skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This does already (sort of) exist in a couple of projects:

* Chromebots - http://www.iceddev.com/blog/chromebots-lowering-the-barrier-... (for controlling arduino via JS using browser-serialport https://github.com/garrows/browser-serialport as a chrome packaged app (so requires a little more than just 'visit a website, root a /dev'

* Nodebots - http://nodebots.io/ for controlling a multitude of hardware via node.JS through bluetooth, BLE, or USB/Serial (which most hacker level hardware still prefers).

* WhatWG WebSerial - https://whatwg.github.io/serial/ which is doing similar to this, but less from one specific vendor

Ideally the world would converge to a single unified implementation, that said there is a lot of differences between USB-serialport, USB-HID, and a multitude of other communication methods over USB.

TL;DR you can do hardware with JS already, this should make things in the browsers slightly easier (one less dependency) at the risk of making it available for all things.

Sum: Tradeoff, like all the things.
I've been served faster at first republic than I ever have at a bank with tellers. It's possible I've just been lucky but I've never had to wait, something that can't be said for my experience and banks with tellers.
Related reading, URL says it all
https://aeon.co/essays/is-the-black-hole-at-our-galaxy-s-cen...

Imagine a civilization building black hole computers in their solar system. That's pretty badass :)
At my job we use docker compose for this. Each service is able to be worked on in isolation just by cloning the repo, and we have a separate repo which ties them all together and can bring them all up at the same time (or individually) if you choose.

All logs, except SQL queries generated by an orm go to stdout.
What I assume parent was asking was whether it is meaningful to talk about aggregate apartment demand across the US as a whole. While it may be a useful number for some purposes, it's not necessarily very meaningful for discussing vacancy rates and pricing in a given location.
Yeah, the deaths of millions of poor farmers in developing countries will totally get the West to start caring about the problem!
Sorry, to be clear: I mean, is there a single market that's useful to track collectively, as opposed to just narrowing in on individual cities?

It seems like the apartment markets in Detroit, San Francisco, and Eudora are all going to be very different, hinging on radically different factors.

Some US economic trends will affect all three, sure, but... my instinct is that they won't resemble each other very much at all. Apartments that are hundreds or thousands of miles away aren't exactly fungible commodities.

I don't know much about this area though, so it was an honest question, maybe they're all more linked than I realized.
Balance of power. Employers have it, employees do not. If companies and employers treated their workers with dignity and respect no unions would be necessary.

* I'm sure you are familiar with how collective bargaining power works and how it can be used for good or ill. It is because of the actions of worker unions that people today enjoy many rights that they take for granted. You, personally, have benefited greatly from union movements through the ages. In fact, the creation of the so called "middle-class" worldwide can be directly attributed to worker union agitation. In many ways unions have created the world we live in. As the middle class produced the consumers corporates depend on. To me, these are all excellent and worthwhile side-effects.
Today you can witness the slow destruction of the middle class again, as capitalism looses its way and degenerates into corporate fascism.

Programming is a "incredibly high leverage and highly lucrative field" ? Compared to what ? Investment banker ? Oil rig worker ? Corporate management ? Chartered Accountant ?

I do believe unionizing will significantly raise wages, historically they have.

* (apologies for the little rant, I'm leaving it in as it amuses me)
If you want a fine challenge, try "Queens and Knights" (http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10003900). It has some interesting corner cases to consider.
And even if they haven't the placebo effect is a real effect, so it'll be great marketing either way.
Are you talking about Jersey City?
You know what I also hate? Popovers on websites asking for my email address. I get it, you read somewhere that you‘re supposed to build an email list to grow your audience. Just let me read in peace.
Convincing a programmer to work for a startup for 0 salary and 0 equity?
Where I live, in the summer seasons, fireflies would would scatter the night sky, and in such plentiful numbers that I had never thought I would stop seeing them in just a couple of years. Only in a matter of 12 years, the fireflies have vanished from my area. Last 1-2 years I have not seen a single one.
SHARPX is a platform that will cover many verticals and cater to many different kinds of people. We believe two things: 1. That there is strength (and profitability) in diversifying; and 2. If you pay attention to and solve a shops pain-points, even the ones they don't know they have, they will adopt and evangelize.

Other services tend to brand themselves into a corner. Some market primarily to women, some primarily to men, some are just for one niche, etc. SHARPX will pay attention to every demographic in as many verticals as make sense.

