skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was an explicit decision; we could do this kind of inference but chose not to, similar to how you must declare the types of functions. We started with the most conservative choice, and then are feeling it out; that's why you can now drop the lifetime.
‘Peace in the kingdom’ will be the goal for Uber board meeting today
It's a shame that cryptocurrency/tokens are being abused in this way - they're an interesting technology with a lot of good use cases, but after enough ICO instances where people get burned I'm concerned there's gonna be a huge aversion to them by the general public.
If you had read the post, you would know this, it even links to a more detailed post specifically about the differences towards the bottom.
> discussion of the news

That's the problem. If I get the article right, Google listed results from 4chan in their news boxes that appear above search results –– and that's a problem because in this place you'd expect trustworthy information and not just some speculation.

Listing a discussion (even if it's on 4chan) within the regular search results is not a problem and not what the author is criticizing.
“Anonymized” data really isn’t–and here’s why not
Nice. Haha I use a switch statement:

process.argv.forEach((arg, i, argv) => {
switch (arg) {
case "--foo":
foo = argv[i + 1]
break
case "--bar":
bar = argv[i + 1]
break
}
})
A New Idea for DevRel
Is there a moderation before the ads go live?
Your chart is gun deaths per 100,000 but the other chart posted was total gun deaths in Australia, so that's not a fair comparison. Here's the gun deaths per 100,000 for Australia: http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/10/rate_of_al.... You can see from the chart that both the US and Australia show a significant drop in the 1990s. The US levels off by 2000, but Australia keeps dropping through about 2005. It's entirely possible that the further drop could be due to Australia's 1996 gun law.
I was just discussing how good their landing page is, haha, clearly not good enough!
Counterargument: I have seen vaping be MUCH more popular among people who would not otherwise smoke, and relatively little impact among people who do smoke. That's anecdotal obviously, but I think its pretty clear that the less noxious and more convenient nature makes vaping way more popular among younger people, potentially starting lifelong addictions.

There isn't a whole lot of reason to believe these products are particularly safer, either. The heating coils are in direct contact with the fluid and get easily hot enough to decompose it. Glycerine is food-safe and very probably alright to inhale- the other products used in vape fluid and the unwanted side-products from overheating them are reactive unknowns.

E-cigs and vaporizers are/have the potential to be way more popular among people who wouldn't otherwise use them and they are not as simple or safe as just nicotine (which itself isn't as simple or safe as just being a stimulant). Because of those two factors and the current and past massive negative effects of smoking, it's an extremely good idea to regulate them carefully or even heavily. We already know how hard it is to get the genie back into the bottle from cigarettes.
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It just needs to be served over IPFS and you wouldn't need to run any kind of server at all :)
get_schwifty: Render Rails View Partials with ActiveJob and ActionCable
The waves do come at a cost of energy. That's why these black holes collide in the first place: they're orbiting each other, but the orbits decay because they radiate away kinetic energy as gravitational waves. Eventually it decays enough that they collide.

The same thing happens for all orbits, but the amount of energy radiated away is so small that it basically doesn't matter. Black holes are so massive and so small that they can get close enough for it to become significant.

The amount of energy involved is colossal. The first detected collision was estimated to have converted the equivalent of three solar masses to energy, which is about 2 x 10^47 joules of energy. Released over 20 milliseconds, it briefly output more power than all the stars in the universe combined by a factor of 50.
I'm planning on avoiding any "place to retire". In addition to the criminals and scam artists who target the elderly there is an entire legal industry doing the same -- and you can bet they flock to the South West and Florida. Your best bet is probably somewhere like the Dakotas or Montana.
It isn't even malicious - just a natural tendency people have. Like favoriting your friends picture on instagram even if it doesn't look too flattering.

I love that suggestion, but how would you validate it? Registering company domains would be an exhaustive process.
Whoops, you're right. They switched from VirtualBox to xhyve on macOS but it's still a VM.
The person you responded to isn't saying he would have been fine with dying today. They're saying that working at Intel his entire life isn't something that he was likely bothered by. If he wanted to retire or change companies, he had many opportunities to do so.
Does any of you feel cheated by Google? Rather than improving the existing product and providing backward compatibility, Google has chosen to build a new product with its own proprietary API.

