skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "If you only understood the complex effects of the policy, you would agree" is not a valid counter-argument to somehow who thinks it has immoral underpinnings, because you are asking that person to basically cave in to the idea that the end justifies the means: "If only your thinking wasn't clouded by a naive illusion of understanding, you would see that desirable ends are achieved, and therefore you would accept the means."

Doesn't that show the fundamental weakness of moral arguments? If Bob opposes a policy on moral grounds, but you convince Bob that the consequences of the policy would be overwhelmingly good by both of our standards (e.g. a reduction in crime or poverty), wouldn't you expect Bob to change his opinion about the policy (and perhaps concoct some moral justification)?

I find that most people who hold a moral position also have (what they believe are) strong arguments for why the consequences of breaking that moral position will be bad. And yet, most of them are not consequentialists, and are very resistant to consequentialism. Doesn't that seem too convenient?
That's what's great about Andy's 'folklore' site. Oral histories are sometimes the best way to get an accurate sense of a person/place/time. You get overlapping impressions and can piece together the mosaic yourself as the reader.
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I thought the 2nd stage engine's nozzle extension was radiatively cooled? First stage engines are regen for sure.
to tptacek's point - an attacker doesn't need to change the root zone. All they need is the root key. (This argument could be equally made of the CA system.)

Then they can sign anything they like, anytime they like, and only for some small targeted set of the population - and for DNSSEC, that's ONLY if you're checking it anyway. (and if you don't control your recursive resolver or patch your browser, tough cookies). @danyork your edge checking is great.. so I presume you never bring your laptop to a coffee shop. ;)

Let's not be naive.. as far as root keys go, Verisign is a big company and will promptly hand over any and all keys upon receipt of an NSL or court order and probably just an administrative subpoena. That's how you win and keep massive, government-mandated monopolies to run the world.

(To be fair, it's not Verisign's fault that the entire CA system is broken. Oh, wait, actually.. it's exactly Verisign's fault. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisign#History )
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>You'll never be able to compete with that, fission, fusion, whatever.

You do realize their are passively cooled nuclear reactors being designed?
This statement only makes sense if you feel it is impossible to write a truly definitive biography of anyone.
You force me to register to see the blurred text.

Ok let's take some time to create a temporary email address because, well, your product looks refreshing.

I put down the email address (the one I just spent time creating!) and a password.
Your now reject my temporary email address as being temporary !

If I eventually give up, and give you my real email address, will you send my any email ? That one would be unsollicited, and you can be sure that people who created a temporary email address will mark your emails as spam, which may destroy your sender reputation...

People who give their real email address may not mark your emails as spam. But people who take the time to create a temporary email address will, with very high probability.
I think the rules are still in flux. From the article:

"The state's Securities Commission must now create rules before the first equity crowdfunding deal in Colorado is made. Draft rules will be completed by the end of the month and must go through an approval process before becoming official, according to deputy state securities commissioner Lillian Alves."
I think that responsible companies (there are a few) should do this, but probably it's going to take government. It could be done as part of the unemployment insurance, for example. It could also be done as part of the educational system.

But that requires competent government, so here's where I turn into a pessimist. What's actually likely to happen is that we lay off people and just drop them, and they become unemployable, not because of lack of talent, but because of lack of training.
Here's the part of the quote you ignored. Notice he says person twice.

> What happens if a better man for the job shows up? At such a market premium, the business could reasonably hire the slightly better person and terminate the other person, but then this is hardly "compassionate."
Many of the bigger "JavaScript" projects aren't written in JavaScript. Browsers support any language. As long as they compile to JavaScript, that is.

Also, Dart just works fine. Inside browsers as JavaScript and outside browsers in its own VM.

This was written in Dart, for example: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2015/04/new-adsense-performance-...

You really don't have to use JS if you don't want to.
Right.. check the rest of the thread above (what good is a signature that no one checks ;) )
Publishing lots of code under an OS license does NOT make one a valued contributor to the open source world, especially when you have a history of anti-OS litigation.
> Nginx Plus seems like they took a lot of the obvious feature upgrades, some which look fairly easy (remove cached item) and put them in a pay wall.

I had a chat during an interview with folks from the Nginx team recently and definitely got the impression they are putting a lot more thought into the separation of Plus than this. One of the key features is the ability to add/remove backends at runtime, as well as, IIRC, some failover capability that makes Nginx Plus a potential competitor for things like F5.

Disclaimer: I am not associated with Nginx, except that I shook some folks hands, and I might have remembered something wrong. They went out of their way to illustrate to me, and I think they did, that Nginx Plus is more than just 'open core'.

