skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring the issue of slavery for a moment (which the North was not initially attempting to abolish), did they have any right to force the South to "be brought back into the union with fire and sword?"

Can lawfully elected governments not dissolve political bonds?

What makes a government not even 70 years old so important that cities must be razed and hundreds of thousands killed to preserve it? Was it even preserved when half the country was in a military dictatorship?
So, I guess I'll have to take the 'ExaScale computing is coming' articles with a grain of salt.

Also happy for Cray.
I'm currently running the latest version of Yosemite. I have a 2010 MacBook Pro 15 inch with eight gigs of RAM and an SSD.

I've had little bugs and fiddly bugs with Safari and a few other things, but I really thinks it has worked fine for years and years on the machine. It noticeably improved when they added RAM compression (was that Mavericks?).

I don't find the graphics a problem at all, although they do look better on my Retina iMac. I got used to them pretty quickly.

I've been happy with most OS updates as they sped Safari up or fixed small bugs in it. Photos for OS X is a MASSIVE speed improvement over iPhoto.

I know some people run into pretty catastrophic bugs from time to time, I haven't had that experience personally. The idea that the OS doesn't run well on five-year-old hardware is bunk. I have no need to replace my MacBook Pro, The only thing it's not good at is 3D (and it was never very good at that).

If you have enough RAM and replace the spinning disk old Macs feel fantastic with a if you have enough RAM and replace the spinning hard drive old Mac still feel fantastic with a recent OS.

If you're on a 5400rpm drive with 2GB I'm sure it's painful. But I know even 4GB machines fair very well. SSDs just make an insanely big difference.
How to play iTunes protected movies on Blackberry
Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe

http://www.angryflower.com/aposter.html
Dpkg already has a "--root" option to use a different path for both installing packages and storing the dpkg info.

I think the biggest issue would be having it recognise packages already installed in the system when it's using a different info directory - it's possible a lot of packages would get re-installed "locally".

Other than that, I believe your concept should work on Debian.
AI has autonomous status once it has power equal to or greater than humanity, whether we grant it autonomous status or not.
Now that was one of the most eye-opening small articles I've read in a while. Many a times over the years have I been privy to a tiny glimpse here and there of the internal workings of the banks. This helped open the portal a little.
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Every few years, my team compares other filesystems against XFS for sequential write throughput to disk arrays. We consistently get near-block-dev performance with XFS and other filesystems are only starting to approach XFS'.

Consistent throughput is far and away our top ranked requirement, so XFS has ruled for over a decade.
From the graph it looks to me like the entirety of the gain comes from skipping some of the 2008 financial crisis. http://www.agoraopus.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Sell_in_...
Ah, I am used to hearing “l'avion s'envole” and I wrote it down wrong :(
Yeah, that is probably pretty important. It looks like a lot of people aren't testing their changes, and any one could have a small syntax error.
Mindfully Shutting the F^%& Up
Yep, the IP is 162.243.149.229!
New whitehouse.gov design now responsive
I just try out BigML and look awesome. I use Google Prediciton API to fill a value on form of a web request. I need the result immediately. Why BigML require two web request and take so long to get a prediction of a trained model?
I don't agree with the fact that programming can't be taught. However, I also can't overcome 12+ years of (mis-)education in one semester.

There was an article posted that showed that you could predict performance in introductory CS from a single test given at the beginning of the semester. There were 3 groups:

1) the group who understood about rules, applying them to a computing system and had the correct interpretation of them--they did well unsurprisingly.

2) the group who understood about rules, applied them consistently, but simply had the wrong rules internalized. They did well after being taught since all you had to do was correct the wrong rules.

3) the group who simply didn't have any logical understanding of how to apply underlying rules to a system--they simply failed miserably. To teach these people CS, you first have to teach these people logical cause/effect thought. This is so fundamental a building block that you can't possibly cover it in a CS course. So, to a first approximation, these people actually can't be taught because you have to fix something else first.

And, that problem, I suspect, is actually buried in the article:

"give me a fake problem, and I don’t think it’s worth my time; my brain shuts off. I suspect a lot of people (especially women) are like me."

When faced with this situation, some of us get told: "Tough. Suck it up. You don't always get to do interesting things, and you have to succeed even if it's boring." Others of us get sympathized with and are allowed to slack with excuses like "Math is hard; I wasn't any good at it either." A couple iterations of this and you wind up with a gap in final achievement even though there is no gap in initial ability.

