skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If all you need is an image of colored Voronoi regions (and no actual graph structures), there are faster algorithms, for example based on http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/S62.12/docs/Meijster_distance... which run in O(width * height + number_of_points) instead of O(width * height + number_of_points * number_of_pixels_on_cone) as this GPU implementation does.
But then how can it be solved? With the blockchain? (that was sarcasm, although, perhaps worth thinking about - transparency, at least)

Sure, governments/councils spending other people's money is always a fertile ground for corruption.
I have learned a while ago that, while telcos are technically charging each other for cross-network traffic, no real money ever exchange hands. In practice, two telcos issue invoices to each other, the amounts cancel out and anything that remains is just transferred as the starting point to the next accounting period.
Its worth pointing out that for aerodynamic reasons it might take over 10000 HP to push a train at 300 MPH but if you just want to get it out of the way a farm tractor could easily push a train at perhaps 10 MPH. Even if you only go up a hill at 2 MPH its still faster than sitting there.

There's no physical connection with the piston in the pipe, just a big magnetic field. Without air pressure differential to make an air-bearing the friction between the magnet and the pipe wall might make it impossible to drag the train along. In a way, having a built in emergency brake might not be that much of a bug...

Another difference between humans and bulk cargo WRT transport systems is humans will self unload and self load into slower and less ecological and less efficient more expensive transport when and if necessary. Surely in the event of a breakdown a fleet of smokey diesel charter buses and taxis would appear to transport the people. On the other hand, the railroad has a real problem if a thousand tons of coal cars breaks down in the middle of a route, that coal isn't going to walk itself into an adjacent pickup truck or something.
HEADLINE: Installer easy option to separate OS / and /home partitions.

DESCRIPTION: It is often recommended to separate the OS partition from the users data partition containing /home. This should be available as an easy option for non IT users. If 1 partition exists, a recommended split MB size is is default. If 2 partitions exist, they are checked for OS files and home files, so the user sees which one will be overwritten. This is convenient and a safety net for most users, and a lifeline for non IT people who may not know the recommendation, or how to proceed.
But what is wrong with stable in the first place ?

What you are asking is basically to switch to a rolling cycle with guaranteed support. This is a huge change and also don't account for the fact that many people choose Debian stable specifically because of it's non-rolling cycle...
> The default browser is an Extended Support Release (marked as such by the vendor, not Debian), so it'll stick around longer.

But Debian Jessie was the "Stable" version for roughly two years. Mozilla's end-of-life for ESR 52 is on June 26, 2018. If Stretch has the same lifetime as Jessie, that leaves roughly one year during which Firefox ESR 52 will be end-of-life.

So how will Debian Stretch remain stable during a period when it is shipping an end-of-life Firefox for which-- as Mozilla states-- "no further updates will be offered for that version?"

edit: typo
You're probably being downvoted for hyperbole, but IMO there's undeniably a palpable undercurrent of petty vengefulness in EU leadership - as evidenced for example with Gibraltar. It doesn't inspire confidence, and is probably counterproductive : honey is generally more effective than vinegar.
But the doctors decide what procedures are necessary.
This is what drives me crazy about US health care. Where I currently live the estimated costs are given to you in advance, even advertised on the websites of hospitals and clinics. But back in the US where I used to live it is just like you said - nobody will quote prices.
Random advice from the internet.

Maybe reframing what it means to start side project as talking to potential users (rather than writing code) might get the projects further. Talking to people is often harder because it includes the possibility of rejection.

Good luck.
Being a good person and doing god things is absolutely important in Christianity. Jesus talked a lot about the need to do good: to give to the poor, feed the hungry, welcome the outcast and the stranger, etc.

During the course of history, numerous people have changed this into punishing bad people (for to varying degrees and widely varying definitions of "bad"), and that is I think one of the big ways where some branches of Christianity have gone astray. We are supposed to forgive, not to punish as harshly as possible and then some.
As for PR workflow, it will be hopefully. There's a discussion[1] to replace the Alioth[2] with Pagure[3], which has a similar workflow with Github. Maybe the Pagure is not the final decision, but it will be a modern platform that's easy for contributors.

[1] https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/724986/90728a14d7a85770/

[2] https://alioth.debian.org/

[3] https://pagure.io/
I'm running 4.6 kernel "testing" on a MacBook Air 7,2 as my daily driver. It is rock solid. Wifi, Backlight brightness control and FaceTime camera will not work out of the box, however they can be made to work.

Expected to spend a weekend getting it all working. It's not for everyone, but if you want to better understand Linux, running it everyday is a great way to be fully immersed. It's also nice to have a desktop environment (openbox/lxde) that only uses 263MB ram on startup instead of a massive OS full of features I do not need or use. So yea, let's say the machine rarely swaps.

