skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would suggest we express our concerns on the mailing list in a constructive manner.

You're probably right that this is the most effective thing to do.

On the other hand, it's hard to maintain enthusiasm for engaging with a community when you feel ever so slightly scammed. This is almost certainly an overreaction, but I wasn't really bought into the community anyway and donated because I wanted to see it flourish on principle. The reasons I donated are certainly compromised by this stunt and I almost certainly wouldn't have donated if I'd realised up front that it was BSD plus commentary that was being proposed.
Just tried the current pip package and it doesn't build for me on OSX or Ubuntu. I have a local snapshot of the version I used with 2.4.0, but can't remember where I got it from now.
I used to work in the HFT, and I don´t understand is why there was no risk controls. They way we did it was to have explicit shutdown/pause rules (pause meaning that the strategy will only try to get flat).

The rules where things like:
- Too many trades in one direction (AKA. big pos)
- P/L down by X over Y
- P/L up by X over Y
- Orders way off the current price

When ever there was a shutdown/pause a human/trader would need to assess the situation and decide to continue or not.
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I would vote, that the self-driving car revolution started more than 20 years back, when Mercedes, Bosch and others already worked on the self-driving cars. The times when there where no such thing as GPS available to the general public. All the assistants we have these days in cars like, auto distance control, drive lane assistant, obstacle detection, stop-and-go assistant and so on evolved from those prototypes.

At that time a made an internship at the military arm and a fellow had an internship with the self-driving car.

BTW, the most current Mercedes S-Class can do self-driving for about 80% of the time. They intentionally disabled it and even put in logic to detect if the driver is holding the steering wheel or not. If the driver is not holding it for some time, the assistants are disabled by intention.

Also what I do not understand, why Cruise is attaching everything mechanically? Any descend car these days with lane keeping assistant/self-parking assistant has all the parts available. You just have to connect to CAN and control the whole car. Of course, you have to talk with the OEMs. But that is how the companies are work, which convert cars for use for people with disabilities.
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The fact that if Shadowstats' figures are correct, we didn't have a housing bubble and have been in a 30-year recession are far from anecdotes. As is Williams admission (referenced in the Aziz piece) that he doesnt actually calculate the figures using the old methodology but rather just adds an arbitrary factor to the CPI data.

I 'believe' that GDP is higher and inflation is in check because I can buy a 60" LCD for $400, a hybrid car that gets 45mpg and will last 200k miles for $18k, I can get a 30-year mortgage for well under 4%, my cell phone is faster and more capable than a 5-year old laptop, I can get any physical good delivered to my door in 12 hours, doctors can perform miraculous procedures at podunk hospitals with fantastic success rates, and there are free courses available from the best schools on the planet in just about every subject.

Do I have to work longer hours than my parents did for a similar quality of life? Perhaps, but it seems like that is far more likely due to globalization and the fact that there are billions of people participating in the global economy rather than some conspiracy. Do I think GDP is a perfect measure of growth or welfare? Not especially. I think median household income combined with hours worked is a better gauge but that doesn't mean the GDP stats are useless.

I'll gladly read some Denninger but I'm not sure how you explain the massive global shift from abject poverty to something resembling a first-world existence without economic growth.
Detection of abnormal conditions might be tractable (though I wouldn't call online vision or recognition trivial problems). But taking action is harder. A piece of debris might manifest in a way that causes a self-driving car to skid to a halt or swerve - dealing with abnormal conditions in real time on crowded roads is certainly not a trivial problem, especially given the stakes.
Totally agree with @slang800. Plus, when you see how fast they shutdown a service or an app, it's not very reassuring (LittleSnapper, Ember iOS, Analog, Courier...)
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The reason why some people believe this to be an ethical problem, and others don't, is that the questions "What constitutes a human being?" and "When does a part of another Human body become a human being?" are hotly disputed.

It's hard to say for certain what aspects of "humanity" is carried by mitochondria. So some will say that there are two mothers, others will say there is only one.

