skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Need is a strong word so I'll assume you mean want.

1. Households with more than a couple residents who are bandwidth hungry. Ever live in a place where people are trying to use VoIP, stream 1080p videos, download Windows updates, and play online games at the same time? Having experienced this it's the best use case I can think of.

2. Productivity. The faster you can download the 2GB Xcode update the faster you can get back to work.

3. Lower latency is better for gaming. A better connection can give you an advantage over other players.

4. Because people want it.
"Our brains have just one scale and it resizes our experiences to fit."

That's such an astute observation. I can see how I do that in my own life.
> One additional thing to consider about the trailing-whitespace, a lot of (sometimes anal) developers have set up hooks to automatically strip whitespace at the end of a file every time they hit save.

Strip whitespace at the end of all lines, or at the end of a file? Wouldn't be a problem at the end of files, but at the end of lines might be an issue.

> To clarify the array, in your suggestion, the favorite_colors would come out as a string, that I would then eval or parse, correct?

Correct. A leaf/value can use any encoding. So you could have something like this:

function Person (note) {
this.patch(note)
if (this.favorite_colors)
this.favorite_colors = JSON.parse(this.favorite_colors)
}
Person.prototype = new Note()

var joe = new Person('favorite_colors ["blue", "red", "green"]')
console.log(joe.favorite_colors[0])
// prints "blue"
console.log(joe.favorite_colors[2])
// prints "green"
Several Linux tools for this purpose have existed for a while as well - gnome-keyring (now seahorse)[1], KWallet, etc.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_Keyring
You can skip the degree but not the work of understanding important counter-intuitive concepts that it represents.
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All roads lead to open by way of a maps fiasco? I can't even begin to diagram your thought process.
Out of curiosity, why? Is Feinstein one of the main proponents of the extension or something?
You can drop the extra () which brings it down to 80.

for i in range(1,101):print("Fizz"if i%3==0 else'')+("Buzz"if i%5==0 else'')or i
The right to bear arms isn't some trivial notion to be tossed aside when it is no longer convenient to maintain. It is a fundamental right that was given to the people by those who founded our government that we would be able to fight back against that same government were it to ever become oppressive. Every day, we increasingly see the infringement of our civil liberties, and it seems obvious that the desire of the government to continue broadening its scope of power at our expense is not likely to abate any time soon.

I ask you: if this trend continues, where do you think it leads?

Our guns are our final check against the formation of a potentially oppressive regime; they are our assurance that we will never become helpless, that we will always have the capability to fight if fighting ever becomes necessary. Though it is certainly a great tragedy that these children have died today, how much greater were the tragedies throughout human history that resulted from the excessive centralization of power and a populace that was unable to fight against it? You think that human nature has changed in the last half century; you think that something like that cannot happen again, that it won't happen here? People have not changed; sociopaths still seek power, and when they find it, if the masses have no way of fighting back, they will find themselves dealing with problems many orders of magnitude more horrific than the occasional school shooting. I am familiar with all of the arguments for disarming the people of the United States, and they are all fundamentally flawed, because nothing is worse than being at the mercy of tyrants.
Not very long ago stock of the iPhone 5 wasn't always available. My wife would have waited a couple of weeks for her replacement work phone if she waited for the 5. Other people may have changed their choice based on availability.

The iPhone 5 is a better phone and in my view better value because it might have a longer useful (kept up to date with the latest OS) life. Having said that the 4S is still a very good phone and I have no intention of replacing mine anytime soon.
> People who don't like randomness mixed with skill just need to stop measuring themselves by the outcome of a single game.

It's not measuring yourself, it's the emotional experience of playing that one game. If you can play the same game a bunch of times, such that the randomness gets smoothed out, that experience is different from the experience of just playing one game. There is thus something to be said, I think, for games that are explicitly designed to be played in a tournament style. For example, Mexican Train Dominoes- you're supposed to play it in 13 rounds, so even though you may get completely screwed over by bad draws on any one round, it's highly likely that everyone ends up on even footing overall (except for that one time I got a double 6 five rounds in a row...). Or Hnefatafl- it's empirically unbalanced, so standard practice is that you always play two games switching sides.

