skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The media - and consequently the public - was generally unaware that it was a non-event

Really? I was only 10 during y2k and not techie at all (yet).

I remember it everywhere...news, school discussions, tshirts, TV, general conversation (similar to zombie apocalypse emergency plans some people talk about).

If anything, I'd say the hype was a little too high. Planes falling out of the sky, nuclear weapons detonating, etc.

Still...I agree. Zero issues. Very impressive.
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It's hard to tell - did the premature optimizations allow Git to extend way beyond the initial release with little worries of performance? It's not something that's easily quantifiable.
So Reuters is finally getting around to doing their job; moving beyond a sensationalized story which sells ads, to the unglamorous work of uncovering the truth, that Flint isn't special at all and that the government knew that and has been covering it up.

It's a shame they couldn't get around to reporting the truth behind the sensation a year ago when public outcry was enough to get substantial Federal funding allocated to fixing this nation-wide.

First there should be a Federal law requiring disclosure of testing data nationwide, and the full sets should be put online in standardized formats.

Childhood lead rates should be shown next to walkability score and crime stats on Realtor sites. Home sellers should be mandated to report their local area exposure rates at the time of sale.

Second, setup a super-fund type cash pool which provides for remediation of the top X% of effected areas.

Third, new laws for mandatory testing and reporting, and fines and felonies for underreporting, misreporting, or falsifying reports of childhood lead exposure.

Here's to hoping that major infrastructure spending includes the unglamorous water mains replacements as much as the more glamorous monument-style projects.
> I'm in that spot, I worked mostly remote for the past 4 years and at every company it would have helped a lot to have a casual hallway conversation from time to time.

I have never seen hallway conversations helping. Face to face, desk to desk conversations do indeed help, sometimes. In my case, according to my estimations, the time lost by not having those conversations (about 30-60 minutes per week) is very small compared to the time lost in: office distraction, office small talk, commuting(!), all the untold stuff you have to do to get ready for the office, nervous energy lost in all these, which easily sum up to 3-4 hours per day! So I can use part of the extra, say, 16 hours per week (that's like 2 work days!) that are free, to write detailed chats, e-mail, and pick up the phone.
Depending on where you are studying you can take ML courses. However the easiest way is to get a Master's degree in CS from Stanford, GA Tech, Cornell, CMU, etc. Few Universities offer a Data Science Masters degree e.g. I think NYU, Columbia & Harvard. You can also try joining a comapny and then starting the degree program a year later.

As far as this thread, don't worry too much about it.
There's actually a difference between being skeptical and calling this thing -- with peer-reviewed research[0] -- "wish-powered".

[0] http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.B36120
Wait, what? They have actual lead pipes for drinking water? That's insane.
of course they were the ones who put the tories in by not forming a labour coalition
1) News and lists get tons of edits, but how much content added to articles about current events survives subsequent revision? How much time is spent adding 10 items to a list, versus the amount of consideration and debate that can go into a single choice of words in something like the van Gogh article? The wiki format is the best one I know of for the places where Wikipedia editors spend their time and energy.

2) Not quite sure what you're getting at. Having standards attainable only through months of concerted effort is a choice to encourage people to expend that effort. The featured article criteria could be made arbitrarily more or less difficult, and article quality wouldn't change as far as people uninterested in the distinction are concerned.
Because you're less in the nitty-gritty when naming a branch, so you're more likely to name it with something referencing the large feature you're working on.
I'm looking to go through a DS boot camp this summer, have a master's in aerospace engineering. I'd be very content with mid-five figures (40% lower than what I made as an engineer) at a no-name company if it's in the city that I want (not SF). Are such lower-end data analyst positions in decent supply?
By no means my intention was to "spread FUD", but it rather was a legitimate concern, since I'm working on a side project which could be directly affected by these issues.

Perhaps I'm just not understanding their language correctly, please help me since you seem to be more versed in Java licensing than I am.

1. Would you kindly explain the meaning of the passage on the Oracle's own FAQ page saying literally this: "If Java SE is bundled as part of a dedicated solution that involves or controls hardware of some kind, then it's likely an embedded application and is subject to modest royalty payments.." (here - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/embedded/embedded-se/...)

It doesn't say "Java Embedded", it explicitly says "Java SE".

The next Q/A there says "developing with Java SE embedded or non-embedded purposes". Note how it says "embedded or non-embedded purposes" not "Java SE Embedded".

My understanding (from what I read there) is that if I use Java SE for "embedded purposes" I must use Java SE Embedded, which is not a completely different product, but seems to be nothing more than a paid extension of the former.

