skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, and importantly, my hopes go out to everyone that they are able to evacuate safely, and that nothing bad happens.

I wonder, how do you test for something like this? I mean, you can certainly plan, and I imagine that the emergency spillway was examined at the time it was planned, but no plan survives contact with the enemy, and the best thing to do is to test.

But, to test the emergency spillway you need to fill the dam to the point where it's overflowing, and I believe it's been a few years since we've gotten close to that. Certainly not any time in the last year.

Besides, if it was tested in the past, it may be that the drought conditions--followed by all the rain--changed the soil in such a way as to enable this.

I need to make a note to read the report when it comes out; I'm sure it'll be interesting.
The car is slower, and an order of magnitude less efficient. And efficiency matters -- there's a limit to how much energy can be sustainably spent, and if transportation is more efficient, we get to do more other things.
I thinking having the default be destructive for mapping is a strange design decision. That is going to bite someone one day soon.
Which is problematic, as now the penalty for forgetting a passphrase can become life in prison.
No, the emergency spillway is part of the dam. Failure of the spillway could lead to failure of the entire dam. It's not likely, but it's possible. Once large quantities of water start going where they weren't designed to go, all bets are off.
And what do you do if there's a suicide (unfortunately) on the HSR? The Caltrain that runs down the Peninsula from SF to SJ has a pretty high suicide rate; high enough, that there are people posted to look for potential suiciders.
It is like splitting drive to two (interleved sectors for example) and encrypt odd sectors with key1 and evens with key2. And software can try key in first 2 sectors to figure out odds or evens to use.

If software gives you an option to use 2 keys or 1 key in the beginning ( so half data will be garbage ) you can always deny you have 2 keys
California is one of the best places in the world for many crops. Having little rain during the harvest season is a huge boon
>sticking to core Django ORM calls

I think that's what made it easy. That's the trade off when you try to build a generic DB access to support the trivial DBMS swap like the article take about -- you end up writing a lowest common denominator of functionality common to all your anticipated DBMSs. I assume Django's ORM let's one do DBMS specific stuff but you happened to not make use of that.

I agree with the article, 9/10, don't try writing wrappers just to support the "easy future swap out". Write them if they make the specific technology more palatable to work with. An example I'm my life: Rails' ActiveRecord is just a joy to work with but we would be hurting plenty if we tried to swap out to a different DBMS.
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> advertise ... charge admission

Why not just impose a fine for noisy crowds? Problem solved no matter what the cause.

The commercial aspect of it is a red herring, as you'd be equally bothered by someone hosting frequent gatherings for their non-profit group.
Normally I'm as skeptical of autonomous vehicle timeframes as anyone. But this is a case where even just the highway portion would be a huge win. And one of the cities (as well as pretty much all the intermediate locations) aren't very public transit or pedestrian friendly.

If I'm leaving SF and will be in LA in 5-6 hours (door-to-door) with a minimum of driving [ADDED: with my own vehicle], how attractive is that train?

I do get the efficiency of train travel but if you're already skeptical that the numbers work...
Wordpress is also about the content on the web site "wordpress.com".
Trains as mass transit beat cars on efficiency driver or not. Autonomous cars are best used locally or to deal with last mile problems
I'm not sure how you're making the distinction between customer and workers. I'm talking about graduate students here, particularly research-producing Ph.D. students.

I think we both agree that academia and businesses compete, but by humane I mean that the people producing the work are invested in by the faculty and universities. That the graduate student's life-long success is the university's success, and that the output is the scholar as much as the work they produced.

My point is simply that a corporation doesn't care for a person besides the work they do for them, which is a different culture from academia.
> accept that obesity is due to overeating?

That's a tautology, the question is why. What causes overeating and why do some people have great difficulty with it?

It's clearly not as simple as thinking to yourself, "I'd like to eat just enough today such that I don't overeat." Why are some bodies able to regulate caloric intake and others aren't?
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Not if you look at the money tied up in the cargo, vs the fares refunded.
Okay. The time to express those sentiments was back when PEP 512 [0] was being discussed.

[0] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0512/
>> I read an interesting blog post, so I clicked the author's name to go to his "profile page". I expected to see a list of his posts

Blogger does this exceptionally well, or at least used to in its earlier default templates.

It allows monthly archives to be browsed like a tree, this does not require the page to reload and there is no waiting involved. In WordPress blogs if I click on an archive month, it will load a new page with excerpts of the posts. Without giving me a list of post titles I cannot easily decide what to read. As opposed to Medium, in many WordPress blogs, I can at least use URLs (e.g.: /2012/) to see all the posts from particular year or month, but they are paginated excerpts needing multiple clicks if there are more than a couple of posts.

