skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hook it up to a food truck. It will take them a while to realize they're following around a mobile taco vendor.
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"With malicious intent" in this case usually meant an explosive device designed to kill the driver of the vehicle for anyone reading who might not get the context.
C-5 will just end up broken down on the runway for days. Take the C-17.
I was really puzzled by this comment. At first I thought maybe you were joking, but you don't seem like you're messing around. In case you're really not aware, "jail" is long-standing terminology for a restricted environment. I'm not sure which is older, chroot or jail, but I think they both go back at least 15 years.
I think it's for that reason and also a broader international effort to combat the problem.
Well, all offices in SF "Are Surrounded by Homeless People"
Kenneth Branagh Says Lily James' Waist Wasn't Altered for 'Cinderella'
I don't personally see whats so exciting about this, it really doesn't tick any of the boxes for anything I'd want in a browser (as a 'power user'), this just reminds me how much I dislike Javascript.
What is your backup solution?
Good luck finding a pickup in Valencia, though.
Well, if it's identifying you as an AUS user because of your location, you could setup a linode.com machine in the US and route your ROKU through that machine, so that it looks like it's in the US.

This is a very common thing to do.
This isn't totally unreasonable, but bear in mind that the information-theoretic information content of telomeres is almost zero (quoting from wikipedia, "For vertebrates, the sequence of nucleotides in telomeres is TTAGGG"). There's very little room for information to be recorded.
Oort online – must see game (currently in development)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore
This is awesome. I asked about this question on Stack Overflow back in September, but my question go shut down.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25942333/how-do-reservoir...

I use this algorithm in one of my tweet bots that tweets out a random tweet from a txt file containing 10k different quotes, works fantastically and has been for several months with no duplicates or malfunctions.
It's not open source enough for me. No thanks.
so many security holes, unstoppable fork bombs which drop the whole server, ddos from their open internet access, etc, that site is always down, it sucks like hell
That link doesn't say that the workers don't have healthcare

And I still don't understand the relation between some collider being better than another with the working conditions of some workers.
In the current newscycle world you don't even have to try. Somebody remembers the shot plane over Ukraine or Ebola? They were a big deal not a few months ago and suddenly disappeared.

Just stop pushing the PR for something and it will go to obscurity on its own.
Singapore has historically been recognised as the most Western country in the Asian region. Sure they are tougher on certain crimes but then again the US justice system is arguably far worse (trying children as adults, capital punishment for mentally challenged).

But let's be honest what on earth does "western" mean in this day and age. You would be hard pressed to see any different in children from Bangkok, Manila, Seoul, Tokyo, London, New York, Los Angeles etc. They all like Western food/music/culture/websites/technologies/products etc.
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Ruby's proc block mess really irritates me too, especially when I flip from JS back to Ruby. I just cannot understand why the notion of a block as a distinct entity needs to exist, other than some weird syntactic side effects of Ruby's paren-less method calling.
Improved is an understatement. Symbols have been garbage collected only since 2.2.0 (December 25, 2014) and 2.2.1 has been released a few days ago with a patch for a corner case that was leaking symbols. Leaking them was what any Ruby < 2.2.0 was doing. jRuby added that https://github.com/jruby/jruby/issues/2350 but I think it's not released yet. Rubinius will follow but there is no estimates for a release https://github.com/rubinius/rubinius/issues/3280

Apparently Rails 5 will take advantage of symbols GC to use symbols as keys for the params hash instead of strings. It uses strings now only to prevent DoS because of uncollectable symbols.
That seems okay to me. JavaScript works well enough with that behavior.
How a cheap X86 with 6 ports can solve the 4 biggest telecom industry problems
After re-reading your comment, one additional note. Line/hunk reverting is supported. I think it could stand improvement with regard to amending commits, tho!
As you might expect, there are trade-offs, and it's a question of picking the right tool for the job.

My understanding of D.E. Shaw's approach is that they're doing molecular dynamics, i.e. simulation. You get to watch the motion of every atom in the system. That allows for a close investigation of a given protein's movements, which is great especially if you're trying to learn about its biology. Unfortunately, it is rather computationally expensive; while I don't know DESRES's latest stats, I've seen reports on large parallel MD simulations completing about once per day.

In contrast, we've posed the question of binding as a machine learning problem. Neural networks are computationally expensive to train, but make predictions quickly. Our system can assess millions of protein-drug pairs per day, since we're not simulating the motion of every atom. You don't get to watch what each atom is doing, but you get insight into the behavior of lots of potential medicines.
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>let it be offered by the market

1)
But that is the whole point:
It is warranted, because it is imposed on the providers( at least until law changes).
It is quite obvious that ISPs have no interest in doing so by them selves.

