skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The magic with these module systems isn't in the namespacing, that's just formalizing new scope creation via IIFE's and "exporting" symbols from that new scope to a variable on the outer scope. Big whoop; make an IIFE and return something from the function, there's your "export". Code golfing your module spec implementation is a fun exercise, though, I don't begrudge anyone for having fun.

No, the magic in JavaScript land right now is being able to take the CommonJS, AMD, or ES6 module spec and have that be the basis for JavaScript _bundling_ and _source code transformation_. Systems like Webpack and Browserify can perform these important functions. The magic is the plugin ecosystems that assemble around your modules to form your software project's build, test, and runtime systems.

The magic is that your JavaScript modules can be isomorphic and bundled to be delivered to and run identically on the web browser just the same as it can run on a Node.JS container. The magic is that IDE's now can grok these module specs and construct a type library - essentially treating the loosey goosey JavaScript language like it had static types. Employing JSDoc comments across your entire codebase is how you give hints to the IDE about parameter types, what can be nullable or optional, etc. You can essentially rig up a statically typed language out of modules and JSDoc comments in modern IDE's like IntelliJ/WebStorm.

JavaScript ES3/ES5 is a crappy toy language, ES6/ES2015 is somewhat less crappy, but still backwards crappatible. It's these modern tools and libraries that all agree on what constitutes a module that make JavaScript a joy to work with and very, very productive.
Those interested in the source code and development can start with my GitHub for 'minimal-compiler'. This is a research project in programming language development.
There's a really good video of a John Leonard talk at CMU on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5CZmlaMNCs

He basically took video of his commute in the Boston area over the course of a few weeks and pulled out snippets of situations that would be really difficult for an AI. IMO, a lot of people are far too eager to extrapolate from works-mostly under a controlled set of conditions to letting AI cars loose on the road in a wide variety of real-world conditions.

Even if you accept that we'll never have perfection (and humans certainly aren't), you do have to get to a point where serious failures are fairly rare events as they are with driving today in the context of the millions of road miles driven.
This stone circles are pretty interesting to me: https://www.google.com/maps/place/25%C2%B038'08.5%22S+30%C2%...

If you fly around this coordinates you can also find a lot of them:

25 55′ 53.28″S, 30 16′ 13.13″E
25 47′ 33.45″S, 30 40′ 38.76″E
25 38′ 07.82″S, 30 21′ 18.79″E
25 39′ 22.42″S, 30 17′ 03.25″E
My #1 source. It's the antithesis of local news. Owen Bennett Jones is a _legend_. He's Kronkite/Brokaw/Jennings all into one. My father is in his late sixties and remembers listening to Jones with HIS father during the peak of the cold war half way across the world. Lyse Doucet does some amazing international on-the-ground coverage. I'll take dehydrated any day over 24-news-hour "let's spend 4 days over-analyzing the same 16 second presidential campaign snafu 16 months away from the primaries" alternative.
"Germany’s hard line on the transfer of its citizens’ personal data to the U.S. has come in for criticism from an influential European association of global digital businesses, which argues that severely limiting such transfers would cause market volatility."

I assume he means market volatility in the US, of course, as in the EU it's likely to increase business to EU companies. I hope it does cause market volatility and businesses in the US to go out of business as that is what they deserve, mostly through no fault of their own (mostly because some of the big tech companies actively support the legislation that led to this). Maybe at that point our government will finally start to listen to its people, or more accurately, the only thing they ever listen to: money. In fact, the more businesses that close and the more businesses that lose opportunities because of our anti-privacy, anti-security laws, the better.

What other kind of response could you possibly have towards a country that has unlimited, unfettered access to ALL its businesses' data without needing any legal resource or process to get it?
So i'm just throwing ideas here - if we find some cheaper way to verify people have the skills/knowledge (maybe some sort of a test) and they can signify that in some way - surfers will accept them ?
Relevant seeing as the 'i' didn't link to it (third paragraph):

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/2015...

Discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10471172
Why do you hate freedom, err, I mean, better robotics, batteries, and solar panel technology? :P
Ah, got it now. That's a good thing to have.
How do you know that char[x] went through, and you should switch to spamming char[x+1]?
"V8 Major versions"
The problem with that code is partly the overuse of the ternary operator, but even more it's the wildly inappropriate code formatting and structure. Code that looks like this would be a WTF no matter what operators or statements it uses.

Judicious, simple, and straightforward use of the ternary operator looks nothing like that.
You realize that although LEO is cheaper to resupply it is actually more inhospitable right? There is by definition no resources available save sunlight.
Although I posted the link myself my only concern with current E-Learning is this growing emphasis on education through mobile devices. I understand the imperative (distribute information to the screens your users most use) but the approach should be handled verrry carefully. I can easily see many ways it could backfire
Talk with Your Colleagues Anonymously, with Blind
I can testify that this is a Big Deal. I manually upgraded to NPM 3 for my own minification/bundling system because the old behavior was breaking dependencies (one package passing React objects to another, and each one depending on different versions of React). Part of the issue is that the old method of dependency resolution, especially for peerDependencies, was just awful.
Europeans explored the New World to find faster shipping routes for existing trade. And they colonized it because it had proven resources (gold, furs, etc). They didn't do it for the romanticized reasons you suggest. In contrast, exploring and colonizing Mars is only justified by romantic reasons.
Digital health is difficult since:

1. [B2B] Providers/enterprises aren't willing (or able) to integrate into legacy systems

2. [B2C] Consumers see their futures selves as strangers [1], and most aren't willing to put in time now to prevent something that may or may not happen in the future (e.g. sickness)

Which is sad, because this is a huge area for tech to have a meaningful impact on lives.

There are definitely some interesting companies in the space. For example, Omada Health [2] sells to companies. Companies like them because their employees' health increases (meaning more time spent working) and insurance companies like them because their loss ratio decreases.

[1] http://www.vox.com/2014/12/18/7414105/procrastination-future...
[2] https://omadahealth.com/
Why doesn't the federal government build an EMR system and require its use as a condition of accepting Medicare payments?

Sure, I'd expect a terrible process and result previously (such as the mess healthcare.gov was when rolled out), but I have a lot more faith with the USDS and 18F in place.
It mentions in the video that the weather was dry. Is weather a variable that the autopilot system takes in to account? For example, if it was raining would the car have slowed down to a speed where it knows it can avoid obstacles taking in to account the extra stoppage distance required?
We have burned more money for less reason also make your head explode?
New class of DNA repair enzyme discovered
> Or they conquer their own land, i.e. a revolution.

Maybe, but that doesn't solve the problem. They're still single and would rather not be. Something else still has to give. A very long civil war might do it, if that's what you're suggesting.
Wow, that was a sad read. I general tone was "My god, our planet is on fire and you want to spend time and resources going somewhere else?" Which I understand, after all we're spoon fed that message every day, but if you think critically about it you realize that the species as a whole will have to figure out how to live on Mars or its doomed anyway.

I get the emotional angst, many people will remember that point where they realized "Hey my parents aren't going to be here forever, if I don't get job and stuff I'm dooooooomed." It's a scary thing because it involves doing something you may have never done before or may have tried to do and failed a couple of times. But once you internalize the fact that your parents are mortal and of finite resources and you can't change that, you put that fear aside and start figuring out life "for real."

The same thing is true with this planet. Our ability to monitor it and study it has reached a point where we realize the environment we currently live in is going to change, and change harshly. While we're currently the proximate cause of that change we know there are many things that can cause that change and have in the past. Perhaps not in the living memory of our species but we've certainly seen the humans frozen in glaciers right? So at the end of the day, it doesn't matter why the climate changes, we must evolve our thinking so that we can live on an airless moon, or a chilly planet far from oceans and abundant greenery.

