skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Must every thread about VSCode and Atom start the same way? It's a trade off: performance for a cross platform JavaScript app development. If that is a tradeoff you don't have to make, don't do it. Atom and VSCode have made that tradeoff. I don't know what rehashing this can possibly accomplish.
Beyond the intent, the plain meaning of the text is clear. If the power is not explicitly enumerated as belonging to the federal government, it is reserved to the states. At most, this would allow the federal government to implement a policy based on a non-enumerated power, which state legislatures could then override. Only powers explicitly enumerated would be binding across the Union.

Telecommunication has really changed the way the world works with respect to all of this, and made us care much more about the federal government than the state governments that are, on paper, supposed to be much more powerful.
It's going to become much more difficult to support yourself via creating content if step 1 becomes "be famous".

It's already becoming like this for certain forms of media. Videogames, in particular. It's amazing how many things become easier, once you've already gotten notable. Come to think of it, it's been true to some degree, even in the days when media only existed in the form of spoken word and songs.
Nick Szabo: Some Private Blockchains Qualify as Bona Fide Blockchains
My wife just ran her first Boston Marathon this year. It was an honor for her to run with Kathrine Switzer. Something my 36 year old wife knows to be common, was not the case just a short time ago. While I'm sad it's taken us so long to get here. I'm excited that we've proven that we can grow.
Looking deeper into the docs, their scene graph/hierarchy design practically screams "I was designed by someone with zero experience designing 3D scene graphs" (I'm approaching this conversation as someone who has done that sort of thing for Disney, for Microsoft's 343 Halo studio, for startups and major effects houses, and as part of the original design process for the Collada open source format used by google earth and others.

Let's start with the <scene> tag, whose docs start out by saying the scene tag represents the camera location. You're not even at V1 and your docs already start out by saying "we picked a name for this but everyone else in the world thinks of it as having a different name." Worse, "scene" is an incredibly important keyword to be able to use in your 3D scene schema, and you've now tied it up representing something that isn't a scene in a way that prevents you from using the keyword to represent obvious future schema concepts (like multiple scenes you want to be able to switch between quickly).

On a more subtle or mathematical front, the handling of transform stacks is designed in a way that provides a small amount of needless advanced functionality for sophisticated/experienced 3d developers (who are not the target of this tech) while offering huge opportunities for needless confusion and errors in the hands of the novice 3D developers who are the target market for the tech. I'm looking specifically at the way in which individual transformation matrices are represented by an order-dependent javascript array of translate, rotate, and scale component "matrices" (putting matrices in quotes because they don't look like individual 4x4 matrices in the code but they act, combine, and commute (or don't commute) like 4x4 matrices). It's hard enough to help a novice programmer/3D developer to wrap their head around local and world space coordinate systems and the impact of non-uniform scaling on child objects. Expecting that novice tech customer to also need to learn about commutative rules for 4x4 matrix multiplication before they can understand why their slightly tweaked sample app is or isn't working is a terrible, needless complexity wrench to throw into the system.

I could go on for pages and pages here, but this isn't the format for that (and the tiny text box on iOS isn't helping), so I'll just say that I absolutely LOVE React and very much wanted to like this, but this looks like it was developed by people who don't even understand what's hard about designing a good 3D schema, much less how to address those challenges.
A Tour of V8: Garbage Collection
Actually, v*gns -- most of whom will become violently ill if someone sneaks a little ground beef into their food -- have a good understanding of "what people who actually have dietary needs go through".
If it's for personal use, investigate the cards listed at
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/travel/travel-credit-cards#... -- I have the Halifax Clarity card, which I use for similar services.

I don't know if any of those banks also offer a similar deal for business accounts.
Is this the cheapest place for storing another copy of your photos? I have 150GB worth atm with 3 copies and I don't mind another copy if it's cheap enough.
Very anecdotal, but I find it interesting that all cases resulted in a conviction. I'd wager that a drinking jury tends to exhibit a reduced amount of empathy, resulting in more guilty convictions than you'd otherwise find.
The PGA champions tour is restricted to ages 50+
They effectively KabyLake'd it. They released a slightly better (5% quoted from Anandtech article) for the sake of a seasonal/yearly release cycle. Vega is supposed to be the big fish.

