skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK had huge coal reserves and decent sized oil reserves - the former powered the Industrial Revolution and the latter kept the lights on during the 1980s.
> you certanly have missed a lot of progress in the last few years.

I think that's kind of his point. He was spreads too thin.
They ponder the universe
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DataGenetics have really cool and interesting articles. I've been following them for a couple of years now...been asking for a "Bin and Order Packin" post.
Technically it describes none of these. Benford's Law only describes collections of leading digits. The charts in the article are just exponential distributions.
Bob Dylan was never a rebel. He was a generic pop singer loved by basics for generations.
Thank you, that's what I wanted to know, since projects like Radium implement e.g. hover in JS using onMouseEnter() etc, which sounds slow.

See https://github.com/FormidableLabs/radium#how-does-radium-wor...
Songs are poetry, poetry is literature.

But then again, remember that Sinatra vs. Bieber meme...
http://weknowmemes.com/2012/02/music-what-happened/
The huge downside with inline styles is that they don't support all of CSS _at all_. You have to reimplement basic things like pseudo selectors (hover/active/focussed/… styles) and things like pseudo elements, media queries, keyframes are non-existant. On top of that, for the eventual global style you need (e.g. @font-face) you now have to add a separate build step for actual CSS to add that.

We have a language on the web that's made for styling. It has support for all those things by default. It's called CSS. Why not use it?
The article says:

> Distributions that would not be expected to obey Benford's Law:

> ...

> Where numbers are influenced by human thought: e.g. prices set by psychological thresholds
>the lyrics by themselves don't have anything like the impact (on me at least) of top-notch poetry

To you they don't, to me and others they do. To the current Nobel committee they did this year.

At the end, Nobel prizes are highly subjective and people dependent recognitions - so arguments of the form of X deserves and Y does not are not too meaningful.
> They seem to just keep Android on some kind of "just good enough" for the masses.

Android exists to collect data and serves as an ad platform. iOS exists to sell hardware.

The quality of the dev tools and on-boarding reflects that.
I was going to reply "you realise that 'the plural of anecdote is not data' is the usual phrasing" so I spent a few seconds searching.

According to this blog, the original doesn't include the 'not': http://quotesjournal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/the-plural-of-an...

Funny how subverted phrases can supplant the original.
the parking spot issue is real (I don't drive, but I can see people struggling with that every day). Adding too many units in an area plagued by grid lock can also be problematic and you have to add public transportation first.

My personal reason for being NIMBY is pretty simple though: I just want to sleep at night. and since municipal rules are hardly ever enforced in high density areas, I'll have to deal with kids screaming, idiot drunks trashing the place at 3 am, graffiti and people having parties at all hours of the night and day with the cops telling me to just deal with it because I live in a high density area. So when they try to build more on top, I'm like "Err, no".

I literally dont care if my property value dropped to zero, as long as I can sleep without needing earplugs. I already have to run the A/C or heat twice as much as I should because I can't open the windows without "enjoying" whatever activity my neighbors are doing that involve screaming on top of their lungs.

Besides, I live in one of the top 10 most densely populated neighborhoods in the country, and then people want to add more. ::shrugs::

In my home country this was not an issue because people could respect each other, and rules were enforced. In that case, build as much as you want in my backyard.
Pretty-error sounded cool until I read this: ...could potentially break packages that rely on node's original stack traces

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that's amazing, and incredibly surprising. It's one of the operations I would ahve thought was essentiall free, and completely dwarfed by other bottlenecks and latencies. I mean it's just a few characters, right! I'm really suprised by the result you report in your link - thanks for writing it up!
>The fact is both sides have bias

No one is denying this. People are saying there's a significant difference between bias that influences the ways facts are portrayed, and bias that causes facts to be invented.
Rust is horrifically bad at dealing with non-trivial cyclical structures for a number of reasons, not having a GC being one of them.
How to find the hidden dinosaur game in Google Chrome – Can you beat my score?
I don't think binge-watching, as many people here are defining it (watching a whole season in a weekend) is useful to Netflix.

What is useful to Netflix is watching a whole show over the course of several weeks, a few episodes at a time.

The primary way my wife and I consume shows is to watch a few episodes a day, every day, until we've watched from the first to the last available episode. We are currently watching through The Good Wife on Netflix which, at 134 episodes, will take us about 2 months.

For me that's a good deal, because it would cost about £35 for a DVD boxset (yes, I could shop around, but only if my time is worthless), while Netflix only costs me £18 for 2 months. For Netflix that's a good deal, because they've got 2 months of subscription from me for 1 show.

Once we've finished with The Good Wife, we'll find another show to watch.

