skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> however hard you look into the history of electronic music, there is one name you'll struggle to find – that of Daphne Oram.

Maybe I live in some kind of Oramic-centric bubble, but I'm pretty sure she's better known than most of the other non-rockstar names mentioned. Her name gets 58,000 hits on google, and last time I went to the London Science Museum there were bits of her kit displayed there. She's not a household name, but I think the article's claims of her obscurity are exaggerated.
tnx for the article, very interesting! Hyperinflation is definitly not what I would opt for. Still I'd like to have a system where every earth citizen has equal rights to earths resources and one where people who actually make the world a better place to live in should be rewarded somehow.

If you think about it, our monetairy system, salaries, social wellfare, taxes. Although not perfect, we kind of have such a system allready :)
They didn't claim Azure was at $9 billion. They said "commercial cloud." They use different terms for them, whether one thinks that is meant to be intentionally confusing is another matter.

The only number they claimed on Azure, was 140% growth:

"Azure revenue grew 140% in constant currency with revenue from Azure premium services growing nearly 3x year-over-year"
Thanks for sharing this.

I will definitely check it out soon, but since we're doing releases and are short on time, mind explaining the general headlines of this tutorial? Say if I do everything manual from development machines setups and installation of deps and packages, to staging and production releases, what will I be able to automate after applying your solution? And what steps won't be covered? Can you give me a detailed list of these items?
Not websites I know, but AOL instant messenger is really good these days. Gnutella is actually pretty alright. There was a brief cultural moment a few months ago in Shoreditch when some hipsters started using myspace again, but that seems to have petered out. I've heard it claimed that MetaFilter went through a bad patch and then recovered - not involved enough to know anything more about that though.
> The stable release has full support for Python 3.5, including the new async and await functions. So recent releases can pronounce it as fully supported which was quite a feat.

Wow. That is amazing! Pyston only supports Python 2 and PyPy is working on it.

Nuitka looks very promising.
https://github.com/atom/node-oniguruma
Well, there's "Feynman lectures on Computation"...
Jesus, how did nobody catch this before? The least a code editor should do is to match parentheses correctly.
Art is more than just creating visually appealing images, it's also about capturing intent. Until the point AI has its own intent, the images that are shared reflect the intent of the humans that interact with it. Can think of it as an advanced type of paintbrush.
IMHO, this is a very important project as it makes up for one of the biggest shortcomings in the Python ecosystem - distribution of software. Distribution is clearly one of the reasons that Go is so popular. It would be great if we could take advantage of Python as a language and Python as an ecosystem while still being able to deploy as if it was a walk in the park.
No Android app ? Is it planned ?
That's one comprehensive list of items, thanks for this.

I will take a look at Capistrano, Fabric, Ansible and SaltStack, in addition to the configuration management topic.

I think your advise of copying source packages and dependencies makes total sense, I have seen it happen at other places.

My question remains, how would I automate a developer's environment setup (machine)? Assume I have the OS installed and connected to the internet already. Can I use the tools you referred to for deploying these apps to developers machines? What would you say regarding Python's virtualenvs creation? Can that be incorporated into the configuration management tools?
Good point, thanks! We actually had one, but we removed it in the current version (it seemed natural for us but it obviously is not) - we will bring it back.

We simply have limited resources for servers, but still want to provide the highest quality possible in the free version. That's why there is a queue, but we are working hard to make the implementation faster and more efficient :)
Parse Server – Parse-Compatible API Server Module for Node/Express
Is it production ready?
Babylonian astronomers used geometry to track Jupiter
This ancient Babylonian map of Jupiter just changed history as we know it
This could be solved by using regexes to tokenise instead, then detecting brackets. Tokenising is something regular expressions can actually do well. Directly parsing source code is not.
I can give you a list of important things that you must focus on when you are new to the US. This will take care of the problems as well:

- Social security number (SSN): This should be one of the first things to get. Usually if you come for employment or as a student, your employer/college will help but this is definitely one of the first thing you need. You will get a card for this with the number on it. This number should be remembered by heart as you will need it almost everywhere when it comes to credit. See the items below. All of them require SSN.

- Credit and credit scores: To apply for a bank account, credit card or even a cell phone, you may need credit. There are services for people with no credit but you may be limited in the beginning. The best thing you can do is to convince a bank to open an account AND give you a "Secured" credit card which means that for a deposit of say $500, they will issue you a credit card. You start using it and hence start building your credit.

- One point about cell phones. Prepaid even though available that doesn't require credit, is not popular here as much. Most people use Post Paid cell phones with a fixed plan every month. The catch? You may get a nice phone with a 2 year contract for almost no upfront cost. But again, credit is required for post paid phones. So you may need to start with prepaid.

