skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are also less likely to support public education, road construction or cleaning up Flint's water if the result is that they will be victims of forced labor.

If your goal is simply to bind an unpopular position to a policy you oppose as a political maneuver, that's fine. But lets clearly distinguish political strategy (sneaking your favored choices through democracy by removing preferred choices from the voters) from a normative argument (we should do X because...).
> Rural areas have the power? This is news to me, unless you're trotting out the tired argument about two senators per state, regardless of population.

It's not at all a tired argument, especially given:

1) the fact that the residents of smaller states get seriously-disproportionate presidential voting power in the Electoral College as a result of the two-senators-per-state rule --- in presidential elections, the votes of residents of any of seven small states (Delaware, South Dakota, Rhode Island, Alaska, North Dakota, Vermont, District of Columbia, and Wyoming) are weighted more than twice as much per person as the votes by residents of 13 larger states such as California, New York, Texas, Florida, etc.; [0] and

2) the fact that the Senate insists on keeping the 60-vote rules to open- or close debates, leading to frequent stonewalling of controversial matters.

[0] http://www.thegreenpapers.com/Census10/FedRep.phtml?sort=Ele...
This looks like one if those things that works really well right up until the point at which it doesn't, which in this case means losing the principal and all accrued gains faster than you might expect is possible.
> The 'new Spring' is Spring Boot, which was a response to this then-obscure framework called Dropwizard

This is correct, but what pisses me off is that the Spring folks clearly copied Dropwizard, then failed to even mention Dropwizard in their various docs, blogs, talks, etc, which you're thinking is fine. But they DO mention other (less useful) projects as supposed alternatives for Spring Boot, essentially, pretending as if Dropwizard doens't even exist when clearly it's the reason that Spring Boot exists! Shameful.

Spring hails Boot as the new way of doing things, but it's still by no means a clean break for the rest of the Spring ecosystem where programming by XML (or annotations) is still king and the APIs are still a horrible, overcomplicated mess. There's no undoing that.
Zermelo?

Axiom of choice says I should be able to select an element from the set of real numbers (assuming it exists; but, I believe the assumption to be counterfactual).
I love pair programming teams, and would not want to work anywhere else.

Of course, a team like that needs to only hire people who are up for that lifestyle.
Exactly. I see so many people complaining about the Linux kernel SLOC versus other kernels; it's an unfair comparison because no other modern kernel I know of has such a wide selection of in-tree drivers.

For instance, when I install Windows on a computer, I will often have to install additional chipset drivers (odd USB3.0 controller, motherboard chipset stuff, fan control).
When I install Linux, all of that stuff works out of the box, no drivers necessary: it's rolled right into the kernel.
All of the CPAN-inspired packaging ecosystems are fundamentally broken. Including Maven.

> The brilliant solution (sarcasm here), of course, is to create virtual environments with separate copies of every dependency for every tool we run.

Brilliant solution is to recognize that environments need to be packaged and managed too. No sarcasm. That's what nix does. And it makes package management a solved problem (ignoring current implementation-specific issues of course).

So, yes, there is a better way and it's nix [1] and guix [2] and the ideas behind them. Check them out.

[1] https://nixos.org/nix/

[2] http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
Thanks for the support: it's heartwarming!

To follow OpenFisca progress:
@OpenFisca on Twitter + https://forum.openfisca.fr/

Coming next: the integration of the recently released French tax software source code into OpenFisca > https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/france-unvei...
Except you can use perennial sunflower which is an oilseed crop for crop rotation.
Russia says Bitcoin is no longer a public danger
Check out the talk Startup Ideas and Validation [1]. The key insights are:

* Innovative ideas are rarely, if ever, eureka moments. They usually evolve after spending a huge amount of time thinking about a specific problem.

* Ideas do not form out of nothing. You are not creating new knowledge so much as finding new ways to connect knowledge that you already have. So the more you know, the more ideas you can have.

