skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On platforms that don't have a package manager a self-update might make sense. I think in your case you should just remove that bit of code. Imagine if every Python/Rust/Ruby/Go tool had a self-update function. They don't need it, let it be managed by your platform package manager such as gem or your distribution's.
>>> It smacks of a solution in desperate need of a problem.

Health care / wearables might be a good case where this data would really make a difference.
Would the new ERP system solve all their problems without customizations and additions?
Where the hell do you ride trains that muggers are a concern?
Oh yes. I'm disabling ipv6 on all my clients here and rather live in the idiotic, crazy and stupid world of ipv4 with CGNAT ('Dual Stack Lite'). That works at least somewhat consistently, if my internal machines are running dual stack instead I run into issues every other minute (usually DNS related and yeah - maybe my ISP is too dumb to run its mandatory native ipv6 line, but I cannot fix that).

I used to ask my ISPs "When will you finally provide ipv6". Then i stopped caring. Now I wish they wouldn't have bothered and consider paying a premium to go back to ipv4.
Warner Bros and Intel sue 4K content protection “stripper”
Just a guess, but the default image for a Wordpress template that's popular with coders?
Belarussian is fairly easy, too - not as close as Slovakian, but somewhat more similar than Russian or Ukrainian. It's rarely heard though, as most of Belarus speaks Russian, especially in cities.
It can be entirely self hosted, though there are options that use voice services from AT&T and Google. And of course any plugins that use cloud services would of course send data to the cloud. But it can be configured self contained.
How good are IPv6 implementations nowadays? A few years ago there were quite a few bugs in them, no?
Terminating the IPv6 connections in the load balancers is technically pretty primitive but covering "just" the IPv6 web clients in this way is adequate for most people using AWS. Here's eg Netflix on the subject (from 2012): http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/enabling-support-for-ipv...
I'd expect the Telegraph to say what kind of house they live in and whether they went to private school as well.
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The District of Columbia Public Schools burned what must have been tens of millions on a Peoplesoft implementation some years ago. I guess they eventually got it running, but there was a lot of pain.

[Edit: I'm not sure DCPS was the part of the district government that felt the most pain.]
Nasdaq’s Blockchain-Based Securities Platform Records First Transaction
The Guardian and the Independent reported it.

As far as the reports stated the State of Emergency is ongoing.
I say "not great" because in grocery stores in my area, all of the California Olive Ranch bottles are over a year old. The longer the oil sits, the worse it becomes. Also, the bottles are sitting beneath fluorescent lights. It does help that the bottles are dark green, but completely opaque is better.

California Olive Ranch is a fine brand because, as far as I know, they can be trusted. That's the only reason why a brand even matters. They're members of the California Olive Council.

EDIT

If you're on west coast, I'd be curious to know the harvest date listed on your bottle.
Two people don't like reality so they try to downvote it out of the way.
Even now, prototypes are optional in C

It's been illegal in standard C since 1999.
Our biggest/largest competitor is not happy :P. We've met with them a few times at trade shows now. They're decent people, but the founder (lead dev) told me point blank that he _will not_ write JS. We scared them enough to do a "rewrite". It took them nearly a year and consisted of installing Bootstrap and applying CSS classes. Oh, and copying a few (read: all) of my awesome (but super simple) features. They're yet to copy my difficult to build features.

We're still switching people over from them every day of the week and not one of their customers has ever complained about the 40% increase in price.

The only other company I would consider competition has done nothing to their product, message or marketing since we entered the market.

There's a new competitor entering the market- but their product is far too simple. It's cute actually; reminds me of my concept for the product before talking to thousands of potential customers.
Except that only works in Classic and not VPC.
About 70% of our revenue comes from the federal government, including cleared work. We specialize in this space and have customers across a half-dozen or more agencies.

The sales cycles can still be pretty long, but mostly for IDIQ's with $30M+ ceilings. We've received small $500k contracts that took over 9 months to award and, on the other hand, $3M+ contracts that took just a month.

