skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What? No. Why would you put a weird palm tree icon on a marker instead of the price? I know it's warm in the Mediterranean, I'm not an idiot so please don't treat me like one. Also, why does it matter where the user is located and what the temperature is there? I know where I am (which, in many cases is different from where I plan to fly out of) and I can probably figure out the local temperature if I need to, which I don't when booking a flight.

Also, "icon-driven" navigation? In other words, confusing pictures that I have to think about instead of clear text. Drop the icons and the interface actually gets more minimalist (since the text is there anyway).

How in the world did design get to this point? It's like somebody decided that the Internet was too convenient and efficient and asked a bunch of designers to figure out ways to make it harder to use instead of fixing the actual problems that exist... (an example of which would be the date dropdowns on travel web sites, let me either select a date or type in a free-form date that gets parsed smartly).
Don't be a hypocrite. You scold the GP for not having any factual basis, and then proceed to give your own argument without factual basis. Please show some proof, or stop scolding people for not showing proof.
Watched the video. This looks amazing! I don't say that often.

Wow, fantastic job, the smart and pretty CSS/HTML output is the icing on the cake.
I agree with you, but all you've really said is that we will rely on general AI to accomplish our goals. The stupider the AI, the more you have to define yourself. You'll have to define the terms used in the description of your goal as well as terms used by those terms. This sounds like defining requirements. The problem with this is that, lacking general AI, the effort it takes to define your goals precisely will probably be equivalent to writing a program anyway. The only difference between defining requirements and coding is people writing requirements can rely on a lot of background knowledge by the reader. Most of us that have worked in the corporate world know how poor technical requirements can be.
repl.it uses a version of CPython compiled with emscripten[1], so the version in the article should be similar in size.

1: https://github.com/replit/empythoned
It saddens me to no end that this is even a topic of discussion.
Because people, world-wide, have the right to their own privacy. I'm talking a fundamental human right. Not legalese.
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Lead bans in America varied by state, the end date on that wikipedia page is a misleading number in that leaded gasoline use had been substantially reduced starting many years earlier. There was a major drop in leaded gasoline starting in the early 70s, by 1980 it was down over 50% from peak. By 1986 it was down over 90%.

I can't speak to the implementation of lead reduction leading to the outright ban in Brazil, but in the USA the outright ban was more of an after-the-fact recognition of the reality rather than an enforcement action.
> The kernel developers and the FSF have always claimed that loadable modules (like the exFat driver) are "derived works"...

Not true [1].

1. See e.g. http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Kernel/proprietary-kernel-modules.....
This will be fun as a list of places to try out 0-day exploits on.
There's no mention of the rise of the welfare state. I'd be surprised if the presence of an economic safety net didn't have an impact on people's willingness to commit crime.

In the end, I'm sure the answer is a combination of all these factors. As individuals and as a species, we get better at living as time goes on.
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i'm not familiar with the syntax you have here. i tried it without the quotes on green and without the curly brackets on the color and it worked for me

http://jsfpp.tomodo.me/4xaMK/
This is the best beginner project.
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Here's another factor to consider: Sometimes crime is under reported or covered up or not acted on.

I've known of property and other crimes that did not show up in the statistics/annual reports of a particular city. The city in question was/is known for low crime and used that as a selling up point to attract businesses and home buyers. I'd be surprised if this was the only municipality that "fudged" their numbers.
* If it ever got real nasty and extreme, the monarch can shut it down.*

Actually no. That is total rubbish since about 1915.
No. I work for a travel company and not only does this not work but it is likely illegal under DOT in the US. Using a map to pick is cutesy but pointless as you might not even know where the hell you are going except by name or airport code. I admit picking flights is rarely much fun except at sites like Google and Hipmunk who do not book and are thus not limited by the DOT and a wall of lawyers. Also GDS systems (and those airlines that handle their own reservations) are slow as shit to do anything. Google manages to be fast because it caches heavily producing really stale pricing and availability which is not easy to overcome. You can have fast or you can have up to date but you can't have both. Plus you have all the issues that everyone in the industry hates everyone else and thus makes interoperability a pain in the ass.
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The citizens that elected rather unfriendly presidents and governments.
For one thing, because the sun is lower in the winter time, the solar gain deflected in the summer is greater than that lost in the winter.
Sorry just saw this.

Yes we raised from angels. It was a painful exp.

Challenge your assumption. In my case coming from a b2b background I had the pain point of having to call around to a bunch of different sources to get parts. I wrongly assumed consumers had the same pain point.

I move much more methodically now in terms of who is my actual customer.