* The environment plays a huge role in helping you combine your existing knowledge in novel ways. There are a number of tweaks you can make to your environment that make it easier to come up with great ideas, including keeping an idea journal (write down not only ideas, but problems you encounter on a daily basis), regularly letting your mind wander and relax (fixation can prevent creativity), adding constraints to the problem (constraints breed creativity), playing the "Wayne Gretzky Game" (live in the future and build what's missing), and seeking out pain (where there is pain, there is opportunity).

[1] http://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2016/02/14/startup-ideas-and...
This article makes Palantir sound really weak to me.

Palantir makes money selling their product. They are not a real competitor or Northrop Grumman or Raytheon. The big primes are massive and organized to win lots of different big contracts over a long time period.

If they wanted to compete with the big primes they would be at a massive disadvantage paying expensive SV engineers who are hard to clear versus cheap DC engineers who are easy to clear.

If they have had 1b in revenue I'm not sure what that means. They have raised about 1b, but paid like 5000 employees. Financially not bad but they are big, I kind of expect a lot more federal money than that to keep them in a good place.

I'm not sure what the future of Palantir looks like.
"Compare that to the actual soldiers making a few grand a month, and you get the sense your country doesn’t really give a shit about you and your just a dupe."

In a sense they are dupes. Plenty of people would be willing to pay money to be "employed" as "SF soldiers". How many military members carefully consider the foreign policies for which they are pledging their lives? If the soldiers think they are being improperly compensated then they should demand more pay or quit when their term is up. That's the whole concept behind the AVF right?

If the US Government did not have a ready reserve of people willing to sacrifice themselves for its latest harebrained foreign policy perhaps it would more carefully consider its foreign adventures?

Or perhaps in the near future USG will field its first all-contractor brigade?
I like this.

It looks like this isn't some new, complicated iteration on SVG, but rather a big cleanup effort to make this more similar to existing HTML+CSS techniques, removing cruft from the "XML everywhere" era of the web. DTDs and xml:base are gone. The ability to specify geometric properties (like circle radius) is a big step up, so we can these properties using CSS the same way we would do it if it were a div in HTML. Improvements in text handling are a long time coming and will be appreciated.

Overall, I wouldn't be surprised if this makes implementation easier than SVG 1.1 rather than harder, improving the proliferation of vector graphics on the web.

Of course, you can still limit your images to SVG tiny if you want to.
> 99%? So you spend less than five minutes collaborating per 8-hour workday?

It sounds reasonable: 0 minute on a day, 10 mn on the next one. You can double it because the "99%" figure was dropped randomly, but that seems fair.
The article seems to focus more on instances where food production is a limiting factor. Land use is less of a problem in places where we have (collectively) enough food and people tend to focus more on the very serious environmental impact of large-scale agriculture. In the latter case, I would except a diet lower in meat to fare much better than the alternatives simply because it requires fewer acres to be farmed (or the same acres less often as the article points out) and thus has lower pollution output.
Tax-Calculator (1) and TaxBrain (2) are part of a similar project for the USA. There are several other policy-relevant projects in the open-source-economics GH organization (3). Feel free to email me for more information.

(1) http://www.github.com/open-source-economics/tax-calculator

(2) http://www.ospc.org/taxbrain

(3) http://www.github.com/open-source-economics
It's not above your intellect. That's the whole point. Credentials are mostly bullshit unless accompanied by primary evidence. Think for yourself first. If necessary, and only if necessary, feel free to use credentials as potential tiebreakers.

Having students (particularly mathematicians) has reminded me that only derivation and demonstration really count in science. All the rest is artifice.
I remember thinking that something is going wrong when the country geared up for the Iraq war in 2003. Some people had to risk their lives for low pay while others at home got another tax cut and were told to go shopping. There simply is no personal price to be paid by the elites when the country goes to war.
A 1 second slower page could cost Amazon $1.6B in sales each year
According to the article, HTTP/2 is 6x faster on LTE, and 15x faster on 3G. Is the result of this difference that LTE has better latencies?
> Not team players.

