skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One strong reason to prefer U3 is that the series is available much further back in time.

Isn't it a bit like saying one should prefer the bible to carbon dating because we've only had carbon dating for the last handful of decades?

It's not that U3 is useless, but one shouldn't assume it properly describes unemployment.
3D Printing in Space: Four Months In, an Update from Made in Space
More info:
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/02/03/yahoos-small-business...
This unfortunately excludes all users' of screen readers from enjoying this content. I think you were right to comment on it.
> It is difficult to call it a fact since there was no trial, no due process, nor evidence cited by US government in the killing of its citizen.

Trials, due process, evidence, these are domestic legal concepts. They don't apply to military actions on foreign soil.

> Also the concept of law should absolutely insert itself into matters of foreign military matters.

Rule of law depends on the institutional capital of the judiciary. The judiciary inserting itself into diplomatic and military matters costs institutional capital. The more the judiciary stays out of the foreign affairs of the military, the easier it is to keep the military out of the domestic affairs of the judiciary. And ultimately when you make politically necessary things illegal, you set the rule of law up for failure.
Orgional Footage:Secret video employee getting fired from Golden Corral in Ohio
Perhaps, I didn't know they were smuggling radios.
This could be very interesting if it proves to be true. Seeing Amazon purchase Radioshack and then miraculously return it to its former glory and exclusively sell electronic components, hobbyist kits and stop selling things like TV and phones would be a move that I would wholeheartedly support as would my inner 7 year old self who has fond memories of going to Radioshack with my dad and buying a bag of LED's and various electronic components to build things.

As a bonus they could use it to locally store popular items, use the stores as pick-up and drop-off zones (as the site suggests) and have a few computers consumers can come in and use to order directly off of Amazon. I would hate to see Radioshack die, it kind of makes me sad to think the brand could just vanish.
Here's some more:

iojs/io.js - https://commits.io/builds/1e68cd56c34

progit/progit - https://commits.io/builds/12e3174c300

torvalds/linux - https://commits.io/builds/c594eefd2a6

dotnet/coreclr - Never finished extracting. Waited for 5 minutes.

chromatic/modern_perl_book - https://commits.io/builds/028f52f571c
yeah, for kiting/splitting a bot can just do this easily

now think what the bot would have to do if it's controlling the banelings KNOWING that the other person is going to control the marines away and it's not as simple
I've been following FreeBSD development for a long time, and I've been wondering if changes to the support model would be forthcoming and would help simplify things so that if I build on top of FreeBSD I can be guaranteed some sort of stability in the longer term.

This announcement while welcome doesn't give me a really good idea of what is going to change. It would be absolutely fantastic if some examples could have been included instead of just stable/X.

For example, using hypothetical released named X.0-RELEASE and Y.0-RELEASE and Z.0-RELEASE what are the branch names going to be called, how often are they going to be created, and how long are they going to be supported?

How does this compare to LTS from Canonical/Red Hat? How easy is it going to be to keep up with the changes between the minor releases? What guarantees does the community have that driver modifications/fixes are not going to get stuck in -CURRENT or the next major release only, or have to be manually back-ported?
I had ~3TB before I migrated to TokuMX (same semantics, but at the time much faster indices and lower disk space requirements). It was replicated twice, although I could let reads on slaves fall behind a bit.

Of course it's not good for everyone's use cases though. Nothing is. Did anyone honestly believe that? I mean, even with the hype, did anyone truly decide to not evaluate their _database_, and believe the ad copy blindly?

Ultimately, I wouldn't have chosen MongoDB if it was bad for my use case. I tried it and other things -- read the documentation, made benchmarks and test cases -- and chose it after a period of evaluation. To do anything less for your database seems irresponsible (I'm looking at you, people who were surprised about the original default write semantics because you didn't read the docs).

