skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are definitely some holes in GAE for Go too, but its not that bad.

Most of the pain points are in other areas. Like for example, the datastore API you have access to for Go doesn't even support geo-spatial data or queries. I had to hack my own solution. It made me pretty mad at the time, because how can you not support geospatial queries in a database in an age where mobile location-based apps are so ubiquitous.

So I can see why you would say the platform is stagnant. And there is probably some truth in what you are saying in terms of GAE not getting the same love as other parts of the Google Cloud.

But having said that, I STILL think there is some merit to building apps on GAE, if your app is a simple web server, or single purpose REST API. I have found that its pretty reliable, and its relatively cheap for what you get.
The Lambda Calculus for Fun and Factorials [video]
I am primarily using Safari. I was not able to find any alternative services that offers such a wide variety of books. I got it at 50% off couple months ago... I am not sure I'd pay the full price for it. I like the selection and the idea of being able to browse any book in the library... Some books work better than others, as some are HTML. Sometimes formatting is off, and if the book is image heavy it might be completely unreadable... one example is Value Proposition Design.

I don't quite like their Queues idea. I tend to read books, not arbitrary chapters from books... Maybe I just didn't give it enough time. I wish they didn't make it the primary feature... it kind of gets on the way of someone like me who is trying to read a book as a whole.

Safari still offers an alternative option which is a bit more affordable. See if it works for you https://ssl.safaribooksonline.com/subscribe
Fancy umbrellas will also be abound.
It will result in local and regional monopolies and unbreakable contracts as it has with ISPs. Time and time again local entities are bribed or bought - at least when its done on the federal level there's one location that needs to be fixed, and maybe they'll actually have the resources to do a researched decision instead of signing up the first person to walk through the door with a solution.
It's the newest, hottest thing in Crypto: Perfect Backwards Secrecy!
Anil Dash: The Tech Diversity Story That's Not Being Told
How google of them.
I have a fairly large Plex library that's 100% legal.

- Legal music from iTunes and AmazonMP3.

- Ripped discs using MakeMKV.

- A rigged-up pipeline of tuning TV using an HDHomeRun, recording with MythTV, and a custom script to invoke Myth's commercial skipper, remove the commercials (using avconv), and rename according to Plex's desires. I used to have it compress the files down, but I let Plex do that on sync/play, since it'll usually have to transcode anyway.

The first is super easy and definitely legal, no matter where you live. There may be some legal issues around breaking the DRM when you rip a disc, and it's not 100% dead-simple (some DVDs have weird structures). The third requires some pretty substantial babysitting.
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Git as NPM
As you used it twice in this thread, I'm going to add "mustache twirl" (or variation) do my dictionary of rhetorical devices used to make an attack seem like less of an attack. it's very effective at disarming someone that calls it out. Thanks for this.
History rhymes. Read Thomas Piketty's Capital and Will Durant's Story of Civilization to understand the cause and recurring nature of economic inequality.
It's widely under appreciated how much he championed there being a software industry at all. Most people thought software was just an aside that you threw in with the hardware. Software was also widely pirated and he fought for the notion that people should pay for software so that engineers could have a job building it.
Honestly, I had no backup plan. All I could think about is making my startup succeed. Because I made failure not an option, I was willing to pivot twice instead of giving up. But I had nightmares about running out of cash. I was scared.
Note Google's investment in Flatiron Health [0], they are in the oncology tech space.

[0] http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/07/google-ventures-leads-130m-...
I remain convinced that this should be dealt with in the prison's contract with the government, as other issues such as sanitation, clothing, etc. are dealt with, as it would allow for clear and detailed standards (as well as accountability and continuous monitoring) and not just price setting; however, if the problem here is one of monopoly, the regulator with the clearest authority is the FTC.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Trade_Commission
All the reduction of poverty won't mean shit if by the end of the century, as we have predicted and with those predictions turning out very well, the ocean rises by 3-5 feet and we turn the ocean acidic.

Are you totally not able to comprehend that material gains in human living come at the cost of the extraction of resources from the ecosystem, and that said extraction is literally unsustainable?

Do you not understand that the exponential growth of the last century has had an impact on the planet greater than the rest of the entirety of human existence?

It is impossible to continue the resource extraction we have maintained for the last 20 years, for the simple reason that the climate is already starting to do number for us and this is just the beginning, consequence of said resource extraction.

Unless you like the idea of geoengineering the planet (and no one in their sane mind does) the idea that progress depends on human consumption has to stop.

You are the exact example of when psychologists say that people cannot really comprehend the exponential function.
Thirded. Go find somewhere else to work.
This makes sense. It's not that we should all be uniform but rather we all have access to being uniform if we so choose.

