skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Upgrading to macOS Sierra (nee OS X) for R users
Someone brought back the White House site in Spanish
Why its not available for all countries?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terro...

In July 2012, the United States State Department released a report on terrorism around the world in 2011. The report states that "Iran remained an active state sponsor of terrorism in 2011 and increased its terrorist-related activity" and that "Iran also continued to provide financial, material, and logistical support for terrorist and militant groups throughout the Middle East and Central Asia."

This is not a report from a Republican administration but Obama's administration.
> Where I went to school, becoming a student senator for a given club was a simple matter "Sure, I'll do it". It was fun.

Same here but getting anything done is tremendously difficult. Even something simple like extended hours for the cafeteria (it was a tiny school) takes multiple semesters with being bounced back and forth between administration and Sodexo. My understand is that they'll gladly (one time) throw money at you if you say the right words but they are very cautious about anything that sounds like a long term commitment.
I remember reading, some time ago [1] [2] about how many errors were expected without a complete failure of the HDD. I mean, the odds that you just read a rotten byte out from your disk. And how that would be enough to cause data loss, since you don't need 3 complete failures to loose data: perhaps 1 complete failure plus 2 partial HDD failures...

And as HDD sizes grew larger, things would become complicate. To the point that the probability of loosing the second disk while still restoring the first one, since HDD sizes were so big that the time it takes to rebuild a whole 3TB disk is huge, in a environment that is in production, reading and writing things at the same time you're reconstructing the lost one.

[1] This is one of such articles: http://searchdatabackup.techtarget.com/video/Preston-As-hard...

[2] this is another: http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-raid-6-stops-working-in-201...
I am a dreamer and I've never felt better, which is why I think that a gaggle of crackpot scientists with political bias whom arrogantly and irrationally state that "doomsday" is 2 and half minutes away is nonsense.
The concept of how close humanity is to global catastrophe is difficult to convey directly, yet it's useful to be able to do so. The Doomsday Clock is one easy way.

Large, complex systems are by there very nature difficult to understand. Being able to summarize them easily — even if they don't completely capture the nuance — allows people to get an idea of what's going on. It's not much different from using KPIs and other metrics to understand a business.

You can argue that the metrics aren't useful, but providing reasons why you think so, and possibly suggest better ways would help justify your claim.
The cost of $4,000 doesn't take into account R&D costs, which must be recuperated in the drug's price.
You can be mad at both things, or none. You don't have to pick or choose one over the other. I can be hungry and thirsty at the same time, or I can be tired and also have a mean sun-burn. The two issues are pretty unrelated.
Quotes are based on the specific model. You can upload a STL or OBJ to our site to see what the price is for our Direct Print service (low volume). For high volume orders, sometimes the price is slightly different since we quote more accurately and can sometimes make optimizations. Generally things can cost as little as $0.25 and pretty much go up from there.
Oh great, now they'll do a leap second calibration and end the world.
>The great rewards are balanced by great risks

Zuckerburgs wealth exceeds that of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of his countrymen. Do you honestly believe that the risk he incurred was greater than all of our nations oil rig workers, foresters, soldiers and police combined?

Am I missing something? If Facebook goes belly up do his shareholders get to cut off his hands?
any ideas how to run cables ? im currently using radio but it can be noisy with many units.
Some people don't have $4000 so it's not a matter of deciding whether parting with that much money is worthwhile.

And the status of a lot of people's health insurance is suddenly up in the air.
>When I studied it, the "&&" syntax and type deduction rules seem to be "irreducible complexity".

That may well be, given a particular set of constraints. But that is exactly the issue with C++ today. It's a conglomerate of powerful and diverse features, and so everything that gets added interacts in countless ways with everything that's already there. There's no orthogonality at all. Everything is both irreducibly and impossibly complex at the same time.

You're right that meta programming is inherently more complex than other issues. But it's not the only area where C++'s complexity is outgrowing our (or at least my) cognitive capacity if the goal is to write reasonably reliable code in a reasonably productive way.
> everything is not computer science. Even many engineering fields need the physical lab space to get the most impactful learning done. We are seeing many alternatives to universities arise, which are great, but I REALLY don't see how that translates into letting the world's best higher education system decay into disrepair.

Have lab space then, have the government pay for it and schedule times for people who want to use it. Should not be limited to a university's chosen student body; it should be open to anyone that wants to learn.

You get much more than that and it gets superfluous. US universities are superfluous to the point of wastefulness.

I still say defund them and let them figure it out or shut down. But yes, I understand why this sounds extreme, particularly if you don't share my views of college being a super shit deal for most people (and universities--peddling such shit deals and responding to criticism with moral indignation--are no better than timeshare salesmen).
The "Doomsday Clock" is delusional. I want you to think long and hard whether or not the world appears to be imminently ending on your drive home from work today.
An employer cannot tell you to not apply for other work.

