skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've managed to simplify the argument into a yes/no question. Congratulations. You have also managed to completely avoid the central issue: It's his land. Like it or not it's his. If you want to pass ordinances regulating the height of walls and structures go for it. Otherwise, kindly go pound sand.
Then you look at them, determine their intent (to publish Bill's SSN) and punish them or not accordingly. That's the point of the legal system and judges - as opposed to computer code they actually tend to try and determine intent as an important part of a ruling.
Government egotism and abuse of power. That's all this is.
I had an interview once where the hiring manager asked me to estimate how many gas stations were in the US. I'm certain this was inspired by similar tech firm interviews but I just remember thinking afterwards how hilarious that was as a filtering criteria. Incidentally I didn't pursue the job because my would be manager kept using the word 'retarded' to describe things and I think people with any common sense should know better than that...
That's for the new plant they're building, not the currently active ones.
Outside of the 2008 the bailouts, the Fed doesn't give money to banks. That is not how the Fed works. I am not even sure what you are referring to. Fed overnight rate? The discount window? The Fed has a few tools at its disposal but none of them includes giving money to banks.
Las radiaciones emitidas por un radar de aeropuerto
Companies do not care about long-term spending, that’s the thing.

Education only makes an effect 30+years out.

Most companies care about the next quartal, if you’re lucky.
That disables a lot of useful protections, seems overkill just to be able to trace a ruby script :-/
It's pretty clear that Erdogan has been moved closer to being - metaphorically - a "mob boss" than what we consider an "elected official" in the US ( assume a sort of spectrum between those). Your thinking changes when you deal with the possibility of assassination. Guys like Putin can't simply resign; they'll probably be hunted down and killed if they leave power. They're riding the tiger.

The general pattern in the Arab Spring has been to assassinate people like Q'daffi - who remind me more of the heads of crime families than political leaders. But here I sit in the US, where we can afford to have ... separation of concern for those roles. And to an extent, the meritocratic myth even in the US is just that - a myth. It's
not like we don't have a presidential pretender running on the idea that it doesn't really work.

I can't imagine a modern politician actively embracing Sharia for any reason other than simply wanting to stay in power.
I would have thought that by now that the interesting stuff would be flowing through cables using Quantum Key Distribution (QKD)
Yes, but they don’t need to provide healthcare for people living 100km from the next city within of 20 minutes – they don’t have the extreme cost of suburban or rural areas. (which other nations might want to copy)
But then, banks would need to solicit deposits from savers (the horror!), which would cause interest rates to go up, and the whole current economy based on debt could possibly collapse...
What about the computational power question? At what point does it become illegal to publish an encrypted SSN/illegal number if you know it takes 1 day to break the encryption using current computational power? What about 10 days? a year? ten years? a hundred years? a thousand years? And what if computational power changes, and a thousand years turns into 1 day? Does the action become illegal retroactively?
Sorry. Five percent, not 20%.

Five percent of a large number remains a fairly large number, especially if yo've got to keep it up forever.

The only comparable infrastructure by size now are highways, though technically they're far less complex. Full replacement of a concrete roadbed happens every 20-50 years or so.

Estimates of rooftop coverage only largely account for electrical use only, and don't account for storage or fuel synthesis, e.g., Jacobson & Delucci (Stanford / UC Davis researchers). I suspect they're optimistic.

David Macay's Without the Hot Air, looking at the UK, is somewhat more subdued.

Electricity is generally about 33% of energy end-use. Transport is another third, and various uses, mostly industrial and heating, the remainder. Generation would have to increase significantly to cover this. Storage would have further efficiency losses. And then there are the capital requirements.
Recently i've read a book about data visualization. One section was devoted to visualized CV via info-graphics. Quiet interesting idea for creative CV's (example: http://bit.ly/GRW1rO). I don't have verified acceptance from HR side but I think you can be more memorable, at least for standard (non-creative/non-designer) positions.
Meet v9os, a minimalist Illumos-based SPARC distro
'Scaling the ladder of abstraction' applies quite strongly to dealing with a new codebase, and is something I think inexperienced people (myself included) initially struggle with.
How do you solve the problem? I'm going to guess there is some ordering involved.
Show HN: Rompli – Simple Docker Hosting
Hi everyone! I built a hosting platform called https://www.rompli.com. It can host any docker container that listens on HTTP. The web app is built entirely in meteor and therefore has first class support for meteor applications (sticky sessions, websockets, ssl).

