skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're interested in score layout, Steinberg are working on a new score layout application with (from what I gather) a lot of emphasis on layout flexibility, and there are a series of blog posts about some of the more interesting and subtle score layout issues, including how the other major notation applications handle edge cases.

The most recent post was http://blog.steinberg.net/2015/12/development-diary-part-12/

No disclaimers; I'm not affiliated with the product. Just a keen reader of the development diary.
Still widely used in the the UK for person-to-person transactions. Also for paying single-person businesses like plumbers, painters, etc. Almost all shops and larger businesses refuse to accept them.
Not all logic is the same. There's logic of the type: "this is what we want to show, and we only want to show it if X is true", and there's logic of the type: "here's how we calculate it and that's all the complex stuff that X depends on".

If you refuse to put the former in your view, you're making your code a lot more complex for little gain. But if you put the latter in your view, you're making your view unreasonably complex and hard to read.

Neither extreme is good. You need separation of concerns, but some logic really does concern the view directly.
Google has googleapis.com for hosted libraries and fonts, which is free to use. I doubt many people were hotlinking directly to google code repos.

If they were, I have little sympathy. It's entirely inappropriate to co-opt a repository hosting service as a CDN.
Of course, it will seem as if you are riding a tricycle.
Power to the property Renter – Techcrunch
Consider the Bigfoot stories. No evidence seems to be required.
Twitter’s Turmoil May Invite Takeover Attempts
It is very interesting. I wonder, however, if it's enough to isolate all relevant variables (this is peanut gallery speculation, I am not a scientist of any stripe)? The narrator explains that she is "an accident & emergency doctor [...]. Rushing around on my feet all day with strange working patterns". Never mind that the stress and adrenaline of such work must affect her body in some ways, she probably also moves quite a bit more than the average person. We're not told anything about her counterpart than her name, and that she's the same age and gender.
Be careful, opening crashsafari com your mobile will crash
Of course!

Plagiarize,
Let no one else's work evade your eyes,
Remember why the good lord made your eyes,
So don't shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize -
Only be sure always to call it please 'research'.
>Note: I bet many people didn't think Zuckerberg and others paid visits to the old guard to learn old lessons for IT

I see a couple of anecdotes, not a recipe for success, or even a pattern.

I agree that Silicon Valley arose from magic (or luck), and that it can't be recreated. But it doesn't need to be. The Valley will lose influence for precisely the reason it claims strength in the article; money and computer software can move anywhere, now more than ever. And mobility is increasing fast.

Technology development is diffusing, globally. Believe it or not, many people have cultural roots and don't want to leave their home town...or country. SV is still highly influential, but that will wane over time.
A "stealth blimp" has been sighted numerous times for at least 20 years now. It is said to be very large, just as you describe. The assumption is that it's an observational aircraft of some sort.
the pipes.
Uber gyrometer monitoring is the groundwork for the future of car insurance
Google code has been shutdown since last May.

AFAIK, Google uses code to host internal projects as well as open source projects.

Apparently some users were spamming and/or hosting illegal content for download. Instead of spending resources fixing what is essentially a free service to the public, they just shut it down and converted all repos to read-only mode.

At this point, I pretty much assume that any service that Google offers for free sans advertising exists to attract free beta testers. Eventually, it'll be converted to either a paid service or internal-only use.

Source: lots of time wasted migrating projects to GitHub.
Denmark where life is max 16 years

Is that actually the law or some kind of convention?

Wikipedia says otherwise:

In Denmark, a life sentence (Livsvarigt fængsel in Danish) theoretically means life without parole: that prisoners will spend the rest of their lives in prison. However, prisoners are entitled to a pardoning hearing after 12 years.... Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment serve an average of 16 years, more for cases considered to be particularly grave.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imprisonment_in_Denmark
If local banking market wasn't under oligopoly of a couple of banks who lock down regulation to forbid any new competitors, it would've happen a long time ago :( Sadly, although the start-up scene here is second only to SV, all of them are targeting world markets first, local just isn't big enough to grow.
The Epic Fail of Hollywood’s Hottest Algorithm
Not sure how it works in Denmark, but in Sweden the life sentence is also usually refereed to as being "max 16 years", or some similar number between 10-16 years.

However that is not quite the whole story. In Sweden, a life sentence is a sentence with no upper bound on the time, if you were immortal, you would be there forever. But, usually you are considered rehabilitated after, say, 10-16 years, if you indeed show signs that you have rehabilitated. Then there is no need to keep you locked up.

The "max X years" is meant as the number for which it took the longest time for someone to be considered rehabilitated. In the Swedish sense of it, it is not a "magic" number, but a case-by-case number.