Just respond saying something like: "Thank you for the heads up. I look forward to it."

Nobody looks out for you in this life except you! (within reason...). An employer has to look out for the company first.
> Not really?

Yes really.

> but then, the solution is to read code on an appropriately sized screen in the first place.

That's not a solution to anything.

> And incidentally, truncated code definitely is nonsensical.

Truncated code is visibly truncated, not nonsensical garbage right next to actual code.

> They can be handled as you mention

And the software knows what a list item is… how?

> it's hardly the worst thing in the world if they're not.

One more fantastic non-solution to listed problems, we're definitely going places.

> And if you really care about formatting this much, you should use a format that encodes it properly (e.g. Markdown) instead of producing the text equivalent of a PDF.

So you're saying git should embed a markdown renderer and text layout engine?
This is an impressive attempt to backup the original statements about SQL Server. It sounds like you may not be all that familiar with how the "Foreign Data Wrappers" work in Postgres and you are not familiar with the equivalent in SQL Server: Linked servers. Both implementations use OLEDB or ODBC drivers to provide transactional consistency to external applications.
The key here is "who is supported by the dominant political party". The tea party gained so much clout because they got organized to contest internal elections and primaries inside the GOP.

It's much more efficient to leverage the existing party infrastructure than to run as a solo independent or try to create a 3rd party.

Party elections (for instance, county committee elections) draw much less turnout and can be swayed much more easily by an organized group.
Introducing pig–human embryos and a rat–mouse
That provides absolutely no help. Markdown-formatted messages doesn't give you a plain-text renderer and text layout engine.
Absolutely worth it !!! Sometimes comments are better than original content..so many beautiful minds here
This looks great! I myself just bought a chinese 3d printer to prototype some parts. One thing I noticed was QA was difficult. If I did a run of 10k parts, how would you QA them?
Having more encrypted traffic definitely makes spying harder.

It's a lot easier to track, store, and attempt to crack one single terrorist's encrypted traffic in a sea of non-encrypted traffic, than try to pick out the terrorist's encrypted traffic in a sea of other encrypted traffic.

If terrorists are the only ones using encryption, then their traffic will stick out like a sore thumb. While if everyone uses encryption, their traffic will simply blend in.
Why would I go through the trouble of writing something down in the first place if I had to use an airgapped laptop?

I'd either just remember it or decide it's not worth remembering.
and one at ASU last year.
This project is just too awesome to let die, I hope it continues development for years to come.
Is there a site like except is tells me the exact day to go vote?
Tired of seeing this article when the word AI doesn't appear once in the article and its just an announcement for untold mysteries sometime in the future....
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Think of it as a warning.
Wondering if they just mean providing an api that RPis can use or if they are somehow going to get meaningful "AI" running on a RPi?
Brat defeated Eric Cantor who was House Majority Leader not Speaker. John Boehner was Speaker.
Ask HN: Any advice for applying to the Thiel Fellowship?
Hey folks, its early days yet, but I'm working on building a platform and api (www.sapien.io) that would bring together your health records, fitness data, lab report, and any other health related data and place it totally under your control. I think quantifying longitudinal health data would have an enormous value for our society. A good analysis of what I mean is at https://medium.com/@qbio/a-positive-feedback-loop-for-humanity-437762f6725c#.x15ojq5w1. I think making it developer facing would also be really awesome. As smartphone sensors get better and better, it isn't far fetched to imagine tests and apps being made for the phone that can detect common ailments like the cold. But we need a platform to support the developers and algorithms that would do that. Any thoughts or advice for me? I'm very young and really just trying to build something that would help folks. I'm also planning on applying to the Thiel Fellowship, I've recently graduated with my Bachelors in neuroscience but am far under the age limit to apply. Any advice on that front?
Comments is why I come.
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It's your freedom to say that, and my freedom to not agree with it.
youtube videos being blocked based on your location.
Ah good point, the commands are run in a bash 4 subshell actually but by default the globstar option is off.
I don't follow... {k:v, k2:v2} is not difficult to parse or generate. Based on the ubiquity of JSON parsers, it's been done dozens of times in every language under the sun.

I don't really see a paucity of tools for JSON or Python, unless there is something special you're looking for.

The larger issue of metaprogramming is important, but that would require code to be represented uniformly too, not just data. I'm looking into Julia and Elixir metaprogramming, which take advantage of a uniform Lisp-like representation, but also have rich syntax.