- Form of identification that is local. So, if you need to go anywhere where an ID is required, you could try to use your passport but that gets difficult in some places. The best form of identification in the US is a driver's license. Now, if you absolutely don't need to drive, you could always apply for an "State ID" within your state that looks like a driver's license but you cannot drive of course. One of the issues getting an ID could be that you need multiple proofs of a valid address within the state so that means until you have an address, it may be difficult.
For those who are interested in those early days of electronic music, the roles Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire played in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's history, and their respective lasting contributions to electronic music, are fascinating. This is a good starting point.

https://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr08/articles/radiophonic....
What do you hope to achieve by firing him? Admittedly storing PII on a personal laptop is unacceptable in most places, but I'm curious:

(i) do you have a policy and associated training so that people know what they should and shouldn't do,

(ii) was this employee ever required to use his personal laptop for company work (e.g. pre-funding)?,

(iii) was there ever a time in your company's past when you and others would have considered this situation to be OK, at least temporarily?

If he's doing things the way your company always did things, and hasn't been informed that you need to apply a higher standard, then why move immediately to firing him? Why not just ask him why he's storing the data that way, and figure out together how he can do his job whilst accessing the data in a safe way?

It's not clear whether you're trying to

(a) set an example for other employees to help ensure compliance with an existing policy,

(b) ensure that this particular personal laptop does not become the cause of a leak, or

(c) something else?
Pay cash for your ticket, leave your smartphone at home switched on (even script some stuff if you want to make it look like there's activity there). Boot into a live CD, make sure you use a spoofed MAC address (does TAILS do this automatically?) and keep your face away from cameras.

Should be pretty bulletproof against all but the most capable adversaries.
Software Freedom Conservancy Seeks 2,500 Supporters to Continue GPL Enforcement
This 'self-filling' water bottle turns air into drinking water
> It's inelegant, to say the very least, but it works just fine! I'm pretty sure I saw that technique used a few times during Twitch Installs Arch Linux, during the more exotic segments when some joker hijacked the effort temporarily by installing Windows 95, and TempleOS, and so on.

Don't forget Gentoo! That's precisely how they installed it.
Fun with automata: Constructing the minimal DFA for a given NFA is PSPACE-hard. There are families of NFAs with n states so that the powerset automaton has 2^n states, but the minimal DFA has 1 state. Example: Let Σ={a,b} be the alphabet, Q={q1, ..., qn} be the states. q1 has a self-loop with both a and b and a transition to q2 with a. q2 to q(n-1) have transitions with a and b to the next state (q2 -> q3 etc). qn has no transitions. q1 and qn are the only accepting states. This is basically the "n-th-to-last letter was an a" automaton with the modification that the starting state is accepting.
You can look at as them strings, some business savvy, maybe just good old fashioned dogfooding.

Also don't forget that if posted to Youtube, they'd be unavailable in several countries where Youtube is blocked.

... Gift horses.
Officials Gave Bottled Water to State Employees Months Before Flint Residents
Nice. Did a bit of reading on this, looks like high as possible quantum efficiency (across a broad spectrum) is what is desired.

You are right, most DSLR cameras lose about half of the QE to the rgb filters.
>“When I say trusted – I mean trusted,” he went on. “We disagree with some of the previous monetization strategies from an industry and business perspective, and have immediate plans to discontinue programs inconsistent with our being a trusted and reliable resource for the entire open source community. I think large and small project developers will quickly see that we are very serious about supporting their long term needs and that the industry will see we’re more interested in doing the right thing than making a few extra short term dollars.”

That does indeed sound promising. There's no way SF could ever compete with GitHub while it continues to include bundled malware.
Well, there's a reason people have been compiling a graveyard of Google products: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/map_of_the_week/201...
I find the way software is packaged in Go to be a terrible regression, but I'm more interested in why you think pip and venv's don't solve the problem for Python already?

Edit: I see from your reply that we're talking at cross purposes. I thought you meant source distribution, but you mean binary distribution to end users or deployment to production systems, and in that case I agree with you.
Nobody noticed the name similarity with Picozu (https://www.picozu.com), way older than this?
I think the point is that Microsoft's cloud services are rather more than Azure (even though Office 365 and Dynamics CRM share bits of Azure infrastructure such as AAD).
Theories on Artificial Expression
You don't even have to copy the installer, you can just copy an existing install in-place (just as you'd copy an image to a Raspberry Pi SD card).
Looking at their future plan, can we say they are aiming to build something like RPython, but instead of a subset of Python support full Python language?
In fairness, I built a fairly large app using CoffeeScript and it still took a lot of brainpower to read it compared to JS. All the typical complaints about ambiguous-looking syntax match my experiences exactly.

