skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say it really depends on the part of Melbourne you're at. East is the nicest. Northern suburbs (where I'm at) are pretty livable as well. West and Southeast can be dodgy. And I don't have much trouble getting from the Northern Suburbs to work in the Eastern suburbs or around on the weekends without driving. Actually, driving is getting to be much worse than public transport during peak hour.
> its a bit of a shame that the fortran friendly file format still seems to the the most popular way to store this kind of data... but its easy to parse

Haha, don't get me started on FITS files. It's essentially impossible to analyse big postage stamps because you need to load the entire FITS file (and array) into memory. It's annoying that this is the standard we use.

> http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR - a huge collection of catalogues of stars, galaxies and other things that can be searched and browsed.

SIMBAD (also from that site) is incredible for cross-referencing and finding references for indexed bodies. I used it quite a lot while I was doing astro research.
Or to the point of the original parent: the industry considers powershell a solution in search of a problem.
> And considering forgiveness is such a core tenant of Christianity,

In civilization, individual members give up the right for revenge to the state, who punishes perpetrators. Individuals may forgive a perpetrator, but that doesn't mean he/she should not be punished by the state.

Compare this with societies with practices such as qisas or blood money: if an individual (or family) forgives a perpetrator, they are not punished.

Having the government punishing people and the main religion stopping revenge cycles is a really good system!

Furthermore, the USA is lenient in sentencing and family are forging towards convicts. Compare this to Asian countries (such as Japan). In Japan, parents will break off all ties to their children if they are sentenced for a crime -- even a fairly minor one.

Try to do some petty vandalism or other anti-social behaviour in Japan, Korea or Singapore and compare the result with the result in the US.
On the other hand, we have the community members who are being very toxic. Frankly, I suspect they set out with the singular goal of shouting "gotcha" when the powershell team didn't immediately incorporate their breaking changes. (Disclaimer: I'm an engineer at Microsoft, but not for powershell, and the views here are my own.)
We see these types of postings here from time to time and it always brings to mind the famous quote from Edmund Hillary when asked why he climbed Mt. Everest. If one wants to go to 39,000 feet you can get on a commercial airliner and do so or pretty close. Similarly, I could buy a microprocessor board (e.g. RPI for $25 or so) but this guy climbed the Mt. Everest of computer, "because he wanted to".
> While some have argued that the Pennsylvania System was Quaker-inspired, there is little evidence to support this; the organization that promoted Eastern State's creation, the Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons (today's Pennsylvania Prison Society) was less than half Quaker, and was led for nearly fifty years by Philadelphia's Anglican bishop, William White.
Yep. Saving the system isn't a big deal, either.

SCSI2SD and BuildDisk.app or an rsync install, and away you go into Previous and an emulated 040 Cube (w/Dimension).
I'm a pure functional programmer. I hope I don't get kicked off of twitter for my intolerance of Scheme, Lisp, or F#.
I think what others might be demonstrated is that there isn't a reliance on what object Microsoft decides to ship to you, in *nix we can combine commands and builtins and get the information in the structure we need without having to wait 8 months for a system reboot (or worse a paid for upgrade) that will give us what we need.
Where are the grants to train financial traders, corporate lawyers, C-suite "captains of industry", politicians, etc? Or simply doctors, engineers, etc?

Those groups don't want to be inundated with new recruits, depressing their salaries, not to mention standards, you say?

I see.
Seen this a couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11994185
Founded by four ex-Google engineers, including the guy that built Google's first self driving car https://backchannel.com/the-man-who-built-googles-first-self...
I live in Sydney and traffic is a nightmare. I want to get out..

Help. Please.
Uber to start driverless service in Pittsburgh - this month
Live objects don’t usually expose any protocols at all.
They only expose an ABI.
Do you know any platform-agnostic OO ABI, besides what’s in .NET?

If you’ll wrap your objects into some platform-agnostic protocol like JSON, you gonna waste enormous amount of CPU time parsing/formatting those streams at the object’s boundaries.
Those LEDs! Those brightly lighty LEDs!

