skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have confused luck in following an unsupported set of steps for your particular configuration and set of installed packages with a solution to the general problem. There was no guarantee your system would continue to function, nor is there any guarantee that your system is not now broken in a subtle, yet-unnoticed way, nor is there any guarantee that your process will work for anyone else, nor that it will work for future releases.

This is the same mindset that blows up production systems with ad-hoc maladministration instead of following sound, documented procedures created with the input of people who actually understand the system and thoroughly tested in advance.
I think they would do just fine for certain roles in a large scale internet service. I don't think you need disks on every node.
What's the problem with this comment? Don't you think the EU would be more accommodating if google wouldn't evade taxes? After all Capitalism is the de facto world government.
"No we never got any concerns from Snowden"...

(months later)

"Oh here it is, an email from Snowden"...

"So how do you explain that you lied before?"

(silence)

Is NSA just lying because it hopes the problem will go away? I guess that is not unreasonable. Public has a pretty short attention span. So rather than trying to engage just brush off and deny everything.

Was anyone at the NSA ever punished for lying to the public or Congress? If not they have exactly 0 incentive for not doing it. The part of "Oh yeah here is the email" and the follow up question of "Why were you lying?" quite often never comes. Everyone just moves on.

Looking at the organization as a whole and comparing to a person, NSA acts like a psychopath that climbed its way up to into a power position. Lying through its teeth. Engaging in illegal activities. Every time they are caught, telling lies, they follow up with more lies. Spy on Congress members and judges. Presumably to be able to manipulate them. This is a person you'd want to run away from in real life as fast as possible. They are dangerous because they have power and they have no morals.
By "operating system" they seem to mean "linux distribution". I suspect that, like most glamorous crypto project, this will turn out to be woefully inadequate. (For example, they did their own implementation of openpgp. Not clear why.)
I can't add much over what wikipedia [0] says. One of the most attractive features for me was the rapid compilation times and the module system (they go hand in hand).

Modula-3 predated Java by about 10 years and I'd say the type system [1] still surpasses it. Modula-3 was nearly everything that Java ended up being, a safe performant systems language.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-3

[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/courses/modules/papers/cardelli-e...
Personally, I hate and avoid the practice of building twice, once for SEO and once for usability.

I am always careful to build dynamic apps which render the HTML correctly on the server. Its handy not just for SEO. It also allows you to support legacy browsers and it dramatically decreases load times.

But if google is the only search engine you care about, and load times and legacy browsers don't matter to you, by all means, continue building one-page JS apps. There are often less headaches to be had when you go the simple route.
I like to measure things like honey (21g = 1 tbsp) by weight too, because half of it tends to stick to the measuring spoon.

Accuracy aside, I find it easier to cook by weight (especially if I'm scaling the recipe). I set the bowl on the scale, dump in an ingredient, press tare, dump in the next one, press tare. No fiddling around with measuring cups and spoons.

What weight are you using for a cup of AP flour when converting recipes? (I usually go with 125 g, per the USDA nutrient database, but I've seen numbers as high as 150 g elsewhere.)
Just a warning, I tried the same when upgrading from nadia to petra, and because I had compiled from source my Intel graphics driver, it screwed horribly and I spent hours trying to remove or recompile and reinstall it without success.

In the end, reinstalling Mint from a USB drive (preserving $HOME) took just a few minutes and the driver worked instantly.

So don't forget about this kind of dependencies before considering a dist-upgrade.
I really hope your child's teacher doesn't just mark it right or wrong, but provides a counterargument for a flawed answer.

The question of "how do you teach one to answer 'why?'" is a difficult one, but here's what I understand is the established way of doing it. You give the student a problem, they think about it for a long time, and give their answers as to why. You discuss their answers with them, and then after they revise their answers, you present an elegant and correct answer. Then you repeat.

It's interesting, for example, that nobody asks how to teach one to answer "why" when you're, say, analyzing the motives of a character in some piece of literature. What do they do? They discuss, then they revise, and at some point the teacher presents either a good piece of student work or some other established ideas. Is mathematics really that different just because in the end you can tell with certainty that an answer is correct or incorrect? English teachers have one on one conversations with their students about their work, and they make students have discussions with each other about their thoughts on a daily basis. Why can't math teachers do the same?

I think part of the reason math is plagued by such questions is that most people don't realize that a proof (aka the answer to "why?") is not just correct or incorrect, but has aesthetic properties. Nevertheless, it's clear that mathematics is set apart from this on day one. Just compare any high school math syllabus to a syllabus in another subject [1]

[1]" http://j2kun.svbtle.com/what-would-math-class-look-like-if-i...
Another concept for V2G possibilities, perhaps with more predictability and utility than personal vehicle V2G.