The only upside from this from my point of view (a recent RX 470 owner on Arch) is that Linux drivers are likely very close to "just working". Currently somethings have just made their way in to the kernel (Audio bitstreaming, 4.11 I think, and I think I saw it first hand I was running the 4.11 release candidate a few days ago) and soon FreeSync (FWIW) and HDCP are coming soon.

Upside: No proprietary kernel blobs. I applaud AMD on this front and it completely motivated my purchasing decision of my RX 470 (vs nVidia 1060).
I too am confuzzled by this. I'm at a Docker shop where we currently run on DC/OS and Marathon. I think the most confusing thing about Docker right now are all the different scheduling and networking frameworks (DC/OS which adds a web ui to mesos and marathon, Kubernetes, Nomad, CoreOS/Fleet, etc).

None of these systems scale up from a single 1 node system to a full distributed cluster. Here was my attempt of trying to get DC/OS to run in a minimal cluster on Digital Ocean:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/installing-mesosphere-dcos-on-...

We use DC/OS at work and the web UI frequently transfers over 1MB of json a second and the failed containers tab can max out CPU at 100% O_o

Marathon, Kubernetes, Nomad and Swarm all have their own orchestration json files in totally different formats. It gets more confusing with you take about pluggable network layers (WeaveNet, Flannel).

I'd _like_ to think Docker is trying to bring some standardisation to clusters, networking and scheduling ... but I'm not sure if that's the case.
For a practical moral philosophy, one in which the "enterprise of morality as a chain of material implication following from axioms" is foundational and embraced, try learning about Objectivism. As a student of Objectivism, I find it to be a powerful tool in everyday decision making.

For a quick 1-hour introduction, see this Dave Rubin interview with Yaron Brook:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=089xOB9bbhU

For fiction illustrating the principles, you could read The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged.

https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged-Ayn-Rand/dp/0451191145...

https://www.amazon.com/Fountainhead-Ayn-Rand/dp/0451191153/

Or for non-fiction, try The Virtue of Selfishness.

https://www.amazon.com/Virtue-Selfishness-Fiftieth-Anniversa...

Or if you prefer podcasts addressing practical questions, try The Peikoff Podcasts:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/peikoff-com-q-a-on-ayn-r...

Or search for specific questions here

http://www.peikoff.com/podcasts/
Oh man, I wish I could use snapshots in the browser. In some extreme cases, I'm dealing with multi-minute startup times.
The parent seems to be suggesting that a vegan diet didn't work for them for health reasons. But countered objections to this by saying that it's difficult. (Which it is. Stupidly difficult to eat meat, gluten and soy free in my experience) But convenience is a different argument from health. Which is it? If the issue is convenience, I concede. If it's health there may be room to explore other options.

Though I admit there is nothing inherently healthy about eating vegan (oreos are vegan and I've gained weight while still being vegan while learning how to bake) I'd argue that choosing a diet on the availability of fast food choices is an indicator of an unhealthy decision.
But to get money from ads you have to be famous too.
Sorry, I'm confused. It was widely reported.

Are you saying the news stories about the nature of Amit's departure were all pure conjecture? They did appear to use unnamed internal sources, but it would be odd to go out that far on a defamation limb if you didn't have credible sources.

Edit: Or ignoring all that, the short tenure implies unplanned all on its own.
I was suuuper excited about this. But this site is cringeworthy, even for a beta, given they spent $10 million on this effort.

