skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should refer to the man pages not particular implementations.
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I'm seeing a lot of pictures of flowers and bees in the bird pictures. I'm guessing this is due to the way the training is done, anyone from Flickr who can comment on that?
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With app- or token-based 2FA, there is no token sent across the wire until the user submits an auth request. With SMS-based 2FA, the token is sent via insecure channels to the user BEFORE auth, which is an opportunity for state actors and telecom to intercept it before use.
> spends time boggling at why people would be upset about having their hours cut

I don't think this is fair. From the original article:

> [...] the Affordable Care Act might result in millions of workers’ scaling back from full-time to part-time jobs.

The implication is that millions of workers would be voluntarily cutting back their hours, since they no longer need to be employed full-time to get health care -- not that these workers would be having their hours cut. It's people like Rand Paul and talk-show hosts who are complaining complaining that other people might start choosing to work less hours overall ("adding insult to injury").

If people who are currently fully employed choose to reduce their hours, that means more work is available for those who are interested in working more -- there's no conflict of interest here.
This is important news for iOS developers as it means they must build and test their app on iOS 8, including any libraries that they use.

There are many ways and reasons why changing your build target may affect your app, so much so that's it's far beyond the scope of a hackernews thread. Supporting 64-bit, although introduced a while ago already with with iPhone 5S, can present some tricky bugs, also too much to explain here.

It's also meta-interesting as it shows the pace at which Apple wants app developers to adopt the new APIs, and will ultimately result in a more modern/ios 8 friendly app landscape.

EDIT: somebody else noted that you can likely still target earlier versions, which on the whole makes this much less interesting.
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Sorry in advance that this going a little off topic (though, I would argue it's somewhat pertinent given the historically notable scientific illiteracy in the Ebola coverage/public response). This is a political site, but the author is an expert in healthcare policy: http://www.balloon-juice.com/2014/10/17/resiliency-is-not-ef...

I tend to agree with you and him on the topic that capitalism as practiced in the US currently is a quarter-to-quarter exercise. It doesn't disincentive externalized and systemic risks enough.
I had this xkcd in mind before i even clicked the topic / comment section..

But then i watched the link, guess what's on page 1...
Yes, but also no. I work at The Broad Institute and I deal with these genomes all the time. Long story short: there's tons of redundant data in these genomes because of the imperfect nature of sequencing so the real file size is many times bigger than that. Though in theory if we had perfect sequencing then it'd be around that size.
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Cython is a code generation tool so it is often much harder to understand what the (intermediate) code is doing in more complex cases. This is especially true with numpy specific Cython code. And with Cython your debug story is more problematic. Cython is great but has some interesting performance corner cases, for example see: https://github.com/paulross/NotesOnCython
Interesting use for the API:

curl -s https://yts.re/api/list.json\?sort\=date\&rating\=7\&limit\=50 | jq '.MovieList[] | { title: .MovieTitle, imdb: .ImdbLink, rating: .MovieRating, torrent: .TorrentUrl }'
I feel like I remember him saying something about how as long as it's just another thing hashed into the randomness pool, it's not that big of a deal. But I haven't seen that in writing anywhere. I could just be wrong.
The web browser (named eww) is of course limited by the display engine of Emacs. So don't expect too much. But for reading documentation in html format it works well for me so far and I guess that's the biggest use-case for it.
> I'm much more in favor of deprecating WORD as a synonym for byte

Its not a synonym for byte. In modern systems, a word is typically 4 or 8 bytes.
Just like you would change a printed article?
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This is very cool - anyone here willing to share experience?
How draconian? These are much like current taxation laws for non-blockchain currencies, and other control and auditing laws that are already on the books.
I've been going off like a broken record in the comment pages for these posts, since I'm such an Emacs fanatic. But I'll say it again, this release is great! Rectangular mark mode, better web browser -- Emacs hasn't stopped getting better
Funny, C# has been around 12 years. EF 6 years. jQuery 8 years.

Wouldn't it be more accurate to say you've been a developer and architect for 16 years, with 12 years experience in .NET?
ha! i've built a prototype of this same thing 3 or so years ago! (not over websockets tho).

nice job!
"LuaJIT FFI is a library for Lua. It doesn't change the language at all ... "

This is literally true, of course, but in my ~5 yrs using it now I can say that writing LuaJIT+FFI-data-type code is, for me, both aesthetically and mechanically different from writing plain Lua code. The post captures it quite well:

This is basically the inverse of the old promise that languages like Python came
with: that you would write your whole application in Python, optimise the “hot
spots” with C, and voila! C speed, Python convenience, and money in the bank.