If you read the prior article, linked in this one, the original author of Nginx is allowed to expound on this himself. An experienced Ops team can assemble a number of open-source components and custom code to accomplish some of the more advanced functionality in Nginx Plus, but I think it's saving more than a couple hours of customization. :)
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Nebula said: "We're sorry. We died."
Refresh.io said: "Fuck you."

You're inevitably going to have different levels of respect for each (even though you won't be doing business with either any more).
Congrats guys!

Just a quick suggestion, try to do something server side instead to use `.blur` css class.
I would say that simply giving the URL to the public site would be helpful in verifying this.
There are a surprisingly small number of good wind power sites. California has only four really good onshore sites, all of which have large wind farms in operation. Wind power, like hydroelectric power, is very dependent on geography.
Which is probably because they don't want to show it live. If they wanted to, I'm sure they could find a way to get enough bandwidth to it.

Their PR is very well-run, and not only will they not show a live video for something that they aren't sure is going to go right, they'll also have a plausible technical excuse for why they can't do it.

Not that I have anything against running your PR well, just admiring it.
Humans will always make mistakes, even within the design process. Nuclear is a dangerous technology to make a mistake with.

Diablo Canyon Power Plant was partially built backwards, by mistake. It's absurd.

The company updated its plans and added structural supports designed to reinforce stability in case of earthquake. In September 1981, PG&E discovered that a single set of blueprints was used for these structural supports; workers were supposed to have reversed the plans when switching to the second reactor, but did not. According to Charles Perrow, the result of the error was that "many parts were needlessly reinforced, while others, which should have been strengthened, were left untouched." Nonetheless, on March 19, 1982 the Nuclear Regulatory Commission decided not to review its 1978 decision approving the plant's safety, despite these and other design errors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_Power_Plant
I think you misunderstood something in this article. The only stored power that would be on the grid would be from the power companies themselves, not the end users. End users wouldn't resell the power, they'd use it themselves.
That's not really accurate, and you kind of conflict with yourself. The JS VM will be part of Nginx Open-Source, as will the Pluggable Module API.

Nginx Plus is a platform, not just a special version of Nginx open-source, where Nginx is a core component.
The logic is a mess here.

A) Nobody is mad that a mail boy makes $75k. They are mad that they carry more of a workload than a mail boy but are rewarded with identical compensation.

B) It bolsters stagnation. $75k is great pay for mail room work. I should buy a bigger house, more TV's, enjoy this life. Never shall I be bothered with professional growth again!

C) Mail room workers don't generate or assist in $75k of revenue for the company, they generate or mitigate costs of drastically less. Therefore we are now working for a company that is forced to needlessly pass the costs on to our customers.

All this crazy pay is fun if you are in a tech bubble or in a single city in California where everyone can be this 'innovative' but the fact is, most people aren't able to contribute to a cause to the tune of $75k/yr.
Any recomendations on Elixir learning resources?
Tokutek provides an "engine" for MySQL. Each table in MySQL has associated with it a engine that does the storing and retreaval. Like all software it's optimized for certain use cases. Tokutek used a fractal tree index to allow faster lookups. I think they could reindex a table without locking .

They more recently did an engine for mongodb
A description from the Boston MySQL group a few years back (I was at the talk:)

http://www.tokutek.com/2012/01/fractal-tree-indexes-and-mead...
CA launches public-private initiative to advance precision medicine
This story is true, and I am indeed terrible at communicating with other human beings. :)
All the more reason for local storage. The closer to the end user that the power is stored, the less load on the transmission lines. If you store it at your own house, it never needs to hit the grid at all.
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'11 and '14 came out in pretty quick succession, as an example.
I was wondering so I went to look. This is what I see:

"ACQUISITION ENABLES PERCONA TO EXPAND AND EXTEND OFFERINGS DRAMATICALLY IMPROVING DATABASE PERFORMANCE WHILE LOWERING TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP FOR CUSTOMERS"

I don't think the parent was exaggerating.
And when was the last time anyone used grouping in a regex!
Pretty standard Kerbal landing - vertical ok, but too much lateral.
> what makes SSA so special for compiler construction

It makes doing immutability and loop invariant reasoning a ton easier, along with constant propagation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_single_assignment_form
I'd rather be bored and alive than dead. Heck a good chunk of my life is already spent being bored.

I'd do unspeakable things for immortality.
I agree; Oona is a modern genius when it comes to signal processing.
Just have to put those legs on struts sticking out the sides to give it a wider base!
Haha, no worries! I've been checked out of Java for a while and I was a little bit worried that this was semantically meaningful, which would be a pretty confusing addition to the language :)
Nope, I didn't say that. I said that that is the minimum wage, but that doesn't mean that those people a life you'd want.

A great deal would be considered poor but US/EU standards, and live in rather poor zones, lack internet access, natural gas or running water (eg: my grandparents have water pumps to get underground waters at home, because that's their only choice).

