skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$165 for a passport plus card is a pretty steep price just to fly domestically, not to mention additional fees if you need to travel on short notice. In CA a State identity card is $28, or $8 if you are poor, or $0 if elderly.
> Didn't Mozilla just drop their contract with Google, saying they no longer needed that revenue?

There was a clickbait title that just came up but the contract came up months ago and Yahoo won the bid for the US default search provider.
+1. I once lost my ID and showed up at the airport with a photocopy of my passport; they just asked for whatever else I had on hand (credit card, company badge) and patted me down.
Wow, that's bad even by the usual low standard. Care to suggest an accurate, neutral title so HN's conscience, at least, can be clear?

I'm impressed with how good the top subthreads here turned out to be, with such bad seed material.
> EDIT: Ultimately, I wonder how much of this thread is you saying...

You don't seem to realize you're talking to more than one person.
pen2l actually you are wrong, because it runs full Linux, but also it's PRECISELY the thing that makes this so attractive to so many people: the fact that it's a full, normal, desktop, Linux PC. That gives it amazing possibilities. You can prototype on a laptop (running Linux) and just move your code, AS-IS, over to a 1 GHz Linux Desktop with 512 MB of RAM: the Raspberry Pi Zero that is pictured.

Now you are correct that it's not capable of running Windows. Even the Linux that it runs is a version that doesn't support everything that a desktop version supports. (Like Photoshop etc.) It's extremely underpowered for a desktop, and not every Linux package supports its architecutre, though most do.

So it's a complete PC in the sense that it can run desktop Linux applications - you can surf the web on it - write emails, do whatever you want, and you won't be using special embedded versions of applications. But for that usage it is also radically underpowered.

Hard to understand what else someone might expect from a $5 computer on a chip, though, when a typical desktop costs $250-$500. The specs I listed are absolutely remarkable, but in a real desktop you use on your desk you would want 8 times as much RAM (4 GB) at a minimum, or even 64 times as much ram (16 GB). I mean if you're advising your friends.

This is more about experimentation for applications where you embed a small PC. If your friend doesn't have much of a budget, I suggest they get a used PC. This PC is about as powerful as a desktop PC from over fifteen years ago. (Which they could also get, and still run some desktop applications on.)
In most states, you can get a state ID that's not valid for driving, but is useful for corroborating your identity and age (and presumably residence, for those states that comply with this new Real ID stuff).
Burger King manager told grand jury of gap in video of police shooting
Unfortunately I had to upgrade at some point because apple likes to make newer versions of xcode stop working on older versions on os x...

As a point of contrast, I run visual studio 2015 on windows 7 (a contemporary of snow leopard), and in fact I'm pretty sure it would run just fine on (14 years old!) windows xp too.
This is totally fucking illegal. As Americans we have the right to travel our own country without someone asking for our papers. The article doesn't even acknowledge this basic constitutional right.
> The rock star dev is the one who thinks he's the best dev you have.

No, that isn't what it means. Your actual best dev is your rock star, that's the intended meaning of the phrase.
I imagine it's related to this: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/we-know-where-you...
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I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned the elephant in the room: CHIP's real cost. Sure, CHIP "sells" at $9, but "shipping" costs $20. This "shipping" cost remains the same per unit even for multiple items, even when they ship together. Given that shipping from China is subsidized such that actual CHIP shipping costs should be under $1, the "shipping" is clearly paying for the CHIP.

Sure, CHIP is a solid device at $29, and the fact that the CHIP manufacturers pulled off a successful hardware Kickstarter is a feat of its own. But claiming that CHIP is a $9 computer is ridiculous. Additionally, as another commenter mentioned, the CHIP's cost total didn't include a display cable, $13. Re-run the comparison... and the costs come to $46 CHIP, $24 Raspi Zero.
I had a neat little project on that setup as well. It was way too early for its audience, which is kind of a shame.
From my (limited) experience, I've been impressed wherever I interacted with developers of: python-requests, salt, rust.
Raising insurance rates after you've been tracked parking near a chemo ward, general stalking, more accurate location based advertisements...

I'm having a harder time thinking of how an entity with sufficient funds wouldn't be able to misuse this.
The team at GoboLinux.org is awesome ;)
I can't imagine this actually happening. REAL ID has been extremely unpopular from the start and the deadline has been repeatedly pushed back since most states are unwilling to comply. Expect another last-minute delay if there's still a state without a waiver.
You could say Ruby, Python, Perl, C, Java, etc are really ALGOL-like languages whose data structures are generally mutable, and whose syntax is made for expressing how the state of the program is mutated in-place.

Whereas LISP-like languages have data structures that are generally immutable, and whose functional orientation results in expressing the computation of new data from old (mostly) without mutating in-place.

