skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One advantage is that it results in tons more carbon into the atmosphere (Bitcoin alone is estimated to require the electrical input of Ireland).

This is only really an advantage for the energy sector though...
I think there's no point trying to avoid memory leaks in older versions of IE. Circular references due to closures are too common and it's not worth messing with your code.

IE users are probably used to getting a horrible user experience anyway. I'm sure they can cope with a few browser freezes/crashes every once in a while - They know how to take a beating :p
Here's the link to MPS for those who don't already know what it is: https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/
A proportional system, I suspect, would be extraordinarily damaging to the UK. It's true that the current system is unfair, but it does have one critical redeeming quality: it tends to reduce the race to a two-party system. Two-party systems are stable and generally moderate, as the winning party will be the one which successfully captures the center. Much of the historical success of the US government can be attributed to the stability afforded by its two-party system. On the other hand, consider the proportional system parliaments in other countries which are outright disasters, unable to form stable coalitions and thus unable to govern successfully for any significant length of time. Italy is the canonical example.
Julia founders commercialize language, create new startup
I can see how TPP (when we find out what precise it is) could be claimed to affect human rights. But "fast track" is a parliamentary technique used for other types of bills, such as the BRAC bills that are used to close U.S. military bases (domestically and overseas).

Do things like BRAC also threaten human rights?
Interesting video on voting systems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE
Voters in Britain (specifically Scotland and Wales) use the AMS system that takes this into account and balances both desires while also avoiding the stupidity of unpopular candidates winning because two similar candidates compete for votes, as demonstrated in the fear that UKIP votes would weaken Conservative candidates, leading to front page headlines telling you not to vote for who you wanted to vite for, but for someone else instead.
Naming 3 countries doesn't count as evidence.
Sounds like a recipe for even more gridlock. Seems like the party with the most votes couldn't pass anything (i.e. satisfy voter mandates), even though they won.
I think this is the key point. Proportional representation is very simple to understand, and likewise first-past-the-post (in its essence, at least; the actual implementation we have in the UK perhaps less so). Alternative vote is plainly more complex - first something happens, then perhaps something else happens, then... etc; it's not complex for smart HN readers, but even trying to explain it in a few words shows it's more involved than the other two systems.

I am fundamentally uncertain that a majority of the electorate understood AV when they were voting - and this was certainly supported by my own conversations at the time with moderately intelligent people who plainly did not understand it. And, in fact, the majority of the electorate did not even vote at all on the issue.

Proportional representation is undeniably more democratic than either FPTP or AV, but it does mean you end up having to live with the fact that a rather alarmingly large proportion of people have views that the majority find unsavoury (eg. the BNP managed nearly 2% of the votes in the 2010 election).
CGP Grey! I came here to post the same link.
His entire series is very informative.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7679C7ACE93A5638
It depends on the applications you're going to use them for, and how much you're willing or able to invest in making your applications be able to take advantage of using a larger quantity of cheaper hardware. A lot of big companies run applications that are not nearly as resilient to failure or nearly as linearly scalable as the systems routinely built by the internet giants.

I realized this before with regards to the ridiculously overpriced top-top-of-the-line CPUs. Let's say you're running an existing application at, say, a moderately small scale: 20 servers. Each server is only handling a couple dozen requests per minute, so the load is not very high, but the requests still take too long. You've hired a whole team of engineers to work on optimizing the code to make it run faster, and that costs you, say $10 million a year. You'd be happy to buy another hundred servers if that made it run any faster, but that's just not how it works -- the application is all single-threaded code, and maybe you can make that better, but that's what your $10 million engineering team is working on (maybe). So in the meantime, you spend whatever amount of money you can on getting the absolute fastest hardware you can find to throw in those servers -- fast CPUs, fast hard drives, fast network... and even if those servers cost $50k each, that's still just a fraction of what you're spending on the software engineering work.
That seems to be a fairly common problem for Green parties around the world, popular in the global vote but not popular enough to be elected in the more local votes (for generel elections anyway local goverment is another matter).
Can't vote out Ed Balls? You just did!!

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/08/defeat-ed-ba...
Actually, I don't think I'm saying anything that isn't common wisdom in political science. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-party_system#Advantages
Thanks, that makes a lot more sense.

You have: 30 miles/imperialgallon
You want: 1/(mm^2)
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All about Y Combinator (essays, lectures, alumni, )
I got my "Competent Communicator" a few years ago. It took me about half a year and I think the time was very well spent.
Where I found Toastmasters very valuable was for getting feedback, it's a significant part of their program.

You'll have to invest time to see results, there is no shortcut to become a better speaker. That's also the only reason I stopped, I couldn't afford to spend the time to have a reasonable improvement.

