skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a must-read for anyone interested in early rocket programs, Soviet space program development, and the space race between US and USSR.

This 4 volume set covers 5 decades of rocket science development (30s-70s) and span the career of a key top-level contributor to the Soviet space program, Academician Boris Chertok (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Chertok).
Total horse shit. Family member bought a Dell not too long ago and it was filled to the brim with spyware.
See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlwHotpl9DA
> protectionism is precisely the way first-world economies became such

First-world economies also employed slavery, colonialism, racism and sexism during massive economic growth periods. Doesn't make 'em good policies.
In this case, there is no performance tradeoff except that of running your core NLP pipeline... for which there are several very fast options
Is that pressure illegitimate? People "opting out" of having kids aren't opting out of social instruments that presuppose other peoples' investment into raising kids. Not just the obvious stuff like Social Security, either. Facebook stock would be worth a lot less if every tweenager that will ever live had already been born.

The only unfortunate part is that the pressure falls disproportionately on women.
Re-Loader v2.0 Beta 2: Windows 10 and Office 2016 Activator Latest
How does "build" and ppa compare to Fedora's "copr", if you know?
DRAM chip failures reveal surprising hardware vulnerabilities
Loved this quote -- "Note, by the way, that a great mathematician is one who does something new, not one who is good at doing again things that have been done before."

Same can be said of engineers.
So what will be selected for is intelligent people who explicitly value having children and people who are unable to follow the instructions on the back of the contraception packaging.
Technically you could say the same of homosexuality, but that only seems to be growing.
That's the net effect of contraceptives in general. People with better future planning ability are the only ones who use birth control, by definition.
Show HN: IT jobs (job board)
What is Disruptive Innovation?
Yeah I thought sync.Pool might be involved. But I don't see how this would negatively impact the GC, since using a pool almost always reduces the amount of garbage.
IMO if you're to get the benefits of promises, you need to use callbacks rather than using synchronous accessors like a .get() method. Making a 'get' accessor available just encourages blocking, reducing the very parallelism and asynchrony that promises are introduced to make usable.

When you chain and compose together operations on promises using a nice fluent API, you're building up a monadic value that encapsulates the whole computation. You can then apply error handling to the final monadic value and be sure all errors across the whole computation will route to a single handler. When reading and writing code, the division between "creating the computation" and "running the computation" is thereby explicit and the error handling obvious.

I've found promises most useful in managing asynchronous operations in the browser. With UI widget support (disabling things for the duration of a promise computation, showing spinners, showing progress bars, etc., automatically handling errors in an error alert area) it makes non-blocking UI much much easier to get right. For parallelism, I find different approaches easier to reason about, whether it's work queues or something like parallel LINQ / Java 8 Streams.
Storage is neither free nor infinite but in relation to the overhead of a git repository its cost is too small to be measured in cents.
Swift, especially with its recent developments, is a hugely promising language for building servers. Type safety? Check, with great type inference. Like functional programming? Functions are first class citizens. Immutable data structures? Available and always encouraged. OO? Classes are there. Structs, kickass enums and interfaces? Fine by Swift. Predictable memory management? Check, ARC rocks. Plus lots of nice language features like guard, do/try, optionals, etc.

Really the only thing that's missing as a language feature is some kind of concurrency support, though I'm hopeful future iterations will include this. In the mean time, it might be a bit of a blocker for serious server-side adoption.
There is human league music.

There is angel league music.

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Wb2/Hymns.html
Great point. In my opinion, for improving the quality of syntactic tasks such as POS / dependency parse, the difference between disambiguating and not disambiguating riverbank and financial bank will be minimal. However, for semantic tasks (perhaps NER, information extraction, question answering) the difference would be more profound. This paper is primarily focused on a much more efficient method to do the former.
I spent far too much time trying to come up with the perfect custom build for the WASD keyboard. Ended up getting a CODE keyboard which is also made by WASD just to stop myself from wasting more time on the decision making process.
There's no "reverse natural selection", the same as there's no "reverse evolution." If what you say is true (and I'm not certain that it is) then being intelligent and career driven is not a desirable trait for natural selection's purposes, and natural selection is working as expected.
I know that's not exactly what you wrote, but if you don't mind clarifying... Do you think these women are also being irrational and possibly insufferable fools?
Coinbase CEO responds to top comment complaining of account shut down
Had an off-gaming period of 5 years as well, and trying to get back into it. Just built a nice rig, to max out these new games. Is there a texture pack I can get for the original Deus Ex (1) or something? I played Deus Ex HR two years ago and I was blown away by it. Had a talk with a friend of mine who is also a Deus Ex fan and he told me that Deus Ex 1 is better than HR in every conceivable aspect. Of course I can't wait for Mankind Divided to come out, but I'd very much like to play Deus Ex 1 (for historical reasons) without my eyes smarting. If not I just might get Deus Ex HR Director's Cut off of Steam.
I started (a long time ago) as an intern. If you can find some internship or temporary position where they're willing to try people with little experience (but at least some working knowledge of programming), go for it.