Some will say this is unnatural or violates religious beliefs. In my opinion it's a wide leap to say some reproductive technique is evil just because the people writing holy texts didn't conceive of it a few centuries ago.
I'd recommend going with something even older and more outdated and with better support: Java and Freemarker. Java was released 20 years ago and Freemarker 15 years ago. I'd give them another 30+ years of reliable use.
Crypto Won't Save You Either (2015)
Do you mean Baikonur (2011) ?
The problem is that the decision is left up to the website.

But I see I'm in the minority here, thinking software should be predictable and leave the user a sense of control, so feel free to disregard my opinion.
Ha, I actually submitted an issue to this yesterday. It's a good example but misses some really important (i.e. usually-confusing) stuff: error/failure handling and rollbacks.
Napoleon and the Prince Regent
Four Text Editors No Developer Can Live Without
Don't use double quotes in PostgreSQL
I am hoping to hack a bit on the runtime to add some missing features to IronScheme (read: proper continuations!).
Incorrect account numbers will be much more of a problem than ABA numbers, as there is no way to validate them and they vary from 5 digits to 16ish. Treat the account number like a password and have the payee enter it twice.

As far as bankdata.io I suggest if you want to keep your site, make it free. Accuity (owned by Fed) is the only entity that is authorized to sell the data (ask me how I know).

The routing number data is published daily @ http://www.fededirectory.frb.org/download.cfm . Be sure to use the "FedACH Participant RDFIs with commercial receipt volume" link. The first link is FedWire, that's not ACH routing numbers.

The list contains previous ABA numbers in case the billed parties bank changes their ABA (this happened to me last year when my bank changed it name). It can be very useful for recurring billing scenarios .

Also, you can catch most ABA issues with a MOD10 LUHN check, rather than a DB lookup.

My last word of advice... Checks can bounce for 30+ days after the transaction. Be prepared to handle this.
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Bums,Tums and Downy Calves
Does this mean you would have supported the right of Iraq to use drone strikes against the pentagon before Iraq capitulated? It certainly is a military target, so presumably that would be ok, after the invasion started? (I'm not asking if you'd be happy about it, but asking if you think it would be reasonable and fair according to international law).
For most purposes I think two parents would be enough, even if the child was born using more than two parents. Generally the decision to have a child, and the decision to be a family is complicated enough with two people.

A third person to have "rights" over the child can only mess up stuff.
"Those who cannot remember the Borgmon are doomed to repeat it" ;)

Just kidding, this is looking really good, I hope to get some hands-on experience with it soon.
Mother Teresa certainly did.

Penn and Teller - "Bullshit - Holier than Thou"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6voAW_Go5Y

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa

She was sometimes accused by Hindus in her adopted country of trying to convert the poor to Catholicism by "stealth".[6] Christopher Hitchens described Mother Teresa's organization as a cult which promoted suffering and did not help those in need. He said that Mother Teresa's own words on poverty proved that her intention was not to help people, quoting her words at a 1981 press conference in which she was asked: "Do you teach the poor to endure their lot?" She replied: "I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people."[2]:11[7]
FCC Officially Redefines Broadband as 25 Mbps Down, 3 Mbps Up
Don't forget the nazi "terrorists" behind the rocket attacks on London that were recruited after the war, and helped get Mankind to the moon.
I can tell it's not going to be as good - because you know.. 4 letters vs 2.

Jokes aside I don't think this provides anything over zsh or fish or another shell that supports directory and tab completion?
what I didn't get is: why drinkable?
Edible gold leaf would be a lot simpler to make, preserve and transport.

(trivia: you can actually buy edible gold leaf for the cheap these days, i.e. you can get a sheet to top a cake for 1-2$)
You can sync as many devices as you like. Simply connect your Google Drive with Fotōko app on your iPhone. All the photos in your Camera Roll will be uploaded to your Google Drive. The photos that are present in your Google Drive will be synced with the photo library as well.
Moreover, you can also upload large folders of photos and videos in your Mac book with our OS X app.
> The biggest difference now is all the stuff they give out for free.