I ended up with a general workflow of having my Coffeescript source and the generated JavaScript sitting side-by-side so I could check that the output was what I was expecting. I've only had the urge to do that with ES6 and Babel a couple of times.
Yet Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA (and most likely a lot of other IDE's) successfully use AST's for their code editor. The syntax will only be broken locally, so it's not that hard to recover.
Maternal Obesity tied to increased autism risk in children
Early on they were a great site, then they let politics take over, either directly or indirect. The indirect story method happens here too, a moderately technology oriented or business oriented title but an article usually bashing one side of the political spectrum. /. screwed up because they let their bias be known and moderation was obviously affected.

Don't miss the site for it became, do miss it for what it was.
CoffeeScript is supposed to be this nice Ruby/Python-esque sugar for JS. It does resemble those languages, but it's not nice, it's very... stabby. Indentation is unintuitive and makes code do completely different things (whereas in Python it just delimits blocks, and if you get it wrong the compiler will moan at you). Functions implicitly return the last value they produce. You can omit brackets in function calls - but only if there's arguments, otherwise you've accidentally made a NOP.

It's horrible. It's a nice idea, but the implementation leaves so much to be desired. It's bitten me before and so I avoid it now.
Interesting, I thought Ikea products were the same worldwide. I guess the American version is made to standard/typical American office furniture dimensions.

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/S49061191/

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S49022524/

http://www.ikea.com/se/sv/catalog/products/S69022537/

http://www.ikea.com/dk/da/catalog/products/S69022523/

The Swedish and Danish versions have the same product code, but the British one is different, yet I don't see any difference in the description. Maybe it's just the different plug.

Americans also benefit from a warning not to be crushed by their furniture.
Being able to ship a self contained binary of your application is a very powerful concept, on which many seem to agree.

The way I see it, pip and virtualenv are not practical for deployment or distribution. You shouldn't have to download and install things during a production deployment. I even created a tool (https://github.com/objectified/vdist) to mitigate this problem, but it will always be a hack when doing it this way.
Secure delete has become quite difficult to achieve, if it is on a SSD then you may only be safe with an ATA command, but not all drives will even do that right[1]. It is even hard to be sure that you have over-written every block anyway, due to over-provisioning.

Filesystems can also make this quite difficult (and that is without considering snaphots), most journalling and log-structured filesystems break the old shred [2] program for instance.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/fast11/tech/full_papers/...
[2] man shred
Because turning the inference dial up often results with what Flow does: it shows the error at all the wrong places and doesn't show it at the right one.

Try adding the types to the function in your Flow example. The error will finally move to the last line i.e. Flow will actually become useful in tracing down the error.

http://tryflow.org/#e6512d9c847d504bba8be8b90427ffc3

I think Microsoft made the right call to demand function argument types. It doesn't cost very much at all, but it improves error messages tremendously. It might not matter in a tiny example, but I'd bet that Flow's behaviour can be frustrating in a large project.
Bigger thread on same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10993349
While this was a good read, should it not be titled:

# How I fixed the 'atom/language-go' package
If you can't read CoffeeScript then just compile it to JS. Result is more readable than most people produce in JS by hand.

For me CoffeeScript is just shorthand syntax for well structured, fast JS although I agree that ES6 is good CoffeeScript replacement (destructuring FTW) if you can suffer through braces, colons and `function` keyword.

TypeScript is all the rage today.
Smaller size: http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/S59061181/

120×80cm.
My brother and I are software engineers, but it didn't help us a lot in real life =)

Once we have noticed and I'm sure you also experienced a few second periods in your lives when you can’t control your actions, thoughts and emotions. As if a mechanism is activated that blocks your mind and body, for example, during a public speech. My brother and I wanted to face and overcome this strange feeling of helplessness in a funny way. So, we started creating private challenges for each other in real life. After a while, we decided to create a special web application for it and soon our efforts resulted in a totally free two-player game (www.freemind.today).

How it works? In short, you create a game and select a skill set (zone) that you want to improve. Then you invite your friend to connect the game. After that you start creating private challenges for each other according to selected zones.

Our goal is to help people improve themselves and the lives of those they touch. That's why the game is free, and we are happy to share it.
Why is Go packaging terrible? Because we are going back to static binaries?

I write and ship Go and Python code every day and I found that distribution is a great overall benefit - one, that some developers for some reason seem to ignore.

It's not just convenient for me, but for various other parts of a project as well: less moving parts is welcomed by ops, fast iterations help to meet the requirements. Overall a very positive impact for a reasonable price tag: larger binaries and recompilation overhead, when a critical library that is used needs a fix.
The most readable font on a matte surface won't perfom as good as a not-so-readable font on a reflective surface during a rainy night. So, again, it's more an issue with the material, not the type. As long as they don't use, say, palace script.
Rent, phone, bank account, car, employment. Credit scores are basically used for everything and a a recent immigrant you are considered worse than a bankrupt.
Depends on what content the page has and how the layout is in HTML. I have 3 ways of saving:
1. as a web page - HTML only
2. as a complete web page - HTML and assets (images, etc)
3. a copy & paste into Word or a memo program

a lot of web pages nowadays, especially in blogs have so much crap like tracking links and advertising. When I save via #1 or 2, I first go into Firebug and delete DOM elements that clutter up the saved HTML.

