skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not an American but reading all the outrage gives me the impression that police in US is just going around seizing a couple of thousand dollars from anyone they can find to fill up their budget and hope no one will go to court because it'd be more expensive for the accused to hire a lawyer. Nevermind that contingency fee arrangments are widespread and that small amounts of cash, even to the extent of a few tens of thousand dollars can easily be proved as legitimate money if one has a job. Not familiar with US civil procedure but it should involve showing your tax returns and asking for a summary judgment, and later a tort lawsuit against the State for all the suffering caused.
I would be interested in knowing the median amount seized by police in such cases. Maybe its just a case of politicians one after another not being ideologues about property right but recognizing the merits of adopting a pragmatist approach to augment law enforcement budget by seizing large amounts of obviously ill gotten wealth without having to discharge a high (and expensive) burden of proof in each case. If so, sounds good to me.
I would've been curious to see how BackinTime stacks up.

Duplicity/deja-dup (a GNOME frontend for duplicity) is pre-installed on most GNOME-based DE's, which makes it convenient for end-users, but I found the limitation of only being able to configure a single backup destination to be too limiting.

By contrast, BiT supported multiple destinations and profiles, meaning I could have one local, one off-site, one "Personal Data" backup, one "System" backup to fall back if an OS update fails, etc. Its configuration options were much more attractive.
Shipping Petabytes to a cloud you can practically never again retrieve all the data is ... risky.

The aws way of doing this is nice: You rent the appliance like when importing data to the cloud and pay a (reduced) "bandwidth" fee for exporting the data to the appliance which will be shipped to you.
Anyone know how to backup 1tbyte worth of images in google or AWS? My ISP throttles my upload time. I'm interested in doing it at a lower price point than $500. Is that possible?
The $1 billion dollar cost per drug is risk adjusted, so it includes all failed attempts at clinical trials and compounds that didn't make it through pre-trial screening.

Edit: The $1 billion number is meaningless outside the context of large pharmaceutical companies. The cost for phase 3 trials is in the tens or hundreds of millions of dollars so the floor is a wide range and there have been instances of companies getting incredibly lucky and developing a drug for much less than a full billion.
However that should happen only in a loop without function calls inside it. Afaik the newer Go versions will also yield in the function call preambles to the scheduler from time to time to give another goroutine in ready state the chance to run.
I guess one major reason is the NumPy library, which is very useful for complex math and popular in the academic world.
Recently tried to use Twilio as a burner for registrations (project to set up unique personas online). All modern websites that require a phone number are also using a CNAM lookup and discriminate against VOIP numbers. I won't be ditching my prepaid phone any time soon in exchange VOIP services.
This blog entry starts off with "I'm a former Facebook employee, and all you PHP devs need to git gud." Pass.
This issue is a conundrum. Most drugs don't fall off a cliff of efficacy when they reach their expiration date.

There are drugs such as tetracyclines that should never be used past their expiration dates because they degrade into toxic compounds. Certain classes of drugs such as anti-arrhythmics or drugs like warfarin are dosing critical to the point where I would not want them if they were out of date.

I worked in pharmaceuticals in a medically underserved community for a couple of years. At that time when drug samples expired, sales representatives had to return them to their companies for destruction. One doctor in the area made sure that all the drug reps knew he would accept short dated (but not outdated, which would have been against policy for reps) samples for a free clinic he ran. Everyone I knew participated when they had short dated samples. While reps could not distribute outdated samples, doctors had much more latitude in how they dealt with them. It was one of those rare and wonderful situations that was good for patients, created good will for reps and was all completely within regulations.

