skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Err, they're not good examples of bad javascript.

The problem with worryfreelabs is all the images haven't been properly compressed. Yes, it's a terrible website, but not for the reasons you're insinuating. They've just put silly big images in. Also the reason for all the script tags is simply that they've not added JQuery UI properly.

And the problem with thisisyourkingdom seems to be a singular plugin, the wordfence plugin, which on its own is taking 8 seconds in a request which seems to be some sort of broken logging (I couldn't be bothered to look at the code so it might be a deliberate hang to make sure the person is really a human, but it's a terrible way of doing it). Everything else is loading in sub-2 seconds.

I'm all for ragging on Wordpress, as long as it's actually its fault ;)
OpenBSD tracks 100% of exploits/CVEs, as well as patches in their daily change log. See: http://www.openbsd.org/plus.html, http://www.openbsd.org/plus58.html, http://www.openbsd.org/plus57.html, etc...

There have been no remote exploits in the last 8 years in the default install.
http://react.parts/web and http://react-components.com/
I have some memory of someone doing this and finding the hit rates were abysmal—too many libraries and too many versions. And that was five years ago, and we just have more libraries and more versions today. I'd love to dig up the numbers… I hope they aren't somewhere internal to Opera (where I used to work)!
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I wonder how big the data set would have to be. Finding a sufficient number of fonts with quality kerning might be a challenge.
#FFFFFF Diversity
Homeowners in Hawaii are using batteries to go completely off the grid, so as to not be required to get permission from the utility for their solar grid tie connection.

The upside is, once the utility comes around to investing in their transmission infrastructure, they can receive power from those houses.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/business/energy-environmen...

“I’ve actually taken people right off the grid,” he said, including a couple who got tired of waiting for Hawaiian Electric to approve their solar system and expressed no interest in returning to utility service. “The lumbering big utilities that are so used to taking three months to study this and then six months to do that — what they don’t understand is that things are moving at the speed of business. Like with digital photography — this is inevitable.”
Looks like it has even been taken down from Archive.org!
OS X ships with that version of Make.
I sort-of agree with you, but in this case I believe it will persist for years to come, as they have faced competitors charging far less for bandwidth for years already and pretty much ignored it.
it doesn't appear to be working, according to all the neighs I'm seeing
As a researcher, this is very exciting news. I can't wait to see what areas of research YC will be directing their efforts towards. I hope the world of genomics/genetics gets a nod!
Any RCE exploit can likely be combined with any other OS vulnerability to get privilege escalation.
Anonymity only means that everyone is assumed to be the majority, which means that it effectively silences the minority that will be immediately outed if they speak a different experience than the majority.

e.g. a conversation about bra quality; one can talk about how sexy they look, and if someone brings up "but lacy bras can often be overpriced and underfunctional" they more or less out themselves as a person who may know much about bras. Similarly if someone wanted to talk about mythologies, if someone goes "actually nowadays people utilize this in their traditions; I was visiting family in P region where they still practice this and they just use B now" clearly outs them.

Anonymity also tends to just have everyone assumed to be default, which is white/male and breaking out of that is assumed to be "breaking anonymity" when in reality it's merely... not being the default.
Well, if you're even remotely serious about it, you'd rather buy a midi keyboard rather then using a qwerty one.
Are you implying that all of the big tech companies are paying for upvotes on hackernews? Do you think that's more likely than a tech focused news site thinking that these events have interesting announcements?
I think there was no reason for them to keep Google Code as a going concern with the rise of Github. They were not going to do as good a job as Github, and it wasn't something they were making any money off of.

Even if they had been trying.

But yes, like many Google products, it was basically released and abandoned. They weren't trying. (If they had been, maybe we never would have had a github...)

I do think as a public service, they could have left all the code (and wiki documentation) accessible read-only virtually perpetually. Surely they can afford that.

Instead, we get tarball download only, and only until late 2016, after which it's all gone forever, if it hasn't been migrated elsewhere by code owners or third parties.
As of this writing there are no public compilers for Jai, so all information in this text is collated from Jon Blow's YouTube videos.

Until the language is actually released, at least in an alpha version, writing a tutorial is just speculation. Anything can change in the actual language implementation.

That being said, the author initiative is laudable if you don't want to watch a few hours of Youtube videos.
It's not public domain, for sure, but it is free, for some definition of 'free', similar to GNU GPL.
I think it's precisely the opposite. In a high-density, pedestrian-friendly apartment environment, parents can actually say "go play outside", with kids free to roam around the neighborhood or larger city by public transit, without worrying too much about being run over by cars.

