skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah that sounds like Android intents (http://developer.android.com/training/sharing/send.html) and content:// style URIs. There's all sorts of really cool IPC (inter-process communication) mechanisms among various OS's such as Unix domain sockets, D-Bus, ØMQ.
Or even Waterworld. Minus Dennis Hopper.
No, they won't, because people refuse to pay for software in general these days.
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That would be Soldier of Fortran - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfl4spvM5DI
More likely, these photos are from when the ship was operational.
Calling someone else's viepoint not useful is itself counterproductive and not useful. Twitter doesn't in of itself owe anything to the public interest. It's a company; it needs to make money. It isn't funded by the government.
Last sentence.

"The sky is not falling. Instead, let’s continue to focus on building sustainable companies with well-conceived strategies and high levels of execution."

I agree with this sentiment 100%, unfortunately I feel like way too many of the startups coming out of SV rely on huge amounts of VC that make them unsustainable by definition.

The goal of SV VC's isn't to build sustainable businesses with modest profit margins that value the work life balance of their employees. It is to quickly bootstrap startups that are "too funded to fail", race to a buyout or IPO, and built by the sleepless nights of 22 year old interns who are too stupid to realize they are expendable and replaceable on a 2 year cycle.

"Unicorn" (ugh) or bust.
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If you've ever worked with Twitter's API, you should know that not honoring deletes on your app is against the TOS. It doesn't matter what accounts are being monitored, when a tweet is deleted by the account, you have to delete it from your server.
I do think there is a subculture of "hip" motorheads. Look at Zeitgeist (bar in SF) for instance. I think Magnus is someone who qualifies as being able to push fashion trends.
As far as I can tell from the article, no one has photographed it after it went adrift, so those pictures must have been taken when it was being actively used.
And what makes you think that?
>US police is notorious for its brutality, but are these killings ordered by top officials in chain of command?

Directly no. They are just nurtured by top officials in chain of command, who could have stopped this shitty behavior in a day if they wanted to, but instead either ignore it or even encourage it.

From people arming police departments with military grade equipment and allowing SWAT teams etc to be used for BS offenses, to right-wing politicians speaking of blacks, latinos etc as lazy, criminals, gloryfying the use of police force, etc.

>If factory workers go on a strike in the US, are police troops sent in to "shoot to kill" them? They did in Poland 30 years ago, eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacification_of_Wujek*

Back in the day, yes:

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

And if unions got that organised again to be a threat, then I have no dount they would. Heck, they even killed students:

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

Not that I'm a fan of those "eastern bloc" states, but I want to put things in some perspective. Saying "they just earned 20 bucks a month" is not enough -- one also has to know how things were for the majority of people in these countries before socialism, in order to compare.
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thats not a hoverboard, thats clickbait
Because its just not practical (or desirable) to carry around a laptop everywhere I go whereas my phone is always charged and on me. Nor do I always have a reliable network connection.
Here: http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/

It's a perl script that can hook into Twitter stream API. Sign up for an account, create an access token for ttytter, start subscribing to politicians, and it will suck down every tweet they make in realtime as they make them. If they make a tweet and delete it 30 seconds later, you'll have captured it. That is why whining about deletability of tweets is pointless, anybody with entry-level Linux skills can monitor thousands of politicians.
Twitter is right and wrong here. Yes, users should have the ability to rescind what they express on their personal pages - but others should also be able to archive those thoughts for historical/public interest purposes.
We underpay the crap out of teachers in the US, this would be dismal article if the title said NYC as well.

That having been said, SF did it to itself. In an attempt to preserve the things that folks thought made up SF culture, they stopped building housing. They have pushed out artists, immigrants and the working class, with a set of backwards housing policies that benefit only those who already own.
>Which is why even the poor are better off escaping from communism and the foot traffic usually indicates that.

The only thing it really indicates is that the soviet states were run badly and have deterioted into dictatorships.
The problem is with the input methods. With a standard keyboard and mouse, it's tedious to enter unicode characters or create other graphical-style representations.
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Can't one manually archive "interesting" tweets with archive.org or archive.is? Or their problem was with the scale of operations?
> The web community pioneered UI development paradigms involving
> functional programming techniques and immutable data

Ugh, No. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-l... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agu6jipKfYw
“You're free to want sites to work without JS, but to be realistic about it, that battle was lost loooong ago.”

Sites should at least work without JavaScript. Or are you saying we should just throw accessibility under the bus?

“It's probably more useful to figure out how to make the all-sites-require-js world more secure and less trackable than to try to turn back the clock 20 years.”