2. Not directly related, but the page you referred says "$300 * .0075 * 2 * 1.19 = $5.355". However, RPi3 is 4-core, not 2-core, which means something in the $10+ range if I'm targeting that board. Am I wrong here? If not, that's a bit too much, especially comparing to the price of the board, don't you think?

Thank you.

EDIT: yes, and the goal of the project I mentioned is specifically to control some hardware.
The tool is fab but the gallery is truly inspiring, I feel a new hobby coming on!
It's safe as long as the water chemistry doesn't leach the pipes. If it does, and you're not using agents in the water to stop it, you get Flint, MI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis

"The Flint water crisis is a drinking water contamination issue in Flint, Michigan, United States that started in April 2014. After Flint changed its water source from treated Detroit Water and Sewerage Department water (which was sourced from Lake Huron as well as the Detroit River) to the Flint River (to which officials had failed to apply corrosion inhibitors), its drinking water had a series of problems that culminated with lead contamination, creating a serious public health danger. The Flint River water that was treated improperly caused lead from aging pipes to leach into the water supply, causing extremely elevated levels of the heavy metal neurotoxin."
Snake-lines of software production
don't think there are other changes - https://github.com/docker-saigon/docker-saigon.github.io/com...
I wonder to what extent Michael Moore's Flint pedigree influenced the media.

I'm guessing it's decidedly non-zero.

Edit: this was not intended as a dig at Michael Moore or anyone else. The fact that he made a documentary featuring Flint means that more people than otherwise should be are aware of the place, hence, media stories about it are more likely to gain traction with the general population. Michael Moore humanized Flint. His making it recognizeable, I think, aided in the rise of this particular story, IMO.

I also think the name of the city helped its presence in the news cycle. Flint, being short and a homonym for another English word is far more memorable than say "Scarborough" (which, amusingly, was the first name that came to mind when I tried to come up with the most memorable unmemorable name for a town.)
I can only guess that the downvotes you're getting are based mostly on the "tone" of your reply -- which is pretty hostile, but whatever.

Ok, so here's the deal: If it's really easy to get these things published, then I suggest (if you care enough, you clearly care a great deal) that you try to get a paper puplished on your double-blinded randomized trial (etc.).

Honestly, it sounds like you might have a beef with the scientific process[1].

Btw, what's going on with your (3) link? Was that your edit buffer or something?

[1] No, it's not flawless. There's publication bias, etc., but so far it's the best anyone's come up with.
That was super valuable. The distinction and clearly drawn reasoning between commitment and experiments was immediately helpful.
Since everyone's talking about the double-blind study again and as one of the (probably) few people on HN who's seriously played a Strad, I feel obligated to link to my previous comment on the matter:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12095164

TL;DR—fine antique violins seems to have a wider range of good tone colors available than modern instruments, but these tone colors take significant practice with the instrument (months, not minutes) to discover.
http://pitchfork.com/features/article/8778-indie-classical/
There are (at least) two separate worlds of music according the field of musicology. The two worlds represented here are art music and popular music. The other major category of music is traditional or folk music.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_music
I don't think it's because of the CDN. It's probably because it just works better.
It's actually not what I was thinking of (I was in fact thinking of encrypting sequentially and hashing+XOR in parallel), but that's a good point, that might work too!

I'd need to think about it a bit more to convince myself it doesn't have any significant downsides though; it's less obvious to me. For one thing, requiring an OTP approach seems to constrain the set of encryption schemes you can use. (e.g. imagine an algorithm that reverses all the bits of every block before doing anything else.) Furthermore, if your custom encryption scheme happens to leave any kind of "watermark" on the ciphertext that makes it obvious it wasn't something standard like AES, applying the standard layer last will prevent the attacker from realizing you have a custom layer at all, until the standard layer is broken. Whereas if you use the OTP+XOR scheme, it might become obvious something else is going on too.

That said, this approach might actually be stronger than the layered approach, so it might actually be better. Need to think about it more :)
We use an SSSCat[1] device to keep the door paint(and our night-time sanity) in-tact. It's not entirely reliable but it works enough that it keeps them away from the door.

We turn it on when we close the door at night. The cats haven't figured out when it's on or off, but they have figured out if the door is open, they can run really fast past it and it won't get them.

It did stop the door scratching, but now the door scratching has turned to 5am serenades.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/PetSafe-KIT19001-SSScat/dp/B000RIA95G
There seems to be confusion here about the language semantics. There is no mutability in the expressions you have shown. buffer.copy() would not make sense since the language is immutable, why would you want an explicit copy mechanism when every update is essentially being performed on a copy.
I'm anxious to see if OpenShift ends up supporting Windows Server - we've got a fair amount of .Net applications that are impossible to port to the CoreCLR due to various vender supplied libraries and a fairly deep use of Windows authentication with them (we can abstract the authentication for our applications to an auth service and use JWT or OpenID connect, but lord knows how we could get these 3rd party libs to work).
In some cases the solution not being obvious isn't an excuse for why there isn't proper disclosure and prompt remediation when the solution is obvious.
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The blind tests that I've heard of are done with a screen that the listeners can't see through, but which does not affect audio quality.

