skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For someone more knowledgeable about the state of fusion research: is this really a "breakthrough" or just another incremental step? It seems they only kept it stable for about twice as long as they did four year ago and that's not much of a breakthrough even if we did break the arbitrary one minute limit (or maybe its not arbitrary and becomes harder to keep stable approaching a minute for some reason?)

At this point it seems that the only real breakthroughs we can make in fusion research is maybe another technique like magnetic or inertial confinement and a power neutral/positive reactor, along with breakthroughs in orthogonal fields like material science.
It'd be really interesting to get to see this happen on a wide scale sometime soon. It'd be better not to have to, as well...
Or, ya know, Hillary Clinton and the DNC.
A 1200sqft bungalow across the street from me sold for $2.8mm four months ago; it's now back on the market for $3.2mm.

That's incredibly frustrating, I get that. I'd love to live in the Bay Area again, but it's too expensive to be worth it to me.

What you're describing is a classic bubble. Speculation divorced from the underlying asset value. Presumably not enough Vancouverites would think that $3.2mm for a 1200 sg ft house is worth it to keep that value there. So it's temporary and will eventually pop. Bubbles hurt a lot of people while they run up and when they pop, but it's not clear that price controls do anything other than shift the pain elsewhere, usually while making it worse. I'd rather try and understand what's driving the underlying bubble and fix that if we can. The vacancy is a symptom, not a cause. That said, that's probably not something Vancouver can deal with directly, as it seems more tied to global macroeconomic conditions.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochlocracy

"Ochlocracy ("rule of the general populace") is democracy ("rule of the people") spoiled by demagoguery, "tyranny of the majority", and the rule of passion over reason, just as oligarchy ("rule of a few") is aristocracy ("rule of the best") spoiled by corruption, and tyranny is monarchy spoiled by lack of virtue. Ochlocracy is synonymous in meaning and usage to the modern, informal term "mobocracy", which arose in the 18th century as a colloquial neologism."
While your comment sounds like it makes sense at face value, I find it naive and simplistic. I think the logical outcome of a policy like that is that you end up worse off.

We all unwittingly break many laws day. Living in the US is inherently illegal, even if you happen to be a citizen. My point is that there isn't some binary division between people that break the law and those that don't.

If businesses need to be immigration police, they'll just hire illegal immigrants under the table (moreso), and be more exploitive about it.

If people are afraid to talk to the police, they won't. This breeds gangs & protection rackets, which presumably you don't want, because they increase crime.

As these problems will become worse and worse, the more we will try to crack down on illegal immigration, intensifying said problems. The tragic irony is that the solution is the cause of the problem and it is part of a nasty feedback loop.
And I argue it has more to with the fact that *nix applications are traditionally configured via static configuration files as opposed to interactive process.
The Economist: Is Edward Snowden a Villain or a Hero?
SHE BROKE HER TOE
couple good ones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZqq-zAkGy4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FeZe5P803c
I use error_chain

let a = foo().chain_err(|| "failed to foo")?;
Thiel is racist and sexist to support a racist sexist fraudster like Trump
She was also campaigning in Arizona the week before the election, a state that would be really hard to win, and not campaigning in Wisconsin, where she had a chance. So not sure they did have the best picture of what was going on, or at least didn't respond to it.
None of that is a positive motivated promise. Everyone of them come from a negative stopping promise. Also he won't get but a few dfinished of those things done. AKA Term Limits in Congress LOL

Also we became the number one energy producing nation, under Obama, in the world he is acting like we have been holding off of trillions of revenue.

I hope I wrong but none of that is a future this is fixing yesterdays problems.
Exactly my story last night. 9 out of 10 transactions failed.
This is a wonderful article about Leonard Cohen:

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/music/89715...

