skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some radishes are grown for their seedpods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radish#Seed_pod_varieties

> The seeds of radishes grow in siliques (widely referred to as "pods"), following flowering that happens when left to grow past their normal harvesting period. The seeds are edible, and are sometimes used as a crunchy, sharp addition to salads.[13] Some varieties are grown specifically for their seeds or seed pods, rather than their roots. The rat-tailed radish, an old European variety thought to have come from East Asia centuries ago, has long, thin, curly pods which can exceed 20 cm (8 in) in length. In the 17th century, the pods were often pickled and served with meat.[13] The 'München Bier' variety supplies seed pods that are sometimes served raw as an accompaniment to beer in Germany.[22]

(I hadn't heard of this until I looked. I firmly think of radishes as root vegetables.)
Sarah Stillman wrote up civil forfeiture in The New Yorker in the summer of 2013. John Oliver's TV piece on the topic must have drawn heavily from this article.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/08/12/taken
>Where have I stated any intention to use force?

here...

> the idea would be to limit your options

Your proposed options are more restrictive than my options now, while not giving ethical/moral reasoning for it being more restrictive.

If I don't agree with the options you propose voluntarily, you will make new laws and use police force to stop me from buying a gun or limit kind of gun I can buy etc.

I didn't do anything wrong and I don't intend to do anything wrong.

Making a law that targets me is a threat to use force (criminal/civil court proceedings and law enforcement) against me.
The only Official OpenBSD 6.1 CD set to be made, for auction for the project
Wonder how bad it would be if they didn't subsidize rum production so heavily.
> Since it's illegal for large portions of the population to receive pay commensurate to the value they're able to produce, and it is legal to move to the US, guess what folks do?

If they can't produce enough value to justify minimum wages, why would they move to places with a higher cost of living? They move to the States because the States are better able to attract businesses that will pay them what they are capable of producing (even though the States still have at least the Federal minimum wage, and offlten higher minimums), because the States face more favorable federal policy because Congress and the President need their votes, whereas they don't need PR's because PR doesn't get any in the Federal government.
Habeus corpus. The right to bear arms. The right to confront witnesses against you. Equal protection. All those seem like "positive rights" to me.

I'm not sure you understand the concept. It's never been seriously suggested that the right to keep and bear arms implies that the government must supply a gun for me. The right to habeas corpus doesn't say that the government has to do anything to make me comfortable, just that I retain ownership of my person. Equal protection doesn't say anything about equal outcomes, just that the law must not view any of us differently.

There really is a fundamental difference in saying that the government must not do something (the negative rights angle), versus that the government provide us something (the positive rights angle).
I spent several months in Puerto Rico working on operations with Google's Project Loon, launching balloons out of Cieba.

Seeing the island during September 2016 power outage was eye-opening. It was admittedly a pretty bad event that spurred it, but portions of the island were without power for several days. Infrastructure development is definitely necessary, particularly considering the possibility of storm hits there.

It is a lovely island, I hope this manages to nudge along solutions from what seemed to be a stagnating problem.
Ask HN: How do I find an open source project to contribute to?
I'm a Senior Dev and got a fire lit under my butt after going to the Rails Conf 2017 in Phoenix. I would like to contribute to a Ruby or Javascript project, but I don't know what, or where I can find them...

How do I find a open source project that needs some maintainers or things fixed? I am open to writing Ruby, Javascript or Elixir. I'm also open to writing documentation
Looks like it was solved
https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/692cr4/comment/dh36...
I should have put more effort into it too.

What I remember about Win Amp in the (90's?) was how customizable it was and how many features it had. It was really flashy and advanced for that time period.

It's been years since I've used it, I don't use Windows much anymore.
Multiple universities (at least Utrecht and Nijmegen) in the Netherlands use Haskell for teaching functional programming, and I believe some FP research is also carried out there using Haskell.
To me, there's a difference between something you need to live that was made poisonous by the government requireing aid and former managers pulling pensions of $200k+ a year. If I lived in Michigan, I'd have a big problem bailing out the FDNY pension fund when I heard that. It's endemic too, look up "LIRR Disability abuse".

http://nypost.com/2015/10/21/more-than-2-dozen-ex-fdny-colle...
Things like shame and "taking lightly" aren secondary to interest rates - a quantitative pricing of the risk. If a gov't sucks at borrowing then their rates will be higher in the future.
You're asking questions that could be answered with 10 seconds of Google use and you're being kind of impolite about it. That doesn't seem like a good strategy to engage with someone usefully.
I was in San Juan last month and spoke with ~12 people on the topic. It was roughly an even split between statehood and status quo. Many anticipated a declaration of insolvency and figured statehood was the best fix for the problem.
Yea, it's actually likely that many investment managers have skills that can beat the market. But it's been proven that the vast majority cannot, after fees. Those that have "skill" have an edge that is so thin that 2% a year evaporates it (mutual funds). With Hedge Funds charging 2% + profit share, it's an even heavier burden.