It's not a recording.
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Cutting criticism is unless without examples. Name such a beast, and why it is unlikely to be.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12067697/convert-current-...

One of the top results for "convert date to integer". People who have an integer on one hand, a datetime on the other are going to see this code and use it (hey, it works) without understanding the ramifications.

I suppose one can only hope that such code is brittle enough that other problems bring it down before 2038.
Flint made news because the problem was new. Flint water used to be safe, and then it became unsafe.

There are a lot of problems nobody bothers with because they're not new problems.
>without being rude

def not my intention. Can you point out where i was rude so i can keep that in mind for future.

What I said of course is not true for special needs cats, do whats best for your cat if its special needs. I assumed we are talking about the 99% general case because original article didn't mention any special requirements that her cat had. I doubt anyone reading that blog would get the impression that her cat is special needs. Would you tell you someone "not speak in absolutes" to if she says "don't don't declaw your cat" ?

I know many cat owners who "play" with their cat by dangling a feather on its head, telling them to improve the play by creating intrigue and mystery during the play by hiding the source of noise is not an insult, I wouldn't think so. I made many pet owner mistakes myself. Unfortunately cats have the misguided 'easy maintenance' reputation which works against their well being.
LOL, you think you are not? We all are very replaceable and very often replaced.
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Sure, I'd be more than happy to try breaking this down, I'm going to try a nightly build now as other users have suggested and see how it feels
That's just the database, and one that we happen to know works.
> In the US, it just seems like city governments are holding the city infrastructure as hostage to squeeze some more ransom money out of the residents, then shooting the hostage anyway.

I don't fully understand what you're getting at here -- are you referring to Urban Renewal policies? Or utilities/real estate industry corruption...?

> How much would it cost, really, to abandon an old, sprawly city, and build something that starts with a bunch of solutions to well-known urban problems that can't even be implemented when there's already a city in the way?

It would cost A LOT, and it would be stifling to live in if it looks anything like the new Le Corbusier-inspired Chinese cities. Some climates such as San Francisco simply cannot be replicated elsewhere.

Also, it would be devastating in a spiritual sense. I know this isn't necessarily the place to discuss a more philosophical/psychological topic, but the deep sense of tradition/history rooted in place is important in creating life meaning for many, many people.
> Take that to the contrast that the innovative essence of hiphop is resampling

Resampling isn't particularly innovative as Im sure you aware of musique concrete and tape music.
Hip-hop is essentially defined by the combination of rapping, sociopolitical subtexts, and, yes, specific music production techniques that include sampling but also certain types of rhythms and beats.
Those are roughly in order of importance; notice how few people openly lament the death of sampling but the prominence of a white rapper will prompt endless critical and popular commentary.

> that's pretty dead.

Anyone who can listen to To Pimp a Butterfly and believe that hip hop is dead does not know what hip hop is.

> Can you name any currently successful hip hop band that does radical resampling over all genres?

When has this been the criterion for what makes a hip hop band?
> I believe we need industry leaders like Nintendo to take stances like this. Hopefully we see others follow and we can have an economy that can support itself going forward.

This is really a self-centered opinion. Not just sentence but throughout the entire post the nuance is the same: you're a cheap guy if you are complaining about a $10 game on your $1000 phone (btw since when did iPhone become $1000?)

People hate it because Nintendo is charging $10 for a mediocre game. It's just another auto-runner. If this guy actually took time to read individual comments he would actually understand what's going on instead of just blaming the consumers as being cheap.

I have a free auto-runner game on my iPhone called "High Risers". This game is 10 times more entertaining than Mario run. And it's dead simple. And it's free. Why would anyone pay $10 for a game that's unoriginal? People would have bought them if it actually was the old super mario, instead of them trying to fit into the trend and release just another auto runner.

If you look into what some game companies are doing on the app store, some have amazingly lucrative and interesting business models. I expected Nintendo to pull off something like that. That's why people are angry. Not because they are cheap.
Can you talk more about using Pony in a production environment? What are the performance aspects of it? How do you find writing 'non-actor' code - like just doing some string manipulation?

I find the language fascinating but I'm learning Erlang and I don't really want to get started with Pony at the same time. Do you have experience with Erlang?

what made you choose Pony?

