skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Skylon is never going to fly. The system design doesn't close with any reasonable set of engineering assumptions. This the the kind of thing the press is horrible at reporting about because they lack any technical capability to vet wild claims like what Reaction Engines (REL) is making, and they effectively just serve as a mouthpiece for REL. Real decision-makers with budgetary authority are mislead by this kind of crap.

Even the SABRE cycle is overly complex and unlikely to ever be realized as envisioned. The real interesting piece of technology REL has is their precooler. That could potentially see multiple applications.

SpaceX is an interesting case not because of their absolute engineering prowess/awesomeness, but because their competition and preceding Government efforts have failed (or not bothered) so many times to accomplish even what SpaceX is doing. It didn't require new technology that SpaceX invented, for example, to land a first stage after launch. But SpaceX definitely deserves plaudits for their doggedness, willingness to be unconventional, and lack of fear about failing publicly along the way.
I think a lot of these grid systems and layout libraries are overkill, and in turn, make the designs they are being used for, more complicated than they need to be.

Sure, it would be great to have a more component focused tool for FE development, but I think creating separate, fixed-width designs for tablet, phone, and desktop, with containers does the job fairly well. When the designs try to resize components for every use case you get more headache than it's worth.
Does Amazon disclose such things as this when it affects a primary site functions?
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Is this really that far from the truth?
It's worth noting that slippery slopes are a rhetorical fallacy[1] -- most slopes aren't slippery and most things aren't even slopes. I outlined why I think these personal views are relevant to the discussion. I don't think it's useful or necessary to lay out a general principle as to when personal views are relevant to the discussion, and I don't see any danger that Hacker News will be overrun by irrelevant discussions of someone's personal views if we continue to engage in this relevant discussion of personal views.

1) http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/slippery-slope.html
This is a really bad title. There is nothing wrong with either Ubuntu's or Debian's repositories. The problem is with Docker's repositories of Ubuntu/Debian packages.
I see. Thanks for the reply!
This is 100% correct. The average stay at AWS is less than a year. Each employee has color coded badges based on length of stay. You can also use the LDAP tools to fetch each employees years of employment. The average is pretty sad and spun as "we are hiring more than ever. our oldest employees left when their stock became worth a ton"

But of course the real reason is that Amazon's work environment is basically chock full of shitty middle-managers, many who are adopted from Microsoft or salvaged somehow from better tech companies in the valley.

They even have these leadership principles that are basically a bunch of no-brainers that they force down the employees throats at every opportunity. They use them as a criteria for performance reviews, even before actual hard metrics. Shitty middle managers will keep stressing the leadership principles because (1) that's what they are told to do (2) they need to rate their subordinates on them (3) because these principles are qualitative, the only insurance they have is that they spewed them enough to get through.

Amazon, to sum it up, is just, shitty employees from other tech companies. And dumb/average intelligence follow-the-pack type drones - many who can hardly speak English and are on work visas..and they put many of these terrible speakers as managers!! (Amazon loves cheap labor, and will use it for ANY position possible)

When your leadership principles are sold as prolific and something every employee "should study" (Bezos words') you really can't expect to hire intelligent folk who don't want no-brainer basic business and character traits hamfisted to them as if it is the new work of Plato himself.

[1] https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
Looks good here, and the site is even devoid of 3rd party js. Maybe the crash is on your end. Congrats?
There's https://github.com/zenparsing/es-typed-catch to solve the problem I raised here 3 years ago: https://esdiscuss.org/topic/try-catch-conditional-exceptions... and there's a good writeup on problems with async/await by fellow bluebird contributor Gorgi Kosev (spion) here: https://spion.github.io/posts/es7-async-await-step-in-the-wr... (Although I don't really agree with it)
That would be my guess too. There was an oblique reference to this a while back in the blog post by ownCloud's founder when he announced his departure :
http://karlitschek.de/2016/04/big-changes-i-am-leaving-owncl...
That's wrong. Cash obviously affects the value of a company, as reflected in the stock price. If a company lights $1B on fire the value of the company will go down, if they find $1B in the couch cushions the value will go up.