Guys like Buffett that beat the market by 7-10% a year over decades are nearly unicorns in rareness.
This is really short sighted. If that original tram network was kept in place and upgraded, then money could have been spent on suburban rail networks.

I'm passionately in favor of your counterfactual. If we hadn't allowed so much low-density development, if we'd have kept and extended the streetcar lines, if we hadn't invested so much in automobile infrastructure, then we'd be in a much better position today.

But now we're faced with a confluence of factors that make getting to that counterfactual really, really hard. Those factors, collectively, are what I'm referring to when I say we're too "spread out."

"Spread out" isn't just about distance; it's about population size over a given area. It's about density, in other words.
"No fair! You got your privacy invasion in my privacy invasion!"
What are your thoughts on Puerto Rico becoming the 51st State of the USA? I ask this as a native (mainland) born American who always thought this would be an interesting approach to solve the problem of finances in PR. Is it even well supported or is it a crazy idea?
I'm in no way arguing that Intel and others do not also contribute to HotSpot. It's just that MUCH more attention and seems to be paid to LLVM, and the amount and impact of contributions there are bigger.

As to the AVX2 work contributed: there are all sorts of "easier to integrate" AVX2 uses that had been added to HotSpot over time (especially with intrinsics, which tend to be nice and isolated from the rest of the code gen), but the vectorizer in C2 is not nearly as capable as the one in LLVM, and the results speak for themselves. And I expect o see a similar gap open when AVX512 becomes available on Skylake EPs soon.

On the "how many contributions directly applicable to Java vs. C++ question": we were surprised at how readily those "C++ focused things" apply to idiomatic java code. The LLVM contributions can probably be better describes as "expecting certain patterns and idioms that are common in C/C++". And once you bring the Java code to LLVM IR form and "remove the breaks" as much as possible (e.g. fix how things like safepoints, GC barriers, and depot points used to defeat most optimizations), the patterns seem to be there in the Java code as well. The vectorization u-bench thing here is certainly a good example of that in play. We didn't massage it to find the vectorization opportunity. I didn't even get specific directions or tips on "write it this way". I just wrote some "I think this loop should be vectorizeable with AVX2" pieces of java code and the existing vectorizer seemed to have just picked them up and had its way with them.
"mobile is maturing and its growth is slowing"...yes, somewhat on the hardware side. There are still annual sales of maybe 1 billion smartphones a year...so that's a pretty big market.

I think that there's still ENORMOUS potential for mobile apps and mobile-driven services. There's huge opportunity for new services e.g. Uber. I think just about every large web/desktop property faces a significant threat from a mobile app e.g. craigslist, match.com (they luckily own tinder), flickr (wait, already gone to Instragam), AIM/Yahoo Messenger (gone thanks to Whatsapp), etc...
How do you reconcile your claim of FTL transmission with this statement directly from your link: "It is not possible, however, to use this effect to transmit classical information at faster-than-light speeds"?
As a kid, I had a few of the Lego "Expert Builder" sets, so when the first Mindstorms kits came out, as an adult I was pretty stoked.

I thought "here's a good way to prototype building robots and having fun too" - and I could use my old kit with it.

I found that buying that first kit rather steep, but I persisted. Over time I purchased more parts, hit up the Lego-Pitsco-Dacta store to get others (stuff like pneumatic pieces and gears), and a few of the Mindstorms expansion sets...

I sunk several hundred into it all before I came to realization that it wasn't cost effective; today I know it isn't.

If you want to prototype (or outright build) robotic systems, just go with "raw" materials (especially surplus or junkyard pulls). Small scale stuff can be easily bodged together with hot glue, cardboard, and RC servos. At the time, a great controller for it all was the BASIC Stamp, today it would be an Arduino, RasPi, or ESP8266 - or any number of other options that are all low cost.

Still - where Lego (and other building kits) shine is the modularity and standardness of the system. There have been attempts, some fairly successful, to do the same with more robust (mechanically and structurally) parts for kits (makerbeam, vex, actobotics), but they don't all have the traction the Lego enjoys from being a near first-mover, and not requiring tools to put together.