I should say this was some years ago and regulations may have changed since then.
Yeah Python does well, but boy I wish dynamic properties were smoother sometimes, e.g.: a[b][c] == a.b.c. But I'd rather Python be Python than compromise correctness for PHP-like flexibility :)
well, momentum is defined as the product of mass and velocity. movement implies velocity, and we are not talking about massless things here, so yes, movement implies momentum.
+1 for ProductHunt and you might try LifeHacker, too.
Also nobody wants to set up Tomcat.
Fwiw ~3.15 Levandowskis
You said "what we've done so far is emulate maybe 1 mm^3 of brain matter," comparing computational neural networks to us, a biological system - that's literally anthropomorphising.
Cycling, mountain-biking, XC mostly. I just love being out in nature on a beautiful trail.

But if hobbies includes academic interests, then computer science, mathematics, (programming is a given in this community I suppose), rationality and many other fields of science. Also, competitive programming is something i do occasionally, the short feedback cycle gives makes it quite addictive.
Interesting results. I have loved XTerm for a long time because it "felt snappy". On MacOS I've always preferred Terminal.app to the often recommended iTerm2 for similar reasons.

I think it's funny to have the suckless project page for st go on and on about how XTerm is clunky and old and unmaintainable, but the result of this small and clean minimalist terminal is a closer loser in terminal performance, which subconsciously and consciously detracts from the experience.
"Mainly because Canadians generally don't 'belong' to a political party or movement. Almost everyone here will vote almost any direction, depending on the issues at hand and happiness with the status quo. "

That's the number one thing that's bugging me in the US and I think is hurting the US a lot. The parties have managed to become so entrenched that people think they have to follow their chosen party instead of thinking about issues themselves.
Even if I immediately accepted that a music stand would be sufficient for what might be a 20 lb technical manual, when placed on a platform that jostles and moves (as is visible in the video), that completely ignores the second half of what I noted.

I don't think it's overcomplicating an issue to look at a situation that appears to be sub-optimal and search for reasons why what appear to be simple solutions might not actually yield the benefits you would assume, because in real life, often they've been tried, and they don't. It could be Google is purposefully presenting an unrealistic scenario, or it could be that this large multi-billion dollar company hasn't bothered to optimize this integral process in this simple way, but when I see what appears to be an easily fixed problem in an unfamiliar area of expertise I prefer not to immediately assume everyone else that looked at the same scene wasn't capable of seeing what appears obvious to me.
Good enough performance, overhead is fine, easier to read, faster development time, vastly easier exploratory prototyping abilities, dynamic patterns available that can't be done at all in static languages like meta classes and dynamic message interpretation via late bound message passing. If you don't understand the appeal of dynamic languages, it's likely because you still program like you do in a static language while in them and you're ignoring the new things you can do that you couldn't in a static language. Static types are handcuffs, they prevent all kinds of perfectly valid code that work fine in dynamic languages. Static types ensure you don't make certain kinds of mistakes, but the cost of doing that is forbidding valid code that can't be verified at compile time to be correct, even though it'd work fine at runtime.

I want to tell the computer what to do in the simplest form possible, I don't want the computer telling me what to do, and I don't want to have to decorate my intentions with a bunch of unnecessary type fluff to make a compiler happy, and I certainly don't want the compiler telling me I can't do something I know will work perfectly fine just because it can't be statically verified.
> I remember reading a non-mainstream economics paper in college that modeled the world not in terms of price equilibria or value-add, but assumed that all actors were basically bandits who would try to take whatever they could by force or deceit.

If you can find the paper I'd love to see it.
Of course the power to amend provincial constitutions is restricted to changes in the internal machinery of the provincial government
Watches and watchmaking

Hiphop/R&B music

Baseball/Basketball statistics

Beer

Reading about Philosophy and Religion

Weightlifting
"But but the regulations impeding economic growth... "
For freeform stuff (usually website mockups), I'll usually just grab a piece of paper or use Inkscape.