I would say it's 2017 and we should be able to have BOTH syntax and metaprogramming/tools. I have a lot of posts about about parsing on my site. If there's a problem with parsing something, I prefer to fix the parsing tools than to mangle the language's syntax to fit an ancient model.
Although they may evolve from parent to child, so what works for one generation may be less effective on following ones.
Perhaps the clock sits on a train of which the current velocity of our situation relative to the speed of light has increased when compared to the speed of the "good ol` days" train. Thus, 30 seconds perceived at our current speed while on this train would be perceived as a much longer time if viewed from the other train. Perhaps our situation will continue to gain velocity to a point which great increases in danger to human kind is perceived to be only a fraction of a second, until the point at which we reach the speed of light, our matter becomes energy and we have no need for clocks anymore.
My perspective may be skewed, I work for a lot of large companies. So take note of that.

But in my experience, companies don't care about you, don't owe you anything and would drop you like a bad habbit tomorrow if they didn't need what you provide.

It is always reasonable and expected to provide a company with two weeks notice before leaving.

Furthermore, I make it a point to work harder those last weeks. Put the headphones on more and blow through stuff. Add documentation, tests, work extra hours that you don't charge for.

Having said that, once those two weeks are up, your obligation is over. Do what is best for you, your career and your family and move on with no regrets.
I'd be a little careful here.

Boss said he would "value your commitment" for the summer span. By replying and saying anything in the affirmative, will the company consider this an informal agreement in lieu of the (upcoming) written contract?

tldr: if you reply yes, will they take it as a verbal contract?

I wouldn't say anything yes or no, perhaps something along the lines of "when a contract is ready to be presented to me in writing, I'd be happy to review it." And nothing else.
To research censorship in a country, as another example.
Rethinking the Library OS from the Top Down [pdf]
If becoming a doctor or lawyer is the peak what you want for some of the very best students in the country, then you're aiming way too low.

Some answers of people I actually know were:

- conduct bleeding edge genetics research

- develop bespoke computer-based learning tools for schools (ones that were backed by amazing data and met the schools' sometimes overly specific legal requirements)

- influence directly and indirectly policy and laws related to the Internet (e.g, as a consultant to lawmakers, a professional witness, etc.)

While I realize that these examples are perhaps not the norm, it is not uncommon to move the needle in some field in some way for a high school or college student. Most people that age simply don't think big enough.

Even if applicants don't demonstrate these characteristics in their application, it's usually enough to show that they have some potential and/or desire to do these sorts of things.
> This is very true but I'll actually admit even I'm not clear how more powerful languages would solve the specific problem you linked. Not saying they can't, just that I don't know how they can.

Well, it's not so much solving it as solving it practically. Even in Java it's obvious what the solution is: have a single method for performing database transactions that opens and closes the transaction so that it's impossible to get the transaction boundaries wrong (the problem the annotations were introduced to solve), and have operations that need to happen inside a transaction represented with a type that can only be used by calling that method (combined with some way of enforcing that you can't "smuggle" the database connection out of that type - or else by separating interface and implementation and ensuring that the module in which your database operations are defined simply doesn't even have access to the database libraries).

The reason people don't do this in Java is that you lose compositionality. The idea exists up to a point - it's sometimes called the "command pattern" - but if you have a bunch of functions that return commands then you need to be able to combine them to happen in a single command (so that you can run them all in the same transaction), and if you don't have that then you lose the ability to split up your code into small reusable functions. You can write functions for composing commandey functions, but you have to write them all yourself for your specific command which ends up being pretty much the same problem. To be able to have a library of functions for dealing with commands in a generic way you have to be working in a language with HKT. Ideally you also want syntax sugar for composition (in Scala, for/yield) so that you can compose command-ey functions more-or-less like regular functions.

> In my experience it's pretty common for developers to ask "Why can't Java be smarter and realize I never want a NPE and instead of throwing one just automatically make the result of the line it happens on null?"
> Obviously that's not the same as asking for non-nullable types but it is asking for the language to solve the NPE problem.

Up to a point, but I suspect they'd ask the same about exceptions. And I don't think they'll find Kotlin satisfactory in that regard either - IME this line of "magically fix it" thinking doesn't actually work, because the appropriate action takes some actual business-dependent logic to determine.
With WiFi hotspots dropping connections more often than not, how many people would know they need to CTRL-F5 to "fix" a broken page/image/JS/CSS?

I just hope the draft as-is expires and never makes it to an RFC.
Your proposal already exists. It's called Subresource Integrity: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...

