skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had another project (two, actually) where we had a "remote standup", where a couple of the team members were on the opposite coast and dialed in via videochat. You do lose something. It works, but it never felt like those teams "gelled" as well as the ones where everyone was in the same office, and the remote workers were often off doing something tangential rather than something core to the project. One of the points of the standup is to build trust and unity within the team; it's harder to do that when you're not face-to-face.

Also, there's nothing that says that standups have to be in the morning. Most of the teams I've worked on actually had theirs either right after lunch or mid-afternoon. That accommodated those of us who were late-risers, it let the early-risers get some work in in the morning, and it meant that it'd often fall during food coma or when energy levels hit a mid-afternoon nadir.
Knowing my luck, I will be using it to roll natural 1s on the social saving throws.
I like this conceptually. I am not knowledgeable enough on frameworks to speak to the technical aspects of the design.
Similarly, I think I've successfully watched maybe three things from Shomi on my Chromecast while Netflix/Spotify/etc are working flawlessly.

Not being able to stream to my TV kind of defeats the point for me.
If you want a random value in the range, that's probably fine, but it would be bad for a roulette-style game, where you bet on a single, specific number. If you can indeed roll it on an axis reliably, you can increase your odds significantly.
Wow thanks for the reply. It seems like things are really improving. Here in the USA, we seem to be moving almost backward, with the telecom companies just now implementing caps on previously uncapped connections, and fighting against the deployment of next generation infrastructure.
You start looking for a really flat, hard surface. It should ship with a polished granite tile and a level.
They do the same thing here in the US or I guess Netflix is creating a large number of foreign movies and TV shows.
> That's the purpose of /usr/local.

I think you must have ignored a substantial portion of my comment. Let's take a look at what (part of) my Nix store looks like (you'll see it fundamentally looks nothing like /usr/local):

/nix/store/2mmvks92lx37xghj0795ldzrg50lh2pg-bash-4.3-p42
├── bin
│ ├── bash
│ ├── bashbug
│ └── sh -> bash
└── share
├── info
│ ├── bash.info
… …
└── man
└── man1
├── bash.1.gz
└── bashbug.1.gz

/nix/store/8g6gb6r49fxsrp547rdi3zr06vd69khq-git-2.7.4
├── bin
│ ├── git
│ ├── git-cvsserver
│ ├── git-http-backend -> /nix/store/8g6gb6r49fxsrp547rdi3zr06vd69khq-git-2.7.4/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend
│ ├── git-receive-pack -> git
│ ├── git-shell
│ ├── git-upload-archive -> git
… └── git-upload-pack

Note that each package under /nix/store is its own prefix; that is, it contains its own bin, lib, share, etc.

/usr/local is a dumping ground "for use by the system administrator when installing software locally"[1]. If you need multiple versions of automake installed: tough luck, the paths collide. If you need multiple versions of Erlang: tough luck, the paths collide.

Would you like to be able to rollback your system by changing one symlink[2]? Too bad: when you last installed packages into /usr/local, your package manager clobbered the previous version.

Technically, we could make /usr/local a symlink forest pointing into /nix/store, but we don't: we want to make sure that only the packages we explicitly declared are picked up by build tools, rather than defaulting to searching through the currently "installed" packages.

> /nix/store? Really? You can't just make up new root level directories. That's so wrong.

Can you substantiate your claim? Note that "it doesn't feel right" doesn't count as a rational criticism.

[1]: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHI...

[2]: This probably sounds like a bold claim. I tried to explain how this works above, but if you don't believe me, feel free to ask and I'll explain further. Alternatively, feel free to read the first paragraph here: http://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sec-profiles
‘Laws’ of Software Development
See GuixSD: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/

Edit: remove useless commentary
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S3 accepts uploads via specially-crafted and pre-authorized HTML POST Form.

A simple gem will help you create two values: Signature and Policy - https://github.com/vinhnglx/s3-authorize

This gem is very useful when working with AngularJS file upload
Firefox disrupted browser market and now Chrome/IE are making a trio not too far from each other, it is now a uphill battle for Mozilla.

Thunderbird is the only choice across platform for Desktop usage. I use it daily and don't mind paying for it.

On the other hand, since Microsoft is porting everything to Linux nowadays it may one day port Outlook to Linux, who knows though I have never trusted them and I have not used it for centuries.

Please keep Thunderbird evolving ahead.
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Just rolling
>She can most certainly watch CSI from an authorized distributor in Canada if she pays the right content owners in Canada.

