skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
public int X { get; } is more consistent with how properties are declared. Consistency is important.

If you care about clean code, here's an even better way
public readonly int X;
They are not exactly the same but they are equivalent in most cases. In exotic cases where you're required to use auto-getters, adding the brackets wouldn't hurt.
Electronics aren't particularly fond of radiation either.
If you're running a service, then you can use a much trimmer hypervisor, e.g.

https://github.com/siemens/jailhouse

Since the guest unikernel isn't a full kernel, the hypervisor interface is much more minimal, and the few host features it needs can be delegated to the CPU via VT-X (e.g. page table mapping).

At least, that's the dream. (I've never actually used Jailhouse or tried any of the research projects attempting this.)
In fact some of his female colleagues came to his defense on Twitter.

(as did the woman who made the shirt in the first place: https://twitter.com/ellypriZeMaN/status/533287464497332225)
Looking forward to joining that mailing list :)
Not knowing anything about VB these days, this video almost looks like satire :P
Right, that massive 4MBit of bandwidth that passes for Netflix HD. I think thats about the state of art in 1970.

Not to mention that the Netflix congestion isn't happening in the last mile, it's at interconnection points that could be trivially upgraded for very, very little money (compared to expanding fiber). Unless they are trying to hide that they have been massively overselling bandwidth to customers, in which case a class lawsuit would probably be in order.
Oh, ok. Yeah, I can just imagine the bureaucratic nightmare that would involve.
If it will get enough sun when hibernated it will heat battery up and start charging. When there's enough charge (possibly after many periods of charging and hibernation) it can start working again.

But it's probable that the dust will acumulate on the solar cells before comet is close enough to sun for this to work.
That is plainly false.
Why is it inefficient with recursion? I know that at least non-recursive usage of std::function is generally well-optimized by most compilers.
So AT&T threatens by halting their fiber expansion [1] but at the same time they try to beat Google in some fiber race [2]. Isn't Google actually 'enjoying' this news?

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/12/us-at-t-regulation...

[2] http://www.cnet.com/news/at-t-attempts-to-out-google-google-...
Foc.us TDCS headsets and controller
Some twitter streams painting good coverage together:

https://twitter.com/ESA_Rosetta

https://twitter.com/Philae2014

https://twitter.com/elakdawalla

https://twitter.com/chrislintott

https://twitter.com/FrancescoTop

Also each Philae experiment seems to have a "personal" twitter account set up too, and with a short description, worth a quick reading when they link to them.

Some specially noteworthy recent updates from accounts above:

@elakdawalla:
The sun will rise on Philae around 6:00 am UTC. It is theoretically possible it could wake up then. Next comm pass would be at around 11:00

@chrislintott: Current comms mode is 1 packet every a few minutes - but no science data left on @philae2014 - it all got uploaded! Wonderful! #cometlanding

@FrancescoTop:
Consert PI is confident that using tonight's data w/ previous one we can triangulate and find where #Philae is on the comet.

@elakdawalla:
Even if the solar panel is in a better position, it's quite possible it won't wake up tomorrow, but could recharge over days, wake later
If you are using a more minimal hypervisor (see my other comment on the parent), then there do seem to be some measurable gains. I've seen a few papers in this style:

https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi14/technical-sessions/...

We describe the hardware and software changes needed to take advantage of this new abstraction, and we illustrate its power by showing improvements of 2-5 in latency and 9 in throughput for a popular persistent NoSQL store relative to a well-tuned Linux implementation.

That said, a simple application like memcached might be currently latency-bound by the kernel's network stack, but a more complex application that reads from disk (even SSD) won't be.
As it turns out, Gore owns one of these green credit companies. This is corruption and greed at the highest level, yet nobody seems to care.
> I haven't figured out why the government doesn't focus on spurring a large increase in competition, rather than trying to shoehorn existing monoliths into a regulatory package that nobody can seem to agree upon.

Spurring a large increase in competition would involve shoehorning the existing monoliths into a regulatory package that would be even harder to agree on that some form of net neutrality -- and would probably include some form of net neutrality to prevent the newly-spurred ISP competitors from having an incentive to consolidate in order to extract rents from a non-neutral internet.
"Philae's planned mission is expected to come to an end when batteries are exhausted sometime on Saturday; future contacts are possible if the illumination conditions change as the comet orbits closer to the Sun, enabling solar power to flow again."

http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/15/turning-philae/

(Note: that was written before the sucessful reorientation occurred)
The IDE support for TypeScript is actually pretty great; building our own tooling support for LunaScript felt like something we didn't really want to have to do.
I was able to view the page without allowing any JavaScript, by using the Print Edit Firefox Add On. But it wasn't quite easy. Under the Print Edit preview, the entire right side of the article is covered by some white rectangle. The picture, the headlines and paragraph bodies are all chopped off.

