skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't claim The People are incapable of making correct decisions in a market. I only claim that they are irrational actors, and the hypothesis of Free Market sans regulations should probably be tested in some manner before being confirmed theory by its pious adherents.

You ask a very difficult question, and I know not the answer.

It's fairly obvious the regulatory bodies that exist today are corrupted.

Perhaps some sort of regulatory body that, per industry, is charged with prosecuting these types of lawsuits. A matrimony of lawyers and scientists-of-the-field instead of lawyers and business-people-of-the-field, perhaps: A bevy of prosecutorial lawyers governed by a board of scientists of the given field.

An EPA governed by environmental scientists instead of .. oh, wait! The last few directors of the EPA _have_ been environmental scientists. Perhaps if the agency had teeth and claws instead of throw pillows and accusatory fingers. But the cries of woe from Big Chemical if that ever came to pass! It would be so unfair!

An FCC governed by communications and data scientists instead of telecommunications lobbyists.

An FDA governed by doctors, toxicologists and clinical nutritionists.

But you asked specifically about electing a government. Again, I never claimed that The People are incapable of making correct decisions in a market, only that The People are, at the individual level, irrational actors without perfect knowledge of said market.

Gauss's law predicts that we will never, with a democracy or a republic, have a perfect government. We will, on the other hand, never have a truly deplorable government. We will just have an average government. We won't pick the best people for the job -- or, usually the worst. We'll pick the middle of the road, the mediocre, the Just Average, the fellow we'd like to have a beer with.

You ask about correctness -- how do you determine correctness? How do you determine that every choice was made without error? I suppose you could relegate the governing body to software written in Scheme - at least then you could prove that the software is correct!

But correct is, probably, not quite the word you were looking for.
The trouble with all this is that it is reactive rather than proactive.

There is a simple solution that would put an end to all this BS, and this is to separate the last mile from the middle mile the same way that the old AT&T was broken up to split local from long distance service. (This is how they do it in the UK and UK people are very happy with their internet service.)

In this case you get a choice of different middle miles and different television services from different providers. If work got around that "the Verizon network is congested" people would just switch, and I think you would find network connectivity problems get fixed in days rather than years.
My actual point (which I didn't make as strongly as I could because post too long already), was that the initial allocation of IOPS was more than sufficient to handle multiple boots of either Linux or Windows.
"Get it wrong, and we call it a cult. Get it right, in the right time and the right place, and maybe, for the next few millennia, people won't have to go to work on your birthday."

- Dr. Robert Sapolsky

http://youtu.be/4WwAQqWUkpI
I've never heard of an HDD that presented a reliable, linear prediction of their own death years in advance, which is how these SSDs behave. HDDs usually fail suddenly and completely, following the well-known bathtub curve lifetime distribution. There was a paper from one of the big cloud shops about how SMART lacks predictive value for HDD failure.

Compared to HDD, SSD failure modes are highly desirable and easy to handle.
Hilarious local TV footage from 1996 about what these "hacker kids" are getting up to at night:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzKHa3BYemI
+1 for using "to-the-tits" as a modifier of degree.
Why couldn't it be? I doubt he needed an actual security clearance to do the work he was doing. The stated "FBI Clearance" probably just amounted to being given access to some confidential records regarding the people he was treating which probably aren't classified.
I wonder what the risks are for running on "The new version was completely rewritten from the ground up...", but it does seem to have been tested for a few months.

As a developer that does ops stuff as a means to the ends of development - im afraid to admit I don't really understand what I need to do to transition to ipv6. Is it just pointing my domain names at an ipv6 address and updating iptables? Do I have to be concerned with it at an application level?
> The servers don't have to remove the perks, they just have to give them to everyone.

Either way, I imagine you get a bit of an uproar - either you're giving things away for free that you sold before, so the people who bought them are upset and want their money back; or you steal the items back so no one can have them, so the people who bought them are upset and want their money back.
Minimizing human effort does little to change working conditions as you just downsize.
You can use `all_model_filenames = joblib.dump(model, filename)` after fit on your dev enviroment. joblib will store each numpy array in the model datastructure as an independent file and `all_model_filenames[0] == filename` refers to the file holding the main pickle structure.

Then on your prediction servers, ensure that you have a copy of `all_model_filenames` in the same folder. You can then load the model with `model = joblib.load(filenames[0], mmap_mode='r')`. This will make it possible to use shared memory (memory mapping) for the model parameters of a large random forest so that all the Gunicorn, Celery or Storm worker processes running on the same server will use the same memory pages, making it a very efficient way to deploy large models on RAM constrained servers.

