skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the literature there are several degrees of emptiness, but emptiness is something that you "find" as you progress through the path. People make this mistake where they think the quest for emptiness where one does not feel anything.

From my understanding, the closer you are to emptiness the less afflictions you have. This is extremely useful. To bring your point home, the happiest people I know are the ones who are less afflicted, mostly due to their meditation practice.

Of course, meditation practice varies wildly across the board, as well as the quality of the technique, teachers, practitioner, etc.
At first I thought it was more Trump bluster, but the article makes clear that the US stopped funding UNESCO in 2012 because of admission of Palestine as a member state and resolutions made naming Israel as an occupying power. For this, UNESCO is labeled as “Anti Israel.” Since the US stopped paying, it racked up a $500m+ unpaid bill, and withdrawing is some way to avoid payment. However the US will still stay on as an observer and participate in discussions.

I’m frustrated that we won’t honor Palestine as it’s own state. I believe a people ought to have the right to self determination.
I guess it's just my own experience in Ontario - the GO transit trains look like they travel at about 110kph or so, and once you figure in their slow acceleration and frequent stops that means they're quite slow. Outside of the worst part of Toronto rush hour (which is notoriously bad) they're actually slower than the comparable coach bus from my area (Hamilton).

The overall average speed is a paltry 50kph.

When the train is slower than the coach bus, why even have a train?
I have seen very few companies that aren't like that, after consulting dozens of people and companies. It's a stereotype by now. They pick up some trend from mass media, like big data, deep learning, react native, and everything looks like a nail.
Given that most people in SV don't have connections to China, how did your personal investment in Toutiao come about?

And given the amount of money in China, why did Toutiao need or want non-Chinese investors, particularly individual investors?
Walmart's big Jet.com purchase is paying off
The main takeaway from the article is that sometimes there is a trade-off between nice geometrical shapes and proportional district results.

If a machine gave you a crazy-shaped district map because that's the only way to get "low efficiency gap", would you agree to them?
Can you relate to Europe/US? I have no idea about what is going on on Yemen.
I hit the link already mildly fuming at what I thought was clickbait because there's no way any place could be on track for one million cases of cholera in today's world. Quite heartbreaking to find out the headline is factual.
- For religion, he wanted: both (bible) testaments, the Quoran, history of the Church.

- Epics: Homère, Lucain, Le Tasse, Télémarque, La Henriade

- Tragedies: some Corneille, Racine (minus a few), Voltaire. No Molière

- History: some chronology works and works on the Roman Empire

He didn't want many memoires and "useless dissertations".

As a side-note this started in July 1808 and by December he was complaining that there wasn't enough new content.

The full project never got executed, only a subset ever got produced and apparently it wasn't satisfactory.

Source: Les Bibliothèques particulière de L'Empereur Napoléon, Antoine Guillois, 1900 —
http://bibnum.enc.sorbonne.fr/omeka/files/original/0ac1be913...
Well, you don't need one for Python.
You're either thinking about this too broadly, or as a system filled with static entities. Within voting districts, politics is local - individuals can sway voters, voters can decide to show up/skip voting, etc.

Also, the concept of a 'blue/red' district can be very blurry - there are many examples of 'blue' districts (districts with democrat congress reps, and a history of voting blue) that voted red in the last presidential election, and vice-versa for previous elections.

Historically, Americans prefer to vote for people, not parties.
Hey HN,

Recently there's been a lot of discussion on active versus passive in the asset management space, famously symbolised by the recent conclusion of the Warren Buffett bet.

We've been talking with a lot of hedge-funds in the past year and been struck by just how few tools active asset managers have available to them on the qualitative side. There's an immense amount of fundamental information that goes into an investment, both on the qualitative and quantitative side, but the existing tools are mostly focusing on the quantitative aspect.

We've decided to take the approach of helping with the qualitative aspect by giving asset managers better ways to access all the information available to them.

MonoThesis is our attempt at giving asset managers a better way to write their investment thesis and worry less about managing data.

We know there are quite a few people here on HN who always contribute great points to the finance discussions so we'd love to hear your take on this.

-- Martin
I think this indirectly hints at something much more fundamental: district based plurality does not make sense as an election system anymore.

I think an eye opening example is to consider a hypothetical single state with 10 representatives. This state has a population, perfectly well distributed, of 35% democrat, 30% republican, 20% libertarian, and 15% green. And we draw our districts up with absolutely no bias whatsoever. What 'should' the election results be? I think any logical person would say about 3.5 democrats, 3 republicans, 2 libertarians, and about 1.5 greens. What we get in reality? 10 democrats as they win a plurality in each and every district. 0 gerrymandering, 35% of the support, 100% of the seats.

