skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hopefully the javascript gets added to adblockers at the least.
Shameless naive question: are these techniques suitable for time series models?
Is there anybody ISIS does not fight? Turkey lost 130 people with suicide bombings in last 6 months. What were you expecting? Entering Syria with tanks? It is easy to talk from an armchair when you are far away from the fire.
I guess you believe that piscina and alberca have different meanings too...

There is a train of thought in linguistics that there is no such thing as an exact synonym.

http://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/2062/do-absol...
It's so broken strict mode disallows it's use. A very popular JS book (by a very knowledgeable author) simply says "with is so broken it won't be discussed at all".

Maybe there are minor use cases where it's helpful, but for 99% of cases it's just plain bad. Why publicise it if it's not very useful, broken and will cause even experienced developers (not to mention new ones) debugging headaches?
I disagree with his objection to using tags and other tertiary UI for onboarding, I nearly always find that helpful. Indeed he appears to disagree with it himself:

>"Instead, telling your customer the exact button to press and why they should press it is a much more helpful prospect." //

I think I also disagree on the false-feedback he suggests is good. If you give immediate UI change on a like showing that it has been registered and then you can't register it you find that user experience can break trust - next time I go to that page/post/comment I see my "like" is missing yet the UI showed it had been registered. Surely this is a place for an intermediate state?

Similarly with the skeleton screens, it can lead to a situation like the one he has with his videos being missing. The page changes but it's not got content, but there's no loading indicator as there is elsewhere on the site/in the app - so is it loading, did it break? We're left guessing about what is happening.

Petty complaints follow:

>"Awkward UI is a missing a loading indicator." //

Oops. There are always errata!

Surprised to see the segment on loading indicators avoid using the word "feedback".

>"Even if you're creating weather apps (cue Dribbble joke), one state won't cut it." //

Will the targeted readership understand this reference, I don't. I even went to Dribbble.com for illumination but none came.

I see a lot of missing [obj] which appear to be mostly/all "￼" being used as a section marker. It appears not to exist in the chosen font on my system though? [latest FF on WinXP]
You can use specialized beer- or even diet-dr-pepper-satellite-antenna https://v1.std3.ru/96/24/1443432707-96242a90aed02e25c975fc5c...
Welsh town goes “offshore” in tax protest
You take the analogy too literally. The contingency is not on whether or not making AI is easy, it's about whether or not it is harmful.

And yes, it is debatable, but as Tegmark puts it: relying on luck is probably not a good strategy.
Great question. They aren't.
You can replace Jenkins easily with https://www.bitrise.io, but i'm not sure imagemagick and ghostscript are installed there.
Oh gosh, the standalone redistributable flash player with a swf embedded. I remember those.
I would love a modernized tamagothi, I live in London and aren't allowed pets, but I would love a wee virtual cat.

Face recognition is at the point where you can recognise different faces (members in the family) so that would make the kitty happy and play a bit. Throw a ball around and play fetch, that sort of thing
Many comments here are claiming that org-mode is a "life changer", without qualification. I'm curious, what, specifically, has it changed about your life?
It's Chrome for Android only - https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/4410268?p=mobile_pr...

I'm assuming it's a nonstandard thing they're experimenting with that provides a combination of device ID and browser ID (assuming Chrome on Android is similar to it on desktop, where each install is branded with a number).
Ferrari World Abu Dhabi
I liked the presentation a lot. In 2 minutes and 40 seconds it explains quite a lot. First time that I see the CO2 consumption being taken into account.
Data-Driven Tests in JavaScript Using Mocha
YPG has a different agenda and everybody knows this. And albeit costly, ISIS actually gave them an opportunity. They just want to close the northern border of Syria for their liking. Just do not assume they are peaceful (http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/10/syria-turk...)

Turkey wants a protected zone to repel ISIS from Turkish border and YPG closing the north line. That's about it.

