skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's easier to reason about a variable if you know it will always be one value—even
> if the value may be mutated (which is unfortunate).

True, but because const, let, and var are lexically-scoped, it’s super-easy to reason about everything that happens to variables. (Excepting bad JS environments where you can declare global constants, of course).

If I see PI = 3.14159265 somewhere in a file, it’s not a hardship to assume it will not be rebound, and to notice if it is rebound.

The super-important thing to reason about is value mutability, because that escapes lexical scope. We pass mutable values to library functions containing code we have never read. We integrate with code written by a colleague who is in another time zone and may accidentally change a routine to mutate an array we pass with .push instead of .concat.

“Easier to reason about” is massively important with mutability. Not so much with lexical bindings.
What's new in Unity 5.2
Sadly, the old Dr. Pepper machine bit the dust around Spring 2010. It decided to freeze sodas more often than we liked, so we replaced it with a Coke machine in Fall 2010. It was a pain in the ass to get into Siebel, but it provided a nice capacity upgrade, and we no longer needed to do any tricks when loading to prevent the first few cans from exploding. The story I heard was that the original machine was meant for steel cans, so aluminum ones could explode when being loaded if not loaded gently.
Core Animation Scroll Layer – iPhone App Development
NYC Product Management Happy Hour
Just yesterday, I overheard a conversation in my very own living room that went something like this:

SPOUSE: We have this movie on DVD.
SPOUSE: You could watch it without commercials.
KID: Okay. Where is it?
SPOUSE: Somewhere in the DVD cabinet.
KID: Ummmm.... that's okay.
KID: I'll just watch it on TV.

These are the same people that trampled all over my "genre, then alphabetical by title" filing system every time they retrieved a disc, until I finally gave up and stopped doing it. Before, I could say "second shelf, third row, on the left," and now I say, "find it yourself, you bogosorting heathens."

The lack of searchable indexes is a huge obstacle in every form of media. Imagine if you went to the library, and rather than a central index, you had to check each floor in the stacks separately to see if a book was available.
I didn't know this was a feature. I just googled it and the common thread in search results is the fact that most people didn't know this feature existed. I guess I am (and most people are) unadvanced in my technical skills because I didn't know about this.
I clicked this post to say that. I am a CSH alum and the Drink machine steve describes here has been around for hundreds of years, easily.
Personal anecdote: meditation can get you to some incredible places. It takes daily sustained activity to really 'get' it.

https://www.dhamma.org/en/about/code
Seis reglas simples de ciberseguridad para todas las edades
Organizing Functional Code for Parallel Execution (Guy Steele, 2009)
I thought Derbyshire was a Very Bad Man who should not have the Ear of Our Children. At least not until they had thorough Diversity Training (i.g. gay conversion therapy for the HBD crowd).

http://takimag.com/article/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_de...
I remember reading somewhere that rail, and most other mass transit, isn't actually that efficient. The idea being that sure, a bus or train full of people is really efficient, but in order to get all of those people to want to ride it, you have to run a lot of empty or almost-empty vehicles around all the time. Sum up all the trips for the whole system, and it's about the same as an average-ish car.
And of course we give you a 70% discount ;).

Disclaimer: I worked on Preemptible VMs.
Make sure not to fly to New York. They will enforce state firearms laws when you return to the airport and attempt to check your gun.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/10/nyregion/lawful-handguns-d...
More like 1 IP for every atom in the universe.
Neocities is implementing IPFS – distributed, permanent web
[Speaking for myself, not Gandi, and IANAL]
To answer your question, I'd probably read the contracts of the other dealers, find their clause saying they reserve the right to take the car back for whatever reason they damn well please, sigh in helpless frustration at the state of contract law, and make my decision based on all available factors, including the actual experience of other people who purchased cars from that dealer.
I don't understand why the article says they have been operating under false identities.

When they released the first version in 2014 they shared it on twitter mentioning all the team.

