skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed that the way to rally is with specs... and distributing said specs (it's not enough to write the spec, it needs to get reviewed and communicated).

The big challenge is that developers tend to only think of "spec" as in "technical specs", whereas the most important specifications are the context, the goals and the history (the "function specs" in project management terms).
I didn't know about FARA(Foreign Agent Registration Act), "that requires any individual acting on behalf of foreign interests to register as a foreign agent with the State Department", also "passed in 1938 to counter Germany’s dissemination of Nazi propaganda in the United States". That's genius.

The article is calling for FARA update to the age of social media.
How is it a waste of time?

We don't hold elections that often, nor do we need their results instantly. Voting with a pencil takes about as long as voting on a touchscreen. So why is there this stupid urge to optimise?
That's not quite an accurate rebuttal. That modeling study projects a large increase in severe hurricanes, not in hurricanes overall.

My understanding is that the models suggest that hurricanes will get more severe, in a fashion that outpaces any downward trend in quantity.

"In the Bender et al. 2010 study, we estimate that the effect of increasing category 4-5 storms outweighs the reduction in overall hurricane numbers such that we project (very roughly) a 30% increase in potential damage in the Atlantic basin by 2100."
Robot Localization I: Recursive Bayesian Estimation
I feel like the article boils down to "the Russians have a big advantage influencing the US because we allow free speech and they don't" with a strong implication that we need to give law enforcement more tools to crack down on free speech.

I vehemently reject any such notion. In the long term, the best counter to speech is more speech.
I had a J2ME (now JavaME) module in school, but I guess it was after the rush, because we only found one single Nokia phone that could run our application.
If anything it's the other guys that come off as HUGE jerks in this.

Their whole argument is how he shouldn't speak in public about ARPANET and that (quoting exactly): "The more attention you (and other people) draw to non-blow-em-up use of the arpanet the more likely some Proxmire type is to start inquiring into its operations.".

So, let's keep it to our small boys club.

Fuck them. If anything Pournelle's exposure of it helped it get into more people's minds, and open sooner.
Lua tables are better than both, in my opinion. Simpler than JSON, allows for comments, and whitespace is not syntactically significant.
The guidelines ask you not to do this, especially with the cheap insult.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The XKCD graphing is really easy to do, maybe FTE could be refined and incorporated too
This Naked Mind, by Annie Grace
For what its worth, I thought your explanation was helpful in highlighting how organised voting blocks could game the system even more effectively. :-)
Mesos actually handles the lower level part (determining which machines are up and which resources they have (CPU, memory, disks, network ports, GPUs), running tasks on machines, isolating resources from each running task on each machine, either with its own containerizer or using Docker, etc), but the tasks themselves and their scheduling details (how many tasks to run, should it try to run each task on a different machine or not, etc) are determined by the framework you are using. There are some popular "meta-frameworks" (like Marathon and Aurora) that abstract away the Mesos interface and let you just say "run five instances of this Docker container, one per physical machine". They also might handle higher level details, like service registration/discovery, rolling updates and more.

>Because they are not down. Their shares are just sent to another worker from the pool seamlessly.

Eh, depends on what you consider by "seamlessly": basically if a node goes down, everything it was running will be rescheduled and ran again on other nodes, but this might take some minutes, and ensuring this failure is not perceived from the outside depends entirely on you. Disk management is entirely up to you also, so you have to roll your own SAN if you want to have something like that (at my company Mesos disk space is completely ephemeral, and truly persistent state is always stored on S3 or external databases).
In the case of an alcohol addiction, decrease of consumption is almost a guarantee to relapse.
Not liking comment macros is not a "damned good reason," it's just a reason. People could still do that in JSON anyway the same way they hack in comments - just add them as strings.
That is one interesting revenue model. So these guys are basically given $15m a year to do nothing?
>Wikipedia says he was involved in missile defense under Reagan which suggests to me he may have been one of the "opposed to big government except when it's people I like" variety.