This is by no means exhaustive, but some things that I'm running and work well for me:

How to setup rEFInd for dual boot
http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/

Wifi driver (using non-free Broadcom-sta driver)
https://wiki.debian.org/wl

Backlight driver
https://github.com/patjak/mba6x_bl

FaceTime driver
https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie

Happy hacking!!
Building a financial system without some level of flexibility and human judgment seems like an awful idea. Forgive the lengthy story, but this tale courtesy of Matt Levine is perfect for this [1]:

> The California electric grid operator built a set of rules for generating, distributing and paying for electricity. Those rules were dumb and bad. If you read them carefully and greedily, you could get paid silly amounts of money for generating electricity, not because the electricity was worth that much but because you found a way to exploit the rules. JPMorgan read the rules carefully and greedily, and exploited the rules. It did this openly and honestly, in ways that were ridiculous but explicitly allowed by the rules. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission fined it $410 million for doing this, and JPMorgan meekly paid up. What JPMorgan did was explicitly allowed by the rules, but that doesn't mean that it was allowed. Just because rules are dumb and you are smart, that doesn't always mean that you get to take advantage of them...

> The U.S. legal system has built up a pleasantly redundant system of safeguards so that investors usually get more or less what they expect. If you invest in a U.S. public company, you are in a sense signing up for a certificate of incorporation and bylaws, which are written in lawyerly language. But you also get a prospectus that explains the terms of your investment in relatively (relatively!) plain English. Also the terms of that investment -- how you vote, what duties the company owes you, what rights you have, etc. -- tend to be constrained by federal securities law, state law, stock exchange listing requirements, underwriter due diligence, public policy, custom and tradition. Even if you invest in a company whose bylaws say that the board of directors can sacrifice you to a demon on the first full moon of a leap year, it's unlikely that that term would be enforced. There is only so much leeway to depart from the standard terms.

> If you invest your Ether in a smart contract, you'd better be sure that the contract says (and does) what you think it says (and does). The contract is the thing itself, and the only thing that counts; explanations and expectations might be helpful but carry no weight. It is a world of bright lines and sharp edges; you can see why it would appeal to libertarians and techno-utopians, but it might be a bit unforgiving for a wider range of investors.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-06-17/blockchai...
Perhaps then a better solution is just to remove the `/usr/bin/python` symlink, and make scripts be explicit in their dependency list.

It would be a small change (that could be automated) in packages, and removes any confusion about what /usr/bin/python means.
Strange, this is the first time I hear about Alpine, most of the server stuff I work/worked with were either Redhat or Debian.
More silliness, comparing apples with bananas, of course you will find more open source vulnerabilities that doesn't explain the reality of security breaks are higher with proprietary s/w (wanncry anyone?) http://www.zdnet.com/article/open-source-software-management...
> Note to self: when we send a rejection letter to this candidate, be sure to include feedback that is too vague to be of any use to them, but will avoid any lawsuits.

Haha, what feedback?
A) For example Germany (where I live).
B) Why do the billing practices have to be opaque? In Germany, patients often don't even see the bills. It all goes directly to the insurance company. For public insurance, that is. For private insurance, the patient pays and then asks the insurance company for their money back.
As for the opening the account on exchange - that won't be necessary soon, because of the distributed exchanges which can do this in the background via smart contracts.

Soon you will be able set up your wallet to automatically convert the incoming tokens into whatever currency you want. Including tokens pegged to USD or any other asset.
Did it? I thought the housing downturn was years in the making. Sure, the moment at which house prices went from increasing to decreasing was a single instant, but that's true of everything that changes from increasing to decreasing.
I keep the bleeding-edge and stable stuff side by side whenever possible, for ex. keep both the stable and alpha versions of Firefox installed together and generally use the bleeding-edge versions as daily drivers.

If I am doing something extremely important like payments or making a project for some non-tech clients where stability is paramount I stick to the stable builds unless the betas solve some major issue or have some required features.
Handling is not an issue. What he did took a car and made it handle lie a crossover.
OK, but people choose their employers, to some extent. Would more transparency help them to demand the right health insurance from their employers?
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>having ideas is a bad thing..

No. Having "ideas" that are solely meant for generating publicity and attract investors money is a bad thing.

>you have no argument against going to mars, only that you think Musk is not genuine in his intent.

I have argument against spending huge amount of money in the name of Mars colonization. I also think Musk is not genuine in his intent, and this "idea" is solely meant to rise his and his companies good will among the technically inclined but gullible crowd (which transforms into more investments) ...

Is it clear now?
Even more concrete example, something like:

Q: Explain the difference between they're, their, and there.

Q: Principle or Principal?
> When Bitcoin had built in checksums on addresses [..]