Never mind the gates. Relaxen und watschen der blinkenlichten.

Indeed the LEDs are the most important part since this project seems to be all about exposition. For example:

> So how big is it ? Well an 8-bit adder is about a foot long (I use five of these)

If he were optimising for size rather than clarity, it would be much smaller. Instead he has nice diagramtic outlines for the gates, and generous spaces between them. And those LEDs! Those brighty lighty LEDs.
Overseas profits will end up paying for corporate infrastructure and jobs elsewhere

If those profits are never taxed, they won't. Of course, to avoid them being taxed you have to leave them sitting in accounts in Bermuda and the Caymans where that money can't be productive for the company either.

by taxing profits which do not occur in the US

The US isn't asking to tax their overseas profits. If you can't make your argument without openly lying about what's going on, I don't know how you can expect to be taken seriously.
Where are all the Women?
The main thing that is usually overlooked is that Raspberry Pi is a charity and they do not make commercial products with the intent to make money from it.

Well okay, why would you make the choice to go with something like the STM32F4 ARM Cortext-M processor vs something like the Raspberry PI with an ARM Cortex-A series processor? Well I'm glad you asked.

First you need to ask, what does your device need? Some things to consider:
- Power consumption
- Real time sensors or I/O
- Safety critical
- Processing / Computing power
- Image / Video processing
- < 10" display
- > 10" display
- etc

All of these are at the beginning of making a choice of which processor series you want to use.

But, wait if an Cortex-A Series can be sold for $5 why don't I just got with an Cortex-A series, because, well they aren't. See my first sentence and now my following.

If you compare the higher-end M4/M7 processors from ST (STM32F4xx / STM32F7xx with Chrom-ART / DMA2D Support) vs something like the NXP/Freescale A9 single core (i.MX6Solo) at quantity 1,000, you're looking at between $7-$10 for the Cortex-M4 and $13-$15 for a Cortext-A9.

( http://www.digikey.com/product-search/en/integrated-circuits... )

( http://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers-and-processors/... )

Okay, so they aren't that much different in price (depending on who you are and how much the rest of your system costs). So, you need to then compare it even further. Typically on a Cortex-M Series you are looking at an RTOS, whereas on a Cortex-A series you are looking at a real OS (Linux, Android, Windows, etc). Why does this matter? This has to do with hardware support and the core difference between an RTOS and an OS. If your board processor, peripherals, etc are not well supported or you are doing a custom pcb design, you are going to be writing your own drivers which equates to NRE (Non-recurring Engineering), which can be expensive. This cost could be consumed by the company as a business expense or be captured back into the cost of the device. Then you have tool chains, support, and familiarity, and so on.

So, if the above did it's job, that might have helped into understanding why you may or may not go with a Cortex-M or Cortex-A series. And yes you may be right on the edge of going with one or the other.
Interesting, nice work
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Hm. At least for the Woolworth sit-in, my impression was that this was store policy, and I'm not finding any source saying that Woolworth was in violation of any law when they gave into the boycott and dropped their policy. But you're right that Jim Crow laws involved mandatory segregation, and that the sit-in was a protest against those laws. Good point, I'm not entirely sure what happened there!
One of my office mates started life out as a jazz musician. He transitioned into programming (embedded work and device drivers mainly) to pay the bills.
Not for you.
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In Defence of a ‘No First Use’ Nuclear Doctrine
Easiest money ever made. What the fuck am I doing with my life?
It's a myth that roads are just paid for by gas tax. Roads are also paid for by general funds at the federal, state, and local level.
Completely agree. I've run into a lot of this problems on a single node.
Two-spirit !== homosexual

Also, Maya !== North American First Nations
You should get rid of comments while you're at it.
120 degrees in the train or on the platform? The trains have usually A/C, and if not, you can report it.

