skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I'd much rather buy his version than make my own. The newer design has the fins going all the way up the pot, which seems like it would make it more efficient at heating the sides, although it might be inconsequential (I'm not a rocket scientist). The newer design is also much much nicer looking that the cobbled together one, and the single piece body seems more durable. I don't think this is an example of NIH syndrome, I think this an example of a commercial implementation of a good hack.
They don't have to honor any DMCA requests, but they'd be waiving Safe Harbor protection and incurring greater risk of getting sued along with the author, should the MPAA decide to go that route.
When you bought it, you will presumably have checked it out and (at least in my country) had had a survey which will cover basic safety. You will also have every opportunity to fix any dangerous issues whilst living there. It's your active choice to fix, or to ignore, any of these.

As a short term renter, you will be agreeing sight unseen to live there for a period of time, and will have no opportunity to fix it during your stay. You have absolutely no control over the safety of the property, and are relying on some third party to provide you with a level of comfort about it.
"Why does hate exist?"

Good question. I wish we knew so that we could end it.
Actually 1 the production line for nukes was gearing up at this point in time and 2 traditional firestorm raid killed more people than Hiroshima
I thought rule number one when working with a lathe is "absolutely no strings or loose clothing at all ever".
Update: For folks interested in learning ReactJS, a version is available at https://github.com/audreyt/500lines/blob/master/spreadsheet/... — the demo at https://audreyt.github.io/500lines/spreadsheet/as-react-live... runs considerably faster than AngularJS, but takes 12 more lines of LiveScript.
If I understand you correctly Swift does that. Only objects (defined as classes) are mutable reference types as far as semantics go.

Declaring constants with let has the effect you are talking about for equality. If you want to you can stick to that.

Where you declare a variable to contain a struct, dictionary or array with var you can mutate it but it only affects your copy so it is equivalent to creating a new instance with the updated vale and assigning it back to the same variable.

With the copy on write behaviour if there are no other variables or constants pointing to the original instance it can skip the copy for efficiency without affecting the semantics.
> It might be useful, from a language-evangelism point of view, to show how much of this Go doesn't do.

I disagree, since Go is not a functional programming language.
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Worldwide, and across all scientific realms, burning wood is considered carbon neutral. This is not an "argument", it is actual reality -- the carbon released when you burn wood is identical to the carbon captured to form the same, and which will be captured in its place. The branches that fall to the ground will often become, in a relatively short timeframe, CH4, which is much worse than CO2.

Add that this is relative to coal or oil or natural gas that have been carbon stored underground for millions of years.

This is not up for debate. It is not open for you to argue whether it "scales". It is the reality of the planet that we live on. Your opinion on it is utterly irrelevant.

And it's actually humorous that you mention forest fires given that removing the brush that camp stoves like this burns helps prevent forest fires, not to mention decomposition methane.

As to being rough on the lungs, the whole point of this whole initiative is clean burning the wood, eliminating the vast majority of particulate that is the result of an incomplete burn. I suspect you really don't care about the actual facts though, but just for anyone else coming along.
I'm most interested in the delta copying. After a little bit of research in the forums I'm guessing you save block hashes of full copies and then compare the source blocks to the block hashes and copy only if they differ.
Or does the app install a driver to get the changed blocks in files without rereading the whole file?
Revision history for the main Swift book:

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...

Note that you have to delete the book in iBooks and download it again to get the new version.
Why would anyone register for a site like this?

Doesn't everyone know by now that putting your name on a list of white supremacists might not be a good move?

I guess white supremacy and intelligence may be negatively correlated? Or maybe they just don't care.

I sometimes picture a secret room at the FBI with poor clerks running around trying to avoid being buried under ever growing lists of suspicious people being spit out of printers with the advent of the internet.

With all the druggies, the communist sympathizers, the insurance fraud researching, the radical environmentalists, the anarchists, the bomb curious, the pedo interested, the racial supremacists.... heck, they probably barely have time to watch all the Muslims any more. It was probably a whole lot easier when they only had a few people to keep an eye on.
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This is what scares me about Steam at little. My understanding (though not sure) is this is what Apple's OSX store and Microsoft's windows app store are trying to solve. Basically sandbox native apps so you can install them and not worry they can do stuff like this.

I'm not saying they succeed at that. I have no idea how secure their sandboxes are and what limits they place. But, that is arguably the intent (or at least one of the intents).

