skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right - right now it's basically a nicer version of getbootstrap.com/customize, with two extras:

- You can run it locally (or incorporate it into a NodeJS project) so that making changes in the UI changes a local bootstrap.css. No need to download or copy/paste styles, recompile LESS, etc

- User-generated Extensions. Third parties can add bits of LESS that you can incorporate to do things like re-style buttons and alerts, or add new components

I also have an open bug to incorporate pre-built bootswatch themes:
https://github.com/bobby-brennan/strapping/issues

This was also a bit of an inspiration:
http://bootstrap-live-customizer.com/
Sweet, hopefully a battery-powered Dyson is just as powerful as their current vacuums.
I have long felt that floats should default to NaN, so that any attempt to perform operations with them before they're initialized results in an error.
Its called a literature search... and for some reason no one does it in computing...

This reminds me that just last month I attended a talk on hp's "the machine" where the presenter talked for about 20 minutes about all the revolutionary new ideas, before someone broke in and asked "how does this differ from an as400". After all the presentation looked like a copy paste job from the wikipedia page on as400 technology. The poor presenter didn't know, and eventually admitted he didn't even know what an as400 was. Much less than the fact that they continue to be sold. In the end someone suggested a literature search.... The presentation went downhill from there.
A few years ago, Andrei Alexandrescu showed that the dmd compiler was actually faster than the gc compiler, and D supports templates. Recently, with 1.5, Go has shown that it is ready to take a hit on compile-time speeds. I don't think the argument of compilation speed holds for generics. To me it sounds much more like a culture thing: generics, for better of for worse, add an extra thing to think about and I think that the Go authors and many Go developers are just not interested.
Optimizing Barcode Generation Process and Border Types Support for ITF14 Barcode
On a tangent: I think it's rather sad that many nerds aren't prepared to try a different UNIX, when we're talking the lifeblood of their business: data.

ZFS is the only filesystem it's reasonable to trust critical data on right now (I can't think of any other OSS self-validating Merkle trees that have been hammered in production for nearly a decade...), yet somehow some minor differences in Unicies trumps that.

I'm going to make a bold claim I know will stir the nest, but I feel confident in making given all the bad shit most filesystems miss: if you're not running your OSS RDBMS on ZFS right now, and you don't have compelling specialized needs to explain why not, you shouldn't be let near a production DB due to plain negligence and/or incompetence.
>Bug Tracker

>[currently broken]
Amazon Redshift User Management Productive Queries
That is so cool. I have to look into this...
The one big ask I have is to learn to understand airspace, including reading charts, and be required to do a preflight including airspace and NOTAM checks. If that were done before a UAV/drone/multicopter/FPV/etc flight, everyone could easily coexist.
Not exactly what you're asking about. But I talked to a guy who worked on a project using genetic algorithms to optimize motorcycle wheel designs. He said one of the best designs that came out looked pretty much like a traditionally spoked wheel, just a bit more organic in shape.
I though that, too. But then I heard from a co-worker that some companies do ask grads to take technical quizes/tests.
The "assault weapon" label is complete horse-manure. With $100 of aftermarket components and a half hour, you can take a stock Ruger 10-22 and make it "scary" enough to qualify as an assault weapon, then break it down and reassemble it in it's perfectly innocuous hunting configuration.
DMM provides an iTunes like commerce market for porn in Japan. They are doing quite well and exploring ways to go public.
Probably it's lack of infrastructure buy-in. And personally, I find the misuse of the word biometric in the white paper off-putting, along with the lack of detail on the basis for the technique. The fingerprint is somehow related to the magnetic particle distribution--how stable is it against weak magnetic fields, or against heat?

If you really can reliably get magnetic signatures, it would be really hard to clone cards.

Edit: the particles won't really change, but their magnetic states feasibly could
You have to feed it a switch or two, but gcc will do it.