Select the bounding rectangle that surrounds the entire article. Then use the "Delete Except" button/menu at the top and invoke "Delete Except: Without Float". This does the trick; the occluding white space is gone and you can read everything.

Print Edit:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/print-edit/
The State's charges may not have been withdrawn, but their case has been demolished beyond recognition. The important point is that (after 5 years, and considerable expense) the claims that Goldman put out before the public about this guy just haven't been substantiated, and most likely never will be at this point.
> Unikernels also suffer from the lack of VM resizing and minimum VM sizes being too big in many cases.

Could you clarify what you mean here? Is this specifically a Unikernel problem or an ecosystem problem (in terms of actually trying to deploy Unikernels in the wild)? If so, those seem like different issues and should be discussed separately.
That's completely irrelevant. The problem is that he wore a shirt that sexualises women in a televised major scientific event. Millions of people saw the video, and the image he projected was that he's more interested in sex than in making women feel welcome and valued in science. Which is incidentally the same image you're portraying.
You mean the tyrannical power grabbing centralized monstrosity all real Americans hated? Because that's what the Constitution was to the real Americans who founded this country and not the jack boot licking, spineless cowards who could look true freedom in the eye and made the federal government the hydra that it is today.

(the tone of this post has been set by the federalist and anti-federalist pamphlets that lead up to the Constitutional convention, some words have been changed for clarity)
Why not?

Get the repressed individuals out of the office and it's totally fine, some people are comfortable in their own skin, some people aren't.

My partner would like to wear lower cut tops than she's allowed to at work, so I don't see how some arbitrary dress code reduces marginalization of women.

In some places how you dress is very important to clients, some people are able to see through the clothes one wears to the value they provide. There is no universal dress code that ends marginalization of women, because gasp different women have different opinions on what they'd like to wear.
It was a questionably appropriate shirt but when they interviewed him, he gave a strange answer about how this comet was “The sexiest mission there’s ever been. She’s sexy, but I never said she was easy.”

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/13/why-women-in-...
I think that's similar but different.

In those communities what others think in the community is very important.

As a result parents like nothing more than to "elevate" themselves by bragging about what their child has done.

So for example someone can truly want their child to do "better than they did" but also separately want to be able to have bragging rights to their friends and neighbors that "my child just graduated from Harvard". To me these are two separate motivations.

Elevation is a very important concept I have found that explains why, for example, even though I don't care if someone is clerking for SCOTUS (you might of course) that I will gladly tell that fact to someone else in order to impress them. "Oh we went to dinner with Jane's she's clerking for Scalia". (Actually I do care I think it's impressive but I'm trying to illustrate a point here).

My perspective is based btw on growing up in an immigrant family and what I have observed.
When these topics, concerning the general disinterestedness and the indifference of the voting populace toward science and technology come up, one is left to wonder how it is even arithmetically possible in 2014, that there isn't yet a financially lofty interest-group apparatus in Washington, advancing policies that collectively foster the cause of basic research in science & tech.

Where are the think tanks?

Where are the high powered K-street lobbyists?

( I'm discounting the nascent and newfangled lobby groups, here.[1] )

We could not even help elect a single legislator in our own backyard.[2]

Surely, it certainly isn't for the lack of war-chests.

What is it then?

Heck, there isn't a single nationally syndicated journalist who can even rebut the casually-dystopian hogwash Hollywood routinely churns out, like clockwork.[3]

I know images of a bleak and soulless future rings more bells at the box office than visions of a verdant tech-enabled one.

Nonetheless, tens of millions of people watch these movies to nurture their already well-developed dislike for science & rational thought on one side and their embrace of religious dogma and superstition on the other.

[1]
Tech Firms and Lobbyists: Now Intertwined, but Not Eager to Reveal It

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/25/upshot/tech-firms-and-lobb...

[2]
Tech Industry Flexes Muscle in California Race

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/06/us/politics/tech-industry-...

[3]
Blade Runner: The Final Cut, review

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/11089809...
For more recent examples, check out work by Margaret Atwood and Octavia Butler. If you can wait, Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam series is also apparently getting developed as a TV series for HBO.
We need more radical sci-fi to inspire future tech
> but how can you come to such a conclusion based on that?

I don't think anyone can prove it right now, only find it plausible or probable. Of course that's a long way from proof, but the opposite is also true - can you demonstrate that this shirt, in the context of a wider trend of what people can and do wear, does not affect the number of women in science?

> Did the female student's lecture attendance/signup rate plummet since that interview?

This is disingenuous, I'm sure you know that no criticism of the shirt is because this specific, individual incident would be perceived to be of overwhelming importance for any given statistic, and I think your attempt to portray things this way is a strawman or a horrible misunderstanding. As above, it is the example of wearing this shirt in the context of wider trends in what people do (and wear) that people are criticising. You can still disagree with them, but at least disagree on a point you didn't just make up.
> you could see one woman engineer and two or three men engineers on duty in the control room, and they all interacted with each other as if they were peers.

