skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found Flipboard always be a nice app to show what a cool device it runs on. Other than that it had major flaws which were never fixed or only after a very long time of not listening to user complaints.

- No easy way of using RSS/ATOM feeds. I know they can be added, but last time I checked the way to do this was counter-intuitive.

- Read articles are not marked as such. Therefore they block the view on not yet read articles.

- For a long time no web interface.

There was probably more I did not like, but forgot. Finding the app as part of the undeletable junk on a Samsung device did not exactly create cosy feelings on my side either.
Is there / could there be an option in package.json for which Node version you support? Like, v1.0.0 of my lib supports up to and including Node 4.2.1, but v2.0.0 requires Node 5? That way people would get a working version relatively seamlessly.

I realise this makes the package.json Node-specific, which might be something you want to avoid.

EDIT: to part-answer my own question, package.json has the "engines" field. Not sure if that means it automatically installs old versions in older versions of Node, though.
FAA Announces UAS Registration Task Force Members
Many solutions, e.g. make sleep 0.9 sec, i.e. less than period to guarantee entering the critical 1 second span at least once.
If you ever want to go to Mars, establish a base on the Moon first and develop the ability to mine water, rock, and metal from the moon and close asteroids. If you can make propellant tanks and fill them up the trip to Mars will be a snap and there will be a lot of human experience in deep space so the first visitors won't be setting endurance records
Hum, you get somebody to help you with their phone, and call some Uber competitor. I'm sure civilization won't fall because of such a flaw.

Of course, if taxis are gone, one wouldn't be able to do that now in lots of places. But for how long do you expect passenger transport to go with no competition?
3.5 years for an API, that's decently long, but dependent on industry. What does your upgrade path look like? Are you basically rewriting everything into ES6, aka starting over? Three years isn't long in a corporate environment.
The SEC approves equity crowdfunding rules, which will go into effect next year
In Sydney and Melbourne at least you'll have no problem finding decent jobs.
There are so many different kinds of markets like this. Just to pick another example:

(In Europe) You can today pay 800 Euro for a chinese-made electric bike that sorta works, or 2000 Euro for something built in Germany that really works (with a drive engine made by Bosch taking most of that profit margin).

I'm pretty sure the difference in price isn't down to the cost of the raw materials, but rather the know-how. This know-how will become common knowledge soon...
> We already have people living in space year round without any local resources.

You're joking, right? The ISS gets everything from Earth, even its water, and they're so bad at self-sustainability that they are not able to wash their own dirty clothes (I shit you not). Oh, and they throw away their feces and only recently were able to grow some lettuce on board. That's the state of the art right now.
Why? NASA has paid HUGE dividends.

>Estimates of the return on investment in the spaaace program range from $7 for every $1 spent on the Apollo Program to $40 for every $1 spent on spaaace development today. [1]

That money is generally spent in the US, on good, high-paying jobs.[2] The products NASA has created are EVERYWHERE[3] — The general rule of thumb is if it's wireless, fireproof, or small, it's using technology based off NASA work.

1: http://www.nss.org/settlement/nasa/spaceresvol4/newspace3.ht...
2: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lauren-lyons/misconceptions-na...
3: http://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0812/the-roi-of-s...
Webscript (https://www.webscript.io/) but it's Lua only.
Rust and Scala may be cousins due to their ML influence, but Rust itself isn't particularly influenced by Scala. In contrast, there are quite a few design decisions in Rust that were lifted directly from OCaml. Calling Rust "C++20 + OCaml" would be a decent categorical starting point.

