skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SolarCity shareholders approved the deal early today.
The government also approved the deal, by not blocking the deal, so this is going to happen.

Here is Bloomberg's stub article on the deal.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-17/tesla-sha...

They tend to write tweet length articles for breaking news like this so google can index them and then flesh out the article as details become available.

The after hours trading is heavy as this comes the day before monthly option expiry, so there is alot of factors at work here.

- The merger arb group is trying to arb out the last bit of profit as the deal is now confirmed.

- The option traders are now looking at their new exposure due to the Tesla jump

- The shorts are getting hammered, again, and now have to decide if they really want to hold a short position in a stock with little external catalysts to move it downward before the end of the year.
It's like DMV records being public. You used to have to go there, or phone, and you were only looking for information about a specific person.

But if it's available on the internet, it becomes a different thing entirely. Rather than being track-downable for specific purposes, you become harvestable for mass purposes.

Merely being known is sometimes the first step in being victimized, and these kinds of things make being known easier and more frequent.
Pretty much all configuration files are "structured". Only their syntax is tailored specifically towards the needs. And it shows.
just setup own vps with vpn and use encryption
It's not SFU either, but it's a reincarnation of the same idea. It's a subsystem distinct from the Windows one. This year's branding is irrelevant.
> If you don't have access

Where would you not have access to a PLoS paper? The entire company is dedicated to open-access publishing.

First link in Google pops up the PDF, FWIW.

http://robotics.cs.tamu.edu/RSS2015NegativeResults/pmed.0020...

(It is a wee bit disturbing that first link isn't to PLoS)

Post all your papers as preprints. Don't bottom for some grumpy old PI. Academia is not scholarship -- the latter is frowned upon within the former, as it takes longer than simply churning out some useless publoid garbage result.

Be like Faraday, Newton, Varmus and Eisen... not like Bem.
> It is the Rails way to assign ids incrementally.

Well... their databases way. It's not 'the rails way'.
That's the point, there are plenty of things that flat cannot be done without using inherently unsafe operations, even in rust.

This is why it has still yet to be shown that rust is actually safer than C++.
You think working two fast food jobs just to live is dignified?
I have ~450 contributions in the last year, ~100 followers, my email address is public, and I have two mildly popular repositories (with a couple of hundred stars).

I wish they were useful, but most of them are automated and when you follow up, you usually get greeted by an email stating that they're looking for someone with completely different background than you have.

You might be lucky not to receive them. I feel like, if I were looking for a job, I would have more luck with "Who wants to be hired" threads posted here on a monthly basis.
They're talking about the situation where you're coasting and don't want to brake.
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I was wondering why I started getting recruitment emails. I'm glad I changed my email address on github recently.
The Republican leadership has already said there's not much that can be done because coal is private and that government money shouldn't be spent on it. They know, and have known for some time, that coal is a dying industry, but you have to appeal to voters.
I can think of two non-controversial examples for which you can find plenty of data.

Students house-sharing at universities.

Online dating.
You should probably amend the post with this info as it looks be going over some people's heads.
But this happens even if window tools don't change permissions. That is awful.
inb4 "they're all men"

because I noticed that
I will sing its praises to the high heavens for one thing alone: seamless use of command-line git!
What.CD is shutting down
Tesla's acquisition of SolarCity overwhelmingly approved
>The answer is the government //

Which is short for "the democratic will of the people" in a democracy. If the government is some elite group that you don't want governing you then vote them out.
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I (a Canadian in Canada) am currently in discussions with a startup in the San Francisco Bay area that would result in me being their first remote employee. I have read the recent threads about remote work, so this post is more about the contractual logistics of this sort of thing.

Does anyone have any experience in this sort of setup being a Canadian remote employee (or contractor) for an American company? Taxes, payroll, CPP/EI deductions, benefits, all these things are on my mind. I'm going to talk to a local accountant soon but thought I'd check here first. Thanks in advance.
I'd be the sole developer for some time, but there may be many more developers after a few months.
>Fine, we'll instead go with "a liberal conspiracy to to place angry conservative tweets as more important than terrorist propaganda", something for which there is plenty of evidence of.

And someone already addressed that alternative flavor of absurdity yesterday too. Twitter has purged hundreds of thousands of terrorism-related accounts and continues to do so. (I'm sure you'll counter with the Hamas account, but you already know why that's a poor counter example when faced with hundreds of thousands of accounts being purged).