Netflix was slow because Verizon throttled their traffic, not because they didn't have the capacities to route it properly.
They simply wanted a piece of the Netflix Pie.
So net neutrality will prevent that not cause it.

2)
This is not about the big content providers at all. They would simply pay the ISPs a fee and pass it on to their customers.
So net neutrality actually prevents increased consumer fees.

>I had as much neutrality as I wanted or needed before the FCC got involved, from the 3+ wireline and 5+ wireless providers in my area (San Francisco)

3)
The fact that you can choose from so many ISPs in SF is good for you, but you are probably well aware that in more rural parts of the country this is not the case. What will people in those areas do, if their only ISP decides to throttle a protocol
that is important to them?

4)
Most importantly, the traffic we create is growing constantly. Not only Downstream but Upstream.
Especially since more and more "services" become decentralized.
Decentralizing architectures is one of the biggest challenges we face today as internet citizens.
Decentralized search engines, social networks and who knows what will come in the next decades.
Decentralized Systems are more democratic, enable people to actively take part and give us back a piece of independence from the goverment (no, i am not an Anti-Gov't lunatic) as well as corporations.
But for that we need to have our packets routed from A to B without being throttled, because some ISP cannot make a quick buck out of it.

Thank You for Your time!
The ups of downs of porting 50k lines of C++ to Go
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he does!

The following quote is a jewel:
"If you don’t know history, everything today can seem quite novel. But in the larger context of the story of human history, much of what fascinates, today, is quite redundant."
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Another way to address the original problem is jailbreaking and using the Activator app to assign the home button to "unlock", which effectively auto-unlocks the device to whatever app you had open.

I find it quite a usability improvement, when using the tablet as a cookbook for example.
A bit off-topic but since I got a Mac and found out about this - Google Dictionary became obsolete. The Mac dictionary works offline as well so I'm able to look things up during commutes without WiFi.
I'm not sure I understand why he needed to make an article to watch something get deleted for notability "in real time". These decisions are made constantly and you can always watch the process by going to AfD.

I hate articles about Wikipedia.
I think advertisers can price based only on keywords from current search and maybe some demographics. But Google has more data that would be interesting to insurance guys and worth money. Not sure it's implemented currently , but probably in the plans ahead.
Active Desktop to “bring the most fundamental change to computers” (1996)
Emigration is an option, and an easier one than people treat it as. There are plenty of good reasons to want to stay where you are, but it's worth remembering that you have the option.
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I personally find the progress bar very distracting and don't read Bloomberg articles any more because of it.

It's something to do with me always using mouse scrolling that jerks the screen by set increments, and that then animates the bar but it takes 250 ms or something, so I scroll, my eyes attempt to find the new position in the article, the bar animates, my eye gets drawn up to the bar instead.

It's so bad for me I find myself angry and frustrated whenever I read a Bloomberg article and it took me a while to realise it was something as simple and silly as a visuay distracting automated progress bar that is just a bit too slow to animate.
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OK, it was answered right at the "source":

http://www.fallacyfiles.org/fallfall.html
> "At the end of every trivia question I'm tempted to ask: so is this typical of what I will be doing here? Will I be implementing rand(7) given rand(5) once a week?"

That sounds like a great question to ask!
When Chemicals Became Weapons of War
How would principals/teachers know if and how much the sample lesson transfers knowledge to students? It seems like this would filter out disasters, but can it do more than that?
Is it possible to trick the magnet sensor used for instant unlocking with the smart cover? Might be possible to come up with either a mechanical switch involving a magnet, or an electronic one with a solenoid, that instantky unlocks the ipad?
Does Alibaba have a store (or equivalent) on Amazon? It seems like a good tactic to capture customers.
The world needs steady businesses that generate steady returns. Indeed the only reason innovative businesses attract so much attention and investment is the idea that they will eventually become them.
Thanks - I could split them out, yes. Given that it's just a toy/POC I preferred to keep them all in the same file for now.
One man's sin is another's superpower.
Thank you for the kind wishes!

Over the past few years, there's been a huge increase in the amount of data available for this kind of machine learning. We curate our data from a number of private and public sources. For example, as part of my doctoral work (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCRIPDB), I learned how to parse chemical information out of U.S. Patent data, which is public domain. That said, if you're interested in working on something like this and need a quick million data points, I'd point you to PubChem as a first step: https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
A social security net which doesn't cover mortgages is by definition useless for everyone who has a mortgage. That's a significant part of society. So, a social security net which doesn't include this is more of a social security black hole with a few ropes, only useful for people who have some weird "model life" (e.g. a student without anyone who depends on him) and not for normal people. Usually this goes against the stated goals of social security nets which are introduced to allow people to take risks which could be useful for society without ruining their lifes in case of a failure.
I'm a Backblaze user, and think this is a pretty reasonable policy — Backblaze is a backup system with a 30-day history, and not an archival or "unlimited online storage" system.

