skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I'm trolling/mocking you anti-systemd retards. That's what Schopenhauer recommends as a strategy against irrational rhetoric (here of the reactionary kind). I couldn't care less for irrational people's reading recommendations.

P.S.: "Self-projection" is psychobabble grounded in no science.
NES Super Mario Bros in a WebGL Shader
Me too.

I'm not sure how much progress can be made. Even the luminary of Google seems to kinda be floundering from its initial flowering.
Interesting. Most of the people I hear supporting abortion won't acknowledge that it's a life that's being ended. Whether they don't know or just won't admit it varies by person.
As always, talk to your doctor about the risks. For example, if there is a complication with removing the IUD (ex: the uterus is too tight and pushes the IUD too far up) they may have to schedule an appointment with the OR at a hospital to have it removed, instead of the OBGYN. Anecdotal (not me, I have no uterus), but still no fun.
However neither carries a full copy of a person's DNA. They're only "alive" in that they're biological.
I'd start off simple by getting a midi controller like a Novation Launchpad (or Ableton Push if you can afford it) or a midi keyboard like the Akai MPK Mini. Pretty much all these controllers/keyboard comes with a software package or coupons/discount for Ableton Live. Or if you haven't already, you may download a 30 day trial of the full version of Ableton Live 9. And then you might want to head here for a free course on Ableton:

https://www.kadenze.com/courses/sound-production-in-ableton-...
It will get worse when the contractor behind this gets involved:

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/10/10/malware-compromi...
Well their way of doing things would not get past Torvalds.

Heck, he has more than once chewed out one of the principal systemd devs (Kay Sievers) for violating central rules of kernel development.
Agreed. Whenever I see these sites that don't let you see anything before signing up, I just leave. I don't understand this as a design decision, at all.
Like this? https://github.com/clojure/tools.emitter.jvm
"A ton of links" is not one. Just saying.

This screams pseudoscience all over the place.
We do our best to be price competitive which is part of our pricing model. We never try to win on a price war but we're better in terms of pricing compared to both FBA & Shipwire.
NestedVM: C/C++ to MIPS binary to Java bytecode (2009)
It's an idealogical struggle that goes back and forth.

For example, from my very rough memory:

- People were upset there weren't more women in the armed forces.

- The armed forces lowered PT requirements for women so that more women could make it in (less pushups, slower mile times, can sit down in formation)

- Currently people are mad because that treats women differently. Among other things, it gives a sense that all women are weak and need extra accommodations, and that can hurt them in the eyes of men in the force.

So we have this struggle of wanting to include more women, but we have to figure out how to do it without favoritism.
who goes out and buy the underdog in a market? why?

so there are a dozen shopping sites. let's buy the least know one!
In a distributed architecture it is very difficult to avoid the possibility you mention even with a strongly consistent store at the center of your service discovery mechanism. The consistency the store provides doesn't necessarily extend to the operational state of your system.

For example, your zookeeper nodes may all be consistent with each other, but given that a server can fail at anytime, that information while consistent may still be stale. Likewise, if a client is caching connections outside of zookeeper's consensus mechanism, then these connections will also become stale in the face of changes.

Given these possibilities, there is always the potential for traffic to be dropped on the floor regardless of how consistent your store is, so ultimately what matters is how to minimize the probability of this occurring and whether your system can cope when it does.
You hit it on the nose. People rarely decide between us and Amazon, usually it is between some random fulfillment centers their friends heard of and us. We have been pretty competitive on price so far, but mostly our benefit is we give total pricling upfront. Seemingly cheaper warehouses will give a low rate, but what is the true cost of using them? Are you hiring people or paying for mistakes they make?
So, why don't they just subsidize the cost of the IUD - and fund marketing for the program - instead of a large cash payment? That would take care of the accessibility issue without being such blatant population control.
"I did more research, though I'm still confused if I would be encouraged to be given priority or not? Not renumbering to show that I checked after writing everything else out."

