skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
California Attack Has U.S. Rethinking Strategy on Homegrown Terror
256-byte demos come to mind:

http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?type%5B%5D=256b

A little effect in 256 bytes of binary code. Some of them are amazing:

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=66380
> By "out of their depth" do we mean "dumber than six pounds of gravel"?

There's no excuse for the Japanese militarists' infliction of millions of deaths and untold suffering, but please keep in mind that they were doing the best they knew how at the time with the hand they were dealt (genetics, education, training, experience, social pressures, etc.), in a situation with enormous risks for their nation, which they believed to be on their shoulders. I'm curious what if anything you know of such pressures.
I keep on wondering why HN commenters seem to believe that there's exactly one way to build a car interior. Tesla has a modernist design language, which is very different from BMW and other luxury car makers. Just because you think it looks cheap doesn't mean that enough people agree with you that Tesla is doomed.
You know about Nanogenmo ? https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015

Also, if you could add a license!
I Was Internet-Famous
The problem with monoculture (e.g. the Irish potato famine [1]) is that the bug that takes down one machine takes down them all.

[1] http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/agriculture...
Why is that? What advantage would that provide? It seems like they would have been a lot better off if the declaration had arrived before, but maybe I'm missing something.
"first blood" was a semi-serious film about the trauma one suffers in combat, even when you are the one doing the killing, and about the alienation that Vietnam vets felt when returning to a population who blamed them for the war and generally treated them like used-up human garbage.

I mean, Stallone really hammed his way through in a way that wasn't really appropriate, if you ask me, for the tone that I got from David Morrel's book, but he did his best. The sequels were pure '80s action movie, and can be enjoyed (or not) on that basis... but what I'm saying is that 'first blood' stands on it's own as a (perhaps clumsy) piece of protest art; It really makes the "go usa" aspect of the third installment seem really out of place, and from an artistic perspective, the "Rambo" would be taken rather more seriously if it ended at 'first blood'

I still haven't seen the fourth installment.
Let Math Save Our Democracy
It's not that strange if you think of things like email attachments... or do you also consider that to be "a strange medium for binaries"?
Kracht's title Imperium has an ironic double meaning: the absolute power of the coconut in Engelhardt's philosophy, and the imperialism of Germany.

The book's subject matter makes it fit even better when you consider Imperium is also the title of Francis Parker Yockey's opus.
I don't really see how someone who is so willingly and naively a slave to their culture could ever be trusted to make good, objective decisions.

Imagine for a moment that you've decided to go a year without speaking. What would your friends and family think of you? Are you too afraid of what they think to do it? If so, then how could you ever know if you have what it takes to be a good person? How do you know if your culture is depriving you of the freedom to make a hard-but-correct decision? How can someone call themselves a leader when their too busy following to even see forks in the road?

Maybe I'm biased since I've had to pack an ascetic lifestyle into a duffel bag and go to war as a freshly-minted adult, but I'm thoroughly disappointed that someone would think going without completely unnecessary luxuries like coffee and alcohol is noteworthy in any way. People go without far more than that for far longer. What a small world some people live in.
The author's 'platform' concerns are in fact infrastructure automation concerns generic to any service-oriented architecture and not specific to containers.

My take as an early LXC adopter (way pre docker) and from-concept builder of two production clusters using custom automation:

1. Service state. The author essentially requests master-slave promotion. Corosync/pacemaker is an excellent place to look for well tested solutions here. The normal approach used there is superior to the author's, ie. a floating IP used by all clients is switched to an already live replacement master, which is first jabbed in to action, and which shares the same backing storage as the nodes which has failed. (A great solution for shared backing storage on standard hardware is DRBD)

2. MySQL update. Change management with SOA has to be far more rigid due to complex interdependencies. Typically you version your entire service, exhaustively test it against peer services, and only then deploy the updated service. This implies a workflow process more formalized than the series of manual operations the author hand-waves about. That said, in a typical database scenario it is often possible to upgrade across minor versions simply by updating the binary, since it will read the old on-disk database store fine.

3. Heartbleed. With an appropriately automated approach to service builds, this should be trivial. Mask the affected packages or versions, rebuild all services, test and deploy. This really goes back again to overall workflow formalization and automation. (Solid infrastructure would have cryptographic signoff on stuff before it runs, eg. production demands a signature from test infrastructure that all tests have passed before executing a new service)

4. Service dependencies. This is far more complex than people assume. My advice is to use corosync/pacemaker, a well tested approach. (There are others)

5. Hadoop. Same as any other service.

There are many other problems with SOA-type infrastructure automation; some ideas I wrote up ages ago can be seen at http://stani.sh/walter/pfcts/ as well as the sketch/documentation of the solution I built.
Tech TopX: Performing Maintenance on a Cluster
That's definitely a valid objection and I have absolutely no idea what could be done about that. But as it is the bug that takes down one machine today will take down other machines tomorrow and yet other ones five years from now.