This was always much nicer in theory than practice. In practice, your data
structures have a huge influence on both the efficiency of your code, and how
annoying it is to write.

I often write my LuaJIT programs from the ground up designed around C data types and C-style memory allocation discipline. Bu I can always ditch that in areas where I know I don't care (e.g., configuration loading etc where 10 lines of C become a 1-liner in Lua).
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By that reasoning, IBM is not at a 3 year low since it is up from earlier today. The concept remains meaningless. That's why it is used by those speaking to dumb money.
Why should someone quit a full-time job to go work for you if there's a 30% chance of being unemployed 2 months later?

Even if it's a 30% raise, it isn't worth it if there's also a 30% chance of being stuck.
Somewhat similar to the early work on televisions:

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

One of our undergrad elec courses had a lab where you built one of these. It's kind of a trip.
everyone is entitled to their own beliefs, but not their own facts. Glycogen is the preferred fuel, which are giant chains of glucose (carb) molecules. I've done keto, and you have to be very careful as even a small amount of carbs will quickly shift the body out of ketosis and back into using glycogen. Doesn't the fact that ketosis is so fragile indicate to you that it's not the preferred state? Homeostasis reigns, and the body gets away from ketosis whenever it can. It's an extreme state.
The CDC was and is plenty funded to deal with this threat. If you think they didn't spend it well, well, join the club.

No amount of money is ever "enough" if it not managed responsibly. I'd really appreciate it if those who think the answer is always more government money would start putting more pressure on their goverment to spend it responsibly. I mean that quite straight, not as a snark. It would go a long way towards getting me on the bandwagon of more government spending if it didn't appear to me that the people making this claim didn't always take every opportunity to dodge away from the question of responsibility in practice.
Emacs has a web browser?
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> Highlights of this release include: A built-in web browser (M-x eww)
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> A built-in web browser (M-x eww)

What ! Anyone has screenshots of that?

Is there a windows release somewhere?
^ New Zealand, same as the above but taxes aren't bad but pay isn't great.
CloudSQL works great for django, I suppose that these attempts to port django to cloudstore are looking for the free tier that is provided. In theory you could host an app for free if it's small and uses the datastore. While with cloudSQL you'd have to spend some money
Sure. They'll only use CNNIC in situations where people won't notice.
It's had w3 for quite a while. 'eww' is new.
There's something fascinating about looking at that code, even though I can't decompile it just by reading the characters.

P.S.: It's 37918 bits, about 4.6 kB
It can display images. It seems to even support HTML5 SVG.

The HTML rendering engine (shr) was originally written as part of the Gnus project for exactly that task: To render HTML in RSS and email. The browser (eww) just adds http support via url.el and a user front end.
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This is where I generally pick up Windows releases (though I don't use Windows much anymore):

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/

24.4 is not yet there though.
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It is not. Sorry, $6B annual budget is not a lot in the context of their responsibility, which is substantially greater than ebola [edit: or even outbreak containment in general, for that matter]. In fact, ebola (as evidenced by the lack of transmission to Duncan's own family or any additional caregivers of his [edit: not to mention a lack of host reservoir in NA]) probably and appropriately very low on the CDC's radar, since it is _not_ a public health threat in the US.

late edit: To put it in perspective, approximately $3B was the total operating expenses for just Massachusetts General Hospital, alone, in 2012. Or just 50% greater than the 2014 budget for UCSF. Or just half of what Apple spent on SG&A in the 12 months prior to Sept 27.
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Sort of like the fpaste tool in Fedora, but seems to work with multiple pastebins, very nice.
Rectangular mark mode is really awesome. It makes working with rectangles a lot easier. It is now so well integrated into my workflow that I'm really annoyed when I have to use an older Emacs version.
Would allowing tear-gas and other "chemical weapons" in war break down what we consider war? Would it somehow lead to wars so brutal no one would want to wage them?

How desperate does a relatively sane country have to get before it deploys tactics we would currently reserve as "terrorism" and "weapons of mass destruction"?
If you're looking for GNU emacs on Mac OS X, this is the place I use [1]. Note that it's not there just yet, so be a bit patient. They've been doing RC builds, you can seem them here [2].

[1] -- http://emacsformacosx.com/

[2] -- http://emacsformacosx.com/builds
Right. It's so much context dependent that the "hardware" of a different animal may react very differently to it - perhaps even ignoring it altogether.

The genetic information is really the 4.8 kB of "code" PLUS the entire information already contained in the cellular hardware reading it. One doesn't make sense without the other.

