skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, on the UK side of things you can probably pick any of the authors published during Michael Moorcock's tenure at New Worlds: so Aldiss, Moorcock, M John Harrison, Hilary Bailey, Ballard, Barrington J Bayley, Disch, Brunner.

You can also probably toss in Delany, Spinrad, much of Dangerous Visions, and then go on from there.

The movement, if there was one, is best characterised by a shift from puzzle stories to more complex fiction, with some authors crossing the divide, like Silverberg and Zelazny in the US.
Hi Kyle. You've got me curious now, which Neocity site are you talking about, I would love to check it out.
I know a lot of tech staff being made to relocate TO NJ. Due to Manhattan costs. This is a good thing for NJ.
This is going to be fun with the java.nio.file API. Java currently normalises everything to NFC even though the file system on macOS is NFD. This was introduced some time in Java 8 because reasons.

Of course this is all going to break now, of course it will take years until Oracle fixes this.
Xeon is a server-class CPU, the i7 is a desktop class CPU...doesn't mean they're not both top of the line components. Couple of major downside of iMacs (I have an original 5k iMac) are that I can't use it as a monitor for my other systems and I can't upgrade anything (RAM is already maxed out.) If you're all-in to Apple's ecosystem, it might make sense, but I just don't see the value myself (having a ton of Apple tech, but slowly moving away, I can't justify the $ when I can build an upcoming i9 or AMD Thread Ripper (terrible name btw) based machine for half the cost with similar/better performance.) Yep I'll lose OSX, but Win10 + Linux Subsystem solves most of my needs.
http://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/LookItUpS...

By not having the information in your head, you are less able to know what to search for and less able to contextualize and make sense of information you do turn up in a Google search.

Of course that doesn't mean that search is useless. But let's face it; if you and a random guy off the street were both asked to program something in a language you'd never used before, you would be much more able to handle the task because you'd understand what questions to ask (what's the modulo operator? how do you write a loop?) while the other guy flailed around trying to understand the basics.
Prisons have a certain amount of gaintime (small reductions in sentencing) that's there to be withheld at the prison's discretion, specifically in order to motivate work and good behavior.
I calculate the earth is about 566 million £1 coins wide so everything scales down by roughly that much. So the sun would be 0.164 miles away.. and Proxima Centauri 44,063 miles away?
In fact one reason so many people have such confused ideas about foreign politics is a lack of understanding of geography.

Consider:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/14/upshot/if-ame...
I do agree with you on a personal level (I wouldn't wear shorts or jeans with holes in them to work, but I do on my own time); but I feel strict company-enforced dress codes are unnecessary for this.

People tend to self-adjust to the norms of their workplace. More than once I have had a male colleague ask me how to address a female employee who wore clothing that they considered too provocative (too short of skirt / low cut shirt).

My response? Say nothing; it's usually a junior employee who is trying to figure out the norms of what to wear at work. Women's fashion is a lot more complicated than men's, and it can take some time to find a professional dress style that works for you. Mansplaining women's fashion to her isn't going to help.
FWIW, I had some good experiences at the Princeton Tech meetups a few years ago, if anyone is in that area: https://www.meetup.com/Princeton-Tech/
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> ...you're essentially suggesting that someone living in a low-cost of living area isn't paying enough for the shipped products they receive by way of major transport hubs?

Sorry, I'm not writing clearly enough. Inland areas should have fewer and smaller population centers, and what do exist, should be dense, if we were eyeing our position on the Kardashev and concerned about where our next big energy sources are coming from.
> Results of a standardized measure of reasoning ability show many students fail to improve...

The irony of this sentence is painful. The entire reason most colleges fail to improve reasoning - something everyone has known for a while now - is because of standardization and industry-oriented training. They've transformed into advanced trade schools, caring more about selling products (graduates) than producing well-rounded, capable leaders. The entire idea of a standardized test is to produce the very metrics they use to sell those products.