Even if we attempted equality, time would introduce inequality due to the risks people take. One invests wisely, the other gambles away. Do we compensate the gambler to reestablish equilibrium?

Should a soon to be retiree have the same wealth or earning power as a new graduate of X degree, or even a dropout?

Maybe we should compensate workers based on responsibilities (ie dependents, that, in some ways would be fairer, the woman with three dependent children gets paid more than the man with one, but the man with two where one requires extra care gets paid more than either, to compensate for added medical expenses)
Maybe in a poorer state like Mississippi the revenue state raised by more expensive phone calls is needed to properly pay for the prisons in question?

I'm not saying I believe that argument, but I don't live in Mississippi, I don't pay taxes in Mississippi, and I'm extremely unlikely to ever end up in a Mississippi prison. Maybe it should be the job of Mississippians to weigh the pros and cons of these things?
> I don't understand why the Republicans voted against.

> Look, I get it, you support private industry. But let's remember context, you support capitalism where COMPETITION exists, in this situation it is an artificially created monopoly of one company.

I hate to say this, but: most Republicans are not pro-competition. They're very happy helping the government put in place monopolies, and milking that monopoly status. Case in point: the Republicans refuse to the Medicaid negotiate lower drug prices. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/washington/18cnd-medicare....
This is what amuses me when people talk about ebooks being environmentally friendly. A paper book will usually be made of paper milled from a sustainably managed forest - we don't generally go clear-cutting virgin forests for wood pulp. A lot of sawmills and paper mills, furthermore, burn their waste wood and sawdust as fuel for the mill. The whole process, aside from transport, can be carbon-neutral, meaning a paper library can be seen as a repository of sequestered carbon. Moving from paper books to plastic tablets that consume power and need replacement every two years is anything but environmentally friendly.
seriously? I mean upstate new york isn't exactly NYC cost of living wise (and obviously not near SF CoLA) but you think the renumeration is that bad?
Actually, it's really not good at handling that sort of thing in my experience. The Plex server doesn't really browse the filesystem, it scans folders for media files and then parses the names. If you follow their naming scheme with your files it does a great job pulling in metadata and such, but if not it doesn't do so great.

You can subsequently choose to view files by "folder", which doesn't actually browse the filesystem directly but instead looks at the database to see where the file came from originally. My experience trying several times since Plex came out (most recently last year) is that this is extremely unreliable and wonky. It'd always mis-recognize files or they'd be completely missing even though they were on disk. They outright do not support directly browsing files AFAIK.

So in other words, if your files are reasonably well organized and named following one of the conventions recognized by Plex then it does a pretty amazing job organizing and scraping. On the other hand, if you just have random files that are scattered about or organized by folder or perhaps named differently then Kodi works a whole lot better because it just lets you drill through files on disk (it has a library too, which is functionally about the same as Plex and suffers from similar drawbacks). On the other hand, Plex has way better device support and while you can get transcoding to/from devices in Kodi, Plex is a lot better at it most of the time.
For what it's worth I was asking a genuine question, most experimental projects don't get 11k commits so I assume that people are actively using it - my question is, given the plethora of alternatives available, what is it about FOAM that leads people to use it?

I shouldn't have said that the code was unpleasant, which is obviously subjective, but I should have said "the code style is quite unusual for JS", which it is. It was certainly not my intention to "trash their work".
I'm not sure how I understand how an independent commission created by congress to "make available so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, rapid, efficient, Nationwide, and world-wide wire and radio communication services with adequate facilities at reasonable charges"[1] is increasing the scope of their authority by very clearly making it possible for the incarcerated to access wire communications at a reasonable charge.

Can you elaborate on how you're seeing this as an overreach?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Act_of_1934 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996
I don't like this nomenclature. Can we call them "state-sponsored" and "stateless" instead? Almost all of the world's currency is as virtual as email.
I dunno. Why do your government spend time and money promoting a document format that is only implemented in software that can't be freely used by your citizens, nor has good enough converters so they can use the software they like?

Who knows, I may be personally responsible from some of the GP's problems. But making an entire country depend on a single company's product isn't something to take lightly - if you don't have a very good reason for it, don't do it.
> Most likely the reason Tesco is reducing choices is because stocking more SKUs is expensive

Many supermarket chains also charge producers for shelf space, so dropping products and cranking the rates charged for placement is a great revenue stream. Awful for the customer and for producers, of course.
Or, they actually have a clearer grasp than you do of their legal authority and concluded, probably correctly, that the measure exceeded it and would likely be struck down by the courts as a result, just like what happened with their net neutrality regulation.
Assuming a front-facing camera (as most people taking a selfie would use) then they use the reflection of the phone in the user's eye to detect smudges on the phone that would indicate a lock pattern or pin number (based on high-smudged areas).

