skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two major things for me: The first is the easy attachment to existing tmux sessions, ie. I just ssh to a server and it'll re-attach to my last tmux session automatically - F6 then detaches cleanly and logs out.

The next is all the handy notifications in the bottom bar; a bit like conky, if you use that. So it lists the server mem/cpu/network load, number of packages that need updating, RAID status, AWS estimated cost (if relevant), no. logged in users, etc...

It originally started out with a Screen backend, then switched over to Tmux which has a lot of the same multiplexing functionality. So that's probably why you're not seeing a huge added benefit. But the added extras are enough to make me always want Byobu installed - particularly the easy session attachment.
I do something similar with my own personal site. It's using Jekyll and the repo is in bitbucket. When I commit to the repo, my server is pinged (to a lightweight Flask app) and the server pulls the changes and recompiles the static pages:

http://timmyomahony.com/blog/autodeploy-jekyll-using-bitbuck...

It's surprisingly satisfying
Not sure how that's calculated. I assume it is accurate, but the index size is going to depend a lot on what kind of text you have and how it is separated into individual terms (or n-grams or all the other ways you can tokenize and filter to create individual terms).

Personally, I think of disk space as cheap, and am far more concerned with having options to improve speed and quality of search results.
At least in this version, as far as I got (6 pipes in), the gap between the pipes was always less than the height of a jump, making the game a trivial matter of timing your jump exactly when the bird is nearly touching the bottom pipe.

There is no strategy in positioning yourself and taking alternate gaps. There are no alternate gaps to begin with. The whole game is just an exercise in timing, like a quick-time event of the sort where you need to stop a moving indicator in a given range.

It would fit as a way to grant an attack bonus in e.g. Super Mario RPG or Paper Mario.

1/10 - it's a real-time multiplayer qte in javascript and that's kind of cool
Writing a lot of short sentences develops your sense for when a long one is appropriate.
"...even though sample size is small it rings 100% true"

I just want to point attention to the (perhaps ironic) fact this sort of reasoning is exactly the same one used by the (allegedly) racist hosts and drivers in the story, i.e. people are much more prone to accept what they are told (mostly in sample size = 1 cases or anecdotal generalizations) if it aligns well with their beliefs (e.g. "another BnB host told me a black guy thrashed his house", "we all know that girls can't code").

A (very) rough characterization of the process, I think, would be:

1. Creation: For this or that reason an a priori belief is formed, e.g. "world is inherently racist" or "blacks are much more probable to be criminals".

2. Filtering: The facts that are reported are filtered using a selection bias (usually, mostly subconsciously) so that facts that strongly agree with the belief are remembered more. (The fact that news items generally report on low-probability, high-standard deviation items, a la man biting the dog, makes this effect even stronger)

3. Update The belief is then updated by the facts with their relative weights determined in (2)

The above (well known and documented, e.g. Blink EDIT: Sorry, wrong reference, see below) process is not a bad thing! AFAIK, it's default brain operation. It takes quite a bit of control and patience to push back the default process at all thee levels.

Note that I'm not arguing that racism, etc. does not exist; however, before jumping to conclusions, like the OP and his/her friend did ("AirBnB doesn't work for black people"), we need to be a bit more careful.
The paper was published in Nature today. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...
To be fair, the NSA mass surveillance probably did not violate various european countries' sovereignties since they all appeared to be in on it. It probably being illegal in those countries is a different story (and certainly being illegal when applied domestically).
Here's another article that looks at some acquisition programs just by the US Marines. Navy, Army and Air Force acquisitions are often much bigger. Scroll for the tables.

http://www.mca-marines.org/gazette/article/ace-ate-marine-co...
The API TOS has other provisions, though, so I'm not sure if this applies.

