skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using been using type script (https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript) quite extensively for enterprise projects and have been enjoying it immensely. Transpilers are becoming quite the norm in web development circles, I know very few people dealing with pure CSS these days. Nearly everyone I'm in contact with uses either LESS or SASS.
The Intrepid Museum in NYC has a used Soyuz capsule on display in the same hall as NASA's Enterprise shuttle.

The Soyuz is fairly recent (around 2005 I think), yet it looks completely archaic compared to the Enterprise -- which is a late '70s vintage spacecraft design itself.

There's perhaps some kind of "worse is better" lesson in Soyuz, but I'm not sure what that would be exactly.
I find it funny that both Hacking Team and Gamma Group kept repeatedly claiming they do not sell to sanctioned governments, or governments with human rights issues, when they both clearly were behind the scenes. It's a pretty easy thing to prove as false. Why lie so blatantly when you know you'll probably get caught one day? Even if you don't get breached, one of the unethical governments you sell to will get breached or have some sort of leak, and your relationship with them will be uncovered.

I imagine they both do it because there just isn't enough money in having 8 or so customers that you sell 1-2 products to when you can have 30+ customers.
Django's source is very high quality. Though due to the large scope of the project, there are necessarily many layers of indirection, which may be a bit daunting for someone who is just starting out.

However reading the less abstract parts may help. For instance, the paginator is pretty self contained.
https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/core/pag...
Small nitpick: 'unit' is more like 'void' than 'null'. Think of a procedure that returns nothing in C: it returns void, similarly in OCaml you return unit. I think the equivalent of 'null' would be None, if you think of pointers as 'a option, except you have to handle it explicitly and can't get NullPointerException like you mention.
Well it is not politically correct to mention personal responsibility in any fashion, which is actually the heart of the problem.
There's also the little matter of defect density. Let's say your 10-layer process yields 50%. Now you go to a 20-layer process, and you should expect your yield to drop to 25%.

(I know, it's not that simple, because there are some defects that are in the underlying substrate. I'm ignoring those for purposes of this discussion.)
I think the real point should be that money isn't everything. Some people have dozens of friends and the fun never ends, as long as they're buying. We all have problems. If you can have a good life AND money, yay! If you can have a good life OR money, take the good life. Money alone won't get you a good life.

I wish these types of discussions were more nuanced. They usually aren't though.
A memory bus has long delays to set up a transfer, is typically only 64 bits wide, and only achieves good bandwidth on large burst operations.

The Venray design allows single-cycle random access to full 4096 bit cache lines, at least as described in the earlier iterations. Contention is far less an issue in this model, for many cores on 1 large memory chip. Multi-chip sticks are then akin to multi-socket motherboards.
For a moment, I confused Weyl points with Ley lines and was shocked by disbelief.

Ley lines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ley_line
Thanks all,

I have other contracts that pay above the market rate for my services. I did email the person back and said they would be able to get my services for one week for 3k.

I was interested in what people thought about the offer, as recently I've had a few offers in this bracket. (Which I've politely turned down).
How much do we love our Wi-Fi?
Previous conception: We accept that the laws of physics must be compatible with the observation X (in the article's case, life), but they do not explain why X exists.

Constructor Theory: All things not explicitly forbidden by the laws of physics can exist. The answer to "Why does life exist?" is: "because the laws of physics do not explicitly prevent it."

Seems like an interesting take. I'm not convinced that it's at all useful, but it's not obviously flawed or vacuous.

Sidenote: I've never felt that the existence of life was as mystifying a physical problem as the existence of black holes, or expanding space time, or stars. Why people are mystified by life but blithely accept the existence of distant fusion reactors the size of our solar system is beyond me.
Seems completely reasonable, maybe just a bit vague...

The only surprising thing to me about this announcement is that they didn't already have such a policy in place.
The author is a China scholar whose writings I have read since the 1970s. I haven't always agreed with his take on conditions in China, but what I have appreciated about Orville Schell as a writer about China is that he takes a long-term view informed by deep study of Chinese history and a thorough knowledge of the Chinese language (too rare among writers about China) and culture. Some of the social and political forces he comments about in this thoughtful piece have been right on the surface ready to be noticed by other observers for a long time, but they have been willfully ignored by many people who view China simply as a place to get rich quick.
That's a great question.

In our current architecture, we perform failover by selecting a new primary among the existing replicas for a given shard. We do not however add new servers to the replica list during a failover condition.
Therefore, if you have a table with two replicas per shard and have a one node failure, you would only have a single replica left.

