skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
.. or at least uninstall the app and switch to the website.

In any case, the same dynamic applies as on the web: people aren't very motivated by privacy when installing ad-blockers, but visual intrusiveness, annoyingness, offence and exploitativeness will push people over the edge into looking for a solution.
C# and F# approaches to illegal states
What other definition of paradox is there?
"Are people gaming the system by having merit or by simulating merit?"

In every single "meritocracy" I've ever seen, more of the latter. Whatever the system is, people will game it. Most especially, people at the top will redefine the metrics to favor those they've already decided should join them. That's the way it works in these elite jobs, but we in tech are hardly any better. Big companies, big foundations, etc. all exhibit the exact same behavior.
> But I'd expect a Python user to pick up Go before Rust, simply because Go is more like Python

Python + Go is hardly any better than just Python. Go is easy to learn but the reward is small.

Python + Rust, otoh, increases the types of problems you can solve and can dramatically improve your skills as a software developer.
Cloudera Launches Kudu, New Hadoop Storage for Fast Analytics on Fast Data
Shell Halts Alaska Offshore Exploration After Failing to Find Enough Oil
The scientists will have to decide before people are sent there, because you can't sterilize people.
Anything useful Docker related (blogpost, write-ups, tutorial, courses)
Nowadays it's hardly an exaggeration to say that there hasn't been an innovation in app development and deployment over the past year or two that's been bigger than Docker.

Here's a little list of useful learning material about Docker we put together for myself and hope it's worth even for you.

Getting started with Docker (course) https://cloudacademy.com/cloud-computing/courses/getting-started-with-docker

Docker: advanced concepts (course)
https://cloudacademy.com/cloud-computing/courses/docker-advanced-concepts/

Official Docker Guidebookhttps://github.com/kencochrane/docker-guidebook

Continuous integration with Docker Deployments: the players
http://cloudacademy.com/blog/continuous-integration/

Continuous Integration with Docker deployments – Part 2 http://cloudacademy.com/blog/continuous-integration-docker/

How to bind together tools like Jenkins, GitHub and S3 – along with Docker? http://cloudacademy.com/blog/continuous-integration-docker/

Orchestrating Docker (Ebook) https://www.geekbooks.me/book/view/orchestrating-docker

Docker security: making sure you get it right http://cloudacademy.com/blog/docker-security-get-right/

Docker Tutorial 1 - Installing Docker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV5vbNK3Uhw&list=PLkA60AVN3hh_6cAz8TUGtkYbJSL2bdZ4h

Feel free to add what you think it's worth a look w/ a comment below:

Enjoy yourself. :)
There's a few options with regards to benchmarking your server install, here's a good intro article[1] I found for this.

To follow up with 0x400614's answer, you'll want to look at `ab` - ApacheBench.

[1] https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-benchmark-stress-your-...
"Just how many of our decisions occur out of our awareness, even when we have the illusion of control? And if the conscious mind is not needed to direct our actions, then what is its purpose? Why did we evolve this vivid internal life, if we are almost “zombies” acting without awareness?"

Slow thinking vs fast thinking?
Thanks for sharing this - that was a lot of fun!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_Regulation_%28EC%29...

It's just overly-pedantic input validation in the legal system; if you're going to have rules that mention bananas, you have to define what is and what is not a banana. Especially if different fruits have different tax treatments.
FB continues to promote the self-serving fallacy that users really, really want ads.

According to FB, users just desparately want those ads to be highly targeted and relevant. And, that's awesome, because it just happens to correspond exactly with what advertisers want.

Most amazing is that advertisers continue to believe it. Testament to the power of desparation and wishful thinking.
Converting a C library to gyp
Entrepreneur’s Guide to Influencers
JSConf EU 2015 Opening Performance
Is the Comment Corpus still available? I have looked but couldn't see anything obvious (my apologies if I'm being thick here)
Many complain here about how bad the disks where, but nobody seem to remember the sudden quality drop in the late 90s. For me it was very different to use a (not very used) 10 year old disk than using a freshly bought one, any brand.
The one and only collection you'll ever need: http://www.nkode.io/2014/08/24/valuable-docker-links.html
Really can't see a use case for myself and really looking for someone else's.