I have a client who has invested significant amount time and money in Firebase Realtime Database. Now with this move, I am not sure if Google will support Firebase Realtime Database for next 5 years. So a full rewrite might be needed.

Once more it seems that going Cloud Native on one of Google's proprietary tools is very risky. I know many of the readers will say that Firebase Real-time Database is still supported. But the main question is: will it stay supported for years to come?

Google please please make an announcement and make a commitment to keep Firebase Realtime Database alive for "X" years to come. Otherwise, you are just making us developers lose faith in you.
Here's a document they wrote comparing the two:
https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/rtdb-vs-firestore
Awesome to see this. I couldn't get behind the RTDB structure, but Cloud Firestore I will definitely use!
Gerbil – An opinionated dialect of Scheme designed for systems programming
Vaping is illegal, but cigarettes are legal?
Vaping is illegal, but also taxed?
Replying to myself. There are some use cases though, and in fact my comment points to one of them. Xmonad configurations are themselves Haskell code, and Xmonad does dynamic code reloading to make configuration changes without having to logout. Xmonad rolled their own solution, but "dyre" is a reusable generalization inspired by what Xmonad does. Using Haskell DSL's for configuration of Haskell programs has some significant advantages and dynamic code reloading is essential if the program itself is long-lived or can tolerate no downtime. I don't meant to imply there are no uses ... but outside of configuration or development environments (or real-time routing algorithms in Erlang's case, something I wouldn't advise doing in Haskell) I really don't know what general use cases there are for it. If someone does though, I'd love to learn something new.
Books and the internet can get you a long way in terms of things like learning JavaScript APIs, but life is a fair bit more complex. In particular, when someone tells you a story, especially in person, you can see how it affected them emotionally.

Even if you decide to disagree with the person, you are enriched by the story having been told to you.
Yes, you can build your way to affordable housing
I can understand why you want to avoid the front-end: trends change faster than the weather. Perhaps focus on the database side. In addition to "regular" SQL, there is Transact-SQL, which is mostly procedural. There are decent jobs in it also.
Writing an entire app in a single file that ends up being a few thousand lines of code. It started as a few hundred, but grew from there (like always), and now there's no turning back until it's launched and validated! No use wasting time refactoring until I know it'll work.
I'd expected more politicians and less science, and seeing as they give away more science awards...

I was expecting them and Berkeley to be much lower on the list. Those where the two most striking.
Normally, this is the standard process in most states that I am aware of. So yes, this is a big gap in my mind in the New Yorker article.

Taking Florida's as an example (http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ...), the state gives strong preference to bloodline or marriage. The court has to declare in writing pretty specific reasons to appoint a professional guardian.

Nevada's laws (https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-159.html), although not as strong as Florida, does seem to indicate preference for bloodline or spouse.

So I wonder how they ended up with a professional guardian / fraudster in the first place. I understand that sometimes this happens due to family disagreements over who should be appointed, or inability to care for one reason or another. Maybe that happened in these cases.

Incidentally, you can also declare, in your will, a medical power of attorney which basically pre-lays out the guardianship lineage in your preferred order. From what I understand, courts tend to use the medical power of attorney preferences well over anything else, so this is probably one of the strongest ways to prevent this sort of situation.
Free legal advice: Make sure it is a "durable power of attorney". In many jurisdictions a simple PoA expires when the person becomes incompetent. Most lawyers will understand the difference and get you the right type, but anyone trying to do it themselves with junk online forms might miss the distinction.
> You can't expect SEC to rally every time

Can you expect them to rally any time, given 2008?
Rich people will buy all the homes, and we'll all be renters? How does this work, exactly?
Over-Instrumented Running: What I Learned from Doing Too Much
> It was embraced by everyone because of its speed and simplicity.

Exactly. The same thing with TCP/IP. People complain about C and TCP/IP because security wasn't baked into these technologies. That's because that wasn't the big concern back then. And the reason C and TCP/IP have legs is because they are very good at what they do.

You get the same thing with people complaining about SQL, HTML and every other language/protocol/technology.
Ya, good luck getting that investment back.
1) Not now it doesn't. That would have been smart to put in the universal declaration of human rights in 1948, but no one foresaw this coming up. Not that everyone follows the UDOHR anyways.

2) Yes, absolutely. Civilians aren't subject to the same training and filtering as M&P. Nor are they subject to the same rules and oversight. Red blood cells and white blood cells both flow around our bodies, but they have radically different shapes and functions. Of course the analogy breaks down, don't be a pedant.