For that kind of team, and that kind of play. But if you're like me, you can deal with workmates, it is just that a small amount of interaction with a small number of people is enough to be productive and yet not waste people's time.
If the gems are installed globally and no Gemfile.lock file is used, of what use is bundler anyway?
Right - it does work and we have incrementally introduced react as well.

But that works if the various existing components on the page don't have strong multi-directional data flows between them. At least that's what I've experienced.
It's not at all obvious that the "medical costs of today are extremely large mostly due to overconsumption of animal products". Some people blame sugar, which is made from plants. Some people blame fat, which in the modern American diet is largely vegetable oil. But human nutrition is notoriously difficult to study, so making strong claims about any specific thing being to blame is probably dishonest in some way.
Big Data's humble beginnings
One of the larger problems I've found with the vegan diet is, where do you source your Omega 3 from? ALA (found in flax and chia seeds) has low bioavailability as opposed to EPA and DHA found in fish and eggs.

Not only that, flax and chia seeds are very high in Omega 6, thus promote dangerous levels of inflammation.

So, can a vegan please explain to me how your community has managed to solve this?
Rather misinformed. Also, if farmland is the issue, has nobody in the science world noticed the magic of hydroponic cultivation? Vertical gardening is possible, a skyscraper has the footprint of a huge field when you use every floor to grow food. Can't do that with cows.
No e-mail notifications for the participants, unfortunately.
Matt's github profile has a NextBSD repository, so is he related to Kip Macy in any way?
Apollo – The data stack for modern apps, brought to you by Meteor
There is compliment: https://github.com/alexander-yakushev/compliment/wiki/Exampl...
Exactly. The idea of the vegan diet being "good for humanity" isn't something that crosses the minds of many "die-hard vegans", quite the opposite in fact. Many have a profound dislike of humanity and choose a vegan diet out of concern for the animals harmed in food production. Morrissey would be an excellent example of someone who really takes that philosophy to heart. For the record, I'm a vegetarian, my daughter is vegan, and I'm a Morrissey fan.
Private prisons are incentive disasters. Everyone can see that.

You are correct to note that public prisons are just as bad. Prison guards, companies that supply public prisons, police, firms that contract prison laborers, etc., are just as greedily pro-incarceration as private prison shareholders.

From this position of wisdom, what is the optimal communication with people who are against mass incarceration and excessively anti-privatization?

Is it to attack them for being ideologically blinded? Or try to convince and coalesce with our natural allies?

If someone is ignorant of a truth that is plain to you, you get to decide if they are a friend or an enemy.
Asking that on HN instead of on the actual repo doesn't make the most sense =)

Click the github icon on the grammar page, or just click here: https://github.com/Pomax/nrGrammar/issues, and let me know what you'd like to see improved.
This may be true in general, but extensive use of diacritics, e.g. as in ancient Greek or Vietnamese, could make reading small type extremely difficult.
Metadate (Natural Date Parsing) now available on Mashape
feel free to file an issue about that. This material is the basis for the print copy, in which the furigana ends up looking fine, so if the CSS can be tweaked for better screen presentation, let me know and let's tweak the CSS.

Issue tracker link: https://github.com/Pomax/nrGrammar/issues
Well, most people build up their own ritual while getting to the work place and starting their work day. It is not much different as a psychoactive mean, it is just one step further, with a substance (this being said, most people already include tea or coffee in their ceremonial).