> It's popcorn time! @getpopcornapp! /cc @tomasdev @abad @brunolazzaro @alan_reid

https://twitter.com/diego_ar/status/432720371465609216

I mean, if they were so concerned with their identity, they would have deleted that tweet, right?
Show HN: Interactive NBA Shot Chart made with Vega
My gdb-fu is weak, but don't you have to have a binary that you're debugging to do that? I'm thinking of this as more of an exploratory thing-- poking around the edges of an API until I feel comfortable enough with it to start writing real code.
>Wozniak has stepped up and talked more frankly about Jobs's real role inside Apple, especially during the early days.

Not to belittle the Woz, but those were the least interesting Apple days though, with regards to modern computing -- Lisa, Mac, NeXT, OS X, iPod, iPhone -- those are things that still resonate today.

>people are recognizing that Jobs was a control freak and that technical people do not want to live in his locked down, curated universe.

Is that true though? In the last 5-10 years I've never seen any collection of technical people (programming conference etc) were a large percentage, usually the majority didn't run OS X on Apple laptops.

(And I like a locked down curated universe myself for some stuff, even though I started on HPUX and SunOS in pre-Solaris days).
The movie industry isn't a single company. They can't just make an all inclusive plan without violating some antitrust laws.

Plus you essentially can do that on Amazon Instant or Itunes. It has nearly everything. Pirates just don't like paying 3 dollars a movie.
Twitter C-level Exodus continues
Boston was the first city in the region and was for a long time considered the most important. Oliver Wendell Holmes called it the Hub of the Universe. Over time, New York grew bigger and more important, leaving Bostonians feeling a little wounded. However, Boston remained the scholarly capital of the world, with two of the world's best universities a mile apart. Over the last half century, the world has celebrated academics less and money more,furthering the New York/Boston divide and intensifying the hurt feelings and envy. The final straw was Boston sports teams lackluster performance in the 1990s which led to the popularity of the Yankees Suck T shirts. With the number of Boston sports championships over the last 15 years,I can't imagine Yankees Suck shirts are still that popular.
Particularly since in so many cases, you only go to the doctor to get the signature for the appropriate drugs, or to get the specialist work done, for a problem that is already known. That's not a whole lot different than going to the mechanic and telling them to change the spark plugs or flush the transmission.
Really like the idea, but the case design is... odd.

For some reason the shiny, curved black plastic reminds me of a weird cross between Darth Vader and something a character in a Terry Gilliam film would use. Stick a Fresnel lens over the screen and you're all set.
With output in JSON/YAML/XML: http://mockbin.com/ip
That doesn't make any sense. How are you promoting culture by preventing people from experiencing it?

How are you helping the industry by restricting them from earning money?
It's a global vs sequential learner thing. Linear Algebra is usually taught as a giant pile of tricks, techniques, and terminology. This is tractable for sequential learners like myself - I really enjoy picking up new tools in a narrow context just for it's own sake. Highly global learners basically can't learn anything this way.

So, in short, my advice is "add more context."
If you're looking for simple I'd give CloudKit a shot. Should be pretty easy to pick up after learning iOS.
I'd rather the C programming language wasn't created -- we'd have a better Algol, Pascal etc derivative in its place, and way less buffer overflows...
Student Experiments Get a Lift from NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program
You only need to read the second sentence of his post. It couldn't be any clearer.
I was being sarcastic. You must be truly disciplined to not use your phone while driving. I am not, good thing I do not have a functioning phone 98% of the time.
Who Needs Architects? Well, Nobody Needs This Kind
Ah, damn. A decade long run isn't bad.

Yeah, we had to load gently, and the thermocouple probably needed to be replaced (if you were exploding cans). The coldest soda in the university though. =)

Yes - it was meant for steel cans. The mechanism at the bottom to output cans was literally an open pair of scissors driven by a giant 120V solenoid.
Helpling access and consume it is called secondary liability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_liability

I expect the case law around this sort of thing will continue to evolve.
I seem to recall there was a connected candy / M&M machine at CMU around that time also... anyone have the details?
I really like writing on my eMate 300. Distraction free (as it does little else) great keyboard, all-day batteries and the word processor is surprisingly fully-featured.