Wasn't Reagan also against big government? At least in his words?

If yes, working there would be contradictory for Jerry if he was "opposed to government" period, not if he was merely opposed to "big government".
AIT applies to:

- Votes with at least three options. A simple majority vote between two options does in fact satisfy all of Arrow's fairness criteria (if only vacuously).

- Ranked voting systems, i.e. ones where voters only give a rank ordering of their options, not any more information.

Quadratic voting is neither of those: It applies only to binary decisions, but for those decisions, it tries to be more fair than Arrow's criteria call for, by getting out not only information about which option voters prefer, but how strongly they prefer it. Whether it could be extended to more complex votes than binary ones, I don't know.
Scientific consensus, as published by IPCC AR5, is that there was no clear change in floods, droughts, storms in the last century. People are often surprised to find this because of sensational media reports, but that's what we have.

https://scienceofdoom.com/2017/02/12/impacts-v-climate-chang... has detailed discussion.
Gears of War shotgun logic explained
You could say the same about any rent collector.
Some people are born without fingerprints. Would make it a crappy method for them
Clash of clans hack 2017-how to hack clash of clans 2017
A trial over the issue recently concluded in U.S. District Court in Texas and a decision in that case has not yet been reached. The deal announced with the Mohawk tribe will not have any bearing on the federal court case. If the company loses that case, its patents would be invalidated regardless of the deal with the tribe.

A court hack, not a guarantee to keep the patent.
> you have either an integer, a float or a string.

JSON doesn't have "integers" and "floats", it has "numbers" which are are expressed in decimal scientific notation. There's no guarantee an implementation will let you distinguish what was parsed, and the numerical precision and range of interoperable JSON is undefined.

The bottom line is JSON is a risky proposition for financial or scientific data exchange.

And before you say JSON numbers are de-facto IEEE754 doubles, bare in mind that most JSON implementations can't roundtrip them properly.[0] A symptom of everybody wanting to write a toy implementation.

[0] https://rawgit.com/miloyip/nativejson-benchmark/master/sampl...
Human readability is exactly the point of significant whitespace. And I'm not sure how significant whitespace could even work without distinguishing between tabs and spaces, as a tab could represent any number of spaces.
As a former landlord, I don't think this is an accurate comparison.
What you are describing there is basically longwave AM radio broadcasting. Large transmitter, small transistor radio receiver.

Low speed data can be and is sent using such transmitters, it is done by phase modulating the carrier. The data can be used to switch electrical appliances on and off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_teleswitch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droitwich_Transmitting_Station

Droitwich puts out 500kW and reception range is on the order of 1000km.
I think the key factor in the superiority of paper balloting systems over electronic is exactly what you describe: the process is understandable, visible, and verifiable to human observers. Electronic voting does not meet this standard in any way.

Would that more people in the US understood the difference.
Why not make a complaint where they can actually see it, then? http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/complain-online/

Try to steer their decisions with your voice.
> Apparently my property taxes can't even cover the cost of pavement and water mains, and yet we just built a new school, and are in the process of planning a $20 million library

From the link: "If they operated on accrual accounting -- where you account for your long term liabilities -- instead of a cash basis -- where you don't -- they would have been bankrupt decades ago"

The PF analogy to what you're saying is "yeah I'm dipping into savings to make mortgage payments and need to replace my roof next year and repair a major crack in the foundation. But they let me open a credit card and get a loan for a car, so what's the problem?"
More proof that if you lose money on every transaction, you can't make it up in volume.

The on-demand valet parking space has been a great place to lose money. Zirx pivoted, Caarbon failed and now this acqui-hire of Luxe which was somehow valued at $157M in its last round.[1]

Other companies in the space haven't raised in a while including Ubo of China and ValetAnywhere.