(Caveat: the lead designer of Rust's type system, Niko Matsakis, has done a fair bit of work with Scala, so there may be subtle influences.)
And what of those men and women wise enough to work on what was good and needed rather than what they had in their _wildest_ dreams?
Why was the pypy thread "not the real world" when this thread "is the real world"?
Oh, interesting. I didn't know that existed! Pretty similar idea. Mine's more focused on content blocking than specifically privacy. This should also work cross platform since its all written in go. (I've used it on windows, mac, and linux) If there's enough interest, I could polish this into a more complete product. I've been meaning to do a rewrite done right based on this prototype but need some motivation/reason to improve something that's "good enough" for me personally blocking ads and cruft while reading the news.
How does clang-format compare to astyle?
Is Space Exploration Worth the Cost? A Freakonomics Quorum (2008)
That's only a list for California, each state seems to have their own laws and might not require disclosure of the companies:

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/wiki/index.php/Automated_Drivin...
The author's main argument seems to be that nobody will want to do it. But historically, there have been numerous cases of colonists giving up a safe, easy life to go live somewhere inhospitable and dangerous.

When I think about the first settlers that sailed across the Atlantic to colonize America, it seems amazing to me that people were willing to give up so much and endure such risks and hardships, but there have always been people that will go to great lengths to conquer new frontiers. I expect the first Martians will be no different in this respect.
If you asked what people want then you wouldn't be able to build what you want to build.
The advantage of the autopilot is that its reproducible, 100% of the time. When something could have been done better given a situation, the code is fixed and the autopilot will handle the situation better every single future time.

Humans arent as reliable. And then of course theres perfect collision course distance calculations and millisecond reflexes.
VPC support was introduced some weeks ago https://aws.amazon.com/it/blogs/aws/aws-lambda-update-python....
Every year, tens of thousands of people visit Antarctica, a place with nothing besides cold deserts and penguins.[1]

We are not making the Earth less inhabitable. More people live on the planet now than ever before. In fact, many really smart people over the years have told us that the planet would never be able to support the current population.

There's an undercurrent in this article that's extremely dour, depressing, and bleak. I take issue with that, but we can save that conversation for another day.

People will visit Mars. In fact, for many decades it looks like tourism will be the prominent industry.

Mars has water. Mars has CO2. We can make a breathable atmosphere and support ourselves, although it looks like living mostly underground is our best option for the foreseeable future. In my mind, what we need is cheap/free energy.

Nuclear batteries look like the best option, at least initially. Also a modular, standardized deployment system where things plug into each other. It'd be good if for a while we equip every piece of gear going to Mars with power and an O2/water generator.

No matter how it plays out it'll be interesting to watch. Too bad it will probably take a long time before we see a sizable population there.

[1] Tourism in Antarctica. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_Antarctica
You still have to simulate named arguments with an object:

const foo = ({ a = 2, b = 2, c = 3 } = {}) => a * b * c;
const dict = {b: 4, c: 6};

foo(); // 12
foo(dict); // 48
Twitch creates two state solution agreed to by Israel and Palestine.
One nice aspect is that Rust gives you many kinds of threading errors at compile time, so that helps. :)

Any profiling tool that works for C or C++ should work just fine for Rust. For example, people often use perf for performance work.
Management Lessons from Heinlein
You could install crouton without a DE and use the built-in shell to do whatever you wanted if you had a need to do development work and wanted to use ChromeOS without a full graphical Ubuntu install. You would have access to apt and vim.
Obligatory Graeber takedown links:

http://www.annleckie.com/2013/02/24/debt/

http://www.businessweek.com/finance/occupy-wall-street/archi...
Aliens of the gaps.

Unfortunately, the modern History channel gets people into that line of thinking. "Not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens."
The 3d stuff on maps.google.com is somewhat useful.
In California, it's not just the energy that's the issue, it's the coastal commission, which is very stingy about giving out de-sal permits.
That's not going to happen because the two toolchains won't be anything alike. You won't be able to make them alike either. Worse, that people often quote Thompson's attack shows that INFOSEC teaches subversion very poorly: it's the least likely attack to affect you and you really need to counter the others. What you have to do is make the software correct, make it secure, and ensure no subversion in lifecycle. That's called high assurance or robustness system design. Links below show you how to do that.