The order of the pin (4-6 characters on most phones?) would still need to be figured out. So it depends how many guesses the user enables. With 24 different permutations of 4 digits and iPhones having "wipe the phone after 10 failed attempts" option this would have a little under 50% success rate.

Which is still a huge improvement over "just guess" but hardly "we can pwn you from a photo every time" territory.
Singapore previously had very small micro-apartments that housed a single person and things folded in/out. Singapore started zoning out these apartments because they were seeing population growth from replacement declining. Just a fun fact.
However only Fox News, Breitbart, Telegraph and especially Daily Mail with other news outlets I hate is guilty of this and their readers are idiots for reading that junk.

But it's pretty obvious what you brought up doesn't apply to Guardian, Huffington Post Arabic, Vox and Salon which is quality stuff that I like.

It's flawed because we let it be flawed from personal bias.
I think it was Spiegler that has around 80 fact checkers all around. What's your take on that?

But yeah, boo Daily Mail, yay Salon because I am smart enough to tell quality from tabloids.
The FCC is an independent executive agency, and is part of the executive branch outside of the scope of the executive departments. It is, to be sure, created by Congress, but that's true of most of the executive branch, including the executive departments.
"Satoshi Nakamoto" is human readable. The fact that a train model hobbyist shares that name only seems to be confusing to a Newsweek reporters. What people care about is: the Satoshi Nakamoto who created Bitcoin, and his public key is well known. Name is a property of identity, not a pointer to it.
You honestly couldn't figure out what those mean?
Toward an Ethics and Etiquette for Electronic Mail (1985) [pdf]
I thought I remember seeing a thread on Reddit that it'd been abandoned around that time and wasn't just inactive, but I could be mistaken.
Just give access to those that have committed crimes which imply a low risk of such behavior, and take away the access in case of misbehavior.

The vast majority of people aren't going to cause any issues.
Excellent point on legislation. It has at least once led to divergence of design (80's pop-up headlights) but safety standards, especially pedestrian safety, have dramatically constrained the style of the front end. Low hoods are a thing of the past in part thanks to that.
Seems to me this hits on a very important point. There's a terrible language barrier that is damaging our ability to come together on this issue in the US. Inequality of income growth is a great metric for indicating that there's a problem, but that language is counterproductive for solving the problems. There's a gut reaction that since "inequality" is the problem that the goal is income equality which (I think most agree) it's not. Economic fairness might be a better way to explain the goal.
Look into the research of Jonathan Haidt.
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It was great until they redid their UI. Now it is absolutely painful.

For example, I don't always want to watch the next episode of a series--I often want to see all the episodes I have in there. Yet I'm not forced to dig for the option to find that. Combined with the fact that there are unhelpful icons without tooltips (because its on a Roku) and my wife ends up helplessly confused by their UI.

And that's just one nit. In general I now try to use the Plex iPad app (which rocks), and then punt it up to my TV. Unfortunately the tracking doesn't work great on that so I can't easily scan around the show in the iPad, and have the TV instantly reflect that.
They will likely claim "principles" but sometimes you need to do what is pragmatic and right and forget principles from time to time.
If you can't pay for your prisons without extorting the families of convicts, stop locking people up.
You publish a signed statement revoking your key. Publications are kept and replicated by volunteer nodes or in a DHT.

There is no need for consensus or coordination, which is what a blockchain achieves because you act as the central authority regarding your own identity.
Whether They Want to Rent or Buy a Home, Millennials Are Basically Out of Luck
How to get clients to love your design
I see a nazar behind the cashier's counter almost every time I go to a Mediterranean cuisine place in eastern Massachusetts.

I also love the anime fairy design on the Azerbaijani candy package. Anime is turning into a truly global visual language.
To me, it's a mixed bag.

For example, the EPA is working (though not enough) to prevent the end of human life on earth. That's something I wouldn't trust Congress to do, since they seem to be gridlocked forever on all common sense issues.

