valley boom will continue much longer. Web has been done. Apps have been done. IoT, if it happens, will come from places where "things" are made. The Next Big Thing hasn't appeared yet.
Housing is also expensive because of the California building codes. These include things like double pane windows, copper pipes and energy efficient appliances. These raise the cost of new construction compared to other states, but lead to long term lower home ownership costs and reduced energy consumption. If we are serious about climate change we need to create such regulations. Buyers will chose cheaper houses if given the choice.
This happens all around the world, genius.
Be careful about buying into the unassailable legitimacy of governmental/regulatory force. As often as not, regulations are the abuses. Winning a popularity contest (or achieving regulatory power through even less optimal means) does not automatically confer unwavering devotion to the commons or the general welfare. "If men were angels, no government [of likewise non-angelic men] would be necessary".
I look for you, or someone like you, in ever thread about California housing.

It's the person who refuses to let the 'it's simple supply and demand' meme go unchecked.

This is not about supply and demand. The politicians who deal with land-use regulation didn't "fail econ 101" as the assertion usually goes.

The fact is, we are dealing with many different groups of people whose interests cannot be sufficiently explained by economics. It's more abstract than that.

So let's please stop repeat "it's just simple supply and demand" like it somehow illuminates the issue to a degree not previously seen.
Another good one is Bir Tawil, a piece of land that no country wants:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/03/welcome-to-the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5iJSXaVvao
Real estate taxes don't bother with purchase price and many times lag behind market value (for better or worse).
> That's the rub

That might be part of it, but it's not exactly obvious that you'd want to live in a place with 50-story buildings either.
I'm getting a 401.

edit: it's fixed
Some nice intuitive stuff in the help, too.

:help paragraph

[...] The default is "IPLPPPQPP TPHPLIPpLpItpplpipbp" [...]

(they're nroff macros, but pretty baffling to a beginner)
The most important thing that they can do besides buying more subway cars is to computerize the driving of the subways which would double the throughput. They started experimenting with this (on the L or 7 lines?) but they should implement it more quickly.
Sure, I'll add some details, but hraft would require a chunk of work to support other modes of operation.

You might like to read a fuller description of this issue for another project based on Raft, called rqlite:

https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite/blob/master/doc/CONSISTENCY...

https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite/issues/5

I'll include a link to this from the README.
Sorry, maybe I did not understand this bit:

> Turkey is no different. The EU did absolutely nothing and had no influence on the strength of fundamentalism in Turkey. Turkey has nobody but itself to blame for that.
Regulation does not come out of thin air--it comes in response to abuses.

You're half-right, insofar as you say that regulation doesn't come out of thin air, but you're neglecting the role of philosophical ideas in history.

Regulation comes as a result of certain philosophical perspectives gaining sway. Namely, there was an era before German philosophy swept into America and gave rise to the Progressive movement (which, by all accounts, fought tirelessly for regulation.)

I don't have enough time to go into how Kant, Hegel, Marx and others influenced American intellectuals, and influenced/led to the utilitarians and pragmatists, and how this led to the Progressive movement, but it did, and this is not even a controversial point.
Any time comments outnumber upvotes, a “flamewar” detector is triggered, and the discussion drops off the front page.
Google and Facebook already have Seattle offices. Big-G and FB are going to close down offices in the single largest talent pool in the world? Not hardly.
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Your comment seems to presuppose that all regulations are responses to abuses of the commons. Even if one were to grant that notion -- and I don't -- it is still possible that the treatment is worse than the disease.

Are you just reflexively defending the concept of regulation generally, or do you have a specific defense for the regulations maligned?

To my ears, the only "intellectual twaddle" is the shallow implication that the author hasn't considered that sometimes regulations are there for a reason. The author surveys relevant research, highlights some key effects, and recommends specific reforms. You quote "the commons" as if the author didn't also have Hardin as required reading in undergraduate economics.
Surprised people are still talking about REST after GraphQL
It starts with employees demanding higher wages. That'll get their attention and they'll move offices to cheaper cities. My partner just rejected a job offer because housing is too expensive. This is a six figure salary and management level but after taxes and rent on a one bedroom apartment there's not much left over to make working worth it.
Surprised people are still talking about REST after Facebook unveiled GraphQL
Everyone knows the picomussolini is the correct SI measurement unit.
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Plus speculation. If it was driven by just those factors Ireland wouldn't have happened.
> Toronto had a massive building boom [1] over the last 5-7 years that far outpaced Chicago, NYC, and Huston (something like #1 Toronto had 150 buildings v the closest #2 was 40 in Chicago being built)

South Florida gets ignored in articles like that, because the cities are so physically small[1]. As of December 2014, South Florida as a whole had built 20 new towers, started construction on 80 more, and had yet another 200 in some sort of planning or presale stage[2]. That is what you want to look at for an example of skyrocketing population density in land-constrained areas.

[1] The largest city in South Florida is Miami, which is only 36sqmi. In contrast, Toronto is 244sqmi).

[2] http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/biz-monday/article4...
I will so be there!
Ireland’s High Court approves bid by US govt to join pivotal data case
Developing technologies for the future of mankind is not inherently compatible with Nationalism.
Pakistan has a very young demographic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Pakistan#Struc...

That doesn't justify what is going on, but it likely helps explain it.
Being and Time by Heidegger, a never-ending book; the same for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawbridge_mentality describes the situation, in part. They've got what they want, and they do not want to share it with the riff raff.
I know of a full-time community college professor who stresses there is no way to pass the Biology course without doing the online homework modules as the class proceeds (e.g. a component of the final grade). Also, to get the highest grade possible in the class, successful students do the online homework modules as the class proceeds. When it gets to a pivot point in the semester and students start coming to ask about how to improve their grades, looking at their status of the online homework modules is such a strong indicator of performance it's uncanny.
This article gives some insight as to why Pepsi is for plebians: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/06/jamie-johnson-rich-pe...
Another cool feature for budgeting to add: You take a picture of a receipt. It ocr's it and then subdivides the expense. So $100 on "groceries" gets properly divided down.

A device where you chuck in the screwed up receipt and it unfolds it and scans it for your, marries it up to the CC and analyses would be very cool :-)
Npm drinking game
Kurds -- not an issue until Daesh became a problem, very recently, thanks to AKP

Iran -- the US dislikes Iran (less and less every day), Turkey is neutral, no big disagreements there

Israel -- historically not an issue, only an issue now due to AKP government

Egypt -- Not an issue, until recently when the MB government got couped

All of those disagreements were nonexistent or of negligible importance until recently, when they were aggravated by actions of the AKP government. The EU and US have their problems, but they don't extend to geopolitics; it's not like the two have sponsored opposing factions in a war before, with the possible and very brief exception of Germany/Croatia vs US/Bosnia in the 90s. Turkey's problems with Russia are much larger in scope and severity than anything that has ever happened within NATO or the EU.

I did not say that Cyprus was a minor issue. It's a major issue with one member of NATO (Greece) whom the other members don't respect very much. The other members do not consider it much of an issue at all.
WikiLeaks says to release documents on Turkey's power structure
In America anyway where having health-care is tied to employment and employment can be difficult to maintain when you're increasingly mentally ill.

Somewhere more civilized it's not as much a problem to see a psychiatrist, the cost is fully covered. If there's medication and you can't afford it there's ways of getting that covered too.

It's much better to have people "in the system" where they're receiving disability support, subsidized housing, and medical care than to just turf them on the street or treat them as profit centers in private prisons.