skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The OSF vs GNU Mach thing is not a problem. It was years ago, but I managed to run a Hurd translator statically linked against a slightly modified glibc on OSF Mach (the one bundled with MkLinux, you can see its code on my repo https://github.com/slp/mkunity).

In fact, if you look at Mach support code on glibc's code, you'll see build time conditionals for supporting non-GNU Mach versions.

The bootstrap server is not a problem either, but the lack of memory object would indeed break all libpager based translators, among other stuff.

As a PoC, I wrote a filesystem translator (https://github.com/slp/anonfs) which doesn't rely on memory objects, implementing conventional read/write semantics (no mmap() support, though).
I've been lucky to see Tony DeRose, Alvy Ray Smith, and a few others give presentations in small, intimate settings at my local University.

Is there some way we could please SUBSCRIBE to notifications that wonderful speakers like these are coming to our area?

Okay, yes, I know this isn't your job, but please... you might be able to help me! :)
Because it's more important that hedge fund managers and their friends not have an opportunity to get away with beating a homeless guy to death, since no one will care enough to press charges. Weakness invites aggression, so it's their own fault for being old, malnourished, etc.

Can't see anything overly brutal, vindictive or costly about that "plan" to condone and promote systematic economic discrimination.
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Automatic dependency resolution a-la Ruby's bundler should be required for any respectable dependency manager. In my experience, the algorithm nearly always automatically finds a successful set of dependencies, and when it doesn't, it is because I really have incompatibility that requires code changes in one dependency or another, and further verification. That isn't "dependency hell", it's just the reality that upgrades to one set of interfaces often require changes in another set that depends on them.
Doesnt surprise me of such practices. Big banks going to do what they gonna do until someone forces them to do different.
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This looks like an announcement of an announcement. Those are off-topic. Let's wait until something substantive happens.
not every state has 5 minutes between exit luxury highways
The UK Government Needs to Take a Stand on Open Source
Yes he had already left once, but that was about 4 days before anyone noticed the database activity.
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> If I had to name the parts of Servo I'd love to drop, it wouldn't be what you think ...

Interesting.

> I think you're under the impression that new Web sites tend to avoid all the "goop".

Well as a web developer myself I do realize I'm adding a lot of workarounds, that's part of my frustration. It seems counterproductive for you guys as engine developers, and us web developers to use such an ever increasing amount of code just to work around stuff we throw at each other.

> Presumably for OpenSSH, if you control the server and it's properly configured you can drop the ugly, old code. Not so on the Web. Old and new Web sites alike rely on all sorts of corner cases.

Maybe for OpenSSH, but I think OpenSSL suffers from the same legacy compatibility issues as a browser. Still LibreSSL took an OpenSSH like approach by separating out all system specific exceptions from the base and put them in a different portability package.

> ... (ELinks, for example). You aren't using them because they don't support enough of the "ugly" features.

I'm not using elinks or other text based browsers not because they miss a lot of features, but because they're not as secure as I did expect from a text based browser[0]. They are still full of all sorts of features[1] that add to it's complexity without having enough value, imho. I think it's a feature to be not full featured.

[0] http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=140516601718662&w=2 about gopher support in lynx

[1] Elinks: Full-Featured Text WWW Browser -
Lots of protocols (local files, finger, http, https, ftp, smb, ipv4, ipv6)
http://elinks.or.cz/about.html
I get that the Tesla is awesome, but it seems pretty frigging ridiculous that to give a car 103 out of 100 when it only has a range of 200 miles.
Nowhere did they mention http://www.baseball.com/, the website I would have guessed was referred to by the title before I read the article.
> don't the Chinese want a devalued Yuan? It helps their economy, right?

It helps some and hurts others. It helps when you are exporting and hurts when you are importing. But it gets complicated:

Among the 'importers' are consumers. Devaluing the yuan raises prices for imported goods and services, and goods containing imported components. In a way, devaluation taxes consumers to help exporting businesses (but it's more complex: some consumers work for or otherwise do business with exporters, while some are connected similarly to importers).

Also among the importers are businesses who import components of the products they make, including goods, software, and services. Those importers just saw an across-the-board increase in their costs.

And there is import and export of debt. Those who owe money in another currency, usually US dollars, just saw an across-the-board increase in how much they owe. Those who are creditors in another currency just got an across-the-board bonus; however I suspect that most Chinese institutions would lend in their own currency. It also helps those importing assets; for example investors are more likely to put their money in China when they can buy yuan-denominated assets more cheaply.