When I started working on SHARPX I was surprised that shops do not evangelize the other services, especially the ones that have been around for a while, in this space.
That's funny: serious and informative, yet soberly asking for preparations using a commonly known pop culture phrase that refers to an impending zombie apocalypse.
I love comic sans, I find it very readable.
Exactly. Combine a XSS attack with USB keyboard monitoring and you've got ridiculously powerful password harvesting. That's just one potential attack of many.
A PhocusWright study from 2010 found that 40% of (EU) travelers that plan their trip online don't have a destination in mind beforehand. I imagine that this number would be slightly higher for a younger demographic (18-35), which we aim to address initially (thinking 'I don't specifically care where I'm going; I just want to see something new'). The European online hotel & flight sale market itself is valued at roughly $210B. I also expect Wanderlust to be used mainly for shorter city breaks (4-5 day trips) as opposed to actual summer holidays, where most of us tend to have at least some idea of where to go.

I am not sure if the analogy you draw to a local equivalent (and if that fails, surely this would fail) is entirely fair. It's an area I didn't look into specifically.
Building Blue-Green Deployment with Docker
That's because job security isn't the only factor, obviously.
The Last Days of BMX Superstar Dave Mirra
in my experience, people hate it because it is used so often in places where it is inappropriate.

a lot of the analysis here is authoritative but off the mark as well... that e is the most readable letter when blurred to me, and its the properties which are criticised which make it the case.

that is it, nothing more complicated than that.
What I learned from tickling apes
What are some of the differences between the various types of painkillers? I've never thought about it.

I'm hoping for a highly technical answer, but anything would be interesting.
I simply cannot take anything written on a "design" website seriously when it's filled with 1 full page pop up and another half page pop up.
Linux-insides: Synchronization primitives in the Linux kernel. Part 1
Ah! That's similar to the solution I used in 1980 to solve this problem for a Byte Magazine contest. Except I trimmed the search tree by aborting the permutation recursion each time the condition failed in a previous step.

It took 21 minutes to find and print all the solutions, if I remember right. But that was in Basic on a machine that ran at 10MHz.
Looking for a PS/2 port to safely connect my USB keyboard... dammit!
I suppose that is a great idea, but still requires some kind of explicit user permission to guarantee security.
It's almost as if "number of lines" isn't particularly meaningful.
But you miss the wonderfully absurd gif at the ~02:00 mark.
That may find some solutions, but does it find them all?
There are real estate investment trusts (REITs, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_estate_investment_trust#U...) that have exposure to more than just one location....
I can't tell what you mean by your reference to Musk, but if you're criticizing him for this in particular, you're pretty off base. He's (successfully) innovating in a broken system, and what he's doing will benefit any future evolutions of our current system.

Or is it that there aren't enough Musks? If so, sure, but there are plenty of really smart, really hardworking engineers helping implement his vision.
Shouldn't reefs just migrate north in the northern hemisphere, and southwards in the southern hemisphere?

I know this process can be quite slow, but on a long enough time frame it's conceivable there may be no net loss and possibly even a gain global reef acreage?
Acetaminophen reduces social pain: behavioral and neural evidence
Homemade guns used in Palestinian attacks on Israelis
Doesn't the new Boeing have this feature as well? I remember hearing about it when I toured the factory. (Which if an excellent tour you should check out if you're in Seattle area.)
> How can we be sure that the 2000 movies the article talks about randomly selected movies, not movies cherry picked to show the desired result?

Could you let me know how this doesn’t read as implying the author has bias? Am I perhaps misreading this?

> I don't have a gender studies grant or anything to pay for it.

Am I perhaps misreading that you think research like this is funded by gender studies grants?

Also I’d consider “having an agenda” to be a subset of “being biased”. Perhaps you could state what you see the differences as, and perhaps the evidence you have that suggests the author had an agenda before embarking on this analysis?

From the article as a counterpoint to your claim of an agenda:

“Lately, Hollywood has been taking so much shit for rampant sexism and racism. The prevailing theme: white men dominate movie roles. But it’s all rhetoric and no data, which gets us nowhere in terms of having an informed discussion.”

And here’s a screenshot from the reddit discussion: http://imgur.com/XvaZbFy

You also have provided no quantifiable evidence that there is a bias in favour of women in any area of media, let alone in an area as broad as “movies”. Do you have such evidence?

Also at what point did anyone mention they were afraid of running out of movies to watch?
Code review in JavaScript projects
Do most people work for large, medium, or small businesses?

I seem to recall reading somewhere that they work mostly for large businesses. If so, then "job creation" effect of small businesses is not that great.
Here are some other good techniques:

http://modernhealthmonk.com/neck-and-shoulder-pain/

(these have been very helpful in my case)
This is just linkbait.
Yes this has happened repeatedly thru geological history. I live in Iowa, and its limestone rock is all coral. We're 100's of miles from any ocean today.

But coral is built to respond gradually over decades. It's never going to be able to migrate in time at this rate.
Designer Craig Rozynski has created a new version of Comic Sans, which fixes many (most?) of the typographical problems pointed out in this article: http://comicneue.com/

There's a good interview with Rozynski on the subject: http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2014/april/the-neue-...
Ironically, there were literally headlines about "Ebola panic" itself.

