skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have written a bunch of programs for interfacing with instruments and when I started doing that I was using labview but it was such a pain. It was liberating when I found that VISA has python bindings. I now do all the instrument-interfacing code in Python+Qt. It is so much more productive that it makes me wonder why do people still want to use labview for this kind of job. I mean its visual language is complicated that it makes even the simplest things (like formatting a string) difficult. And on the top of that if you try to make something more complex the block diagram is completely unreadable. Madness.
What is the net planetary gain? Do the previously almost bare regions turn to totally bare at a slower rate?
The level of exploitability changes immensely if the codes are published, since it was far from trivial to get them: the capability to analyze the silicon chips is far from everywhere. Not giving codes buys some time to all the owners of all the cars, probably counting millions.
That's where the lobbying comes from, taboos are where the political capital comes from.
Interesting. Where do you put postgres in this landscape?
It doesn't matter. Even if the interviewer doesn't state that as a reason, it still has influence. There's nothing really stopping that.
It rejects addresses that contain a @ in the local part, even if these are valid ones:

"foo@"@…, "me@google.com"@google.com
I'm launching a site in a few weeks which uses Bootstrap 2. Should I upgrade to Bootstrap 3 now or wait until the final version of 3 is released?
Suppose you had three functions.

F1(n) = 1 second * n + 1 day = O(n)
F2(n) = 1 millisecond * n + 1 month = O(n)
F3(n) = 1 nanosecond * n ^ 2 + 1 millisecond = O(n^2)

For really big numbers both F1 and F2 are faster but at n = 100 F3 has a huge lead and for say n = 1 billion F3 beats F1 but not F2.
Thinking about it for a long time, yes, I would actually want such a trial to be decided by people who have been in the same situation as the cop. I am sure that they are decent enough people that if there is actual abuse they would vote to convict.

Of course it'd have to be police officers from far away, who ideally do not know anything about the case other than is presented in the trial.

That would be more fair than taking random people, who will represent the mob a lot better than they'll represent police officers.
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Good answer! Also, I love your work.
no http://www.celeryproject.org/?
Ah, good point. Yes, I use SCSS (although SASS is a closer comparison to Stylus).
Regarding Android that is just not true. The last update is from July 18 [1] and the App gets updated frequently and for me it has worked flawlessly.

A while back the Authenticator was not updated automatically but you were asked to switch to a new App [2]. Maybe that happened to you.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
Bootstrap 3 is mobile compatible "out of box". but dropping of IE support can cause troubles on your side. you should use respond.js to use media-queries on IE8 and below. despite this, i'm using it since april and everything is ok.
No Celery, no RabbitMQ, but 0mq, i don't know if i should take this seriously..

Just putting some google search hits on a dedicated website, aren't we?
What about Julia? Is it a general purpose language?
bootstrap 3's grid system now uses percents instead of fixed pixels. also col-lg or col-sm classes can be used to design/show different content on different resolutions. my vote is on bootstrap.
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It was never on my radar. I'll search around for some resources about it. Thanks.

Site is open sourced, feel free to send PR with missing things - https://github.com/strzalek/queues.io
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Supposed a battered wife is in hiding and a police officer knows where she is and the husband makes some frivolous lawsuit so he can see her - would it be so bad if the police officer claimed he didn't know where she was?

As for lying in Congress I would expect it if it was to protect the identity of a whistle blower or something like that.

The key in all parts are context, but Zero Justice explicitly denies context; it would be the same as giving the driver of a car what hits and kills a pedestrian because it gets bumped by another car the same punishment you would give for first degree murder.
I use Duo as well. The only thing I miss is a countdown timer.
The states that have the ironically-named "smoker protection" laws prohibit discrimination based on the fact that someone smokes, not based on the fact that they stink to high heaven.

Figure out how to make those around you not want to vomit all day and you're fine. Otherwise, you're SOL.
No, it just means that there are things that are true but cannot be proven given the axioms of the system if the system is powerful enough to express Peano arithmetic. It has very little to do with laws, as they don't really prove anything (that is for the jury/judge to do).
Doesn't giving the device keys to a third party, while also authenticating using a password with that third party, sort of defeat the whole purpose of two-factor authentication?
Correct. It's just actors on different machines talking to one another - just like in Erlang.
The game theoretical approach to patent trolls makes an unfortunate amount of sense, but I wish that wasn't the case.
It is. It may focus on a specific ecosystem, but the underlying language has been thought through properly as a language.
Sometimes they just turn their lights on especially in small towns at night
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Smoke detectors are not a real personnel "safety measure", If I wanted real fire safety I'd make everyone wear fire proof exoskeletons equipped with fire extinguishers...

