skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In some sense I absolutely agree. There's a difference to be seen in requests for existing data and the realtime feeds we now know exist.

But I guess something could be considered better than nothing. Europeans definitely do have better legal access to correcting incorrect data for example.
This is timely again, putting out new hardware and integrating every device with windows, even open sourcing its development platform isn't going to bring the developers back from the web.

Personally I don't think it was as obvious in 2007 as it is now, that all apps would be on the web. Whats stranger is that Microsoft still doesn't seem to understand this.
Sounds like a v2.0 with feature bloat.

""Any infix operator can be replaced by itself in square brackets..." Later someone asked, "In a world of user-defined operators everywhere, how do you define precedence?" And Larry pulled out is tighter() and is looser(), noting that Perl 6 even has customizable precedence levels. "You can add an infinite number...""

It's been said that most of programming is about managing complexity. I'm unhappy with Perl in general because it makes it really easy to hide complexity. Perl 6 looks like it makes it even worse.

Yes, it looks like an amazingly powerful and sophisticated language, and an amazing and respectable accomplishment, but my gut feeling is I'll hate seeing some in production...
Sounds like a v2.0 with feature bloat.

""Any infix operator can be replaced by itself in square brackets..." Later someone asked, "In a world of user-defined operators everywhere, how do you define precedence?" And Larry pulled out is tighter() and is looser(), noting that Perl 6 even has customizable precedence levels. "You can add an infinite number...""

It's been said that most of programming is about managing complexity. I'm unhappy with Perl in general because it makes it really easy to hide complexity. Perl 6 looks like it makes things worse.

Yes, it looks like an amazingly powerful and sophisticated language, and an amazing and respectable accomplishment, but my gut feeling is I'll hate seeing some in production...
We should make it possible to run StackStorm on Sandstorm (https://sandstorm.io), mainly for the confusion factor. :)

Apparently our offices are like three blocks apart, too!
Infrastructure... as a service!

https://www.3dhubs.com/

Open Source manufacturing equipment:

http://openknit.org/build/

http://github.com/g3rard/OpenKnit

http://instructables.com/id/Building-the-Open-Knit-machine

OpenKnit is an open-source, low cost, digital fabrication
tool that affords the user the opportunity to create their
own bespoke clothing from digital files. Starting from
the raw material, the yarn, and straight to its end use,
a sweater for example, in about an hour. Designing and
producing clothes digitally and wearing them can now
happen in the very same place, rewarding the user with
the ability to make decisions regarding creativity and
responsibility.
Hammerspoon
True. Though the Shiai I've seen (Tomiki style) looks very different than judo shiai. What I've seen appeared to be point scoring with brushes. I actually know nothing about Tomiki style beyond that, and the history that Tomiki was a student of both Kano and Ueshiba.
Why Peeple is such a horrifically awful idea, and might just work
Microsoft is Dead. Long Live Microsoft.
Enough time has elapsed in the 8 years since this was written that not only does everybody already know Microsoft is dead in the sense meant here, but the interesting question has now become:

Admittedly, it is a long shot, but could Microsoft start to matter again?
That construct reminds me most of callbacks: you define some code, and register it to be called in certain circumstances.
You can do this. I tried to draw up a quick gist, but I am late, and I've been writing too much Rust...

The basic idea is this:

module Mst
def self.included(base)
# define a method on base using define_method named :before, which takes an
# argument and a block
# in that method, you grab the method with that name, using .method()
# you then define a new method, named method, which calls the block and
# then calls the original method
end
end

class Foo
include Mst

def test
puts "test"
end

before :test do
puts "before"
end
end

Module named after you. You can see how the logic only changes a bit for after and around. You could then wrap this up as a library, and all you'd need to do is the include.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/Callbacks/F... has an example, I think.
The lack of visibility into per-snapshot cost is insane. We had a problem with the old deduplication process that meant that identically timed snapshots for identical servers with identical data could sometimes cost more than 2x the others. We only found this because we happened to have more the expensive volumes in one region than the others, so our snapshot bill was mysteriously $10k/month higher in that region.

