skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To save others a few minutes with the stable pages patch, it's already in the mainline kernel, visible in sysfs as /sys/block/*/bdi/stable_pages_required.

Also, on a sort of related note, aio is steadily progressing, so maybe we'll see more reliance on it: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.g... and libaio too: https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/libaio.git/
Not sure if there's really a _standard_, but there are examples of projects[1] and generators[2] that encourage best practices. Presumably if you can document your API as JSON, it should be reasonably well-formed.

[1] https://bgentry.io/blog/2014/01/09/auto-generating-a-go-api-...

[2] https://github.com/pksunkara/alpaca

Update: Here's a link from [1] that may be closer to what you're looking for: http://json-schema.org/
Rapport-building interrogation techniques work better than torture
Yes and yes. R is lexically scoped
I truly don't understand how desomorphine can be created through the RP/I route. It makes pretty much zero sense based on my chemistry knowledge (BSci in Chemistry, but didn't complete it, dropped out third year). I've no idea what they're actually injecting, but I do know that a lot of the photos a number of years ago that were tagged as "Krokodil" were in fact a different drug entirely
The author is one of the big people in the Racket curriculum.
Just go watch the movie "idiocracy" and there's the language that will be used even before 3000AD.
The devalued American worker
Close - San Francisco
Hiring full-time in SF (SoMA), contract-to-hire preferred:
* Backend Software Engineer (python)
* Data Engineer
* Data Scientist

We're a seed funded startup - 3 former Googlers - and we're tackling the messy world of business. Every day, people shake hands over million-dollar deals that can change the future of a company. From fundraising and acquisitions to partnerships, promotions and product placement, businesses get together and make new things happen. But there's no platform for them; they typically overload sales-focused CRMs, or are stuck in the world of spreadsheets and email. We're changing that.
It's a fascinating data problem as we're mapping out professional and company-to-company networks, trying to understand who does business with whom and why, feeling our way around the underlying graph that nobody's explicitly mapped out before. From old school tie to the boardroom, why do people do business with each other? What are the trust and influence networks? What's the equivalent of PageRank for investors? What does it mean when a VP moves from one company to another? How do I get my startup funded?
We're trying to answer all these questions. We have an invite-only product already launched, we're building a team-facing solution, and we're expanding our data team to work on the platform that powers it all. Here's our team's take on the space: https://medium.com/@jennielees/the-joy-of-data-a1d3757d3567
Looking for fast learners who can get their hands dirty, quickly; who know when to duct tape and when to have 100% test coverage (think like a hacker, ship like a pro); who don't mind being wrong occasionally; and who are intrigued by the overall space we're in. We've had a good run from HN posts so far, hoping to continue it.
You'd be single-digit employee and have a significant chance to influence our culture and growth, as well as immense impact on the product itself. We have a generous equity setup, though we prefer contract-to-hire so we can figure out if we'd work well together.
For our generalist role we'd prefer it if you have Rails experience; for our data roles, Python. Graph-specific data experience is a bonus.

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>Rather than have homeless shelters for specific categories, why can't we just have homeless shelters for human beings, no questions asked?

Even if you have a shelter for men and women, the dorms are still separated by gender so it's not that easy.

Unisex dorms don't work for obvious reasons--Many homeless women aren't going to be comfortable sharing bunk beads with men, especially at women's shelters that are set up to provide support for women with small children.

I'm sure there's a solution (a 3rd gender neutral sleeping area?), but it's not as easy as just building one big "human shelter".
>A truly independent mind can be a terrifying thing. It can make you feel disconnected, isolated, insane, or stupid.

You get used to it because you remember the science:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F17JGDZDVUs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eURiWot_-ng&list=UUW1ELHQMq-...
Well in abstract there are plenty of possible spaces where a set can be bounded but its boundary does not exist within the set (e.g. consider the transcendentals between 0 and 1) so talking about the "hull" as a boundary is completely useless. Even so, picking the word "hull" was perhaps careless.

