skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We do at my work. It has much more robust options. You can keep multiple jobs from running at the same time if one takes too long. You can auto kill it after a time limit. You get a web UI for all logging from the job. You get great built in tools for auto deleting logs after a certain number of builds or time period. You get a very robust email solution for sending out alerts when jobs run or don't run or fail. It adds some complexity vs CRON but it has many more features.
That's both cool and scary. Someone with a bit of money and a bit more malice could cause a lot of trouble by taking over a satellite:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
i would like a es6 to es3 compiler.
When working with legacy devices it's a real mess, especially when you are used to sometimes use console.log..
"Last sold in 2011 for $535.00"

I attempted to zillow that area. This is what I found:

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/530-Kenilworth-St-Detroit-...
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> all we ever heard about was how Steve Jobs was an asshole because, unlike Bill Gates, he wasn't a philanthropist.

Whoever you heard that from was probably not worth listening to, though.
Continuum Analytics gets a $10M working capital credit line from SV Bank
The Sad State of Personal Knowledgebases
Dimercaptosuccinic acid is a chelation agent that has been recommended for lead poisoning in children. The side effects seem less severe than most of the effects of lead poisoning.

Definitely would prefer the tooth decay if we have to pick.
Centralization is the winning team, right up until it's not.
Security is relative to certain threats. Many people worried about Chinese or Russians stealing IP will be less worried about US subversion. Likewise, for Chinese companies the open Loongson systems probably reduce risk of Western subversion. High assurance like separation kernels reduce risk against high end attackers or kernel 0-days whike mandatory controls contain app-level attacks which are max skills of many damaging attackers.

So, all or nothing is wrong way to look at INFOSEC. I mean, if it's nation states, best to avoid computers in favor of trusted people, paper, and memory. ;) However, many methods provide a meaningful increase of security or just recoverability. Worth remembering.

This particular product: too much risk in it for me to say if it does. People are probably safer with OpenBSD or hardened Linux/BSD on high-end embedded board or old workstation.
It seems like observing behavior of market participants shows developers won't build affordable units if asked:

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Developer-pulls-o...
"That I wasn’t able to perform for social media anymore. I used to go through life mentally composing tweets and spotting photo opportunities for Instagram. That was unthinkable now. The mere thought caused so much anxiety that I could barely unclench my jaws."

Yeah that's called addiction. Sweet Christ people actually do that? I post on Facebook very occasionally and it's usually bitching about something relating to code or just posting a picture of something cool. I don't even invest enough in this stuff to call it "composing" without feeling a little weird saying that.
A new boson at 750 GeV? (Latest LHC results)
Managing Node.js Versions with nvm
A microcontroller that natively executes a simple Lisp dialect
I agree! I wanted something juicer...
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Great, so now I can write an x86 emulator and run Windows 95 in CSS, but I still can't figure out how to reliably vertically-center an element.
I'm with you! First off, authenticity is king in today's world. Second? This article screams entitlement. Well said!
It's more about the "optics" as they say. A celebration of this sort is warranted when you're at the top of your game, not when you're a well-known mediocrity.

And frankly speaking, a billion in cash is a lot less than one would expect from a top Internet brand.

Relatively speaking, they are in dire straights.
I guess the wordcount process cannot be done with immutable structures? at least not on the same memory footprint, or at the same speed
Firewalling the OpenStack cloud
I'm guessing here (no numbers to back it up), but likely the reason you don't see more of this is safe drivers would sign up for it, and in insurance the safe/low risk drivers are the ones already subsidizing the crazies and making it work. I took part in something similar for my insurance company (Progressive) and received a whopping 6% discount for safe driving.
The Midwest is full of people whose entire careers consist solely of one company. Those jobs were good ones with great benefits, so the loyalty was both ways. Turns out when they get dumped, people still remain loyal. They just don't understand that money talks, and most of it has walked overseas.

My dad was in the Ohio state employee union. I remember going to other union's rallies and protests, especially the Middletown steel lockout: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK_Steel_Holding_Corporation#M...

I've seen a lot of good things rot and rust (I'm not even 30!), and Flint is just another of many places.
It's fascinating to see this thing for the first time, but now it is understandable why Nintendo was not interested.

It is a good demo to show that (relatively) smooth scrolling can be achieved on such a low-end machine not designed for gaming, but as far as gameplay goes the resemblance to the Mario series stops below the surface. The physics that make the Super Mario Brothers games simultaneously unique, fun and challenging are more specifically defined than "2D Newtonian jump physics and you can jump on guys".

In addition, some of the background graphics are very well done conversions (clearly done by just looking at the original without actual access to the data) while the character sprites are surprisingly messy. What's going on with Mario's face? You'd think the Mario sprites would be the most important aspect of the presentation!