BTW, this is called "moving the goalposts". Are you now asserting that Twitter intentionally allows terrorism accounts to proliferate? Or are you implying that they have an account banning quota and they use it all up on conservatives and have none left over for terrorists? God damn, the mental gymnastics here are just something else.
Yeah, as a teenager I had to disassemble my handle and reinstall it vertically in order to make the cat stop jumping on it in the middle of the night and waking me up in the process...

(I like cats. The problem then was that I had way too much stuff in various cabinets and the cat liked to make a grand tour through them, throwing a lot of stuff to the ground in the proces...)
It absolutely is, I'm opposed to the election of prosecutos and judges because the electorate is really not competent to make such decisions and reversing ones that turn out badly is next to impossible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
Why do we offer any legal advantages? Why do married couples deserve privileges over single or asexual people?
Boogeyman is inconsiderate? "Person with a limp" is an accurate/inoffensive replacement for "cripple"?

I respect the attempt but I don't think I'll be using this any time soon.
You could try playing video games with an in-game voice chat. Although, please, be cautious as some gamers have extremely poor manners and can be offensive.
Thanks, now I see those are tabs. I didn't know Github indentation style is customizable. Interesting.
What.cd has shut down
I'm uncertain of the full route, but it will likely involve refounding the Republic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_Police_(surveillance_pro...

The GCHQ sit on the internet infrastructure, decrypt TLS sessions, and correlate accounts and activity to individual granularity.

The backbone of the internet is tapped, including from the termination of IPSEC/IKE into your VPN out to the internet again.

Giving the advice to people to "use encryption" and "use VPN" is going to get people killed.

Please, be responsible.
There is no "encryption for civilian use", they did, however, standardize the encryption for government use.
Couldn't I apply the same argument for while google needs to send your call history to its servers to perform number lookup? Yet people cry fowl (rightfully so) about privacy implications.
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Yea, I'm very curious how this will work out. Traffic there is madness and people use all parts of the road to get to where they're going. Maybe it will be simpler. Don't hit anything in front of you, don't let anyone merge, use any piece of visible road.

For those who are curious, two guys just did a motorcycle race through rush hour traffic in China [1]. It gives a good idea what the road conditions are like.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axZC4inhu9c
Nah, I'm not sure the comma is grammatical, might actually make the last part a contradicting enumeration. The blame is on me, I quoted out of context and was a bit on the slow side understanding. The sentence is just not written well, too.

On topic however, missing one such conflict is easier, if you have to spot it after the damage is done, instead of having to think about it yourself beforehand, no?
He might be married though.
What will convince leaders and the American masses of climate change? I'm afraid that they won't accept it until its effects smacks them in the face, twice.
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Good question - we will write up a blog post soon going into details. Here is the tl;dr:

- A MutationObserver [1] listens for DOM node changes which are logged and re-built in an iframe for replay.

- We log various window events (mouse, scroll, resize) which are used during the video reconstruction.

- A Redux enhancer captures state changes - which are sent to a WebWorker, diffed and then logged.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MutationObs...
Exactly. I'm wondering how that circle is going to be squared. It can be done, though.
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No, the grandparent was correct...sadly. No hyperbole intended.
The inquisition wasn't a scientific test. Galileo was convicted of countering scripture. The level of error in his theory is besides the point and a good example of the kind of nitpicking to change narratives I discussed above.

I think the idea that if his heliocentric model was more accurate it would have meant the Church instantly accepting him is extremely faulty. He was convicted of going against geocentrism in the bible, not being a bad scientist. The idea that the Catholic system was a strict meritocracy open to change is ridiculous. It defended its status quo and its scripture unfairly using absurdly powerful institutions like the Inquisition, in which it is more or less impossible to get a 'fair' trial, even by the low standards of theocratic justice.
Like the system flag? You can make any OS unbootable with the same level of permissions. This is particularly mild given what we can do by ignoring these warnings as an administrator.
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"Probably because the W3C literally copy/pastes other's work and claims it for their own. Look at this blog post, which doesn't credit WHATWG at all for doing the actual work of speccing HTML."

Does WHATWG put a licence their work?
Assuming you could sue, what is the motivation for this?

If you dislike the ecosystem so much, jump ship to the #1 mobile ecosystem, Android.