Blocking JavaScript works right now. Or are you saying end users should just patiently wait until these issues affecting them right now are fixed? It’s not like it isn’t happening… consider how many people have been tricked even by something like this¹. My parents are actually pretty new to the Internet, and I’ve made sure that I have them using something like NoScript. Of course, it breaks some sites for them, but that’s far preferable to them accidentally infecting their computer and putting their financial info at risk.

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¹ — https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-scam/2013/07/fbi-ransomw...
Windows has Powershell which has an amazing level of power in a system. Everything is an object, everything has properties that can be manipulated. I don't look after Windows infrastructure at all, but people I know who do rave about the level of control they get, and some of the stuff they do makes me jealous.
My understanding is that the GUIs for Exchange etc have essentially changed to being skins on top of it and that's one of the changes that is allowing Microsoft to start promoting GUI-less versions of Windows for cloud servers etc.
But there is a radiator at the front of most air-cooled Porsches; although it cools oil instead of water.

See: http://www.pelicanparts.com/techarticles/911_carrera_oil_coo...
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What's your complaint about youtube? They host exabytes of video and make it freely available worldwide. There is no better resource for video creators.
You consider their current IPO level price point overvalued then? At what price point would you buy then?
Depends.

There are poor people in the US living in comparable (or worse) conditions than people suffered in some of the countries of the "communist block".

I know some older people from the "block" (from Albania and Hungary for example), and some of them look back into that era as "the good times", considering that they were teachers, engineers and other such jobs, and now they clean floors or poor concrete in construction sites to make a living.

Not to mention that not all places were the same quality of living or freedom-wise. Czechoslovakia for example were in far better condition than Albania or Romania.
Without humans, the whole world could look like Serengeti
One needs to account for relative humidity, which the ocean provides. Much of the US landmass between the pacific crestline and the rocky mountains is arid desert (from the canadian border to mexico). Second, there exist ocean-specific dynamics like el-nino, which don't really have an overland anolog.
Which is absolute garbage considering how heavily that very thing happens.
> First, there was no guarantee you could get useful data out of the programs of the PC and Mac era if they didn't explicitly support getting data out.

I don't know why you keep lumping the Mac in with the PC; on the Mac -- not counting AppleScript, the myriad of data translation tools, etc -- there was rich copy+paste support that worked between applications.

> I've got tons of sheet music in a Windows 3.1-era notation program that I can't get out, because it's stored in a binary format and there's no built-in exporter.

So write a conversion tool that parses the file format; if it's sheet music, the format isn't going to be too hard to decipher. How is this any different, other than scale, than the "web APIs" you claim solve the author's complaints?

> Second, APIs for web services actually do support lots of this.

No, they don't. They require writing code, which requires that you actually be able to, you know, program.

In addition, even being able to use these "web service APIs" requires that you give all your data, control of your applications, and the ability to get work done to a 3rd-party service.

That's not a replacement for a desktop application.

> The fact that some '90s desktop apps were easily scriptable ...

Not some. Almost all. Even when they didn't explicitly support it, there was generally a way to get what you wanted done, done, thanks to scripting language integration with standard OS-level APIs upon which the applications relied.

> (Not to mention most '10s web services being scrapable. I don't remember any screen-scraping tools for Windows 3.1 or classic Mac UIs that were anywhere near as good as the web-scraping tools we have today.)

You mean the classic Mac OS where you could literally hit "Record" in AppleScript Editor and produce a surprisingly workable script based on your actual UI actions in the applications?

Or modern Mac OS and iOS, where things like VoiceOver give you semantic access to the entirety of the UI?
This is cool, but what's the point of using the bounce easing? It just makes you wait an extra second before you can get a good look at the new model.
> Do you really have an expectation of anything o
> todays internet to work without JS running?

Yes, most of it works just fine. Larger sites tend to have graceful fallbacks sensibly implemented, too.
There are no good questions to ask about the recent news during the interview process. Asking such questions will neither get you an honest answer with useful information nor help your chances of getting an offer. It can only hurt you with some interviewers by making you seem not interested or lazy.

Your best bet is to do your own research based on the team you are interviewing with after the fact. There's a lot out there on Amazon right now.

If you must ask about working conditions specific to the team you would be on, ask once you have a formal written offer in your hands.
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Is Spotify on iOS scriptable?
I guess so; I've never really thought about it.
Politwoops could circumvent this problem by just not publishing the tweets to twitter. They could just put them on a website, and maybe even aggregate the politicians other communications. No?

