skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a huge minimalist, and there's basically nothing else that embraces the minimal aesthetic. I paid a lot of money (as a college kid) for a pair of dressers that were made by Komfort and are very similar to this dresser: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Danish-Modern-Teak-Bedroom-Dresser-b...

As a programmer and a reductionist it's very appealing to me. It's about as simple as it can be with no extraneous ornamentation. The drawer pulls don't stick out, and the glides are hidden too.

For some reason this really, really resonates with me in the same way that Maxwell's equations are incredibly elegant or a Fourier transform explains so much of the world in such a compact way.

At risk of sounding like a hipster, I liked "midcentury modern" before Mad Men was cool. I think that my brain has worked the way it does for quite a while. I'm predisposed to liking midcentury stuff because I'm always trying to find the most compact, minimal form. In my mind the whole mapper/packer article that made the rounds a while ago helps explain it; I'm always looking for a more compact truth and that's bled over into the way I look at the physical world too.

http://the-programmers-stone.com/the-original-talks/day-1-th...
Not really it's an extremely common term that people use all the time. Has nothing to do with china or japan.
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They're probably a sleeper drone army that will be activated and controlled by some backdoor that the NSA engineered into our network. That's all.
I like the spirit, however a lot of these can be done with a simple one liner...
Example for chunked iteration:

```

def chunk_iter(some_seq, n):

return (seq[pos:pos + n] for pos in range(0, len(seq), n))

```

example for multi-dict: (unless I'm missing something)

```

from collections import defaultdict

d = defaultdict(list)

d['a'].append('b')

d['a'].append('c')

dict(d)

{'a': ['b', 'c']}

```
I think this just illustrates your point, but EC2 and Heroku Dynos are two different types of services (IAAS vs PAAS). The appropriate comparisons are AWS Elastic Beanstalk to Heroku Dynos and AWS RDS to Heroku Postgres.

https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/
or antigolfing it :)

for (int i=0;i;);
printf("100\n");
printf("99\n");
/*...*/

// or if you want to be a smartass
printf("100 to 1\n");
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A biased person isn't credible? What did I say that was factually wrong or personal opinion. I don't like Apple products (Locked down and no fun for a hacker and expensive)

I have no credibility since I don't like a company? What about the opposite people who like the company?

Credible people are always upfront with their biases. I never trust anyone that says they are neutral.
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I don't have a university footing the bill (and I find Elsevier et al to be ethically repugnant) but I would like to keep up with new advances in algorithms. What are some good ways to do so?

Thanks :)
>It's reasonable to say that full equality for black citizens was an aim of the war even if it wasn't an aim of Lincoln

I find it very hard to believe that more than a few people in the entire country had any such concept of "full equality for black citizens", let alone for it to be an aim of he war. As it was, there wasn't even a such thing as a black citizen in that day.

>After all, it's not like he started it singlehandedly.

If Lincoln did not want the war it would not have happened.
Granted, one person is an anecdote not data but switching from coke to diet coke lost me 20 lbs in a year. 500-1000 calories less each day.
AKA Why the [white world] is obsessed with midcentury [white] modern design.

It's exceedingly popular because it allows white people to vicariously live out their racist/classist fantasies, so that they can feel comfortable in an increasingly globalized economy.
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for(int i=0;i<99;printf("%d\n",101-++i));
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Aren't seeding static content and user-uploaded files both use-cases that are well-handled by an object store like S3?
I wasn't born in that era, yet I am immediately conscious of the style being described. I think this is owed to both the cultural preservation afforded by film and photography as well as the nostalgia of the previous generation (there are undoubtably a disproportionate number of films set during this period).
GTA is a real time crippled approximation of physics, far from a simulation. Maybe economics have no 'one true' model from which equations can be derived, but even if there were such equations, the complexity wouldn't be manageable unless you reduce the precision to the point it's unreliable for real world usage.
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python's warnings library is good for this

For example, in our application code, we'll use a warning for some type coercion for example

if isinstance(obj,Bar):
warnings.warn('Using a Bar as a Foo!')

In production, this will just print a message to the log. So this is useful for things like phasing out old behavior, where we try to stop using it but don't want hard failure if it's used for now.

But in our tests, we do want hard failure (so we can phase out the behavior as much as possible before removing the functionality). So we do something like the following:

if TEST:
warnings.filterwarning('error','Using a Bar as a Foo!',RuntimeWarning)

Which basically says "if I receive a warning matching the regex given, then raise an error instead of just logging". So if I hit that code path during tests it will fail the test.

It's very useful, even if warnings is a bit too much about regex matching for my tastes
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I'm also in PR at the moment. I'd be great if you got in touch. Email in profile. :)
Python really need something like Go's official libraries. I mean those with a prefix "golang.org/x/". Those libraries update more often than stdlibs but still provide a concrete common ground for developers. It is like "evergreen" stdlibs.
I actually used knowledge of their unpleasant side effects to help overcome my unhealthy diet.

