skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've lost track of how many times I've had to explain that "no, there is not a staggering amount of latent demand in the middle of Kansas" to people trying to do metrics :)
I'm guessing you haven't read it then? I don't want the spoil the ending but your parent post makes sense.
Definitely one of my favorite books. I bought a hard copy and read through it immediately. Then I got the audio book and listened to it in my car while commuting. What a great piece of work.
It was already racist
You are right, but I'm just trying to say that AI is now believed to be able to beat all perfect information games. If you could model program synthesis as a game (regardless how boring/unfun it might be) computers could beat expert humans at it. OR, we have game that humans are still better at, and AI researchers at big companies will spend years attacking it for fame and glory. Either way it's interesting.
I'm likely to be flamed out of existence for saying this, but I'm against 100% voter turnout. A shocking number of people in my social circle get their political opinions by intuition. Never do they watch a debate, nor do they have any idea who the contenders are. When the primaries were running in my home state I asked several of my friends about their opinions and most of them only knew one person from each party that was even running.

They were passionate about their hatred of the opposing party's most-tweeted person, and clueless about what their person's positions were, the states they were from, their voting history, their "moral fabric" as it were...

Point is, screw my friends. If they only Facebook-Care(TM) about politics, they shouldn't be encouraged to vote anyway. They do not get to decide my country's fate.

In fact, I want the opposite.

I want a test. Step one: Name 3 people in your primary and name 3 in the opposing party's primary. Who is your party chair? Who's in the majority in the house? Who're the senate majority and minority leaders?
> But why would you care what your roofer or painter did last night

If I'm a roofer, I don't want the guy holding my ladder to be hung over.
The link you provided doesn't work, here's the correct link. http://dev.naver.com/projects/nanumfont/download

Notice there is no slash at the end of it. It won't work with the slash at the end.
Does the racial make up of NBA rosters make the NBA a racist organization?
I've never written OCaml, just SML and F#, but I thought that OCaml didn't have the |> operator.
That sounds shockingly like a bug I remember one of our best developers finding when I worked at Homestead in the late 90's (and I remember being in awe then of his ability to deduce the pattern out of the seeming randomness).
"Several days" is typically plenty of time for almost all drugs except for marijuana, due to their half-lives.

Those who regularly use larger amounts of drugs may need an extra day or two to pass but a week, for instance, should be more than enough for most people's levels to be below the thresholds that are tested against.
My understanding is that the surviving humans shelter in "the cleft", which is a fragment of the moon. They then use biotechnology techniques to repopulate. Even when limited to the biotech operations, they would need a lot of carbon based materials.

Keith Robison has some thoughts on it:

http://omicsomics.blogspot.co.nz/2015/12/thoughts-on-synthet...
> other languages in common use now have it as an assignment operator (even if it is still a source of bugs a la: "if(a=0) ...")).

Which with OCaml, is not an issue thanks to the decent type system!

I agree with you - there is something to be said for just not going against the grain where you can tolerate it. I ask myself, "Are semicolons really the hill I want to die on?".
I added Mononoki to the default comparison and found I like it best of all the san-serif fonts but overall prefer the serifs over san-serifs, particularly Anonymous Pro.
Why should private clubs be determining who is on the ballot?

If they had that role removed, they would still be able to endorse a candidate or agree to all vote for the same candidate or whatever.
That still doesn't solve the problem of corrupt private institutions. A lot of people trust Yelp or the BBB but from whatever I know their ratings can be bought.
What I want to do is make an extension that sends a request to web.archive.org/save/{URL} whenever you visit a webpage. To prevent flooding, I would make it only send a request for a specific URL once a month.
69% of developers claim they are self taught. Are you one of them?
Adjustable 8 Antennas High Power GPS/ WiFi/ 3G4G(LTE+Wimax) Cell Phone Jammer
Context[0], since I didn't see a link in the article. Also, the discussion[1].