Also guaranteed to cause comment as practically no-one has seen one before.
45 Inspiring Happiness Quotes That Will Make You Smile
Il definitely add this to the README :)
Why Americans dress so casually
If this feels like jumping in the deep end, I highly recommend Stanford's online course on this subject:

http://coursera.org/learn/machine-learning/
7 Tips for Working with Celery
Because Amazon Video and Itunes have a huge selection and people won't want to pay 3 dollars a movie or 2 dollars a show.

In fact I recently had to use Amazon video instead of torrent because amazon had what I was looking for and torrents didn't.

If the parents position is that he literally needs everything in one or he'll never leave, it's an unreasonable demand. No business or service will ever have 100%. Not even torrents.
Now I have to spend time deciding between this source or https://xkcd.com/1205/
I generally use either a pelican case with abloy protec 2 321 or 330 padlocks (essentially the least pickable), or a pacsafe anti theft suitcase with tsa lock and seals. Not perfect, but beyond casual or even local LEO surreptitious entry.
There is something like that available:
http://www.solcomputer.com/sunlight-readable-netbook.html

The specs are modest, but I bet it can handle your one requirement: "text editing".
I wouldn't necessarily say that I'm trying to solve a problem. It's more of why not have modular css-classes that I can use to build things when using custom directives.
Providers can't do this, because browsers implement an RFC that doesn't allow multi-level wildcards.
The Invisible Storm of the Neurotic Mind
Thanks, yes I agree it's a lot - but I'm hoping to make something that people can customize so that you don't have 0-100px of choices (but for now, it's an attempt at something new)
Node v4.0.0
Have you considered playing with 4.0 alpha - hate for you to have to completley rebuild it if it is an active project in a few months when 4.0 of Bootstrap goes live.
Anatomy of a Modern Production Stack
Maybe he went to every developers page he could find. Maybe someone wrote him a script. Sounds like it spooked the developers in question so....
I love Google Cloud except for Google Cloud Storage request pricing.

Cloud Storage considers retrieving an object through its HTTP url is considered a class B XML request type which is priced at $0.01/10,000 ops. This is 1.3x-2.5x more expensive than cloudfront and s3 respectively

Can you get somone who works on Cloud Storage to take a look at the pricing please? :) It seems like an anomaly since Google Cloud is usually at par or cheaper than AWS equivalents.

Also, the pricing on this page https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing#operations-pricing specifies only XML API pricing. I didn't expect HTTP GET requests to be counted as XML API requests and that caused me some trouble. We moved from cloudfront to Cloud Storage and the bill increased
Inconsistent. No airport I use regularly does chamber checks anymore, and I routinely fly with handguns and sometimes rifles.

At LAS they don't even do a TSA screen. They put a tag in he bag at gate and just use X-ray on the bags later. They will call you at the terminal over PA if there is an issue.
New Blokr Game made in node using socket.io
No, but it acts like one in all the ways that matter. If a couple of large studios got it into their mind to make this happen, the others would quickly fall in line.

And what's more, "pirates" don't like paying any amount of money for DRM-encumbered crap. Streaming is a different beast, but even then it's a bad situation what with the time limits and such.
Project Azorian was also featured in Charles Stross's "The Jennifer Morgue", which takes this particular CIA mission and its cover, and wraps it in something supernatural.

A+ read.
> Is anyone using a pedal in addition of a keyboard on a daily basis?

i've been using foot pedals with a kinesis advantage for a couple of months. note: i don't always use the pedals.

> Do you really think this could be a significant help when typing code?

no. i'm slower with the pedals, but my immediate goal was to reduce RSI-related pain, not to increase typing speed. to that effect they've been effective.
If the time differential is too extreme it will skip ahead or back instead of just skewing.