High assurance software design - nice intro
http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~hook/cs491sp08/AssuranceSp08.ppt

FOSS tools for high assurance
http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/high-assurance-floss.html

Certified compilation (HW w/ need certified "synthesis")
http://compcert.inria.fr/

Original work on subversion
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/myer80.pdf

Example of it in action
http://www.cisr.us/downloads/theses/02thesis_anderson.pdf

Example of high assurance hardware (AAMP7G version is secure but no public paper...)
http://www.csl.sri.com/papers/wift95/wift95.pdf
Yes. Version 2 will be even more relevant(on demand modules loading, data vizualization ..)
Tesla a calls it autosteer not auto pilot
What’s Really Killing Digital Health Startups
It's about half the market as far as profit goes – the low-end stuff is absurdly low margin and customers have very little brand loyalty.

Yes, that's true. But Apple needs to have a high profit margin because it only makes $1 billion a week (after tax) and has only $200 billion in the bank. It would obviously be a waste of money to serve more people, or even pay its Chinese workers a living wage.

More importantly, the netbook and other low-end market has been fading as people buy tablets and large smartphones.

The netbook market hasn't existed for a very long time, but sales of $199 laptops like the HP Stream 11 seem to be pretty good. Obviously they don't include the ability to overcharge users by $100 a shot for small increases in RAM or storage.

However, the tablet market -- including iPads -- is declining faster than the PC market. Nowadays even Apple has followed Samsung etc in making phablets.
iMac 21.5“ Core I5-2500S Quad-Core 2.7GHz All-In-One- 4GB 1TB OS X (Mid 2011)
If only they had a bespoke search engine backing her up :-)
Well there's quite a lot of research going into creating anti-venoms for stuff that kill only a (relative) few per year.

For instance, see: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-34513177
(which I may have come across from HN actually)

Note that they talk about 13 recorded deaths and none since the program began, but consider the effort involved.

And we do get pretty crazy about sharks and stuff when they kill less than a handful per year worldwide.
Agree the speed differential was too much. It's dark, wet, with stationary vehicles and there's a junction (?)

It's cool to see how quickly the car stopped, but I think I'd be on edge about more neck jarring autopilot incidents in the future if I had been in the car
It has always been ridiculous to think about something ambitious, until it gets done.

Ref: History of Humanity.
Show HN: A product hunt just for devops tools and news
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Cryptographers are computer scientists/developers, though. If you want to do something "real," other than make pretty buttons, that is, you're going to have to do some math.
That just took business away from the police, court system, insurance industry, auto body repair, ...
Thanks for the downvote, whoever you are. Visiting from Reddit? ;-)
This boils down to: "Stop doing this, you're not enjoying it right!".
I wouldn't honestly be surprised if Twitch managed to get better returns than a lot of automated trading software...
> A human driver would never be driving that fast.

They totally would. I see it... not infrequently. Basically any scenario where people in the right lane are there for a reason (e.g. taking an overburdened exit on a highway, turning right waiting for crossing pedestrians off of a main drag, HOV traffic vs non-HOV traffic etc.) I'll see traffic going by completely stopped traffic as fast as 60mph in the adjacent lane, and be the odd one out going by "slowly" at 40mph or so. Which looks to be about the same ballpark as in the video (which the description suggests was <45mph) and many surface streets (where you're passing parked cars.)
Deep learning and neural networks are quickly becoming the fizzbuzz of AI.

I'm surprised nobody talks about topics such as simulated annealing and genetic algorithms.

AI is not just limited to deep neural networks.
So, who wants to volunteer to lose all trade with the United States?
Surfing is plenty exclusionary. whether or not this is a bad thing, there are a finite number of decent breaks in the world. You can go to the ends of the earth, paddle out an hour before the sun is up, and there are already 20 guys in the water trying to catch the same wave.

If you're a kook with a $100 soft top the others will work together to keep you at the back of the lineup. Whether it's a matter of safety or subculture is besides the point, dedicated surfers don't want you around.