No info on battery longevity, and the economic analysis assunes a 14-year vehicle lifespan.
The flip side is also sometimes true. When you know the steps of some process well, it means you've internalized all the existing assumptions. That can make it difficult to clearly realize where removing steps is possible.
We changed the title in a vain attempt to make it less linkbaity.
> Very often it's just people who want to have a 7-segment LED display show the number of unread emails, or get a soundcard running, something along these lines.

7-seg LEDs are best controlled by a microcontroller attached via USB or a USB-RS232 interface, as next to no one ships a parallel printer port. Soundcards these days usually all already have kernel drivers, I haven't heard of any modern chip without.

And USB stuff is best developed in userspace with libusb, it's way easier...
I have no problem using liquid measuring cups for solids. Just wiggle the cup a bit, and the flour will level itself. My main reason for segregating solids and liquids is to keep the solids from sticking in the cup. Nothing needs to be all that precise except for some kinds of sweets. At the end of the job, there's nothing to clean.

My dad, a chemist, insists on weighing the dry ingredients, and I agree in principle, but find volume to be quicker.
You didn't have to think to type this, did you?
Switching cities is a lot of fun, and keeps every day interesting (it's what I'm doing too, a couple months at a time). Doing it in Asia is definitely viable, I've spent about $2k in the last 6 months hopping month-long airbnb rentals and crashing at friends'/family's with my backpack. A refreshing change after leaving the Bay Area.

India is actually a lot of fun to travel through. If you have company, getting on a train starting somewhere in the south and working your way up north visiting the major metropolises, tourist sites (and coworking spaces I guess) can be really fresh and enlightening. I strongly recommend that, if you're ok being without internet and power supplies for extended periods of time.

[see The Darjeeling Express if you haven't]

I have not spent any meaningful amount of time at Indian coworking spaces. Due to poor navigability of public transit and not having my own ride, I didn't have a good option. And heaven forbid actually having to drive on Indian roads without lots of slow practice.

Corporate internet connections tend to be a lot better (and cost a buttload), so not all "businesses" bother to get them. I have heard that coworking spaces in any of the true IT-powered metropolises -- Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Chennai -- are much more likely to have solid internet connections, although there are coworking spaces in some of the smaller cities too (like those in Kerala).

I worked out of Microsoft's offices in Hyderabad once because a friend is there, and funnily enough they were having massive bandwidth and ping issues that day, I couldn't stream SD video without buffering pauses for my app. Maybe it was just their guest network, but I doubt it. So who knows? If people here think American ISPs are bad, you don't want to go near India...
You completely miss the impact of a better measuring cup. It saves time during a menial task - only a few seconds but this builds up.

http://xkcd.com/1205/

I would think that now that measuring cup has saved many times the time taken to design it, and the people whose time has been saved include (and is not limited to) doctors, nurses, various scientists, and your 'everyday' man. So I think it is quite obvious that the contribution of the angled measuring cup could indeed be much greater than any single nurse.
This seems a few years late... given that a ton of content is generated with JS nowadays and it has been this way for years
Bowe Bergdahl, Army Sergeant Held by Taliban Since 2009, Is Released
Well, if it's a state contract, that would be difficult. I would envision a private system that deals with MDs and pharmacies directly. But if there's already a government contract (with accompanying legislation) -- then, that's probably that (The idea being that the MDs paid a certain (small) fee per prescription or something, and that the patient could get it filled at any pharmacy).

Sure, if there's room for an office management platform, go with that.

(Btw, it would appear I was guessing at what the situation was 6-7 years ago in Greece)
"Bergdahl, 28, was freed from Afghanistan — in exchange for five prisoners who were held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center — and is back in the hands of the U.S. military, the officials said."
Yeah, you're right. I got pretty worked up over the premise.
Much of Michelangelo's work was produced for the House of Medici, in large part to create a sense of culture around the newly-powerful clan. And while, yes, the family produced four Popes, though more as an outgrowth of their political and financial power consolidation than strict religious interest.

Again: the Church was very different during the period than it is today, representing political power, a center and repository of education and knowledge, tremendous financial power, and a very active role in political goings-on. Again: it's really not particularly surprising that the Church was so involved in sponsorship for the arts.

Today those roles are largely filled by commercial interests, an insight which first came to me in the late 1980s as an early computer animation festival was touring through my college town, and I realized that many of the best shorts, almost all advertisements, were for tobacco and alcohol companies. Today that niche is filled more by the FIRE sector.
I am running a small software services business. I really need a mentor a)- who can help me improve our services business b)- help me venture into product development. All help is appreciated.

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The only thing you are guaranteed to get from a PR agency is a monthly invoice
Is getting a PR agency, the right thing to do for your company...
Rumors have it they are going to make it a requirement for all nationalities to procure your visa from your country of citizenship or permanent residence if you want one longer than 30 days.

