skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are multiple pain points with the way the XMPP protocol is "organized":

* It's designed to accommodate as many use-cases as possible with a variety of actors chiming in with their own requirements

* a tiny core that doesn't do a lot, and a gazillion extensions

* when you want to implement a software in XMPP world, you don't have a clear view on what extensions you need to implement and what extensions are nice-to-have (other than word of mouth)

* corollary: extensions can move fast, some are new, some die, but the perception doesn't change as fast, so old habits remain for a long time (cue "PSYC said XMPP sucks") and softwares don't evolve to accommodate later improvements

* second corollary: since the bulk of what makes XMPP useful is defined in extensions, as a user you don't know which client or which server you should pick

* by design there's no reference implementation, which means you don't really know where to start

* it's XML, and XML doesn't exactly play well with recent languages (you won't write XML itself so you'll use what your language gives you, but it doesn't always map very well with XML)

To summarize, XMPP can do everything, provided that you know your way. If you don't know anything you will most likely be disappointed by your first experience, as a user.
I'm not usually affected by news like this, but I'm actually sad. This guy was awesome.
It's not technically possible for Atom to catchup with SublimeText in terms of speed, unless their is a big leap in quantum computing.
Prepare to be downvoted you clod. HN is about hacking and obituaries.
For comparison, BLE always uses scheduled rendezvous (B), and Thread supports always-on, and unscheduled wake-up type devices (C and A).

The downside of scheduled rendezvous is that both devices need accurate clocks, and they have to communicate regularly (once every few seconds) to maintain synchronisation.

Nice that LoRaWAN supports all three anyway.
from http://imba.io/guides

What is Imba?

Imba is a new programming language for the web that compiles to performant JavaScript. It is heavily inspired by ruby and python, but developed explicitly for web programming (both server and client).
I've opened a few issues and sent a some pull requests along to various MS projects (couple of bits shipped).

I've found them generally to be quite supportive and encouraging in the vast majority of places.

I've been un-acknowledged on a couple and have felt un-welcome in only one instance. (In that one case I'm pretty sure the words we were using were all English, but I'm not sure we had the same meaning... I walked away from that one feeling dumber than where I started.)

All said and done, I have been wildly pleased with my experiences as a Microsoft community contributor on github... Though would say that there is some variability as you cross teams.

As you'd expect from people.
Why CRM Is Important for Organizations?
Reddit has been dead for a long, long time now.
About a unique tech recruiter from Hungary
Yeah, I made a full convert with that one! He had a GoPro, but I thought he'd like the data overlay feature and I was right there. He likes to compete with his old rides and this makes it a lot easier to compare the rides as well as add some theatrical effect.
I was just thinking about Die Hard the other day. He was brilliant in all his roles.
The article doesn't mention AI.
Local Postings Application
Reminds me of the Anthem spreadsheet software in Douglas Adams' novel, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency:

"But the silliest feature of all was that if you wanted your company accounts represented as a piece of music, it could do that as well. Well, I thought it was silly. The corporate world went bananas over it."

"The yearly accounts of most British companies emerged sounding like the Dead March from Saul, but in Japan they went for it like a pack of rats. It produced lots of cheery company anthems that started well, but if you were going to criticise you’d probably say that they tended to get a bit loud and squeaky at the end. Did spectacular business in the States, which was the main thing, commercially."
Sealand, really? Who'd want to live like that? And how'd you finance it?
I agree with that: these languages often don't have devtools, so they have to look at the compiled output to fix bugs. This makes for an unpleasant learning experinece.

Once these tools fix the DevTools situation they'll be a lot more useful.
Looking at the antennae, I'm unconvinced of the claim that the second is better [though I'm not saying it isn't] because it's not clear how suitable it is as a spacecraft component. The older design looks like it would be easier to store for liftoff (in a cylinder); require a simpler deployment strategy (a linear actuator); and be less likely to poke a hole in a spacesuit during extra vehicular activity. Not that I'm claiming it was for manned spacecraft. Yet that's the sort of corner case where it makes sense to lift an omnidirectional antenna. A point and shoot parabola is the general case.

