skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the standpoint of animal welfare, I think milk and cheese are some of the least offending products. For about 7000 kilos of milk "only" one cow has to live for a year, and birth one calve. With about a 50% chance of this calve being raised for slaughter. And both cow and calve also yield meat. Compare that to the one chicken per chicken.

If you don't want to go vegan, but reduce your animal welfare "footprint", avoid meat from small animals like pigs and poultry.
Go Where It Suits Your Mood with Foci
Bad fanboy! BAD!
To be fair, your machine is probably one of the oldest to run 10.4. I have a 32-bit Intel Mac Mini that shipped with 10.4, and it still works.

I also have a PowerPC machine on 10.5 that I power up every now and then, and every time I am surprised how similar it is to 10.9. Maybe that's because my Dock hasn't changed a lot since 10.4, and I avoid the cloud and notifications like the plague.
I would think that the amount of data wouldn't be the thing that would make p4 fall over (it's pretty decent at that), but the number of users. P4, iirc, stores all client state server side, even to what files you're editing. So if you had to work around anything, it was probably that, and I can definitely see how that would break the ease of the workflow.
Hey aronvox, I tried out the chat, its a very interesting project. Could you spare some time to talk about it? Would it possible to communicate over IM?
It's actually a horrible idea, and is generally a money loser in terms of licensing and enforcement as well:

http://chi.streetsblog.org/2013/10/24/no-a-bike-license-fee-...
"It’s just that cars are like white people and Wall Street — they don’t need any more defending from anybody."

This kind of lame trolling really should stay on blogs and off of national newspapers.

"it won’t be long before you need a license and registration to operate a bicycle, and you’ll be wearing a giant Dayglo bodysuit with illumination circuitry, one of those Australian “smart hats,” and a GPS beacon up your posterior so you don’t get hit by an Apple iCar."

The people who oppose bicycle lanes [or even bicycles in general] won't even get pissed off by this stupendously unlikely suggestion. It's only designed to get angry bicyclists to vehemently agree with the general position based on emotional resonance and not any sort of logic. It's fodder for more angry bike people to read his bike blog.
Lebesgue measure on R^n is sigma-finite.
I expect the more difficult part is getting the necessary fuel to Mars to escape. Obviously you could do it if you took enough trips, but that would likely be prohibitively expensive.
This Flat Antenna Could Finally Give Us Good Plane Wi-Fi – Abomus News
They're all really good.
That is a very interesting way of thinking about the landing. If you are going to use DOF, you should also mention the grid fins (4 DOF (1)), and how control over parameters can be "time-shifted". Early in the descent the rotation of the craft doesn't matter so much as its trajectory, and so the grid fins can control pitch to aim for the landing site (2 DOF). Once the trajectory for landing is mostly established, the grid fins can be used to eliminate the vehicle rotation (3 DOF). At the time of landing, the grid fins are no longer useful, but they have set one degree of freedom that none of the other controls will change (rotation about the central axis of the rocket), so essentially they have "6 DOF in" at the time of landing.

(1) In addition to control over rotation, the fins can be turned so that they cancel each other out overall, and thus slow down the vehicle without changing its rotation. I don't know whether the fins are actually used this way given the stresses involved.
Meteo Protect – insuring against the weather, “the last unmanaged risk”
Very sad. However, you kind of made my point. That amounts to 0.8 pedestrian fatalities a year caused by cyclists, with a population of 8.4 million people.
Sorry, switched to Ansible last month and haven't looked back.

Edit: Actually I have looked back, in horror and disbelief that I put up with Puppet for so long.
I almost completely agree with the author's policy recommendations and criticisms of US car culture, but I find many of his arguments and implications to be fairly troubling.

> We’re already at the point where every car-on-bike “accident” (police always assume it’s an accident; drivers are allowed unlimited “oopsies”)

Is he implying that some significant portion of alleged car-on-bike accidents are actually purposeful assault from the automobile driver? I find that very difficult to believe.

