skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By legit I mean that they don't pass off white noise or some other noise as pink noise. Try and see what works for you. There is also the YouTube Music app you probably know of that you can use to play something overnight.
Matlab's REPL experience is great. It satisfies almost all of the "what makes a good REPL" and "what makes a programming language REPL-friendly" criteria in the article. Having a full featured plotting library available to inspect intermediate values when debugging is amazing.
Yes, using natural language, even "formal" natural language to philosophise is like using a mallet for brain surgery.

And we don't have anything better.
The conservative values may predominate for longer than the conservative majority, due to voter suppression and gerrymandering by the state.

As one example, I read an article describing a program to reduce voter registration in Texas (this was maybe 2 years ago, so my memory will be imperfect). Someone registering voters has to be from the same county or district as the voter, and has to follow a sizeable book of regulations. Violations are felonies. This makes voter registration drives very difficult.

These tactics and others like them are not novel; they existed before the Voting Rights Act of 1965. After the Supreme Court in 2013 effectively ended the supervision of states by the federal government, the tactics returned in many of the formerly segregated states.
For that use case, maybe an event emitter would work better?
Being able to work from home full time is my number one factor. The multiplier of work I get done is so high that many weeks I work around 10 hours.
To add to your point, I gleaned this from the Economist:

" Consumers tend to respond much more strongly to “free” offers than to prices that are only fractionally higher than zero. When Amazon first offered free shipping in European countries, orders surged—but not in France, where by mistake it charged around ten cents.

Researchers talk of the “privacy paradox”: when asked, people say that they care much more about their privacy than their actions would suggest."

This leads to another issue. If governments and companies are making important policy decisions based upon data, is it fair or right to access their online behavior in addition to surveys, as people often lie in surveys to project a better image of themselves.
All of the test questions are available online, too [0]. They are literally the questions on the test, and you can rote-memory them if you don't care to understand them. But the questions cover important topics in ham radio: They serve a purpose. If you learn the theory behind the questions, you'll be a lot better off anyway. Also, don't trust airsoft to give you tactical skills you can apply in actual combat. Those are two games that progress completely differently.

[0] https://www.qrz.com/hamtest/
Can anyone explain why he preferred a lower correlation with Fandango scores as a tie-breaker between Metacritic and IMDB? I couldn't follow the argument that a lower correlation shows Metacritic has more reliable results.
As a hardcore qmail (and qmail-ldap) user back in the days, I can confirm that this is all accurate and correct.
If you're interested in an environment like this you should check out NaSC for Elementary OS.
From reading forums the other marker seems to be those 'who know' what they are prepping for e.g a solar flair or nuclear bomb is going to happen. This vs. the attitude disasters can happen and to have general coverage.

And if you look at the history of the world it's reasonable to have some level of prep going. Disasters are low chance but consequences are severe. It's reasonable odds at one point in your life there will be a major disaster. Historically it's unlikely to get through 2 lifetimes without something significant happening. Most people have house/car insurance for these low risk events but feel prepping is unusual. I'd prefer to have some coverage from a low chance but high consequences disaster than have the cost of replacing a car covered.
Most supermarkets where I live have a battery bin near the entrance, and I've seen many times various packs or even sealed lead acids crammed in.
Just my personal take -- I can't speak for Americans in general.

From my perspective, European politics has never really gotten away from the idea that there should be a ruling class and a ruled class. What those classes are called, and how one becomes a member of them, has changed over time, but whether you call it "the nobility" or "the politburo" or "the EU", the idea that there is a ruling class who make decisions with little or no accountability to the ruled class appears to always be there.

Unfortunately, we seem to be headed down that road ourselves. Pity, that.

The mistake most Europeans (and many Americans) seem to make is attempting to map American politics onto European notions of "right" and "left", so you get people doing bizarre things like equating U.S. libertarians with Nazis (because they're both supposedly "right wing", despite having absolutely nothing in common with each other).