YPG has plenty of open space to fight ISIS if they want to. Do not overestimate YPG. Without US support, they probably would have lost the game long ago.
Running risk-management models on rando client-side boxes seems like an amazing way to test your algorithm's ability to tolerate Byzantine failures.
Was it a protest "against Muslims" as persons of the religion as whole, or just against the goals or actions of just some militant or extremist Muslims?

The messages of the protest were "solution to islamic terrorism -> ted cruz" (obviously a call to the solution of the assumed problem through voting, that is, politically, they refer to: https://www.tedcruz.org/ ) and "stop the islamization of america" according to the picture from the same site:

http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/files/2015/11/pan.jpg

Isn't even filing such event as something "against Muslims" (implying "in general") a big misinterpretation? Who benefits from such misinterpretations?

And did the protesters break any law?
Joel Spolsky's "User Interface Design for Programmers" is phenomenal, and available freely online (!): http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/fog0000000249.html

If you build websites, also check out Steve Krug's "Don't Make Me Think": http://www.sensible.com/dmmt.html
thats the best consolidated broad definition of a blockchain I've heard. Do you mind if I use it?

Should we also include elliptic curve signatures?
First, Irak and Syria are neighbors you know that right? And Turkey did allow Iraqi Kurds to enter from Turkish border, but not the PKK.
Yes, you're allowed to run 2 VMs per OS X license. Our entire infrastructure is set up like this using Parallels. We have the machines hosted by MacStadium, so they're available to everyone. You could also run the VMs locally, but you'll need to keep the VM image up to date.
Smoking high-strength cannabis may damage nerve fibres in brain
How the mighty have fallen.
Good advice, but I think the OP is an employee at the company, not in charge of the growth himself (which your advice seems to be aimed at).
Looks like they're trying to shave MS off of user requests any way they can. Was probably a pretty fun project. Beats sitting and staring at an empty JIRA task list for 8 hours.
..sorry but this is a non-problem. If you insist on not using an IDE, then the compiler will still catch any keyword clashes as errors. Also most languages use contextual keywords so it's even less of a problem.
Your specific objection being? Or do you consider your rhetoric sufficient?

Any comments about the enthusiasts for the currently totally unsustainable welfare states set up in the West along with the massive associated debts to be loaded onto the backs of those as yet unborn?
Release the beams: Linac 4 hits the 50 MeV mark
FYI, this idea of continual progress through history was invented during the Enlightenment, as far as I know. Before that the prevailing idea was more the LotR-style descent-into-less mentality that "great things of the past will never come back again"...
Back in the day as an expensive consultant, yes, and I know a few people there now.

If you want to see a newspaper who are really doing something interesting with technology, check out the Daily Mail, last I heard they were going all-in on Scala. Newspapers that are still in print are fascinating IT places - because come hell or high water, the paper has to come out the next morning. They are the definition of mission critical. Websites are easy in comparison.
That's too trivial an example. When you get something more complex, the difference becomes clearer.

Can you parse the following easily?

c_z x * s_z y * s_y * c_y z * + c_x * c_z y * s_z x * - s_x * - d_z =

Compare that to the infix form:

d_z = c_x * (c_y * z + s_y * (s_z * y + c_z * x)) - s_x * (c_z * y - s_z * x)

With infix, the operator sits between its operands, so you can easily see what expression makes up the first operand, and which makes up the second: you just look to its left and its right. Postfix, however, requires you to read the entire expression, because the operator doesn't show which operands it has, they're just whatever the last two were, and those last two might themselves be complex expressions. This gets worse the longer the total length of the expression.

Postfix also suffers from not making it clear how many operands a given operator takes. With infix this is always clear.

I like postfix languages for their simplicity, but I refuse to pretend they are as easy to read as infix languages.