And getting serious about it means picking a problem to solve and solving it. If we can create a self sustaining colony on Mars for example I have no trouble believing we can create cities on earth that survive what ever changes come in the climate. And if we have self sustaining cities on Mars and Earth then if one gets blasted by an asteroid (known to happen) the other one can help out instead of everyone just dying.

Its the difference between moving forward into the future knowing what you have to over come, and hiding in the past hoping to somehow prevent the future you fear.
Arch is based on binaries so you don't have to spend hours compiling. Surely Ctrl-C is going to "win" after the 4th hour of just watching X compile! :)
That's a pretty bold statement to make. The announcement contains zero detail, to the point that I'm left questioning what the purpose of leaking the information was other than page views.
It is avoided by some customers but not all and that is the point. Sure the frugal among us will not look for a ride when surge pricing is in place but someone still is.
2016 Chevrolet Volt Preview: Release Date, Price and Specs
If you haven't gotten an email, please contact apps@ycombinator.com.
That is nice that you received your letter. I have not heard anything yet.
Did they tell you your position?
Rewrite of Onboard Memory Planned for NASA Mars Orbiter
Ask HN: Do you want to be interviewed about programming?
Hi HN,

Short story:

If you're interested in being interviewed about programming, and you live in the SF Bay Area in California, please email me at drawginadraw at gmail dot com with a bit about yourself (could be a blog if you have it, a resume, a project you've done, some open source, or just a quick summary. This isn't a job interview, I just want to get to know you).

Long story:

I'm a recent programmer (about 2+ years professionally) and have fallen in love with listening to people talk about the problems they solved, the products they built, the tools they love, the "ah-ha" moments, etc. A lot of my favorite youtube videos are programming lectures or abstract ideas hashed out verbally. I want to make an "inside the actor's studio" for programmers where interviewees might teach me a new CS concept, or talk about their careers, big ideas that moved them... you get the idea.

I'm planning to record the conversations and start some sort of audio blog/podcast thing with it. If you agree, I unfortunately won't be able to promise you anything other than a vague direction of final product (probably won't be able to tell you release dates upfront either).

The big assumption here is that programmers like listening to other programmers. Considering the amount of $$ we dump on conferences... well, it's not an unreasonable assumption to make.

Thanks for your time.
Also something less talked about is how hospital administrators don't want to share their data for competitive advantages. So, they're more than happy letting the EMR vendors taking the blame for the lack of interoperability while in fact that said lack of interoperability is exactly what they're looking for when partnering up with an EMR.

So, when trying to sell a third-party product to a hospital, administrators forward you to the EMR vendor, while EMR vendor forwards you to the administrators :) Each of those "forwarding" takes a few months.
I wonder if part of the B2C difficulty is that insurance pays for most healthcare but (with a few exceptions) not for the lifestyle choices that would reduce healthcare costs.

If there was more of an emphasis on preventative measures that insurance paid for, I wonder if it would be different.
This Is What Gives the King Snake Its Slither
If that's the case, it's actually pretty smart. Do you think it could work in other fields (such as restaurants, as you mentioned)? I mean, would people be ok with paying more in a restaurant that's crowded?
You cannot make sense of an emerging phenomenon by looking at century old records of superficially similar phenomena.

The 3 year old case sounds like an outlier, regular coyotes getting at an unprotected child.

The case of the 19 year old may be the canary on the coal mine. A fully grown adult should have scared off the coyotes, but that's not how it happened. We should be asking what was different in this case and why the expectations were not met.
Survey Time “The State of OR.” All Entrants Could Win $100
Oscar Health is actually an insurer. They're trying to win by (a) better marketing and (b) using tech (like free fitness tracker) to reduce their loss ratio.

I've heard their innovation was also in pre-paying facilities for services. The collection rate for facilities from insurers is abysmal, so Oscar can negotiate a substantial discount by paying up front. Same idea as if you go to an MRI facility and offer them cash up front - they sometimes give discounts up to 75%. (Note: not 100% sure Oscar does this, I heard from investor and don't have time to research.)
We have permanent bases in Antarctica. Could we establish a colony there? Very likely. Given we have some people live there nearly year round, I'm sure we could, actually. But why would we?

