skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to Wikipedia Fahmy has been given a presidential pardon and released (he now lives in Vancouver). While I don't know the specifics of this case, presidential pardons in developing nations are usually the result of international pressure.

Khadr's case is tragic, but it's a bit disingenuous to claim his treatment was entirely on account of him being "brown". I'm pretty sure the fact he was fighting for the Taliban against his own country was part of the reason he wasn't properly advocated for.

There's also the case of two white men being beheaded by terrorists because the Canadian government refused to pay ransom. http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/13/asia/philippines-canada-abu-sa... Their race didn't seem to affect the position of the government, despite much publicity.

Edit:Clarity
>Justin Trudeau Can Restore Saeed's Freedom

No he can't. If the reasons for Saeed's arrest are truly as said in the article, it would be immense loss of face to any Iranian politicians to release him. So they won't.

If Trudeau does anything to this stuff, there are three options:

1. Give up and lose face yourself.

2. Threaten Iran and lose public image of Canada as the do-good nice guy.

3. Exchange Saeed to something valuable. This would paint Saeed as spy and would save face of everybody involved in that regard. What would be sweet enough for Iran? What Canada has to offer?

Lifting trade sanctions prematurely or offering nuclear goods and ballistic missile designs. This would in turn make every ally of Canada pretty mad.
Last month activity often doesn't indicate the bitrot-ness of a project. "Graphs" paints a better image of its health. In this case, it does show the project is abandoned. Regardless, I think coconut is the more developed project out of the two.
I've been in China three times in the past year. I agree that it is creepy not to be able to access Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube. But in terms of personal safety and freedom to walk around and see things, I felt very free. I feel more nervous walking around most North American cities' downtown area (LA, NYC, SF, Chicago). And also Mexico city.

Nervousness with regard to both police and local citizenry.
Things are not this simple though, are they? It's certainly not the case that Jews or people of Jewish descent will reliably support Israel. (I was interested to learn today that Jill Stein is aligned with BDS, for example. And Greenwald, author of the piece, also has Jewish parents.) Even if they did, such support need not lend itself to unfair practices re: censorship.

(I will add: if you could plausibly argue that media owners tended to be Catholic, or vegetarian, or Scottish, or whatever, I think you should be able to express concerns about how that would affect discourse without being called a bigot; and likewise here. So I do not condemn your comment. But no group of people are a hivemind.)
So who's more wrong here? I don't quite follow the argument.
It's not impossible. After all, a "space gun" reached 117 miles in altitude in 1967.[1] A small satellite launcher is probably possible, especially with a rocket upper stage.

In recent years, military work on electromagnetic launchers and weapons has increased substantially. The US Navy has a railgun in test, and plans to mount it on a ship (probably the USS Zumwalt) next year. The new generation of carriers use electromagnetic catapults. Many of the components thus already exist.

The acceleration in a gun-type launch would be huge. All the acceleration has to take place in the length of the gun or track. Hardware, yes; humans, no. Think in terms of bulk launching of small satellites for mobile/Internet access.

[1] http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/project-harp-space-gun-ba...
Correct.

However, we may offer something like 'financial aid' for future versions of the MOOC.
2050 : their Navy will not be close to US.
Currently their Navy is not even close to Japan.
Power projection on Earth in 20th century and 21st century is about Maritime. That may change. Chinese may finally master flying saucers and make some of the previous structure irrelevant, but that is unlikely for now.

But if I you were interested in countries and power, I would not focus on J-20 or J-31 but the current purges and anti-corruption drive in China. The most interesting question about China in 2035 is, how will communist party hold power now on.
This. I'm struggling to remember the right game theory term here, but there's a mismatch between what you want for yourself and what you want others to do. It's great if other people to pick the service with the smaller market share, thereby increasing competition, but you yourself probably want to stick with the larger service because of the various network effects associated with being part of the larger service (e.g. not going out of business, third party service compatibility, etc.).
You can always edit the hosts file.

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts
https://github.com/search?q=docker&type=Repositories&utf8=%E...

112.567 repositories with docker in name.

Big companies/projects are using docker.* repo names. To cite some:

spotify/docker-gc
couchbase/docker
citusdata/docker
nodejs/docker-node
> Saving a Life is more important than theoretical slippery slopes.

Which life?

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_policy_doctrines_for_th...
Welcoming Sir Tim Berners-Lee to the CloudFlare Internet Summit
Good to know. The page I posted was nice in that it listed both (and included BTree for a comparison). I know nothing about how the benchmarks were run, but the fact that it shows varying sizes and shows hashes both in isolation and in a map gave me confidence that someone who knows what they were doing was running the show.