If I were throwing around stereotypes like the author, I would say that "Men get told to suck it up or get out. Women get sympathy and are allowed to stay and make excuses." And thus you wind up with an achievement gap between men and women.
All UK fauna is a mess currently. The terrestrial 'top predator' is the fox and when the biggest natural predator is of that size this speaks volumes.

English people did lots of silly experiments with his fauna. They have six deer not less, including roe, red, fallow and non native introduced Muntjac deer, Sika deer and Chinese Water deer, and even Wallabies. They have of course also cattle, sheeps, horses, rabbits since the roman empire, american grey Squirrels girdling the trees and Ringnecked parrakeets. Guess how many predators are introducted to save the day for the trees?... none. Everybody is grazing.

Some parts of Scottland have a few big trees growing naturally on small islands on lakes and not a single tree in the hills around. The Caledonian forest is bassically vanished nowadays. Scottish should aim higher and try to reintroduce the native european lynx at least, should be very easy because rabbits are a big pest and you have plenty of small islands to make a try and have all the control to go back if necessary, but even this idea face a big psychological wall whith all those sheeps roaming free.
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The post specifically addresses this in paragraph two:

> First, after the first few years of being a professor, my conclusion was the same: there’s nothing I can do, some students get it others don’t. I’ve learned a few things since then, and I know I was completely wrong. I was being a “Null Professor” at the time. Now I know better.

...

> A Null Professor is someone who never has to think about pedagogy. The Null Professor is not necessarily a bad professor, although that may happen too; it’s just that he/she doesn’t think about pedagogy, teaching comes as whatever natural teaching skill he/she has.
I am more convinced of Dr James Flynn's arguments than yours regarding IQ because I have gone over some of his work, which contradicts what you are saying. If you point me to some of yours or your sources I'd take a look.
That is a belt-and-suspenders approach to backups, but sure, it's a little safer.

However if it's a choice between onsite and offsite backups, which practically speaking it is for most people, definitely offsite wins. The risk of fire, theft, etc. is vastly greater than the risk that Apple has a critical syncing bug and no ability to recover lost data. (Normally they keep deleted files around for 30 days.)
So glad someone did something like this and made it presentable enough for widespread usage.

In contrast, my own "utils" libraries[1] are often too specific, or not well documented. However, there's already some overlap (eg. I had my own version of funutils.mro_items()), and later today I'll take a look through and see what of mine might be a candidate for inclusion.

[1] https://github.com/ekimekim/pylibs/tree/master/libs
Love this. I was able to get more useful information about remote working than I was able to when reading the original who is hiring April post. This is probably a good time to suggest changing the format of the who is hiring posts. Would be great if the use of a standard form template is encouraged. That would make an effort to parse the data much easier, and would make the reading of the original post easier, and would probably make it easier for companies to create their posts too. Win for all?
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Unintentional backdoor is better, wouldn't be my choice though.

To me the term backdoor implies malevolence and purposeful decision to allow you to remotely access someone's system without their permission later.

And purposeful decision to allow you to remotely access someone's system without their permission later.

This seems more like a mistake, although a pretty big one. It seems like it was designed as a small escaped out to make some of Apple's scripts cleaner it wasn't locked down to the degree that should've been.

It's a big security hole, but I'm not sure backdoor fits.
I wonder why so many people love midcentury design. It's uncomfortable, angular, fragile, cold, expensive, inhuman...you name it. Perhaps the items are just social vectors into the design world, conferring a status of "social elite" onto its participants. Any thoughts?
http://www.nliteos.com helps massively when installing all the Java / Flash / browsers / anti-malware / other stuff you need on Windows. The Taiwanese driver thing is still real; windows may ship drivers and have some via windows update, but they probably won't be the newest (or even newest certified).

Don't forget about the 4 hours, 10 reboots, 3 blue screens, and reinstalling your video card drivers twice of windows updates!
I really don't understand the need for "diet" soft drinks.

I mean, soft drinks are ok, to drink sometimes. But if someone is drinking enough soft drink to worry about the amount of sugar intake, then he is drinking too much sodas. Soft drinks are like "light" cigarettes.

What is the problem about drinking water?
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Currently, there is only one thing the Chinese supercomputers are good at. Running Linpack. Give it time, and the Chinese will build up the library and experience to fully take advantage of the resource. In the mean time, we're not going to help them much.

The single biggest consumer of Supercomputing cycles is the DOE for Fusion^H^H^H^H^HSuperNova simulations. They'll chew this up in no time. At least this is being located at the LCF, so it will be open to all sorts of academic usage, too.

