skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why from a distance?

We're building a framework for analyzing massive genetic on Spark:

https://github.com/broadinstitute/hail

I'm a software engineer/mathematician, but we're embedded in a world-class genetics research lab. The first paper using Hail was put out recently:

http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/06/06/050195

with more in the pipeline. Hail is being used to analyze some of the largest genetic datasets out there (hundreds of thousands of exomes and tens of thousands of whole genomes). There's tons to do. Jump in or email me (see my profile) if you'd like to get involved.
Espol Programming Language Manual (1972) [pdf]
Awesome! The GIF is great but would really love a link to a live demo to play with :)

Didn't know could do heatmap via leaflet - does it respond to crossfilter filtering?
Half a billion, then. Mang, I'm trying to buy a house right now, $20k is a far-off and scary number to me where I'm at.
I'd risk a guess: because salary. Some companies may afford paying more and some may not (because of their current growth stage, market they operate on etc). Even if some of them manage to get past the early stages, employee rotation is something worth thinking about.

On the other hand, in most or all of the companies I've been somehow related with, more experienced developers have naturally invested their time in helping juniors learn.
We don't need marble stairs, but treating people like animals is not the answer either. You seem to gloss over those points of the article (which is to say, the main point).
Found what you're looking for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWOuzYvksRw
Classic paper comparing the whole "plea bargaining" system to medieval torture:

http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/543/
That is possible, yes. Just rarely useful - it all depends where you're trying to go. If you head straight up with enough velocity to leave Earth's sphere of influence, you end up in orbit around the Sun, not the Earth. And in that case, you inherit Earth's velocity relative to the Sun, so you don't just fall straight back down into the Sun. (because 'head straight up' was relative to the Earth, not the Sun).

From the point of view of the game, several of my little green men can attest that coming home from a solar orbit is rather difficult (energy-intensive, time-intensive, or both)

If the plan is to end up in Earth's orbit, you don't want to shoot so far as to leave our sphere of influence. Earth's gravity drawing you towards it is a key component of orbit. But the other component is having enough horizontal (relative to the surface) to keep missing it - and that's what was missing from the parent's "what goes up, must come down" flights.
I don't think JWST could even resolve it from its parent star, judging by [0]. They're too close together.

Proxima Centauri has a luminosity of 0.0017 suns [1], so Earth-like conditions would occur at ~sqrt(0.0017) au = 0.04 au, an apparent angular separation of arcsin(0.04 au / 4.2 light years) = 0.03". JWST wants star-planet separations at least an order of magnitude larger [0], ideally with very hot, infrared-bright planets.

E-ELT should be able to resolve them, according to [2]. Page 7 gives values for a very similar scenario: an Earth-like planet around an M dwarf (like Proxima), 6 pc away (5 times farther), at an angular separation of 0.015" (half as wide). In this scenario, E-ELT could image the star and planet as separate points, and take useful spectroscopic measurements of the planet's light. For it example it could detect a spectral line of oxygen (O2) in 4 hours of exposure time.

[0] http://nexsci.caltech.edu/workshop/2016/NIRCam_Planets_and_B...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri

[2] https://www.eso.org/sci/meetings/2014/exoelt2014/presentatio...
The Lua scripting is interesting, I wonder if it's possible to basically mix an album with a text file you can check into Git.

I've already made that transition with my music notation projects using Lilypond, I actually have a (very short) full orchestra film score written in Lilypond - full text, nice diffs, revision history, committed to github.
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Buying a professional penetration testing laptop for 2017
Great, where is the follow up with the judge in chambers? Don't judges talk to each other? Standards and mores are upheld by peers not by individuals.
Uh, good luck convincing anyone that April 2014 does anything other than demonstrate there are exactly zero reliable implementations of TLS. If the most widely used implementation can demonstrate that level of incompetence, what chance do any of the others have.