> That’s why whenever you read about a cyclist who’s been injured or killed, the article mentions helmets, regardless of whether this detail in any way relevant. (“The cyclist’s legs were flattened by the runaway steamroller. No criminality suspected. The victim was not wearing a helmet.”)

I question whether media reports of a victim not wearing a helmet when a helmet clearly would not have helped are actually that common, or if this is just the author's bias (i.e. he notices and remembers these reports more than others).

> Here’s why the auto industry, the insurance industry and the officials they lobby want helmet laws. First, forcing people to wear helmets shifts responsibilities onto cyclists and absolves governments from having to build better cycling infrastructure and drivers from having to obey traffic laws.

I have little doubt that the auto industry wants helmet laws, but I highly doubt that shifting responsibilities onto the cyclist has anything to do with it. The second reason the author provides ("helmet laws discourage people from using bicycles for everyday transportation by making it inconvenient") feels like a sufficient reason to me.

> Meanwhile, in countries like the Netherlands and Denmark, where lots and lots of people ride bikes, a helmeted bicyclist is about as rare as a helmeted driver here in America. And yet they seem to be managing pretty well — maybe because they’ve got bike infrastructure, and because they still subscribe to the notion that the person operating the giant machine on public roads needs to be responsible for not killing people with it.

As I mentioned in another comment, all these phenomena might be caused by the fact that the Netherlands simply has (and has had for some time) a higher ratio of bicycles to automobiles than the United States. Of course, this ratio is likely affected by the US auto industry, as well as other things like income and population density.

> What? How oblivious are you? Nobody should have to “scream out” to you to get your attention while you’re driving a car. You should already be giving it, and undividedly so.

By that same logic, we shouldn't have horns, brake lights, reflective lines and road markers, or anything else that might help focus a driver's attention and thus increase the odds that the driver behaves in the manner he or she already should already behave.
Partitions are rare relative to other events, and I was quoting Eric Brewer, the author of the CAP theorem.

If you have one partition per day (which is very often) but do 100,000 request per seconds: partitions are rare.

10 seconds is hardly a partition as it is below the default TCP timeout (one minute).

Also, while you can't access the partitioned area, you might have nodes outside that area.

So these nodes can't access the partition and you don't have any conflict.
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Thanks for checking it out.

I assure you that's not the problem. :) I was tampering with a source code, and simply incorrect PHP syntax (a missing bracket) broke it for a few minutes.
How to choose between realism and fun in game design
It is indeed heartwarming to see such mobilization for a just cause like internet neutrality.

One of the biggest hurdles in defending 'intellectual' issues like net neutrality, privacy or academic pay-walling is the general public's apathy towards such perceived niche issues while there are pressing issues to deal with closer to ground - poverty, hunger, vaccination come to mind.

I am reminded of Bill Gates' take on the Internet.org initiative [1] and while I certainly stand with him on that, I feel it is important to recognize what such intellectual issues represent: freedom to information, which is admittedly abstract, but fundamental nonetheless.

[1] http://www.cnet.com/news/bill-gates-prioritizing-internet-ac...
I work in a k12 ed tech company.

In most schools I've seen, by the time the internet gets to the users device, the quality of service is astonishingly bad. Even in schools that purport to have a big pipe coming in.

Low bandwidth per user, bad access points, frequency clashing, broken switches, aggressive content filtering and firewalls all add up to making it really hard for a student to stream even one educational video from youtube.