The thing about imperative programming languages is that the paradigm matches up to the mental model of "a computer" that most programmers would recognize and find comfortable. Without having any concrete evidence, I have a hunch that this paradigm difference is what deters new developers the most. And stacked on top of that you have the non-ALGOL syntax and the lack of libraries.

In my opinion, anyway.
I would buy it on some very accessible text post - but come on, a video only post with 47 upvotes and no comments? Something is fishy here.

Or maybe people just upvote anything that has the string "clojure" in it? :)
Founder of https://commando.io here. Sup looks great. We built Commando.io to address the problem of running distributed commands on servers via ssh as well. However, instead of command line, we opted for a beautiful and easy to use web interface.

We have a super early version of our refactored distributed ssh http service (written in go), that we plan on open sourcing in the near future as well.
Try to be the leader. Try to be the one others look up to. Try to do a perfect job that everyone appreciates. Be the one who teaches others. If you did all that, you are ready to move on.
In my experience the Rust community exhibits a cloaked form of tyranny.

On the surface they are very vocal about supporting 'inclusiveness' and 'non-discrimination' and 'tolerance'.

Yet they use a rather harsh and subjective code of conduct to control and police the members of their community.

Last I knew they even had a moderation team who doled out punishment without any due process nor any oversight of significance.

It's also quite common to see any comment here (and at certain other discussion forums) that doesn't paint Rust in a glowing light to get modded down, even when the observations made are completely correct, valid and legitimate.

As long as what you believe fits within the scope of what they believe, or corresponds to their narrative, then things are fine.

But beware if you happen to hold a differing opinion!

In fact I'm posting this using a throwaway account because I anticipate that members of the Rust community won't react well to my observations, and will respond with downmods.
This is not a bank and you know it.
Last time I flew domestically in NZ (Wellington to Blenheim, 6 or 7 years ago), there weren't any security checkpoints at all for the domestic terminal. The only checkpoint was at the gate, when the flight staff checked that I had a boarding pass.
Are the license plates the actual numbers verbatim?
I'm also curious on this front. My interest in the C.H.I.P. or one of those interests would be to have a tiny computer for music experiments. The Pocket add-on would make this a very nice little chiptune machine, if it has some sort of audio output that can be worked with. Running existing Linux compatible trackers, or building a small custom thing, would be reasonably easy if it has 16 bit PCM that is reasonably clean. Even one channel would be sufficient for this purpose, though stereo is fun, too.
Yikes! That's likely a good way to get into some trouble. Having an ID but not providing it. ;-) I'm a security researcher so it's sort of in my DNA to cause trouble. If you are going to do this, you need to be fully committed and not have an ID. Also don't lie and go with "I misplaced my ID." To date no one has ever asked if I intentionally misplaced my ID.
What are the advantages of using level set trees, compared to say, DBSCAN? I googled but didn't find a lot except this paper: http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/proceedings/papers/v19/steinwart11...

(and the explanations there are a little over my head)
And x86 started ~20 years before that? Thanks for the info though.
CAC/DoD card, Passport card, NEXUS card, SENTRI card, Global Entry card, HSPD-12 card.

US federal govt issues a plenty of different ID cards.

There's also a bunch of tribal ones that are accepted.
"explain I've misplaced my wallet"

So you commit perjury, correct?
"Is this how it is everywhere?" Yes, at times everybody gets a little bored. 99% perspiration, etc etc. You have a paycheck coming.

"How to get back into it mentally?" Level up somehow. Work on a problem that's a level higher than what you're doing now. That could be

* figuring out how to automate some part of your current work.

* figuring out how to improve hiring in your current shop.

* go on sales calls and take notes about customer unmet needs.

* mentoring and training junior people.

* starting a lunch-n-learn effort or a meetup of like minded people at work or in your work neighborhood.

* teaching a class at a community college.

These are in addition to what other people have suggested.
> The fact that there isn't an authority that can dictate major spelling reforms doesn't help either.

Nor is there any need for it. An authority that could dictate spelling would soon start dictating pronunciation. It's bad enough that the pernicious influence of Estuary English is levelling pronunciation over the whole country but at least people, theoretically at least, have a choice. The only influence such an authority has is to artificially slow the development of the language and to try to shoe horn regional variations into a single formula.

People often complain that written English doesn't correspond with pronunciation. But no one ever says whose pronunciation that the spelling is supposed to reflect.

I'm from the south west of England and my pronunciation of words like house, boat, castle, book, etc. is quite different from that of, say the North East. So how would you like us to spell house? Should it be /'haʊs/ which is probably about what I would say and is also regarded as RP. Or should it be /'hu:s/ which is the best I can do for the pronunciation that at least used to be common in the North East and in parts of Scotland.