PINs are some of the best security devices we have when implemented right, they work great in eg. EMV payment cards. Passwords/phrases just aren't practical without keyboards when the use case require frequent and low barrier unlocking.
> future Snowdens and Mannings (who are growing up, fed on all sorts of conspiracies on reddit and other fora) will.

The future equivalents of Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning could very well be detected and put under control before they have a chance to blow the whistle. It seems in the wake of the Snowden revelations that the NSA is already considering making conformism to authority a more important criterion to be hired, and if they were to use their collected information to profile new hires they should have a really good idea about interests and inclinations.
That is exactly what we are trying to do. The problem is that is somewhat at odds with machine learning in practice, but I have some ideas in the space.
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Let P(F|D) = .001 (assuming 1 in 1000 chance foul play was involved given a death of a speaker at a conference)

Am I right that here you claim that every 1000th death of a speaker is by foul play?

I'd expect such number of deaths to be more orders of magnitude less common.
Are you suggesting convenience is more important than the safety of everyone else on the road?

Please don't forget the fact that you have the privilege of being encased in a few tons of steel with multiple safety systems. When doing your moral calculus and weighing how many lives are worth risking to save time, please remember there are other people on the road who don't have that privilege. Cyclists have to be constantly aware of cars breaking traffic laws if they want to stay alive, and they are not as visible as you would like to imagine.

If there is a non-zero chance of causing an accident and harming someone by breaking traffic laws, and the only benefit is saving time or not annoying residents, how do you justify that?
The Revenge of Gaia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis
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Of course not. To manifest how I love foundation, I even used foundation4 for my graduation project.
You can pay to All Gore and others to have a false, but good feelings. It's just another propaganda to get You under control... Free society is "no good" for some people.

Hey, check this out:http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2003/07...

And send All Gore there to introduce Global Climate Tax for Mars!
Congratulations on reaching RC1 after more than seven months of intensive work.
The simplest observation is that the Mauna Loa data series for atmospheric CO2 has been very consistent and shows a steeper curve over time. That simply must be net-net all of the environmental changes going on around the world. Really based on that data set no one should have ever hoped that "the plants could keep up," because they never have. That is not in the record.

As an aside, and for the HN audience, boy ... "long read" pages that require the mouse to be mid screen for the scroll wheel to work are really pretty annoying.
The amount of CO2 being absorbed by plants is far less than the rate at which it is accumulating within the atmosphere. You can get a good idea of how much CO2 is absorbed by looking at the seasonal variation in atmospheric CO2.

https://github.com/fuzzgun/ccg
Earth climate was never stable or unchanging. So nature certainly don't fight climate change.
"The biggest thing nature did to fight climate change..."

...has always been the absorption of CO2 in the rocks of the Earth's crust. Or hasn't it? Well, this process is still working, but it won't be working for long, since there's almost no CO2 to absorb anymore.
Scaling up means paying for oracle or sql server and having a simpler development model because you have a single db instance. Scaling out means going for nosql and taking some of the reliability and synchronization work into your codebase.

Ignoring some of the specific details and focusing on the underlying point here:

Having had to work with both ACID and BASE systems extensively, the above point strikes a chord with me. Those of you who haven't dealt with both in anger, take heed of it.

BASE is a lot of code and reasoning to work with properly, and you're sacrificing the many knobs, tools, and easy ad-hoc queries (read: simpler debugging) that the common ACID systems have to get it. Common ACID systems are well understood, so there are many fewer surprises in wait. Furthermore, those systems are mature and have walked the inescapable trail of tears to get there; data is the lifeblood of most businesses, so it's not a place to take risks.

I'd rather work with ACID. BASE is for when you really need it (and when you really need it, you'll know).
Revenge insinuates vindication for our actions by Earth. But Earth don't care. I like to think of it as a giant and complex spaceship rather than a living being.
We still don't have any proof of earth having consciousness. Even if it has, it's probably not thinking in a human way... Do you really think it has the same definition of "screw up" as we do? Maybe earth thinks forests are itchy and hopes human beings to chop down all of them...
That's not how it works, VCs are like record publishers, doesn't matter if most of your companies suck as long as one is a hit.

You can't pick only hit companies. Well, if you could I'd sure pg would want a word!
Nike doesn't have a patent on the color Maize.

Many companies have trademarked colors.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_trademark and http://au.businessinsider.com/colors-that-are-trademarked-20...
Yes, and if you try to edit them, it will wipe out the other tokens.
I call BS on this article.