In addition, that policy seems to be pretty obvious. I definitely knew about it before I signed up, I'm sure it's signposted in the app itself, and I receive email notifications about a drive that's not plugged in.

All-in-all, seems pretty reasonable.
there is a detailed report of the accident on the excellent http://avherald.com/h?article=482b659f&opt=0
Not one [ISP] has the same "single provider at any cost" monopoly that phone companies had when the Title II telecom regulatory regime was designed.

Isn't one of the major arguments for net neutrality that, at least in some parts of the world, the above situation is effectively what is happening today, and therefore the local ISP can effectively hold the entire community hostage?
The Github profile says Australia.
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New medical discoveries aside, we're seeing self-driving cars and speech recognition that runs on a cell phone. I grew up reading about those kinds of things in Asimov, so I personally find the progress pretty exciting.
Man arrested for refusing to give phone passcode to border agents
This reminded me of the card shuffling algorithm from Sedgewick

http://algs4.cs.princeton.edu/lectures/21ElementarySorts.pdf

In that he assigns a random number to each element. Sorts the elements based on the random number. Then takes the first N elements from the beginning.
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Microsoft: Internet Explorer, Windows Vulnerable to FREAK Attack
Oooooooohhhh. Woooooow. ATC controllers calm under pressure!

Uh you do know that that's their job right?
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Precisely. And for many western expats, their package deals also include schooling for their children as well if they have them, and a company car.

Besides food and utilities you're pocketing all the money you earn.
A lot of people (probably the vast majority, at least in the West) also believe that, because you can occasionally vote on things, anything the government does is fine because, after all, "government is us."
> It's perfectly reasonable to expect extra data to be collected when using prerelease versions of software.

This is incorrect in the world I live in, and I do not want to visit a world where it is correct.
You have to make the distinction between modern amenities and governance.

You get a lot of glitz and luxuries, but you always have to keep in mind that the region is still ruled with a Bedouin mentality (I say this as an Omani national).
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Un salaire suffisant et une couverture santé adéquate font souvent défaut.

In that sense, this new knowledge has all to do with honor and country but it has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to help make it worth defending.

Sweatshops are not worth defending.
You can make a shim in the gpl code that connects to a socket and communicates in json and then you avoid the problem.
that was the right thing to do in that case.
The two books on systems thinking that I'd recommend are Gerald Weinberg's "An introduction to general systems thinking" and Donella Meadows' "Thinking in systems: a primer". Anything by Gerald Weinberg is eye-opening, if you haven't come across him before. He's the grand-daddy of modern thinking on testing.

If you follow the advice in this article, you'll end up with an inefficient old-school, documentation-heavy, dogmatic factory-style quality-police testing department, set up in opposition to your development team.
Not sure if "federated because ITU members can hook up their own processing" is federated in any meaningful way.
I wish Ruby had better support for functions, passing it to a method incurs a 400% performance penalty:
https://www.omniref.com/ruby/2.2.0/symbols/Proc/yield#annota...
Seems like this EU gov't isn't as "pro-freedom" or "pro-internet" as the previous one (?) was. And I don't want to believe that's just because Viviane Reding is gone from it.
How I built my First Android Game and learnt that creativity is all about iterations
Firefox was an innovation compared to IE, but it was explicitly a trimmed-down version of Mozilla, which had existed in the form of Netscape going back what amount to geologic eras in terms of the history of the Web.

Firefox's innovation wasn't the rendering engine, per se, but everything surrounding it, including add-ons.
Don't really think that guy was getting a 50K package.

The salary I can imagine for an American engineer working in Abu Dhabi would be a minimum of 100,000 - 180,000+ USD , and it is tax free (usually comes with additional benefits).

Abu Dhabi is a rich city (they got oil) and they usually pay more than Dubai.

Source: I live here, and run a startup and work with multiple companies and consultants.
You seem to forget that's its relatively easy to get around that.