EDIT: the user "nl" quotes the wikipedia article for Denmark in another reply which indicates it is more or less the same.
Unsure if it's totally related to cheque acceptance, but as I understand it NZ fares much better in the card payments realm because of EFTPOS [1] adoption. EFTPOS in NZ is independent of MasterCard/Visa/other credit card companies (but processes transactions for them). For a very long time in NZ bank-issued debit cards on the EFTPOS network have required PIN identification. The cost to a merchant of accepting a bank-issued (read: not MasterCard/Visa/Amex/Diners etc.) debit card on the NZ EFTPOS network is much lower than the cost of accepting a card from one of the big credit card companies. I presume this is because fraud is lower as card-not-present transactions are not allowed. I further presume this is the reason for the far greater rate of acceptance of card payments in NZ than in any other country I've visited.

I thought cheque books were a relic of the past until moving to the UK.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFTPOS
Solar Sinter: Solar-powered 3D printer that sinters sand into 3D objects (2011)
Accountability in Algorithmic Decision-making
Delay vs. latency
It's idiomatic ruby.

First as the conditional only has one statment it's preferred to write it in its shorthand way, so instead of

if a.bytesize != b.bytesize
return false

We start by writing

return false if a.bytesize != b.bytesize

And then unless is the negated conditional, so we rewrite it as

return false unless a.bytesize == b.bytesize

Which some peolpe (myself included) consider easier to read, the 'unless' is easier to note (more chars) than the '!='.
Tablets are hard.
The SOCs are not that much better than the ones used for phones (when they are not just the same) but they have way more pixels to carry around.

>But something is fundamentally broken with Android's abstractions

I think that the core problem is that Android has been built to be a multi process OS at its core with little regards for UI perfs. Things have been moving in the right direction since at least Android 4.0, but it seems that there is a lot of space to cover. Android has just got a RenderThread with Lollipop IIRC, iOS had one from day one.
Awesome GitHub Stars Organizer for Atom Editor
This blog series is great! :-) Now i have an urge to code a Jump 'n' Run too :D
Is the zero bit the computer happy bit?
Honest question: Isn't this approach one of the selling points of Go? The designers of the language decide what is the right way to do things, and then that's how it's done, leading to simplicity? It's not for me, but these restrictions are often pushed as a feature (others here have explained the reasoning in this particular case).
Isn't it more likely (though still unlikely by itself) that npm would shut down before that?
if it was that easy, google would have moved away from java years ago...
>It's also beyond ridiculous to think that a superpower like the USSR couldn't completely evaluate any material that came their way.

Communist Russia was coming apart at the seams, and it took the US many years to realize it. There's a lot of complexity.
Having a quick look at the crime statistics, France doesn't seem to be a hotbed of crime and violence at the moment.

According to what I could dig up from Google, it's had a homicide rate of 1.2 per 100,000 people and a serious assault rate of 299 per 100,000 people over the last couple of years.

Those are respectively slightly higher (1.2 vs 1.0) and significantly lower (400 vs 299, although data collection methodologies may be different) than the UK where I live, which is generally considered to be a reasonably safe country crime-wise.

(Didn't really have time to dig into other crime categories - would be interested to hear if they buck the trend.)

Not claiming your statement isn't true, but unless I'm misreading the statistics the effect doesn't seem to be a massive crime wave.
It is a very nice library. However be aware that it currently has issues in chrome if your page has several icons: https://github.com/ejci/favico.js/issues/85
A lot of cooking, at least in the US, is base 2.
It's a very religious idea that "the justice system ought to be about meting justice", particularly a Protestant / Christian idea. The very phrase "meting out justice" is a biblical one.

Secular societies are more interested in the outcomes than the moral righteousness of the system.
Docker has a build file. They're not entirely orthogonal.

It's also not strictly necessary to ensure dev/prod parity.
Please note that the linked URL is just a commit to remove support from code.google.com in go get, and add a warning to users trying to go get from it.

Also remember that while not very widely used, Go does provide support against this problems via custom URLs and canonical import paths [0].

And most importantly, whatever your programming language, remember to vendor your dependencies.

[0] https://texlution.com/post/golang-canonical-import-paths/
So if imprisoning people for beyond 16 years doesn't provide better opportunities for rehabilitation or reintegration, isn't that a reason to continue imprisoning them beyond 16 years in order to protect society from them?

As a family of concepts human rights often rely on the concept of dignity, so all law (or ethics) -- European, American, African, Samoan, Caribbean, Peruvian, whatever -- that is based on or significantly influenced by human rights often also relies on the concept of dignity. But yeah, as you say, the concept is so broad and, without a substantiating framework, generally empty of meaning that I can imagine that (though not how) some could use it to say that even 1) planning and intentionally murdering 77 innocent people and then 2) going on to remain unreformed and unrepentant of it shouldn't "justify the destruction of all of a person's future". (Though, thankfully, as far as I know, people who think like that so far either 1) lack the courage of their convictions or 2) lack the power (or both) to actually impose that view of 'dignity' on any society.)
Tc got the news wrong? Shocker there. Hn needs to ban tc.
This is incorrect. The single major demographic trait most likely to lead to arrest, higher conviction rates and stricter sentencing for the same crime is to be male. Being black (or to a lesser extent, Latino) is also a huge factor, as is being young.