Parabolas fold and unfold well even when constructed from many parts because a lot of the parts are the same sku. The older design follows this idea by unfolding with a twist. The new antenna looks like it has more parts that are one off and looks like it depends on all of them deploying "just so" (i.e. it looks finicky). Again, the new design may actually be better. But without understanding the mission requirements, signal strength alone does not make the claim reasonable.
Yup. His music isn't even my thing (as it happens, neither are the other two artists I mentioned), but...if you can't recognize it, you aren't paying attention.
That's crazy. Fourty-Six, and his first role was Die Hard!
This is awesome! I love being able to host everything that my code touches. This way I'm sure it won't leave my company or the group I'm working with.
No it wouldn't, it would just allow more people to move even further out! I call this the law of constant misery; people continue to move further and further out as far as a roughly 45 minute commute will allow them. The better a transit system gets, the further the reach of the roads to the city center in 45 minutes, the bigger the city grows.

There's nothing that can be done to stop this without extremely draconian laws or turning public roads into very expensive toll roads, without ripping the roads out as Portland did.
I'm still using one of these "ancient" Thinkpads (an X200S). It's good enough for my purposes (audio recording, live audio performances, hacking on free software, Emacs, browsing the web).

I don't often find myself wishing for a more powerful machine. When I do, I run computations on remote servers.
Also both subways and highways have identical maintenance and operation costs of zero, which is kinda weird.
As a society, we have decided that some contract terms are unenforceable, as there is often an asymmetric balance of power between vendors and consumers.

For example, what if the tractor terms say that you couldn't vote Republican or you would have to surrender the tractor? Or you could only use brand-name repair shops. Or that you couldn't open the hood.

Farmers need tractors. It's not like they have the option to not have one and wait forever for a deal that's never going to happen.

Buying means change of ownership and just because you write something into a contract doesn't change that fact.

To finish your example, yes, I would expect the buyer to be able to hack the machine. They bought it and it is now theirs to do with as they please.
No, and No. The standard payment for plane crash victims is $170,000 per passenger according to the Montreal Convention [1].

No one pays sticker price for the plane, so they didn't play close to $261M. The plane was purchased in 2002 as well (payments started before that), so again, not $261M due to 12 years of inflation. There is also the airframe depreciation. The frame had flown 53,471 hours [2] of a 60,000 [3] hour minimum design life. The plane was not in like new condition, so the replacement cost would be far lower. The airline's insurance company [4] also picks up the tab for most of this. Finally, the scrap value of a crushed airframe at the bottom of the pacific? $0.

Sure, closure and being able to say it wasn't MH or Boeing's fault is great, but not worth much more than the $100M already spent.

[1] http://time.com/3763541/germanwings-plane-crash-settlement

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370#A...

[3] http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/aero_07/corros...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370#C...
Not the exact same thing but Google does this now for me on iOS. A lot of the time when I get into my car I get a push notification saying "X Minutes away from Y" where Y is normally where I am headed. Was a little creepy the first few times but now it's nice.
Step by step guide for new LibreOffice developers
Pointy Haired Bosses who need something to deflect blame onto in case things screw up. It's easier to assign that to an outside vendor than one's own subordinates that they are directly responsible for.

I've seen this many times and it will continue to happen.
So if i convince you to tell me your PIN code, then withdraw all your money from an ATM

Has your bank been hacked?
You can debug a Node application, my comment was with regards to a C# application.
I came here to ask exactly that. Sounds to me like learn a new thing just for the hype of it...
Medium sized stable businesses. Small shops can't afford them. Large shops (Google, Facebook) hire people and use open source software.
It doesn't? It's closer to Coffescript I think.

ur/web might be hard to get into for someone who doesn't have ML or Haskell experience.
You should get a simple programmable thermostat that just lets you put temperature at given times. Will automate away what you forget to do.
Sigh.

