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We often get complaints around Weboob‘s name, and the various application names.

There’s no denying they’re childish. What they are not, however, is sexist.

There is “boob” in the main name, and “boob” is a friendly name referring to (mostly female) breasts. We would, for example, avoid using “tits” or “cunt”, because they are often demeaning1. Though it is a happy accident (our earlier ideas like “woob” and “webob” were taken), we certainly like playing with that.

The idea is the same with application names; it’s all about friendly jokes (like wetboobs the weather tool, which manages to be related to weather and boobs).

If you’re offended, just ask yourself “how is it sexist?”.

As it appears, Weboob is a formidable tool to detect people that are part of the “be offended first, think later” crowd. Interestingly, the crusaders2 are to date all male, and often assert that women can’t like jokes about breasts or sex in general3. How fucked up is that?

They will always make a scene4 on how they’re never going to use Weboob because of names. Guys, here’s the thing: we don’t need you and we certainly don’t want you. I for one am glad we created an Asshole Detector, albeit by accident.
We however are mostly not native English speakers. Mistakes can happen. [↩]
This is not an euphemism. They act like they are fighting for a good cause, but it’s only pretend. [↩]
And who the hell are they to talk in place of others? That is actual sexism. [↩]
So that it is abundantly clear, this is purely about making a scene; I do not care about their opinions or how many penises they may have. All our contributors do not and do not have to like the branding. [↩]
Inside Biosphere 2: The World's Largest Earth Science Experiment (2015) [video]
Clicking on two links in your sources led me to

https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

which directly contradicts your statement. ( In fact we have record low sea ice this winter.)
Is that supposed to link me to http://no-hipsters-allowed.t28.net/ ?

Edit: it directs me properly in an incognito window.
A private jet releases something like 20 tons of CO2 per flight (depending on distance / type of jet / etc. etc.). The US Coal industry released 5.4 billion tons of CO2 last year. Each private jet flight then represents about 120 milliseconds of US Coal production. So yeah, Al Gore and Leo could (and should) cut out their private jet habit, but maybe we also should burn less coal?
Maybe I misread the redacted doc [0] but from what I see, it is sent to the Entities Review Board (ERB) that then determines whether they should disseminate. I was unable to find the requirement to disclose. Can you point to it?

0 - https://www.eff.org/document/vulnerabilities-equities-proces...
Try pandoc -f html -t org-mode.
The volume of water is staggering, and what exactly would you do with it?
Anyone who follows /r/wallstreetbets on reddit has probably heard a lot about this company recently. I didn't read most of the posts but it seems that most of them either hit it out of the park or went home tail between their legs on this one.

(I never day trade because I don't want to toss my money in the trash but it's interesting to follow)

Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/4clo1y/i_to... seems many of them lost
Regarding the AppX thing... Actually AppX packaged apps (even from the Store in AppContainer) have always had direct filesystem access, but only from their install directory and to/from their AppData directories. It's only access outside those areas which requires use of the picker and/or library capabilities (which both go through a broker process).

They can also of course load DLLs, and there are APIs for moving your app Windows around (with some limitations).

That said, I do not know exactly what they're doing here, and it may be using some new capabilities being added to the system in the rs1 release.
Not as a certainty, no. Given that kind of time frame and a very far object, neither our measurements, nor our calculations could possibly be precise enough to know anything other than a probability of an earth impact.

Unless we are talking about a big object hanging out nearby, slowly getting closer, in which case I have plenty of non-scientist acquaintances who will be pointing telescopes at it and verifying.
Advanced Frontend Optimization (with Webpack)
Interesting — that link is either down, or it's set up to present several different troll responses depending on the http referrer.

When I click, I'm redirected to a simple image. When I request it in incognito mode, I'm redirected to a "crash safari" url.
Certainly not from the insanely warm, practically snowless winter we've had in the northeast US.

Everybody's perfectly happy to believe the climate scientists when they say "That's mainly due to El Nino this year."