I don't want to be overly critical of something like this and it's really great to finally get a look at it, but it clearly took a lot of time so it's just odd to see certain details overlooked in what was to be a proposal demo to a big company like Nintendo.
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The 2600 came out in 1977, six years before the crash. 1983 is 32 years ago, I think that's pretty close to "the way it's always been."
I get the joke since I've been doing the web design thing for a couple decades at this point, but in case your question was serious, yes it is finally solved:

https://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/demos/verti...
I solved this problem by unfollowing everyone and everything on Facebook. Now I mostly just post pictures of foxes. Foxes are a bipartisan issue.
How can the arguments from that article be applied to all the stuff produced for the U.S. military?

1.5 Trillion (with a T) USD for just F-35 Joint Strike Fighter:

http://www.cnbc.com/2014/07/31/how-dods-15-trillion-f-35-bro...

V.s:

"While noted science fiction fan Paul Krugman may point to the number of jobs that the Death Star created, Hazlitt is also ready with a response. Using the example of government building an unnecessary bridge:

[F]or every public job created by the bridge project a private job has been destroyed somewhere else. We can see the men employed on the bridge. We can watch them at work. The employment argument of the government spenders becomes vivid, and probably for most people convincing. But there are other things that we do not see, because, alas, they have never been permitted to come into existence."
> The original rc was designed and implemented by Tom Duff at Bell Labs.

Is this the Tom Duff of Duff's Device fame?
Homevoters v. the growth machine: Who controls the development of cities?
The other night I was thinking about the potential for "mapocalypse" -- navigation in a future where paper maps are rare because of services like Google maps and where the network is unavailable indefinitely. Even dedicated navigation devices are forgoing stored maps for connected services.

Over the long term, widespread access to offline maps feels like a critical plan B. I also suspect that we're just at the beginning of a map industry not in the mature commodity phase.

YMMV.
I like this. It clearly shows that for all the computing power available, some algebra or calculus can be better for discovering the general form of a solution.
The environmental cleanup is probably a huge part of the reason companies don't invest in the old mills. Besides the mundane things like lead and asbestos, they are also probably all sort of nasties left over from the dyes and other chemicals used in the old mills.
Object.freeze?
I'd wonder about the quality of that one. Copy-cat chips and components are a huge problem with Chinese suppliers.
Brick and timber buildings would be beautiful I. California, and may even be affordable to literally deconstruct them and move them.

Look at the last sale price of this building, $535.00 five hundred!!

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/530-Kenilworth-St-Detroit-...
html, body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
}

body {
-webkit-align-items: center;
-ms-flex-align: center;
align-items: center;
display: -webkit-flex;
display: flex;
}
A typeclass should indicate some semantic relationship between its instances, so IMO they do provide a safe version of ad-hoc polymorphism. You shouldn't have to name the (type, operation) pair; the whole point of typeclass coherence is that specifying the type and the operation is enough.

I do think typeclass programming could do with having the same functionality as ordinary programming available. Here in Scala typeclasses are ordinary values (resolved via an implicit mechanism), which enables a lot - though the cost of abandoning global coherence is high.

Ultimately, syntax and conciseness does matter. I don't think anything as verbose as that link has a chance of getting off the ground.
I am a US citizen who moved to Sweden. I've done a decent amount of cycling across the Swedish countryside, and think I can explain.

The sights in these photos that you (and I, who grew up in Florida) think are pretty common, are quite rare in Sweden. That is, it's rare to find houses with boarded up windows, or missing part of its siding, or burnt down and in a state of decay. Suburban areas are almost all immaculate, with well kept lawns, and solid construction.

Rare, but not impossible. Here's one https://www.google.com/maps/@59.0577422,12.4528682,3a,37.5y,... . Just down the street is the old market and gas station https://www.google.com/maps/@59.0578664,12.4544937,3a,37.5y,... .

I can gave a hand-waving explanation. This picture is from Edsleskog, a town that used to be more of a real town. Cars didn't become common in Swede until the 1960 or so. (Sweden was a relatively poor country, and I have a Swedish book from the 1950s where two children visit the US and are astonished that a family might have two cars, when a family in Sweden might have a moped.)