And I don't care if pointing that out costs me mod points. Its seems on these types of conversations negative points are a mark of honesty.
I'm finding existing sites I've used for a long time nagging hard for my number. I'm guessing that its used in their ad tracking which is why they are damaging their user experience demanding it so furiously in order to squeeze the green out my eyeballs.
Message Transfer Agent. Compare with MUA, MDA, etc. Lots of WTF TLAs when trying to build SMTP over TCP/IP, etc. :-)
> Don't get me wrong it's a pleasure to practice in a gorgeous Federal Courthouse, complete with grand marble accents, but I'm of the opinion those types of luxuries are a waste of tax payer dollars.

I completely agree that elaborately ornamented and luxurious buildings are a waste of money. However, it sounds like the courthouse in the Bronx was not just plain and simple, but instead actually decrepit and hostile. You don't have to spend a lot of taxpayer money to have public buildings that are clean and pleasant. (Not that you would necessarily disagree, based on your comment, just adding my own couple of cents).
Encaging myself in steel and gasoline makes me a God. Out of the way, mortal. We are not equals.
Having a perfect smtpd that speaks TLS 1.2, has properly set up dkim, sfp and dmarc records, working reverse DNS, etc is sadly not enough these days if you use a commodity vps/VM host. IP block reputation matters as well. Sadly, some other customers in your same /24 have been less clueful than you within the recent memory of major SMTP operators(gmail, office365/Microsoft, etc) and your IP space probably had a bad reputation.

Reputation perception by opaque large SMTP operators will not show up in RBLs and other ways to check for blacklists. You cannot query your IP block's status unless you happen to personally know a senior sysadmin on their mail operations teams. They don't share this information because it would help spammers choose new "clean" places to spam from.

One solution is to Colo your own 1u system with an ISP that is known to have very stringent zero tolerance abuse policies. Typically not one that is a commodity hoster.
I don't gripe at free software developers for not providing Izotope, I gripe at people who pretend Audacity is the same thing. I think the usual result of this mis-selling is that people quickly go back to proprietary software with renewed hostility towards Free Software and its advocates.

Edit: To be clear that isn't intended as a gripe at Audacity, just at the misrepresentation of Audacity.
They already have the tracks and the trains; they just need a station. This is the easy case. This isn't about building a new line.

With jobs moving back to inner cities, the radial structure of commuter rail works again.
0.5 seconds in the 1500 is almost nothing though. In shorter races the difference is less meaningful
My status bar would use 1MB of memory if it had a 900 KB animated gif clock.
I was hoping to read about that at the end of the article too. Or, it would have been nice if the author suggested something actionable we average citizens can do to improve the situation.
Have a look at the message headers when it goes to Gmail or any other target. There will be a hint, why it gets marked as SPAM.
List of unsolved problems in physics
I think that this is pretty much what IPFS [1] (and others I cannot remember right now) does. If I remember correctly, it builds on some of the BitTorrent ideas, but does not implement whole BitTorrent protocol.

It might be interesting to integrate IPFS into standard BitTorrent clients.

[1]: https://ipfs.io/

EDIT: Of course I ment IPFS in combination with IPNS (Inter-Planetary Name System)
That sounds pretty impossible assuming that we're aiming for a planet with an atmosphere. Maybe if the planet has a moon, and then all we have to do is remote-construct a machine that can both do our research and make the small hop down to the surface?
Sounds like something an engineer would say :)

Sure you can solve the problem. Is the solution worse than the problem? I think it might be here.

A few ties beat spending millions on Lazer walls.
I hear you, but I do care what is done with my data. We're just different use cases. You don't directly use any of Facebook's services, but if you surf the web without some very strict cookie management I guarantee Facebook collects data about you. You're part of their service even if you're not a customer.
The "vote" is ETC. Your examples make me happy you are not an authority figure and also makes me want to donate to the NRA
But... I will argue that marijuana may sometimes have the OPPOSITE effect.