[0]: https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-mus...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11634600
I had a drive fail a couple years ago and restored it with Backblaze. The one gotcha is it wasn't a bootable backup, so it was still a pain getting my system back to something approximating what it was before. Since then I've added a weekly bootable backup to a local USB drive. Not failsafe but good enough for my needs.
A couple of fun things hidden (or not exactly) in this video:

There's no missing a couple of Neal's swordfighting buddies at 1:07.

Wondering where the camera stand is? Look for its reflection in the window behind Bill at 1:52.

What car did Bill drive to the meet-up? Probably not the Model X. My money is on the Porsche 959 shown at 2:17.

(It's also a safe bet that the meet-up actually began at the Burgermaster, since that's in Bill's neighborhood. That way Bill only has to make one round-trip to Seattle instead of two.)

I'm totally failing to get the joke with the shovels and pickaxes at the corner of Boyer & Howe at 2:40. (Surely not a macabre gag as they cross towards Lakeview cemetery...)

And of course the gaggle of kids in Madison Park at 2:54 are observing the moon through a telescope.
You could make it a really angry federal holiday by making it a Constitutional amendment.

People will still need to work on election day, but the amendment could specify a minimum amount of time be available to participate in the election.

(still, early voting makes more sense to me than that)
A co-worker pays for the music on iTunes. Then goes and pirates the music and puts the non DRM-ed version on the portable music player.
Which is why many people think drug tests are racist.
I don't know much about US politics but I don't think they are determining who is on the ballot are they? They're determining who can claim to be the official Republican Party but I don't think there's any reasonable grounds to say that that's wrong.

Ted Cruz can still be on the ballot if he wants to can't he? As an independent? How could the Republican Party stop him?
Vantablack
The web UI for the Transmission bittorrent client, around 2006-ish. I wrote it in prototype.js and then discovered jQuery, and ended up rewriting the whole thing.

https://www.transmissionbt.com/
I feel the media has taken a useful word in the technology world and made it almost useless for general usage. I'm scared to even mention "metadata" to people even in relevant technical context as the word has become politicised and loaded, just like I can't call myself a "hacker" any more.
These applications absolutely depend upon more algorithmic and software engineering work, and it definitely is not a matter of just adding more hardware; if it was, I'd have the rack or two (or more?) of hardware it could take today. It's hard to predict markets, but in the Open Source world there are at least primordial forms of every application I mentioned, or at least the elements of them. It's fun to tinker with them at the very least, while the hardware keeps improving.

It's like back in the 80's it was neat to imagine GB-scale disks with ubiquitous, continuously-indexed search across all files on the system. We could even implement it, and tinker with it on a toy scale for practical speeds, or on a system-wide scale at slow demo speeds. It took better hardware before that feature was really practical.

I'm wondering if ASIC-based products will come out for "settled" niches that large swathes of the workstation market agree upon for a kind of standardized co-processing set of sockets/slots in workstations, and workstation-embedded FPGA's as software-reprogrammable become available for niches that are not as settled, but not quite amenable to GPU/CPU processing. I don't know enough yet about hardware at that level to discern what field of application could possibly penetrate mainstream computing that would need those devices at such a low level, though, that couldn't be addressed with PCIe cards today, if not through CUDA/OpenCL for accelerators/co-processors and general-purpose CPUs.
Thanks for the feedback. We can change it to `Cons`, but I was assuming that anyone who knew what `Cons` was, would know what `List` meant, but not everyone who understood what `List` meant, would know/recall what `Cons` meant.
I enjoyed Seveneves but thought it wasn't Stephenson's best work by far.

I'd rate Anathem and Snow Crash much higher than it.
Firefox is really bad at rendering Chinese fonts. It chooses different font than other browsers, sometimes using a Japanese font to render Chinese text, and the pixelization is just palpable. I know most people here couldn't care less, but the poor internalization may be one of the reasons for a global disadvantage compared to Chrome. Internationalization is really something open source products have been lacking traditionally, as it is neither fun nor sexy.
I remember a time when I was a relatively computer-illiterate youngling and my favourite game was not particularly stable. I remember churning through many progressively more elaborate superstitions in search of some correlation I could exploit to prevent the dreaded crashes.

