skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To each their own. I'll still call them a Philistine as if they'd ordered Kobe filet well-done. There's a perfectly serviceable Macallan 12 if someone wants to ice it. I can have a polite discussion about spring water for cask strength bottles, but the 12 & 18 are both diluted to just over 80 proof already.

Look, you are just not going to fully appreciate a fine whisky that way. This is chemistry & biology, not only me being an ass.

edit: and as an olive branch, I probably wouldn't have been as strident if we were talking standard (ie, free) ice instead of some $8 monstrosity.
I'm guessing this is not from 'Brief History of Time' Stephen Hawking.
Sometimes dilution & cooling liquor is appropriate. For those learning to refine their taste buds, a shot approaching 100 proof is too concentrated to appreciate - but adding a little water and chilling make it much easier to savor. I have to pipe up about this because a few months back I had the delightful experience of savoring 1911 apple vodka poured over rare fresh Georgia snow (something a tap water ice cube just doesn't replicate properly).

Yeah, an $8 ice cube is rather nuts, but if you are going to chill & thin an otherwise fine expensive liquor, taking effort to use good water and careful freezing (avoiding "freezer burn") is worthwhile. Or wait for a good snowfall.
Gold has more resistance than metals like copper. Its usefulness in electronics comes from the fact that it doesn't corrode or oxidize.
It is true you should probably enjoy a nice whiskey at room temperature with no ice/water (especially if someone offers it to you), though sometimes it's nice to throw in a splash of water to cut down on the bite a little and let the flavor shine through.
Zinc plating is just as effective, and much cheaper!
Seconded! Always fire back at people who try to look down at having a drink on the rocks!
Descent is still actively being played in a modern incarnation. You can find the info to get started at http://descentchampions.org/new_player.php or the short version at the top of http://descentrangers.com/Home/Index

[disclosure: I'm one of the cofounders of DCL, a junior officer in Rangers, and my wife is the primary developer of D1x-retro.]

I also have friends who actively play and mod Freelancer. Their team is at http://ripteam.com/ [Disclosure: I'm a member of team RIP, though only in their Descent 3 division.]
True ,it could be a wealth badge. But how many such badges does a person needs ? is there any additional value to the new ones?
How can ice in your drink numb your taste buds any more than chilling your drink to the same temperature in another way?
> It is a rock solid platform. Our hosted ops loves it because it just works.

I'm really confused by how different our experiences have been. Above you said you wrote your own shuffle implementation, presumably that was prompted by poor performance at some point. And, when you encountered that poor performance, you presumably also saw what happens to Spark when it's overwhelmed: a sea of exceptions. In a short period of time I've encountered lots of the following:

- FileNotFound exceptions when shuffle files couldn't be created

- Too many open file handles (also related to shuffle files)

- Infinite procession of out-of-memory errors on a cluster with 12TB of memory.

- Executor disconnected

- Weird akka errors

- Mysterious serialization errors (Map.values isn't serializable, making a nested partitioner class for some reason didn't work)

These errors are sometimes recoverable and other times kill all the workers on the cluster. Did none of these things happen to your team?
Copper is 1.68×10−8 Ω·m [1], while gold is 2.44×10−8 Ω·m [2].

[1] - Douglas Giancoli (2009) [1984]. "25. Electric Currents and Resistance". In Jocelyn Phillips. Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. p. 658. ISBN 0-13-149508-9.

[2] - Raymond A. Serway (1998). Principles of Physics (2nd ed.). Fort Worth, Texas; London: Saunders College Pub. p. 602. ISBN 0-03-020457-7.
I don't think this is ridiculous. I remember watching this one scene in Star Trek Into Darkness where Kirk was sitting in a bar enjoying a drink. The drink that he was enjoying had this perfect spherical ice in it. I remember talking to myself at that moment that this is a very nice business idea.