Anecdotal evidence: John Smith, from a lower-income family, grows up a small rural community, 30 minutes outside a mill town with a population of 13k. He's around 13 years old, a computer nerd in the 90s and doesn't really fit in with the rest of the folks in his small school (grade K-8, Total pop 190 pupils). Alcohol has already introduced itself to John as it was common for kids of his age to consume stolen booze.

His next door neighbour's son visits, he's a few years older than John and introduces John to marijuana. John begins smoking it occasionally at the early age of 13. Through his newfound interest in marijuana, he starts visiting alternative websites, listening to the Doors, reading books by writers like Hunter S. Thompson, and eventual Aldous Huxley. John continues smoking weed, increasing to daily, as he finds it opens his mind to being more creative and understanding the content better.

At 15, John moves to a city 3 hours away that has a university. He looks into University courses and sneaks his way into the larger seminars after high school, on topics such as the existence of UFOs and quantum mechanics. He begins smoking pot with university students after seminars and has rich discussions with them. This leads to joining the local anime club and computer science club. Pot still remains the social lubricant for John and his social circle.

Flash forward: John has moved to the other side of his large country, is an IT manager at a world-class organization as well as a private contractor, lives a comfortable middle-class life with a long term partner. He visits home every year and helps family with their business. He still consumes marijuana daily.

True story.
> The original blockchain was deprecated on 3/14.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

Ethereum used to be a protocol but now it is an interest group. You said it best, just study the facts.
Inconsistent Findings on Appelbaum Rape Allegations (Full Article in English)
The problem with programs like these is that they tend to incentivize nefarious "scavenging" of lower hanging fruit such as bikes and other private property.

The type of supervised work described in this article seems like a much better approach.
A B testing will keep showing them better, so I suspect it will continue. Unless you give up all privacy, then the producer can see YOU don't respond well to click bait and fix your titles...
A really well executed Incremental game[1] and the best part about it is that it has an ending. Even a retro end-game sequence. Well done. I really enjoyed it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_game
"Carbohydrates do not make you fat."

Yes, they can, though it is rare.

More accurately:

- Fat loss is ultimately about caloric deficient sustained over time and adjusting for metabolic adaptation.

- Sustaining that deficit over time (diet compliance) is highly variable. For some is easier with carbs than it is with protein or fat. YMMV.

So, yes, your diet works, but the problem is that many people wouldn't be able to physiologically stick with it for longer than a few weeks. This isn't just about mind over matter, this is about body over mind. (Insulin response in particular)

- Protein itself cannot make you fat (the amount of protein you would need to consume relative to other carbs and fats in the diet renders this physiologically highly improbable).

- Carbohydrates can make you fat if that's all you eat (de novo lypogenesis becomes a thing if you injest < 10% daily calories as dietary fat); Carbs also can increase weight a few lbs due to glycogen storage.

- Fat will be stored unless there is insufficient protein or carbs in the diet, then fat will be metabolized.

source: http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/how-we-get-fat.htm...
Tolerance works two ways, so the difference could be 1.8m.

However, I would expect that there is a high correlation between the size lengths of lanes in a single pool, so that one doesn't have one lane 3 centimeters too long and the one next to be 3 centimeters too short. It's weird that the standard doesn't make any requirements on that.

Also, touch plates get installed after the pool is constructed. I would expect those could easily be made to compensate for any size differences. That would leave a size difference at the start, but that's easily fixed, too.

Having said that, every few years or so there's a newspaper article of a swimming pool that gets constructed to be 50m, where the constructors forget about those touch plates.
The criminal justice system can be jarring, even to those of us who are lawyers. I was a clerk for a judge in Philadelphia, and saw a ton of criminal convictions - usually drug cases - come up on appeal. Two things stuck out: (1) we jail a lot of people for stupid things; (2) there are a lot of bad people in these communities.[1]

I'd see someone appealing a sentence for selling some OxyContin and think, "geez, what a waste of money to put this guy in prison." But he's got a rap sheet a mile long - theft, robbery, assault, etc.