The "why?" for Mars is "What happens if Earth is fucked Completely, royally, and absolutely fucked."

What happens when a catastrophic event wipes out all life on Earth? Colonizing Antarctica or the Sahara does nothing to ensure human survival in that case. But putting people on Mars and creating a self-sufficient colony? As long as Mars isn't fucked too - humans might live on. There are plenty of people who are interested in human survival.
I can imagine a variety of extinction events that could touch one world and not the other. I'm sure you can too.
High assurance requirements going back to Orange Book's A1 class said the source code and evaluation evidence comes with the software. Further, customers were encouraged to re-run the tests & compilation, generate the system on-site, set it up according to secure configuration guide, and report any problems back to vendor. They become part of the evaluation process although real work was to be done by security professionals at evaluation lab and NSA's pentesters.

Here's an example of one from one of father's of INFOSEC that handed NSA's ass to them in 2 years of pentesting:

http://www.iwia.org/2005/Schell2005.PDF

The original was based on custom hardware and firmware because Schell etc had good foresight. :) It was put on Intel because DOD and commercial sector wanted commodity products. So, probably issues at those layers that could breach security. Nonetheless, the kernel was what was designed with high assurance and will illustrate nicely what comes out of that. Note that this was the 1980's when it was designed. Still more secure, easier to review, and easier to extend than most modern software...

So, I'd have to supply customers the source to meet your requirement. I could also show them how to protect it. However, thanks to design approach, a high assurance proprietary system is easier to work with than a low assurance FOSS system. It's because the process absolutely forces that design to be a simple, modular, layered, and correct as possible. I wrote up some links on how that's done here in context of subversion and hardware:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10478742
The first martians will be religious fundamentalists/social conservatives who pool their last few dollars to buy transportation and initial supplies for settlement of mars due to economic and social persecution on earth?

Other than economic ventures such as the Spanish stuff (pillaging) in south America and Jamestown (where the wasn't actually any gold, but "hey, tobacco grows pretty well") early colonization of the new world was basically driven by persecution. The inquisition or some local form thereof was present in pretty much all of western Europe at the time. England and other protestant areas were equally tolerant of anyone that didn't pray the way they did. Pooling your money to buy a one way ticket far as hell away and enough food to hopefully last the winter was a pretty good option. Possibly starving because you aren't a good farmer doesn't seem all that bad when a change of regime could mean that everyone in your community was at risk of imprisonment/death. At least you can kind of control whether or not you starve.
‘The Senator Be Embezzling’
You've complained a lot in the past that the Web lacks in hardware functionality compared to native. Now that such hardware functionality is exposed to the Web, you call it useless. Be fair.

The fact is that access to OpenGL is basic functionality that any platform needs.
Yes, and it's also interesting that the "ire" they've drawn is from the Director General of Digital Europe, a business association made up of dozens of large companies including Apple, Google, Microsoft and Oracle. Might be a conflict of interest there (understatement).
yes > /dev/mem
Trademarks are domain specific. If your business is significantly different that an average person would not be confused then you should be ok.
Technically, the official method of exiting ed, if you're running as root, is:

$ed a_file
... (normal usage)
r /etc/motd
w /boot/vmlinuz-3.19.0-16-generic (replace with specific kernel)
!reboot

The alternative of "w /dev/sda1" is also acceptable.
Symmetry in Math and Art
Coco–Pluggable infrastructure providing a container based collaboration platform
Race Report: Antarctica Marathon
Rapid pace is fine because the language spec is backward compatible. The module problem is rather mostly on the API level. To fix:

• On the technical side, needs the equivalent of CPAN testers to automatically show where stuff breaks.