How much does it cost?
It is currently in beta which means two things. 1. It's free. 2. You may only have up to five (5) containers.

What do I get for one container?
One container is 512MB memory with 0.5 ECU compute. You also get single click coordinated rolling updates, and single click scaling.

How do I deploy my meteor app with Rompli?
https://medium.com/@isohaze/how-to-deploy-a-meteor-js-application-on-rompli-com-48c775cae8c0#.izzu3693p

How do I use a custom domain name?
https://medium.com/@isohaze/how-to-use-your-own-domain-on-rompli-89f8c6c91d96#.kwvbzbodi

Is there a FAQ?
Yes: https://www.rompli.com/faq

What is the tech stack?
The webapp is written entirely in meteor@1.3.4. The container orchestration is implemented with [Docker Swarm](https://docs.docker.com/swarm/). Nginx is used for loadbalancing and I have an Elastic Load Balancer in front of the nginx servers.

Why is it named Rompli?
It got the name because docker containers work really well in groups and a group of otters is called a romp. Also the underlying technology is using [The Raft Consensus Algorithm](https://raft.github.io/) and a large group of otters is also known as a raft.

I hope you try it out and give me feedback!

Thanks,
Kris
Ask HN: What are some good open source video-on-demand streaming software?
I have acquired a number of licenses for a lot of digital content and want to start a small service, not as big as but similar to maybe netflix or HBO Go etc. Any suggestions would be very welcome :)
It's a nice but something more efficient would be some automated way to discover the onion services for domain while staying in the onion network. Like being able to have onion domains like backports.debian.org.onion or having some sort of protocol upgrade when accessing backports.debian.org with a Tor-capable client.
That's an inherent problem in all AVs. Signatures based systems can be bypassed easily. If you're not using signatures, then the AV is running/analyzing the code which leads to the halting problem.
Careful Massacre of the Bourgeoisie
I interpret this more as - government IT is in terrible shape, and I can't blame somebody who does not wish to be saddled with the pain of it.

The argument that an ostensibly political appointee must be held to the same IT-savviness standards as , say, an enlisted (wo)man are specious. While it would be a good thing if it were true, we all know too many people in positions of power who have simply not had the time to be competent in it. It's a variation on the generally advancing Russian Doll thinking that is sweeping tech.
The title of this article has little to do with the content. Luddism isn't ignorance of technology, it is fear of and hostility toward it. This is just an article about how Clinton and Trump don't use technology as much or in the same way as your average post-Boomer office worker, but says nothing about hostility toward it.
That helps immensely. It also follows the implied definition I had conjured when reading your initial term. Thanks :)
Ah, gotcha. Thanks, that makes sense.

>>If you're going down the road of a React based SPA on top of a Rails API (and I'd question hard if you'll really benefit from that)

Why would you question it? At least my understanding is that there would be a noticeable performance benefit, since building HTML views on the server can contribute 150-300 ms to the overall responsiveness (or so I've read). I feel like React views would be a lot snappier.
1. I'm nearly 100% certain they're not hiring for the position of "Co-founder".

2. I'm nearly 100% certain they couldn't derive, in real-time and in-scope of the interview, the solution to a PhD thesis problem they had never heard of before, nor previously been given the answer to simply to recall it later.

3. I'm nearly 100% sure that if they can do #2, then they should be interviewing for #1 someplace else, not trying to become employee # X-thousandth-and-one in a mature enterprise, or that they'd never be asked these questions to begin with because they'd be interviewing for a job that was directly related to and based on their own pre-existing published academic works.