I have my own personal server where I just ssh into for my needs and it is cheaper than $9.99 a month.
Myntra sales drastically dropped after going app only. http://goo.gl/JQy6IX
huh ?

https://www.python.org/~guido/
In January 2013 I joined Dropbox. I work on various Dropbox products and have 50% for my Python work, no strings attached.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/interview-guido-van-ros...

I don't have a 20% project per se, but I have Google's agreement that I can spend 50% of my time on Python, with no strings attached, so I call this my “50% project”.
WP+Mobile+Firendly+Pack+|+Software's,+apps+,+courses
I'd love to see a push to change the metric from profit per employee to profit per hour worked. That would be a more fair comparison.
nice :)

now just hope we won't have to wait too long for 2.10 (from my reading of http://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Hacking:Porting_filters_to_GEGL#Po... there are 34 GEGL ops still to do, with 55 done and 28 work-in-progress before 2.10 can be released …)
Because people who work in stores are either idiots or pretending to be idiots. Or choice number 3: they pay us to do that so flat out refuse to do so themselves. Imagine this true story: guy on the phone to technician 3 times about printer not working, go through all the "is it plugged in, try turning it on and off" routine. Nothing working? Still? Tried everything we suggested, yup? OK. Better send a guy out. Arrive on scene. Printer still in box. So, no, nobody is asking anyone to replace keys in the correct position on a physical keyboard in 300 shops nationwide with literally thousands of miles between them. Because the people out there aren't interested in helping. With touchscreens we can push updates with full control over the keyboard/screen (they have a qwerty under the desk most of the time).

Also consider the cost of custom keyboards for shops, no t just hte layout but the quality of these items, keypresses thousands of times a week. When something breaks and you aren't sure what it, raspberry jam under a key, or a broken screen. It's easier to diagnose and fix a screen or remote software. I can't use your physical keyboard over a network.
I think it's more targeted at interactive use, plus each instance is a lot more powerful than normal VPS (AWS t2.medium).
As an analogy, you can write safe code in assembler as well if you and your team are incredibly disciplined and only interact with libraries written with a similar amount of discipline. The appeal of alternatives is you can write safe code with a fraction of the discipline and mental effort required.
Nice one. Another nice thing is this e-book: https://leanpub.com/deploy-web-apps-with-docker.
Other useful ebooks you can find also here: https://www.packtpub.com/all/?search=docker#
https://www.windyty.com/ has similar functionality, but in my point of view a much nicer UI
From the comments on the Amazon page:

"What a steal!

By John Taylor Kesler on April 25, 2011, Format: Paperback

I was fortunate enough to buy this at the bargain price of $19,087,354 there must have been a sale because the next day it was listed at $23M. I was very pleased to find upon arrival that the book contained very useful information, however to be honest I was expecting a few more pictures for the price paid. I highly recommend this to all my associates, I have many acquaintances with children in only the best private schools who will be buying several copies. If the price has you worried, ask yourself the American question: "can you really put a price on good education?""
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Agreed, I switched to using the browser and now that's to in-cognito mode also On doing so, a few friends followed . Whilst privacy intrusion does irritate me, completely correct that visual instrusiveness as you put it, especially adds appearing very close to where I'm trying to click and then I end up clicking on them. I did use adblocker for a while but it wasn't 100% affective hence the switch over
One more than there should be by rights! Mine fell in a river at night a week ago, I thought it was gone but then I saw a light flashing from the bottom.. It was the screen flickering, coming and going for about a minute like it was calling to me. By the time I got in it had gone out but I found it by diving and feeling around on the bottom.