Steam on the other hand has no such intent AFAIK. Of course in all those cases, including Steam, there is the threat to the publisher they'll be banned from the store if they do this kind of thing. I don't know if there is any example of Steam removing an app because of "unethical behavior". I would guess if it was an indie they'd ban first, question later whereas if it was a big publisher like EA they'd probably talk first, try to get them to address the issue.

I'd be curious to know if Steam Box makes any effort in this direction. I was similarly worried about Boxee apps (the PC/OSX/Linux version), XBMC scripts. etc...
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If this is true (and I have no evidence one way or the other), then surely this is the bigger surprise (coming from an environment where science is mandatory to middle-school equivalent, and at least one science subject almost un avoidable before university level.
This is standard practice with free accounts all across the industry. Inactive free accounts are regularly pruned. As long as the provider has stated their policy explicitly, they are entirely in the clear. They wouldn't even have to send you reminders, that's just courtesy. You have nobody to blame but yourself.
FWIW, I got fair warning about this mailed to the admin address on an abandoned free Apps domain. Google is still being a bit abrupt, but probably sent out a warning that could have been heeded if the admin were more on top of things.
Did the email warning of the shutdown not get forwarded as well?
VSS in Windows handles this natively, you just have to access the appropriate providers
I could dig up examples of nicer looking finned pots. The name escapes me at the moment, but I remember seeing one at a conference last year.

The point is that the technique was well known. It's not manufacturing or aesthetics that's been holding back the technology.
"San Francisco banned the use of the MonkeyParking app in late June declaring that it would not allow the creation of a 'predatory private market for public parking spaces'".

San Francisco: Only we can have a predatory market for public parking spaces.
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Personally, I'm a bit paranoid/cynical: I would be expecting them to find any reason to drop free accounts even if active. I can't really blame them, either.
good point, should have said TE or thermoelectric, i just learned of the device as a peltier junction even though it has 3 different names depending on the mode. at work we call it a TEC based on how we use it, but the best most generic name is TE.
The filesystem and API support is still there, and System Restore still uses them. vssadmin doesn't offer to let you create shadows, but you can still make them via PowerShell:

(Get-WmiObject -list win32_shadowcopy).Create("C:\","ClientAccessible")
I think a rugged small portable solar panel may be better in most applications for power.
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I find it really interesting that at a micro level on forums like this there is the same goodness and kindness to one another. People doing each other favors, people encouraging one another, etc. I mean, I guess it makes sense. People are essentially the same no matter what weird, dark beliefs they hold, but it just always boggles my mind that, out of some fundamental goodness and bond with their fellow human, someone will go out of their way to help someone else find some article or another on why all Jews should be shot or why Anders Breivik was a hero or whathaveyou.
Love the closing line.

That said, I have to be skeptical about this assertion:

> The states with the most members per capita are Montana, Alaska and Idaho. These states tend to be overwhelmingly white. Does this mean that growing up with little diversity fosters hate?...Probably not. Since those states have a higher proportion of non-Jewish white people, they have more potential members for a group that attacks Jews and nonwhites.
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> The percentage of Stormfront’s target audience that joins is actually higher in areas with more minorities. This is particularly true when you look at Stormfront’s members who are 18 and younger and therefore do not themselves choose where they live....Among this age group, California, a state with one of the largest minority populations, has a membership rate 25 percent higher than the national average.

California is a HUGE state. Just because it's diverse overall doesn't mean that there aren't certain pockets that are very non-diverse...and being close to "The Others", while not mingling with them, may even exacerbate the tendency towards bigotry.

I don't think people in New York are naturally more tolerant in some genetic sense...if you're someone with a preoccupying hatred of a certain race or group, your biological stress levels will go haywire, as on any given subway ride, you can pretty much expect to be sitting or standing next to someone of that group. Chances are, you just get over it, especially if your workplace and neighborhood are equally diverse. And if you don't get over it, chances are the city life won't be for you.

It's often not so much a conscious choice to be tolerant versus intolerant...if something "scares" you at first, but you see it every day, and most days, your interactions are benign or even net positive, your body/mind is going to logically reason, "Meh, these people aren't bad at all".

And if you have a certain fear implanted in you, and never get a chance to confront it on an every day basis? What kind of logical process, absent first-hand, everyday experience, would reverse that fear?
A shame he didn't go deeper. The analysis here is very superficial, basically consisting of him browsing the forum for a while and doing some number crunching on profile data. A bit disappointing for a NYT article, even if it is just on their website.