I'll start to believe that these companies are pioneering best-practices around hiring when their frontline recruiters are psychiatrists and psychologists who specialize in proficiency assessment and personality profiling.
Looking back on the Great Leap Forward
> The problem lies in the fact that the fed gives essentially free money to banks in order to have them loan it out in the first place.

The Fed R3serve or the Fed Gov?
It's because she's asking under DMCA 1202/1203, false copyright information, not for infringement.
It is possible to have a "connected UDP socket". It is one that is already set up with a remote endpoint.

if you connect() a SOCK_DGRAM UDP socket to a remote host, you can use send() and recv() as well as sendto() and recvfrom(). If you want.

http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/multipage/connectman....
It wouldn't necessary be much different if using C++11. Maybe using unique_ptr instead of new, etc.

It certainly _could_ be a lot different, using a more functional approach, but it likely wouldn't be, and would remain a basic OO program dressed in new syntax.
> it's like a temple for upper middle class white people to reject 50 years of food science.

I wonder what you mean by that...

Those designations (organic, non-gmo, gluten-free, natural) have their place. The practice of it is where consumers get cheated.
Google’s quantum computer just simulated a molecule for the first time
> I think both parties in the transaction have some responsibility in making sure that the loan is beneficial.

I agree.
That's syngas, which is very useful; you can use it to make natural gas, petrol, and the whole range of petrochemicals we're used to.
Disagree here. This is what the right hand man/woman is for.

My guess is that there is a real cultural problem not only in the Democratic Party but also with hillarys organization(s). Dissent and speaking truth to power is squelched which creates hubris and bad decisions.

Certainly there were people who told Hillary it was a bad idea to put an email server in a basement. Were they heard? Did they even speak up?
For some of the bridges, that's OK, but the miniature stayed suspension bridge looks kind of silly.
Postleaf: Simple, Beautiful Publishing
You're right, it looks like that is a myth (I remember seeing it on this math stackexchange question[1], which is actually a great example of some mathematicians' opinions on the matter).

There's a wide margin between "couldn't pass high school" and "had difficulty with math in high school". And I've known plenty who confessed that were quite explicit that was not what they meant (e.g. by comparing themselves unfavorably with their children).

[1]: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/551074/are-all-mathe...
Front running is when you take your customers' orders, then use that knowledge to cheat them. For instance, your customer gives you an order to buy a stock. You then go and buy a bunch first, then sell to them at a profit.

Front running has nothing to do with speed. And since HFT firms don't have customers generally, they simply cannot front run.

The profits have come at the cost of other market makers - they're all HFT now. There's also the ability to adjust pricing quickly, so that when some large firm tries to buy or sell a large block, they don't get to avoid price impact as easily.
All mammals are animals. I don't know what your definition is but it certainly doesn't match up with any dictionary or scientific one.
When you've got 1000s of decent people applying you can't have enough half-decent sieves. You don't care about the false negatives, you only want to avoid false positives.

The people that are hurting themselves are companies applying these methods to small applicant pools.
Certainly, not probably. Getty purchased picscout in the past few years, a company making and using such bot, and sending automated demand letter.
Hi, really sorry about that. It should be fixed now.
Based on the wikipedia summary, Girard's mimesis seems similar to Veblen's conspicuous consumption. But Girard generally doesn't go too much into the economic details of any specific era - he is more focused on traditional religion. I may need to read Veblen.

I'd also be curious to see a modern update of it - Veblen's theory of a leisure class driving conspicuous consumption and a worker class partaking of it doesn't reflect modern reality at all (these days the poor form the leisure class). Yet the consumption/Girardian mimetic behavior persists.
"To provide retail banking services to", to not redline[0].

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
clickable > https://www.rompli.com/
It's not a theoretical issue, and not limited to RO water supplies. Here in Portland Oregon the municipal water source is Bull Run Watershed high up in the foothills of Mt. Hood, some 26 miles east of downtown.

