skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it's hard not to notice that most of these examples happen to be from before the war... closer to the Victorian era than modern times. So that's getting kind of ahistorical.

Secret service functionaries in communist Poland assassinated nearly 100 people in 1980s alone; mainly oppositionists, priests (the most famous father Popiełuszko wasn't the only one), who were unarmed and not affiliated with organized crime.

Furthermore, you wouldn't go to jail for as little as mentioning Fred Hampton (or Wacko siege) in public - let alone trying to write about it... and an anti-government organization such as Black Panther Party, armed and openly denouncing the state, now that's something utterly unthinkable in any "people's republic", they would all get killed. Solidarity was a trade union which formally called for improving socialism.

Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that the US was or is a paradise on Earth, you are obviously right to point out that Eastern bloc did not have a monopoly on political killings or unlawful surveillance.

But to insist that this was ever on par with Soviet-controlled countries in terms of freedom and lawfulness would be a doomed task... you'd quickly start scraping the bottom of the barrel in search of counterexamples; that's sort of like "project Steve" ;)
Where do you see that researchers are posting new
code in julia?
Israel has paid shills. What is wrong with counter shilling? http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/08/14/israel-pay-studen... This is your first comment... https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jewbear48
The molecule I'm thinking of has no name at this point, it's that early on. There are a number of companies working on the Nav1.7, and you can find them via google search. I think the earliest launch is close to 2020.

The anti-NGF are another pain MOA that seems promising. Pfizer is moving into phase 3 in the near-term.
Sphinx, or rather Docutils, does eat Markdown now: https://github.com/rtfd/recommonmark

There is no access to Sphinx's directives/extensions, as it implements Commonmark support, which doesn't yet offer an extension syntax as part of the spec. Once it does, writing in Markdown will me more useful, but currently it's limited to basic markup and naive linking.
A 2D vector library written in ES6
It's not just you.

If you skim through the comments on what they're calling "Cars Technica" articles, you'll find heavy criticism (especially on the earlier articles), some of which is along the lines of native advertising or sponsored content allegations---not helped by Porsche and Audi being advertising partners. The Ars writers and editors are however on record saying that they are absolutely not using native advertising or sponsored content (except when there is a clear banner declaring so).

Personally, I find that the further Ars gets from it's traditional domain of computers and consumer tech, the worse the quality of the article. In the case of the automotive articles, I don't think the editors or writers have sufficient subject matter expertise to write the well-informed articles that are common for Ars' computer and consumer tech coverage.
That's a bit of a straw man, isn't it? The homepage is just a basic page with recipes. Without JS, you can't even klick a recipe to view it, that just seems stupid to me. We've had a working tag for that for 20 years now, why would you break it? Sure, you could also build the whole thing in flash, but what's the point?
Urban Outlaw - https://vimeo.com/44410797

His garage is the dream.
Does anyone know what kinds of companies or applications make use of z/OS mainframes?
Unfortunately, modern smalltalk environments (pharo, squeak) are terrible compared to modern Common Lisp implementations.

The libraries are not there, monticello doesn't even support HTTPS last I checked, nevermind cryptographic signatures, they don't support concurrency via native OS threads, the FFIs are a joke (just take a look at pharo), the graphical environments are laughable (pharo and squeak look like total crap on OSX retina machines, the font rendering gives you headaches, yes it's THAT bad), performance is abysmal, I could go on for ages...

Common Lisp on the other hand has multiple mature opensource native code compilers (SBCL and CCL) that support multiple platforms, concurrency via OS threads, have amazing foreign function interfaces, performance that is close to C, optional paid support for the opensource implementations, a development environment that is more traditional but also lets you program 100% interactively from within the image without compromising when it comes to interfacing with traditional version control, also support snapshots and so on.

Smalltalk is more "dynamic" than Common Lisp and is also better (in theory)
when it comes to interactive development. But in practice, Pharo and Squeak are stuck in the 90s at best and compromise in areas that today are of paramount importance. Common Lisp doesn't and gives you all the options.
Don't miss your moments
I'm incredibly glad it was discovered anyway, I have syringomyelia (cyst in spinal cord that pushes on nerves), the consistent pain and numbness was pretty bad and going onto Gabepentin wasn't easy but once I got used to it the improvement was remarkable.

I went from a daily pain score of around 4-5 to 2, simply incredible, hands down one of the most effective medications I've ever taken.

Also I should note that I had essentially none of the side effects the internet will have you fear, if anything the marked reduction in pain was way more beneficial than I expected, mentally I feel closer to 100% than I have in a long time.

