skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read up on MSaaS or CaaSi: http://venturebeat.com/2015/05/09/goodbye-saas-hello-contain....

The promise of this stuff is that you run the servers and control what gets deployed, but the vendors manage the software for you, like they do with SaaS. Is that what you are asking for?
It looks dead. Projects which hit the required 10k supporters 18 months ago are still "being reviewed" but Lego.

You are right, they should allow anything to be sold if a certain number of pre-orders can be met and copyrights cleared.
I thought about donating once, but not after that and all the other employee harassment and sjw bigotry.
>and in the flight logs they can see the cause clearly

I know it's a joke, but still: the in-flight entertainment system doesn't log to the flight data recorder.
Wow. I've always wondered how a combination safe works.
You seem to be fishing for science that supports little difference between genders when there is plenty to say otherwise.
If the world had the capacity to deliver one of the largest nuclear power plants ever built once a week, week in and week out, it would take 20 years to replace the current stock of coal-fired plants (at present, the world builds about three or four nuclear power plants a year, and retires old ones almost as quickly).

That's extremely hard to believe. Does he show the math?
Related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10638184
Here are three quick links, from 2007, 2015, and 1997, respectively:

>http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-r...

>https://nicholas.duke.edu/news/radioactive-contaminants-foun...

>http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1997/fs163-97/FS-163-97.html
The article says the issue, discussed with Yle (the content provider), was fixed mid-flight - it doesn't say anything about a fix being pushed. For all with know it might not even be the code, maybe it was a property in the JSON-data of a news article that was changed from left-aligned to right-aligned?

Also - no matter if it is relevant or not in the case - being able to deploy and update fixes to a system in production without anyone noticing is a testament to good system design - and even a requirement in many cases.
could you explain here?
I'd be really curious to know how many servers they're running. You can get a lot of iron for $3200/month.

Also, if I read that correctly it looked like they maintained two sets of infrastructure and one was always spare so they could do green/blue deployment. That sounds like a great opportunity to use on demand instances so you only pay for what you use.
That's a matter of perspective. If adding sigils makes that line's intent and action much more obvious, then the sigils are doing what they are for. Once you accept them for what they are, which is hinting to the programmer, they make more sense.

Sigils denote the nouns of the language. They are there for your benefit,not the compiler's.
I'm not a fan of another monopoly in the browser space, but the situation is quite different this time around. The largest being that Chrome is a branded version of Chromium, an open source project. The author is right that creating a browser from scratch is a often prohibitive amount of work at this point, but if Google stops allowing innovation or directs it in selfish ways in Chrome/Chromium, all that work is not suddenly lost to competitors. If pages only work in Chromium derivatives, then build your competing browser by refactoring Chromium. If all of the web rendering engines worked off branches of the same open source code base, I don't think you'd see many people working on the frontend crying, and nobody would be locked into a particular platform like we were with IE.

That said, I'm more interested in Mozilla's work on Servo (and Rust in general) than Firefox/Gecko. Looking at their roadmap[1], I was surprised at how soon its milestones are. If they hold to that timetable we may be seeing Firefox or a totally new browser steal first place before long, especially on mobile.

[1]: https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmap
Upvote for the name alone
Find out if you have a local Code For America brigade (http://www.codeforamerica.org). They're interested in building apps and tools to help communities and local governments work together.
far from dead, lego releases a couple of projects about every 6 months. the latest is a doctor who set, that is just about to be released.

it takes a couple of months to review, and usually they (lego) are active in the comments section.
If you're going to posit that individuals have no control of their own lives, then posit that. Otherwise, how does your wife maintain the relationships with her friends? How does she know their goals align with hers?
Pigeons Can Spot Breast Cancer in Medical Images
French isn't as deterministic as you make it sound.

For example many letters are silent and it's not always obvious why. Contrast the last sounds of these words: grec (ɡʁɛk) and tabac (ta.ba), chef (ʃɛf) vs nerf (nɛʁ), six (sis) vs prix (pʁi), etc. There are also some heteronyms, for example, les poules couvent (ku.v) but les soeurs restent au couvent (ku.vɑ̃).
And it was before they killed Front Row to force you to buy a separate box to do home theater duty. And before they broke full-screen apps. 10.7 kicked off a round of experimentation that really should have been optional to the end user, as most of that stuff has only recently started to settle down into something usable.
It should be noted that by "rich", it's meant everyone who earns $125k/y or more (top 15% of the population).
Yes, this is exactly what I mean. There was Motorola's own MMUs, but custom MMUs based on discrete logic was also common.
> Also remember that a key driver of the high cost of nuclear energy is lawsuits based on irrational overestimates of the risk of nuclear energy compared to other energy sources.