The quote that stood out the most for me:

"In a pursuit like rock ’n’ roll, which is entirely devoted to redemption, Cohen’s ideas were not only old but radical. His peers all insisted that salvation was at hand. To go to a Doors concert was to stare at the lithe messiah undressing on stage and believe that it was entirely possible to break on through to the other side. To see Cohen play was to gawk at an aging Jew telling you that life was hard and laced with sorrow but that if we love each other and fuck one another and have the mad courage to laugh even when the sun is clearly setting, we’ll be just all right. To borrow a metaphor from a field never too far from Cohen’s heart, theology, Morrison, Hendrix, Joplin, and the rest were all good Christians, and they set themselves up as the redeemers who had to die for the sins of their fans. Cohen was a Jew, and like Jews he believed that salvation was nothing more than a lot of hard work and a small but sustainable reward."
Utah had cold fusion, anyone remember that? Fusion research is tricky to evaluate (and false positive results are common).
I am pursuing this path. I'm interested in fulfilled by Amazon-type products in addition to software projects. It's truly amazing how "easy" it is run one of these businesses solo in comparison to before the internet.
Sorry, but we're the 99.999%.
So there's NO FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE between a serial killer and someone who jaywalked once in their lifetime?
I do not disagree with the point that getting out of your comfort zone is well worth every bit of trouble you experience doing it. Like I said, it would just be really intense for a first experience.
My sources tell me internal polls were terrible too.
It would help if the Mill people wrote a peer reviewed paper and produced a lower case ultra small font mVP that people could actually use.

I've been hearing Mill stuff since 2012. They had a weird non LLVM/GCC sorta kinda compiler port. Today in 2016, the toolchain support for way Out Of The Box stuff is great. They could do an LLVM port and a Chisel simulation and have Linux on top of that. But instead we get

The team is 90% industry vets with very long careers

And no, I'm not going to watch 15 hours of Ivan Godard whinging on. Get off the pot and produce something.
If the collapse on the most correct polls happened at that time, then could it not be seen as an election swinging event? Not saying Hillary Clinton and/or the DNC are not responsible for being weak enough to be able to be routed, but its an example of... well, the FBI significantly turning an election.
"It’s totally forgotten now, but for the 100 years after the American Revolution, the U.S. government made it free or almost free to send newspapers anywhere by mail. It was available to papers of all political perspectives, with no government censorship. The rationale was straightforward: This was necessary for people to participate in governing themselves."

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/09/donald-trump-will-be-pre...
Private enterprises aren't required by law to uphold a high standard of free speech, but being decent Americans does. The government MUST NOT censor, but private companies SHOULD NOT.
Hmm, I think this arises from a mindset that doesn't treat tests as part of the code that should be maintained and refactored.

You always have to be removing and refactoring tests if you are changing your production code. Changed a sorting algorithm? Good, go and have a look at your tests to see whether there's anything that doesn't need to be tested anymore, or edge cases that need to be tested now that the algorithm has changed.

Red -> Green -> Refactor
bigot : a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially one who regards or treats the members of a group with hatred and intolerance

Yes, let's label a group of people as racists for supporting a particular canidate for elected office. That's not hypocritical or anything...
Definitely, especially with the media being ordered to do the same thing. All you could hear on corporate media is "black people" and "white people" and "latinos". You'd hardly ever hear words like "working class people" or "blue collar".

It was all about race and gender. Well guess what? Most people didn't vote based on gender and race issues. They voted on economy and corruption (which is related to the economy one) issues.

Meanwhile, Clinton's entire campaign was about how much of a bigot Trump was, while half of the country earns less than $30,000 a year.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/25/1-in-2-working-americans-m...

Who campaigned for this half of America? Well, it wasn't Clinton. She campaigned on "4 more years of Obama" and "not rocking the boat or changing much." Those would be pipe dreams, after all.

Only Trump and Sanders did, and Sanders they cheated out of the election in a multitude of ways, including by spreading the Democratic establishment propaganda that Clinton was the "more electable" one because she was "battle tested" (she didn't do so well in the last battle, though). But she couldn't cheat Trump out of the election, so he won.