(example was taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_projection#Perspective_proj...)
What about, and this is an attempt: "A Merkle tree of transactions signed using an elliptic curve digital signature and validated using a consensus algorithm"
I don't understand this essay. It seems to be a romanticism of intelligent individuals, but he refers to Nazi Germany as the triumph of the stupid. However, isn't Nazi Germany the product of a small group of highly intelligent individuals?
It's all relative, but yeah, any of the big 5 canadian banks are immensely more nimble than desjardins which is internally structured as a federation of credit unions each of which is technically independent.
Just use org-mode like you would use a paper todo list, and then add the bells and whistles when you need them. No need to spend a week setting it up.
Slack community for European remote developers. 100+ users
The targets of the terrorism were on pro-Kurdish rally. Just before the election. Very convenient for mister Erdogan for ISIS to attack his adversaries.
Someone's been watching Thomas the Tank Engine!
http://ttte.wikia.com/wiki/Duck_and_the_Slip_Coaches
Nice!

https://github.com/realpython/list-of-python-api-wrappers#in...
Michel Houellebecq?
Surely it's propaganda regardless of whether the state is paying for it or not?
Flash free beta of Speedtest.net
Strictly speaking Hayek was the first Hayekian liberal - but did self-describe as a classical liberal.
So far, I haven't encountered any undocumented or severe breakage when staying with the stable version. Of course, things are different if you pull from Git master, but that's to be expected...
Recently relevant, for those who missed it:

https://blog.intercom.io/the-dribbblisation-of-design/
It's the first todo list application I've encountered which can actually compete with a piece of paper.
When Bart Simpson discovers he drinks Malk instead of Milk, to the detriment of bone density.
Swedish court: 'We cannot ban Pirate Bay'
I actually have a video [0] and code [1] of the first (which was a one-month project), while the second is my thesis which is going to be finished soon. Maybe I'll post them as a separate entry one day, but I always think these things are too simple and trivial to be interesting..

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrKMBIR82Qw

[1]: https://github.com/Svalorzen/DESOLATOR
> In America democracy still appears well established, and the men in power deal with what is amiss by constructive measures, not by pogroms and wholesale imprisonment.

Well all was not perfect even there - just a couple of years later all Japanese were "wholesale imprisoned".
See also k (http://kparc.com/k.txt) for keywordlessness, though a few keywords are added for kdb database functions.

Excerpt:

20 primitives/verbs, 6 operators/adverbs and 3 system functions.
1 control structure($) - rarely used - and no reserved words.
FSJF #27 – Best JavaScript Articles. Weekly
The actual situation may differ from company to company but from the perspective of an employee it is probably wise to assume that the HR people are not 'on your side'. This also differs (strongly) from one country to another.
> The Roman Empire did fall, and was followed by the Dark Ages

Rome didn't "fall", the "Dark Ages" weren't "dark." Those are oversimplifications from historians centuries ago, a point emphasized in most introductory history classes.
Could you give more context & background please?
The memory pool is not consistent among nodes, and nodes are free to drop or ignore transactions as they see fit. As you say, nodes may have conflicting transactions, a.k.a. double spends. Transactions are not durable in a meaningful way until they have been included in a block.

Waiting for six confirmations is probably enough to prevent accidental reversions, but takes on average an hour, with a fair amount of variance.
What language(s) is the backend written in? Are there any pieces written using Erlang/functional langueages?
Thank you, I didn't know that. Do you think that there are key differences between the two?
Logical fallacy. Just because those were the expected targets of ISIS it does not make him an accomplice. Remember the bombings of HSBC Istanbul in 2003? was it also orchestrated by him?
Interesting that he's making things to run on his HP200LX. I (still) have a Zeos Pocket PC that I used daily for about 2 years. MSDOS and MS-Works was my world. Ahh, good times...

http://www.oldcomputers.net/zeos-ppc.html
How to Use Social Media to Find Early Adopters
Do try evil-mode/spacemacs!
Collaboration tool  for designers , developers and project managers
What is your university?
Programmer writes code to send automatic texts to wife and make himself lattes
You know, as tautological as that sounds, it does not seem to happen a lot.