Quality of clubs varies somewhat in my experience and you have to spend some time to find a good club.

To put this into perspective: My education was in Germany and public speaking is not part of our curriculum, neither school nor university. Also debates in the form they are done in the U.S. are completely unknown here. Toastmasters really fills a gap in that respect. If you grew up in the U.S. Toastmaster (at least how it's done in Germany) might be a bit boring for you.
Assuming the party-list system. It depends on how high the party has placed him on the list. If you vote for a candidate so low on the list that he probably wouldn't be elected, he might get enough preferential votes to oust out the last person on the list that would normally get a seat through the top-down assignment, but that only really works for getting someone in, not to get someone out.

Better vote for another party instead.

With the party-list system, you generally vote for parties and not for persons.
Usually I read more normally, or just look up things that I'm interested in, but I have a different style when I want to "force-read" something unfamiliar. For each chapter:

1. Read chapter subtitles subsubtitles, etc, and the summary if there is one at the beginning or end.

2. Go thru the chapter reading the first sentence of each subsection

3. Again, reading the first sentece of each paragraph

4. Again, reading everything

And for bookmarking and hilighting I have 4 categories: important, interesting, unanswered question, reference.

And if I have goals for reading, I write them on the back few pages and fill in information as I find it.

I usually do this on paper, I still find it kind of awkward to do in the Preview app or whatever, and it is not possible for me on a phone.
Usually "organic" means that no synthetic pesticides or genetic modification were used. You are allowed to use pesticides from natural sources. In practice it means that organic farmers are using less effective pesticides and must use more of it to reach the same effectiveness.

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

It's a classic Appeal to nature tactic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
Aeromobil crash
What would you say the major differences are with Flummox? It looks pretty straightforward but Reflux seems pretty lightweight as well. Just trying to figure out if it's worthwhile to switch an early stage project over.
Correct - the Boundary Commissions (there's one for each nation) are independent and come up with the new boundaries, based on simple mathematical principles. Parliament then votes them through.

In 2012/2013 Labour managed to defeat the government in the vote. The boundary changes would undoubtedly have favoured the Tories, but that's because the Tories are more popular, not because of some nefarious plan.
...But aren't campaigns fought on a party-by-party basis? Who gets to choose which politicians get the secure constituencies? If all the candidates were truly independent I might see your point, but as long as they belong to parties I don't.
Apologies for my US-centric calculations!
I dont think that I've ever seen the idea of silver being antimicrobial be neglected. We use burn dressings that are almost completely impregnated with silver, silver nitrate q-tips to stop bleeding(ouch), as well as topical ointments with some silver in it. Silver is pretty widely used in the medical field.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7169513

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3569893

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1524450

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=601967
When I write code and tests in JavaScript, typically the tests turn up a few typos and "brain-os" in the code (that don't keep it from parsing). Many or most of these would be caught by the type-checker in statically-typed language.

Maybe you don't "see" type errors because you consider them to be failures of test coverage, or you say, "That's not a bug, it's more of a typo?" Or you don't work on a shared codebase?
I think you missed the point, which is Fast Tracking prevents proper debate and discussion of an issue from taking place, or severely limits it.
For those that don't know it's in reference to Oxbridge (Oxford and Cambridge). The joke is that the rest don't matter.
Wang Tiles and Turing Machines (2012)
Very nice to see it starts off with a (correct) discussion of JS types! JS devs mostly don't know the actual types in JS, which is pretty crazy if you think about it.
Anything is possible. But what is your purpose?
No he means personally vote him out. Only the residents of Morley had the power to vote him out, which they did of course (thankfully!)
Isn't all that addressed in Zookeeper 2: Zookeepier?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F-RyuDLR4o
Similar to quadratic voting.

http://ericposner.com/quadratic-voting/
Here's an example of a run of the mill 'nginx', 'gunicorn',
'supervisord' setup:
https://github.com/Pakebo/eb-docker-django-simple/blob/maste...
Worst thing ever. Socialism is coming.
I like the concept of different steps!
One guy finding a decent apartment still doesn't demonstrate that increasing density does much to solve problems. Also, I question your definition of affordable. $1500/month is 36% of the US median wage. People making less need to live somewhere too.

It also looks like you can find equivalent things in the Bay Area: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/apa?maxAsk=1500&bedrooms=...

