skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can't imagine a significant number of people switch between ecosystems deliberately -- in either direction.

When my current 5s dies, I'm almost certainly buying an Android phone. From what I've seen, with the right phone I can get very similar UX for about half the price.
And that is one of the fundamental problems.

Another being(assuming we all agree on what a failing is) the rights you need to violate to attempt(and fail, because it will fail) to address that failing.

Better to leave people to themselves than inflict certain misery in a misguided attempt to remould mankind in your own image.
It's interesting. I had written up a few potential objections that I ended up cutting from my post. This was one of them:

"The first objection is that South Korea is right there, and thus is conceivably within range of a nuclear strike. In particular Seoul is directly next to the border with the North. However, there are already more than two thousand North Korean heavy artillery pieces ready to shell the metropolis at any time.

The damage to Seoul is going to be significant under any military intervention scenario. But if action is not taken, the threat from North Korea will become permanent."
> Its an idea originally from PyPy afaik.

No, the idea is from Raymond Hettinger on the Python-Dev ML back in 2012: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-December/1...

PyPy were the first to bother actually implementing it.
They should say "arbitrary order"
The Billing Maturity Model
I feel like businesses also don't like when people prefer to "work alone" or "work on their own" because they just assume that if you can't see a person working, they are slacking off. Even if working in this case is training.
I am not going to call caching your admin password so it can continually re-enable the feature skirting official APIs just a dark UI pattern.
10000 conventional artillery pieces shelling for 30 minutes is a lot of shells.
But if your work helps you get past being so introvert, which ultimately can make you difficult for others to work with in a team. Isn't that a good thing?
I feel validated that my markup must be sane considering a generic utility can parse the html into markdown.
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>If the United States' military posture was not so depleted at this point,

Compared to whom?[0][1][2] We are first or second in most measures of military strength globally. We currently likely have the most powerful military ever to exist in human history.[3]

[0]http://www.globalfirepower.com/aircraft-total.asp

[1]http://www.globalfirepower.com/navy-aircraft-carriers.asp

[2]http://www.globalfirepower.com/active-military-manpower.asp

[3]http://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-listing.asp
Another option is to use Mercurial with hg-git to GitHub for network effects.

I've been doing that for a while for dropbear ssh, it does hit occasional problems but is overall more pleasant than straight git.
Was it really that much about customers? Apigee has less than 100 million in revenue.
First, that is not the US's decision to make. This whole idea of the US being the world police is absurd at face value, there are many other countries in this world and just about all of them are more threatened and geographically closer to North Korea.

At the very least South Korea needs to be involved. A strike against North Korea will put South Korea immediately into an expensive all out war even if they didn't start it. Second, even if the US military was "still" mighty[1] we would need the blessing of Russia and China or at least their promise not to retaliate and start World War III.

To the person who said...

> There are also credible reports of genocide. That'd be reason enough don't you think?

NO! Many times no! This is one of the reasons the world hates us. We think it is our position to unilaterally police everyone in the world. Everyone should universally decry genocide, absolutely and aggressively. But we are citizens of the world not dictators. We should not be pre-emptively striking. We should not be sending money and weapons to other countries (or at least only send them to one side of the fight for god sake so we don't have two sides fighting each-other with our own weapons!). Every time we have been interventionists either overtly or covertly it has caused unintended consequences and often disastrous ones. When will we learn that it hurts more than helps?

* I say this as a born American.

[1] We spent more on our military than any other country by a huge margin. I really don't understand
Thank you for the suggestion and really appreciated your comment!
China formally protests North Korea nuclear test
That is exactly why they're justified in seeking a nuclear deterrence.

Imagine if Saddam, Assad, and Gaddafi (he stupidly gave whatever he had away to the country that later killed him) all had nukes and the capability to deliver them.
If you really want to make money, it's probably not the best idea to put a fixed time into your time bomb, unless you are targeting a fast moving platform like mobile OSes. At some point your previous version will be sufficient to 99% of people and any new features will be just nice-to-haves. Maybe you can consider per-feature time bombs? You'll still have time to build a sustainable business on top of it, still allow people to study/modify your code, but with greater control over your cashflow.
Oh no! What will an empolyer think!? We must suplicate ourselves before our betters and beg forgiveness. Repent, sinners, repent!

Fuck. That. Shit.

EDIT: for a site that is focused on startups and entrepreneurship, y'all get really pissy when anyone challenges the employment status quo. When corporate culture can censor how people talk in colloquial ways, ways that are not at all harmful to anyone because words aren't magic, the culture is sick and rotten.
Inside Theranos: Yikes
Hi, thanks for the suggestions, all very smart. For events what do you mean? You could always trigger checked by javascript or jquery or whatever :)
Apropos, the Gaia space telescope's first data release is next week. It's an extremely large dataset of the kinematics (3d position + velocity) of Milky Way stars.

http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr1
>* Interactivity is important in a training setting because you're learning along with others. That initial path you create in your brain is dotted with waypoints that everyone in class travels together.