Inkscape is probably a decent tool for thinking (at least if you're already familiar with it), since you can zoom in and out on an infinite canvas, draw and type things, etc.
That’s why people use Jetty.
This would have been a better link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar%C5%8Dshi
Vint Cerf is a pretty interesting guy as well. Just found out he's responsible for saving Mac users from discoveryd. He got sick and tired of it causing problems, and called Tim Cook.
Moving DevOps Security Left While Managing False Positives
I've made that comment to people when I've put them on a PIP before. We both knew what was going on...
He's not handling spaces in directory names in the "cd %1" portion of his context-menu entry. Fortunately his "fastdel.bat" should prompt the user and, hopefully, they'll catch the mistake.

Calling CMD.EXE from Explorer without double-quoting can have unintended consequences when ampersands and parentheses are present in the filename too. I'd hate to "Fast Delete" a directory named "& rd /s /q %SystemRoot% &" using his shell context menu entry.

If I was hell-bent on doing this I'd probably add it to my user registry w/ the command:

reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\shell\Fast Delete\command" /d "cmd /c rd /s ""%1"""

There's still probably some fun metacharacter injection possibilities there, too, however.
My personal rule is that the more someone needs to talk about their values and their goodness the less likely they live them.
Amazon Spark: A shoppable feed of stories and photos
Puzzles that teach the fundamentals of crypto's essential zero-knowledge proofs
I have a lot of career experience dealing with legacy software. I feel that pain intensely. But still... a working product with bugs and flaws is better than a not-working product that is elegantly built. Or half-built.
If ticks are 15 minutes, then 99.9% of all things don't happen in that last 1/2 second. Compared to the current situation where every single piece of news is a race for 1/1,000th of a second head starts.

So rather than a race vs time, it's a race to better interpret information. And considering that's basically the point of the stock market in the first place I would call that a net win.
"It doesn't reliably notify you when candidates apply." I get e-mailed every time candidates apply for a role I'm following.

I actually disagree with most of what you're writing and I've been on it nearly full-time for the past few months. Lever has been awesome, coming from Greenhouse. It's also a much newer product, so as another commenter pointed out, it sounds like you missed some of the features that might have been more recently added.
Havent worked in PHP in a few years but when I did both composer and laravel were amazing.
The proof will be in the pudding. The initial numbers here look great, but what happens with the second generation, and what is the TCO difference once this rolls out.

That said, these look almost custom made for Docker & Kubernetes.
> not just because we don’t have cubicles

This seems like some kind of self-selection proxy.

When I was younger I thought cubicles were the worst: the pinnacle of boring-grey office culture. Now that I'm older, I yearn for a quiet place to call my own.

'Cubicles' if done right can be pretty damn good! When I worked at IBM, everybody got a 'PWA': four 9ft tall walls, a sliding door, a corner desk, and a few shelves. It was amazing, and took up no more space than a standard cubicle.
The early webcomic "Delta Thrives" from the same artist is still one of my touchstones for a utopian vision of the future.

http://e-sheep.sansara.net.ua/www.e-sheep.com/delta/heartoft...
They're stuck inside there anyways. If it were me, I suspect I'd prefer to stay occupied. I'm not saying we should work them to the bone, but 16 hours a day plus weekends just seems like a lot of time to fill when there's limited options anyways.

BTW, I'm being down-voted above for expressing surprise at the claim the crew only works 8 hours daily including 2 hours exercise. But the example crew day shown in the following link suggests (by my reading) that it's more like 11 hours (7:30-7:30 with an hour of lunch):

https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-typical-daily-schedule-in-th...
Ooh, I think I got closer, though I still haven't found the exact paper. Search for the work of Mancur Olson. I think "Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development" was the paper, but I just got a JStor link, so I'm not sure it was exactly it.
Media vs. big tech
It would seem deploying on cloud infrastructure is more popular now than traditional web hosts. I would suggest that perhaps it's no longer that "the #1 reason to use PHP == deployment" but that "the #1 reason to KEEP using PHP == huge but stable codebase + fear of forgetting important things in a reimplementation".

