skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me know how well you do boiling water with a wool blanket...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10133400
Not that I ever gave a wit about Bob Dole, but this is HN relevant:

Bill Clinton Wants to Put "Big Brother" in Your Computer

Bill Clinton believes in bureaucratic micro-management of the information economy.

Within his first 100 days as President, Bill Clinton proposed the Clipper Chip -- a secret government-controlled encryption algorithm -- and a companion key escrow system where two government agencies would hold a copy of the keys for every Clipper user. Since then Bill Clinton has released updated versions of encryption proposals which insist that the government hold a key to individual's private data communications.

The Clinton Administration's Internet Task Force has proposed legislation that would reduce the rights of users of copyrighted material if that information is used on the Internet. Their infamous "NII White Paper" ignored important court decisions which balance the rights of information users with those of information creators.

Bob Dole Will Protect the Constitutional Liberty of Internet Users...
This is a really interesting article that I hadn't come across before. Thanks for posting!
It's not about the amount of effort that you've contributed, it's about the amount of risk you've taken on. The larger the company gets, the less likely it is in general to fail. So of course those who join sooner get more money - they took on far more risk than the guy who joined the month before the liquidity event.
Stockfish doesn't use an opening book, so unless MS added one to it, it is not.
Raspberry Pi-Powered Back to the Future Time Circuits
Progressive Web App: A New Experience for Mobile
> cash in on 3D printer hype

It rather looks like a 2D printer to me...
I set it to as slow as it could go so I could watch the game. It was weird because it got to a point where it declared a draw, but the pieces were still moving around so I left it alone. Eventually a couple more pieces were captured and the non-optimized side managed to win, so it updated from "draw" to "checkmate".
A relic from the days when people thought that cheesy animated gifs that played continuously constituted good design.
Well, I guess if it really was out of a book, it would imply that the quality of the engine itself wasn't at fault, but rather a bad opening book. Also, without that line being thoroughly researched, it'd be difficult to say whether it's a blunder, or a clever sacrifice. Again, it could be an incomplete opening book which led the engine to offer the sacrifice, but then didn't have info on how to capitalise on it.

Though in this case, I think it's almost certainly a blunder, that line does not appear to be a well known opening.
Assembly is shutting down December 6, 2015
Whenever I hear about Dole, I think immediately of Kang and Kodos:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4v7XXSt9XRM
I actually remember watching Dole awkwardly calling out his "homepage" during a debate. For some reason I remember it as www.bobdole.com, which would have been an improvement over the real, mumbled thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrDktE8D_gw&t=88m48s

...as for that election, the RNC basically just gave it to Clinton, allowing Kodos a chance to pretend to run for president as a reward for his decades of service in running for other elections. As it turns out, they should have gotten a relatively young Donald Trump to run.

Dole went on to be a prominent supporter of penis pills.
Mobile, Ecosystems and the Death of PCs
Morons, Imbeciles, and Idiots (2011) [pdf]
> It was a little tricky to put together with out interviewing someone.

Why didn't you just interview someone then? There are plenty of folks there who would happily grant you an interview. If I still worked there I would have.
I liked Ben Bernake but he essentially admits that even though the purpose of Quantitative Easing (QE) was to help the little guy on main street it really only trickled down to corporations on Wall St.

Instead of buying back bonds and bailing out banks, what if the Fed would have paid the monthly mortgages of home owning citizens for a year-or-two or paid them as much as they have put into purchasing bonds via QE?

Benefitting the little guy by paying the banks their respective mortgage payments would have kept both parties afloat (The banks and the home owner) and would have been a better trickle down policy?

Then again, this is hindsight. YMMV.
Shopify grows Q3 revenue 93%
Check the demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB_ngPuvKko
The difference between Ensure and Soylent isn't that Doylent is more sustainable; it's that Ensure protects its reputation by discouraging potentially unhealthy uses, while Soylent just bluffs to "fake it till they make it"
It's amazing when a candidate from 1996 sounds more reasonable on tech issues than most of the modern candidates.
So? I don't think those four workers could lay the pathway nearly as fast without the benefit of the machine, not to mention the amount of short-term pain and long-term injury saved by not having to spend all day kneeling and hunched over.
> The worst things about the eTrex are it's utter crap screen,

There's been a refresh of the eTrex recently, one of the improvements is a better screen.

