skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CloudFlare felt compelled, rightfully, to argue that the implications of the order would burden not only CloudFlare, but also any infrastructure service provider (think AT&T or Comcast) to act as an intellectual-property enforcer.

But that's exactly what will happen. The "gatekeeper" industries, movies, records/CDs, book publishers, newspapers. They make monopoly rents off of state-guaranteed monopolies. They've already got approved "limited" monopolies, so it's in their best interests to get someone else to pay to enforce it, maybe taxpayers, maybe CloudFlare or any other infrastructure provider.

I think there's other factions in politics that would like to stuff the Internet Genie back in it's lamp. They will latch on to "intellectual property" as a way to keep people from getting fast information about political manuvering, logrolling, dealmaking, etc.

And to think that in 1995, I was worried that Bill Gates' Microsoft would subsume all programming in-house, release proprietary internetworking protocols that distinguished plainly between a "server" and "client", and sell both docs on MSCP/MSIP and server licenses at a high cost. Ha ha. It is to laugh.
Flagging often isn't done by mods, but by users. I could for example flag yours and if enough others did, your question would automatically be hidden. I don't know if mods had anything to do with that one, but it's quite possible they didn't.
It's really depression to see such a large aggregation of smart people applying their abilities to nitpicking details of global warming instead of coming up with solutions.
In my view; product design & build quality. Yammer were already doing most of what Slack does. Tiny Speck took that and UX'd the shit out of it until it was a joy to use.
Very true! Thanks for pointing this out too.
Messenger No Longer Requires a Facebook Account
Because it's OSS, and there are at least 10 variation products also on the market, namely Brackets, Visual Studio Code, ATOM, etc.
The base is the same, but Quviq QuickCheck for Erlang provides some libraries which are far more developed than most QuickCheck implementations out there. On the other hand, it is not a free tool if you want the full version.

Since you are searching randomly, you need good heuristics that skews the distribution toward where "errors often occurs". This means errors are uncovered in fewer test cases. Also, you need good heuristics for minimizing/shrinking a known failing error. Some of the error cases shrank from 80 commands down to 5, and furthermore simplified the input so it was easier to see what stood out.
Remember the old joke about how everything in software can be fixed by another layer of abstraction, except too many layers of abstraction? Docker in a dev setting is just adding another layer of abstraction without solving the underlying problems.

We recently experienced exactly the scenario described in the article when on boarding our team with a customer. At first it looks slick to be up and running so fast. The problem is, you still have to keep that Dockerfile updated correctly so you'd better understand your dependencies. You still have to have redis, postgresql, and whatever other system dependencies installed. The moment you need to update your application that causes a need to update your docker images means that a 30 second fix just turned into a bigger administrative deal.

Want to use containers in production? Go for it, have fun. Do I think you need better dependency management and a clear way to keep developer environments in sync? Absolutely. I'm just not yet convinced Docker itself is adding anything to that problem.
How can mankind, overnight stop exponential (that famous hockey stick everyone likes to see) oxygen growth? Very suspicious. There are some pretty bad sources of information out there about oxygen over time. Here is one I trust: http://dk6qunh1hkthr.cloudfront.net/content/nips/25/5/272/F1...
Shopping doesn't make you happy, but cash does
They seemed crazy at the time because most people didn't expect the level of warming that we are now seeing.
>you have to be REALLY ignorant to not realize that there are far too many jobs we need humans to do, going on right now, for us to subsidize even the highly technically skilled to go off and follow their whims without any sort of economic integration whatsoever.

Really?

First off, any basic income that is provided is not going to come close to what a 'highly technically skilled' individual makes.

Secondly, if those individuals do find some activity or undertaking valuable enough to trade the relative income for, it probably has unrecognized value. I would bet they these individuals will acquire expertise, develop new knowledge, and create new things that will be highly benificial to society.

This is very similar we what do with grants to scientists conducting general research. Following your logic, we have too many important problems to bother wasting scientists time on anything that isn't an immediate problem.

