skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clients on the other hand are somewhat lacking for IRC.

We use Slack in a company of ~30, and while all the devs could easily use IRC, most of the rest of the company would struggle with it, and certainly wouldn't be able to communicate in the wide variety of ways (uploaded files, images/gifs, videos, code snippets, etc) that they do now. Slack is great at making all those rich media types 'just work', and while it was possible with plugins to some IRC clients, the UX was prohibitively bad in my experience.
Hey there! This is a great point and something we recognized when developing operator. We wanted to make a service that didn't expose your entire chat to a third-party service.

The OAuth scopes operator asks for are the following:
chat:write:bot - so we can post to your channel operator's response.
commands - to install the commands.
users:read - so we can get a bit more information about you (name, team permissions, etc).

We even toyed with the idea of eliminating the "users:read" to be as minimally invasive as possible.
>> MCU+FPGA hybrids are absolutely the future

If so , it will probably come from china - they're building all the parts, are hungry(even at the state level) to achieve dominance , and don't care much about legacies, and have the market (probably backed by government) to support such strategy.
Actually it does. Check window.innerHeight and window.innerWidth.

The specific values depend on the individual configuration of your browser - icon size, toolbars, themes ...

mine is: 1920 x 992

if I add the bookmark bar the sizeing turns: 1920 x 968

It's not identifying but individual.
It's probably flagged by people who want to save the author from himself. Seriously, he sounds like a stalker in that post and would be well advised to take it down asap.
I was just thinking to myself yesterday how sometimes it would be nice to have one of those jobs where when you are away from work, there is no work to be done. Like working in a factory or something, where there is literally nothing I can do during the off hours other than relax.

This through crossed my mind because I had just finished two weeks of vacation where I literally did nothing related to work, and it was really relaxing.
Docker based continuous integration platform written in Go
One of the reasons why Java is largely relegated as a server-side language, I feel. I write WPF apps on .Net and I never have to worry about what I need to set for my heap size because the frameworks garbage collector just works as I'd expect it to - do the same thing with JavaFX and I feel like tearing my hair out.
Depends - in Europe every stereotype is free game. Of course we tend to treat hurt feelings with polite amusement. So you are able to hear all kinds of fun and offensive stuff here.
Well, many people did.

The older we get, the harder it becomes to realize when you're wrong. Life isn't about always being right, it is about learning what is right. Met people of 23 who got it, met people of 37 who don't.
Hmm, it seems that all the pieces aren't in place yet. If I'm understanding correctly, the exploit technique they use relies on cross-page errors (causing errors in one page with accesses to another page), because the page with errors needs to get freed to the operating system to potentially reuse as PTEs, while still having the ability to cause the errors. There's a line on one of the slides that says you can use timing information to get cross-page information, but I'm really not sure what that means, and how feasible it is.

In addition, they need to find a double-bit error, one that would change both the writable bit and an address bit, if a PTE was in that place in memory. They mentioned that they tested their laptop for these errors, and they're possible, but much rarer--how rare? This point was kind of just glossed over.

I'd guess that these two combined would make an exploitable error much more unlikely.
x86-64 is quite successful as it is backwards compatible. Are you thinking about Itanium 64?
Here's where it will be a showstopper for me; many many times the uber map has fucked up directions and so I tell the driver the route I want to take, or to pass a particularly slow driver in front, in addition I sometimes change my destination/add a stop.

How easily can I do any of this with a robot car?
> Is it possible whose who believed in the GDR were in fact brainwashed?

I don't think so. The GDR was not as isolated as one might think today. There was a black market for goods from the west and for currency exchange, one could get news/information from the West easily. In fact, within the GDR population the term "Valley of the Clueless" was a well known term for the only two areas where West-German TV was not available. [1]

> I'm not clear where the inference of those who genuinely believed in the GDR as justification for informing on others comes from.

Just the same reason people today give for doxxing political opponents - the believe to do the right thing for a greater good.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal_der_Ahnungslosen
Oculus Rift pre-orders open on Jan 06
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That's a fair criticism. I know https://grove.io/ does great work in making 'real IRC' available to the masses, but it's still hosted. It would be nice if they would release their web-client as open source, or if someone wrote an OSS clone.
Uber could still offload maintenance, fuel, liability etc to other entities and license the self driving software to them. Those entities would still have much lower operating costs than human drivers. They could even open source the self driving software to commoditise their complements [1].