Thankfully, Google is there when our memories falter.
So true. The original constitution is pretty clear on inalienable rights and such, but truthfull, the current government operates a bit more like an HR department, talking about helping you, but really merely trying to maintain a status quo.
IANAP(hysicist), but afaik it's due to pair production of photons at the boundary of the black hole. One photon falls into the black hole, the other escapes in the opposite direction, conserving momentum. The pair production of photons is stimulated by the black hole itself through <some complicated interaction>, thereby causing the black hole to lose energy over time as the escaping photons are lost, which are called Hawking radiation. The many frequencies occur because the pair production produces pairs of photons at different energies/frequencies.
> At least browsers generally have a better permission model than desktop apps

The flaw with that is desktop apps have the ultimate permission model, you choose to have them, and don't just stumble across them.
Care to explain further?
Why does it matter if reduce is no longer a keyword?
I think you're misinterpreting how the law works or what I interpreted OP's intent to be.

1) The laws about discrimination apply to actual hiring decisions, but not to candidate pools. Basically if you have two candidates, one less-qualified female and one more-qualified male, and you choose the female candidate because she is female, then that's unlawful discrimination. However, if you just want to see more females in your interviews because it's currently a sausage party, then that's not discrimination at all, provided you treat both genders equally during the interview & selection process.

2) Right now, there are many companies (especially in tech) who say they can't find enough good female candidates to put in their hiring pipelines. They still go through the normal vetting process for everyone, but it's hard to do a search like "show me resumes for all females with Rails and React experience". I think OP's intent is to create a gender-specific candidate pool, something like a female-only version of Dice. Then it would still be up to the companies to run the candidates through their normal hiring process and evaluate them against other (ostensibly male) candidates.

This seems like pretty simple thing to build and implement, and I'm pretty sure a decent number of HR departments would like to see it. The problem is there's really nothing stopping Dice or Indeed or Monster from just adding a "male/female" self-identification checkbox to do the same thing, so I hope there's more to it than that.
I'm surprised there's no Chromium or Firefox which removes microphone, webcam, js local file access, and this new vector, to name just a few.

Alternatively Servo would be modular enough that I could build a custom version without many features.
I agree with the sentiment of the parent post.

Regarding why Comic Sans is so popular

Try a simple exercise if you are on Windows:

1) Imagine you are writing something that is purposefully not professional or serious looking.

2) Open your text editor and paste/type one headline and some text

3) Format with a font that does not look serious or professional

See the problem? There is simply no alternative to Comic Sans, that's why it's the first choice whenever someone is looking for a font other than the classics, in fact Comic Sans is already a classic...
And I recall reading that 50% of Americans are self-employed or work at small businesses.
The market could be "cooling" while still "hot".
You make an extremely good point.

I had not considered that every time a person complains about duplication of apps, or developers that make trivial apps for money (instead of 'changing the world'), the same standard should be applied to the tens of millions of service and industrial jobs that are mostly clones of each other and could be considered trivial by the same standard.

For example: we really need to do something about all of these people working at Costco, trying to make their car and rent payments. It's ridiculous, the duplication of labor going on, where people aren't doing anything original.

That would be considered a cruel, borderline malevolent statement. And following through on it would result in a hundred million people being unemployed. Somehow the standard changes when a person is mostly seeking to earn a living off of an app however.
And then it floods back in in places like the Vancouver real estate market.
No, no, the cool thing to do now is to defend it. You claim that critics just don't understand its purpose, even if they mention it multiple times and are only criticising misuse. Then you use it ironically in your professional presentations to show that you are above the hoi polloi, both of today and of 15 years ago.
It is a hardware version of Space Team!
http://www.sleepingbeastgames.com/spaceteam/
The Code Cartoon guide to Redux isn't a tutorial, but it may be useful for understanding the Redux architecture that underpins React.

https://code-cartoons.com/a-cartoon-guide-to-flux-6157355ab2...
A temperature delta over a millennium is very different than that same delta over a century.

Coral reef ecosystems take centuries to establish themselves and mature. They can't simply grow legs and walk a couple miles north every year.
When discussing environmental stuff, often activists will say that I "deny climate change". I understand what they mean (that I don't believe the risk of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change is grave enough to demand government intervention) but I still have to point out that we live on a rocky planet in space, where everything including the climate constantly changes.

You might be alarmed by a very specific change like this one, and you might want to do everything possible to stop it. That's completely understandable and I wish you success in your advocacy. But the way I see it, change is perhaps the only constant feature of our world, and change absolutely is going to mean death of a bunch of coral sometimes. Go far enough with the rhetoric and it sounds like an argument that the climate shouldn't change, which is futile.