A quick google suggests that DjangoGirls is explicitly open to all women and also non-binary individuals, and at least one major player is connected with Trans*Code.

"Monospace white-on-black command-line aesthetic is a stylistic choice. It’s one that is relatively unmarked in our community. Glittery pastels is a different aesthetic. They are both perfectly valid ways to invite someone to be a programmer. And they will appeal to different audiences."

And this comment of yours:
"I'm sure it's, on a technical level, a great book. But it comes off as "this is girly, made by girls, and it's meant for girls"

is sort of the entire point of the original blog. So what if it's laid out in a manner that's coded as "feminine" by this society? What's wrong with that?
You got down voted because your comment read like you were tarnishing all variants of BASIC with the same brush when in fact many variants do promote structured programming.
The elaborate death messages insulting the player: a matter of taste.

These messages not including a "go back to last non-fatal point" button: objectively horrible.
This is a fantastic explanation. Thank you for phrasing it so concisely.
Seems like you're trading away haproxy as a centralized SPOF for brand new custom code, which itself is a centralized SPOF; and also needing a new watchdog daemon to do what the haproxy instance would have done. Would be interesting to understand what the problem was that forced that complex arrangement, because it's not obvious to me at the moment.
Dennet also has a pretty good take down of Penrose in chapter 15 of Darwins Dangerous Idea.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, no.
Walc, an app that isn't even out yet close half a million allegedly. For perspective, this is more than twice of OMG's Draw Something.
ChrisChristi.com
It's not free. It's a very inefficient way of converting food to human energy to humans lifting weights that in turn power the lights.

If this is targeted at very poor people, food isn't cheap for them.
The source code for the post is available[1], as is the macro[2] which is loaded via XHR.

The short of it is that a load function is passed to `cljs/compile-str`, which provides the mapping. In this case, it doesn't bother to do any mapping because it knows that it is loading `bar.core`. However, `bar-url` could instead be in a map from the namespace to the URL. Surprisingly simple, actually!

1. https://github.com/swannodette/swannodette.github.com/blob/m...
2. http://swannodette.github.io/assets/cljs/bar/core.cljs
Heh! Bubble much?
The shovel-sellers only make money as long as the gold rush lasts.
The making of the Phoenix Framework landing page
The "traditional 30" is only with 4th generation fighters -- as in, we've only had one generation with that lifespan. Previous generations of jet fighters could be designed, tested, fielded, and retired within as little as 10 years as the speed of technology development increased ever faster. The reasons why 4th generation aircraft have been able to last so long are numerous. I'll take a quick stab at it.

1) There haven't been any radical innovations in jet propulsion. Sure, the latest engines from GE or P&W are more efficient than the engines of the 80s, but not dramatically so.
2) The 4th generation fighters were well designed with an eye for systems growth, precisely because the government grew tired of continually developing new fighters. Insert here whatever impact you wish to give to the "fighter mafia". These aircraft were able to take advantage of digital data buses and fly by wire technologies, which were new and allowed for years and years of expansion and growth. Point-to-point wired aircraft just get really difficult to improve past a certain point.
3) Improvements in materials and manufacturing techniques incorporated into the 4th generation gave them longer service lives.

I could keep going. But you get the idea. The 4th generation was wildly successful.

And thank you for that fas.org link, it appears to be a good gathering of facts upon my initial perusal.
Not everyone goes against abortion because of the religion. There is more in to it, like cultural drop of values, increased risk of sexual transmitted viruses, drop in family values.
>"So what neutral term would you suggest we use instead that is acceptable to everyone being described?"

I would suggest that you refer to people by their preferred epithet, unless you can find a neutral one (which I cannot). This is common practice in most other ideological situations, (i.e. religions, political groups, and philosophical creeds,) and appears to be moderately effective at avoiding distraction from the discussion.