Thirdly, there is no way that these individuals would be operating 'without any sort of economic integration whatsoever'. They would still be consuming in our society and their non-consumptive actions would still have economic effects.

That said, I don't think we are at the point we can realistically provide a basic income capable of supporting a reasonable standard of living. I do think we can start providing a basic supplementary income and I think that if paired with reductions in the minimum wage, it could be very successful at stimulating economic growth during the next downturn or slow down.
Where does it claim to be a language reference? I only see it referred to as an API. It seems like you are evaluating it in terms of how LLVM does things, which is maybe the wrong way to look at it. It's a library, not an IR.
As a former X user, that's absolutely amazing, but then I realized you're on AIX. IBM loves doing the impossible regularly.
Clearly yes you can, since that's what the majority of companies do.
Are you getting annoyed by the "I just achieved basic competence in this task, and here is how I did it" posts?

If so, you are not the target audience for them.

There are very few experts, and almost none who are able to explain the basics in a way that can be understood by a complete beginner.

This article does a good job of hammering home the basics, even if I don't agree with everything.
Millions of years ago, creatures that you and I came from, through N levels of evolution, ingested saturated fat.

Today, some dickhead wants to tell me it's bad, so he can sell me "edible plastic" that introduces completely new molecules into my biology.

Try raising an infant without saturated fat. They will not thrive on skim milk or soy "milk". They need the fat stuff. Infant formula? Check the ingredients: chances are you will see coconut oil or its ilk.
Yes, I totally agree with you. I never got the logic of directives like, write a 20 page report on such and such etc. I'd rather have the instructions be something like 'ensure that your final report has X, Y and Z'. Although I suppose if you don't provide a lower limit on the number of pages you are expecting, this will encourage laziness on the part of the students.

Basically ever since I started writing in a professional capacity, I have had an issue of 'writing too much' and not being concise. I suspect this is due to the school system, and its incessant focus on word and page counts.
Thanks gov.uk for the gds blog and the inspiration.

Hope you'll like it.
Oh if it's a standard among implementations of databases consider this done. It will not be funny for people migrating from the module to the Redis implementation, but I can't be backward compatible with API that never entered Redis official code base after all... Thanks for pushing me into the right direction with your arguments.
Be sure to check LiquidSpace. You can find some free workspaces and even reserve a spot. For example: https://liquidspace.com/US/TX/The%20Colony/DALTC/workspace-1
Hans von Storch, professor at the Meteorological Institute of the University of Hamburg discussed this issue in a recent interview with Der Spiegel. He remarked that less than 2% of model runs reproduced the 'pause'.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-hans-von...

SPIEGEL: Just since the turn of the millennium, humanity has emitted another 400 billion metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, yet temperatures haven't risen in nearly 15 years. What can explain this?

Storch: So far, no one has been able to provide a compelling answer to why climate change seems to be taking a break. We're facing a puzzle. Recent CO2 emissions have actually risen even more steeply than we feared. As a result, according to most climate models, we should have seen temperatures rise by around 0.25 degrees Celsius (0.45 degrees Fahrenheit) over the past 10 years. That hasn't happened. In fact, the increase over the last 15 years was just 0.06 degrees Celsius (0.11 degrees Fahrenheit) -- a value very close to zero. This is a serious scientific problem that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will have to confront when it presents its next Assessment Report late next year.

SPIEGEL: Do the computer models with which physicists simulate the future climate ever show the sort of long standstill in temperature change that we're observing right now?

Storch: Yes, but only extremely rarely. At my institute, we analyzed how often such a 15-year stagnation in global warming occurred in the simulations. The answer was: in under 2 percent of all the times we ran the simulation. In other words, over 98 percent of forecasts show CO2 emissions as high as we have had in recent years leading to more of a temperature increase.
Going a bit grey isn't being "immediately silenced". People can still read your comment.