Hope this helps.
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Disagree, it is the ability to create sharp letters and what not that reduces eyestrain so much. With DPI scaling (and this is covered in the article) if you have the same "size" letters on the screen they are much much sharper. Its noticable on my iPad how that helps reduce eye strain. I believe it would be similar for this monitor.
But Schanuel's conjecture hasn't been proven. So would you say this reduces to Schanuel's conjecture?
Here's the sad part. I have no reason to believe the Pakistanis on this. There's likely some hidden political agenda behind this, and they've likely cherry-picked the data to make us look bad.

And yet, I still trust this data more than the CIA's.
That really is the problem with that kind of situation - I've been there, though not to that extreme. I'd work maybe an hour or two a day, and folks thought I was doing great. When something was really broken they'd call me in and I'd fix it.

The down side is that it really damaged my ability to work productively when I finally left there. I had to re-learn how to actually work (as opposed to 6 hours of surfing and noodling about).

I got it back, but not before I almost came into trouble at my next job. It did indeed take close to a year to recover.
Property is an inherent human thing. Likewise, people want to be remunerated for their work. Hence copyright. If scarcity was non existent, then we wouldn't have that problem...

Actually, it would still be here: Van Gogh artwork is unique, and this can be expanded virtually to anything, including the shirt you are wearing, since you're the only one to wear it. You might see where this leads to. Scarcity can always be created artificially.

Anyway, you wouldn't want people to take your shirts away from you, and copyright holders may feel the same towards their work.

The second issue is fairness: if someone has to pay a certain amount to access copyrighted work, why others would not have to, under the same circumstances? Fairness is the motivating principle supporting the existence of the Law.
Just because you had less than standard working conditions on your first job doesn't mean that others have to go through the same. I am glad it worked out for you in the end but the fact remains that your first employer was not the best one.

I think the negativity doesn't arise from the nature of the work, if I am told that the position requires heavy lifting and walking 15 miles a day then maybe I should consider whether that is something I can do. My negative reaction comes from the shady employment techniques that they seem to be using, such as using the promise of full time employment as a 'dangling carrot', as the article puts it. For a positive reference point, you could research about Costco employees (I can't seem to find the source now), who perform a very similar job (if not more demanding, since there are customers involved) and yet have very high workplace satisfaction rates.
I wonder if easier access to contraception, pornography and abortion have decreased the number of youth without access to opportunity and/or supervision.
Is there any good reason for this short notation other than saving three letters for the well-initiated? Does it make sense in the context of other mathematical notation conventions (ie could you guess that it meant gdc(a,b) without a lot of incriminating context pointing towards it)? Mathematics is hard enough for laymen as it is.
Perhaps I'm missing something fundamental here, but my understanding of the way that JITs work is that they inspect a bunch of bytecode, then generate a bunch of machine code, then execute it. No Javascript interpreters are going to let you write executable code into a random chunk of memory and run it, so compiling a JIT with emscripten seems like a non-starter.
This is not terribly uncommon (although not widely talked about). It'll almost certainly be a Google Global Cache setup (https://peering.google.com/about/ggc.html).

You might find it's Google, not BT, that is sending you to a different set of servers depending on your source address (EDIT: likely using EDNS, so you could test this from a non-BT host using a specially crafted DNS query).
How would we figure out which page was visited the most last week? Are these crawl logs or access logs?
I don't really think so. Computers and the internet didn't became prevalent for median and lower income people until the 2000's (internet usage was around 30% of the population in 2000, versus 90% today). The drop in crime started in the 1990's.
Again, I'm not trying to open a can of worms, but I don't think noting a recent news piece makes me tantamount to a homophobic person.

Is it not accurate that the last piece of security news from Turkey was about the SSL issue? Your implication tha I'm self-censoring is unwelcome and inaccurate.

My word choice in my original comment might've been poor, but you're going a bit too far in your analogy.

Again, I'm not saying all Turkish people are corrupt security researchers. I am simply saying that, perhaps I am ignorant, but the biggest security news I've seen out of Turkey was the SSL heist and now this. It does not imply, again, that all Turkish people are bad, it is only an evaluation of a piece of information with an attempt to provide a bit of context.

In getting back to the original point, it seems quite odd that the researcher had to attack Apple after his disclosure and it seems even odder to release customer information in a YouTube video. Does that sound like a senior security researcher to you?
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There is an ethical argument that the morality of a government's actions doesn't change because of the nationality of those actions' benefactors or victims. Therefore if it isn't moral to perform dragnet surveillance on the U.S. population, then it isn't moral to do so on foreign populations either.

There is another ethical argument that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us (i.e. the Golden Rule). If the U.S. doesn't want foreign governments performing dragnet surveillance on them, then the U.S. shouldn't perform dragnet surveillance on other countries.