Of course, I never succeeded. But the point should stand: people are built around finding and exploiting correlations to their benefit, and we're actually quite good at it. It is not terribly surprising to me that somebody quickly noticed that the annoying bad thing that is consistently happening today also happened consistently for a day precisely one week ago. When the pattern repeats again for a third time...
Honestly, my biggest gripes with Apple Music come from Apple not being a data-science-type company.

When I go to the "For You" section of the music app, more often than not I'm greeted with albums I already have in my library, playlists titled "Intro to <artist I already listen to>", or random curated playlists that I've recently browsed through. Basically, it gives me nothing valuable on a regular basis. I find it very hard to discover new music with Apple Music. With Spotify, there was my "Discover Weekly" playlist which was perfect - 30 new songs that I should like given my listening history. And Spotify was fairly good at recommending new playlists to me as well.

Perhaps with Apple Music I'm taking the wrong approach. It might be more effective to use Radio for discovery, but for being based on Beats the curated playlists seem really lacking.
My theory about the book, and the reason why there's such a tone change at the end is that this book is the kickoff to a much larger cycle.

If it is, I think there's an authorial question -- when do you shift gears to the far future, and how? It makes some sense to me that readers might find the style transition jarring between volumes. Also, some of the cool stuff starts to happen later.

So, perhaps -- hopefully -- we can look forward to more. There's plenty teed up in the novel; it seems like every group of humans that went out on their own survived in some way, (making me think the Mars folks are going to be around at some point), and we still haven't found out just who blew up the moon.

Stephenson created the Hieroglyph project, trying to get sci fi authors to inspire more science, and I suppose more faith in humanity. I would be surprised if we don't get more of this story aimed at inspiring us in a variety of ways.
Still comes in handy... A bit of recent fun :)

https://github.com/BloombergMedia/whatiscode/pull/20
Truly, the only solution to these pricks will be a LOT more people like Alexandra Elbakyan.
Radical transparency could be a tool for or against oppressors. If I could know as much about my government as they know about me, I think I would feel a lot safer.
boy-being meets girl-being beneath silvery moon, which then explodes for no adequately explored reason.
I think you're being a little hyperbolic. And the question is whether the parents' exercising their "right" to promote their religion of choice and cut out the teaching of evolution and sex ed might not leave the child with some deficiencies in their education. It generally depends on how qualified the alternatives are, but the answer is probably "yes it does".
I'm confused that you think that you have the right to tell me what to do. You don't. Not even by proxy to some "authority".
Violates the "half plus seven" rule [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_disparity_in_sexual_relati...
They did bring tons of comet with them. Which could theoretically be a source of carbon. It's a stretch, of course. But I think the story was that they kept the population in the Cleft down to a few hundred for many generations, only growing beyond that once people began venturing further afield. At that point, carbonaceous asteroids are not implausibly hard to get -- from high orbit, you've already paid most of the delta V needed to get elsewhere in the inner solar system, if you've got a lot of time to spend.
Scientists Discuss Creating Synthetic Human Genome Fuels Speculation
This guy! CC Eliezer. Assassins to be dispatched shortly.
IBM's phase-change memory may have cracked the code on a cheap DRAM alternative
> I don't think JavaScript's syntax is a selling point

Under "Why OCaml?" on the Reason page, it states, "OCaml has a very mature (and still growing) ecosystem for targeting browser and JavaScript environments with a focus on language interoperability and integration with existing JavaScript code," and "Reason‘s non-invasive approach to the OCaml compiler allows Reason code to take advantage of all of the existing OCaml compiler optimizations/backends such as ... and even JavaScript compilation."