No, it doesn't actually matter, it's not a financial issue. Open sourcing their libs is good because it gives developers access to the sources of libraries which they use daily. This in turn will make debugging much easier and will also help with understanding what is actually happening when you call some function.

I left MS-land a decade ago, but when I worked with MS tools I'd have gladly paid serious money for access to the source code (that was in C++, I hear debugging is easier in C#), but that wasn't an option. Now they offer access to the source code, which is the important part, and for free, which is kind of nice but very important.
Apple Watch apps for Tesla and Todoist show promise
You forgot secret step 1.5 - infiltrate legitimate groups and provoke them into committing violence, paving way for step 2.
Announced here:

https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/prometheus-monitoring...
Your servers are the lion's share of your opex, so buy the licenses. That said, if Eclipse is working for you, I'm surprised the CE edition of Intellij isn't fine, too.
On the mac BBEdit is incredible. A several hundred MB log file will bring Sublime Text to it's knees, and BBEdit has no problems at all. +1
If genetic engineering really became this important to human "performance" or health, I would think that most countries who can afford it, will actually have a way for society to pay for such services. It's the right thing to do, and the most profitable for the society as a whole. Just as in health care the smart policy is to spread the cost and risks around and keep the providers in check so that they can't hold individual's health as a hostage.

Exception being the U.S., of course ...
Spoiler: Emacs is not on the list and he says the following about Vi

For users not comfortable with command lines, and deep levels of customization this tool will feel esoteric and convoluted.

Cracked me up.
If most of your code is numpy stuff, will you actually see a speedup from PyPy? (I mean hypothetically, once NumPyPy is properly optimized.)
It seems like you're fairly uncertain of the JS landscape. Just because of that I say you should use straight up jQuery. jQuery + widgets is rock solid.

I would never commit to a framework like Angular/React without understanding what SPAs are, their tradeoffs, their alternatives, and their limitations.

It also happens that jQuery probably fits your use case the best. React/Angular are rather monolithic (and yes, I do understand that React only dictates the view layer, but still), and are actually probably less outsourceable.
Anyone hiring software developers for Bay Area who also sponsors H1B VISA
I am looking for entry level software developer position in Bay Area. Currently, I am working with Amazon and will be needing someone to sponsor H1B visa.
Or/And someone knows of means to apply in those companies. I mean can someone refer in one of those companies. If yes, let me know I will share my profile with them.
I am working with Amazon, and have experience of 1.5 years.
When i said minimal, i meant WRT the .bashrc file. I didn't want extra stuff and functions there.
Also, this is just cd with a glorified jumping feature. Like i said, it's a better form of 'cd'. You can't compare it to zsh/fish or other shells!!!
None of those things are actually features.
Much of this FAQ reminds me of a little-known library called Breeze.

BreezeJS is a stand-alone data library for SPAs which takes care of managing the lifecycle of data objects; querying, fetching, caching is all taken care of. Queries use OData by default, but implements a specific subset of the query language that can rendered down and used against REST apis. Breeze also provides server libraries for different stacks to easily integrate and get up and running.

Granted the usecase of embedding declarative queries as part of a component which gets composed along with other components+queries is unique to React, but I speculate it wouldn't be too difficult to implement within Breeze.

All that said, it will be nice to see another rich-data management library to compare and contrast. The days of painstakingly writing business objects in 34 places will end.
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Interesting post about how to text women
> Absolutely nothing we can do artificially
> will have as great of an impact than
> genetically gifted individuals having
> children together.

When those two individuals have children their genes are fused together by random chance. Do you really think gene technology won't get better than random chance?

We already have technology that's good enough to improve on that, e.g. splicing out a gene known to cause a disease from one of those parents.
I cannot recommend fasd enough.