Though generally I feel that anyone at all being judged on an instant 140 character message is pretty sad state of affairs. Meaningful debate (political and otherwise) with evidence based arguments and so on seems like a naive fantasy these days.
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This also reminds me that NT4 before SP6 had a check that CPUID leaf 0 returned a maximum CPUID value less than 4, and leaf 3 was taken for the PSN. When Prescott arrived, Intel had to add a MSR to limit the returned value.
Owl is more 'pretty much normal python runtime ported to an ARM MCU'.
micropython is a written from scratch implementation for MCUs.
Maybe I am replying to the wrong thread here.
What could be wrong? There are probably a lot of the standard libraries which are more work to get running on micropython than Owl. Some of the language features that are already in python 2.7 are not in micropython (which is a 3.X based system).
That said, micropython is a fantastic project. I have a micropython board and also have it running in the ESP8266 with my own C modules. The whole framework is very well thought out and a pleasure to work with. It's not the python I use in my day job but I don't actually care as I have more C than python anyway :)
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There's a mid cycle refresh (992) to be launched soon ( frankfurt motor show) [1]. The timing of the article reeks of native advertising.

[1] http://www.worldcarfans.com/category/porsche
That was in some special periods -- not all the time. He mentions a special circumstance in the article (don't remember which is it).

But did you note that he went from Netherlands and applied for a job there? Obviously Poland was nowhere near as affluent as the Netherlands, but also obviously he didn't apply for a job in a place were waiting in line for bread was something that happened regularly everyday.
Internal combustion engines are never fashionable or trendy?
Right I love his stuff. I was thinking of his talk at BSides LV 2014 which he gave the same talk but he also had talks this year also at BSides and DefCon.

I also wanted to mention that where I've worked and many other places there is a crisis of brain drain at companies as the mainframe experts who are highly paid retire out and there are programs to recruit young people who are more attracted to other platforms. There is a lot of pay and job security in the field. I know of one situation where a guy past retirement is paid full salary to work 1/3 of full-time from his vacation home because the company could not afford to lose his knowledge and struggled to find someone competent enough to learn under him that was interested in mainframe. In other words, someone young with these skills would be highly paid and in higher demand at many companies.
It can be easily done; but I think the problem here is that if you're using the Twitter API (as is the case with the link you mentioned), you are required to honor deletion requests. If you don't, then your access is revoked, which is what happened in this case.

Now, you could just archive the tweets internally and reveal them under some other name...
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Once again, using 3rd party services bites a company in the ass. What they should have done is hosted the old domain's email on a cheap VM - perhaps the free tier Amazon offers to new accounts - and simply auto-forwarded from that.

On the second one, never ever change more than one thing at a time - don't change your domain and move to https. Just do one thing at a time.

Both of these are common sense for old school system admins like myself, but it seems like the new DevOps types would rather re-learn all the hard lessons from scratch.
The counter-argument is that without concentrated wealth and power, no one would be able to afford the cost of that research. I disagree with that argument, but how would one counter-argue it?
Lately I've been thinking about optimal UIs for highly competitive environments (military, day trading, fraud reduction) and I've come to the view that the majority of these interfaces should be through an extensible command line interface - and given the plethora of easy to install open source software, I largely think that the CLI of choice should be a linux terminal shell. Some I could also see being delegated to either a spreadsheet or a mixture of a spreadsheet and a terminal shell, but in general I thing SQL wins against SUM_IF + macros + Solver.

But if this is the optimal UI for highly competitive environments, why isn't it also the optimal UI for uncompetitive competitive environments like retail?

Two reasons:

1. Self selection. The highly competitive environments attract extremely intelligent people. Abstractionists can assemble a breadth of solutions that systematize solutions, while workers such as retailers are generally less adept.

2. A constriction on UI is similar to a schema constriction. Aside from the occasional "General Notes" field on a intake form, the interaction can be structured more reliably than a person with a terminal shell. This is important partially because lesser skilled people can't be trusted to make higher level decisions like data structure.

I don't think #2 is a hard limit, I think UIs can be designed around the limitations of human intelligence and I think that systemic educational changes could make CLIs more friendly to the general public; but I think there is a local maxima that is more easily solved with software like Tulip* and so that is what we have now.

* http://tulip.io/
Have you considered Patreon?
Can we count blacks, latinos, indians etc killed by cops without a crime in that statistic as well? And even white people, from the Kent State shooting to Wacko?