I'm also glad that Pregablin exists as my doctor mentioned that it's possible to cycle between one and the other if one begins to lose efficacy though at present I'm not screwing with what works well.
Users of System360 computers, which used EBCDIC instead of ASCII, might not agree with you about the inherent portability of ASCII-based text interchange. Not saying .NET objects are as portable, but it's a continuum and a trade off.
The State of New York uses them. Once a law was passed that the state needs to turn paperwork around in less than 48 hours they found the printing system was a bottleneck so they hired a greybeard friend of mine to build a new printer interface and device drivers for it.

Cornell University also used to run HR and accounting on a 370 mainframe and people were happy, but then they switched to peoplesoft and now (i) they are not happy, and (ii) looking for a new accounting system.
Airline GDS such a Sabre are on such systems.
When I lived in Canada, my mother's cup set had a 250ml "1 cup" and my grandmother had a 284ml one.

I just bought a measuring cup set here in Japan and the 1 cup measure is 255ml.

If that's not bad enough, a "cup" is 150ml when measuring coffee and 180ml when measuring rice.

Unfortunately, "cup" is not a standard measurement. :)
It's a marketing term. The Nazis were fascist, not socialist, and the two are really quite different.
The article seems to be very shoddily researched. A couple examples.

1.

Would sci-fi focus, as it has for much of its history,
largely on brave white male engineers with ray guns
fighting either a) hideous aliens or b) hideous
governments who don’t want them to mine asteroids
in space?

That was the science focus in the '20s and early '30s. By the late '30s the "ray guns vs. hideous aliens" stories were largely relegated to third tier, low circulation magazines, and generally only appeared in mainstream science fiction as a deliberate joke.

2. The author identifies the SP leaders a "three white males". I'm sure it is going to come as a surprise to Sarah Hoyt to learn that she is male. Larry Correia is Hispanic, which is a closer call--there is much confusion over whether or not Hispanic is an attribute that can be added to white/black, or if it is a separate category.
> Key files encrypted with passwords are weak because an attacker who compromises the key file can then crack the password offline.

If like to see them try with a 18 character long password.

Btw: is there a way to convert a private key to such a format which looks absolutely random (so the attacker can't tell if the decryption worked until they try to use the key)? Though IIRC three are some prime numbers there... Might not work.
Show HN: The prime knots in 3D
This is not what "objects" means (objects have methods), and .NET objects are a much higher level abstraction than structured data.
Seed Founders: Beware of Syndicate Shenanigans
Renderers for film use path tracing these days.
Yes, except for the fact that iPhones are not a food item you need, while milk, meat, bread, flour are.
Having only been around since 2012, Julia’s greatest disadvantage is a lack of community support.

That is true, but if you post a question to their forum, you will get swift answers, often from the core language team:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/julia-users

Unfortunately these posts don't always show up at the top of a google search, so it's sometimes better to search the user group directly.
Just in case you haven't seen yet, this is what the guidelines say about "good" vs "bad" posts:

What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
There have been attempts, RecipeML comes to mind.

Edit for grammar.
>Instead of writing code in programing language we move into xml/yaml direction and hundreds of weird config files.

Blame this partially on the weird phenomenon of programmers refusing to touch languages they consider aesthetically ugly. Javascript? CSS? Ick. Much better to pile on a build system to compile those languages from another language that looks kind of Ruby. HTML? Ew - no significant whitespace. Let's generate HTML from something that looks and acts like Python.

But, snark aside, I think it's a good thing if a framework can be agnostic about the kind of configuration syntax it uses, although that in and of itself implies some minimal complexity. Whatever choices the developers make about this, of course, amount to personal preference. Heck, I prefer INI files for configuration.

>Even small website often requires hundreds of megabytes of dependencies

That depends on the language and framework you're using. And how small you consider a "small" website.

Unfortunately (in my opinion, with which I know others will disagree) frameworks tend to want to do too much, and as such tend to bloat into vast, overly complex attempts at reinventing the wheel, the chassis, the transmission, the bumpers and deciding what kind of air freshener you should want hanging from the mirror. I would prefer a framework not have a templating library or ORM or code generators baked in at all. Those should be implementation specific decisions. Rather, a framework should manage dependencies, routing, global config, responses, have some hooks to allow extensibility - the basics. If I want more, I can pick libraries for that.
thanks for that link, there's some interesting stuff in there.

I also tried using a trie, but as the linked post states, they are only good for starts-with or ends-with searches. They can't be used for contains searches, i.e. "java
Maybe marketing is another form of cargo cult.
Native advertising, or just a couple people in the office who own Porches and really like the cars. Bias can be internal. They are nice cars. Mechanically ridiculous imho, but lots of people just like them. Some of those people write about it.
Articles like this really strike home how huge this world is. I feel ignorant when my first thought is that we should be able to locate a cruise ship in the ocean, but I clearly underestimate how huge this world really is. It's also hits home when entire planes like the Malaysian airline plane can disappear and literally no one knows what happened to it.
It's all about the guarantees. No guarantees: don't bother calling it real-time.
All US states, 90%+ of the big banks, retailers, airlines, brokerages, etc use mainframes.