I'm sorry, I'm totally lost at what this metaphor is even supposed to mean. I have no idea what the deep mental processes of my fellow students are when they are learning, even if we would talk about the material and ask questions and discuss, and I'm not even sure why I should follow the same "pathways" as them to learn to grok some concept.

Most efficient learning method I've found is to study materials on your own (be their written materials, videos, recorded lectures, though I prefer texts), try to apply it (first to some basic exercises if available, then try more independent work), and ask a more knowledgeable person questions about it when I have questions to ask. The last stage is inherently interactive, but at the first stage all and the only action that happens should be you and your brain concentrating on the material.
What's your estimate of the death toll of the path you're advocating? Not just the first strike, but the ensuing carnage...

My first thought when I read the news was that the current way of dealing with NK -- condemnation, shunning, embargoes -- seems to be a dead end. What is it even accomplishing anymore? Escalating seems to be a path to hell, for everyone involved. What else is there besides appeasement? I hasten to add that I don't know enough about the various international relationships involved to really have a solid opinion.
> My initial reaction was that the extra indirection would slow it down, but of course that's based on nothing but general knowledge and two seconds' thought.

There are already indirections in the current implementation.

The new dict has much better memory locality: the "actual data" (24 bytes on 64b platforms) is stored in a dense array instead of the former sparse array, and the sparse array only stores indices so it can be made much more compact (especially as it can switch the index size depending on the size of the compact array, for small dicts it'll store byte indices). So not only is the new dict smaller, the way the data is laid out is better fetchable.

The original point[0] was actually iteration speed: since the data is stored in a dense array, that can be iterated directly and efficiencly instead of having to iterate a sparse array and skip the random empty entries (leading to awful branch predictability, whether a given entry of the sparse array is empty is essentially random if the hash is any good).

[0] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-December/1...
To be honest I am not looking for collaboration at this point. The orginal reason for posting the source is because this indexes your source code and many raised concerns that it could potentially be phoning home with your code. Being able to see the code and build the binary distribution to hash check solves that issue.

The reason for the time delay is because I want to look after anyone who does use his in the event of my death or otherwise. It means you are unlikely to be stranded in the future.

I do want to move closer and closer to a full GPL model, however I also want to be paid. If the full version is GPL then what is a strategy to achieve this? I could feature gate but this is also hated by many as seen by the nginx model.

If someone can come up with a better model then "sell support" and have a clean soul I will be all over it. Till then this works in a way that's adventagous for myself without being too restrictive in the future for others.
It's seo. The entire article is optimised for search terms relating to regular expression, prime, etc.

On a tangent, I really wish Google would release a new algorithm that punished this stuff. It's killing articles about common search terms. :/
> Wouldn't you expect, if tech kept draining employees out of banking, that it would disproportionately drain introverts away and leave banking more extraverted than before?

Sure, in fact my additional hope is that this being over-extroverted will have a negative impact on business.

> To hear a lot of people tell it, the work of banking is largely in having and maintaining social relationships with your clients.

Not only that, at least in IB case. It is also a lot about tech (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12443678&goto=news for example) and mathematical/statistical modelling.
This is why it will be defacto stabilized quickly (because it's so useful).

I'm sure the python developers have considered that, since they explicitly chose to preserve order instead of other small non-order preserving optimizations that could have been done with the new representation.
Looking just at commits means ignoring time spent thinking about problems, planning ahead, etc. That ought to translate into commits in the end, but assuming a steady rate of progess means you're probably not measuring the right thing.

>>> Of course, that requires managers that can actually evaluate the work product itself

Agree, but would specify "over a relatively long period of time."
Estimates put their artillery deployment at 13,000. Even assuming they fire for a minute before being completely destroyed by counter battery fire, we're still talking 65,000 shells coming over the border. Push it out to 30 minutes and you've got 2m inbound shells.
For example in graphics all the physics of light is well understood - it's just infeasible to compute - so all advances are in CS and how to sample better.

Nitpick: The physics of light is understood. Human vision is also understood. But critically, human vision is completely overlooked in most graphical applications. It's not accurate to say that "the path toward making a computer-generated video indistinguishable from a camcorder recording is just a matter of sampling better." There will need to be a fundamental shift in the industry's thinking before realism will be achieved.