In a typical American suburban environment, "play outside" means play alone in the confines of the backyard, or be shuttled in cars by parents to "play dates", with most roads lacking even sidewalks.
Thanks. Not what you would expect from a publication like the Economist.
It illustrates that music apps are likely to be in use for very long periods/proportions of time. maccard's comment was quite relevant; it's not at all unreasonable to read in "and other people might use pandora similarly to the way I use spotify".
Is this site for real? One of the ads literally redirects me so I can't see the article at all
Reddit is like Craigslist 2.0 -- stark, text based with arcane cultural conventions, there is a lot of gold out there but also a lot of crap. Whereas craigslist is for locals to meet up, this is for online denizens to comment.
Love the epic lack of perspective in this thread
I don't really go to meetups and I consider myself pretty up to date.

I believe a person can keep up with the technology just by reading on the Internet, maybe by being a member of some expert groups on Facebook / LinkedIn (and reading the content).
The launcher and lock screen do come to mind...
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Also, what cities like DC have happen is an artificial density. In the desirable parts of DC, no space is wasted. People don't live in big units. A lot of the housing is tightly packed low rises and tiny rowhouse-which are often chopped up into several condos.

It feels more cramped in DC than when I lived in a 45 story highrise building in Chicago, even though the DC neighborhoods have fewer people per sqft.

Building up relieves prices and more efficiently uses the land. It also lets young, childless people live together leaving the less dense areas for families who may appreciate more space.

Instead the DINKS (Dual Income No Kids) are running minorities out of their neighborhoods by bidding up the price of the land. And they end up in neighbourhoods​ that aren't even dense enough to support local bars and restaurants​.

DC should be zoning Shaw, Logan Circle, Columbia Heights, Admo, etc for 60 story high rises.
JAI is for games in the sense that reflects the experience of a well known game developer that writes game engines and games.
Adobe teases 12 future features for its apps [videos]
> never harassed anyone

Except for that time where they attempted to dox the entirety of the Imgur staff which more or less precipitated their ban?
been lurking here for years. finally created an account just to upvote this.
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Communication or interpersonal skills also play a significant role. My professor noted that prestigious schools does not offer communication courses and/or majors. They claim that students who are accepted into those schools already have top notch communication skills. Of course, not every student exhibit these skills. Therefore, this article did not surprise me.
> For those that haven't written music before, previous programs are some of the clunkiest, slowest, most infuriating pieces of crap that I've ever had to deal with.

Well, first of all - this is not the app to write music. It's the app to write music score. Although they brag about playback with something akin to a sample-based orchestra, there's not even a hint on traditional DAW capabilities, so you'll have to export the result midi into your DAW of choice and then get into the the whole music-writing process other than arranging anyway.

And on other hand, have you tried the latest Logic? It seems pretty great when it comes to the score interface. Unlike this app, it's also one of the best DAWs out there, and has an enormous default sound library.
They took your article down because you are very short-sighted. You believe everyone has had the same privileges
and opportunities you've had, thus you expect the same "success" from others. Step into someone else's shoes for
a change "Bro".
for Los Angeles its kind of a waste, the whole attitude here is that even David Bowie should never play more than one show a year, here the system is setup to prevent anything new from coming up to compete with the dinosaurs, if your little indie venue has more than 2-3 people showing up to hear one band you can expect to get your ass beat in by LAPD. Not to be negative, but if the Doors had come out in 2015 instead of 1966 if they lacked any kind of nepotistic connection to the industry they would have to switch to cleaning floors or working as snitches for LAPD, in the city of LA music is dead, dead, dead.
Hi. Seventeen-year old high schooler here, I love this idea.
(@sama, anyone else behind YCR):

All my life I had wanted to go into industry, follow that classic Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel dream that many CS High Schoolers go into.

But recently, I got into research. The CollegeBoard opened up a class called AP Research I am now in, and I spent my last summer researching Machine Learning at my local private university. I was surprised by how much I loved it, the math behind it fascinates me (context: am currently taking Adv. Diff Eq and Linear Algebra my Senior Year.)

I am now trying my own Deep Learning algorithms and working on my paper. I have always been conflicted between industry and academia, since all of my fellow HS CS friends just want to found companies in industry. Things such as YCR make research a bigger dream for youth, whom I would currently argue are too under-exposed to it. It just doesn't seem as glamorous to them.

Thank you for YCR, it reminds me of the cool things research can do. I can't wait to hopefully apply one day.
I disagree partly on a few points and I'll give a short anecdote as example.

As an increasingly global conversation on the internet is taking place with people in places and groups that didn't have a place or a voice before we're muddying the waters of stereotypes and accurate attempts of guessing someone's background.