For one, the division into the constitutional categories is kind of awkward; most people would just like to see by function or department. When the drafters of the constitution wrote these clauses into the constitution, they had no sense that one day the government would be so large or do so many things. It is anachronistic to impose these clauses on a modern state. If everything the government does is somehow serving some role in the US constitution, isn't it kind of funny that virtually all democratic countries provide more or less the same services? The only major difference between the US, with its special constitution, and other democracies' spending is that the US government only directly provides health insurance to about half the population, and the US government spends more on defense and security. I don't think that difference is because of the constitution, but rather historical/cultural factors and randomness. So the application of the constitution simply reflects some kind of delusion on Ballmer's part.

Second, the data is sloppily put together. There is a line for "Social insurance administration" which includes federal and local employees but has no combined federal and local total. Then there is another line for "Social Insurance Administration (federal)" which has no federal/local breakdown but has a total. So are there no local social insurance workers? Why not just put everything in one line?

Third, this is almost entirely data you could get from the federal reserve's FRED system. In some cases you might need to go to the OECD site or the BLS site. But I'm left wondering: how did they spend years on this? This is more like an extended hackathon project. The data vis really sucks, too.
Only 100 days left until Java 9 is released
> To be clear, you think it's "easy" to live on a diet without any animal products, and also without soy or gluten, and that I'm "weak" for not doing so, despite other health issues I had on the diet?

Yes I do. I'm a vegan and have been for 3 years. In Denmark at least, it's easy to avoid gluten when you buy bread. If it isn't in your country, bake your own. Soy? Also easy. There are thousands of other plants.

> Please tell me what restaurants I could visit with those dietary restrictions?

Any vegan(-friendly) restaurant.

> And what quick lunches / fast food I can buy on that diet, on say a 30 minute lunch break, for instance...?

I eat pizzas, burgers, sandwiches, salats, pasta salats, cold pasta dishes, rice and curry (heated up) and so on for lunch. Anything really. If you can't buy it as take-away, cook your own.
Is this really true? I was a vegetarian for 10 years. It was easy. Meat was verboten. Full stop. I never had to negotiate it with myself. But, now, at any individual meal I can convince myself that it's no big deal to eat a little meat. Crucially, I can convince myself of that for several days in a row.

If the end goal is less meat, then, for me, the results were clear: black and white thinking was far more effective.
Two hopefully interesting factoids:

1) The words "vegetarian" and "zoophile" used to be synonymous (because literally "animal lover"); but 2) the modern group of that name (animal fanciers) are vegetarian or vegan with exactly the same frequency as the general population, to within the margin of error of the survey.

I'm a vegetarian. You might be surprised how often this comes up when people try to convince me to eat meat. Completely fails to convince anyone, of course.
> Overall, on a stock installation, we made loading Atom almost 50% faster and snapshots were a crucial tool that enabled some otherwise impossible optimizations.

Note that this hasn't shipped on stable yet, but is available on 1.17 beta.

The article mostly lists the various problems and associated optimizations. Concise & nice read.
This really ought to be at least compared to the rate people stick to other diets. Diets are super difficult to stick to, they are a lifestyle change that is more difficult to make than most people who start them are actually prepared for. I say this after having not stuck to "several" diets.

After reading the article, the title feels really click-baity. The actual national trend discussed in the article is in the direction of more meat-eaters trying out a vegetarian diet. To summarize this as veg diets failing is to mischaracterize the trend.
Massimo this is great. LoRa client support and maybe also an Arduino LoRa Gateway it will be amazing for rolling out nodes in agriculture. These areas are often not served by existing networks so a DIY-solution will always have its spot.
Check out the about page on the site. I don't validate claims. If something is conspicuously suspicious then I'll push back on it, otherwise I don't.

You should treat these pieces as interviews rather than investigative journalism. Take the numbers with a grain of salt, and do additional sleuthing on your own if you want to make serious financial decisions based on an interviewee's claims.
I've wrestled with it, and settled into prioritizing humanely-raised meat. I have far more qualms about the inhumane treatment of most farm animals than I do about the concept of raising and slaughtering animals for food.

