skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a classic which I have been forcing my friends to read for years. I had no idea it was written by the same author.
No, there used to be caching before they switched to the redesigned iOS app.
I work at NASA Goddard where JWST is being assembled and by coincidence I went over to look at it today and take a picture. Looking at it from the observation area, I am once again reminded how enormous this thing is! Getting a look at something like this can help restore one's perspective, when one is having a bad day, and be reminded of the amazing things that are done here. I am not attached to JWST but the group I'm currently in did some work on the detectors years ago. NASA has a lot riding on this instrument, to be sure. I look forward to the amazing things it will show us when it's finally on station doing science.
So, if you're okay with me locking a package myself... why can't NPM just do the locking for me? That's what's happening with this new change.

After all, I'm not a developer because I like administrative work – I want to build stuff, and NPM takes the hassle out of this.
Hah. Fair.
Who knows, but there's this vision of home automation that google has bought into and thinks it can sell. The logical place for your home automation 'master' is your thermostat. Everyone has one and having a nice one is well... nice and centralizing it as a sensor hub makes a lot of sense. Google saw Nest and knew it had a lot of potential, so they snapped it up. Now they're trying to sell us on this idea.

Personally, I'm just not seeing it. The idea of a centralized or master system is old fashioned. People will just buy automation as they need it. So I'll have an app on my phone for my Ring doorbell, another for my garage door, another for my security system, another for my lighting, etc. Google is betting that people won't want this and want an Apple-like experience of just having one vendor perform all their tasks, but people without SV salaries aren't going to casually drop Nest-like prices (total cost of the system with multiple smoke detectors is in the four digits) all at once and they might resent a high level of vendor lock-in. They'll just pick up random automation pieces at home depot for $99 each now and again and just install a new app as needed. Its not a terrible inconvenience and so what if my doorbell can't talk to my thermostat.
Well, sure, but it's not that nobody was paying attention to lifetime error messages. It's that it's really hard, maybe impossible, to make lifetime error messages make sense for those who are unfamiliar with lifetimes.
Existing, old school carpool programs don't check to see if drivers have insurance, so how is this anything new?
>... is a lot like good science. You start with a firm understanding of the system, form a hypothesis about what could be wrong with it, test your hypothesis, and then repeat. The stronger your initial understanding of the system, the faster you can debug things.

>They're the best because they can clearly visualize the system, how data is flowing through it, and where potential problems might arise

This also applies very well to appsec/vulnerability finding.
Insurance and regulation arbitrage is basically the name of the game for Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb as far as I can tell.
Possibly related: Frontier, at least in my area, went down last night for a few hours.
But its volume and thermal mass are somewhat out of normal range for space heaters.

Also, after watching the very impressive video about many of the things he learned from the whole process (with hardware that's only 12 years old!) it turns out that since he's not putting any real load on it the power consumption isn't really that high.
While the support in this release is fairly simple, it already unblocks lots of use cases. Distributed "stateless" services should now be super simple to do in a multi-zone HA manner.

If you find that you're still not able to run your system multi-zone (e.g. because of the need to be attached to your PersistentVolume), the next releases (coming in just a "few" weeks time!) will keep building upon this. I'd encourage you to either send mail to the Product Manager (TheIronYuppie) or shout at Quinton during their SIG-Federation meetings.

Disclosure: I work at Google on Compute Engine (but Disclaimer: I don't actually work on Kubernetes).
What exactly would they do if I sent them a DMCA takedown notice as soon as I requested that my package be unpublished?
> Where is the reflection on the kik Dispute Resolution process?

They already had a substantial blog post reflecting on that part of the incident, including what they feel worked and didn't:
http://blog.npmjs.org/post/141577284765/kik-left-pad-and-npm
> U.S. society has decided that it must be very costly for young women to have children—having children makes it very difficult to obtain the education and career experience necessary to effectively support young humans.

Do you have children?