Would the spelling authority also specify which syllables to stress? Then how will it deal with American English which stresses the final syllable in cases where most Brits would stress the penult.
It's gotta be a gold mine for stalkers, that's for sure. I don't necessarily want Joe Public to be able to do a SQL query and get back my day-to-day comings and goings with intersections and timestamps and everything.

I'm normally in favor of public data being public, but in this specific case I think the potential for abuse (and the ease and extremity of that abuse) might outweigh the benefits of being this free and open about this particular data set.
and you can always add networking whenever you need it
Not anymore as this regulation demonstrates.
Not to be confused with wassup[1], the late 90s/early 2000s Budweiser marketing campaign.

1 - http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W16qzZ7J5YQ
> iOS usually runs apps from previous iOS versions.

iOS routinely breaks many apps with each upgrade.

> But usually apps disappear because their developers decide that they don't want to pay $100/year anymore.

Maybe small apps. Most big apps that disappear do so because their developers cannot justify porting them. This is true for almost all the games that existed on early iOS by major publishers.
My take on bulk collection of data is that it should be used on the people that could abuse it first, like politicians, CEOs of health insurance companies, etc.
Lucee has a very active community and there isn't the division and disagreement I've seen in other projects.

https://github.com/lucee/Lucee
I think the person you're replying to meant to repeat dumbest, from context.
Cal Newport, a CS prof at Georgetown, has a blog with a related post http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/12/26/if-youre-nervous-about... I've been absorbing his writing all week.

He's focused on how people become passionate about their careers via deep focus. His blog is full of very helpful insights, research, how to tips, and case studies around passion and work.
@CyberDildonics, yes. The license plates column is not anonymized.
Have you tried Banana Pi? Their boards are cheaper than RPi and often have a differently balanced set of peripherals, e.g. a SATA port.
It's showing my home address when entering my license plate...ugh. smh.
> it ceased to be about just speech and opinion, and instead became something quite vindictive and nasty.

A few points to ponder (from a non-American):

1. It was a bad precedent. How would you feel about pro-lifers hounding a CEO out because of a donation?

2. His opinion is/was not extreme or unusual. About half of the American population share his views.

3. Is it reasonable to expect the full-range personal of views (and voting patterns) of a CEO to be agreeable to every employee?

My personal take is that the episode showed that no one has spine at Mozilla. Around the same time, people were raising concerns about Condoleezza Rice being on Dropbox's board; Dropbox's response was "we value her, she's not going anywhere" - and that was the end of it.

I shouldn't have to say this, since what I said should stand on it's own merit: but I disagree with Eich's politics. However I don't think that it had any bearing of his capability and execution as a CEO. If my boss is professional & courteous when dealing with me, I couldn't care less if he were a KKK Grand Dragon.
Wie already know the flaws of this design, that's why there are newer safer designs like the epr are build or planned in the west.
You can drive around in a 30 year old car without problem, but most people would prefer the safety standards oft today.
And chinas track record in other parts of the energy business show that shooting that one CEO isn't that big of a help.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coal_mining_accident...
Dood Jump in Python
I'm not very involved in the community, and I have little experience with the language, but my impression with the rust community so far has been very positive. It's one of the few places I've been where unproductive conversation is moderated gently but firmly. The only squashing of opinions I've seen has generally been for pretty trolling or very rude (from beyond normal bluntness) behavior. Maybe I've not seen the same things as you but my experience has been overwhelmingly positive.
Datomic sounds really awsome, I'm wondering which other dbms' can it be related to? (assuming there is nothing new under the sun :) )
In the author of Semantic UI, if you're interested in working on the project you can always email me personally and start a dialog jack@semantic-ui.com
> Well, actually, there are.

No, there aren't. Just because the Japanese have an old barbaric and dying tradition of ritual suicide, doesn't mean it's proper in this day an age.

> In Japan, if you have disgrace yourself and bring shame upon your family, you have to kill yourself.

No you don't. Those "old traditions" are dying out and no longer seen as necessary by the younger generations.
Conway's law
The article is just sensationalism. All it really says is that the TSA may ask for a different form of ID if your state isn't adhering to standards that they have no constitutional requirement to meet. But instead of being honest about that, it dishonestly leads you to believe that you will need to use a Passport as the alternative way of identifying yourself.
That is not perjury.
The CHIP (which really exists) can be ordered for $8 at the moment: http://getchip.com/

I understand the company and its product are not as well known as Raspberry Pi. But calling it vaporware while they actually have shipped what they promised and seem to continue doing that is unfair. Sure, they have less of a history and track record but so far there is absolutely no reason for any doubt.

Even the mere fact that Rasberry Pi (which he obviously trusts) can make a 'pc' for $5 makes it feasible for another company to make something for $9...
Depends on the OS, of course. If you were lucky enough to use Windows NT, you had protected memory and preëmptive multitasking!.. but it was a bit slow.
> It's been found that resource concatenation is still more efficient http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/js-packaging-http2....

for a page with 2.4MB of JS spread over 296 files.

