skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the party is not thrown out of office

Where I grew up, we had two radically oppositional factions that just happened to wear the same label during national elections.

The number of viable parties isn't always a good measure of political diversity or the capacity for churn in government.

Maybe they're correlated in Baltimore, though, I'm less sure there. City governments have fewer moving parts, so they can get captured by a strong network of insiders and the network can stay in power for decades.
Or it could be the new Yodel: unreliable, poor customer service, cheap, badly paid workers on piecerate.

The funny think is that local merchants used to offer delivery a lot more ("butcher's basket" bicycles, fish vans, electric milk floats, etc). I guess we're coming back to that mode of business.
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Look, the person I was replying to clearly meant to express "web engineer, therefore not mathematician". That's my only point.

And it does you no good to have a linear algebra library if you don't know how linear algebra works.
There were a number of problems across all OS platforms with early (rev. 1 & 2) UNO boards and the Optiboot bootloader. I still occasionally see suspicious behavior, even with rev 3.
I can't believe nobody has stood up to introduce a better alternative to PHPMyAdmin. A good database administration tool with a sane GUI is worth its weight in gold.
Oops, breaks on empty files. I should have matched on the input_line chan in sum_channel to catch End_of_file - damn exceptions.

print_string should also be print_endline to match the original.
In Canada, today only, Uber is delivering puppies for 15 minutes of playtime cuteness: http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/uber-to-offer-puppies-on-dema...
I agree with #2, but I don't agree with #1. Why would one need a p-value to make a decision about the significance of a change in a dependent variable? Confidence intervals provide more information than p-values, and you can use them to identify significant effects. Moreover, p-values do not indicate the effect size that was observed. Thus, a very small effect in a very large sample can have a low/significant p-value.
While looking at the js source code and modifying it a bit I was able to program keys W A S D to move my cell around. But it doesn't work after a bit. The protocol is send the position of the mouse (which corresponds to the cell) to the server and then it calculates change over time to get a velocity. So if I move too much it starts going forever in one direction. Although this is using a quad tree implementation for collision detection the actual detection seems to be done on the server side and not the client. There is no websocket message to tell the server if you collided with another cell or if you "ate" some of the material that makes the cell grow. This is actually my goal in "hacking" the game was to pop to different locations to get as big as possible.

Also like everyone else I get connection errors. It's actually quite interesting. It appears this game is load balanced between three or four servers. The script makes a request to http://m.agar.io/?_=<timestamp> which returns the IP of a server used to initiate a websocket. It changes each time you refresh it.
Don't websockets require a server to work ? You can't just directly connect to an host (obviously to prevent malicious scripts, I guess) using js.

So if I understand it right, if you make a P2P app in js using websockets, it still requires a server to spread IPs between hosts. So it's "decentralized", but you could still track users since the server has everybody's address.

So when you chat, it's P2P, but when you start it up, it's still centralized.

Unlike kamdelia, bitcoin, bittorrent, bitmessage, you could still shut this down if it uses js. Not very interesting.
A Nintendo DS's emulators fork provides almost HD graphics
I don't know the specifics here, but as far as I know it is fairly rare for constitutions to have language that specifically make it illegal for their politicians to pass a law. The US is a strange outlier there with its use of phrases like "Congress shall make no law (...)".

The issue is not that elections give people a status that puts them beyond the constitution, but that the constitutions rarely make it a crime to pass unconstitutional laws at all:

In most cases of unconstitutional laws, the laws tend to be unconstitutional not because it is against the law to pass them, but because the rules they add can't be reconciled with portions of the constitution in question, and so are found to be invalid or similar.

Even in the case of the US - or any other countries with similar language - note that even in those cases constitutions specifically does not (at least not in any case I know about) follow the pattern of a criminal code: It does not set criteria for punishment. So even if you were to get a court to assign blame and e.g. "convict" Congress, there would be no consequence.

If you want politicians to be punished for passing such laws, then that in itself would require a massive constitutional change.

Generally you should assume that this is intentional, given that the judiciary is explicitly separate and independent, and so one can rarely assume that individual politicians can know whether or not any given law will at some future date be found to conflict with the constitution. Especially given that interpretations of constitutional law, as any other, tends to evolve over time. Sure - there might be the odd really blatant attempt at passing something silly - but those really blatant attempts are also the least dangerous and least important, as they will be struck down quickly.

The dangerous ones are exactly the ones that are sneakily enough formulated that they stand a chance to escape unscathed. But then, those are also the ones where it is unreasonable to assume that the people voting for it had reason to believe it would be unconstitutional.
This would definitely help. The only way to a multiparty system is non-FPTP voting; one of the preferential schemes like STV.

