skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Currently it looks like "use this design pattern because mathematics".

I've only recently gotten into FP, but to be honest, I prefer that to "use this design pattern, because design patterns", which is how things usually go, particularly in OOP. A lot of the "theory" in imperative programming seems four steps removed from the underlying theory (to the point where you can't really trace patterns to their underlying theoretical reasoning).

Sure, that often makes is easier to understand and utilize. To me, however, after 8 years of that, it's pretty sobering to start realizing just how much of your repertoire is cargo culting.

I would also argue that there is a huge difference in how the two worlds use, or even understand, design patterns. FP often puts you through the trouble of going back to basics (yes, sometimes even mathematical basics) and that can take enormous amounts of and effort. That's a level of discomfort and slowness I have come to appreciate.
Considering some of the people I've made wordpress sites for couldn't even figure out the wordpress interface, command line anything is a no go for a large percentage of wordpress's intended audience.
And some people refuse to give in when their theory was just disproven. Really depressing.
That's why it's much more awesome.
The problem with wordpress security is mostly attached the insecure developer practices when dealing with themes. Many developers just take a standard theme, copies it, and then attach their own modifications. This piece of code never gets updated and the owner rarely even know that its there until they get hacked, reinstall with a updated wordpress, and then get rehacked a few days later.
If's he's a security researcher, he might actually appreciate samples of real government spyware to research.
@Tutaroo But that is my point. Even with all my education, I'm still expected to educate myself even further. I'm not against this at all, but I wonder when the circle stops. Also, should I venture into a new field in order to supplement my existing knowledge, I will be a novice, which again brings me at the bottom of the foodchain. I know for a fact that had I chosen an engineering or CS degree, this would not be the case, and I could've been employed during my bachelor degree did I want to.
I actually switched to using Tor whenever I go on wild hunts about stuff that I find interesting. Basically that means whenever I visit Wikipedia, because I can waste hours there, going over the weirdest topics.

Usually I get drawn in by stuff like history and end up on things like Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Japan in WW2, etc. or stuff like Ku Klux Klan, the "Islamic State". If there is some surveillance system it will probably be thinking I am into each and every kind of extremism. And since extreme groups like the Nazis have the wildest conspiracy theories that also is something I don't want to identified with.

Using Tor by using the Tor Browser is actually pretty nice and pretty fast, both to set up and when browsing. Years ago Tor used to be rather slow. That totally changed.

The are a few annoyances though.

Some websites seem to have weird rules such as "block Tor completely". Come on, your website can still be exploited. You will not really stop anyone that way.

Then there is the problem of websites usually requiring JavaScript for everything. The latter is weird, cause it's like people use "front end frameworks" for stuff where it doesn't really make sense and even slows down the page a lot. I am not saying JavaScript is evil, but I think people overuse them these days. Of course you might decide to enable JavaScript and unless you set the Tor Browser to highest security at least HTTPS sites will deliver and execute JavaScript.

Another major annoyance is CloudFlare. They require you to enter a CAPTCHA (which for some time didn't work), when accessing a website via Tor. The only way to disable it is for the website owner to completely disable security. I mean I get that they probably want to prevent some script kiddies from "hacking" unpatched Wordpress or so, but maybe this can be enhanced. Cause like I said above. The approach of filtering certain IPs isn't really enhancing actual security and nobody is going to DDOS you via Tor. ;)
Which people? What theory was "just disproven"?
When the global average goes up, the extremes get more extreme.
What theory? That every place on earth gets warmer? Yes if you've held that theory you have been disproven.
Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy has a good response to this story: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/11/03/antarcti...
Don't tip via the app. Just put in 0 and hand them cash. That way you know they are getting it. If they refuse at least insist a few times.
JavaScript: Events, Keypaths and Observers with RactiveJS
Only in the last sentence.
> What WP did right is to choose a platform supported EVERYWHERE