The collected water is basically similar to distilled water since it's formed directly from cloud/fog condensate. Consequently the default pH is ~6.8-7.0, which leaches lead from old plumbing. The federal government forced the city to add sodium hydroxide to increase the pH to ~8.0 and reduce corrosion.

Obviously city water has very little dissolved solids which in principle could have health implications re: Ca, Mg intake. Diet is normally the main source of these minerals, not clear how much additional risk is attributable to low mineral content of household water.

Most people here consider our water to be very palatable as is and are reluctant to have further modifiers applied to it. If any new federal requirements are attempted it's likely to elicit a lot of controversy and pushback.
Solar cells don't just sit there without intervention, and have larger up-front capital and labour costs than planting an orchard, or more appropriately, fuelwood or timber forests. And have a lifespan of 20-25 years.

Plants are a pretty neat technology, all told.
The best nipple of all time
FreeBSD Myths
The target of "A Modest Proposal" is the English government of Ireland and by extension, the English government. (That's why Swift winds it up with,

"Therefore let no man talk to me of other expedients: Of taxing our Absentees at five Shillings a pound: Of using neither Cloaths, nor household Furniture, except what is of our own Growth and Manufacture: Of utterly rejecting the Materials and Instruments that promote Foreign Luxury: Of curing the Expenciveness of Pride, Vanity, Idleness, and Gaming in our Women: Of introducing a Vein of Parcimony, Prudence and Temperance: Of learning to Love our Country, wherein we differ even from LAPLANDERS, and the Inhabitants of TOPINAMBOO: Of quitting our Animosities, and Factions, nor Act any longer like the Jews, who were Murdering one another at the very moment their City was taken: Of being a little Cautious not to Sell our Country and Consciences for nothing: Of teaching Landlords to have at least one degree of Mercy towards their Tenants. Lastly of putting a Spirit of Honesty, Industry and Skill into our Shop-keepers, who, if a Resolution could now be taken to Buy only our Native Goods, would immediately unite to Cheat and Exact upon us in the Price, the Measure, and the Goodness, nor could ever yet be brought to make one fair Proposal of just dealing, though often and earnestly invited to it.

"Therefore I repeat, let no Man talk to me of these and the like Expedients, till he hath at least a Glimpse of Hope, that there will ever be some hearty and sincere attempt to put them into Practice....

"...I desire those Politicians, who dislike my Overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an Answer, that they will first ask the Parents of these Mortals, whether they would not at this Day think it a great Happiness to have been sold for Food at a year Old, in the manner I prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual Scene of Misfortunes, as they have since gone through, by the oppression of Landlords, the Impossibility of paying Rent without Money or Trade, the want of common Sustenance, with neither House nor Cloaths to cover them from Inclemencies of Weather, and the most inevitable Prospect of intailing the like, or greater Miseries upon their Breed for ever."

[Emphasis is mine. If anyone hasn't read it, a fine copy with notes is at https://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/modest.html]

On the other hand,

"Yet somehow people are think there should be limits on satire."

...what specific problems and solutions are discussed in:

https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/or...

["The Koran is shit. It can't stop bullets." (A reasonably entertaining response to which seems to have gotten a French teenager arrested for supporting terrorism: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/france-beg...).]

Or, perhaps,

http://csglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Charlie-Hebdo-...

["A star is born" and "And my ass? You love my ass?" (Pardon my French.)]
Right. Reminds me of how to destroy the earth. Just wait until its atoms decay.
You should be infuriated about the fact Bush won with a minority of the popular vote (the electoral system), not the Florida supreme court decision.
Swift didn't invent satire; he just perfected it.
> So you can't really walk on it

Drats, I'll have to call to get those walking tours on a nearby aqueduct shut down.

Thanks for the heads up.
Those are meaningless questions. It's trivial to think of 100's of hypos and go 'is this legal? Is that legal?' 1000's of first years do that every year because they think that's what being a lawyer is about, not to mention the amateurs. A judge however considers one specific case, with arguments as to what is the objective reality as presented by the parties. 'What ifs' don't matter. Law is not a closed rule-based system. 'Loopholes' (I loathe thay word) are not like buffer overflows.