She can buy the US version instead. Why should she be limited to what someone in Canada wants to sell it for? The internet doesn't follow national borders. I can access a webpage in Germany just as easily as a website in the US, and with online content, it's nothing more than bits being streamed. So why should she pay more? To prop up a dinosaur of a business model? Screw that.

>As a consumer, if you don't have an option to buy something, doesn't mean you should acquire it thru illegal means.

Sure it does. They've had their chance to offer things by legal means, they've been shown that it works, but it's not good enough for them. Fuck 'em.

>NAFTA was created to eliminate tariffs and protect intellectual property. Someone buys the right to distribute a show in Canada, this right should be protected.

Why should that be protected? That's not free trade, it's blatantly against the whole stated reason for the treaty.

Again, fuck 'em. Piracy is the answer. When legal means don't work, and only serve moneyed interests and are put in place by corrupt politicians, it's time to ignore the laws.
> it looks like it would still be fair enough [if it only reaches a portion of the neighboring values at each bounce] due to the fact that there is a large difference in the numbers available 'nearby' any one spot

what is this, NSA logic day? :-D

(This is my way of saying that your argument actually results in really low randomness. It means the random process has some memory and has far less distribution of states than you would expect. your argument is like saying a good way to get a random number between 1 and 1,000,000 is to flip a coin, then heads it's 170,158; tails it's 587,439. There's a large difference between 170,158 and 587,439 but those two numbers wouldn't be random AT ALL, because all the other numbers couldn't come up. you're saying the die would 'still be fair enough' because the numbers that can come up are far from each other... well, no...)
The Guile 2.0 branch. I don't know what magic optimisation dust they sprinkled over the upcoming 2.2, but it sure is fast.

We thought about using chicken, but it depends quite a lot on using syntax-case to deconstruct everything, and I didn't want to learn their implicit renaming stuff.

Apparently the 2.2 branch has full elisp support. Can't wait for Emacs to run on it.
The most powerful Ubuntu phone is available to buy
What is a booter? That just looks like the name of their domain.
Curious, for server side stuff, what tasks requires more configuration in Debian than Ubuntu server? I haven't tried Ubuntu but their LXD looks helpful, think of switching also because of systemd 229 in Xenial, Debian's stable systemd version is old and clunky.
​CoreOS shows OpenStack can be run as a container with Kubernetes
People power frees Man trapped by Train (2014)
In the 1980s Scheme was not performant enough. C was how you got tolerably fast programs. A lot of research, notably in garbage collection, has made Scheme much more performant since then. Additionally, computer hardware has improved to the point where people write useful programs in languages that are dramatically slower than Scheme, e.g. PHP, Python, Ruby.

You are conflating minimalism with the Scheme language because Scheme is often used to illustrate minimalism. Vectors and hash tables are not "all this other stuff", they're part of the language spec[1]. You're also throwing Lisp in there even though minimalism is not a central theme of Lisp.

[1] When you did SICP hash tables were not part of the language spec although implementations generally had them; they got standardized in 2007 with R6RS. But vectors were in the language spec since at least 1985.
Node.js version 6 released
Zorin should be on that list.

It's made me enjoy using Linux again and reminds me of how fun Linux was when Enlightenment was still cool. Mint really let me down the last couple of versions.

One of the most underrated Debian based distros out there right now.
It still wouldn't help. It's cheaper to manufacture electronics in China even if the labor costs are the same. The logistics are vastly better over there. If you need PCBs or components, you can have them direct from the factory on the same day. If you have a production problem, you can get a specialist engineer the same day. If you need a new production line with 200 extra staff, you can have it up and running in two weeks.

An established EMS company like Jabil has huge economies of scale and tremendous in-house resources. They have long relationships with suppliers and consultants. A startup can't possibly compete with that.
I'd say yes: if you visit a purported malware URL and you are served malware, then it is a malware site. If you visit a purported booter site URL and it advertises booter services, then it is a booter. If the booter sites start trying to hide their identity, fine, I can see not removing that without proof. That will also severely injure the booter's signup rate, though.
tldr should have been up front: "before you rewrite an algorithm from your favorite high-level language to C, check whether the problem really is in the language or not"

In other words, concentrate on algorithm, good code, and learning which library functions are available (which are probably written in C/C++). Good advice for anybody. Conversely, just because it's written in Fortran/C/C++ doesn't mean it's optimal. Same rules apply.
Oh it's definitely not true that the language will affect your startup much in terms of the application, but the right language choice _will_ affect the type of people and philosophy of the company :-)
I had to google it, seems like it's a term for DDOS-for-hire services.
It's sad to see that Mozilla considers desktop email clients as outdated. It's true that most people use phone apps and webmail, but in enterprises the story is completely different. MS Outlook rules in many places, but I'd bet there are at least a few million people using Thunderbird as their desktop mail client, more so in a (slightly "hostile") MS Exchange environment.