If I copy & paste into Word, it copies the markup info like hyperlinks. If I don't want this, I first copy into Notepad, then into Word, to get rid of this.
Everyone's time is limited, whether it's useful to you (or not), only you can say. You are basically implying that the time of other people is less valuable than yours when you say "please tell me why I must look at it".
Kindly explain, if WhatsApp doesn't show me ads nor do I have a paid subscription to WhatsApp then how is Facebook making money from me?
Both really, but the lack of a score is worse. Once you find out what this means it does not take too long to work out what you need to do.
Are Standing Desks Better for You?
Hi, skyline is a great work, here is my views:

1. Skyline has many built-in detection algorithms. Banshee only uses the 3-sigma rule.

2. Skyline's algorithms are pure and simple, without considerations of burr points, scatters (like counters).

3. Banshee comes with alerting rules management panel. Skyline's webapp is a simple analyzation results viewer.

4. Banshee uses the anomaly-factor trending (via weighted moving average) and skyline doesn't. The trending follows the analyzed score (which is to describe how anomalous the current metric is), thus, alerts only happen if the metric is anomalous enough (i.e. with a very big value) or if anomalous time is long enough.

5. Banshee has the management for projects, users, rules.

6. Banshee uses statsd as data source, skyline uses carbon.

7. Skyline uses redis as storage. Banshee has no external storage server dependencies. Metrics are stored on disk via leveldb, and rules are stored on disk via sqlite.

8. Banshee is young and skyline is no longer actively maintained...
S̶p̶a̶m̶ "Sponsored content" for a consulting service.
The artists who can stay in business are the ones who can picture completely new images in their minds eye and draw them. The ones that just transform reality a little are probably not going to do so well.
For what it is worth, pfalcon is a really incredible developer. I've built and ran micropython on one of my several ESP8622s and found the experience quite lacking.

Being a contributor of https://home-assistant.io/, I wanted to do a series of blog posts similar to balloob's on using the ESP for small home automation things ala:
https://home-assistant.io/blog/2015/10/11/measure-temperatur...

but exclusively with micropython. Funding this will allow this vision to become a reality.
President Obama Weighs in on the ‘White Oscars’
#تفجير_الاحساء+#السعودية+(متابعة+اخبارية)
thx a lot.
The trick is to not give two hoots about social pressure. Being on the spectrum can be an asset.
Dive into the Base7 OnBoarding week
Memory profiling in Haskell
Building Tiny, Reliable Docker Container Images
yea I like standing desk...www.idotob.com
> That's not how TM is supposed to work; it should not be possible for one atomic block to observe an uncommitted write of another atomic block.

well, transactions need to be atomic w.r.t each other, but what about their relationship to non-transactional code ? it might appear that this is just an 'implementation' detail, but, programs can contain unprotected references to shared variables (i.e., outside transactions) without creating malignant data races. so, both transactional and non-transactional code can refer to the same data.

this is where the notion of strong and weak atomicity comes from, and which is what the pseudo code was trying (probably unsuccessfully) to show.
No, there would be no lawsuit since Google was well within their grounds to reject his purchase. From their terms of service: https://domains.google.com/tos

3. Domain Name Availability. Google does not guarantee that Registrant will be able to register or renew a desired domain name, even if Google’s systems indicate that the domain name is available or Registrant is able to complete an order with respect to such domain name. Google cannot know with certainty whether or not a third party is simultaneously seeking to register the domain name that Registrant is seeking to register, or whether there are any inaccuracies or errors in the domain name registration or renewal process or related databases, including the various WHOIS or other Registry Operator databases. Google is not responsible for any inaccuracies or errors in the domain name registration or renewal process.

4. Registration Acceptance. Google may accept or reject Registrant’s application for registration or renewal for any reason at its sole discretion, including, rejection due to a prohibited, improper, unavailable, infringing or otherwise questionable domain name.

The terms of service give Google plenty of room to reject his purchase. Not to mention it should not have been available anyway since the WHOIS for google.com expires on 14/9/2020.

A case like this would be quickly kicked out of court.
I have some doubt that Chinese chess is popular in Japan and Korea
Mixpanel (finally) on iPhone
Japan adopts negative interest rate in surprise move
At 83, I decided to develop an app
REPL is not an "interpreter" in any way. These are orthogonal concepts.
Performance wise I never understood why ATOM is even used. it is lackluster compared to a notepad++ and there is a delay in every action: loading the software, clicking on a tab, on a menu, on an option. it seems to me like a very wrong idea to push the web into softwares