skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is more likely. In collecting older computers I've often come across "complete" systems which were cobbled together from a bunch of disparate systems of different origins.

Generally this isn't a problem is the person putting together the system is actually running it, they might do this to keep it running after its maintenance contract has expired (happened with a lot of VAXes and PDP-11's) but it is a problem if a scrapper wants to get a premium for a "complete" system and they don't know if it works or not so they just put "the required boards/parts" together and call it a system.
Saddam still had factories to produce WMD's. Stockpiling of chemicals has no sense when you can mass produce them when needed, after end of sanctions.
earlier we had issues with storage - we had multiple VMs on same box and main storage stopped working properly, and then we had lots of trouble restoring data / moving somewhere else.. :/ after that incident we went to digitalocean . so keep in mind reliability too.
IMHO, Redux introduced a gamechanging concept no other JS library has done before (at least not in this big way): Single and immutable state object. This fact alone makes the developer experience significantly better, both in shorter debugging time (and less bugs to begin with) and piece of mind that the code works as intended.
Okay, so you were more interested in the secrecy angle.

It probably helps to think of secrecy under the broader term of information management. If something isn't secret per se, but the information is suppressed so that it doesn't become common knowledge, isn't the outcome broadly the same? I'd argue that's what we're seeing here. That's how the US is getting away with arming Al-Qaeda (or at least former Al-Queda) to fight against ISIS, for example, even though they frequently fight alongside each other. If the US public was more aware of this then there's be greater pressure to stop, but that pressure is virtually non-existent due to the complicity of the mainstream media, helping to keep it away from public debate.
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Is this the data set? http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/about/trip_record_data.shtm...

Why wouldn't they be hosting this in compressed form. A quick shot through pigz has it down to < 50% original size.
> I don't

The need for sites like snopes and all the other fact checking sites shows that most people do in fact believe everything they read on the Internet, especially if it aligns with their existing biases.

That's one of the reasons why the Coen brothers included the "this is a true story" thing - they wondered how many people would believe it the film was true if they put a simple bit of text at the beginning.
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is there no future for community networks like rooms?
The most convincing argument I read about why Walmart pays their employees less other than the fact that they're greedy bastards is in [1].

"Costco has a tiny number of SKUs in a huge store -- and consequently, has half as many employees per square foot of store. Their model is less labor intensive, which is to say, it has higher labor productivity. Which makes it unsurprising that they pay their employees more."

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2013-08-27/why-walma...
Wooden barrels for wine are still very much in use, and still largely made by hand. Source: I've been to a lot of wineries and talked with a lot of people who make barrels.
It's been my experience that the most common cause of making up new terms is not knowing the existing ones.
In Fisk's statement. Unless she is actually referring to wife beating or something similar, which would be very confusing in context.
> You Americans are so brutal to each other.

So first off that's kind of offensive. Secondly, one commentor on HN doesn't reflect the views of 300M+ people.

People typically come to HN because it fosters good discussion. Throwing insults at an entire country doesn't accomplish that at all.
> I don't know ag

Fair enough, it's been discussed here previously.

> and it's not a package in Debian.

It most certainly is:

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=silversearcher-a...

Upstream: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
Actually, Humans are meat.

;-)
Bitmessage requires a professional security audit: https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage/issues/381

Full stop.
I learnt it on a tour of a factory in Cuba!
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
Source: https://www.mapd.com/product/

It tops off at 192GB (8 x 24GB). Assuming in a couple of gens (#slots & gpu mem) will put it in 1TB range.
Neither Costco nor Walmart will have anything near the average level of education of the average HN commenter, but I maintain that there is almost certainly a difference
Available on AWS in 2017.
"extraordinary incompetence" This goes back to the great-great-etc grandparent. Was it actually bad intent? There were plenty of instances that certianly were, but overall?
Rxhash: Missing redis command for hash type
After the license you give FB and most other such sites, yes, while legally you own the material, practically you no longer do because they are legally allowed to do whatever they want with it. I'm not going to address the stupidity of copyright law here, however.
Not many do and they're even less likely to be on the first page of google hits.
Hi infinite8s, to get additional information on how that chart was made, you can to go https://www.mapd.com/product/ scroll down to the bar chart, and click “See Details” under the chart. Shows the machines used, queries, and the source data set and size. Note that the machine configurations used to generate the chart were normalized for equivalent cost on AWS, i.e. the chart is hardware-dollar normalized.
To be specific, we mean like a chrome plugin or something at that level, right?
We have this in Argentina, at least where I live is called Boliche. I think is the same game after reading the rules, main difference is that the ball is smaller and maybe heavier without holes for fingers and you have three per frame instead of two as in the other bowling . Pin setters are common
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They have 9 states including a stop instruction, b`1111 which would preclude a 3-bit encoding. In any case, I suspect it's much easier to handle 4-bit words.
The sanctions werent looking like ending anytime, and ramping up production would be visible as restocking an army is going to involve a lot of activity.
The sites are victims of xploit as well. That is the issue I am raising.
Never did find it. In one of his books he points out that associating the second power with the area of a square (as opposed to some other base shape, like a triangle or circle) is a choice we make.