My sense is that the difference between European "right" and "left" wings is the difference between being ruled by communist bureaucrats or being ruled by large property owners (nobles or rich people).

Some of us here don't like either of those ideologies. :-)
Uber’s board wants Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi to be its next CEO
> Get ready, because the next few decades are gonna look like this.

Probably not.[1]

And thinking as a lay person, storm intensity is governed by differences in temperature, not absolute rises is it not? In fact one might expect lower intensity, since the poles will warm by more than the equator.

[1]
> there is a small nominally positive upward trend in tropical storm occurrence from 1878-2006. But statistical tests reveal that this trend is so small, relative to the variability in the series, that it is not significantly distinguishable from zero

https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/historical-atlantic-hurricane-and-...
I know this is controversial, but he was sentences to death with no trail or anything.

Violating human rights against one individual, is, as per the original definition, violating the rights of all of humanity.

I get that this was an extreme case, but there's always an extreme case that goes first, and the line gets gradually pushed further and further. We've seen this in history countless times.
I personally know vik, knew of the project, and so was so excited to see this article here by coincidence. He's personally investing great effort to rescue music that otherwise wouldnt be heard. Super recommend his other albums (one is like a Haitian Buena Vista).
Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Will Be Uber’s New CEO
Looks like Recode has only had time to update the title to reflect the Expedia decision. The story was previously about how "Uber's board says it voted, but will not divulge its new CEO until employees know".

https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/901963504541810688
In theory, a reasonable suspicion is established by the prosecution, and approved by a judge, prior to a warrant being issued. This is often further reviewed, by a judge, prior to the extradition request.

I make no claims about this specific case, but that's how it's supposed to work. There have been cases of unlawful renditions, but this doesn't appear to be that and those matters don't usually show up in court. It's not perfect, but reasonable suspicion is what warrants are based on.
Yep, qmail was awesome back in the day -- especially all the virtual hosting stuff. It was used extensively at Yahoo! for quite a while with great success. I imagine they've probably long since moved on, though.

WRT OpenSMTPD: I have used it and do use it on several machines, although just for locally generated mail (e.g. system e-mails to root) that I want delivered elsewhere. It's lightweight, easy as hell to configure, and just works(TM). Unless you're running a large mail environment or need lots of integrations with other software (e.g. SpamAssassin, OpenDKIM, etc.) it'll probably serve your needs quite well.
Yes, it does need to be delayed until the stack is unwound, but it doesn't need to be delayed until after any events already on the main event queue. (I'm not sure what "the next turn of the event loop" means in the presence of multiple queues.)
It's complicated, but in the simplest terms it means that more than one grape variety is used. Blends can be co-fermented or fermented separately and blended after the fact (the most common).
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+1 for OpenSMTPD.
If you not that price sensitive consider Leatherman Charge. Slightly better than the Wave. Its not cheap but they should last a long time. It my go to tool for little fix it jobs around the house. Amazing quality and coverage what you get done with it.
Easily missed, but at the bottom of the page they're selling a SkiFree shirt[1].

I got one for my birthday a couple of years ago and it's my unashamed favourite geeky shirt I own, even though it looks a bit silly and isn't a terribly high quality shirt.

[1]: http://www.cafepress.com.au/mf/37735548/abominable_tshirt?sh...
Can you run other benchmarks on the system? Things like "Medium"-data SQL queries?

ThreadRipper/Epyc sounds like a great platform for mass-NVME database systems.
The whole Pale Moon project doesn't even make sense to me. They could have just broken the browser toolkit out of comm-central (SeaMonkey) and built on top of that if the 'Classic' interface is what they are looking for. This solves the problem of the classic interface, current security patches, and modern Firefox HTML5 support.

There is no way that their tiny team can resurrect all of the old APIs that Mozilla has been decimating recently (XUL/XPCOM extensions/add-on SDK, complete themes, non multi process extensions, unsigned extensions, etc.)