But if you don't mind tools - there are plenty of lower cost options out there (not saying this because people don't know it - plenty do).
How much of a lag was there between the eclipse itself and the drop in temperature? Even if the drop is immediate I don't expect the thermostats to turn off right away, as it will take some time for the cold to migrate into buildings.
Hmm, 2 and 3 I already have in my non-programmable account. 4 I need to do manually (charging and discharging my virtual card that I got from the same bank), automation would surely be nice. Only the 1st point would be something new for me.
Check out this link - http://bfy.tw/Ba64

Good luck!
Great way to encode discrete answers for qualitative survey data. Reads are smoking fast.
> only about 10% of the population

Isn't that due to the latency of the current generation VR? I think I remember Carmack tweeting something similar to that...
I just scrolled through on mobile (materialistic app) and only saw one ad. Seems to me like you're being hyperbolic.
The United States will always be in some amount debt, and that's perfectly fine. Going into debt, in order to invest into something with a good RoI is a non-brainer.

It stops being fine when the debt exceeds its ability to pay - which, given that it is in control of its own currency, never has to happen.

What you should be concerned is investments into things with poor RoI. Corporate crony handouts, tax cuts to the rich, building bombs and dropping them out of airplanes, and then rebuilding whatever they blew up, digging ditches and filling them... All of these have incredibly poor RoI.
Projects like this caused me to fall in love with tech as a kid, and my subsequent career arc was largely premised on the notion "how do we bring this type of amazing innovation into safe legal waters and allow it to flourish". I played FFV. I played a ton of fan translations. Heck, I completed the entire SNES rpg catalog, both JP and ENG. Thanks for sharing this.

~~~

Re: Translation and Fan-mods in general. Many game developers fail to recognize that their works inadvertently become platforms, and that the platformization of stellar works is both the cause and effect of their spectacular success. There are a ton of crystal clear examples of this phenomenon. Unfortunately it is tremendously common that developers and publishers chop their own legs out from under them when attempting to re-seize control of these platforms to monetize them. Often their attempts destroy value, and terminally damage their brands.
I have hyper installed. I think it's fantastic. The only reason I don't use it is I usually open a terminal through VS Code but hyper doesn't open in the correct directory.
https://phd.aws.amazon.com/phd/home

IAM operational issue

Increased Error Rates and Latencies

We are investigating increased error rates and latencies on IAM administrative APIs in US-EAST-1 Region. The IAM console and Create, Delete, List, Get, and Update API actions on IAM Users, Groups, Roles and Policies may be impacted. Other AWS services whose features require these actions will also be impacted. All existing authentications and authorizations are not impacted.
> big statement from a CEO of the most popular game engine

You mean someone that has a personal financial interest in a market growing is talking about how that market might grow. That's not very surprising to hear, don't you think?
Yes, and the outcome is that you can't borrow again, in theory. Also, if a region is productive, it should be able to renegotiate, but it sounds like PR isn't up to the challenge.
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That is not surprising, your filter/map/join only use constants, it probably does an eval().
> what are the incentives for MPs to vote yes on the backstopping to jurisdictions far from their own?

Stick it in an omnibus bill with stuff they do like?
You're​ making some pretty outlandish claims there.

It doesn't take "months" to open a bank account in UK/Ireland. Nor do you have to "visit a branch to apply". Most high street banks will allow you to apply to open an account online, with a decision often given instantly and the paperwork delivered within a week or so. I've got three bank accounts with high street banks and have opened them all online, without ever visiting a branch

Likewise your claims about "ridiculous fees". Your own are just as bad (if not worse, in some cases) and, unlike Fire, most high Street banks offer free business banking for startups (for a while anyway). For example, I got 18 months free business banking from Santander, when I opened a business account with them.

I'm all for giving the banking industry a well-deserved kick up the arse. But I really don't see that anything Fire are offering is doing that.
You don't seem to understand. Services send emails to users for a reason. Those users typically want to actually be able to read those emails. That means they need to actually check it regularly, and probably want it available on their phones as well. The email address used here is also the email address the service uses for password reset emails. If you redirect these services to a secondary email that you don't auth on your devices, then you're also greatly reducing the utility of these services.
Yeah my current options are Verizon DSL(1.5Mbps) or Comcast. During non peak hours, I can normally hit 200Mmb download/upload, but during peak hours I'm lucky to be able to stream a song or video without it lagging. I'm about 5 homes away from getting FIOS, and they recently started expanding in my area after years of zero growth, so I'm hoping I can get a single competitor to Comcast.
Thats a jerk answer. Of course theres google and I have been googling
Shorter summary of SpaceX's Senate testimony https://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/6c08b6c2...:

Initially, the SpaceX system will consist of 4,425 satellites operating in 83 orbital planes (at altitudes
ranging from 1,110 km to 1,325 km). SpaceX has proposed an additional constellation of 7,500 satellites operating even closer to Earth.

