skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's cute. Do you happen to have it on GitHub? Would love to see what comes through.
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Based on the article it seems that they're just endlessly maintaining their nest. Waiting for their Queen who will never come...
There are some useful tips on Awesome Docker on reducing image sizes - https://github.com/veggiemonk/awesome-docker#optimizing-imag...
Afaik xen does not use memory deduplication. KVM aside, one should be worried about things running inside a linux host/vm, like containers. Maybe I am missing something
Thanks for clearing that up. It's been gnawing away at my brain all day.
That's a decision on their part which makes it a dark pattern. Subscriptions do not need to be in the same place. Although, I guess what you're subscribed to could be sensitive enough...
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What are the numbers behind your statement? Price info is easy enough to find, but what's the conversion rate from KW of solar energy to KW of electrical energy for concentrated solar thermal vs. PV? And is that the right metric to use?
> VM with Win 10 just to do the taxes.

That's what I've been doing for quite a few years now (WinXP, then Win7) and it works well. Catching up on Windows updates once a year takes almost as long as doing my taxes. :-O

The other alternative is to do your taxes online, but that is a Really Bad Idea IMHO.
Arguing pro-encryption is so 2013. What's cool in 2016 is arguing against encryption - apparently:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/31/fbi_wants_adult_conv...
sounds like the beginning of a superhero comic book
It shouldn't be necessary either. The proof-of-work is only necessary to avoid a central party wrt. which blockchain is the "right one". Financial institutions are working together with each other, they can easily just agree on which blockchain to follow. But without proof-of-work, the blockchain is just a database with atomic updates. I don't see why they would need a blockchain for that.

Ripping Bitcoin in two gives you two fairly uninteresting things: 1) hash-cash and 2) a database full of public keys/signatures. Only combining the two gives you something interesting: negotiable/fungible hash cash (hash cash that can be transferred from person to person via a distributed database).
The app store is entirely optional. I've had a Mac for years and never used it except to upgrade the OS itself. Using brew (incl. Cask) is all you need for almost everything, and you can always download anything via a browser the old school way.
Similar, but Arctic only: http://www.arctic.io/#simulation Changing dates and hours with a slider is quite informative.
> the way Docker handled the 1.12 release

Could you elaborate on that, please?
Just wait until they start adding ads into Explorer disguised as "suggestions".
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Because Kickstarter! The uneducated financier model works well for everyone involved there, right? Right guys??
Wouldn't it just require an API call?
I feel like concrete-walled bunker is an even more difficult biome than glacier!
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This is awesome... There have been several projects I've moved off of Closure in favor of node/npm based tooling to avoid the Java requirement... hoping to see this improve things as Closure always resulted in smaller output, but the tooling was less than ideal. I'm also not sure what features Babel supports that closure doesn't at this point, but it is nice to see this availability happen.

-- edit --

More awesome, there's a vinyl stream adapter (gulp) and webpack plugin in the box.
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How+Quickly+Can+Urgent+EpiPen+Break+Free+From+Scandal?
To be fair, it doesn't say they're radioactive. The 80s would be disappointed.
Something like this was suggested by economists at the local university.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/bc-prof...

The Mayor of Vancouver is also interested in taxing non-occupancy and in the same special session of the legislative assembly that passed the 15% foreign buyer tax the Province granted the City of Vancouver (but not others) the powers to tax non-occupancy. It can be pretty involved to find out occupancy and the City has limited means so it'll be interesting to see if that goes anywhere.
It's because there's a clear mathematical relationship between the price someone is willing to rent, the prevailing interest rate and the price a property is worth.

As an owner, you don't want that information to get out.
macOS has telemetry. The difference is you can actually disable it and it really gets disabled. None of this "the check box is set to disabled but I still see all these network connections from system processes like Cortana still..." type bullshit you get on Windows 10.
I only get (15E12/1360/0.3) = 37 billion m², which is 190x190 km square or 36000 km². Little more than Taiwan, which looks as quite a little spot compared to the globe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Taiwan
Getting an error when I'm trying to send an email. Is that the correct address?
6000 birds/years in one location is a very big deal.