It would have been much nicer if he did a proper data analysis of forum posts. If we've ruled out social economic class and education, what big factor remains? I suppose it would be friends and family. Perhaps a linguistic analysis could reveal how connected these people are to each other. Perhaps some psychological analysis could reveal something about their personalities other than "a perfectly nice and intelligent young woman".

If we could locate the source of these ideas, perhaps there could be a way of battling it. From my experience, people who post on forums are just the tip of the iceberg of the people who share their opinions and beliefs. For every person who voices an opinion there could be hundreds who share it.

Perhaps you could use the linguistic analysis to track their beliefs to key influencers.
Glad to hear that. Thanks for your reply.
> You could write just the same kind of article about how Rust will bring out-of-touch theorists into modern software engineering where you actually need a C-level of performance and predictability.

Well the 'Motivation' section is about how low-level languages are a better (closer) fit to the contemporary machine architectures than functional programming. That could be interpreted to be dripping with attitude about functional programmers being out-of-touch with how machines 'really work'. (Which also seems to miss the point that functional programming languages that care about performance tries to achieve that by transforming idiomatic functional code to efficient imperative code, not trying to leverage some kind of machine model that actually matches the semantics of functional programming languages.)

> And then show examples of all the same "for" loops with mutable variables that you're used to writing in C have direct analogs in Rust.

Iterators seem to be more idiomatic in Rust than the loop alternatives.
You "guess that white supremacy and intelligence may be negatively correlated" but the article explores how that's probably not exactly the case. "[...] Economists Roland G. Fryer Jr. and Steven D. Levitt found that Ku Klux Klan members were actually better educated than the typical American."
Whoever wrote this article is a bit delusional. Every CEO letter in Silicon Valley is full of ridiculous cliches and platitudes. Why did the author pick this particular CEO for censure? I can think of only two reasons:
1) Nadella is foreign looking
2) Microsoft is everyone's favorite punching bag.

Have you read some of the communication coming out of Facebook and Salesforce? Jesus, just walk around Facebook's campus and you'll see ridiculous motivational posters that say things like, "DEMAND EXCELLENCE!"
If this is the case, I'd also question the decision to launch on larajobs.com, moreso than the slogan.
It's former. It splits files into blocks (defaulting to 32KB, but that's configurable), computes hashes (two separate hashes per block) and stores them in a file in the backup config directory. These are used to detect modified blocks. It also computes a hash of an entire file and stores it in the same hash file. This is used to hedge against false negatives with modified block detection. The original version (from '09) didn't use the full-file hash, so it resorted to re-copying files in full after several incremental updates.
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You do realize that this app meant the city is not charging enough (market rate) for parking right?
My impression is that it's primarily the interface and reliability that makes Uber/Lyft better. Sure, short wait times are a nice bonus, but the primary problem with regular cabs isn't the speed so much as the unpredictability.

The problem is that I can't count on the voice-operated cab system. I have to call, and then wait outside at the pickup point, with a 50% chance of the cab actually getting there, at which point you call and get another 50% chance of the cab getting there within 30 minutes, at which point you repeat.

I have no idea if it's going to be 5 minutes or 120 minutes. I have to stay outside, too, because they won't call me when it's there.

If a cab took an hour but I could set it up on my phone while I was still in the bar, and it would alert me when it got there? That would be just fine with me.

Now, the local cab company could (and perhaps has, I have not checked lately) create an app that does just this; I don't really mind waiting half an hour if I had some assurance that the car would be there in half an hour.
We do have evidence, her testimony and his. False accusations are rare, so it is more likely that he raped her. That’s how I will personally treat this. On balance it’s somewhat more likely that he raped her than that he was falsely accused.

Courts can’t and shouldn’t decide that way – but I sure as hell will. I will use all the available evidence to come to a reasonable conclusion.

Since the evidence is not that great (as it nearly always is in cases of rape) I will not instigate others to take action, but I will personally never buy any products from his company and I have no desire to ever met him in whatever setting. That’s about it. I don’t have any power over him (neither do many other people) so this is really quite harmless for him. The supposed grave consequences of these accusations just don’t really exist most of the time.
VSS Writers may include this information for their files. So it is probably available for e.g. a Exchange database. The examples on the page are VMWare and TrueCrypt and I don't think they register VSS Writers.
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That is a good point. Although it might be popularity that was holding it back, and this article seems to have helped with that. I wonder how far this thing will go.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w13417.pdf

So they were. In the 1920's.
Not the people registering on Stormfront.