Packed it in rice and 4 days later it came back to life :) I'm very happy, great phone and surprisingly hardy!
Moreover consortium depends on GPU implementations to be available.
I haven't gotten that far yet, nor am I worried about it. It's not really expensive to run a service like this, plus it seems that people could use it. I have a few ideas though, such as ads, oe charging for editing etc.
That is quite accurately reflective of what's going on in Europe right now, in fairness.
I'd love to see the Ubuntu phone try to do things that the iPhone just can't do - things like give developers the tools they need to write apps: onboard, i.e. use the thing itself to build software for it.

Anyone know if thats possible, or do you still have to have an external cross-compiler/IDE to write proper apps for it?
From the linked page - 502 Bad Gateway.

if there had been more money spent on hosting than on books we might have avoided this situation.
Interactive Screen App
One of the developers here. We'd be happy to get feedback and answer any questions.
Does anyone know what is used to offer the remote desktop functionality in HTML5?
We shouldn't depend on HW implementations. Instead OpenCL (possibly/hopefully with a DSP profile should suffice).
The Art and Science of Pricing Your Products
Link seems to have been hugged to death. Can anyone mirror/plaintext? Cheers.
Google cached link in case you also get 502: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
The Venus Project
I can't work out what this is for
> (The non-JVM self-hosted implementation does not yet support macros at the time of writing.)

Fixed, you can remove this line :)
How I used 3D Touch to let a user create colored backgrounds
As European, I had never heard of the Legacy system before. This is kind of shocking, or at very least, at odd with my world view.

However, I understand a little better why racial quota have been implemented in the US.
Sure, here you go [1] - It unpacks to over 1tb though, hence me considering spinning up another server just for the comments. Might be a good use for my test Hadoop cluster.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/3bxlg7/i_have_eve...
I do recall encountering a similar X-server--HTML-bridge in the early 2000's. It also was a remote server with store for working files type of service, but free as I recall.
Just imagine the time cost involved in that. New features and upgrades would come once a year, maybe. How do you track different sonfigs across hundreds of shops? POS systems with touch screen have been in use for 10+ years, they are well tested and there is no "screw the users" attitude in the industry. Not sure what you are complaining about.
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Does that require a phone nearby at all times?
Copy of this — http://www.peeep.us/48bfb370
here you go — http://www.peeep.us/48bfb370
Your Django Story: Meet Jessica Hamrick
JavaScript is a trademark of Oracle Corporation?
Streamline your predictive pipeline with runtime feature extraction
answer is simple to me. I deleted facebook a while ago when I saw the targeted ads targeting a bit too well and Im pretty sure many people will remove FB the more FB is becoming relevant as a business
Perhaps include in the title that this is from 2011.

I haven't seen these kind of things recently, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
Would be good for developers who need to port something to Linux but don't want to go through the hassle of setting up a dedicated instance themselves .. build-servers that need a full Linux setup, etc.

Might be good for folks who have very slow computers, or non-usable machines (iPads/tablets/phones/etc.) who nevertheless still need access to a Linux environment for school or work, or even just for the fun of learning Linux for the first time without much hassle.

Its certainly easier to use/setup an instance than some of the other options out there, although things seem to be pretty competitive in this space .. so who knows how long icebergs.io is going to be around.

I've bought a basic plan, anyway .. good for me to have my co-developers using this to build our project code without requiring a big fuss with setting up a PC/VM-instance/whatever...

In short: it can be used to do whatever you might like to do with a Linux workstation. So: quite powerful, then ..
"Given how much processed food" you (in your country might) eat. Don't generalize like that. It's not because you don't see the problem with your own eyes that it doesn't exist.
Four days a week
I don't know if this is what they use, but ThinLinc[0] from Cendio supports an HTML5 interface.

[0] https://www.cendio.com/thinlinc/features/html5
HealthVeda: Stop  Going to a Doctor
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> And what is the fear-mongering going on at Reddit?

The usual:

• The Arabs will outbreed us! (Before or after the Turks will outbreed us? Or was it the Somalis? I lost track.)