Hnefatafl has another interesting option for redressing unbalanced skill levels, though; each player can simply bet at the beginning on how many moves they think it will take them to win. If you play beyond the lowest number of moves wagered, that player loses. It's a similar idea to handicapping in Go, but extremely simple and requiring no negotiation such as would seem condescending. Unless, of course, you want to be a jerk about it and just always overestimate your move count on purpose.
BTW 3GeV is not "very slightly different". It's the mass of 3 protons, which for subatomic particles is a lot.
Many people who homeschool their children also organize activities for their children either with other homeschool children, or with children from local schools (sports being a big one there).

Even so, this represents, very optimistically, a dozen or two hours of interaction with others a week. It cannot hold a candle to the interaction children going to schools experience.
> In the event of 2FA/MFA, I'm assuming one needs to generate an application-specific password and keep that in the .rc?

As far as I am aware, this is currently a limitation of any third-party client that connects to Gmail.
We don't need to prevent this from happening again. We need to stop these things from happening again and again and again.

It's shocking but it's not surprising, because it's almost a predictable event in the US today. Hardly a year goes by in the US without a shooting spree, at schools and otherwise.
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> Apple's stock is being manipulated by traders and hedge funds.

AAPL has 20M shares traded daily, each at $500/sh for a total of $10B traded daily. When trading down for 2 weeks = 10 trading days, it's a total of $100B.

So how exactly is the stock "being manipulated by traders and hedge funds"?
The same type of reactor can be used to make weapons grade Plutonium. Just ask Iran why they removed a fuel bundle from one of their reactors after just a few weeks rather than years.
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Same guy as ViTunes. <3 http://danielchoi.com/software/vitunes.html
From what I've seen, most of the contributors to large projects are one-time contributors who just want to implement their one cool idea for the project. Maintainers who want to encourage those sort of contributions need to do everything they can to lower the barrier of entry to contributing, which includes being positive towards new contributors.
> If you don't want to enter your password every time, you can set it as imap_pass (for reading) and smtp_pass (for sending).

If you're on Linux, it's also rather simple to store this in a keyring such as gnome-keyring (Seahorse).
U.K. police say they won't charge hacker Gary McKinnon
Previous discussion
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4902649
From my experiences, AWS was pretty much the worst place to run Riak. The node to node network speed was really what killed it.

We replaced a decent number of m1.large instances with three pretty low end boxes with SSDs on a dedicated gigabit switch.
Most mass shootings are done with legally-obtained firearms.
Obviously the pure number of guns have little correlation to the amount of gun violence in a country. The big difference here is that there's serious training involved (probably 15 months), psychology tests, and requirement for locking the weapon up. This is very different from random guy Joe Smith getting a gun and keeping it in his house for "protection". However, gun control needs to go together with better mental health institution, higher income equality etc.

But when it comes down to it, if a crazy person can easily get a hold of a gun, then there will be more shootings. There are two requirements for shooting sprees, 1. Crazy person, 2. Easy access of guns. Try to limit both.
You downvote me for an opinion (which is simply "stupid people should not be coddled") absent any animus to any person on this board (you including), and yet I'm the douchebag.

Heal thyself, doctor.
Exactly, there is pine/mutt/alpine for that.
Chances are, mr or mrs open source elite, you have been on the receiving end of this in your life.

Exactly, and that's why they do it to others! That may be their default (not consciously-chosen) behavior because it's what they got used to.
While what happened in Newtown was tragic, other stories regarding this on Hacker News have been killed already due to the HN Guidelines: (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
The majority of countries that own nuclear weapons have them for "defense". Would you say that absolves the technology from moral condemnation?
If a company signs up for this, how does that reflect their culture? Does it say they're a "top-down" organization which is just looking for intelligent cogs to fit in their machine?
If you only have one thread, you'll only use 1 core (maybe 2 with gc) A network application is a great use case. Usually you'll have one thread per connection.

In a more "normal" application you'll need to make threads. one very easy way to do that is pmap, map a function over data and spark a thread for each function invocation. But then you need to worry about the cost of creating threads vs the amount of work done, etc. there are always tradeoffs.
"The problem is his mental health, not his access to guns"

The problem is that he had access to guns when he was mentally ill. Thats the problem. You cannot isolate the two.
When testing, I realized that at least 80% of users that were really interested with the app were elderly or not 'tech savvy' at all. That said, the landing page - no matter how good it was - wouldn't matter a lot from the user acquisition perspective. Those people can barely use facebook.

My idea was to 'manually' get condo managers to sign up, they are the actual target audience. But the process of calling them, showing a demo and getting them to use cost me some cash. The price target for the service was around 20 USD/condo. I was spending more than 250 to get a deal on a single condo (avg of 88 users/condo).