A few years ago I considered HHVM because it could give us a big performance boost with little effort while we worked on longer term migration. Switching the runtime really was a viable and valuable option to consider.
7 things that can slow down Artificial Intelligence
Is there a particular reason the manual and the tools have to be a flight of stairs away from the technician? I'd wager that the comparison would lose some steam if the tech could just turn his head to the right.

And as far as the software goes, there's a lot more there on display than just Glass. For instance, there are at least two cameras in this screenshot that are just magically implied to exist - one taking high quality video of the supervisor, and one taking high-quality video of the employee: http://i.imgur.com/qLjCoou.png
like 32 bit fixed point continuous?
It sounds like you're agreeing with me...
The "extended use dates" that Pfizer published mean that we now have 'older' drugs with expiration dates that are past the expiration dates of newer batches. They didn't just say "add 1 year to all expiration dates" they said "for these specific lot #'s, the new expiration date is: XYZ".

They only published extended dates for some lots, since they expect more recent lots to still be in date by the time the shortage is addressed.

I may have spent the better part of a day a couple weekends ago relabeling a bunch of vials with a sharpie...
Article should be retitled "A Modest Proposal."
It's fine talking about messes, but _someone_ has to pay for the content, and display ads don't cut it. Paywalls will be the dominant form of monetization for most mainstream news orgs in the next 5 years. The second most important one will be the Guardian's supporter model, which is a paywall lite. It's still not clear this model will work at the Guardian is still bleeding money.

I think eventually you'll see a re-arranging of press wire cooperatives such as AP and CP to limit dissemination of wire content for free without strings attached, forcing the hand of many.
82% of the websites on the Internet are powered by PHP, not Java.

A lot of these decisions are based on "what will pay the bills today and in the immediate future?" rather than purist idealism.

A lot of businesses use Java. Java experience is more useful for getting into mobile app development with Android. There's value to be had in learning and writing Java. But the demand for PHP doesn't cease to exist because Java is cool or useful.

https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_langua...
Not entirely true. Canada has "conservatives" and "everybody else". We get a lot of american media here which unfortunately poisons a lot of our political debates.
I wonder if a single rule 'no consumption past date' is a safeguard to insure simple behavior from population. If people started to think some drugs can and some cant they might indulge into trying random stuff.
Now if we could only delete files that are allegedly in use by another process.
Transport for London's hidden Dungeons
you dont have to wait ten hours to see if it works, you just hit "refresh" and you see the changes you did instantly. most obvious errors that a strongly typed language protects you from are caught by the vm at runtime. then you rely on testing, both automatic testing and manual testing. in a dynamic language you dont have to decide between float or int. your code gets less verbose and you can concentrate on good naming and making the code easy to understand, instead of choosing the right type. also you can have functions that accept many types, which gives you more flexibility and freedom.
How much do software engineers really make in each city?
> Am I missing something here?

Yes. By paying relatively small amounts to high frequency market makers in return for enhanced liquidity and price discovery, you won't be overpaying by 1% (or more). I also challenge the idea that it would just "balance" itself out, in the absence of evidence supporting that thesis. In actuality you'd likely just amplify the costs you already have and either fill fewer trades or have higher costs for doing so.

Choosing to lose $1 due to low liquidity instead of a few cents due to market makers is both petty and nonsensical. There are legitimate arguments against HFT, but they don't begin by trying to reinvent economics such as to de-emphasize optimal price discovery.
This is a ten-day difference though, which isn't really explained by leap year calculation differences/

Also, while it was never really formalised, the Paris Commune in 1871 (year LXXIX) actually confirmed in an indirect way the Romme method of calculating leap years (every four years, except every 100 years, except every 400 years) by shortly using the Republican calendar.