If Thunderbird were to really evolve and provide what people have been asking for for a very, very, very long time, it is good calendaring that "just works" with MS Exchange (I know about the extensions and external applications available, but none of them provide a seamless experience or all features that are required for calendaring).

Post Edward Snowden's revelations, more people need a good way to do encrypted mails well too (that's complex and is also more of a user experience issue, but an organization like the erstwhile Mozilla Messaging could have spent a good amount of effort on it). Along with this, we would have encrypted chats (since chat is already part of Thunderbird), encrypted voice calls, etc. That would be phenomenal!

IMO, Mozilla really lost focus on Thunderbird long before it decided to shelve it as a "community driven project".
Stock grants for non-executive employees are rather rare (at least on the East Coast).

And even then, once the bubble pops, if you don't sell (there is usually a vesting period), they could be worth much, much less than today. Remember 2000-2001?
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A booter is a DDoS-for-hire service. You pay them $X and they will DDoS someone for you.
I drive in Austin EVERY day. They tend to prefer less-traveled roads. Thanks for the downvote for posting actual facts that I know from first-hand experience.
Elementary was surprisingly 'smooth'. Good job.
Scala on Tessel 2 via Scala.js
Do you think coding is a “basic skill”
Inspired By Zuck's post where he claims "...today it's clear that coding is a basic skill and is something everyone should be able to do"

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102801304719681
I don't understand, what other evidence do you need that these websites are being used for ddos attacks?

Cloudflare is not an official government entity. As a business you have the right to refuse service to anyone. Refusing these websites service is not the same as being thrown in jail.

The link in question.

https://booter.xyz/

> We are a "DDoS for Hire" company

> Our best layer 4 UDP attack methods is dns amplification, ntp amplification, ssdp amplification

You think they are going to amplify on servers they own?

Dozens of ddos for sale websites being advertised on hackforums being protected by Cloudflare.

http://hackforums.net/forumdisplay.php?fid=232

http://whois.domaintools.com/serverboot.com

http://whois.domaintools.com/synstress.net

http://whois.domaintools.com/kronosbooter.com

http://whois.domaintools.com/instress.club

http://whois.domaintools.com/clickboot.co

And countless more.
According to the article, every vertex that sticks out has 10 triangles whose sum is 595. So it is as fair as can be managed at any point.
Neural Doodle
I've heard that the resin cartridges that Formlabs 2 uses are much easier to deal with.
Externalizing as many of your costs as you can is business 101.
If you use Waze, hackers can stalk you
r_groop
I've always imagined using a cylindrical die to get arbitrary odds. E.g. a 17-face cylinder that you roll. The numbers could be printed on the ends, you take what appears at the bottom (flat with the table).
Musk allegedly talked about automated Buses in Norway not long ago.
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I don't know which one was worse. Does anybody?

I do know which one killed more rescuers though, regardless of whose fault it was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Human_impac... vs. Fukushima's "As of September 2012, there were no deaths or serious injuries due to direct radiation exposures."

Which is why I think the OP is demonstrably wrong. Impregnated jackets and shovels can't help with seawater leaks -- the two incidents are just too different.

Apologies for the "send to death" wording, that was clumsy.
I also use GNU Guix and Shepherd on top of Ubuntu at work. Shepherd manages all of my user daemons (mostly Ruby web application servers) and Guix as an RVM (and other such tool) replacement. Is that practical enough?
Printrbot is probably the best of the low-budget options.
You both should watch the elevator hacking talk that was given at HOPE X: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUvGfuLlZus
The severity of the events is not comparable and the one in Japan was, to a great extent, a consequence of a major natural disaster. There would have been no need for the Soviet Union to display its (rather dubious) expertise in containing such events if it hadn't created it in the first place.
Yeah, these people who are in the business of making money in their field know nothing of what they are doing and should take the advice of random anonymous person on the Internet. Based on the shenanigans of some of the people in the entertainment industry, mainly movies, that are aimed directly at keeping as much money as possible from those they should dole it out to; I'm willing to bet they know what they're doing.