Indians have 15-day visa-on-arrival in Thailand, but to get the 60 day visa I had to go to a consulate in India specifically, I was not allowed to apply for it from Singapore or elsewhere. Apparently this currently isn't true for all nationalities, but the list has been growing.
It's time for a single man who speaks Latin fluently, knows how to cook, is able to talk at least superficially about philosophy and can even shut up every now and then to disrupt the Seattle dating scene!

Maybe some VC can fund potential "interesting dates", in exchange for a few percent of the newlywed's house?
If the destruction of all this unique user-generated content pisses you off -- and it should -- then feel free to join ArchiveTeam and help save this (and other) content for the Internet Archive. Check out the ArchiveTeam wiki at archiveteam.org, or come on over to #archiveteam and #archiveteam-bs on efnet throughout this week to watch a self-organizing data rescue mission happen in real time. (There will probably be a new dedicated channel spun off for this project later today or tomorrow.)

In the meantime, programs like youtube-dl and livestreamer are your friends.

http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/documentation.html
http://livestreamer.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Doesn't much bother me either way, but my comment seems to have been rescued from negative territory by a significant margin.
My main issues with it: the handle broke off, it can be tricky to read the top-down markings when dealing with dairy (fats tend to stick to plastic), and it's hard to mix things in it, due to the shape of chamber. (E.g. an egg yolk or two into the cream I just measured.)

On the other hand, my "pyrex" measuring cup lost all of its markings to the dishwasher, which also makes it a bit difficult to measure anything in it (without a scale).
Obama administration to release drone memo on killing U.S. citizens
50 Ways to Get a Job
He is talking about the same problem that is discussed in Lockhart's Lament [0]. If you've never read this piece of writing, I encourage you to do so now as it presents our math education system in a wonderful and critical light. I can't speak as elegantly as Lockhart, so I won't damage the piece by summarizing it or discussing it in the post; rather, I'll leave you to read it and draw your own opinions.

[0]: http://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.p...
Two week notice for storage policy changes smells like financial concerns to me.
You may be right about that. Unless I have flubbed my calculations, if P(estimated chance of rain=.9|rain) = 1.4(P(rain)), then Bayes theorem leaves the updating at average(.5,.9). Also, an interesting reference about selecting priors: see 2.2 in http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~kass/papers/rules.pdf.
Which is not to say that every set of procedures to calculate answers will produce equal errors. There are provably better procedures and provably better answers, given a set of assumptions.
I hope they fixed some tiny theming issues that bothered me, as I would like to use Mate over Cinnamon this time.
Examiner: 'Smacky Cars' will fill your 'Flappy Bird' needs
The "Why?" wasn't a prompt for a formal proof, and probably not a prompt to regurgitate what was learned in class. At least back when I was a kid, it was clear to me that "Why?" was a way of forcing the student to think about the problem. To attempt to justify your yes/no answer requires thought, whether or not you are right or wrong! If you only write yes/no, the teacher cannot tell if you actually thought about it or guessed.
Terminal: A Short Film about the Mechanical Ballet of Cargo (2009) [video]
They'll be used sparingly until people are used to them and then they'll start using them more.
NPM Package Dependencies – When to use "latest"
Startup FINsix shrinks laptop adapters to a quarter the size
Also see https://www.igvita.com/2013/09/29/retrospective-high-perform... for a more disciplined approach to amassing data related to writing a book.
Interesting reading this from the female perspective. So much of the gender roles have changed over time. There was a time when this exact same article could have been written with the sexes reversed, "All she did was talk about herself and how she was doing this cause, or that cause, and the wasn't it atrocious about the children starving in foreign countries."

Its a problem when our view of the world is focused on what we personally are bringing to the world as opposed to the world around us and the people in it. Perhaps it is the result of having one's "self esteem" pumped up from birth through college.

It would be like carrying around a small yellow card, one that was the exact shade and saturation of yellow that was in Vincent's Starry Night painting. Without the rest of the painting around it, it loses much of its specialness.
I wonder if that can be somehow simulated and still give the benefit. A game where you get to dominate and boss about other characters maybe?
It's definitely brittle, but it's brittle along a dimension that usually doesn't change much over the course of the project (paper, book, etc). If you have automatically generated images or tables the benefits can be huge.

`latexmk` solves the "compile many times" problem, and can monitor for changes to the source file in the background.
This is reminiscent of Google's (and others, to be fair) build-first, monetise-later approach to products. Features get cut, entire products get slashed and users end up losing their data and time invested.

At least Google had acted partly responsibly by providing ample notice and allowing users to download their data before shutting down Google Reader.

