skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Being an interpretation, you should not expect to literally find it in the article.

As food for thought: the article doesn't mention what the size of the population is. A thousand death dolphins could be a disaster, but it also could be a statistical anomaly. Percentage-wise, the effect could be smaller than that of 25 years ago. http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/health/mmume/midatldolphins2013.... does not mention population count, either. Looking at the linked http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/health/mmume/mid-atlantic2013.ht..., I find that there are over a 100,000 dolphins that might be affected. If the deaths are across the population, I don't think any of the populations is at risk, even if this repeats itself next year. Replacement per year should be about 2,000 to keep population at 100,000.

And lung disease happens to be associated with Morbilliviruses, too (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phocine_distemper_virus)

Also, as that URL shows, there was a Morbilliviruses epidemic going on with seals in the North Sea in 1988-1992. At the time, people claimed seals would go extinct in the Wadden Sea. Now, there are 150,000 (http://www.ecomare.nl/index.php?id=4180&L=2); the population in the Wadden sea increased from 150 in 1992 to just over 3000 in 2012 (same link). Is that a sign that all is well with the environment? I doubt it. As with this article, I read "we simply don't know" between the lines.

And that's not because I think the scientists working on this aren't good. They have to make a living and have forget their maybe' sand "it's just one theory"'s in order to make the paper. Many of the so-called softer sciences are simply too hard to make accurate predictions about. Maths? Easy. Physics? AFAIK, all electrons are created equal, but things get difficult hard as soon as you have many of them. Chemistry? Already a bit harder. Biology? Some simple models make good rough predictions, but don't expect those predictions to be even remotely right every time. Psychology? You can almost forget to make reliable predictions. Sociology? Even harder.
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It uses 3 controllers, true, but 8 ports out of 12 are SATA III 6GB/s ports, and the controllers split should not be an issue.
The statement about not supporting ECC is untrue, that board in fact does support ECC RAM.
Also, its $400, but its not a board alone but it also includes the CPU and cooling for it, it wont require PCI controller due to high number of ports (wider choice of smaller cases) and requires amazingly low amount of power.
> and attempting to prevent legal activity that some vague authority out of the public eye just doesn't like, and I'm not sure it's helpful to equate the two cases in a debate like this.

...and that's why the IWF / court ordered filters are not optional, while the 'porn filter' is.
My response can be very simply stated as the well-known adage - Profile Before Optimizing

I am not completely discounting Numerical Analysis here. Mathematicians can make entire mathematical models of a machine but it will be at a certain level of abstraction. In practice there will be abstraction leaks due to some quirks of the implementation or real world dependencies.

So one should not merely depend on the mathematical model.
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HP UK are currently offering £50 cashback on servers bought on/before the 31st December.[1]

So basically, you've got until newyears to get one ordered.

CCLonline[2] and ebuyer.com[3] are offering the servers for £180, so £130 after cashback.

I've got one already at home and plan on ordering two more tomorrow. Surprisingly powerful boxes, can take upto 16gb DDR3 (ecc unbuffered), internal USB and proper hardware virtualisation.

[1] http://h41225.www4.hp.com/UK_focus/PA0074%20-%20HP%20Microse...

[2] http://www.cclonline.com/product/108949/704941-421/Branded-S...

[3] http://www.ebuyer.com/430446-hp-proliant-g7-n54l-2-2ghz-micr...

PS> "zfs in raid 2" -I believe you mean raidZ, the zfs equivalent of raid5. raidZ2 (zfs raid6) would only leave you with approx 6tb usable space rather than the 9 you're quoting.
As the microserver has only 4 drivebays (well, 5 if you use the optical bay) you'd probably get better speeds and same real space by using the zfs equivalent of raid10 rather than raidz2.
I wonder how many were killed by this thing? BS guess: 200 million? (2 per produced rifle according to wikipedia)
And with those numbers gone, there's more room to mislead.
I don't use FB, so I've never seen anything of that ilk, but I would assume it was just sequential, but interleaved with other results or terms that you don't see. Something, somewhere might be generating unique terms and handing them out to whomever asks for them. Your requests get some, someone else's requests get others, there's no specific and simply rule for the ones you see. That sort of thing.

Just a guess, probably completely wrong in detail, but it's the sort of thing I can imagine happening. I wouldn't expect the sequence you give to have any real "formula" underneath.
I'm curious, should answering this question be expected of a non-senior dev? This kind of knowledge is acquired by running into broken code - that is, by chance. I'd think someone with a couple years experience only could conceivably not, for example, have called a method directly and had this refer to a global object instead. Until then one might just assume Javascript's this works like this in other languages. In fact, that's what I did until your post just made me look it up (though I only code for side projects, not professionally).