It's time for tea. Epic tea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eob7V_WtAVg
The article briefly touches on the manufacturing issue: "lets designers describe the forces that act on an object and then lets computers go off and make it. These forces can be structural loads or even manufacturing methods."
Version Control System for UI Designers
Do you mean you're looking for opportunities for spam?
Thanks to all participants :)
Thanks for sharing this!
I don't know what they were created for, but today they solve the problem of making a city grow integrated, instead of like a lot of small (probably poorer) cities near each other.

And they are the best tool for that job. The problem is that they alone are not enough, but any other option alone won't be nearly as good.
Sure people were harmed. JSTOR going down is a big deal. It's relied on by academics all over the world.
Brackets was quite nice for what it can do out of the box, but I found the community support very poor, so there's really not much more than that it can do.

LightTable was a clever idea that never quite fit my workflow, and which as far as I can tell is basically dead. The creators have abandoned it, and the surviving maintainer support is of the "pull requests welcome" variety. There are glaring bugs in basic features like inline eval, and maintainer response was a combination of "eh, we're cutting that feature anyway" and "fix it yourself."

Sure as hell doesn't give me any hope that this "Eve" thing their hyping is anything but smoke and mirrors.
I have found this list helpful http://ram.kossboss.com/list-of-sms-mms-gateways-for-phone-c...
An actor?
What carrier? Have you attempted it with a gmail account?
In Brazil, every city bypass we build becomes the new city center in about a decade. The city just moves there.
This is not the case with my setup. Win7 Chrome
Okay, if you want to be a dick about it.

I've had it handle 5GB+ files with no issues.

I've got a 6.3gb log file open in it right now.
Isn't that how most software "sales" already work?
I did a 10 day workshop with Jelle Bode last February and found the same thing. The combination of active and passive meditation, silence except for answering the question "Tell me who you are.", no alcohol or caffeine, and no outside contact really works if you give it the time. My personal clarity occurred in the afternoon of the seventh day. I wonder if that timing is similar for everyone.
I get a little confused when people say they "compile" x scripting language into y scripting language.
JSTOR cannot magically put documents in the public domain. It needs the permission of the original publishers. JSTOR is responsible for scanning a whole ton of old journals which would otherwise only be available as physical copies in libraries. Nothing JSTOR has ever done has ever made anything less accessible than it was before.
The Actor
If I get it right, MQTT is just a PubSub protocol, i.e. it essentially carries the messages, but doesn't care about their contents.

Is there a standard on how chat layer (the content of published messages) is implemented? (I haven't looked into source code, but guess it's not just a plain text, but it has some structure to it.)
Once one of them started gaming the tests and nobody reported it, it's not unreasonable to assume others started doing it too. There are real costs to complying. VW has been kicking everybody's tail in diesel too, so I'd expect one of two things after they all had a chance to reverse engineer tdi, they'd buy VW motors for their cars or they'd do the same tricks.

It will be interesting to see unfold, it could very well end diesel in consumer cars which would be unfortunate as I think there are real values to the diesel cycle.
Brooklyn Dad Killed While Skateboarding and Clinging to Truck on Delancey Street
Try doing a find/replace/syntax highlight/multiple cursor/anything productive. Actually don't, your computer will explode!
House insulation is on average not as good, also.
Sometimes Google is a bit too eager – RIP Alan Rickman
Just watched Die Hard again couple of weeks ago, and every single time I watch it I love Rickman's excellent interpretation.

Losing Bowie, now Rickman, 2016 starts with a heavy heart...
Gruber killed people because it made his robbery more convenient. He shoots the corporate dipshit guy in the head just to emphasize that he is serious. How much more villainous can you get?
If you had ever been to Hogwarts you wouldn't need to ask that. Professor Snape will be missed.
‘We’re disrupting IKEA’: Hootsuite CEO launches $25 stand-up desk
Was it really just replacing each other letter with x? I can notice the string of x's with my peripheral vision. Also, the words must have been quite a bit farther apart than they are on my screen.
For me it means that I was able to look objectively at some of my ways of thinking and feeling and realize that I didn't have to do it that way. I was able to let go of the attachment to doing so and change my own reaction to things.