In the case of Justin.tv, I would propose they at least take a measured approach and start by deleting videos that haven't received a single view in over a 6 months then work their way from there.
MIT economist aims to move the inequality discussion beyond the “1 percent.”
I like how they phrase this like it's a considerate product decision, while it's essentially them not wanting to shoulder the expense of storage. Without knowing more about their product internals an immediately obvious and important feature getting the axe from this is highlights. Example: I will stream and then go back the next day and cut the video down and take the snippets and post them to youtube. These highlights then lead to interest in the channel which leads to more viewers. Now I need to archive all my stuff locally, and upload it over my mediocre connection. If they limited the archival time window to 4 hours after the end of the broadcast they would have their drastic reduction in infrastructure cost while not totally removing a valid and arguably important feature.
Read this whole thing and my takeaway was "hmm...need more money"
Will try to put together some benchmarks for the cooler sketches & summary stats. Doing mutual information across two millisecond streams could be pretty convincing!
> that Spark performance has been great when I've used it.

Can you say more about your use case? What sort of data did you start with? What did you do with it? How large was the cluster you were running on?
How hackers get action
As a parent of three bright children with excellent development reports your comment makes me want to do you considerable violence. Regardless of whether my children were skilled in mathematics or not, if I overhead your derisory attitude to kids learning abilities I would probably punch your teeth out.

And no, I wouldn't be sorry. Sometimes violence is the best teacher and learning not to refer to other peoples children that way is probably far more valuable a lesson in life than your highschool trig.

Just remember, for every child you refer to as a burger flipper - X probability will have fathers standing 6' 2", weighing 240 and a former linebacker.
Why did they disallow dotless domains? Honest qyestion.

As an alternative, one could write and distribute a "free" web browser with a search box that looks like an address bar where the search goes to a particular search engine that sells ads. One might call it "omnibox" or something like that.

Or one could even add code to the browser so that a dotless domain typed into the address bar automatically submits the string typed to a particular search engine and sends the user to the website that is the first search result.

It seems like these alternatives are not enough to capture all address bar traffic... because some companies that employ the above alteratives (you know who) still applied for new gTLDs that appear to be valuable only as dotless domains.

In other words, it seems like companies want to use all three strategies to capture address bar traffic:

1. A dotless domain typed in the address bar redirects to first search result of a particular search engine.

2. A dotless domain typed in a search box, that could be (and is) mistaken for an address bar, searches a particular search engine instead of causing a DNS lookup.

3. A dotless domain typed in the address bar of a browser that does not do 1. or 2. (e.g., an alternative to the major "modern" browsers) performs a DNS lookup where search engine/browser/ad sales company is the registrar for the dotless domain looked up. That is, they paid off ICANN ($185,000+) to have sole control of what some call a "public resource" (domain address space).

There are other strategies that can also capture strings typed into the address bar, such as the NXDOMAIN redirect nonsense, but I'll stop here.
FCC may force Internet providers to stop calling slow Internet "broadband"
> I remember everything about highschool trig. And chemistry. And physics. And certainly the rest of math.

Report back when you're above 22.
I believe a large tree would barely be visible at this scale.

(Of course, there are no trees because this is far, far above treeline)
Show HN: Initial.js – Gmail like text avatars
Autopages: automatically update your GitHub pages
Pretty much just a sensationality ragepiece designed to mine clicks.

Just some quotes from people unhappy with their sex lives used to incite the implication that tech workers are somehow destroying a city.
Wi-Fi on the moon is now as fast as the Wi-Fi in your living room
Microsoft partner Xamarin buys Clarius Consulting's Visual Studio division
The Truth About Building With Glass
To elaborate, the ArchiveTeam distributes a very simple-to-use virtual machine image that you can run. When you do so, your machine will help download and collect from disappearing websites. I don't think they've got scripts for justin.tv yet, but it sounds like they are going to, so now would be a good time to get your VM ready.

It's easy, and the more people who run the machine, the more power the ArchiveTeam has at their disposal. I encourage everyone to give it a look.

You can get the virtual machine here: http://tracker.archiveteam.org/
Solar Roadways project blows past $1M crowdfunding goal
For one contract, I did a couple hours of work and never got paid. It isn't worth the hassle to try and collect, so I just wrote it off as a loss and a learning experience.

Even with a written contract, as an individual freelancer it probably isn't worth your time and money to lawyer up and try to collect.

There's only one way to make sure the bill never gets too big. Once the amount owed reaches a certain amount, refuse to do any more work until you get paid. Ideally, you're working on an arrangement where you get paid every 2 weeks. Then, the most you can lose per client is 3-4 weeks' salary.
An electric-grid bus system is highly successful in Seattle. They reviewed the "trolleybus" system in 2011 and it continues to operate.

http://metro.kingcounty.gov/up/projects/trolleyevaluation.ht...
The only problem with Hy is that it's not, technically, a Lisp: it's Python with a Lisp syntax so that you can programmatically manipulate Python AST trees with a simple interface: plain-old-data-structures, iterators, and functions.

caveat I'm a core Hy developer. ;)