After that, you may be offered a permanent, entry-level position, or at least you'll have some experience when applying for other jobs. And, most importantly, you'll start developing a network of people that have seen what you are able to do, which is one of the most effective ways to get job offers.

But, I would also take some time to consider the meta thing, i.e. why you're having difficulty keeping up with college work. Do you have trouble focusing? Or with abstract thinking? Some of the, let's say, personality traits, that mathematics requires are similar to the ones that programming also requires. So make sure that programming is a good fit for you. Also, again, probably the best way to find out is trying in the way I suggested above.
If people want to terminate their gene line which traces back to the genesis of life on this planet, I don't see why anyone should stop them or try to convince them otherwise. The entire point of a liberal society is to accept that what life is right for us is not the same as what life is right for another person.
I agree that it would be nice to have more data. It might be hard to get "big picture" data for this. I would imagine that police deptments are not incentivized to publish details in a convenient, highly visible, summarized form.

Forbes says $1250 was avg. seized property value in MN.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2014/09/12/a...

This link claims that the avg. cash seizure amount in Phillidelphia from 2010 to present was $550:

http://ij.org/action-post/seize-first-ask-questions-later-ph...

These hardly sound like the sort "untouchable" organized crime cases that these programs were touted to address.
Imagine being called nearly 50 years later to do an old job!

What programmer hasn't had that nightmare?
NeuralTalk and Walk
You could argue we're getting closer to it in the US. Here's a plan advertised in rural Texas I observed during a road trip a few months ago: http://i.imgur.com/70nUeHH.png

looking at their website, you apparently get unlimited facebook at LTE speed, but the data plan for non-facebook data is capped to a varying limit depending on price at 3G speed. They also have a plan that only has talk/text/facebook access.
Free support “for as long as you own your Apple product.”
>burning your health and your years on the hedonic treadmill

Being childfree doesn't mean you have to be self-destructive. Maybe you were self-destructive, and maybe you wouldn't have been if you had kids, but that's you. It doesn't mean that it isn't possible to have a healthy, productive, child-free life; it only means that it didn't work for you.
And to that I say, so what? Grow a thicker skin. We need to write articles because someone's being needled by their mother into having children?
In the past GitHub had a more open workflow (you just added people directly), but I think that was problematic...

For a while we hacked around this problem by letting third party associates "invite themselves" using a one-time use token in our portal, but we moved away from that since we no longer join externals to the org.

We're thinking of bringing it back, though, for "Outside Collaborators".
That doesn't even make sense. If we're going to compare apples to apples, you'll either have to remove the human's brain from his body and place it in the ring with the computer, or give the computer a proper body.

I don't see the human winning in either case.
You can fathom even before the berlin wall came down, what a sea change the wall coming down would mean.
There is no such thing as "reverse" natural selection. It's just that intelligence and being career driven are not a favorable trait for natural selection. It's working just fine.
"Erlang/Elixir multitasking is often called preemptive, but in fact it is a little bit more subtle than that."

The same is technically true of Go. In practice, in both cases, unless you're backing to a lot of C code, or in the case of Go, manage to write a really tight loop that never gives the scheduler a chance to run, it is not something that comes up in practice very often. (I'm at a total of 0 after ~6 years of use of Erlang and Go. YMMV, since I never did use any oddball C extensions, but every month for both languages that's less of a restriction than it used to be.)
One language to rule them all.
One language to find them.
One language to bring them all,
and in the darkness bind them?
All computers sold via the Microsoft Store are "Signature Edition" devices, sort of like the old "Google Play Edition" program: https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/Signatu...

For example, the XPS 15: https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Dell-XP...
> As far as IoT goes, though, hardware and software compatibility is always a problem. Most of them are built on tightly-closed SoCs. You're stuck with whatever the manufacturer wants to support

Aren't most IoT products custom built and therefore the designer chooses the specs? I know that choice is limited to realistic availability, but some hardware that runs Linux also can run OpenBSD - I would guess that applies to IoT too, but maybe not ...
Berlin social housing winning the residential race
Well, to be fair, you did say "[what the article talks about]. . . is why you disable flash," not "it's generally good advice to disable flash."
It's easy to underappreciate the ratcheting effect of cultural change.

For example, the idea that black people should be the legal equals of white people was indeed seen as nuts by most Americans before, during, and even following the Civil War. There existed a huge gulf, even among abolitionists, between the idea that black people should not be property, and the idea that black people are entirely equal. The movie "Lincoln" touches on this a bit--even while arguing in favor of the 13th Amendment, every political leader agreed publicly that black people could never be equal with white people.