Blogger had this for a long time and I don't see other templates (static sites[1], WordPress) incorporating this useful feature; this is the only feature that I, as a reader, miss in other blog platforms. Medium is the worst for this type of scan-ability. It focus overtly on prettiness[2] and leaves many usability aspects unaddressed. Presentation ugliness I can deal with Readability, Clearly[3] and similar extensions; usable archive browsing needs to be done well at the server side.

Example: I am on this page (https://darcyhsu.blogspot.com/2015/09/outlining-with-excel.h...) and I can see all his posts without leaving the current page which I arrived from Google. Screenshot: http://imgur.com/9OjiVA5

[1]: Some have list pages which is great. It only requires one extra click

[2]: Not to mention the humongous page sizes

[3]: Evernote killed Clearly
If this comment is satire it is very good.
I don't really like this, because it's a self limiting quote that leads to complacency over real understanding. Especially in the case of imaginary numbers and e where intuitive understanding only doesn't exist because mathematics has a history of being poorly taught.
"why not put someone like a Colin Powell on a retainer"

Colin Powell on retainer will make Medium money how?
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Sounds great Benito.
That's actually a much better example. Seriously, can they? It seems ridiculous, but then compelling you to decrypt anything is obviously ridiculous as well. Maybe you are reading and writing this data as is, who is to say?

I guess, the real reason why this question stands is that nobody gives a fuck about logic and solid law, someone (obviously) just wants it to be a crime and it is easy to sway public opinion in a way that allows for it to account as one. Which, again, reminds us that the current state of the law is that it is rotten by default.
I'm not changing my browsing habits because Medium's engineers suck at sending text.
The sad thing is that the FDA first had to be convinced to allow trans fats to be listed. Later it required them to be labeled.
>I am super concerned about the stops in irrlevant cities though.

And people can't understand why large swaths of the population think well-off techies are out-of-touch.
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Apologize in advance for not listing sources (busy) but my comment can perhaps still be a source of some information for you. The last I'd read up on it, one aspect of Olive (and perhaps, others) oil has to do with additional compounds which act as more specific anti-inflammatory substances. Again, sorry for no source, but my brain says that the recommended daily intake of Olive oil (per "official" mediterranean diet) is similar to ~1/10th a dose of aspirin. There is some speculation that the additional benefits of Olive oil consumption may be related not to just to the fat type but also to the additional anti-inflammatory compounds.

Whether this type of benefit could be replicated (/ is safe) by taking low dose aspirin directly is probably a subject of some investigation. I hope this is helpful despite a my non-cited fuzzy memory.
Depends on the crop.
Airlines are pretty incredible logistically. The ability to get together all the right tools, a custom tent, a new engine, and engineers onto a heavy lifting plane (of which there are very few in the world) in a reasonable time frame to a remote destination is impressive.
So with advanced gene therapy all we would have to do is find outliers in longevity, create a "vaccine" for everyone that copies the relevant genes onto the recipient that allow for longevity, and expand life into the hundreds.

Every few years, create a better "vaccine" based off new outliers living than previous templated outliers.

Rinse, repeat until we're thousands of years old.

Is this the right logic?
Really that applies if you are a "White EU Citizen". People of other ethnic origin are quite routinely stopped and questioned in the Schengen Zone at transportation points.
Fair enough. I think anything beyond this point dives pretty fast into a philosophical debate on "knowability", which I don't think either of us are actually interested in. Cheers.
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Sooo how about that infrastructure bill the president wants?
AFAIK, the point is that you can make money just by scraping and cloning using a routine LAMP setup.

I found that interesting just by virtue of the idea that people would pay just to get more useless "content" for their groups.

I suppose it's just automating a curated list.
Temperate vegetable oils are really, really bad for you. Example bad temperate oil: Canola oil. Temperate plant oil is designed to provide nutrients to the germinating seed at lower temperatures. After it gets warm enough and the seed germinates the oil is no longer needed. So it oxidizes. Oxidation is a serious problem for the mammalian body plan.

Eat only unprocessed tropical oils, extra virgin olive oil or raw unprocessed avocado oil.
Says who? Neither of us saw it, so we can't know.

There's a procedure though that we use to determine the likelihood of someone's guilt, based on evidence and legal arguments. Would you like to hear about it?
By volume (though certainly not by quality), I assume the Central Valley is the largest producer. Warmer temperatures mean more production but often low quality stuff.
Possibly this article, or one based on it?

After ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/health/biggest-loser-weig...