The heuristic I apply is I only eat antibiotic free meat. It has nothing to do with animals taking antibiotics per se, but rather that large farms abuse them as it's cheaper to pump a pig full of antibiotics than it is to provide remotely sanitary living conditions, nevermind the environmental issues around creating antibiotic resistant superbugs.
Or maybe the exploits were leaked once the exploits lost a lot of their value due to MS fixing the bug(s).
Last batch had around 7,000 applications-I found the number on Quora so 10,000 actually makes sense.
Commercial Imagery: https://www.ijircce.com/upload/2016/may/47_Estimation.pdf

For the full NIIRS rating:
https://fas.org/irp/imint/niirs.htm
The Scotsman fallacy would apply if we considered a guy who tried to emigrate to Scotland but then couldn't get citizenship and then went home to be a Scotsman.
Many would argue the exact opposite, that OO is contraining and FP is much more free, allowing you to change your design model without having to redesign the entire model.
> I think people will do this anyway...are we not human?

Yes, but that's not relevant. The point is that there's nothing to be gained by encouraging that behavior.
Backblaze B2 is a storage service, Arq is a storage client. They're different but complementary tools so you can't really compare them.

At some point Arq could even support B2, though the most recent record I could find of this suggests that it's not planned right noW: https://twitter.com/arqbackup/status/662037695879880704?lang...
... the day after I signed up
Maybe just don't even try to capitalize on those. If you cannot sustain your work via better means then maybe it is just not worth it.
> I've seen far too many "vegetarians" and "vegans" wolfing down greasy pepperoni pizza, blacked out at 3AM in my college days.

Why is this still a trope? Being vegetarian or vegan does not require perfection. Think about how absurd this standard is. If you've ever done something unkind you are no longer a kind person. If you've ever written poor code, you are no longer a good programmer.

This kind of thinking is a huge deterrent to people being vegan or vegetarian. If they ever have a lapse in judgement or decision making they just give up completely because of this line of thinking.
What kind of application are you building?
I lived in my Toyota 4Runner for about 6 months. It was definitely not glamorous - my coworkers thought I was crazy. I parked outside of work. At night I would pee in a bottle. Sometimes the bottle would spill. I had to drive everywhere - to the library for WiFi, to the gym for showers, to the basketball court for exercise.

I think it takes a certain personality to be able to do this (without the benefit of being beautiful and Instagram sensations). Me, I've always wanted to try. I was saving an additional 400 a month - for a total of 10k per month in savings. So the reason was definitely not financial. After a while it got old, especially heat waves where I woke up in a sweat and had to turn on the AC for ten minutes to air out the car.

The faint smell of piss and 90 percent humidity. Bet there's no hash tag for that.

Oh yeah, I hate driving and think travel is overrated.
Seems like a good deal.
Google photos and prime also allow unlimited photo storage ( high quality but not full quality).
Hey, have you used Powertop's --auto-tune flag? Is there any way you know of to selectively enable flags. I don't like that my disks spin up and park too frequently because I have some spinning disks too.
Just saw that version 9 have automatic online check, its default is disabled, but when you check for updates the first time (in the help menu) it will offer to do it automatically.
I think it is obligatory here to mention that judges tend to hand out more lenient sentences right after lunch[1].

The justice system is quite sensitive to things like this, and frankly I'm surprised that jurors are ever allowed to drink.

[1]: http://www.economist.com/node/18557594
A few years ago I did an evaluation of google seo to assist with a project. I distinctly remember my conclusion being that due to the proprietary and closed source nature of the algorithms google is using, I predicted they would be tempted to artificially manipulate them to produce profit through siphoning the ad revenue, and that I suspected it was already happening to the blackhat seo technique sites. They weren't taking measures to stop blackhat seo, they were taking measures to profit off them.

All conjecture on my part, but perhaps it's relevant to this story? If the algorithms are the dark secret sauce of your power that no-one talks about, why not abuse them for profit? Publicly you have plausible deniability, because no one can see inside your box but you. If there is enough of a PR issue you can artifically adjust to match the needed PR stance, but still keep the rest of the manipulation system in place.