Tangentially, the personal attacks ("which is fitting if you are a MongoDB advocate I guess", "that said, I do feel bad for your likely eventual replacements who have to clean up the mess from your poor choices") add nothing to your argument. They make you look foolish. Also, my replacements are still using my system (quite happily), over a year after my departure.
The difference being that the Flappy Bird guy was doing skilled labour (programming) of that sort that is likely to help end poverty cycles.

Compare that to thousands of people dropping out of the education system early to do unskilled factory work because it pays well above average salaries.

Imagine for example you could make $120,000 a year as a programmer, or $200,000 a year doing factory work. Do you think society will produce more programmers or more factory workers?

Imagine what happens a few years down the line when the multinational that owns the factory decides to up and move to another country in order to reduce costs.
For L.A. residents, this is pretty wild. Drives me nuts. This is what happens when bureaucratic agencies run wild, with no one but helpless citizens to hold them accountable [emphasis added]. This is why this is such a great idea!

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/11/12/city-leaders-react...
Men would get on average 1/3 daughters (XX) and 2/3 sons (XY and YX). The YY offspring would not be viable. Women would only get daughters.
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> Other groups, including Human Genetics Alert, say the move would open the door to further genetic modification of children in the future - so-called designer babies, genetically modified for beauty, intelligence or to be free of disease.

There are people who don't think this is a good thing?! If we could eliminate congenital disease, and make everyone smarter, it would be like fast-forwarding human evolution.
So, just have the UPS guy come to McDonalds to deliver your package while you're working?

Not everyone works in an office...
This is a story about the importance of DevOps, i.e., this company went bankrupt because of poor DevOps practices.
Wages are rising [1]

[1] https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/ECIWAG
Define addict.

That's going to be your first problem.
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One has to really admire the "free world" where everything is made illegal until our benevolent rulers so graciously let us do otherwise.
This must be an old wives tale. I live in Chicago and a trading form on the floor beneath us went bankrupt, in roughly the same time, with a similar "repurposed bit" story.

Maybe it's the same one .....
This is definitely one of the cleaner implementations I've seen of this idea, but why not allow for traditional (vertical) scrolling? The swipe method is unnatural on a laptop browser.
The roguelike Angband has had a bot built into it for at least 20 years... I don't know that it has ever actually beat the game, though. I used to run it as a screensaver on, I think, Windows 95. Was interesting to watch, but it wasn't a terribly clever bot.
I think MOAR was designed specifically to run NQP efficiently.

NQP is a subset of Perl 6 which the Perl 6 compiler is written in. That compiler takes a program written in Perl 6 and converts it into NQP. That NQP program is then compiled to different targets such as JVM, Parrot etc. This is my understanding, of course.
People sell accounts that are from phishers and botnets. Which is mostly less work than using stolen CCs

You can buy the accounts for $2 or you can pay $20 for unlimited accounts. They sell programs that you click a button and it just gives you another hacked account from their database.
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X-Istence, the announcement is very straight forward ... but for the lazy it's essentially:

Starting with 11, the following will happen:

* All major releases (e.g. 11) will be supported for no less than 5 years

* The N+1 major release (e.g. 12) won't happen any earlier than 2 years after the previous major release (e.g. 11) is released.

* Whenever a new point release is made (e.g. 11.1) all previous point releases will be deprecated after 3 months (e.g. 11.0)

* All stated support timeliness for pre-11 releases will continue as stated before
While I agree that Shadowstats is likely wrong, your counterfactual statement is not really counterfactual:

In the 70s and even early 80s, it was possible to support a family of 4 on the income of one average wage earner. In the 50s it was even a good life. Today it is nearly impossible to do, so something very significant happened to the value of money that is not reflected in the official inflation/wage disparity.

TVs and computers cost about 90% less than they did in 1980, and that's something the BLS happily takes into account in more ways than one ("hedonistic adjustment"). If you assume, e.g., that houses right now are worth what they were worth in 1980 and work everything out form there, it's a lot less inconsistent than you think. It is inconsistent, sure, but at about the same level of inconsistency that official BLS numbers suggest.