[1] source: CB Insights
In case anyone here remembers Popurls fame, I've recently relaunched it under a new brand:
https://medium.com/hvper/popurls-goes-hvper-2867b1b6b2bd
Other fun colors are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_yellow and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker-Miller_Pink
There are plenty of people who own the mineral rights to land that it applies to.
or you can just do crypto and not be a schlub
Some time ago the VA noticed a lot of people had long term untreated pain. They ran a campaign "pain: the 5th vital sign". That campaign asked doctors to ask patients if they were in pain, and asked doctors to treat pain. It also said opioids are weakly addictive when used to treat pain.

It turns out that opioids, when used to treat long term pain, are more addictive than they thought. And also if you ask people about pain you end up treating a heck of a lot more people.

People in long term pain do need treatment, but that should normally be opioids as a last resort, and carefully controlled in a pain management clinic.

Here's the VA document: https://www.va.gov/PAINMANAGEMENT/docs/Pain_As_the_5th_Vital...

Here's a rebuttal which started the reduction in prescriibing opioids for long term pain: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1924634/
Motor Crash Compilation 2017
1% is incredibly low. Where do you live, when did you take out the loan, and what are the terms? According to this[1] chart, the lowest 30 year mortgage rate in the past 40 years was about 3.5%. I'm curious how you got a loan with such a low rate.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=NUh
OK, thank you

That helps. I won't try to compare it to HA ESXi environment again :D

Can you tell in a sentence, or paragraph maybe, why people would get excited about running Kubernetes on Mesos? Is it simply so that they no longer have to go on running their Kubernetes alongside of Mesos, as in this diagram:

https://github.com/mantl/mantl/raw/master/docs/_static/mantl...
That's a common misconception, obtaining an uncontended mutex (futex) is just a single atomic operation that takes about 25 nanoseconds.

Lock-free programming with atomics is even more difficult than reasoning about code with locks. It is best left to very specialized cases where maximum throughput is necessary and contention is high. Most practical use cases don't benefit from that.

The key is minimizing the time the locks are held. That drives down contention and keeps performance high.
The article gave an example of FARA. Do you think FARA cracks down on free speech?
Try http://talll.com for tech and http://filll.com for finance. Solid collection of rss feeds.
This isn't counting prescriptions.

> These data represent the amounts of opioids distributed legally in a country for medical and scientific purposes to those healthcare institutions and programs that are licensed to dispense to patients, such as hospitals, nursing homes, pharmacies, hospices and palliative care programs. Consumption does not refer to the amounts dispensed to, or used by, patients, but rather to amounts distributed to the retail level.
That's such a super obvious flaw. I felt I must be missing something because nobody else was talking about it.
Efficiency is not and should not be the primary concern in a democratic vote. Rather, accuracy and verifiability are far more important. Very little human time is wasted on paper-based elections, but even if it took a relatively large amount of human time to implement an accurate, verifiable voting system, it would be well worth it.
...what if those tribe suddenly decide to revoke licenses to the original patent owner? Or they suddenly decide to license to another entity for more money?
Hardly an insult. Why do you treat Google different than other companies?
Your couldn't tell from his books? They're full of ineffectual and whiny bureaucrats and academics being put in their place by rugged and noble soldiers and whatnot.

I enjoyed the heck out of most of the Niven/Pournelle books I read, but the political didactics weren't part of the fun for me.
I would say voting with a pencil takes far less time for the voters. Electronic voting machines are inevitably going to be confusing to some people because they are built on asumptions about user interface that not everyone shares. But pretty much everyone who votes has a good intuition about how paper and pencil works.
I would, if it was an interesting use case. You don't see people being handed $15m a year ("for free") every day.
Not exactly the same thing, but PostgreSQL has a query optimiser based on genetic algorithms:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/geqo.html
It has nothing to do with race. It's about vetting to weed out criminals and people who can't support themselves. White Swedes can't smuggle themselves into the country either, nor can they fraudulently collect benefits.
Is there any underlying value to anything here? Or is this just penny-stock froth made shiny and new by adding "blockchain" to it?
That's what "they" WANT you to think!
Sea salt from around the world showing contamination by particlulate plastics
I wish that iOS safari let you specify your own custom search engine. I really want to write one that wraps ddg and filters out some results / adds a few more custom !'s but haven't found out a way to do it, seems that the search providers are hard coded in settings with no ability to add new ones / API to implement.
I live in Loudoun County, va, and we've always had the option of using paper with an electronic scanner. There have been touch screen voting machines in the last couple of elections, but I didn't use them,
> personal opinion

I take it you didn't read my original comment?