5 students in the same class, forget it!
However, it also feels more like something that everyone played around with on 10.4, and 10.7 only happened to make it finally work ;)

Look for "Scalable User Interface" here: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2005/04/macosx-10-4/20/

(Not entirely serious, I think HiDPI this is the best new thing to happen since 10.5, and I can't wait until I can actually buy HiDPI displays.)
This is exactly the flawed reasoning I am criticizing. Of course, if you "cut off the labor", they wouldn't come. But experience has shown, that this is impossible. Especially not since a large proportion of the US economy absolutely depends on these workers. And a large part of the $18 billion dollars every year is spent on trying to police immigrant laborers. And no, wages will not rise, because wide-scale disruptions would lead to the worst recession since the 1930s. But that's hard to speculate because, to reiterate, "cutting off" the labor in any reasonable timescale is completely infeasible.

What I envision for the future is stopping immigration controls in the entire developed world. Preferably happening all at once. The burden for Germany would likely even decrease. Because just as it is, Germany has been selected for the first breaking point, and the situation is such that pretty much anybody can immigrate to Germany already and not be deported anyway...
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarLink_corn_recall
Same here. I've used Puppet for years and I've even written a book on it. I dropped it completely within days of using Ansible, to me it betters Puppet in just about every way I can think of.
De gustibus non est disputandum.

That being said: at home, I use a tiling WM exclusively (dwm), and the main attractions for me is that it's (a) uncluttered and (b) fast.

Not just fast because the WM is snappy (though dwm certainly is), but because a whole layer of decisions on moving and positioning windows is taken away.

I use three main layouts, none of which require me to do anything except start applications (and maybe switch workspace and possibly tiling mode):

1) Full screen -- e.g., web browsing.

2) Two windows side by side -- e.g., text editor & REPL.

3) Variation on #2 where there's more than one window stacked on the right -- e.g., a spare terminal for general file management or whatever. Swapping windows from the 'stack' to the 'master' area is a single keyboard operation.

I have nine workspaces to play with (pedantic point: dwm uses 'tags' rather than workspaces, but for the purposes of this discussion they can be considered the same), so I can keep different tasks cleanly separated.

And almost all WM tasks can be done from the keyboard: the only exceptions are moving and resizing floating (non-tiled) windows, which I almost never need to do.
I've kept an eye on this space---automation is not my day job--and I have to say that I still cannot put my finger on Puppet or Chef or Salt or Ansible.
Far from being a parody, it seems to employ the same arguments as the worst of those campaigns, namely, that any advocacy of prudent behavior is tantamount to blaming the victim or removing blame from the antagonist. Of course, in reality, you can have both without any contradictions. It is possible and reasonable to recommend that people avoid scenarios where there is a high risk of being victimized, while at the same time placing full legal (I'll leave moral up to other people) responsibility on the antagonist.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll pass a mandatory adult helmet law." Now they have two problems.
Amazing job building this. I'm twice your age and have been programming since I was 11 too and am just blown away.

Just FYI, looks like you might have an infinite loop:

999+ TypeError: null is not an object (evaluating 'document.getElementById("finishloading").style')
From everything I can tell, "marketing himself" is mostly just patio11 being genuinely kind and helpful.
Some facts about cycling in the Netherlands:

- After dark, head- and taillights are mandatory for cyclists, and you will be fined if you don't have them.

- Cycling on the sidewalk is prohibited. This too is enforced.

- Cyclists in the Netherlands are not generally very respectful of traffic laws - they will run red lights when they can.

- Practically nobody wears helmets.

- 184 cyclist deaths in 2013 (out of +- 10 million active cyclists)
There is no form of ID required to walk around in the US. If I am not driving I don't have to carry my DL.

If a police officer asks you to stop and what your name is, you ARE required to ID yourself in most states but not to prove it via ID.

> "Stop and identify" statutes are statute laws in the United States that authorize police[1] to legally obtain the identification of someone whom they reasonably suspect has committed a crime. If the person is not reasonably suspected of committing a crime, they are not required to provide identification, even in states with stop and identify statutes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_and_identify_statutes
The name was public since Omega was publicized. The paper itself is great, there's everything about Borg in one place (scheduling, quota, isolation, etc).
Someone once told me that bicycles have no business being on the road at all. I thought they were just bitter due to an altercation, but the more I thought about it - it's entirely logical. Most roads are simply not built for bicycles and that is why they shouldn't be allowed at this point. They become a hazard because they can't attain the proper speed and they are allowed to flop between acting like a cyclist and acting like a car as another poster mentioned.