Personally I hope that regulators do a bait and switch on Uber by allowing them to build a temporary monopoly and then reintroducing competition by introducing the "right to be represented by a bot" [2].

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
[2] http://continuations.com/post/108912689660/big-and-bot-polic...
Yes it's not too hard or too different, but have you ever tried getting non-developers to use IRC? Finding a desktop client is confusing (which one is best being the first question) and even basic setup can be daunting (servers, ports, channels etc).

Slack, Hipchat and others however can be easily set up and used by pretty much anyone in a company. IRC is great for companies which only have very technically proficient employees, however that's not most companies...
I don't disagree. Which is why I am against professional armed forces and am a proponent of only conscript armies. Sadly enough most (all?) European countries abandoned conscription in the last decade (those that still had it).
A job that nourishes the soul, if not the wallet
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-state-...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/frances-state...
If I'm giving out my email, this doesn't qualify as "free".
* farmer ... separate place of work from where you live*

For quite a lot of human history, and still in some countries, farm animals were kept at home. The "done for the day" was enforced as much by the lack of electric lighting as anything else.
Google invested $1 billion into uber a few years ago, didn't they?
Setting up a Raspberry Pi perfectly on the first boot
So... when does it ship?
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The article isn't actually talking about flex time or flexible schedules. It's talking about "grazing" your work, always being available, keeping track of work emails after hours or answering work calls outside your scheduled time, etc.
Is it really based on Google metrics? Google has been blocked by the Great Firewall on IPv4 networks since last year, but is still reachable via IPv6. So a Chinese who accesses Google either does it with a foreign IP (VPN or proxy), or with an IPv6 address within China. That would put the statistics close to 100% IPv6 usage.
and what will it cost?
"Performance" can be seen as your ability to play ball with bullshit things and people at work. Outdated inefficient systems you're expected to use instead of building something new, for example. So you apply some resistance, apply initiative, and get smacked down for your efforts.

Or when you're supposed to work with someone who is an expert at sticky note presentations or motivational bullshit-speak, but literally nothing else. So you distance yourself from them and they complain to your boss that you're not keeping them in loop. Now your "communication skills" takes a hit.

If you never get in trouble at work, be worried. You might just be a boring sod who does what you're told, never takes risks and could easily be replaced. But then again, just do what you feel is right. In my case, I didn't want to die from boredom, so stirring the pot (as respectfully as possible) was required.
I did an olive oil tasting at a local shop dedicated to olive oil. Unlike the grocery store olive oil I've always had, their olive oil had a bit of a burning sensation in my throat. Lots of flavour; I buy my olive oil from them now.
I can and do control many of the requests a website tells my browser to make. I deny javascript. I deny cookies (strictly speaking I have cookies deleted when I close the page). I deny flash. I deny third-party objects. I do this because I have knowledge about them (and just the right amount of paranoia about other parties). I lament the fact that other people don't and bitch about it when appropriate.
Your local SBA office, ask for the PTAC rep: https://www.sba.gov/offices/headquarters/ogc/resources/36238...

Now, not all of them are good. Ours was incredibly supportive, even referring work to us that led to long-term contracts. If you can't find someone decent, go to another center if you have more than one in your area. The ones affiliated with larger universities seem to have the best results in my opinion.

I'd be happy to share any other insight as well. I've been working in and around this market for about a decade. Reach out through the website in my profile and mention HN (please note, I am NOT a consultant and do not seek any sort of fee for advice. I'm just willing to help get capable startups into this market that needs innovation).
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The one thing I'll disagree is with you calling it "purpose", rather than "function". One of the functions of religion is indeed better community cooperation. However, the purpose for which a particular religion was envisioned by its creator(s) is not necessarily the function it came to fulfill for some part of its existence.
Hi! Artist in question here.

This is what I'm exploiting with the paused glitches. When you interrupt the signal between the source and the VCR, you end up getting strange artifacts in the paused image. Because the image wasn't fully transferred to the tape, you're basically laying bare the extent of the distortion. Another interesting bit is when the color data goes, and all that remains is black and white information, the pause state gets even funkier. It moves and jitters when paused, and even tears off the screen at times.