Then the next day the same scientists say "CO2 emissions are affecting the climate" and we're back to "What global warming? If I can't see something it doesn't exist."
Phone keyboard, sorry.
Very reliable and already bringing down our DynamoDB cost. We have a highly varying traffic, previously we had to manually up/down-scale to prevent rate limit exceeded. For most part of the day we had very low traffic and we do not want to pay high DDB cost. Autoscaling is already saving us money and also freeing us of the manual responsibility.
The problem is, dumping large volumes of melting water anywhere technically creates an ocean.
I disagree. Basic research in behavior analysis has shown that nonhuman animals can perform visual (and other sensory modalities) discrimination and categorization among a number of trained and untrained stimuli ([0] and [1] are just two examples). I don't think these APIs do anything that is uniquely human or "cognitive." Nonetheless, this API still has enormous value for developers and users. I'm not discounting that.

UPDATE:

0: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1334394/pdf/jeab...

1: http://kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstream/handle/123456789/20501...
Long, detailed demo -> https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/P488
There's too much missing information in this article. In today's environment, a qualified programmer with the background this guy appears to have should get offers at a much higher percentage of companies.. IF everything is on the level: decent communications skills, applying for jobs whose requirements match skills, realistic compensation expectations, and (my guess in this case) already authorized to work in the US.

I would expect this low hit rate from a qualified individual looking for a job AND an H1B sponsor.
I can't take them seriously until WebRTC...
Student put 50M stolen research articles online
It's cool that you're really into being skeptical and evaluating evidence and stuff, but have you considered that you aren't putting enough thought into what "definitive proof" is? There's no a priori definition of definitive proof, only what satisfies the inquirer. Why aren't you skeptical of your standards when they fly in the face of consensus amongst thousands of professional scientists?
ISIS is terrible, but it's a local problem, not a global one.
wish I had bought put option on this. PBR (petro Brazil ) may also be at risk

there are probably a couple dozen such energy,mining ,drilling, etc companies that may fall 50% in a week.

A 4 cent investment ($4 per contract) can turn into $1-1.5 ($150) if the timing is right
That's my hope with this news...
I want to make a correction about the patent bit. Maciej says:

> And they assert the right to patent any clever ideas I have while doing that free work for them, even though I hate software patents:

The relevant bit of the IFTTT TOS:

> 12. Patent License. Licensee hereby grants IFTTT a nonexclusive, sublicensable, perpetual, fully-paid, worldwide license to fully exercise and exploit all patent rights with respect to improvements or extensions created by or for Licensee to the API

They're not trying to patent your work, they're saying that you grant them a license to any patents you might get that relate to your IFTTT integration. In other words, a developer cannot create an integration for IFTTT, patent something in there, then turn around and sue IFTTT for patent infringement. This is pretty standard language in software licenses/contracts/terms of service.
anyone familiar with a way to export to html and make it editable from say a smartphone accessing a home apache server?
I think this is an important issue that's worthy of coverage. I also thought it was important to disclose that I'm not innocent/unbiased in this. FWIW, in my own higher ed writing I try to emphasize more representative schools.
(I'm the author of this piece.)
If you have to write a blog post about how the sexism "crusaders" have it in for you, chances are you are the asshole.

I'm not offended by the name, I get the joke, I just think it's a stupid joke.
> Let's try the opposite. Say someone got Wine working to the point where it was very nearly, perfectly indistiguishable from Windows and they put up a blog post saying "Everything works just as it should under Windows, because it is Windows." Microsoft's lawyers would come around with a C&D, and calling them pedants wouldn't invalidate their case.

Except that isn't the opposite, it's an entirely different situation.

1) It isn't Windows. It's a complete rewrite of the Windows API's. That is not the same thing that's happening here.

2) A C&D isn't a case, it's a piece of paper (politely) asking you to do something. Calling something Windows and it actually being an infringement on Windows patents are entirely different issues.