It seems like what's being said is that one of the main goals for Reason is to integrate with JavaScript, and it would seem to make sense instead of changing between language syntaxes, you'd want more in common between them, so it makes sense why they are similar. I'm confused as to why you seem to be trying to distance Reason and OCaml from JavaScript, when it definitely seems like the similarity with and integration with JavaScript would be a driving factor in Reason's development now, even if maybe it wasn't in the beginning.

Reason seems really cool, btw.
> .mjs [1].

I was worried this was short for "Microsoft JS", thanks for the link.
Obligatory plug for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F -- a really fantastic documentary that dives into many of the factors that led GM to kill the EV1 program. Warning: may cause diminished faith in humanity.
iTunes is so bad, I stopped using iPhoto/Photos years ago simply because, of you can't do music, you certainly won't be managing my keepsake memories.

The file system, named, organized and managed by ME, remains the only thing I trust. You know what else is great about that? No foisting of album art.
This whole saga has been a pretty interested set of events, amusing to watch as a bystander who's been observing Apple for a long time while they go through many changes.

Regardless, reminds me of Eddy Cue driving over to Federighi's house late one night to report a bug[0]:

When Cue ran into a problem installing a new build of OS X on that iMac,
in fact, he could tell as a veteran software tester that the bug might
be hard to reproduce, plus he was scheduled to take a trip the very
next day. “I called Craig up, said have your guys look at it, I think it
would be hard to re-create. He said sure, so I put the iMac in my car
and drove it over,” as in, to Federighi’s house. Cue went on his
business trip, Federighi’s team fixed the problem, and Cue got his iMac
back when he returned—kind of like a Genius Bar for the C-suite.

[0]: http://www.macworld.com/article/3033057/ios/eddy-cue-and-cra...
Uh. Synchronous distributed systems tolerate failure just fine. It's a distributed system. You expect failure. Hell, failure happens in all kinds of systems and components. If your applications (and system) can't cope with that you won't last long.
Too bad alchohol isn't on the panel
Needs COBOLSCRIPT integration: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=tru...
Ask HN: How many hours do you spend every week on Open source?
Specifically, contributing to Open Source projects on your own time. Hours do not count if you are being paid for it.
A Tyranny Years in the Making
If you'd like to venture into Byzantine fault tolerant consensus, check out Tendermint.

draft thesis from Ethan Buchman: https://github.com/ebuchman/thesis/blob/master/Buchman_Ethan...

https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint
This is a bit of a mischaracterization. They ruled that the lower court decision didn't address the appropriate issue, not that the underlying claim was improper.

It would be unsurprising for the 9th (the court the case was bounced back to) to conclude that yes, the harm was "concrete".

(At which point you get another appeal. Whee!)
How to rip Blu-ray to 3D video
Amazon definitely has government contracts but they don't drug test their engineers (or at least they never drug tested me).

Any ideas how they get around it? Do AWS engineers get drug tested?
There's "sore loser" laws in some states that would be a problem, and he would have to collect thousands of signatures in most states where he wants to be on the ballot.

It's a complicated morass of rules that would cost a lot of money:

https://ballotpedia.org/Filing_deadlines_and_signature_requi...

In contrast, the parties essentially have a reserved nationwide slot that they fill after many months of media circus.
You mean like micro-dosing and homeopathy? And see if they're not depressed for the next 15 seconds?
Almost like COBOL is using a time machine to talk to the future. Reminds me of Interstellar.
That's not what I said, I said the licensing didn't carry over. Of course Beats Music was included in the purchase, but the deals Beats had with the music industry (licensing agreements) were nullified during the acquisition, from my understanding. So building on top of the Beats infrastructure wouldn't make -that- much sense. I'm sure some code was recycled, but the apps are very very different from one another. You could argue that Beats was more ironed out.