There are still places using non-IBM mainframes as well. Several state welfare systems use Unisys mainframes.
Every application I use daily is scriptable. My OS is scriptable. My shell is scriptable. My text editor is scriptable. I hate to be negative, but I call BS.
But if at every update (every keystroke of the user), the algorithm needs to go through millions of lines of text to determine which ones to show, it is going to be slow, even if eventually only e.g. 50 lines are shown.
Jack Ma's Original Sales Pitch in 1999
I've found the opposite. Android/Yahoo/Google weather are generally telling me the wrong thing. I've come to rely BBC weather.
Epic Fail – Whip Nae Nae Dance
Yes, of course they do. Why on earth would you imagine they wouldn't?
I think rust has its merits, don't get me wrong. I just think it has a large cargo cult following of inexperienced script kids who have never used it for anything other than pretending to know what they're taking about.
I couldn't find any dictionary that could find that word. Google translate lists it as "Nijuan", which I would assume is just Google using a phonetic system on the assumption that it is a name.
This ship already made headlines last year:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mystery-of-th...

http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/shortcuts/2014/jan/24...

From the new article it looks like it finally sunk now.
Are your interested in High-Frequency Trading (HFT) or Algorithmic Trading?

As /u/RogerL mentioned, the infrastructure speed and access time are critical factors in succeeding with HFT. It is a costly endeavor outside the reach of majority of traders.

Algorithmic Trading can be done by anyone who can research and identify inefficiencies and implement strategies to exploit such inefficiencies. Typical such opportunities are short-term so you have to constantly develop new ones and refine old ones and know when the old ones are no longer working.

> I have a trading bot for that & it used to work well with some market volatility, but it's a waste when the market's sideways.

Rising tide raises all boats. Even a monkey throwing darts on a list of stocks can do well in rising markets. No one strategy works across all phases of market.
No, it's a guarantees thing. If you can't guarantee your latency and scheduling then you're not real-time. So if you're doing something that you run on a jet that needs to be updated 5000 times per second +- 10us otherwise something breaks or the plane becomes uncontrollable then that's real-time.

If it's a game version of the same you don't care about those guarantees because nothing would actually cause the plane to crash.

Of course controlling the plane itself may not have such tight loops but plenty of processes active in the flying plane may very well have extremely tight constraints (for instance: engine management, especially near maximum power output).

In real life there would be a penalty for missing an interrupt or a scheduled deadline, in a simulation everything would just happily hum along with a tiny delay.

If you were simulating the real plane then you'd want your simulation to halt at that point so that you could figure out exactly what went wrong.

One piece of hardware in our offices in Amsterdam long ago had a 'lost data' led latched so it would stay on if a fault condition ever happened no matter how briefly, if that led ever came on it meant going back to the drawing board because it indicated we were not in control of the machine to the extent that we thought we were.
Definitely. Although my understanding is that patents will be filed and awarded. Which will essentially cut all "outsiders" from profiting from the research, which ultimately helps corporations perpetuate their R&D lifecycle.

Forgive me if I'm misinformed here, but Monsanto may be a good example of a corporation who has put their GMO patents to good use to gain enormous market share in agriculture.
And they were definitely not free market Capitalists.
I was inspired to make this after reading "The Knot Book" by Colin Adams. If you click "Rolfsen Table" at the bottom, you'll see the entire gallery.
Yes, it should work. Even if work means simply displaying plain blue links on a solid white page.
Yep its funny that all the folks who wax eloquent on social media about societal inequality balk at the idea of sending their kids to schools where they might have to mingle with kids from less fortunate upbringing.

This disgusting hypocrisy is not only normalized but is actually encouraged.
That's the whole point here. Soft realtime is not realtime, only hard realtime is realtime.

So no need for prefixes.
Serious editor fail: the main subject of the article is an acronym used ~20 times without ever defining it. I know what it stands for, but I'm sure some readers were frustrated by that.
Measure compactible dry by weight*. A "cup" of flour can be anywhere from 4-8oz, but is commonly 4oz when a cup is called for in a recipe.
There's a bunch of new WYSIWYG editors popping up lately. I'm working on my own here:

https://github.com/joshmarinacci/semantic-editor-js

Questions: What do you look for in an editor? Where do the existing ones fall down? What would you like see done differently?

thx
I wonder what he is talking about. I recently created a script that can build our whole cloud based test environment from scratch. It creates the servers, downloads and installs the platforms, builds and deploys our software.

Maybe he is talking about end-user software that can be scripted? But even that isn't true for devs.
> Unemployment ticking under the national average

Wisconsin's unemployment has been lower than the national average since before Walker took office.