I'm also surprised to hear that people learn jQuery and omit Javascript. Personally I resisted using jQuery because I didn't understand what was happening nor would you read the code easily. Plus, it was actually extra work because if you knew another language you could pick up Javascript easily. With only jQuery you are pretty much limited to what's already made for you.

If anyone wants to look at one of my sites, I'd be curious how I stand as a developer.

http://www.sudokuisland.com/
Living longer means signification rise in population on earth and given the unsustainable state of our planet, it makes more sense to look for other similar planets for habitation.
And if we invent faster than light travel in future it will be natural for people to leave earth in the spirit of exploration just like Europeans did to find the New World.
Thank you! Good critique, we just took for granted that the average HN user knows what Tinder is. We're basically trying to figure out how to replicate real world interaction between members belonging to different communities, but online. How we're doing it, well, we're still experimenting. :-)
There are some examples here: http://www.quora.com/Outsourcing/How-far-can-outsourced-deve...
Can you give some examples of which algorithm have been the most relevant/helpful?
It sounds like your idea of content is "things on Netflix or free on Amazon". No, you will not get new releases there and in my opinion it is unreasonable to expect that.

I was honestly surprised at how quickly The Avengers found its way to Netflix streaming. I figured there was still enough money to be made off iTunes/Amazon/etc rentals and purchases to preclude giving it away that cheaply.
Why bother when New Zealand's pathetic politicians, police and spy apparatus are more than happy to try and impress with Hollywood theatrics. Even the PM is involved is the bs that happened. Just the idea that the US might like an arrest or some data gets the current crop excited enough to break several laws.
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There's a massive difference between high-status men and low-status men.

This is called "intersectionality". Sometimes people have advantages from being one thing (e.g. male), but they also have disadvantages due to being other things (e.g. a low-status person). You could have a gay white low-status male. They're male, so they have some advantages there, they're low status, so they have some disadvantages, white, so they have some advantages, and gay, so they have some disadvantages. Not everyone who is male automatically is disadvantage free. It's the intersection of all these things that are important in different situtations.

You've discovered intersectionality, doesn't mean male priviliege and the patriarchy doesn't exist. It just means that for many people "It's complicated"
Reminded me of a very good book called
"21st Century C"

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025108.do
Funny thing is that they burn through all this money to publicize the thing that isn't true but they wished it was. As if this wasn't physical reality but some sort of soft, social thing like if allowing non-whites have same rights or women to vote is good idea or not.

In the end you can't bribe physics.
Boomerang and Followup.cc are both great alternatives, and I use them too. I like the granularity, but the downside is you're sending them a copy of your email, which might contain sensitive info :\
If you ever maintained anything big enough, you'd know that what is here presented misses almost every precondition to actually be included. It just looks like a lot of mess and trouble for anybody who dares to touch it. Hit: what's signal to noise ratio of the page linked here and the corresponding codeproject page? Well the page about the function optimization with 5 MB irrelevant pngs and a lot of unprocesssed outputs of some code runs is surely very artistic but it looks as the author actually wanted to make it harder to the people to understand what he is doing.
I've done very little HTML,CSS but I feel confident that I could become proficient as a front-end dev. But it is going to take months. I assume you are saying that these companies are hiring based on expected performance at 1+ years. They don't expect the person who gets the job to be making major front end code changes the first month?
One of the most interesting things about Homer's works is how very, very different the system of morality was back then. Throughout the book they talk incredibly casually of killing civilians and raping and enslaving their women. It is not just in war situations either (which is bad enough) - it is just not wrong to kill some island people who aren't part of your home country or allies.

One thing unique about Christian values (new testament) was the introduction of the idea the might doesn't necessarily make right, and the focus on the downtrodden instead of the epic. If you read Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, the main reason Christianity spread so quickly and powerfully in their missionary work was that they accepted the outcasts of the society, lepers, poor people, weak people, etc.
I've seen that, and this is the corresponding issue: https://help.github.com/articles/my-repository-is-marked-as-....

Looking at vendor.yml, I'm actually not sure why this is happening. The repository I linked to above only has two files that end in .js: bootstrap.js and bootstrap.min.js[0], and only one that ends in .css (bootstrap.css). Unless I'm misreading the regex in vendor.yml, it seems like they should be excluded[1] but they aren't, and this isn't the only project of mine for which this is happening.

I'm fairly certain it's picking up those files and not miscategorizing the Go files for some reason, because when I delete those files and instead serve the CSS/Javascript from a public cache, it categorizes the repository correctly, as is the case with this project (based off of go-server-bootstrap): https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/pluto

[0] https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/go-server-bootstrap/tree/mas...