> But company officials suggest that estimates of the number of birds killed annually at the site are exaggerated, and federal wildlife authorities believe they are too low.

In practically all cases like these, "company officials" always say things are exaggerated. Whether it's about the effects of smoking, pesticide residues in foods, etc.
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http://gettingthingsdone.com
How is this different than wefunder.com?
The wiggling content is very distracting and pulled my focus away from trying to figure out what your app does. The same screenshot is in 3 different places, and I am left with no real idea of what your app does, besides provide a single circle graph of my bank account. I wouldn't consider "420" to be an optimal number for a advertisement, although I did find it amusing.

I would suggest redesigning the page to make your app's core function more readily apparent, ditch the wiggle content, use more explicit terms in your top bar (the typing thing, not sure what you would call that), and use a much greater variety of screenshots to show off more of your app's functionality.
"For apps currently offering subscriptions, note that if you raise prices before iOS 10 is available, customer notification will behave as it does today. We recommend holding on price increases until iOS 10 is available so your apps can take advantage of customer consent to price increase notifications."
But wouldn't increased insects cause the solar panels needing to be cleaned a lot more and cause reduced efficiency?
Apple doesn't need to put the unsub button right next to all your personal, and other, info though.
That's a very good idea. Well done.
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Don't live in the US, so doing my taxes is no reason to stick with Windows =)
All of these programs are hacks. They delete/rename/move the executables that have been identified by system monitoring to be the source of such data collection.

The problem is using any such tool will put you into the world of unsupported modification.
It wasn't "just now". The rule against privileging single companies is a rule of the Treaty of Rome. Which was first signed in 1957. And by Ireland in 1973. Also the recovery of unlawful state aid is nothing new but established practice.

A better way of minimizing your risk factor would be hiring tax lawyers who know the rules of the EU Single Market. Which makes Cook's comments so baffling: Apple should have known that there is a possibility of a crackdown.
How would "more ants" be a solution to "everyone is starving"? :(
If you plan to buy a new laptop soon: Oct 31, 2016 is the last date that OEMs can sell Win 7 (or downgrade rights from Win 10) bundled with hardware.
You ignored the alternative that I suggested.
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I wonder if the clouds don't separate into bands as much at those latitudes because the velocity (due to the planet's rotation) is lower closer to the poles.
It is not. Although the idea rent control benefits no one and that north American land ownership is unambiguously virtuous both are. Points I have objected to to his account's serious detriment. I can not fathom why you imply I make such claims about affordable housing although, even ridiculously untrue, it cleverly nullifies my complain doesn't it?

But whether I personally eat babies or not does not change the problem I have pointed out.

There is a problem that I and others have taken the time to point out, and rest assured if one person points it out, far more don't bother. So whether anyone wishes to address the problem or just downvote the complain itself is not really my concern.

In the end the site is an advertisement for ycombinator and in practice it's really a question of how they want their organization perceived. I had assumed having NY Times articles that point out Russian interference in Swedish politics swiftly whooshed from the front page does not serve that end.
Absolutely, but then what would

add _ (minus 1 _)

mean? Not the same as

let f = minus 1 _
in add _ f

and things would get very weird very fast.
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The services are pre-paid.

Apple is already in the 'subscription' category with the Apple TV. I subscribe (via the Apple TV) to Hulu and HBO. I remember magazines being the same, as well.
Has that gentrification extended to the rough area between Eastern Parkway and Atlantic Ave.?
Thanks for trying, guys. It was great fun.
The assertion that civility and honesty are mutually opposed is a common one, but it's neither insightful, nor accurate.
I agree. As I said, I really should get https working. I also really should finish a bunch of papers in various stages of completion and review, etc. This lets me decide whether the new Chrome behaviour rearranges my priorities or not.
Up the organization
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Up-Organization-Corporation-Stiflin...

The complete Yes Minister
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Yes-Minister-Prime-Complete-Collect...