You can even use docker to ship the model as part of a container and treat the model as binary software configuration.
The debate is three part:

Part A) Whether the FCC should use the existing powers Congress granted it to push network neutrality

Part B) Whether Congress should force the FCC to use its existing powers to push for network neutrality

Part C) Whether Congress should grant the FCC new powers to push for network neutrality (the FCC reclassifying broadband as a utility probably falls in here as well, given its impact)
> Did you ever visit websites that use glyphs your font doesn't know?

Other comments have touched on this already, but I want to substantiate with additional information: In practice, fonts that cover many different writing systems at once are relatively rare. Your typical Western font will focus on Latin with varying coverage of descendants (like the Portuguese and Vietnamese alphabets) and perhaps expand to cover Cyrillic, but not more. Conversely, it's rare for a font by a Korean foundry to have equivalent Latin/Cyrillic coverage next to its native Hangul alphabet.

There's plenty of documents that mix these writing systems, though. I do in fact visit websites that aren't covered by any one font in my browser's default settings or any one family named in the site's markup/CSS all the time, and you probably do too.

Hence the font stacks on all relevant platforms perform glyph substitution: If font X doesn't contain a glyph, it'll go looking for a font Y that does and drop that glyph in. Many platforms allow you to manipulate substitution preference e.g. by defining aliases for font families.
For instance a waste of time of font designers; you can make rational decision about including certain alphabets (by analysing the target group demands), but selecting a reasonable subset of bazyllion random, singular pictures to draw and test is a major headache. Obviously this way the users get inconsistent experience.
An illustrated history of the Android interface
Agreed. Having the package manager in built has taken away the pain of having to search the horrible 'emacswiki' for code snippets and tweaking them to get it working. It has also enabled me to try out plenty of new packages which have greatly added value to my emacs, which I would otherwise have never bothered to even try. Lots of bugs? Sure! and some aspects could do with a better user experience, but still a great improvement over prior versions of emacs.
Designing Habit-Forming Products To Keep Users Coming Back
Tesla goes big, not home
The most efficient way to tessellate circles in a square
You should find http://pixelambacht.nl/2014/multicolor-fonts/ an interesting read.
If you have a CRDT implementation you can use on both sides, you can perform operations on the client and merge with the server correctly.
GE crops are designed to grow food for humans, not optimized to survive in the wild.
Note that these glyphs will appear as boxes until font designers get around to adding them to their fonts.

You can have fun with this. Say you're disillusioned with your current job and planning to leave within the year. Insert these into whatever important document you're working on at the time, e.g. as bullet points or decoration around titles. Sometime after you leave, they'll reveal their true nature. A sort of "FU" time-bomb.
Many "real foods" are rich sources of PUFAs.
Great catch. I had thought about doing the same.
Bananas are often force rippened at the warehouse before sale, as well.
Good Developer Idea, Bad Developer Idea
It's been shown possible to neurologically improve eyesight by training your neurons. This wouldn't fix any underlying problem with your eyes themselves though.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7266233
Agreed that not every cultural clash should be compared to 1930's Germany. Alarmist. There's a long way to go before getting to that state of affairs. Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine, South Africa, ...
Actually AFAICT Chrome does not support the entirety of the unicode range right now. Safari and Firefox do.

🙅🎁４👨
> UK people are very happy with their internet service.

I wouldn't go quite that far. There's still lots of grumbling over the speed of fibre rollout. And quality. Despite fibre to the cabinet, I'm limited to 40Mbps due to line quality, for example. This is largely down to OpenReach (the company managing the last mile). But within the constraints of line quality, there's decent room for competition.
Please don't post "comments" like this.

If you have something to say....please say it!
It's a lot simpler to just have the socket, with a notification when your PUT has landed. This is what Meteor does.

I don't see anything I recognize as eventual consistency in the traditional sense. It sounds like the client is just trying to receive a stream of updates, which could have been made by a single writer, and the only consistency issues are caused by the different overlapping mechanisms for getting updates.
Herobrine isn't real? BAAAAASTAAAAAAA
I am sure the three-letter agencies have electrical engineers who can swap out or reflash the controller chips on the SSDs, and recover most of the data.
The Surface Pro 3 has a 12 inch screen compared to the Surface Pro 2's 10 inch screen and the Macbook Air's 11 inch screen, so the real estate is improved by quite a bit. It gets expensive to find a larger screen with a digitizer, and the guys from PA are on the road quite a bit so I'd imagine portability counts.
Question: Should startup founders try to get famous?
Awesome idea. In case you don't meet funding goals, please consider open sourcing the code anyway, I have no doubt a collective effort will finish polishing that plugin.
Ask HN:How much equity do founders/co-founders in your startup own?
I wanted to know for the following.

First Founder

Second Founder

Thanks
I feel there's a little of the old 'liberal Canadian' stereotype slipping in here. Toronto in particular has a very pious history. IIRC, there's one borough of Toronto (around High Park) that was officially dry until the early 1990s.