Yes, if you wait for long enough, everything fails. If it didn't fail yet, it's just a matter of waiting a few more centuries. But those failures are getting shorter and shorter in duration, while the periods societies are "failing to fail" get longer and longer.
Video of last slip coach in service: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NEwrjQtrKo
The Raspberry Pi Zero is a tiny computer that costs $5
I agree that security stuff is best left to security researchers. However you need to draw the line somewhere. Allowing a while loop can be a security issue for some applications. I was more talking about issues like the `with` in JS or `goto` in other languages. Yeah, they are a really bad idea for the vast majority of situations, but every now and then they are incredibly useful or provide an insane speed improvement and they can be safely used.

An eval example i've seen recently was about sending functions to web-workers. The only way to allow code to run in a web worker without a separate file is to convert a function to a string and eval the code in the web-worker side. So i could massively over complicate my build system, duplicate code in a bunch of places, and near-double the size of the downloaded code to get it working without eval, or i could setup a simple eval system and have it run a function passed in as a string.

Yeah, you shouldn't be using eval to decide if the number entered was 5 or 6, but saying it's disallowed from the codebase entirely is silly. Even a policy like "any code that uses eval must be approved by X, Y, and Z before they will be allowed in the codebase" is much more sane.
Reminds me of this quote from Good Omens, where Famine now spends his time coming up with new foods (“indistinguishable from any other [food] except for […] the nutritional content, which was roughly equivalent to that of a Sony Walkman. It didn’t matter how much you ate, you lost weight. […] And hair. And skin tone. And, if you ate enough of it long enough, vital signs”).
Never miss a deadline again – Azendoo Calendar
Complexity and complacency kill. As you say, everything moves in cycles, and while it's easy to say that we "make the same mistakes", the reality is closer to "the same inevitable forces take effect".

Our societies are driven by emotion, and by reactionary forces. Revolution leads to expansion, which leads to consolidation, which leads to narcissism, which leads to complacency, which leads to inner turmoil, which leads to revolution.

I've recently re-read Asimov's Foundation series end-to-end, and his ideas of how an empire rises and falls, while quite clearly based on Rome, hold very true, particularly in today's world.

All we have now will ultimately end in ashes, and assuming we don't end up with an uninhabitable planet, something new, and marginally better, will grow from those ashes - but it will take time, and the setbacks will be enormous.

As long as we have humans making decisions, the same ideas will take root, the same feelings will be in effect, the same dichotomies of "us" and "them" will arise, and the instinct to hoard for winter will never subside.

The only way out is probably strict technocracy run by benevolent AIs - but it's not one that anyone is going to be willing to accept, as by doing so one loses much of what it is to be human.

Ultimately, you have to accept the bad with the good, enjoy what little life you have, and make your goal maximising the happiness of yourself and others - as there's quite literally nothing else to do.
Definitely. The same with any employee, including engineers. The comment meant to be a reply to the motivations of the owners.
AppSec – testing for account enumeration – example included using Burp proxy
You still have "too big to fail" banks like BoA who are barely passing stress tests.

Because of that, we're in this weird near zero interest rate world that in the long term is undermining pension funds and creating other structural problems.
New YouTube to MP3 Converter – Good or Bad?
Actually, they are being genetically modified: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AquAdvantage_salmon
Replace Germany with Russia in article and you would be describing the sad state of things in modern Russia, the most brutal and stupid are running the show there now.

Aside here is an interesting article regarding this > https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/russia-great-for...
Hackers Replace ISIS Site with Viagra Ad and Message: ‘Too Much ISIS’
Doesn't this leave you with the problem mentioned in the article where some users have DNS hosts rather far away from themselves?
It's a question of scale. Small groups will go through the same stages of civilisation as a much larger group, but more rapidly. There's a "rotten spot" between very small groups and very large groups where things are particularly unstable, which we have stayed largely abreast of through telecommunications, but it doesn't make us immune to those forces, just more easily dented and less easily broken.
The 'tamagothi' is a parody of the Tamagotchi ('the little egg'), I think you meant the latter.
IMO sweeping dangerous features under the rug doesn't do anyone any good.

Bring them out in the open, talk about why they are useful (or were in the past) and why they are dangerous, talk about what problem they were meant to solve at the time and what the better ways there are now to do it.