A lot of people, even mathematicians, are confused on the definition of circle vs. sphere (the circle is the boundary, the sphere is the volume), so even if you use these terms "correctly" you probably want to define your understanding of them.
I worry that it might be a bit harder to feel like I'm part of the team or that I truly belong. Maybe that's an unfounded worry but without a little chit chat here and there, might it be more difficult to feel a sense of camaraderie?
Thanks. If you decide to do anything else, my final suggestion would be to adjust the scale on the bottom to something non-linear, or scrollable since those $10+ RPMs are pretty rare in my experience. I would think your average publisher would be most interested in the $1-5 range.
I gave up on Python long ago. Anything I want to do in Python, I can do just as easily in R.

Rcpp provides a great environment for intermingling high performance c++ with expressive R code. R has all th r features you'd want for a modern development environment: good IDE, unit testing, documentation conventions, ... It's easy to turn analyses into interactive apps with shiny. There's a package for every model you can think of. You can connect to databases, you can talk to web apis and scrape web pages.
if you're only using StackOverflow, I created a small mode called sos-mode: https://github.com/omouse/emacs-sos

The difference is that sos-mode is made for getting answers quickly and being able to copy/paste any code snippets. The output buffer of answers uses org-mode so it's easy to tag the list.

A full-blown stackexchange mode may be good if you're answering questions or looking for a lot of answers but I don't see that happening a lot. Most users are anonymous (sos-mode doesn't require login) and just want to get some answer.
More like a spiritual successor to HtDP, which is somewhat opposed to the SICP philosophy, even though both use Scheme variants:

http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/fffk-h...
It's not really as bad as all that. The reason to avoid using those names is to avoid confusing the reader, not because it causes problems for R
I'm not saraid216, nor American, but I believe that I find it very difficult to find (sampling from primarily Canadians and Americans) people who get emotionally heated about other people being tortured, and relatively easy to find people who get emotionally heated about copyright violation (usually against themselves or against someone they would like to identify with). I would say that I find the latter group between 10x and 100x more common in my life than the former.

It's even harder to find someone who will actually lift a finger to do anything about strangers being tortured, and harder still to find someone who will do more than write an angry comment online (for example, I will not do more than write comments online).

Although I found saraid216's comment smug, dismissive, and non-contributing, as far as I can tell it was essentially true.
Interesting. However:

> TLS 1.2 only (...)
> Browser support: Getting better, most browsers support TLS 1.2 now, but not all support the stronger AES256 encryption modes.

It's my understanding that AES256 isn't necessarily meaningfully more secure, due to the way AES key schedules work?
The Lives of Millennial Career Jugglers
I understand very well why he's living in Russia. Where exactly did I say he was living in Russia out of choice? Anyway it doesn't detract from the point of my comment, which is that you only need encryption to protect from oppressive governments. He is living in a highly oppressive country, whose government makes the NSA look like Sunday school teachers.
I totally agree. Nexus 5 is on the upper end of the large form factor. Also N5 has been the best value for your money of my phones by far margin.
Going to Mars, you have the following options right now.

You can shield the spacecraft from radiation with passive mass. That's relatively expensive option, but hardly technologically infeasible. The question is only the price of each kilogram on LEO, and that goes down steadily.

You can use spacecraft magnetic field. An interesting area with a bunch of research to do.

You can speed up the way to Mars, say, from 6-8 months today to 3 months, having to spend extra fuel at launch and at arrival. For that, you can e.g. revive Nerva-style engines.

A combination of these (and possibly other) methods brings Mars closer even for today's safety standards.
Single-Pilot Cockpits Floated in NASA Study
Interesting perspective, I agree with your observations, but I don't know if it's really a manifestation of those people not caring about torture so much as it seems like a problem with which they do not have direct experience and thus do not have the emotional immediacy involved with something that more directly affects them.