What might be confusing is that one dollar of cash at a company doesn't neatly translate into one dollar of value in the stock price. At a poorly run company with a history of bad acquisitions $1 of cash might be worth 50 cents because investors think that the company will waste the money rather than give it back as dividends. But a growing company might borrow money and have the stock price go up, if investors think it will be invested well.
I dabbled with Blueprints a while back, and I got a strong impression that experience with C++ is still valuable background because it gives you a better grip on the types and the general structuring of how the parts communicate. To a pretty large degree you're composing C++ bits and pieces visually, but it makes a lot more sense if you can intuit why something is structured the way it is. And that all ties back to the underlying engine.
> ... so US companies are to blame?

Blame is irrelevant. These countries are choosing to backlash against a product problem.

> ... they should be considered a threat?

Yes. Unless, in the long term, they want to become level-B American citizens. Believe me I know - I'm Canadian and we are close.

> Companies like this don't come out of Europe for a reason.

New tailored products will grow and gain success when the old behemoth products are gone.
Can I import promisifyAll without bringing all of Bluebird?
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> The US government forces American tech companies to spy on users, so US companies are to blame?

In a case like this, "to blame" is somewhat irrelevant. No matter how unwilling the companies are, US spying is a reason to regulate or avoid them. This isn't a moral judgement (though the article does offer one), but when you can't trust the security of US-produced hardware and software that's a reason to act against US-headquartered companies regardless.
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Wow, I was not aware. Thank you for posting that!
For my personal blog, a very lightweight static site generator written in Go.

https://github.com/alexanderteinum/simple-website
> The use of an idiom doesn't change the definition of the words.

Then you don't understand what an idiom is.

"The ball is in your court" is an idiom. It doesn't mean you have a ball or a court.

When an American says "chances are" he's not talking about probability. The closest replacement for a non-American would be 'probably'.
Medium. I like that I don't have to think about styling and can focus on the content.

I haven't used it yet for technical blogs but it supports embedding gists. https://medium.com/@KatAlexPas
Have you considered the "non-facebook users" coordinate offline, in-person and can use other technologies like SMS, email, phone calls, IM, chat apps, running into friends at the store, visiting a friend's workplace and "passing the word along" telling friend A who tells friend B?
Interesting derivation, but why not Receiver Operator Characteristics(ROC)? In recognition memory research we often collect confidence ratings on a 6-point scale for yes/no decisions, for example, and plot ROC curves, and calculate d' discrimination scores.
You won't be dissapointed, although you may want to get an android phone. The benefits outweigh the costs.
Static site generator in common lisp, https://github.com/kingcons/coleslaw
Because having an always-on microphone in your house wasn't enough, let's now put one on your wrist.
Tinambo, single file flat-file CMS/blogging app with encrypted content. https://vox.space/projects/36/tinambo and https://github.com/voxspace/tinambo
I always notice when I've written some long reply to a comment chain and thing "oh, right. Meds kicked in." As a kid, before I was diagnosed (parents didn't "believe" in ADHD) I'd have trouble staying on one train of thought for more than 10-15 minutes and my schoolwork suffered accordingly. Now, while I've got my dosage to a point where I don't feel overly stimulated but can focus, I'm able to actually do things.

I still need to put in the effort to do something difficult or boring (like just about anyone) and I do still feel a mild coffee-like perk up when I take my Adderall and it kicks in. But otherwise, it's a relatively mild tweak that I personally find to offer more benefits than drawbacks for the time being.
Absolutely. Another sign twitter has reached their natural limit is that they are spinning the exclusion of links towards character count as a new "feature".
> It really was a great way to get Americans to upgrade more often

I cringe in fear when I read this line. The voracious appetite and the unwavering focus on economic growth is hurting the entire world. Isn't it a time to step back and rethink our long term strategy as one species?