[1]https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/...
No, it doesn't. It also tends to imply that he didn't do it, so this is just "Look! Lots of money! Surely some of it is going here!" when you really get down to it.
What an odd piece. I wish he had given some rationale for his attack. It's a badly fallacious argument as it stands (perhaps he has written more technical and correct essays elsewhere?).
Yes, all feminists are the same and it's impossible for one person/group which calls itself "feminist" to do something that other femininsts wouldn't agree to.
Hiring is pretty much the most important thing you do as a company.. if you can't spend an hour per position developing applicable questions for each position, you are setting yourself up for failure.
"...the studios gave us what we asked for..."

Not quite. I still can't take a movie I purchased using Xbox Video and play it in Windows Media Player. I can't play it on an Android device, an iPhone, iPad, Lunix, OSX... In fact I can't play it anywhere that isn't a Windows Phone 8, Windows Metro or an Xbox. And even then only once I've signed in with a Microsoft ID.
+1 I couldn't agree more that design needs to be improved.

1. Work on forms: they should be easy to distinguish from other "blocky" things around.

2. It took me like 2 minutes to find what your project is about. Improve your landing page.

3. Colour scheme is really messy. Pick 2 base colors and extend them using http://kuler.adobe.com

4. Choice of name - I believe that in hacker community CoffeeStrap really sounds like Bootstrap in CoffeeScript
"Likewise if you produce strings in the transformation" What if you produce strings that look like numbers? Where, for example, extra leading zeros differ in significance between string and numeric comparison? Surely trying to use heuristics for this stuff is always a recipe for disaster, as with the == operator in PHP?
The largest problem is that it's largely unreadable, a write-only language.

The problem with the English language is that it allows writers like James Joyce to get their work done just as it does E. B. White.
Biting yet factually misinformed.
To the people who wish they could answer that question with confidence, I recommend getting this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Effective-JavaScript-Specific-Software...

Just got it and I feel like it clarified so many things about Javascript that I didn't have down cold as a self-taught pragmatist.
From the local rag a few days ago. http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=...
Copyright is a government granted monopoly, not an inherent right.

The rest of your comment is equally baseless (and wrong) opinion.
Ah oops, misread the ASROCK specs and that board does support ECC ram so in that sense it is ok. And the low power consumption of the Atom chip would work well. I still don't like the price though.
If an operator has no use (i.e. you should always use a type-specific operator) then why is it in the language at all? If it's there, someone will use it, and if it shouldn't be used, then that's bad that someone uses it.
Nope, I didn't. I think AK47 has been there since I posted it.
I personally found this clone to be compelling for a few reasons:

1) FOSS means I can play with the code, which I can't with Minecraft
2) I'm trying to re-learn C, and having some relatively well done modern examples that are of reasonable scope that I can understand is really useful
3) It runs really fast on my laptop

Its not going to replace Minecraft at all, but I don't personally feel that's the point.
This page doesn't seem to work right on Google Chrome on Windows -- I can't click on any of the links.

It's unclear looking at the page what exactly is being sold? Health insurance? Some other kind of insurance? What do pets and fitness have to do with it?

I'm skeptical about any company in this space because often they talk as if you are going to get quotes without hearing from a second-rate salesperson. Maybe you're not doing this but you will pay for their sins regardless.

I have a friend who runs a dev shop in India who runs the software development operations for startups who have the business operations elsewhere. These guys are world-beating at what they do.
Even amoung hard-core feminists (we're talking people who's job is to work in university's as women's studies professors and write books on this stuff), there can be a lot of disagreement.

Biggest example is trans people. Some old-skool femininsts are very trans-phobic.
If he is a bad guy it feels weird rooting for a bad guy. I feel like my perceptions about this entire thing are all backwards. If DotKom so bad why are they so bad at making him look bad. DotKom comes out looking like the martyr he wants to be seen as. Law enforcement look like they're private security for the entertainment industry. And yet it's clear this guy is possibly the worst kind of copyright infringer. He's not the individual who downloaded a song and is being sued for life and limb, this guy got unbelievable wealth of the work of others and still the whole thing feels wrong. Maybe we should be cheering law enforcement to bring this guy to justice but I can't help but root for the other side. The thing to blame is probably the decade of going after individuals and making them suffer has turned out to be such a huge public relations disaster that will last a generation. I just want the entertainment industry to fail and for copyright laws to fail as well.
You're not a real scientist unless you load Computer Modern into your copy of Word.
Well, one pot of money goes towards grants and publications subject to peer review, and scientific datasets that are publicly accessible, while the other comes from shady origins with no review whatsoever, for purposes that are clearly marked as PR, lobby and obstructionism...
Good points, and I agree mostly during the early startup stages, but when you start to reach 25-30+ people and over, then people & company management can make a difference.
If you're learning Haskell, be prepared to feel like a beginner for a while.