> ...The ntpd algorithms discard sample offsets exceeding 128 ms, unless the interval during which no sample offset is less than 128 ms exceeds 900s. The first sample after that, no matter what the offset, steps the clock to the indicated time.

> This may on occasion cause the clock to be set backwards if the local clock time is more than 128 [m]s in the future relative to the server. In some applications, this behavior may be unacceptable.
The Dark Side of Recruiting Pre-Internet
If gridlock is a major issue now, self-driving vehicles won't help in a major way, since you still need X square feet to move Y people (up to a maximum M, as defined by the size of a vehicle) Z miles. Pushing more individual cars onto buses would help in this situation, but not as much as a dedicated subway line that is less impacted by vehicular traffic flows.

Self-driving cars would help by removing some drivers not paying attention and causing additional congestion (eg: not moving on green lights or causing accidents).
of course, and I completely agree. I started off using a hyphen, but tried a colon just to make it look similar to inline-css.
It doesn't make your equipment any safer, guns are stolen from US airports all the time:

Although the law requires guns to be carried in locked, hard-sided cases, baggage handlers have no problem getting into such luggage, he said.
The other possibility, experts said, is that TSA screeners who X-ray or inspect bags by hand could be pocketing the guns.
Source: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2006-08-14/news/060814020...
Basing this on Internet traffic seems... overly simplistic. Particularly on the Republican end, a lot of people simply don't do social and stuff. Or even go online. And of course, Bernie is going to top the charts because he's an Internet crowd favorite, so the results there are skewed as well.
I wrote an app that does something similar but albeit not as pretty :)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appsmithy....
Security First - London or REMOTE - Volunteer

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-We are looking for copywriters, PR and app dev/UI/UX people who can can volunteer a few hours to help us with the final push. (Final copy review for the website/Google Play Store, QA testing on the app etc).

Drop a mail to info@secfirst.org or find out more:
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NOAA Just Released the Ultimate Desktop Model of Earth
I started meditating about 2 years ago because I liked the idea of having better 'control of my mind' - at the time I thought it was a gimmick but to my surprise it actually works.

To begin with I found that after 20-30mins of closing my eyes and trying to think of nothing, I always came out of the session feeling a lot calmer. Fast forward to today and I can now isolate thoughts and throw them away if they are garbage, which I'm not gonna lie is a pretty useful tool to have. The brain has a tendency to replay bad memories over and over again (recent embarrassing social situations, or even random events from years ago can suddenly pop up) and they can affect how you go about your day to day when you overthink them - you get overly nervous about a presentation you have to do later for example.

But now I can stop the thought in it's tracks and just 'let it go', returning my attention to my work. Because you calm and slow your mind in meditation you are able to separate out how thoughts are formed and observe how they change your mood and how they make you react, which gives you more power over them in daily life.
you can just 'hear' the Boston.

Also, fun with dropcaps http://mariozucca.com/projects/yankees-suck/
Clean Code short  german – by xdsa.de
Most of what we understand as science has occurred within the last couple hundred years which is is a tiny interval out of the period that Homo Sapiens alone has been on the planet. Asking why science happened mostly over here, but not over there, seems pointlessly akin to asking, why did the column of effervescence start in this spot on the champagne glass, and not this other spot over here.
> ditch that business model

I think it's great that they're branching out but they didn't stop production on their other models, right?

If business doesn't pan out for EcoTank, they won't keep it around.
Sure, but you could compile:

#include <my_api.h>

int main() { return 0; }
Imagine what it would be if you had lived little bit intoxicated for whole of your life. Then you would start sobering up.

You would notice more awareness, more focus, clarity and possibly well being. Rest of the world would seem less confusing.

Questioning the assumption that your normal wakeful mental state is the ultimate 'being alive and conscious' what your brain can do might be the first step. If you persist, eventually you see meditation same way as brushing your teeth. It's important part of maintaining your mental hygiene.
A Tricky Path to Quantum-Safe Encryption
If you want latest for Python, here's a Kickstarter that my partner just launched for her latest book about intermediate webapp concepts:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1868398473/hello-web-ap...