The worst thing about this is that the Democratic establishment don't even want to accept the blame for the complete and utter loss of all branches of the government. They want to coronate Tim Kaine at the next election - the guy that nobody knows anything about, except that for some reason Clinton picked him, and also part of the same team that has just lost. Great strategy. I can already see all the people that didn't go vote for Clinton not come to vote for Kaine in even greater numbers!
> I must be one of the very few people who can write working and mostly bugless code and without writing any kind of test.

Or you may be using a different definition of "mostly bugless" than the rest of us.

I do gamedev. The ability to patch post-release is not a given, even today, for all platforms. Crashes, corruption, progress blockers, etc. are all VERY BAD in this environment.

I see bellow you're writing network code in C. I don't suppose you've done any fuzz testing? Run with address sanitizer? Static analysis? We live in a world of exploitable 1-byte buffer overflows. Maybe not such a big deal for a throwaway blog server, but perhaps a bit scarier if you might be facing HIPAA fines, or running industrial equipment.

A very important note here: Mostly bugless as far as you're aware and mostly bugless in actuality are two very different things. Without testing, I'm not sure how you can have any confidence that you're in the latter camp.
But enough of them are, like not all blacks are criminals and not all Hispanics are illegal, and actually to a greater extent.

You're making my point. Presumably you wouldn't generalize "blacks as criminals", even though some are, but it's OK to generalize wealthy as greedy, even though not all are? Not saying you've generalized that way, but OP did.

Thanks for the lecture on respect and empathy, but I'm not trying to police language. I'm trying to understand why some people who are otherwise quite empathetic and respectful think it's OK to generalize and stereotype other groups of people.
Maybe I used to better companies like Google and Facebook, that alert you many times, using distinct communication ways, to avoid spam issues etc.

Parse.com (from Facebook) for example, give us 1 year and lots of warnings..

Google Reader also give us 1 year and lots of warnings..

Well, I am very disappointed the way the company treats this very serious subject. I almost lose very important data. So, I had to alert other people about this.
What about them? Mean value of a home in Vancouver is $1.4 million. ;)

How could speculative empty homes be distinguished?
If it be your will.
That I speak no more.
And my voice be still.
As it was before.
I will speak no more.
Lady Lovelace deserves better.
You don't hand over the key.
Tax credits will be all exhausted by the time they release the model 3 since it applies for only so many vehicles per manufacturer.

Also the ZEV credits are being sold for less then $0.50 on the dollar if they can find a buyer at all since they don't produce polluting cars themselves (per Teslas latest earnings call) and contribute negligibly to their bottom line.

Not to say that Subsidies haven't helped to get Tesla to where they are, only to say they won't be necessary moving forward.
> "And why is Houston somehow immune to this global phenomenon?"

"We don't like yer kind 'round here."
What? I have no idea how you made that jump. If you're angry at someone for making more than you (or more than the average income, what a useless metric), then yes, that's irrational. How could it not be?

If you're angry at someone for being unfair to you, then their wealth level is irrelevant.

If you're angry at them because they invested or spent their money in a way that way down the line has some tiny effect on your life that's negative [1], then that's too high a standard. There is literally no one on earth whose actions don't have some negative effect on someone, somewhere.

1. I mean that that individual's actions have a small effect on you, not that the aggregate effect isn't large and meaningful.
It's kinda disingenuous to say that the 960 Pro is already on the market when it's not for sale yet.
Presumably they pay property taxes and sales taxes (if BC has that)? That should offset some of the lack of income taxes. I'm not sure you can consider them complete freeloaders.