For example, I might find my neighbour's loud music at three in the morning evokes more of an emotional response than the spanish inquisition, but that doesn't actually imply I think that my neighbour's loud music at three in the morning is really more important or severe than the spanish inquisition.
"Swagger is a simple yet powerful representation of your RESTful API." http://swagger.io/
Crowdfunding Crumbles Under Potato Salad Stupidity?
Nobel Peace Prize 2014
"How do you know what you know?"

Don't be afraid to cross-examine your own beliefs!
There's a VICE documentary about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsUH8llvTZo Horrifying, and doubly so that people are doing this to themselves voluntarily...
Lindt Chocolat Cafe Hostage Drama in Martin Place, Sydney
If both robotics and human spaceflight will become cheap enough, even the fact that, say, robotic flights are fixed times cheaper won't matter. You don't always refuse to get a cup of coffee just because it's several times more expensive than some alternatives. The absolute difference is small enough for you to just ignore the fixed relative difference.
How is HtDP opposed to the SICP philosophy? From my reading both come off as espousing the more or less same ideas for building programs.
But how do you propose they buy them, when the legal highs are indistinguishable from them at a glance, and are cheaper and easier for dealers to buy?
How much harm do you think would be done if a popular species of tree in the US went extinct over the course of a few decades? Do you think ecosystems would collapse? Do you think the economy would suffer?

Turns out, this actually happened. 100 years ago, the American Chestnut tree accounted for 25% of all trees in north america. There used to be over 4 billion of them, then 99.9999% were killed by a blight. Today, only a few thousand exist in isolated groves. Few in the US know about this. People go hiking in the Appalachians and think, "Ah, such pristine nature." It is telling that such a profound extinction scarcely registers on any national measurement of health, quality of life, or economic prosperity.

As I said, most of the species we need to survive are domesticated. And most of the others we need are so prevalent and resilient that they'd survive a nuclear apocalypse. Moreover, this problem corrects itself. If a wild species we use becomes scarce (or demand increases), people start growing it. This has happened with paper farms, aquaculture, and even truffles. When it comes to existential risks, lack of biodiversity is not worth worrying about.
Making Postgres coding and testing fun
mmap() has no way of knowing how much you'll write to the file, where, in what order, or even whether you may read before doing any writing, so it still has to read the blocks into memory first. A block-aligned write() or pwrite(), however, doesn't require any reading.
I haven't read the law itself, but I assume it only applies to news publishing. Simply banning the right to give your content out for free would be extremely broad and overly stupid for any government to do legally.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12806386/standard-json-a...
What an awful name for such a useful project.
War criminals who would have been shot for abandoning their posts (almost all of the low-level guys fall into that category) have been, and continue to be, prosecuted for those crimes. It's not a hypothetical, it's still in the news.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/23/justice/nazi-charge-philadelph...
Digital giants get bigger at the expense of the small blog sites
The Pyret Programming Language
read the linked paper :)
Most SD and μSD cards have embedded microcontrollers http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554 — I wonder how much of the corrupted-sector problems you were getting are really just bugs in their firmware? Or things that could be worked around with better firmware?
The Novena board looks pretty shiny for this. Mine should come in any day, and I plan to at least try it out for this purpose. Unfortunately it isn't dual gigabit though, so it'll bottleneck my internet a little bit.
For 2D, I don't see how Gloss[0] isn't complete or high level (what are you comparing it to?). There's a cool example of drawing a clock[1] as well as others[2].

The package is on hackage[3] and has a website[4], but the github seemed more approachable/clear to me. There's also an awesome tutorial on making tic tac toe[5] by ocharles of the 24 days of hackage fame.

0: https://github.com/benl23x5/gloss

1: https://github.com/benl23x5/gloss/blob/master/gloss-examples...