To get our above example to have the logical results we want, you end up having to create really absurd districts that would completely dwarf any sort of gerrymandering of today. So then the question is quite obvious. Why don't we do at large proportional elections instead of district based plurality elections? If a state has 10 representatives then any party is guaranteed at least 1 seat if they get 10% support, 2 for 20%, and so on.

In the past when politicians and the people were much closer, I think districts made a lot more sense. You were voting for somebody who you knew or were at worst split by the most minimal degrees of separation. But today this isn't true. The average congressional district is now up to 710,767 people [1] (as of 2010). In 1790, at the time of the first US census, the average district size was 37,082. Times have changed, but our electoral system has not.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_congress...
> when they say deity, are they not all referring to deity?

fixed that for you

Yes? But the question makes little sense however whichway you turn it. undefined === undefined; on the other hand NaN !== NaN

and yet, I disagree, because the theism lies mainly in the believes and these are essentially about inequallity in either case.
replication support is recently added to cstore_fdw. You can replicate a cstore_fdw table to another server using streaming replication.
GitLab uses a custom Git client called Gitaly [0].

> Project Goals

> Make the git data storage tier of large GitLab instances, and GitLab.com in particular, fast.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly

Edit: It looks like Gitaly still spawns git for low level operations. It is probably affected.
Public Library of Science released a PLOS channel for cholera research
There are actually more extreme examples. Consider, Hillary Clinton got 90.9% of the DC vote Trump got 4.1%, I am not sure how you could slice up DC to get 10% Republican representation.

In Maryland's case it might be able to make 2 districts Republican, but that's assuming a very concentrated geographic minority which may or may not actually exist.

IMO, If we really want proportional representation then we should use a proportional system.
For reference, there is a NY Times article about the plague of redistricting and also a simple excel tool that someone made to make this very easy: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/magazine/the-new-front-in...

As a human who takes pride and joy in the Constitution and its tenets I find the crowbar-able gap space of redistricting an important valley of electoral attention that needs ample light of attention.
Who knows, maybe for legacy code reasons? This seems to be the documentation: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/JSON-RPC#eth_gettransa...
This picture shows a cross section of part of the LHC. Those two yellow lines sticking out are the actual tubes. Everything else is equipment to manage the particles (detectors, containment, magnetic propulsion).

And for a sense of scale, a human can comfortably stand in that tunnel next to it.

Image:
http://www.tut.fi/cs/groups/public_news/@l102/@news/@p/docum...
From here:
http://www.tut.fi/en/about-tut/news-and-events/tut-and-cern-...
Quirky serifs aside, Georgia fonts win on Web (2006)
Most of the drama around Bitcoin doesn't change the fact that Bitcoin seems to be the best store of value in the history of humanity.

For us who take it seriously and trust the Core team to be a great team of cryptographers and cautious programmers, Bitcoin is maintained well and doesn't need any new feature to be good as a store of value. It's great that it can scale somewhat, but I consider all those improvements as an extra.

If we look at fiat currencies actually, they are a low bar as a store of value to hit.
The irony of clusters of many core NUMA SMP machines is not lost on me :-)

If things follow the previous patterns that will open up the market to a single/dual core, large memory, machine with a high speed networking and storage ports that is lower cost and lower power.
This is an amazing project - excellently well done!

And the BOM is a lot more reasonable than the writeup suggests, too: a Nikon D40 would've run $800 new with a lens kit, but it's over a decade old now - you'd be getting ripped off to pay more than a C-note for a NIB one today. You'd get higher resolution with a newer camera - 20-24mp vs. the 6mp of the D40 - but for this application I'm not sure how much value that'd bring.

One thing I'd note is that the lens, an 18-55 similar to one of mine, doesn't appear to have its zoom ring fixed in place. I'm not sure that is intentional, and if (as seems likely) the camera FOV is a term in the depth calculation, it'd be worth either fixing the zoom or reading the focal length from the images' EXIF data to use as an input to the calculation.

One other note - the Nikon D-series cameras also support an electronic cable release, with shutter triggering done by simply shorting a pair of pins on the connector. While the bare plugs aren't available so far as I know, there are many third-party cable releases available for just a couple of bucks, and it would be easy to cut the cable off one of them, trim it to length, and switch the shutter with a transistor. Might save effort and improve reliability over the IR method. (I do use an IR remote release with my D5300, but only in cases where the cable release presents risks, as for example long-exposure effects with a Tesla coil - I've seen it couple enough EMI into the release cable to trigger the shutter and even reboot the camera. But it's occasionally tricky to trigger the shutter via IR, so I prefer a cable release when I can use one.)

Again, an excellent project, and one I'm glad to see here on Hacker News!
It took us 4 years to define our startup’s culture. Here’s what I learned
It seems pretty natural for ad blockers to block miners, which extends them more into the space of allowing users to maintain control over their client, rather than purely blocking ads as the name implies.