It is just that a good part of them don't even notice what they do and why they do it.
Sure thing. I told you earlier, I am based on oxydation as a life form. Remove oxygen - I die. And speaking of desert - me and you will die there too, being left in the middle of it. So what?
Is a million a lot to spend on lobbying?
I like the design of the website and the range of the job postings. Spotted a few local companies in the list. Are all the job postings on the site submitted though the form? Or you get some jobs from other sources?
Ok which time are we talking about? In 1965, sure. In the times Java was actually around, it hardly had an edge against Common Lisp (can't comment on Smalltalk) implementations of the day by any resource metric. That's two and a half decades already.
Sure thing. How else can I get into stakeholders bio and discover their real relationship, not PR they publish. Would Canada really need to increase volume of their desert ecosystem, it could employ Rio Tinto to make one.
Experiment: please take my [speakervest] idea and make it real
Hi SF and abroad,

I am a musician. I have need for a wearable-speaker vest. You have a speaker on the front and one on the back, a battery pack, and a way to connect your guitar or bass, or another 1/4" or 1/8" input.

Live music meets mobility.

You don't owe me anything if you actually make this happen, but sending me one would be a nice gesture.
Kernel memory randomization and trampoline page tables
Tell that to someone forced to paleo diet due to health/performance reasons. We obviously don't have as complicated ingestion system as cows nor as simple as cats so we aren't "designed" to eat vegetables/meat only but most likely both.
Ask HN: Check out my new startup Makerloom at www.makerloom.com
It allows 3d printing enthusiasts to share their 3d models and designs.
Angular 2way is based on dirty check. Ractive and vue.js are really data binding with atomic changes.
> The author is acting like each food has arbitrary properties that make them food or bad for weight loss.

But they might for him. The point is that he's analyzing what he feels like eating without worrying about caloric content in order to achieve a steady state where he's losing weight.

If he can eat eggs until he's sated and lose weight, or he can eat cereal until he's sated and gain weight, the caloric difference is irrelevant to the question of what foods he should be eating to not have to think about counting calories while feeling sated. This is a personal question about what foods count as good or bad, not a general conclusion, and the author says as much.

This kind of personalized analysis via machine learning is probably going to be a big thing in the coming years.
This book is not for people who want to stay a beginner for a year, this is for people who want to learn the language at the same pace as a typical university student: you get a few weeks to learn hiragana and katakana, then the romaji is taken away. After a year, you'll already know anywhere between 1000 common kanji and the full jouyou set.

I wrote this book based on that need. So step 1: learn hiragana, because after the introductory chapter you're not getting romanised Japanese anymore. However, because it's not a writing course, all kanji have furigana so that you can read every sentence. This book is not going to calmly and gently lead you through the Japanese grammar, it's meant as a proper "you need this book for a year at most, after that you should already know everything that we cover". Perhaps not to the degree that you can duplicate the book, or in a way that makes you remember all the technical terms, but all the constructions and how they use them: this is the pace you run through learning Japanese at first year university level.
Soy & walnut have plenty of Omega 3
I was expecting more Dirk Pitt in this post
I wanted to create this decentralized social network that is community driven and community developed (through GitHub), but I think I'm too late to the show. It's just something I do for fun now and am making steady progress.
I think what's really missing is an open binary vector graphics format which is compact and easy to parse. Adobe Flash's shape format is the closest I can think of at the moment.
How the Most Dangerous Place on Earth Got Safer
These are different sorts of desert. Canada's is a rare and fragile ecosystem, not a wasteland of lifeless dunes like the Sahara.
There is an implicit assumption that maximizing the number of people who can be squeezed on to the planet is "good" for humanity. I have never heard a reasonable justification for this. Anyone who's taken a long car trip in an automobile packed to maximum passenger capacity will intuitively understand the counterargument.

I'm more sympathetic to the idea of maintaining a population level within which people can live with some amount of dignity e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones#Inscriptio...
Boring compared to what?
Yes but generally speak you must do all this things manually and also optimizatio s and binding you must know what updates. In a real 2way db this is automatic also for performance.
I don't think that link points to what you intended: it links to a simple html file with a blank script file.

Code can be great documentation if you already understand how to get there. Sometimes maps are better for people new to the tech.
What kind of "performance" reasons are we talking about, because I'm having trouble thinking of "force"ful ones.
> expanding and contracting as the temperature changes.