Surfers have no inclination to promote surfing unless they have some kind of sponsorship. Promotion is a corporate venture that has nothing to do with surfing and everything to do with making money. Mo money, mo problems.
> If they can breed and produce fertile offspring, are they really different species?

Species are defined more-or-less arbitrarily. It's essentially impossible to come up with a meaningful definition of "species" because of the nature of biology.

Imagine a gigantic tree, beginning with the first organism billions of years ago, with every living thing that ever existed as a node. Now, for the sake of the thought experiment, imagine that none of the lines ever died out.

There's no way to really consistently draw a line between one node and another and say "these are two different species." We pretty arbitrarily decide "well, these two sets are sufficiently different so let's call them two difference species." Like sibling commenters noted, sometimes hugely different species can interbreed and produce fertile offspring. Sometimes extremely similar (and related!) species can't breed. Or sometimes they can but never will except under laboratory conditions.
"carrying capacity" is set by a lot more factors than just food.

Human population is expected to level off at 10-13 billion based on factors relating to social organization, not the 50+ billion that could theoretically be fed.
Excellent thanks, I'm happy they have included this now.
I think the article is not fully exploring the economic argument.

Triumph of the city/network effect argument: Networking and connectedness into other people and increasingly into computer services around the world provide more intellectual satisfaction than surviving in the desert does. Mass of humanity produces more variety when it clumps together physically. Urbanization on the earth is driven by productivity growth from cities. Immigration to distant colonies could be justified with farmland and resources in pre-industrial society and industrial society. If post-industrial society with deceasing population builds distant colonies, it wastes resources.

After the thrill of interplanetary space travel wears off, Mars may have small outpost for geologists, geochemists etc. I think colonizing moon will be far more likely when technology allows it. You can have access to Earth and communication lag is acceptable. Moon colony may be economically profitable.
Messaging, bots, and Slack
In some ES6 JavaScript:

import {google} from 'alphabet';
let {google_plus, youtube} = google;
google.apply(google_plus.comments, youtube.videos(youtube.RED));
You mean that isn't how to exit 'ed'?
This is still current as far as I know: http://www.marcusoft.net/2015/03/packagejson-and-engines-and...

Basically, you get an error but it won't give you the proper version. If that has changed I'd love to know, however (it most certainly should install the latest version for your environment and give you a warning that it's not the latest. In my opinion anyway).
I don't buy the author's arguments in general, but I think the comparison to Antarctica is probably the weakest. First of all, people have actually made a point of traveling to and setting-up permanent base stations in Antarctica. Second, although the raw temperatures might be similar it is the weather in Antarctica that is brutal. Bryd Station exists in blizzard-like conditions 65% of the year [1]. Obviously this would not be a concern on Mars.

[1]: http://antarcticconnection.com/information/storms-and-blizza...
I'm pretty sure that's a given that people drive more aggressively when their vehicles have safety systems ABS being the big one.
Woolygreg
Jazz Legend Bill Evans on the Creative Process
I'm sure those wise people you mentioned would also be wise enough to see through a false choice like that.

Good thing for us all that it isn't an either/or.

Fortunately some people can work on the good and needed. And some people can work on the hard, maybe even the too hard to see at first that it's even possible.
I actually upvoted, for sharing your experience..

Not "from" Reddit, no; but I'm usually a silent participant here..
Is it legal to shoot them there? (The coyotes, not the small kids...)
He's saying that all the fastest benchmarks game programs in all languages cheat, relative to the slowest ones. :P This isn't an attack on your capacity as the site's maintainer, this is an entirely expected outcome due to the high-profile nature of the site. He's saying that random tests on the internet are "better" because they attract less attention and thus have less exposure. It's a problem with microbenchmarks in general.
Key term: "disinterested majority"