Local government is often bad in a lot of countries, but one of the things about America is that its sheer size makes it unlikely that the national or state government will take it upon itself to "fix" a broken regional or city government. And if it did it would be objected to on principle.
Define "discipline". "Just do it"?
FBI Assists Rutgers University Investigate Second DoS Attack in a Month
I think it would actually be really hard. In game lore, capsuleers can't meet in stations because decontamination is insufficient. Capsuleers already have compromised immune systems as a result.

Not to say it couldn't be made to work, but I highly suspect it'd just result in a pandemic that perma-deaths the player base. Could be handy if you could dope a capsuleer with a debuff though, like a stim with no upside. (Maybe pay off an NPC corp for the subterfuge?)
the Hurd has an object-oriented structure that allows it to evolve without compromising its design. This structure will help the Hurd undergo major redesign and modifications without having to be entirely rewritten.

Yeah, good luck with that. OO is great but I'm not sure major redesigns are any easier in OO compared to any other arch.

Having a completely different OS arch in play does sound good though, perhaps opening up possibilities we havent realised yet. Perhaps someone should re-write that 'advantages' page to encompass the massive changes in Software thinking since it was first written in 2001.
Ramjet: morph DOM elements from one state to another with smooth transitions
2015 will be the year of Hurd on the Desktop
Keep in mind, this is only a preview, and they're working hard to get all those languages to IntelliSense/Refactoring level. And once their extensibility framework is finalized, you can add support for whatever language you want.
How is that a secret...

You would have to be a complete moron to not realize that solution when faced with the issue.
Start your own business while collecting a paycheck. Build what you want, how you want it. Software, cars, food. Doesn't matter. Just do it how you feel like doing it. Once you taste the freedom of creating quality instead of just shipping something, you will never go back.
Or panda or numpy... I think they wanted to compare raw languages, in terms of syntax, size of the code, ease or writing it for a given problem, as a matter of fact look at their disclaimer"

> Do it with R instead .../... Or at least use an existing CSV-mangling library.

Having said that, I think your comment is to the point, one of the reason I use python a lot is because of its libraries. I once decided to use OCaml to solve a performance issue, and was surprise by the lack of librairies for what seemed common in more modern languages (even with opam).
This is a nasty thing that's mostly the applications fault but I feel the browser could be a little more smart about it too. The issue is that CORS headers are usually set at the application level, and applications often forget to set them when catching an error.

So if for instance your page makes a CORS request and the MySql server is away. Your app framework catches the error and renders the 500 message, but it doesn't automatically set the CORS.

Now your page receives a response that just gets flat out rejected, you can't even inspect it in the network tab.

The easiest solution is probably to set the CORS headers in NGINX.
Usual disclaimer for what3words: neat idea, shame the data/algorithm is closed.

In the Rio example, a postal service or courier would have to pay w3w to license the words->lat/lon lookup before they could deliver anything.
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Wolfram bros seek code slinger posse for IBM and Google round-up
And that's why America was founded by the non-violent and peaceful process of legal independence. And when there was a dispute as to whether state independence included the right to keep other humans as slaves, that was resolved without recourse to violence, leading to an America where nobody need fear for their life due to the colour of their skin.

/s
That's the Ballmer induced PTSD. It may take a generation for MS to recover. I want it to be brilliant, even though I'm not sure what it is. But, MS gets the skepticism it worked so hard to earn WRT to attitudes from open source folks.
Audio not working here either, same FF version. It works with Chrome.
The original thread can be found at http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=798812 and you can download this emulator at http://shikaver01.webcrow.jp/
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Circular menu app built with Liwe (desktop only)
The most annoying issues that will kill your website performance
it is a tad 'spensive http://www.acapela-vaas.com/pricing.html
SKA, world's largest radio telescope, will be headquartered in the UK
Did you find it 'intellectually gratifying'?

I thought it was a beautiful, powerful and very moving story, but I didn't really learn anything new.
> With concurrency sorted out

The last time I looked at this (~ 2 years ago), there were a few efforts to solve this, but they all had lots of caveats and none were generally accepted as the solution. Has there been any progress since?

I tried to solve a performance issue with OCaml, and the lack of concurrency and librairies were too limiting.
Can someone explain to me, why would a programmer want to develop a web application using an ML-derivative (e.g. F#) instead of Ruby/JavaScript/PHP or Python?

Except from a totally different programming paradigm what do ML-derivateves have to offer?

Also the author states that ML is "statically typed", "type inference"... Why does a statically typed langauge need "type inference"? As I understand this - I'm probably wrong but - dynamically type == type inference.