And you know what the worst part about it all is? They are using the old college model (4-year baccalaureate programs) to do what could be done just as effectively in about two years. So they aren't even good at what they are TRYING to do.
Have you heard of the Raspberry Pi Foundation?

Pretty hard to do better than this:

https://www.raspberrypi.org
Sci-Hub: Solution to the Problem of Paywalls or a Diagnosis of a Broken System?
They aren't actually adding anything to your sentence, but are just taking away 'gain time' that has been earned for good behavior. You can accrue gain time and eventually earn early release. However, they can also take this away for bad behavior.

Obviously some sentences are not eligible to earn gain time.
How some people stay motivated at work when they don’t love their jobs
>The only competitor core has for eternally non-volatile low tech near radiation proof infinitely rewritable electrical data storage is latching relays

except for tape

>The marketplace for eternally non-volatile low tech near radiation proof no moving parts infinitely rewritable data storage is roughly nil

incidentally google is the biggest buyer of tape in the world

>I would imagine given enough money one could find a way to 3-d print cores around taut stainless steel wires then fire the core ceramic, automating the process.

you are describing tape and it's predecessor wire recording. Rather than coat a wire in magnetic material they just used steel wire. They only use ceramic to make core because it's easier to fire it in an annulus than to punch out laminations that small
This is a distinction without a difference. Removing heat from the interior air is the same thing as cooling the interior air.

If you mean that the air conditioner doesn't produce a magical substance called "cool", that's true, but no one claimed that it does. The mechanism transfers heat with the effect of cooling the interior.
You can even bridge an interface to a tun/tap device, which is quite useful for VPNs and doing your own packet-twiddling code.
Pretty sure normalization was done in open() and not the fs. Normalization was performed even for fat32 sticks.
That review was amazing. Thank you for posting that!
>> but isn't it part of the purpose of criminal punishments to scare away people from committing crimes?

The premise: "Harsh punishments are scaring criminals from commiting crime" must be questioned. I highly doubt it is a valid premise. Just look at crime rates in regions where you have harsh criminal laws up to capital punishment. There is not even a correlation much less a causal relation between "Harsh on Crime" vs. "Low crime rate".
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The former resource fork not in ._$filename unless the underlying filesystem does not support it. On HFS+ volumes, which is what 99%+ of Mac users use, there will be no ._$filename file.
Federalist is out of beta and open for business
I grew up not far away from Bell Labs, very close to the Jersey Shore. Growing up, I remember friends' parents who worked in telecom refer to our area as Silicon Shore.
I know this type of comment is often frowned on here, but let's be honest - this is the reason EVERYONE came to the comment section.
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/oth/inmates/wr.html
Googles job IMHO is to find relevant information, not judge it based on costs. How often do we get second hand news where an article is simply parroting what another site wrote? I'd rather get information as close to the source as possible in most cases. Perhaps that means paying for it, but that choice should be mine to make. Put the most relevant at the top and if people want to read a free second hand ripoff of some news they can select a lower ranked search result.
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I really fail to see why do you want your file system to normalize utf8 chars with hfs+ rules.
NTFS, by comparison, does the "bag of wchar_t" instead of the "bag of byte" for filenames.
Seems like the article indeed forgets to mention the distance. I guess the nature article[0] has all the information, but since I can't access that one right now I also found a Washington Post article[1], according to which the distance from Earth is about 650 light-years.

[0]https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nat...

[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2...
That depends on what 'added' means.

The sentence you receive from a judge is probably not anywhere close to what you will actually sit in jail for. Probation, parole, double time, triple time, good behavior, trustee status, all affect the outcome.

For example, you are sentenced to 3 years of jail for a non-violent drug offense. How long do you serve in jail? Very commonly 366 days, though it may be as much as a year and a half. That is if you don't get into any other trouble in jail. After that point you will be released on probation.