It's a fascinating topic that occupied many years of my life, though this is a bit off-topic.
North Korea conducts fifth and largest nuclear test
> Nothing about it is malicious or in contempt of Mexico or any other states in the Western Hemisphere

It is malicious, but so ingrained into the psyche that the malice is forgotten by those into whom it was perpetuated. It is saying that the rest of the continent isn't American, somehow, that when you talk about American dreams and American ideals and the promise of freedom that America once meant to Europeans, you are definitely not extending those promises, dreams, and aspirations to the rest of America. Even the Lebanese diaspora that arrived in Mexico and Colombia (Salma Hayek, Shakira Mebarak, Carlos Slim, Demian Bíchir) were travellers aiming for America and her promises.

"America" is a very loaded term, even when used to refer to the United States. People use it differently. United States is more formal, America more aspirational. Well, the rest of America also has these aspirations. Like Morelos wrote, "That prohibit slavery forever, as the distinction of caste, being all equal and only vice and virtue distinguish an American from the other."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentimientos_de_la_Naci%C3%B3n

A whole immense garden, this is America:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL3u7qU_09w
Lol! madaxe on his next flight: "Sir, could you please step over here"
I hope you like lists.
Exactly! We could realistically decrease our military funding by the 20% Gary Johnson has suggested and STILL be the largest and strongest in most measures.

The only place we are weak is that we are stretched thin. But we did that to ourselves through interventionist policies.
Because of the need.
This is precisely the reason why NK still does exist (alongside being used by China as a buffer).
It's psychology: people want an upgrade justification, and the threat of a few days without a phone is enough for most people.
It tests from the highest number first I believe.

>> As a heads-up, I just want to say that I’m lying a little in the explanation in the paragraph about the ^(..+?)\1+$ regex. The lie has to do with the order in which the regex engine checks for multiples, it actually starts with the highest number and goes to the lowest, and not how I explain it here. But feel free to ignore that distinction here, since the regular expression still matches the same thing
Does using a UNION OR UNION ALL query instead of a join query reduce the implication of jsonb column not having statistics, especially since the postgresql query planner might not use the nested loop join.
Nope, I definitely don't think so. Direct electronic democracy could be a step forward. Basic Income could be a step forward. Green energy could catch up finally.

(That's country level, right. My expectations on international politics are bearish)

Things becoming better are not impossible, but improbable. The outlook isn't bright. Too many things to be fixed and no popular will to do so. The situation with global Muslim migration (and disregard of social progress) is especially dangerous and can ruin everything quick.
I completely agree with this one. I encourage our developers to always use the cli, even if they are not familiar with the core concepts of git. I see myself as a mediocre git user, but there are some situations, however, where I prefer to use a GUI for more complex operations, like staging/un-staging specific lines or create/apply patches.
In a world of ever-growing population, I think you're economically constrained to smaller and smaller spaces or farther away (or otherwise less valuable) spaces. Pushing back on smaller spaces just changes the variables by which housing will be allocated economically.
Such attitude is precisely why countries that are not in favor of USA (Nort Korea, Iran etc.) are actively seeking nuclear weapons -- currently it's the only deterrence from carpet bombing your "democracy" in.
start("abc", x="1.0", y="2.0")
<abc y="2.0" x="1.0">

Ok, I can imagine people wanting this. Especially people coming form Javascript.

However `<abc y="2.0" x="1.0">` and `<abc x="1.0" y="2.0">` are semantically equivalent in XML, aren't they?
I considered that but assuming things get to that point I feel I will have either done well enough for it to be a moot issue or I have run out of ideas. At this point I feel it should be available for all to use.
t2 instances have credits that are replenished at a constant rate, and used up when you use the CPU - is this sustainable for more than 1h?

That's ~25MB of data per second for an in-memory workload over 6 machines. I think they missing a zero on the size of the messages?
So I could so something like:

$('.focus').prop('checked', true);

But if I wanted to attract attention to the radio box, the only way of animating it with this library would be to check it, and that might cause problems if I've got listeners for the 'change' event. So if I could just do something like:

$('.focus').addClass('bounce');

that would be nice.
What landscape did Fukushima waste? Are you confusing Fukushima and the Tōhoku earthquake?

Hell, if Chernobyl is any indication, nuclear accidents tend to save landscapes more than they waste'em.

Or do you mean "waste" in the sense that humans can't wring them dry?
> If we restricted web browsers to what developers think we should use, we'd still be using plain green text on black terminals.

I'd wager that there are more developers scared of the commandline than are comfortable with it.
> What you say isn't the same as my admittedly extreme "Mother Nature sheds a tear." But a phrase like "the ecosystem collapses out from under us" implies that climate change is a total and unambiguous attack on "the ecosystem." This is the assumption that I often feel is inadequately justified.