I think not looking at both the bare hash performance and the map performance is a bad idea because there are a lot more variables involved testing against a Map, but poor distribution (which ought not be an issue with anything except FNV on that graph) could make a fast hash not useful.
I like your note at the end and I agree with you. If you are being used for some other form of monetary benefit then ads don't make sense to me.

I would apply this model to, if I pay for TV don't give me ads too. Either raise your costs, provide me with a higher cost version of TV as an alternative or don't run ads. I look at the Tivo as one of the first Ad Block devices out there and there was a REASON it was created, you've already got me paying for this service why are you taking someone else' money too?
The most successful bootcamp graduates that I know had previous experience, and attended the bootcamp as either a final step towards a career, or as a way to brush up on a new technology. Bootcamps are not designed to give you all the computer science training that is required to be successful in a tech career, it's just simply too short of a time to search such a wide breath of information. If you utilize bootcamps properly, they will yield great results.
So far as I recall Windows 3 was the only one that actually tried to be spatial. Windows 1 and 2 were essentially tiling window managers on the opposite side of the spectrum, and Windows 95's Explorer intentionally was not spatial. There was the brief period 98 to ME that Explorer was sometimes spatial, but that seemed more an accident of Explorer's "Active" phase than intentional.
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> It can even intercept or create packets on the network interfaces.

And appears to be built to do so out of the box by default with no "specialized code". I'm guessing with both wired and wireless interfaces... crazy!
Costs ten keystrokes by my count. But it's not the keystrokes that trouble me, it's the idea that one of my co-collaborators might use this feature to "safely" rewrite history in a branch I'm also using. "Safely" being relative, since the rest of the collaborators will have to force pull that branch later, and rebase their pending changes.

By my reckoning, rewriting history just isn't a reasonable decision in shared branches.
What does it bring to the table? A jewish isn't an Israeli and might not even be a sionist.

And "jewish control" sounds really negative.
As of around the year 2000, I remember a figure of 11 miles as the height limit for a fairly conventionally built skyscraper. If we used lightweight truss construction, I suspect we could build a load bearing tower. If we used aerospace grade materials, we could do even better. (Yes, it would be quite expensive.)
Two hours later, now at $500, increasing by $20 per logo now.
Going Shirtless for Hillary
Building a static blog from scratch is just writing HTML files for your posts, and then linking them them to a list of pages, placing it at the top. The classic example of this is JWZ's "gruntle," or jwzrants, which actually predates the term blog. You can find it at https://www.jwz.org/gruntle/.

However, most of us prefer to generate such things from templates and markup files. The most popular system for doing this, by far, is Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com/), probably because Github recommends it. Metalsmith (http://www.metalsmith.io/) and Wintersmith (http://wintersmith.io/), while not as popular, are certainly options if you're a JS fan, and don't mind cutting code to write your configurations, and have some very nice features for customization. However, if you're coming from Wordpress, I'd reccomend Lektor (https://www.getlektor.com/). It's Python based, well documented, and uses a simple file tree to build the website like all other options discussed. However, it also provides a simple admin panel, which can be used to write your posts, manage your posts, and publish the generated site to your server.

As for distributing a static site, you just have to stick it onto some kind of hosting. S3, Apache, Github pages, whatever. Once again, Lektor can do this via the admin panel. For the rest of the generators, you're on your own: you'll have to write the scripts yourself, but this is fairly trivial.
Sundar Pinchai is Jewish?
"Its" data?

There's no mention in TFA of the data belonging in any way to the users. And maybe that's accurate.

Yes, we have web/cloud apps now. But that is—or should be—orthogonal to where data is stored and hosted. Of course app vendors have every incentive to create lock-in. And most users are just happy to hear that "you do not need to take any action" and your data will just be magically faster and more secure. But at least around here, wouldn't people rather own their storage? Does remoteStorage have any legs?[0]

This kind of happened with authentication, right? It's common now to use OAuth to provide login using a third party. Of course, they're mostly silos, too, but at least in principle an app could let you choose a provider.

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dejong-remotestorage-07
POWER8, OpenSparc, and OpenRISC are all still around. Linux kernel compiles for them all.

You're only locked in if your personal requirements mandate the smallest lithography process and the highest clock speed.
There are multiple tools out there that can measure the bullshit levels of press releases. That's usually enough.
Canadian citizens should perhaps mention their nationality if they do indeed fill out this email petition.

I simply added "I am a Canadian Citizen and voter" to the subject line.

Can't hurt.
You can trust a CA easily enough. So do you just glob some shell scripts around ssh-keygen?

Short-lived is one solution to limiting their lifetime: the other is to use a CRL format.

Either way, you need software to manage the issuance and later revocation.