I'm not going to mourn the loss of `with` if it gets removed from the language, but i'm not going to shove my head in the sand and pretend like it doesn't exist either.
Nothing more than what's in the article, namely that the mix is supposed to mix taste and texture, which could help selling shirataki and more generally konjac products.
My biggest gripe about WeChat is that it doesn't support multiple logins.
It's tied down to 1 mobile device and there is no desktop or web-based client that can login using a simple username and password. I switch devices very often and very much prefer that information flow with me as I switch from place to place, device to device, transparent to others around me, and not require me be attached to a single piece of hardware. This is something that Facebook chat does very well. Unfortunately, my entire social circle uses WeChat so I don't exactly have a choice.
You mean data-fitting? Possibly (every problem can be modeled as an MDP) but it's definitely not the most efficient nor the most intuitive way to go about it, so I wouldn't recommend it.
Adobe 'air'? Pretty much Adobe trying to re-make java the flash way.
I found ~20 - ~80 - ~200 in the many places I've worked or with. Roughly (1) hire people directly and know everyone (2) have people hire people and know only some (3) have no idea who is being hired. All of my direct experience failed at size 80. Each of these require a culture shift.
RemoteStash
Real authority is granted, not imposed. You and your team can have 15 managers above you, but in the end, if you just act like they don't matter, they will not matter.

On the other hand, if these people bring real usefulness to the table (for example by freeing you from stuff you'd rather not do, like dealing with whiny and confused clients etc), then you should accept them and let them contribute as peers.

The other side of the coin is that the company is growing and clearly someone felt it lacked in some areas. If you're interested in those areas (i.e. you want to step up into management), you have an opportunity to do so.
Registry Hack Turns Windows Defender into an “Adware-Killer”
Hm? I feel like this still applies reasonably well to America.

For all of the radical lunacy in our politics, our government's actual actions remain fairly moderate. (Of course maybe that's because political gridlock prevents us from having time to enact radical policy.) And we still are leading the world in all sorts of things, like scientific progress and technological progress.
I'd go with Alain De Botton. I like Sam Harris too but a lot of people hate him. He's not a philosopher per se but he's willing to have strong opinions about controversial issues.
For all the people who spend time on HackerNews and suffer from impostor syndrome, I hope this snippet (pg. 21) will make them feel a little better about themselves:

var ev;
eval("ev = control." + eventType + ";");
eval("control." + eventType + " = func;");
https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts The github repo.
Rome disintegrated, and if the sacking of a once glorious capital by the various tribes of Europe isn't a "fall", I'm not sure what is.

The Dark Ages weren't "dark" in the sense that many understand them, but they were a period of fragmented power, small empires, and warring dynasties - much as much of the Roman period was, but the fact that their structure disintegrated is undeniable.

In their case, it all tied back to lines of communication and an increasingly inefficient taxation system, which lead to declining revenues for Rome, rot at the fringes, and eventual atomisation.
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying
No, it is genetic modification.

Think of it as beauty modification. Breed good looking man, with good looking woman, you select for a good looking child. On the other hand, take an ugly child put it under a knife and through plastic surgery you modify for a beautiful child. That's the difference between genetic modification and genetic selection. Genetic selection has a long history, genetic modification does not.
That should be tamagotchi. It's a geminated 'ch', at least in the original Japanese.
Dropcam has been rooted before, no idea if nest changed anything
What are they?
For those who don't speak German: "Innerrhoden" sounds like "innerer Hoden", or "inner testicle" in English.
Taking an inventory of all the water stored under ground
> I remember there was a controversy when it came to the public's attention that there was cellulose (wood) in many popular brands of bread.

> Personally I see nothing wrong with it, in fact, it seems like a pretty clever "food hack". We have sugar substitutes, so why not this?

There's nothing wrong with it when it's advertised as what it is. There's everything wrong with it when it's used to covertly bulk up food and make more money because you're selling 50% wood pulp 50% bread for the price of 100% bread to people expecting the caloric intake of bread.