skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I suppose when you retire at 65 or 70, after a long life of labor, then doing nothing is probably what happens.

But what about the chance to retire at, say, 45? I imagine many folks at that age, having the 2nd half of their lives ahead of them, would go on to focus on a more personal passion that is also active.
Error establishing a database connection

Did some admin employee fail? We can't tell whether they were being let fail or failed all on their own, but I'd rate the failure as successful.
Interesting article / post about how to scan for mainframes:

https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/The+80s+called+They+Want+T...
In Hamburg we now have an IKEA in a shopping street, where most customers come without cars. It sure is possible to build car free cities. Yes, you have to allow transporters and garbage collection and buses, but that still is an significant reduction of car traffic, changing the air, atmosphere and sound of the city. Germany has prepared infrastructure to disallow old cars from city centers - maybe just eCars in some years?

It's easy if you try :P
I think most of the amazement came from the time they were in. In that time this was truly revolutionary. Having a whole OS based on it is still arguably revolutionary, but from a programming/IDE perspective I don't think they are anything special any more. As far as I know a modern Lisp + Emacs gives you roughly the same experience.
I'm not a cyclist, rarely use buses or cars and sometimes find it stressful dealing with the unpredictability of cyclists, but if I had to choose the best of the three images it's the one with bikes. A bus moves along a single route so it's inflexible. It might be able to carry all of the cyclists, but only if they're all taking the same route.

If we break it down to range vs flexibility, while the bus is long range its delivery capability depends on the proximity of stops to destinations. The shoe, certainly the most flexible delivery mechanism, has a very low range for most people. A bicycle has a good blend of range and flexibility. Cars have excellent range yet space to park them comes at a premium, sometimes eliminating any temporal advantages that they offer as you search for a spot and then travel to your intended destination by foot.

Looking at latency - as in time to start moving, of course if you're living in a regional area or the outer suburbs with a long commute the car is king. Buses can be few and far between in these areas and while shoes and bikes have low latency, range is the major limitation.
Well Cloudformation is AWS specific, whereas Ansible could be applied to other platforms and environments. So might be easier to learn/master just one tool?
The analogy could go from car:bike:bus to another photo of [miles of single family houses]:[a handful of apartment buildings]:[one high rise apartment with a park around it]. Perhaps in an ad campaign for SF redevelopment?
Maths Behind Uber
That server lasted long...
Some cities in China, as well as Manila IIRC, only allow cars in the city on certain days based on their license plate numbers. Even, then odd, back and forth. Of course this means rich people just buy two cars, so it doesn't quite have the intended effect.
Ask HN: What license have you chosen for your technical blog?
I'm writing some of my futur blog posts and I was wondering about licenses on technical written content (including source code, graphs, ...).

I'm interested in knowing what license you have chosen and specially why.
developers at s-fbi.com have failed at making this article live :P
If those are your options, you shouldn't have employees, you should outsource the work.

And I'm not one usually in favor of outsourcing, but having employees is a whole different ballgame. If you can't let them fail, you're not building a team that will add value over outsourcing, so you're better off not taking on all of the complications that come with having employees.
"If there is a crash on 1 August, the chance that the next crash occurs one day later on 2 August is 1/365. But the chance the next crash is on 3 August is (364/365) x (1/365), because the next crash occurs on 3 August only if there is no crash on 2 August."

Is this not the gambler's fallacy? Shouldn't the odds be unaffected by a previous crash?
Paris is gradually phasing cars out, in several ways, but even today most Parisians are non-drivers, especially the younger ones, and not-driving is a great choice. Of course people who live in the suburbs need a car but even there, public transportation is slowly catching up.

There is an ongoing general effort to make cars painful to use, that had been unfolding year after year over the last decade. I think that's a great strategy to kick the cars out of the city.

- Remove parking spots. Every year, hundreds to thousands of parking spots are removed throughout the city. (Shared bikes and cars have been great for this as they took an astonishing amount of space from regular parking and made use of it instead of just forbidding parking)

- Add bus and bike lines at the expense of regular car lanes.

- Regularly hike parking prices. This year parking went up 15%, and residential parking went up 200%.

- Hike fines for parking infringement Today fines are 17/33€, there are talks to increase them to 60/135 next year.

- Slow down cars overall. 90% of the city is to be limited to 30kph soon (regular city limit is 50). Many areas are limited to 20kph.

- Add speed traps and red-light traps all over.

- Entire districts are planned to go car-free in the next few years.

Taken together, these changes really do add up and, as we already have good public transportation, there are fewer and fewer reasons to own a car in Paris. I think the good approach here is to start by removing cars in the city center, then gradually kick them out of the outer boroughs as infrastructure allows it.
LWN.net discussion: https://lwn.net/Articles/654776/#Comments
Ok, thanks. Haven't read the spec, that's why I was asking.