There is a policy argument that dragnet surveillance, when combined with foreign information sharing agreements, is effectively an unintended loophole. For example, assume British intelligence performs dragnet surveillance on the U.S. and vice versa. When these hypothetical findings are shared, it negates the perceived limitations on domestic surveillance.

There is an economic argument that if U.S. companies cannot be trusted to protect the privacy of their customers, foreign markets will become closed to them either via customer choice or even foreign government regulation.
This is incorrect.

The article involves compilation of the PyPy interpreter (not CPython) into JS.

This is why I asked about someone attempting a benchmark comparison between the two.

Still, it's a fun project. Good luck to the author.
Congress! Sorry, had to say it... nobody else had!
In this case it's more like two thousand guns pointed at one guy.
You should be using setuptools now.

There's distutils which was the original one and is part of the standard library, setuptools which extends distutils and adds some very useful things like dependencies, then distribute split off from setuptools because of a number of reasons. Just recently distribute merged back into mainline setuptools and the distribute project is now done and it's maintainers have taken over setuptools.

In the middle there was also distutils2/packaging which were attempts at replacing the entire thing but have since been abandoned for a number of reasons such as trying to replace the entire toolchain at once.
You mean, like George W Bush? Or O'Bomber?
My first "real" job was on a government software project, where I guess I was deemed too junior to actually do anything important. I spent time reading, exploring the computers, sending email, etc. But we had to precisely record how our time was spent so it could be billed back to the government correctly, and they were extremely serious about utmost honesty in recording time. Nothing I did pertained to any particular project, so I used the "general" time charging code.

Management repeatedly got upset at me for billing so much to the general time code. I kept asking for work to do. Nobody gave me any work to do. So I kept billing my time to the general time code. And they kept getting upset at me for billing my time to the general time code.
Really? You don't think it's possible for a decent people to be ruled by an abhorrent government?
"Elected" implies choice. Both sides have more than their fair share of those that coasted in because of ineffective opposition.
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I posted "Do we need a human data project(HDP)?" on HN a while ago.

WeConsent.us seems to be the closest such initiative taking place. I was more surprised that no-one in the HN thread mentioned it.
Don't ever mention anyone's ethnicity on the Internet. Lesson learned.

Nothing I said was inaccurate, the folks on HN just didn't like how I said it.
Correlation is not causation. There has been no conclusive link between EM radiation and human ailments other than hysteria. We creatures have throughout history been bombarded with intense radio activity from outer space (such as the emissions from the crab nebula), and we are still alive and plentiful.

Quit it with the fear mongering while ahead.
Probably safer than some parts of Oakland and Washington D.C., too.
Seems that way. I mean, that's still be valuable and interesting for other reasons, but let's not call it a "dump of a search engine". There's nothing in there that's actually searchable!

Still, nice gesture by Blippex. Somebody will find something interesting to do with this, even if they just use it educationally.
Metric system quite intimately. I measure all my travels, all lengths of anything meaningful, just about everything with these units. I know how long it would take me to bike, walk or drive that.

I know how much that would cost me in server farm, apartment, and retail space. My exposure to a magnitude (or a collection of) meters far exceeds my exposure to a large area reserved for multiple say, soccer fields, or any intuition on really how large they are.

To be honest, whenever I hear something like "17 football fields" I go look up the distance of a football field to try to understand what the heck they are talking about. They might as well have phrased it as the distance a snail travels in the time it takes for a tea-candle to burn.

I use metric and imperial units every day. I intuitively and immediately know what 330 meters is in almost any context.
Nitpick: against the copyright holder's will. They're often not the same as the author (e.g., work for hire).
The Iranians are much better at distinguishing between the "government" and the "people"; they expect the same in return.
You have get already very good tips. I could add this ones for completion:

Review your backups and contingency plans (and measure your restore times).

Usually you will want a mysql.conf for production mode, and a different one for full restore (with different parameters). A full restore of a so big database with the mysql defaults, can take looooooooong.

As an anecdote, in the most big mysql system I've ever touched, there was a "performance problem", when I got the credentials and started to review, 3 different sysadmins, had scheduled 3 different full backups daily, using dumps. Some of them at office hours.

Yes, this is just plainly stupid, but it's an example of real life.

On a big database system, backups (and restores) is something who is convenient to design with care, to monitor, and to measure/adapt periodically.

If you go to master/slave(s) usually you can make backups from some slave, without disrupt the master operations.

Also, you maybe interested in play with things like mysqlproxy to split reads/writes, so you can have writes going to master, but reads spread across multiple slaves.