But once cars became common, people preferred to drive the 15 minutes to get to the bigger, nearby city of Åmål for shopping and other errands, and for work. Some of the older building are now no longer useful. Since that area has had the population growth that the cities have had, older places are left to decay, rather than be replaced with something more useful.
came to say the same thing. I love love love flexbox. I just wish i could drop all the vendor prefixes, but safari seems to be the holdout iirc
I'm not so sure it is so useless. Consider when you want to "grep something access.log". Then you want to look at yesterday's so it's "grep something access.log.1". Then you want to look at the log before that, but it's compressed. "gunzip -c access.log.2.gz | grep something". (Ignore zgrep for the moment. Let's say I want to use grep's -A and -B options to show context of the lines that it finds.) To switch between the compressed and uncompressed files, you have to move the filename to a completely different part of the command, which requires more re-typing. You would have been better off starting with so-called "useless" cat. Separate out the concern of "putting a stream into the pipe" from "doing something with the stream". gunzip -c is just one command that might produce output.
Yup... it's kinda creepy. I've spent a lot of time driving between Lubbock and Fredericksburg, TX and it's really quite sad to see the kind of decay that you find in that area of the world. I keep thinking that if I could figure out how to get enough remote development business, it'd be interesting to buy up a chunk of old buildings in Ballenger or Menard (home of 3 cemeteries and a historic "ditch walk")... but then I think about how far you are from a city and think it would be a tough sell for most folks.
Mr. Yudkowsky says: "Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point." http://www.azquotes.com/quote/819025

The point is that our gadgets become more powerful and more potent as weapons; so as we have a good history of past abuses it is sort of easy to extrapolate to the future.

What is still don't understand: would intelligence be an inhibiting factor - like more reasonable Humans are supposedly less destructive; Maybe the same goes for machines.

I don't buy the argument about competition for resources - With enough effort you can always stretch it so that there is enough for everybody/everything.

Another interesting aspect: once upon a time people would become very agitated when discussing politics (that was when we still had ideological differences and when people thought that their stance does matter); In our time we have discussions about sci-fi instead of that.
Why's that surprising? I'm not surprised it is cheaper to build a new office unit than to renovate an existing dilapidated one and bring it up to 2015 code.
Remember, we have a lot of land. What you're seeing is an area that was used in the past but not really being used right now, so it's essentially being left fallow. Those images are not evidence either for or against Flint being in crisis (which by all accounts it is). They're just proof that in most parts of the US, land is not at a premium.
> Rebasing can move whole subtrees around in the repo's history

Rebasing does not move subtrees, it copies them.

> Fossil's shun operation and private branches are entirely different from rebasing.

Well considering they apparently genuinely destroy things, quite so.
Flexbox to the rescue! This is a pretty good guide:

https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
I tend to use YYYY.MM.COUNTER these days (at least for projects that have frequent releases). It makes it pretty obvious how fresh or stale an installed version is, and I don't have to argue with anybody about what a feature, a bugfix or a backwards incompatible change is.
> Highways are not bad per se ...

To pick a nit: in the US, neither the Interstate Highway system nor the State Highway systems have much to do with car-centric design in cities and neighborhoods. [0] I used to live in a vaguely large-ish city that had both a State Highway, and an Interstate Highway that ran through it. These were two four-to-ten-lane [1] roads out of many, many, many other roads of widely varying widths and lengths.

The city was car-centric not because of the two highways that ran through it, but because the city managers never, ever made alternatives to private car ownership a priority of any sort.

[0] I mean, other than vaguely encouraging individual car ownership by making it relatively easy to cross large distances in an automobile. But, both highway systems play a big part in making inter- and intra-state shipping economical. Not only do we derive a huge amount of good from this property of the system, properly funded and designed public transit systems can also take advantage of these roads to enable city residents to ditch their cars.

[1] The Interstate varied in width, depending on where you were. Once you got out of the city, it was most frequently a divided four-lane road.
Osm changes are already expressed as atomic changes to each version of an object. Reasonably resolving a conflict where two different edits increment the same version of the same object is a difficult problem (the typical way it is currently done is reject the later edit and force manual review/fixup of the conflict).

If someone adds a road and joins it to an existing road at existing point A, while someone else adds a duplicate of the same physical road and joins it at existing point B, it's going to take a rather aggressive heuristic to automatically discard one of them.
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What if they had won? What bearing does suing the Wikimedia Foundation, a US entity, for material published in the US under US publishing laws?

The German Wikipedia is published and maintained by a US entity, there's a local German Wikimedia chapter but it's not the publisher of the German Wikipedia. The article says that they sued the US entity (the Wikimedia Foundation Inc., not Wikimedia Deutschland), but doesn't explain this issue.
I'd like to see if any of the alternative clients support the SNI challenge. (I don't think so, but e.g. the official client uses it for Apache and that isn't listed either, probably because it happens in the "black box" of automatic configuration?)
Markets unencumbered by regulation are only magically efficient and/or arbiters of society's needs if you're a neoliberal fundamentalist.

For everybody else it's a (rather poor) allocation mechanism that implicitly favors monopoly power, wealth and corruption. Great if you happen to have a lot of wealth thanks to your connections in the Chinese Communist Party I guess, and are looking for an American bolthole. Not so great if you're an American primary school teacher who grew up in the Bay Area.
Build scripts for various things are often done in bash, and functions are quite helpful there (unified cleanup routine, for example).