Do you have a source for this as the new EPR reactor in finland is aboud three times as expensive as planned?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant#...
Eich chose to step down due to community pressure; the board never tried to push him out. Mozilla was hemorrhaging users due to completely ignoring their concerns for years before that bigot left.
Strictly speaking, MoarVM is not an NQP interpreter - it runs MoarVM bytecode.

Sure, MoarVM is by design semantically close to NQP, but if you look at

$ nqp-m --stagestats -e ''
Stage start : 0.000
Stage parse : 0.003
Stage ast : 0.000
Stage optimize : 0.000
Stage mast : 0.005
Stage mbc : 0.000
Stage moar : 0.000

you get mostly the same steps as on the JVM

$ nqp-j --stagestats -e ''
Stage start : 0.000
Stage classname : 0.045
Stage parse : 0.067
Stage ast : 0.000
Stage optimize : 0.009
Stage jast : 0.145
Stage classfile : 0.010
Stage jar : 0.000
Stage jvm : 0.003

except that MoarVM bytecode files do not get bundled into JARs and there's no need to do the extra processing that happens in the 'classname' stage.
Does it require every field of the case class to be present in the result set? Can it handle missing columns or fields with default values?
the obvious solution is batteries, which improve all sources of power generation including traditional ones by serving as support during peak times. in principle you only need <average energy used per house> stored per house during night time, which may be a much lower bar than it sounds. if the utilities serve a role later it may just be them acting as high-volume energy storage facilities, but even that might not really be necessary if individuals can make money by investing in extra batteries.

i think once solar crosses a certain cultural/economic threshold it will just take over everything. it's just way, way too good. there's no other power source that even compares to the potential it already has.

what's interesting is not whether it's going to take over everything, but what kind of economy/world you will have when electricity is orders of magnitude cheaper than it currently is.
Can some French readers of Hacker News please weigh in on this? Why are you tolerating this sort of thing after witnessing the damage the United States did to itself after 9/11?
Maybe I'm cynical, but this problem can only be solved with legislation.

Data and metadata collected on individuals needs to be considered implicit property of the person. And, any use of that data needs to be licensed and pay royalties. And, a person should not be able to accidentally license their property through click-through EULAs.
The Color of Debt: How Collection Suits Squeeze Black Neighborhoods
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9466307
Kevin, I prefer equal opportunity in as many parts of life as possible, including hiring. Do you have any stats on strategies being actively pursued by companies beyond "we need to hire more women"? The article made mention of some, but didn't go into specifics on how seriously they were being taken. I would personally like to see the bigger tech companies move toward training + hiring programs for women who aren't already STEM educated (we obviously need more engineers across the board, and the reliance on traditional CS/EE degrees really frustrates me) and toward creating tools and training materials for parents to use with their daughters in early life. A lot of the effort in the latter area seems to be coming from parents themselves, sometimes with help from Kickstarter (ex. Robot Turtles).
At a previous company, we initially set everything up at Heroku. As things got cost prohibitive, we moved them one by one to AWS. Since Heroku is setup on AWS, it was easy enough to connect to our Heroku postgres instance from AWS web servers and it doesn't add any extra latency vs. running direct on Heroku. Over time, we slowly migrated everything off to our own infrastructure on AWS, but we were able to leverage Heroku to avoid all of that development effort until it was cost effective to do so. You'll need to deal with your own SSL endpoint if you run your web servers on AWS, but it's pretty trivial to do so with ELB.
>I don't know whether to laugh at the suggestion that a crowd as diverse as HN has a "cumulative sense of humor"

People overestimate how different they are from the average person all the time, but regression to the mean is a thing. That's how we get a general culture (in the broad sense) -- even if there are subcultures within it.

Besides, how diverse is HN? If anything it's one of the more targeted communities -- most people here already are focused in programming and startups, and have a same-ish background even when from different countries. Contrast with something like YouTube or Reddit (general channels), where people are from all walks of life.

If 9gag, which also gets people from all around the world and with all kinds of interests and ages, can develop a "cumulative sense of humor" (and it has) then surely HN can too. This doesn't mean that everyone on HN will agree on some funny thing -- just that a large percentage will.
No, I'm asking you to produce evidence for a hypothesis you seem to believe. I don't have any hypothesis of my own.

If you tell me that the Sears Tower and the Empire State Building are the same height (a hypothesis), you should show up with evidence that they are the same height, or some other a priori reason to believe that your hypothesis is more likely to be true than untrue (for instance, if both buildings were the product of the same prefab factory).

[1] is a rat study. How it relates to any hypothesis about XY versus XX humans is beyond me.

