skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand what this is and where the "Portable Offline Open Street Map" part is described.

There are already tons of applications for offline OSM usage. There are even (sadly) many different vector formats and files available for download. It would be nice to focus improvement of those instead of developing yet another competing standard. I want to be able to use multiple apps with the same data, not having to provide each app with its own format (looking at you, OSMAnd, Oruxmaps, maps.me...).
I browsed through the Science and Technology section for a while. I really like the content, but the mouse-over effect seems a bit overdone to me. Still really interesting though.
I'd say "users that never use Github, for anything"
isn't a very useful measure.

It is important because Github has become the yardstick by which everything else is measured. People expect git to work roughly like Github. The whole pull request workflow was popularised by Github. Linux and git do not use pull requests. The deprecation of the git:// uri scheme is also Github. The expectation of an integrated bug tracker, comment threads, and wiki is also Github.
It's entirely possible to learn improper bash when cobbling stuff together over the years. I've certainly done a few things that I've since found much better alternatives for.
Discussion of original content: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10712354
I'd read a very similar article from back in 2013 that spoke about the same concept without really calling it "BFF". The article in question actually talks about just using nodejs, but what we implemented from that at my company was really what "BFF" is, and I really think that every microservice architecture needs the backed for front end layer.
Here's the link: https://www.nczonline.net/blog/2013/10/07/node-js-and-the-ne...
Oh come on! It is clear that English is not his first language. Give him a break.
This is a WIP (hence why there are drafts and todos). This is being done by the folks at http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide which is definitely a valuable resource if you're trying to learn Bash and its idiosyncrasies.

Another good resource is http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/.
If you like this kind of stuff, http://medievalbooks.nl/ is a great blog about old books. The current first post is kind of dry, but some recent highlights include:

http://medievalbooks.nl/2015/04/17/texting-in-medieval-times...

http://medievalbooks.nl/2015/07/10/chain-chest-curse-combati...

"Who so me found or who so me took; I am Jon Foss's book"
That's blatantly not true, people on the internet have become massive cheapskates due to the easy availability of everything. Since Napster, piracy has flourished and continues to do so, and most often the most-pirated products correspond strongly to what's most popular in the market.
Fossil is neat and the idea of a tickets tracker and wiki within the repo is very productive.

However I got spoiled by the power of Git. So what I do now is to keep a TiddlyWiki[1] on the Git repo, so I have the best of both worlds.

[1] http://tiddlywiki.com/
Have you heard of mutual impoverishment?
Aren't those other uses locking up the carbon though?
I imagine that the production company would keep it for their next project, or sell it to recover some money. Are you implying that this stuff is typically gifted to the employees instead?
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The point is that the lookup table contains results for _all_ inputs to the function that have a defined result (that is, functions that do not trigger overflow and thus undefined behaviour). In that sense, it has the same semantics as the original function although most people would not suspect that.
> Though technically, you can conclude that at least 75% of Facebook's global user base is not suffering from depression

Na, they have other issues ranging from exhibitionism to narcissistic tendencies
When you consider that livestock produce methane and are fed high quality grain and beans among other vegetables the findings are very questionable.

There is an overwhelming consensus from multiple academic studies showing the opposite in terms of environmental impact. Considering that the amount of grain used to feed relatively few cattle could be feeding many more humans it is amazing.

It is true that there are very sustainable and very unsustainable agricultural practices in the growing of food... but that is a totally different thing from the findings of this study.

Must be a response to the UN + WHO noises recently.
Looking at the github page https://github.com/lhunath/bash.academy Its been there for 2 years. and last commit was 3 months back.
Well, having used and tried to fix OwnCloud, it IS spaghetti monster from hell that randomly calls out to bash/perl/etc. scripts and happily corrupts non-UTF8 filenames at times (e.g. if you're on a NAS that doesn't have locales setup the same way as the developres) and does other horrible things with data.
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This is much needed. We essentially have all this software we deal with daily and many people don't know basic things about it, not just bash or zsh... and that is funny, people install zsh because it's the thing to do, but you see that they don't know why.
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You are quite correct. It is always a bad sign if you have tasks that are captured but never actioned ... (Almost as bad as never capturing the problems in the first place)

However, it is just as easy to have unloved, unwatched tasks festering in JIRA or Trac as it is to have TODOs festering in the source code. (I've seen both). The form in which the problem manifests itself isn't terribly important here ... or at least, its' less important than the solution.

What is needed is a robust and active process to triage new issues; to action items that really are a problem, and to record the decision to discard problems which are not worth resolving. If you have this process in place and working, then you don't need to care as much about where the tasks are stored: SQL database or text file or Excel spreadsheet ... all can be made to work.