Just because you can do something in <pet-language-name-here>, doesn't mean it's best done in <pet-language-name-here>.
Reread what I wrote. I didn't suggest we shouldn't help the humans in Flint. I suggested we should do so in a way that solves the problem for the humans once and for all.

The comparison to Florida is silly. Florida gets a lot of money that a) is for the national good (naval bases) and b) follows humans around (SS/medicare). The fact that humans work in NY and retire to Florida doesn't mean that we somehow owe Flint an infinite stream of subsidies.

I do oppose the variety of unfair subsidies that Florida does get, e.g. bailouts after hurricanes predictably destroy cheaply made houses.
If you double-tap on a fixed-width viewport page in iOS Safari today, it scrolls the page so the content you tapped is centered. The blog post doesn't mention this, but obviously they need to remove that behavior if they are no long detecting double-taps. Maybe it was good for accessibility?
This is part of the problem I have with Jenkins. It does far too many things. In many organizations it seems to occupy an awkward position between dev and production, where it's used for both and so ends up as the most fragile part of a production pipeline. Its config is very awkward, and partly as a result of that I've never seen it properly backed up or even a staging instance for testing changes, yet alone blue/green instances.

So I prefer to have clear segregation. Jenkins as a build tool only. Rundeck for deployment. If I had a big need for scheduling, I'd want a dedicated system for doing that too.
^^^ This! Greycat's bash guide is the definitive guide as far as I'm concerned. If this project is being done by them, I'm behind it.
given the prevalence of age discrimination, it's disappointing that wikimedia didn't take the birth year down voluntarily

yes, the data's available from other sources, but a prospective employer might not see that until after evaluating some other aspects of her work, and end up hiring her in a situation in which they wouldn't if they found her age immediately

for that matter, i find wikimedia's prominent display of age for people in general to be a bit too forceful. is that really such a defining characteristic of a living person that it belongs in the highlight box ?
That's weird. I could have sworn it should work to avoid setting an absolute font size, but trying it just now on my Android phone (kitkat, I think) and it didn't work. Is this something I'm misremembering? I thought you could do this on desktop, at least.
> gangs roaming the capital, looting, killing, and burning

That's quite the hyperbole compared to what actually happened.
I... really need this.
Make sure they register them first.
Dash is Bourne-compatible! And Bash is not installed everywhere. I can think of at least five systems i've used in the past five years that either didn't have Bash, or Bash was not the default shell, and even the path to Bash isn't the same on all systems (since it is technically an add-on). Anyway, I did not say use Bourne for more complexity, I said for more compatibility.

People are opposed to learning yet another tool. But here's the really funny thing about the "use a more robust language" argument: not only do they introduce more dependencies, they can introduce more bugs (due to increased complexity), and are almost always a maintenance headache. The one thing that's easy to maintain after 10 years is a shell script. Perl is a nightmare to maintain after 10 years (mostly due to the lack of good Perl programmers) and awk is just barely better.
Graph Isomorphism in Quasipolynomial Time: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03547
I think the privilege that they were referring to is how most of us here are likely from a developed country with a strong economy and high quality of life, and therefore have little fear of loosing our cultural heritage. We are quick to dismiss cultural diversity as trivial and meaningless because countries like the US are such a broad cultural mix, but often most of the population never has to experience either their culture being taken away from them, them being forced to move, or them being colonized.

Because of that, people don't understand what it is like to experience colonization or cultural integration. As benten10 said, regional identities are usually convenient wrappers for same culture. People will embrace their place of origin because it is home in the deepest most human sense of the word.

However, because we desire to remove the labels of regional similarity (you used nationalism, presumably with the intention of it being a loaded word), doesn't mean that others feel the same way. It is the privilege that we have that we feel comfortable from our place of relative cultural safety that we don't have to be afraid of loosing the things that we feel are valuable to us.
Science fiction doesn't have to revolve around the human condition. It can be set in any location, at any point in time, with any species. The only criteria is that science has to be involved as part of the plot in some way. I think Star Wars qualifies as science fiction or any of its sub-genres.

Fantasy is the same, except that instead of science you have some form of magic as part of the plot.

Then you can mix to create a hybrid of sorts. Of which, because of the Force one could make an argument that Star Wars is a hybrid. Except that it is part of canon that there is scientific reasoning for it all.
> 1. Feeding infinite HTML is not the same as feeding
> tape. A million tape cells can keep a typical Turing
> machine running indefinitely. A million rows only keep
> this running for a million execution steps

There are read-only systems that are considered Turing Complete. They also work by concatenating new data (of potentially unbounded size) at each computation step. For example, a one-dimensional cellular automaton called Rule 110: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110 . The fact that traditional Turing Machines reclaim storage is an implementation detail, not anything fundamental to Turing Completeness or computer science.