• On the social side, needs the fostering of a culture where breakage is considered ill-mannered, and module maintainers hence go to lengths to prevent it or fix it promptly.
Yes they would - the Tesla is not traveling at a very different speed from the car in front of it, which I assume is human-driven.
Driven by persecution - correlation and causation? Colonies were funded; people volunteered to go. The volunteers were often persecuted people looking for a new life. I'd say colonization was driven by money.
If we take Uber on their word that drivers do move towards the surge areas, wouldn't that just create surges in the areas they were previously in?
I've only just started getting into horror, can you give some suggestions? :)
Eh, yeah, but it usually links to the "basic" version (which, I assume, is compatibility mode for old school vi).

root@dicks:~# which vi
/usr/bin/vi
root@dicks:~# file /usr/bin/vi
/usr/bin/vi: symbolic link to `/etc/alternatives/vi'
root@dicks:~# file /etc/alternatives/vi
/etc/alternatives/vi: symbolic link to `/usr/bin/vim.basic'
root@dicks:~# file /usr/bin/vim.basic
/usr/bin/vim.basic: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, (snip)
root@dicks:~# vi --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Jan 2 2014 19:39:32)
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
This is difficult due to ACA regulations. For example, Pact (formerly GymPact) was trying to give people discounts on Blue Shield of CA health insurance premiums for going to the gym. A provision/update in the ACA made this illegal about a year ago; not sure if it's changed since then.

That said, it seems likely that insurance premiums will eventually be tied to real time health data, like Metromile is doing for car insurance.
Good to have another E2EE chat option. End to end encryption needs to be the new normal. It's not enough to just encrypt the connection to your service anymore. That might have been a feather in the caps of eCommerce sites in the 90s, but today we can and should do better.
Maybe Microsoft wakes up to fix the MAXPATH limit (260 chars). Recently the improved UI of the environment variable dialog, after 25 years.
Reliability in the face of rapid change
> it doesn't hurt Apple

They addressed this right in the article. It does hurt Apple, because the best people won't go work there. That's why they are so far behind on every AI thing they do. Siri and maps are both way worse than Google's offering, as is the predictive typing. Probably because they can't get the best people working on the problem.

I use an iPhone but it's this lack of AI that makes me seriously consider Android every time it's time to upgrade.
Introducing the BeeWallet app, powered by Uphold
I need to add one (tonight perhaps), but its basically: do what you want, but if it breaks it's not my fault. I'm just flattered if anyone finds it useful.
I suggest Sinister:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1922777/?ref_=nv_sr_1
I have seen similar results before: https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/the-algorithm-that...
Looks great. Thank you. I've been using astyle for quite some time. I suppose they are very similar.
Yes. Both for user-flagged ones and for ones stuck in the spam filter ([dead]). (and a flag by me has been overridden by other users)
Do One Thing
What lifestyle changes would an insurer pay for--at least without very intrusive lifestyle monitoring? (Which will increasingly be possible to do whether it's done or not.) There are often discounts for gym memberships and the like. And annual physicals are typically paid for.
Alien & Aliens
The Orphanage
The Shining
The Exorcist
Dawn of the Dead
The Fly
The Thing
Ringu
Halloween
Silence of the Lambs
Rosemary Baby
The Others

Should see but not necessarily must:
Village of the Damned
By "npm" I assume the author meant "packages in npm", not npm itself.
The first time I clicked on this link, I thought it was a joke, because the page never loaded. I think there was some network issue at my ISP and things weren't routing properly, but it tried to load for like 40 minutes. When I finally clicked back on the tab and saw the URL, I laughed and closed it. Clicked back again today from Hacker Newsletter and saw it was actually a thing :P
If you have good reflexes, you can type "^Z" right after "kill -9", before the syscall to send the signal is executed.

Legend has it that, if you do, you bring on the Singularity immediately.
Sure, the word as existed since the 1940s, but was related to jazz and different from the modern usage.
I disagree. That movie was groundbreaking for its style and budget.