Anecdote 1: I have a friend I met online. I've known him for about 6 years. We never talked about our families, shared pictures of each-other, shared real names, or shared anything personally identifiable apart for similar interests and vague references. After about two years of talking to this friend every day, I knew a few things: his family wasn't rich, he lived in a crime filled area Richmond, he smoked weed every day, he loves hip-hop, and he's not a fan of school. Now, most people with their biases and stereotypes would say "oh he's probably a young black male" and they'd have a good chance of being right. Around this time we all started talking about our personal lives. I then find out that this guy is a 25y/o white male studying a masters degree in physics who sports and amazing beard. My initial image of him is gone completely.

By anonymizing interests, beliefs, and political standings we can then apply them to anyone of any race of any gender because we don't know the truth. Our guesses could be wrong, and often are, and the ability to stereotype breaks down. Comments could suddenly be from anyone and we are forced to pay attention to the argument and not who's arguing.
When an Australian Senator is linking to a VPN how-to in order to circumvent the law, and ISPs are still in the dark as to what data actually needs to be retained, it's a useless law.
The amount of financial and administrative skullduggery within the UC system 2009 (after the financial crisis)-present (I was at UCSB as a grad student 2009-2011) is almost uncommunicable to people who weren't there. People simply refuse to believe some of the stories I tell them.

e: Here's some hard facts - http://universityprobe.org
He's been working on this project mostly alone for only a few months, how can you possibly expect the tooling to be on par with anything else.

There's a reason it's not released.

And it's great that you can just pick up an engine, but someone's gotta write that engine, and there's a reason triple a studios aren't using unity for major releases; you'll never get quite as good performance out of a general purpose engine as you would from a custom one.
The article says it is OS X. Maybe this is because of Apple not wanting to use something licensed under GPL-3?
People today care so much more about content. Even if people lost their wallet, they are more worried about their notes and pictures rather than their money. Good job Google for saving our memories.
Money in theoretical CS research goes pretty much entirely to overhead, not much goes to reagents / processes. Paying a little under a million a year in expenses isn't surprising there.
My usability gripe:

If the album that Pandora has tagged a song as belonging to isn't available digitally on Amazon, but the same song is digitally available on another album, link to that. Don't imply that itunes is the only way to get it without ordering a CD.
The Next Librarian of Congress Should Be an Actual Librarian
One comparative advantage that comes to mind is the institutional knowledge of computational and analytics systems. A lot of computational science is still done with a FORTRAN mindset (if not actual code), whereas faster, lighter, dare I say more agile approaches to simulation and data mining could be much better.

Similarly, although I wouldn't guess is what YCR is thinking because it doesn't have the same cachet (though I really don't know what YCR thinks) is building tools for science. In my field (geoscience) there are boundless slopes of fresh, trackless powder in the mountains of computational geoscience just waiting to get skied. Building tools to do, say, probabilistic graphical modeling of stratigraphic systems requires approaching a traditionally intuitive and descriptive science with a much more formal and precise mindset and re-casting a lot of ideas and methods, while at the same time keeping everything accessible for those without the requisite background in probability or graphs... To me this gets closer to the real roots of science than a lot of what gets funded or makes headlines, but won't by itself get funded or make headlines (until you build it and sell it).
> fatpeoplehate got banned and shitredditsays stays because they're pretty much the same subreddit, except the latter actually breaks the rules.

Except for that time that fatpeoplehate doxxed the staff at Imgur on reddit when Imgur no longer tolerated FPH posting images of fat people to laugh at on their servers.
Will YC Research only focus on applied research ideas? Specifically, I'd like to know about whether or not researchers in pure math, theoretic cs, theoretical physics, etc will have a place at YC Research.
In Space No One Can Hear You Threaten Lawsuits
It's nice to see this blog post getting more traffic. Unlike our average blog post which we make up out of our own heads, this one had a bunch of legal research behind it by actual lawyers.

And yes, totally agree. It made us put our plans of an Australian datacentre on the shelf for the foreseeable future.

Data in Australia is already crazy expensive (https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-relative-cost-of-bandwidth-a...) and we're working at the latency problem from the other direction (http://jmap.io) as well, so we're focusing more on making the location of the datacentres not matter so much. We're currently in Amsterdam, Los Angeles and New York.
In my head it is the difference between coming to a thread and seeing some hypothetical hidden racist/sexist/ist comment that has been downvoted to hell and ignored or seeing the conversation being dominated with people having a discourse trying to change the ignorant opinion.

