skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Other than the application costs, I think it is more or less free to become a US citizen.

It takes years, can cost thousands of legal fees (not something you want to mess up) and typically starts with a work visa like an H1B.

You keep avoiding the question, so I'll restate it differently.

If everyone on the H1B could become a US citizen instantly, at no cost, would that remove your objection?
Yes, a port called banana: https://github.com/LucidWorks/banana
Billions of animals won't be brought into existence, you mean.
A lot of people I know feel that way too. We're all somebody's son or daughter. We may have sons or daughters of our own. I don't have kids, but I want to see a better world for my niece and nephews.It's really about the kids.

Things have been working Great for a lot of people in this country, but not for the average working person working 40 hours/week for $16k dollars/year.

It used to be we could expect our kids to have more opportunities than their parents, but that's no longer the case.

That's what we have to fix.
Tesla Supercharging no longer free?
What Engine Yard Learned from the 10/26/2016 DNS DDoS Attack and What You Can Too
Is that in absolute install number (see my other thread's comment), in % of growth number (from 0-base for ES as of only a several years ago), or the excitement for early features of ElasticSearch that have been disabled or rolled-back over the last couple of years.

I am somewhat biased because I am a - recent - Solr committer. But I also did try to do a very balanced comparison presentation two years ago: http://www.slideshare.net/arafalov/solr-vs-elasticsearch-cas... (kind of popular, 49k views...).

Solr - still - is more flexible than Elasticsearch by several degrees of magnitude. But Elasticsearch has a better vertical integration story, especially for analytics. And size (it IS small), because it does not ship OOTB with documentation (online), full examples (any?), Admin UI (plugin), rich-text extraction (plugin), data import mechanism (with rivers gone), etc.

If you don't need those, the choice is much more close. And many people do not need those. The problem is that most of the people don't know what they need and don't need when they do the evaluation, so they look at the most surface parameters.

Solr 6 has good startup scripts, (overly) comprehensive examples, REST APIs, well maintained 700 pages manual, etc. Some of these features are a bit harder to discover due to legacy information also being very visible. But it is there.
The problem with that is always what the frontend kids call "responsive" these days. The D&D editor doesn't infer a layout, so when you resize stuff stays the same or everything resizes equally, which is terrible.

I think the XAML approach was ideal, where you had a design view that showed a rendering of your view and allowed to make property changes and D&D controls, but also had the source to properly use grids and other layout managers to align and resize components.
No, I don't know that language
Immigration.
Yes, though if you're just playing around with it, their sandcats.io service will provision you one automatically for free.
And there's been a Sega Genesis Classic Game Console (with 80 games) since 2012 or so.

https://amzn.com/B01KV6E72O
“Interview with actor, Todd Robbins”
7 Mermaids Caught on Tape
I've seen that quote from Levesque before (or heard someone make a similar point) and I really don't think that a machine ducking questions or straight up lying disqualifies it from having passed the test. People do that kind of thing a lot and if the person conducting the test buys it doesn't that mean something?
Ask HN: What is the most significant turning point in society in our lifetime?
I'm asking this as a result of a separate thread on HN which suggest that the Election of Trump was the "most significant turning point in society in our lifetime". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12936107

I strongly disagree and thought I'd ask the general community what they think is most significant in our collective lifetime.
In the toy store case, it's whatever the parents settle for.

Since, as you are implicitly observing, Nintendo itself doesn't have one available, I would agree with your implicit argument that this effect probably doesn't apply here.

But it's still at least an interesting thing to learn about. It really recontextualized some things from my childhood, and forced me to reconsider the fact that sometimes, yeah, it really is a straight-up conspiracy. I mean, yes, there's a danger in reaching for that explanation too quickly, but on the other hand, you can't dismiss it out-of-hand either.

Still, in the absence of an obvious "part two" for Nintendo, I would expect that Nintendo has simply had a hard time calibrating demand for this product. I don't blame them, because it seems like I've certainly seen things that the Internet seems to go gaga over, but nobody actually buys them in any quantity. There's a huge amount of variance I'd expect from their analysis; this could sell anywhere from half as well as the original Nintendo to "a couple thousand units".
As you know, I've had to deal with a lot of these and certainly S3 is the easiest because GCS roughly supports the S3 XML API (we do resumable uploads differently). The sad thing is that even when you say "oh just rewrite this piece to be Datastore or BigTable instead of Dynamo" that can be a pretty tall order. I think "pretty easy" depends on the organization, and how tied to a single provider it was in the first place. That said, I think it's a mistake to "avoid lock-in" religiously, because otherwise you're really getting a lowest common denominator experience. You really should use BigQuery if you're on GCP, and if you need to leave it might be tough. But the alternative is worse (using an inferior service or hand-rolled system from the get go).