If I want to end up in one of my folders, say my "pictures of dogs" folder, I'd just type "z dogs" into my shell and be there because it's part of the path and I visit it frequently.

If I want to work on that ruby script I was writing, I can just type "vim `f backup.rb`", or even just "vim `f back`".

If I know I have many folders that might fit the criterion (e.g. one of my many folders that end in .git/), I can just type "z -i .git" and pick from the frecent list... it's usually near the top because fasd is just magic like that.

I HIGHLY recommend that tool.
Ever heard of amazon? Go much over list price and people start buying on amazon while they browse your store. People want to test-drive bikes, and shipping a bike back is a pain. Not really comparable.
I disagree with every commenter here. At most, notify Netflix. Why make a mountain out of a mole hill? You lost some viewing history and having your personal account invaded is quite unsettling. But it's just a movie watching service. Nothing was stolen and no one was hurt.

This reminds me of a joke in a Simpson's episode, "I thumb through your magazines" https://www.tumblr.com/search/i%20thumb%20through%20your%20m...
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I agree with "More providers, fewer rules".

However, it seems like sticking a "common carriage" rule in there would be a good idea. Especially for the 75% of US households who won't have a perfectly competitive market to turn to in the next few years.
Android 5.1 Lollipop?
It is useful but it's proprietary and could possibly leverage their own backup drives. Personally, I prefer the explanation that it's there to drive users to create backups. Maybe because Apple knows how reliable HFS+ is ;)

I think skore's point is right though: reminding users to make backups is the lesser evil.
Would be interesting how this compares to InfluxDb
>$30-50k/month

That's a lot. Could you elaborate what kind of hardware and software one gets at that price level?
http://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/comparison/#prometheu...
I blame capital based thinking, twisting existing system toward burning themselves until the point of being fruitless, then being camouflaged to sell the remaining parts and pieces. It's not far from addictive behavior.
> For most purposes

If only we as software developers could create software for most purposes :(
>The government receives less tax revenues because 20% of the population is no longer working (and paying taxes).

The assumption is that machines exist that are more productive than all these people no longer working. If these machines didn't exist, then these people would still be productively employed.
Our config was pretty standard for a few years ago (~2011-2013). RAID10 7200RPM disks, I believe they were Sandybridge, 32gb RAM. We did a decent number of updates/s.

10gen couldn't find fault with our setup other than our need to do updates. Which is weird, updating a database? Inconceivable. Anwyays, spinning disks apparently couldn't deal with the seeking. Our lock percentage was incredibly high, which makes sense given our "high" write load. It was during this evaluation that we found many of their "critical statistics" were non-deterministic (like the padding factor, rerun and you get all values 0.0-2.0. Probably fixed by now).

We had 1 index: primary. We did no other lookups. MongoDB managed to saturate only the IO subsystem. We did read from secondaries, but that didn't help overly much given that the write percent was high on them too.

On their recommendation we upgraded to SSDs. That dropped our lock percentages and it stayed low. We never made it to sharding because we simply stopped caring about MongoDB. I inherited it and was responsible for it, but ultimately decided to get rid of it in favor of Cassandra.

It's not a "poor user" when you follow their best practices of the time and have a poor experience. It (is|was) a poor database. The storage engine was braindead, their acquisition of WiredTiger admits that. It's at least improving, ever so slowly.
>I assume perfectly handling it will mean those who do live on this welfare system have their basic needs met, is that the case in the current economy?

In most Western Countries it is. America seems to be an exception in terms of having relatively lower welfare payment rates.
If the problem is benefits being taken away, doesn't that mean the problem is not with welfare but with the lack of it?
This looks very interesting.

From http://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/getting_started/

> Prometheus collects metrics from monitored targets by scraping metrics HTTP endpoints on these targets.