We watch about the equivalent of a movie each night, but we aren't going to watch enough movies in a month to make it feel worth keeping the subscription. Movies require a larger investment, because the characters and world are new and different with each one. With a TV show the characters are recurring, so you don't have to invest as much, which makes them easier to watch a lot of in a row.
I would suggest 'Visions of Johanna'.

At the other end of spectrum is 'Changing of the Guards' in which Bob Dylan seems to be intentionally parodying his own songwriting (still an enjoyable song though).
Not a rebel, maybe. Generic, anything but. He left a mark on music, and to call his fans "basics" is an insult to him, his fandom, and his legacy.
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> if you only target browsers that support the custom properties spec

That "sidenote" is exactly why vanilla CSS has a "Kinda" for theming. Taking a look at caniuse[0], only 66.39% of browsers have support for custom properties – not exactly production ready.

That being said, once custom properties are well supported they're an amazing solution for theming! Take a look at this talk Glen (the co-creator of CSS modules and now styled-components) gave at JSConf BP for some hints towards this future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR6eM_5pAb0

[0]: http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-variables
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BBC news is not left leaning. They're frequently criticised by the left in the UK for attacking the left.
There is no privilege separation between kernel modules. They all run in the same address space with the same CPU privilege.

SELinux, seccomp, and all that protect a compromised user space thread in the host (responsible for running emulated guests, or one that provides virtual device support to guests) from other user space threads (other VMs). If there is a some problem in the KVM kernel module that stomps over memory, SELinux and seccomp can't do anything about it.
Those side streets were funded with the same public money as the big ones... and the idea that residents somehow have special rights to them is rather wrong.

Property owners claiming rights to how public property near them is used is rediculous
There's a comment there [0] asking for more graphs including the distribution for password managers that randomly generate passwords... erm...

[0]: http://minimaxir.com/2015/02/password-numbers/#comment-18765...
>The President has to really ask for permission for everything else (laws, budgets, wars, etc.), but justice nomination is very largely his choice.

Apparently not, since Obama hasn't been able to make the nomination...
Somewhere, Steve Jobs is smiling.
Yeah, people are generally able to solve a problem only when they understand the problem. Direct experience is a valuable form of learning. Of course it isn't sufficient, but we shouldn't pretend it doesn't matter either. Obviously almost any statement concerning race is a generalization.
None of those problems are anywhere close to being insurmountable. You just need competent people in the government

What's the word that means the opposite of tautology again?
Exactly, they use inline styles, we use CSS. :)

(that's the difference between _inline styles_ (<p style={styles} />) and CSS-in-JS (<p className={styles} />) libs)
In most of the graph problems I have ever dealt with, the graph is constructed piecemeal but destroyed as a whole after you are finished with it.

It is true there are specific problems (e.g git repos) where you want a mutable graph over the long term -- but I have never actually had to deal with those cases, unless it was a special case with a obvious solution (like a doubly-linked list or tree).
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Thanks for sharing your experience with using custom views only. These views would then simply act as the view controller I guess, having not much presentation logic. I was always having this in my head but then I never tried it out so far. Are you going even that far to use one Activity per app only?
"Strive to optimize for less code, and the minimum level of abstraction."

That should be the appropriate level of abstraction. The appropriate level of abstraction being that which requires the least code to implement and least effort to reason about.
>I can't help but notice that C++ community has a strong bias against garbage collection. [...]

>Why can't you acknowledge that there are problems that have GC as the only and best solution?

Your prelude and the followup question is not well-formed.

C++ programmers do not have a bias against GC as a specific problem-solving technique. In fact, expert C++ programmers can embrace GC so much that they can write an entire virtual machine[1] with GC and a DSL[2] for that vm that takes advantage of memory safety. Both the CLR vm and the (original) C# compiler were written by C++ programmers.

What the C++ community doesn't want is GC in the C++ base language itself or the standard runtime. That's a very different concept from a generalized "C++ bias against GC".

In other words, the following is unacceptable:

std::string x = "Hello, " + fullname; // cpu cycles spent on GC

Those cpu cycles spent on constantly checking if "x" is no longer reachable is cpu power that's taken away from rendering frames of a 60fps game, or computing numeric equations or high speed quantitative trading. C++ programmers don't want GC as a global runtime that you can't opt out of. Also, global GC often requires 2x-3x the memory footprint of working memory which is extremely wasteful for the resource constrained domains that C++ is often used in.

Herb Sutter's presentation is compatible with "pseudo-GC-when-you-need-it" without adding GC to the entire C++ standard runtime.

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

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language)
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> The top Breitbart headline ... is willfully [sic] inciting anti-immigrant sentiment by taking numbers out of context.

> The number is true but the inference is false.