That gulf has essentially collapsed now, so it's hard to appreciate how large it actually was. And it collapsed progressively. First, people weren't property any more. Then they were citizens and deserved equal treatment under the law. But then it took 100 more years before Americans broadly agreed that federal law should protect their right to sit where they wanted on a public bus.

Likewise in the gay rights movement, which saw its first public airing in establishment settings at the beginning of the AIDS crisis. There weren't reporters asking President Reagan (or any previous president) about gay rights, but they did start asking questions about AIDS, which at the time was thought to only affect gay people. But if you go back and read the transcripts, not only did the Reagan press secretary publicly mock being gay, the reporters played along with the jokes, even while asking pointed questions about AIDS. Being gay had such low social currency, even among liberals, that it took a massive public health crisis to even elevate it into broad public conversation.

I agree with you that the mere fact that a movement starts "outside the mainstream" does not help predict that it will succeed. But let's not forget to take off modern glasses when looking at the cultural environments in which the movements we know today as successful, started.
I doubt many of these people are experiencing real "pressure". They're just annoyed by other people's opinions about how they should live their lives.

Be a grown up and tune it out.
"Also, the above linked Browse Wrap wikipedia article stresses that precedent for the web site only occurred when the web site prominently and repeatedly displayed or linked to the TOS, especially near sections of the page where the user was actually likely to look (e.g. near the "Checkout" button, rather than buried in the footer).
"

This is an editorialization by wikipedia (sadly).

If you read the actual cases, you'll see they hinge on the standard contract stuff.

IE
"(1) Did the user have either actual or constructive
notice

and

(2) Did the user assent"

What it takes to do this is pretty much 100% unclear overall, and wikipedia stating otherwise is just plain wrong..

Both of these can be constructive/implied/etc, and are going to be what gets argued about in front of a judge. The difference you see in caselaw is just differences between what judges felt which was really fair.

You can find plenty of cases with only slightly different situations.

"Currently there seems to be very little expectation that the user is bound to a TOS by simply continuing to browse a web site, and I'm curious if there even exists any cases dealing with that."

Ye. Facebook's TOS, for example, has been enforced multiple times.

See, e.g, E.K.D. v. Facebook, Inc., 885 F. Supp. 2d 894 (S.D. Ill. 2012).
and

Fteja v. Facebook 2012 WL 183896 (SDNY 2012)

The only agreement you find there is it's conspicuous that they add the words "and you are indicating you have read and agree to the terms of service" in various places.

So if that continues to be held enforceable, you'll probably see folks do that, and problem solved.

The rest of caselaw is still a mismash. For every example you can find a counterexample.

Ticketmaster Corp. v. Tickets.com, Inc., 2003 U.S. Dist. Lexis 6483 (C.D. CA., March 7, 2003) (held bound to TOS just from browsing)

vs

In re Zappos.com, Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, 893 F.Supp. 2d 1058 (Dist. Ct. Nevada 2012). (TOS was not conspicuous enough)

vs

Hubbert v. Dell Corp., 2005 WL 1968774 (Ill. App. Ct. 2005) (court upheld arbitration clause in Dell’s for cause regarding alleged false claims made by Dell to online purchasers of the computers. Court found different colored hyperlinks on each page like a multipage contract)

etc

So i return to my original statement: Most of the court cases seem to depend more on what relief is being sought and what the TOS says more than what happened and where it was. They shouldn't, but they are :)

Forum selection clauses, for example, that nobody likely read, have the carnival cruise precedent from SCOTUS (TL;DR forum selection clause on back of printed ticket that nobody ever saw until after they purchased is binding)

However, all cases i've seen where the user was told "and you agree, explicitly, to the terms of the TOS" somewhere mildly conspicuous, came out in favor of the TOS holder, even when no explicit assent was given through clicking, etc.

The cases pretty much all agree on that.
About the alleged pressure on women to have kids: think about it another way, if somebody doesn't like you, why would they want you to have children?

I think it's really nothing more than people who have experienced happiness with children want other people to not miss out on that happiness. Since a woman's parents usually have had children, they are among the intersection of people who hopefully have experienced happiness with children and like you.
Scaling storage?
The highest public plan Github allows 125 repositories. Unless you have a lot of huge repositories, 125 repositories fit into a single smallish hard drive. Even with 10x redundancy, that's still cheaper than github.

Frankly, there are hard problems in internal IT, but hosting a bunch of git repositories is a non-issue.
That is quite interesting, thanks!
Isn't this short term thinking? If it causes budget shortfalls elsewhere and the pork is exposed they end up unemployable.
I think the opposite is true of engineers.
citation needed (Marissa Mayer and Sheryl Sandberg come to mind as immediate counterexamples).
> At least Half of GDP flows through the service!