I think you're reading too much into the "the science is settled" comment. It's a field where powerful interests work aggressively to discredit a majority view of scientists, and it's likely that some (magnified by the media) may use a term like that out of frustration to imply consensus and a wish to have policy makers progress on action.

I know it's easy to find an aberration on Wikipedia, but the pros know all that stuff, they live it every minute of the day.
Or maybe I'm an old guy, and the rules changed :)

That doc does list sweetener, but its one of three ingredients listed as "one, or any two or more" which I guess means one or more?
Yes and no. Erlang/OTP has a pretty extensive test suite which takes several hours to run. There is a nightly test run on a multitide of architectures. So it is some times the case that a fault is caught at night and fixed the following day.

The Erlang/OTP team runs a mantra where everything is covered by tests and they are doing a really good job at what they are doing. So I would not be surprised to see this having been caught by a test.
Some people use that as an exclamation, like "No way! Fuck off!"
I think it's important to note that Lucretius was a poet not a philosopher or scientist. He didn't invent the ideas he related he was trying to preserve them for posterity.
Most reputable email clients won't load remote images in email messages.
? The argument is that there are reasons other than inflating prices to regulate the number of taxis on the road. Cars have externalities that society as a whole pays for, it's reasonable to limit those externalities.
Nope. From a thermodynamic analysis, the energy is either reflected, turned into heat, or used to do work. Forests use more for work than any static object. The only open question in my mind is how much so. You do raise the point of emitting water vapor which adds a lot to the complexity. Also the rotting biomass will produce a lot of heat. But the production of dirt is probably still a net use of the energy. Remember, coal is old biomass and contains a lot of energy that came from the sun.

>> As an aside, I believe forests generate heat, just like any biological system.

You would be wrong in that. All chemical processes in the forest are ultimately powered by sunlight. Your body produces heat, but that's due to chemical reactions that primarily amount to burning fuel (fats are essentially hydrocarbons and the primary products of their "burning" is CO2 and H20 which exit through the lungs). Animals turn chemical energy into heat, but plants turn energy from light into chemical energy.
You're being intentionally obtuse and making a flawed analogy. There is a major difference between a community garden where someone has to go to Home Depot to buy supplies and Uber/AirBnb. In the Garden scenario, Home Depot does not act like Uber as they are not the gatekeepers to your community garden, but instead one (of many) sources for supplies. Home Depot is not rent seeking or deriving rent.
This is handled by the Redis implementation (and most others AFAIK). So it returns the right items regardless of the query position or the items position. Redis has tests in place for this.
What a phenomenal writeup.

What I'd really like to understand about SupCom is how the zoom in/out views are so smooth and seamless.

At one point during the beta I remember talking to a dev on IRC who told me the zoom was very challenging in this game, and that a novel approach had been devised and successfully implemented.

The scale of the range between micro and macro views in SupCom is unlike anything else I've encountered. For example, you can start zoomed in on a specific character on a ship, and then you can zoom out all the way until you can see the entire map. And the whole interaction is for all intents and purposes seamless and smooth as the view changes.

It's akin to the intro part of the film "Contact" where it zooms out from the Earth all the way into the deep universe.

Such a gem of a game -- too bad it takes so long to play a round! (3-6 hours+)
You know what else seemed "rational, engaging, and non-offensive" in its beginnings?

The National Socialist German Workers' Party

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party

Goodness, why you people won't learn from history is beyond me.
If your company is hiring engineers, email us team@jobstart.co
How many mail clients load those by default nowadays? Gmail doesn't, Thunderbird doesn't.
They have a union: http://www.nytwa.org
Should Algorithms Make Hiring Decisions?
As a hiring manager, I use LinkedIn either to primarily source engineers or to validate the experience of an engineer that I found via some other means (open source project, coding event, etc).