How are the numbers taken out of context? In your opinion, how would that headline read if the numbers weren't taken out of context? Or does the mere act of publishing the headlines (at all) make Breitbart guilty of taking the numbers out of context in your opinion? Honest question.

Also, it's not clear to me what you mean by "inference". Are you referring to the "-- But Paul Ryan Targets Trump" phrase? If so, then I would contend that "inference" is not the correct word. Instead, I would perhaps use the word "juxtaposition". Whether or not you agree to Breitbart's thinking, it seems to me that what they're trying to do is call attention to what they see as false priorities -- essentially, IIUC, they're saying "Paul Ryan is attacking the wrong person, because 70K women are targeted by criminal aliens and this is worse than anything Trump has done". You can agree to that or not, but it seems to me unfair to accuse them of bad logic.
Thats right I forgot about that, all Google services are blocked there. So I wonder what is driving this then?
They must have been talking about Dylan Thomas, whoever he is.
Saw your talk this morning at reactnl, cool stuff!
One trick that helped when I was doing log crunching (where time parsing was a good 10%) was to cache the parse.

All log lines began with a date+time like "2015-12-10 14:42:54.432" and there's maybe 100 lines per second. You can therefore just take the first 19 characters, parse that to a millisecond unix time and then separately parse the milliseconds to an int and add that. All you need is one cache entry (since logs are mostly in order) and then you can just do a string comparison (i.e. no hashmap lookup) to check the cache - instantly 100x fewer time parsing calls.

The best way to speed up a function is to not call it!
Right, but then you also shouldn't be using the techniques described in the article, right? To put it another way, there's no case where deferred collection with smart pointers is better than real GC.
A lot of people label Paypal as evil. Usually because they or somebody they know has suffered as a direct result, but I don't think that shows malicious intent.

Paypal is just lazy —or efficient, if you're on their side— when it comes to risk. That is to say that if they have reason to believe they might lose money with a transaction you make, they make you absorb that risk as inconvenience. The most commonly complained about is holding back funds while they wait for your customers to issue chargebacks. Chargebacks are HORRIBLE because the underlying payment people demand they just happen. It can be a huge loss point for payment intermediaries.

With that sort of potential loss, it's simply easier for Paypal —the lawyer-breathing behemoth that they are— to assume you're more likely to suck it up than try to sue (have you read the T&Cs). And they've scaled this so it all happens automagically. How very efficient/evil of them.

If you want the best rate as a seller, you have to be a super-low risk and find somebody that understands your business, its risk and is willing to undercut the standard-risk market to process your payments for you.

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Direct wire transfers put [almost] all the risk on the consumer. There used to be a timeframe you could "intercept" a transfer but with things like Faster Payments in the UK, transfers are practically instant and irreversible without a court order.

So no, for the purposes of buying stuff, wire transfers aren't better for us. They're free for you, but we take on a LOT of risk.
Or rather

1) Plug it in

2) Open finder, notice nothing of interest

3) Hey great, this is a blank USB flash drive I can use and nothing to tie it to the original owner!

4) Continue using it as a flash drive and plug it into every PC you use.
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I do STEM Q&A sessions at schools various times a year. I cannot mentor anyone at the moment, but I could schedule time and do a Q&A session with them. No strings attached. Email in profile.

Disclaimer: I work in Ed-Tech. This is in no way a sales pitch.
Hah, small world! (if you want to call HN small)

Glad you liked it :)
Huh. Of all my old blog posts, this is the last one I expected to randomly resurface at the top of Hacker News.

There were a lot of other articles made using this 10M Password dataset at the time it was originally released, which the dataset author aggregated into a subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/10millionpasswords/). WPEngine, for example, has a much more comprehensive writeup with ad-hoc looks at specific passwords (http://wpengine.com/unmasked/).
‘They bus people around’: Hidden camera video suggests rampant voter fraud in US
React Native isn't web-based. It's a way to create native widgets but the library works like the React library for Javascript.

So there's no worries about being online or offline, just from using React Native.
Solaris' port of PF is not out of date. _And_ they are working with upstream to merge their changes so both parties have a) better code, and b) less maintenance burden.
Yeah, those are called "regulatory requirements" - they are sort of the backbone in terms of keeping people / consumers / employees safe and sane...
> But it does help as an additional layer of security.

You don't add security; you multiply the insecurity (think of traditional component reliability calculation; a system that consists of one component with 50% reliability and another component with 50% reliability is not 100% reliable, but 25%).
How did The New Yorker get such a well timed profile?

Did they know in advance that he would win the Nobel Prize?
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Well, ok. However it seems to me that those leaning right don't give CNN and the like the benefit of the doubt, and equally those leaning left don't give the likes of Breitbart the benefit of the doubt -- which brings us back to the parent posters position :)
Real projects in the future may be! Because the current one involves a lot of components and I don't think this would be scaling well as it's gonna rerender the styles multiple times.
> On the other hand, some of the people who now are claiming Bill is a rapist once testified under oath that he did _not_ rape them.