Now, personally, I would argue that having a structured, human-readable and editable serialisation scheme, under version control and configuration management, usable for tasks, requirements and other items of engineering documentation will (does) make it easier to build the level of comprehensive scripting and automation that (I believe) is required for a truly disciplined engineering process.
Netflix needs to focus on what their real value is i.e content. Content creation and delivery is lagging in innovation and I believe Netflix has the opportunity to advance that category.
But see how the Neo900 guys have worked this out. They isolate the baseband chip, and handle it as a threat, which is a very good model I think.
http://www.libreboot.org/docs/hcl/c201.html

Well, also the wifi requires a blob, but one can use small usb adapters sanctioned by FSF, and blobfree.
Right. You can also "purge" private branches:

http://fossil-scm.org/xfer/doc/trunk/www/private.wiki

It's interesting how both Fossil and Mercurial (and others?) first took strong stances against "changing history" and then softened those stances over time.
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I cannot see where the "of the world" bit comes into it, but essentially I think it's offline editing.
The app was originally built when iOS 7 was going to be released, 2 years ago. I wanted to let designers test their icons in the app because so much changed between iSO 6 and 7, such as the design language, radius of the rounded corners, the dock and the layout of the home screen. The app was rejected several times and I only managed to get it to be approved a few days ago. There's a longer version of the story at: http://hboon.com/iconica-app-for-ios-test-compare-ios-logos/.

How it works:

1. Save the app icon variations to Dropbox on OS X.
2. Launch Iconica+, link to Dropbox and choose the icons to test
3. App displays the icons in a simulated home screen. Swipe to see the icons against different types of wallpapers (colors, contrasts).

No manual rounding of icons, or manual positioning icons against different backgrounds. It's fast and simple, encouraging more variations to be tested.
Yeah ... I'm sure all of this is available from Eclipse. But, like I said, its' an experiment for my own enjoyment and education. In a commercial environment, the best solution (by far) would be to use an off-the-shelf solution.
You can make a regular book-of-maps for the kindle easily enough. I did it here http://www.kindle-maps.com/
"Oil is not a crop that will rot in the field if left unpicked."

Kind of. You can almost draw contour lines of "your economy must be this healthy at this time to pull this much oil out of the ground at this contour line five years later". That can turn into an optimism vs pessimism thing very quickly. Also note that we're not talking about attitudes toward the american economy in that most of our resources have been drained and burned... After you burn the easy oil you go after the less stable suppliers. Will the Saudi Royal Family still be in power in a decade, for example? Is Iraq a stable oil supplier and if so how much longer? And so on.
That won't work because the SHA1 hashes won't match up.

If you accidentally check-in proprietary or sensitive content that you didn't mean to publish, you can shun that content. Shunning leaves a hole in your history. There is no way to replace that hole with different content.
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People don't think software has economies of scale. The amount of articles I've seen about the "mythical man month" and such all talk about how hard software is to scale.

What people do think is that the marginal cost of reproducing software is basically zero, regardless of size. This means that choosing between two products, if product 1 has n amount of features, and product 2 has those same exact n features plus an additional feature, all consumers will rationally choose product 2 (lots of assumptions, i know).

This is why companies try to get bigger because if they can offer more features, than all the consumers will choose them and they get all the sales. One could argue that this is the reason why the "power law" effect thats been talked about on HN recently happens.
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I used to work with John and founded a company with him.

Whatever he believed he would have convinced you he was right :-)
Yes, I'm serious. As someone who thinks nothing of near-misses involving drivers dozens/hundreds of times daily with a head-on speed differential of >100 MPH missing by _feet_ , I understand the concern for impact yet still scratch my head over the angst indulged over a single miss by _miles_.
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Louis Andriessen is also synesthetic (?sp).
If you enforce n<=12 (to prevent undefined behavior) in the original "naive" algorithm, then it too is constant time, i.e., O(12).
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Let me explain which is the innovation of it:

There are offline OpenStreetMap clients, but there aren't ways to update said map offilne, or to create "mini-OSM" that later can sync with the main one.

For instance, if you're doing a survey in Amazon with a local community, you would need to make a survey, go back somewhere with internet, sync the data with OSM, download the new file and go back to the local community.

The innovation those guys are making is to create a mini-OSM, so the village could have its own mini-OSM, and later that mini-OSM could be synced to the main one.

