skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a simpler explanation for why evolution doesn't get stuck in local maxima is because the environment on earth hasn't been static. Resources get depleted, animals migrate to different habitats, mass extinctions occur, competitors enter and leave, etc. All of these change the balance of which genes aid survival at any given time and make a mutation that might have bad at one point good and vice versa.
Who are these non-JS users. Can you point to some statistics here? Using developer time on it seems more wasteful than trying to support old versions of IE.
What happens when you're startup blows up?
Afraid not - I only ever wrote Perl for employers, for my personal projects I used Python.
What potential security vulnerability do inline styles have?
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10880780
Utilize your CPU power – Mario Mulansky – Meeting C++ 2015
For the tower of babel that is linux mdadm/lvm/... I agree, but ZFS really is trivial to get running, and easier to use than multiple disks - rather than worrying about what I put on each drive, and manually doing backups, I ran a couple of ZFS admin commands three years ago that told it to put all the disks in a big raidz, then stopped worrying about it. When a disk fails I replace it and run one command, no messing around restoring from backup / changing shortcuts / reinstalling.
> I don't see much of an alternative to panic on bounds checked indexing error

Returning an Option. That's what Elm does:

head : List a -> Maybe a

get : Int -> Array a -> Maybe a

It tends to drive people towards not indexing collection (which is often good).
... which is, essentially, an XML-based external DSL
For anyone trying to find the website on the WaybackMachine:

The BowieNet domain was davidbowie.com, not bowie.net (as noted under the screenshot in the article).
You can speed up any given instruction basically in two main ways:

Increase clock frequency or do more per clock.

Increasing clock frequency is tricky because you end up spending more and more of chip area to keep the clock in sync, and the chip will also run hotter unless you also manage to lower voltage drastically (which has its own problems); I don't know what it's like these days, but one of the DEC Alpha CPUs spent 40% of the die area just to keep the clock stable (because basically "everything" on the chip is contributing to skewing the clock one way or the other)

You may have noticed that clock speed increases have tapered off drastically. They're hard to do without ridiculous power usage. IBM's POWER CPUs still chase clock speed, because they're not as limited by the same constraints (targeting very specific niches).

The other alternative is to do more per cycle. That means trying to squeeze out whatever parallelism you can from the instruction stream and executing as much as you can in parallel. To be able to execute in parallel, you need multiple copies of various parts of the logic so each copy can process part of the work for one instruction.
Elasticsearch replaced Solr as the most popular search engine
Compilers are lazy denotational interpreters
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2000, in fact.
> One of the best "mainstream" albums in recent times was Kanye's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJae2OpoHeE , his latest YT video is basically an ad. And while I tried listening to some of his other melodies I found out that most of them are about his material accomplishments, and that's about it. Or maybe this is all a post-modernist thingie where this is a veiled critique about today's society, in which case I'll pass.

For comparison, take this IAM piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uQ_X6nQ8xk , which talks about real people with real problems from the real world. They're miles ahead in terms of artistic performance and impact.
Strangely, it didn't work at all on VirtualBox on Ubuntu, but worked on a Windows 7 host.

Thanks for the hint!
It's Yo messaging app but we can do more things using magic words.

"magic words" have endless possibilities, Interesting to see in future that, peach keep inventing new magic words their own or allow to other third party for creating own magic words?
Are you running the same architecture? assuming Remix is a 32 bit download.

e.g. I have previously had problems with virtualbox and a 32 bit guest on a 64 bit host (old cpu/chipset combo)
You can automate this with the prioritize_critical_css filter in the PageSpeed module: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/filter-...

(Disclaimer: this is what I work on.)
The wealth of the US middle class is already taxed heavily. In my part of the country it runs at about 3%. This tax is more commonly known as a property tax. Since the middle class carries most of its wealth in the form of equity in home, this wealth tax falls disproportionally on them.
The same way it would be easy for crypto companies to build a backdoor, in that if you dont understand the problem, it is easy to solve.

edit: (and remain secure)
"Rights" are all arbitrary rules in an artificially constructed system. As an organism in the state of nature, the only "right" you have is to use your natural abilities to kill, eat, and steal from other organisms. When you impose a social organization that takes away that right, which is the only truly fundamental one, any rules you layer on top of that are arbitrary.