> how bulky it is,

It's 2.1" x 4.0" x 1.3". You know, big enough to hold in your hand.

> how expensive it is (they start at $250)

Here you go: $163, I'm sure there will be many sales in many outdoor enthusiast stores in a few days.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=&sku=11499...

> the fact you have to spend a significant amount of
> additional money on maps and map updates

Here you go, all free:

http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/

> the added bulk due to the fact it uses AA batteries,

Again, I'm not sure if I'd call AA's "bulky" (compared to what?) but one of the merits of only needing AA's is you can find AA's literally anywhere, which is important to me, as I'm sometimes found in the middle of nowhere.

> and
> the poor battery life (I know this contradicts your
> experience,

Lithiums work incredible on this thing. The majority of the time, I use rechargables, as my use is < day, but if I'm out for a few weeks, I bring along a few pairs of lithiums, and life is good. The refresh again had improvements in battery life. The eTrex literally has the best battery life of all the Garmin consumer models.

> think for many people buying something like the Gaia GPS > app and a waterproof case for their phone will be a much > less expensive and more flexible option.

My use case is different than yours (backpacking, mountaineering, bicycle tours across the country). Ever have a phone shut down because it's too cold? Ever use a touch screen with enormous gloves on? Ever needed to use your phone, but its dead because of an app? All of the above in a storm?

Phones are great. I have one! They are also very fragile. I could throw an eTrex across the room in an attempt to do harm to someone and it would work just fine, once I find it again.

You think I'm going to put my phone, in a cradle, and mount that on the handlebars of my mountain bike, then go out and ride a singletrack trail across Colorado? (because that's what I do)

Nope. Batteries not going to last, screens not going to be visible, the thing will get damaged the first time I go over the handlebars (because again, that's what I do).

Dropping my phone off a cliff is something that's happened to me in the last week. I dropped an eTrex down a cliff, and I searched for it, for like an hour, because I knew it was still on, still functioning, and damnit, it's been working for 4 years, no way did I want to lose it. The phone, when found, was destroyed.
Ensure is not meant for weight loss. Ensure is liquid food for people who can't eat.
Unicode: Good, Bad, and Ugly (2011)
Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (1972) [pdf]
Yes, that too, it's unbelievable how cheap Office is compared to hourly salary. Great tools are essential to doing a great job.
There are more countries in the world than the USA and India. Good programmers find it much easier to immigrate to Mexico or Canada and have a very good life there.
As much as I appreciate the effort, I don't think proving M has humans behind it is any of help.

We write AIs. We try to make them act just like us. We teat them in everyway we can imagine and we expect them to act like a human would in response. Providing an algorithm for this is not always useful or maybw not even possible.

My theory on this is that Facebook is powering M with both people and some sort of AI software that not only analyzes and sometimes finds the best response, but it also analyzes the conversations people on both sides made.

Now this can be useful on several levels. Facebook can improve it's AI algorithm in less time, the AI can help people on their job in the meantime (by analyzing their work and commenting on it)
I just sold my Garmin 62s. iPhone 6s in low power mode has a longer battery life, and Gaia has always been superior to Garmin software.

A better purchase today might just be a Delorme Inreach and their cheapest subscription. It gives 2-way communication and has an emergency beacon function.
Just for you, I did a code review. The code review has two revisions, one where I gofmt'd it because I can't read non-go-fmt'd code anymore, and a second where I added comments expressing some concerns. I'll be honest, I gave up on a few bits just because it wasn't fun to do; I strongly suggest rethinking the use of a storable interface vs taking an 'interface{}' value for both gets and puts akin to how the json stdlib does it.

You can see the comments here: https://gist.github.com/TheDong/ce1d7b86b88c86d972b6/revisio...