A lot depends on the department/agency, and even organizations within the department/agency. It varies so widely but the key is getting to know your customer and anticipating the cycle. Relationships are absolutely crucial to getting government sales - the boilerplate they put out as RFP's hardly ever tell the full story of what the customer needs.

Also, leverage your set-asides and find reputable partners to team with. Can't stress this enough - it's the only way to compete against the behemoths in the market who have far more name recognition amongst contracting officers (who can be extremely risk averse). If the government isn't your target market, you can start winning work as a subcontractor and working your way up the ladder, getting to know your program manager customers who make the purchase decisions.

Two books I recommend as well - http://www.apress.com/9781430244974 and http://www.amazon.com/Zero-Billion-Entrepreneurs-Government-...
Web Scraping in Node.js
When did we start calling that "hero image" and why?
Every? Comcast does IPv6 since a few years back.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10833278
So informing was a useful tool to knock down your potential rivals or those whose faces did not fit.

I despair at Human Nature sometimes...
It's interesting to get down votes for sharing link to wikipedia. Is taking a look at functioning flat-tax systems of other governments not even worth investigating, or does the very idea simply clash with some folks political agendas? Several of the nations are able to provide for both social welfare (including free secondary education and basic healthcare) as well as national defense on a (typically low) flat tax. Russia's 13% stands out for a large country and Estonia's 21% for a small country.
GM Invests $500M in Lyft, Plans System for Self-Driving Cars
TBH, a newspaper is still a much better way to get my news than the internet, especially with recent bloated design trends. YMMV.
Cities look at subsidized housing to stem teacher shortages
I agree with what you've said here about taste. However, I would add that the use of extra virgin olive oil is so heavy handed with TV/marketing that people don't realize just how much specific flavor it has - and that it's not an all purpose cooking oil as much as Rachael Ray wants it to be.

I actually struggle to find light olive oil in stores, which used to be more of a standard I used for light sauteing, etc. I wonder how much of the dilution is based on the over strong demand for the stuff. and lack of definition of "extra virgin" by the US market? The article mentions it must be from the first press of olives, is this a labeling law in the US?
Japanese manufacturing calls this "5S"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5S_(methodology)
Designing the Tesla Model S touch screen UI  [video]
7 Ways to Bootstrap Your Business to Success
> they never expire

What? That can't be right.
Blame Bootstrap - they called the big top third of the screen image a "hero" block from start of their docs. It was the first I had heard of it, but it made enough sense that it stuck.

One assumes the history goes back further - one suspects a comic strip somewhere. But I don't know
What bigram analysis on Twitter data shows
likely still having production issues. Tesla's issue has never been creating good looking cars but in ramping up assembly. This is the real issue facing the III, not that it won't exist and look good but that they might not have the cash needed to build out the assembly line
Drupal vs. Custom PHP for Social Network
So who'll be the next GovWorks?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GovWorks
I can't load the page: "Secure Connection Failed".

edit: video file is here http://c3media.vsos.ethz.ch/congress/2015/webm-hd/32c3-7197-...
Perhaps better phrased as "why do complex systems require more active maintenance", with the argument that this is because they have many more "partial failure requiring recovery actions" states. Whereas simple systems are either working or not.
That "weirdly shaped enter/return key" is an ISO standard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_9995
I find these Lenovo chicklet keyboards very pleasant. I have t420s which has it and R40 with old style keyboard. Tried to write on R40 recently and was surprised that it's not that big difference. I don't use F keys much so their layout doesn't bother me.

edit: "F keys" part readability
Probably because the more examples of programming paradigms that you learn, the better you can generalize, erm, abstract that experience into good form.
It amuses me (and somewhat frustrates me, as an American) how Americans are the last acceptable target for national stereotypes.
Hands-on with virtual reality using A-Frame, React and Redux
Jack the Ripper existed?
Stable Release of DotVVM – .NET MVVM Framework for the Web
Check out this awesome interview with Marc Ende of SeamlessGov ( http://www.seamlessgov.com ) that was released just last month: http://blog.close.io/how-to-sell-to-governments

Specifically about B2G sales.
For posterity, he could have also made a print of his "Hello, World" program written in B from 1972:

https://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/src/pkg/debug/mac...
Trying to stay safe by "blending in" has a name, and its called security by obscurity. It works until it doesn't, and then it all tend to fall apart like a house made from cards.