Not sure why I was downvoted, you can search online and see analysts questioning the streaming service deal because of the licensing being unlikely to carry over post-purchase. You can also see them chiming in on massive margins that Beats makes from their headphones and how it helps Apple seal more of the supply chain. The headphones were clearly the play, not Beats Music.
> Later I found out it is because of long hours work without enough exercises.

Yes. As another commenter noted, the energy is probably one of the most important resources. I might have partly burned myself out.
Do you actually work on anything related to those contracts? There could be strict separation in place and people without approval / clearance may not be involved at all.
Also, Monaco, previously the default monospace font on Mac OS.
Sounds like there aren't enough Chinese open source contributors. As the saying goes, works for me - patches welcome, they'd be in a better position to do so anyway.
quick someone write a left pad module for it !
Except that is exactly what the law says they must do in some cases. In some cases it is left up to discretion, or we are allowed to choose a U.S. company bid over a foreign company, but government procurement does not work the same as private enterprise.

OTOH, the scale we're talking about is also vastly different, and the companies involved are ultimately responsible to the taxpayers rather than just being responsible to their shareholders so there is more overhead and paperwork as well.
Lately I've been strongly considering making my own personal streaming system.

I've spent years building a large and organized collection. I'm reluctant to switch to a streaming service because I'll lose the years of ratings, playlists, playcounts etc that I rely on, but at the same time both desktop and mobile software get worse all the time.
We need to provide the accessible information then mandate the vote. I am sure a short ten to twenty minute video can sum up the critical issues for each candidate. Then ask them to vote.

We cant throw out people under the bus for not being equipped to make informed choices just because their primary source of information is shared content in social media. Let's fix that then make voting easy.
Democracy.upgrade()!!
https://medium.com/newco/a-guy-just-transcribed-30-years-of-...

If the amount that housing costs increase above inflation is mostly determined (in the general area at least) by a combination of the economy and available units, then yes Detroit is evidence of that relationship as well. I do feel as if Portland has generally learned from San Francisco and is more willing to allow for housing development, and to be allowed to build up.
No, the contracts were in AWS iirc and I did not work in AWS.

(I realize it wasn't clear in my original comment, but that's why I'm curious about AWS engineers' experience).
The three key features we derive from Meteor are:

1) real-time view layer

2) diverse and highly integrated ecosystem (libs are written just for meteor)

3) productive development environment (es2015 modules on client/server, no fuss build pipline for sass, jade, angular-templates, angular dependency injection)

There are a ton of secondary benefits, but thats the crux of it. Yes we do sacrifice some of the benefits of Meteor as a monolithic (homogenous?) full-stack solution, but I would argue that they are in fact small, and if you dive into Meteor you'll find it to be pretty modular.
I never said Beats Music was not included in the deal, I said the licensing was not. I said "rights" but I meant licensing agreements.
UX Reality Check: 14 Hard Truths About Users
This is super exciting. I have been playing around with it in closed beta and I'm really impressed. Open Source FTW.
$$RN.
https://thoughtinfection.com/2014/04/19/capitalism-is-a-pape...
Good thing this article names a bunch of people who wanted all of this history about them anonymous.
> it seems like every group of humans that went out on their own survived in some way

The survival of both the other two groups seemed pretty far fetched to me.
The book goes into great depth and makes "rather difficult to support humans" the focus of the entire first 2 parts of the book. Space is indeed rather difficult to support humans. The third part of the book is a 'what if they actually survived and continued to survive, fast forward 5000 years".

In reality, there would be no survivors in left space, but I appreciated the final third part of the book all the same because I enjoy the fiction part of science fiction just as much as I do the science part.
And Aaron Swartz.
Who said they wanted good headphones? Beats had insane margins. Their headphones cost $7-10 to produce and sell for $100. Apple is about money and cashflow more so than quality.
The only people whose time it is worth to research candidates is that of those who are paid to do it, those being lobbyists. What economic sense does it make for any individual voter to spend the weeks and months it would take to have any idea what all of the candidates that might be running might think on even a small number of major issues?