We have essentially no idea how much many of our backups actually cost.

The price didn't triple, what happened was they dropped S3 pricing substantially but never dropped snapshot pricing, even though it's based on S3.
Aren't there waves ? This is how I see it http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SKfrICxISAo/U6H2fevDD_I/AAAAAAAAEA...

Apple was at the forefront after their revival. Google caught steam in the early 2Ks. Now they're both busy sustaining their model and Microsoft is eager for fresh love so their grabbing the ball. And that ball is half of the Apple style of product design and communication. That's the first time MS is so deep into aesthetics, glamour, engineering and talks. Before that it was a lot more nerd oriented.
Europe, evidently.
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yes this just feels like link bait.
I didn't realize such a thing was being made! thanks for the tip
Can someone in the games industry venture an opinion of the danger MS poses in 2015? It seems they are innovating and buying more in this realm than otheres.
No one is afraid of Microsoft or Google the way some businesses are afraid of Amazon.
Some years ago, I actually had to learn about this. There are adhesives that are flexible, strong, hypoallergenic, and can survive laundering. They're used for disposable diapers, automotive applications, gloves, purses, luggage, and such. In a production environment they're applied as hot sprays, which requires compressed air and heated hoses and tanks.

Sewing isn't expensive, though. It costs more to get the fabric lined up properly for sewing (because that's manual) than to sew the seam.

(Former member, American Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Association.)
Well, I don't know, just about anyone who stands to lose from self driving cars going mainstream.

Downvoters: obviously, self driving cars are a hugely positive development overall. But some players in the economy will lose.
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The maths that made Voyager possible (2012)
> The most obvious is Google. There can only be one big man in town, and they're clearly it. Google is the most dangerous company now by far, in both the good and bad senses of the word.

This is an interesting quote. Who's the big man in town in 2015? It's probably still not Microsoft. But I'm not sure it's Google either - maybe it is, though. Is it Facebook? Apple? Amazon? Uber?

I think you could make an interesting, but not overly convincing, case for each of those companies. I wonder who pg considers the big man in town.
Yeah, from the moment I saw the new logo I seemed to have an instinctive reaction against the kerning, it just feels wrong. Her spacing is a bit better, but is still by no means perfect. With a bit more iteration I'm sure it could be worked into something the vast majority accept...

... which leads into the question of why Google didn't take the time to address the issue properly? It seems that if you're going to change the logo of a bazillion-dollar company you'd make the effort to get it right. You, me and the OP can't be the only people in the world who disliked the kerning, so it's not as if the Google designers weren't aware it was an issue (unless they completely ignored testing it?) Just seems a bit shoddy.
It's worth reading what was written immediately after Paulson decided to let Lehman fail, but before the ramifications were known.

Paul Krugman, Sept. 14 2008: " Mr. Paulson seems to be betting that the financial system — bolstered, it must be said, by those special credit lines — can handle the shock of a Lehman failure. We’ll find out soon whether he was brave or foolish...And so here we are, with Mr. Paulson apparently feeling that playing Russian roulette with the U.S. financial system was his best option. Yikes. "

Larry Kudlow, September 16, 2008: "Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is the man of the hour. This weekend he drew a clear line in the sand: no more federal bailouts. Not for Lehman Brothers. Not for global insurer AIG. Not for Merrill Lynch. Not for anyone, at least as of this writing...Mr. Paulson talks about a housing and financial recovery in terms of months, not years. And I think he’s right."
They "run at a profit" because they make "interest income on ... U.S. Treasury securities...".