> Why would banks willingly offer 30-year fixed mortgages at 3.6% if inflation was 8%/year?

Because they don't know how to get a higher return, regardless of what inflation really is. (Of which there are multiple definitions - some based on prices, and some on money supply - and they are useless if you are not consistent in the definition you use)

And the AEI quote is hyperbole. Read e.g. Karl Deninger for consistent numerical proof (if you accept his methodology, which is not mainstream but definitely not unreasonable) that indeed, all GDP growth in the last 30-40 years is smoke and mirrors.
Andrew Mason launches audio tour app in San Francisco
This paper from 2011 has a nice comparison of the two methods, there's pros and cons for both: [1]

According to the HFEA [2], the research group in Newcastle (who wrote the above paper) has been testing the two methods against each other - no decision yet as to the best for treatment, though.

[1] http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/content/20/R2/R168.full#sec-5

[2] Section 3.4.4 of http://www.hfea.gov.uk/docs/Third_Mitochondrial_replacement_...
The story also points out that there were no emergency procedures. While not as instantaneous as a kill switch, known good procedures could have significantly reduced the final effect.
I remember the point Alan Watts used to make that I agreed with strongly– it's ridiculous to think that LSD is a magical perfect good thing for everyone, because nothing is.

The point is that it's a tool, like a car or a chainsaw. It should be used responsibly, with supervision, safely, around people who know how to help you, etc. Without regulation/licensing, when it's driven underground, it goes to the black market and that's where things get terrible.
I do this if I forget to add .DS_Store to .gitignore when working with git repos: find . -name .*DS_Store -delete
At first I thought you had written "rocket" instead of "socket", which would also make much sense.
Not sure what you are saying. If you mean that a jammer isn't tunable, and blasts out energy at all frequencies, you are wrong. If you mean that a jammer doesn't discriminate between devices, I don't think it matters. Guards probably aren't allowed to have cellphones anyways, so it's ok to block all commercial cell phones (if they even exist still). Really, you could block everything except the guards' radios. The prison security system is probably all wired, as well as the computers. This way, the only way prisoners could use a radio would be to communicate with someone standing right outside the prison fence, or with someone in another cell, which is a lot less convenient than the situation right now. If the allowed band is small enough, you could probably just have someone monitor it to catch this.
Its probably weirder than that. As soon as their system "lost containment" all of that money probably just diffused into the market like smoke amid hundreds of thousands of trades. There's no "big winner" on the other side of the table grumble at.

HFT systems aren't like a bunch of poker players slyly eying one another across a table, they're more like electro-chemical gold miners concentrating gold from the rivers of cyanide sludge pumping up from the financial system mines. Heaven help them if they depolarize.
It is annoying when copying a movie to a USB, and having to empty the entire trash bin to fit it on the USB stick. I guess it does enforce you to be a bit cleaner.

I don't really care about .DS_store etc as they're hidden, and thumbs.db is just as bad.
Not happening to me using Yosemite. Maybe a package conflict?
This accomplished two things:

1. I now know a few things I've wondered for a long time.

2. I have just been reminded of how little I really know, even about devices I use for most of my waking hours.
Clifton does not argue that the measurement is not available. I think he is arguing that U3 is not the most useful figure for Americans to hear the most about, from supposedly trustworthy sources.

> Here's something that many Americans -- including some of the smartest and most educated among us -- don't know: The official unemployment rate, as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor, is extremely misleading.

U3 is not referred to as the "headline rate", it's called "official unemployment". While it's unfortunate that most Americans would not inform their voting--or other decisions--by researching the alternate measurements of unemployment, it is indeed the reality.

One would like to assume that when the president or a news organization cite an "official unemployment rate", they are offering us the best information about what might concern the average citizen. The number of people who have totally given up on finding a job is definitely one such piece of information. This, I think, is Clifton's main point.