For instance, here are the tags for Bootstrap:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-BVYiiSIFeK1dGmJRAkycuHAHRg32OmUcww7on3RYdg4Va+PmSTsz/K68vbdEjh4u" crossorigin="anonymous">
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-Tc5IQib027qvyjSMfHjOMaLkfuWVxZxUPnCJA7l2mCWNIpG9mGCD8wGNIcPD7Txa" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
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Why Women Quit Working: It’s Not for the Reasons Men Do
don't say anything, just apply elsewhere
We are able to get more consistent prints than a lot of people using their own printer, mostly because we've been able to build a lot of process around maintain and operation. So, for a given part, we'd make a sample for you to get approval, and then use that as spec. We regularly test printers to make sure they're operating normally.
I really like the comments section, and conversations overall are constructive.

There are however not so constructive conversations once in a while, but it's usually people that must have the last word, rather than irrational discussions.
Has Backblaze done any digging through their data for hard disk failure correlations among manufacturers? I know some manufacturers show higher rates than others but within same model have they seen spikes of failures at around the same age, # of reads/writes, etc?

Are there any other large public hard drive failure datasets that could contribute to refining the type of analysis in this article?
You probably want to include County and Tribal government positions also.
The difference is that in the case of immutable the browser does not send a 304 conditional.
I wish Facebook brings something similar to the Instagram.

I recently got hacked and lost my account and my first name username for good[0]. They don't even allow 2 factor auth on accounts with low followers there.

[0] https://medium.com/@batuhan/i-got-hacked-and-i-dont-think-in...
I don't want anything. I just happen to know an admissions officer at an elite university. The dire tone of your question "What else do you want from them???" really needs to be put into perspective. If you want to get upset about unfairness, look first at the admission of children of alumni and big money donors, look at promising students from disadvantaged situations losing out to students that went to "feeder-schools" where their parents paid 20K+/year since first grade for tuition.

College admissions is more complicated than a GPA and a few checkboxes at ultra-competitive schools.
Good for you. You are in the minority. I'll ask you how you feel again after Trump discontinues the program. You remember that was one of his big campaign promises, right?
Except that almost every time, I am composing and viewing the log messages from a terminal. The logical thing for a web page to do is to display logs as “preformatted” text (because they are, same as code).

It would be interesting to have a way to indicate a formatting style when composing a log message though; for instance, a way to indicate that a log contains Markdown code.
I will read the comments to see if people recommend it or tear it apart. If it passes muster, I click the link.
I'm a Django guy myself but I'm always curious what people are using.
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I focus on the top say 50% OF high level comments. I find that the more nested a chain gets in general it becomes more off topic and more like an argument of people trying to one-up each other.

I scan the top 25% of the initial high level comments and if I don't see anything interesting I move on. I know that sometimes newer comments show up at the very top so I push through those to make sure I get to the higher upvoted ones.
Youtube might be hard to autoplay.. openwhyd is having issues sometimes trying to play songs in the background (i mean by that in a not focused/ not in the foreground thumbnail in chrome)
I find this incredible because politicians should not be a profession.
I'm afraid that even protests won't carry much weight against the tone-deaf bunch of corporate-funded cadre of bigoted politicians this electoral cycle has ushered into power on a narrow but fanatic power base. The first occasion for actually affecting matters will not arise before the next Congressional electoral cycle. The whole world is stuck with these people doing whatever meets their fancy for the next two years at least... and even then changing course will depend on the dejected silent majority somehow snapping out of their apathy and voting to say that enough is enough — that same silent majority whose apathy led to the fanatics getting their way a few months ago.

Needless to say, I'm not optimistic.
Facebook rolls out safer logins with a security key
Have you tried to nvALT? Its an update to Notational Velocity.
There is. Click the time above the comment, then click 'favorite' :-)
Could Amazon know how often you buy them OR could it be whatever the psychological phenomenon is when you buy a new car suddenly you see that model everywhere. It's "on the mind".
Ah I thought this would be more about how it works. Oh well, pretty informative nonetheless.
"Google has asked makers to complete a survey about what smart tools would be "most helpful".

And it suggests tools to aid face and emotion recognition, speech-to-text translation, natural language processing and sentiment analysis.

Google has previously developed a range of tools for machine learning, internet of things devices, wearables, robotics and home automation."

That's the meat of it. Google put out a survey - speculation ensues.
Why would a browser cache an incomplete response? Content-Length exists, and failing that, there are chunked transfers.
That does not seem to be the case: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/16347/is-islam-b...
It's not so much money.

Let assume $10 monthly, during 50 year, and a 5% annual interest rate. For simplicity let's use the compound interest over all the 50 years. The total is:

$120/year * 50years * (1.05)^50 ~= $70000

[That is assuming you live in a stable country without hyperinflation, bank bankruptcy and fraud. Hello from Argentina.]
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