I.e., they are paying the Treasury with money they received from the Treasury, or from bonds guaranteed by the Treasury.
Yeah, from what I hear Class Bravo airspace is one of those areas that you can flying toward in a Cessna 172, ask to enter, and be pretty much told "no thanks, not right now". (N.B. Not a pilot, you're all safe).
People keep bring that up, but they actually take great pains to keep birds away from places that airplanes fly, because of the danger. For instance they use falcons to ward off bird packs from airports. Just one of the things they do. But birds are still a danger, we just can't control them.

But this? This is controlled by a human. So what is the excuse? Personal freedom? That's not going to cut it with the public.
I see no bullet in Google's brain
I've practiced Shiai in both the Tomiki style and outside of it. I've also spent a fair amount of time in Judo dojo seeing the variants there.

What I'd say is that shiai means lots of different things to lots of different people. What you get out of it is school to school and student to student dependent.
"At work, I have been using Perl 5 increasingly often over the past two years, mainly because handling unicode in Python 2 is not a lot of fun (and I still haven't come around to learning Python 3),"

Why?
Kerberos sends the password to the server.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_(protocol)
> Their victory is so complete that I'm now surprised when I come across a computer running Windows.

Sigh. It's clear that PG, as good a writer as he is, is the one in another world.
Oh I see, it was a figure of speech not intended to be a comparison. I see greater than/less than primarily as comparison operators.

If all you're trying to say is that women did more than nothing during WWII then obviously that can't be argued. Grandparent comment has been deleted but I'm guessing it had something to do with a comparison of contributions?

BTW it's not quoting you out of context when the context is like 200 pixels away, I quoted you for emphasis and brevity trusting that anybody who wanted the full quote had complete access to it.
Sketch Constraints
Page impressions (and probably uniques, but I don't really measure that) went down by 25%.
Thanks! I can't believe I hadn't seen this yet.

I actually have a knitting machine, which works similarly, but haven't used it much. Short programs are way more appealing than counting pins by hand.
A nice feature is that imports honor scope, so you can use a module and import functions or operators within a scope and not worry about it causing problems elsewhere.
How could the average garment worker afford a sewing robot?
My regular airline is Qantas, which prints the full frequent flyer number on the boarding pass, but not the PNR/booking reference.
I was being facetious but now that I think about it, it does seem fairly inevitable that one day air-traffic control will be consider to have too low a margin for error to entrust to human operators.
Password on an x509 cert requires the x509 cert to be stored or made available to the client somehow. The whole point of CBCrypt is to allow password authentication and encryption without the user needing to change any behavior or learn anything.
$300 fee? No, my friend. If you buy something on MLS, you pay at least half of a 6% commission on that $300k, for a cool $18,000 (if you have an easygoing seller, that is) How's that for a barrier to entry?

And yah - the market would revolutionize overnight* because without professional licensing suddenly MLS becomes just one of many sources of data - and judging by the technology of MLS, a quickly irrelevant one.

* - I exaggerate: it would take at least a fortnight.
So... what is it?
See the Tech Video. Defense against rainbow tables is periodic salt changing, to put a limited time scope on brute force calculation time.
I think we're in violent agreement. I'm a fan of the high-level approach taken by the common criteria[1], which emphasizes cataloging threats, security objectives, environmental concerns & vulnerability mitigations when designing secure systems. This seems to overlap more than a bit with your thought process based on your blog post.

The challenge is to get people with good critical thinking skills (like the kind you advocate, and embodied in proceses like the CC) and domain knowledge involved in building things. For example, I think I have a good ability to reason (I started my career in formal methods) but at present I know very little about how a browser actually treats it's inputs. So, it's quite difficult for me to reason about the application operating environment presented by a web browser running some javascript. I wouldn't trust myself to start coding a secure web site today. Hopefully the industry will foster both of these skills (a critical mindset & good domain knowledge) and put them to good use.

[1] http://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/
I had no idea that chemotherapy is basically intravenous mustard gas. Thanks for the insight!
I'd love to see your vanilla js version! I don't know where I would start
Unabst was apparently of the opinion (above and in his deleted message) that the lack of innovation in the headline was much more significant than the massive innovation in the product.