P.S. As we're both in the same region of California, we're both with PG&E and can't do anything about it. It's kind of okay because they're so regulated, but how do you know we're getting a good price per kWh?

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and met jedberg in person once).
Industrial Espionage Is More Effective Than R&D
>Secure Boot" specifies that this trust should be anchored in manufacturer-designated entities using public key signatures.

No, it doesn't. It doesn't specify how the keys should be dealt with at all. The implementation currently has manufacturers controlling that aspect, which the author views as flawed.
"Someone should kill you." Or "I hope someone kills you." are not, by the way, death threats. A death threat would be, "I'm going to kill you."

That said, I'm only inferring the nature of the "threats" from your description, I don't make a habit of looking at politicians' twitter feeds.
Which brings us to ocdtrekkie's point. FastMail a great niche product, but as paid product and one that doesn't sell itself on the privacy improvements over something like gmail, Google has absolutely nothing to worry about.

ProtonMail on the other hand, while not at the moment a threat to gmail does do a lot of brand damage to it, as it highlights the privacy problems people have with it.
Could be RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury). I had that after binge coding for an extended amount of days without doing anything else. My right forearm was perpetually contracted and hand was prohibitively stiff.

Went to a massage therapist who massaged my trapezoids, some spots in my back and finally my forearm. After 2 sessions over 3 days, it was gone. But I didn't code during that time.

Side note: pretty sure I got much more programming done during my time off the computer than on.
Reported 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12891169
I think I got part of my answer: it seems that many people on HN do not interact much with those of us who are now in immanent danger. Reading the delusional apathy, ignorance and disdain in the replies here I'm even more concerned.
Wow, thanks. I've been doing the pipe trick for 15 years.

Sokath, his eyes open
TerribleHacks – A new way to Hackathon
http://imgur.com/gallery/cf2Da

http://terriblehack.website/

I would like to put a disclaimer that I am promoting an event I am helping to run, but would also like to bring up a discussion on what Hackathons have become and what we have done/are doing with TerribleHacks.

I feel very strongly that Hackathons have become too prestigious and many people expect that they should be getting rewarded for their work, when really a lot of the best devs are self motivated. These are the people we try to bring out to terrible hacks. I think this is a much better approach to a hackathon, yah we are still going to have food and people to help you out. But this gives you an opportunity to forget about building something for the sake of winning, but instead building something because you think it would be hilarious! If you are in the area, please apply or just bring awareness to this kind of Hackathon. Keep building for the sake of building cool shit. Thanks for reading, let me know how you feel about this event and the state of current hackathons
Sorry if you took my post the the wrong way. While the use of it was likely inspired by Roman numerals, I read your post as indicating that it actually did mean one million in Roman numerals and wanted to be clear that it did not as I was likely not the only one to understand your post that way.
Also useful, the highlights from the first game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y_h3eZQ-j0
There's also trumptracker, a similar project.
My mom was an ICU nurse for a good twenty or more years. In her words, people in the ICU either just got out of surgery, or they are there to die, and the ones that just got out of surgery don't stay there long.

She also told me that after a while, you could tell when a person was dead, and their body just a piece of meat kept alive by machines. She said she wasn't sure if there really is a "soul" but whatever it was that made the difference between a human and a pile of meat was gone. She hated the families that kept the meat alive, while feeling sorry for them at the same time. She eventually burned out from so many years in the ICU and switched to a different type of nursing.
Just got the same shocking message, I had the same feelings about orchestrate, I worked with orchestrate for a wile but I was skeptical as you (glad for that) so I switched to self hosted solution few months ago to a new data base "crate.io" it wasn't that hard to migrate code base, no data transfer though since I stopped using it before launching my project :)

again I'm glad I followed my hunch :)
FILE *fh = fopen("/dev/cd/do", "w");
fputs("eject\n", fh);