http://products.wolframalpha.com/api/
This is a great -- and scary -- point. These statistical fallacies and misunderstandings are so deeply ingrained into our scientific and medical systems that it's hard to see how and when they will be removed. I can attest from personal experience that many scientists 1) don't understand these statistical tests, 2) don't care to find out, and 3) don't think there's a problem.
I'd agree, except arguments are rarely just a list of numbers. With well-named constants, methods and variables its pretty clear what's being passed.
Hadoop's 10 in Facebook's 10
It would be great if there was some way to write Sublime / Vim / whatever plugins that use this.
Whose idea was to call the Feb 11th event "the day we fight back"? Signing a petition or calling your congress-person is not really "fighting back". I don't think we can really "fight back" against the NSA in a way that is legal.

We CAN pressure our representatives. Our representatives certainly can fight back.

Next time there is an online protest on the NSA there should be a better name for it.

There is a lot of lazy apathy out there on the interwebs. I think that this needs to be framed not around "our privacy" (while most of us are thinking we have nothing to hide anyhow) but around the "privacy of journalists, activists and people in important positions".

What if you knew that every news article was written by a journalist who was afraid for their family from the NSA?
In the age of the internet we are all journalists and activists of one sort or another.
I've been meaning to write something along those lines, thanks for stepping up!

Virtually all the examples I've seen on the various sites/tutorials etc. seem to be more complicated, sometimes significantly, than their straightforward imperative counterparts.

In addition, FRP is required to bring reactiveness to the stateless world of pure functional programming. OO, on the other hand, already is reactive. It's sort of the definition of an object, it reacts to messages. So I am not quite sure what FRP is bringing to the OO world, and again none of the explanations appear to make sense, because they tend to just lift the FP explanations, which aren't applicable.

I can see the appeal of just setting up certain relationships and then having the system maintain them, but we've had constraints since forever to handle that case: Lessons Learned About One-Way, Dataflow Constraints (http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1761&c...) [PDF]
"Generates" => 'extorts'.
What's up with Unity? The Linux desktop publishing preview is a work-in-progress. It's been that way for a while.
http://unity3d.com/unity/multiplatform/desktop
How can anyone possibly believe this? Not just attacking you but genuinely I find this incomprehensible.

America is a deeply racist society. It's built on the genocide of the Native Americans who are still largely kept in poverty in virtual prison camps we insultingly call reservations, by racist policies.

The legacy of racism against African Americans is still deep and real - have you any experience as a black person in the Southern states? If so then I'll respect your opinion on that topic, but as a White person who came to the US from a different country, and then lived in Texas for a few years, the levels of racism are disgraceful.

The entire hispanic ag-business-driven immigration problem hinges on institutionalized racism.

Then we don't even touch on disparities like over-concentration of poverty in minority communities, incarceration rates, under-representation in positions of power and seniority etc.
It sounds neat. I've wanted this kind of thing when I programmed in languages that didn't have it.

But having gone from c++ to Ruby to C++, I think the benefits of this expressiveness may not really be there.

This construction makes each line of the whole program that much longer, it asks that every functions arguments be meaningful outside the context of the function as well as within. Basically, this syntax may show you that certain calls are wrong but there are many other calls it won't prevent and it gives you larger amount of code to page through to find those other errors.

Remember, a good program wouldn't be using 10 as a function input except if there was some reason it's meaning was clear. And a rect would take two points rather than four ambiguous ints.

So what you can have is drawRect(Pt(screenLeft, screenTop), Pt(screenRight, screenBottom) if you want a rect covering the screen and you want expressiveness.
Yeah, take a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group#Subsidiaries_...

Bugatti and Lamborghini are fun to note, though probably insignificant against VW's entire R&D budget.
The ISS is only in shade for 45 minutes at a time, which is orders of magnitude less than a lunar night.