Consider triangles (hallucinate the bases):

Side Area

1 /\ 1

/\
2 /\/\ 4

/\
3 /\/\ 9
/\/\/\
Agree: Remember to visit the https://news.ycombinator.com/newest page.
Are there any good writeups for the new APIs that are coming to .NET? Things like the System.Buffers API don't get the attention they deserve IMO.
I agree, you'll likely puke if you are opiate-naive and try to "toss-n-wash" (swallow a spoonful of leaf with a thick juice) 1/3rd of an ounce of powdered kratom leaf.

someone like that should start with just a few grams, approximately a teaspoonful. it's also normal to not feel anything at all the first few times you take it.

for someone opiate dependent, that dose is enough to halt the physical symptoms of withdrawal and alleviate some of the emotional symptoms, albeit for a short time. if you want to quit opiate abuse badly enough, that's just about all you need.
It's not a bug, resubmissions are explicitly allowed by the software for stories that haven't gotten significant attention.
Just fyi, if you put this on your resume, you might want to omit or abbreviate the name of the language.
> Have you considered that perhaps someone's economic usefulness shouldn't be the only determinate of whether they have to spend essentially their entire lives on Earth just trying to survive?

Yes. We have. A great many of us have considered this at significant length over the course of centuries. The question is not novel by any reasonable measure.

Do you have a suggestion along the lines of an answer, or did you wish to merely pose the question?
Which subjects?
> It most certainly is:

It, referring to "ag", most certainly isn't. Under another name perhaps, but with an amazing name such as "ag", `apt-cache search ag` gives 38000+ results.

> Fair enough, it's been discussed here previously.

I suppose either my memory isn't infallible or I did not refresh HN often enough that day.

Anyhow that's not what I was remarking on. I was giving an alternative program to use on GNU/Linux systems with similar functionality to Voidtools' Everything. But nobody seems to notice that.
[Air Horn]
Car of the year from 2015. Not the shiniest toy anymore, but has everything you may need and you can get very good deal on it.
This is awesome, Python is my number one, Node.js already has much larger ecosystem for async i/o. If we need something faster for heavy computations Go is a good choice.

But maybe in near future Python will grow significantly, who knows.
It's also worth mentioning that a side effect of efficiency wages is more unemployment. Paying more results in a better class of applicant, meaning that people who would normally use WalMart as the bottom rung of their career ladder are shut out.

Citation wanted. It really doesn't make sense. Sure, a different class of applicants may fill those higher paying positions, but either those people weren't employed to begin with, which contradicts your point, or they had to leave other jobs to apply for this one, creating open positions where they left, which results in overall employment staying the same.
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What are innovations/ideas/features, online betting companies are not paying attention to, from which a new startup can take advantage of?
What French crypo laws prevent them from deploying in France? And then why can C14 do this? "Your data are encrypted using AES-256, replicated many times and stored in our 25 meter deep underground fallout shelter located in Paris, France." https://www.online.net/en/c14
Myths and Facts of the Unity Game Engine
Iirc, a difference in bitmessage from other protocols is that it has 'receiver anonymity,' in that since a message is received by all parties, the receiver's metadata is not leaked. This is possibly a benefit over some existing protocols, although it has obvious performance / scaling side-effects.
One might suggest that your reading of that sentence is a bit prickly. The subject is not "French anthropology" in general, but rather Lévi-Strauss himself. Surely structuralism's heyday has passed, even within the context of French anthropology? (...and definitely in other contexts)
As someones whos worked within both disciplines, I don't actually think it's terribly difficult to learn all those things. The problem is, we're all too busy learning the new shiney without ever really delving deeper down the stack.