If anyone takes the time to answer... Well thanks a priori! :^)
On the backs of 1099 workers. Uber needs to be work on some social responsibility. Do we really want a country where the majority are struggling to serve the few?
I think a less controversial step in the right direction is to make it easier for randos to get on the ballot.

There can still be some rules about how many people appear on the ballot for a given election, but in a single party area, it should be possible for a challenger to get on the ballot simply by collecting the second most signatures (and the party should not have any sort of ballot persistence either, they should be on equal footing with the randos).
Uber is becoming like Google but for the physical world. There are so many parallels -- the omnipresence for starters.
Twitter Stocks Fall with Low Sales Numbers
Another problem is progressive taxation in cities with massive wealth inequality. In theory police work for the public, but I think they recognize that it's a small percentage of the public that's actually paying their salaries. And I think that sets the stage for how they treat everyone else.
Why Savannah (in savannah.gnu.org I mean)?
It's a convincing pitch and got me to spend some time on your web site. I suggest you consider adding a small free tier to give people more time to get accustomed to the product before committing money.

I appreciate the approach of managing translations outside your backend code, but I wonder about whether the translated content can be indexed by search engines.
"Interestingly, he says what3words has not had to market itself intensively"

Really? Don't they have connections with Ogilvy and Mather?
I was playing WoW when this happened and witnessed it.

They call it "abusing game mechanics" now, but personally I find the act of discovery of this sort of thing possibly the most fun aspect of games. WoW was particularly vulnerable because of the raw complexity of mechanics introduced in a short timespan.

See: Gamesmanship vs. Sportsmanship

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

There was another time in WoW when a mage soloed a raid by discovering they could use spellsteal to steal invulnerability buffs off of bosses. (Hey... that's what it says on the tin, right? "Spellsteal"? ;) ) Anyway... That got patched. ;)

I remember playing Neverwinter Nights 1 and somehow I was able to squeeze 1 more weapon enchant than was supposed to be possible, onto my weapon, without cheating. My monk became pretty OP :)
File-based ebook system is totally broken. web book the answer?
GitHub? But it's market is much smaller- just the 5% of computers that develop code. The vast majority just consume apps.
Campus Job (YC W15), Connecting College Students with Employers, Raises $7.8M
I use twitter almost like selective IRC. I go in to see if the news announcement happened and I use Twitter to complain to a company.

That's it. I am on Twitter for less than 2 minutes at a time and mostly searching or complaining.

For communication I use IRC or Google +, or Reddit and enjoy my time much more.
I agree with the first bit, but I use a JS blocker and had no problems reading it as none of those things happened. You should definitely try one if that really bothers you.
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Yeah sure. I would love to help :)
I liked the mistuning. Gave it a lovely, medieval sound.

Are the internals of the project documented anywhere? I'd love to see how you did the synchronisation (and why you had to use that interloping Acornesque Pi instead of another Spectrum as conductor - was it a file server as well?) and see some code...

A purist would doubtless sigh after a Spectrum only network using Interface 1's ZX Net and Microdrives, but (a) life is too short (b) I doubt anyone else would care and (c) I am not that man. :)
They had great results, it seems, but the headline is misleading. Homelessness was not eradicated.
I imagine, from their point of view, that's the point.
Found out about this in the Microsoft VS Code thread but turns out it can process Docker base images too (after exporting them to tar files). Here is a component list for the nginx:latest base image: http://www.bomtotal.com/#9ab3777ec051c1f8db85d0513b032e91 Pretty neat stuff!
The ECJ declared the data retention directive invalid, which means that member states are not required to implement it in their legislature. However, that decision does not remove the DRD from effect in the countries that already implemented it and it does not ban countries from implementing their own version of it.

It sounds like the slovak government was trying to implement its own version despite the europe-wide law being struck down.
> The problem you now see is that nginx never actually exists

I think you meant exits instead of exists.

Nice write up btw.
The ingenious twist of American ideology is that so many of the many perceive themselves as aspiring members of the few, and hence oppose the kinds of policy that would improve conditions for the many.
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Only if the architecture itself is unsafe and does not enforce timeline consistency.

It's relatively easy and simple (on the scale of programming a black-box automaton that runs our universe) to code a completely asymmetrical n-threaded system where some threads are millions of in-simulation years ahead of the others and yet the "final" timeline as would be output in a timestamp-sorted log would be identical to that produced by a single-threaded frame-synched system.

It's not even all that hard by our modern standards; some software scientists do it all the time.