The demographic of elderly Asian women, for example, is not more likely to get harassed by police, face arrest if they are or to be sentenced harshly in the event of a conviction.
I think parent wondered how it's possible that she remembered 16+16=32.

Children raised on positional decimal arithmetic are "supposed" to figure that 10+10=20 or 20+20=40 and then add/subtract 5+5.

Of course it's easier to associate 15 with 16 than with 10 or 20, but the fact that she immediately knew 2·16 and was able to proceed further says something about either her experience with binary arithmetic or some tendency to spontaneously count in binary.
JetBlue wants you to make your connection on their fleet
Maybe finds it easier to remember one large addition and to correct it with smaller additions.
That's not the only way there will be trouble. A more likely scenario is "We've been going over the numbers. To keep our costs down, we are making the following changes to our support of open source projects..." I'd be surprised if that didn't happen in some capacity in the next five years.
Even in countries that have maximum prison sentence length, people who are considered dangerous are still not let out into the public. They'll stay until they are considered rehabilitated. For dangerous people that have mental health problems, they don't get a prison sentence at all, but they will be forced to stay in a treatment facility until they are no longer dangerous to others.

At least that's how it works in Finland. The whole system is designed to get people to become productive and healthy citizens with minimal suffering, not to provide retribution.
Yes, it seems the more mainstream the program the more they feel they need to simplify it.
Ummm. MIT doesn't have any guarantees about attribution.

Not sure how their legal team came to the conclusion that the MIT license could be adapted to cover what it's explicitly written not to cover.

Why didn't they ask the community to vote on what they want rather make the decision in the echo chamber of narrow-minded toxic personalities otherwise known as meta.stackexchange.
Theming with CSS custom properties
I've played with CSS custom properties to make my personal website theme-able. Try the color picker on https://giko.it with Firefox or Chrome Canary. (color picker icon at the bottom right)
He makes a really good point about traditional teaching methods. What's the point with the obsession over 'the correct method'? If the answer is correct, and the method in question can reliably reach the correct answer, in my opinion, the correct method is that one, and it differs from person to person.
The problem is not homicides which have been consistently decreasing over the years. The problem is rather assaults, theft, cars burnt, burglaries, etc. Many of which do not even get reported anymore. For that reason the official statistics are not a good indicator. Alternative indicators that rely on surveys are rather used to measure the evolution.
I have the same problem. It's really annoying when I'm trying to tell someone about this great book, but I don't know who wrote it or what its called.
How GistScript is going to replace all of your favourite dev tools
To be fair they did give ten months notice so people had time to manage the change, and what we are talking about here isn't "correct" use for that service anyway (it was for source and issue management, not library hosting or a more general CDN).
I've flagged this editorialized title (Code.google.com was shut down, Go packaging is broken). Apart from being against the rules, it's intentionally misleading. It gives the false impression that Google Code shutting down somehow caused go get functionality to fail in general, which is false.

Go get works as always; of course you can't go get go packages on Google Code, because Google Code doesn't exist anymore! The link just points to a change that fixes some trivial Go test which didn't impact anything else; something that people working on Go have to deal with, not something users of Go have to deal with.

As for the news about Google Code itself, that was announced almost an year ago. The Go project itself migrated to git well before that, and of course, every Go package that's maintained also migrated off Google Code in the meantime. This is (misleading) non-news.
"You are posing two extremes: One where everything can be known with certainty, and one where everything is purely based on faith, and dismissing the potential of there being something in the middle."

That's not what I'm posing. My claim is that both positions involve faith, but the Austrians are conservative in their assumptions and systematic in how they build from it. To me that is more trustworthy than non-systematic and statistically insignificant approaches.

Your minimum wage paragraph doesn't bring me closer. I think we've reached agree-to-disagree. Fortunately, this is only the internet. What we say doesn't matter, my opinions are of no consequence.
Slide of the Talk CSS Performance of Milano Front End Meetup
It's about Liberty.

Trying to foresee all future consequences is pointless when you have no control over them anyway. Besides, how many lives have been destroyed by the War on Drugs? That requires second and third order reasoning, not simply a body count.
Yeah, I think imperial units are good explanation as well, if this is what you meant.
> What's wrong with that?

Vendoring external dependencies adds a lot of noise to your git history. Especially with github's UI it's easy to miss an important change because of skipping trough the vendor changes or getting the "too many changes to display" message.
Widely? I'm pretty sure that it's one of the least used methods for person to person transactions in the UK. If I had to guess I would put Cash, Faster Payment/BACS, and PayM (the mobile number thing) as more commonly used these days.