But speaking of that: how long is too long to spend at 26K in a vacuum? Are there any good articles/videos that talk about what happens to various materials at such extreme temperatures in a vacuum?
Two Game Consoles Battle for a Dubious Prize
Both frequentist and Bayesian decision making ultimately rest on arbitrary prior assumptions. In Bayesian statistics it is explicit. In frequentist stats it is less acknowledged, but still there. Where do your cutoff values for alpha and beta (p-value and power) come from? Same place the Bayesians get their priors.
Thanks for all the awesome work, Python and the community wouldn't have gotten to where they are without people like Ian.

"There is no community that created Javascript like the Python community created Python. Python comes from the internet in a way Javascript does not; Javascript was built for the internet, but Python was built on the internet."
> What you do get a lot in Europe is a lot of discomfort with the muslim minorities - whether white, or of color - which is often falsely equated with racism (because racists are often also Islamophobic too).

Europe has had at least one genocide over the issue recently. That's a bit more than "discomfort."
Yes, I suppose one always want to skew towards the richer in these cases, and race happens to be a commonly held indicator of wealth or lack thereof. It's two ugly things mixing together.
Does anyone know if there are images from this rover available on-line ? I'd love to see some hi rez shots of the Earth with the Moon's horizon in the shot.
What does "legit" mean exactly? You can cryptographically verify every transaction.
Apple wants massive Arizona sapphire plant to run on clean energy "from day one"
Quite right. Historical baggage and preconceptions make some things rather difficult in certain countries if you look a certain way. In your example, shaving would do the trick. In the well-documented and numerous examples of blacks being routinely harassed, arrested or killed for unfounded suspicions...?
Dana Stalder: Why $1.5 Million Seed Rounds No Longer Work
National Intelligence Director Clapper Claims Transparency Helps Terrorists
I'm not sure I understand the definition of Q from that paper. Q = \xyz.x right? But that requires assuming lambda calculus, which is small I guess but not what I would call minimal.
As for (CGRect){0, 0, 320, 480}, it is indeed valid, but it's a lot nicer to have a consistent syntax instead of mixing C with Objective-C.
Feminists and friends fling just as much shit as anybody else on Twitter. During the Piers Morgan Twitter flamefest, you should have seen some of the hatred thrown his way. In particular I remember the person who wished him to get "dick cancer." I posted a link one time to an article critical of the DailyKos response to a particular Ted Rall cartoon, and a social justice warrior flamed the shit out of me for _weeks_ after I stopped responding, because I didn't think a badly drawn caricature of Obama constituted racism.

I don't think you need anonymity to make trolling lose its flavor, I have used plenty of forums over the years where there were persistent identities but the sophisticated (compared to twitter users) forum members just didn't take the bait and trolling attempts usually just fell flat.
Perhaps the "literally a list of misleading headlines" comment is because if one had the time and thought it would actually be considered, one could probably come up with misleading headlines and links to stories of white people suffering injustice for random things.

Like "Can't divorce an ex Pro Football player [link to story about OJ Simpson killing Nicole]"

Or "Can't drive truck down street [Link to story about Reginald Denny]

I know those are older stories but those are the ones that come to mind with little research.
Steve Jobs Time Capsule That Was Dug Up, Containing the Original Lisa
On Replacing Objective-C
Yes.

To clarify, I'm not saying that racism is not a problem in the U.S. Certainly it is.

If other countries don't have huge number of minorities in prison, then it is because (1) they don't have huge numbers of minorities, or (2) they don't have a lot of people in prison.

But in the U.S. we have both the world's highest incarceration rate and an unusually ethnically diverse population. Add to that the racism that everyone has, and we get the kind of problems you mention.
Exactly. What is the point of the walled garden if it protects neither producers nor consumers?
I think there's an alternative explanation to your anecdotal suggestion black drivers don't pick up white hitch-hikers. Picking up hitch-hikers is inherently risky. Given that in any altercation or conflict the establishment and authorities will pretty much always view the black participant with suspicion and the white participant with favor, as experienced on a regular basis in day-to-day life by said driver, I think caution in not putting themselves in such a situation is warranted.
It is newsworthy. We generated fusion be shining light at molecules, which never has been done before. Aside from that, if you read the article you became slightly more science literate.
YOU are the one who believes "Eventually the actors in the economy figure out how to route around the damage being done." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7219852

Your own argument against voting defeats your own statement. You don't even trust your fellow citizen the right to vote, and yet you believe that citizens are smart enough to "route around damages" being done to the economy.