While I was still addicted to sugar and craving the taste of sweets, I switched to the "sugar free" sugar alcohol versions of treats. The knowledge that anything more than a reasonable portion would lead to discomfort (at best) was wonderful motivation to keep my portions in check. I used the same method to wean myself off of potato chips and other greasy, salty snacks. I'd heard plenty of horror stories about Olean when I was a child, so I never dared eat more than 4 Fat Free Pringles at a time. The necessarily smaller portions made it easier to focus on enjoying the treats (and thus be satisfied with less), instead of getting lost in a binge.

I don't even bother to walk down the sweets or snacks isles at the grocery anymore. I highly recommend the method for anyone whose willpower needs just a wee bit of bolstering.
Pay for an IEEE and ACM membership. If you can't do both, I'd prioritize ACM over IEEE. ACM is $100/yr if you want the magazine, and $200/yr if you want the backlog. In the grand scheme of things, it's not that much. I spend more on coffee and booze in a month.
I can't remember the source, but somebody was speaking recently on the US healthcare system.

He made the point that the proof our healthcare in this country is broken is that when you go to the doctor to complain about illness nobody has ever been asked "How have you been eating?". Unless you have specific medical restrictions, there is little time spent on how your diet affects your health. My dream of quantified-self is a disrupted healthcare system focused on gestalt care.
That dresser might be somewhat minimalist (curved bevel on the drawer faces, going by the photo), but a lot of MCM isn't to my eye. It's angled legs and curved tables and spindly frames that complicate the look IMO. There's a lot of contemporary furniture that I consider far closer to a minimal aesthetic.
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> Problem is, I run a dedicated server hosting company, and the majority of my customers either want CentOS 6.x or Debian Stable. Neither can install XFS as the root filesystem

FYI, I've got many machines running Debian Stable (wheezy) with xfs root filesystems, no /boot partition. No problems.
>In 1860 the Republican party platform promised that they were only opposed to the expansion of slavery, they did not propose to end it. In the early stages of the war Lincoln reiterated his modest goals with respect to slavery in order to try to keep slave states in the union (this partially worked) and to broker a quick end to the rebellion.

As noted in my reply above. Early in his presidency, Lincoln promoted a constitutional amendment which would have permanently protected the institution of slavery.

>For the rebels, the preservation of slavery was always the primary cause for the rebellion.

Source? General Lee was against slavery.
It... doesn't.

We appear to be talking past one another. How do you interpret

(>>) :: Monad m => m a -> m b -> m b

as combining two maps of any kind without either (a) specializing `m` to a function type or (b) considering it syntax sugar for

a >> b ===> (const a >=> const b) ()
"It also doesn't seem to have any way of easily running and scaling multiple processes per app like you can with the Procfile on Heroku."

Have you seen that Elastic Beanstalk now lets you deploy multiple Docker containers in a single environment?

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2015/03/aws-elast...
here we see - in their natural habitat - the elusive yet ever present ARGUMENTUS SELFICUS EXEMPLITICUS. A rare treat, indeed.
Sjogren's syndrome?
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They only own the copyright for the fixed term of copyright law. So in that sense, you could compare them to 'renters' as their rights will expire. Why should the public be unable to preserve what will become it's common property?

And yes, I'm aware that there are a few unusual legal constructions, such as the copyright on Peter Pan which do not expire. These are relatively few in number and outside the scope of the concern here. I don't think any video games have such a copyright, anyhow. That said, I can see legal efforts to abolish the constitutionally-established limited term of copyright.
I agree, and I also think it's a fashion thing like all the other trends that return in waves. It will drop away in its time. It's popular because it's a current trend.

I think you can get longevity with any furniture (clothes, etc) if you resist purchases that are too easily defined by a style or era. That is, certain angles, patterns, shapes, etc.

Alternatively, you go for an eclectic mix or double-down on a particular style and ride it out for 20 years until it comes back!
Most of the XMPP network switched last year to REQUIRING encryption for one server to talk to another server. Google doesn't support encryption at all for server-to-server links, and thus servers like jabber.org (of which I'm the admin) can't talk to Google anymore. See more at https://github.com/stpeter/manifesto/blob/master/manifesto.t...
I find this style wholly garish. Thank you for giving me the vocabulary to describe it.

Mid-century modernism is whimsical, busy, distracting. More than anything, it belongs to our grandparent's generation; it's an admission that we didn't reach the sought after future of robots and space travel.