It's hip to give bikers the nod because they are green and healthy but it's not feasible in most areas because it's simply not safe for both parties.

I looked into getting one of those GE electric vehicles but guess what - you can't take those on most roads because they aren't fast enough (even though they are faster and safer than most bikers). You even have to pay to register them and carry insurance (which bikers don't). Why pays when a cyclist causes an accident? If you drive your car 25 under the speed limit, you can get a ticket. People on bikes want to be congratulated for doing so and have everyone yield.

You can't run down the middle of the road even if you are faster than some cyclists. Nobody has a right to the roads. It's a privilege and most roads were designed for cars.

I'd rather see bikers using the sidewalk with pedestrians yielding to them and let them use designated bike lanes on roads (and lobby for more if they choose). More and more areas are becoming friendly to cyclists but to give nearly free reign to cyclists is absurd IMO.

The reality is - too many people suck at driving and you aren't getting rid of cars unless you're Venice, Italy. Even if you can go the same speed as legally required for cars (say on a motorcycle), it's pretty much only a matter of time before you get pasted on the asphalt because some idiot driver didn't see you, was distracted with their phone, or is just a bad driver. The notion that cyclists can avoid that fate is silly. Personally I'd love to have a motorcycle, but it's too risky here in California.
I agree. When would you like to exchange your car for a bicycle when the roads are turned back over to pedestrians and cyclists? Road bike or mountain bike?
tl;dr There wouldn't have been enough eyes on this article if it correctly stated the issue is with Pearson and not the iPad or Apple.
In the overall road toll, hardly any fatalities are caused by cyclists. In fact, most accidents involving cyclist are caused by drivers.[1]

Don't get me wrong, all of it counts and is sad and regrettable. I do however think there is an anti-cyclist bias ingrained in the perception and reporting of it's dangers, that's out of whack with the real numbers on accidents.

[1] http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/cyclesafety/article3758...
There's no contradiction here. I think that the case as you described it is ludicrous, and I still think it's prudent for cyclists to take measures to increase their visibility.
Introduction to the Android graphics pipeline [pdf]
Well, in the conclusion they do seem to indicate that Scala use is being re-assessed with Java:

We built the new version of the home page using Scala because the language adapted itself better to asynchronous programming. With the incorporation of lambda functions in Java 8, it’s possible we’ll be utilizing Java more.

We will have to wait for more people from linkedin to weigh in on this, but it does seem to indicate at looking at other solutions than Scala when they can.
In reality, almost all interesting data has relationships. Even a two dimensional graph is expressing a relationship (and hopefully a correlation) between two sets of data.

I think whether or not there are relationships is the wrong way to consider the question of document vs relational. I think of a relational schema as a canonical way to store your data so that you can easily and efficiently project it in multiple different ways (queries).

A document schema stores your data as one possible projection of that data. Obviously you're right that if you can know for sure that one particular projection is the vast majority of queries then this is fine. The problem is that you have to be right about which projection of your data is most important, and normally before you write any code.

In my experience, for greenfield projects it's surprisingly hard to predict what kinds of projections are most important. Often what is interesting to users changes, or you didn't quite have the right projection or whatever.

To compound this, a lot of document stores often don't have good schema migration tools. Migrating schemas and data is actually a lot easier with SQL than anywhere else. Postgres can migrate the schema and the data transactionally and you can rollback if there is a problem in any of the steps. They are also type checked.

Basically, when starting a new project, you are probably better off doing a relational model of your data than anything else. Later, when you know your data access patterns, you can change to a document store and get the various benefits of them without the tradeoffs
> In particular, you can't choose a point uniformly from an infinite plane.