What the previous poster is likely stating is that if you willingly agree to be a slave for the state you get all the benefits of early release. The defectors that do not want to be slave labor are not given said benefits. An ironic application of the prisoners delma. If none of the prisoners would be willing to be a slave, the state could not hold them all, or 'extend' their sentences because of overcrowding.
"Three out of five people in jail are unconvicted of any crime and are simply too poor to post even low bail to get out while their cases are being processed. Nearly 75 percent of both pretrial detainees and sentenced offenders are in jail for nonviolent traffic, property, drug, or public order offenses."

https://storage.googleapis.com/vera-web-assets/downloads/Pub...

There's a sort of pedantic distinction between "prison" and "jail" that can make these stats confusing, and occasionally deliberately misleading. If you're in "prison", then by definition you've been convicted. The percentage of nonviolent inmates is very high in both "jail" and "prison", though; the statement "non-violent offenders are a small fraction of those incarcerated" is simply incorrect.
Feeling of a touch for robots using artificial intelligence and contact patterns
I live in Baltimore, work remotely, and pay about $1200 / month on my mortgage. I have an old house on 1/3rd of an acre. Growing up in LA, I was shocked how cheap houses were here.

I'm looking at moving to Austin now. There are a lot more work prospects there for my girlfriend, and housing still seems reasonable compared to what I was looking at in southern California. If you can work remote or score a job in a low cost of living area, it's great. For the most part though, people are going to live near their lords.
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Do you have any recent benchmarks showing a significant impact from normalization? I haven't seen that on anything in at least a decade and that was simply Red Hat shipping an ancient and completely unoptimized libicu.

> Mac applications, on the other hand, expect it to be the responsibility of the filesystem. This is explained pretty clearly in the article.

Again, the article made a huge sweeping claim without supporting it. That's simply not true in either way – many apps on every OS don't handle this at all, some handle it consistently everywhere, and what a “Mac application” means varies widely from “clean, modern Cocoa” to “uses a lot of C, etc. libraries”, “cross platform C++”, “C# port”, “Electron shell”, etc. You can't make any statement which is true for every single one of those categories, much less for every code path which eventually results in a filesystem call. I've run into cases where something mostly worked until you hit their integrated ZIP, Git/SVN, etc. support and found a new way that a filename was constructed.

My point wasn't that everything is fine but simply that this is complicated and no decision results in avoiding problems. Not normalizing allows for confusing visually-identical files; normalizing results in errors or data loss which will be blamed on the OS.
Can you recommend something of his to try? Go for best, not most palatable :-)
Why doesn't this exist yet? It seems so obvious, so many people get news from Facebook, twitter, Reddit, (and to a lesser extent HN) on an article by article basis. But all news sites delude themselves into thinking they can make these people loyal customers of their content, to the tune of paying $10-30 per month. I would happily pay $0.50 or something per article (maybe price adjusted by word count, within reason) to be able to get news from a wide variety of sources and engage with comments on the social/aggregator sites.

Is it just too big of a chicken and egg problem to coordinate a single broker for this across many sites? Unfortunately a broker is needed because I don't think there exists an external payment method with fees reasonable enough to make a lot of sub-1$ payments. That used to be touted as a use for Btc a few years ago but now btc fees are higher than credit card fees at something like $1-$3.
Yes, it's been well known for years to anybody who wants to know, but staying quiet still appears to be working very damn well for the NSA - right here you have a leaked NSA document where both the leaker and journalists failed to redact the dots.
So basically free software.
Ironically (maybe not?), the biggest dispute I ever had was with a philosophy prof over his condemnation of a student's contrary interpretation of montesquieu.
It must be a great feeling. Imagine transporting yourself back into their time :)
Is it possible a large portion of the observed behavior of critical thinking personality based (ie Jung Theory)?

That is to say could it be certain personalities are more likely to analyze. They may not be smarter or even more educated but are more drawn to problem solving and analysis than others.

So even if the individuals were taught to perhaps be more logical, detail oriented, not reactive, etc it maybe incredibly unnatural such that a normal psych test may not elicit the behavior.... just a theory... I'm probably wrong.