I assume you're already using 64bits, and that you know already about mysql tuning variables.
So violence in Somalia is not acceptable to you, but allowing your government a lot of violence is acceptable? If people in Somalia cannot find out a way to avoid violence it does not mean it's not possible in principle, or that government is somehow "good".
Absent a declaration of war...
Does the company I work for have rights to the stuff I do in my spare time?
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If you took the time to think things through, the answer is already contained in my post.

The US is not allowed to assassinate any US citizen it wants. If a criminal were hiding in Canada (or any other country with a reliable police force) we would just have that person arrested and extradited. Pakistan is not such a country. We therefore have a trial not to determine the criminal's guilt or innocence, but to determine if they pose enough of an active threat to warrant military action.
You're talking about only the USA. Actually, violent crime spiked in late 80s and then was coming down from that spike in the 90s, so there's that confounding factor. Most of the crime in the late 80s was juvenile crime in fact. It might have had to do with the culture of the time (inner city gangs, etc.)

A better way would be to compare what people focus on / use on a daily basis today vs in the 80s. If you are restless today you can pacify yourself with a mobile phone. In fact it's an addiction that gives you a boost of dopamine. And the virtual world is much less .... physical and violent, which reduces people's tendencies over time.

Another great pacifier of the 20th century is consumerism. Feel bad? Buy an ikea, veg out in front of the TV. There is a great documentary about how the PR industry was invented and Freud's theories about the "collective ego"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW_rIdd69W8
Instead of generating machine code, the (guest) JIT can generate optimized JS, possibly in the asm.js fragment. The host JIT can then JIT the generated JS into optimized machine code, thus the overhead could in principle be minimal.

EDIT: If this seems too mind-bending, think that even machine code is not really machine code: the CPU actually JITs the "native" code (say, in the x86-64 ISA) into a "more native" code that is what is actually executed by the CPU (for Intel CPUs, these are "micro-ops"), and in doing that it uses a lot of compilation tricks (such as trace caches), including optimizations driven by runtime feedback (you can think of branch prediction this way).

Of course Javascript is a much thicker abstraction, but conceptually it is not much dissimilar.
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>> not only does this not work but it is likely illegal under DOT in the US.

Could you explain this a bit more? What law/regulation would make this illegal?

As others have stated, the icon-heavy UI could use some work, but I'm having a hard time seeing how that could violate anything.
I'm surprised to see you have a max resolution, but I love my Chromebook Pixel. It's amazing how much clearer things look at retina-quality (and if you're a developer, you really should upgrade; there's a whole class of bugs you won't see if your hardware can't display graphics at the resolution many of your users will encounter).
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I don't know. If we say "Here is your money; you can't use it for X" and the next whistleblower shows that they are nonetheless using it for X means they're misappropriating government funds, and people can go to jail for that.
This is a part of an ongoing campaign of the US to take over Iran. Havoc in the Middle East is the ground work for the coming coup/invasion.
The universe is actually pretty big. The Moon is hardly, "everywhere."
Didn't you get the memo?
Oh I know. This story had me hooked. I couldn't stop reading it.
Why haven't they upgraded to Haswell? Ugh. I've been waiting for the upgrade for the battery life bump.
I'd rather that Airline Websites use their time in improving the usability of their site by using autocomplete suggestions instead of drop-down lists of hundreds of cities, save information in case of failed payments etc rather than make the site beautiful but non-usable.
I thought it was a pretty poor language, obviously written by people who'd either never heard of functional languages or never "got" the point of them. More here:

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/07/03/golang-bindings-for-li...

There's still room out there for the C replacement language. Something with ML/OCaml-level of expressiveness but with a replaceable garbage collector might be the sweet spot.
Implementing an interpreter on typed arrays is leaving a lot of the power of the dynamic OOP host untapped. Translating Python classes to JS objects like Skulpt is a much better approach.
I believe he means that, once the copyright on the code runs out (in 120 or whatever ridiculous number of years the copyright monopoly was able to extend further), that version, which is illegal right now (and not legally under the GPL) will automatically become GPL'd.

This is an interesting take on copyright and licensing.
Being a big fan of AirBNB, Hipmunk, and GoPexo, I think this concept is really exciting.

Unfortunately, I also think that it'll probably remain a concept for at least the next five years.

One of the biggest PITAs with travel is getting accurate and comprehensive flight and ticket information; with the exception of airlines running on Google's ITA, I believe most airlines are running on systems built with Fortran (and thus are difficult to interface with). While companies like Kayak are making this information more accessible, I would be really surprised if a real-world airline managed to build anything remotely like this any time soon.