I still think the ideia is infallible, but a little ahead of it's time. I actually got buyout offers from two large condos in florida, but I couldn't use the source code for my new attempt.
Sorry, my comment was poorly worded. I have no relation to the children. However, I was told that the shooter was a father of one of the children of the school, but that has not been confirmed.
Welllll... alternative pure-ish functional approaches would be:

1) Build a description of the scene made up of draw-triangles (built lazily, if you need information back from the frame buffer in the middle of drawing), which is packaged up in something that can be shipped off to the graphics card and sent in an IO action. This is going to still be more expensive than building vertex arrays in place, but nowhere near as expensive as copying the whole vertex buffer each time, and possibly even practical.

2) Run with the DrawTriangle frame-buffer passing silliness, but let the compiler perform some kind of fusion operation on drawing commands.

But yes, "don't do that" in anything production until you've been able to make it work well in a toy. Having said that, building that toy might be informative and potentially even useful.
Here's the thing I've never understood about the "framed and locked-up" argument. If the government was going to go to frame me for being a terrorist, why would they need the giant wiretapping facility? All they need to do is hire a couple of interns to write a whole bunch of "Death to America!" emails and just tell the courts that I wrote them. They'd declare national security issues on why my lawyers can't see the network traces that "prove" that these emails came from my computer.

I guess I'm just saying that the government has been able to frame me a lock me up for over a hundred years. I don't see what this changes about that?
Sometimes shooting people down is what's best for the project. You make it sound like those are mutually exclusive.
That's about TechCrunch articles that talk about Apple. It's not about real science and makes no sense in this context.
San Francisco spending $6 million to record all audio on busses
Because Chicago is neighbors with cities and states where handguns are easy to obtain, and you don't need a passport to enter or leave Chicago.
oh damn I hope smartphones aren't reaching a peak already in general. Because to be honest every new generation now suffers from diminished returns, and for someone who likes to keeps his money together and still has an iPhone 4 for instance, there's really no good reason to buy a new phone yet. And after we've all been all profiting from the exploding market in the last years. But then again there's so much potentially crazy stuff coming, like good 3D displays and tactile feedback touchscreen. Should keep the boat afloat for a while.
Thanks for sharing. Reading other's stories like this helps me a bit - my fiance had a miscarriage in October and I'm still not 100% sure that I've dealt with it properly.

We are lucky as we have a 1 year old son but we really would love more. My sympathies are with you.
> All roads lead to open by way of a maps fiasco?

Where did I say/imply "All roads lead to open"? I can't even begin to diagram your method of reading comprehension.
The problem with Seattle isn't as much the rain, as it is the cloud cover and lack of sunlight in Seattle. In the wintertime, those two combine for a fairly negative effect.

That said, sometimes it does rain a lot in Seattle. Some years ago there was a stretch of 35 consecutive days of rain.
It's an interesting law, I know. But it's usually applied to contentless news articles that raise a question when they have nothing to talk about.

This article is not that way, it has actual info.
Articles like this which simply report the impressions of various eyewitnesses are interesting. It was a fluid situation, evidenced by some teachers barricading students into their room (good planning; I'm sure this is standard policy for gunshots) while others were directed by police to run for a more secure location. (This last seems pretty sketchy for kindergartners: would they have any idea what or where the firehouse is, and could they be expected to run as a group without losing stragglers with only a single teacher supervising?)
Thanks for that tree algorithm. I wish I'd known about it a couple years ago.
Why is this on HN? It's not tech/hacker related at all. It's purely political on an issue on which members of the HN community are likely to fall on both sides of.
> Look at 9/11 as an example of how a handful of well trained and highly motivated individuals armed with only box cutters were able to take control of jumbo jets and ram them into buildings and kill thousands.

Actually, I see 9/11 as an example of TLAs refusing to share information when doing that could have easily stopped the hijackers long before they could do anything. I also see it as something the US brought upon itself with its dependence on oil and constant meddling in the Middle East. So I don't think it's a very good analogy for mass shootings by (usually insane, or at least disturbed) white US citizens.

And just because you can't stop all crime doesn't mean you shouldn't stop any crime. There are simple steps that can be taken. For example, the sales of guns at gun shows needs to be stopped immediately. Ex-felons should not be able to get guns. There are a lot of holes in gun control law that could be easily closed if it weren't for people like you making it political suicide for any politician to even suggest that we need stricter gun control laws.