When WP was created, their options were PHP or Perl. PHP was by far the hottest thing back then, so what they actually did was use the hot tech of the day and made it work. The reason PHP is supported everywhere is for the same reason; back then it was PHP or Perl via CGI. Python was added later and was also supported EVERYWHERE.
Python: Writing a Configurable, Colorful, Console-Based Twitter Client
Some of these points are partly why I chose to go with a commercial VPN regularly rather than Tor. There is also no change at all in my bandwidth with the VPN, and I can seamlessly use high bandwidth tools like Netflix, streaming audio/video, etc. Maybe Tor has improved lately to allow this kind of behavior easily also?
>Just to be clear: when floating sea ice melts, it does not change the ocean level.

Unless you consider thermal expansion due to albedo change. Sea ice is one of the whitest surfaces on the planet, and open water one of the darkest.
Currently we have Java SE, Android, and iOS coming in the next weeks. Our goal is to support as many platforms as possbile. .Net is on the roadmap.
Reading 'The great race' (http://amzn.to/1M08aQK) atm. Didn't realize that so many people have been working on EV's during the past decades.
Their whole CoC is a roundabout way of saying: Follow the policies! Obey the law!

It doesn't suggest that Employees should ever exercise their own moral judgement without first contacting Ethics & Compliance.
The season that recently ended reformatted the show somewhat. They removed the B team this allowing Jamie and Adam much more time to show the process. I thought it was a large improvement, even though I had liked the co-hosts.
Agreed. Fish head curry is very popular in Singapore, and the eyes are in there as part of the sauce. You wouldn't even notice. Tasty stuff.
DMARC doesn't have a STARTTLS policy. I think you mean DANE / TLSA.
IIRC most delivery services actually have online tipping and put it on by default...
How about homesteading skills? If you believe the songularity is coming and rich mr moneybags is not going to share his bounty with you, you might want to be able to create your own for yourself.
Which Black and Decker Can Opener Is Best for Me?
Sh*t takes time.
Made in the Trenches: A WWI Magazine Created by Soldiers (1916)
Who Was Galileo Galilei?
Ah, thats great learned a new bash trick
That's something that gets overlooked in these discussions of wordpress. Wordpress has the unique ability to use a single install and backend to manage hundreds of sites. If you need content cross posted across multiple sites, wordpress can do that. If you want to pull an entire column of articles from one site to another, wordpress can do that.

Wordpress has spent a ton of time on multisite features and (as far as I know) there's no other CMS in existence that handles this stuff out of the box. That's why large media companies love it and, I suspect, why a quarter of the internet runs it still when there are faster and more secure alternatives out there.
...not to mention that in most cases, Johnny doesn't even really know what encryption is, let alone believe he's capable of it.

Try asking someone to encrypt something, anything before sending it. The looks you'll get range from sideways or merely confused to fearful and panicked, to are you fucking kidding me?
MythBusters episodes with the repetitive stuff edited out: https://www.reddit.com/r/smyths
The idea is that wealth is not fixed even when unequally distributed. Poor today, rich tomorrow
Types of Blinds
Book Strap to Burrito: A History of the School Backpack
Launched: CloudRail Universal API. Integrate Everything
A practical guide for blended learning implementation
Humans are already split into a handful of gods and the rest of us based on economics.
SCANFACT: WEIRD Mother gave alcohol to teething baby, baby hospitalized
https://twitter.com/Veeecktor
you twitter links are broken

your site needs more personalisation, indeed it looks like the result of a tutorial.

you obviously know a lot of cool stuff :)

cheers
I went to graduate school in a STEM field, intending on finding an academic job afterwards, with industry as a backup. I knew it was competitive, but nobody told me exactly how competitive it is. I noped out after I realized I was entering a field where I would literally have to wait for someone to die before getting a job, and some of the professors at my school had graduated 10+ PhD students already.