So for entirely new bugs your objection stands, they could (and likely would) be disastrous. Even today a 'zero day' exploit for a major platform can be dealt with though, I don't see why we would not be able to deal with such exploits in a scenario where there is only one implementation of something, it's not as if right now we use the other implementations to keep things running, it's mostly a matter of impact all at once rather than spread out over time and infinitely repeating.
On v8 right? This one is probably the best broad overview:

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/speed/v8/

To get into the gory details google Vyacheslav Egorov - he's a v8 engineer with a number of talks on YouTube, presentation slides, and blog posts on v8 internals. He also maintains a tool called IRhydra, that lets you examine functions after they've been compiled into v8's internal representation.
Capability Based Security
The US Supreme Court analyzed the meaning of the text in District of Columbia v. Heller:

> The Second Amendment is naturally divided into two parts: its prefatory clause and its operative clause. The former does not limit the latter grammatically, but rather announces a purpose. The Amendment could be rephrased, “Because a well regulated Militia is necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.”

> Although this structure of the Second Amendment is unique in our Constitution, other legal documents of the founding era, particularly individual-rights provisions of state constitutions, commonly included a prefatory statement of purpose. [...] [A]part from [its] clarifying function, a prefatory clause does not limit or expand the scope of the operative clause.

The court also examined the meaning of the word "militia". The word had a different meaning at the time than it does today. The militia did not refer to a specific military force, like the National Guard today. Rather, it referred to a section of the populace:

> As we will describe below, the “militia” in colonial America consisted of a subset of “the people”—those who were male, able bodied, and within a certain age range. Reading the Second Amendment as protecting only the right to “keep and bear Arms” in an organized militia therefore fits poorly with the operative clause’s description of the holder of that right as “the people.”

> We start therefore with a strong presumption that the Second Amendment right is exercised individually and belongs to all Americans.
Well I have an extra board lying around but now I was planning to use it as a console emulator.... :/
Are you sure? I just posted a tweet in Cuneiform, which is outside the BMP. So their view of "normal people" seems to encompass ancient Sumerians, at least.
i think you are confusing the front grille with the entire look. they do not look more alike than other random cars.

modern 911s only vaguely hint at the originals. the size difference alone is enormous. http://a3.files.airows.com/image/upload/c_fit,cs_srgb,dpr_1....
I really like this, but I'm not sure that the joke is obvious enough. Also, Base64Ki for more precision.
The design language is fine. The squeaks, larger gaps and poor stitching aren't.

Not saying Tesla can't fix these things, but they are real issues.
Is ROT32768 Unicode's answer to ROT13?
What the fuck? You don't even make an argument with this comment. You just bashed the rich.
Auto logger – what a machine [video]
> Also you can buy a Tesla today, not years down the line.

You can only buy a Tesla in a handful of countries. I can buy a Porsche in most of them through Porsche itself and through their dealership network. The distribution channel of the existing car manufacturers is very hard and costly to recreate.

> there's nothing to back it up

Porsche has a proven track record.
> I also wonder how well even armed citizens can defend themselves against a tyrannical government in this era of militarized police, modern weapons, and SWAT teams.

Citizens have proven very capable of defending themselves in Iraq, Ukraine, Syria.

It's true that a government willing to firebomb entire cities and murder literally everyone could overcome that resistance. However, in the modern era a government that did that would quickly see the entire world turning against them.

It's also worth keeping in mind that even large, powerful, and well-armed militaries are only a fraction of the populace. In the US, something like 1/100 people are in the military. So if the US military turned against the population, and the population resisted, they'd have to fight a force that's potentially 100 times their number. Unless they were willing to firebomb their own cities and murder innocent civilians (as opposed to guerrilla fighters), they'd quickly be overcome.
If I can spend six hours in a plane and get to the other side of the country, or I can spend 50-ish hours driving, I know which option I'm going to choose.
Of course there is a better way... but the issue is: How are you going to make others use your way? How are you going to fund replacing the DECADES of existing tech?

The XKCD puts it perfectly... you create a better way - and God knows, there has to be many better ways than say JavaScript or PHP - how are you going to MAKE people switch?

Your better way - assuming it is perfect - is still crowded out and unable to gain any traction.

I mean... ANYTHING that gets made gets a "format war". What makes you think Google, IBM, Microsoft, Apple, etc would all agree on something long enough to make that happen? We can't even get a new DVD format without years of fighting...

What's perfect for Google (which revolves around Search) won't necessarily work for Microsoft (Which revolves around Server and Office)... Or Apple (Which revolves around... Magic?)... Or...