At the very bottom, the whole thing depends on the laws of quantum mechanics in this universe, governing the minute details of molecular interaction. That, too, should be considered to go into the "code". Make a tiny change to the Plank constant, and the Zaire ebolavirus code will do something very different.
Cf. Minsky, _The Emotion Machine_.
i somehow feel that all the attempts to legally regulate/restrict the data gathering by government is like an attempt to board a train that has already left the station - just a mental refusal to accept new reality. World has changed (or has been disrupted in SV lingo). We have to adapt to new conditions. Just like taxi cabs and regulators have to adapt to Uber/AirBnb, we have to adapt to NSA/Palantir.
This seems very similar to the old "Happiness = Reality - Expectations" equation. Great reality and low expectations? Large positive number. Poor reality and high expectations? Large negative number. If you want to be happy, then don't expect much, and don't expect often. Unfortunately for happiness, I don't know how to turn off the endless flow of "what if"s my mind produces - the flip side is that I'm always thinking of new things.
http://larsmagne23.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/eww.png

It's from an early version though (over a year old)
> What do you think would be a good set of criteria for what should count as a meaningful unit of work?

I'd consider a meaningful unit of work to be a bug fixed, or feature implemented, at least to the extent that you have a runnable version of the code again (even if you intend to do further work to implement it better e.g. replacing hard-coding). I'd consider changes short of this as not worth commiting, as this would not be a good starting point for further work (I know it's cheap to branch with Git etc., but it just feels untidy to leave something so part-done).
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This is so frustrating. So many sites are still accessible over HTTP. Perhaps some of the security tools out there (a la ssllabs.com) should start giving you a warning, etc. for serving anything but a 301 over HTTP.

Also, really, Apple can't figure out how to get a wildcard cert and properly install it? I had an idea at one point to put together an bot to scan and publicly shame Alexa top whatever sites if they don't do HTTPS properly and consistently. Perhaps I should go back to that idea.
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I have noticed that the proportional amount of garbage is lower among published works, and that the resulting breadth of content is much easier to wade through to find quality content.
anyone know if clicking on that cs_dump.txt link is going to lead to criminal charges against the people in posession of it?

I'm curious, but not PMITA-potential levels of curious. There's really likely not a lot of useful information in there for me, anyways.
Yes, and everybody can actually do more than just laugh. That's what I wanted to bring to everybody's attention.
I'm very excited to try it out. I knew about the web browser, but I didn't know about this until I read the release notes.
Just FYI, when 'sudo pip install pandas' doesn't work (which it didn't for me recently), you'll get no love upstream:

https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/7517

As @mynegation notes, you can use Anaconda (or virtualenv).
Why do all sites need to be HTTPS?
> It's also not his place to decide what is/isn't harmful, he was elected based on certain premises and promises of certain actions.

It is his place. We elect leaders, not robots. Elected officials are supposed to govern, not just read popularity polls and enact the opinions they see there.

The U.S. is very purposefully and carefully constructed to not be a direct democracy. We are a representative democracy.

"The people" are kept at some distance from the daily decision-making of the government. We have the power to choose leaders, to remove them from power, and to freely express to them what we think they should do. But while in office, our leaders have broad power to use their own judgment and discretion, within the bounds of the law.

This architecture arose from an awareness of the shortcomings of direct democracy. It's not a mistake.
It has sockets, so... pretty much anything you can do with those, you can do with Emacs.

* Email (gnus)

* NNTP (gnus)

* IRC

Come to mind offhand.
This makes sense to me and easier to maintain the code. I won't have to support older versions. And my app can take advantage of the 64bit architecture.
Look at the spiral it's drawing. It has way too much play, like several mm.
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Yeah , if you use the Dockerfile, but pre-build images has tags and ID's that you can use to make sure you always get the same image.

I see a few reasons to build your own from the Dockerfile:

- 1) You don't trust the image and want to build your own.
- 2) You want to build something slightly different
- 3) You want an up-to-date version.

2) is often solved by building your own image with the changes, and I think 1) is solved by the Automated Builds (?), but I haven't used them yet.
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Apparently you've a 50/50 chance of hitting a self-signed certificate? https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=apple.com&hid... (Click on each IP address to view the results)

Correction: Qualys' tool merges tests of apple.com and www.apple.com. In fact, you've a 66% chance of getting a self-signed certificate, as the IP addresses starting with 17 are the ones serving the non-www apple.com redirect. This is clearly indicated by the "Domain" column of the table, which I apparently completely missed until just now.
the OPCW claims the convention was formed due to rapid innovation in the chemical weapon section - leading to the realization that small countries could own an arsenal capable of producing doomsday without much material wealth. [0]

[0]: http://www.opcw.org/news-publications/publications/history-o...
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I just made this switch myself. My new tiny SF apartment makes 5-gallon batches impractical, so I brewed my first 1-gallon batch yesterday. I'll see how the results are in a month, but right now I can say that the process is way easier:

- Equipment mostly fits in my dishwasher

- Moving/pouring 1 gallon of liquid is faster, easier, and results in less spillage than 5 gallons

- No need for a wort chiller, since an ice bath is more than effective enough for a 1-gallon batch

- Fermentation control will be a lot cheaper, since a small dorm fridge will fit the fermenter

- As you pointed out: more experimentation because the cost of failure is much lower
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the notes to decoded pieces itself fascinating :

/note="immunosuppressive region; other site"

...