I commute on the 8 ave line every day and I've never been on a train without A/C.
They've also been serious about privacy and security for longer than you think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoia_Horn
So true, there is maybe 10% comments of actual value anymore on reddit. The most valuable sources of info on the web used to be forums or comments, now there is very little. I used to search hackernews comments for useful info, but that is getting less and less. We really need a good place for expert info and opinions. Hopefully my friend working on a reddit like site, but with a whole new voting algorithm will help fill this void.
For example:

Masgrau et al. (2006) Atomic Description of an Enzyme Reaction Dominated by Proton Tunneling

http://sci-hub.cc/10.1126/science.1126002
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setsockopt [1], though, lets you change the timeout on a per-socket basis via the SO_RCVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO options.

If you need to know sooner that your data isn't going to be sent, it's pretty trivial to set up a short timeout that overrides the system defaults.

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=setsockopt&sektion...
As technology invades work and automates/assists in most menial tasks, the focus of a job becomes more about improving communication (from increasing productivity earlier).

https://2600hertz.wordpress.com/2016/08/15/the-secret-reason...
The trains have AC. Occasionally broken in one car but then just move to another car on the 8 or 10 car train (depending on the line).

Apple maps can show you how long it takes to travel by subway.

Also a monthly pass for as many subway and bus rides as you want is about $115.
CERN video shows mock human sacrifice
What Seattle Should Learn from Silicon Valley
specialization of labor. different people are good at different things. some people have great people skills, but are poor at math/logic. they might make great salespeople, but poor engineers. why not use everyones' strengths?

"when the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail" I remember my creative thinking class, we were asked to brainstorm a solution to clearing the sidewalks of snow. I proposed a snow shoveling robot. the mechanical engineers had ideas like magnifying glasses above sidewalks to heat them, or making the sidewalks black so they absorb more heat. those were probably more elegant/cheaper solutions. society benefits from different viewpoints.
Is WeChat Wallet the Strongest Mobile Wallet Available?
Correct. Connection read/write timeouts only apply when, wait for it, reading or writing.

All TCP keep alive does is send a packet every so often, which is actually something which is rarely actually set.
In many countries gas taxes cover most or all of the expense of maintaining the roadway. However, within the USA gas taxes are comparatively small, so no, it does not.
Vulnerabilities in SEV itself.

In theory you can't actually do it at all. The key is inside the chip, the attacker has physical control over the chip, an attacker with enough resources is going to be able to extract the key. You have no hope against a state-level attacker or even many university research departments. The assumption seems to be that the attacker won't be that sophisticated.

The problem is there are also likely to be attacks which won't require significant resources once published. Researchers are always coming up with new ways to extract keys from "tamper proof hardware" using timing or power consumption or whatever else. Some future version of the hardware will protect against that specific attack but that's too late for all the secrets you trusted to the current version.
How exactly?

I see the evidence of that happening with AMD GPUs versus Nvidia, but versus Intel processors?

Can you explain?
Travis is unbeatable because he's good at Wii Tennis, or something:

https://medium.com/@sacca/why-i-would-never-want-to-compete-...
Thank you for pointing out that someone, somewhere has probably tried everything with food and getting pavel_lishin and myself off the hook for being culinary dummies.
Every Month This Year Has Been the Hottest in Recorded History
Good point. I'll walk back my hyperbolic statement a bit and agree that location is important. My statement was mostly from the time I spent around the inner city (North Melbourne, Richmond, St Kilda) - Northcote was was much more comfortable by comparison.
I've really loved this project from the first time I saw mention of it. I've always dreamed of doing something like this, but have never been able to get the full technical abilities and resources to do it myself.
What Else Is Revealed by Order-Revealing Encryption?
Reminds me of a machine I saw on Tokio's Miraikan: it demonstrates the Internet (TCP/IP) with colored balls, rails, tubes and whatnot.