What language should they all agree on? What "bullet proof" product will meet all their needs? What style of programming does everything everyone needs?

You can't create that "perfect" solution, because people and companies that have such a massively different wants, needs and goals...

That's why things such as TDD, Modular code, Code reviews, etc all matter so much more than the specific platform you are on...
LTR and RTL marks (all of them), which are used when the default Unicode bidi algorithm fails to display two intertwined scripts correctly. They are especially useful when writing short technical tweets.

I bet normal people would use them too if they knew about them and were given a chance, but normal people can't because twitter doesn't allow codepoints that aren't used by normal people.
It's not about the design language. BMW, Mercedes and Range Rover for example have completely different interiors.

The plastics and leather are simply low quality compared to what you see in high end cars. And there is a lack of refinement in the finishes and the spacing of the various components.
Supposing there was, why wouldn't they have done that?
The US Supreme Court analyzed the meaning of the 2nd Amendment in District of Columbia v. Heller:

> [We] explained that “the Militia comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense.” That definition comports with founding-era sources. [...]

> Finally, the adjective “well-regulated” implies nothing more than the imposition of proper discipline and training. [...]

> There are many reasons why the militia was thought to be “necessary to the security of a free state. [...] When the able-bodied men of a nation are trained in arms and organized, they are better able to resist tyranny.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-290.ZO.html
Sequencing is typically done in "whole-genome shotgun" fashion; or imagine, if you shred a 100pg document (lyse and extract DNA, Illumina sequencing) into 100 lettered fragments, and have gathered all of the fragments of 1000 copies of this shredded document, some of them are regular words in forward orientation and some of them have every letter reversed (reverse strand since DNA is complementary double-stranded);

The fragments given the nature of the shredder are all shredded slightly at different places and they are all mixed up - so you have to piece together like a jigsaw puzzle into a single copy (genome assembly).

However suppose there are lots of palindromic repeats in the document like the phrase "stressed" repeated 100 times such that they exceed your individual 100 lettered fragment, or is it the palindrome dopleganger "desserts" repeated 100 times? Or a mix of "stressed desserts" repeated in different ways 100 times? And also what of the phrases before and after "stressed/desserts," how do you place them since you are not sure about the order/orientation of this repeat?

This is the challenge of genome assembly. Now having more copies of the shredded document helps but some repeats are very nasty and aligning them in the assembly is not statistically tractable. And also they don't necessarily encode for relevant genes so they are often filtered out. Furthermore, they are arguably the regions of the DNA that is the most prone to change, since you can think of them as the "filler text" of the document; if an important part of the document is unintelligible, then this document wouldn't survive nature's QC process of sexual selection. However, unintelligible parts of the document don't encode important genes, so they evolve very quickly because they have a higher tolerance of typo's and mutations.

So in an population pool that people use to assemble and come up with an consensus genome (keep in mind the population pool will have different gene variation), so it may turn out at a particular base pair position in the document, there is so much variation that the genome assembler can't conclusively come up with an consensus sequence or a reasonable distribution of base pair (A, T, C, G).
I know, after reading the first 20 pages I decided I wanted to buy a real copy for my father as a Christmas gift.
Technobabble and something that looks good on camera.
It could be more than the Porsche market though.

It is part of the Volkswagen group which means the combination of Porsche, VW, Audi could put some market weight behind the charging implementation.
If I type "Tesla" into Google, both questions are answered - "by Tesla. 4 miles away, in Watertown, Massachusetts."

By contrast, if I type "Porsche" into Google, I get a huge list of resellers and dealers. I have no idea which ones are honest, dishonest, which ones do repair, which ones only sell used, which ones I'm going to have to haggle at...
NNTP is a general-purpose, globally meshed & distributed, channelized, eventually-consistent pub/sub bus. With optional ordering, GC, and replay semantics, and robust and stable implementations of both client and server protocol available in a variety of language bindings.

So the only real surprise is that it isn't everything's preferred loose-coupling substrate, but we do love reinventing the wheel.
It was not the NRA that pushed for this interpretation. If you are interested in the Second Amendment, I recommend reading this US Supreme Court Case opinion in full: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-290.ZO.html

It explains the meaning of the words and phrases, and their intention, and provides ample justification in the way of founding-era sources.

> There are many reasons why the militia was thought to be “necessary to the security of a free state.” [...] When the able-bodied men of a nation are trained in arms and organized, they are better able to resist tyranny. [...]

> That of the nine state constitutional protections for the right to bear arms enacted immediately after 1789 at least seven unequivocally protected an individual citizen’s right to self-defense is strong evidence that that is how the founding generation conceived of the right.
Data integrity is not inherent to optical media, but it apparently is with DNA. While special archival grade writable DVDs and BluRays exist, people are cheap, and for the most part will not pay $2+ per disc.