It's all sorts of fascinating.
If you want to serve web pages to most of the world, you have to have an IPv4 address, and that will continue until IPv6 adoption is well above 50%. Yes, there are places offering discounts for no-IPv4, such as lowendspirit. I have one. I have to bounce through another shell account to get to it as neither my home ISP nor workplace supports IPv6.
Lucero is pretty good, but $50 or more per liter.
On one hand, you're completely right, on the other, I wish I could block all GIFs from Slack (or just not get notified about them). That kind of thing doesn't help me get work done, which is what I'm at work to do - not to share funny pictures.
Should also move your CSS include to the head.
It looks like it hasn't been announced yet:

[
While Facebook and Oculus VR aren't quite ready to reveal a price of the Rift, Luckey suggested that it'll cost more than the $350 developer's kit.

"You know, I'm going to be perfectly honest with you," Luckey said in an interview back in September. "We're roughly in that ballpark... but it's going to cost more than that. And the reason for that is that we've added a lot of technology to this thing beyond what existed in the DK1 and DK2 days."

While $350 may be too low, $1,000 seems to be too high. Elaborating on the Rift's pricing on Twitter recently, Luckey stated that Oculus VR has the backing of Facebook and doesn't need an immediate hardware profit.

"A company that has to survive on immediate hardware profit would have to hit with a much higher price - think $1000+. Not greed, reality," he tweeted. "1st gen VR users are being heavily subsidized by major players who want VR business to grow, though few seem to understand that."
]

Source of Above: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/120994/20160103/oculus-rif...
What difference does that make, ZenoArrow? Regardless of whether it is oppressive taxes or corrupt government meddling in the rewards of labor, if you steal what rightfully belongs to someone under the guise of "making things fair," those who can will leave.
Well they've paid back the money already (as of 2010 or so?) so I'm not sure that's totally relevant to what they're doing now.
See my reply elsewhere. Background images are bad meaning this isn't a very compelling argument.
A pre-pre order holding page. Before this webpage I guess we were in a pre-pre-pre order state?
Link without login needed:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-price-we-pay-for-sitting-too...
I just get the feeling VR technology simply will not work because the resolution isn't high enough, and even the most top-end monster PCs cannot handle standard resolution VR, let alone 4K or even 8K in the future.

Graphics cards really need a huge performance jump to make VR work, and given both Nvidia and AMD seem to be happy releasing a new set each year with only modest 20-30% performance gains then what does this mean for VR?
If a factual recounting of the way that something operates sounds condescending, the problem isn't necessarily with the speaker. Try explaining astrology without sounding condescending.
Reach out to other companies doing business with the government and try to set up a meeting. If they are above a certain size (typically in the $30M range for IT functions) they will have mandatory requirements to work with small businesses (up to or over 25% of the total work depending on the industry and government customer).

Get to know the small business rep at that company, and work your way up the chain. That's how we started out.

Other ways are to attend government events. There is lots of elbow-rubbing going on and you'll surely meet someone willing to bring you on as a sub so long as you have a solid value proposition that sets you apart from the rest out there. Be personable with them - don't ask for work right out of the gate, have a long-term view of the relationship.

Relationships are crucial. Meet people, vet their quals, and then maintain the relationship. "Give first" is a good mantra to have, as many large companies look for market intel from their subcontractor small business partners in exchange for getting recurring work with them. Sharing openly and offering something of value first has worked very, very well for us.
The New Yorker is, in my opinion, one of the better magazines running. They are somewhat overly oriented towards NYC, and have some issues with sneering at more rural areas of the country, but what do you expect with a title of The New Yorker? The articles are usually intelligent and cover a wide range of topics.
> The closure f does not capture the value of i at the time when f is defined, changing i after f was defined make nonsense of the idea of a closure.

Not sure why this "makes nonsense of the idea of a closure." You're closing over variables, not values. If you marked i using let instead of var, then you'd get the "preferred" behavior.
This might be a bit technical, but the company that received a bailout went through bankruptcy and re-structuring.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Chapter_11_reor...

So they didn't get a bailout that they are now using to "wildly speculate on tech startups" because all that capital has been restructured.

Many companies did get bailed out in a market where raising capital was near impossible and as a result recovered and are involved in investing in tech companies both equity and debt. Although I'm guessing your particular objection here is that they're a non-financial company and it doesn't seem to be part of their core business?
Animals eating other animals is the basis of much of life on this planet. If a fish eats crustaceans or other fish, is it less "good" than one that eats only algae? How about a killer whale, which clearly understands the suffering it wrecks?
The article is incredibly unclear or muddled:

> "but If I wasn’t at home with my kids it costs me something."