Wonderful post!
Or a single driver can command a convoy of trucks.
Online services are never going to be truly free-of-charge. (If you're not paying for the product...) In many cases the business plan is the reason that server interaction is necessary. However, there exists F/OSS that is truly free-of-charge for the typical user, so it seems feasible that many browser apps could be like that too, which would often obviate the server. For the example you cite, every client needs to agree eventually, so they could all keep their own copy.
FYI, Bricks are dependent on quantum physics, so calling something classical is fuzzy thinking.
I thought homomorphic encryption was supposed to fill the niche of allowing one to securely run VMs in a cloud environment. I've not heard of serious progress on this front the last time I went looking. Will we always require hardware with a "secure enclave"-like device to safely store keys in a public cloud? Is it possible to implement this scheme purely in software or is some "trusted" hardware always necessary?
At 18, senior in high school I knew I wanted to go into film making or cartooning. But I realized (even at 18) that success in either career involved not only talent and skill, but just as much luck as well. I liked computers and understood quite a bit of programming (having grown up during the Golden Age of Home Computers, the 80s) and decided to get a degree in computer science as a fall back.

So yeah, some of us were that smart at 18.
I really wish that more research was published in a free and open place online; I think it would really help with the freedom of information.
This reminds me of those University of Phoenix MBAs a few years ago.

I don't know what it'll take to fix higher education in the US, but opening up public funding options to for profit companies that already have issues on placement and average salary statistics[0] doesn't look like it's the right approach.

0 - http://www.businessinsider.com/coding-bootcamps-have-no-stan...
I am highly skeptical of other replies to this post that make the subway seem like a summertime Shangri-La. While I think it's better than a urine- scented tardy hassle, I don't think many people who have spent a few years in NYC would describe their summer commutes as "pleasant".

Overall it's a miracle public utility that you don't appreciate as much as you should until you've left the city, but that July/August trip is a sweaty mass of humanity no matter how you crunch it.
It's quite a few below for some effects. Have you heard of the double slit experiment?

But actually the scale of cells and their structures is macro-molecule scale... a lot of the behaviour of those things (DNA, proteins etc..) is very quantum mechanical.. there are also structures working with ions and even protons (hydrogen ion) in there.
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This is awesome, thanks! Are there more sites like this?
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Conversely, the majority of the things you actually want/need are in that undrivable 25% .
> Still, how can a first visit to a site require a getItem call before displaying anything at all?

Something like "the index.html page is empty, and gets populated from other templates by (insert Javascript framework here)".

There's this weird fetish now for doing literally everything in Javascript instead of rendering pages server-side ever.
Downsides of qisas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Allen_Davis_incident
Can you tell us about your family, your parents involvement in your education and tertiary study decisions, rough socioeconomic condition etc. Just curious.
>Not everyone's goal in life to maximize money earned. Some people value a certain passion over riches, and many other believe that those with a lesser-paid passion deserve to live decent lives, not burdened with excessive debt.

If you can't make a living that doesn't burden you with excessive debt then your passion isn't a career it's a hobby and you should treat it as such.
How's this:

Maybe for the next community, instead of making it public - potential users will instead have to find the site by solving a bunch of hidden puzzles. Think secret club.

Jokes aside: a major part of why HN works is that the community here self selects for several traits which ensure healthier communication.

As a forum becomes more mainstream, many things happen to attenuate the signal to noise ratio. (Pg had an excellent essay on the mid brow argument effect, which for many other forums is a problem they wish they had)

Eventually part of the crowd who came first realize it's not as useful anymore and decide to go somewhere else. The question is where.

We've seen eternal September come to almost every place and there's only a few traits which can help protect against it.

From my experience with many forums/modding, demographics are 80% of the issue, the remainder is topic of discussion, goal orientedness in discussion and moderator quality.

So the best solution is to create the forum and never advertise it. Let potential users figure out how to find it and how to get in.
By this would you mean things like business incentives and tax breaks?
I'm not defending coders, I'm rejecting the individual mentality—that people are just good or bad by nature, and aren't in some (large) sense a product of their environment as well.