The undercover economist and it's follow up
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Undercover-Economist-Tim-Harford/dp...

I would struggle to encapsulate it all except "people and organizations can be vicious and complex but we all innately want them to be simple, fair and if we can find someone believable we can turn around any hideous situation"
just go for it. here's a start: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-crea...
Foreign investment money is a good thing for a city and country.

Empty buildings are not ideal though (though its still better than less investment). I think maybe there should be a requirement to rent out your investments if it's in a high density area.
And the OS will specifically ask you whether it's OK to send back telemetry/diagnostics when you first set up the machine. It's not something you have to dig into the settings later to turn off.
In the U.S. we eat over 20 million birds every day. Not saying they shouldn't make some effort to reduce the number of unintended bird deaths. But give me a break!
Eh, call it what you want. I'm just happy to see free trials in iOS apps.
Can anyone explain the purported benefits to society of allowing non-resident foreigners to own residential property?

Who is this supposed to benefit? I mean, other than real estate agents, solicitors / conveyancer, and the initial citizen who sold the property.

What prevents us (whoever 'us' is in your case) from banning foreign non-resident residential property ownership.
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Just get an LTS. Like xubuntu or something.

It's no use comparing a rolling release to whatever OSX is.
> Any of 2,000+ root and intermediary CAs can sign a certificate for any domain name. "That won't happen", except it did: we know of at least DigiNotar and MCS Holdings.

> Any hostile government can compel a CA to issue a rogue certificate, and then force them to not disclose that this happened. Our browsers today trust such certificates from basically every country on earth.

There's a massive difference between "anyone can MitM this connection" and "a small number of nation-state actors might be able to MitM this connection if you do not implement HPKP." A system that prevent such mis-issuance events from staying secret (Certificate Transparency) is also being worked on and is picking up speed.

> Name Constraints would help protect against this, except that no browser implements them. Probably because it'd also make self-signed certificates a lot safer in the process (much easier to trust a self-signed CA that can only validate one domain name.)

AFAIK all browsers except Safari support name constraints.

> Plus, if you're using a work machine, your IT staff can install a certificate that Chrome and Firefox helpfully refuse to accept HPKP on and will allow said certificate to validate any domain it wants to. The same goes for any malware that stealthily installs a trusted CA for you. And 99.9% of users don't even know where their CA store is, let alone which ones shouldn't be there.

This argument doesn't make any sense - if someone is capable of installing a trusted root certificate on your device, it's over and any enforcement by the browser could easily be bypassed.
Are any of these dapps really in use and making a difference? It seems to me that the listed dapps are mostly technical proof of concepts. For example: a decentralized actuary sounds great, but I find it highly unlikely that the industry is really accepting it. Same goes for flight insurance and option exchanges.
Regardless of the terms, all of these companies appear to be just terrible investments.
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> Not every debate is good.

True. But why can't we just let not-good debates die on their own, instead of not giving them a chance at all?
This part is wrong, sorry. An attacker can sign his own certificate for your domain, and send you that. Then he can communicate with the real site on your behalf.

Your only protection would be if you pre-installed said self-signed certificate before going to the coffee shop. Your warning would be that the certificate was suddenly untrusted again.

It also wouldn't prevent an attack by someone that could forge a certificate from a trusted intermediate CA. HPKP could help there; but if you have someone like that targeting you in a coffee shop, you have much bigger problems.

The important thing though is that this is still not worse than plain HTTP. And in fact, it's better: it makes the attacker's job a lot more difficult. Especially when done at large scale (eg ISP ad injection.)
It depends on how you partition. If you partition with no extra columns which is the typical case for partitioning by time you can use triggers and insert on the base table. The postgresql doc covers this.

However if you add columns to your subtables (which is usually the case for adding events by type) you will need to insert into the correct table.

You can enforce this by making it so you can never insert into the parent table

-- FORCE programmatic dispatch to table (v9.2).
ALTER TABLE event ADD CONSTRAINT event_no_insert CHECK (false) no inherit;

Now you have to insert in the chid tables. This requires business logic on your end.