I have a hard time understanding this language though https://opensource.apple.com/source/emacs/emacs-54/emacs/lis... so I'm not sure where it goes wrong (or right).
Madoff didn't have a daughter.
Laravel looks just like a well structured Java program assuming you use strong types as the rest of the framework does. :P

Edit: that's not to refute what you've said or anything.
According to my research, in America it's mostly an unknown (unenforced or depends on the state's sometimes conflicting verdicts) whether having a drug in your system means you are in possession of said drug. There are other laws that relate but I cannot pretend to understand the intricacies of which laws might apply to this situation.

But yes, I am interested in a definitive answer.

Laws around prescription pills are sometimes unexpected, like every prescription pill in your Mon-Tues-Wed-etc pill box (outside their prescription container) being a felony. So my grandma has numerous unexpected felonies in her purse.
"Watch how much faster a technician wearing Glass is, than one who isn't wearing Glass and is also missing an arm and is hand-cuffed to a hyena."
Took me a minute to realize you could actually flip through the pages (just click on the pages). Nice little feature.
This is going to sound mean however I say it, so I'm not going to sugar-coat it: that's how pretty much all suckless software works. Software becomes fast via profiling and optimization, not by ritualistically applying dubious notions of simplicity (C is simple? since when? UNIX is simple? since when?).
What's wrong with a company stating its mission to hire a diverse workforce? It's pretty hard to hire for diversity, especially if you're not explicit about it.
It’s Time to Take ‘Diversity Debt’ Seriously
And Java is notorious for...

1) highly complex (and long!) build processes

2) memory issues: I have yet to see a reasonably complex Java application, both desktop and web, use a reasonable amount of RAM. Also, the fact that the JRE is long-running inevitably leads to memory leaks whereas in PHP every request and its environment get torn down at its end

3) overabstraction and literally hundred-lines-long stack traces which make debugging next to impossible. However, the trend seems to be heading this way in PHP too, so I don't know how long that advantage still holds.
> It boggles my mind having left engineering at Facebook only 2 months ago that the outside world still largely seems to write PHP like it’s 2009.

I don't know the author so I don't want to make any quick assumptions, but even if it was just a bad joke calling a community "the outside world" sounds extremely conceited
How about "people?"
Given what I know about the aviation industry, it's extremely unlikely that this was the first and second time he has done this task. We might be looking at the millionth time and million-and-one time. Memory is probably not a factor.
The paper discusses this, they say that 90%-110% is the usual range which is allowed when the drug is sold new. The FDA can set limits on a per-drug basis, and there are some where they require 95-105%, but 90-110% is the most common. (C.f. https://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/06/briefing/2006-4228B1...)

Several of the drugs they tested were > 100%, so it seems reasonable to assume that a lot of this is due to variation in manufacturing rather than to the drug degrading.
Python and PHP Scripts to Update Digital Ocean DNS Records for Dynamic DNS
Could you point some out to me? I haven't been deliberately avoiding them by any means, but I'd like to see some that allow fast search. And especially, if you've got it, fast stochastic search for Monte Carlo methods.
Sometimes it is easy to be faster than everyone else by simply having less code. Sometimes you need to think about how you can do as little as possible instead.

XTerm has the logic for handling partial screen updates and window obscuring other terminals don't bother with because it was written in an era that these weren't mere 10-50msec delays but 100+msec delays; Anyone who used dtterm on a sun IPX knows what I'm talking about

I'm also a Terminal.app user.
Yes, please keep up the good work!
It'd be cool if someone would replicate this on Linux under X11 and a few Wayland compositors, and throw urxvt, rxvt, xterm, aterm, and some others in the mix.
and who lost his arm because Glass obscured his view of that bandsaw blade.
Or, it could at least identify the process locking the file and offer to kill it.
Wouldn't the same criticisms apply to React then?
Amazon launches Spark, a shoppable feed of stories and photos
> I mean, who's to say any given doctor's office doesn't have a hidden camera/microphone somewhere anyway.

If you're having paranoid delusions, visiting a doctor's office may be a good start, despite the small possibility of hidden cameras and microphones.