Retail price aside, I do believe premium ice is a viable business.
Gold isn't the best conductor. Silver is better, followed by copper, but they oxidize, and gold does not. It's the oxide that forms the insulator. There are both hard and soft gold platings is electronics. Hard gold is for wearing contact surfaces such as connectors and relays. Soft gold for solderable and wire bondable surfaces.
That was the original plan, but it never worked in my experience. The compiler as shipped required that -source 1.5 use -target 1.5. So hobbling the language this way served no benefit in the end.
I should say that a limited number of Americans know about the Haymarket incidents, but a vastly fewer still have ever heard of Loyalty Day.
Copper and silver are better conductors. Golds main advantage is that it does not corrode. Zinc has that advantage too and is much cheaper, conduction is a non-issue because the surface is fairly large and the amount of material to traverse microscopically thin.
I make clear ice cubes two ways.

1. Boil water twice beforehand

2. Strap a vibrating "toy" to the tray and put it on a solid flat surface in the freezer.

Neither of these solutions ended up costing me more than $20 to make as many ice cubes as I can fit. The hardest part is finding ice cube trays that don't suck.
I build my own TrueCrypt binaries on my 64bit Windows 7 box.
There is a new Emperor Norton in town: http://norton13.us/
> You look at families of a race that had less children and compare them to families of the same race with more children. That would be a data experiment controlled for race.

That's exactly how you expound the problem and get the wrong answer. How do you know that the factors causing parents to have more or less children are the same between races, or that those factors don't directly impact parenting ability? Suppose the predominant factor in low income Asian Americans having three or more children is a calculated decision that the couple's extended family has enough resources to responsibly raise that number of children (i.e. rich uncle), but the predominant factor in low income African Americans having three or more children is accidental pregnancy.

At first you had to take into account income level, but to do that you have to factor out fertility rate, and to factor that out you have to account for the different causes behind the differing fertility rate. If we then discover that the predominant cause of accidental pregnancy in African Americans is religious opposition to birth control or abortion, don't we have to then account for the causes and consequences of a higher degree of faith in religion?

Nobody has the resources to go all the way down the rabbit hole. But everywhere you look there is some factor that would change the outcome by 50% in one direction or the other if you take it into account. Which means you can make the numbers say whatever you want just by looking in the places you can expect to find support for the result you like.
An RPi projecting scope would be useful for inspection work. Have a look through FEC to see the kinds of prices people pay for inspection equipment.

Ridiculous URL: http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/search/browse.jsp?N=2031+202618&Nt...
I've heard this, but I don't really buy it. The whisky is already diluted at bottling time, unless it's "cask strength".
Sadly not. There is no delegation of authority for domains. If you are trusted to sign, you can sign anything. ngrok does see and ignore all of the decrypted traffic before it re-encrypts through the tunneled connection. This will change soon with SNI-based tunnels though.
Is so simple that I don't know what to do with it. Tool tips on the icons would be great, for example the skull head what means?
Web Experience Toolkit, open source project by the Government of Canada
Proposable gets a makeover
It's been nearly 4 years and over 10,000 subscribers later, Proposable is back at it once again.

Proposable has taken the leap and decided to give themselves a makeover. In this blog: http://blog.proposable.com/looking-for-our-first-beta-group, it describes the improvements and other important facts.

They're also looking for an elite group of beta testers. Who knows what this will bring. Stay tuned.
For Libertarian Utopia, Float Away on ‘Startup’ Nation
The "Search removal request under European Data Protection law" webform, https://support.google.com/legal/contact/lr_eudpa?product=we...
More than 250 million global events are now in the cloud for anyone to analyze
I've definitely seen serious whiskey drinkers add a little water to break the oils at the surface and release flavors like you said. I was more commenting on putting a giant spherical ice cube in your whiskey. But again, to each his own and there is no "right" way to do anything.
Ada is quite a long way from COBOL. Having just completed its latest revision about a year and a half ago, Ada is very much cutting edge. Ada 2012 is hardly a maintenance revision like you may find for COBOL; it adds tons of new stuff like contracts and substantial improvements to concurrency and SMP support. Ada 2012 was too long after it's previous revision, Ada 2005, which was standardized in 2007, and was quite more substantial than even 2012.
Friendly reminder that "Mongo" is a very offensive word in German. A "Mongo" is a person suffering from Down syndrome. CockroachDB is a walk in the park compared to MongoDB.
While I've enjoyed the Elvis operator in Groovy, the point of optional is to make null go away altogether. In Groovy, you are never guaranteed anything isn't null, so the end result is that you will Elvis everything. While this is easier than the good old if statements, you are still paying for the penalty of a billion ifs in bytecode.