Listen here. I'm the one bringing up anti-market and pro-communist points against you. The fact that YOU are the one who wishes to limit voting is deeply ironic.
Ask HN: how to stay focused in a fast pace enviroment?
Lately I've been heavily expanding my knowledge of software engineering in general which made me loose focus with my daily assignments.

Starting my third year in a 15 years old, ever growing company, with a high employee turnover of 1:5 (1 current to 5 ex), our code is quite a mess (multiple domain models, bridges, multiple db instances to same sources, funky service locators etc. etc.), everybody did their thing without proper cleaning with the get-your-shit-done motto.

I try to see the bigger picture of the problem and also try to refactor to make some common sense solution and my mind flies away with Google Search & Exploratory Services to the unknown topics of the far away galaxy of the software production universe. ok, universes. :)

Other developers still make their things their way and produce even more mess with every LOC. Most of them aren't even interested in learning new things. I feel like there's some strange culture of job loss and the fear of demonstrating the lack of knowledge within a team which is made of 20 developers that sit in open space office really quiet.

Design patterns are the-secret-dogma-buzz-word that nobody uses and everybody is interested in DDD?! fck, lol. With around 600 MBs of legacy code, nobody willing to risk to break anything.

Except me, of course. Having clashes with the heads. I hate when things are wrong. ;)

The company plans are set in details for the next year or two, with a continous arrival of tickets with the priority of "Immediate", of course.

New B2B cooperation?! No problem! The contract is signed and the developers can do it in no-time!

Revenue is all time high (all the time) and the salary is good - of course. :)

So my question is:

Should I care? Should I force myself to focus? Should I go with the flow and type that lousy code? Should I call 555-HELP for help?! or maybe... should i flee? :)
Mozilla to introduce ads onto Firefox browser
It's the difference between learning enough to be conversational in a spoken language and learning enough to write a novel in it. Maybe the people who think they can do it in a few months have never written a novel in any language?
In the past 6 months I've switched from a mostly Python job to a mostly Go job, but I think I'll always consider myself part of the Python community. It's a positive and vibrant community.

Ian's participation in the Python community has been - and will continue to be - missed. I hope he brings the same wisdom and humility to the splintered Javascript community he brought to Python.
Should You Comment Your Code?  This is why I say "no"
> It may in fact not be possible to do better-than-breakeven fusion on a small (relative to a star) scale.

the H-bomb is better-than-breakeven and much smaller than star scale. What you say may be true for Tokamak like confinement schemes whereis H-bomb is inertial confinement, and it works. And it is pretty clear that inertial confinement in several orders of magnitude smaller scale than H-bomb would work too. Look at Sandia Z-machine - an order of magnitude up, and it would get breakeven. Not that anybody really needs it :)
"All regimes" ... "do whatever they can do" ... "against whoever they find significant" ... "anywhere they can"

News at eleven
That. Hopefully we can get another space race this time against China. Sending people to Mars or establishing moon colony for example.
Hopefully we are approaching the slope of the Python hype:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
I have to say this rings true for me. Long term involved in one language and feeling that the world is moving on. JavaScript feels exciting.
Amount of losses of Bitcoin since 2015:

0 BTC.

Not bad!
But that's not what the article is about. It a about dietary sugar--sucrose and fructose specifically.
New Apache SpamAssassin Release 3.4.0 Includes Native IPv6 Support
The download weighs in at 139 MB. Does anyone have a TL; DR?
In a world where all statisticians were Bayesian, you'd still see results like this published. It would simply read differently: "We saw something that seems pretty unlikely, care to confirm?"
"jQuery is not defined" sometimes caused by blocked CDNs
How does the database come into play there? Do you just have both the rails 2 and rails 4 app point to the db at the same time?
That's not what's happening in the article at all. They're saying "Black people can't even drink Arizona tea", when in reality it was some guy drinking canned tea and knowingly trespassing so he could get arrested and cash in on the whole "Trayvon Martin had an Arizona tea" thing.
Ludwig von Mises: A Brief Character Assassination
I would say learning the syntax and features of languages like Scala and Haskell is quite hard (at least perhaps for people of C++/Java/C#/Python backgrounds).

Languages like Go and Python take very little time to learn the language features even though mastering any language is quite an undertaking.
Thanks for that, it was entertaining to read.
Obama Sued by Rand Paul Over Phone Surveillance Program
> Our elected officials heard us today - from seemingly nowhere, that the status quo isn't acceptable

Do you really think they didn't already know that? Do you think they give a fuck? Do you think they might just be doing whatever the hell they damn well please, despite all of it being against the people's will?

This isn't about calling "your" (read: "Wall Street's" etc) representatives. It's not about pleading for less intrusive and oppressive "governance". You know, letters or phone calls don't actually compel politicians to do anything.

This is about a small group of people being in power, and everyone else subject to it. Do you think you need a bunch of rulers? Can't you make your own decisions? -Should someone be "legislating" your life?

Would you like to have a personal law just for you that mandated eating your veggies and exercising regularly? Would you want that law enforced through violence if necessary? -No? What if someone decided to force you to exercise anyway? Would that be alright? It's for your own good, after all! -No? But.. why? Why would that not be alright, if the government forcing you to pay taxes or buy insurance is alright?
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The last time we marched on Montreal, Washington DC ended up razed and Congress fled the Capitol.

In light of that, I might be coerced into supporting an invasion of Canada...
Oddly enough, I'm much happier to have nukes confined to a "club" of a few superstates than would be to have "spyware" similarly confined.

But the scary thing is how plausible that kind of reasoning sounds.
Oh yeah. That's rad.
Well if it's that obvious it probably means that people who could easily simplify the process are too busy playing casino instead? :)
I fully agree with the critics about the p-values, but what are the best alternatives to analyze and compare data? Most of the time, scientists have to compare the outcome of treatment 1 versus treatment 2; how should they do it "properly"?

What is the HN recommandation?
there's two ways you can take 'return on investment' - the wholistic qualitative way (if x has a tiny chance of improving the whole world then its worth it) or the narrow quantitative way (once we research it, we'l probably have to give x away basically for free and its is likely not to work out anyway and will take years so its practically valueless to our organisation on this years financial model).

unfortunately the latter is used almost exclusively. even in public organisations who should be able to take the broader of public good.
I thought his role on the Manhattan project was keeping the IBM calculators going?
When was this filed?
I built an extensible type system on top of JSON for serialization and validation. Among other types, it ships with DateTime (it represents dates as ISO strings). It also lets you define your own types, as simple or complex as you need them to be. If you've got a minute to take a look, I would really appreciate some feedback :)

http://www.cosmic-api.com/docs/teleport/python/latest/
Sure is.

Supported:

Dynamic typing.

Fully dynamic message dispatch with doesNotUnderstand: (called forwardInvocation:), proxies, Higher Order Messaging, etc.

Addition of (a) classes ( objc_registerClassPair() ) and (b) methods ( class_addMethod() ) at runtime.

Changing an object's class at runtime (objc_setClass() slightly hacky, but done by system services such as KVO, so supported).

Closures/Blocks.

Reflection.

Addition of (associated) instance variables at runtime.
Interpreted languages can be fully interoperable peers.

Not supported:

Eval (but see above re: interpreted peers).

Continuations.

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See: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/...

EDIT: added references.
R-Tree – Accessing Spatial Data