And, notably, the article doesn't advocate for serving individual files in the first place, but instead says that some level of grouping is likely advantageous, but http2 gives new opportunities which will need to be explored, like grouping by level of churn in libraries or by units of functionality

> And 'building for http2' seems to be advocating hashes in filenames without neccesarily walking the dependencies

I believe you misread. They use a shallow tree in their scout js file; all of the resources a page will need are declared there and nothing is loaded in succession.

> Manifest files are a bad idea, except perhaps for instructing webservers to tell browsers to preemptively download files. AFAIK there isn't a standard for this yet so a manifest doesn't solve the problem

I'm not sure what this means. The manifest is generated by the build process. There is no standard for dependency manifests, sure, but there's no reason you can't whip a reasonable one up that a simple server module could understand if you wanted to add push support. Eventually the cow paths will be paved and we'll come up with a more standardized approach (or approaches) to that kind of manifest.
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I find the notorious win9x stability issues were to a large extent because they seemed particularly sensitive to bad hardware - run win98 se on solid, good quality hardware and it was actually quite stable.

As long as you didn't try multitasking too much at least...
Awesome, thanks for sharing this.
openFrameworks is extremely supportive, built from the ground up using volunteers, receives regular contributions by artists giving code back, and is in constant need of quality control (so many platforms to support natively...)

https://github.com/openframeworks/openFrameworks
I suppose it depends on how you interpret "substantial". I think flexbox, where just the layout algorithm from the W3C WD runs to about six printed pages, qualifies -- it might be quite systematic, but it's still a significant chunk of work anyone implementing a new browser engine today would have to do that someone implementing a browser engine a few years ago would not. As you point out, it's also far from the only such change.
Bad drivers in particular would cause a bunch of bluescreens.
In general I think that projects that use gerrit are the easiest to get involved with.
Nope. If you don't have your wallet, you don't have your wallet. Further, you only commit perjury (in the US) if you are under oath. Also, no law has been broken which is being investigated. Not having ID is not a crime. Being vague about why you don't have ID is not a crime.
What sorts of subjective control and policing have you seen in the Rust community, exactly? It's certainly stricter about enforcing things that HN or Reddit would let slide, but I don't see that as a bad thing, necessarily.

For that matter, what sorts of valid criticism do you see get downvoted? In my experience the Rust community is relatively honest about the language and ecosystem's shortcomings.
I love this answer. "Situational Leadership" [1] is a philosophy that has served me well as a manager and as someone that has been managed by an inexperienced manager.

It benefits from a strict definition of the mental state individuals go through while learning. Some of us are better at accepting the boredom that is a part of this cycle than others.

The good news is that you're demonstrating the characteristics of someone less at ease with boredom, so utilizing a methodology stands the chance of offering large personal gains.

This answer lists examples of the vocational application of situational leadership, focussed on stage one which is roughly: encouraging a high degree of excitement by challenging the individual to learn new skills in an interesting area.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situational_leadership_theor...
+1 for Postgres. It's one of the most awesome OSS project: great development team, community, large codebase (which is well organized and very modular), has a very good code and end-user documentation, always working with a significant number of important computer science problems and concepts (ranging from easy to very complex ones).

[Disclosure: I'm not a Postgres contributor myself. In the past, I had been working on Postgres core and related projects at EnterpriseDB (a Postgres company) for 5+ years].
There's that promotion of freedom against discrimination due to the country you live in. Thanks, Mozilla!
Mozilla:
Firefox accounts content server is for example very awesome with an amazing team and a lot of bus for beginners

https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-content-server
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Having the server is easy. Getting a peering feed is not, as that involves them sending you all the news.
> The lack of serious competition in the browser market is quite unsettling.

Is there any major corner of software with competition as healthy as the browser market?
2010 was last version of VS that run on XP.
Metadata Surveillance Didn’t Stop the Paris Attacks
> Are you a shill for Udemy?

Insinuating shillage or astroturfing isn't allowed on HN without evidence, so please don't do it here. An opposing view does not count as evidence.

I've posted many comments to make it clear to the community what the HN norm is: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=....
TeX Live https://www.tug.org/texlive/ people are awesome, the output is very widely used, and here for the long haul.
Show HN: RTree demo
In the ASS baby
More important to me--Which companies have kind, supportive, talented teams?
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. They should either focus on their core mission, or change it (to being relevant). Lack of focus/compromizing core values is a shortcut to failure.

Saying "it's 1hard to be a relevant web browser if you can't X" is an excuse that can be used to undo each and every point on Mozilla's Manifesto[1]

1. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/
s/he's not under oath when s/he says it, so it's not perjury.

Lying to a federal official is some other criminal offence and is a pretty bad idea.