Especially given googles close ties to the gov, and certain political groups, I question if we really want such a power to exist over the future of the internet.
Released OrientDB 3.0 Milestones
makes you wonder why the imagery floating around with reporting on war zones and incidents are of such bullshit quality.

even the supposedly recorded-with-mobile footage is always so bad. as if the person is stumbling around not knowing their phone's cammera is rolling.
Glacier currently is .004c / GB

https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/

GCE Coldline is .007c / GB

https://cloud.google.com/storage/archival/
I'm a different person, but I know lots of vegans and non-vegans who love 'Thug Kitchen'. I also really like 'The Plant-Powered Way'.
Thanks.

This is particularly useful: http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/greatest-hits/
No question Woz was a nicer guy, and he was cheated by Jobs, but without Jobs there's no way he'd be a millionaire today. Steve Jobs is one of the reasons we need employment laws and such though.

> There are many elements that I somehow link with capitalism as well:

I will absolutely accept that many alternatives to capitalism claim explicitly to solve these problems, but it seems like a very solidly demonstrated fact that none of the ones that have yet been tried actually do, and many of them exacerbated these and other problems by orders of magnitude.

Capitalism is about empowering individuals by granting them ownership rights and not reserving that right exclusively for the state, the Party, the sovereign or a religious authority, but anybody. To me Capitalism is about individual rights, it's just that some of those individuals form companies worth Billions of dollars employing hundreds of thousands of people and some don't.
"concluded there was a real danger that what occurred during this misguided ouija session may have influenced some jurors."

I get the feel a whole article could be done on "Regina v. Young (Court of Appeal of England and Wales, 1994)". I somehow think the drinking was just the beginning of a series of problems.
Resisting clean energy technologies in favor of coal and oil.
Expected Improvement vs. Knowledge Gradient
RVs are a major slow-burn issue in Seattle, as clusters of them are becoming essentially one step up from homeless camps.

Something to perhaps look into and consider thoughtfully if this sort of thing attracts you.
Considering how many grey hairs my post-doc put on my head, then I'd believe it.
Load that popup after I've read the whole article pls
https://www.reddit.com/r/gatekeeping/ might fit even better.
From the B2 page:

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html

"Reliability: 99.999999% durability."
It's a bit the same issue then something like rails. Easy in the short run, but when you starting doing advance optimization - likw those - you wonder why not rewrite in a more performance oriented language.
But an easy comeback from the interviewer would have been "What other ways could you have done it? What are the advantages and/or disadvantages compared to the way the client or your colleagues mandated?"
No, it's not. Vegetarianism describes a specific set of well-defined behaviors. If you don't adhere to the schedule of those behaviors, then you're not a vegetarian. "No true Scotsman" is about "changing the definition in an ad hoc fashion to exclude the counterexample."

That doesn't apply here.

We're starting and ending with the same definition.
I have a strong stomach but the vegan cheese I've tried brought me to the brink of illness because it was so gross. Maybe I could have enjoyed it if it didn't present itself as "cheese" - like an uncanny valley effect. Cheese is one of the main reasons I fell of the vegan wagon. Can you recommend any cheeze that's palatable?
Perhaps. Although you could apply something like matching techniques [1] to find startups comparable to the big successes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matching_(statistics)
Reduced amount of empathy for who? The victim of the crime, or the suspect that might be spending time in jail?
But the point is that it's fake predictability, as you can't make arbitrarily complex rules and hope to have built the Totally Fair System.

(Provably not, actually.)

The best thing we can do is to admit it's not going to be perfect, and use our own reasoning and feelings, and make sure the process is transparent and the people are held accountable.
The animal lovers who aren't at least vegetarian bewilders me. There's a woman on my FB feed who rescues unwanted guinea pigs and rabbits and fights against horse slaughter. Loves meat. I totally can't get it, but I don't need to start fights in my social circle.