Consequently, society can, consistent with ethics and morality, recognize a right to hold property, and just as consistently recognize exceptions to that right such as for payment of taxes.
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Well, given that it predicts half of the Netherlands will be flooded with just a 1m rise in sea level, which happens about twice a day, I'm a bit sceptical.
Think about all the different computers connected together it took to get this web page to your eyes. All those network nodes, routers, the billing for your ISP, the CDN, all the security related, etc. How did those things even come into existence? Think of the tools the humans used to work on those things. Think of the energy it takes to run all those systems. Think of the entire fuel supply chain, power generation, transmission and distribution. All that takes millions of computers. Think of transportation, defense, biotech, astronomy, music, film, games, litigation support, to education. Computers run everything. "Basic" agriculture and land management is even wholly revolutionized by software. The world is a big place. Applied computing is unfathomably far reaching. Further, applied computing relies on development tools, operating systems, microprocessor design, fabrication advancements. Don't settle for a career in something that you find boring.
"If the Canadian government is serious about long-term growth, it must focus on how it can build cities and policies that attract people and businesses. But we have not been headed in the right direction on this front."

YES!

I live in Quebec city and there is a rampant idea in the population that the status quo is the only way forward. More petroleum exploration, larger highways, big government mining investments/subsidies initiative like 'plan Nord', big fat houses in the suburbs that you can spin after 2 years for 20% gain... we never allow ourselves to think outside the box.

I'm glad the US is 'embracing' successes like Space X, Tesla, Uber, AirBnb, ... to really show us what innovation looks like. You CANT innovate if your mind live in the status quo.

With the $CAD drop and the rise of remote work we should also expect a massive brain drain... although it's anecdotal, my brother just accepted a job (remote from Quebec) for a US-based company at double the salary he would have got from a local one. That can't be good for locally-made innovation.

Refs:
http://www.petrolia-inc.com/en/corporate/projects/anticosti-...
http://plannord.gouv.qc.ca/en/
I read that link but it doesn't say anything about MapQuest Open using Mapbox and only discusses their consumer product: http://www.mapquest.com

MapQuest Open is separate from their main product and commercial developer offerings: http://open.mapquest.com

I don't see anything on the MapQuest Open website that indicates they use Mapbox to serve their OSM tiles.
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Have you compared with a modern typed functional language e.g. OCaml, F#, Scala, Haskell? I'm pleased that Rust is making a lot of these functional things more mainstream, but for normal application code where GC is acceptable Rust adds a lot of unnecessary overhead.

(Personally I use Scala, but using Maven for dependency management rather than SBT. It doesn't tick all your boxes (in particular I'm thinking of one specific member of the "community") but it's close, and deals with a lot of your minuses)
Understood who should really address the problem, but if RemixOS doesn't have an interim solution we might see the same catch-22 here as we often do. App developers will care about these things when it matters commercially, and consumers will care about them when the apps work.
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Agreed on the brain drain. Toronto is a major (and expensive) world city. From talking with friends, 100K (Canadian, that's 70K US) is the ceiling for intermediate to senior developers. Junior devs make a lot less ... 50-60K (that's 35 to 42K US)!

That said, free healthcare counts for a lot. Also, as a dev in a Canadian tech company, you are probably not going to see as much stress and volatility as your average Silicon Valley company.

The high property prices are messing up lives of young people who don't have rich parents. In my friend circle, I can see it as a key source of strife among married couples. Buying a house ties you to a city .. even if you get a better offer some place else. I don't think real-estate is being recognized as the beast it is. The last Bank of Canada rate decrease seemed only about oil prices and oblivious to the flames in YVR and YYZ housing.

Sigh ... what a mess :(
Ansible 2.0 released
Thanks!
Worked for me on Win7 host, but not on Ubuntu host.
Must be a Virtualbox bug.
There really needs to be an option that users can turn on to block all @ from people they don't follow. Even temporarily, say for a period of a month at a time.

I'm also a fan of the "reddit gold" style idea of cheap paid accounts that don't necessarily have to be paid by the account holder. That would make it easy to allow people to filter out unpaid unknown accounts and raise the cost of abuse.