> a product which can archive your data a reasonable cost for centuries, and much more conveniently than trying to store/recall from DNA.

If you're going to store media that long, you will also need the equipment to read data off it in n years/decades/centuries. DNA has been around for a very long time compared to optical media. The need to read DNA will last much longer than optical media. In that time, optical drives are likely to become obsolete and scarce (see the last 5 years), and DNA readers might be extremely cheap by comparison.
> programs are DAGs, and instructions are only run when their inputs are ready, rather than when a program counter reaches them.

At a low level, that's exactly what modern CPUs do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-order_execution
For all we know, the copyright holders gave the people at sciencemadness.org permission to distribute this PDF freely.
The Bay Area too, if you know where to look
http://imgur.com/4kBUHie

Next stop Monte Vista!
Martin Shkreli, the Bad Boy of Pharmaceuticals, Hits Back
Awesome-ocaml: Everything you'll ever need on the road to mastering OCaml
Does creative genius need a bitter rival?
> it's that there is now more than one car for sale.

What? The target year for this planned Porsche car is 2019.
I know this late, but FYI: it seems that certificates issued by Lets Encrypt are not as widely accepted as other commercial providers.

For example, my trial and error I found that the webhook api for both Mandrill and SendGrid did not recognise the Let's Enrypt certificate (although Google Chrome did recognise it). When I switched to a certificate issued by Name Cheap both Mandrill and SendGrid worked.
Stripping out LTR and RTL override might be reasonable because they're frequently abused to screw up website layouts. But stripping all of the marks is just discrimination against people who need to write bi-directional text.
I wrote about this for the Observer a while back: http://observer.com/2015/06/you-too-can-build-a-business-on-...

1) They can encourage innovation in house by letting their own engineers share in licensing fees
2) They give a lot of stuff away
3) They go out of their way to get people to use their inventions in ways that are good for everyone concerned.

I'm a little rusty on the topic since this was a few months ago, but they made a pretty good argument that their measured approach is in the public interest.
TL/DR I love Philosophy and Theology and the Modern Humanist has taken over a word and changed it to the point that the study of Humanism will be slanted by this modern view. No one should re-define a word so drastically.

> For him, “humanism” was a word parallel to “theism”. It just altered the object worshiped, substituting humanity for God. He called it the “religion of humanity” and devised ritual forms for it that were close to traditional Christian ones.

Historical Humanism has been replaced by a modern definition that has no connection to the past. I went on a 5 day discussion on Reddit with the president of the American Humanism Association about this one thing.

Historically all the Reformation was founded by Humanist Philosophy. The founders of Humanism actually were translator of the Bible, but now for some strange reason Atheist/Agnostics want the term to reassemble them and it really frustrated me.

Humanist were Theologians and Philosophers and now Humanism is try to mean Atheist/Agnostic and that is not accurate to the Humanism movement.

To me it is dangerous to take over a term that has centuries of history and then simplify it to mean Humans over God.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_patent

A submarine patent is a patent whose issuance and publication are intentionally delayed by the applicant for a long time, such as several years.[1][2][3] This strategy requires a patent system where, first, patent applications are not published, and, second, patent term is measured from grant date, not from priority/filing date. In the United States, patent applications filed before November 2000 were not published and remained secret until they were granted. Analogous to a submarine, therefore, submarine patents could stay "under water" for long periods until they "emerged" and surprised the relevant market.
Kramer and Newman?
Awesome-awesomeness: A curated list of awesome awesomeness
You misunderstand the meaning of "militia". The term militia as used in the constitution essentially means the entire populace, all people capable of fighting. The US Supreme Court in Columbia v. Heller examines the meaning of the words and phrases in the Second Amendment: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-290.ZO.html

An armed populace was viewed as crucial during the founding of the US because when able-bodied men of a nation are trained in arms and organized, they are better able to resist tyranny. The modern era demonstrates that this is still relevant: see Iraq, Ukraine, Syria, etc. There's a great documentary on Netflix that shows, from footage on the ground, what transpired while the Ukraine crisis unfolded. Ukraine's local self-defense forces gave the protesters a foothold that eventually took down the unjust government (at least, that's the narrative - I'm only remarking on their effectiveness as a fighting force, and their relevance to political change).
"Apple, the first major computer company to make Open Source development a key part of its software strategy"

Wait what? Am I missing something here
It also skips over the part where they failed to kick the British out of Canada.
> I would not know where to buy one or where to have it serviced.

You are on a technology news site, and you are seriously arguing against buying a Tesla because you don't know where their nearest store are, despite this being trivially easy to look up on the internet?

Here. You buy them here: https://www.teslamotors.com/
You're not alone in your confusion.