That being said, the primary concern so far seems to be the CPU melting effect of the mining. (I don't want to use my battery, CPU, etc to make you money without you asking me.) Rather than blacklisting certain domains or requests to crypto-mining services, I'd like to see something that protects against intensive scripts in general.

Here's how I could see it working:

* Services like Coinerra want to do intensive work without blocking site responsiveness, so they should use something like Web Workers.

* Browsers should provide user controls to throttle the execution of Web Workers. This will protect their resources from most intensive scripts.

* Intensive execution on the main thread already has (inelegant) protections (no responsiveness, script timeout warnings). Maybe these will need to be improved as more sites request intense, continuous computations on behalf of clients.

Unfortunately, crypto miners themselves will have little incentive to add the controls on their end, because it is best for their customers if the hashes are computed at the maximum rate. (Well, they will have a little incentive, because throttling may allow them to fly under the radar, providing smaller revenue without being blocked entirely.)
Is this even necessary?

Can't they simply set up an LTD in Ireland and "use" it in Germany?

I know some Germans who did this for tax reasons, but I could imagine that Ireland formalities are easier to understand for English speakers.
Of note, the article (originally from the International Herald Tribune) cites the website of The New York Times as being the primary example of Georgia on the web. Today in 2017, NYTimes (which hosts the linked article) is still using Georgia despite the ease of using custom fonts in modern browsers.
Startups are like stand-up comedy
If you are serious, I would recommend using local firewall rules to modify your outgoing packets so that they are in some way non-standard, and then filtering all but the non-standard packets at your networks firewall.
Well it depends how much control you have. Personally, I think something like this could work quite well as a "open source, $$ to use our hosted version".

In that model, you'd open-source the tool itself (which means there can never be any lock-in concerns) and charge organisations/people who want to use the hosted version.

This also means you could get buy-in from e.g. freelance developers. They'd be able to run the tool in private to build a client site, and then say "hey if you want to keep editing this site, upload this <specially-formatted-export>.zip to Pyxxi.com and you can keep editing it.

The selling point for the hosted version might then be 'extras', such as the ability to push the generated content to an sftp server, or s3 bucket the user specifies.
At this point I feel like it's worthwhile to remember to why we even have districts.

We could, in principle, get rid of the districts and just have some kind of statewide scheme for electing representatives proportional to the outcome of a popular vote. The idea behind retaining districts, as far as I understand it, is that people in similar locales will often have very correlated interests (e.g. with regard to decisions that affect that area) and that choosing representatives from particular locales is supposed to guarantee that people in that area are represented (and make the representatives to some degree beholden to them).

Ideally, we'd split the states into districts in a way that doesn't deviate from overall proportional representation very much, hence the idea of the efficiency gap. So gerrymandering can break that efficiency constraint.

But the notion of geographic correlation of interests makes it such that the population is unlikely to be distributed in the kind of uniformly random way you need to get weirdly shaped, efficient districts, and conversely having weirdly shaped districts at all effectively assumes that geographic correlation of interests isn't an important factor.

In other words: if we have to make weirdly shaped districts to maintain efficiency, then the assumptions that caused us to require districts in the first place probably fail and we should just ditch them.
US: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/the-united-stat...
Here's exactly how much faster the iPhone 8 charges versus the iPhone 7
Seems like you rely on the chrome extension to initiate the script? I.e. for the mail merge from airtable, you figure out which page the users is on to know which table to merge from correct?

If so, might I suggest inboxsdk.com for help with your extension dealing with Gmail.
Because certain issues are geographical in nature, especially at the local level.

Should a new highway replace the housing development over there? Well, people who live close to that housing development might care one way or the other (Noise complaints, Ecological issues, Traffic Issues). People who live very far away from that center probably don't care at all. And the people who live in the housing development (who will be forced to move out), especially renters who probably won't be properly compensated, will care the most.

The placement of schools, the budgets of police, the design of zoning regulations (in particular "Enterprise Zones" of lower taxes to encourage business development in some areas)... these all are innately local issues.
Looks like it's missing from the release notes 1.21 should also contains fixes for building Emscripten on Win32 which was broken by some small changes in 1.20.

Given that Emscripten isn't a tier 1 platform it wasn't a big deal but wanted to call it out in case anyone ran into it with 1.20.
Disappointingly low on technical detail... For me the most interesting part of an interview with the original author of some well-established technology is when he or she is discussing something that you take for granted and says something along the lines of "oh, that thing is more of a historical accident, I would design it a bit differently today". These nuggets can really broaden your perspective, but I couldn't find any of them in this interview.
Yep, very similar idea! Key difference is that DOS games didn't use a standard 3D API so you can't just intercept that and replace higher quality textures - you'd have to intercept and rewrite the renderer itself.
both khan and kahn come out as british can't modulo t does, I guess, though noone knows what it sounded like originally.
Any idea on how to find all government IP addresses? specially for other countries
> I always get tempted to switch to Ruby * whenever i remember that Matz intended to make programmers happy. However, I don't think i'd feel comfortable with a language that only allows object-oriented programming, and moreover OOP of the old way (a method must be tied to only one object. This is what prevents me from going to Smalltalk, btw.)