They are not the only ones trying to do that, an NGO called Digital Democracy is also trying (https://digital-democracy.org)
"Mistakes" was indeed a poor choice of words, but the principle is the same: fossil does not allow the public record (mistake or otherwise) to change, with the one exception of the "nuclear option" (shunning, which forcibly removes content from the repo).

git allows the public record to be flexible forever. "History is written by the victors." Fossil believes that everything in the repo is in the public record and that the public record must never change. "History is recorded as it happened."
To me, BASH is very offensive
It isn't really a unified API for all front ends, but a separate API for each front end. And sometimes that really makes sense.
The article talks about high water content vegetables, not high quality grain and beans. It does not seem so unlikely that foods that almost don't provide calories are more harmful when compared on a calorie basis.

(Of course on the other hand no one eats 25 pounds of lettuce and broccoli a day)
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I hope you're right. I could see that happening in warmer climates. But what about when landmarks and points of reference are covered in snow? GPS is not accurate enough to be used as a sole reference, you need a visual/LIDAR reference to back it up.

The system will have to work in 100% of circumstances before laws will be changed to allow for driverless cars. I could see that happening in 20 years, but I really doubt it'll be on the streets in 5 years like Elon Musk and others have suggested.
As opposed to improper bash? Get off your high horse.

There is very much a bad way of doing bash. When I first started doing bash scripts, most of them looked like this:

cat file | grep string

cat file | wc

cat file | while read line

Multiple problems there. Then there was my initial attempts at finding files in a directory:

for i in `ls *`

This is when I learned about globbing.

There is enough variance in how things can be done in Bash with varying degrees of effectiveness that Google even has a Shell Style Guide:
https://google.github.io/styleguide/shell.xml
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That's as maybe, but Tim Peake also claimed a another first - first Ginger in space.

I should point out he has claimed this himself.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/gingern...
Very nicely done, and it looks like a totally manual process still? I was just working on processing some old beekeeping book illustrations the other day, using scans from the Internet Archive. Based on Mike Bostock's article /Why Use Make/ [1] where he explains the usefulness of capturing your process in a makefile for reproducibility, I made a makefile that downloads the source imagery, crops, adjusts levels, sharpens, and outputs PNGs of just the illustrations [2].

After doing all this manually, I found a writeup by Chris Adams where he talks about a process for using computer vision to automatically extract figures from pages of text [3]. So that's my current side-project.

Finally, after all of this, I was searching the Flickr Commons for imagery and noticed that the Internet Archive already has gobs of book illustrations extracted and posted to Flickr [4]! There's so many it must be an automated process, but I haven't found any details. They don't seem to be uploaded with the best quality possible, and the captions aren't included, so I think I'll continue on my quest (which is currently focused on generating high-quality public domain beekeeping-related imagery).

[1]: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/make/

[2]: https://github.com/beardicus/bk-fig-phillips

[3]: http://chris.improbable.org/2013/08/31/extracting-images-fro...

[4]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/

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I wonder if old school developers are more likely to think of these types of solutions.

When I wrote games for older hardware every frickin' thing possible used look up tables to maximize speed.

Coincidentally I received this type of problem later when interviewing at MS, but it wasn't Raymond Chen's group.
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This narrative seems to keep popping up. Depression is not Facebook's problem any more than it is Budweiser's problem, or Ben & Jerry's problem. People who suffer from depression have unhealthy relationships with a myriad of things because it distorts your worldview.

IMO, this is more a case of social media bringing deeper problems to the surface than social media being the actual cause.
I'd say it is to have a server with an offline fork, which a) provides you access to OSM without internet (which is the "boring" part) and b) allows you to make changes when you get new data.

When you return to somewhere with better internet, you then can sync the changes to upstream OSM.

And all that prepackaged so it is easy to prepare and deploy to a laptop, a small portable server, ...
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Jazz Jackrabbit is another interesting example of the tech difference between the two consoles. That YouTube video is running on a Soundblaster. PCs had superior storage and a lot of processor power compared to the consoles, so Jazz had incredible music compared to consoles because it could use modfiles, basically CPU-synthesized music using arbitrary wave files as instruments, played through the Soundblaster (used as a generic digital sound out, which may not sound impressive, but the consoles didn't have that yet, it still just had various cheap synthesis chips and a smidge of wavetable capability not sufficient to play dynamically-generated sounds). The PS1 was not quite out yet, so the current (popular, people I know actually owned them) gen was basically Genesis and Super Nintendo. Neither could pull that off. Graphically, Jazz had more colors to work with.

But mechanically, Jazz at best had parity and at worst would have been considered a low-tier platformer at best on the Super Nintendo.