In a free-floating currency and open market, exchange rates also affect domestic interest rates because the exchange rates affect demand by foreign investors. I'm not sure how China's market works in that regard.

In the end it's the government picking winners and losers, but if their economy or key sectors depend more heavily on exports than imports, certainly they could see a net gain.
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The conclusion that you can draw from this is that the person I was replying to has no point.
I just watched the first two sequences of videos and so far they have shown how to compute midpoints of lines and how to compute the coordinates of points on parabolic arcs given three arbitrary control points, including how to prove the identities involved. They then explain how this is used in practice to generate the shape of a blade of grass. Is this not the kind of technical information you were expecting to find?
Such a peer reviewed source..
You are comparing Apples and Oranges, PHP is a language, Node is a platform. Actually, Node.js is the killer app for the JavaScript language, among others. Implementing Unreal engine in asm.js is another thing you can not imagine to make in PHP.
I have been rather too busy avoiding failure lately to even know what success is--at least in terms of my career. Positive performance reviews help me to continue putting food on the table while I try to find something better for my life. And leaving at the end of the day with a good portion of my creative energy left unspent gives me more options when I get home.

You need to be able to work hard do your best in some aspect of your life to be happy. But it might have to be something other than your job.
But you're comparing this to BMW, which in place of that iPad has iDrive, which is perhaps the single largest UX abomination on the planet.

And personally, I've never been on the highway, with a semi-truck barrelling down on me from behind, needing to get over to make an exit, and thought to myself, "gee, I really wish I had less acceleration right now".
A few decades ago, I felt frustrated in college because the library had been remodeled to emphasized "shared workspaces." Some of us would wander around campus looking for open classrooms for the evening, to get a little peace and quiet. We weren't "non-people" people, by the way. We just studied and performed a hell of a lot better without constant distraction -- even distraction "in the background".

Funny that often, those same people formed a good part of the top rank in my classes.

I get out of school, to find workplaces pushing the same damned thing.

Well, flash forward some decades, and the popular press is finally catching on that such "shared workspaces" are often a nightmare -- particularly for high performers.

So now, the same yutzes are telling us that "people" people are the key to success. "Be more people!" (TM)

I actually get along better with most people than, well, most people. Red necks to stereotypical gays, and everything in between. In each place I've worked, I've ended up getting to know and collaborating with people throughout the organization. BIG organizations.

Why? In good part, because I identify and other people apparently identify in me people who "get things done." And not in the broke-ass way of the serial multi/many/manifold tasker. Rather, expeditiously but carefully: What's the most right we can do without unduly straining the resources at hand.

So: "People" people. I've worked with them. A subset are truly good. The majority are, to some degree... "working their lines" and "working the system."

Their value, to the extent it exists, lies in getting other people to do things. In the corporate world, too often this starts coming too close to being "manipulators."

Keep your "people" people. Park them in some cubes, hopefully out of my way.

I was going to add another sentence, but I guess that's about the best I can hope for.
Not to comment about your wife, but the notion is that if teaching is reputable & pays well enough, they will be able to attract to the profession more of the incredible individuals who as teachers can motivate & draw in those unmotivated students.

I'm not sure if case-studies can cover this particular notion. It's a big picture problem, like not enough women in engineering.

You could try to make the perverse counter-argument, that pathetic salaries actually selects for people who care so much about the kids they will self-sacrifice and perhaps those people are more likely to be the phenomenal-teacher variety, but I've never seen evidence to support that.

Anyway my ultimate point is that whether or not increasing teacher pay to the level they deserve fixes education and saves under performing students, shouldn't preclude paying teachers what they deserve! But perhaps it is simply an unrelated issue that is not relevant.
"people person" jobs are vulnerable to technology too. Who still wants to deal with a salesman?
No. I typically browse with JS turned off and the scrolling doesn't work. It is therefore broken and poorly executed.

This is a presentation delivered through the web but it is not a web site.
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For me, it's entirely "going out with friends". But that doesn't mean I'm going to leave restaurant selection to a bot. For many, people, selecting a restaurant is fun. And I bet you and your friends don't just go to some random place.
I just don’t like it on principle. Why would I voluntarily offer potential control of my machine to somebody else? My software is mine.
Wait, why is it entitlement to want to get market rate for your skills?
I'm a fan of "fastest Laguna Seca Lap". But I know a bunch of "American Muscle" guys who only care about 0-60. But I prefer statistics that include a combination of good turns, tight handling, AND strong acceleration.

Tesla performs horribly on Laguna Lap, but so do all the American Muscle cars. You basically need a low-weight car with high acceleration to do well.