The challenges that are brought on by children aren't unique to the US. Getting an education and/or performing at a high-level at your job are very difficult to do if you are raising children. Doubly so for women who are typically the primary caregiver for infants.
"Hafner told me that in the middle of the development work for DriveCrypt, he discovered that Le Roux was still working on E4M and had incorporated some of his work for SecurStar into his personal project. Hafner was furious. Because E4M was an open-source product, the source code that Hafner had personally funded, he claimed, could now be used by anyone to develop an encryption product of their own."

I've seen this a few times now (employer doesn't want employee to take knowledge out).
All of NASA will be on sedatives until this thing unfolds itself successfully. It's even more scary than the Curiosity sky crane landing system.
That's not much of a reflection:

>We stand by our package name dispute resolution policy, and the decision to which it led us.

There is no discussion of the transcripts, or the violations of the NPM Code of Conduct[0] that occurred during the takeover.

A very popular community member was harassed and NPM took part in it. I haven't seen this issue addressed by any NPM representative.

>Harassing other users of the Service is never tolerated, whether via public or private media.

>Harassment includes, but is not limited to: ... inappropriate use of nudity, sexual images, and/or sexually explicit language in public spaces; threats of physical or non-physical harm;

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/policies/conduct

NPM not only tolerated harassment, but sided with the harasser.
Come on. Having actually done Westerns, there is absolutely zero chance that the "bp"=base pair in that figure is on purpose. Western blot is a protein blot and they are always measured by their molecular weight (kDa). Base pairs would make no sense here. The numbers in the image are obviously kilo daltons.

How do we know the numbers are kilo daltons? Well, they say they're using β-tubulin as a loading control. β-tubulin's molecular weight is about 50kDa and that's what you can see in the image.

Also, look how the headers are not aligned properly in the image. As if the image is a draft.
Q&A with Tom Vincent, Data Science Engineer at DigitalOcean
Long form is awesome, but it's not for everyone. Have considered also publishing a summary document? (Instead of letting random commenters do it.)
It's a pity that you specify the docker image in the runner configuration. Wouldn't it be better if this is specified in the build file in the repo?
Humans for scale:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/JWST_peo...
Wealthy kids have access to toys others don't I knew what a modem was and why I wanted one long before I actually got my hands on one, because I'd seen American teenagers using them in movies, eg War Games in 1983 (which I rewatched recently and was rather surprised to find it still holds up for what it is). Also, there may have been no need to call internationally. When I was into home and later business computers as a teen in the 1980s in Ireland (which was then as economically benighted as SA for quite different reasons) things like porn, bbs software, and lists of 'interesting' phone numbers were circulated on floppy disks; I ran a safe stash out of my school locker because the teachers thought I was too nerdy to be mixed up with the 'delinquent' kids. A single sided 5.25" floppy seemed like oodles of storage space back in those days XD

I don't find this claim so remarkable, though it's certainly possible that the details are fuzzily remembered nearly 30 years later.
Ok down-voters. Do you disagree here or what?
REAL TIME MESSAGING USING MQTT
Re: Chapie the movie
Coral Bleaching 101
> they will go bankrupt the next time fuel costs spike

Commodity futures are a healthy market. It's easy to hedge the price of oil and take that completely out of your profit/loss calculation. Any airline who chooses not to is speculating on the price of oil, much like a hedge fund.

> the continual potential of a terrorist attack decimating your sales overnight.

They can probably buy insurance against that as well. The lease-holder of the WTC had an insurance policy that paid $3.5 billion per event. I forget if the attacks were considered one event or two.
Can you share that photo?

And also who would I ask about getting a tour? ;)
Except that if your adversary finds your secret trove of a billion cat GIFs somewhere... then it isn't "steganography" anymore.
i've found 85M of the same library in my project:

https://gist.github.com/bsdf/e0db8f5ac90fee5ccff8
Yes, that is a kind request, not a condition.
Existing, old school carpool programs aren't paying their drivers, either. Which means it isn't commercial use. Which means your regular auto insurance covers it. Unlike this.
Instructure, the company behind Canvas LMS, is a pretty big company, and their software is used by many, many companies/educational institutions.