> Precision matters.

In carefully crafted theoretical situations feigning as analogies to this situation? Sure. In the real world? Hardly.
No, he didn't, but it was still in the same vein as the trope (older woman).

> do you believe that "grandmothers" isn't a good example of a demographic that's largely not tech savvy

I think that there is less aggregate tech knowledge in that demographic than in others, but I still think it's a trope that should be avoided, in exactly the same way we don't use 'black' as a shorthand for 'criminal' even though that demographic is overrepresented in prisons. It's associating a negative attribute with a demographic as a lazy shorthand term.
By my quick calculation, one meter of sea rise would be ~100,000 cubic miles of water. The great lakes hold ~5,500. So no, probably not.
Thoughts on MVP
MVP stands for Minimally Viable Product. It’s as trite and banal a maxim in software as the 10X improvement. While widely adopted, interpretations vary. Here’s my take:

The term “viable” is the central point of contention, and will be my focus. There’s two schools of thought: the fasçade types out to test as many feature hypothesis as possible, and those with scarce yet robust releases.

Our initial premise was that early adopters are willing to put up with slowness and instability if the product were left-field enough. In other words, fascade-type. While that is true to some extent, retention ultimately comes as a byproduct of the diametrically opposing philosophy ~ doing the small things well.

Retention is distilled to repeated use. It therefore should come as no surprise that minor faults compound with time. Faced with two options, a platform full of new features versus those with few, it becomes an effacing exercise to opt for the latter.

To succeed in the former however, your escape velocity must exceed the growth of consumer expectations. In other words, the optimization of the your platform must be predate your users getting frustrated and leaving.

This is unlikely. Fascade-type release are by nature deficient in sound architecture. Refactoring old code takes about 3 times as long, mostly due to entrenched thinking. What’s more, almost nothing outpaces consumer expectation these days.

The greatest yield of your diligence will comes from honing the few central tenets of your offering, and delivering those reliably.

For more, checkout Zero Defects of Philip Crosby of the Martin Company. W.E. Deming is also a good read.

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You did not get it. MyHDL is simply a macro-processor used to generate an RTL. And generating a sequence of similar, say, module instances is ok even with an imperative language, even Verilog got for loops for this.

Chisel and Clash are not any different.
For something as (relatively) easy to predict as asteroid trajectories, I would be very curious why the 1% disagree, or whether it really is 99% given that exact phrasing with no qualifications. It invites scrutiny, but also invites not being certain either way (though I would err on the side of that large a majority even if I'm not certain). I posted this quote by Bertrand Russell almost a month ago, it's worth a repost: "(1) that when the experts are agreed, the opposite opinion cannot be held to be certain; (2) that when they are not agreed, no opinion can be regarded as certain by a non-expert; and (3) that when they all hold that no sufficient grounds for a positive opinion exist, the ordinary man would do well to suspend his judgment."
Given that I work on a cross platform application for linux & windows... I'll be interested to see if they try to hide some of the more annoying platform compatibility problems.... like the fact that many linux applications assume you can rename/delete a file while it's still open, and windows won't let you.

Also filesystem ACLs are quite different on linux and windows, it'll be interesting to see exactly how the one maps to the other. What will chown and chmod do?
Note the "generally" there. Further down it says explicitly "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". In their Flickr page they have selected the CC BY-NC 2.0 license so this works, I think, as a notice of copyright that at the same time grants you a license to use the image (provided you follow the terms of said license).
Tu quoque. "Yeah, I'm not giving up smoking until my doctor does".
I have about 10 windows with umpteen tabs open. I do not want to go through the process of replicating that. Same with extensions.
Everywhere Now Is Windows
> Comparing a magazine and blogs and articles from doctors to the crap you posted

I'm sorry this particular topic turns off your ability to think critically and brings out snarkiness instead.
Maybe tow it beyond the environment.
The BRICS are dead. Long live the TICKS
So if I install Node as a Linux binary. Can I access it in Windows "environment" too?