I'm all for trying to help people understand the reaction to their comments but it also sidetracks every conversation and there seems to be an endless supply of people making ignorant comments.
> People need to quit it with the desire to make everyone else live like a single twenty-something professional.

On the other hand, if all the twenty-something professionals were allowed to live in the city center of their dreams, with Paris-like population density, and hipster cafes and restaurants in each city block, there would be more room for the suburban sprawl for the families to be closer to the city center.

When the "suburban party" denies the "city hipsters" the dense, walkable neighborhoods, they also force the hipsters to compete for the same suburban estate, which drives prices up and commutes longer, and everyone is worse off as a result.

People who want X for themselves, would actually benefit and get their X cheaper and better, if they allowed other people who want Y get and build their Y, instead of forcing everyone to compete in the market for X.

I bit unintuitive, I understand.
It would be a win-win if Reddit goes on with its beautification project. On the one hand reddit will finally become presentable to advertisers, on the other hand the fringe communities will probably move to a non-commercial, impossible-to-censor community.
I have a friend who writes a lot of C++ code for signal processing, software sound synthesis mainly.

Watching Jon Blow's videos I could tell this was something my friend would be interested in, because the problem space is very similar: you need realtime performance, can't afford even the slightest garbage collection pause, etc. However, I could not tell my friend "go watch videos for six hours".

Thanks to Jorge Rodríguez, I can email my friend a document that will take him less than half an hour to read.
I would say Indian humans are different from Occidental humans. Large cities in the West have generally been population sinks over the centuries. People move to NYC or London and don't have two kids. This isn't a new pattern. For whatever reason this doesn't happen as much in some other cultures.
This might be counterproductive, but hopefully it isn't (and is, at worst, neutral):

by "racists" and "sexists", do you mean these terms based on the beliefs of those described, or are you including things like, subconscious(?) biases, (which one might be trying to correct in oneself)?

It seems like it might be useful to have two different terms for the two concepts?

But maybe this is not a context where this would be a useful addition.
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mst as one of the biggest perl5 proponents
are you planning to switch to perl6?
1. yes
2. no
3. maybe
4. will use both
Anti-drone 'death ray' can blast vehicles out of the sky from a mile away
I guess I didn't make it clear enough but I was speaking in general terms and I wasn't just talking about Perl. i.e. I'm defending the people who weren't experienced enough not to realize that you shouldn't use a language's features just because they exist. Even when you have experience, people get tempted to just get things done regardless of how spaghetti the solution is
Virtual Reality (VR), Its Use in Different Business Contexts
Pao had a rough time because she was labeled as an SJW by many people and other weren't happy with her management practices. We're in a turbulent time regarding gender relations with angry and militant people on both sides of the equation and Pao was an easy target by trolls and others caught in the mob mentality of events like gamergate. Pao was treated horribly but it's not something I'm suprised to see.

The way women are treated online is horrific but Pao gave people ammunition and stoked the fires and the worst time to do so. You don't beat people with a stick when they're angry and expect to remain unscathed.
$10m is a lot of money for some fields, but in the scheme of high tech and high reward biological/chemical/physical research it really isn't. Personnel overhead alone for a reasonably sized group (10-20) can range from $2m on the low end, up to 5 or 6 million on the high end.

For example, at many institutions it takes ~$250k to support a single researcher (Salary, health/personal insurance, institutional insurance) .
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The best story I heard about this was from a math grad student / instructor about how you had to jump through multiple hoops to even re-up on chalk for the blackboard.
> No one is trying to police thoughts.

"Thought" is not just about what one expresses out loud, but also about what one is listening to. Censorship is thought control for everyone else.
Move North :)

10 minutes out of any town in the Yukon, there is no cell service, and certainly no internet. It's great to drive 1000+ miles without service, and camp for weeks and weeks without hearing from the outside world (no regular radio either, when you really get out there).
4-wk data vis training camp in Berlin this Nov
That even applies to the same restaurant. If I order a $10 plate of noodles or a $25 steak the server is still carrying one plate out either way.
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It doesn't seem to, but https://historio.us/ does.
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Play where? Even if you're happy letting your kid play unsupervised in the park across the street in a high-density area, in the Paris style cities we're talking about the nearest park is still usually blocks away. You gonna send a five year old strolling through the city alone?

Even then, I live in a high-density area with a park across the street and I'd be hesitant to let kids below ten at least go there unsupervised, if I had them. Whereas if I had a backyard I could tell them hey, go nuts, and peek out the window every fifteen minutes.

Of course I'm not defending streets without sidewalks. I'm defending the sort of place I grew up, which combines quarter-acre blocks and trees and parks with having shops and schools and libraries within walking distance.
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