>"Please don't make assumptions about my views on abortion or who my "opponents" are, especially since I've very explicitly tried to refrain from opining on the matter."

I would be geniunely surprised if you self-described as 'anti-choice' (as I have never heard anyone describe themselves as anti-choice or anti-life outside of a joke,) so please correct me if I am wrong, but I stand by my assumption until it is proven false.
Lori Schiller, "The Common Plague"

"The Hot Zone" whose author I don't recall, points out that "The human races is a trillion pounds of meat just waiting for a virus."

Outbreak was very, very loosely adapted from The Coming Plague.

What concerns me most right now is antibiotic resistance.

It thought I had diabetes, it runs in my family. I figured that's why I had open sores all over my feed and lower legs, so I worked hard to manage my diet but the sores did not clear up, eventually grew quite painful.

Told my optometrist, she inspected my retinas, no your fine.

I had digital retinal photographs taken in 2007 then put on file for use as a baseline.

Requested a fasting blood sugar test, not you're perfectly normal, that's odd.

Then why do I have these sores all over my legs?

Here let me look.

I am going to drive you to the Urgent Care Clinic RIGHT NOW!

So it's not diabetes?

Well she was a nurse she knew what it was but was not permitted to diagnose so she referred me to someone who was.

Doctor said no that's a Staph infection, here take these, rub this on the sores them come back in three weeks if they don't clear up.

Well they did I am very fortunate but I once met a woman who had the antibiotic resistant kind of Staff it was like a veloceraptor noshed on both her calves.

Some hospitals will not permit their patients to shave with razors as doing so - in those specific hospitals - promotes MRSA infection.

American public health is mostly on top of antibiotic resistant tuberculosis but in many parts of the world they aren't on top of any form of tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis is the one remaining infectious disease that can kill you at a distance; at least with Ebola you have to touch an infected person's Precious Bodily Fluids.
Ask/Show HN: embedded projects
I like to work on small embedded projects using AVR microcontrollers. Currently I'm working on enabling RFID entry for my front door, and the last project I created a remote for my Ubuntu desktop computer to control nextflix while in bed.

So, since I don't often see things like this on HN, how about we share our embedded projects, interesting resources, or anything related. Arduino included!
Or, using the numbers provided for this actual product which exists, rather than a spherical LED on a frictionless plane, we raise a 12kg mass 1.8m and get a 0.1W LED light for 20 minutes. Do you think THAT's practical?
I expect that's the specific reason "The Hot Zone" and "The Coming Plague" name the victims.

That is, rather than "An African man had Ebola" they would say "Arthur Obama had Ebola".

There's a whole world of difference between the two.
ha! ios and android are still consume-only devices... and a game console is now where you create.
I'm curious is Facebook working on a version for Obj-C / Swift or do the iOS and Android clients now get back different types of results?
At least it doesn't try to sell itself as a beautiful programming language, aesthetics wise.
Way to mix up unrelated issues there!

I agree on empirical suicide risks for people outside various norms. Prop 8 and marriage as regulated by law had ~zero to do with that. Canada and The Netherlands provide a decade+ data showing how little correlation. Look into it before spouting off to me.

Other marriage benefits, indeed all the ones also granted by the state of California to Domestic Partners, are not material. There are non-sexual relationships among long-term (grand-) mother/daughter and friendship-based dyads who deserved those positive rights. Shame on the majority in past decades for yoking these to marriage, but they also do not argue in the least for redefining marriage from its heteronormative (cis- or trans-, note well) basis.

You like to argue post-hoc about "a stepping stone", but that's not forthright. At the time, from Mark Leno et al., there was no such talk. It was a bait and switch as @JVLast wrote (http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/you-will-be-assimilat...).

How am I harmed? The pretext for my leaving Mozilla was the outrage/status-display campaign, even if that can't possibly explain all the facts. In your view, I was harmed, and justly so -- but people disagree on justice, so in general, by your own rubriks, I was harmed.