While it seems critical thinking is a good thing it might be in some cases detrimental particularly if it requires more time. That is reactive individuals who prefer not to rely on critical thinking might be able to make critical decisions quicker (albeit possibly incorrect).
Yeah, pretty much this. When I said formal I did not mean to exclude metal kid or force that kid to wear tie. It was not supposed to be about dress code.
..this at top of Ask HN ? Why
The problem was mostly in the cities though.

I remember I returned from my parents where I had stayed over the weekend and it was okay - to a city that was still glowing from the heat at 11 pm at night. I say that as someone who spent a summer vacation in the Emirates (that place has cooled swimming pools right at the beaches, and for good reason the Gulf water is not warm but unbearably hot!).

In general, if/when global warming picks up we have to make some major changes to all our cities. As they are now they are giant furnaces and heat batteries with all the exposed concrete and asphalt.
That's you. Thankfully, China or Russia doesn't think people like you will be making the nuclear call.

Which is one thing the anti-nuke, give-peace-a-chance crowd has always been absolutely stupid about.

The entire idea of nuclear deterrence is predicated on continuously issuing as rabid statements as possible about your willingness to use nuclear weapons in retaliation for any strike (while simultaneously issuing statements that you never intend to use nukes as a first strike).

Whether you would or would not actually use them, in the emphasis of Strangelove, it is essential that your potential adversaries have no suspicions that you might not use them.

So any statements that don't sound like a madman with his or her finger on the button, just waiting for a chance to nuke the foreigners are actually incredibly dangerous and destabilizing (regardless of actual beliefs).
you can swim in that water?
She really pushed the envelope on sociological SciFi.
"You may have the handkerchief i carry."
I essentially agree with this criticism of the book, so I've been surprised that the Hulu series is pretty strong. They effectively convert a lot of the dull/portentous stretches in the book into subtle horror, and add some badly needed doses of action (often in the form of flashback). Also, they've artfully given the ruling regime a bro-ey, Alt-Right style that gives a touch of plausibility. YMMV but I found it to be an interesting exercise in what talented people can do with middling material.
Seconded. I actually like Mithril streams better than Flux for loose coupling of components.
http://brlewis.github.io/2017/brlewis-rollup/
Cloud Infrastructure – A Technical Perspective on Software Platform Strategy
Queue extreme UV lithography. Where the light source costs $100M, took 8,000 engineers 20 years to develop, and consumes 1MW of power to shine a 1kW beam.

https://www.google.ca/amp/spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/d...
As to your 2nd point, go find your indoor blower(furnace closet for split system or outside in a package unit), pull the power supply, then open and take a look inside at the blower wheel. Unless the unit is a less than a year old you will will clearly observe why health risks do exist. If you need more proof see the evap coil & the primordial sludge in the condensate tray/drain. When finished, reassemble, plug power back in & change your air filter.
After 20 years of web dev, I gave native development (UWP) a shot. I kinda assumed that after so much time Microsoft would have windows development dialed in and it would be sane. Ha!
< What's to say a girl can't enjoy beer?

"Girl's" are females under the age of 18.

To my learning, use of girls to not mean girls is incorrect speech and should be avoided. Use woman or female.
> The thought of it is barbaric and horrible.

Know what else is barbaric and horrible? The crimes some of the "slaves" commit
Isn't this just math?
Silicon Turnpike?

disclaimer: I live in NJ and commute to NY, yes - to work for a big financial concern. Lo and behold, I was just informed that my company is moving a ton of staff to a new Jersey "campus." They have likened the new facility to google or Facebook (although, knowing stuffy finance, I have my doubts ;)
What "religious doctrine" would that be?
Your argument is self-defeating. If you're wondering why there are no, not even one (unless you want to count gog.com/movies), drm-free video buying sites, well, you have your answer. If people are ok with DRM while-renting, well, they will be ok when buying too.