> dismantling public unions

Except police and fire unions because it was more a political attack on the left's power base than a principled stand.
Hjson, the Human JSON
Are you aware of Karagarga?
> State Capitalism and Crony capitalism is not free market Capitalism.

You never mentioned free market capitalism.
> We need more diverse students in computer science. But the track record of MOOCs in supporting all students’ needs should give us pause.

In the last MOOC I signed up for one of the first things I read once inside was that it was 80% male and I should go encourage some females to join. Being a male I took this as a signal that I wasn't particularly wanted or valued in that course and I thought allow me to help your gender ratio by not participating.

It's strange they're simultaneously alienating their core users in order to "increase diversity" and complaining that their numbers aren't staying high enough.
I think he's talking about how scripting is less and less possible on Mac/Windows, and practically impossible on phones, which is where the bulk of computing will be done in the future.
And twitter wonders why they can't find a revenue model that works.
I'm 100% for non public figures to have their tweets deleted. Different case for publicly elected officials.
How to Write a Privacy Oriented API When Using SSO
My favourite trick in Julia using matrices is the following one liner:

fib(n) = ((BigInt [1 1; 1 0])^n)[2,1]

Which defines a fast, exact, Fibonacci function. It's so far the easiest and only way I've managed to calculate the 10^9th Fibonacci number.
I think the OP is bemoaning a paradigm shift - cloud computing, with all the implications - without fully understanding it. The best modern applications are built of APIs, and they are composable. It's practically my personal working definition of "best" (certainly popularity isn't the key). Perhaps the author had a bad experience with a few popular services.
Almost every Fortune 500 and most branches of the federal government.

There are a few exceptions obviously. Microsoft, Apple, HP, etc. are unlikely to use IBM technologies internally. Facebook, Amazon, etc. are young enough to not have mainframes.

You can go search for z/OS job openings and see everyone from Walmart to Lockheed Martin to Citibank.
I think people downvote because the Javascript ship has largely sailed.
I have a vintage 911. It is fun as hell when the thing is running right, but it is never running right. Even the years they call "bullet proof" don't hold a candle to the reliability of a modern Japanese sports car (which I've also owned).

When you start to pull the car apart you see all the hacks that had to be done to modernize the car to keep the original chassis design alive. My favorite is the air conditioning. It is obvious that air conditioning was not part of the original design. Another favorite is the oil cooler under the front fender. There are oil lines that go all the way from the back of the car to the front just for cooling. The original car didn't have them because the engines were much smaller and ran cooler.

If anyone is considering buying an air cooled 911, I'd say unless you've cashed out a bunch of stock that is blowing a hole in your pocket, stay away. With the current cost of parts any common problem with the cars could easily be a $10k fix. Ask me how I know.
Swimming out of East Germany: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7CWajaOx4E
I think GP meant that in the U.S. it's pretty standard.
This was done a decade ago to prove what was possible with web tech of the time. Clearly the web of today proves they were right.
Since you seem to know a lot about rear-engine cars, perhaps you can clear something up.

I've often seen air-cooling listed along with what you did as benefiting more than water-cooling in a rear-engine layout, but that never made any sense to me. Is this a myth, or is there any sense to it?
I would recommend "Start Small, Stay Small." It was very useful for me when I starter a side business that two years later has billings in the range of $175,000/year in licenses. In my case, it is subscription-only offline software.
1. Speed in iterative algorithms.

2. (Almost) painless concurrency.

3. Symbolic programming right in the language (think of SymPy built in the language).

4. Closeness to Matlab (which makes it easy to translate existing code).

In general, people tend to port to Julia algorithms that were originally written in Matlab or C++ (with the conciseness of first and speed of the second). For example, I made several attempts to translate Matlab/C++ code of active appearance models to NumPy, but succeeded only with Julia [1]. Another example - Mocha.jl [2] - is a port of Caffe deep learning framework (written in C++ with a wrapper in Python) into a pure Julia, which it easy both to use and modify.

So if you just use existing libraries, there's probably no big difference what to use. But if you actively write new libraries, at least give Julia a try.

[1]: https://github.com/dfdx/ActiveAppearanceModels.jl

[2]: https://github.com/pluskid/Mocha.jl
At least with rather aggressive third-party blockers in place. I don't expect everything to work, but basic reading, normal pictures and links should work.
I grew up after the open source revolution of the 80's and 90's, but my parents did not get internet until I was in high school. At one point though, I read "How To Be A Hacker" and tried to emulate that world when I started to learn programming. I fell out of love with as I grew up, but there's still a bit of nostalgia for that world to me(false nostalgia - I was never part of it).

I chronicled my journey and why I stopped liking it:
http://www.ahalbert.com/technology/2013/04/02/hackerpolitics...