Yet other women have consistently claimed over decades that Clinton sexually assaulted them. And today women are coming forward accusing Trump of sexual assault.

There seems to be very little difference; both men have probably assaulted women in the past and abused their power to get away with it. I don't think arbitrarily slanting the narrative to defend one and condemn the other serves anybody. In fact, sweeping sexual assault under the rug when it doesn't serve your political agenda is a pretty horrible thing to do.
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Is Java really that hard a language to learn?

I've found, from experience[1], that large code bases written in statically typed languages like Java tend to be much more easier to read, understand -- which is extremely critical when working with a team. I use Python for a lot of my personal projects, but for a team project, I would rather use Java than Python.

[1] Explained in detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12594616
I'm always struck by the uncredited similarities of stuff there to other sources, like the pin grid, found in this paper published earlier in 2012 than the blag there:

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/BPA12-FC-banking_pin_...
In your opinion, how would that headline read if the numbers weren't taken out of context?

"Criminal Aliens Arrested for Sex-Related Crimes 70,000 Times Between 1955 and 2010 — But Paul Ryan Targets Trump"

The original headline creates an emotional impact by implying certain things: that these 70,000 events are sexual assaults (not generic sex crimes like indecent exposure etc.) against women (implying a relationship with Trump's actions where none specifically exists) that happened recently (not during a 55-year period that ended six years ago). The headline with context doesn't have the same emotional impact because you can't make the same misleading inferences. Maybe these crimes are a problem, maybe they aren't, but either way this headline is a clear misrepresentation of the facts.
A warm start is actually typically faster than 30 seconds, averaging closer to 20 seconds. Additionally, almost all fixes using smart phones are hot starts. This is because smartphones use assisted GPS, they download almanac and ephemeris data not from the GPS network itself (where they are broadcast every 12.5 minutes and 30 seconds, respectively) but over a data network, in seconds. Similarly, smartphones have a pretty good idea of where they are already, because they keep track of their positions historically and they use cell tower triangulation as a secondary location system. From a hot start a GPS receiver could get a fix in only a handful of seconds, potentially.
Everyone with debt now has more debt (even though the number is the same). We are at the highest debt levels ever.
Canonical releases Ubuntu 16.10
VMware ESXi is a Type 1 hypervisor.
For anyone unfamiliar with the syntax used to achieve this, it's called Tagged Template Literals [0] and it's part of ES2015. You have a function that receives the static strings and interpolations and can return anything you want.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Another partner and I came up with a similar solution. It hinged on detecting the typeface and using a bitmapped (or otherwise rendered) font package to OCR letter by letter.

The PDF files that we are dealing with do not have embedded text and are not searchable, but are "digital-native," to use the term that you suggested.

Does this not exist? If not, why does it not exist?!
> They only get in the way of productive people in a bid to placate non-producers thereby granting themselves power and undue privilege once in office.

Oh boy. Anti-government extremists like yourself love to grandstand about the merits of unfettered capitalism without understanding that government creates the conditions for market capitalism to exist.

There would be no property rights without the police, legal contracts without the courts, no medium of exchange without the Treasury. Governments provide minimal standards of worker safety, public health, and public education - all of which are necessary for a productive workforce.

Additionally, government is one of the only entities that can correct negative externalities (i.e., side effects of business, the classic example being air pollution).

Your position is ignorant of both economics and history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_(economics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age
I've had this problem a long time ago (10 years) with my Honda and was able to pull out the control module out of the dash and just leave it in the space behind the new dash. But that's a case by case solution.

Honestly, the blame lies with the carmakers. They made these terrible digital dashboards in many cases with no after market upgrade paths. Obviously their incentive is sell/lease you a new car every few years... so why would they make it easy to upgrade. No incentive

Biggest reason I ended up getting the 2016 model vs 2015 (which had a much bigger discount) because of Carplay/Android auto. I won't be a frustrated by the digital NAV that never is upgraded.

I'm hoping the Carplay/Android auto compatibility is there for at least 6+ years of new phone models. But honestly I don't know how much I trust the above mentioned phone vendors.
Many forget that 8 years ago Obama was highly criticized for being a 'technocrat' and populating his cabinet with 'technologist' outsiders.

Leaders don't always have to understand the tactical details that are required for executing their strategy. Obama led as a technologist from day one.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/04/books/l-positively-fourth-...

On the whole I agree with Rorem. But on the range of Nobelists for Literature, I guess that Bob Dylan isn't all that much an outlier.
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