Of course, we're talking about pre-ANSI C where any function prototype without a void argument implicitly accepts any and all arguments.
Why not a static generator like Ghost, Jekyll or Pelican? That way it can be hosted on GitHub Pages.

Can't beat $0/month.

https://pages.github.com/
Something doesn't work in your thesis. If old thinking were that valuable in a startup trying to make a new technology, VCs would insist on hiring some seasoned devs.

One of the downsides of working in an industry for so long is that is molds the way you think about problems. Things you deem to be critical might not be anymore, etc. Things you've been burned by that you avoid like the plague might be really useful now in light of new hardware.

When experimenting and building new things, years of experience can actually be a pretty big burden that is hard to shed.
> I'm finding declaring titles to be link-bait the new 'Betteridge's law' spam on HN.

Indeed - as something like 95% of submitted headlines with questions follow Betteridge's law, so similarly most linkbait declarations are also true.

(I'm not trolling here, this is my observation from hanging out on HN way too much time. Complainers aren't the problem; it's journalism that's shit.)
> A good way to confirm that they know their stuff is to talk to their references. What tasks did they do there? What problems were solved using what tools and techniques used? Nobody knows their skills better than those who already worked with them. If their reference seems to be an idiot, that's informative too.

Really? You could easily fake that, have a friend who still works somewhere say anything.

> Ask them to bring in an interesting example of their own code to the interview.

That's great if you're willing to weed out people who only code at work.

> Let them explain their design and implementation choices. Ask about the problem they needed to solve, the range of input data, the form of output, the acceptable ways it could/should fail. Propose changes to each of these and how they would respond. Propose variations to their algorithms or data structures or fault tolerance or input data to explore their range. Ideally, make the variations appropriate to your business' practices and needs.

That's what you can do without their own code, but it fails to prove they really wrote it.
What's the standard that implements the L.C.D of etcd, consul and zookeeper. I for one just wish I had VMS cluster logicals. Most of this stuff is solving things that I have never had to deal with
Yes - but wouldnt this be on username.github.io?
>PSTN - Public switched telephone network. Think all of the hardline telephones. It's that entire network. Still in use as my grandmother can attest to.

It's not that simple anymore. Now it's frequently packetized after the last mile so PSTN is just an illusion provided as a service to your phone jack.
> "At times, the extent of the operation had to be protected from bean-counting Pratt executives"

Yep, that's how UTC operates. It's amazing they make any money at all.
This is what a trailer should provide: a taste, a glimpse, a sliver of a story. Beautiful.
From a sysadmin in the field - it's complicated.

New Server features are primarily controllable via PowerShell and now only secondarily expose a bit of control via GUI. So, indeed PowerShell has taken precedence. However, it would be wrong to say that Windows administration is exactly like managing Unix systems. On the contrary, the more one works with it the more one realizes PowerShell is the anti-Bash.

Lacking in the aeons of interface legacy built into standard Unices, you won't find standbys like 'grep' readily available or even easily implemented. Rather, PowerShell is built from the ground up for scripting. While the addition of SSH will certainly be helpful for quickly checking statuses, (and possibly more in the future should readline usability of PowerShell improve) right now most PowerShell interactions happen via scripting from a local workstation or web or application inputs rather than directly via the interactive shell.
Is this 1M qps with no foreign keys and no transactions? There's quite a few open source databases that can do that.
INM Bluemix has a very generous free tier. You can run two or three low memory Sinatra apps for free. It is a cool system. I also line AWS and Microsoft Azure, depending on what I am doing.
> The whole point of a link-bait title is that 'in context' it is still accurate.

That's the basic technique if you want to mislead without saying outright, blatant lies - you say something that's true only in a specific context, hoping your audience will miss the context. In case of headlines, the audience doesn't even get the context before reading the article.