I hope the mainstream environmentalism will someday "grow up" to a point where people understand that change is inevitable, and that as long as we exist we actively participate in the change. Then rather than setting arbitrary "natural" criteria and bemoaning corruption like depressed Platonists, and rather than starting witch hunts after people, we can focus on how that change should be planned for and what actually can or should be done to manage it.
When correcting students on the use of 'impacted,' my high school English teacher would say, "Feces are impacted; you are affected." For the rest of my life, seeing the word 'impacted' will always recall that visceral mental image.
That's not at all an accurate framing. I'm not aware of any implementation that plans to allow access to HID devices (keyboard, mouse, etc.) or other device classes that are already handled natively by the browser/OS. Even ignoring security, just think of what a mess the user experience would be if sites could unbind and override native devices.
This just can't be good from a security perspective!
> The sensible alternative is to not enable this functionality at all.

Far too many people seem to think the solution to security problems to ignore security and only consider the features you want.

This is such a bad idea that I'm starting to question the motives behind it. If I wanted to break the security of an important class of software, it would look something like this "standard".

> USB security is a joke

Most hardware security - USB or otherwise - doesn't exist. Local peripherals were never designed with security in mind.
Washington could be taken over by the Green party, ban fossil fuels, etc - and we'd still be in trouble due to China, et al with their increasing CO2 output.

Reminds me a bit of banning plastic bags in California to help the ocean. That's lovely, but given Asia dumps something like 150 times the amount plastics into the ocean, so is basically meaningless.
Maybe, but should Kodak have focused on making good film, ignoring the digital stuff?

If I owned moleskins stock I'd be happy they are throwing money in new areas, most things won't work, but they might.
One line of J code taken from the jsoftware site [1]:

queenst =: (, #: I.@,@(</)&i.)~ (] #"1~ [ */@:~:&(|@-/) {)&.|: ! A.&i. ]

This is the calculation, and you can output all 92 solutions for the 8 queens problems like this:

queenst 8

0 4 7 5 2 6 1 3
0 5 7 2 6 3 1 4
0 6 3 5 7 1 4 2
....

each column is a row number, and the integer is which column the queen is in, or vice versa on rows and columns.

,or print how many solutions

$queens
92 8

$ gives the 'shape' of the array, that is 92 rows (solutions) x 8 columns (8-queens problem).

I always return to J, because I enjoy mathematics and functional programming. Like math, you work with symbols you learn to think as you code in an interpreted window, somewhat like when working in the Lisp REPL. Ken Iverson created the APL language in 1960, and won an ACM Turing Award and gave a lecture 'Notation as a Tool of Thought', which sums it up better than I could ever hope to express it [3].

J was a collaboration between him, Arthur Whitney (of finance's k language, and kdb fame), and Roger Hui, in an attempt to improve on APL, and to do away with needing a special character keyboard. It is under the GPL3 license today. J uses the ASCII character set, and is very functional and composable.

[1] http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/N_Queens_Problem

[2] http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Queens_and_Knights

[3] http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm
To be slightly more specific: Astronomers think there is a black hole when you see gas moving very very fast towards an invisible and massive object. That gas heats up from the friction of its particles moving rapidly towards the black hole. This heated gas emits X or Gamma radiation when it travels that fast. However, once it goes past the event horizon nothing else is seen. So you have something very heavy which is attracting objects and accelerating the surrounding gas.

At the very "edge", sometimes pairs of particles are formed out of the vacuum (for example an electron and an anti-electron (positron)). Hawking asked: What if one particle leaves away from the horizon, but the other one leaves towards the center of the black hole? We would see an object that is sending particles from its event horizon. So in some sense particles would escape from the edge of the black hole. That's Hawking radiation (in simplified terms).
Aerospace America: A Survey of Possible Interstellar Propulsion Methods [pdf]
This one explains the ideas behind React very good imo. It does this by creating "Bloop" a library that kinda works likes React without stuff like the Virtual DOM.
http://jlongster.com/Removing-User-Interface-Complexity,-or-...
I was hoping I'd find this link here. It never fails to deliver.
Strong vs. Weak References
I love these free comic fonts.

http://www.blambot.com/
Hey Brian,

Just wanted to say thanks for Stomp, protocols that are simple enough to be easily reimplemented are definitely underrated.

The Python story for Stomp is not so great, especially working with Twisted (e.g. there I think stompest is the best option available). On profiling I discovered this module's parser was horrendous, contributing something like 30% to my runtime.

Had it been some binary protocol with a complex spec, I might have spent days reimplementing it, but producing a simple and fast parser took only an hour or two, and now my problem is solved.

For others complaining about Stomp, my reimplementation is 116 lines of perfectly testable code, and for a problem domain as simple as wrapping messages up in a few verbs, this is how it should be.

(Will be releasing tinystomp.py at some point, but it needs a little tidying up and documenting first!)
No, but definitely don't look up gamma ray bursts.