Anecdotally, I've been pleasantly surprised at the amount of coverage alternate measurements get in the media. I've seen several segments that highlight this. It seems to me that the meaning of the "official" definition is becoming more commonly known. I think Clifton would disagree with me here.

Although, you might try explaining about U6 to a group of people who don't know about it. In several instances, I've been labeled a conspiracy theorist for doing so! Luckily, as you point out, the government does actually provide this information. I'm glad some are spreading the word!
Huh? I don't think anyone is really doubting the authenticity of the book. At least not yet. They're doubting that Harper Lee has actually authorized its release with full knowledge of what that means.
F22 - good; F35 - bad.
The main advantages would be on the cost side. Obv removing the pilots. Also removing all cockpit gear which is probably costly. And that space could then be used for additional seating.
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[exclusively sell electronic components, hobbyist kits and stop selling things like TV and phones ]

So sell low margin products and leave out high margin products? How do you expect that to work for a business?
http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/truth-wont-admit-dr...

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2017200...
As said by many others: they really aren't taking cost into account. The cost free solution already exists in many domains, the one I'm most familiar with is canoe thwarts: http://www.noahsmarine.com/ucimages/yokes-lg.jpg. Figure out how to print something with this shape out of plastic and... well you have a hundred million pieces of plastic that you need to do something with now.
Please file a bug on Github and I'll fix asap.

Do you know which glyphs are suppose to be flipped? I built this based on the footage from the original film and tried to flip the characters that provided the best cinematic effect.
A few more observations based on my experience with heavy squats.

1.) If the weight gets misplaced, a simple straight bar can be rolled back up to a more "comfortable" position. A curved (C shaped) bar under load finds an equillibrium point and you can't really move it out of that point without deloading.

2.) You can take a really wide hand stance for extra balance if needed. Really nice if the weight is uneven.

3.) Damage control. There are much worse things than bruising across the shoulders. The posture of walking with a pole across your back is really not very bad provided you have adequate core strength. A few of their solutions look like they could cause bad back problems over the long term.
Doesn't Windows cost like $200 on top of a $1000+ copy of visual studio? Why draw the line at not paying for the OS?
11 will be supported for no less than 5 years

FWIW, this was how long we typically supported releases anyway -- FreeBSD 6.x was supported from November 2005 until November 2010, FreeBSD 7.x was supported from February 2008 until February 2013, FreeBSD 8.x from November 2009 until June 2015, and FreeBSD 9.x from January 2012 until December 2016 -- but we heard from users that a promise was far more useful than a vague "well, typically...".

Whenever a new point release is made (e.g. 11.1) all previous point releases will be deprecated after 3 months (e.g. 11.0)

This is really the most important change, and addresses a problem we've had for a while: When a point release comes out, we have no idea how long it will be until the next point release. For both users and the security team, knowing the end of the support period relative to the arrival of the next point release (i.e., the overlap time) turns out to be more important than knowing the end of the support period relative to the start of the support period.
>>> 3. Split it down the middle

Why split it, rather than just using the entire tubular pole? No doubt I'm overlooking an important feature. This is just for my curiosity.
Yahoo’s Small-Business Unit Draws Short Straw in Alibaba Spinoff
Machines these days have Giga Bytes of RAM so handling a file only a few megabytes in size should hardly be an issue.

I'm the author of the Zeus editor and I regularly use an old 1.25 Pentium with 512 MBytes of RAM to test the performance of the editor.

Even running on that 15 year old machine Zeus stays fully responsive while editing a 60+ MByte file.

For a modern day tool a 2 Mega file limit seems rather low.
Dead code elimination is built in, but not super duper yet. There's daily updates to the project and it seems to get tighter every week.
except you are wrong about medium.

they make money with the worst kind of ads these days. Those "recommended" "articles" (yeah, both words with air quotes) at the end of the article, from the likes of outbrain or taboola.
nice knowin' ya, Alan.
> I don't want to be subsidizing something that fails spectacularly at everything it might be construed as trying to do, except make money for contractors.