Currently we do not automatically failover in that case. We always require a majority of replicas to be present for any given shard before failing over the primary of that shard.

I believe we could relax this constraint in this specific case, and allow failing over despite only a single replica being left, as long as we still have a majority for the table overall. (I'm going to double-check this with one of our core developers...)
Even if we did perform the failover, that would not restore write availability of the table though, since there wouldn't be a majority to acknowledge a write (unless you set write_acks to "single").
It could still be useful to restore availability for up to date read queries.
We might add support for auto failover in this scenario in the future.
Let's Encrypt Launch Plan: Week of September 14, 2015
Have you seen Maslow's hierarchy of needs? It tries to address this topic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs

It is, of course, just one idea but it is fairly well fleshed out so at least worth throwing in the pile when talking about things like this.

Essentially full middle class-ness stops at self-actualization. If you can achieve that and all of the lower tiers, everything above and beyond is unnecessary.

Wealth stops being about living when you tick all of those "boxes" and start spending on things that aren't really characterised by any of them.

> I meant what resources should not have incentives attached to them, what resources are considered pure luxury.

It might be one of those cases where it is easier to define what ISN'T rather than what is. Since everyone that isn't required is inherently a luxury, be it a $1 soda or a $3K+ plane ticket.
If he just wanted privacy, why did he "disappear" in such a dramatic fashion, that he had to know would attract a lot of attention? Why did he then mysteriously "reappear" with a cryptic printer spool on his webpage?

Sounds like an attention seeker to me.
Rout the Kimmie in the Boat: A Glossary of Boontling
Anyone else come away with the feeling that the research, the 'discovery' and the article wouldn't exist if there weren't very uncomfortable atheists behind it all?
Most buckets are shaped like a truncated cone, so with a steady eye one should be able to fill a bucket to exactly half (2.15 or 2.35 liters). However, in this puzzle, this little trick doesn't help and the shortest solution is indeed 44 steps.
Thanks for pointing out the linkbait "you" in the title. We missed that one.

It's a pet peeve of ours, too, when titles abuse "you". Headline writers use this trope because it grabs attention, which is their job; and it's our job to undo their grating gimmicks. In the present case, that's as simple as deleting the bogus "you".
Or add ppa/OBS/hosted repo that builds the latest version.
> with Haswells mediocre improvements Intel has really not come up with anything substantial in years

Unlocking Haswell's performance (up to 2x integer/FPU) requires using AVX2 instructions. Which means at least recompiling and to truly extract the performance, optimizing to AVX2 intrinsics or assembler.
That is really impressive. I would think their production lines have been updated with newer technology though.
Interestingly WebGL is way slower than SVG and Canvas in this case (Chrome, rMBP): https://jonobr1.github.io/two.js/examples/particle-sandbox.h...
> Anything that harasses, bullies, or abuses an individual or group of people (these behaviors intimidate others into silence)

> /r/coontown will be reclassified. The content there is offensive to many, but does not violate our current rules for banning.

Seriously? /r/coontown isn't harassing, bulling, or abusing a group of people? This AMA didn't clarify anything at all, these were always the vague, sometimes enforced, rules.
Why is having R a limitation? R is a fantastic data language which arguably beats all others in terms of number of libraries and data manipulation tools.
I think the way to go is for the site author to offer their own content style. Then the user has the choice to use that, or to use their own style. They can default to whatever they want (theirs or sites'), and override on a case-by-case basis.

If a user is determined to view your site with different colors/fonts, then there's no reason to fight them. They could even have very legitimate reasons (poor eyesight needing bigger fonts, color blindness issues, etc.)

But for this to really work, we need to drastically decrease the variation involved in the site markup (HTML), and rely much more heavily on the styling (CSS) for page layout. HTML5 semantic elements don't go nearly far enough.
> It's dollars cheaper

It's only dollars cheaper in the short term, and even then only if one takes a very narrow view of the issue(s).

Helping people reintegrate into society can cut recidivism rates, as exemplified by Michigan's Prisoner Re-entry Program [0], which lowered the recidivism rate from 43.5% to 29% [1] and shrunk the state's prison population by 12% [2]. "If states could reduce their recidivism rates by just 10 percent, they could save more than $635 million combined in one year alone in averted prison costs." [2]

Of course these programs cost money... but the Michigan program receives $12-20 million of funding per year, and has saved the state "hundreds of millions of dollars." [3]

And there would also be savings in the areas of law enforcement, property damage, etc...

[0] http://www.bhpi.org/?id=54&sid=1

[1] http://michiganradio.org/term/michigan-prisoner-re-entry-pro...

