skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes - particular moral axioms are by definition not accepted by everyone. That is the trick; convincing people to adjust/change their values (moral axioms) and then derive different beliefs/actions from them.

The reason that is a tough sell in this case is because it very quickly can come across as declaring a class of people as superior to another class of people. "One person one vote" might lead to certain negative side effects, but the side effects of an alternative can be much worse.
All I have running is Ghostery, too. A page like this loads with header and footer intact, but no rendered text:

https://medium.com/@cshirky/last-call-c682f6471c70
For me it's challenge, there arn't many other programming jobs which involve such complex realtime systems, and touch on just about every field of software engineering and computer science. And you have to deal with that as a single programmer or on a team of programmers.

To build a game requires realtime (i.e. do all these things in 16.7 ms, non-stop) graphics, input, deterministic simulation, and networking. It also touches on AI, UI, databases, algorithms (match making), systems programming, file formats (compression, fast loading, etc), procedural generation, SIMD programming (shaders), programming languages, tools development, distributed systems, assembly (in optimizing), etc. And then architecting all of those different parts to fit together.

Programming websites (full stack), enterprise software, and desktop applications all bores the shit out of me, by the time my internships were done with each of those I couldn't wait to stop doing it, even though I was offered cushy high paying salaries to stay on, I wouldn't be able to bare doing that shit day in and day out.
>Leave a freshly imaged card taped to the Rpi, and when it corrupts the SD card, swap cards, take the corrupted card and re-image it and tape it to the RPi.

That's exactly what I've done.

I periodically backup a sqlite db file to S3, and I wrote a script that will retrieve the latest backup on boot. Just plug in the new card and everything is back to the way it was minus at most 3 hours of data.
"... and it is this television hero upon whom my entire perception and philosophy of nature is based."
nor one as expensive as azure
It sounds like the NoSQL equivalent of SQLite. Which is to say, if you just want a local cache in a standalone program, rather than a network service (with all the maintenance and deployment ceremony that implies).
Steve Mann covered this in some mathematical detail his paper called "Comparametric Equations with Practical Applications in Quantigraphic Image Processing", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 9, No. 8, August 2000.

Link: http://www.eyetap.org/papers/docs/comparametric.pdf

The section, starting on PDF page 4, is called "On the Value of Doing the Exact Opposite of What Stockham Advocated", and describes exactly both this problem, and the solution.
> Sorry, I didn't intend for you to infer that. I meant the same concept in both sentences. I am not talking about some more specific type of efficiency like fuel efficiency, which has nothing to do direct with the concept of economic efficiency.

I think you misunderstand the problem; "Producing efficient X" and "Efficiently producing X" aren't the same thing. The first is about the efficiency of the process of producing something (how the inputs are used to produce the output), the other is about the qualities of the output. The problem isn't "economic efficiency" vs. "some more specific type of efficiency", its production efficiency (in whatever terms) vs. efficiency of the product (economic or otherwise.)
Silicon Valley high tech compensation reaches $200k
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Right, but even if the percentage of such a person is 50%, then you are only catering to half the crowd.

I realize giving an office to everyone is not the best (or the most realistic) solution, but I think a compromise can be found, some parts of our office have these large cubes where 2 to 4 people can sit, this keeps you together with your team and makes for easy interaction/collaboration, but at the same time the high walls surrounding you keep the background auditory and visual distractions to a minimum, this way there is something for both the groups of people.
nothing happens to deaf people, nothing happens to already crazy people, nothing happens to normal people. that level of silence doesn't do anything but literally take the pressure off of you and let you hear your body grumble and move
Ebola growth rates are now exponential. See real-time stats
HN existed in 95' ?
I'm expecting the release of Cortana with the new windows 9, lets just keep ourfingers crossed for that.
Most of the potential comes from temporary streams where rain gets into the ocean, and those smaller water streams are just easier to deal with.

You don't need huge dams when you can only process a (relatively) little bit of water per m^3 of plant.
Corporate decision making is very ego driven and resistant to systemic change[1]. From which we can conclude either that stock markets are not very good at promoting good governance (even with narrow, homogenous criteria like "grow shareholder value) or that concentrating power in the hand of ego-driven, change resistant groups of [mostly] old men is not as bad for shareholders as running a corporation based on prediction markets. I'd say both were true

[1]though many corporations' shareholders would justifiably argue the latter part is a feature of the system rather than a bug
I knew somebody would have beat me to it.
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Agree and I've been saying it for ten damn years, havn't I been saying it!
Yes, but 5 years behind the curve? I think not.
We're not going to have Mach 5 commercial air travel for the same reason we don't have Mach 2 or 3 commercial air travel. The economics just don't work.

That reason is much more boring than the technical obstacles, which are formidable, fun to try to solve, and kind of beside the point. In that sense, this problem resembles a lot of software engineering.