I considered myself maybe a 60th percentile researcher, which I knew wouldn't be good enough. It's a good thing I opted out when I did. I know people who were as good or better than me who are keeping it together with a string of visiting positions, still hoping for that tenure track line to open up. I expect most of them will be giving up on academia in the next 2 or 3 years.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10528546
> nobody is going to DDOS you via Tor

Uhh, yes they will... and that is pretty much the exact reason for the captcha.
What would it mean if this increase in ice was the beginning of a reversing trend? Similar to how a company loses money for years and then loses less and less and eventually turns a profit.
Hell, FTP is a no go for most of wordpress's audience.
What is going on with monoprice? are they slow for anyone else?
I'd say it's actually the opposite - the users are comfortable with PHP and not the more complex solutions. I'd love for us to support other stuff, but anyone who is using anything else wants more control over their environment than the average shared host can offer. We have as many deployment issues etc. with PHP as we would anything else... possibly more.

That said, isn't 'IaaS' like Heroku basically 'shared hosting for other stuff'?
I wonder if in the past in was major source of VitC for certain fishing subcultures. So, people thinking it gross got sick and failed to reproduce or simply taught others "fish eye a day keeps the rotting gums away".
Ah, phew. Let's start polluting again and de-vest in clean energies.
You're missing the import of the Profzi Scheme (http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1144): the lower levels of the pyramid are necessary. Graduate students and post-docs aren't really independent researchers pursuing their own ideas, and basically never have been. They're (highly educated, scientific) laborers who work for a boss.

By most metrics, a system in which most of the actual work is done by low-paid laborers with long hours - who are then thrown out as soon as they've got experience and tribal knowledge! - is not only an abusive system but a stupid and counterproductive system.
Absolutely human rights exist. At least for those that have the power and leverage to demand them. For everyone else, not so much.
I don't think anarchistic solutions like that will ever work. Besides, I WANT to contribute. But I'm wondering if I'm smart enough and have the right skills to do so in 6 months time when I'm done.
As a physics student in math classes, you should be more aware of the applicability of abstract theories, not less.
It looks like they site interface got updated... it looks like they pushed a new version of the site, but it's really sluggish for me. Anyone else have the same experience?
The Savings App Designed by a Behavioral Economist
Can you please write correctly ?
If you recall when that airliner went missing tons of people starting scanning satellite images for debris. The resolution is simply not high enough to detect tiny little things like debri or life rafts.
For anyone who can't be bothered reading the self-indulgent, concise rubbish since he doesn't actually provide the explanation:

"I will dismiss out of hand any article suggesting that the sharing economy can be about connecting people with others instead of separating them, and I will post something snarky and condescending instead of engaging with an interesting point"
Sometimes the space between the lines is just there so you can read the text.
Indeed, and the range is rather large as well for what they cover. Most people have taken a Valium (diazepam) at some point in their life for example.
Introduction to General Game Playing
Even prior to this, it was thought that Antarctica was only a small fraction sea level rise at present. Thermal expansion of sea water, melting mountain glaciers, and Greenland appear to contribute far more. The latest IPCC report (Chapter 13, table 13.1) has some good numbers representing the best we knew a couple of years ago.

The impact of this study is that the small mass loss attributed to Antarctica may be a small mass gain.
But probably using their own server, entirely within their own network? I.e. you can't even connect without a VPN?

Not that that protects from backdoors but still.
The problem with these VPNs is that they can log your traffic. Even if they say they don't, what's to stop them?
I can already see how this will play out on Fox News.
> Ever since an American electrical engineer invented a food that abolishes the inconveniences of foraging and cooking, and contains all the nutrition a human body is known to require but is devoid of the substances that harm, there has been talk that it can end not only the problems of the overfed but also the underfed. After all, it is in the tradition of Silicon Valley-blessed projects to invent a solution for the rich that eventually “makes the world a better place,” to borrow an expression used by tech billionaires and comedians.

Jesus fucking christ.

1) Soylent didn't invent anything. Complete liquid meals have been around for many years.