This is a remarkably short sighted attitude. I mean, maybe there is totally no problem with the shirt, but it's just a false argument to say 'I saw some women in science so there is no problem'.
Why don't you use public readonly fields?
Net neutrality is not about Netflix vs Comcast. It's about preserving the internet as a free speech venue.
> no science data left on @philae2014 - it all got uploaded! Wonderful!

Best news there is! :)
People who use tools like NoScript are helping promote better security around the entire web. When my browser executes malicious code, it attacks someone else. So it's not just for my benefit.

As a web developer you can help by:

- not pulling JS from a dozen different sites. Host whatever you want me to run in your own domain, as much as possible.

- detect that JS is disabled and put up some warning, like "site requires JavasScript".

- Say which Javascript (from which domains) are used for what: which are must haves for even basic functionality, and what doesn't work if the others are not enabled. For instance, I've never seen anything break (from my end) if I blocked JS from Google Ad Services or Google Analytics.
> public int X { get; } is more consistent with how properties are declared. Consistency is important.

As mentioned in my other reply. If that were the case, why have they just changed the method declaration syntax? It's inconsistent and therefore unacceptable right? If everything has to be consistent we wouldn't have LINQ, lambdas, generics, etc.

The braces are for scope in C# and all C derivative languages. There is no scope being created here and no requirement for scope.
Also there are other places in C# where the scoping braces can be dropped [when there's only a single statement within]:

if(foo == 1)
{
bar();
}

Can be written:

if(foo == 1)
bar();

So I don't see the inconsistency at all if they were to drop the braces.

> If you care about clean code, here's an even better way public readonly int X

That's what I use. Cue the next round of discussion about fields and properties...
Do you have any another Mandarin SciFi that you can recommend?
It was immense luck all the time. Since harpoons failed, there was serious chance for lander not to remain on the comet at all, or to get seriously destroyed or disabled earlier than now. Now it seems that most (all?) of the experiments were performed. Wow.

But in order to get lucky, we have to first dare to try and then invest in work. Congratulations!
That's the real advantage of the lasers. The beams will essentially travel at the speed of light. At 10 miles, and a C of 186,000 miles per second, that's 10/186000 seconds to go 10 miles. At that distance, refraction and diffusion are probably bigger problems than anything.
AT&T has said they had plans for fiber expansion in 100 cities, and they have had to halt those plans because of uncertainty over net neutrality regulation. Many suspect that this is simply not true--they never actually had plans in the first place. Hence, the FCC would like to know what plans they have actually halted.
The thing that is amazing about imagemagick/graphicsmagick is the fact that they can open 100+ formats. That is not something to be taken for granted.

Other than that... they feel kind of old. Video++ feels really new, I'm excited to try it out, but I will miss support for all those weird formats I love so much.

I don't see any video examples though - or is that all handled using opencv?

I've found opencv's png/video decoders to be extremely picky. Opencv doesn't open some files that other libraries will and because of that I've been extremely hesitant about using it as my main image IO.
> What’s different is the much smaller size of our new unit – each pod has only 48 server racks

48 Racks seems pretty darn large by itself, and that is the smallest unit they deal with. At only 20 servers in a rack, thats 960 servers in their smallest unit. And they make it seem like there are hundreds of these pods in a single datacenter...

A single pod is bigger than the vast majority of the top 500 super computers...
Before. Ask this question I must issue a disclaimer: We waste more money giving religious groups all kinds of priviledges (tax exemptions for TV evangelists!!!) than university researchers will ever waste. Every dollar invested in science is a dollar well spent.

That said, scientists are not beyond wasting resources. I think it is absolutely proper and important to hold scientific research accountable to the degree it is possible.

I am not making a comment about the shrimp treadmill, this is more of a general observation.
In 2008, Aaron P. from UrbanDictionary let me pair with him for a few weeks at the end of the summer. We used Rails and some JS and did TDD, which is pretty much the same thing that I do today.
Facebook is cutting brand reach, again. We believe there's a better way
It looks like they would like volunteers to help build the curriculum. Is this curriculum open source?
Ah, I was hoping someone would bring this one up. My answer there is no, because it's not a zero-sum issue like the points on the train track. Let's analyze the differences. For consistency, I'll assume the version of the train track problem where 5 people are going to die if I do nothing and let the train continue on its present course, vs 1 if I reach out and actively switch the train onto a different track. (There are other versions of the problem but this has the most similarity to the transplant problem.)