I suppose you could build this into your host imaging profile, or use config management software. I'm just interested in what people do.
For big travel firms, the mobile struggle is real
I didn't realize vim supported reading from standard in, thanks!
That's cool. I never said I wasn't affected. Just that I don't click on them. Ever. Like I said, I'd go to amazon or drive somewhere before I click ANY internet ad. And thus far, I have never clicked on one... willingly.
Skype for Linux Alpha
iOS 10 brings simple setup with macOS Server
It's probably best not to go any further down this discussion tree in this thread. This issue has a tendency to dominate the discussion whenever it appears, derailing the original conversation entirely.
I tried to go caseless, but thin metal smartphones are way too slippery. Every time I set my phone down on something, it always seemed to have some velocity towards the floor, just a matter of time.

Also, it feels wrong setting the iPhone down on a bar table or whatever. Either the touchscreen lays against the table or it's seesawing on its protruding camera lens.

Putting it in a minimal rubber case took an $800 load off my mind for $15.
Zoho has the worst email service I ever tried. Even if I whitelist some email addresses and mark them dozen of times as not spam, it still put them into the spam list...
Ios10 bricking devices
I've had the best luck with Contests on Freelancer. I usually drop $25-$50 per piece of art I need (logos, mascots, icon sets) and usually get around ~30 submissions, of which at least half are solid quality. You just pick your favorite and that's the one you get for the price.
Previous Canadian administrations, and the Canadian parliament, have included Saeed's case when criticizing and negotiating with Iran.: it was that stance that in part led to Saeed's previous (two!) death sentences being commuted to life. A return to Canada's previous position would undoubtedly help Saeed now.

(I'm the author of the original EFF post)
That's been my pet idea, as well. Would love to support it however I can. boardreader.com is OK but could be a lot better.
EDIT: fixed, thanks!

this doesn't really fit the format of a Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they can't be Show HNs.
Hmm, well what about all the care that an organic computer would need: food, some level of comfort grooming heat etc...

Unless they make gooey pods like in the matrix
Yandex has a pretty good track record for contributing back to open source projects they use (and open-sourcing their own technologies).
Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array?
I'm an American, and I have no problem with responsible gun ownership, nor do I have a problem with electronic records of gun purchasers. I assume FOID cards are in a database already.

If I was a law enforcement officer responding to a domestic violence call of a husband battering his wife, I'd want to know if the oldest male in the house purchased an AR-15 derivative and several handguns.

EDIT: Many adults also explicitly show their possession of a lethal weapon every day: their car, which is registered in a statewide database.

EDIT2: I'd further like to be able to query that database as a civilian, so I know which of my neighbors may own an unusual cache of guns, so that I can have better situational awareness if I'm ever in a dispute with one.

EDIT3: To apply a standard of transparency to this data collection, the person whose data about firearm purchases should be able to be notified by some immediate or otherwise automated means that their record was viewed by a LEO or a citizen or another state/federal agency.
> To restore, affected users must then plug their devices into iTunes on Mac or PC to restore the device.

Bricking ain't what it used to be. Am I wrong in thinking that "bricking" means to render a piece of hardware permanently unusable for purposes other than paperweight?
That is a catch-all argument against basically anything. So my catch-all response: "Obviously. So what? Not a super hard problem to fix."
The situation you're referring to, where older citizens own more assets than average, might indeed seem obvious in Canada but it might not be the case at all in any country with a differently structured social security system, since the decision to save money for a rainy day or not is directly affected by the availability of social security.

In a country with an ageing population and with a pension system overwhelmingly funded by intergenerational transfer, then voting for tax cuts is optimal for young voters. In a country where pensions are mostly funded by private savings, then sure, taxes are nice.
Hi, I'm a developer working at a startup and I graduated from a Computer Programming course at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. I hear from recruiters constantly.

So ultimately it depends where you're applying. When I started out, I mostly did freelance work on sites like Guru.com. This let me set up a portfolio of work I could point to, and got me to the point where my lack of a BS could be overcome by "equivalent experience". If you can find enough gigs, you'll get to that point pretty quickly, after which you'll find that most employers won't care that you don't have a BS. Smaller companies will care less as long as you can show that you will be able to do the work. Bigger companies will probably care more / might filter you out (although I will say that I have been contacted by internal recruiters from "big four" software companies, but only more recently, with experience). You additionally might get filtered out later in your career when you try to move into management, but I suspect this doesn't happen as much as you might think.

Also, what does your course cover? If it doesn't teach C++, Java, or Python (and possibly others but mostly at least one mainstream programming language), you might want to consider a different course. There should ideally also be a database architecture segment.