> I think that the better solution is to empower responsible individuals to act in their own self-defense and in the defense of others.

How would you propose to "empower" elementary school children? How about people in a mall or movie theater were the possession of firearms is not allowed?
Probably. But still the point is to make it harder to obtain guns legally since most shooters buy guns legally. Illegally anyway you cannot do much.
I don't think the two ways are mutually exclusive... in fact I'd say both are needed. I started out trying to throw up a quick website in Wordpress and Drupal, and found out I couldn't set it up the way I liked. So I taught myself to code with resources including CodeAcademy. Now I can build a site pretty much from scratch, hosted on my own server or GAE.

Without my struggles with CMS or frameworks, I wouldn't have known what to code. But without the likes of Udacity and CA, I wouldn't have known how to code it. But, I can now write a functioning webapp after half a year, while working full time. I doubt that would have happened with just books/tutorials or even a university course.

For what it is, these are great learning tools. I can't fault them for not being designed to make you into a full stack developer, yet.

Though I still couldn't have done it without StackOverflow :)
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Feinstein has always been one of the best friends of the law enforcement lobby. Which has made her one of the most disappointing senators on issues of privacy, drug policy, etc.

It's especially disappointing given how out of line her beliefs are with certain areas of California, but that's what often happens when a massively diverse state elects a single representative democratically.
> absolutely depressing locality of reference.

If a hashtable gives you good locality of reference, your hash function isn't working :-P

But yes, obviously you're hitting more nodes in the tree typically, so you're paying a larger price for being cache-unfriendly.
This is an old trick. Bach learned how to compose by copying his father's music when he had about 8-10 years old. His father won't let him toying with his compositions so he copied as much as he could.
Or the problem has nothing to do with access to guns.
Exactly. I don't understand the advantage of "vmail" over mutt, which is extremely powerful and mature, and of course can be configured to use vim, -- but I admit I just skimmed the link, so I could be missing something.

Note also that you must use caution when using Google's smtp and other network services, as they tend to do whatever they want, regardless of RFCs and standards[1].

[1]http://lee-phillips.org/gmailRewriting/
I'd like to consider this through the lens of motivation.

It's a social motivational problem. I experience the same thing is some classes in the case where grades are too easy to get / there's no challenge, and when there's no push for creativity.

When the prof presents a leaderboard or favorite features in projects afterwards, or offers bonus for implementing more challenging additions, it multiplies my own motivation significantly. Even in grad school (CS), most of my course projects have been too easy IMO.
> Several law enforcement agencies are working to determine "exactly what happened", Vance said.

People sometimes go crazy and uncontrollable, nobody can do anything about that. Some stupid laws allowing people to have firearms, that's what happened.
> It's not the gun. It never was the gun. It's the person.

Then we just have an order of magnitude more of that kind of person than Western Europe. If it's not the guns, then Americans are just worse people, statistically speaking, than our more civilized neighbors around the world.
Notice how it says 23 injured, not 30 killed?

That's the difference.
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It works, but I can't submit. the POST to https://www.hackerrank.com/rest/contests/fizzbuzz/challenges... eventually times out after 10 minutes.

I can however compile and verify my solution.
Yes, obviously people like Anders Breivik can not be stopped by gun control, but I don't think it's worth flooding the world with guns to try (and probably fail) to protect ourselves from people like him.
If you are compressing a single large file, you may find "pigz" of interest -- it's a gzip that uses multiple threads pretty well.
I'd argue that many (perhaps, most) people use the browser more often than the file browser to access content they're interested in. Orders of magnitude more, I'd think.

I don't think this app is competing against Finder as much as it is with Chrome/Firefox/Safari.
It is utterly fascinating to me how much discussion there is around this, here on this forum and in other places. In no other country in the world would this even be a debate...

Of course you want to disarm everyone!

That is the only sensible option! There is absolutely no need why anyone, save members of the executive branch enforcing the government's monopoly on violence, would ever need to carry a firearm.

"Self defense" and "liberty" are totally crazy arguments, that are only ever brought up in America and are based purely on historical reasons.
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This is a great idea and I can't wait for some innovation in this area. But two requests to founders is that don't make this a social ads crapware.

1. Don't do any Twitter or Facebook shares or likes or bullshit of any sort related to social. I want absolutely no garbage from Twitter or Facebook in my local hard drive.

2. Don't display any ads whatsoever. Price it and ask the user to buy the software. I think Sublime Text 2 does this really well.