I am definitely in favor of expanding public transit, though. I think that's a much better way to increase network effects.
This is a great question, I used to think exactly the same until I became enlighten ;). Well OK, to be honest I'm still not entirely happy with how things are modularized, but I see advantages. This is a very good presentation which explains key ideas: https://speakerdeck.com/vjeux/react-css-in-js

Understanding the problems mentioned in the slides was literally eye opening. I was already trying to solve the problems with CSS, without fully realizing that I'm solving them. For example, my "solution" to namespaces was creating a naming conventions for all classes/IDs, like ".header-search-box-button" and this approach becomes PITA quickly. Also, after a while I had more and more dead code, which wasn't easy to identify and I couldn't be sure that if I remove some class, I don't have any elements that depend on it. Non-deterministic resolution was also an issue for me - say user was on a page A (therefore had loaded A.css with class .main-button) where particular boxes are blue. If the user goes to page B (we load B.css which also has .main-button) he should have red boxes. But if the user gets back to page A, the boxes that are supposed to be blue are red (browser cached the style and when browser have 2 classes definitions, the one that was loaded the last "wins"). Sure, we could use IDs for everything, bundle all styles into 1 file etc., but bigger sites would have like 5MB CSS file and at the end of the day it's still hard to maintain the codebase.

I'm sure that "normal" way works for regular/medium sites (it worked for a few good years, right?), but I see ton of advantages for using the inline styles in the JS. It's not easy to "convert" to new approach, but I honestly don't look back. As I've said - it's not ideal solution, but a very important step forward.

This is a good 3-part tutorial on react, flux and some other things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd6Ub7Ju2RM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR22EWW-CVc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fhTawDEE9k
So putting a lot of time and energy into projects involving Julia is likely problematic for the time being?
I Agree. But I guess that the Library of Congress (and archive.com and Google Blockchains) will also save a copy of the major blockchais, but not of every obscure altcoin. Some anthropologists and economists may find them interesting. But then you will have to thrust again a central authority, and the magic of the totally decentralized blockchain will be lost.

Another possibility when it's clear that another coin is surpassing Bitcoin is to "register" the Bitcoin blockchain in the new blockchain, just store into the new blockchain a copy of the current sha1. (Or a harder hash of all the blockchain, to eliminate the possibility of collisions found with faster machines.)
That brings the total count of satisfied workers I have heard from to 2.
A solution like you mentioned would help (I believe there are some things similar in LATAM today, but there needs to be more).

The thought with the Interest Investment is there exists a large market of investors in LATAM (and emerging markets), however they avoid startups because of a lack of traditional yearly returns, it's more unpredictable, there are unfamiliar terms, etc. Many people have tried to solve this problem by educating investors (to create new angel investors), but the success of this has been questionable. I felt this new idea could bridge this very large gap.

About the 15% stake, you are right that it's not a very liquid market at all. The thought was, if a person invested in a cash-flow profitable startup with good growth rates, there is some value in that asset (this type of investment wouldn't work for an unprofitable startup or a company with zero cash flow). There is a smaller market for private companies, but an investor should put money into an entrepreneur with a good reputation who stays true to his or her word (just like they would with convertible debt).
The problem is when it's being a problem; here it's blatantly being used to pull a fast one.
I think 99% of the problems people have with Javascript are not actually types, but `this`.

It's the most confusing part about Javascript. This context, var foo scope, what? Why is this value not updating? undefined? What???
And another promising new tech goes down the kermit. Shame. And writing a book with the chap from infosys? Yikes, given what we have seen from the warm bodies drafted in as so-called developers from infosys, that cannot be a good sell for the book.
Glad with stuck with the python numerical stack now - far more mature.
Well, the competition is higher, and a lot of the jobs available right now are not funded by revenue, they're funded by investment. So I think the current picture is misleading.

It is a swell place to live, though. But even that advantage has declined a fair bit. 20 years ago, a lot of places in the midwest were cultural deserts. Books, movies, magazine, ideas: all severely restricted. The Internet has changed that. And San Francisco is rapidly losing the diversity of culture that was a big draw for me.
>it does mean you end up having to live with the fact that a rather alarmingly large proportion of people have views that the majority find unsavoury

That's democracy for you.

Besides, the BNP arose from a climate of austerity and declining real incomes. If you have a functioning political system that doesn't do that to the majority, you deprive the unsavory minority of political oxygen.
So essentially we have an event loop, right.
Turn it around...

Why fast track debate on a topic that these experts are warning about?
In 30 years, with the benefit of hindsight, this could turn out to be one of the defining issues of our era (along with surveillance and the growth of state and corporate cyber warfare). Glad the UN and EFF are doing something to shine a light on it.
There might not be an advantage now. Just as KeePass has grown, this one might too. Competition, even in open source, is great!
This honestly seems like FUD. Currently the Sys-V like serialisation of services at startup hasn't been efficient, and sysvinit doesn't handle event based kernel features at all well. And it's definitely not modular.