• The refugees will cripple our economy! (153 million EU citizens are on tax-funded pensions or unemployment benefits. Please tell me how a million refugees is going to make a dent in that.)
Just tried it out .. very nice, quite usable, and fairly decent, performance-wise. Single CPU, 2.5ghz, decent enough for most Linux desktop tasks.

The only issue I have is that it booted the instance and needed immediately to do a software update .. that's a bit of a drag, I'd be happier if the base instances were already up to date before they get configured/cloned .. but no big deal, really. ( * -)

I'll use it for some ports and see how things go .. kudos to the icebergs.io team for making it pretty smooth to get a new Linux developer workstation set up easily enough ..

EDIT: (- * ) Actually .. this is a big deal for anyone trying it out - the update occurs and then the machine reboots, and then of course .. you lose your instance on the free-tier account. So if you want to use this for free, don't bother doing an update and definitely don't reboot the instance thinking you'll get back an upgraded machine. Apparently thats only for paid users.

EDIT2: Well, 5 minutes after finishing the software upgrade and accidentally hitting the "Restart" button without thinking, I'm left with a hung instance and seemingly no way to get the machine back to life. In case anyone from icebergs.io needs to know, the instance name is late-firefly-372, and all I did was log in, do the required software update, hit restart .. and wait .. and wait. The instance still seems to be responsive, but just not rebooting - some of the windows I left on the screen prior to the reboot appear to still be reacting to mouse events (the VNC config window checkboxes work), but the DE is dead and gone, and the machine doesn't seem to be letting me do anything .. thought I'd report it in case others run into this issue. Don't do the update and don't reboot! :)
Not about the money
Variety Jones is one of those "fogotten architects", who alleges that a corrupt FBI officer is blackmailing him / feeding him inside information in order to gain access a password protected BitCoin wallet worth $70 million that the FBI agent stole from Ross Ulbricht: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/variety-jones-a-corrupt-fbi...
The author wonders why Rust is getting attention in 2015, despite lacking GC. The answer is concurrency, a much more difficult problem than avoiding null ptr derefs. C++ advocates are right to say that with Boost libs and C++ 11 and 14 it's much easier to avoid mem mgmt problems. Concurrency remains hard, and Rust's borrow mechanism is the biggest step forward since the late 90s IMHO.
How to Cure Acne  Naturally
This is interesting but would be more interesting if they linked to the software that they are using and gave information about the settings used.
There is no extra “discipline“ or “mental effort” required to write safe C++. Don’t use new/delete/free/malloc and don’t use operator&. Of course, you can say that we might as well remove them from the language entirely, but I really don’t think it takes extra effort not to use them.
A Marine with a rifle and a cat, then
tl;dr: Price adjustment program feedback loop causes predictably ridiculous prices.
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They appear to be using noVNC
https://kanaka.github.io/noVNC/
All that talent at Facebook, and they use it to come up with creepier and more invasive ways of ad targeting. I could not help laughing at the quote about it being for "the greater good". Hot Fuzz flashbacks ahoy.
If anyone wonders about the potential practical impact of the subversion of the Brainpool curves, it's pretty bad, as the curves have been standardized for use in TLS by RFC 7027.

Any other standard using Brainpool curves?
اصباغ الكويت 55090348 احدث ورق جدران بالكويت – فيديو Dailymotion
> There's no protection against magnetic fields

I agree that floppies were all but reliable in practice. But I suspect sensitivity to magnetic fields was largely a myth. I did some experiments back in the day with some permanent magnets and 3.5" disks. As I remember it was pretty hard to make the disk unreadable with those. Granted they were probably much weaker than what is available today (neodymium must have been terribly exotic back then). I was much less afraid after that that some carelessly positioned magnet will wipe out my floppy library.
So in the original specification, if B failed the non-square test, it would start over with the next seed and regenerate both A and B.

In the RFC version, it will regenerate B until it is square, then do the other security checks.