Also, can foreign children just move into Canada without any paperwork? I guess student visas?
Leonard Cohen has died
As someone who vehemently opposes Trump, I feel that allegations of anti-Trump bias in the mainstream media were entirely correct and somewhat to be expected. Although Trump is certainly a name that sells papers, Trump's repeated threats to open up news media to broader libel laws were not well received. The news organizations' endorsements were pretty one-sided[0]. I don't want to take you too literally, but it seems to me pretty obvious that a model ignoring the MSM entirely would not be preferable to one that took into account the MSM opinions and then applied a correctional factor. I'm sure we agree that truth is a function of our means for determining truth, but I suspect we disagree strongly on the reliability of Internet news sources.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_endorsements_in_the_...
Yeah... QA teams aren't really the norm anymore. Not to mention that classical QA isn't nearly as effective when developers aren't also performing their own QA.

Small startups that focus on quickly building stuff have to decide whether to take on more technical debt in order to get something small out the door quickly, or settle on a maintainable velocity over time. Some begin at the former and move quickly to the latter once their MVP is out the door. Some never get to move because they sink under the weight.
Django Model Managers
# Thanks Trump
102 seconds.
I began smoking marijuana regularly in 2002. I have taken, and passed, multiple drug screens, including for Government, Top Secret Clearance-level, jobs. In more socially-conservative areas, which I lived, you will see more IT jobs requiring drug tests, including in the private sector (Hewlett Packard, Hynix, and Intel screened, to name a few). Since nobody has on-site testing facilities, You usually get a 2-3 day window to attend a third-party lab and let them take a sample, which gives you ample time to procure the items you need to pass them. In the event of a random (or targeted) drug screen, you will still have an hour or two, likely giving you enough time to go home and get your pre-bought equipment.

Urine tests are usually easy to pass, as it's likely an invasion of your privacy as a non-felon to watch you urinate, therefore, it is a trivial matter to have synthetic urine (bottle warmed in your inner-thigh/groin to body temperature) ready to squirt into the cup, as well as into the toilet. If I recall, it was about $25 to purchase a bottle.

Hair tests required you to purchase $30 bottles of special shampoo that would strip away anything (leaving your hair feeling like straw), provided you follow the directions on the box, which was to scrub like crazy for 15 minutes. You'd get a good 3-4 hours of clean hair to attend the lab, which is more than enough time for most people.

I now work at a (incubating) canadian medical marijuana startup, so I no longer worry about such things, but I'm sure I'll be telling the grandkids about the measures people took during prohibition eventually.
That's a good point though they still employ a lot of people.

It'll be interesting when people start trying to deal with the job loss from automation. I'm not sure how you can practically restrict the use of software and robots.
Why Hillary Clinton Wore Purple to Concede to Donald Trump
A tremendous loss.

A recent profile that I greatly enjoyed:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/leonard-cohen-m...
Let’s Fire a Few of Our Customers
I suspect it is you that doesn't understand the security implications -- if all it takes is $99/year to gain the ability to sign arbitrary code, then there is no security benefit whatsoever. Pure security theater.

Obviously, the $99/year isn't making Apple a lot of money. But what it is doing is creating a culture of acceptance around Apple-as-gatekeeper. The iOS app store is most certainly making Apple a non-trivial amount of money (yes I know its a small percentage of their total at the moment.)
2. The system selected Pennsylvania as an important target.

Apparently it wasn't the choice of PA as an "important" target, but overfit of its importance to that of other key states (e.g. in the rust belt) which may have been at fault. Like the article says:

But it appears that the importance of other states Clinton would lose — including Michigan and Wisconsin — never became fully apparent or that it was too late once it did.
There definitely have been problems with exit poll accuracy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/upshot/exit-polls-why-they...
Probably because they have a sense of humour, and the conversational style makes it more entertaining to read...?
By that point Wikileaks had also been releasing Podesta emails for about a month. It's an example of Clinton's terrible decisions re: the email server turning an election.
Grubhub CEO Asks Staffers with 'Hateful Attitudes' to Resign After Trump Win
The same way parents are responsible for the education of their kids, not schools, individuals are responsible for feeding their brain and developing opinions.