>However, the general consensus is that promises should be part of the microtask queue, and for good reason.

That's the only bit I found in the post regarding that. Didn't sound like 'it's in the spec' to me.

Regarding the example, (I'm gonna sound like the SO posters that I hate but) there are other appropiate places where you should hook up that callback. If the one you chose does not play well with Promises yet (because you want to access an object thats at the end of its lifetime and not guaranteed to exist), then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

I asked for an example where the program breaks because I thought that if you queue up things 'for later dispatch' you shouldn't be worriyng about the order where they dispatch. If you're actually worried, then chain them together with the classic callback stuff.

But, I'm not demeaning your post (I see you're the author), it was really good. The main issue is see is (as you stated in your comment) that Promises as microtasks would increase their performance. It is a shame, however, that we as developers are not able to queue microtasks directly (like when using setImmediate, process.nextTick) :(
Yeah, having worked for a couple of Fortune 500 companies, 1 was fine to work for, the other was absolute hell.
I think the problem is that, because of historical quirks and social norms, cars are much bigger than they should be. It wouldn't be such a big deal if those single-person cars were as big as a scooter, for example; but cultural norms tell us that a real man must have a "real car": 4 seats, a huge engine you'll never really need, an empty boot, and projecting an image of power and superiority (mostly through size).

People have the right to make journeys privately and in comfort, but they don't have the right to waste space and energy just because of outdated cultural norms. Enlightened cities would promote extra-small cars, segregating other cars and trucks in congested lanes "for security". It can be done relatively easily, but there is a very hard cultural battle to fight with the likes of Jeremy Clarkson and his viewers.
How I stopped worrying and learnt to love the interview
It turns out that driving in london or using public transport (bus at least) is noticeably less healthy than walking [1]. I imagine if you could fit in a run through some less busy and/or green spaces you might be overall better off??

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2014/aug/12/lon...
I migrated from Australia to Canada.

I came initially on a 1 year working holiday visa.
Then got a 1 year work visa through an employer while I worked on my permanent resident application (spousal sponsorship).

PR was granted about 6 months after submission, and I got citizenship about 5 years later.
But you can make laws that protect people's rights.
There are some sources that claim that medieval peasants in agricultural economy worked around 6 hours a day, and it was less than is standard today in the developed world.

Seeking leisure is a human nature, true. But maybe also human nature is to compete for resources, get more for your family, and make yourself more attractive to the other sex, even if that means working harder. If the alternative is unemployment, this may drive people to work in (or even create) services that they know are not really that useful.
>Exercising in London pollution is probably a bad idea

Is not the same as:

>Yes, in this level of pollution there are considerable risks that need to be balanced against benefits of exercise.

I dispute the former, not the latter. Unless you show me some evidence that exercising in a polluted city is somehow worse than living-but-not-exercising in said city, I'm going to continue to dispute that.

Encouraging people to avoid exercise is incredibly reckless.
> The cyclists make sense, but where I live you can picture the bus with one guy on it.

That was my city around 7 years ago. Public transit was very underutilised and the general mental image people had of it was that it was for children, old and poor people. Then the city councils in the area got together and started to really put money into improving the routes and service. It was hard to justify politically because of the existing attitudes, but seven years later, almost all of the buses I see have >50% occupancy with mostly regular middle-class people, even outside of rush hour. During rush hours have to send extra buses as they fill up fast.

So I think part of it is to break out of the cycle of public transit providing shitty service, people not using public transit because of shitty service, and the service getting shittier because there's even less political will to put money into it with fewer passengers.
In this case I would agree with you. I don't understand the reasoning for the last sentence at all.
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Unless I miss my guess, this the same guy who makes Emacs Rocks.

http://emacsrocks.com/
This stood out for me, (from Ivan Illich's book, referenced in the article):

"The cyclist can reach new destinations of his choice without his tool creating new locations from which he is barred."
US Patent 9085897: Space elevator
> And if you replace driving or sitting on a bus with one of these then you're less sedentary/getting more exercise.

No, in both cases you are being moved by an external power source, so they're equally sedentary.
Silly gooses!
On a serious note tho. I spent 7h waiting at Charles de Gaules in Paris trying to find a decent seat I could spend more than 1h in without getting my bottom numb and lamentably failed. Why are airport always displaying fancy architectural design and super poor comfort? Is that a cost requirement or are interior designers simply never waiting in an airport themselves and unaware of what's required for comfort?
I had great success using ngrok 1.x which is Open Source. We've compiled it, put it on staging server, hooked up Cloudflare and now every dev machine can expose https://devname.example.com using one command. The certificate is valid, which is very useful when debugging services like Google Drive API, which require trusted SSL.
How would you "inspect" a ballot box from which real votes have been discarded and which has been stuffed with fake votes? Once you have sufficient access to open a voting machine (electronic or otherwise) and change components, all bets are off.
I'd be curious to get HN's opinion on crypto/blockchain voting ideas such as http://www.bitcongress.org.