Incidentally... sticking reference to this paper in the article without noting the time period it researched is a bit duplicitous.
If your looking to make a return, make a simple landing page offering low cost MVP builds (low cost because you will work on it in your free time) and I'm sure you will be able to take on clients quite easily. Especially if you take equity for a discount.

You can promote it on Reddit or here somewhere I'm sure.
The article itself says white supremacist beliefs and education level are positively correlated. It's a mistake to think that someone who is intelligent is naturally capable of making good or even ethical decisions.

Deriving good decisions from our surroundings is much too complex for our rational thought to be working on constantly. This is why we derive most of our decisions not from careful consideration but from experience, upbringing, instinct and our peers.
In 2008 some friends and I went on adventurous trip through Russia and Kazakhstan. Some of it was through steppe with rough roads/tracks/drivable surfaces that are not on the maps. They were visible on satellite imagery though.

Our navigation "solution" was a laptop and Garmin GPS attached via USB. Laptop would be powered from car battery with power converter.

For software, we were going to use OziExplorer, which could display raster maps, and show current GPS location on them. Ozi maps are simply big raster images and there is limit of how big they can be.

Before the trip I found a tool that can scrape Google Maps satellite imagery and generate Ozi-compatible maps. So I ran it on the parts of Russia and Kazakhstan we expected to visit and got many gigabytes of cached satellite imagery.

During the trip as we moved along, I would use the tool to generate Ozi map for next area we were visiting. I got pretty handy at doing latitude and longitude bounding box calculations "in head" :-)
To give idea of working conditions:

http://i.imgur.com/0k7AEE5.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/X01vuNZ.jpg

There were various "oh shit" moments along the trip, one of which was when the power converter stopped working (and laptop's battery was empty because its charging circuit got fried earlier, guess because of the unstable power or overheating). GPS was still running on its internal battery so we did know our latitude and longitude and bearing. But our paper maps were not much use. The population density in steppe was so low, we could just drive until we'd run out of gas and water, and not meet anybody. I think we were shorter on water, as we had to use some of it to top up leaky radiators.
Anyway, all ended well when our mechanic-guy found and fixed a simple wiring issue with the power converter, and we got the laptop back on!

So yes, you need GPS and maps.
If you consider them travelling self-sustaining standing wave packets is it still totally confusing? There are many examples of self-contained resonating bodies travelling through medium without interfering with each other in physics. Usually only in electromagnetic radiation though. Harmonics, induction, and current aren't excluded from sound and water waves. Not sure why we shouldn't see other analogies to draw from micro and quantum principles.
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There's no contradiction there. Cab regulations cause an increase in DUIs. Uber and Lyft cause a reduction in DUIs.
This stove weighs 33 ounces.

The Trangia backpacking alcohol stove sold by REI weighs 5.75 ounces.

1 quart of denatured ethanol weighs about 28 ounces (varies slightly depending on denaturant, but not by much).

28 + 5.75 = 33.75 > 33.

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A paper showing supremacists in the 1920's were more likely to be educated (not intelligent, educated, which makes sense... the KKK was a prominent social organization in some parts of the country at that time and the locally wealthy and movers and shakers who could afford education belonged.) This doesn't tell us much about the intelligence of supremacists today. I am still guessing supremacists today are less intelligent than average.... because, supremacy is a stupid philosophy. That's my gut feeling.

Edit: Response to the below... I guess I should clarify... There are probably a good number of intelligent people who hold racist views.

The specific people I'm talking about though are people who would join a supremacist organization or register on stormfront. I believe most of these are probably not particularly intelligent.

What you say about feeling that people disagree with you are stupid makes sense. But I maintain most people who overtly hold a supremacist philosophy enough to join a supremacist organization, in this day and age have not carefully considered the issue nor the reality of their situation and are thus probably more emotional, reactionary, and...... less intelligent. I've known people like this and I bet you have too.
An oft-suggested plan, but I have yet to see convincing evidence that this is what they will do. I would guess given the plays that they have been making that they think they can reduce the cost of servicing orders, and make their money that way. The idea that they would achieve a monopoly and then raise prices seems silly, since the government would likely clamp down on that kind of strategy. And everything about their investments suggests that they think of themselves as a logistics company, not a monopolist.
> Top engineers don't want to work for Walmart.

They don't want to work at Amazon either. At least not for long. 40% leave within two years. 60% are gone after four. Receiving a promotion pushes that second figure to 80%.

In the bay area, Walmart Labs pays better, has a healthier work environment, and produces higher-quality software than Amazon or AWS.
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