While this is true, your reasoning is incomplete, you only arrive at the conclusion that s couldn't be positive. Why couldn't be s equal to 0? Note that a 0 probability event is not an impossible event and could still be in the event space. The problem is that there are countably infinite squares on the infinite plane so the measure of the infinite plane would add up to 0 instead of 1 by the property of the measure of countably infinite union of measurable sets.
He didn't, because that's not sexual assault. Also because it was an analogy about using titillation.
Yes you are right. I haven't looked at that.
The URL that I submit was - http://www.whatafuture.com/2015/01/06/google-driverless-car-...

"%EF%BB%BF#sthash.QN6yCULW.dpbs" this part is creating problem actually.

The actual URL is - http://www.whatafuture.com/2015/01/06/google-driverless-car-...

Sorry for the inconvenience that you faced due to my negligence.
You can't count position and velocity (i.e. d(position)/dt) as separate degrees of freedom. If you insisted on doing so, then you should also count rocketthrust and rocketthrust changes through time.

IMHO, the constraints here (as an armchair engineer) are more that the 'big rocket' isn't very responsive to requested changes in thrust, whereas the 'little nose rockets' may be responsive, but very weak compared to the mass of the thing they're trying to control.
No, he really does seem up in arms against the tech even when it has no relation to laws making the tech mandatory. He writes:

> That’s just the beginning! Because now Volvo — those endearingly safety-minded Swedes — wants cyclists to take “safety” a step further and spray themselves with something called “Lifepaint” so they glow in the dark.

> This is just another way for drivers to outsource any and all responsibility for what they do with their cars to other road users. The giveaway? Volvo’s promotional video is full of testimonials, including this one from a driver: ...
In New York cars routinely violate every law on parking, they break the speed limit on every block, change lanes without signaling, and block intersections.

If cars would simply follow the laws that already exist there would be many fewer deadly accidents between cars and people who die when hit.
Citymaps looks decent, the data seems to come from 4Square but the UI is better (though a little slow sometimes). I also don't trust Yelp that much.
Cycling ban on sidewalks is not really enforced though. At least in Amsterdam from what I experienced.

But people rarely drive on sidewalks, they don't need to with bicycle paths being really everywhere.

On the other hand you get scooter drivers speeding crazily on the very same bike paths. I've heard it's actually legal but I'm not sure.
Good job.

Most of the response starts with negation, why is that? for example:

Me: I am fine.

Bot: You don't seem fine to me.

Or

Me: I am fine, sir.

Bot: I am not fine, sir, but I am glad that you are.

or

Me: I like a r rahman

Bot: I'm glad that you like a am rahman, though personally I don't like a am rahman that much. I'm just not a fan of something that is interesting and relevant to whats available to learn on the Wikipedia article on this topic about A. R. Rahman.
Oh, fun, they finally published this. How many times I've had to catch myself from saying the word "Borg" I don't even know.

The performance isolation is good, but I wouldn't really seek after high utilization unless compute costs are significant to your business. We've seen some crazy things where nominally non-interfering jobs cause significant performance degradation to other jobs on the same node. There's work yet to do here.
Wow, 2m? We just got a law passed here to make it 90cm (there was no specified distance before).
The other reason cyclists choose the road is because sidewalks are frequently filled with turn-ins and turn-outs. So riding on a sidewalk, even if there were no pedestrians, would be an act of putting yourself in exactly the place motorists rush to get to/from most frequently.
I'm contemplating switching to Ansible as well after 3 years of using Puppet for my personal and company infrastructure, I feel that Puppet has become too complex and that I use no more than 10% of its features.
Their only power is to make it extremely expensive for google not to operate within their rules.
> If cyclists would simply follow the traffic laws that already exist

Yes, but bicycles are no cars. So the city need also to come up with bike lanes and adequate regulations. It is too easy to blame the participant which has no real place in traffic.