(have law degree, not practising lawyer)
> The tech-aloofness of the two nominees marks a sharp break from President Barack Obama, who fought to keep a mobile phone when he entered the White House...

Keep in mind that isn't necessarily a good thing, or even a sign of tech savvy.

http://cryptome.org/2012-info/obama-moron/0021.htm
There are high speed SONET/SDH (common transport layer protocol ) encryptors available. I would assume that any undersea cables providers who might expect US tapping would use them. Especially if one endpoint is in Russia or China.

https://infoguard.ch/pdf/products/ig_sonet_e.pdf
There has to be criminal fraud somewhere in the process of taking very bad mortgages, transforming them into AAA securities and selling them to pension funds.
> ... take the CO and pump it underground then you are actually producing fertilizer for agriculture

Interesting. How does the CO fertilize the plants?
I believe you are correct, but I suspect that's why she's not actually asking damages for copyright infringement, but for DMCA false copyright information. Anyone injured by that can sue:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1203

It's a really big deal that this obscure section in DMCA (1202/1203) can be used for this, and I believe she has a good case.
I was also intrigued... it means "rats" in Spanish. I had no idea it meant anything in Lithuanian.
Many people like myself like static typing and don't particularly care for "traditional OO". I wouldn't put them all in the same bag.

Heljsberg himself (the creator of TypeScript) likes functional programming a lot and brings the best features to his languages.

I haven't tried TypeScript yet, but I look forward to it :)

http://www.itwriting.com/blog/2443-anders-hejlsberg-on-funct...
What 6 months of freelancing has taught me
I always think it is interesting which posts end up in the first page with no comments.

Me, I don't have a comment yet, because I am on the train going out to take a break of entrepreneurial stress—so this article hit a little too close to home to finish reading now ;)
I would also recommend the documentation. However, if you're really looking for a good book, Agile Web Development With Rails is great. I would hold off on getting it until the new one comes out, which will include all the new features of Rails 5. You shouldn't have a difficult time with it since you do have prior experience with different technologies.

Another resource would be GoRails. Some of the videos require a membership though.

All the best!
How the Authy Two-Factor Backups Work
>If you teach programming, realize that your students most likely won’t have the correct mindset and you need to teach that mindset to them. No matter how much you explain what a snippet does and how it works, your students won’t get it if they don’t realize to think about what those statements actually do and what the big picture is.

Purely awful advice. There is nothing more of a turn-off to a person learning programming for the first time than, "You can't just drop in this jQuery module that solves this one issue for you and move on to the fun part! You have to stop here and delve deep to understand exactly what's going on before you can move forwards."

I would say that's the opposite of the essence of programming. If you can understand what a line of code does from a black-box high level, that's often good enough to move on and complete your project.
Huh... of course I know definition of accuracy, and how its calculated.

However even in supervised learning, accuracy is only used in very limited cases such as multi class classification. For a whole bunch of problems including the one being discussed its a poor and in some cases a biased metric. E.g. consider a heavily unbalanced problem 99% positive labels. By predicting all instances with majority label its possible to get 99% accuracy. There are several better metrics, False Accept rates, Precision Recall curves etc.

Without knowing how the dataset was collected, did the "username" leaked into the dataset, etc. its impossible to evaluate such outlandish claims.

The whole moral and ethical debate is non-sequitur, and harms legitimate deep learning research.
Silicon Is Just Sand: Scenes from the LA Tech Boom
> These days, some U.S. subs come equipped with sophisticated antennas that can be used to intercept and manipulate other people's communications traffic, particularly on weak or unencrypted networks.

Isn't (most of) the communication over these links encrypted? What is the point of tapping into the information flow? Is it possible that they are able to decrypt it?
Set It and Forget It: How Default Settings Rule the World
Are you still working as a cab driver? I read one story so far and I liked it a lot, I will keep reading, thanks!