With option, you clearly declare what is safe, and what isn't, and the compiler won't let you screw up. You can decide which layer of your code handles the empty case, and lots of unnecessary ifs go away from the bytecode itself, so the app will run faster, and you know when you have to even consider the null case.

Now, doing that in Groovy is rather silly, because your language is dynamic and your types are optional, so all of this compile time safety would not provide any value anyway. Option is just the way you'd solve the problem in the strongly typed way. It's how you handle it in Scala, for instance, and how Haskell would deal with it.

As far as using flatmaps and maps to work with optionals, yes, it's a chore. I'd argue it's borderline abuse of the stream operators, as treating Option as a collection is ugly. That said, putting yourself in a situation where you chain 3 optional getters is also object design from hell, so one should avoid putting themselves in that position altogether.

In Scala, instead of flatmapping single optionals, we often getOrElse(), or use pattern matching as an extractor. Now that's a feature I would like to see Java 'steal' from the Scalas and Erlangs of the world, but I do not see that happening.
He'll use my line of high-end oxygen-producers. I can start him off with some Bambü, which produces a very nice texture, or we can skip directly to Alø, which has some very nice medicinal properties as well.
Well that's my point. According to what I've heard about 'the incident', the statement could be interpreted to really just be about dongles in the relevant technical sense. And it was such a perfectly normal sentence that there were no clear signs of having deliberately tried to make a pun or something like that. So then you're just left with how the sentence was said, which we don't know much about (I think).

> It's not hard to tell the difference.

Perhaps, if you know that "dongle" is a technical term, and you don't take the sentence out of context (like overhearing only one sentence). Besides, many catch themselves in making unintentional puns and innuendos, only noticing after-the-fact that the sentence could be interpreted in another way. It surely isn't so unlikely that one can justify firing people point-blank when they do make such a mistake!
Yeah, right.

The law defines the right, it doesn't force Google to do anything. Google can take every request to court.

The qualification "horribly rash, poorly thought" out applies to the services Google creates ("huh, privacy, what privacy?"), and the way it responds to request to comply with basic privacy ("fuck you, fuck you and fuck you, oh, oops, we lost in court, let's hack something together to prevent losing $$$").

Besides, Google already decides. There's nothing even remotely objective about Google's search results, and Google is eager to pro-actively censor it's services for anything ranging from the copyright mafia to American puritanism.

The EU lawmakers didn't force Google to be a bunch of assholes. They just defined basic civil rights.
What is the difference between Spark and Storm? They both seem like "realtime compute engines"

*edit - from what I can see Spark is a replacement for hadoop (offline jobs), where Storm deals with online stream processing
Angular AutoFields
No one I knew cared about the ajax or the threaded inbox (sometimes considered anti-features). It was all about the gigabyte free space, with labels over folders a distant second.
"Fascism has become the dominant political system of the world". Not "has become", "has always" Do people not study history or psychology? The underlying issue is as old as humanity. You can't engineer yourself out of a human problem. Rather than always trying to tech everything up, people need to consider the downsides to their inventions. Technology has changed, humanity hasn't.
Google Stars leaks on Chrome Web Store
I always thought it was because gold does not oxidize or corrode very easily.
You could totally make high class oxygen by using plants. It's a business. You just need to be brave / shameless enough to charge a ridiculous amount for plant generated oxygen.