(In case you are unaware, google CA 1101-1102 statutes. These were based on case law starting from "Gay Law Students v. Pacific Telephone & Telegraph".)

Beyond me, you already have telegraphed that it's un-PC, and possibly punishable by the full (lethal) force of the state, for someone like a creative/discretionary small business owner (baker, florist, printer, etc.) to demur from your point of view. And you've said it's hateful for parents to want to protect their children from propaganda.

Go on, prove me wrong: do you think there should be no legal sanction against bakers, florists, printers, restaurants, private schools, small businesses, and parents? Note the case law on side of printers, e.g., who need not be compelled to print materials to which they object. Note well this protects LGBT-owned print-shops.
Do you own a TV? It's certainly way more dangerous than that.
Good paper. This type of research lives on under the banner of safety/security through automatic diversification or diversity. Another phrase used in many papers is "moving target." I called it Security through Diversity in my own work. A quick Google shows most of us were similarly [not] creative. ;)

I used diversity extensively in my previous security work combined with obfuscation and strong, interface protection. Best protection against nation-state attacks on software. Simplest example was running requests a group at a time on three separate systems with different ISA's and toolchains while checking results. Another form of that I derived was having mutually suspicious parties do different implementations of same behavior. The approach I used most was just constantly changing implementation details of key services, from the app to the code serving the interface. Interface attempts to hide all details of implementation plus sanitize the input. Result is indeed a moving target that they rarely hit or expand on.

Modern IT is expected to be much more efficient in terms of labor and productivity. Unreasonably so I'll add. The best way to do diversification now is doing (a) portable software + interfaces, (b) containerizing implementations for easy swapping, and (c) using automated methods being developed in academia to diversify code without human intervention. Two of these can piggy-back on existing work in OSS and cloud tech. Below is a paper studying some approaches to the third:

http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2014/papers/SoK_c_Automate...
I've been very happy with Directory Opus for 10 years now.
I agree with MANY of these points. In enjoyed this category of games, both in my youth and when there was a post-Curses revival in interactive fiction/text adventures.

I was never able to get through Zork because of the inherent illogic (e.g. if I go west, going east should take me back).

Hitchhiker's Guide was perhaps the only one of these games that I finished, and that because it had a built in hint system. As I recall, it was nonetheless guilty of at least two of the listed sins, but the combination of the hint system and vague connection to the book got me through it.
Most people don't pay for it out of their pocket, as far as I'm aware, either they have health insurance coverage or they use public clinics like the one described in the article.
I generally have a beef with games that will criticize the player for choices the game forces you to make.

Imagine a game where you have to work with an NPC - an NPC that you have no doubt will betray you, but you have no choice to advance in the game except to cooperate.

Surprise! The NPC betrays you. You are then chastised (often at length) by other NPCs for your folly. That just bugs me.
it is funny how everyone still thinks android is open source.
I know all about fulfillment as I was once in direct mail. Drop a line to our Direct Mail broker, Jim Johnson.

davej@nuthouse.com or frances@cherman.com would know how to reach him.

I am contemplating an eCommerce / Direct Mail business that will require fulfillment if it works out.

That is I can drop list tests then fulfill them myself, but once I have an offer that works well, while I would still fulfill myself at the beginning, because I would already have tested I would already know I need fulfillment.

The eCommerce site will come first but mostly to prevent a competitor from eating my lunch. The real marketing will be direct mail. Over time the direct mail will drive the website.

I expect I would do radio ads as well.

However I am uncertain that I will actually pursue this. I have approached two potential co-founders, they both think its a great idea but they don't want to give up their present work.

I don't really require a full-time co-founder, I just don't want to go this alone. It's nice to have someone else to talk to in my place of work.

I am dead certain this idea is huge, but were I to tell you then I would have to kill you.

My mail is mdcrawford@gmail.com, http://www.warplife.com/mdc/

I will reply to your eMail with my phone number but for the most part eMail works best for me.