It could be argued that Canvas (the notes app here) is confusingly similar to Canvas LMS wiki pages. I hate being the guy to suggest a name change, but it may be something to consider before you get a lot of traction. I definitely understand the instinctive "fuck no" response to the suggestion that you change the name of something you clearly poured your heart and soul into, so please don't shoot the messenger here. Just wanted to bring it to your attention, in case you weren't aware.

EDIT BELOW:

Well, I'm pleased to say that this company did at least some kind of due diligence in this case. They applied for and received a trademark for the Service Mark (with the Standard Character Mark type) "CANVAS", covering "software as a service (SaaS) services featuring software used to allow collaboration between users for sharing information; software as a service (SaaS) services featuring software to create, structure, edit, access, integrate, manage, interpret and synchronize documents, content and data between users".

http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=86642511&caseType=SERIAL_N...

So, "Canvas Labs, Inc.", bravo!

Additional edit below:

Trademark was approved on March 26, 2016 to be published on May 3, 2016.
> gratipay offers bitcoin payments, which, if they implement it right, would eliminate the middleman [...] when the financee cashes out using bitcoin

And tell me, how does one cut out the middleman when they convert their Bitcoin earnings to US dollars or whatever currency they prefer?
I read this as referring to the `left-pad` package, not the `kik` package and its Dispute Resolution process, which violated the NPM Code of Conduct.

NPM was absolutely wrong on the `kik` package, but their prior blog/tumblr post said they did nothing wrong there.

Edit to Steve (rate limited): There were many things wrong with how the `kik` package was handled, but that email thread should have never made it through the process. Per NPM policy, it should have been rejected as soon as the word 'dick' was read (the threats wouldn't even need to be considered then [which, they apparently weren't anyway]).
That would require repatriating that cash, with tax consequences. An incredible amount of wealth has moved from the US economy to tax haven bank accounts for tax reasons, and the IRS doesn't want to set a precedent where you would be allowed to bring it back tax-free.
It is so weird to see an organization handling this kind of situation in a rational and professional manner instead of instantly caving in to the mob. I'm not used to it. I keep waiting for the punchline.
Here to answer any questions you may have.

- Baker
That sounds clever and informed but is mostly obnoxious.
It's part of their magazine - https://magazine.atavist.com - based on their web app https://atavist.com/
What if the FBI tried to crack an Android phone? We attacked one to find out
Not just mutations. The MUCH bigger factor would be a child whose phenotype is "desired" but whose genotype is "less than ideal," or simply a kid who was the best they could get with the limitation of the parent's genetic material. Like, if AA = bad, AG = good, GG = better and the parents are AA and AG, oh, well, let's just make an AG kid.

You can't just make one generation of genetically filtered children and figure everything's going to be good now, we have all the "bad parts" eradicated, because that's not how genes work. In addition, if you read the paper, it mentioned something on the order of a dozen embryos, and doing a genetic analysis of each one. Using this technique, you'd be able to filter out, perhaps a handful of disease, maybe pick out one with green eyes if that's what you wanted (and your genes allowed), but you're not going to gene-by-gene eliminate every chance of bad combinations with every other combination of genes on the planet, barring mutations. That's ridiculous.
Have you played go? When you play Go you start to appreciate how complex it is, how strong Lee Sedol is and what this achievement means.

I could play my entire life and never achieve the level of play Lee Sedol has. AlphaGo surpassed that level in a matter of months.

As a matter of fact, many professionals that play the game for a living as their main occupation, since they're kids, will never achieve the level that Lee Sedol has.

Also from here, they can add more infrastructure and feed the bot with more training data and let it train for a longer time, and it will be distancing it more and more from human level play.