But just to keep this comment from being too depressing, here's one technical gripe: consider that liquid hydrogen is an extremely bulky fuel, even if you don't include the necessary insulation. Notice how nearly the entire volume of the satellite launcher in the diagram consists of hydrogen tank. There's not a lot of room in there for passenger lounges and drink trolleys.
Oracle has: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_NoSQL_Database
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These are great points but I think 'economic hardship' is a valid reason to give, no? If you tell the judge your situation and ask to be excused (or defer it repeatedly). It sounds like you probably tried this but I mean tell them straight out 'I'm self-employed and at X days of this I no longer have rent/food/etc'.

Failing that the magic words are 'can you please explain about jury nullification and whether it is legal?'. It is my understanding that the jury nullification issue is toxic and will almost certainly get you dismissed.
I'm friends with a married couple who's got one kid, planning on having more. Husband works in tech, wife doesn't work. Their finances end up looking a lot like mine, except they live in an area of Palo Alto where my rent gets them a decent-sized apartment. (Both I and they are saving for retirement.)
thumbs up if your expecting the same old layout from the lame old windows 8 (they always manage to disappoint you.)
Ask HN: What scenarios is Python 3 a bad idea to use, versus Python 2?
For years, I've been avoiding Python 3 in production out of concern for poor library support, a lack of an installation base on end user systems (although most of my code runs on my or my employer's servers), and so other Python 2 developers could comfortably contribute to my code.

There have been a series of articles over the years about the Python 2 vs 3 issue, but now most of them don't reflect the state of affairs on today--August 21, 2014.

The website http://py3readiness.org/ puts us at support for 270 out of the 360 most important packages. I suppose that's enough for most projects, but what scenarios is Python 3 inappropriate for?

On the other hand, Paul Graham's "Beating the Averages" suggests the use of the best language possible for server software, but it's still not completely apparent to me whether Python 2 or 3 is the better language in that context.
The US military is typically only allowed to go supersonic over land in the US in certain special areas.
Think about it like point system. Based on the answer, the plaintiff gives you a point and the defense gives you minus a point; or nobody gives you any points. Theoretically, maybe you should have started with half a defense point, but I don't think that's how it's really run.
Yeah; I've been using simply noise because it was the first thing I found. I'll check out mynoise.

I really like being able to modify things because different kinds of noise block different sounds at different levels with varying effectiveness
Interesting: https://github.com/Azure/azure-documentdb-python (it's empty for the moment, but glad to see first-party support for Python)
During 54 years of living in 5 different metropolitan areas of the U.S., I've never heard a sonic boom. (I know what one sounds like because they were frequent during a vacation I took in West Germany a long time ago.)

The Blue Angels, for example, are not authorized to exceed the speed of sound: http://www.blueangels.navy.mil/show/faq.aspx
Here the fuel is already being used as a heat sink to cool the inlet air. Liquid H2 doesn't have that big a heat capacity, you can't use it cool the fuselage and the cabin air and your cocktail and still expect it to keep the engine from melting.
Sounds a little odd. I'm not really an expert on this area or anything, but it sounds plausible that if they are able to cool the incoming air stream to that temperature, then they might be able to make the speeds they're claiming. But I have to wonder, not only how they made a heat exchanger capable of cooling the incoming air that fast, but what are they doing with those megawatts of heat that they're taking out of the air? They claimed air temperatures coming out of the heat exchanger of -150, so where are they getting a cooling fluid colder than that to do exchange with?
I had the same thing happen to me, but not just on Pi - but also two beaglebones black.

I bought these also to run dashboards in Kiosk mode - but they were too underpowered to drive my StackDriver graphs. :(
I think we're pretty familiar with vacuum at this point. The obstacle to practical interstellar travel is 99.99999% propulsion, which you don't learn a lot about by endlessly falling in a circle.
No.

Metaballs are a thing, and marching cubes is one way of implementing them. Another approach is ray-casting.
Fight for the Future wants you to do something for Ferguson
I can't stand it if it's got the really high pitched tones in it, but what simplynoise has as uh -- I think brown noise? -- reminds me of being at my aunt and uncles house that's on a river. They lived right next to a series of small overflows/dams and it sounds a lot like the water rushing over those.
> The economics just don't work.

Given that you don't know how much this will cost to operate, you can't possibly know that, right?