"Oh, for a half-hour of Europe after this sanctimonious icebox!", Wyndham Lewis famously said on visiting. Having said that, he was a bit of an old fascist - and I love Toronto dearly, however hung up about booze it is...
But it did happen. And it has been used a lot.

So, for the sake of interoperability and the ability to read back these documents in a future Unicode-only world, we have to encode them.
I usually just drag tab-sep files into an open Excel window, and it opens just fine. I only get the import wizard when I try to use file -> open.
There are a couple of "gotchas" I regularly experience- the worst of which is the automatic formatting- which unfortunately converts a number of gene names into dates (I'm in Bioinformatics). It's enough of an issue that papers have been published about it [1]. For example MAR1 ends up formatted as 1-Mar. When you have a list of 20,000 identifiers, it's quite annoying to deal with. I see the transformed strings show up in biological databases all the time. I don't know why there isn't an easy way to disable autoformatting. Even if I avoid incorporating Excel into my own workflow, when I send documents to scientists, they're going to want to use it, and we end up with the same results then.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15214961
Automattic (the company behind Wordpress.com) open sourced[1] their legal documents with a Creative Commons license. It includes their Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. You can use these to get your moving in the right direction, but be sure to consult with your lawyer.

[1]: https://github.com/Automattic/legalmattic
To be fair, that is typically how it's done. Congress passes a law that directs the relevant agency to figure out the minutia of implementing it.
You may want to see this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7266233

It could be a neurological thing. Their visual system gets more practice but the eyes themselves don't change (just speculation.) But there are now better methods of doing that which are (supposedly) very effective.
Never said that, but the current situation is that we have glyphs that people are using in documents that can't be represented in Unicode, and that's pretty much the main reason there are Unicode revisions in the first place.
Another "Artoo" http://artoo.io/
Yeah I generally don't think it'd be a good idea to give kids access to parental bank accounts. Maybe I'm wrong, but it just seems like a poor decision.
Yes, to support 15 years of Japanese communication since they were introduced to cellphones in Japan in 1998 and the majority of users here use them.
There is a first-touch penalty with EBS volumes. Follow the pre-warming guide and then try your benchmark again: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-prewa...
Apple Settles EBook Price Fixing Lawsuit
Cynic here, more likely a move by Congressmen who do not feel they are being appreciated enough by lobbyist for the telecoms.

I did notice it was a last mile restriction, so they are still free to muddle up the lines getting from the provider to the ISP.
>> Here I am working hard end paying my taxes so that (in a very, very small way $ or % wise) I'm empowering someone else to just sit around and get paid to do nothing but pop out babies and raise them poorly.

>Personally, what causes me to feel moral outrage is when I encounter this sort of derogatory statements, aimed at the poor. Based on something once overheard on a bus, nonetheless.

The idea that I overheard it on a bus makes it less credible doesn't really hold water in my mind. It was in an informal setting and thus more likely to be true. And if someone's motivation to have another child is to collect more welfare I'm not so convinced that it's an entirely unreasonable assumption that they're not going to do the best job raising them. If this mother couldn't think through the thoughts necessary to realize that welfare shouldn't be a system that you milk for all it's worth and instead is a system designed to help you get back on your feet (at least ostensibly) then I'm not so confident she's going to do a stellar job of everything else. She might very well teach them through actions if not words, that going on welfare is preferable to real work. That's a potent recipe for dependency.

>The fact that there is a tiny percentage abusing the help is a very poor excuse for not giving help to the much, much larger percentage of people who are deeply, genuinely in need of it.

That's a big fat [citation needed]. Furthermore if you assume that those who are abusing the system know the right things to say when they're interviewed or to put down on the forms I can't really figure out how you could reasonably determine the percentage of people abusing the system. Hire a million PIs to follow folks around? It's not as though the people fill out forms and check the box that says "I am lying about my need" which first off, isn't there and second would obviously disqualify them.

Furthermore if you look at this comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7903788) it reinforces the notion that abuse is rampant.

Finally I think it's incredibly offensive that you assume you know how I feel about the rich based on what I've said about SOME poor folks who are abusing welfare. You might THINK you know, but that does not translate into actual knowledge.

In reality I hate all rent-seekers rich and poor alike. If you want an income you should have to work for it like everyone else. I find the idea that someone can eat, sleep and live off the hard work of others morally outrageous. It doesn't matter to me the amount of ill-gotten gains that allows people to squander their lives without doing anything useful for society.
By "European Approach", I'm talking about the more acceptable normalization of alcohol as a food item. Americans treat alcohol like either radioactive poison or a moral suspension drug. I've noticed in my various times in various parts of Europe that alcohol consumption general starts earlier and the usage of it is generally better moderated in consumption than in the U.S. (there's an entirely different pattern for alcohol that I've seen in East Asia as well).