AFAIU, people use ioctl because it's a more strongly typed interface compared to juggling strings (usually the implementation defines the interface via /usr/include headers, useful from C), and because historically implementing an ioctl interface for a new device was easier in kernel implementations, including early Linux (and arguably still).
Finland plans to replace classic school subjects with broader “topics” (2015)
Not being a dev that is a pain to install, would have been nice to try it.
Gah yes, don't know where that extra zero came from!!
New mustache style: "machine 1.0"
You could root your trust in a TPM or other hardware security modules. You still have to trust the manufacturer of the HSM chip but that's their entire business model, unlike Microsoft's.
An Alternative to Democracy
protectionist policies might work if there is only one 1st world country and one 3rd world country, but America's share of world gdp is shrinking rapidly and an attempt to preserve their lead via protectionism is likely to backfire as they isolate themselves from the world economy.
My theory is that, and this totally based on opinion, most people don't want to show support for a specific idea or policy of the "enemy" politician out of fear from being persecuted by those who are on their same team. "I might agree with Trump on the tpp but I will certainly never say I agree with Trump about anything."
The Reimagining of Enterprise Software in the Cloud Era
I understand that problem, I was just pointing out the silver lining :)
The problem is that the body and lenses of the VR set are also likely to come into contact with your face/eyes. This is amplified by the fact that the lenses are really optimized to be right against your eyes. As you go farther and farther out, the field of view gets narrower and the picture gets softer. So most VR users will prefer to play with them cranked in as far as they can go (while still fitting eye-glasses, etc). The "thin"/"wide-FoV" VR covers I posted above actually put you even closer than would normally be possible.

Disposable pads would probably be nice in a commercial setting like a theater, but you would also really need to spray down the body and lenses of the headset with a sanitizer because some contact with the lenses is nearly inevitable. AFAIK this is similar to how 3D glasses are processed for reuse.

I would just like to note that it is an extremely difficult optical problem to get what amounts to a smartphone a half inch from your face with no screen curvature to present an image that covers your field of view adequately, focused at optical infinity, at a relatively constant magnification factor (pixels are the same size), and without such excessive levels of distortion that the rendering cannot be corrected in software. The closest analogy is really the old superwide Nikon lenses that needed to have the mirror flipped up so they could go deep into the camera and perform corrections right up to the film plane.

Really it's a testament to modern manufacturing and lens design that this is possible at any sort of a price that would be reasonable for consumers to own. Molded plastic lenses with aspheric surfaces are amazing compared to what you could do with regular spherical glass surfaces.

http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/nikkore...
Still haven't played it for that reason. Then again, I never bought a game cube.
It depends on which context.

Elasticsearch has abandoned their search engine origins and embraced logging and analytics. Those that work in NLP and text processing are still using Solr. The edmismax parser is far more flexible and you can easily create your own query parser.

Elasticsearch excels at ease of use and supporting multiple programming languages via various clients. Solr is slowly moving away from XML, but cryptic query parser syntax remains.
Looks like a nice app. One correction through: I use Prompt a lot and have been for a long time. I don't have connections break when I use it.

You might provide a video clip of a demo to help make a purchase decision.
In the past Daniel King and Christof Sielecki also each did really nice highlight videos, so I'm wondering if this'll discourage them this time.
I can only speak for myself but I've been clicking flag on anything election related including this. I think both the candidates were bad in their own ways. Hillary an ethically challenged war hawk who as secretary of state brought US Russian relations to the lowest point since the cold war. Trump is crude, unapologetic and his greatest skill is self promotion.

It was pretty clear to any one that bothered to pay attention that the election was very close, either way neither outcome was going to be positive. People predicting the end of civilization because Trump was elected are totally divorced from reality and not thinking rationally. That kind of fear mongering is dangerous and unwarranted. If you want to participate in that there are many many websites you can go to to get your fill personally I'm tired of seeing it and don't think it has any place on this site not to mention political stuff is off topic per HN guidelines.
Tweetment Effects on the Tweeted: Experimentally Reducing Racist Harassment [pdf]
> Experienced and qualified people fail at stuff pretty regularly.

Everyone fails. But this was not a simple tactical fail, this is a strategic type long sequence of failures.

> "Experienced and qualified" don't guarantee success in an election (or anything else for that matter).

What good are those things for then? I would imagine such a long experience at being a politician should translate into the ability to manage an election, understanding and communicating the issues to the constituents, seeing what the voters want, and so on.
> on the FIDE website to agree to not disseminate accounts of the game as a condition of being allowed to watch.

This is kinda off-topic here, but this might even be technically a violation of the CFAA! Orin Kerr from Volokh Conspiracy has written about it many times, but it's not a serious possibility I guess.
I think the economic and geopolitical implications of affordable electric vehicles and PV Solar isn't as appreciated as it should be.

Also outside the US there is a huge rural to urban migration occurring.
Blendle became available in the US recently. You pay per article you read, prices varying per source and I believe article length. If after reading an article you found the quality lacking or it wasn't about what you believed it would be, you can get an instant refund with the click of a button.
The original seller did [0]:

This summer, Ruckel tried a new approach: He put his own product on eBay and titled it “All other eBay sellers are fake.” A few weeks later, he stumbled upon an eBay listing with a familiar title. “All other eBay sellers are fake,” it said. It wasn’t his, of course.

[0] https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/278622
I think it's just because the event itself is being broadcast on some television or streaming channel.