I find it a bit sad that such smart people jump on the microservices bandwagon without learning how to prove their application is working or deal with the fact that the network will fail.
Countries agree to curb powerful greenhouse gases in large climate breakthrough
Are dices allowed?
I would be very weary of this product. I used it a while ago on a project for a course I was taking. During my research, I found a FAQ where the creator stated that if ever asked to place a back door in it, he would.
Here is one: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/pdf/StrackRRR_manuscrip...
Have a look at https://www.pexels.com/. I think the UX is great to find photos.
Why it is app.run() and not app.go_fast() is beyond me.
"I am already in Russian kill list" can you explain this?
I'd bet that most people who 'fact-check' something (political) on the internet are seeking to disprove it, because they disagreed. Most people seem to react to things they agree with by saying "see? That's just what I thought!"
There's probably a lot of work to do around security, reliability, availability, consistency, and auditability. When you're handling money for other people, you're a major hacking target, and the standards for reliability are much higher than your typical SaaS. You need to make sure that every transaction happens exactly as requested and that you can recreate exactly what happened when in case of questions and concerns.
A Circular Economy in the Netherlands by 2050
Well, 12 months later he started "another SaaS with a couple friends, and with less than $1k invested between us, 3 months in we were live with sales and it was acquired 6 months after that."

Apparently not following his own advice here worked out better for him this time.
Opioids May Interfere with Parenting Instincts, Study Finds
Nope, if your credit card number is stolen and used online for a card-not-present transaction you have $0 liability by law.
> cop acting [...] at the best of the people that hired him

See, that's precisely the problem. Cops don't act in anyone's interest, they act to enforce the law. Because they are bound by the law, they have a monopoly on the use of force. At least that's the theory. If you're the mafia and want someone to do the bone breaking for you, you can't hire a cop, you hire a thug. Such as this man.

Moreover, he was hired by the speaker, not by the library. He also didn't eject anyone, he choose to first intimidate, then injure someone. And he appeared thoroughly confused about what he was doing and on whose behalf. The library clearly isn't pressing charges for "resisting arrest", firstly because there was no attempted arrest that could have been resisted, and second because only the police state can press this particular kind of charge.
Yeah, and this extends even to the purest studies of nature, like mathematics, as we know from Gödel's incompleteness theorems. It's just that e.g. whether or not the Rieman Hypothesis is true doesn't influence whether the state cracks down on a certain demographic.
Because otherwise it should be called machine hallucinations?

The process of learning could be defined as a task of extraction of relevant information (knowledge) about reality (shared environment) not mere accumulation of a fancy nonsense or false beliefs.
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Alt Shift Tab makes the cycle go backwards.
Reconfigurable Chaos-Based Microchips Offer Possible Solution to Moore’s Law
Fact: this is the best thread on HN right now. Comment upvote.
DevArt: Art made with code
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Snapchat Beats Instagram and Facebook as the Top Social Platform for Teens
d3/dc.js/crossfilter to be precise. having been working on something similar, I found dc.js to be redundant if you already use redux. it's much cleaner to use a lighter weight charting library with cross filter.
It surely isn't, but is a commercial product that get much less heat then Kicad.
Also can't watch the intro video :(. It's not responsive to the screen width.
As an aside -- another interesting manifestation of this Trump-like behavior, and this is the clearest case that I have seen, are the multiple times when Hillary literally seizes on camera and plays it off as if it never happened.
> Maybe we found one of the trolls.

Is there anything in this article that you could point to as trolling? Personal attacks? Abusive language?
"One Friday afternoon, [...] I deployed the changes"

Good god, this should be taught in high school.
SSD partition aligment. Why Microsoft chosen 1MiB boundary
Honestly you sound confused.

Performance is not a magical inherent property of a language-and-webserver combination, and will vary wildly with the application. In my experience practical performance has much more to do with architecture, algorithms and "the other bunch that makes things efficient" -- not so much with a language.

It's also only one facet. And usually not a very important one, either.
I dont think "not getting angry" qualifies as "being kind" unless anger is the default state.

kindness doesnt automatically emerge to replace a lack of negative outcome.