One day it'll be more profitable to do a more reasonable distribution method and that day they'll switch pretending they wanted to do it the entire time. The whole HBO streaming thing is likely a good example of this.
I would like one the size of a softball. It's pretty cool looking to put on your desk and roll when you get stuck.
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It may make you feel better to assume that those downvoting your post are part of some pro-nuclear conspiracy, but the truth of the matter is that you appear to have an unscientifically hyperbolic understanding of what the effects of both disasters were, and you are as a result being downvoted by people who are better-educated about this subject.
I've only lived in Singapore for three years, but I do read the Straits times every day (I'm a paper and digital subscriber), get the daily update in email, and subscribe to their notifications.

The straitstimes is fascinating in that it so different from any newspaper that I'm familiar with in the United States (I subscribe to the NYT, and have the SJ Mercury news, and WSJ in the past). In many ways, it feels like a government newsletter, with clearly government approved messaging on things like the budgets, healthcare, elections, etc..

The "Structure" of the newspaper stories, particular on the front page, is also remarkably consistent over the last few years - usually with a story from one of the following collection - Story about a maid, story about something good in Singapore, Story about something bad in the rest of the world that wouldn't happen in singapore, story about someone who did something bad, and got caught, and what their punishment was, story about issues regarding racial/religious harmony. The complete lack of LGBT stories is also fascinating. And you will almost never, ever see a story regarding the liberalization of drugs.

For better or worse, the media is clearly not independent - whether that's a good or bad thing is unclear to me. Singapore is certainly a very safe and clean place to live in, with little visible signs of poverty and/or urban blight that is so common in American Cities. I know it's the only city I've ever felt comfortable about my mother roaming around anywhere at night.

Maybe there's something to be said about a bit of totalitarian rule?
Mitsubishi: We've been cheating on fuel tests for 25 years
Why bother? The precision of double is sufficient for the vast majority of engineering problems. Seldom do you have measurements that are more precice than the calculations you do with them.
The funny thing to me is that arch ~2016 is gentoo ~2004.

The claims about how great arch is are almost word for word what people used to say about gentoo.
They don't have to beat Google. They just have to sell movies to gamers, which is far easier.

By the way, gamers are often pirates too. Giving them a platform and price point would go a long way.
Weekend emergency NHS admissions have 10% higher morbidity
What sort of error?

Regardless of whether it's MITM or DNS hijacking causing the issue, it's clearly your ISP doing it.
Take your pick for my first txt:

EMERGENCY trapped in our lift
PAN-PAN trapped in our lift
911 trapped in our lift
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Nginx 1.10 brings HTTP/2 support to the stable releases
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Yes, but outside of the kernel, and maybe the GNU tools, there seems to be very little willingness to entertain the need for backwards compatibility.
Docker ID: opak

Thanks!
It's true. I make in that neighborhood, and I can't even save for a house, much less retirement. Maybe my kids will support me when I'm old.
Buy it, of course. Though it will be more of a novelty item on my desk to go alongside other oddities rather than see any "real use". I don't play any tabletops and the board games I do play don't warrant any die with more than 20 faces.
The laser-cut wood was when they were just starting out and more DIY. Their recent more professional printers have had steel frames.
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You are rather proposing a vast curtailment of personal freedom, according to your personal interpretation of reified "democratic and humanist values" -- an extremely vague and nebulous concept

Not at all nebulous. Members of an intellectual, tolerant, multicultural society tolerate all those they practically can, and seek to talk to convince and listen to learn. Members of intolerant groups seek to silence, shun, and otherwise punish their perceived enemies. It's quite intuitive, commonsense, and plain as day.

private entitites ought to be so regulated by your own arbitrary philosophical restrictions

Really, I'd much rather that society at large understood these distinctions of philosophical and emotional self awareness, and enacted them of their own free will. This is why I make such comments. I'm trying to convince people that the freedom to act like a uber-jerk to people you don't like isn't an obligation to do so. Also, it's generally a bad idea.

This is no different in character from any other totalitarian dictatorship

Very different. There's a lot more listening and talking involved, and far fewer dictates. What's more like a dictatorship? Someone advocating for tolerance, or someone angrily insisting on their right to excommunicate people? In any case, thanks for revealing in what direction you're emotionally invested.
No. This was just a publicity stunt. More honey into the ears. 90% of the populace has no business coding nor do they want to.
But violating the license terms by border hopping is piracy.

Not saying I agree with geo restrictions, or any of the other silliness (I don't, and thankfully we're rapidly moving away from that sort of thing), but using VPNs or foreign credit cards to subscribe to a service that isn't available to you because the company selling it doesn't have a license to do so is still, technically, piracy.