> "To create free evenings, Veenendaal limited the working day"

Or is it more like:

> "evening events like a recent programme of talks on the food chain."

Is it:

> "Flexible working policies can also raise the risk of poor working conditions"

Or is it more like:

> "And past the table a dozen people work at long desks on chains."

Is it:

> "while the blurring of lines between work and home life is stressful for some people."

Or is it more like:

> "for staff lunches, yoga classes" (Seriously, I can't get away from work even to eat or sweat?)
I've also thought about that a lot. I had a friend at a previous employer who considered starting a food truck business instead of doing software development.
Last I checked Bitcoin is servicing a little under a million bucks a day in retail transactions, Swanson always conveniently leaves out the dark market - which is the target demographic for bitcoin, and puts into question the honesty of his write-ups.
Angular 2 – React: a comparison
The author completely missed the point of named parameters. How am I supposed to know that the string argument of "make_window" is the title?
So you're saying a stagnant company in a stagnant industry that almost died should remain stagnant and not try anything risky at all?

It's not wild speculation for GM. They most likely have ways to work together. It's unlikely a completely passive investment.
And from Tesla too

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1098997_uber-ceo-to-tesl...
I'm not sure which way I lean, but I suppose there are two camps/use cases here:

1) People who regularly use one or a couple of package managers who can update all packages with a few commands.

2) People who regularly use packages from a variety of many different package managers, for whom running `update` for each one would be more cumbersome than just running updates on the packages themselves.

I don't know which way I lean, but I don't see the harm in having a self-update in the package so long as you can also update via gem, but maybe I'm way off-base.
Now the real question- go with Facebook and buy an Oculus Rift or go with Valve/HTC and buy a Vive?

The Vive has more features (like head tracking) but maybe it will be more expensive? There's been nothing but silence in terms of pricing of either of them... I do have a hard time justifying $500+ for a screen I'll strap to my head that will probably be obsolete in a year or two.

I will say though, I recently bought a Steam Link and a Steam Controller and I am pretty impressed with the quality of Valve's hardware.
Product Prioritization Should Consider Cost
Why would they? If you knew that the potential rewards for a given business risk would be stolen from you via the government, why would you bother taking the risk in the first place?
Funding Innovation – MIT Technology Review
In your provided reference, the first sentence Rob writes:

"Ever since Swift came out, I keep seeing weird comments that Swift is a functional programming language"

Swift is often promoted as being "functional":

http://www.raywenderlich.com/114456/introduction-functional-...

In fact, I've tagged many articles as functional in my Swift resources:

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html?q=functional&age=10...

Want to buy a book on functional programming in Swift?

https://www.objc.io/books/functional-swift/
Anyone know if the rift would work on the newest high end model iMacs with the AMD M390? Obviously still have to run it via Windows I assume but just wondering if it would even work on them.
FWIW - This is Joe Armstrong, one of the creators of Erlang. Definitely an old-school REPL/functional guy, and I love seeing him playing around with swift.

Regarding GUIs and IDEs: I think interface builder is the best ever way to build UIs, far more fun and comprehensible than web development. I totally understand why Joe wants to control every line of code and do nothing in Xcode-- when things go wrong in the IDE they can be a pain to deal with.

For me, I think there's several common stages of Mac/iOS developer:
1. Newbie- needs Interface builder because GUIs are all so confusing and he doesn't yet know the API.
2. Control Freak -- knows enough (and spent enough time struggling with Interface Builder, because IB isn't a magic box and you do have to know how things are working under the hood, and the Newbie often struggles because of this).. and so he wants to avoid IB and do everything in code so he has absolute control.
3. Starting to see the light-- tired of tiresome pointless repetitive GUI code, back to Interface builder, but this time understanding the underlying parts of it, and having a lot more fun with IB
4. Enlightened-- uses Interface builder for most stuff, but knows when and where to drop down to GUI code and generally only does that in a highly leveraged way.

One of the things I find frustrating about web development is there is no interface builder (though some people have attempted to create them in the past, they always seem to abandon them, unfortunately.) So you're always stuck wit the frustration of constantly defining everything by hand-- when the reality is there's nothing that should stop web browsers from being able to handle auto-layout the way that iOS does.

Anyway, if you've rejected IB and are finding GUI code a PITA, try using IB in balance.
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How can I monetize my new site http://www.hulucars.com/ without disturbing user experience. Now everything is for free