2: https://github.com/benl23x5/gloss/blob/master/gloss-examples

3: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gloss

4: http://gloss.ouroborus.net/

5: https://ocharles.org.uk/blog/posts/2013-12-10-24-days-of-hac...
The whole R sucks as a language thing is getting pretty old. There is some things that R is really good at, there are some things that Python is really good at. Just because R comes from a somewhat unusual ancestry (firmly rooted in functional programming with immutable data structures and generic function style OO) doesn't make it bad.
While your avoidance is understandable, given Broadcom's thoroughly disreputable history with regard to free software, it's not justified in this case. The Pi GPU is apparently fully enough documented that you can write your own software for it.
ModelQ is a code generator for creating Golang codes to access RDBMS
http://offtonic.com/synth/
Putting the Fast in FastMail
But, what about the carbon impact of this?
It will only be available for one percenters, no?
I'm a fan of python myself, but what does 'off-side rule' mean?
It's the same, except instead of turning your head to see the other monitor, have your fingers, which are presumably already on the keyboard, hit ctrl-alt-direction.

Just needs one really good monitor. Requires no special monitor mounts. Has worked this well for 15 solid years. 15 years! You could have been doing what you do now, but slightly better, 15 years ago.
It would be morally wrong if he did, but foolish, I'm not so sure. It would depend on how he did it. First, it's not clear that such an act would ever become public knowledge. Second, even if it did, it's not clear that such an act would even generate significant repercussions given the current state of the public's general "injustice fatigue" and the overall minimal impact such an act would have. Basically, Bezos has a huge amount of latitude about if and how he reacts to this, especially if he's smart about it (and he is very smart).

The larger lesson is that we must open our eyes to the fact that our society gives powerful individuals an incredible degree of latitude. We cannot let our idealism blind us to the fact that our business and political leaders wield tremendous unchecked power, especially in relatively small matters, and especially if that power is wielded with the intelligent foresight to avoid accountability.
Housing shortage is usually a problem, when it's hard to built new houses.

Several areas in the world suffer from the problem, but there are cities where housing prices rise way slower than the others.
Materialize CSS - Material Design
A lot of other industries have regulation in place to stop price gouging during emergencies, such as this one. I'm all for Uber raising prices at 1am on a Sunday morning, due to supply/demand -- that's fine! But during an emergency, people find it icky that a business would take "advantage" of it like that. I initally thought it was just an algorithm, which doesn't excuse it entirely but is more understandable, but from Uber's tweets it seems they were aware and OK with jacking prices up that high despite the fact they knew it was an emergency.

tl;dr -- Taxis aren't going to jack prices up 4x in an emergency, because it's illegal, and that's a good thing. Uber made a misstep here, and I've in favour of Uber normally (and finding the media backlash against them lately fascinating). It's a good thing they've gone back and reversed their position, this is an emergency and peoples safety is more importantly than a multinational company's profits, according to society.
His other book was PLAI which was pretty cool: http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/book/

I worked through it for a class, and I distinctly remember a moment where I thought "what the fuck - did I just write a working type inferencer?". It has a great way of simplifying things to the point where adding a complex new language feature isn't a distant theoretical proposition, it seems like a simple and straightforward next step. Of course, it helped that I had a great instructor.

I can't speak for this new book, but it seems like an interesting combo of intro to programming and programming languages. And it's in pyret, which is like the bastard child of python and plt-scheme: http://www.pyret.org/
There's Keith Rabois' home buying startup: https://www.opendoor.com
Not quite what you mean, but this is still fun. JK Brickworks on a LEGO particle accelerator [ http://jkbrickworks.com/lego-particle-accelerator/ ], the LEGO particle being accelerated here is a LEGO soccer ball.
Pros and Cons of “Move Fast and Break Things”
I'm surprised there was no mention of POWER8 and IBM's adoption of the licensing model, similar to ARM. For the first time in at least 5 years, Intel has a Xeon competitor.
Slicing, dicing and reporting on data available in the public domain is NOT helping criminals. It doesn't matter how the data got there. Of course, as a victim it isn't being fair to Sony - but it is certainly not helping criminals.
Alleviates symptoms of chemo, yes, but curing cancer? Is this a recent finding?
FTC will target patent trolls, commissioner says
Spark – A tiny Sinatra inspired framework for web applications in Java 8
Except that they didn't own the technology like they own x86.
Conks
They have already tried to seal off humans to see if they could survive in a closed habitat for years. They failed.