With all of the talk about breaking Thunderbird (and, ostensibly, SeaMonkey) out of the core Mozilla infrastructure, the future does not look bright. I am honestly unsure as to what I'll do when SeaMonkey finally dies. I use an xpfe complete theme, maintain a SM/Thunderbird add-on that directly modifies the browser XUL to display picons/X-Faces/Faces/X-Image-URLs/etc, maintain an add-on that loads the old add-on manager in a separate (non-incontent) XUL window, etc.
They aren't really REPLs. A REPL isn't just a prompt that you can put code into.
It's also not a new concept, it's just that porn is sprouting genres faster than... some analogy that's better left unsaid here.
That's missing the point.

You can either learn from his techniques and improve your skill, or you can argue about definitions and not improve your skill.

There is no doubt that DJB has good coding skills.
Only for OEM products and afaik its only till end of year not for a year after release. Thinkmate indicated they will have workstations out in a month over email.
From Wikipedia on the Expedia CEO:

>Ten years later, in 2015, Expedia awarded him $90 million worth of stock options as part of a long-term employment agreement, stating he would stay until 2020.
I don't think there's anything fundamental about a compiled language that prevents it from having a REPL. (If anything, you could always have a dedicated interpreter for interactive work—"compiled" and "interpreted" are functions of the implementation, no the language.)

In practice the compiled languages I've used extensively (OCaml and Haskell) do have REPLs, but ones that aren't nearly as powerful as some other languages. I'm not sure exactly why it's the case, but I certainly don't think it's impossible for them to have good REPLs. My guess is that there are some properties of the languages that make a good REPL a bit more difficult to implement, and there simply hasn't been enough community investment to overcome that.

I wish there was because I basically live in GHCi (Haskell's REPL) and sorely wish for a few core improvements like hot loading updated code when possible.
I mean the same areas that flooded now flooded in Ike, Rita and Allison, so yea it does make sense. My family lived through each and I'm not sure why they stick where they are.
Security of an email server has nothing to do with secure transport of emails. If you run qmail, nobody will ever root your server. Sure they'll be able to intercept and read your email, but they won't root your server!

I did run qmail in 1998ish and it was quirky but rock solid. But that was coming from sendmail, which I'd never recommend. Now I'd say postfix is the way to go: quite secure and fully TLS capable.
The login did not work for me :/
Well maybe. I think the implication there is 'I would pay a subscription to use this service if I had to, and would prefer that than an ad-supported service'. I don't think it's 'I would pay money for no reason rather than using an ad blocker'.
On that note...

Sources close to one leading candidate, Meg Whitman, said she has not been informed as yet about a choice.
"I did it, but it's not my responsibility." That's what I read from your reply. Suffice to say, we have different morals.

And no, I don't have anything that is ad supported. I dislike the tracking and security implications, but not enough to alter my morality. This is morally similar to vandalism, in my opinion.

If your okay with that, don't let me tell you how to live. I just can't justify harming people for something I can just block or ignore.
I'm pretty sure there is no sound explanation. If he wanted to pick the one that was most normal he should have just found the distribution that was quantitatively most correlated with a normal distribution.

The only rub in doing this would have been deciding on what an "optimal" value for the standard deviation in a 10 point rating system is, which would have been an interesting discussion. To me, this is the most important question of this whole approach. If really big standard deviations are fine, then Rotten Tomatoes uniform distribution might turn out to be the most "normal". But he seems to have totally glossed over this important fact, which is the real difference between IMDB and the other systems. With IMBD, the standard deviation of the scores is small compared to the range of possible scores. As a result, if a movie is rated 9.0, you know its gonna be pretty damn great, and a high 9 or 10 would suggest this is one of the greatest movies ever made by some distance. That's the kind of information you can't get on a rating system where 5% of movies get 5 stars.
I think the compiled language analog of a REPL is something like LINQPad for C# where you code in the top pane, highlight a snippet to execute, and get the results in the bottom pane. Combined with the more functional-style language features it's very conducive to layering on complexity and analyzing code where you can execute inner layers to see what they do.
> Euclidean geometry is gone when you bend fabric?