Yes, I tend to bitch about that practice in journalism a lot. I find it a very serious antisocial pattern of behaviour in media. Why is that? Because most people skim a lot of headlines and read only few articles of interest. So if your pattern of writing is: linkbait bullshit in headline, clarification/refutation in the article, most of the audience will only read the bullshit and read it as a fact.

And I'm talking here about things like half of my country's population talking how our country sucks so much, because compare with Germany or France or something, and you can sometimes trace those opinions back to actual articles with headlines: "Poland worst in Europe in X", where the article itself explains that it's actually 6th (!) on the list of worst European countries in X, behind Germany and France.

Sentiments of entire nations are shaped by those linkbait headlines. And then tell me to trust the democratic process, and that headlines are absolutely not a problem.
> That is I believe Musk's premise with his rocketry division.

One hull loss per nineteen attempts is not an acceptable failure rate for "the airplane industry", is it? It's difficult for me to put into words the level of respect and admiration I have for the risk-averse, plodding, and methodical aerospace culture that has created modern aviation. (Seriously, have you ever considered the absolute miracle of engineering that is a modern jetliner?) To lump that profession under the same rubric of engineering as the one where a bunch of overcaffeinated "disruptors" write software to get people to click on ads seems... unjust, to put it mildly.
Simple. Because the guy can be gone the next day, never to be seen again.
I can't check right now, but if you have two local users, Delta and Gamma, and Gamma mounts D:\, does Delta see it or is it specific to Gamma's session?
> Not to mention, the other part of economics is deciding what policies or actions should be taken. Do you optimize for economic growth? For happiness? To reduce inequality? To eliminate poverty? Maximum employment?

And if that's not difficult enough, you have to assign time-values to all of these. E.g. reducing inequality today might lower growth in 20 years.

It's not called the dismal science for nothing.
Check out MobaXTerm:

http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/

I don't work for them, I just think it's a nice tool, so much so I paid for the Pro version.
What's forward declaring mean?
> The whole discussion here of software engineers with 20+ years of experience having to code up fairly simple things on a white board is very strange to me, and fairly far outside my experience.

Once you start interviewing people with a lot of experience and see how poorly some do with FizzBuzz or 'merge 2 sorted arrays', it becomes immediately obvious why this is done. If 20 years experience was a good indicator, it would be used instead. For positions where there's no coding, this wouldn't be asked. All at least in my experience.
> If confirmed, the discovery means life emerged a remarkably short time after the Earth was formed...

So at what point does the lag time between accretion and first evidence of life become too short for "native" abiogenesis to be plausible, pointing toward a transfer scenario instead?
Yes. Its always good to read the D success stories.
They speak roughly once a week in a 15-minute phone call,
and speak for another 25 minutes on a video chat. Jones
says she’d travel to Texas to visit her son in person,
but Hays County Jail, where he is locked up, banned
visitations in November 2013. That happened shortly after
the county jail entered into a contract with Securus.

Since then, all family communication with inmates at Hays
County goes through Securus, which charges Jones about
$10 for a phone call and about $8 for a video visit.

http://atavist.ibtimes.com/fcc-prison-telecom-industry
Oh good I was worried I would have to quit playing Sudoku. I just won't play it after I get buried by an avalanche. Could I still try and solve Rubic's Cube in that case?
this guys website is awesome, his course looks awesome, and his projects & mission are admirable. consider me mancrushing.
I'm talking about hugh4's suggestion for "prison choice" with vouchers. I said nothing at all about the current prison system.
The two cryptographers who originally publicly identified the backdoor (that Snowden eventually confirmed) work for Microsoft. So, the opposite of what you're insinuating.

http://rump2007.cr.yp.to/15-shumow.pdf

Always possible MS is not to be trusted, but there's nothing on the record to support that.
Weeby.co Wants to Take the Reins of Mobile Game Development
Star Wars Awakens Trailer Takes Down All Theater Websites
Looks like all major cinema websites are down due to Force Awakens trailer.