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Teach me not to read the news earlier. Not a bright move, cutting off the Chinese from Xeons and the like will only drive them to develop all the tech themselves. While I do not believe we should be handing them tech on a silver platter, it is actually worse to cut them off.
The Earth is quite a lot smaller that 1/3000th the volume of the Sun. If it was producing 1/3000th the total energy output of the Sun, it would explode.
I remember seeing your page, but never noticed Jonathan Edwards being involved. I guess the editor is derived from his previous work on subtext.
>Sandboxed apps (from the app storr) may be blocked from doing this, I'm not sure.

Just tried. Sandbox lets this through. (As long as you pass nil to authenticateUsingAuthorizationSync:).
ps: Teachers used 'synchronous' as paradigm name (thanks to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esterel)
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There are advertising networks that use JavaScript on client machine do distributed computing. Is that a botnet or not?
If you asked an experienced effective high school teacher "how do you do it?" What could they tell you? It took a lot of work to learn how to teach: experimentation, analysis, etc...you simply have to learn how to teach!

What you are fishing for is "how to teach", whereas Crista post is simply pointing out that "you have to learn how to teach". It is a bit circular, but in university most professors come in without any formal training on how to teach undergraduates; the idea that you have to learn how to teach is still quite radical.
"What were you expecting...?
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The ontological argument mated with the spaghetti monster and we got this argument.

I can envision how this planet could exist, and I can't prove it doesn't exist. Therefore it does. To make it sound scientific I'll replace "it does" with "it might"
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After "reset to initial conditions", how do I start orbiting?
That's what I am arguing. :)

But your comparison is unfair. It's not about weather prediction, I have no comments about that. But can't we simulate it? Yes we can, I play GTA, sometimes it's raining and my car skids more. That's weather simulation. Where's the economic simulation where I make interest rates negative and ...(fill in the blanks - who knows?)... that's why a simulator would really come in handy.

The difference between physics and economics is physics can use its formulae to simulate what it claims to explain, while economics can't. That makes me think those two sets of formulae are not of the same breed.
Several problems: once you start looking at monthly data, you don't have enough Mays to say with any statistical significance that May means anything

another problem is, transaction costs and taxes from selling and buying would probably eat up your gains
Design and implementation of a time series storage engine
Flavored soft drinks taste better to some people than water. That's why people drink them more.
Dynamic and high performance UIView subclass for Blur
Apple Replaces Black Person Emojis with Aliens When Messaging Non-Updated iOS
Context: http://misfra.me/state-of-the-state-part-iii

Discussion of the original blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9163044
Nordic devs drink much more coffee than most
... but someone could use it to disrupt the interrupt market.

Anyhow, omg Trixter :) You don't know me[0] but thanks for all the work you did on the Hornet archive!

[0] just a random 4k coder, ritz, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=620CmQ9CJoU / http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=343
I'll second this, and also note that it probably make a good read for those who suggested reading Marshall Mcluhan (who the author references heavily).

Overall I enjoyed it, even though there were parts that I couldn't agree with.
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One problem with Ubuntu's hardware certification is that it's always for a specific Ubuntu version. I use Ubuntu and would really like it if they would pick at least a few common laptops and commit to ensuring that a certain number of future Ubuntu updates will continue to work perfectly on those laptops. It would help a lot in knowing what to buy.
http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-CMake-Ken-Martin/dp/19309342...
Quite similar to my project, Python Toolbox:

https://github.com/cool-RR/python_toolbox

It supports Python 3.
The first item on their list of patches is this vulnerability.
I don't doubt that you're right, but to play devil's advocate Earth's surface to volume ratio is also much higher than the sun's so it cools quicker too.
Hmm? No, the editor is all written in Glitch. Jonathan helped me write up the ideas and coined the term "managed time." We are also plotting world domination with new programming experience ideas (Athens, here I come!).
The thing is, I can't even understand where the claim that "being able to participate in other people's government is a human right" is coming from.

I think we're saying the same thing, but somehow we got our signals mixed up.
Financial companies are regulated by all sorts of arcane laws. Some of these personal disclosures may actually be required by law, and the company may be required to ask for them. So the first thing to do would be to research which disclosures are mandated by law and which are merely corporate policy. You may have a chance of fight back against corporate policy, but you won't be able to fight back against legal requirements.

I don't work for a financial company, but I've encountered some of this regulation while trading stocks. For example, my brokerage is required to ask me whether I work for a financial services company. If I did, I'd apparently be subject to various regulations and scrutiny regarding trades I make in my personal account.
NFS? I just simply don't see the place for this product. The world moved towards the use of smart data formats on platforms like S3 and HDFS. Where would be a NFS service better? It is kind of hard to see for me to use a distributed filesystem over a distributed datastore. Wondering about the outage scenarios with that. Historically speaking, the drivers that deal with this in the linux kernel are not the best in terms of locking.

http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/networking_2ndEd/nfs/ch11_03.h...