There are no address checksums in the Bitcoin blockchain; all contracts/scripts on the blockchain reference raw hashes. Only at the application level -- e.g. sending an address to a friend in an email -- does Bitcoin make use of checksums, since blockchain space is fairly precious/expensive.
For better or for worse, I've now become abrasive when asked interview questions in such a scripted, artificial manner. Because I no longer want the job at that point, I can respond more boldly, e.g.:

"Where do you see yourself in 5 years?"
"I don't know. Are you reading these questions from a textbook? FYI they're not very effective if you want to find someone who will do the job."

"What's your greatest weakness?"
"Trick questions in job interviews."

This is obviously not good advice; I have just reached a point in my life where I will not be made to dance to the whims of the interviewer, despite which the job would likely go to one of the employee's friends rather than it being given to me anyway.

One of the few merits of this approach is it tests if you can be frank with them or not. If they get offended at your lack of sucking up, then you probably wouldn't want that job anyway, because I find that if you suck up during the interview, you will find yourself struggling to maintain that ideal forever if you do get the job. It's better to be upfront about what things you actually care about.
As an alternative to that, written in Go and compatible to "pass", there's also https://www.justwatch.com/gopass/
The whole point is that when you're in Germany, the costs are the same ans when you are in France. Eg if your plan includes X free minutes to French numbers, and X€/minutes to call German numbers, when you're in Germany, you still call free your friends at home, and you still pay when you call German numbers.
What if you're on some obscure lesser known mobile network and the EU country you're traveling to doesn't support that network? Vodafone (a non obscure network) however seems to be ubiquitous in the EU.
I have a feeling of dread about Firefox version 57.
They didn't reverse, they simply agreed to follow a different path. Anyone who still accepts eth classic is living in that world I believe.
their own money on a similar project or your customers?
The arrow of time can be explained by information-theoretical interpretation of quantum mechanics:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2014/10/parallel-universes-and-ar...

TL;DR: the decoherence process by which the classical world emerges from the quantum is necessarily asymmetric with respect to time.
@hudon - it's a blockchain protocol, so BAT will be bound by the rules of the token as well. I.e. it won't be able to do any gatekeeping on who uses the system and for what purpose, or do any other monopolistic practices.
Ah, I missed that. I recall reading that part but missed the parts in quotes.
If this is really true, I might have to eat my own words.
I hope so, its really easy to use, anyway it has my vote
But lots of insurance companies operate on the risks you mention, floods, earthquakes. There are insurance companies that insure other insurance companies against outliers, for example.

Sure, there is no guarantee that the whole network can not go broke. But that goes for governments, too.

Also I think health care will always have to be capped at some point, because with arbitrarily high investments, you could presumably keep people alive indefinitely (heart fails - attach heart machine. Lung fails - attach lung machine...). That is why in the UK afaik they don't pay for dialysis once you reach a certain age.
> Give the construction crew a few extra bucks to put some fibres in there ;)

Isn't that what has already been done (at least in North America?) Weren't most fiber lines run in existing railway right-of-ways?
I'd guess any gradient is a soothing thing to look at contrasted with sharp edges, which would signify danger or at least potential of physical damage. And they're very natural colors, as are found in sunsets, plants, vistas of the forest - all non-threatening and putting the mind at ease.
Could you please give me some advice? i'm a full-time developer with 10 years experience. I would like to start my own and have a few ideas to try out. I have savings that could allow me to survive for a year. Would you recommend I quit my day job or just work on it on the side?
Perhaps, but a more optimistic read might be that we are a violent species slowly learning to restrain that tendency. Many primitive societies lived in a state of more or less continual war; today war is the exception rather than the rule. Certain types of wars, like wars of conquest and wars of genocide, are much less common today than they once were. Concepts like "war crimes" have emerged to restrict battlefield behaviors that a thousand years ago would have been considered unremarkable. And so forth.

If we can keep from killing ourselves for long enough, maybe this trend can lead us to a place where violence is just one more chapter in the history books.
> Just fix the VM then

No the point isn't that the VM is broken. The point is that the Ruby language has semantics and is used in idioms that nobody knows how to optimise well yet.

> tinyrb based on potion based on lua with classes is ~200x faster in method calls

tinyrb is interesting, but it just isn't the same semantics as Ruby:

https://github.com/macournoyer/tinyrb#what-wont-be-in-tinyrb...

tinyrb doesn't have a better VM - they're implementing a different programming language with all the hard bits left out!

In my project we've been having to do new original research into how to optimise Ruby - introducing concepts such as dispatch chains which haven't been needed more because people don't try to push metaprogramming in most language like they do in Ruby.

http://stefan-marr.de/downloads/pldi15-marr-et-al-zero-overh...
No way. Who would produce the stuff for west then? Western world will be in big trouble if that happens.
Cool. I suggest having it generate a diagram as soon as the page loads, because when I saw the black canvas I assumed that there was a problem with the WebGL support in my browser.
ISIS in a perfect world would be combated by UN peacekeepers and allies of Syria and Iraq in the territories they control.