I honestly don't know what it was with PC platformers of the era, if they were actually incapable of "feeling good" for some technical reason or if nobody ever, well, for lack of a nicer way of putting it, did it right. But they were always bizarrely floaty and had poor physics and feel. Whether or not the PC hardware could have competed on platformers, I do not ever recall playing one that felt as good as a console game did.
Are you suggesting that Id is much better at creating engines than at creating fully-rounded, fun games?

Perish the thought!
Obligatory reference to Jim Tcl (http://jim.tcl.tk/), which is a small footprint Tcl interpreter. Probably still bigger than LIL.
A dynamo doesn't actually add that much load to the bike, but they're heavy and invasive, the exact opposite of what an electronic shifting system aims to be.

I run a dynamo generator for lights on my bike. The datasheet says it steals about 7 watts of power. I'm a relatively weak cyclist, but I can put out 230W continuously for an hour. The dynamo doesn't matter unless you're racing.

That said I still have good-old-classic 10 speed mechanical shifting. It works so well I don't see the need to add another computer-based gadget to my life.
Purism plays absolutely no role here it's an off the shelf laptop for all intents and purposes.

And as far as QubesOS goes well it is still quite immature and has not received as much security scrutiny as say Linux.
As some one who've used QubesOS for some times it's biggest downfall is the limitations of Xen in regards hardware utilization such as 3D acceleration.

QubeOS does not offer a share virtualized hardware layer which can support acceleration which means that things like 3D acceleration are done through passthrough(this to some extent is a limitation of Xen, and it's portrayed as a security feature in QOS).

Since it uses passthrough you can only assign a single AppVM to benefit from the acceleration and by default your physical GPU is assigned to Dom0 (it's actually a bit tricky to assign it to an AppVM).
This leads to 3D acceleration being pretty much non existent in your actual applications and this is needed today for everything from browsing to even office use (MS Office 2013 and onward requires DX9/10 compatible GPU).

So in day to day use you end up having pretty much all of your activity either done in Dom0 or if you decide to tweak (which reduces performance considerably since your main desktop loses 3D acc.) your system in a a single AppVM which some what defeats the benefit of QOS.

And even if you have a multi GPU desktop any one who played around with multi-player single host gaming rigs using Xen and multiple GPU's knows just how much of a pain it is to do the passthrough properly, you have to ensure that the UEFI does not initializes the GPU's and once they are assigned to a guest that guest needs to be kept alive, you can't reassign those GPU's without a system reboot, and even suspending the guest might cause some issues as the GPU's are initialized.

QubesOS is great in concept but it's still a far cry from a usable general purpose OS and until they either decide to do proper hardware virtualization and reduce the amount of isolation between individual AppVM's or the hardware industry needs to build a new standard for shared passthrough (necro IRQ's!).
Considering that passthrough is actually becoming more and more limited in the consumer space to prevent cheap personal computing parts from being used in the data center space I don't think that the latter very likely.
Apparently he's not the only one. Care to enlighten us by explaining what the word means?
I don't have first hand experience, just discussed the thing with a friend of mine.
I'm not sure whether the certification guidelines for wifi and cell devices are the same.

For Wifi it's surprisingly strict:

• Every antenna+transmitter configuration has to be certified separately (that's why Lenovo and other laptop vendors have Wifi card whitelists and refuse booting with uncertified chips installed).

• The software that directly drives the hardware must be certified to conform to the transmission power limits etc.

For DD-WRT and others neither is a problem, because the hardware combination has been certified by the router vendor, and DD-WRT uses the wifi chip vendor's firmware blob to drive the hardware, which is certified by the vendor.
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Rewriting history was considered Very Bad by most everyone who had not yet used distributed version control much. The set of people that had not yet used distributed version control much included everyone, even the developers of distributed version control tools. After we all started using DVCSes more we realized how useful and powerful it was to be able to rewrite local history.

Fossil developers are apparently still catching up to this idea but as pointed out in other replies here it does have some history rewriting features. Even its recommendation that you pull and merge others' changes with yours before you commit your changes (in the style of CVS or SVN, they call it "autosync") is a form of rewriting history. See: http://fossil-scm.org/xfer/doc/trunk/www/concepts.wiki
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I think a reasonable, but also apparently false, assumption would be that if you invest significant amounts of time, energy and money into putting out a product consumed by hundreds of thousands of people, you should be able to make at least a living wage.
It sounds like there is a business case for hiring a consultant with domain expertise.

Good luck.
That was an attempt at a Linux-based phone before Android. It is very old (close to 10 years?).
... or get real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling%27s_approximation
It's a good model to limit the damage a hijacked baseband chip can do, yes. But it is still not "free".