The underlying problem is that comment moderation is a kind of emotional labour that can be fairly gruelling at times, and it needs suitably paid staff to do. Attempts at automatically dealing with it are very much like the early days of spam fighting: not very accurate and constantly shifting. But whereas spam is broadcast, abuse is targeted.
I very much doubt that he thought the Internet was invented by Gore in 1997. Expand your time scale to the level of the point he's making, and yes it did just arrive.
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I’m a front end guy and I hate dev environments
Besides this, middle class doesn't have the ways of the higher class (to influence legislation and hire experts in avoiding taxation).
> We see something like this in the EU

The EU net neutrality legislation has specific exemptions for precisely what Facebook wants to implement in India i.e. internet.org [0]

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/27/eu-net-neu...
It's just salt and glutamic acid (naturally occurring in mushrooms, tomatoes, etc), and it immediately dissolves to each of those components in water. Usually the problem isn't with MSG but with too much salt at places that also add MSG.
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I have no idea about the popularity, but something like https://github.com/Chris00/ocaml-rope ?
FWIW, Paypal rendered as completely blank pages (home and login / payment pages) in FF/Ubuntu until a couple days ago. Not sure when this started, but I've seen it before on some of their payment pages.
They've actually started increasing now. Intel will raise the price of its highest end chip by 50% ($1000 to $1500 by adding 2 more cores), and it has effectively raised the price by multiples for Atom chips by calling them Celerons and Pentiums and removing the real Core-based Celerons and Pentiums from the market.
I was recently in Calgary. I found the people there friendly, polite and nice just like all the Canadian stereotypes suggest. I would love to live up in Canada, but HOLY HELL is it COLD! I couldnt deal with that. I was just in Calgary, I cant imagine Edmonton, Red Deer or the like. Is it just as cold on the east coast? I would imagine it has to be.

Signed,
Someone from Houston, Tx
I made that mistake initially, and then saw the "_64" in ISO filename. But still couldn't make it work on an Ubuntu host, only on a Win7 host. I suspect it was a Virtualbox bug.
Have you looked at state agencies or consulting companies. The state doesn't pay as much up front but has good benefits and continuous pay raises. Consulting companies are good because they pay you less, train you then throw you at a client at full rates and expect you to "wow" the client. which as far as I can tell means work long "free" hours until you "catch up." But you getting paid and usually get to work at a lot of different companies.
A CBC (complete blood count) test is a class I...
You need to understand the setup of the European Union and EU state aid law. Part of the idea of the EU is creating a common internal market between the 28 EU member states. For creating a level playing field that is not distorted by state intervention, you have to prevent single member states from giving unilateral advantages to their own companies (ie creating "national champions"). So if member state A gives an illegal subsidy to a company, you could of course fine member state A to prevent this behaviour in the future - but you would not be able to remedy the distortion of competition that already occured because of the subsidy. It is much more efficient to order member state A to recover the illegal subsidy they granted to the company in the first place.

It is quite telling that the Belgian government in this case is actually going to appeal the Commission decision - although the Commission decision would lead to Belgium being granted 800 million Euros!
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No autoconf seems like a given. The whole reason for autoconf is to deal with the myriad different versions of C compilers/environments, a problem a brand new language with only a single compiler will not have.

We will see what happens when a vendor write their own Rust compiler that has its own idiosyncrasies.
> CSS loading/parsing is render blocking.

Sometimes. Sometimes not. The problem is that browsers disagree on when it is and that some of them block way too much, which leads to the ugly workarounds.

There were some proposals for a <link rel="async stylesheet"> that didn't really seem to get much traction so far, but they're really the right way to solve this problem.
Well at least they didn't give away the real Darknet
For those who are interested in using the system, get a copy (either physically from a library or search for one of the PDFs scattered around the net) for Martin Reiser's 1991 book "The Oberon System: User Guide and Programmer's Manual". It describes a version of the system which is quite similar.
We had a gov't for 10 years full of "Calgary-school" (Canada's right-wing ultra free market economic ideologues coming out of the University of Calgary econ/poli-sci program). They were overwhelmingly driven by an oil and gas agenda. From the gov't down to mutual fund investors, everyone was treating our economy like a one-trick pony, all oil and gas.

If you listened to people talk, Alberta's oil sector was supporting the whole economy. Snarky message board comments from people from out west (where I'm from originally, BTW) making comments about Ontario being a "have-not" province being propped up by the superior entrepreneurial hard-working western oil sector.

Meanwhile through all of this as a % of GDP, exports in manufacturing were _still_ triple those of oil and gas. Ontario's beleaguered auto-sector was still the primary export in the country. Followed by agriculture and other sectors.

I said it at the time, and now it is obvious. They were lying through ideological teeth, and telling a story to the country about resource driven prosperity which was factually incorrect. And it has led to our country as a whole inheriting many of the problems Alberta as a province has been plagued with for decades: highly cyclical, with a political culture verging on corrupt, and environmentally dirty dirty dirty.

And I'm afraid the new gov't is only half-heartedly interested in remedying any of this.