Attribution bias tells us that we tend to see behavior as more a product of individual traits than the system that produced it. The system is more responsible than we interpret in almost every case.
Yeah, it's not a strawman exactly, but it's a - clayman? Gingerbread man?
Doesn't this sort of already exist? Dribbble for instance, you can have followers and usually the top artist have tons of activity through comments on their content. You can easily find these top artists through their search filters.
> I think it doesn't include simply calling external commands

proc and inshell. Did you check out the built-in tutorial?

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/turtle-1.0.0/docs/Turtle-...
Reddit uptime: Comments per minute 2008-2016 (withBigQuery)
I'm trying to remember the format of the LRO LOLA data... I never quite managed to put the tiles together right without seams everywhere.

Too much container complexity for what it is...
No other way of putting it, Moz is in terminal decline and is circling the drain.

The recent mass layoff (28% of the company,
https://moz.com/blog/moz-is-doubling-down-on-search) while touted
as 'focus' is nothing but a desperate attempt to reduce expenses
to try and make it at least end of the year.

The reasons are pretty simple, Moz is becoming increasingly irrelevant. It's a natural cycle all companies go through, but tech companies simply go through it faster. Moz's core business is shrinking fast and no amount of 'focus', 'reorganization to ensure better alignment' etc is going to help.
U.S. Judge Rejects Uber’s Proposed $100M Settlement with Drivers
People literally take shits in subway cars, especially at night. When people aren't taking a dump in the corner, the new subway cars have air conditioning systems that smell like stale halitosis.

But, the worst part about the new subway cars is that the robotic johnny cab voice doesn't have a weird accent. I actually enjoy the strange unintelligible squawking in a Brooklyn accent, drenched in the electromagnetic feedback of unshielded motors. Mostly because the robotic voice never has anything to useful or relevant to say, and if someone's going to say something pointless, I'd rather not understand it, and hear some kind of funny accent.

THIS THE NEW YORK CITY SUBWAY SYSTEM WITH AN
IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM THE MTA. KEEP YOUR
VALUABLE BELONGINGS OUT OF SIGHT. PROTECT
YOURSELF. STAY ALERT, BE COURTEOUS AND HAVE
A SAFE DAY.

Sure thing, HAL.
because he was busy dying from liver failure?
If this turns out to be useful, I could see a situation in which this could be very useful. I've always disliked the way in which calls and SMS disrupt people's actions.
>And don't even get me started on the violent crimes around pubs and clubs, the number of times you see broken glass and missing windows on cars parked in the streets, or the entire suburbs conquered by the illicit drug trade.

This reads like fiction. The crime rate in Melbourne is one of the lowest in the world and apart from the standard drunken violence you find in the CBD Melbourne is an extremely safe city.

Me thinks most people in Melbourne who are surprised by our ranking havn't spent much time in other large developed cities.
Don't forget Kerbal Space Program
The project is fantastic, and I'd love to see it in person. However, that might be the worst game of Tetris ever memorialized in a YouTube video. I guess he was too busy building this awesome machine.
A similar thing happened to Microsoft ten years back, when they hotlinked to an image on flickr and violated the CC licensing by doing so. The owner of the image swapped out his original image at the link, replacing it with the infamous goatse image, which appeared on Microsoft's site for some period of time.

The image owner wrote it up on his blog. You don't really need to follow links to the goatse image or a screenshot of the Microsoft page displaying the image, but they are there: http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2006/12/microsoft-copyright...
I've been developing a game using UE4 on a 2012 iMac for the past year and I get about 60fps@1080p in the editor on the highest settings. I can comfortably run DS+2 Clients to test multiplayer when I scale it down to Low. The only really slow thing is DebugDraw calls, which I haven't found to be a blocking issue, though it it certainly annoying.
by that definition, it'd be hard to call Python open source.
I used to work in IT at a place where FITS was the standard image format. Made me want to tear my hair out daily.

ImageMagick supports FITS, and will happily convert it to PNG or some other rational format. (It will make FITS files too, if you're feeling masochistic.)