As far as refactoring goes the typically approach is to create the new tables and insert the data into them and then do a name swap and then add the check constraints.
Naturally something that alters your operating system will get detected. Not being on Windows myself I haven't read it, but the source is openly available.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team - Patrick Lencioni. It's a pretty fast read, I think the thing that stuck with me the most from it was the reassurance that (constructive) conflict on a team is not something to be avoided at all costs.
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It's unique within our solar system, the only one we have details about. I think it's fair to state that as being unique. The implication (that we don't know about other solar systems) doesn't need to be stated, at least to me.
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To be fair Microsoft had support documentation on how to disabled and remove GWX correctly and most of the third party tools were overly aggressive and did not follow the documented process. They were basically watchmen programs that looked for the GWX process and would force kill it. If you used a program such as Never10 that used the correct process you would have zero problems (Never10 is basically just a pretty UI that adds the two registry entries to instruct Windows to disable GWX).

I agree that MS will counterattack this tool though. Almost every time there is a Windows Update it restores all of the modifications these tools make. It was the same with the GWX killers that did not follow process. Unfortunately there is no process to disable telemetry (outside of Enterprise versions).
Airbnb releases first transparency report on government requests for user data
What? They are paid the standard minimum wage if they aren't tipped. It's actually the opposite of what you're saying. Their hourly pay from their employer DOES get adjusted when they are tipped below a rate which satisfies the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
> I can't be bothered to deal with this crap any more.

As someone who has used windows from 1995 to 1999 and, on my secondary workstation, OSX since 2015: MS is just catching up on what Crapple has been doing for a very long time and thus MS is not as sophisticated when it comes to providing a user friendly experience that comes with telemetry. Install Little Snitch on OSX (app level fw) and you'll have just as many WTF-moments as with Windows 10.

> But on the mac side, there's a lot of blocking of non-store apps and general walled garden-ness?

Same difference (see above).

The question boils down to whether UX is more important than privacy for you. If you favor UX, use OSX, if you favor privacy, use a UNIX with a very strict local FW. For me, the answer is to carry two laptops: A small and cheap apple device for fun and a lenovo thingy (don't dare to call it a laptop) for serious work.
Absolutely. I think my dream work situation is that all meetings before, say, 2pm are banned. I'm so much more productive, coding-wise, in the morning than in the afternoon. Afternoons can accommodate meeting time.
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I guess I am confused why they would not want to collect the money from renting the buildings out.
Any ideas?
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I haven't got a chance to put its advice into practice yet, but I liked "Getting to Yes". It's short and to the point, providing a good perspective on handling negotiations.
Perhaps he meant that not all classified material is state secret.
A couple of thought provoking professional reads-

The Sticking Point Solution: 9 Ways to Move Your Business from Stagnation to Stunning Growth In Tough Economic Times > http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6515635-the-sticking-poin...

Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal > http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10321016-pitch-anything?a...

* Several excellent recommendations already posted here, always impressed by HNers!
Internode process spawning happens explicitly, last I checked. It's pretty easy once both nodes are communicating, but not automatic.

In contrast, BEAM's SMP support is automatic AFAICT; the scheduler will happily distribute processes across as many cores as it can access (1 BEAM thread per hardware thread by default, so a quad-core CPU with one thread per core and a dual-core CPU with two threads per core will both be loaded with four BEAM threads unless BEAM is configured to do something else).
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Indeed. I am not a massive Apple fan but they deserve credit for how open they are about their diagnostics collection options during initial setup. There don't try and trick the user with "custom settings" like on Windows.
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While I understand and agree with the sentiment of your comment...

The idea of a tax virus sounds terrifying!
I wonder whether any of the Hacker News staff contributes back to the Arc Forum project?

Hacker News may be Arc's most successful implementation (may not be, I don't know) but it does seem as if there's potential being wasted in keeping it a black box.
Mountain lions and lynx are indigenous to North America, neither hunt songbirds. House cats are from the Near East.