Tropical forests do next to nothing for global carbon fixation - they're about as far as you can get from "the biggest thing nature did"

Ocean plankton is by far the most important place for carbon sequestration.
More or less, yes. What he is saying is that there is a constant hidden in the big O. Say, we have two algorithms A and B with a runtime that can be bounded by the functions a(n) = 1000n^2 and b(n) = 0.001n^3 respectively. Hence a ∈ O(n^2) and b ∈ O(n^3). So the first algorithm A is clearly faster asymptotically. However, suppose we have input sizes of around n=50000, it actually turns out that algorithm B is faster because g(50000) < f(50000). This is because of the constant that is hidden in the big O. For sufficiently large n however (n > 10000000 in this case), algorithm A will always be faster.

A good implementation could check problem sizes beforehand and chose the algorithm accordingly.

What I don't agree with is that "big O only matters for big input sizes". Big is not really a well-defined term. The problem here is that "big" depends entirely on the algorithms. It might also be n > 10. There's nothing in the definition of the landau symbols that prevents that.
You meant: Al Gore, right?
Collective Intelligence for Climate Change
I wonder what the biochemistry behind this would be? Maybe the plants create carbon structures more efficiently at higher temps?
Failing a class doesn't tell me anything. What does it even mean? Did 50% of the student not learn the material, didn't they learn but parts of it, what were the requirements, the criteria for "passing"? Who made that criteria, and what was it based on?

A single pass/fail ratio from a single case study doesn't tell me anything. Especially if the data is not explained.
> As in, it's not technically illegal, but someone could definitely sue you for age discrimination and have a case

Did you just say that age discrimination both is and is not illegal?
Actually, I am suggesting exactly the opposite of what you have interpreted.
I think your copy needs some work too... I just skim read the page and still have no idea what Bamrang does.

Replacing "Help Make The World A Little More Accountable" with something more specific might be a good place to start.

Also, too much text for a homepage... I guess some of this falls under the remit of the graphic design... because you need to demonstrate visually what your product does.

Good luck!

PS. I am also a graphic designer... http://www.greig.cc
One of the biggest problem humanity currently has in general is that morality only kicks-in in most people when there is a very direct link between their actions and some negative consequences. Once there is enough degrees of separation and abstraction nobody cares anymore. Most people would not slaughter an animal without really having to do it, but once it becomes a cheeseburger or a fur clothing nobody gives it a second thought. The problem is that the world of human affairs is getting more and more abstract as we specialize more and more and develop more complex technology, so more and more things get affected by this.

It is especially sad given that sometimes sacrificing a small convenience for one person would be able to make a huge change in somebody else's life. But again, once there are enough degrees of separation, we do not feel "in position" to help and we do not view it as our problem to do it.
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Google's approach to development at least in this part looks very unprofessional.

The have had a bunch of crap code nobody cared about, and then some guy has rewritten it arbitrarily choosing development tools just because of his own preference.

What next, another guy will show up who likes JavaScript and considers the previous work unsatisfactory, and will rewrite everything in JavaScript?

Who works like that?
Ease of slaughtering is well and dandy, but are patent trolls tasty? Can the meat be cured or smoked? What's the caloric intake and fat percentage? These are important questions to be answered before patent trolls can be added to our food baskets.
Very good suggestion. Will create a separate CSV for this :)
and presumably the lower efficiencies involved with not being a multinational?
In many countries that's a normal, reasonable course of action. I wouldn't buy a home unless I had a proper reason to do so (most likely wanting modifications that wouldn't go past the landlord, though I'd rather look for something for-rent that already fits me first).

Unless you have cash, the failure scenario in case of buying is extremely nasty. Also, there's a lot of administrative and maintenance related work that, in case of rented, is not my problem anymore.
Now let's see if apple is brave enough to publish explanation on what went wrong and what they did.

My guess is they won't because their server stack was ( and probably still is) too embarassing to talk about.
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This would have made more sense if your example wasn't one so painfully biased in presentism. Animal slaughter was sort of a commonplace until we industrialized it; people weren't squeamish about it until the last few hundred years. Being squeamish is a status marker.
Apple's developer site stirs back to life after downtime
Looks like this is getting updated, so... No ActiveMQ?
“When they get warmer than average, forests in the tropics do not like it, and overall they tend to put more CO2 into the atmosphere than they take out,” says study co-author Pep Canadell, executive officer of the Global Carbon Project.

This particular statement strikes me as spin; if forests were producing more CO2 than they were consuming then by the necessities of chemistry the plants would start to die due to lack of sustenance (sugars, including cellulose, which are made from CO2 and photosynthesis).

Either the forest gets to a homeostasis, it start to expand, or it dies back vis a vis the partial derivative of impact of CO2 levels. If indeed the CO2 levels being produced are more than consumption then where are the plants getting their energy from? And don't say animals, because if that was the case then the animals would have to be eating more and more of the forests. The only case I can see is wide scale felling, but then wide scale felling is not a case of plants producing more CO2.