Sure, Swedes might not sit down and drink wine for lunch, but the grape/grain alcohol divide kind of is the cause of that. But I'm old enough to remember being able to purchase beer in Germany as soon as I was tall enough to look over the bar and get the bartender's attention.

You are right that alcohol consumption, particularly hard alcohol seemed to have been more common in the 1960s. Overall traffic death rates were very high before the Ralph Nader auto safety revolution, often for stupid reasons. I'm sure somebody has done a good analysis of the complex reasons why, but my hypothesis is that commonplace drinking has gone down as car safety has gone up, being attributed to traffic deaths by organizations like MADD, etc. It's become less socially acceptable to drink during working hours.
I wonder how long this will last.
China's Plan For The Tallest Building Ever Could Save The World
Or you do it the same way everyone else does it when the rules change: everyone who already has Banned Thing is grandfathered in but it's no longer transferrable or acquirable.

Or you do it the Valve way: give everyone the Thing and make existing Things the Extra Special Limited Edition Thing that's functionally identical but still confers bragging rights - this would still be within Mojang's rules.
Show HN: We put an iPhone on the front wheel of a car
How old are you? We might actually be eating a different banana cultivar now than you did when you were a child. The situation with the Cavendish now (that it's genetically uniform and so is being easily wiped out by a well-adapted pathogen) has happened before; up through the '50s the main banana available in US supermarkets was the Gros Michel, but they were mostly killed by fungus, which prompted the switch to the current Cavendish.

Gros Michel bananas were apparently sweeter and had a different flavor, and I've heard anecdotally that part of why artificial banana flavoring doesn't taste much like how we find bananas to taste is that it was meant to imitate the flavor of the older, rather than the modern, banana. I'm not old enough to have had a Gros Michel, though, so I can't confirm that from personal experience.
Force inline Java methods with annotations
Looks like the PMML issue has just been re-opened on scikit-learn's github: https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/issues/1596
I am not sure if I agree, but in the case you are right improving the nutrition of all foods and making them disease resistant would certianly be a good thing.
Here’s What It Looked Like to Drive Through Boston 50 Years Ago
Blizzard has won some cases like this. Here's one complaint: https://pdf.yt/d/exHXLZNbCvuVq3v0

The causes of action are: direct and secondary infringement of registered copyrights, trafficking in circumvention devices, breach of contract, and intentional interference with contractual relations.

A couple of those might not apply in a clean room implementation, but the others would.
I'm curious if anyone who worked on this article would be willing to comment on what they think of Keybase.io's client-side crypto implementation:

> Browser crypto can be scary. Do you have an evil extension
> installed? We can't tell. Further, have we been tortured
> into serving you custom, targeted JavaScript? Hopefully
> you're not that important.

> So: only use this page if (1) you feel your browser is
> clean and (2) a life doesn't depend on it.

https://keybase.io/docs/server_security
> Is there any information about the expected durability of the new EBS SSD volumes compared to the old Magnetic ones?

No, EBS durability has not changed with this release.

> Also, is it still recommended to pre-warm volumes? or is this now unnecessary (or even harmful) with SSDs?

It is still necessary to pre-warm volumes for optimum performance, especially if they are loaded from snapshots.
At which point does the latter result in the former being shortsighted?
Seems like a much more 'market oriented' solution. The problem with getting specific is that it ties you in to a specific solution.
DripState: The New 2048
One of the problems with that is that people have friends.
That can cause some stickiness in server choice.
It really depends on how deep in the stack you're working. Apache and Nginx already have support for IPv6. If you're using something like node.js directly, you'll need to bind to an IPv6 port as well.

For general IPv6 tools, check out:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-conf...
Eclipse Luna to be released June 25
Workers killed on the job at online retailer Amazon
Yeaaaah you might wanna rename that. I think the other Artoo already has enough traction and this will just confuse people.
I think we both agree that genuine empathy and sympathy for others (and, crucially, expressing those things) are at the core of a healthy human relationship.

For some of us, that's very intuitive, so the idea of learning it from a book can seem silly.

For others, maybe not? We can say that these people need "more help than a book can provide" but... breaking things down into manageable steps for people is also a pretty big part of professional therapy as well.

I was a nice but very socially awkward kid (way weirder than the average kid) and I eventually learned how to sociable as I went through my teenage years and early 20s. [1] So I always think other people can learn too. At least to some extent.
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[1] Luckily the PUA thing didn't even exist back then, so I didn't go that route!)
> UK people are very happy with their internet service

Heh.
I'm sure its a lot better than what you're working with but personally coming from Sweden I feel like in the U.K. I'm getting worse service (offers, speeds, customer service and support, waiting for and dealing with BT Openreach engineers, hardware not working, getting the run-around between Openreach and utility providers, ..) for more money than we did back home.

That being said I'm sure dealing with Comcast, Time Warner and AT&T is a million times worse.
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