Edit: I looked into your program, looks good, similar to the one I took. I would look at the articulation agreements they have to upgrade to a BS after program completion (one bonus being that you'll still save a lot of money vs. entering into the BS right away). If you can, see if you can get into Waterloo in particular since they have a local Google office. And for the love of God, take the co-op! It's the single greatest way to differentiate yourself from the rest of the students in the program.
So how should they make money?
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Or just makes it's way into the hands of thieves. When someone breaks into your home, they typically go after a few kinds of items: Electronics, tools, cash/silverware, and guns. All of which are high-value and easily sold/fenced. Imagine if you had a list of homes that could be sorted by number of profitable items and the street address. It'd be a thief's dream.
A few years back, I was part of a group in the early days of commissioning a piece of research equipment that consisted of many racks of FPGA and GPU computing equipment in a specially modified shipping container. This thing was installed in a desert area, and had to be cooled by a couple of AC units.

The issue was similar. On nights where the temperature dropped too close to the dew point for too long, the units would freeze over. However, at the time, there wasn't any temperature monitoring. So someone figured out how to monitor the die temp on the FPGAs without changing the running code. Took them a few days. By the time they finished, someone realized they could tie streamers to the AC vent, which could be seen in the remote video stream.

Anyways, the fix was to connect to the network, switch the AC unit to fan only for a couple of hours, then switch them back on. If I remember correctly, it was like this for about 6-8 months before they finally had someone replace the AC system with a more commercial unit that could handle the condensation.
Pascal's wager also supposes that faith is "free". It doesn't factor in the cost like having to dismiss all modern notions of Biology in certain cases. You have to weigh the chance of eternal damnation against the possibility of wasting your only life (no afterlife) laboring under false pretenses.
Still controls everything that goes in and out of Gaza. Including essential supplies like medicinea and food. They also reserve the "right" to invade Gaza whenever necessary, while keeping the population locked in. The whole world agrees that it constitutes an occupation.
A really worthwhile article. Infrastructure spending can be helpful, but the particulars of the project matter a great deal.

>A well-known 1988 Congressional Budget Office survey found that spending to maintain current highways in good shape produces returns of 30 percent to 40 percent—but that new highway construction in rural areas showed a much lower return.

But also:

> California’s huge investment in high-speed rail was justified by a 2014 cost-benefit analysis that Parsons Brinckerhoff, the firm building the rail system, had prepared. The report predicted that total benefits from the project would range from $66 billion to $80 billion over several decades. That number looked reasonable when the projected price tag for the project was $35 billion, but the budget has already swollen to $68 billion—and is still expanding.
>>for those with advanced degrees (MS/PhD in science/technology) from world's accredited universities

no, there should be a list of accredited universities - problem solved! (Insead, MC Gill, Oxford, MSU, UCL ... top schools !) If USA can steal that kinda of talent on a routine basis, can you imagine the things we can do for the economy/politicies/society?
I can't wait for the MOOC!!
In his place, I'd only pardon Snowden and Manning after the election is decided.
Not really that good news from a customer point of view.

And there goes my data, my privacy, ...

That said I really liked evernote. Decent alternatives, cross-platform, mobile app, good usability, ...?
Ask HN: Does your company find value in exit interviews?
Why not move to Bitbucket (cloud or server) too?
I'm confused by this - coming from an academic background, the words "financial aid" mean "help with subsidized tuition fees" to me, but you've said that this is going to be free. Can you elaborate on what you're thinking here?
Buzzfeed reviews the iPhone 7, and nails it
The variant of Robin Hood hash table isn't a double hashing scheme like the original research paper. This is more like linear probing with a collision resolution trick to reduce worst case in lookups.

The article suggests using quadratic probing instead, but that has two weaknesses. Cache locality is worse than linear probing. But the deal breaker is that the hash table must have a prime number size for correctness. This makes the hash table grow quite quickly once the size reaches tens of thousands. And finding primes is another issue.
No, you're right. But writing an article saying "iOS 10 update bricking iPhones" gets a lot more clicks than "iOS 10 update fails for some people", so pretty much all of the news sites have started calling it "bricking" if it requires restoring with iTunes.
Font made out of duct tape by a Japanese subway station security guard
Is there a country that has more high valued startups than India after US and China? (I hate the term Unicorns)
Most of the acceleration track floats between San Cristobal (Galapagos Islands) and Ecuador. Near the end, it ascends Mount Chimborazo to 6000m and punches through a plasma window separating only 0.46 atm external air pressure from the low vacuum inside the accelerator.

At our current level of technology, I estimate this would cost at least $200 billion in capital expenses.

A neutral-buoyancy under-ocean train between two cities otherwise un-connectable by terrestrial transit would prove some of the necessary technologies. Liverpool to Belfast would probably work. Miami to Havana to Cancun would work, if not for politics.

Relevant search terms: "vactrain", "StarTram", "transatlantic tunnel"