It seems many of the disadvantages of traditional e-voting machines and the speed/counting effort of paper-based voting are done away with.
You're right that the probability that there is a crash on 3 August is unaffected by a potential crash on the 2 of August, but the chance that the crash on the 3 of August is the next crash (after the 1st of August) is affected.
Don't spouse visas take over 12 months? I'm about the start the process of sponsoring my spouse and we are expecting it to take almost 2 years (we aren't living in Canada at the moment).

EDIT: well they do say "up to 16 months" at the Ottawa processing center. So I guess given the time you'd already spent in Canada 6 months isn't that wild.
[video] Static Analysis of Source Code After 200 Open-Source Projects
Presentation (EN): http://www.slideshare.net/Andrey_Karpov/200-open-sourceproje...
I guess this also means the university is indirectly cheating when they publish statistics about the grades their students get.

As you say, the incentive and resource for the university to do something about this just isn't there.
Press release from 21st July 2015: http://thothx.com/news-2/
Sure
http://programacaobr.com/elections2014/
I migrated from Belgium to Hong Kong.
It actually begun when I did my internship in China, after graduating I started looking for jobs in Hong Kong and one company offered me a working visa. 4 years later and I'm still there. (Although at another company)
"If an election was held using the AVS WinVote, and it wasn’t hacked, it was only because no one tried."

Ouch!
Early random number generation was terrible. You wouldn't get clumps / no clumps, you'd get fuzzy straight lines.
The art of giving good feedback as a client
7 Awesome MLearning Benefits
Raspberry Cloud uses the Dropbox API, it isn't a clone. So you have the advantage of accessing your actual Dropbox folder. Plus it is fully featured media links, downloadable .zips and all.

It is easy to install as well :D
Also, pedantically, a plane that crashes on the 2nd August isn't going to crash again on the 3rd.

We can reduce the rate of crashes by taking planes out of the sky, and one way to do that is to crash them.
i have a 4k monitor at 28" and viewing/writing text/code at 1:1 scaling is perfectly fine!

i agree that a monitor with this resolution should not be scaled, the available real estate is exactly why i purchased it.
Then probably it might be a good idea to add a note about avoiding its usage in your book. Thanks for the book and making it available for free.
Raksha Bandhan – the most ritualistic and sacred bond
I am also a current amazon employee (SDE-II) and on-call is certainly paid.
Most people are hostile towards this idea, they think it would be unfair if others didnt have to work as much as they did 'to get here'. It will take few generations until we grow up to accept basic income.
The common sorting algorithms (written in python). The code is clean, very simple and easy to understand.
Top 40 Hedge Funds by Assets
The European Accelerators in Numbers 2014
'Drinkable book' cleans murky water
so new that your DNS hasn't updated I fear? or maybe so successful you've busted your bandwidth? i just get a hosting company holding page.
I was talking about inspection once it reaches the election agency. After that, till counting both are same, however the fact that they can be tampered with during manufacturing is what bothers me. Essentially the ballot boxes only require one trustable entity the election agency, the EVM requires two trustable entities the EVM manufacturer and the election agency.
Has Europe gone too far? Europe is a very diverse place, but in general, I think a lot of countries in Europe strike a very reasonable balance. The idea that a company should be able to fire someone on the spot over absolutely nothing, is completely unreasonable in an economic system where you need a job to live.

Introduce Basic Income, and I'm totally fine with at-will employment, however.
the university is indirectly cheating when they publish statistics about the grades their students get.

Not really as long as they don't guarantee that grade X guarantees a specific skill level. Clearly there is a usable correlation between grades and skill, but it's not super reliable, whence coding tests, interviews, requirements for n years experience, and so on.
It's interesting to think about this in the long run rather than the short term. Perhaps given enough time the projects will diverge to something significant? Sort of like all the variants of Unix.
Yes you're right my comment comes across as way overly negative with respect to the liveability of not driving in Paris, even though I almost never drove there (and hated every second of driving I had to do). Thank you for the expansion and details.
Pentagon Plans to Increase Drone Flights by 50 Percent
The Evolution of Asynchronous JavaScript
I and many others spent basically all day there yesterday. It's fun to look through all of these manuals. It takes a lot of concentration picking out the unique copies and leaving the many copies behind. Especially HP.. arg so, so many revisions of the same manual.
that's actually really cool - congratulations. not 100% sold on the colour art, but the B&W one is really clever. no option to save as ascii though?
Murdock mentions that he was studying management at the time he got into Linux. I couldn't find any further information about it. In Wikipedia it says that he studied computer science in Germany. At some point in life he changed majors.
I'd very much like to read a post about that decision.