You should never post code without a copyright license or disclaimer attached and I'd appreciate if you rectified that forthwith.
:) That's dorky, in the absolutely most awesome way. I don't know why I keep grinning at your post, it just seems really neat.
Arial letters have more distinctive individuality.
It's pricey relative to the other options.

As mentioned, OP had a grandfathered Google Apps for Business (so, free forever?). Another alternative is to sign up to a $5-$10/month web hosting package which normally comes with free email hosting.

Disclaimer: I'm a FastMail customer, been really happy with their service :) I also have a grandfathered Google Apps for Business account.
It's not pricey, people are just not used to pay for email.
I don't remember the exact numbers, but it's more or less the same as Google with a custom domain.

BTW, Fastmail is amazing, been using it for a while now and super happy. It's solid and has some really good features.
Yet another awesome project created by the NYPL folks. Other public libraries only wish they were that cool.

Personally, I'm partial to their historical menus transcriptions and its API: http://menus.nypl.org
The distinction with financial markets is that they are enablers of useful economic activity.

Years ago I worked for financial traders in Chicago, home to a lot of commodities markets. Thousands of people traded futures and options on those markets. But every winter, there was also the Chicago snow markets, where those same traders would illegally trade futures and options on how much snow would fall each month at O'Hare airport. It was illegal because it was not a CFTC-regulated market; it was just a gambling operation that happened to use financial lingo to make the best more interesting.

Interestingly, I see that decades later a legal snow market was actually launched:

http://openmarkets.cmegroup.com/4967/a-market-for-snow-how-s...

Here, though they had found a legitimate purpose: it let people with snow-related expenses insure themselves against excessive snow-related expenses.
The manufacturer's website says "Speed: 4 meters/minute." Though I suspect that's the machine's top speed, not the speed at which it lays brick--it's battery-powered and driven by remote or on autopilot, so there's little reason for it to move any faster.
Er, there is restraint over the judiciary. Justices can be removed by the legislative branch.

It's hard. But that's intentional, too.
0. Place an HA pfSense CARP or OpenBSD pf CARP setup as a pair of transparent proxies in front of everything (eg at the edge on the other side of HA network gear with either 2 (or 3, if deploying a private, admin network too) NIC teams for isolating traffic). This will let you do raw L3 traffic measurements on each side with graphite/collectd, cacti, rrdtool, etc. and L2/L3 IP/network banning (if you don't own/admin the network gear or don't want to touch it in production). These are super cheap and only need ~128 MiB RAM each and very little CPU and disk (except for logging, you want a dedicated PCIe SSD or SSD partition if possible). (Your public IP(s) should point to these boxen.)

1. Definitely get stuff behind reverse SMTP/IMAP/POP3 proxy like nginx or haproxy.

nginx: Compile it from source if that's all you need, and reduce your attack surface. http://nginx.org/en/docs/mail/ngx_mail_proxy_module.html

haproxy: http://blog.haproxy.com/2012/06/30/efficient-smtp-relay-infr...

2. Setup something like fail2ban: https://rtcamp.com/tutorials/nginx/fail2ban/

3. There are many other tweaks and there are some appliancized VMs for anti-spam and DDoS that can be dropped behind the trusted network-side. (I would advise against Cloudflare-like services for most mature and non-web apps because they are add'l points of failure and increase latency, and they duplicate what good sys/netadmins implement routinely, especially if you're already deployed to multiple DCs servicing multiple continents and/or geodns.)

Pedigree: I'm a founder and once-upon-a-time security researcher & sysadmin whom sold out and became SRE manager and then a consultant. I used to maintain multiple deployments of commercial Zimbra (from m&a activities) for clients including hi-ed, non-profits, VIP individuals, and enterprises.
Apple Music Comes to Android as an Emissary
Arial's 'e' always bugged me. Helvetica has a taller x-height that gives the 'e' room to breathe. Arial's looks like a trollface. Arial's 'a' is reminiscent of an awkward twelve-year old.