Or stretch it a little to include kids send to die in wars half a planet away, while young people all over the country were protesting against them?
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If your software stack has per core licensing, a z/architecture mainframe can make a lot of sense. They are extremely efficient at running virtual machines (with linux guests for example). Where an Intel cluster can handle 10-20 VMs per core, a z/arch mainframe can do 100s per core.

They have dedicated processors for offloading IO operations, which has a big impact on reducing pipeline stalls, and also part of why they are so much better at handling a multitude of VMs.

They have 4 levels of cache, with gigabytes of memory at level 4, data is kept close to the processors.

The hardware costs a lot, but if your software is licensed per core, there is a good chance you could save millions compared to an Intel solution. It depends on your usage scenario though. If everything is open source and you aren't paying per core fees, then there is probably no advantage for you.
Blocked for a few established VPN providers e.g.Astrill. The protocol itself is not blocked per se.
:) I'd though of adding that as well, though skipped it.

I'd like to look at cheese cost per unit nutrition (calories, protein, fat). I think it tends to remove much of the carbohydrate content.

But yes, fermentation == early food preservation.
We've banned this account. These are serious issues, but to show up on HN with both guns blazing and flame away is the worst way to raise them.
English took a lot of vocabulary from Norman French, but that doesn't mean Norman French is alive, for example.
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I get where you're coming from - when the initial project for the framework you're working with has so much stuff that you don't understand or need yet, it feels like a huge burden to do the simplest thing in it.

You might want to give Ruby Sinatra a whirl. I just helped a friend build a starter site in it. The Hello World for it is 1 file with 4 lines of Ruby, no config files at all. Save that 1 file, run it, and you have a live website.

What I think really makes it cool is that there is a decent amount of sophistication to it, but you only see it when you need it. It doesn't force any particular way of doing things onto you. It's also kind of a cousin of Rails, so if your needs get to that level, you should be able to switch over pretty easily and make use of the enormous ecosystem of gems.

I think express.js on Node has kind of the same idea, might be worth a look also.
Someone is reading year-old issues of the New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/19/a-voice-from-th...
According to Wikipedia, San Francisco has less than 1,000,000 people. They must be doing something wrong.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco
Then again, with the thousands, if not tens of thousands of oauth credentials checked in on public github repos, I don't really see that revoking access to one credential as a major bottle neck.
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oh, that's what a hoverboard is. That's way less interesting than I thought.
I wouldn't call that 'accosted'.
What problems do you anticipate being able to solve with homophobia, patriarchy and antisemitism?
Why do people keep bringing up mobile devices like it is some kind of trump card? If you really want to script a mobile device, install whatever Linux distro you want on an Android phone and go to town. Congratulation, you just created a tiny under powered laptop with a shitty screen and an even shittier keyboard.

A smartphone is for checking the weather, reading, looking up places to eat, movies, requesting an Uber or figuring out what bus is coming next, and so on. If you're not using your smartphone for that stuff and instead are scripting your music collection, why even leave your house? Just stay at home and use a computer.
What's the z/OS jobs scene like now?
I think your stumbling there logically a bit.

0_o

Graphic designers also use the word design, so do fashion designers and so on, but similarly to architects and engineers they also use the word design to denote the overarching scheme of their entire project, not just the aesthetic aspect of it (as these programmers I am referring to do). Typographers had a lot of other technical factors to worry about in their design apart from just the visual appeal and clarity, similarly fashion designers must design their clothes to accomodate a certain 3d shape and withstand all sorts of structural stresses and deformations.

You're reaching. And the only thing sillier than us arguing about this is you being upset that someone is using the word design as it appears in the dictionary:

1. a plan or drawing produced to show the look and function or workings of a building, garment, or other object before it is built or made

2. an arrangement of lines or shapes created to form a pattern or decoration

The article is about the very real problem with the confusion between hard real-time vs soft real-time systems, which is about the suitability of a tool to a set of requirements. Your complaint about the word design doesn't seem to apply.
Right now I'm using the armadillo c++ library for linear algebra. It's quite fast (can use openBLAS too + it does some optimizations with template metaprogramming) and quite convenient to use. Julia seems really interesting though.
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Detecting another liar politician supersedes any API policy. You can also say that Snowden leaks are against the law but the importance of his relevations makes arguing about a ToS or law very naive.
No idea, I poked at their website for a minute (sorry, been clearing trees off our road all day, super tired) and didn't find a writeup of what they have. If you can find one I'll read it and see if I can figure it out.

There is a wikipedia page for Victor's stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTLinux
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