What am I missing? Apple popularity in the US is unusually high?
That's a good summary. I would only add that Brahe himself developed a sort of "compromise" model between the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems in which the planets (aside from the Earth and the Moon) all revolved around the Sun, which then revolved around the Earth. The Tychonic system explained the lack of observed parallax, but kept the computational simplifications of the Copernican system. This was the model preferred by most of the learned men in the Church at the time.
Maybe there should be something like the hacker-news reputation, only derived by the validated truth of the sources you quote and forward. And it should be mandatory on all things you post.
And people should have the option to hide "unreliable" narrators - and gain the loss of a falsifieer, by disproving somebody else s story.
One way would be to run a user level nfsd on the Linux side and mount it on the windows side as an nfs share. Or if they are morally opposed to that running a user level samba server and mounting it as a CIFS share. Both of these solutions allow you to access Linux files from windows apps on their native storage layer without corrupting them or the system they are running on.

You might be able to accomplish that with a system service that runs in the context of the LXX shim and a local (in memory) network connection.
Doubly magical now that computers (and solvers) are so fast. A few times I've thought, "Oh, I could reduce this to a max-flow problem, and write/dig up an algorithm to solve it" before realising it'd just be easier to write it as a linear program (or an integer program "just in case".)

And then if weird constraints come along that broke the max-flow reduction, I could usually shoehorn that into the formulation.

Can't remember how to write Dijkstra's algorithm? Meh, integer programming it is. Want to write a sudoku solver and you can't be arsed with dancing links or backtracking or prolog or... Whatever, CBC will do it. It'll be nasty and a hell of a lot slower than doing it "the right way" in a fast language, but it might not be slower than doing it in Python or Javascript.
ah, Begley, such a saint:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v497/n7450/full/497433a...

This is the guy that published the irreproducible results paper whose results were (of course) irreproducible (since it did not name any). I.e., "trust me on this", the opposite of science.

Note above that you can pay for more of his sage wisdom, thanks to the generous NatureMacSpringer megaconglomco.

Post everything as a preprint. Submit your trial results to OpenTrials or OpenFDA. Quit killing patients. Maybe work in pediatrics so that, right or wrong, you still won't make any money, so you might as well not kill any excess kids.

I'm not bitter or anything, after participating in clinical trials and analysis for over a decade...
Not my toolchain, whatever was the case where I worked. That aside, my main point is that it was generally a slow, painful experience using Java, and it's more that I'm not entirely sure if compile times were the reason (or only reason).

For example, I continually noticed long and painful compile times, but when I mention these things elsewhere, the responses say Java actually compiles very quickly.

There can be a runtime performance hit, but that's mainly if one switches to a language like Python or Ruby. That is, many compiled languages have runtime speeds similar to Java's.

As for equivalent codebase sizes, do you mean literal lines of code, or having them provide the same functionality? I look mainly at equivalent functionality, as 1000 lines in Python can easily be doing much much more than 1000 lines in Java.

You can probably search for comparisons (of Go and Java). In the beginning, Go was indisputably faster, but apparently they've introduced certain changes in the last year or so that's resulted in slower compile times.

Even with slower compile times, it's likely Go still compiles much faster than Java, while also resulting in a smaller, more manageable codebase.
> Included in the builds.

Russian citizens download and install specially crafted builds instead of the officials ones? Are they forced, or do they they trust those FSB builds more?

> The traffic will stay inside of infrastructure controlled by the Russian government through its domestic ISPs, rather than exiting the country.

I guess we are not talking about the same, because the the regulation doesn't dictate this. It "just" says, that there has to be a copy of the data in Russia. The server can still be outside of Russia.
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Oh, yes, there are absolutely counter-examples. It's essentially down to each WG whether they issue errata or revised recommendations, and when plenty of (admittedly more obscure) WGs have their charter allowed to expire when all of their deliverables have become recommendations there's at times nobody to maintain the document per the W3C process.

An aside:

XML 1.0 Fifth Edition is actually a weird case: there are documents that are well-formed XML according to the Fifth Edition and not well-formed according to the Fourth Edition, because the characters allowed in places like tag names went from being based on Unicode 2.0 to Unicode 5.0-or-any-later-version (which was originally the difference between XML 1.0 and XML 1.1, except 1.1 was originally 3.0-or-any-later-version); as such, two XML 1.0 implementations are no longer guaranteed to consider the same set of documents well-formed, as it depends on the Unicode version each uses. As a result, plenty of implementations of XML 1.0 have no plan on changing away from their Forth Edition implementations.
Google strawman, that may apply to you.
> In Go, for example, to parse and return a JSON response from some web API, you first need to create a struct whose fields and field-types exactly match the structure of the response.