Then, this task specifically is not just any random task... it's one of the most complex games, one the oldest games, and is also professionally played and studied.

Then, AGI is not a requirement for disrupting our world. You can have ANI for one specific task that is performed by millions of humans and you have disrupted the world enough to make it a problem.
An interesting insight on how Twitter could be losing the ads war and what it could do to boost its growth.

Given the efficiency of Facebook (and the inefficiency of Twitter) in detecting fake accounts, why would it help other platforms like Twitter in solving their problem?
If there are multiple meanings for a word, I think the author (AnthonyMouse) would get the final word on which meaning he intended. And he made it clear he intended it to mean "dishonest, disloyal, lacking in integrity" not "fradulent" or "illegal".
The Economist also did a very interesting article about 6 months ago on the trend of cash piles being used for things like share buybacks and so on, with some additional theoretical background in the Economics Focus column explaining why it could lead to inefficient misallocation of capital. Worth a look if you are interested in pure econ, sorry I can't recall exactly when that came out.
I mean, up until a year or two ago, Google just shipped Oracle's javac compiler with its Android build toolchain. This makes about as much sense as saying that if you use musl libc instead of glibc that you're using a different language.
Also, if I understand him right, he insists that the oil company Exxon is mis-spelling as well as mis-pronouncing it's own name, and he knows better. rms is an interesting guy.
#2 is the kind of system that's ripe for "disruption" (or whatever your favorite buzzword is for this). Is the answer specifically this app? Maybe not, but "pretty nice systems" don't tend to involve "usually", "chip in", or "common" (not to pick on your specific language, I just mean the "hidden" knowledge and customs that come with informal, organic systems).

It's that informal and inconsistent group knowledge that gets turned into an app, which formalizes the informal parts, removes the barrier to entry (knowing about the informalities in the first place), and (should) build protections in to ensure conformity to the now established system (payment, insurance, etc).
Potentially this might not only possible for nation-state actors. This is for not for an iPhone, but for an secure element (TPM):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-hohCfo4LA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Tarnovsky#Acts_of_...
the wysiwyg markdown editor is nicely done.

Is the intent to create a page per meeting instead of the continuous flow that represents a chat channel in slack or comparable?
This is a great point. When I first implemented the visualization, I actually used a circle until someone pointed out to me that the formula describes a square region around the datapoint and not a circle. I think you are very right in saying that this decision was made by Groner solely for efficiencies' sake in 1966. I'll probably add a side-note to explain this a bit.
Well the math says they won't. If the most a rider can pay is $10, and if Lyft takes a cut, then the max the driver will receive will be less than $10, which is not what they say.
To be clear as to what you're saying: npm does not require you to use a standard license. This is true. So in those cases, it would be different. That's my point: you'd have to specifically use a license which had this term in it. left-pad, for example, did not have this clause.
For non-commercial purposes, sure.
"The less(1) we're all familiar with has been completely rewritten. After importing a fork from illumos' Garrett D'Amore, OpenBSD continued to make improvements to the code. A safer and more modern tool was the end result, even if it's just for viewing text. Hopefully there will be less bugs now."

Impressive work.
You are not coming close to understanding what I'm saying.

I don't think it's instructive to compare public broadcasting with McDonalds (a for profit company), I'd compare them to Wikipedia. Wikipedia goes to great pains to maintain NPOV, and they give away their information product. I think public broadcasting should be more like Wikipedia; Wikipedia sets a higher standard for operating in the public interest.
Would you rather work in a room full of motivated smart people who are building somthing useful, or a rigid heirarchy that lacks transparency and puts its own personal interests over the work they do? Hmmm hard choice.

The former, obviously.

The flaw in your argument is that in no way are startup employees the smart ones, and big corporations the dumb ones. In fact, part of what makes startup culture disconcerting is that everyone thinks they're too smart.