I think this element of "I cannot bring myself to do this, even though some people are so rich they will not miss the money" stops some people from starting businesses.
I learned from my lawyer that a typical reaction of people accused of something which they're guilty of is to criticise the process of how this is being handled, or the way the evidence has been collected, or the semantics of the question, etc.
A* pathfinding implementation for Go
LibreSSL presentation by Bob Beck
> This is a head scratcher... The most modern educational innovation is being applied for the least modern language.

How is it the least modern language? The oldest? The least relevant? Please be specific.
AdaCore, who are the chief stewards of the official GCC Ada frontend, GNAT, have been publishing weekly "gems" that are extremely informative for years.

http://www.adacore.com/adaanswers/gems

Get started..
I put a single cube of ice in my scotch / bourbon simply because the dram "opens up" over time and the taste evolves with each sip, so to speak.

On the other hand, Chilled glasses are a pet peeve of mine.
Bravo for thinking to ask such a profound question. No doubt you'll go far!

Personally, I wish I started a program of autodidacticism earlier. Teaching myself about business & technical subjects that interested me. Also, make a habit of reading biographies of great men. Tremendous lessons can be learned that way.

Finally, read up on Goal Setting and implementing your action plans. *You've got less time than you think. Get Going Now!
Comparing Scott Meyers' talk examples in C++ and D
But the high end drink chiller exists, and it is called "whisky stones" or similar.
At my first real job I got to use a Sparc 20 as my workstation. Fantastic machine.
Awesome! Glad you saw and liked the change. We're trying to iterate quickly to address our users concerns, so keep the feedback coming — super helpful.
Did you read? The author of the article details the process involved, the cost for crystal-clear ice blocks, etc.
Filament – An App Platform for Websites
Folks with very different ideas of personal space, ownership, community, responsibility will naturally have larger friction between members.
Appointment of New Director Shakes Up Bitcoin Foundation
What is Apache Mahout?
Method References in Java 8
Nothing surprising in this. People are using an automated online marketplace to sell illegal goods. Online marketplace takes down products when they are reported.

It's a game of whack-a-mole and Amazon is doing the bare minimum. The company has no incentive to do otherwise.
Then again why engage in this practice in the first place ?
I really hope the $150 cable has much better manufacturing and inspection. Obviously that doesn't mean they're worth that much, but still.
Very nice. In fact, almost nicer than being there (though you should do that anyway if you get the chance). Because now you can experience the details for as long as you want without a hundred other people around you who are just as annoyed at you as you are at them.

I get it that a tourist complaining about tourist attractions being too crowded is total hypocrisy on my part. But at the same time what I wouldn't give to be able to stand in that chapel for as long as I wanted just to look, all by myself. And now I can. We live in amazing times.

Be sure to look 'up' and use the zoom feature.

The only improvement I can think of is a 'link' icon that you can use to cut-and-paste a certain viewpoint + zoom so that you can show others specific details, and two more viewpoints at the end and the beginning (so you don't lose the corners due to distortion).
They obviously noticed and knew but did not care, as stated in the post OpenDNS is a revenue oriented company as such they're going after the money which for a service nobody's going to pay money for means going the "make them pay with their privacy " way a.k.a. ads.
Meta comment about the panorama interface:

The click+drag view control feels inverted to me. I'm curious whether I'm in the minority, though. For FPS games on PC I use normal mouse, but for console FPS games I use inverted joystick.
115 Java Interview Questions and Answers
Stanford Asks Students To Learn From Snapchat Founder’s Mistakes
Google to announce Android TV at Google I/O in June
> For sub-second adhoc queries we go against bitmap indexes.

Did you implement the index yourself? How many events survive the initial filtering?
And Norway is #146
> They're all digital connections, so the signal/bits are either there or are not.

Absolutely not true. There is quite a lot of engineering behind making an HDMI or Ethernet cable work:

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

And, there are plenty of ways to mess it up and make a cable that only sort of works.

TMDS, the signaling mechanism that HDMI uses, does not have error correction codes. It does do some error detection by using 10 bits to transmit each 8 bit message and declaring some of the binary representations "invalid", but if the cable does not work well, you will get visual artifacts. (I was surprised when I saw this; little specks of green among blacks while I was running an HDMI cable very close to its maximum bandwidth. One video card I tested refused to output anything, but another was happy to send a signal that was corrupted by the cable.)