Seems to me that if Apple had produced the Surface Book, Mac fans would be wetting themselves so hard that a lot of people would drown....
terraform/juju/bosh are purpose-build for app and infra deployments.

StackStorm is a generic automation platform with no . One can use it to run arbitrary chain of actions on events. As such, it is used in auto-remediation & automating runbooks. We internally use it for variety of things like irc-to-slack relay, zombie ec2 vm periodic clean-up, ChatOps-ing JIRA, etc.

Some folks do run complex continuos deployment pipelines and blue/green deployments on StackStorm. Would be good if they can comment here.
How did they know the drones belonged to SkyPan?
Oops, I did see that first but my initial uncaffeinated impression was that it was the intro for advertisers rather than users, what with the open rates and the click throughs and the numbers.

One the more entertaining/interesting things about original subreddit content is that it often gets fleshed out, corrected (occasionally to a full 180˚) and otherwise improved by further contributions. I'm curious how upvoted deals with that. Perhaps your editor could do an AMA sometime after things settle down post-launch.
More guns may indicate more deaths by guns, yet the author doesn't mention a specific or proposed gun control law, or method that would reduce the the number of guns.
> Is that the society we want? We get to decide the society we want to live in...It is all about aligning incentives.

Why not? All thats happened so far is that you have produced and provided a free unit of work to the world and deferred consumption. Whether saving towards retirement or holding off for a big purchase I see nothing wrong with it. If that money is never spent, then that work provided was free forever.
That's not what concern trolling is.
You made exactly the same point as the post you are replying to, you just used more words.
For starters, if garment workers had the resources to purchase a sewing robot, they wouldn't be garment workers. You're going to have logistics issues on par with all farming being replaced with home gardens.

I think the more likely usage is amateur designers being able to produce their own designs. However, I'm pretty sure that's a very different demographic than the people currently working in garment factories.
Even though traders might not be tech savvy in a programming sense, what I've seen of a Bloomberg terminal (briefly, I'm not a trader) is that it's largely keyboard driven, with something similar to a command line, for the same reason that programmers prefer to use the keyboard and command lines: because it's an efficient, powerful use of muscle memory.

Also, it's monospaced, for the same reason programmers want things to be monospaced: because that way anything can be tabular data.

The article the GP linked is just wrong. People aren't opposed changing the terminal interface just because they're masochists. They're against changing the terminal because they have learned some powerful skills with it, and the "Web 2.0"-looking replacement that the designers are proposing has no equivalent of those skills.
I took that line as sarcasm and had a laugh. That line is why I watched the whole video and signed up and followed this dude.

The idea is a collaborative project without focus on money or enterprise. I don't know what it is exactly, but I like it.
Does anyone have more details on the "NVIDIA GeForce"? I can't find the model, memory or any other info. What I really want to know is how powerful the GPU really is, and some benchmarks, but for now just some model-number or series-letter would be fine.
The Los Angeles Fashion District / Garment District is dying regardless of minimum wage hikes. A lot of business was from Mexico and China is going direct to Mexico these days. Also, a recent crackdown on money laundering aggravated the situation: http://www.latimes.com/local/crime/la-me-fashion-district-ra... . Unfortunately, minimum wage doesn't apply to many of these shops. They're mostly cash under the table jobs. I don't have a source for that other than knowing many, many seamstresses over the years who are now mostly out of work.
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Something I do want to note: everyone seems to only ever look at two, maybe three companies for "serious" notebooks: Dell, Lenovo, and (maybe) HP. However, I've found that by far the best company to buy laptops from is Asus.