[2] http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/reports/00...

[3] http://michiganradio.org/post/snyder-administration-cut-prog...
A sea of ALUs with an instruction set to directly route them together, is effectively describing the Mill CPU.

http://millcomputing.com/
But, like, why "three strikes you're out" and not this:

totalSentence = firstTimeOffenderSentence * (1 + numberOfPriors)
WebVR Spec Draft
The Next Wave – A Conversation With John Markoff
> although 3 sticks doesn't make any sense

Yeah, indeed it doesn't make much sense when you have 4 memory channels. Memory performance is going to be very bad. Four sticks would be just fine.

> Or 6 sticks

Neither does 6. Go for 4 or 8 sticks. Not sure if it applies here, but on some motherboards having 2x more than <number of memory channels> sticks means there's a bit more latency.
TL;DR - We will still allow almost all the same hateful stuff we have previously allowed, but we will do our best to hide it so people will stop complaining.
get arrested, go back to prison
Well, if there were some kind of justice in the world, then we would all have access to some basics like clean air and clean water. But, at the moment, being rich helps you get things like that when they aren't universally available.

This is a complex subject and not one you are going to sort out with a single question on a public forum. For starters, the primary value of money is to lubricate trade. It doesn't have inherent value. You can't, for example, eat it. In order to really be rich, you have to understand what has real value, not just how much money things cost. That's not an easy thing to grasp, especially if you are blinded by the dollar signs we attach to just about everything today.
Not exactly the change people were anticipating.

In fact, I'm not sure there is a change.
Hey Snoupy,
We use a native iOS app as a gateway for Apple Pay and pass shopping cart's data from the merchant's website to your phone. You do need to install the Checkmate app.
Merchants need to add our plugin to their store in order to make it work.

Secured? Yes, it is even safer than traditional checkouts. We only pass the shopping cart and an anonymous ID from the website to your phone. Credit cards stay within Apple Pay and your session is never stored.

Hope this clarifies a little.

Aymeric
https://twitter.com/justcheckmate
Mostly a quote of Huffman's original post, which was already posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9899548
Re some condition of parole being a violation of civil liberties, how would it be different than prison being a violation of civil liberties?

I'm not snarking, I'm asking what the difference would be.
Prohibited: Anything that harasses, bullies, or abuses an individual or group of people (these behaviors intimidate others into silence)

About time.
Hey nirmel- would love to chat more about your experiences! Please email me at sam@friendstonightapp.com
Technically Reddit doesn't owe anyone anything. However, if an outlet is significant enough, their private right to censor becomes, for all practical purposes, political censorship of public space. If you have no practical means of exercising your right to free speech, it might as well not exist, because it is then just a dead letter on a piece of paper. (Whether Reddit is actually significant to such an extent is debatable.)
Hah, small world. I'm doing great, thanks. Hope you are as well.
Awesome to see some progress on WebVR!
>Explaining how a cell works is not the same as explaining how cells first came to exist

to me it became much clearer when i read somewhere (just dont' remember where) along these lines - imagine a "stick" shaped pretty simple organic molecules with one end being hydrophobic and the other hydrophilic (there are a bunch of such molecules known in organic chemistry). Having a soup of those molecules in water, some of the molecules would naturally clump together with hydrophilic ends outside and hydrophobic ends inside - kind of a small bubble. Now if on contact of a bubble with another molecule, the molecule is added into the bubble (similar like a bunch of magnets clumped together "assimilate" another magnet piece correctly orienting it), the bubble gets bigger and at some point it would naturally splits into 2 smaller bubbles (surface tension, etc...) and each bubble would continue the "assimilation"/growth and division in their turn as long as there are such molecules around... Of course it isn't even "pre-cell", it is just showing how natural physics laws can drive the initial pre-life stages.
Personality grows out of the environment you are in. Teaching personal responsibility to someone who is on the street associating with gangs can be a lost cause.

I think prison can serve to change someones environment to such levels that they are willing to change themselves. Maybe not 30 years of prison though.
Having hateful beliefs is not in itself harassing, bullying, or abusing individuals.
I heavily lean on the type system less for "no bugs" (though frankly I am surprised that you never accidentally confuse a list of URLs stored as NSString with a list of NSURLs ;P) and more for helping me rapidly refactor my codebase: I can make some signature changes and then let the compiler walk me through the required remaining changes.
The biggest change is making subs that violate "common decency" opt-in.

I predict they'll find a new phrase for that criteria as "common decency" pretty obviously would re-classify subs that are not what they're really after.
Doesn't it abuse "groups of people" then?