Is there any evidence that HubSpot has higher-than-average numbers of smart people?
Semantics. I believe it was a slight hyperbole but it reads as such.
Snapchat completely revamps its feature set for 'Chat 2.0'
PowerShell. GC is Get-Content. (It's actually horribly inefficient because it tags every line read from the file with half a dozen metadata properties, but it looks good in one-liners.)
Ah, I see.

I also disagree with what happened around kik, but not for the same reasons as you.
Are physics engines not yet accurate enough to enable "virtual" pre-training / full training of the networks, lighting conditions, etc? If they are, exclusively using physical robots seems somewhat inefficient.
Your marketing pitch is excellent and hit right at how I would have described my pain point with my knowledge of React 4 months ago. It still speaks to me and I feel an urge to give you money.

I have one problem though:

Why do you only introduce unit tests in part 12 out of 13? When I "Imagine how quickly I can get all of your work done with the right tools and best practices", it involves me being able to write solid automated tests for everything. Not only that, but if you introduce the proper way to set up testing early and carry it through the rest of the book, it helps the student keep themselves on track. When they get stuck, having a failing test helps them focus and have a clearer idea of how to move forward.

I strenuously urge you to introduce testing earlier.
The release notes mention good support for running on AWS. I would love to see more distributions embrace building AMIs, or at the least provide good documentation to get it running. Ubuntu probably has the best support by building AMIs for all the regions, it would be awesome to see some others do the same thing. I think this is probably an overlooked area that could provide more growth for the BSDs.
Do background checks and extra insurance exist in any carpool systems?
I am not sure if you realize the role of Euro in the rise of extremism in the EU.

The fact that the EU is ruled by political midgets played a najor role too.
Some people who do that consider themselves journalists. But then, people who doxx people might also consider themselves journalists. It's a hard call.
The sound, fans and fields all end up as heat pretty soon too.

A tiny bit of energy is stored in the bits of permanent storage. That can be kept for (presumably) indefinite time, and not released as heat until the bits are erased.

The network connection energy is mostly lost as heat in the wire, but to the extent that it transmits information elsewhere that energy is also retained.

Hence very, very close, but not identical, unless you have the pathological condition of never storing any data or causing any other process to store data. To do this you'd have to compute away and no-one could ever learn the results.

Edit: I may be wrong about the net heating due to storage, since setting storage bits implies erasing their old state which releases heat into the room. Anyone with better thermodynamics training than me want to give a better answer?

Or maybe I should get back to work...
How not to publish malicious npm packages
The amounts seem purposely low so as to appear like non-commercial activity.
Oh goodness, haha. Doing this project I've learned that there is a great deal of variety in handwriting style. Single-stroke vs. Multi-stroke 5 for example, seems to be a big point of contention. I'll extend the decision tree to be more friendly about bottom-starting strokes.
"I could easily imagine a scifi future where humans are no longer able to naturally reproduce"

Some of us undoubtedly will still be able, and those and their children will inherit the earth as it always happened.
I'm on linkedin but I used a different email address for that. I might have sent out a few resumes about 5 years ago... I believe emails are one of the best form of contact, not engagement.
Which I applaud for the same reason I applaud some of the extinctions we have caused.
It is semantics, illegal arms trafficking is a subset of the global market for arms.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_trafficking
They bought Sun specifically to sue Google don't see them giving that up easily
What happens if a package is depended on but contains pirated things?
There are countries besides US on the planet.
Yes, I wrote the tutorial. I am not associated with any of the companies providing the services I mentioned in the blog. Thanks for pointing it.
I liked this when Uber did it last September. https://newsroom.uber.com/ubercommute/ it's great to see Lyft picking up from a great idea.
I don't have an account on any photo sharing service. I'll have to set one up.

Goddard has a visitor center, but I don't think there are public tours of the center itself. We do have open house events from time to time. The best way it to ask someone who works here to show you around. Are you in the DC area?