Right, but why can't these declarations be written by some Python code? (with a large set of examples of responses as input)
I tend to engine brake except in circumstances where I actually need more braking power.

Especially with hilly driving, it gives you a lot more control when slowing down, and you can accelerate straight away since your foot is still on the accelerator pedal.

There's nothing worse than being stuck behind a driver (usually a tourist) in a hilly area who is riding the brakes all the way down.
>Max price was almost $2,000,000 per token, someone actually literally spent that much.

No. When zcash was trading at such a price, it was less than a single zcash coin in total. So a few people were paying significant sums for very small fractions of a zcash coin, but no one payed 2,000,000 for a single coin. The price has crashed because supply has grown exponentially. What you were seeing was supply vs demand in action in an unusually obvious way.
Since this is an investment we're talking about, I think we should strongly lean towards the interpretation of the facts that more conservative rather than less; 20% vs. 10% is a big difference to Zcash as an investment for the first few years, which could easily be longer than the lifespan of the currency.
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That's not the point. Array types in Ruby and Python are implemented in C. No one goes around saying those languages are actually no more memory safe than C++ (or maybe you do?).
Yes, and yes. I already assume that to be the case.
They were, they just hadn't yet been convinced to pay for an upgrade. This method of getting them to consider paying to upgrade is very unlikely to convince many.
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Yes, good point. It was discussing in past test in the context of "DeCOMification" mainly. It would be interesting to have some insight into new component creation vs use of existing components.
I didn't get the ICMP one. Or the RHEL one.

But the .DS_Store joke was great.
Ask HN: Strong SEO growth but how do I get bloggers to take notice
My side project web app is experiencing traffic growth from search engines but I can't seem to get anyone to blog about the thing. It seems clear that a decent amount of people find it useful but I don't know how get bloggers to notice/care about it. Any tips?
This doesn't corrupt the FS.
I considered this years ago, and just now discovered two clubs immediately next to my house. My concern is that I'm coming at this from a place of fairly severe social anxiety; I do fine in business settings, but anything else causes me a great deal of anxiety. In your experience (or anyone else who wants to chime in), are people fairly understanding in this regard? What is the typical age range?
> well fortunately the Antarctic is gaining mass, so things happen.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-o...

> But it might only take a few decades for Antarctica’s growth to reverse, according to Zwally. “If the losses of the Antarctic Peninsula and parts of West Antarctica continue to increase at the same rate they’ve been increasing for the last two decades, the losses will catch up with the long-term gain in East Antarctica in 20 or 30 years -- I don’t think there will be enough snowfall increase to offset these losses.”

> “The good news is that Antarctica is not currently contributing to sea level rise, but is taking 0.23 millimeters per year away,” Zwally said. “But this is also bad news. If the 0.27 millimeters per year of sea level rise attributed to Antarctica in the IPCC report is not really coming from Antarctica, there must be some other contribution to sea level rise that is not accounted for.”

It was gaining mass for a long, long time and that trend is reversing and it ultimately doesn't change the fact the sea level rise is still occurring despite the mass gain.

That isn't a 'so things happen' situation. It is a "Well, traditionally Antarctica gains X each year. The rate of this gain is offsetting the Y in losses for now but the rate of loss is accelerating and overall we are still losing ground regardless'.
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When you deploy with Kubernetes, you need some yaml or json files to define the configuration of your stack. Depending on the complexity of the stack, this could grow to a significant number of files. Helm allows this collection of files to be put into a single shareable package. Then, rather than calling the 'kubectl' command a number of times to deploy each individual component, you'd make one call to Helm to do it all at once.
But that's the thing right, "we" is the human population. If the US logging industry plants as much trees as it removes, then it doesn't really really matter if the global rain forests are being slashed and burned for agricultural reasons. Not to mention the massive amounts of forest fires we can expect due to increased heat and drought, which we have absolutely no idea how to deal with. It truly is a global problem. Great Green Wall is definitely a good thing! Throw in some heliostat solar (molten salt) powered desalination, and massive amounts of desert could be "greened" (good for people, economy and climate!)
Doesn't really look that different than Yahoo.com to me. Though Yahoo! started off more like that than Netscape for sure.
Is there a site on there that is misscatagorized? Is it missing something that you know of? Let me know and I will fwd it on to the creator if you don't want to. :)
Very interesting, thanks for posting!

More info: https://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-...

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