"My father didnt hit me with his belt" is not kindness. "My boss didnt fire me" is not kindness.
Not every discussion has a winner and I'm not Kicad's lawyer. I'm just honestly adding to the discussion, not trying to "win" a debate or anything.
Interesting. This probably the first utility in Rust I'm aware of that looks like it might belong on a production system (other than "cargo" and other rather excellent rust tooling). Nice way to show off rusts regular expression engine too.
I agree. These are very marginal computation costs.

This might have the most value as a Node transport though.
I don't understand what the advantage is to have a lower title in your examples though: if you were CTO and someone gets inserted above you then your choices for your resume in your two scenarios are (CTO, then Director) or (only CTO, left company), which are both better than the two scenarios if you didn't have the CTO title (where it would say Director only).

If your title is Director someone might reasonably even assume there was a CTO above you at the tiny company, and you were a "director" or "vp" by being actually the absolute lowest man on the totem pole.
Wow, this site has beautiful photos. Absolutely fantastic.
Remarkable that simple application of the yet-to-be-disproven (or even seriously contested) theory of supply and demand to the price of labor is downvoted where you'd expect to find rational people.

https://fee.org/articles/raising-the-minimum-wage-wont-allev...
Yes, but Mozilla cares enough about security that they created Rust.

Also although C++ shares the same flaws as C, due to the compatibility, the overall culture is a bit different.

There are the C expats that basically use it as C with Classes, and there there are the Ada/Pascal/ML expats that take advantage of the type system and standard library to write safer code.

The problem with security is that most projects tend to have a mix of those cultures, and also there is no control over 3rd party binary libraries.
Thanks for the tip, I found this table/d3 implemenation but it looks like they use it only for the grouping table: https://github.com/d8d/mapd-sources/blob/master/out/home/jen...
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In practice, small interest groups mobilize much more quickly and effectively than larger groups.

Imagine there's a that would weakly benefit 95% of society, but negatively impact 5%, but the net tradeoff is positive.

It's already somewhat difficult to pass these sorts of agreements, because if that 5% is an organized interest group with broad public sympathy, they will blast the media with negative media coverage.

Now imagine that a negative provision for that group was being considered while the agreement hadn't even been finalized. Then everyone only sees the downside for that group, without seeing that the final agreement is generally positive.

Public negotiations will effectively magnify the veto power of small interest groups, making agreements much more difficult to pass.

Note that this also applies to laws in general, since they're often a negotiating between parties or within parties. Do you think it would be beneficial if every private communication between legislators was made public?
You need to learn the basic concepts before you start with coding. Take your time and view Andrew Ng's course. It is good for the first timers.
None of this has anything to do with my comment.
Costco employees check all customers leaving the store to match goods with receipts.
While some people might not agree with me, I'd say focus on the Math. Machine learning may be easy to use with these toolkits but doing something useful with it will require deeper understanding.
I don't understand what's amusing. Care to explain?
AFAIK this is more about making sure people have what they paid for rather than checking for shoplifting.
Your PyPy point is fair. A PyPy-oriented optimization effort could have improved performance. N/s by what magnitude though.

I did extensive benchmarking until there were no more hot spots, didn't help. Dropping into C or Cython was a non-goal. For dev an embedded Python web server is convenient but it doesn't have to be fast. When it comes to performance, it always makes more sense to use a native-code web server in production.
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Sorry for the delay in replying, I missed your response for a bit.

I didn't mean that you or the guy in the TED talk were jerks. I'm thinking more about e.g. the people still supporting a certain handsy clowntroll as candidate for U.S. President. Enough said on that though.

I agree that nuclear power suffers from a "taboo". It's crazy that we don't develop and use fusion. Personally I count solar power as fusion but it's not the same as, say, working jet-packs that never run out of fuel.

I think people just don't get fusion power, what it means, what it enables. But on the same token: could you trust fusion jet-packs to the general public in a world that still contains suicide bombers? I am freedom-loving and egalitarian as all hell but I just don't think that would be wise.

Coming at it from another angle, I am convinced that we have all the technology we really need already. I'm not against more research, not at all, not even a little, but I don't feel the urgency anymore.

We've got this. The limiting factor going forward has everything to do with psychology, in my opinion.
Re "not even close": At least 10x slower

This was tweaking Nagle, using edge triggered epoll, using sendfile(). Not just Python-optimizations.