Does that mean I can do "apt-get install nginx" from their new "bash" terminal app? Does that then run under port 80 in Windows? Since no VM is involved.

I'm still a bit confused.
ZQ or ZZ
Firefox only makes execCommand("paste") available in trusted contexts aka extensions. You can't execCommand("paste") on a regular web page for fairly obvious security reasons.
Thank you for proving my point on being pedantic.
and how many did you get?
Using the Tcl VFS for Encryption [pdf]
Hacker news referrer = social justice warrior hipsters it seems.
Speaking of clipboard shenanigans. Could be imagining it, but I seem to remember a while ago there being something certain websites were doing where if you selected and copied text from them, the text that ended up on your clipboard would have a synthesized paragraph about copyright/attribution appended to it.
Would love to upload/import KML, as I have a bunch of detailed climbing/hiking maps in google that I don't have time to recreate.
Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes

We totally agree - we'd love to help folks get started with common frameworks. Did you have any, in particular, that you'd like us to work on next?
I can’t see the labels being keen to let any one service get a monopoly as it risks them being played off against each other like Apple did to Sony a few years back. I do agree that the music industry is incredibly opaque and how really knows what is going on.
They are not going to get $10^9 for it, they are asking for that much because asking is free.

But then, when the rubble stops bouncing and the companies come to an agreement, that high watermark will help them negociate an actual price that is both reasonable but higher than what otherwise would have been.
Let's be honest here. Does this change make some developers actually even consider to change their OS X/Linux Desktops to Windows?
Yeah it is really cool thing that we can finally use windows cmd like the terminal on unix systems however:

- What about lack of all the Linux/OS X GUI software?

- What about lack of all the UNIX OS features?

- What about all those billions and billions of Windows malware, viruses, adware etc.

- What about all the spying and restrictions that Microsoft has integrated into the Windows? (e.g. cannot block Microsoft spy server in the hosts-file, forced updates etc.)

- What about the fact that OS X and Linux have always been at least decent from developers point of view but Windows has always had problems and then things like Vista and Win8 happen.

- What about the advertisements served to you in the login screen?

- What about all the future shit MS will throw at you?

- Other stuff can't remember now

If and IF this will actually work out well, I would say this finally makes Windows usable for software development however I don't see any reason why anyone would change from UNIX based system to Windows unless they plan to make even bigger changes in the future...( like rewriting whole Windows to be UNIX based for example. :) )
This comment doesn't appear at all troll-like -- not sure why it was flagged.
I hated seeing that kind of crap when I was on the hiring committee, and I think that it's less likely that you'd run into it today.
Note that the opt-out option provided only opts out of tracking-based advertising, not of browser tracking.

To avoid tracking by ad companies use uBlock, Ghostery, Privacy Badger, etc.
Well, I believe performance monitoring should be realtime. I optimized netdata for this. A console killer! A tool you can actually use instead of the console solution. It is not (yet) a replacement for any other solution.
If you're going to the trouble of running Privacy Badger and uBlock, I would have to recommend going the further step and getting Self-Destructing Cookies.
I'm not ruling EEE out, but this move feels more like "staunch the bleeding" to capture more developers and retain the ones they have. I'd love to read a leaked Powerpoint or memo that explains the long-term strategy here.

I think this is a great move by Microsoft to be able to EXEC a competitor's binary files natively. But, I think it risks being an admission that Win32/64 syscalls and Windows file system semantics are a crufty boat anchor holding developers back. To admit that risks inviting more developers to bail on Windows.
That's a really good question. Maybe we could pump it to a colder area of Antarctica? Or pump a corresponding amount of ocean water to a cold area of Antarctica.
i recently discovered mobaxterm's awesome automatic x server and x forwarding. suddenly i find myself gvim'ing on my (non-prod) servers. i imagine it'll be similarly easy but better.
The H1B factor certainly has weight - I can imagine it leading to a 2x factor in his rejection rate. But not the 5x rate he's apparently had to suffer through.
Has anyone made an estimate of the total cost to convert to 100% renewable power in the US?
Between Privacy Badger, Self-Destructing Cookies, and AdBlock Pro (and a browser cache which wipes itself on close), a grand total of zero trackers. Woo woo!
I really wish there were more tutorials like this on how to set up Spark and other Big Data tools (TensorFlow) on cloud computing, as that personally has been the primary barrier to starting work with extra large amounts of data.