I share the love of computers. I spend all my free time in front of computers, programming and reading. It's been like this for my whole life.
Due to a twist of fate (couldn't get a scholarship) I ended up in law school. I have no interest in anything beside computers. I can't live without them, but it's killing me to know that I can't study computer science.
Any suggestions??
The GIFs Project via GIFS.com
WeChat’s Growth Shows Why Messaging Apps Attract Big Valuations
Some controversy on that topic
https://pacsec.jp/psj14/PSJ2014_Hursti-MacAlpine_Estonia-Pac...
When Is a Code Freeze Not a Code Freeze?
"Nage" is technique, and the person who applies a technique against an attacker is "tori". If the author can't get this right, I would suspect their understanding of the martial art is somewhat shallow.
That's right :)
Im curious for more in depth detail about the differences between 1440p at native scale or 4k at 2x scale, does the loss of effective screen space not negate any gains in crispness? I've only recently upgraded from two 1080p screens to a single 2560x1440 screen and I'm finding the extra space incredibly useful. That being said I absolutely love the fine text on my retina macbook.
RolePoint (AP S12) We're hiring a full stack engineer in London
If you build a Gaming computer with NVIDIA cards isn't it basically equivalent to a inexpensive deep learning setup?
Unless there are reserve planes that come immediately on-line to fill the gap (or the remaining planes do more fly time).
Indeed. It's even mentioned in the footer.
but that leaves a problem of getting sweaty

which usually could be solved in at least two ways. In a better world your employer would supply showers so you could at least clean yourself. Secondly, unless you have some condition or your way to work exists solely of tour-de-france-like cols, it should be possibly to commute that without or with a minimum of sweating. Key is training and cycling below the threshold you start sweating. What I ususally do is ride to work at an easy pace (about 5km/h slower on average than what I usually do) which results in no or a just a little bit of sweating, while when riding home again I ride at my usual pace or faster if I feel like it - that is the training part.

For the rest: yes cycling in winter can be a quite unpleasant experience and sbarre's comment is very well put
Also in other places eg Florida it's considered ok to build inexpensive housing. England's covered with fields and woods but it's considered horrific to build on which helps the high prices. Also if you built in London like they do in Guangzhou you could pack about 5 times as many people but again people hate the idea.
Purely semantic... but how can a duration be "almost indefinite"?
With the number of Amazon affiliate links this post has, how come it doesn't get flagged as spam? Is it the authors celebrity?
The biggest problem with this is quiet often public transport is poor quality and expensive and bike lanes non existent. I'm lucky enough to cycle to work which takes 15 minutes, due to where I live taking a bus would mean doing a massive V across the city taking over an hour to a job I could walk to in 30/40 minutes, there is no incentive for me to use public transport at all and I see that mirrored a lot where I live. 10 mile journeys that would take hours by public transport but 20 minutes in a car, can I then judge people for driving, of course not.
I don't think you really need to go to a computer science school to study computer science at this point. It can be done, perhaps much better, on your own with the amount of courses and information available online.
A big part of it was that they were definitely further up a year or two ago and have been trying to fire sale out manuals as they go. The website has been updated infrequently so the number is not as large anymore.
Does anyone have experience coding on 21:9 screens like the Acer XR341CK?
I remember the joy I felt when I downloaded Linux for the first time and booted it on my 386 .. it was like I was suddenly granted access to the hallowed halls of technology. I'd been a Unix guy for a decade before that, but never able to afford my own machine .. working with a Magnum pizzabox at work, but a lame DOS PC at home, it was always very frustrating to me. But when I got on the minix-list and saw Linus' post a few days later, I was instantly transported into an .. at the time .. elite new world.

Never looked back, and its amazing to me today to see just how far we've come. Truly a phenomenal technology ..
What happens then ? How did they pick up the most appropriate ? Or maybe they wait for one the vendors (the fastest) to produce a product up to the specs ?
An Interview with the London Developer
Long time linux user. Tend to stay behind the times in terms of distros, 12.04 is still one of my development machines.

I tend not to keep up on the news lists in terms of the politics around stable software that gets the job done. I had no idea IBM pulled the plug on OpenOffice.

For my Mac laptop, I've Open Office installed. Thanks to this open letter I immediately converted to Libre Office. Thanks Christian...
I just don't see the point, I have a 2015 Retina Macbook Pro and a 1080p 24" Dell monitor and can hardly feel any difference. It might have to do with the scaling though.

I wish they stopped with the pixel race or at least made it easy for the user to opt-out. 1080p is still pretty great for any mid size laptop and maybe then I'd be able to run Mission Control at more than 5fps.