The treatment of the criminally-accused in this country is deplorable. But it's also the product of a society that got fed up with skyrocketing crime a few decades ago and responded in a harsh and heartless manner. Crime is a lot lower today than it was in the 1990s, but even in the safest American cities murder rates are 5 times higher than big cities in Europe that aren't even considered that safe (like Berlin). And crime is heavily concentrated in poor places like the Bronx.

And the usual canard - for profit prisons - isn't even applicable here. Private prisons are illegal in New York. This isn't lobbying at work, this is purely a product of the democratic will reacting to devilish social issues. That's what makes it so hard to fix.

[1] I was also living in downtown Baltimore during the post-Freddie Gray unrest. I was disappointed to see the acquittals. At the same time, if I were in those cops' shoes, I'm not sure if have the moral strength to be any different. Society needs a certain amount of order to function. In much of Baltimore, that order doesn't exist. Gangs are in charge and the law-abiding people of those neighborhoods are the biggest victims of that.
What happens when V.B. has too many hard fork decisions to make, or even delegate to his Foundation Lieutenants?

I bet you non-ironically have uttered "just this once" too
Agreed 100%, I'm saying that if we're deciding to treat this as a public health problem, provide safe/monitored/controlled access officially (like cigarettes) then the illegal network dries up as a side-effect. I'm not saying we should legalize to get rid of traffickers, I'm saying that legalizing for public health reasons will by consequence get rid of the traffickers.
There is no excuse for not having SPF and DKIM signing set up in 2016/2017. Bet you don't do opportunist TLS 1.2 either?
> a thousandth-of-a-second constitutes 2.39 millimeters of travel. FINA pool dimension regulations allow a tolerance of 3 centimeters in each lane, more than ten times that amount. [emphasis added]

So by the same argument, they should not measure hundredths either...
What replaces email?
In addition to the other things; DNSSEC and then registering your domain for at least 3 years might help.
Systems of Survival
That is the biggest problem with FOSS for desktop use, you cannot hide it behind paywalls or consulting gigs, which makes very hard to make a living out of it.

I always try to donate to the projects I use frequently, as if I just had bought a software package.
A better idea yet, force employers to allow all employees who can, to work from home. It's bad for the environment, wasteful of resources and additional stress (illness/cancer) for commuters.

Shifts the burden from the planet and people to the company as they learn to manage employees remotely. Which is where the balance should be set at.
This is what bothers me so much about the Trump campaign. Even though he'll probably lose, he's helped legitimize the kind of speech and attitude this judge demonstrates.

I'm hoping there's a strong enough backlash that this kind of speech and attitude gets called out more often. I hope the long-term effect is not to make this judge's behavior even more accepted.
I've been running my own mail server off of a residential connection since 1998, so... 18 years. I do pay for a static IP, and I switched ISPs away from Comcast (who had inherited me as a customer) when they abruptly started to filter inbound port 25 and claimed I had a malware infestation.

For years it was qmail, but when I wanted to use SMTP/SSL as much as possible, switching to Postfix was easier than maintaining all the qmail patches.

I switched over to Let's Encrypt certs several months ago, and those have been working out quite well for me.
Another unsolved feature in Wayland is ssh-agent/gpg-agent support. I haven't found a way to make it work yet. It's either multiple agents or many fresh agents running.
Mental illness and substance-abuse as well. So much of homelessness in America is a result of deinstitutionalization decades ago with no credible alternative put in place.
Obligatory https://xkcd.com/1356/
Google is simply telling you what they currently want you to know. They're not going to disclose their roadmap.
Here's some street view of the mills mentioned. Each building the initial viewport is looking at is part of the mill complex, but ones behind the camera are usually not. You can back out of streetview to see where it is on the map.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8821836,-71.3947742,3a,75y,2...

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8794315,-71.3946096,3a,75y,3...