In this case Zuck could not be part of the disinterested majority since it was his salary up for vote. Consequently, his shares (and the accompanying votes) should have been ignored.
Even if you set the interval to the minimum possible, there is no upper bound on how long it may take to complete, or indeed, any guarantee that it will complete. In this case it doesn't matter, but I point this out because I've seen people trying to use this sort of logic in places where it does matter in the last three months.
great read! I've had to manage the company Trello board in the past and it gets overwhelming
Rust's lifetime tracking system is not implemented with smart pointers, although it does facilitate some very smart reference constructs indeed.
I am surprised to see the word "hipster" in an article from 2001. It didn't become a popular word until at least a few years later.
Show HN: Valid.js – A simple library for data validation
The statistics identity crisis: am I really a data scientist?
one big reason for some people is DirectX 12 for gaming. dx12 is windows 10 only, and is going to be hugely significant for gaming in general.
Salaries in London: real life examples
Maybe I am a bad driver then, but that is exactly the speed I would have been traveling in those conditions. And that is how the average driver in my area would also be driving. The right lane is not completely stopped where the Tesla is, and it has plenty of room in front of it. I would have been aware of that car attempting to turn, but definitely not expecting it to. I have doubts as to whether I, or an average driver, would have reacted fast enough to them actually turning so suddenly. The Tesla however did react in time and not have a collision so it did what was expected of it.
I'm not convinced since it sounds like a stripper that makes you forget.
gp is not complaining about current state of NASA, but about a hypothetical adventure with high chance of failure that would burn enough money to send a dozen robotic probes to every planet in the solar system.
When I lived in Italy, my (Italian) wife and I actually almost always enjoyed their reporting on Italy, as it often got to the heart of the matter in a much more succinct manner than the local papers.
In my case, I'm 99.9% sure the info was based on my offline purchase behavior at a CVS. I had a prescription filled for a very specific condition and, a few days later, was shown a Facebook ad for a related product. Not an ad that would be shown to a general population. I had not searched about the condition anywhere online in the recent past.
> Our 12-year-old daughter who, like us, is a big fan of The Martian by Andy Weir, said, “I can’t stand that people think we’re all going to live on Mars after we destroy our own planet. Even after we’ve made the Earth too hot and polluted for humans, it still won’t be as bad as Mars. At least there’s plenty of water here, and the atmosphere won’t make your head explode.”

Kid has a good head on her shoulders. She sounds like an engineer.

I grew up dreaming about humanity exploring space. I majored in aerospace engineering in college. It was incredibly educational--it taught me we're not going to Mars. Not in my lifetime, probably not in the lifetime of any of my descendants who still remember my name. It would be fantastically expensive and there would be no point. There are no resources out there that would justify the kind of economic investment necessary. Committing that money here on Earth would be transformative far beyond what it could be if spent on Mars.

Moreover, the technology has plateaued, leaving us with wildly unfavorable physical realities. You know how progress in CPUs has stalled? How the last several generations of Intel processors hasn't really gotten faster, and all the focus is on making them cheaper and more power efficient? That happened to aerospace technology around 1970. Now we spend billions of dollars to eke out 0.5% gains in efficiency.
What it’s like to have sex with someone with Asperger’s (2010)
I've always thought drivers of automatic transmissions seem less aware of what is happening around them, because they don't have to pay as much attention.

Since joining the 3 pedal master race, going back to an auto definitely doesn't engage me as much as manual.
The difference is that pioneers in the past had been able to survive in boats for long periods of time for thousands of years. At the moment we aren't able to keep a self-sustained environment on the Earth orbit, which is relatively cheap to get to, or on the Moon, which is still on the Earth's gravity well and relatively cheat to arrive compared with Mars.

So we aren't able to keep people alive in a lake at 100m from the shore without resupplying them every week, which means that sending somebody to the center of the ocean and expecting them to survive without any help for years is nowhere near our reach.

Looking at the past we can think that all achievements just took brave people that tried, but actually those achievements took place on a confluence of many favorable material and social conditions.
Seems like you're glossing over the whole religious persecution thing.
Can't you just modify the script to add 1 char at the time and the event handler will get it anyways?
Articles like this make me wonder about Oscar Health.
Fantastic work! What's the license?