3) Absolutely. But the sad fact is that legislation is always at least 10 years (more like 100+) behind technology. For the most part slow government is a good thing. No civilization could survive a few generations of whiplash laws, changing from one extreme of values to another and back and forth. It would be a bit like shaking a baby.

In the end I think we need more people from STEAM fields to sacrifice their health, sanity, and well being to serve in government to fight the inevitable entropy that all systems suffer. Why? Practical knowledge and experience vs. career politicians more interested in getting re-elected than solving problems.
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In our 20s, we tend to value newness/variety more highly.
Decades later, we tend to value impact/legacy more highly.
> Their only distinguishing feature was their descent from families identified as Cagots.
Upvoted for fellow Hoya alumni!
Interesting. Unlike the suppression of linguistic minorities (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergonha), this is very local and based purely on being a member of the wrong family. It seems that even during the persecution, nobody could figure out what the Cagots were being persecuted for, other than a vague notion that they might be unclean.
Write Your Own React-Redux Connect
I use this mostly when people give investment advice
I had a fake name on my account, but all of my real life friends knew what my name on Facebook was. I liked this system as it allowed me to connect with my friends without worrying too much about my name and data being out there.

Eventually Facebook said I had an invalid name and needed to change it. So I tried changing it to another fake name, which was rejected. I tried several more, including perfectly normal names and all were rejected. Not even abbreviations were accepted, it had to be my full exact name. Facebook knew what my real name was.

Later I realized that there was a feature asking you to type in the name of your friends based on their profile picture as a security measure (perhaps for account recovery?) anyway I suspect this one way they may have flagged my account. If friends recovering their account typed in my real name enough times, but got all the other names correct they might flag my account.
Try this reasoning:

Giving a gift is great. Taking something that doesn't belong to you is theft.
This makes me sad. I can barely read that new typeface. If I were on the market for a files backup solution, I'd want the product to communicate robustness and reliability. This combination of whimsy and the site simply not working sends a bad signal.
What about outside the USA? Mexico in protected communities could be a very cost-effective and beautiful option (not to mention the culture is, I find, a little bit more "fun" than that of America). You could also find a community of retirees in Southeast Asia somewhere, again probably cheaper than the USA. Obviously puts you far from family, though.
What in tobacco makes tobacco so bad, compared to all the other plants and animals people chew on?
What is so great about taking a risk when you are already happy? What would you gain?

You should only take a risk when the gain is worth it; if you already have what you want, the gain is not worth it.

Also, changing jobs is just one type of risk you can take. Maybe his steady work was his foundation for taking other risks in other parts of his life.
You can buy and sell high volume from GDAX. heres the website: https://www.gdax.com/trade/ETH-USD. You need to make an account with them and provide your information as the money gets transfered to and from your personal bank account.
You have kinda missed the point, Go produces fat binaries with all dependencies and the Go runtime included.
Serious question: How do you propose that WASM is going to help the situation?
But how can we measure the quality of the base system? I tried FreeBSD again a while back, but there were pretty bad bugs even in basic UNIX utilities like grep [1], some utilities + UTF-8, and I also had some kernel panics.

[1] I reported one of them in the FreeBSD bug tracker (+ patch). OpenBSD was actually really quick to solve this (I think tedu@ patched it), while the bug lingered for a long time with no activity on FreeBSD's end.
Your salary and benefits are your share of the profits.
Or just punish big brand submissions slightly, to make it fairer for everyone else.
Sure, but that's not what makes a computer useful in the first place.
Heating glycerin can produce acrolein and formaldehyde, and this has been reported in ecigs in several studies. The amounts are minuscule compared to cigarettes and don't seem to show up in second-hand vapor, but it's plausible that this could cause some long term harm.

This is why I really wish someone would sell an ultrasonic vape, which the original patent included. That should be far safer, but so far, nobody seems to be making them.
Politicians are not held accountable for the laws they sponsor or vote for. There is no limit on the degree laws are written to obfuscate intent / meaning or to prevent pork-barreling. Every politician is after campaign dollars to get reelected.

Combine that with how the elderly are often sitting on sizable wealth while basically "giving up" on fighting battles people drag them into, and for the past several decades there has been endless lobbying by predatory sociopaths to align the law to enable this kind of behavior, because stealing money from retirees is a very easy crime to commit since they are much less likely to fight against their robbers.