So you can't legally prevent someone from watching the official stream, then making a broadcast where they discuss facts that are relayed on that stream.
HN is for news and discussion about "hacker news": programming, the startup scene, etc. It's not for organizing political movements, even if you assume everyone is of the same political slant.

Even so, nothing has happened. He was elected, and will be inaugurated in a couple of months. Perhaps we wait until some bills actually get proposed or an actual executive order before we get all crisis mode?
Working with what you've described, how would you go about supporting that with HN data? Selfish reason for asking: I've been thinking about doing something like this, but haven't yet spent much time thinking about it. :)
The GOP electorate went 90% for Trump.

This would be asking for a coup.

But then I suppose we are at that point in the arc of Empire now.
I thought about this before my kid was born and made this list:

Why are we learning <this> before teaching <this>?

Grit - Passion and Perseverance

Basics of food and the food chain

Psychology

Planning forward

Taking criticism

Finance as a way to understand the workings of the world

Stand up for yourself

Biology

Staying positive, not giving up easily

Darwin Evolution

Animals

Meditation

History
This is really stupid. It's essentially just a wrapper around the original source that Donald published here: https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/_landings/contract/O-TRU-102...
For older folks, I would argue that Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor changed the entire world.

As for myself, I wasn't alive then, so it's probably the attacks on September 11th. They resulted in numerous wars, changed the lives of probably billions of people, changed the characterization of an entire religion, affected foreign and domestic policies, etc.
But FIDE is also broadcasting live, so even if they did try such a scheme, chess24 could just watch the livestream, get the moves, and make their own broadcast where they tell everyone else the moves.
Alright, let's take that off the table. How do you explain other stuff. How did she manage to lose this election?
How is this different than the NSRL and why wouldn't you use that instead?
Why some newsletters don't need landing pages
What is the specific policy that has been proposed that puts you in imminent danger?
Another one: http://trickedbytrump.tumblr.com/
So either everyone gets along and agrees the western worldview is the best one, and the strong protect the weak as opposed to getting bought of or silenced, or the whole thing collapses ?

I believe the economic analysis would be: it's not a Nash equilibrium, and therefore it cannot exist for any length of time, because the cost of it rises exponentially over time.

So can I just say: Good luck with that, and I, personally, would like to opt out if possible.
Discussions about Trump have been all over the front page ever since the election.

> massive emergency

Maybe that's just not the consensus view you thought it was.
Yep. It would be very bad for the brand if the device came out at a very high price initially.

Nintendo has to pick a price for the long term, ship with it and stick with it. Short term profit opportunities would have a very large long term cost.
In Australia, the NES Classic Edition came out on Thursday - the physical copies at Target etc. too were sold out in minutes, too. Some of the Facebook comments said that their local shop only got a few boxes which were gone mmediately: https://www.facebook.com/NintendoAUNZ/videos/714922218664914...

As usual, Nintendo doesn't get their customers and is completely unprepared.
A formal language is basically just a mathematical set of acceptable strings made up of symbols in a (typically finite) alphabet; thus the smallest is probably the empty set, or if you insist on an accepting path, a set containing only the empty string.

The interesting part comes up when you want to match an infinite set of strings with an algorithm. Probably the simplest such algorithm would be "regardless of input, accept" which isn't exactly useful but would suffice.

It's dissatisfying to have an algorithm that puts weird, arbitrary restrictions on composing languages; for example it's usually the case that if you take a language L1 and a language L2 that are both acceptable to the algorithm, the concatenation (for every string in L1 and every string in L2, the concatenation of their strings is in the new language) language is usually acceptable to the algorithm.

Some commonly used languages do not have all of these properties; in particular the intersection of two context-free languages may not be a CFL, nor the complement. Deterministic context free languages are even more restrictive. You seem to need to give some things up as you move up the language hierarchy in power; in particular string homomorphism and intersection seem to be mutually exclusive in languages more powerful than regular expressions.

If you're interested, the theory of abstract families of languages has been studied, although I do not know a lot about it myself.
Interesting, and a stellar job. I could easily see this becoming a reference track / album for hi-fi affectionados, bringing depths and detail to my new headset that I didn't know it had. (I upgraded a few months ago from the ATH-ADG1s.)
There are multiple threads, some of them with >1000 comments. why they are not in the top 30 (anymore) has been answered in the other comments.

From what I've read of them (as an outsider), there is still a lot of "Why did that just happen", pro-contra-Trump debates and of course a lot of hypotheticals -> we don't know all that much yet. It seems people will need time to cool down and figure out where to go next, and watch what actually is likely to happen.
...this had me concerned for a minute, then I read the article and realised that 'Pixel' now means a phone and not a Chromebook. Panic over!
Two popups within 10 seconds. Ban that site from HN!