Do you just mean that everything is still Euclidean in the complete 3D space of real life? This is true but does not make the 2D-curved-spaced analysis any less fundamental. All curved manifolds (including curved spacetimes) of dimension d can be embedded in a Euclidean space of dimension 2d such that the metric on the former is just the one you get by projecting down from the latter. Insofar as all the quantities you are working with are confined to the curved d-dimensional manifold, it's as fundamental a notion of curved space as ever exists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dara_Khosrowshahi
> very sane people like Musk, Hawkings, and Gates

Ehhhh... those folks are smart but none of them would make a top 10 list of the sanest people according to me.

> It's not the cliche SkyNet or Ghost in the Shell stuff per se. For example, automation and how it's effecting the economy really does matter

Sure, but this sounds like a cop-out in context.
Exactly, there is no reason anyone should be on the roof of their homes in Houston other than inability to heed warnings and read a weather report.
Julia has had a good REPL since its inception, (along with the awesome Jupyter notebooks). It also allows live code replacement (eg. Revise.jl).
The chips in the smart watch aren't made by hand :-)

Seriously, what you're paying for here is the labor (mental and physical) of a highly-skilled artisan. It's the same thing as paying more for a painting by a skilled artist than you do for an inkjet printout of a digital photo.
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The basic answer is speed and accuracy. The approximations implemented here are within 0.1% of the Vincenty method for distances under 500km, which is useful in all kinds of situations. The Haversine formula works for spheres, so it's not as accurate as the Vincenty method for the Earth (a flattened sphere), and it uses more trig functions than this approximation, so it's slower and less accurate for lon/lat distance calculations.

I work with Vlad (the author of the original Javascript https://github.com/mapbox/cheap-ruler). At the time it was created, we were basically just looking for the fastest method to get accurate distance calculations on lon/lat values within "short distances". Vlad found that this approximation fitted our needs well (i.e. the types of distances we typically needed to calculate distances for), and performed the best.

For really accurate measurements, you typically need to use a projection system that's targeted at the area you're measuring in. The earth isn't even a perfect flattened sphere, it's covered in lumps and bumps, so if you need really accurate measurements, you need to use one designed for the bump you're measuring on. Some great illustrations here: http://www.icsm.gov.au/mapping/datums1.html
The Clock of the Long Now has a gear machined to match the earth's 26k year precession cycle: http://longnow.org/clock/prototype1/
It would not be surprising if they were counting on the possibility of selling to the giants like Monsanto. The giants don't dare get involved directly at the early stage, just too much legal and reputational danger, but they are one of the logical exits for people who can go in earlier and lock up all the IP.
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The Bulova Accutron is also very accurate, as the name suggests -- around five seconds a year -- and is much less expensive than the Omega.

The fact is that most luxury watches are mechanical; the Skywalker X-33 is an oddity in that it's a luxury quartz, which barely exists as a market segment. Mechanical watches are not as accurate, with standard COSC deviation being -4 to +6 seconds... per DAY.
I'm surprise how long qmail lasted but it definitely has issues (some of them with patches, the patches definitely have much more flimsy security and realistically you can't run it without many feature patches these days)

I actually wrote a replacement for vpopmail called 'rmail' that stored the virtual user databases in cdb. I never liked requiring a central DB like MySQL for your mail receipt to work in real time in an otherwise relatively decentralised server protocol (despite literally working at MySQL for 9 years) and liked the idea of a file better. Powered 1000+ users for many many years. Now replaced with postfix for about 5 years :)

Still, it definitely has a surprisingly solid place in my historic heart.
Huh, why would that work?
I once had an economics professor who insisted the bigger hurdle to marijuana legalization was monetizing it. It's a quite unique cash crop in that it only takes a small area and small amout of labor to produce large supply. His words, paraphrased: "You can grow enough marijuana in your basement to meet the demands of your whole neighborhood! And it's a difficult thing to patent to use IP ownership as a revenue model..."