Its the exact same kind of predation that produces such vile amoral policy leaps as "think of the children" turning into prescribing Adderall to every other child because they are all "hyper" while making lovely profits for the doctors and producers involved, or how "tough on crime" becomes mass incarceration of nonviolent citizens for possessing a plant where they can make private prisons ludicrous profits.

All you need is a tagline to distract the masses - "we don't want elders dying alone in their homes" and you can throw civil liberties right out the window to start making profits off them, the same way sociopaths use the legal system to pray on anyone they can.
Moving it a few meters in a controlled environment is vastly different from moving it a few thousand kilometers though turbulent air, choppy sea, and stop-and-go city traffic.
Are gravitational waves = "gravimetric distortion" [1]?

[1] http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Gravimetric_distortion
Yes, retina. It may very well be that resizing is just the only action that makes the performance obvious.
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Uh, it's less about "leaving it for the other siblings" and more that it's the parent's money. It doesn't belong to any of the children until the parents are deceased and it's actually given to them.

The number of otherwise good people I've heard refer to "their money" when actually referring to their parents' assets is heartbreaking.
We grew up and realised that only open source from big companies actually pays the bills.
He joined out of school then climbed to CEO. That's damned impressive.

It would take commitment, grit, skill, and so much more to do that. It's not like he was a mindless pencil pusher in the same dead-end job his whole life.
$13k a year for care seems like a good deal to me. I'd hire the Aunt too.
I'm very inexperienced with C, but why does this repo include so much of the implementation in header (.h) files?
Are they bein considered part of the cannon since their character design is quite different?
"Sci-Hub itself doesn’t seem to be too bothered by the blocking prospect or the millions in damages it faces. The site has a Tor version which can’t be blocked by Internet providers, so determined scientists will still be able to access the site if they want."
VPN usage amongst academics suddenly skyrockets.
Hey, the new version and its updated code are live!
http://xem.github.io/sheet/
RDP is pretty darn fast (at least when I last used it ~10y ago)

I think the attraction to NX for linux users is that it is still way better than VNC.. and both of which are pretty much the only consistently functioning / packaged server options for most distros without fiddling..
outrageous
Autoconf is completely orthogonal to the base/ports split and FreeBSD vs Linux or any other UNIX.

All the ports are simply automatically configured with "--prefix=/usr/local".
Good question, and to answer this well we should probably do a blog post or something. In the meantime you could dig into the code since the clients are all open source. :-)

But basically, sync is split into two halves: writes and listens. Clients store pending writes locally until they're flushed to the backend (which could be a long time if the app is running offline). While online, listen results are streamed from the backend and persisted in a local client cache so that the results will also be visible while offline (and any pending writes are merged into this offline view). When a client comes back online, it flushes its pending writes to the backend which are executed in a last-write-wins manner (see my answer above to ibdknox for more details on this). To resume listens, the client can use a "resume token" which allows the backend to quickly get the client back up-to-date without needing to re-send already retrieved results (there are some nuances here depending on how old the resume token is, etc.).
Huh, TIL (I’m French). My mom and grandma frequently used the word “caqueux” as a pejorative when I was growing up, but I assumed it was derived from “caca” (“poop”). Makes more sense now.
Hold back progress rather than have a surplus of labor to solve new tasks?

I know what you wrote, but that's what I read.
Great Green Wall
I actually implemented pretty much the same layout (custom kernel, A/B partitions, but one each for the OS and the player software) for a similar use case (background music player). We used AUFS for partition layering. In particular, our setup was as such:

OS: SquashFS file system (ro) -> Config partition (ro/rw) -> tmpfs partition (rw)

Player software: SquashFS file system (ro) -> Data partition (ro/rw) -> tmpfs partition (rw)

The config partition is mounted read-only, all changes are written to the tmpfs partition. We then use a script to bulk write desired files to the Config partition (i.e. remount rw, copy files, remount ro). This limits the write time to a fraction of a second (these are only small text files).

As for the data partition, we remount the partition rw when we're updating the music files and check for filesystem consistency on bootup.

We hadn't had a single system fail because of the SD card in over 2 years.
Now that logo is something ugly
Exposing Server IPs Behind CloudFlare