I used to pay my milkman with a cheque, but he's online now.
React and the economics of dynamic web interfaces
Because it very strongly reflects the guiding idea of what is best for HN given that 'petty disputes' are the opposite. They are destructive to a degree that is hard to imagine until you put a figure on it.
I was thinking this was where the article was going, but the solution ended up being a lot simpler. It leaves traces and notifies the user, though...

I suppose yet another way would be to make a copy of the executable before the overwrite, then restore it after gaining a stable SYSTEM shell.
Contrary to _dilerium's answer, I think this, in at least Sweden, was a quite significant factor. But that must(?) have changed now. During the last wave of immigrants coming to Sweden, the whole range of parties, except for the Left Party, made a 180 degree turn and agreed with the Sweden Democrats narrative. Even the Social democrats are now saying that Sweden is under a social and economic collapse due to immigration which was lauded by the Swedish Democrats.

See for example [0] (Swedish) and links within.

http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/internationella-medier-sver...
Kinda cool, but pretty bad on mobile.
Jessica Mauboy Sings Indigenous Version of National Anthem on Australia Day
Exactly the reason I love Rails, even though I'm not a fan of Ruby.
Choice paralysis or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis

It's really severe, but articles from DHH and Rails itself really really help with that. I can't really put enough emphasis how greatly that has helped me.
Why the calorie is broken
Building side projects
There is a popular [citation needed] children's song called Inchworm[0] that has a chorus that lists powers of two.

Two and two are four
Four and four are eight
Eight and eight are sixteen
Sixteen and sixteen are thirty-two

Everyone familiar with this song would know that 16 and 16 are 32.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchworm_%28song%29
That's an extremely narrow view of "secular".

Not all secular societies or people are consequentalists. Some are at least as interested in the moral righteousness of a system -- in its means, in its processes, in what it does on the way to its ends -- as they are in what that system accomplishes. There are secular humanist deontologists and virtue ethicists.
Also in physics, you can't get away with politicking and reading the Party plenary speeches alone. That nuke better has to work and is easily verifiable: Beria, the head of Soviet secret police, personally compared the mushroom cloud photo of the U.S. test to the Soviet one, to ensure the bomb was copied correctly.
Well, for personal use you can always decompile and modify.
This reminds me to Black Mirror's S01E02 ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2089049/ )
I'm with the president on this. Sure wish he'd actually do something, though.

As an example of what he could do, there are a few folks from both parties who share agreement that the prison system needs reform. It wouldn't have been too difficult to have co-wrote this piece with them. Heck, then at the end we could have read about the actual legislation sponsored, instead of him just hoping somebody, somewhere will send some to him.

Perhaps this president has a different idea of his job than I do. He seems very interested in pretending to be outside the system, dispassionately analyzing it, announcing where we've all failed and where we might do better.

This is a great skill for a candidate, and it'll probably serve him well after he leaves the job, but right now? Might be better to do less preaching and a little more compromising. Perhaps I'm being too tough on him. Don't know. Apologies if that's the case. I do note that observers from both parties have described him as being distant and disengaged.

This reminds me of the question researchers asked many years ago. Doctor A comes in and takes his time with you, he's polite and interested. Doctor B is gruff and rushed, doing only as little as he thinks necessary to get the work done. Which is the better doctor?

The answer is, of course, you don't know. Without seeing results, all you can really comment on is style. Ideally you'd want a doctor that had both technical and interpersonal competence. But without taking a hard look at what kinds of results occur, all a layman can do is comment on the stylistic nature of what they've observed.

So it is here. This is a very-well written piece. My intent here is not to criticize the president or play politics, simply to point out that the tech community has a lot of issues we care about, no matter what our party is. And there are a ton of folks who can make a good case for one thing or another. It's important that we sort out folks who can make a great speech but get little done from those who might not be able to put seven words together -- and could actually implement the changes we have to have.
I would not be surprised if stories of other worldly beings aiding in the construction of the pyramids of Egypt long after the pyramids are gone, becomes another fairy tale or at least a derivative in part of that theory.
Scientists already modify mosquitoes to produce only male offspring: http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gm-mosquitos-c...

I don't have any evidence, but I don't think that will work: life will find a way. But a modification that will let mosquitoes survive, but not bother humans (or animals), might be a good compromise.
Developing conversation with Facebook's controller
Broken Peer-to-Peer Finance is “Smoke and Mirrors”
Supergirl (Strange Visitor from Another Planet) Summary and Review
Professor who blocked a student reporter from reporting charged with assault
Researchers who altered what they found, often to put an anti-women slant on it.
Yes you can. NPM and Github. http://jspm.io/

(I have nothing to do with jspm, I've just been using it recently)
Obviously this is a mostly edge case. People Android phones and tablets aren't rebooting weekly.