If XX and XY humans have different interests/aptitudes, that's a very parsimonious explanation for the toy aisle at Walmart, right?

But if your hypothesis is true, we need to search for other explanations. For instance, Walmart and other toy stores might be controlled by a conspiracy of conservative Christians who believe in different gender roles, and are willing to sacrifice profits (from boys buying Barbies, girls buying cars, etc) to support their goal of an unequal society. Is this the hypothesis you're proposing? It also needs to apply to Target, etc, all of which have the same boy/girl aisles.
IIRC, the workflow in Photoshop is this: If you open a photo file, and when you press save there is only one layer in the file, pressing ctrl+s will not change the file format. Generally this means that minor changes (crop, recolor) preserve file types, while larger ones require you to export.
When will we ever see an actual photograph of a satellite? Or actual footage of a rocket entering orbit?
Tatort (German for "the scene of the crime") is particularly interesting in that each one of ARD's regional broadcasters contributes some number of episodes to the pool. Considering that Germany is a very regional country, it's a good way to get a survey of accents and local word usage.
Thanks for the link. It would have never occurred to me than Mozilla spends $320M a year.
Sure, if you have the bandwidth and hard drive space to mirror 25+ TB of new content a day...
Finally catching up to Photoshop from 1992. Only 23 years behind!
Britain is in very good spot from renewable energy generation point of view. It has lots of wind, tidal and some solar energy too. Countries next to it have worse situation considering renewables and have just as high population density. Importing works if you accept producing electricity for Britain with nuclear power plants located in France or Belgium.
It would be interesting to see a graph of stories inspired by other stories on HN. I'd expect lots of short little sections of ~5 or so stories for about a week after a current event.
On hosting, since you don't have experience managing a full linux box, you might look at https://www.webfaction.com/?aid=9281 (referral link) where they handle most of the things (system, mysql, postgresql etc) and you maintain only your application . This is a little more pricier than a vps, but a lot less time to manage it + very helpful support team !
They still haven't released a 64-bit Firefox for Windows. Compound that with all tabs running in the same process and the demands of modern web and it's easy to run out of memory in Firefox on Windows these days. Their neglect of the vast majority of their users is baffling.
There's this SciAm article, but the title is sensationalized and highly misleading; be sure to read the whole article, including the editor's note at the end.

> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-r...
> Mozilla's revenue in 2014 was $323 million

It's amazing that there's such a massive amount of money even for having ~10% market share and declining.

Given how many people are clamoring for something like what Firefox used to be, you'd really think someone would step in to make a really first-rate browser. One could even be forgiven for using existing engines (Webkit, Blink, V8, etc), so long as the UI were exceptional. Instead, all of the Webkit frontends are barely usable at all (Midori, Vivaldi, etc.)

The lack of serious competition in the browser market is quite unsettling.
https://www.facebook.com/MitchellWiggs/videos/10156258219585...
Is this even useful? Handwriting is a well studied problem with good solutions, and we have lots of data (MNIST, etc.)

Can someone explain why we need humans to create new, unreliably labeled datasets?
Let me address your last paragraph and expand a bit on what username223 said. elsif is historical from Perl 5; I think it may be related to the fact that C-style ifs require curly brackets in Perl.

my is Perl 5, is different than local, and is gloriously short. Nicest way I've ever seen to declare a variable. :)

slurp/spurt are routines to read/write an entire file at once. slurp is pretty standard in other languages, I believe, and spurt was chosen to be a natural opposite to it. Perl 6 still has open / close / read / write, etc. Though to be fair, honestly I usually use lines, which (with no other arguments) gives you a lazy list of the lines in standard input / files specified on the command line.

for in Perl 5 was some weird combo which could be iterating over an array or a C-style for. In Perl 6, those have been separated. Because iterating over an array is vastly more common, that gets the shorter keyword. The C-style loop got the loop keyword.
>This guy later on stresses that we must have free software engines, that we can't have Google owning most of the market. But Blink is licensed under GPL and BSD... So is Chromium IIRC.

This doesn't mean much. Being open source is just the first required step. What teams/community contributes to a project matters too regarding it not being controlled by a single company.

If Google engineers stopped working on Blink tomorrow it wouldn't turn into some magically organic open source community project. That would take hard work, and tons of volunteers, and might not even happen.
It's not feasible, no. The "reasonable area" is on the order of all the concrete in the world. You have to duplicate civilization but with precision electronic devices instead of stone.[1] Musk is, unfortunately, not thinking outside his prejudices on the subject of energy systems. In all fairness, this is very common. Discourse on energy systems in our culture is closer to religion than engineering.