Facebook isn't promising more than cat gifs, Buzzfeed click bait and rants. It is not more an echo chamber than your group of friends.
So is the "You Don't Need Javascript (css is powerful enough)" one. Most of those were cool proof of concept demos made in CSS with no JS. One of them was just a straight up game... I don't see how any of that is actually useful, other than being kinda cool.

I was hoping for actual small common cases where people use JS to do something that's super easy with CSS, like animations.
A wonderful voice. A favorite of my mother's who over the years became a favorite of mine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTTC_fD598A
so can you control this in order to improve your life?
It's not only functional updates in the software, but MySQL server tends to benefit from better defaults between major versions.

If you already have a well configured server you tend to see smaller performance improvements between versions.
50k requests seems excessive, are you sure about that? :) Of course it depends on the implementation particulars, and profile-guided optimization may help, but needing a couple thousand requests to warm up is not so bad for a web application server that will see 100x as many requests as that.

If we're very lucky, Substrate VM will be released at some point, solving the startup time issues (and I believe many of the JIT issues, though less clear on that): http://lafo.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/papers/2013_JVMLanguageSummit...

The OMR project definitely looks interesting, but it doesn't seem to be actively developed (or perhaps the most recent commits are just not public yet). But if it works that well, then maybe there's no need, hah. Will have to try it out.
You can make the LISP do something other than parenthesis. An early example was Dylan language. You can also use LISP to power the compiler as both intermediate and executable language like Julia did. Outwardly, it's a powerful, pleasant language many people would like. On inside, its power came from that fact that the syntax was immediately translated to & manipulated in femtolisp. My favorite use of LISP to bootstrap a language is this presentation [that could also be done without parentheses]:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9699065
I was more talking about software (OS-specific and DE configuration, packages, etc.) rather than hardware. I've only first started using Linux about four years ago, and I understand it used to be quite different, but I've honestly never had any significant trouble with regards to hardware working on Linux. With the exception of the time that I put Arch on an extremely new Macbook, everything has always worked pretty well out of the box for me. The only hardware-related thing I've ever had to configure on my non-Apple laptops is adding a kernel parameter in the bootloader config to get the backlight adjustment to work.

On the other hand, I've yet to find a distro that pre-installs a GUI with configuration and packages anywhere close to what I want in a setup. I go out of my way to use distros with an option to install without a desktop environment even if it has an option to install the one I want, since it usually comes with a lot of extra crap I don't want. Obviously I'm probably a little more extreme here than even most Linux users, but at least among Linux power users (i.e. the people I'd expect to be interested in buying a laptop to single-boot Linux) that I know, Unity is considered to be kind of terrible.

Am I wrong in assuming that these types of "developer edition" laptops will generally come with a vanilla Ubuntu install? I admit that I've never really looked into getting one, so it's quite possible I'm mistaken in understanding the kind of setup they provide
Just a quick note that this report comes from people.cn, a mouthpiece media of the CCP. Perhaps more coverage from other sources would make this more persuasive.
You're completely ignoring the demand side. This tax, at least in my area, is a tax on the wealthy land owners. They could drop the tax to 0 tomorrow and rents will still go up.
"... property owner, who will just pass on the tax"

Rental market is more of a market than say, buying a house. It is very much determine by salaries people make in the area. Unlike buying a property, which also has the element of credit availability and willingness of people to borrow, you cannot borrow to pay rent. The point being, owner can TRY to price tax into the rent, but if this prices property too high it will not rent out.

(Edited: typo)
Well, like I disagreed with the company, I should disagree with you too.

Nice people treats you with respect, attention, care. And I didn't get this from their Support team, although I was always respectful with them.

I only want to expose my case, because I think an IT company, specially which handle user data, should be very responsible. And the company don't appear to be responsible for me.

Best,
Nope. Just asked "hey, how fucked were your polls?" Answer: "totally." Didn't want to push it more than that given the fresh wound.

Edit: My hypothesis is the likely voter estimates were pure fiction.