As for this argument that it's monolithic in its code organisation - lolwut? You don't need to have a seperate repository for each binary, hardly anyone does that. When you talk about clearly and vigorously defined interfaces, it seems to already have them - and I hardly consider sysvinit to be a great example of such a thing - a bunch of cobbled together shell scripts serialised into a particular order isn't particularly clean or elegant. Heck, it's not even necessarily easy to troubleshoot if things go wrong. The systemd source is in one git repo, sure, but I can't see why maintenance will be a burden. What in particular concerns you?

You do realize that there are only a few binaries? Let's look at them:

networkd: handles network events - when a network device is created it handles setup. No, it does not supplant udev. Read here an overview: https://coreos.com/blog/intro-to-systemd-networkd/

Not a bad idea here: and very sensible aspect of systemd.

journald - collects log data from a variety of sources and puts it into a binary indexed data file. The most controversial aspect of systemd, but of course as is overlooked all the log data can be forwarded to syslog, kmsg, the console or wall via a simple configuration change.

Or, you can swap out the component: https://fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com/2014/09/20/change-sys...

logind handles logins

systemd-user-sessions.service allows restricting user logins via PAM

Then there are the systemd units - it handles sockets for socket activation, which is a key reason Debian chose systemd over Upstart. It handles devices via udev, mount points (a key aspect to initialising systems), automount, swap, path-based activation and timers.

I can't see how any of the above should NOT be part of an init system. Init systems should be capable of handling dynamic events. All the technical arguments I've seen so far, with the exception of binary log files, don't hold any water. There are apparently security concerns over PID 1 - but they seem rather specious. Have a look at the dependency list here at https://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/docs/systemd-dependenc... if you don't believe me.

There's a lot of bashing of systemd, but most of it (if not all of it!) is unwarranted and can be verified with even a modicum of research.
Keep it up, it is looking great, clean and simple. I like it!
I don't know what the actual news is but it sounds like the article is misrepresenting what is happening here.

Julia and JuliaBox are both MIT Licensed:
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/LICENSE.md
https://github.com/JuliaLang/JuliaBox/blob/master/LICENSE.md

The only factual content I was able to gleen from the article was that they plan to have a paid offering for: https://www.juliabox.org/ ?
The recent financial crisis shows even those who claim to understand the math, do not, let alone even being able progress on probability (hmm what are the odds all this could go wrong? Nah).
What you're essentially saying is, "the rules of FPTP were followed, therefore the outcome is just", which is a red herring when it's the system itself that's being questioned.

"Voters in Britain do not elect a parliament", but shouldn't they?
Here's a photo. It's a bike path between two towns, and about 2000 cyclists per day ride on it.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/05/worlds-fi...
These whole reason these cities exist is because of a long term strategy of making room for newcomers, so it makes sense that moving away from that causes complications.
It's not in the middle of nowhere, it was being used by cyclists. Apparently, over 150,000 cyclists rode over it since it was opened.

Source (Dutch, but includes a photo): http://www.noord-holland.nl/web/Actueel/Nieuws/Artikel/Zonne...
What the graph actually illustrates is that, leaving aside the number of voting decisions that were tactical[1], we'd have the same party leading the government, in a majority coalition with the more right-wing UKIP that would leave those who had voted for the other parties even more upset by the outcome. PR is certainly not a panacea for high proportions of voters getting a vastly different government from the one they wanted.
(personally I'd love to see used in an elected House of Lords replacement with a lot less vote trading but a lot more teeth to veto unpopular legislation, but that's a different matter)

[1]Whilst many individuals' tactical decisions would look different in a PR election, it's difficult to see the pattern of vote shares being hugely dissimilar; with there still being a media-fed late frenzy of English voters backing the right as an alternative to "being held" to ransom by coalitions involving the nationalists
Pulseaudio does network audio right and I have been using it for that purpose since it first existed. So from my prospective the mistake was adding in all the other junk.

The root cause of all the complexity is (was?) the lack of standardization for hardware interfaces. The lack of some globally usable way of dealing with latency at the OS level is another issue. A thing like Pulseaudio is a natural reaction to the current situation in that it tries to both hide the complexity of the hardware interfaces and deals with the latency issue entirely in one program.

So the problem isn't Pulseaudio. The problem is the environment that media is forced to exist in.
In general, the battery health problem should be handled by the manufacturer, not by user. That's why Lenovo is doing a very good job.

However, if you still insist on doing it by yourself, take a look at my hardware-level solutions at http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/10441/laptop...
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For the past one month, I've been working on an app in Reflux. If the benefits are significant, I'd surely look at switching to Flummox. Care to point out how the switch has been useful to you?

Thanks!
No, remember that the opposition is similarly divided. The governing party just have to shop around for votes, with a variety of smaller parties to bargain with.

Promises to voters (which I think is what you mean with voter mandates) are just the worst. They tend towards the unrealistic and assume party control over a majority of seats without defectors. Everything about them is dumb. Good riddance.