Quote:

It has to do with resting metabolism, which determines how many calories a person burns when at rest. When the show began, the contestants, though hugely overweight, had normal metabolisms for their size, meaning they were burning a normal number of calories for people of their weight. When it ended, their metabolisms had slowed radically and their bodies were not burning enough calories to maintain their thinner sizes.
This is how you submit a patch to Gerrit: 1. Clone the repository locally 2. Make the fix 3. Run 'git push origin HEAD:refs/for/master'. Done (without needing to setup SMTP.)
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Ahhh, "extension" meaning not in the POSIX basic definition. Sure. Though I don't know many tools that implement REs in that basic form. They almost all include features outside that definition.
Please point out where I am spouting false propaganda....
You previously conflated xthin and compact blocks as if they were the same thing. Xthin is not being used by the network.
And there are developers who have reasons to believe that increasing the block size will have a centralizing effect on mining. This is not "fixed" as you stated before.
Wow. As for the legality of all this, it's really beyond my ken.

Firstly, there's the question of jurisdiction. If a resident of the stste of New York uses a server outside of NY belonging to a company outside of NY to rent out an apartment in NYC, does the state of NY have jurisdiction? What about NYC?

Years ago Amazon took the stance that sales were interstate commerce and they shouldn't be forced to collect sales tax on interstate transactions. They ended up caving to New York's so-called "Amazon tax" [1].

Airbnb seems to be taking the view that it's not their problem if individuals violate NY/NYC law. Personally I think that's purely a self-serving stance a bit like how Craigslist turned a blind eye to prostitution.

I believe that illegal hotels in a few cities are Airbnb's core business and the efforts of cities to enforce laws prohibiting such are an existential threat. I believe Airbnb knows this.

I also believe that Airbnb will ultimately lose this one.

What this PDF represents is at best misleading and data manipulation and at worse misrepresentation. If at some point Airbnb has or will respond under oath or to a subpoena with this information well that could be a crime.

Whatever the case I think this is going to take years to play out.

[1] http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/new-york-internet-sal...
It should probably be clarified that the people I know who despise Gerrit actually prefer email workflows. They're all kernel programmers.
> Unfortunately, this is hard because I don't believe Git stores this info in their index of files,

I don't know if they keep a work tree on the server side, but if they did, then it would be trivial to store the file size as determined from the file on disk and display it on the front-end regardless of the type of view. Alternatively, they could determine the size from the blob associated with the file in the object store.
Read and use the links at the bottom of every page. There's a lot of useful stuff there.

Check out the posts and comments by HN's top users (who can be found on the "Lists" link at the bottom of every HN page).

Try to be nice or at least civil to other HN users.
Are you really comparing the downsides of converting residential units into hotels to forcing people into homelessness?
Mostly agreed, though I would hedge this to include the fact that it is a non trivial effort to move from basic science to applied science, and from there to professional best practices.

Even if we crack the aging problem within 15-20 years, I do not think that the bulk of doctors that are going to learn the procedures that come out of it in Med school have been born yet. The doctors that would be in a position to invent such procedures might have been born already, but they will reach middle age themselves before they get a chance to develop their breakthroughs.

That being the case, please forgive me if I do not hold my breath.
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16 threads for about 500 bucks. Quad cores for 150. And if the leaks are to be trusted it will trade blows with intel in performance.
Indeed! I'm sure there's a lot of great judicial literature on the topic if you're interested in diving further. My armchair is pretty comfy though, and I think I'm likely to doze off before getting too deep into it. :)
http://techreport.com/news/31427/rumor-full-ryzen-spec-and-p...

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It does leave a bad taste in my mouth that github is required, and they could easily do something about it. If they were open about it i probably wouldnt care, but this seems deceptive.
Its really obnoxious how many people hate doing things the easy, simple way, apparently just to feel superior.
The emergency spillway is around 30 feet high, the dam itself is 770 feet high. The amount of water released from a failure of the emergency spillway will be enormous, but still much smaller than the amount of water released by a complete dam failure.
Fwiw, I used the Nvidia drivers.

But the fact that users are presented with a choice and have the opportunity to screw things up sort of shows the misalignment between Linux and the general public.

The general public wants and needs a computer they can't screw up, not something endlessly configurable.

For most people, if things don't work out of the box, they might as well not work at all. Many people don't even know drivers exist because they've never had to manually install them.
Lol, "Infinite carousel of content."

It took millions of years of evolution to get to this point... An infinite carousel of cute cats with captions.

I love it!
That looks like a great (that is, horrifying) example of the problem where the extra complexity introduced by the abstractions is actually greater than any complexity they successfully hide.

It’s frightening how often this happens at all scales, from little utility functions with names that are several times as long as their implementations right up to the kind of enterprise architecture that nightmares are made of.
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To be honest, I'd be surprised if most of the crowd in HN knows who Kirk Douglas is. Maybe the smarter ones will figure out he's Gordon Gecko's dad.
It is really disappointing that it doesn't at least go near the coast. I doubt they'd be able to eminent domain coastal lands now that california homeowners are so politically powerful now, but they at least could have tried to build it along the 101 so it was driving/bus distance to the coast.