Helvetica's shoulder curves have elegance, its 'm' is downright stately. The swoop of Arial's 'g' is timid and fearful. The bowl of Arial's 'o' looks like a stop sign, Helvetica's is properly elliptical.
Party-pooper, you're holding the future back! ;-)
Apple Testflight increases its Beta Range to 2000 users for up to 60 days
Funny how they dedicate their blogging to attacking Bezos's business model, then make their living off of it.
been using it for a few month now on a raspi2. stable and pain free. the only thing i ponder changing is the mopidy gui as the default one has some usability issues.
An interesting tidbit (chrome):

When you push it up to 1000ms per move, since the difference between 15 moves ahead and 16 moves ahead is so large, both engines end up making 15 moves ahead and win / lose about half the time, even though asm.js is visiting more nodes.
Northface teams with Japanese startup to create spider silk moon parka
> it takes months to get everything backed up

What kind of internet connection are you on? I recently reinstalled my mac from scratch (El Capitan upgrade went haywire) and had to redo my backblaze backup. I uploaded the 500 GB to Backblaze in under 24 hours.
Yet looping animated GIFs are more popular than ever today...
A variant of gravitylight.org/
This has been around for a couple of years unofficially. If you typed "ok maps" into the search bar in maps, it would offline the area currently onscreen.

http://www.wired.com/2014/02/offline-google-maps/
Why would it seem amazing? To borrow an expression from cstross, the legislasaurus has woken up and smelled the roses. The legal/political class is now well aware of the importance of the digital frontier, which is full of terrorists/pedophiles and won't you please think of the children?!!!1one
I wrote a very long, funny post about the frustrations you are facing. It's based around being a lead, but having no authority because you have no influence over salary and hire/fire decisions.

However, I never never published it because I'm afraid people won't read to the end where I realize you need to be able to show how management's problems are their problems, and likewise the solutions. And if you can't articulate in a convincing way why best practices are really best for your team, it may be time to revisit the source material. To be fair, I had to do this myself, but I came out way more confident in my knowledge of what makes a productive team.
Windows game developer about porting to and using OS X
I dont blame a whole language. Again, it was mostly mongo and coffeescript. Python was the best thing about the project.
the file README.txt in the data directory explains that the free datafiles can be downloaded from https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/geolite/ or you can use the commercial equivalents from MaxMind.

Also, I haven't tested it personally but on Debian you should be able to use the `geoip-database` and `geoip-database-extra` packages (you'll probably need to symlink the dat files into the data/ directory for this tool)
> Their product testing is inadequate.[1]

Did we read the same article? That article has _nothing_ to do with their product testing. It has everything to do with Prop 65 and labeling. To quote TFA:

> But legalities and press releases aside, from a practical health perspective, none of this may matter: as Soylent notes, Prop 65's guidelines are notoriously stringent, pulling many everyday products into its labeling regime — and outside California, there are other more broadly accepted sets of lead and cadmium guidelines that the product meets.

...?

> Their outsourced fulfillment operation loses orders.[2]

Present tense.. they _had_ major shipping and supply problems at launch. They don't seem to anymore.
I know they use Scala:

https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/5424-netflix-scala
http://hanselminutes.com/394/demystifying-scala-with-netflix...
https://github.com/Netflix/atlas
We recently were hit by multiple DDoS attacks over a weekend. We have our own servers in a data center with 5 redundant 1 Gbps links. The DDoS was 20Gbps according to the upstream providers.

Our upstream implemented layer 7 mitigation which did an unbelievably effective job at stopping the attack in it's tracks. I don't know the tech that they used, but it performs deep packet inspection up to the application layer and they charge a modest additional fee for passing our traffic through that system.

The effect was that our traffic dropped to very slightly below normal levels during the attack, which would indicate that there were probably a few false positives, but we didn't have a single customer complaint.
In my experience the Backblaze client uploads smaller files before bigger ones, in effect prioritising your documents over large video files or archives.
Bought both the maps.me and pocket earth pro apps for iPhone - for use on data-less vacations. maps.me has slightly better map rendering, pocket earth has more features (things like offline Wikipedia/wikitravel entries overlaid on a map is a great way to discover a place). OSM is surprisingly great for hiking, it has a lot more trails/footpaths than Google maps has marked.
I'm a Python ignoramus, but I think they're the same, except for Perl's being more concise. How would you do a 3-level hash though in Python ?