It does succeed quite admirably at one very important goal -- what some would call the only goal: prisons keep convicts in prison and away from you and me.

(Please don't take this as an argument in support of any position on prisons.)
Selfies were the cause of a deadly plane crash in the United States: Government
For example, do amphetamine and cocaine addicts get more work done in the long run?

I can tell you from a lifetime of experience with addicts I've known that the answer to this is absolutely "Hell NO".

Please do not try this at home, and take my word for it.
How does this compare to LTS from Canonical/Red Hat?

Ubuntu has a LTS release every 2 years, which is supported for 5 years. FreeBSD will have a release every 2ish years, which is supported for 5 years.

How easy is it going to be to keep up with the changes between the minor releases?

It's already relatively straightforward by using freebsd-update, but work is underway to simplify this further.

What guarantees does the community have that driver modifications/fixes are not going to get stuck in -CURRENT or the next major release only, or have to be manually back-ported?

None. This is, after all, a volunteer project; if nobody is interested in backporting a driver, it isn't going to get backported. Also, from time to time there are new devices which require significant changes to the underlying kernel architecture (video drivers and virtual memory come to mind, for example), and those are often impossible to merge back because doing so would break internal interfaces used by third-party drivers.
It does, which is interesting. I have a number of BBB modules and a couple of RPi modules (still waiting on the 2) and an ODROID C3 which is faster than the BBB but not nearly the community support. I expect the Pi 2 to reach parity with the BBB (given the CPU). Nice that they kept the price down as that keeps it viable in this niche.
Applying game theory to the Super Bowl
What do you define as a large file?

For example Atom seems to think a 2 MByte file is large.

I personally think 100 MBytes files are quite large.

But some users with massive log files consider Giga Byte files as being large.
Ruby Web Game library on top of Opal.rb
Do you have any advice with regards to institutional knowledge transfer, or have you seen any examples of when this was done exceptionally well?

Knowledge transfer problems have been a running theme at many of my previous work places, I'm interested in what I can do to help, I'm a documentation proponent but there must be more.
Does "unseen" mean something special in this context? Or does it simply mean that no one has seen it before?
Er, what's that? I seem to have lost a receiver for your message...

Once you go functional, instance methods start to look like a special klugery for currying the first argument to a function. Go and Nim (for instance) hint at this more than a little, as well, with their OOP syntax.

Bundling two kinds of methods within a "class" starts to feel weird when you start using individual functions.
That's more or less the only way to justify an infinite P/E ratio.
Native Iowan, same goes for Dubuque Iowa.
A 20% cut is not "arbitrary". It's clearly based on desperation.
I was charged with a felony (unauthorized access of a government computer) back in 2004. I had just graduated from college and was looking for steady work. I faced some pressure from friends and family to plea bargain even though I was innocent simply because they feared I'd be found guilty at trial by a jury that couldn't understand the case. Happily, the DA wised up and dismissed the charges eventually, but it took years and caused me a lot of personal difficulty. It's a damn shame on the criminal justice system that innocent people should so fear wrongful conviction that they'd meet it halfway. I was prepared to fight, but I don't begrudge anyone who would choose differently for themselves and their loved ones.
I'm not an IBM apologist, I'm just not an irrational anti-business fanatic.

I recognize that sometimes companies have to fire people to stay afloat.
Silk Road trial closes
Uh oh - stealth religious content on HN! Downvote! Downvote! Downvote! Even if it's backed up by legitimate science... The Catholic Church is behind it! Abort! Abort!
I would argue that having offspring with the best chance of surviving and prospering is the most pressing problem and always has been.
It allows you to flatten the bamboo out so that the weight is more distributed. Look at the pictures in the article under "Field Observation". There are simpler varieties that aren't flattened, but if you look at the poor bloke in "Problems in Current Situation", they seem to give you a massive bruise on your back.