So measure and adjust the adjustable end-plates a few minutes before each round starts? How rapidly can the temperature change? (I have no idea, but I'm struggling to imagine it changing a huge amount in a small amount of time)

> think about the false start measurement devices. Are those accurate to a a microsecond?

I have no idea, but I don't see why not. 10,000 FPS cameras are available on the general market already, so you could record each swimmer's start and adjust the timings as if they had all started at the same moment :)
Is this claim based on any evidence or research?
"Countries at risk of losing 20-30% or more of their arable land over the next decades are not threatened by reduced profits they are threatened by famine, starvation and huge population shifts."

I say - that is bullshit. Belarus lost more than 20% of arable land and around 30% of forest land after Chernobyl accident in 1986. It suffered literal hell in social sphere after the USSR was ruined by its elites in 1991. But just 20 years later, by imposing special 17% tax on all businesses that was used to recover arable lands and forest lands from radionuclide contamination, balanced social policy and successful research in agriculture, it is doing just fine!

It is HOW you deal with loss of arable land that matters. 2008 - Syria. They stupidly dug deeper wells until exhausting their precious ground waters to nothing. Result - 2 mln former farmers filled favelas of large Syrian cities. At the same time, same area, same problem - Israel invested into desalination tech and plants and successfully kept its agriculture running.

It is not lost per se that causes famine and social shifts, it is right or wrong policy of the society that does it. We are humans - we can change things. But not 'saving deserts' or 'save beavers'. We are damn good at saving ourselves when we are together. Like Jews.
Don’t Say You Are an Entrepreneur
Because just like with many other things humans use the least common denominator wins. Everybody understands the concepts in Java pretty much but having trouble with LISP concepts. Just by interviewing ~40-50 Java programmers (mostly juniors) I can tell that even concepts like recursion is not well known or understood among them. At this level they think they do not need to know these advanced concepts to be successful as a software developer. As a company you want to use a language that everybody can understand so you do not have trouble with hiring, few exceptions (like Jane Street).
I try to add more foods that contain omega 3 to my diet, such as walnuts, cooking with rapeseed oil, spirulina powder in my smoothies, avocados.

Or simply get some supplements like this one here: http://www.nothingfishy.co/

Also don't forget your B12 and D3 vitamins.
Facebook is a private corporation expecting to get rights from it such as free speech is idiotic. You want free speech host your own blog on your own server.
Oh, btw, we have jobs.perl.org thingy in Perl. Would be nice to have an official jobs.golang.org too.
Redux Observable: Going Epic with Reactive Programming
The quintessentially Japanese focus on Mastery underpins the global obsession. Think about it! Or just watch The Last Samurai for the hundredth time ;)
Oops! There's a couple of missing zeros. The 2.5E6 m/s = 0.8 c should be 0.8% c. That mistake doesn't continue to the rest of the calculation.
Nope, but I'm probably about to! It's not an app so much as it is an offline service - travel planning to Italy. Not "here's your plane ticket and hotels" but what to actually see/do/eat/drink when you're there, for those that want to get beyond the tourist traps. I'm thinking that for the amount of time off we (don't) have in our lives, some might be willing to pay for some custom planning based on experience (versus who's paying for the most Yelp/TA reviews or placement).
Colorizebot: an AI driven photo colorizer for Reddit
Personal perspective of someone who's only used python 4 years and mostly in an linux ops capacity is that the packaging has always been pleasant to use and the few times I've had to install a node/ruby app as an end user have been comparatively horrible.
Although this is no good for religious vegans, if you are only following a vegan diet for health/ethical/environmentalist reasons, it's hard to argue against eating rope-farmed salt-water mussels. They are high in long chain omega-3 fats.

See:

https://sentientist.org/2013/05/20/the-ethical-case-for-eati...

The article approves of oysters too, but note that oysters may contain oyster crabs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_crab
High rents force some in Silicon Valley to live in vehicles