It doesn't matter if there's any concept of an attack, as such. If, for instance, the pollinators of our food crops go extinct, then our food crops will suffer a die-off and we will go hungry.
That looked really awesome, I've been wanting something like that but I can only imagine how expensive am e-ink display like that will cost.
How about "Is there anything in your situation right now that would prevent you from accepting a solid competitive offer?" That's a little less salesy IMO.
The argument is never about freedom from discrimination, but on what you are allowed to discriminate on.

Currently race and sex are nono's but religion and politics is ok.

Why should I face discrimination for my appearance when trying to get laid?

Surely the government should ban women and men from turning me down for sex because I'm not attractive.
I wish there was some hope that all of this bad press would just mean that people won't buy this because people really do want the 3.5mm jack. So sad that saying that Apple will sell something makes it a fait accompli that we must obey Apple.
Tray Tables Stowed, Seat Backs Upright – And Galaxy Note 7s Off, Please
While a minor but noticeable uptick in radiation-induced cancer is unacceptable for humans, animals don't especially seem to mind. The areas around Chernobyl have become a superb wildlife reserve, and Fukushima is probably on its way to a similar state. Compared to the area submerged by a dam -- where the habitat is, without hyperbole, utterly and completely annihilated -- I have difficulty seeing how you can prefer that.
No, it's simply a service/tool that converts a html page into markdown. So let's say you have something like this:

<h1>Title</h1>
<p>Some wordy stuff <a href="example.com">with a link</a>

It would convert it into

# Title

Some wordy stuff [example.com](with a link)
Once a battery starts releasing energy "more quickly than intended" it's only going to get quicker until it runs out of energy.
Nice effects, thanks for sharing. To the haters, share some of your stuf.
The last one is my usual tactic.
It may be a metric that helps upgrade adoption. I'm not a phone designer. During the Mhz wars (with PC) I remember feeling like I really needed that extra 33Mhz. Perhaps the phone designers feel thinner is desirable.
> Can somebody who knows about this tell me how much of the novelty in this is CS and how much physics?

It's a little bit of both. Over the past 5–8 years, some new numerical techniques ("moving mesh") have been developed (or at least first applied in astronomy) for hydrodynamic simulations[0,1]. These new techniques do a much better job of handling fluid instabilities, which can be important for properly simulating the gas in galaxies (which can have a huge range in densities and temperatures).

Also, people have developed what they call "cosmological zoom" simulations. In these simulations, you run a low-resolution (sometimes dark-matter only) simulation of a fairly large volume of the universe. Then you identify a particular dark matter halo at the end, that you think matches the type of galaxy you're interested in (say, a Milky Way type galaxy). Then you go back to the initial conditions, re-initialize it at very high resolution and include "normal matter" (baryons) and re-simulate the whole thing to study the formation of that particular dark matter halo and its associated galaxy.

Finally, the general increase in computing speed has allowed people to add in more physics to the simulations and run higher-resolution simulations. In this case, it is the addition of a physically-motivated model for energy injection into the gas in galaxies, from the ongoing star formation. This means energy from supernovae explosions and associated shocks, stellar winds, and momentum from scattering/absorption of photons by dust grains[2,3]. This more realistic set of models manages to reproduce the overall efficiency of star formation (what fraction of the gas gets turned into stars over some period of time) _and_ create a realistic temperature-density structure for the gas.

Now that people seem confident that these models can reproduce the overall star formation properties in galaxies, they are starting to see what this type of star formation / feedback model implies for the properties of galaxies. Of course, there's still lots of work to be done in making detailed tests of these models. While they reproduce the overall efficiency of star formation, we aren't yet sure if they can reproduce the shapes and sizes of galaxies. But people are working on that and we should know before too long...

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.4107

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.7395

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2073

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5639
Pallas cats are one of my favourite animals. I've had the luck of seeing a very vocal and grumpy one in person.
They also have a very unique low meow, which also sounds like they're constantly pissed off:
http://www.bioacoustica.org/gallery/sounds/Felis_manul1.wav
https://youtu.be/DKmBt9sA9hk
XML itself doesn't no, humans may, and some crappy crummy tools sadly do as well[0].

Round-tripping ordering is also convenient for automated processing tools as well (e.g. add/remove parameters without introducing extraneous unnecessary changes)

[0] some also do care about namespace aliases/prefixes, which is a bit of a shock the first time they choke on your perfectly valid and namespaced XML.
The context does not contradict that statement. Every single measure used on every other animal would at minimum place humans in several subspecies. But we do not apply the same standards to ourselves for political reasons.
Splitting a big unit into smaller units often creates problems of egress means (for fire safety) and figuring out what to do with storage space that may not be evenly distributed throughout the house. Joining existing units rarely creates that type of problem.

And of course, nothing about that project is "exponential".