I had great learning it. I usually pick up languages fairly quickly, but Haskell eluded me for more months than I'd care to admit. There is a great community of very smart and friendly people who helped me on IRC, and a couple of pretty good books -- http://learnyouahaskell.com/ and http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/book.html.

I enjoyed the experience, and I certainly feel like a better programmer for it. But damn I felt daft for a few months!
I think the commenter is referring to the "Little Ice Age" which we do have a substantial amount of evidence for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

It would suggest that the climate fluctuates even during periods where carbon emissions from humans was far less than today.
Getting split across multiple controllers is not a bad thing if you want to avoid corruption due to failed / faulty controller (I've got six controllers in my box, driving 12 disks).
I was full stack at my old job, so I do phone screens for front end engineers now. It's incredible how many people claim "front end" and fail at basic JS, HTML api, or page optimization questions yet do well at algo questions. I am far from an CSS expert but if we didn't ask questions like "how would you optimize the static content of the page?" I'm sure we would end up hiring OK general devs who actually don't know anything about front end.
Yes, they did. The woman had had two previous children this way and so they judged that it was much more preferable than to risk a breech and the health or life of both the baby and mother.

How hard is it to do trivial research?
Tipping is a really interesting aspect of cryptocurrency. I've never made a cent from blogging, but I added Dogecoin and Bitcoin links at the bottom of my last post, and actually got some tips.

Tipping is also one of the reasons that Dogecoin is seeing such large growth, at least within Reddit.
Do you remember how new releases were $5 at Blockbuster? In the 1990s? I don't see why you expect unlimited new releases to now stream to you for $8/month. If you want to stream a new movie, you have to pay for it. The physical DVD wasn't the expensive part of the $5, it was the content.
!!!!

This kind of knowledge is acquired by reading 'Javascript the Good Parts'. It goes without saying that someone who considers themselves a good frontend engineer has read this book.

edit: I am a frontend tech lead (not even in SV!!) and my most junior engineer will answer the question correctly. I can't even fathom how one could contribute to a non-toy app without knowing this.
Does it even matter? The recipients are identified, and it's pretty clear what their intentions are, and it's not to generate science or data attempting to refute global warming. It's pretty clearly earmarked for negative PR and lobbying.
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I've been doing Javascript for a few years and recently answered a few StackOverflow questions. One was regarding "this".If anyone wants to hire my ass feel free to contact me. One of my techniques for learning has been by going on interviews and flopping, then going back and learning all the interview question material on my own time. Wash and repeat.I've been doing this bullshit since the first day I started teaching myself. It all began with an interview that required knowledge of strictly HTML & CSS. Suffice to say after I tried to mimic an unordered list with 12 div blocks I didn't get the gig. Things are better now. I promise! Where am I? Whats this padded wall doing here? !!!!
With the series of exposes about the shortcomings of the peer review process it seems odd to lean on that very much. This seems particularly true since this topic is so politically charged and there would be virtually no funding available for climate change research absent government spending.
I do have to admit I sort of find it amusing when climate denialist alarmists (mmm, watch me pile the -ists on!) try to scream "Follow the money!" as if billions upon billions of dollars don't depend on climate alarmism being maintained exactly as is.

If "money" disproves or proves scientific hypotheses, there's a lot of things that need to be rewritten.
Indeed, but when don't limit how much people can upload, but then you limit how many DMCA take downs you will comply with, it is physically impossible to keep up. They've created a one -way street basically, however, they can then go and argue in front of a judge "we've implemented a 'reasonable' DMCA take down policy." - the word "reasonable" is very much up for interpretation, so Mega will argue they are complying with the law, but in reality, they are opening the floodgates to piracy, and they basically know exactly what they are doing.

Really, the bottom line is this: People know what his sites were used for. They didn't blow up to immense popularity because of the non-pirated material. He hides behind DMCA, he says his service is for legitimate purposes only and the illegitimate is just a side effect. There are legitimate services that are big, like 'YouSendIt', and those services aren't known for piracy the way his services were. It's not random, unlucky, undeserved, etc.

He's a criminal, operating internationally, trying to exploit loopholes in the law for his own financial gain. He is not a good guy, he is not noble. He is a risk-taker who tried exploiting loopholes between the law and technology. For every action there is a reaction.

His action was to use unfairness in the law to exploit it for his own financial gain. What the big companies did was use their unfair advantage with politics to pull some strings and do things that are arguably legal or illegal? What is the one takeaway? The laws are unfair. What Kim Dotcom did should not be legal, and there should be effective tools to have him comply or actually give a shit about the piracy on his websites, without "stifling innovation" around the rest of the internet for actual legitimate services that aren't built on piracy.
Ugh. Licensed under "Code Project Open License":

http://www.codeproject.com/info/cpol10.aspx

Good luck figuring out what this is legal to use with.
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