/note="transmembrane anchor; transmembrane region"
The typical argument is if only sensitive traffic is encrypted, you know that something is worth attacking because it is encrypted.

Ergo, encrypt everything, and the sensitive stuff can hide in a sea of meaningless traffic.
Is it me or is that browser (after looking at the screenshot) really "eww"?
The apple watch will allow for contactless payments via apple pay for people with the iphone 5/5s
Some pretty clear bird photos aren't working either; I guess it has to be a close up, which kind of ruins the usefulness for me. http://rideintobirdland.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Littl...
If you only encrypt your most important secrets, they are far more vulnerable to attack. Sometimes what you hide can be inferred by what you don't, etc..

I hear you, though, it's a real pain, but welcome to 2014, we're all learning more about crypto than we ever thought we would have to know, which is what crypto experts have been telling us for 20+ years we would have to do.
A very nice summary of relevant scientific work is

www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/Whatever%20next.pdf

Also, thinking fast and slow and other pop-sci books around decision making put a similar model forward. Personally, I am more focused on the active elements of consciousness and I try to use decision as the hermeneutics element rather than subject. Instead of looking at conscious beings like processors that model their environment and act upon that model, I am interested in the long term impact of decisions on behaviour and perception (i.e. my decisions impact the way I perceive the world.) Both models can co-exist. The article linked above has some very interesting links to much more researched models than my intuition.

Clarification: to reinforce my theory, I am wring about decisions when the author looks into emotions!
Weirdly, 24.4rc1 from the builds section is really wonky on my OS X Mavericks install. On scroll, the buffers go "above" the window and the top bar breaks up into tiny pieces and scrolls with the content. Ugh.
Will there be a D2? will I be able to program in R2D2?
Hi, Database Labs founder here.

We offer 99.99% uptime, with refunds for outages beyond that.

We can set up read replicas manually for you at this stage; a user interface control for that is in the works. Multi-master is not available yet. If many people want that, we'll add it.

What we do is a bit more than "just" installing Postgres on a machine. We manage it for you as a system. By that I mean we do the sorts of boring operational sysadmin tasks that are often overlooked and not accounted for when one considers running a server: we do uptime monitoring, backups, firewalls, operating system and Postgres patches, security / intrusion detection, and so on; and we have staff on call 24 hours a day to handle the inevitable problems.

All that stuff costs time and money, and we've found that many people prefer to pay someone to handle it all so they can focus their time on building out their core business rather than on learning to be sysadmins.
Their actual shopping website is less ambiguous: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=store.apple.c...
Someone can be fairly mature and still have very strong emotions. Furthermore, just because the strength of the emotion is easily detectable in one person, doesn't necessarily mean it is as perceivable by another person. What allows a person to perceive emotions has to do with how well they have trained their awareness to pay attention to emotions rather than either ignoring them, or avoiding them.

Hunger itself isn't an emotion. It's a complex of physical sensations. However, in most people, it is highly coupled with various emotional responses. Hunger is one of the first things an infant experiences, often coupled with being fed by a parent and loved upon. It's not accident that a lot of people (not everyone) eat more when they are stressed. (Comfort food). I have seen otherwise mature adults regressed to childhood, infantile behaviors because they skipped a meal.

It's actually a fairly immature understanding of emotions to associate poor emotional control or behaviors with the level of maturity. Your ability to handle emotions has more to do with whether you fully pay attention to the emotions and process them out. Although people with greater physical age will tend to have experienced a wider range of emotions in a variety of life circumstances, if they don't pay attention to them when it happens, it festers in the back of the mind, carried on for years.

I think this model is a "good try". It seems good enough for now, for the author. And although it scratches the surface, I think it's great for anyone to think about this more closely.

To really start digging in there, you have to allow yourself to experience the emotion; "thinking" about an emotion without allowing yourself to experience it or be aware of it tends to be a way for the mind to avoid experiencing painful things.
You should have a really scalable technology on your backend. This thing could grow massively.
So how would you do multithreaded apps with cython while avoiding stuff like the GIL?

I work with objective-c a lot and python was my first language, so to see this kind of unification just blows my mind.