I would take sleek lines and monochromatic shades over this any day. This is just my personal opinion, of course. I'm very cognizant of the fact that many people appreciate this style and find my own to be bland and drab.
what about non-web stuff? I'm interested in robotics, sensors, embedded, manufacturing tech, etc.
It is interesting how modern, industrial arts seem to fall back on the old model of value. I feel the same with modern art, the way that it is still being bought and sold and exhibited in the same way as the old master, rather than an idea, or in general something which is not technically difficult to reproduce. I feel by now we should be having many more famous artists that solely produce prints, or works which are designed to be mass produced, not single pieces to go in a gallery or on an oligarch's wall.
Why does it matter? If it makes it to the front page, isn't it de facto on topic?
I am curious what you use dragonfly for? I have considered trying it for a home file server.
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Well done for cutting something out and losing weight to try and improve your health, this is an admirable goal.

However, from your tone I would hazard a guess that the problem is not your diet coke so much as your desire to consume so much that you are choosing diet coke as an optimal lubricant to enable that.

You can't compare a habit like this to smoking imo, which is chemically addictive with a reasonably well understood chemical pathway and requires considerable willpower to stop due to physiological withdrawal symptoms as well as the psychological aspects of addiction.

Maybe you have some underlying problem which is causing your behaviour, because most people do not require very much willpower to not eat when it is uncomfortable to do so without 'lubricating it' optimally with some specific drink. Or maybe I am just misunderstanding and overreacting based on how shocking I find your comment...
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Yes, a link to Elastic Beanstalk would be a fairer comparison of what is being offered by Heroku but my point was most AWS pages are like that and aren't easy to follow, especially if you're new to AWS.
There are lots of new attempts at data wrangling approaches/tools, each with different caveats - Datameer, Platfora, Trifacta..
> IOW there is nothing dated about it -- which is why we still love it.

"well, actually..."

Lots of modernist stuff feels very dated. And, uh, I've rarely met people who are really into the Modernist art look who are outside of art circles...

I think it's far past time to move on from modernism & "post-modernism" to find a clearer ideal for the 21st century.
I'm not saying they made the decision, necessarily, only that they can be held responsible for it. If they can't be responsible for anything their corporations have done, who can be?
I get anxious just thinking about doing any of these things.
In case you're unaware, or someone reading this is, have a trawl through the MSCI [1] and FT websites [2] for detailed pricing data.

[1] http://www.msci.com/
[2] http://www.ftse.com/

If you're interested in getting hold of historic tick data you could go to a data provider (for a price) or perhaps more convenient would be to see if you could get access to a Bloomberg terminal.

Academics that research this area, especially questions of policy and market efficiency of both market pricing and funds, can be extremely open about their work, and are often keen to share.
>Early in our work we discovered that there was a broad consensus on a perceived shortage of cybersecurity professionals. The argument goes as follows. Everyone wants better protectors in cyberspace. Good people are snapped up quickly, and the best people tend to jump from employer to employer, with each move bringing an upward ratchet in compensation.

This also applied to Beanie Babies.
"Lucy, you got some 'splainin' to do".
Took me longer than 2 minutes, I don't use this trick very often ._.

for(int i = 0, t = 100; i < 100; i++) { Console.WriteLine(t--); }
He wrote that book well before he came into political office, talks on the subject by him have been both well received by Hedge Funds and Banks as well as far left groups. His analysis isn't even all that original, in the book he carefully points out evidence that in fact the policy makers were well aware of the necessity of a global surplus recycling mechanism. With regards to the Euro crisis he merely criticizes that German policy makers lack similar vision and forethought but are stuck in provincial mercantilism.
Trends come and go, this is a fruitless thing to worry about. Stick to what works for you, don't worry about things that don't and eventually the stars will align.
In fairness, you can do that in every build system. All build systems are awful. Pick the one you know best.
Very nice initiative. I wish you all the best and hope the list only grows larger.
Wow, it got to "enslaving humanity" far faster than I would have guessed!
The word "daily" shouldn't have been in the original sentence. That makes it ludicrously wrong. (The total heat energy stored in the earth vastly exceeds the daily solar flux.)

Instead, it should be saying:

"The solar energy flux is 3000 times greater than the surface heat flux from interior heat."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_energy_budget

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_internal_heat_budget
I lost 30lbs switching from coke to diet coke and it's stayed off for 22 years so far. I changed nothing else about my diet or behavior. Just cut out sugary drinks of which coke was the 90% of.
> I think it's far past time to move on from modernism & "post-modernism" to find a clearer ideal for the 21st century.

Modernism just means optimizing the materials for the function -- good design in the way that some Apple products are.

In the 1500s, modernism was far different but still had the same definition.

As materials and manufacturing techniques improve, it will be fascinating to see what kinds of designs become possible.
>And sometimes those institutions have to drag people into the future by burning everything down and instilling virtue at the point of a bayonet.