That's unfortunate, but the generated curve should still satisfy all the requirements. There is little room for this to have an actual security impact. You would need an unknown attack that the original specification did not guard against, but randomly happened to avoid by its choice of seeding for the RFC method to be worse.
I've spent some time turning this dataset into a Torrent - magnet link is here. If the Reddit OP doesn't want it to be shared in this way for whatever reason, I will of course kill it. Just trying to save him some bandwidth.

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:9941b4485203c7838c3e688189dc069b7af59f2e&dn=RS%5Ffull%5Fcorpus.bz2&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80
We got hit by a similar spear phishing attempt - typically terse email from a buyer who used to be a Director.

Luckily we caught it. It was close though, the accounts clerk who received the enquiry asked for confirmation and then got bombarded with emails for a while - all single letter variations of the buyer's name.
Can somebody expand on the "social issues" with Scala?
"Our IT Act, often in conjunction with our blasphemy and defamation laws, has repeatedly been used to silence citizens who dared to voice their opinions on the Internet. Let us please not be blind consumers of "curated" news tweets. Let us also fight for a right to create content, without being censored, on the Free Web."
- Indeed. The media, SV, India and the states are backing Modi's campaign as you've said. I was surprised reading the article below (although not super surprised given the Indian-SV relationship being so strong at the moment) that these more concerning points you touch on haven't been highlighted. Whilst from a technology perspective, this is no doubt a triumph for modi and his team, the true benefit for Indians in India will only be seen when laws are reformed to mirror the freedom the campaign stresses comes out of technology. This is a start, more needs to be done.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-34376984
Rereading your comment it feels like you've moved the goal posts and are being overly cynical. (This presentations essentially addressed your previous concern by providing interoperability between new safe code and existing code that doesn't have safety guarantees)

These are valid concerns, but you're being very dismissive of the benefits

I think confining errors to libraries is generally a good strategy. In effect you are guaranteeing that you're not going to introduce any new unsafe code.

It might uncover errors in the existing code.. but that's a much smaller issue and one that fades with time (esp if you're talking about libraries that a lot of people are using)

Is this "good enough" for a brand new aircraft-control/heart-lung-machine system? Maybe not. Maybe then you should start from the ground up using either Rust or C++/GSL entirely. But I think for most use cases this is sufficient and brings huge immediate benefits now. And of course with time libraries will be updated to include safety guarantees (which for the most part seem like it wouldn't involve a ton of work)

This is more of an organic process that basically in some form preserves the millions of man hours people have invested in C++ and less of a clean slate solution. As I've said before, you gotta make a living now in the current reality with the current codebases and the current tools. You can't just judge languages in a vaccuum.
Appreciate it. That seems like a useful site - bookmarked :)
I wanted to learn Perl but lacked an internet connection. The only way was downloading at the library and saving onto floopy disks. It was >12mb windows installer meaning I had to split it across 10+ disks. It took 3 attempts to get a full set of disks without ant errors.
You can still do the same thing with OSMC and piratebay.

The only, I repeat, ONLY reason why RasPi doesn't "support" netflix is because of DRM. The media files would easily play. So instead of downloading the file each time you want to watch it (netflix), download it our your HD and watch it from there. It's the comparison between O(n*constant) and O(constant).

When you get OSMC up and running, you can add in hooks for node-red. The flowchart for button->actions should be simple to set up.
That reminds me of a quite old doc that kids were expected to watch in schools during my childhood, Island of Flowers (with english subs): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amg08t0TQOY

It's about a small river island in Porto Alegre, Brazil (in 1989). Food thrown away would be given to pigs first, and the rest discarded by the animals was scavenged by the poor people living there. It's a pretty intense scene to watch...

It's a well known fact (for brazilians, that is) that in Brazil we waste and throw away to much good food but people stopped bothering years ago when some bills passed stating anyone giving/reselling thrown away food to others -- no matter how perfect they were/looked -- could go to jail and pay some fines if anything happened to the consumers of such food.

It's quite easy to find fantastic food in street markets or at the back of restaurantes at the end of the day, specially veggies and fruits. That makes projects like food sharing etc extremely difficult.