Everyone has something to hide, and everyone need the security that the right to privacy provides. If I am the victim of a crime, I do not wish that the lawyer of the criminal has every single detail of my life to dig through and find something to paint doubt in a judge/jury mind. I also do not wish that the criminal has total information about the judge and jury, which they could then use to figure out how to manipulate them to a different decision then the truth. As such, I do not only wish privacy for me, but privacy for every person who could end up as jury, judge, lawyer, victim or accused. Our justice system depend on privacy to protect the human beings involved from being manipulated.
How can "single dirty file mixing PHP HTML CSS" can be showcased as a feature in 2016...
After tasting homemade olive oil from some Croatian island, I understood the term of extra virgin. The taste is incredible rich and pinches your tongue.

A litre will cost you 12-15 Euros, but it really worths the price. In a supermarket you will ( almost ) never be able to buy that kind of quality. Mostly due to the fact that a large number of people do not know the real taste and will qualify the real extra virgin as "bad" and thus will not sell and secondly why not sell something low quality that is traditionally expensive (10+ euros /L ) with a big margin?
In theory it should be less. LCD's start with a white light, then attenuate it through red, green and blue filters. OLED's don't lose light to generate colour, they produce red, green and blue light directly, so all other factors being equal should have a significantly higher potential efficiency.
I think a good way to handle that is to ask them what they want to end up building. Want to make Android apps? Java. Want to make the front end part of web pages? HTML, CSS, JS with some preprocessors and libraries. Want to work on the back end? Ruby or Javascript/Node or one of the others.

Treehouse's learning tracks (https://teamtreehouse.com/tracks) are useful for a beginner to look through to get a general idea of what that would involve.
I think the next step in coding will be VR to visualise objects (classes, modules, methods, lambdas, basic language concepts) and speech to command the text editor to edit line numbers or swap lines or indent, change words etc... basically things vim can do but with voice.
That's dependent on the country and it's no longer the case in the US either.
http://www.cardfellow.com/charging-customers-a-credit-card-c...
For the first twenty years of my career I was an embedded systems engineer (hardware and software) - thanks for bringing back lots of good memories!
Could you briefly go into why you moved to SE asia from america?
When we're talking about x86, that's true in ring 0. Otherwise first thing CPU does is to enter privileged, ring 0 mode, save registers, jump through interrupt vector table and process the trap in kernel code. Trap handler will probably need to check usermode program counter and take a look at the instruction that caused the trap. No hard data, but I think we're talking about 1-5 microseconds.

Runtime/language exceptions have different mechanisms that don't require kernel context switches (but might involve slow steps like stack walk).
Half the World's Population Lives in Just 1% of the Land
1984 is fiction. Good fiction. Convincing. But fiction.

Reality is different.
I have become very framework-adverse over the past few years as I've switched from corporate programmer to startup programmer, and from OOP programmer to FP programmer. Frameworks, especially OOP frameworks, tend to throw you into a universe of nouns and verbs that can be quite complex and completely of the author's making.

Everything works great -- until it doesn't. And then you're spending your valuable time and brainpower learning about some framework instead of about how to do the job you're trying to do. That's almost always a fail. As the author mentions, it just gets worse: many times you're suckered into thinking the answer for your problem is yet another plug-in or framework. Now you have even more stuff to keep track of.