Other raceway times are also interesting. But that's what I look for in high-performance cars.
I work in the industry. You are right on a general basis but there are plenty of funds that don't get a lot of press and kill it year in and year out AND charge less than 2 and 20. Most hedge funds are, at best, average because they don't know what they're doing. Don't blindly give 2 and 20 to an avg. hedge fund.

Do the math and giving even 2 and 20 to a superstar will allow you to compound at a much faster rate than the S&P500.
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Who or what exactly do you refer to as “media”? Is this what this company called their advertising division?
Ask HN: Do you know of any development “case studies”?
I know of a couple design "case studies" where someone took the website or app of a company and gave it their own spin just to see what it could end up as. I wonder if there's any similar articles or examples of this being done in development.

It's a completely different ballgame since we usually don't really know what the driving force behind a site is, but it would be interesting to read up on something like this imho.
I find "they" to only be awkward where it's ambiguous (the same as "he"). It's more Shakespearean than Orwellian. ;-)
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Is their some kind of addon that warns people about url that look the simular? That might be easy and useful.

Edit: With certificate pinning you could put out a msg to the User to verfiy if he understands that this is the first time he visits the site.

The problem is when to put out such a warning, i dont want to do that every time I go on a new site.
Who is naturally better at lifting heavy objects -- men or women?

Who is naturally better at bearing children -- men or women?

Reality isn't gender-equal, or even finely balanced like a Starcraft game. Equality means equal rights, not equal abilities. (A strict belief in the latter gets us into Harrison Bergeron territory.)

If we're talking cognitive skills, there is rough equality in ability, but a difference in approach which makes one sex better for a particular job than the other. If women tend more to seek social consensus, for instance, they would fare better in a software engineering job with a high degree of peer collaboration, as opposed to the same job in a more "cowboy coding" environment.
You might look at the one from Redis:

https://github.com/antirez/sds
The OS X Dock is the crappiest integral part of OS X and I'd love to replace it, but it simply cannot be done properly because Apple is the only one allowed to access a certain key API (the one that changes NSScreen.visibleFrame).
I can see your point, and while I'm not versed in Go or Erlang, moving to JS let me stop worrying about if a value ever changed - as long as I'm in my portion of code, I alone can change the values. That, in turn, means that I spend very little time worrying - much less than I did in, say, Java.

Sure, I need to not BLOCK stuff for long, but that comes about somewhat naturally as good code: Write small, discrete units.

Not knowing modern multithreaded languages may render my entire point moot. I'll have to fix that.
what are the killer apps on the node side

There aren't any, really. Coupled with NPM it's great for building your own platform with custom requirements, but if you want to spin up an instance of something that already gets you 90% of the way there, PHP is a better choice.
Please stop, both of you.
I think you're wrong on the timing of iOS 9 being widely released. I think regular users are likely to have it within the month, and adoption should be faster than ever.
> Except that presuming the opposite allows us to flap around on the whims of opinion, unsupported by factual evidence

Flapping around on the whims of opinion, unsupported by factual evidence, seems like a pretty good description of the situation to me whenever someone invokes "but, but, preferences" to explain why women are vastly more represented amongst high SAT math scorers than among programmers and engineers.
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From a more academic approach [1], if you care about efficient concurrency and no context switching between frontend-backend, the node.js platform is an excellent choice.

Figure: http://imgur.com/NnQ9M5v

[1] http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00607-014-0394-9
"Is Node.js a viable option for building modern web applications? A performance evaluation study"
> all human choices, and in particular "aggregate" or statistical choices made by groups are very, very strongly influenced by social pressure

Influenced, perhaps, yet recent history is full of people defying immense social pressure and even the law in order to do things they want to do. Subtle social pressure is clearly not the only, nor the strongest, influence.

> The thing we feminists care about is this distribution of power.

And so you try to influence other people, and in particular other women, to do what you want them to do.

That’s certainly common enough in both business and politics.

But it is advertising. Not science, not especially noble, nor a moral imperative.

> Opposing this agenda means you're in favor of keeping the social pressures as they are, i.e. continuing the ongoing practice of actively maintaining inequality.

No, I’m in favor of allowing, and helping, all people to do what they want to do (as long as it doesn’t harm others). I’m against controlling people to advance any agenda.
Well, it might be more accurate to say it was written with the influence of everything. The object system borrows liberally from smalltalk, much of the other new features are influenced by Haskell, and it's all wrapped up in a Perlish way of looking at programming.

In short, if you hate how Perl 5 allows for multiple ways to accomplish something and think it's a big mess, I imagine you might find more to dislike in Perl 6. If you like power, flexibility, sane defaults for the common case, and lots of features, Perl 6 will be a wonderful place.