This is a step back from the right direction to me.
> maybe I should go back to Snow Leopard; I can't think of a single valuable change to OS X since then...

I wish I had that option, but I'm an iOS developer, so I upgrade when Apple forces me to, and right now their forcing Mavericks and up.

> Linux is only free if you don't value your time.

Amazing how the largest server farms on earth are all run by administrators who don't value their time...
Not only don't you need a CS degree to get a job as a developer, but you'll probably make more money as a developer if you don't have one -- as long as you use your time in college developing a complementary skillset.
I sold in early March. To me it seems like more of a gamble to be in than out at this point.
I once made fun of a friend for drinking a "diet" soft drink. Turns out he was diabetic and couldn't drink regular ones. I stopped making fun of people drinking diet soft drinks after that.

I agree though that water is the best :-)
Jeff, does EFS have some kind of "backing store" to S3? EFS -> S3 -> Glacier sounds really interesting.
The need is for the caffeine--the easiest way to get off the diet soda train is green tea, and to ease off the caffeine from there. Others just don't find water satisfying for other reasons, which I can relate to. I tend to drink a 60/40% mix of seltzer and fruit juice, which after a week or so adapting tastes surprisingly sweet. In any case, there are options beyond water that aren't all bad.
Is that their real name?

Are they related to that singer guy?
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Well that's just mean.
Social Physics by Alex Pentland which is fascinating both in its conclusions as well as its big data methods.
There's a large difference between linux on the server and on your (personal) desktop.
I got a job at a company that had free soda. I was happy with that. I started drinking 1 diet coke in the afternoon every day. until after a few weeks I realized I was also getting a headache in the afternoon everyday. Fixed by switching to Perrier over the Diet Coke.
I didn't download the app but there are various English grammatical errors in this post and on your landing page (images included) which could do with some professional proofreading. Even the tagline of "Looks & BRAIN matters!" could use some work in my opinion.
As a Firefox user I can confirm this does indeed crash Firefox. It however also crashes Chrome to an extent (at least on Windows) you get the aw snap page shortly after it loads.

Seems like it just overloads the browser using this technique in the URL: data:text/html,<script>location+=location+'A'.repeat(100000000);</script> - I haven't tested in any other browser, but to me that technique would crash any browser, probably even worse on mobile.
Not entirely true. Everything heavier than Boron is made by stellar nucleosynthesis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray_spallation#/media/Fi...
Well, this is a problem with a lot of ephemeral services hand-spun on AWS. There are also ways of mitigating it on your instances, but those are clunky, too.

Which is why new services like these are always preferable.
There is Kind of a big difference between saying that a comment is not helpful and that you are not allowed to make a comment, you know.

Random unscientific speculation on scientific matters is a problem and should not be encouraged.
Hmm, it started using a bunch of CPU and memory, but I kill -9ed it before it actually died by itself.
Seriously, no disclaimer that this will hang Firefox, and will likely lock up a system for 20+ seconds before it will let you kill Firefox (linux)? (Thankfully I run linux in a vmware image, so I can go play a game while waiting for linux to figure out the process went rogue)

I didn't realize HN was the new 4chan/8chan. Sigh.
content in case it crashes your browser and you're interested:

data:text/html,<script>location+=location+'A'.repeat(100000000);</script>
I don't know it felt like sibling user interfaces somehow, but it's been a long time since I saw subtext1 presentation (http://imgur.com/uTXVg1V), reading Edwards' name probably caused bias.

Best of luck with your world domination plans.
The title is named crash firefox isn't it?
"IOW there is nothing dated about it"

I'm surprised someone thinks this. To me most of it looks obviously dated, and very much a spindly and kitschy consumer product of Cold War suburbia.

It has very little of the purity of real modernism:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_furniture

As for Stein - not everyone was impressed by her contribution:

http://www.romanianculture.org/downloads/testimony_against_g...
this was posted in 4chin yesterday
Caffeine and phenylalanine, in addition to the sweetness-without-actual-energy that is likely backfiring to create further sweet-cravings.

(I wouldn't be surprised if research eventually concludes regular Coke is safer than Diet Coke, even given the problems with HFCS. So, if trying to quite Diet Coke, you might 1st want to try substituting regular Coke... which you might find more satiating and thus consume less of, by volume.)