[3] https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8832275,-71.3979953,3a,75y,1...

Also, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conant_Thread-Coats_%26_Clark_...
And I hear from family and friends about how we 'coddle' people in the system too much, and we're not 'tough' enough.

A large number of our people seem to think if we're sufficiently cruel and inhuman to people accused of breaking the law, then people will magically stop getting suspected of breaking the law. It's more than a little horrifying seeing people's eyes light up when they talk about how our cops aren't afraid to kill people and how merciless our prisons are.

This horrifying system is a symptom of our cruelty, and any move to make this more humane (or less of an atrocity) will face stiff resistance from people who get off on seeing people get punished.

I don't know what I can do, or what anyone can do.
The point in this particular case is that Rhode Island has become a bedroom community for Boston

Yeah. Some friends moved from Cambridge to Providence, and in Providence they're a five-minute walk from the train station. They can be at South Station in 45 – 50 minutes. They live in a nice, newly-constructed two-bedroom apartment that's a little more than half the cost of their previous, cramped Cambridge apartment.
It sends a message about what we value. Lawyers wear suits and judges robes to impress upon everyone that what they do matters. A few marbel panels is a small price to raise people's respect for the law.
The Problem with the Lack of Women in Tech Is Men
I would suggest running OpenSMTPD over any of the alternatives, it's much easier to configure and should be/remain secure as it comes from the OpenBSD people (the audit from Qualys attests to that).
False. Please cite a reference.
You're right and the memory use of KDE, GNOME, XFCE is unjustifiable. Even sway (the i3-inspired Wayland compositor) uses a lot of money for a simple tiling compositor that doesn't have fancy "bling". It's three times the memory use as xmonad and xmobar, but maybe it's an architectural issue with wayland. I mean, Weston isn't light-weight either.
I thought so, too, but looking at https://www.rio2016.com/en/swimming-sw-mens-1500m-freestyle-..., there were quite a few differences smaller than that in Rio. 38 vs 39 is 0.03 seconds (in different heats, but qualification for further rounds is on time), 3 vs 4 is 0.24 seconds in the same heat.

And I don't see how the race length would be a factor here, as it doesn't affect the relative difference.

It's only at the really short races that the error becomes smaller than the accuracy of the timing.
I recently ran into issues with the PTR on a mail server and did the lazy/unsustainable move of just disabling IPv6. Wish I had found this post before!
The opposition of those two choices underscores how bizarre American regional divisions are. The Boston area covers parts of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire and all of Rhode Island. Rather than attempting to improve the entire region, the available options are zero-sum: RI would cannibalize the business or income tax base of other parts of the Boston area. This, in turn, encourages the MA and CT governments to do what they can to recover that loss. If there were one regional government, that could be avoided by focusing decisions about infrastructure, housing, services, and taxation on the actual region's health.
Well, Scala.js went from not existing to rock solid in 3 years. The various Haskell-to-JS efforts existed much longer, but none have the support, completeness and maturity of Scala.js.
This title is not click bait at all. It presents a question and spends a brief article explaining the exact answer to the question. The answer is too long to fit in the title, and there's no click every paragraph to get to the next one bullcrap.
Cool. Would like to see more! Also wondering how this might relate to or complement a project like IPFS (https://ipfs.io/)
I'm not sure if that's a benefit to "mainstream users" as the original commentator specifies. I think most people that use the proprietary platforms never give much thought to who owns their data or even that there is an issue of ownership regarding their data that would affect/impact them.
The apostrophe is used to indicate genitive in English. I think you're thinking of the more subtle double genitive case that you sometimes see in examples like "A brother of the man's" (double genitive) instead of "a brother of the man" (normal genitive). English is strange, but you can indicate the genitive with either the "of" construction, or the apostrophe.
The title to this is excruciatingly obvious...
It's not just drugs, quite a bit of government law and regulation is based on wishful thinking and determined denial of human nature.