Then again, I'm of the opinion that a large percentage of people that think they dislike Perl 5 as an unorganized mess are actually laboring under a false partial impression. Perl is actually highly organized on core principles, it's just that those principles are far more radically different than the familiar syntax implies. Approaching Perl from a procedural C-style background and expecting the same will mostly work, but there will be aggravating times where you just don't understand why certain design choices were made that continually cause friction.
I've never been inside a Tesla, but I've driven a few thousand miles in a (rented) BMW, and I would really be very surprised if Tesla could beat BMW in the "pure, crystallized-shit of UX" department. iDrive is an abomination.
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How 'MacGyver' became a verb
>At some point in history, it was considered common knowledge that the world is flat, and seafaring too far in any given direction runs the risk of falling off the edge.

I'm unable to find any historical evidence this statement was ever true.

For example, pop culture thinks it was true in the Middle Ages, but it was not [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth
>Downvotes not warranted.

Thankfully everyone gets to decide that on their own.
Also, "I feel even worse because I didn't mean to say that they were terrible, but accidentally did."

Seems a pretty clear apology to me.
I'd love to play more with Node but I have free PHP hosting. I control the server completely but I have to keep PHP running. I don't how to get NodeJS to play nicely alongside bog standard LAMP stack (and all the rest of the tech) so I haven't done anything with it.
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I did not know this, thanks for sharing. I found a video on YouTube where someone went over the buttons and how to use them. My biggest complaint with them would be that in order to adjust the climate you have to press the right scroll wheel, scroll to the setting you want to adjust (temperature, fan speed, roof, etc), press the button again, then use the scroll wheel again to adjust the setting, all while looking at the display in the instrument cluster. Better than the touchscreen, but still less convenient that I'd prefer.
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Your initial point makes sense, but:

> There's a common (apocryphal?) story about an untrained guy who got into fight with an experienced grappler. The grappler got the takedown, got on top and was beating on him a little to show he'd won. Then right when he was about to stop and let him go, the guy tries to stick his fingers in his eyes. He ends up getting completely brutalized by his now really upset opponent who had already won and wants to punish the loser for trying to permanently blind him rather than just accept he'd lost.

That sounds like the grappler making up a bunch of bullshit to excuse his own sadistic brutality. If someone has you pinned down and is beating on you "a little" (WTF?), a rational person does not assume that they're "about to stop and let him go". You assume they're going to keep on hitting you until their arm gets tired, and you take any measure necessary to save yourself from permanent injury or death. From the perspective of the guy on the ground, he was getting the shit beat out of him no matter what, so there's nothing to lose in trying for a gouge.
I guess it was impossible to have a secure session before the introduction of EV in 2007 then. I guess all these https sites (this one included) have been fooling me all along, with their fake secure connections.
I don't know if I could be an astronomer. You're looking at the fundamental facts of reality, and they are depressing.
The maybe you stop the clock when the user navigates away from the page. If it takes 30s to read the content without ad-loading and 40s to read it with ad-loading, then by subjective user time, the page is 10s slower. That may be because the ads take 10s to load, or because the distraction causes the user to read at 75% normal speed, but it's still a measurable result from a single variable change.
Server side JS VS php, Node vs Zend engine would be cleaner semantics, but not perfect (nothing ever is)

Unreal engine in asm.js <<< this would be a "killer app" for the platform as a whole.
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Report: 'Dozens' of Amazon Fire Phone Engineers Get the Axe
Yes, that's what I mean about not knowing if aggregators got more or less popular over the last decade. I'm still not sure, but from a few searches, here's what I got:

Google Shopping is the #1 shopping aggregator according to this site:
http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/shopping-websites

The #2 Coupons.com, is going downhill fast:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/coupons.com

The #3, Bizrate.com, is also going downhill fast:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bizrate.com

So it does seem like Google Shopping is taking over traffic from other aggregators.
We reverted the submitted title from “Google asks Ads SDK users to disable App Transport Security preceeding iOS 9” to that of the article.
Are you going to add this content to your iOS app? Also my friend is looking forward to that Android app!!
On a maglev train.
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Which model year BMW did you drive? The early iDrive systems were quite crappy and the controllers were prone to breaking, but the current generation ones are actually pretty good.

Acceleration is great, but I don't think in your scenario it matters whether you have a 3 second 0-60 car or a 5 second one. Both of them are probably going to out-accelerate whatever truck that is coming down (unless the truck is trying to rear-end you).