Several millon people (literally) work in Buenos Aires City, but don't live in the city, and have 1-2 hour trips (one-way trip) to work every day.

If you want to stay in a large city, in a relatively safe area, you'd need trice that sum.
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I've been using RethinkDB for a while now and I really enjoy working with it. It's a great fit for React and Angular 2 apps with their one-way data flow through the application. Hook up a store or a model to an event source (server-sent events) that streams the RethinkDB changes feed and it's just awesome and simple. Realtime shouldn't be this easy, totally feels like cheating. Love it.

I also really like the ability to do joins, where before in Mongo I would have to handle data joins in the app level.
Causal Consistency
People use methods like towels, hair dryers, heatguns, and ovens to do the same sort of repairs on PS3s and xbox360s so this doesn't surprise me too much.
First off, as a Colorado resident with a startup - this is great! There are a few points that make it not so great:

You can only have investors from colorado, to a company formed in colorado and 80% of the investment has to be spent in colorado.

Still this is a move in the right direction, and I hope it helps some of my CO-based peers get off the ground.

source:

http://www.leg.state.co.us/CLICS/CLICS2015A/csl.nsf/fsbillco...

(A) THE INVESTOR IS A COLORADO RESIDENT OR IS AN ENTITY
FORMED PURSUANT TO COLORADO LAWS;

(B) THE ISSUER OF THE SECURITIES IS AN ENTITY FORMED PURSUANT
TO COLORADO LAWS AND DOING BUSINESS IN COLORADO; AND

(C) THE ISSUER INTENDS TO USE AND USES AT LEAST EIGHTY
PERCENT OF THE PROCEEDS OF THE SALE OF SECURITIES IN COLORADO
Running Cron Jobs on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Beanstalk
No object oriented ontology. Excellent.
Psychology used to be described as the study of college students, because too much research was aimed at that easily available pool. Now it seems that it's the study of people with enough free time and low enough income to be working for Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
Maybe not forever, but eons.
How much of that observed variation in production is due to the current state of energy demand, and the state of other generators on the grid? It seems that turbines are often powered down.
It might also interest this audience that the book source is in their subversion:

https://gforge.inria.fr/scm/viewvc.php/book/?root=ssabook

There is also a "slides" directory up one, but I didn't investigate further.
Why SSA? Please also read the first chapter.

What: The IR (internal represention) is in SSA form is if every variable is defined once, and every use of a variable refers to exactly one definition.
Think of const-only or functional programming, without any assignment statements. In SSA you can have only one lvalue, and multiple writes to the same variable in different branches are split into so-called phi merges, with a renamed final variable.

Why? It's the basis for most compiler optimizations.
You can write compilers without, but for most optimizations you'll need to convert to SSA.

For whom? For compiler and optimizer writers. People who like to optimize their programs to get better performance.
Quick question: How would RethinkDB benefit an E-Commerce shop?
Lumen uses the same request and response objects as Laravel, which extend Symfony's request and response objects, on which PSR-7 is based. If Lumen isn't PSR-7 compliant once that standard is finalized, it will be shortly.
Still... you can't assign a probability to something that is, by definition, unknown.

"This is just a complete guess..." <-- reasonable
"Bayesian analysis tells us..." <-- smells of ass
Yes. I'm honestly baffled that anyone thinks that Oracle has a admirable history of contributions to open source. When a software company is so large (and especially when they buy a company like Sun) one can always cherry pick examples in oracles favor, but on the whole, I see oracle trying to exploit open source software, and they don't seem to play nice with others.
I tried googling for H2 KVEngine but didn't come up with anything, did you mean http://www.h2database.com/html/mvstore.html perhaps?
That and the unreliable-by-default write settings.
I don't buy it. I'm sure Musk (and many others) would like nothing more than to watch the event live. Just having the stream doesn't mean they'd have to show it to anybody. It could be kept private. The fact that they don't have a stream at all means it must be pretty hard. Certainly it can be solved, but it's hard or expensive enough that other things take priority.

(Note that the seeming ease with which they send live video back from the rocket during the launch tells us nothing. It's relatively easy to receive high-bandwidth data from a rocket above the horizon to a tracking station with a big dish that it can point at the rocket.)
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I think that these constraints (at least the investors being in CO) is due to SEC rules. I read Locavesting ( http://locavesting.blogspot.com/p/about-locavesting.html ) a while ago and seem to remember that state regulated stock exchanges operate under a different set of rules.
Are you familiar with any jetbrains products?
You're correct for the last generation of engines - Merlin 1C Vacuum was radiatively cooled. However I haven't found any confirmation one way or the other for the 1D Vacuum engine, which they're using currently. It's possible they haven't made this info public yet due to ITAR.
That remark in combination with its parent made me imagine what formula 1 with steam engines would look like. Steam engines can provide lots of torque at low speed, so they should be able to accelerate reasonably fast from zero speed when using a high-tech, low weight boiler. Top speed would not be that high, though, due to the inefficiency of steam engines.