CO2 levels are a problem, but this short description of this report seems to be muddying the waters not making them more clear.
Also, MSMQ while I'm at it.
The next "biggest thing" nature will do will be population collapse.
What's so bad about being "Passive" Income Guy? This guy is out there monetizing with his self-bootstrapped "boring" SaaS that has real customers, while Startup Guy has blown through multiple rounds of investors' money with his quixotic third-pivot "change the world idea" that still hasn't earned a single penny but is being regularly pitched at circle-jerk networking events to the other benchwarmer wantrepreneur spectators banking on some highly improbable IPO. Wait, who did you say was unethical, lazy, and not a hustler again?
More than baffling, I think it's disgusting.
Perhaps it is coincidence, but a lot of recent policy changes seem to have the effect of moving us towards authoritarianism.

It is worth bearing in mind that everything that us humans do, ultimately, is driven by our biology: our natural instincts and our natural drives.

We are pack animals. The pack has alpha males and beta males. The alpha males are driven to show their dominance of the beta males by reminding them of their subservient status as frequently, as forcefully and as intrusively as possible.

Authoritarianism is nothing more than the societal manifestation of that natural drive. Us beta males (the general population) are having our noses rubbed in the dirt by the alpha males (the authorities) so that they can feel good about their own superiority.

We are just reverting to type - stupid, prideful apes that we are.
Century Puzzle - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/century-puzzle/id627982930?m...
It all boils down to using the right tool for the job. If you need performance, C will blow python out of the water. If you need a quick solution that’s light on data acquisition and heavy on algorithms, python will probably be a better choice. I’ve run into a highly concurrent, signal processing tasks handled beautifully with LabVIEW and its built in SP modules. Python would have been a terrible choice for that application.
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We can talk about the psychological factors or we can simply tell it the way it is which is that economic growth increases the need for energy. Most production of energy and production of things cause by-products that are not a natural part of the system, in another words pollution. Pollution interferes with the natural functioning of the system. If we did not need to support such a large population or economic growth we would not be creating all this pollution. Therefore we could as a species inhabit the planet much longer (there are obviously natural sources of pollution that work on much longer time scales). Because we don't act responsibly and instead of taming our psychology we have let it loose on the world in the name of economic growth (and power of the current ruling elite) we will as a matter of course cause more and more pollution which will at some point start reducing the carrying capacity of the planet which will lead to smaller and smaller population until our species goes extinct. That's the natural course of humanity. Many people believe that more technology will save us, but is life really worth living being hooked up to a respirator with a miserable polluted planet barely capable of supporting life? Many people in the third world seem to think so, they keep producing even more misery.
One thousand years ago there were farms in Greenland. Just two hundred years ago there was Little Ace Age and river Thames would freeze every winter. Single vulcano explosion releases more CO2 than entire mankind in a decade.

Yet somehow it is 110% sure that our CO2 emissions are responsible for global warming. It is even crime to disagree with scientific hypotheses. And governments will happily `solve` this problem by taking away our rights.
F*k this.

We should be solving other problems than cow farts; Urbanization, slums, fusion, wealth distribution...
I'm not convinced police officers stationed in school is generally a good idea, but the bigger issue here seems to be more the actions of the police officers in question. Whilst some incidents might be open to framing by the media, there are simply no circumstances under which charging a 5 year old with battery of a police officer would be appropriate. (I think we can safely apply "zero tolerance" here; someone should be fired for sanctioning the charge)

It's genuinely quite scary to think how an officer that considers that an appropriate response might react when dealing with adults suspected of committing something which might actually be a crime.
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On my system, I ran this:

nice man -l -Tdvi man*/* | wc

And got

3416771 6700199 122007116

At more than 6 million words, that's approximately 10 War and Peace's. And of course in terms of documentation, that's only man pages, which doesn't cover all the stuff that's in other formats like info or html.

You cannot be an expert in everything: I knew about that command for closing ssh, but frankly it is not something I use because it's easier to just close the rxvt and be done with it. I have zillions of other things to occupy my brain.

I'd also argue that in terms of ssh, since this function is so easily accomplished in other ways, this is really just handy triva. Much more useful to know about are all the tunneling things, as they are not necessarily obvious, and can be extremely useful.
go back to Drudge Report, please.
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Notice the word "American" in the title, as a citizen of an allied nation which always stood by US it pisses me off being snooped on since what the NSA is doing would violate all the privacy and data protection laws here and is well just plain wrong
The solution is basically a cross correlation in a colour channel between the image and a zebra pattern. That can be done in a few lines in more than one language.

Also, 7 lines is hardly a good metric to judge the general effectiveness of an environment or language.
You should read Gulliver's Travels.