Also I disagree, dangling comma is a visual cue that the sequence has a continuation.
Here's the government run liquor store in Moosonee, Ontario [0] Moosonee is a town of 2000 people in northern Ontario. It is an 8 hour train ride away from Timmins Ontario (train or plane access only). Timmins is an 8 hour drive away from Toronto. I can't imagine a situation where the marijuana prices in this town would be comparable to downtown Toronto given the amount of labour needed to transport the marijuana to this remote location. And I'm not really speculating, we see this all the time. Citizens of our northern territories (YK, NWT, NT) are used to paying $25/L of milk and so on.

Sure this is a bit of hyperbole, but it points to one of the perks of government run/controlled distribution, namely those in the cities can help to subsidize the price for those in smaller towns across Ontario. Is this government controlled model the best? Probably not but let's remember this is unchartered territory. We can look to the individual states for learnings (ie. Colorado, Washington) but Ontario is 1 million km^2 and California is half that with a much greater population density. They are different in many ways.

0 - https://goo.gl/iFNkaC
It is presented like a scam site, but without compelling users to agree to terms and conditions the site doesn't pass the basic contract law requirement of establishing a clear, unambiguous pathway to assent by a consumer to the terms.
How the Meat Industry Thinks About Non-Meat-Eaters
It's not really the locks that end up the problem. The problem is the queues. If you use locks you end up shoving data into queues which kills your performance. Unbounded memory growth is fun whenever your producer makes messages faster than your consumer can pull stuff out of the queue.

If you just use a disruptor implementation then there's no need to reason about anything. It's good to go and performant by default.
They don't. You just have a really boring comment. It doesn't bring anything new to the table.
> At Google, Employee-Led Effort Finds Software Engineers Are Paid More Than Front-End Developers

> At Google, Employee-Led Effort Finds Data Scientists Are Paid More Than Web Designers

> At Google, Employee-Led Effort Finds AI Researchers Are Paid More Than Project Managers

I could do this all day...

Any chance they'll release the data that backs up this statistical claim?
While zero consumption is probably the best, the belief that it's all or nothing seems to be associated with severity of relapse/bingeing after a failure of self-control http://persweb.wabash.edu/facstaff/hortonr/articles%20for%20...
Acute effects of whole-body vibration on muscle activity, strength, and power [pdf]
Believe it or not, they really are supposed to be about this. Here's a writeup [1] speaking about the Supreme Court's ruling on the matter:

"Purpose?
According to the U.S. Supreme Court, the “principal purpose” of class actions is “the efficiency and economy of litigation.” [4]The Court has also noted other justifications for class actions, including:

the protection of the defendant from inconsistent obligations;
the protection of the interests of absentees;
the provision of a convenient and economical means of disposing of similar lawsuits; and
the facilitation of the spreading of litigation costs among numerous litigants with similar claims.[5]

In other words, people whose claims might be too insignificant to litigate alone can band together. The class action device can eliminate redundancy in the judicial system, streamline litigation, and in some cases, create significant institutional change. "

[1] https://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/litigationnews/pract...
You cannot be fiscally conservative while constantly demanding unlimited funds for your population. Come up with an intellectually honest term instead.

Ditto with Texas, Alaska.

Maybe "welfare queen states"?
Would be interesting to know about things like latency, packet loss, maximum throughput etc (and how these properties change over larger distances).