OOP forces you to answer the question: what does this system represent? Once you do that, then you're left with several metric tons of how to represent it well, which can lead to a _lot_ of stuff. FP, on the other hand, forces you to answer the question: what, exactly, do you want the system to do?

As it turns out, unless you're strictly happy-path, the shortest way to an answer is just to do the work. (Of course, nobody is saying to throw out core libraries and start writing in machine code. But if you're bleeding to death from paper cuts on WhizBang 4.0 that you just downloaded last week, you screwed up.)
There is no import regulation on the term 'extra virgin'. Its just a marketing term in America. Often what you buy is mostly corn oil.
Thanks.. I'll give that a try.
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Yeah I know its unfair to pick on a simple demo/example but it would be interesting for the accounting demo to speak a variant of "standard ledger format" as seen at:

http://www.ledger-cli.org/

Speaking of standards and processing it would be cool to have a FUSE interface such that I could hand edit ledger files or org mode files on the thing, then via a FUSE mount, continue processing or accessing stuff on my desktop or a server.
On the political economy side, it’s unlikely that we will displace things like the mortgage interest deduction. What if we were to introduce a renters’ deduction instead?
Well, if I put a HD background picture on a website, I sure don't want it to load on a mobile and use all of this user's data. It only makes sense.
eInk achieves excellent battery life by being completely unpowered when the screen isn't changing. When you press the "next page" button, you're basically booting the whole device, having it render the next page, then shutting it off again. If you're using any sort of backlight (as "auto-brightness" suggests) then you won't get that benefit and I'm not surprised your battery life is more like that of a traditional tablet. The DX doesn't have a backlight so wouldn't have that problem. If you turn your backlight off then you should see similar results.
It's a sneering remark, directed at a magazine that remains successful and frequently interesting, that was published in a magazine that most have forgotten and written by an author that most have forgotten.
TensorFlow whitepaper: Annotated notes with links to original sections
I don't think that is an accurate portrayal of OO. There are plenty of nouns out there that do not model real world concepts. I can create an "expression" class/object in a OO program (and do all the time!) to represent parts of an abstract syntax tree. As far as I know, expressions don't exist in the real world. Human language is quite powerful like that.

Overabstraction is often simply a matter of poor problem understanding. Sometimes you don't really know how to solve a problem right, so you bite off parts of it, work your way through many layers until it is solved. The abstractions are not ideal, because not much planning was involved, and you didn't actually have the experience to generalize appropriately but...you needed some way to decompose the problem.

Abstraction is a tool. It has a cost, but sometimes you need to pay it and sometimes you are better off not. We really need better ways of abstracting and, when necessary, unabstracting.
Tim's a wonderful guy all around and is quite smart, but he is, in fact, not a programmer.
Esp. when WhizBang 4.0 is a complete rewrite of the codebase so throw out everything you know about WhizBang 3.0.
XML is interesting case in point that syntax matters. XPath and XSL are so awesome but barely anyone cares because XML.
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Why not starting the new year with a simple but effective habit?
Really? Did you realize that the newspaper published only news from the day before at the latest, once a day? (Crazy I know.) Just a few people called "editors" decide what you read. And it doesn't ever get updated, even if it's wrong or something new happened. You can't even find primary sources or citations! God forbid you'd want to ever search for anything by a keyword.
> That sounds unrealistic especially if it insunuates a device will wipe all all the East coast cities.

Well, they'd have to use more than one.

> It seems anything they have will be able to wipe out all the stuff they want to wipe out just with ICBMs.

The idea is that this sort of weapon is a response to US anti-ICBM systems, so Russia can maintain their MAD.
IEEE researchers propose 5G multiplexing for 'Internet of Touch'
> Snitching is encouraged as the patriotic duty of every citizen

This is true of most countries, differing only by degree. A state has two choices for internal security: a small professional force that reacts quickly to flagged problems or a full scale surveillance state (as the Russians had in Moscow, where it was extremely hard for agents to operate due to the sheer number of KGB staff). The latter solution is usually not applied, or applied only partially, due to being prohibitively expensive even in a modern state.