Now it's true that if I divert the train I'm actively choosing to end the life of the single person on track B in order to save a greater number of people on track A. But the key difference is the external force of the train; it's going to hit someone, so we might as well ensure it hits as few as possible. In the transplant situation, you have 5 patients who are dying from 5 different illnesses of their own; they're not going to die because they're in hospital, they're in hospital because they're going to die. Likewise, they won't be saved by the death of the healthy patient, but by the harvest of his healthy organs. And this harvesting would have to be conducted by the transplant surgeon - and getting killed by an overzealous surgeon is qualitatively very different from getting killed by liver failure or whatever.

Oddly, nobody ever seems to consider the possibilities in letting one of the mortally ill patients die and then sharing out that person's organs among the 4 remaining patients, which is obviously a less good result than saving all 5 of them but also much less troubling than murdering patients who aren't planning on donating their own organs.Assuming they needed 5 different organs and were all equally close to death (such that we couldn't wait around for one of them to die at random and save the other four), then you run into the question of whether it's morally acceptable to kill one of the terminally ill patients in order to save the other four (again assuming imminence of death and perfect knowledge of outcomes and so on, which is rarely the case in the real world). Most people would still say no, but I'd be inclined to say yes.
Bad luck earlier with the thruster and harpoons, and the need to hibernate the Rosetta. Good luck later with the bouncing.
Trade your self-respect for a few dollars, really?
Ooh, I see. I'm still confused about the net neutrality debacle, but this sheds some light on this issue specifically. Thank you!
> But they didn't split last mile cabling from whatever runs on top of it, which is the main issue and the only thing that'd actually work to allow quick reactions to a failure to provide adequate service. Otherwise, you have the ISP giving preferential treatment to itself, even though the law says it really shouldn't be.

The ILECs were permitted to sell to retail customers and required to sell to wholesale customers; and there was preferential treatment (especially around pricing/promotional rates), but it was significantly more competitive than today, and price preferences could have been resolved by narrow regulatory action. Yes, a complete split would be more competitive, but a partial split is probably more likely to go through, and would put us in a much better place.
It's hard to say that he was disrespecting his colleagues considering that not one of them told him not to wear it. Even if they were scared to do so you would expect someone of higher or equal status to him to say something if it was really seen as a problem. IMO this is a culture clash between American and British culture. In the US it would be unthinkable for someone to wear a shirt like that just because it would be seen as unprofessional, even by a misogynist (which I don't think the Dr. is). In the UK they don't take things like that as serious and are also more tolerant of sex images. It's quite likely that no one thought anything of his shirt until people (Americans) started complaining about it on Twitter.
Gentoo's Portage is incredibly powerful. Using it to build your own distro is one of its greatest strengths, which is why Google also uses it for building ChromeOS images.
Well the main reason the FCC is getting ruffled is because ATT is a licensee and they only operate because the FCC enables it. Without the pull of the US government no company would be able to install cables all across the country. It would be similar to the railroads telling the US government to shove off. They are already bordering on being a utility. It's only a hop, skip, and jump to nationalization if they don't do the government's will.
Gotcha. I guess I've had some misconceptions after viewing charts like this: http://cdn.bgr.com/2013/11/sandvine-2h-2013.png that show huge amounts of (relative) netflix consumption.
Show HN: Precursor, a lightweight prototyping tool with real-time collaboration
Be careful not to fire that in the rain ;) atmospheric effects on this weapon would be very interesting to read about
This is a weekend project I've been working on with a few friends. The goal is to build a prototyping tool that lets you express your ideas in a sharable format.

It's built with React.js/Om, datascript and Datomic. They've worked out really well for us. I'm amazed at how often things that seem difficult to build turn out to be fairly easy. Last night I leveraged Datomic's transaction model (implemented by datascript) to add Emacs-style undo in about 30 minutes.

I'm very curious to hear any feedback you have. The url I posted tries to group people in buckets of 10 to show off the collaboration aspect. If you want a page to yourself, just click the "New Document" icon on the left.
I'd like to think we could find some middle ground ebtween helpless surrender and imposing the death penalty on a sentient individual, both in moral terms and in terms of having some failsafe mechanisms, so that supplying electricity didn't allow for a takeover of the power grid or other doomish scenario.
It doesn't seem to mention HF. It's a chemical laser. There are ways to recirculate the gas, meaning lesser electrical requirements.

Not sure if even Viton O-rings can deal with it though...
Taming the Wild Tuna - Why farmed fish are taking over dinner plates
No, it shows that civilization has arrived in Darmstadt. It's an ideal to aspire to, and the folks in the ESO control room have managed to get there. (I believe that in my old university department we have arrived in the same place.)

Everywhere should be like that, and I doubt you get there by banning shirts with surfer babes on. Jesus was up to something when he said "But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person." This was in the context of observing the divine commandments. It's the problem I have with overly specific codes of conduct. If you are an asshole you can and will work around the specific stipulations, and you are and remain an asshole.