2) No one credible suggest soylent is useful to end world hunger. It's too expensive; it has the wrong nutrient balance; it's made in the wrong place; it requires too much clean water; it's worse than the existing emergency food products in many different ways.
Check out the article linked by GP - it gives a bit more historical context to the original link.
And WordPress itself is NOT insecure. It is in fact the most secure CMS you can find out there.

The issue is that its simplicity and easy installation, brought a lot of non-technical people to use it and develop for it.

So you get a lot of bad written themes and plugins that lead to all sort of security issues.

On the other hand, Drupal and Joomla, all had SQL injections on their core discovered lately:

https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-005

https://blog.sucuri.net/2015/10/joomla-3-4-5-released-fixing...
PigeonJS: An HTML template engine / preprocessor
I don't have an answer, but I imagine it would likely have something to do with facilitating money laundering (e.g. lack of banking regulatory compliance), lack of any sort of LE backdoor, or violation of US export law regarding cryptography. Crypto wars have been raging on and off for several decades now. There are so many laws in effect (an unknown number) that under the right political climate, nearly anyone can be imprisoned.
I think the complaint is basically that the majority of GoF patterns are better solved simply by having first class functions, and many students won't realize this because they only know languages without them, so they never develop an intuition for seeing such simple ways of solving problems, and instead build complicated machinery to do trivial things. And GoF tends to legitimize this approach in their minds.

It's a good book, but it's not a book for beginners.
I thought it was more about the fact that the sharing economy can either create positive, meaningful interactions that connect neighbors and neighborhoods, or it can turn your neighbors into faceless drones that you only interact with via the touch of an app button.

I admit that the dystopian future the author sets out seems a little drastic, but it does remind me of Jobs' "below the API" argument.
Show HN: Material Design Color Palette Extension for Google Chrome
Twitter experimentation: technical overview
Previous discussion of the NASA release:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10487680
> It doesn't appear that App::RecordStream knows how to deal with a stream of JSON objects.

No? You mean you missed recs-grep, recs-xform, recs-join, recs-sort and recs-collate?

> you'll have to either write some regular expression or some perl code in order to transform each line of JSON into something else.

Something like what? Like sequence of INSERT to SQLite? Like tabular display
of selected fields? Like CSV? Or like gnuplot chart?
FYI his name was Mau Piailug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau_Piailug
The inside story on getting an app in the Apple TV app store for day one
Is this true? Tor specifically disavows this:

https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq-abuse.html.en#DDoS
It's OpEx either way, right? Ideally the firm would be able to point at x, y, and z innovative and profitable new services, and say that's why we spend so much on R&D. It's not clear to me that Twitter can do that. So, an investor would be justified in suspecting that not all R&D expenditures are valid.
The author is a novelist, if you think the article was actually about these two ephemeral zygotes in a techbro's slide deck that will both likely die in the next year and don't really matter then you've truly missed the entire point.
Compile error has been fixed. Here is the latest usage(stable):

$ gem install burn && burn init && git clone https://gist.github.com/7b63bb1b077e187e82f2.git && cd 7b63bb1b077e187e82f2 && burn -c
Profit analogy aside, its clear we are pushing the planet into different operating realms. What is unclear is how it will respond. Contextually its called "Global warming" because the planet gets warmer, but the response could be a global glaciation. One of the early papers talked about increasing atmospheric and ocean temperatures leading to massive amounts of snowfall. (more moisture is held by the air and can be carried farther inland before dumping) leading to layers of inland snow that freeze into ice (glaciers).
I had no idea the UK had fought a war to stop the people of Gibraltar obtaining independence and self determination. Can you point me towards some references on the subject?
> UGH. Shoot me.

I'm sorry.
Temperature anomaly map: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/nmaps.cgi?sat=4&ss...

Btw. Increased temperature may be the underlying cause. Warmer temperature -> increased humidity -> more snow -> more ice.
Autonomous smartphone apps: self-compilation, mutation, and viral spreading
If you wish to learn about climate change, I'd recommend looking at the history of it. One key thing to look at is radiation balance.