There is nothing virtuous about the death of around a million people, especially when it is dubious that the war's aim was to end slavery. Many other countries ended slavery without mass killing its populace.

>I sometimes think that if Congress hadn't pissed all over the Constitution's federalist design in the 1960's, we'd still have segregation today.

Trends towards desegregation and equality for blacks started at least 10 years before the Civil Rights Act. As is common with government they enact some law during a rising trend and then claim they started it all.
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I heard this many years ago. Asking a fund manager colleague, she mentioned it was mostly a fear of liquidity, not a question of HFTs, but should bad news strike, the markets she tended to invest in didn't hold up well (or were not perceived to hold up well, perception causing reality) and price falls were irrationally large, due to this lack of liquidity.

Now, a fund manager that tends to hold onto a stock when its falling by definition sees the falls as irrational, but this was confirmed by her colleague that walked into the room. He added "what's really important is when retail investors start buying, then that's really the time to sell [as after the stock gets popular with the public, who's left to pump it up]."
FWIW when I tried out qmake for a toy c++ project, it's the first make tool for c++ that actually just worked[1] for a simple command-line app. CMake works too, but not without fighting the horrible syntax of CMake first. And make... well it works, but at what price to your soul? ;-)

[1] The documentation is actually a little dense, as qmake is a tool capable of building "real projects", but I found that a simple qmake -project && qmake && make (I think, at least you need a project file, and the let qmake make a makefile, and then use that...).

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qmake-running.html

See also: https://web.njit.edu/all_topics/Prog_Lang_Docs/html/qt/qmake...
Water is pretty good at blocking radiation [1]. Life could exist in a layer of the ocean where ionizing radiation is reduced to a survivable level but plenty of visible light gets through.

Or the planet could be teeming with water bears.

[1] https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/
Not in a way that helps your argument. The result may not be determined but the collapse itself, which is what your quote said the wave "wants", is pretty much guaranteed.
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I don't think so. Reality is always harder to model perfectly so the "unrealistic" problems are actually more approachable. When you compute the terminal velocity of a falling object, I assume that the first attempt assumes a vacuum, no fluid resistance, no relativistic effects, etc. (edit: and then there's the coriolis force, the azimuthal force, radiation pressure, electromagnetic forces, etc.)

Posing problems that sidestep how nature might actually behave allows the educator to isolate concepts for the student and improve proficiency (before adding higher order perturbations).
I'm not sure you can describe an essential amino acid as an addictive substance... sure there is a strong desire to consume it, but its closer to things like oxygen, water or any vital thing that keeps you alive.

Caffeine on the other hand has a well understood and documented mechanism of physical dependence, but its considered extremely mild compared to substances traditionally considered addictive (nicotine, alcohol)...
"Cue". :-)
If you're talking about chroot jails, no, it was possible to "escape" jails they did not provide true isolation.

If you're talking about some other jail, possibly, but my understanding is they didn't actually provide true isolation. Certainly not a kernel-level of abstraction.
The point is that the US ultimately profits from the arrangement, yes it has a large and growing deficit, but that is actually fine, because the profits of the corporations that export goods to America largely end up at Wall Street, so there actually is a "cycle". Moreover since the US has control over the Dollar, which also is used for international trade, by devaluing the Dollar, that is increasing the national debt, they effectively levy a tax on the global trade.
I think part of the reason for this is that generally speaking, people who eat poorly know they're eating poorly and would rather have their cake and eat it too. They know soda is bad for them and that apples are good for them. That sitting all day long doesn't expend a lot of energy and running the back hills for a half hour does.

So when someone asks an ill person who eats poorly "How have you been eating?" they know they're about to receive a long story about how they've tried and failed, or that lately they've been "cheating" or that they've been super busy at work and kids and life is hard and they have no time for such things. What's the doctor supposed to say after this? Nothing. Because people are only going to change themselves when they truly want to and not when someone tells them they should.

So instead they look for more efficient routes at attempting care. Drugs are pretty good at this for a while. Got high blood pressure? Here's some beta blockers. You got an aching back? Here's some pain medication for that. They make more money this way, their patients can reliably take the 3 seconds to swallow a pill everyday, and everyone seems to be pretty happy until they have a heart attack or need a wheelchair. It's a good thing that those things come with old age so their poor health condition can be blamed on yet again something other than their continued poor diet and lack of exercise.

It's funny how simple being healthy is. Sleep, diet and exercise.
...and it says the admin framework fix only applies to 10.10 to 10.10.2, which was his point--it doesn't fix 10.8 to 10.9 like many of the other security update features do.
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I'd love it if you could add more planets on the fly. Currently the restart button takes you back to the intro screen. Maybe a pause button to do so would be nice.

Great job though! I spent quite some time on this.
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What constitutes society though? The majority of the US as a whole? The majority of Alabama? The majority of the city of Tuscaloosa?