The international supporters are just domestic terrorists, to be dealt with by police.

Really nothing changes from present day, except that Russia and the US aren't doing their own thing in the region with their own militaries, which is largely what caused most of the unrest and extremism in the region - their interventions for the past century in that area.
I don't see that as an argument for distinguishing between physical and non-physical, but as an argument to, maybe, have an exemption in the law for cases where the cost of making things accessible is large relative to the ¿production cost? (given today's technology, that would exempt about every video, so not a real option, given the goals of this law) ¿total margin on that product? (that would exempt every free product, so not a real option, either)

I can't see a way to define the limits of such an exemption without getting collateral damage, so maybe, this amount of collateral damage is about the best we can get?

Also, in the Berkeley case, part of the reason Berkeley deemed the costs too high was that Berkeley had a large backlog of such videos. They have been making new content accessible since spring 2015 (that content also is behind their firewall to prevent 'pirating' (http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/02/24/faq-on-legacy-public-cou...: "Pirates is a term used to describe websites that embed YouTube content without the permission of the original copyright holder for profit. UC Berkeley legacy Course Capture content has been discovered on for-profit websites, which use either a subscription fee or on-page advertising"; "UC Berkeley stopped posting course lecture videos publicly through webcast.berkeley.edu in 2015 as a way to reduce costs and increase adoption.")
I'm glad you know how much I can eat at McDonald's before feeling sated.

What a dumb thing to say.
Consortium Launched to Prevent Criminal Uses of Cryptocurrencies
Is the from colour code also meant to coloured?
It can be done very quickly with multiple units (powered carriages without a separate locomotive).

In the UK this is known as "portion working" and is a routine part of some routes' timetables.

The slight difficulty doesn't come from the separation, which is easy - open the automatic coupling, drive away the front bit and then drive away the rear bit after the front has got clear - but the joining. With an intensive timetable, waiting for a (possibly slightly late) other portion can leave a train missing its booked slot into London, with knock-on delays.
try googling 'photography equipment'
How would you feel about a switch to one of the forks, such as BoringSSL or LibreSSL?
While this change is very welcome, a lot of ISPs still ask for , in my opinion, unreasonable amounts of money for relatively small amounts of data ie: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/finnish-like-unlimited-mobile...
I am actually from Germany and heard the story about NHS dialysis many years ago, so it has nothing to do with US right wing propaganda or whatever. My apologies, though, if it isn't correct.

Nevertheless I think there will always be procedures that won't be paid for, in any health care system, because it would always be possible to incur arbitrarily high costs. As an extreme example, you could assemble a team of 1000 scientists to try to cure one person.
Phonebooks ARE not eliminated. I got one last year (it was a pile outside and one could grab one).
These look great! I'm sure I'll use at least one of them in the future.

My one gripe is the copy button. It just says "CSS3 Code Copied". I have no idea if I copied some CSS lines or just the values for a background-color or a script that downloads malware.
I find it extremely ironic that when concrete criticism about how a specific thing used to be "better" by some metric, this old chest nut is brought out, displaying the shallowness it claims to speak out against. The people who think everything "used to be better"? They're a straw man, while they may exist neither you or I even talk to them, and not one of them ever posted here or elsewhere on the internet. But they're trotted out alllllll the time. I first noticed that when I was like 20 or 21, so what was the reason then? My high IQ artificually inflating my age, me getting old before my time? Heh.
Sorry about that - I heard it a long time ago. Nevertheless, health insurance will always be capped at some point, you can not guarantee arbitrarily high expenses for everybody.
Forgot the part when you must have a public portfolio of work you did for free in the recent years even though the job in question will keep intellectual property under a lock.
I have seldom related to such articles. I feel deeply about them. After reading this twice, I feel different, motivated and emotional. But I also know that I will be back to default mode (the floating with the tide mode) in a few days. Is it my job that makes me so? My habits? My psychology? Unsure.
This implies that thousands of years of human history where people were not members of giant continent spanning countries people had to unity.

That is absurd. People can feel a sense of community on many scales, but the extremes are from ones own family to feeling like a citizen of Earth and a part of a global human culture.

Nation states are one optional step on that ladder, and it has many more than just three levels in it. Hell, just consider the difference in scale of nation states - from a country like New Zealand that has half the population of the New York Metro Area, to India or China with more than a billion people each. Completely arbitrary, and the size and cultural divides between different countries are massive. You can't even come close to placing all nation states at one tier of social inclusion and absolutely cannot ascribe individual happiness to membership in one.
can someone explain me how can this exist without being a security nightmare?
From what I saw it's on a read only filesystem which looks like a great idea but what else?