The opposite is true for games on GOG/Humble Bundle/Steam and music almost everywhere, the less DRM, the more cultural and economic value is unlocked. There is a reason why movies aren't as good as they used to be, why make better content when you can resell the same content on Netflix and Netflix 4K (let's not forget the different 4K plan).

Region locking via VPN banning, is basically another form of DRM, regardless of them doing it for their content or others.
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There is no morality on the blockchain.

As far as legality goes, I think the attacker is in the clear because what matters is the code and not the intentions.
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Somewhat questionable maybe, but they had a number of polls among their Kickstarter backers which came out in favor of "more battery life" over "more power" or "thinner/lighter"
I knew it would bring downvotes but the pun was just too irresistible.
http://www.java-only.com/LoadTutorial.javaonly?id=122

HTTP Status 500 - org.hibernate.exception.JDBCConnectionException: could not execute query

type Exception report

message org.hibernate.exception.JDBCConnectionException: could not execute query

description The server encountered an internal error that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

javax.persistence.PersistenceException: org.hibernate.exception.JDBCConnectionException: could not execute query
org.hibernate.ejb.AbstractEntityManagerImpl.convert(AbstractEntityManagerImpl.java:1389)
org.hibernate.ejb.AbstractEntityManagerImpl.convert(AbstractEntityManagerImpl.java:1317)
org.hibernate.ejb.QueryImpl.getResultList(QueryImpl.java:255)
com.javaonly.dao.TutorialDao.getLatest(TutorialDao.java:18)
com.javaonly.actions.LoadTutorialAction.execute(LoadTutorialAction.java:37)
sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor640.invoke(Unknown Source)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)

etc.

Tip #1: custom error pages.
I'd put it on some sort of bio-psycho-social-economic-educational axis.

not everyone has the spark... some can develop it, and some clearly have it from early in their life, before the other factors could have an impact.

i'd say the biggest division is introversion vs extroversion. extroverts are the majority of people and are more likely to engage with the world via their senses rather than their analytical capacity by definition.
For those interested in learning more about Bell Labs I recommend you check out the book "The Idea Factory" (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11797471-the-idea-factor...).
This seems an appropriate place for an Iain Banks quote:

"
"Well," he says, "if you are going to write what a friend of a friend once called 'Made up space shit', then if it's going to have any ring of truth that means sometimes some of the horrible characters get to live, and for there to be any sense of jeopardy, especially in future novels, the good people have to die. Sometimes."

Banks freely admits that he enjoys writing his SF novels more than his "literary" novels, and the Culture novels more than his other SF. The hedonistic, anarchistic, post-scarcity series is "a hoot. It's my train set. I adore the freedom and the size of the canvas," even though writing them "requires a greater degree of concentration. And there's so much baggage with the Culture now that I have to get each new novel aligned with earlier Culture history. I don't have the same leeway to make things up compared with when I started."
"

From his last(?) interview: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/15/iain-banks-the...
Funny you should say that. Here in the UK we're three episodes into a Handmaid's Tale TV adaptation. It's surprisingly good and you're right, it's excellent TV, even if I found the book itself quite a struggle back in college.
Open source (-ish?) Yubikey alternatives

https://sc4.us/hsm/ $75 | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12053181

https://trezor.io/ $99 | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10795087 (not much on HN)

https://www.floss-shop.de/en/security-privacy/13/openpgp-sma... €16.40 (OpenPGP Smart Card v2.1; 4096-bit keys)

https://www.fidesmo.com/fidesmo/about/privacy-card/ €15 (NFC only; recommended by the terminated SIGILANCE OpenPGP Smart Card project; 2048-bit keys)

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The Mooltipass is intended for passwords but may support reading and writing small binary blobs, eg. encryption keys. AFAIK (as of August 2016) it wouldn't attempt to protect the private key / implement encryption.

https://www.themooltipass.com/ $79 | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11983563