Completely wrong.
Not zero: It is effort to argue with people that try to convince you to have children. And if they're e.g. family it's not always possible to avoid them.
Ok, exploring space is risky. How does it compare to the risk of previous exploration? I don't imagine that sailing off into uncharted waters in a wooden boat with whatever provisions you could carry was a particularly safe endeavor either. There are more important things than maximizing safety.
I think the point of the article is that, while it should be achievable with 0 effort, in practice it is not. They are constantly having to justify themselves to others, which does take effort.
Well yeah, I usually end up writing lots of async code because you pretty much have to since all the libraries assume that's what you want, but shoehorning in dependencies (promises, callbacks, callbacks mutated into promises by a promises library—it's a mess) until it could have just as well been written as at most two threads. So it's async in pattern but not in fact.
Interesting, I did see a lot of Geely and Great Wall Motors autos in Ecuador last time I was there. Thanks for introducing me to BYD.
Why don't you ask her to mind her own business?
I don't know them, I can only speak for me. But I do consider my former self a pretty typical member of the "childfree" community. So I don't consider it too far a stretch to label the typical person with the associated mindset in terms that I see myself.

To RIMR's point above, I'm sure there are plenty who disavow children for reasons other than going racing on the hedonic treadmill.
>Who cares?

Parents, co-workers, friends, discriminating employers, even random acquaintances...
I get what you're saying, but for some reason it doesn't feel right to me.

Part of it is that if your API requires you to think about whether or not it will run in the current or next tick, that's probably not the right API.

I find in JavaScript it's best to just assume your callbacks could be called at any time, in any order. And if you need a specific priority then write some code that actually explicitly orchestrates that.
RStudio, Oracle Solaris Studio, Appcelerator Studio, etc etc.
Seems like the author of the post is the author of Blot're which might explain why he didn't go into what Blot're is.
What are you going to do in Javascript, though, if the I/O takes some time to happen? In golang or lua or whatever I can say "this execution context should block on the I/O for x seconds, then give up and return an error." (the other tens of thousands of execution contexts can keep going)

In Javascript I would probably do... the same thing? But I would do it using promises?
Some portion of what is deemed important arises from the interaction between mathematics and physics. It would be fascinating to automate the invention of new mathematical structures and then have a post-human physicist try to apply these new structures.
At work we use quite a few Dell laptops.

If I had the time, I would install Windows from scratch on each and every machine anyway, just to get rid of the insane amounts of, uh, stuff that typically come preinstalled on machines these days.

But the only cases where I could justify the effort were machines for our automation people, because those came with Windows 8/8.1 preinstalled, and currently, Siemens only supports their Simatic/WinCC software on Windows 7.

Sigh Does anybody know of an easy way to remove this certificate?

I seriously would like to know what's in it for Dell. I mean, creating the certificate and putting it into their install images meant additional work.
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Maybe you can load this? https://archive.is/rQmhY
Eclipse is Java based and packages all the necessary tools with it but it is extremely debatable whether that means it "works fine" anywhere...

But to address the grandparent post a bit more directly, in my experience Android Studio runs great under both Windows and Linux, I've used it frequently on both with no complaints.

The instant run feature this new canary build has will be welcome since the deploy->run cycle has always been just slow enough to feel like a bottleneck to me, though I never faulted Android Studio for this.
Ask HN: Is there a UI / widget library purely built using Flexbox?
Because the costs of putting people in space are huge, so you need correspondingly huge buy-in. Dangerous recreational activities only appeal to a tiny minority of people (while quite a lot of people take drugs recreationally, most do so fairly cautiously rather than in heroic quantities or contexts a la Hunter S Thompson).

With space travel, it's both expensive and inaccessible other than to those who could be regarded as among the 'best and the brightest,' and whose loss is felt disproportionately. A better contrast might be that we (in the US) have a moderately high tolerance for deaths in war, because the bar for entry into military service is not so high. But if you recall the early days of the war in Afghanistan, there was a big freakout over the death of Corporal Pat Tillman, who abandoned a promising career as an NFL quarterback to serve his country post 9/11 and then died in a friendly fire situation during combat. It's very hard to become quarterback in the NFL so his death was considered a great loss, even though morally it's no different from the deaths of thousands of other soldiers. So deaths on a Mars mission would provoke a reaction of 'why are we sending our best to die in the cold wastes of space/on the surface of distant planets when we have perfectly serviceable robots?'

I think the way it will change is if privately financed asteroid mining becomes a practical reality, in which case deaths in the line of work will be considered tragic but acceptable (within reason), much like deaths on oil rigs and other high-risk industrial environments.