But then there are agencies like the USDA, which fed "pink slime" to children for years in order to help out the cattle industry[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slime
Surveillance planes spotted in the sky for days after West Baltimore rioting
This makes me want to dive in deeper
Oh, come on. Anytime a politician of any party uses that line it's a load of crap. If they supported the policy they'd find the legal authority perfectly acceptable.
I think you misread the AWS growth paragraph, it is 78% year over year:

"Amazon reported net AWS sales of $2.085 billion, up from $1.169 billion in the same quarter a year earlier. That’s a 78% jump in net sales for the company’s AWS business, which it started breaking out earlier this year. It’s even a big quarter-over-quarter jump: Amazon $1.82 billion in net sales for AWS in the previous quarter. It’s reporting $5.5 billion in AWS net sales for the first nine months of the year, compared to $3.2 billion in the first nine months of the year prior."
Heroku and Parse
@thwd Thanks for the comments. I (author) have filled https://github.com/google/badwolf/issues/6 to revisit the defintion.
Aerodynamic shapes may be well known, but can still be very dissimilar, and counter to what we perceive as "aerodynamic."

Point in case: the Citroen AX has a drag coefficient of 0.31, which apparently is the same as for a Porsche 997 Turbo. The AX looks like a box on wheels.

We aren't the slaves of the wind tunnel, as in that case we'd probably have some pretty mad shapes driving around, but slaves of wanting to look, well, the same as everyone else, to avoid any risk. But this is more a feature of entrenchment in the car industry than anything else. There is really no incentive for the big OEMs to do anything risky.
And this is assuming the world only speaks one language, English. Should the other-language strings also match across browsers? Should it be embedded in the specification?!

It's nonsense, really. HTML is user-agent-agnostic. User agents have free reign in how they implement controls to suit their platform.
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You got that first one wrong, the 78% figure was yearly growth. AWS grew roughly 14% quarter-over-quarter:

"Amazon reported net AWS sales of $2.085 billion, up from $1.169 billion in the same quarter a year earlier. That’s a 78% jump in net sales for the company’s AWS business, which it started breaking out earlier this year. It’s even a big quarter-over-quarter jump: Amazon $1.82 billion in net sales for AWS in the previous quarter."
Under that logic, didn't a single Democrat in the right place pass a measure that affects millions of people?
I understand that you're proposing something hypothetical. So let's assume that it's true: Mississippi needs the revenue to run the prisons.

The federal government should be able to say, "No, sorry Mississippi, you aren't going to run your prisons on the backs of the families of inmates."

Why should someone have to pay extortionist prices to speak to a loved one? They likely had nothing to do with the crime (or the criminality of the inmate), and it's not fair to punish them just for being unlucky enough to love someone who becomes a convict.
Url changed from http://phys.org/news/2015-10-astronomers-peer-stars-giant-ma..., which copies this but doesn't link to it.
Yes, I am aware of the psychological reasons why people hold themselves in high esteem while accusing their opponents of moral corruption; my rhetorical questions were meant to highlight the absurdity of the accusations.
“Open Office will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)
Hague court deals blow to Scientology tax-free status
O, I agree. My point was simply the odds of your stock being worth nothing are slightly less than the odds of your employees stock being worthless.

There is a huge temptation for founders to put a lot of their own money at risk. But, from a risk reward standpoint founders are better off minimizing there personal risk ASAP as in rarely impacts the odds of long term success just slightly boost the potential magnitude of that success.
You really should invest in your own personal knowledge of the subject. Going to an investment advisor is a recipe for getting gauged. And this is a really big deal when setting up your plan for retirement. If you are losing small percentage points due to a lazy advisor or the greedy "managed" plan that they set you up with, the effects will be magnified enormously over decades of compound interest. To the tunes of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Serious, everyone should make an effort to get even a basic financial education. It is by far the best investment choice you could make. Relying on "professionals" is unbelievably expensive come your retirement.
Anyone taken this course?
other than racial demographics, what does it mean?
Do you suspect you'd be seeing him on bad days? Personally, I'd be making like a recluse.
OP here. Since this is a video, I'll post the abstract, etc.:

by Ron Garret

The lambda calculus is widely known but also widely misunderstood. It it considered by most coders to be nothing more than a theoretical curiosity and not really useful for anything by itself. In this talk, I show how to write a factorial function in pure lambda calculus, i.e. using nothing but lambdas, in a way that is actually efficient enough to compute the factorial of ten in a few seconds. Seeing how this is done can provide deep insights into functional programming, compilation, and other useful programming techniques like CPS-conversion.

Bay Area Lisp and Scheme Meetup,
http://balisp.org/ ,
Sat 17 Oct 2015,
Hacker Dojo,
Mountain View, CA
Might be too early to tell. But I look forward to this sort of thing being measurable in LinkedIn after sufficient time has passed much like how they did with universities not too long ago.
So if every vehicle is the same,vehicles are reliable, how do car companies persuade people to replace cars so often ?