To some extent, if you don't have a LinkedIn you don't really exist within the job market - which is fine I guess if you never intend to change jobs but might be something you do want to do some day :)

I'm actually curious why you wouldn't have a LinkedIn?
or really just accept the fact that the recruiting business is sketchy and most people, talent and hiring managers no longer trust most outside recruiters.
Seems like a great article. Presumably it was flagged because someone glanced at the domain name and assumed it was off-topic. Or, as you hint, because someone has an adverse reaction to the word 'socialism'. If this thread doesn't get a response from him, email Dan at 'hn@ycombinator.com' and see if he can help to rehabilitate it.
I am going to ping you via e-mail too. I'd love to talk about trading..
Yeah but if, for any reason, your company gets sued because they violated the AGPL license you're probably fucked.
> and the ground needs to be covered in magnets...
I guess there goes their claim that they'll be no need for roads. In the words of a modern day skater: "bummer"
Anonymous downvoters: please build up some courage and actually contribute. I don't bite.
Very few marketing efforts target the tirelessly cynical as a matter of principle.
Tech Company Finds Stolen Government Log-Ins All Over Web
On a related note, how safe is it to do a Google search of your password?
What about the increase in shares being sold in the private markets, and during financing rounds? Wouldn't that help make up some of the opportunity lost by staying private?
> I'm curious. Gravity has not been proven to attract two masses, for instance?

Correct. That's why it's called the theory of gravity :) You would need Laplace's demon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace's_demon) for a proof. "Proof" means absolute certainty. You only find that in math, not in the physical world.
Most-Wanted Cybercriminal Extradited to U.S. From Germany
Homegrown Radicals More Deadly Than Jihadis in U.S
11 minutes to achieve Godwin's Law - is this a record?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
> - provide integrity when sending the message by including a PGP signature. what's to stop someone from running an e-mail server and spamming mass e-mail lists with message headers that spoof your mail domain, and proclaim bogus security lapses?

This is a good point, but wouldn't use of SPF/DKIM solve this too? I think email servers are able to understand the SPF records and DKIM-Signature header and hence more accurately classify the emails as spam (if appropriate) which seems like a useful benefit.
The science around climate change is well established--it's happening, it's man-made, and it will continue--but it's a bit more complicated than that. The physics suggests a relatively small increase in temperature (<1C); it's the positive feedbacks, particularly water vapor vapor feedbacks, that make climate change so potentially costly.
Confused: this is the hottest year on record worldwide. In what way is this 'taking a break'?
I know this beats the very premise of your product - "personalized" guidance but thought I would ask anyway.

How open are you to sharing general guidelines (that are insightful and not already available everywhere) ?

It would also help if you could ask the people who are successfully placed to write their learnings along the process. Similar to how the Insight data engineering fellow and others at coding schools share what they learnt/built.

Eg: http://insightdataengineering.com/blog/mapmycab.html
Ask HN: What's your personal blogging service?
This question hasn't been asked in a while. I'm curious what is being used for your personal blogs. Feel free to answer with one word (i.e. Jekyll, Ghost), but if you're feeling generous:

a. When did you choose this?

b. Why did you choose it?

c. Are other blogging services on your radar? Why?

d. What's the one (or more) thing that you love about this blogging service?

e. What's the one thing you hate (or would change) about this blogging service?

f. Any "gotchas" or other things that you wish you knew when you started with it?

edit: formatting
I can believe that a lot of Java devs are not keeping up, but the kerfuffle around that particular Railsconf keynote is a poor example -- I'm pretty sure lots of cutting-edge machine learning researchers, Haskell developers, and so forth also weren't following the gossip in the technical community around a particular tool set that they don't happen to use.

I've seen communities which start to think they're smarter than everyone else because those other people don't get the insiders' inside jokes. It's usually not a good sign for the community...
Verilator only supports a synthesizable subset of verilog, so if you want to write a testbench you are either going to be writing it with synthesizable verilog (not recommended) or with C++ (or something else you figure out how to link in).
I'm glad things ended well for you, but please realize that you were freed thanks to luck and not because you were actually innocent.