AMC
Cinemark
Fandango
Regal

Anyone else having any luck?
Yep. It does; but then again my entire static binary (no dependency on libc even) is around 10 MB in size...

I love being able to pull down a docker container that fast!
You actually could. It would take a very strong, very heavy airframe that could handle any stresses generated by the intended selection of engines. It would just be overbuilt and get terribly fuel hungry for most engines, while being optimum for one. This isn't financially acceptable for an industry where operating costs are razor thin (all driven by the fact that a $10 difference in airfare can mean losing a passenger).

Aircraft safety margins are 1.5 (built to handle 1.5x the maximum expected load), while bridges are 5+. The latter aren't constrained by weight, so you might as well go to town with a cheap, heavy design. A lower safety margin is only acceptable though when the expected loading is extremely well defined with very low uncertainty. This takes extensive testing (years for an aircraft), basically reducing the sigma by increasing the sample size.
Those keep getting reinvented haha.
I think you are off by 3 orders of magnitude unless you are planning on putting 1000 motors on each wing. I said 15000 kW. That's 15 MW. 300v @ 50A is only 15000 W or roughly 20 HP (actually a bit less when you consider the power factor).
We're in 99.9999% full agreement.

The problem I solved with a heap
really is the real problem I
needed to solve.

Long ago when I was relatively knowledgeable
in computing, two profs trying to
teach a course in computing (I'd been
teaching such at Georgetown) asked
me about what lessons I would emphasize.
I said "A programmer stands between
the machine and the real problem,
understands the real problem, for a solution
finds some appropriate structure,
say, divides the work into relatively
independent pieces each of which
is relatively easy to understand,
tries to make the structure relatively
robust to likely changes in the
real problem, and then programs that."
That view was many years ago. I was
and I am a big fan of looking at the
real problem.
I'm actually a big fan of this idea. As a private pilot, I'm excited about a lot of cool possibilities enabled by drones that aren't possible in manned aircraft (high speed, low-level FPV racing!) or are made better (package delivery with relatively high power aircraft). But I'm anxious about touching drones at all right now because the rules are either undefined or unfriendly and I theoretically have a certificate on the line.

I hope that we're able to get to a sane regulatory environment here that gives me well-defined, positive rules for flying progressively more powerful and sophisticated UAVs, including in controlled airspace. Those won't be toys, and it's debatable now whether many drones in the hands of consumers are already. The FAA is already stretched way too thin with existing manned aviation and there's no way the local FSDO is going to bother going after a kid with a small electric drone, registered or otherwise, unless they do something really stupid.
For newbie CPanel is the easiest way to get a hold of web hosting and web design imo. Since you are in hosted environment there is not many things you can screw, support is always there for you and you can quickly start.

With static websites and github you need to have at least proper basic understanding of html, hosting and programming. Also simple mistakes can cause big damage and since there is no live help, you need to spend a lot time searching for answers online.
I am not a pilot (although the right $$ would have me there in a an instant... wishful thinking), but I have been flying various remote control aircraft (including so-called "drones", now) for nearly 20 years.

A sensible system seems like it would be three tiered:

Very small stuff would remain unregulated - obviously there is no concern with things like the CX-10, right? I can't imagine a "drone" of anything near that size causing any size of full-scale aircraft problems.

Mid-tier stuff would be a world like Amateur Radio - modernized to be online or something as you've suggested. You are free to participate in the big boy's airspace within the rules, but some education and proof-of-knowledge about those rules is required.