The latest example of this I've seen is the Asus Zenbook UX305LA. The specs are:

8GB Ram
256 SSD
Intel Core i5-5200U
1080p IPS display
A keyboard devoid of obviously poor layout[0]
Nice large multi-touch trackpad[0]
Weighs 2.86 lbs (1.29 kg)
8+ hours of battery
Full out of the box Linux compatibility
---------------------
Price: $750

It seems to have an absolutely killer set of features at a great price point, and this seems to be a trend with Asus. My current laptop is an Asus TP300LA, with nearly the same specs (though thicker and heavier), and it sold at the same ~$700 price point two years ago.

I highly recommend people look to Asus for their standard "programmer machines".

[0] - http://cuttingedgenotebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/AS...
You pivoted pretty quickly here from Lehman to HFT and automated trading. I think you're skipping over something very important by doing so: The mortgage backed securities and CDOs that Lehman and the other big banks got into trouble with are nearly bespoke contracts (more like a small town's bonds than an NYSE stock). Some fancy computing goes into determining what to sell any given contract for, but that's as far as it goes. They're traded by people who chat on the telephone, gather round the conference table, and then fax legalese back and forth. These contracts are not traded on the sorts of highly liquid public exchanges that have HFT. Nor is there much if any automated decision making in this corner of the financial industry. No point in paying nerds a fortune to get instant decisions when implementing said decisions is going to take days or weeks (if it's even possible).

Which is to say: The 2008 financial crisis unfolded at human speeds. The public liquid markets didn't move any faster during the crisis than they in Herbert Hoover's day. (Investors already had telephones then.) Public markets react to data as it becomes available, and all the relevant data at the time was generated by humans.

In particular, the central bank officials were forced to make quick decisions without complete information not 'because HFT and yay automated trading', but because there were a lot of well-informed and very scared humans telling them the economy was about to collapse.
Found another article which clarifies and updates from this 1906 article: http://www.internetwks.com/owen/CancerCure.htm
Qantas assigns FF numbers sequentially -- mine was in the first million so it's six digits. So any number is associated with someone's account.

Other schemes seem to assign only a tiny fraction of possible codes, which is why my Starwood number is twelve digits long.

I don't see any reason why they should do that.
I would love to know why the programmer thought the second base64 would help.

"No one would ever expect the data to be base64-encoded twice! Mwa ha!"
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Is the US ipso facto a police state at this point?

We civilians have way too many guns for this to be like any police state previously known to man.

E.g., 9 million were manufactured in the US last year, and I could look up the importation numbers if desired. Monthly NICS recorded sales continue to break records. Etc. etc.

To those who say this sort of thing is useless, well, ignoring how much this might be suppressing greater unjustified police violence (or, why are they so eager to kill dogs?), note how all those California police units completely lost their shit when 1 mostly crazy guy started killing a few of them.

That said, suicide by cop is a real thing, there's even a recorded case of suicide by armed civilian. But certainly some unjustified killings are lurking in the statistics.
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Wait, really? So the things mentioned in the comment thread on this¹ post mean less to you than getting a trackpoint?

In any case, Lenovo isn’t the only manufacturer that includes a pointing stick in their laptops. HP’s EliteBook series, for example, has one. There’s a full list of manufacturers here².

――――――

¹ — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10039306

² — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick#Naming_and_bran...
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Yeah, I think she overdid the kerning on the "l". It looks separated from the rest of the word. Perhaps 13px (compromise between Google's 11px version and Angela's 15px version) would work better?

Speaking of color, the yellow "o" blends into the white background and makes the space between the two "o"s, as well as the space between "o" and "g", look smaller than they actually are. In order to look consistent, the other characters need to be closer together than they would ideally be in a black-and-white version.
There's more to a laptop than just its theoretical performance. It also needs to be reliable and tough, light-weight, ergonomic (good keyboard, touchpad that isn't touched accidentally), cool (otherwise CPU & GPU might be throttled), etc.
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Tell HN: My Yak shaving leads me so far from my goal I forget where I started
Sometimes when I'm problem solving for software development I have to do so much Yak shaving that I end up weeks or even months down the track and have to work hard to backtrack to recall why I'm even shaving these Yaks.