Further reading:

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_signaling
I have an even better idea... I'll sell luxury air for $995 a bottle. I'll call it æïr!
Initial Java EE 8 JSR Draft
> it requires a "compilation"/"rebuilding" step that gets longer and longer as your site gets bigger

Unless the generator can keep track of what has and hasn't changed and only rebuild the changed stuff.
Try it! The first whiskey I've tried it with was Glenfiddich 12, and I was amazed at how it sweetened/changed the flavor profile with just a tiny splash.
Misleading title. The article is Technology fallacies that need to die.
Well, that's a matter of terminology. It uses quorum replication, so it can make progress as long as a majority of replicas are online and communicating. I would consider that "proper" replication in the sense of a replicated state machine.

You're right that it's different from, say, master/slave replication in an SQL database. There's no distinction between an authoritative master and a slave that provides stale data. Each machine either gives you consistent reads and writes, or is unavailable.

As far as latency goes, the gory details are in the design document. You need to talk to at least N/2 other replicas; there's no way around that without giving up consistency. But that doesn't mean you can only do one transaction every 50ms; they can be pipelined, and non-conflicting transactions can proceed simultaneously.
'A' and 'Z' buttons work too
> figure out only what needs to be rebuilt and rebuild it.

I thought a number of SSGs already did this.
I suggest doing a blind test. I did several times, and definitely noticed a difference from adding a few drops of water in most high-end whiskys.
Two questions:
1) Do you think the Democrats will not filibuster this bill in the Senate?
2) Do you think the President will sign it or veto it if it makes it to his desk?
This is, of course, brilliant: find some mass-market component that is used in a luxury service, and provide a high-end alternative.

Many of those things should be considered entertainment, they're conversation pieces. People with a few bucks to burn buy them to have something (very neutral) to talk about for fifteen minutes.
Isn't WWDC next week?
Rather – Replace anything you want in your social feeds
How has increased focus on client-side UX affected Web API design?
I'd love to be able to get a flame chart view (Like in Chrome's dev tools) of a profiling run. It looks like this project might be able to support that since it keeps the full stack trace.
How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters (Joshua Bloch, 2007)
As a resident of Saigon, and having visited China, I can actually attest to the idea that having air cans in some of these smoggy cities is become less of a luxury and more of a necessity every day.
Here ya go: http://www.thermos.com/products/vacuum-insulated-14-oz-stain...

The price per ounce of vacuum makes cocaine look like water.
What would you want a 'minimally viable' microframework to include, in terms of functionality?

This has come up a couple of times in PHP framework and router threads, and i've been wondering what it would look like (it would probably be even smaller than Slim Framework). I've gotten as far as including Composer and a rather barebones router and telling people to just include whatever else they want but I suspect other people would want more.

I find it annoying when frameworks include dependencies I don't want, particularly an ORM or a templating engine, but I understand for a lot of people, that's the point (not having to pick dependencies themselves.)
I'm pretty sure you can get clear ice cubes by just freezing hot water. Bonus: they actually freeze faster than cold water.
This is the über demonstråtion that marketing is everything and product is... maybe not nothing, but in any case vastly overrated.

Marketing rules because the only thing that matters is perception. While we mere mortals find this story ridiculous, if we had all the money in the world and some guy convinced us that he had made the perfect ice cube, why would we settle for less?

It's arguably irrationnal to buy an inferior product if you can afford a better one.

That said, Tovolo trays are great :-)
You can buy presses to turn ice into a sphere.

Is this an affiliate link? How do I turn it back into a regular link?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00A1TMFSU?pc_redir=1401253883...
> It's no different to 'clear the whole cache every time I change any content and store it all in memcached' - you're just substituting 'file-system' for 'memcached'

There's no reason why the SSG needs to rebuild the entire site if you've only changed one thing.