If you want to take a beautiful coastal train ride, nothing beats the Amtrak from LA to San Diego.
A casual contributor is more likely to already have a GitHub account than to have git-send-email configured correctly.
It seems like the state is holding the accused captive for failure to produce unencrypted hard drives. But how can the state prove that the accused has the ability to fulfill this request?
It seems obvious that you believe the value to be in the "every day" aspect. I think this might be faulty logic.

I might be wrong. But it's in the title "oopsdaily" and then on the home page it says "Every. Day." in bold print.

Are you sure people find the daily aspect valuable? I say this only because It's a ton of work to maintain something like this daily. You may provide higher value, take more time and invest it in higher quality articles every week or month.

Also, judging by the graphs, you're getting high usage at particular times, once a week. You may find the revenue increases as people will spend more time digesting the material.
The analog xor is also the basis for CDMA. Fascinating stuff if you dig into it.
>>It's not called Celiac disease, it's called Coeliac disease. And 'Celiac disease' redirects to 'Coeliac disease'.

As others say, that idea turns out to be testable. Use this URL for the best test:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=coeliac+disease

The disease is uniformly called celiac disease in page after page after page of results. What does Wikipedia gain by building a castle in the clouds (or distant UK past usage) and moving in?

Yes, it's a U.S. service but covers journals from all over the world.
If you send a patch as an attachment to a Linux kernel list, or most of the mailing-list-based projects I contribute to, it will almost certainly be insta-NACKed: maintainers are basically too busy to deal with anything that doesn't exactly match what git-send-email generates.

From a maintainer POV this is honestly perfectly fair - we have tooling like Patchwork that depends on patches being submitted inline. From a first-time contributor POV, this just puts the barrier to entry up even higher. :(
2-4 years is extremely optimistic, but I think this is an issue that (finally) has drawn more attention than usual, so there is a chance there will be some work towards its resolution.
I always thought they should have gone LA - Las Vegas - Reno, but that takes a more regional approach.
As I say elsewhere here, I've killed projects assuming that. Pulling out bricks from the bottom and replacing them is sometimes so hard, you really have a dead project.
This part was fascinating:

> [The innovation report was leaked to BuzzFeed] The BuzzFeed leak was devastating for Sulzberger—“a moment of panic,” he says. “We had written a pretty frank and candid document expressly for a small group of leaders... it felt like our dirty laundry was being aired.” ...he realized within a few days that the public scrutiny had turned an administrative white paper into a media rally­ing cry.

They never would have gotten the change they need without the leak! It's like WH staffers leaking to Fox to get the president's attention.

When I read the NYT online I feel like they still can't decide whether to stick with the legacy structure (most articles can't be commented on, still the newspapery structure) or go 100% the other way (the big, technically-complex, unreadable "snow" piece). The Economist has the same problem.
Man, I really have to re-read the Great Gatsby.

It's ridiculous it's assigned as high school level reading. Yes the prose is appropriate for high school understanding, and the base themes are comprehensible enough, but man, the entire subject matter of this book largely revolves around scenarios, concepts, and behaviors one usually doesn't become aware of, or have any direct experience of, until adulthood.

Worse still, forcing students to read the book in high-school/ end of junior high probably just turns them off from it, or leads them to falsely feel like its not worth as much as it actually is because so much of it is attuned to adult experiences teenagers can't quite sync up with yet, even if they were born into a rich family or use the fullest powers of their imagination.

There's a tremendous gulf between the social landscapes of adults and those of children. (Though you could perhaps argue part of the point is to maybe show this isn't the case--nonetheless, I think certain things defy comprehension until we've experienced them ourselves, or until we've at least encountered sufficient analogues or had enough time to synthesize a variety of other proxy experiences into an equivalent)
It's an animal product with the obvious ethics problems and cow methane boosting the co2 footprint.
Highly desirable places also have many second-homes as well. In Hawaii, some neighborhoods are only 20% occupied because most of the owners actually live somewhere else.

I am sure second-homes also drive up prices (In Vancouver they even have a special tax for empty houses).
Anyone should be free to use whatever service is most convenient to them for communication.
Honestly, I think overuse has become it's own problem.

Design patterns are not a suggestion, you shouldn't strive to use them. Devs shouldn't start a project and think 'what design patterns will I use here'. They exist so that you can identify what you are already doing and avoid past mistakes that others have already made (hell, the GoF book states this in the intro). Nobody should go into a project thinking 'I will use the singleton pattern for this', but if halfway in you realize that your system fits that pattern, it's there for you.
It certainly could, but they are literally separate structures, as repeated stated by the actual engineers who maintain the dam.
This is presumably a reference to the famous Mussolini claim about having made the trains run on time[0].

[0] http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.asp