The whole field of science was lot less hyped and corrupted before the 90's. And I haven't heard of any new findings that would dramatically change that picture.
It's a fascinating ecosystem, but a little confusing. I was hoping there was an easy(ish) way to develop a custom theme, and use wp.com for hosting -- but as far as I've been able to figure out, there's no way to do that -- to use wp.com is to opt out of any serious customization. On the flip side, you get (presumably) rock solid wp hosting, and few security issues.

Every time I've considered wp, I've ended up turning away - the code base is quite awful for the basic features it provides, and as soon as you start adding third party plugins (for added features), you need to be very careful to avoid either breaking on updates, or security issues (with a plugin, or cross section of plugins). It feels like half of the traffic to full-disclosure is related to wp plugins.

I'm not the typical wp customer of course, but for me the ability to develop some fairly static (html+js+css) themes along with wp hosting might have been interesting. If I can't use custom themes, wp.com hosting isn't all that interesting -- and if I have to host it myself, I want something that's a more solid software design than wp (and hopefully maxes out at around a single db query per page view. Something which is easier if you can assume the db has proper views, for example (select * from anonymous_page_view where page_id=?)).

I see that the same is true for the elegantthemes (which appear to be terrific value at ~250 USD for a life-time, unlimited license, btw):

https://www.elegantthemes.com/join.php#wp-com
"Can I use your themes with WP.com?"

"Unfortunately WordPress.com does not allow the use of custom themes. If you would like to use a custom theme of any kind, you will need to purchase your own hosting account and install the free software from WordPress.org. If you are looking for great WordPress hosting, we recommend giving HostGator a try."

Yeah, I don't think I'll be suggesting clients to use HostGator as a web host.

Wrt. themes and wp.com -- I can see how I could make a few themes and sell them at an affordable price -- I don't really see how the economics of support works out when you need to deal with the entire gamut of outdated php/mysql versions and the plethora of combinations of server+(f)cgi/php-module+mysql/mariadb/otherdbs(?)+windows/solaris/bsd/linux for support and testing. Not to mention interaction with hundreds of buggy third party wp plugins.

> I'm half tempted to abandon my current plans of startup world domination and just make WordPress websites for local businesses.

Best of luck to you :-)
Small Social Groups Are Finally Finding a Home Online
Was he really? The White Man's Burden isn't that ambiguous. Not now, and not even when it was written.

It was about the Philippine-American war. 2 days after publication in America, it was read in the Senate to argue for the US to end the war.

One of his more famous stories, The Man Who Would Be King is about two white men who manage to convince an Afghani tribe they're gods. It becomes undone, when one tries to marry one of the women, she attacks him drawing blood, and the tribe's priest declares he is "Neither god nor devil but a man!" (at which point one is brutally killed, and the other manages to flee). It could almost be read as an analogy for colonialism - the white men might have had a technological edge, and used shock and awe to take over, but as the natives catch on to what's happening, the risk of backlash and revolution grows.

Kipling wasn't firmly against colonialism, but he was a savvy (sometimes cynical) realist. Most colonials were pretty cynical about it.
Google doesn't use Page Rank any more either. Of course, they analyze links, but it's not the Page Rank algorithm any more.
This is ridiculous. In what macroeconomic transformation have we ever landed on just one mechanism of production or distribution? There exists room for both Sprig and Josephine - much like there exists room for both fast casual and fine dining, and for both Uber and taxis, and brick-and-mortar book stores and Amazon (who just opened a brick-and-mortar book store). There is often displacement and pressure to compete, but most of the time we don't collectively make a singular choice, eradicating the other choice totally. There are over 300 million people in this country who all have to eat every day (leaving aside whether they do or don't). What are the chances that all of them are going to land on the same way to buy or prepare food? Zero, just like it is right now.
Show HN: Rexer, generate matches for regular expressions
Original source here: https://medium.com/@mattbraun/sketchparty-tv-for-the-new-app..., with the way less sensational (and more accurate) title: SketchParty TV for the new Apple TV: The Story so Far