That's a pretty strange stance. OOP is around and alive, and with the prudent addition of functional constructs, you get the best of both worlds.

To me, the deal breaker about a language is static typing: if the language is dynamically typed (like Ruby, Python and Smalltalk), it's a non starter.
> Elon has proposed a solution

Really? What is it?
One of my favorites is on Slashdot. If you go there and search for 'VMware' then you can find it.

When VMware was first announced and demoed, the commenters at Slashdot declared things like it was fake, it was stupid, it was a waste, it would never work, or that dual booting was a better solution. They largely concluded that virtual machines weren't a thing and happily congratulated themselves for their brilliant insights.

I'm on a tablet or I'd dig the link out for you. It's one of my favorite discussion threads on the Internet.
The OnePlus 5 charges up the fastest with its own proprietary "Dash Charger". The HTC U11 comes in second place and then the iPhone 8 Plus in third. Most surprising of all was the Note 8, which lagged in last.
C++ with Doxygen and Java with Javadoc are much saner formats for this purpose.

What's even worse is that Visual Studio 2015 just vomits out that the XML is malformed when I have C++ headers with Doxygen style comments in them. It detects the three slashes and tries to apply C# XML docs parsing to them and that of course fails. Meanwhile NetBeans can handle them no problem and display parsed docs in pop ups.
Oooh, that's super interesting! If it's backed by DOSBox I doubt it's recompiled from source, but I could ask :)
What Facebook Did to American Democracy
Slight gripe: I'm pretty sure they own a lot of validating nodes.
DC is a single city and doesn't even have one representative in Congress (Okay, they nominally have one. But she's non-voting so.... that's not really useful). They're technically a US Territory and have no more power than say Puerto Rico.

So once again, if you're talking about US Representatives and Voting Districts, it only makes sense to talk about well... Voting Districts. Name me one US State with 80/20 split and more than 1 US Representative. Ultimately, your hypothetical doesn't exist!

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That's the cool thing about politics: its real. There's no need to make up hypotheticals when we can just draw from the real world.

FYI: the discussion at hand is about US Representatives, and not about the Electoral College. Washington DC is therefore irrelevant, as it has no representatives. Washington DC does get 3 Electoral college votes, but that has nothing to do with Gerrymandering.

There's a variety of states who have "Representatives At Large", such as Wyoming, which are basically immune to Gerrymandering. The population is so low that Wyoming only gets 1-Representative, so the entire State is the whole district. There's really no "fair" way to cut up a single Representative (its all or nothing), but that's mostly due to the very low population of these states.

Basically, Gerrymandering can only be an issue in a state with more than 1 Representative.
It's the 10th time you submitted this in one week. You can try the https://news.ycombinator.com/show category (just prefix the title with 'Show HN') which gives a little more expose and maybe at a comment "hey, it's the author here, I created this because ... feel free to ask questions".
I'd say more direct causes are the destruction caused by the Yemeni civil wars, religious opposition to modernization efforts and ongoing terrorism and violence perpetrated by extremists and separatist groups... Sure the West shoulders some blame but internal problems in Yemen itself have prevented it from developing.
More likely, it's Elon worrying about how to colonize Mars than anything else.
Cypress.io Front End Testing Tool (Selenium Replacement) Enters Public Beta
I thought it would self destruct after cloning of forking before clicking :)
New Open source software cyber defense project from Google, Jfrog, IBM, Red-hat
It is. -h, -v
Well, I find it unlikely that a Chinese, Mexican or African-American would have been surprised that a high ranking law enforcement officer was openly supportive of the people terrorising their communities in those days.

To be honest I'm a little surprised that a Jewish person would be that naive either, particularly a lawyer that helped found the ADL.
In the 90s a lot of companies (including big ones like Square Enix) simply deleted the source code once the game launched. They truly thought they had no need for it any more.
> We now run LLVM in parallel while generating code, which should reduce peak memory usage.

I did a double take there, since more parallelism often has the opposite effect (like computation, memory usage that would be spread out over time now happens at once, causing more memory overhead). The linked github issue[0] explains though:

> It also allows the main thread to switch between either translation or running LLVM, which allows to reduce peak memory usage since not all LLVM module have to be kept in memory until linking.

So I guess the idea is: the code that has already been translated can be processed by LLVM before all translation is finished, so it can also be released earlier. Very nice!

[0] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/43506