What you call "value to use depends on the operation" is called casting. Depending on the context, a variable can be different values. For example a variable that has been defined but nothing else is treated as 0 if you try to add a number to it. It's an empty string if you use it in a string operation.

Wikipedia explains it well: autovivification is the automatic creation of new arrays and hashes as required every time an undefined value is dereferenced. Perl autovivification allows a programmer to refer to a structured variable, and arbitrary sub-elements of that structured variable, without expressly declaring the existence of the variable and its complete structure beforehand.
I stayed in a few Oyo rooms recently. It's pretty much the most convenient and cheapest option for travelers when it works. Sometimes though, the hotel overbooks and can't honor your reservation. Finding yourself on the foreign Indian streets at night can really suck.
Absolutely, I use spiped to encrypt connections between my reverse-proxy and backend. It's marvelously easy to setup.
All I use is an Android phone loaded with the OSMAND app and a small 1 sq. ft. flexible solar panel. I'm good.
Curious. how are they much worse than MTN?
The snoopers charter (UK)
The Fed's policy options are, by design, constrained. Paying citizen's mortgages I don't think is within them.

Most things outside the realm of the Fed's usual mechanisms require Congress to act (either to directly create the policy or to expand the Fed's mandate so that the Fed can execute the policy.)

It's not QE by the Fed that should have been replaced by consumer bailouts, but the congressionally authorized bank bailouts from the Treasury; that fiscal action might have relieved the pressure for the Fed pushing hard on its monetary policy levers for so long.
The bulk cost-effectiveness argument makes sense, but how does the theory survive in the presence of modern hot-company behaviors that spend money on absurdly gourmet snacks and niche perks, that seem to be more about appearing cooler than the next company, instead of cost-effectively deploying comforts that make employees happier and more committed to their work?
The first footnote in the article says:

> [1] It’s been 3 years since I wrote this article, and every time it pops back up people are like “so, a cache”, and every time I’m like “that wasn’t obvious from context?” and so now I’ve added this text.
You'd like to believe that things would move forward over time. I mean, as much as we love to hate on things, we have come a long way even in just the past 100 years.

But progress seems to be more of a buzzword than anything substantial most of the time.
what i did was buy a huge pack of pillowcases (apparently for hotels) from amazon. i change them nearly every night. it's more comfortable and my skin has improved.
"Open a GNB account today - No ATM fees when you vote Republican"
Let’s Celebrate Failure – An Open Letter to Indian Startups
Login form with remember me in php
> But their tiers are $10/$20/$40 for .25/1/15GB per year.

Which means if I were to migrate all my (perma-free) Google Apps account (for the whole family) and were to retain my current quotas, I would have to shell out $40*10 or so.

Fastmail is nice and all, but I know lots of ways I'd rather spend $400 which doesn't involve being tech support for 10x family members needing help having their accounts migrated on all their devices.
A provably fair +EV Bitcoin lottery
ascribe created a very useful service for artists/creators with some amazing innovative technology and legal work. Blockchain, machine learning, big data and copyright law!
I don't suppose there's a way to do this from a non-OS X platform, is there?

I'd assume no, but I'm wondering if anyone's found a way.
شركة كشف تسربات المياة واصلاح تسربات المياة بالدمام
It was a delivery system for strategic-scale nuclear warheads. Those are war crimes pretty much by definition.
Also the proper-nouning of "Web site" which I remember seeing in so many 90s-era style guides, but by the time I got my first professional web developer job in 2000 already seemed hopelessly antiquated.
> Too many companies roll their own solutions when they could take advantage of economies of scale like this and let another company dominate the problem.

Too many companies build their business completely reliant on a single service provider that can/will change focus, increase costs, terminate/change service offerings, or have unreliable service availability.
If You Build It, Will They Come?