The company makes up the objectives you have to meet, so could set really hard targets. Its called being "Performance Managed" out.
I'll add: anyone could end up in a job they are not suited for, potentially make mistakes and deserve a second chance, but when there's a pattern like that, it's another matter.
They can be enjoyable tests. I have learnt new things while doing some.
Er, I sure as hell am looking for flaws in your logic / code. I feel like I'm pretty nice about it. I don't use it to put people down. It allows me to ask follow up and leading questions to see if they too might spot it after a bit more thought.
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Thank you for this article. I found it motivational in a way. Especially when many of us think there is not much more room to grow and we feel terrified of whiteboard interviews at the bigger cos.
They deserve some praise, I suppose, for latching on to the nicest, most socially-acceptable stereotype of 4chan users.
Currently the auto-insurance industry is moving towards usage-based-insurance - which basically measures exactly how you drive your car and estimates your premiums based on that. It have shown to reduce prices by around 15%(and maybe there's more potential because it's new).

There are now enough insurance providers that support that model.And a large fractions of consumers does show interest, but they still have some potential issues preventing usage: fear that it might increase premiums, no way to compare this to regular insurance, and the need to install something to get all the data(preferably before you sign to insurance).

Google compare,coupled with all the data google potentially already have from our phones, can solve all those - and could even be more accurate using more data.

And long term, whoever controls this data controls the insurance market - because if you already buy from google compare - why would you ever install apps or but telematics hardware that collect driving data from someone else ?

So i think Google will be aggressive about that.
Great article .... Thanks for sharing
Yes; this is what I was referring to as well. The potential for DoS was a problem since they weren't garbage collected. I was thinking that symbol GC was introduced in the 2.1 series, but I see you are correct.

I find it a bit surprising though that an article that is generally in favor of functional programming is bashing Ruby symbols. Ruby symbols come from Lisp and are just a form of atoms which are common place in functional languages. Erlang, Lisp, Elixir, Clojure, Scale to name a few all have atom/symbol support in some form. They are immutable even across systems. It just seems to run counter to the article's argument. Also there was no supporting reason why symbols should be killed. The article is released after GC was introduced for symbols so I'm assuming that's not the reason to "kill symbols".
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The really interesting bit IMHO is in the comments, where Brian quite bluntly states that Intel merely provides the tools that system manufacturers (ie. Lenovo and so on) want.

So while Intel could make a principled stand here (in favor of end-users), it's ODMs/OEMs that have to work with primarily. CPUs directly bought by end-users are probably a pretty minor part of their revenue, too.

[edit to add:] Of course, I'd still prefer them to get rid of Verified Boot, and have OEMs decide between Measured Boot or no verification at all.
Do read the answer of the author regarding the performance:

"The throughput of the Go program is quite competitive with the C++ one, although the server’s IO-bound so most of the time is just spent in socket write/read syscalls. The latency is at least an order of magnitude worse, due to Go’s garbage collector, which is amplified by the use of an older Go version. If the server was latency-critical I don’t think it could have been written in Go, at least not until the new GC planned for 1.5 or 1.6 is released (assuming we could upgrade to a newer kernel by the time its released)."
Awesome, is there anything similar for atom?
> Ryan Pate ... is accused of slandering his employer, which is illegal in the Emirates... He wrote in December about his superiors at Global Aerospace Logistics being "backstabbers."

Slander is making /false/ defamatory statements. By reporting him to the police on his return trip, his superiors have proven themselves to be backstabbers.

Where's the slander?
Sure, I was more affected by:

> My own impression is that life in the world provides many diversions which guard a person from really engaging the battle with sin, and can even render him quite insensible of its existence.

Where Christianity's "sin" is Buddhism's "ignorance", the source of all suffering.

The great 13th century Zen master Eihei Dogen said [paraphrasing], "teaching which does not feel like something is being forced upon you is not true teaching".

Father A is a true teacher.
FWIW, Oettinger is something of an expert in discovering "new lows". He could be really funny if he wasn't in a position where people actually take him serious.

It is not surprising he would just parrot the talking points of the telcos. I sometimes wonder, though, if he actually knows what complete BS he is emitting or if he actually believes that (and I am not sure which alternative I would prefer).
but you can namespace the import, which avoids _accidental_ global pollution i.e.

import foo # creates only foo
require 'foo' # can change everything

In both ruby and python you can execute code that changes the global namespace from within a module, but you have to go out of your way to do it in python, while in ruby it's the default.

The thing is: ruby has #load(true) to load a file in anonymous module, it would just need to return that module and we could build something reasonably close to python's import.

(I think there was an RCR for this many years ago)
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The easiest way to get over it, is to accept that it is a likely possibility that happens to a lot of good people. You have a lot of options once you get fired(Employment, self-employed, education) and is opportunity to change stuff you may not of liked anyway.
While Australia might be facing a serious property bubble soon, I'm not from there...
A fool and his money are soon parted.

I doubt technology will ever make that proverb obsolete.