So no, the analogy wasn't assuming a single-threaded implementation. It was merely assuming that the system was designed for a self-consistent (and probably loopless) timeline, which has strong evidence for being a property of the kind of spacetime we live in. One such piece of evidence is the ever-mounting empirical evidence reinforcing the c limit on information transfer.

In an unsafe, approximation-riddled system where causality graphs are only searched for modifications up to a bounded depth or item count, yes, some discrepancies could be noticed. However, it's empirically evident that this bound, if it exists, is far greater than everything we've ever been able to calculate.

The Universe, whatever it runs on, routinely calculates graphs to perfect accuracy that would take us millenia of the sum total computing power on earth to solve accurately enough that we couldn't tell the difference in the result with our current instrumentation.
Could someone who becomes "addicted" to an MMORPG be a variety of that? (Because it requires suspension of disbelief, which is a form of imagination, I feel)
> It's not putting them above a constitution. There is a process in place to resolve constitutional issues. In this case it worked perfectly.

If transient violations that might take many years to resolve, and often present a slippery slope, do not face any censure, then they are practically above the constitution, even if there is a theoretical process.

While you point out that it worked in this case, that is nothing but an anecdote. I could equally list many cases where the exact opposite is the case. Consider for example the difficulty faced in bringing security policies before the courts in the U.S., due to the government claiming that the very discussion of the details of the implementations of these policies would harm national security.

> Punishing people merely for passing a law would itself be unconstitutional. There is no enumerated punishment nor is there any reasonable way to assert culpability.

I'm sorry if I was unclear, but I tried to address both of these points in my first reply. Let me try again to put it more clearly.

First, they should lose their office for abusing its privileges. This has nothing to do with the fact that they violated, or worked against the constitution specifically, but that they violated the oaths of their offices, which happen to preclude that.

Secondly, the punishment does not require newly introduced 'ex post facto' laws, as you seem to be implying, but should be in keeping with the facilitation of the violation of actual existing laws, which prevented the unconstitutional actions from taken place before the new laws were passed.

In other words, a politician that facilitates a law that unconstitutionally provides exceptions to previous existing laws, should be liable as an accessory to the crimes specified by that pre-existing law.

As far as determing their complicity is concerned, I believe that the fact that most everything is on record makes that fairly trivial.
Is it not what Google is currently doing with Android?
Instagram's SSL certificate expired 5 minutes ago
Reminds me that most optimisation is an exercise in caching, although I'd be curious how this compares to even more cache-y approaches. (e.g. complete lookup as a naive example)

PVS/VSD applies to all kinds of problems, its nice to see someone else doing it. Split the world into convex volumes with connectivity information and suddenly the toolbox of algorithms at your disposal explodes... :)

still surprised that games developers don't do it more... there are physics, audio, networking and other optimisations to be had from splitting the world properly and having good connectivity information.
I suspect the translations cost too much to have much of a free Tier
Nope. MP3, for example, cuts off all frequencies outside the audible range and thus achieves large savings.
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As someone who listens to EDM (electronic dance music) almost exclusively (though, I'm no DJ or producer) the vast majority of those sounds come from some sort of midi type software or machine be it a drum machine, sound effects machines or software, or recordings of sounds that occur around us. EDM music also has a build up - the beat generally starts simple and gets more complex as the track progresses. Sometimes, thats called the drop, right? When a track builds up, they "drop the beat" and the best gets more complex, as found in Dubstep.

So, I think compression like that might work in software they use to write / develop a track; if the software can determine that 2 notes or beats are identical, it could code the file with less data in it, but I think of music to be similar to water. It's fluid, with each note / beat / voice effecting the notes / beats around it. Ever listen to a track with the voice removed? Or with the drums removed? It sounds very different then when the track untouched. Point being, I don't think this would work for a final mp3 or lossless compression.

(or I may be completely wrong)
Current systems for handling data would be unable to cope with the demands of the SKA and it is hoped technology will catch up by the time it is completed.

You’ve got to love optimistic engineering!
Only sending input? That's great networking design!
...and of course the (iOS) app does not care :(
Gnus live in the Savannah?
Well, `brew install mono` is pretty simple on mac.
Surely if America was founded on the rule of law and respect for authority, they wouldn't have committed treason and overthrown the King?

It would seem to me that America was very much founded on the opposite. A lot of the constitution seems to be focussed on limiting the power of law, not limiting the power of the people (the right to bear arms being the clearest example).
> We have non-violent means to redress problems with the political and civil leadership.

I am not advocating violence, but in your mind, what should people do when (many of) those non-violent means of redress are ineffective at solving the problems?
It sounds like you're working in a culture that doesn't allow you to grow in the ways that would make your career enjoyable, I would at the very least start looking for a more enjoyable job.