It also could be quite a bit on the too dangerous side due to exploding boilers.
> * Jekyll which is a great tool, with lots of features, but which has at least 50 files & probably 1000s of line of code. It's great but I wouldn't be able to understand 100% of how it works in 2 hours.

Do you need to understand the internals of every tool you use? Do you know how the PHP interpreter works, the kernel, etc?

> Moreover I cannot install gem (and probably not Jekyll) on my shared hosting. Huh...

Why would you install a development tool on the server? Do you install gcc on servers too? That makes no sense at all.

> You can install it on a shared hosting, only requirement: Apache + PHP.

This pretty much reinforces my point: it does not generate static pages, and actually generates them on request-time.

> My answer is no: you can do something simple with a "hack it yourself" philosophy. And less of 100 lines of code.

Indeed, you can do that. You can also hack your own. gp's question was how this compared to Jekyll, and that's what I answered.
It's not appropriate for me to comment on company HR policy. All I'm going to say is that my impression of the atmosphere on the software team is not at all "a bunch of coworkers trying to outdo one another to make the cut".
I made a language safety score to help explain F# to myself and coworkers, and its helped make strong inroads with them. With the defaults, F# is as close to C# in safety as C# is to JavaScript. http://deliberate-software.com/programming-language-safety-a...
Having used MongoDB in a number of projects, I had been holding out to try out TokuMX with production loads, however I've since settled on PostgreSQL for new projects.
They also have a camera inside the liquid oxygen tank. You can see it drain away as the second stage engine runs... and then it cuts off. What do you think happens to the remaining fuel? What happens is that it's awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u656se4e34M

And here's extended video of the last section (I think from a different launch):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HZrrHI34x4
HBO says Periscope could be a tool for 'mass copyright infringement'
How can Albert - from the fact that Bernard a) has knowledge of the day and b) eliminated May and June as valid options the month value - deduce the correct date himself? I.e. if Bernard was given the day 17, he still would known the correct date (August 17 in this case)

But Albert can't know that. From his point of view, even if Bernard knows the correct date, he still has three valid options to consider: July 16, August 15 and August 17.

So how can he know the correct date?
> Lumen still requires resources to be bootstrapped on request, and ultimately that (in the context of a framework) will lead to memory leaks in a loosely-typed language; no way around that.

Can you expand upon that or provide a link with more info? Why would it lead to memory leaks?
Well, for one thing, at this point it would be a bait-and-switch.
Boredom is a common argument against immortality that is completely derived from pure speculation because nobody has ever lived long enough to experience that feeling of suicidal boredom.

I spend great portions of my life being bored. Never has my boredom ever interfered or had any connection with my desire to live or be immortal. It's pure bullshit to even imply there is a connection.
How? Meteor's server-side architecture is still oriented around polling the DB, and I believe that's because many apps are still explicit request-response oriented.
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Merlin 1C Vacuum had a regeneratively cooled combustion chamber but radiatively cooled expansion nozzle. I'm not sure if Merlin 1D Vacuum differs from this though.
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Hey, I'll let you die if you want to.

I would personally like to live for as long as possible. I have a lot to live for.
Do you have any project on github that works like that?
It is time. I think Tokutek saw the writing on the wall.

How revolutionary and how patent-encumbered is this fractal tree indexing? If it's based on academic research, are there other B-tree variants or improvements that accomplish some of the same advantages that Tokutek's fractal tree indexing does?

Edit: found a paper comparing LSM trees to fractal trees from Tokutek's architect: http://insideanalysis.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Tokutek...
If that's the idea then just land it into a big sunken tube filled with netting.
I do not have concerns with the mantra itself just it's usage and the entitlement that often comes along with using it. The top answer on this Stack Exchange question is a good example of what I believe to be proper usage of the mantra.
http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/18197/why-should...
dragonwriter nails it on the first point.

On your points about free speech: there are legal carve-outs from free speech in the US. You can read more about them here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

And regarding silencing, sure, things are much better than they were 20 years ago. But that doesn't mean we should push for them to be better.

Also: please note that you're misinterpreting my words. I never said that anyone is a "horrible, shitty person." You can be a little racist and be a wonderful person. Those two things aren't mutually exclusive. Racism, is not an on-off switch, it's a spectrum.
> KSP doesn't really have an equivalent, but you can compare it to trying to land on the moon using a solid rocket fuel engine. (The difference with SpaceX is that at least they can turn it off.)

Minmus suicide burn with a Mainsail could probably compare.