For example, the FBI only has 35,000 employees. Even if each was dedicated to surveillance, that would be one employee per 9,000 American residents. Instead, they rely on the population approaching existing civil services (police departments, fire brigades, city halls) with suspicious activity; those that look genuine are further investigated and acted on.

The French government has recently published posters and a website [1] encouraging members of the Muslim community to highlight any recent radicalisation candidates. This obviously follows recent events but might also be linked to the systematic defunding and shifting around of internal security organisations (RG, DST, DGSI...) in the last decade or two resulting in the loss of the HUMINT network within the population. That FBI ratio, calculated for the DGSI? 1 employee for 20,000 residents.

[1] http://static1.stop-djihadisme.gouv.fr/var/stop/storage/imag...
Even worse: Kickstarter campaigns for Emoji e.g. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/657685639/where-is-the-...

You should read the section titled "Who Controls Our Emoji?" if you want to get a little bit angrier.
Tl;dr: We are horrible people for having our own abstractions for measuring angles, lengths, etc., and we should've let everyone invent their own system.

If we did so, we would have better multiculturism now at the cost of making all forms of physics, electronics, and engineering an absolute nightmare. If one man's measure of length does not convert cleanly to another's, then they won't get any work done, because they won't know how long the bridge's posts should be. If a degree is 1/360th of a circle to one man, and 1/200th of a circle to another, the 45 degrees varies wildly between the two, and once more nothing gets done. The list goes on.
> Add modifiers for proportions and it'll turn Unicode plaintext into a general-purpose drawing language.

Not even that: it's all special-purpose stuff with narrow use cases.
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And your existing code already has workarounds for 3.0 which are invalidated by the upgrade.
Late tzarist Russia had terrorism. Weimar republic didn't have terrorism per se, but it had militant groups enacting violence against their enemies in order to puruse political goals — some would name it terrorism, although I prefer a more strict definition.

In other words, there were at least several instances in history where appearance of militant groups that violated state's monopoly on violence led, in the end, to these groups gaining power, and being much more violent and "bad" exactly because of their violent history.

On the other hand, I don't believe I know a single instance where a democratic regimes turned into totalitarian or authoritarian government _because_of_ technological advances that allowed it more control.
For fans of the game: Help me understand the appeal. I fired it up once on an emulator and played for like 15 or so minutes and was just completely "meh"-ed. Is it something that pays off later and you just have to play it for a while or what?
This is the real limitation of Communism. In attempting to eliminate all forms of socio-economic status discrimination, it eliminated all but one: Party status.

In a one-party state your position in the hierarchy forms a total ordering. The only way to get ahead is through the party. This is far more brutal than the capitalist "rat race", where there are lots of different company fiefdoms (each of which is internally a command economy, of course) and you can just quit and try to climb the ladder somewhere else. In a Communist rat-race, it may be necessary to denounce your enemies to the extent of getting them killed, in order to advance your career.

Note that an environment with no "Exit" and no "Voice" (in the exit/voice/loyalty model) results in lots of "Loyalty" ritual. This is also very conducive to demonstrating your loyalty by condemning other people's lack of loyalty.
Unfortunately, I don't know history of Hungary well enough to understand what exactly are you referring to. Can you be more exact, what are you talking about in my comment?
Great to finally see a write up by Aphyr on RethinkDB. Ever since reading these blogs and seeing RethinkDB lost standing Github issue [1] I was keen to hear how RethinkDB would hold up to the tests once RAFT was implemented.

Given the thoroughness of the Jepsen test suite it is something people want to see these days before being able to choose a database with any confidence. Hopefully this sets out expectations with high transparency.

Kudos to the team at RethinkDB for funding and assisting Apyhr in his work.

[1]: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/1493