Just as an FYI, we[1] are working on an open source, cloud based Machine Learning / Big Data platform that might be of interest to you. It's not all ready yet, but when it is, there will be a simple REST API that allows you to define the kind of setup you want, "push a button" and have it all deployed. Our initial backend is AWS with plain jane EC2 nodes, but it will be possible to extend it to other configurations as well.

Right now we deploy a Spark/Hadoop Cluster with Apache SystemML, Mahout and MLLib installed. Zeppelin will be coming to the stack, as will other tools like TensorFlow, SparkR, CaffeOnSpark, etc.

We'll be offering our own hosted service based on this, but it'll be open source so you can deploy it in an environment of your own if you wish.

We'll do a "Show HN" when we have something ready, so keep an eye out if that sounds interesting.

I also plan to write up some tutorial and documentation based on our experiences building this out, but the priority right now is getting it built. :-)

[1]: http://www.fogbeam.com
It's from Canada eh.
Here's an epistemological head-scratcher: do the odds still change if you don't hear the daughter's name accurately? Why?
Boeing plans to cut up to 8,000 airplane jobs
They have been hit hard more and more recently. I think they even doubled their backbone bandwidth capacity. It sucks that many customers get affected. Redundancy is the key!
I can imagine there not being great internet while you're building a hospital, but you know MRI rooms aren't that large, right? If you need to leave the Faraday cage, you just walk 10 feet.

Your customers are probably downloading GBs of data in advance because their reception/speeds outside the MRI room aren't sufficient.
Serious question about /r/wallstreetbets: is that sub a parody, or a collection of people with undiagnosed gambling issues?
OMG co2 is not harmful it is plant food. If there is more of it more plants grow. The earth has had insanely higher amounts of co2 in the atmosphere than are present today in which periods life thrived even more so than today.
The power of examples. Or: actions speak louder than words.

The very moment politicians start acting like there is a crisis, people will listen.

For now it all looks like a giant racketeering scheme to deprieve the small man of cheap energy and travel while the rich ones get richer.

Not saying it is like this, but think about it a moment before knee-jerkingly hitting the downvote button.

I'm in no position to judge the science behind this but I have a nose for fish and something stinks so badly I have a hard time crediting it all to right-wing nuts for now at least.
There is a legitimate argument to be made if the naming was unintentional or if people were making a big deal out of nothing.

But with Application names like 'Handjoob', 'Boobsize', and 'Flatboob', I think the naming is unavoidably distracting and inappropriate.
I would, but only after their claim could be experimentally (and independently) reproduced.

Science is a bitch!
Maybe when food crops fail consistently and farmers figure out that it wasn't God's wrath or the communists' or the terrorists' fault.
It's a good quote, but it is based on the premise that all the experts are equally qualified and have no conflict of interest. I am not convinced that is the case, which means we all have to find our own way. Hence all the discussion, I guess :)
It would be even easier if the left would just get off its collective butts and go vote.

Disproportionate representation is a problem, for sure, but the American left would have far more success despite that problem if only they would go vote in off-year elections.

Either way, I don't think it would help the fundamental problem, which is that roughly half of the voters in this country don't accept climate science, and their party and associated media have set up a huge feedback loop to keep it that way. Helping the Democrats isn't really a solution, because we need two healthy parties.
pumping melted, probably saline water over ice doesn't seem like a great way to refreeze the water, more like a good way to melt more ice.