Sorry for the bombardment of questions but I don't hear much about Pony. As a rust user, and a burgeoning fan of Erlang, I'm fascinated.
Probably wouldn't be a good time for me to mention how much your dentists x-ray machine costs.
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This is waaay too common. Hence (shameless plug): studyswami.com
The point is, they could have called them gh-sites. Yes. Words matter. #Duh

If your "pages" are pulling that much traffic then put on your big boy (or girl) trousers, take off the training wheels and get a proper website. GH is not a hosting service. They're "kind" enough to offer free repos and that's not good enough? Y'all have lost your perspective.

Just like there's a difference between pages and sites, there's a difference between grateful and ungrateful. Y'all are like the guest that never leaves, never cleans up, never buys food, etc. That's just not reasonable.
I don't have these, but I do have a cheap pair of wireless around-the-neck kind. Even those work well.

But the main thing that no one but apple seems to get is the "recharge story". It's obnoxious to have to plug these things into a micro USB.

The Apple Watch and AirPods are how everyone should be doing recharging - a cradle that stores your device while it charges it.
> It's clear based on what the government is doing now that the liberal democrats firmly kept them in check and gave us a few years of much better governance.

I'll agree so far as saying that Conservative/LibDem governance produces better policies than solely Conservative governance (as least as far as civil liberties etc. are concerned), but I'm unconvinced it was the right move to make.

Firstly, it may have enabled them to keep the Conservatives in check to some degree, but, by providing an effective government majority, it may have resulted in some of the Conservative proposals passing at all, rather than being rejected in the House of Commons if the Conservatives formed a minority government.

Secondly, I suspect that the LibDem support of the Conservatives, and the years of stable government that followed, may have contributed to Conservative gains in future elections (the Conservatives being the senior party, it is easier for them to claim the credit, deserved or otherwise).

> As to the second part, this often stated thing about the pledge on tuition fees - they were the junior partner in a coalition - expecting them to somehow be able to uphold all their policies in that situation is insane.

Again, I'll agree so far as them to uphold all of their policies in coalition is something that could never happen, but the pledge on tuition fees was rather different from the traditional manifesto pledges. It was signed by individual candidates/MPs, rather than as a party, and stated:

"I pledge to vote against any increase in fees in the next parliament and to pressure the government to introduce a fairer alternative"

Expecting MPs to follow through on something so plainly stated, and importantly something that is not contingent on the LibDems being in government, is not unreasonable IMO. It should have been obvious that reneging on that pledge would cause a huge loss of trust in the LibDems, regardless of what they were able to achieve in government, especially in a year when one of their election broadcasts was titled "Say goodbye to broken promises".

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTLR8R9JXz4
> Use proper date/time datatypes, and manipulate them with library functions.

The point is: What do they do? There are plenty that will use... Unix timestamps (or worse). Or use those as the lowest common denominator for interchange. There are more systems at play than the data layer, and all of them will take every opportunity to bite you in the arse.
> So the AP is finally getting around to doing their job

This is a report by Reuters.
As much as I would like to agree with you, this article shows that it takes time and organized manpower to do this kind of research.

For whatever reason, this kind of work and reporting could not be done instantly, either due to investigative funding issues, politics, priority, or sequence of research.

So giving credit where it is due, I am glad Reuters succeeded at publishing this data.
I was just thinking that most languages are either GCed (like Java or Go) or manually curated (C/C++/rust).

My idea is that if one could write in a language like Go (which has some kind of GC), but when one wants, say "I'll take care of this memory".
This story is from Reuters, not AP; also, there have been stories about large numbers of places being worse than Flint since very early in the period when Flint's water issues were getting attention.
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It won't be enough, of course.

And short of an arrest warrant for Kalanick himself when his bold, "disruptive" experiment inevitably results in actual, real, human carnage (and irreparable heartbreak for the next of kind of those affected) -- most likely nothing will.
An exception (large complicated Rc-trees) is the rope in xi-editor. If you load a very large file, the operation of letting go of the last reference is potentially a large enough pause to have an effect on UI responsiveness. I've considered adding a mechanism that moves the object into a deallocation thread (or a deallocation task running in a thread pool) for this reason, although I'm not sure how important it is in the grand scheme of things.

In a GC'ed language such as Go, this would not be a problem. The flip-side is that I can safely and efficiently do updates in place, because Rust's reference counted type has a way to determine when you're holding the only reference.
But don't worry, we've bundled all these other tools that nobody wants into FF itself!
>Any reason not to understand this as "across the board"?

Is there any reason to assume it? It's not like people didn't get care before the ACA - they used Medicaid or went to the ER. We were told the ACA would make things more efficient as people would be able to use primary care instead of ERs for non-emergency problems.

And yet somehow we have 200k extra jobs. That's not a sign of efficiency.
Has it brought more than the things it displaced?