For the end consumer, SpaceX user terminals—essentially, a relatively small flat panel, roughly the size of
a laptop—will use phased array technologies to allow for highly directive, steered antenna beams
that track the system’s low-Earth orbit satellites. In space, the satellites will communicate with each other
using optical inter-satellite links, in effect creating a “mesh network” flying overhead that will enable
seamless network management and continuity of service.

Later this year, SpaceX will begin the process of testing the satellites themselves, launching one prototype
before the end of the year and another during the early months of 2018. Following successful demonstration
of the technology, SpaceX intends to begin the operational satellite launch campaign in 2019. The
remaining satellites in the constellation will be launched in phases through 2024, when the system will
reach full capacity.
Brazil in late 80s and Argentina in early 2000s default. Both spent a decade with no access to foreign debt whatsoever and prompted a massive crisis. In Argentina it let to the populist Kirschner govt.

Brazil is once again facing mounting debt due continuous budget deficit. This time the govt is pushing for austerity reforms that, if not approved, will lead once again to default. The govt approved ratings are abismal and populist candidates are expected to win next year's general election.

So, defaulting sucks.
7th grade shop class (ca. 1978) we were using drills, jigsaws, soldering irons, etc. We weren't allow to use the table saw but hand-held power tools were fine.

I don't think they even have shop in middle schools anymore.
Just don't take 23andMe too seriously. I had markers of being Factor V Leiden[1] but after a blood test it was revealed I didn't have it. It's a data point for sure, but it doesn't immediately mean that your genes will actually express themselves in a way that would manifest the conditions or diseases they are correlated with.

[1] http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/factor-v-leide...
... and the S&P 500 did go down from that high. Within a year after the bet was made, the S&P 500 crashed, dropping 50% of its value. But the S&P 500 still more than made up the returns to beat the hedge fund.
Yes, exactly. I said "too little too late" because a primary surplus doesn't resolve crippling debt - at this point it looks like the debt is far too large to handle with any kind of sensible short-term spending cuts.
Hmm, i had no idea it was that powerful/feature rich.
You've mentioned that a couple times, but I'm really not seeing it. What to you looks like coffeescript there?
Sigh... If only it was that easy to predict.
Yeah I don't know why but I just didn't see it referenced initially even though it clearly is.
No amount of thinking can actually save you from wrongly supporting or rejecting stuff. We have to act with the incomplete information that we have.
What would their case be? "Yes, we gave away the software and documented it and paid designers to design it all pretty and spent marketing effort promoting it but nobody is allowed to use it because it's patented technology"?

Has any court ever ruled that a permissive license like BSD does not include a patent grant when it says "use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted"? Because that seems flat-out silly.
The answer to pension problems is real socialism. Produce in bulk, provide in bulk, eliminate the waste and middle-person profit by providing as much of the pension as possible directly so that the allowance for other items can be of a much smaller serviceable size.
Well, the answer to that, as the Judge knows, in America, for better or worse:

"Tough shit for Uber. Shrug."
A number of us live in Silicon Valley or work daily with AI. These aren't science fiction technologies for us: they're, real, tangible cars that you see daily on the roads, or software libraries that you can download and use yourself. I can understand why they'd seem like fantasy if you live in some far-off place, but when you're stuck behind a self-driving car going 25 mph on El Camino, there's pretty concrete evidence that self-driving cars are here.

I do think that AI and particularly deep learning are overhyped. It is a big deal, but it's not as big a deal as many people make it out to be. It's much like the Internet in 1998; it works, you can use it now, and you know that it's going to drastically increase the reach of computing power, but people are talking like that's all going to happen in 1-2 years when really it'll be 2-3 decades.
Hedge funds tend to do well under volatility. The steadiness may have been what he was referring to by "lucky."
> With 1969 pieces (which is a fantastic number)

Seriously? How do you design something with that kind of easter egg in it?
http://www.unicode.org/Public/security/8.0.0/confusables.txt

https://github.com/codebox/homoglyph

http://homoglyphs.net/
>Self driving cars on the other hand are right in front of our eyes, we have seen them driving around and are rapidly advancing in terms of their level of autonomy

There's basically no evidence for this though. Sure Tesla can show me a 3 min video of a car driving in perfect weather on perfect, straight, wide roads but I don't see self-driving cars "in front of my eyes" at all. We don't have any safety data that is directly comparable to human driving, we have several accidents already, etc.

>when they could be reading, watching TV or taking a nap...

I agree that when/if we make it to that level of autonomy we'll have turned the corner on adoption and it will explode. But I'm not sure that even the most optimistic of self-driving companies would say that we are anywhere close to that.
It's neat to think of the buildmasters coming up with a part count of (say) 1985 and realizing, "Hey, we could..."
I had a Fischertechnik set growing up in Czechoslovakia in the 1970's.
Questions are more than welcome! :)
Down in The Netherlands.