Ontario and Quebec could be the "Germany of North America"; the deliberate assassination of our manufacturing and engineering sectors by everyone from federal gov't officials to fund managers has been disgusting. We have a heavy infrastructure debt, are saddled by decades of ideologically-driven mismanagement, and an ineptitude at actually getting anything done.
I mentioned in another post the intelligence effects of having so many devices both connected to the Internet and watching for various things (license plates, faces, cell signals, etc) This is the sort of thing that you should expect to see more of, combing IOT sensor databases into comprehensive surveillance security products.

Now imagine that a security company put into their protected properties an IMSI catcher type device. Could have sped up this investigation (and will in the future)
A config driven Node.js framework implementing json:api
Just because one person doesn't want it doesn't make it a hostile takeover. If the board votes for it and a majority of shareholders approve (as would seem to be the case in your example) then it's definitely not hostile.
Does Chrome still use SwiftShader? I've tried on a reasonably large number of machines to verify this, with no luck. Including machines that have blacklisted GPUs.

It's clear that there seems to be some cases where it kicks in (or at least theres some legacy cruft that references it if not) but hell if I've ever seen it happen.
Your San Francisco Bay Area population is way off - I'm guessing you actually mean San Francisco proper (not the entire SF Bay Area). Checking my former zip codes it does not seem to extend out into the East Bay yet.
I don't think that will be a problem to start. We talked that we would still need to advertise to get people in.

Since I don't have a clue who could "maximize societal benefit" it would be first come first serve. For the last decade I've been working with Middle and High School students I've been blown away by their creativity. And then there is that 70 year old woman that makes those great metal sculptures. How do you choose?
You don't need sustained human powered flight, you could simply launch a glider. And yes, there are wooden gliders. Suppose this guy had cargo culted freight planes: [1]. The wings he used were rubbish and how he controlled them was even more rubbish. Don't you think he would have done much better had he seen a flying cargo plane ? (Especially given that this guy's huge mistake, that sadly killed him, was lack of a tail on his glider. Or if you think that back part is a tail, the distance between the wing and the tail is too small for it to work as a tail)

Aviation is like Greek science : for a millenium it was stuck in a local optimum. They had seen a working wing design (bird wings) and imitated them, and kept imitating them, failure after failure after failure after failure after failure after failure, for close to a thousand years, or ore if you believe that Daedalus and/or Archytas actually tried it. And while Daedalus sounds a bit incredible, Archytas is just barely on the side of what is achievable. It took someone touring Europe demonstrating a circus trick (lifting a man) with a kite imported from China to make them realize their mistake, or at least make them try something even slightly different. Then, having seen the kites lift people, people tried other wing designs it suddenly took off : less than 50 years until we had stable gliders (God help whoever tries to use a kite for flying, something I learned as a 7 year old. Umbrellas work better, at least stability wise, until they break), another 70 years until we had stable powered flight. Another 15 years and we had commercial airlines and weaponized airplanes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lilienthal
Arguably, MSG itself isn't unhealthy (in limited doses), but it enhances taste so much, that it's often used to cover up for poor quality or even expired products. For example, lower quality hot dogs without MSG and other additives are basically inedible, for the same reason junk food is tasty as well.
Would a trackpad that does the touch/gesture input not address and resolve all these set-top-box style arrangements?
With additional information, this might make a good "Show HN".

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
If guess you could irritate users or trick them into clicking something they don't want if you are able to position elements on the site, maybe DoS the browser or fake the identity in a comment box. CSS is quite powerful.
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A <script> tag will block DOM tree construction and rendering in browsers but will not block scanning ahead for things to load (and at least in Firefox won't even block tokenization of the HTML). So if you have a <link rel="stylesheet"> at the end of <body> it will likely start loading even before the scripts before it have had a chance to load and run.

A bigger problem is that in some browsers (not Firefox, but iirc yes Chrome) that stylesheet load will then itself block rendering.
I have perused the source for Steel Bank Common Lisp, but it's far from clear if everything in the standard is documented this way or if one must keep a tab open to the Common Lisp specification for such references.
Do you think its more likely that all economists are shills who don't understand that datacenters consume power, or that economists model things on a shorter time scale than physicists?
Seems to be working - boots up to language selection (which I believe is a "normal" app), but won't let me choose any - mouse clicks register for language selection, but not for the "next" button, keyboard: nada :( Cursor only updates on LMB held down (with mouse integration and without). I think there's more work to come back to desktop-ish user expectations.

W7, x64, VBox 5.0.2, Windows guest w/ 1 GB RAM
Nice idea! Here's an alternative which uses ES2016 decorators https://github.com/mgechev/aspect.js