In the tradition I follow this is called "finding the listener".
From what i've seen, i'd agree with the parent. Specialists come in, often with MBAs, create their own empires. Generalists who helped build the company/process get layered with greater amounts of meaningless work, often making less than the inbound specialist.
Quite easy. I expected a title like: Snape (from Harry Potter) is dead.
My only regret is that I only have one point to give.
and what's the problem with this? License the software as-is and with no re-distribution rights, but grant rights to modify and extend the software as you see fit. If you want to sell your modifications, so be it, but you can't sell the original software, just your mods. The same way as software developers don't have the right to give away Windows software with our code, we just have the right to sell our enhancements... so in effect (if you remove all the semantics and legal claptrap), we do have the right to modify the software that Microsoft is selling, otherwise hundreds of thousands of software engineers would be out of a job.
Or/And, if safe storage exists at both ends, bicycle with electric support, which should increase the no-sweat speed even further.
between david bowie and this, cancer seems to be the midlife killer of choice . Much process has been made in heart disease, but cancer? Not so much. Once it's spread, you're dead. (2 years usually)
If Japan Can, Why Cant We? (1980)
Did John run rm –rf*? Why enterprises use session recording
Unless I'm mistaken, the way for a painting to actually look at you is unfortunately just to have the pupils dead ahead. Perspective on the painting then does the rest. Otherwise this would never even have been a cliche to riff on.
If I'm not mistaken, the case with statically linked binaries in Go is more of a "It's not a bug, it's a feature" situation than being touted as Go invention. Besides, they are rectifiing that one if I'm not mistaken.
Perhaps we need to start looking at arbitration clauses the same as we see doing business with some company is some distant country. Fine when everything goes smoothly, but expect to lose your money if it doesn't.

The way to look at it is that a company with an arbitration clause might as well not be in the US.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000614/
But wouldn't it be better to have a language/environment where prototyping is simple, but writing complex apps is also simple?
Imba is still lacking when it comes to devtools, but it does have full support for source mapping, and the sublime text plugin includes inline error messages from the compiler.
I like that the data is stored on dropbox, so that I dont have to trust even more people with my surfing data (instapaper/pocket).
> Once it's spread, you're dead. (2 years usually)

OK, this is completely wrong. There are several cancers which do not kill THAT fast in the first place, and several that can be cured with pretty good confidence. And it's often a matter of how soon you detect it - if you find it at Stage I, you have much better odds than if you find it at Stage IV.

Please stop generalizations like this.
Enhancing Images Using Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks
From the Intel section ( https://libreboot.org/faq/#intelme )

> If the manifest isn't signed by a specific Intel key, the boot ROM won't load and execute the firmware and the ME processor core will be halted.

So if I just overwrite a few bytes of flash on my motherboard (i.e. corrupt the signature), the whole thing is disabled? It says the _ME_ core is halted. But the main CPU continues to run? Are there side effects? Why is this not a solution?

Also: is there more (probably community reverse-engineered) documentation on the ME's specifics?
Nothing.

Just 99% of the people in a hackerspace are males and most of them are awkward in social situations :)
I am very sad for this (I am a huge Harry Potter fan), but I can not let pass a curiosity of which this event is part of.

Aaron Ramsey (Footballer player for Arsenal, UK) has a reputation for apparently killing off famous people when he scores. Whenever he scores someone famous tends to pass away, of course it is a big coincidence, but he did score yesterday too.

Also scored last week, and David Bowie passed away.