... and of course large things should not be any different than a full-sized aircraft, with the same regulations.
You can set domains in a CNAME file in the root of a repository.
~~Is webstorm usable outside a jetbrains product? In particular, on a headless server?~~

EDIT: That was a dumb question. This IDE looks pretty cool. I'll check it out. But I still want something that I can run headless.
Don't Put Up with Crap (If You Can Help It)
Ever since I first saw Mathematica, I've been amazed that the notebook model hasn't caught on more generally. It would make this paradigm perfectly natural - delayed information would clearly be loading in its own frame, and you would expect the visual scroll and input focus to both be centred on the current frame, so it wouldn't be odd to have to go backwards to look for an update.
There might be a solid startup opportunity here. I completely agree with the author, from both employee and employer point of view.
Let's Encrypt is Trusted
0 and 10 °F or °C? There's a big difference...
The report had a weird take that the caffeine must be tricking the bees, to their detriment. More likely is that the bees recognize that caffeine is good and healthy. The body of research on caffeine's vitamin like health benefits is enormous. It's simply not to be consider a vice or something to avoid.
There's also the Worse is Better phenomenon now known as "ship early" or "time to market advantage." They just try to get something going that works without much time to think on it or research the history.
So balance it out.

Potential benefit? Improved health/physical condition.

Potential cost? 1. Financial cost of treatment. 2. Side-effects of treatment.

Number 1 is an important question: if it's a few dollars a month, it's on a par with a placebo. If it's a hundred dollars a month, I would hope it behaves better than a placebo (although a saline injection has a larger placebo effect than a sugar pill, and a $40 bottle of wine tastes better than a $10 bottle of wine, so there's a potential placebo multiplier just in the pricing). If it's tens of thousands of dollars a month, I'd expect some pretty dramatic results. So pricing is a factor, and I haven't seen that mentioned.

The second issue is side-effects, but this is a drug that's already passed clinical trials, so hopefully these are known and recognised.

It'd be great to see this experiment rolled out to double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trials, but until that happens, I'd still be willing to give it a try.
Maybe its a mismatch between practice and experience. When asked how to map phone numbers into words in a dictionary (or whatever), I don't start coding. I draw pictures and data maps and constraints. Maybe I write a critical condition algebraically. After fleshing out all the corners and dark places, then I may choose a programming language and code approach.

So coding exams are almost a litmus test for "inexperienced programmer" in my view. Because an experienced developer doesn't start by coding at all.
Khasi Performing to Taylor Swift- I Knew You Were Trouble
While I'm not sympathetic to prison operators or the mass-incarceration system in general, this is a weak article with little substance. Declaring an assertion to be myth requires a substantial investment in disproving it. Indeed, there is not a single fact presented in opposition to what is perhaps the most important myth #1. It is possible (or damned well ought to be, and if it isn't, then that's a cause of action by itself) to account for exactly what the government and inmates are paying. Someone who makes a concerted effort to figure out what that is would be a top-notch investigative reporter. Someone who writes "Does anyone actually have proof of this? Seriously, is anyone sure that this happens?" is either ranting or a hack. When you write an article asserting that a political opponent's views are myths, you take on the burden of proof. Simply asserting (without even a reference) that no one has proven the opposite doesn't cut it, even if that's true.

There are similar problems with the other "myths", such as attempting to rebut the notion that private prison operations have limited influence by showing a graph of private prison populations (one that, I might add, doesn't exactly bolster the case). So what? If 8% (or 20% or X%) of prisoners are in private prisons, how does that affect their influence on incarceration as a policy? If that rate is different in various states, can you connect the differences with the kind of policy influence you expect to find? That's legwork. That's investigative reporting.

Anyone who would like to see significant prison reform deserves, and needs, much better than this. If this were truly a reflection of the prison reform movement's best arguments, it's small wonder it's not having much success.
VR seems mainly for providing an environment ("celestial sphere"). To use it to examine a target (such as a human performer) you'd gave to walk around in a ring, which seems a weird movement while watching porn. Unless you were watching a scene with many performers?
I recommend DayOne, both available for Mac and iOS. Recently I've begun recording done MITs in Rescuetime, because I don't want to make time for writing a log but do need to jot down 1-2 lines on accomplishments. You could also just use a text file, or Trello. Oh and DayOne has calendar and sync features.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10413563