It's mostly focused around Django, but it's great for learning web app stuff in general. Has a chapter about Stripe integration, doing SASS/SCSS stylesheets, fiddling with images, and lots more. :)
I'd think the relevant statistic would be overall amount of sleep, not wakeup time. For all I know, Murakami goes to bed at 9pm every night, which makes that 4am wake-up time a little more civilized...
Looking at it by the legal implications, I think is significant that its an application rather than a website. The distance between a purely general purpose streaming application and Popcorn time is a very small one, and if a court found that the developers were guilty of inducing crime it could send real shock waves through the software industry and FOSS scene.
The covariant notation is concise and to some even elegant, but it is also less useful in practice. One often has to deal either with electric or magnetic field specifically as opposed to EM field tensor, and even if one does not need that, it is often possible and useful to work with only electric (or magnetic) component in 3D vector notation.
Did you... did you read the article?
The MPAA spends who-knows-how-many millions of dollars hiring lawyers and PIs to go after volunteer programmers in countries all over the world, when they could just be spending that on an online distribution system for movies that would provide the service that Popcorn Time currently does. There's demand for streaming movies and up-to-date releases with people willing to pay, why not meet it?

This kind of parallels craigslist, which has turned the classifieds market into a multi-billion-dollar sinkhole (http://theweek.com/articles/461056/craigslist-took-nearly-1-...). Except craigslist has critical mass and can't be easily replaced, whereas a concerted effort to innovate instead of stagnate by the movie industry could easily become a preferred service to PT.
Hypervelocity stars
Also http://www.aldaily.com/
Chris Anderson: Drone “Jackassery” Must Stop
OT but, I wonder what would happen if i had items in my luggage encased in a block of plastic?
Unless the lawyer wanted them to know he was looking. Might make some of the developers nervous.
I agree. Andrew Ng's course is a great place to start with ML. We've got a list of great online ML/DL courses here: http://deeplearning4j.org/deeplearningpapers.html
Totally agree, it is much more important to be able to reason about mutability.

I would disagree that it's super-easy to reason about var, despite being lexically scoped. It still causes an enormous amount of confusion when loops and callbacks are used together.

The PI example only really works because we all know what PI should look like. If you were using someone else's constant value and it accidentally got rebound it would be much harder to know.
They are way better than anything with a zipper. The best SE on a pelican is to attack the hinge.
Sorry for the confusion; I'll file a docs bug to make it clear that direct web serving of GCS buckets triggers class B get requests.

The pricing difference has been a long battle...
Padlocks don't prevent this at all. Take a zippered bag (any zippered bag). Jab a ballpoint pen between the zippers, then easily pull them apart with your hands. To re-zip, take the locked-together pair of zips and slide them back and forth from one side of the bag to the other.

This requires no more effort or skill than opening an un-"locked" bag.
Using the mantra code is communication, declaring everything as const lets others (and your future self) know that as of last writing they can expect this variable to not be reassigned. I think that small piece of information can be useful.

To your point however, `const` does not imply constant in the sense of other languages (like `.freeze()` does) so it does mean your target future audience is someone who is familiar with some of the nuances of recent JavaScript, an assumption that can be dangerous to make.

For my recent ES6 escapades I've been using the pattern of `const` first and `let` only when mutability of assignment is needed and I have yet to have that bite me in the ass. However this has been small projects and I can't speak for a larger codebase.
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Nothing would be more efficient than a boat, but that would take a serious level of commitment to the environment.
Pretty awesome concept
Very nice! I will definitely be utilizing this program for my job hunt :)
Can Apple Music Be Fixed?
These still exist to a degree in the Netherlands:

http://www.messynessychic.com/2012/10/17/the-era-of-automati...
Pretty cool guerilla marketing trick at WWDC – any other examples?