[1] http://lumma.org/energy/EnergyLCA.html
Traffic light cameras are used to enforce a law - it's illegal to run a red light. Merely driving through an area known for prostitution does not violate any laws. (Unless these areas are totally deserted, people live and work there, and may drive through to reach adjacent areas.) If the government thinks prostitution is a problem, it could enforce prostitution laws without harassing innocent citizens.
That was on old versions of Geekbench 3, on recent versions the difference between mobile and desktop is minor according to Primate. JPoole provided an example of Geekbench of the A9 running mobile and desktop workload sizes [1].

[1] http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=37728909&postcoun...
Is that household or individual income?
Really? We're talking about the folks who capitulated on EME and brought DRM into their codebase. Very free!
>...such as non-destructive editing are planned to be exposed in GIMP at a later development stage (v3.2 and onwards)

My grandchildren will probably see that.
Has There Been Progress Since 1250? (2010)
Shure, China is atm mostly using a more than 30 year old design bought from france and everyone knows safety is not their primary concern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China#Reactor...
If that is your primary use case, all you need to do is to assign Ctrl+S to Overwrite command instead. Boom, you got your saving back.
Three of them resigned when Brendan joined the board. To say that the board never tried to push him out sort of glosses over that point.
If the web can only remain free as long as Mozilla gets paid, then it's not really free, is it?

I understand that people hate Microsoft and don't trust Google since their logo appeared on a PRISM slide, but the premise of this article seems a bit extortive.

"Nice freedoms you have there... be a real shame if anything happened to them..." Nah.
I call bullshit on that. Nuclear safety is not to be taken lightly. The reason we haven't had more disasters than we've currently had is precisely because people working in the field take this stuff deeply seriously. And they need to.

What's killing nuclear isn't environmentalists, it's that this stuff is hard, really hard, and it's getting harder over time as more failure scenarios are known.
Please note that Mozilla did not resist DRM in Web standards but they spent money on things like FirefoxOS that clearly wouldn't get anywhere. I am quite unsure if they are aligned enough with the free web ideals. I do not think more donations will change anything. At this point, the purpose of Mozilla is unclear to me. They basically make a substandard browser and follow industry hypes doing random things.
I can't download the paper. Can anyone provide a quick summary?
> If all of the web rendering engines worked off branches of the same open source code base, I don't think you'd see many people working on the frontend crying, and nobody would be locked into a particular platform like we were with IE.

> That said, I'm more interested in Mozilla's work on Servo (and Rust in general) than Firefox/Gecko.

These statements are contradictory. If you get what you want in your first paragraph, Servo won't be possible, ever.
It's the same as opening the fridge, finding nothing you want, and going back a bit later with lower standards.

It's not that there is nothing there, your standards just need adjusted before you can appreciate what is there.

I guess the same can be applied to cable, but you have to really lower those standards to appreciate dozens of home shopping networks, reality TV and infomercials.
This is nonsense the amount of uranium required is incredibly small compared to oil or coal. We are talking on the order of 1:100,000 or in the case of a proper breeder reactor even less.

Worse, this concern is making the usual mistake of only considering uranium. Thorium is a waste product from rare earth mining and is very abundant in the USA (and elsewhere). If we build thorium based reactors, fuel is practically unlimited and free (compared to the costs of running a reactor).
"Files loaded by the scout can have extremely long cache times because the scout loads resources from versioned URLs: when a resource is updated, it is hosted at a new URL, and the scout is updated to load the resource from that new URL."
From your rant: Mozilla doesn't actually make money from integrating Pocket with Firefox.
No, but I see on Wikipedia: In 2007 there were over 50,000 active coal plants worldwide and this number is expected to grow. [0] One nuke plant a week for 20 years would be 1000 plants. So the numbers don't seem unreasonable at all.

That's not necessarily an argument that we shouldn't build more nuclear power capacity; only that we can't expect it to be the entire solution to global warming this century.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil-fuel_power_station#Envi...
So as the consequences of being poor become more severe, people are more likely to hoard money? Describing this as rich people being less generous seems like a questionable interpretation.
Dearest creature in creation,

Study English pronunciation.

I will teach you in my verse

Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.

[…]

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Chaos

Further notes:

http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/cyc/e/pronounc.htm
> (Edit: The article headline is Aircraft customer experience on a new level)

Yes, the submission title here is an example of how editorializing by picking a single detail usually ends up determining the entire discussion. We didn't change it, but probably should have.
I think the perfect work flow would be to automatically save a .xfc(could even be hidden) file and a name_edit.png file.
It was deemed that it was going to cause problems in th elong term, that's why it was cdecided to remove the waste and store it somewhere else.
You can't really plan ahead for the periods that long.