Also, how in an "in the wild" setup works with 802.15.4e, especially with moving nodes -- how would routing table normally be determined? Signal strength alone, or is it possible to discover how central a neighboring node is to the network and use that to inform the choice too? Really interesting subject.
Ad-blocker hostile.
Holy moly, that is a helpful link. I had been doing it the old-fashioned way that used the server key. It's so great that browsers added support for logging session keys.
Alan is a great contributor to the Python community. He's dedicated countless hours to tutorials and talks. @alan: If you're part of the HN community, as I said once in person: thank you!
Another criticized her child's sixth-grade science curriculum, writing that “the two main theories on the origin of man are the theory of evolution and creationism,” and that her daughter had only been taught about evolution.
Sad day. I enjoyed the fiction and the Byte column, despite him being a jerk sometimes.

Anyone interested in science fiction should read at least The Mote in God's Eye.
Semaphores also lack a notion of ownership, which makes tasks like detecting/debugging deadlocks and remedying priority inversion more difficult.
I believe semaphores and condition variables solve different problems. Programs hanging at the exit only means the engineer mostly tested the happy path, not that semaphores are evil. I've seen plenty of deadlocks on mutexes at shutdown as well :)
TensorFlow Agents – A Tensorflow Library of RL Tools Directly from Google
In my job, we create GitHub Issues labeled "Discuss", which are essentially requests for comment. It's a great way to outline a problem you want to solve, test your assumptions, gather thoughts from the team, and create transparency. For the ideas which are really ground-shaking, we send an email to the team with a link to the Issue with a brief synopsis.
Gitignore.io – Create useful .gitignore files for your project
Proto3 has a JSON serialization that you can use as an intermediate for editing
Isn't this all about moderation? I mean, ethanol is a very simple molecule. Out bodies metabolize it quite well.

Even too much sun exposure causes cancer. Really, everything causes cancer. Chronic inflammation and irritation can, too.
Fascinating! Ant colony load balancing ^_^

tldr: "... the colony responds to the loss of highly active workers by replacing them with inactive ones"
The Magic of Chemistry – With Andrew Szydlo [video]
He wrote a book called fallen angels where Ralph Nader had taken over the US government and replaced all science with hippy woo woo about crystals. The world was plunged into a new ice-age because of global cooling and only science fiction fans could save it.

He wasn't shy about his politics and I think it's fair to say they were pretty far out to the right.
That small minority might feel quite differently. Which is the point of the QV idea, I suppose.
We would need a lot more data, I work for a much smaller company vs Google yet we can easily have people who while formally at a lower level can make beyond VP level comp. because of their unique tech. skills and experience. I imagine Google has a fairly large group of famous eng. etc. who could scew results greatly should they get to be part of the sample.
The irony here is that the plugin is actually called REST plugin

http://struts.apache.org/docs/rest-plugin.html
Show HN: Ablator – Switch features on or A/B test them inside your app
Right you are, but the main point stands.
Member of the 'Crackas with Attitude' has been sentenced
A real solution to this, which may seem indirect to many, is more aggressive antitrust enforcement. These internet giants have become the new (global) public square at the expense of all the old world institutions for civic discourse and if that were more fractured I suspect things would be better. Certainly newspapers, magazines and other web publishers would have more bargaining power (and they wouldn't have to ask for their own exemptions from antitrust law [1]).

I'm becoming more and more convinced that lax antitrust enforcement since the 1980s is the source of many problems in America today: income inequality, corporate profits at all time highs, capital expenditure seemingly no longer being necessary in the economy to obtain those profits, lack of inflation particularly in wages, and the "de-equitization" of America [2].

Concentration is a problem not just in pure economic terms in terms of higher prices or less innovation but also as a threat to liberal democracy itself (as I've gotten older I've started to take a more political economy approach to things).

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/10/newspapers-bid-for-antitrust...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-roster-of-public-compa...