I wonder if we'll see some plugins that allow data collection via snmp or nagios monitoring scripts or so. That would make it much easier to switch large existing monitoring systems over to prometheus.
Since NT 6.0 (Vista), graphics drivers run primarily in user mode. There is still a kernel mode component, the miniport driver, but it is kept small to reduce the likelihood of crashes.

There are some other drivers that also run in user mode, but graphics drivers were the really big change. Most bluescreens in Windows XP were caused by graphics drivers.

Since Vista, Windows has been able to recover from a failure in the graphics driver. The screen blinks for a second, and then a balloon notification comes up, saying that the graphics driver has been restarted.
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What happened to the snoopers' charter?
probably no one is looking at this anymore, but just an update: being on the front page for a couple of hours netted me around 6000 visitors and 12 orders, for about $240 revenue. Thanks for the support!
Is my Twitter screwed? No tweets since Dec 2013.
You can't assume you'll be able to stay in the vehicle - You might need to evacuate it.
Yes, pre-2005 the ILECs were required to "offer that wireline broadband transmission component separately from their Internet service as a stand-alone service on a common-carrier basis" https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-260433A1.p...

In addition, back in the dial-up days, how did your customers connect to those modems? Through their Title II regulated POTS service.
How Xu Zengping sealed the deal for China's first aircraft carrier
you need to click "customize" and add a logo or other graphic
> Proprietary software is immoral

It's one thing to laud the common benefits of FOSS, or the ethical gains of charity. These things resonate with me. But I fundamentally disagree with - and as a proprietary software developer, am alienated by - your statement.

Is that actually what you mean? My day job - making games - is immoral? A daily dose of evil? If so, this is the kind of attitude that puts me off contributing to anything even remotely related to "free software".

Perhaps you're fine with that, but I feel it leaves us all poorer.

(edit: minor improvements to clarity.)
I want to see a picture of the sun in the visible spectrum taken in free space or from the moon.
See Exporters for third-party systems[0] and Pushing metrics[1].

[0] http://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exporters
[1] http://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/pushing
There's certainly room for interpretation, but when I look at stuff like:

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/05/terr-m21.html

from Norway, I'm not thinking: great way to support the right to peacefully assemble and protest.
The absolute value of unemployment isn't particularly important. It's never going to be 0%, so you end up having to establish some n where n% is "full employment". In the US that's around 5% for U3. We were around 5% before the financial crisis and are approaching it again now. That's a meaningful change.

U6 is only politically relevant versus U3 if the two have diverged over time. As you might expect, the two increase and decrease in near lockstep [1]. The U6-U3 gap widened during the Great Recession but is narrowing now. It's about a point higher than it was the last time U3 was at current levels. This is significant, but it doesn't make the trend or relative value of the U3 rate less meaningful.

[1]: http://goo.gl/iEBEq0
Instead of @kernel and @cuda, you might want to use defkernel and with-cuda... See the example files for cl-cuda:

https://github.com/takagi/cl-cuda/blob/master/examples/vecto...

I though that Julia had macros, so I don't understand why what you propose is not possible (note to self: find time to learn Julia).
We have unemployment because of minimum wage laws. If the minimum wage is n, then many jobs paying less than n are eliminated, as the potential employer might decide that they'd rather go without the service than pay n. Developed countries with lower minimum wages like Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan have unemployment rates under 4%.
bashmarks don't have fuzzy search but they have completion. g <tab> and I can see the 12 bashmarks I defined. No need to list them. Does goto has completion on bookmark names? That's a killer feature.

Anyway I'll give goto a try because goto a_file_name could also be a killer feature. But a short name is also a good thing. I think I'll rename goto to some single letter, maybe t. I hope you don't mind.
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The Sirius Sled Patrol in Northern Greenland use a Glock chambered for the 10mm Auto after experience showed that the 9mm Parabellum was insufficient in polar bear encounters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sl%C3%A6depatruljen_Sirius#Equi...
I suspect the abbreviation of "et cetera" has a more direct correlation than the unix filesystem.