If you google it, he scored the previous day of the deaths of Colonel Gaddafi, Steve Jobs Osama Bin Laden and Whitney Houston, among others.
What is the meaning of life
For Facebook Messenger on iOS , the "return" button on the keyboard only creates line breaks. To send the message you have to click the send button above the keyboard.
Brilliant actor. RIP.
To be fair, you can still buy traditional building/home automation products. If you go through the list of vendors on the KNX website you see that pretty much every hip IoT device has a standards-based equivalent from those traditional vendors. Learning thermostats, IP-based video doorbells, smart lights, etc...

The difference is one of market strategy. The IoT devices are deliberately low-threshold purchases (cheap, easy to install) because they want to build a customer relationship that leads to extra sales. Nest cam, ring subscription, etc... Traditional home automation products instead are targeted towards a one-time sale of a larger system, so they focus more on ability to design the system how you want, with more standards support and more ability to integrate with other products, but also a much higher purchase threshold and a much more involved installation process.

In the end, you have to choose what you want. Do you want a single gadget or do you want a whole smart home system?
Option trader turns $900 into $21k in 2 weeks on market decline
Chill out. Of course they made it to benefit themselves in some way. They are not a charity.

The point is, they released it as open-source, which is what we are talking about in this thread.
"You just... (long pause)... know."
Really sad news.
It's not claimed, its real. Facebook and Twitter have this great thing where you can see into the minds of other people, and Al-Jazeera was trending the other day, so you got to see lots of people talking about it. Lots of hate, literally 100% because the name sounds Arabic.

Hate doesn't care about entomology. We're talking about a country that renamed "french fries" to "freedom fries" to protest one of our oldest allies, when the "fries" aren't even "french" to begin with.

Albuquerque doesn't sound Arabic. Americans are familiar with it, it just sounds funny, maybe Mexican, but it's still in America. Al-Jazeera has an Arabic logo, Arabic anchors, and an Arabic name. These are people who key in on the president's middle name of Hussein and use that to claim he's a Muslim terrorist. You honestly think they wouldn't blink an eye at an Arabic news channel?

People are perhaps a bit more xenophobic than you think they are.
Wow it has been a rather shit start to 2016 :(
Excellent way to get hacked - a SSH proxy is a MITM by definition, hence no useful hostkey validation. Yay. (Perhaps solvable by "no connection to actual server allowed except via proxy" and instances using different hostkeys listening at different ports on the proxy server)
Epic Tea Time with Alan Rickman
You trust Dropbox?
Unfortunately FreeBSD doesn't even have working sleep support, and hardly even a nod to power saving, whereas OpenBSD supports this automatically on all the laptops I've tested it with.

Makes no sense that the more niche, security focussed OpenBSD has the much better laptop support, until you consider that OpenBSD devs actually dogfood it on their laptops.

Many FreeBSD devs seem to run Macbooks for development, using FreeBSD only in a VM or via SSH.
Vale Alan Rickman.

Personal aside: When driving, my partner and I always refer to a certain town west of London as Alan Richmansworth, I think simply because it is nice to think about him. Sad news.
Well one difference is that Gautama was an atheist. That makes it different almost all other major religions. Another difference is that he kept on emphasising on practice and self experience (to improve one's life) than theory/intellectual-discussion and blind belief. Also self observing and believing only that much which one experiences himself and take it step by step. This is unlike asking someone to just believe and accept something as a fact.

>I just wish people recognized Buddhism for what it is - a religion.

There was no one ordained by him or any religion proclaimed by him on his name. Around his words later there is a whole religion of buddhism that came up with many different kind of practices and rituals. You could follow none of that (this religion and its rituals) and just live by the principles by which Gautam Buddha "lived" himself and could have a better life.
All these languages du jour should go out of their way to answer the question: "why bother?".

10x faster than react. OK cool. Except unless it has something like react native it's irrelevant if you might want to write an app in future with any sort of code reuse since you'll be tied to the web (unless you want the inevitable world-of-pain of trying to integrate this preprocessor into your xcode/android builds...).