Don't ever talk to police. DON'T EVER TALK TO POLICE.

Call a lawyer and allow him to explain the mistake. There's just as much chance that the police could have used your explanation against you if they thought you were lying and you would be in jail right now, wrongfully convicted because you misremembered a small detail in your story.

DON'T EVER TALK TO POLICE, ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE BEEN EXPLICITLY CHARGED WITH A CRIME.
Assuming people read their email in HTML and has their email client set/defaulting to automatically requesting external content. Sure, for a large sample from non-technical audience such as here it's probably a good assumption, but it may not be for e.g. a small sample from a tech-savvy audience.
My opinion of juries did take a bit of a nosedive when I was dismissed from a jury pool after sharing only my age, residence, name, and profession (engineer). In favor of other jurors who had glaringly obvious conflict-of-interest risks, like the juror whose entire family was police officers, for a case that had significant police testimony.
"Much of what counts as sharing turns out to be nothing more than ordinary economic transactions between individuals arranged through digital platforms owned by venture-funded companies that act as middlemen, enabling them to take a percentage off the top."

From: http://www.metareader.org/post/the-cult-of-sharing.html

(worth the read)
http://www.metareader.org/post/the-cult-of-sharing.html

pulled from here?
thanks! i know that it is going to be harder for those migrating, but as they move into a more location-driven world, they'll ultimately be happier i think.
There's a lovely book called The Limits to Growth published in 1972, through the years authors have updated their book and their models (there's more than 20). It turned out that business-as-usual model extrapolated very well from '70s to '00s. So, even them modelling was fairly good.
Accidentally quadratic: rm -rf?
Show HN: Golf Ledger – Share, Discover and Discuss All Things Golf
How low would a self driving 2 seater smart car have to drop in cost before you would view it as an acceptable replacement to public transportation in cities without strong existing subway routes? I think the costs will be surprisingly low, and the infrastructure (roads) already exists from door to door. No matter what, self driving cars will siphon off some percentage of riders from public transport options, increasing the need for ever more expensive subsidies.
Ask HN: How do you handle your distributed phone systems?
What services / solutions do you use? Would you recommend them?
Compiling for it was such a royal pain :(

Made a great footrest, though. AND 128M OF RAM HOLY COW.

Ah, those were the days.
They are both GraphDB with index-free adjacency. Look at the page http://orientdb.com/orientdb-vs-neo4j/ to know the differences between two products from the OrientDB point of view.
It's not "elegant" because the people harmed in the parent comment's examples are not customers (or at least a large percentage of them are not). There is no way for them to "vote with their wallets."
GoJS 1.5 Released – Interactive JavaScript Diagrams
That article doesn't offer much information about how the discrepancy was resolved. I do know it is wrong in saying that the RSS troposphere shows more warming than UAH since 1998, because RSS shows zero warming since 1998. Don't trust me, please look at the data yourself.

But the land temperature stations have a miasma of questionable adjustments hanging around them. The stations themselves are not often well situated for clean readings, and then when the data is adjusted for heat island effects, rural stations will be adjusted upwards far more than urban areas will be adjusted downwards. I can't imagine why rural stations would ever be adjusted upwards, except on a case by case basis. But either way, the confidence intervals become mere guesses. It's unconscionable to mix that data with the more scientifically rigorous satellite data.

There's no getting around that the UAH and RSS sets show little to no warming for nearly 2 decades (RSS is 19 years and 6 months, and UAH 6.0 [most references to UAH will be 5.6 which is outdated] lines up nearly perfectly with RSS).

[Edited for mobile grammar mistakes]
Hey, everyone. I've been mostly a designer/front-end guy my whole life. I've always wanted to build a golf community so about a year or so ago, I set out to learn Python and Django. I finally got to a point where I knew enough to build what I wanted and Golf Ledger is the result of my efforts. Let me know what you think.

Thanks.