Looks like BioTech Institute LLC (and I'm sure lots of others) are trying to address the second point.
Those wouldn't need electricity, however, if you decide to run them off of some kind of renewable bio-fuel or even just natural gas from renewable sources. The main thing is to switch them off of fossil fuels ASAP, then you can move from there to whatever future tech comes along later.
Scala's REPL is fine. It has a useful paste mode as well.
I just liked the various graphs used in the article, so I wanted to share that.

As for the rest of the site or the thread discussing the result, I don't think you'll miss much by not wading further.
This is pretty much why syncthing is really cool (but for some reason hasn't caught on).

You just install one single binary (or a package form your distro, preferentially), and it shows a clear and non-tech-user-oritented UI.

Also, it's closer to dropbox that storj. Storj stores files on the cloud (think S3), syncthing sync across machines -- much like dropbox.
I'd rather not believe the picture painted by one book author as opposed to Wikipedia and "World Health Organization,[1] the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Medicine,[2] the American Dietetic Association,[3] the Dietitians of Canada,[3] the British Dietetic Association,[4] American Heart Association,[5] the British Heart Foundation,[6] the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada,[7] the World Heart Federation,[8] the British National Health Service,[9] the United States Food and Drug Administration,[10] and the European Food Safety Authority.[11]" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturated_fat_and_cardiovasc...
It is licensed MIT, so if you give credit for using the code, you should be good.
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NPM wouldn't mind.
Oh! I'm dumb, I just noticed that it's a fork. Sweet :)
REPL stands for read-eval-print loop. So yes, it is just a prompt that you can put code into that will print a result.
VW Emissions Software Engineer gets 40 months jail and $200,000 fine
Uber Chooses Expedia’s Chief as C.E.O., Ending Contentious Search
I like to try to watch a few videos of a prominent individual when sizing them up. Here are a few I found:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsiiqlodKvU

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PNT2I2Xsxc

Overall I'm not impressed, but I'm curious what others' thoughts might be.
I have many Epyc/TR benchmarks coming up... Some PostgreSQL and SQLite though is about it for SQL. List of possible tests @ http://openbenchmarking.org/tests/pts

Could add other SQL tests if being pointed to a decent set of scripts for setting up given test and execution in an automated manner so it could be incorporated into the Phoronix Test Suite test profiles.
The language used as an example in the article (and one that fulfills its criteria for a good REPL) is Clojure - which is compiled.
What's the point of living through the zombie apocalypse?

I honestly don't understand any of this stuff vs the normal 3 days of water/food/etc thing. If shit's that bad, we might as well be dead. Why live for The Walking Dead?
It's not a problem in practice. OCaml has great concurrency support, which is what you need for applications that do IO, like servers. For CPU-bound applications like number-crunching, you take advantage of existing bindings to C or Fortran libraries. For a thorough discussion, see https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/7-years-after-is-ocaml-suitable-...

Also remember that with BuckleScript, you're deploying to JavaScript, which is single-threaded by definition. OCaml's runtime model (modular, single-threaded, strictly-evaluated) maps beautifully to JavaScript.
Wish him luck, but all the controversy and outrage are a huge distraction to the business.
Hydrogen seems nice, I also occasionally get tired of the default jupyter notebook interface and use Emacs[1] to edit my notebooks, this way I can have all the niceties of jupyter notebooks without working in the browser :D

[1] -- (https://github.com/millejoh/emacs-ipython-notebook/blob/mast...)
Transverse Mercator with an accuracy of a few nanometers

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00190-011-0445-...