Until we figure out a way to generate food without the use of plants and animals, we cannot explore space. The overhead of having to maintain plants and animals for food is just too great to make sustainable living elsewhere in the solar system feasible.
FWIW, I've been finding Sorkin's critique of the media in The Newsroom to be incredibly sanctimonious.
I will disagree and note that over-analysis of language is needed when language becomes arbitrary, such as in your statement:

rigidly assign a particular arrangement of physical processes to a single entity "cloud" leads to the nonsense you see here.

I have difficulty understanding what you mean and therefore I will need to analyse your use of terminology if I am to respect your opinion. You make some implicit assumptions which are very challenging. E.g. you say

A cloud exists when someone can say "that's a cloud" and a listener thinks "yes, that is a cloud", or that fact is somehow meaningful to them in their life.

I am getting the sense of a consensus argument, but then you have to address when does the listener actually exists.

I am not saying these concepts are interesting to everyone, or that they definitely can be given a complete unquestionable answer, but to call them nonsense and turn your back is not needed when you can just turn your back.
Good point about the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 and Military Commissions Act of 2006. I'm not so sure about the good faith reliance on advice of counsel thing, however, for the obvious reasons. The torturers and the OLC are part of the same chain of command...

As a practical matter I don't currently see the political will for prosecutions. If the public demanded it, maybe, but frankly I think a lot of the public feels complicit, in many cases unapologetically so. That all makes me very sad and I do hope these people start slipping up and travelling overseas...
I'd like to play with Plan9. Some of its concepts are very interesting.

Ideally, I'd like to have a test bed running on a raspberry PI or rent a VPS in the cloud to play with it.

Other than playing with it, if someone has some production uses for it I'd like to hear their feedback.

Until you being using something regularly, I find the exploration can only take you so far.
The barrier to new development in SF isn't red tape per se, but democracy. The existing residents don't want to alter their neighborhoods through a massive increase in population, demographic shift, blocked views, etc. They vote in policies that artificially restrict the housing stock (40ft height limit, endless community generated red tape, low income housing requirements in new buildings, restrictions on evicting rent controlled tenants). This leads to dated, unmaintained buildings, higher rent, and decreased labor mobility, ultimately shooting everyone of the in the foot.

To 'disrupt' this you would need to eminent domain a good chunk of the city a la the Western Addition in the '50s.
So from what little I've seen, KA is reasonably well aligned with common core already. Most decent curriculums do. Also, I think you are misunderstanding what CC is. CC is just a list of topics students should know - there is no "CC testing standards and format".

If KA doesn't align with CC, it's because there is some particular topic that KA forgot about. E.g. maybe common core requires students to "Solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions by using information presented in line plots", but Khan forgot about that one.

I also don't think it would be harmful if KA made sure it covered the basic topics of AIEEE or the IIT-JEE either (important Indian standardized exams). A lot of people want to pass those exams and it would be a marginal amount of extra work for KA to help them.
The URL just points back to the HN article.

It looks like the URL should be the following, which is a freely downloadable PDF from 1973 with the right title:

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=362534
there are languages inside of Amazon that are first class citizens (java & ruby mostly, node.js more now). Go is too new, moving too fast, and hasn't seen the same kind of adoption yet to warrant an SDK.(despite what the folks here might think..)
There was one fairly low budget attempt. Nobody ever said it was going to work the first time. I can imagine it taking 25 years to iron out all the kinks.

It's not like people figured out reliable trans-oceanic voyaging and navigation in a couple years. It was a long processes.