At some point, i think i read a claim that an airliner based on this technology would be able to supply Europe - Australasia trips for about the same price as a business class ticket on a conventional airliner on that route. Passengers currently buy a fair few of those tickets; some might choose to do the trip in two hours instead of twenty-four in exchange for a smaller seat and the loss of a couple of meals.
Hi ryanburk,

I am a Program Manager for the Azure Search team. I am glad to hear you think our service looks promising. You are right about searching across indexes. This is something we heard often from a number of customers we worked with before today's annoucement. There are often ways of working around this, for example by merging content into a single index, but this is obviously not workable for everyone, so you are also correct, that this is really just a matter of time.
That was referring to the second half of the GGP post (i.e. "you couldn't tell the truth about Apple about 3-4 years ago.")
The incredibly huge tank of liquid hydrogen not pictured in the diagram. The same one that makes the idea completely unfeasible for commercial transport.
Yes, I've been through Seattle quite a few times. There are very distinct modes of separation that are very noticeable, where the barriers are not obvious. No visible walls separating ghettos, or various minorities and whites. Go to the right places at the right time and it is very much apparent.

edit: There was a street downtown near Lake Union when I had to work for a client in their Lake Union offices. On my way on a late night project I happened to drive right along one of these 'corridors'. It's not Pine/Pike, but further North and South of Lake Union. It was basically an entire row of street blocks that acted as if it was an invisible barrier. It was very noticeable there, and elsewhere as well. I think it's a new type of policing strategy.
I did add qualifications, although I forget which ones, and results were shaky. What have your experiences been with qualifications, and which ones did you use?
Scala vs. Go: The perspective of a developer with experience with both
Paleo diet for busy hackers
I was about to buy a macbook air, i gues i sould hold off now.
We know how much the Concorde cost to operate: a zillion shittons (metric) [http://www.concordesst.com/retire/faq_r.html] . And that was with proven technology and all the sunk costs behind them. I think that makes a sensible floor for this project, unless you are willing to argue that researching and deploying this completely new technology would somehow cost less.
GCC displayed more than 1,000 warnings, most of which complain about
incompatibility of types. I was actually surprised that it was able
to compile.

Probably it did.
No, it doesn't. The baseline presumption is that the question doesn't reveal anything useful about the juror's leanings.

A salary below $50k indicates a strong preference for the plaintiff, but the reverse is not true (i.e., that a salary above $50k indicates a strong preference for the defense). Rather, the table indicates that a salary above $50k doesn't provide any useful information one way or the other about a prospective juror's leanings.
Good that they're figuring it out, bad that we've built entire bodies of legislation upon models that clearly don't work.
MASM and TASM were very powerful macro assemblers. You had enough capabilities to make Assembly look like an high level language, while enjoying full Assembly power.

This goes back to the days when the code generated by C, Pascal, Modula-2 and many other compilers were deemed too slow for home computers and real developers used Assembly.
Jodorowsky's Dune (2014)
Use IPython and %cpaste magic. Works well.
So object-oriented programming really does match reality, just not at the level we thought it does. I guess it's time to redesign my code around quarks and quantum fields.
So the only celebratory-worthy achievements are about releases of "libre" stuff?

Because, I'd say, if the software is good, and fits its users needs, then "releasing proprietary software behind a walled garden" is totally celebratory-worthy too.
There was a talk at BSidesLV called IOS URL Schemes omg://
http://bsideslv2014.sched.org/event/21c84fe90196be5a475f6b33...
You'll probably want to watch this on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJroherlZVo
"The Americans are unique: They are the only ones who underestimate the size of their bottom class."

More unfortunate evidence of American hubris and delusions of grandeur. I say this as an American.
lucky you... who would buy MacBook air when you've got SP3
Please don't use this for anything significant. Shared global state and synchronous file I/O pretty much guarantee that it will blow up in any non-trivial use.
I edit a webpage, its a modern page with php, JSON and jquery elements - but the large majority of it is in html, markdown does nothing for me, because I'd need to convert it anyhow back to HTML for the webserver.

Markdown however would be very useful in replacing the groff code used in man files for example, if perhaps it were a little more expressive - it has the advantage of being easy to parse when not render, and easy to build a renderer for.
I'd get a tablet with a pen like the Galaxy Note 8 or 10. It's MUCH easier to write things down, especially with all the math you'll be doing. And it just allows you to be more precise in general (plus you won't be getting the ink all over your hands).

I read ebooks and I can accurately highlight what I want the first time instead of messing up with my finger.
That isn't true, though. As other sibling comments have explained, a salary above $50k indicates a stronger preference for the defense than would be expected. If counsel for the defense is choosing between (a) a person known to make over $50k, and (b) a person about whom nothing is known, then that table will inform them that person (a) is the correct choice, as they are biased in favor of the defense relative to person (b). Similarly, the table informs counsel for the prosecution that person (b) is biased in favor of the prosecution relative to person (a), and that a person known to make under $50k would be even more so.
Now way! And my birthday's on the very next day..
White House cybersecurity czar brags about his lack of technical expertise
If you just want a local cache in a standalone program, why not simply use a POJO? There's an awful lot of ceremony here and it doesn't seem to be adding any value.
Yep, you could also say Apple's CloudKit is another proprietary NoSQL solution for the purpose of providing more value and lock-in into the iOS ecosystem. But at least CloudKit has generous free usage up to:

- 1PB for assets
- 10TB for database

https://developer.apple.com/icloud/documentation/cloudkit-st...
As the music started to play I reached to pause the music I already had playing, but then I realized that it was paused automatically by Spotify. That's a pretty cool feature that they have - very well integrated.
So, not so much a new theory as a new language and set of rules (a calculus) for describing our old theories?
It's using Spotify's preview of the song, so either an algorithm or manual selection I'd wager.
Price Is the Only Weapon Chromebooks Have Against Windows – TechSpot
It's a huge problem, unless you don't mind a flying oven. In the SR-71, the crew had to wear special cooling suits (presumably these will be available in first class).
We're hoping our event breathes new life into the existing East Bay Ops & DevOps group (http://www.meetup.com/eastbayops)
>If you were around here back then, you'd know that it was pretty common for anti-Apple things to get down-voted quickly on HN.

Because most were trite-BS? Like the same advice market pundits used to give Apple that in hindsight was always wrong, like that "Zune will crash them", or they "need to make a netbook NOW" (in 2010), "stuff is overpriced" etc etc. Heck, people were even championing the Dell Ditty in forums...

Now, if you have something serious to say about Apple, e.g regarding their technology, or the consequences of having a walled garden approach (and say it without assuming that everybody in a discussion "ought" to be against a walled garden approach), then I don't think there would be a problem. We have had serious discussions critisizing Apple in HN for ages.
What demarcates trivial and non-trivial applications? # of machines, guaranteeing xyz?
as a kipling fan, he was almost certain to have read "the miracle of purun bhagat" [http://www.hermitary.com/literature/kipling.html]. i would have loved to see his opinion of it.
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It's DRM, actually. I agree it's a useful feature sometimes — until you want to leave music playing for your partner in your living room while you listen to music and cook dinner in the kitchen.
Nitpick about the title[0], but it's a kind of thing that really irks me. It's "Reaction Engines", not "Reaction engines". It's a proper name of a private limited company, not a class of engines.

[0] - at the time of writing this, the title was: "Reaction engines bring us a step closer to Mach5 commercial air travel".
There are already a large number of bootcamps being formed for data science. For example Zipfian Academy (former Berkeley students), Insight Data Science, Metis (owned by Kaplan), Leada (a startup of former Berkeley students which has our company as a partner), and probably others I'm not aware of.
2500 grand would be 2.5 million dollars, a grand is slang for a thousand.
Ask HN: What places on the Internet do you go to for programming advice/tips?
Could be a specific irc channel, google group, forum, stackoverflow, subreddit, anything really.
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I saw a very good presentation by the CEO of Reaction Engine the other day, where he went through where they are at with the engine (Sabre) and with the vehicle (Skylon).

He showed how Skylon could lift an interplanetary vehicle in pieces, just like the International Space station was built from modules. The Skylon/Sabre tech will certainly help us reach other planets, as the first 100 km to orbit is the really expensive part, and Skylon/Sabre addresses that well I think. They need some more development money though.
I'm certainly interested in trying it out! I've really only gotten hands on with virtualizing Linux within itself. Being more advanced than the average user I've never had much of a desire for running Windows apps within Linux (just switch partitions), and I definitely try to roll with option 1 for personal purposes. I love trying out all the different kinds of OSes. I'll take a look at Qubes though; even though I'm not dependent on Windows, investigating ways to help others break their dependence is highly beneficial for everybody including myself.
I lived near colorado springs in the early 80s, as a child, and I can remember on two occasions being (figuratively) knocked out of bed by a sonic boom.

Presumably from the Air Force Academy. Only happened those two times the entire time we lived there - presumably someone got in trouble for it...
Deregulation in the financial services, which resulted in risky behavior from greedy financiers, and some trillion dollar bailout scheme.

Deregulation in the food industry, allowing certain crappy practices and laxing hugiene standards and protections.

Etc.
1) it is true that the more tests you run the higher chance you see one FP, however the tests are not rejected/accepted as a whole. each test will show it's own results.

2) the size effect did take into considerations, there's also r scripts to analyze the results. the impact is trivial
I believe they can however, at least in theory, get you for perjury if you tell them that you that you would only use the letter of the law to determine innocence or guilt but in fact are aware that you are not required to and are willing to not.

It is unfortunately likely that I will never serve on a jury because 1) I would never convict somebody of a crime if I believe that the law is unethical, and 2) would never lie about that.
In a previous post (a little over a year ago) about the same engine I posted a link to a video with a Q&A with Elon Musk where he was a bit pessimistic about the idea.

I'm not a rocket scientist so I wouldn't know the first thing about it, but if anyone is interested in his (then) opinion it's after 48m55s in the video here: http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/view/211