Thanks!
Ask HN: How to read data directly from a flash chip?
I'm an electronics novice (more of a software guy really) but need to dump the flash off an embedded device. It's surface mounted, and the device itself is bricked.

What is a good method to go about this? Are there any flash-dumping-as-a-service companies anywhere? If I need to do this myself, what pitfalls can I expect and what equipment do I need?

The chip is a EN29LV640B btw.
Ahhhh Lala, forever missed! Among the best, and Apple shut them down. I gave up on my iPad and mac-book and went to PC after that let down. MediaMonkey and Spotify have my business.
Having paredit makes me miss LISP when I'm not writing it. It just makes moving around and restructuring code so much easier than it is an a C-based language.
Interesting. I went to an institute of technology, so I'm pretty sure they didn't require science classes for humanities and social sciences majors (thanks for the correction!), since they didn't offer those majors. :-)

But I know the neighbouring universities offered science classes for non-science majors students, although it was never a requirement, and mentioning that maybe it ought to would make most people upset. It's been twenty years now though, but I don't think the situation has changed, sadly.
Use any C library from Ruby via Fiddle
Thanks for the correction, that's what I meant!
Just one look at blockchain tech should tell governments that they might as well give up on the pointless endeavor of eliminating information via intimidation. Technology is slowly presenting two options, complete transparency or totalitarian control. The days of operating in the middle are going away as the information becomes more difficult to trace back to it's origin.
Drop a dime to Tom Cumming, tcumming@thinkthink.com

Tell him Mike Crawford sent you.
Most people pay for it (and most healthcare expenses) through insurance, and insurance companies can negotiate their own price. This means that there is little incentive or care about the sticker price of treatments.
Oh please. Define "(family) values" and what would constitute a "drop" in them. Even if you are able to do so, you are mistaken

1. that people currently share your so-called values, and

2. that you have any business identifying or imposing desirable values.

Keep your "values" to yourself, please.

(I didn't even touch on "increased risk of sexual transmitted viruses [sic]"; by the time abortion comes into play, STIs are a done deal, so what in the world are you talking about?)
Speaking as someone who approves of the legal reality that abortion is a woman's right, I'm fine with pro-choice/pro-life. I don't think the aborted material constitutes a life, and the anti-abortionists' view that it does just makes me roll my eyes at their attempts to change that very common view with word games.
Ask HN: Windows 10 Local Backups and Hardware Migration?
We've been using Ghost for years. Yeah, it's got warts and yes, it has caused data loss. The "feature" I hate the most is how it can fail silently. If it can't complete a backup for any reason you can go days and weeks without knowing it. There's no way to tell it to put-up a big red warning window on the screen if, for example, the backup destination drive is full, can't connect to it or any other failure. I think it changes the little icon on the task-bar but that's pretty much lame.
I've been looking for a solid and reliable tool to migrate away from Ghost. I was just looking at this:

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/hdm-professional/

What they say about being able to restore to dissimilar hardware could be huge if it works. I definitely want to hear form HN'ers who might have experience doing this.

Context: Our engineering systems have four hard drives and tons of software on them. It takes a solid month to migrate a machine to new hardware because you pretty much have to start from scratch and re-install everything.

This, BTW, is one of my HUGE disappointments with Microsoft. In the old days applications and the OS were decoupled. Today, if we need to migrate to a bigger-faster machine with a newer OS we have to start from scratch and reinstall applications such as SolidWorks (with all the add-ons we have), Xilinx tools, EDA tools, compilers, file viewers, Office, editors, etc. It's a nightmare.

And that's why most of our engineering systems are still running Vista. You just get stuck because migrations are very costly in terms of man-hours, not dollars.

We are now looking to migrate to Windows 10 and the question of backup, drive imaging and restoration has come-up. I truly don't think Ghost is up to the task.

Is Paragon a good product? Are there better alternatives?