I routinely board very large airplanes without having the vaguest idea of how they work or how to fly them - I'm a passenger, and happy to ride along. I take buses, and taxis, and ride shotgun when others drive, without sweating it. But put me behind the wheels of the car, and I suddenly need to know a whole lot more. Manual or automatic? Mirros adjusted right? Where is the knob for the headlights? Emergency break, just in case? Where I buy a new car, I actually do skim over the manual.

...

A reporter called recently and asked how long it would take Earth to "forget" humanity if we suddenly disappeared. In some sense, we are now unforgettable - the human-caused plant and animal extinctions have emptied biological "jobs" and that will be filled over many millions of years by creatures who will owe their existence to use wiping out the competition. We have pumped oil and gas out of the ground that had been there for hundreds of millions of years, through holes that may not be eroded away for additional hundreds of millions of years. The human "layer" of plastic and aluminum foil and heavy metals may be recognizable in sedimentary piles hundreds of millions of years from now.

...

With the among of stuff we use, and the amount of the world we occupy, we are no longer passengers napping in the back seat of the car. We are everywhere, and changing everything. Hence many environmental scientists are now involved in figuring out what we are doing, how to operate a remarkably complex and involved Earth system, and how to make the ride as enjoyable as possible.

I'm concerned that a lot of people, including some of those whow are making laws, still think that they are sitting in the back of the car, looking our the window and enjoying the ride.

- 'Earth - The Operators' Manual' By Richard B. Alley
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> If you can only shrug and wait, that's bad.

Welcome to cloud computing!
It does support https, try adding the 's' in the URL. It just doesn't default to it/redirect to it.

If you use an extension like HTTP Anywhere it'll pick up on that and use https.
> The author is amazingly willing to accord French bureaucrats the right to regulate the cultural consumption of Frenchmen. How is this defensible?

They don't have to defend it to you. You have American values, they have French values. The whole point is that they don't want Americans coming in and imposing their values over theirs.
Probably not quite the same point - I think there's clearly some difference between paying for my meal and paying taxes, but I also think there's clearly some difference between paying taxes and paying a mugger (especially in a well-functioning society).

I just don't think the first difference is well expressed by pointing out that force is eventually involved.
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Reminds me of
http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/virtual/u...
How does this compare to serverless? (full disclosure, we are starting to use it a ridiculous amount at fanatics)
How does this compare to serverless (full disclosure, we are starting to use it a ridiculous amount at fanatics)
Zappa is web-specific (API Gateway + Lambda). Gordon seems to be more generalist: it's for whatever you want to run on AWS Lambda.
> Therefore, it could be a simulation. Or not. There's no way to tell the difference

If the Milky Way were to re-arrange itself to say Game Over, I think I'd be inclined to go for sim.
I've been mucking around with Owncloud from the beginning and it's always been a pain (non-default configs never work as you expect, updating is a pain, installation is a pain, etc). Tried Syncthing and it was worse (I want central control, SyncTrayzor is obnoxious, doesn't "just work" as it's supposed to via upnp). Never heard of Seafile before but it looks way better, I'm going to give it a shot!
If you decide not to have kids you can have more good nights' sleep.

All my married friends with kids try to extoll the virtues of having kids while they struggle to raise their children financially, emotionally and physically. They have the nerve to suggest I'm unfulfilled and unhappy.

But last I checked I'm the one who can sleep in until 11AM on Saturdays or stay up till 2AM on a Friday night.
I'm not too proud to admit that a large number of my amazon purchases are low-price impulse buys. I'd imagine I'm far from alone in this.
There were reasons to believe in a God some two thousand years ago. Those might have been wrong reasons, but still the belief in gods reflected people's understanding of the world at the time (i.e. pretty much none at all).

I personally don't see much difference in the two. Before modern astronomy, people looked at the frequency of the revolution of visible planets and thought their ratios resembled musical ratios, and that this had to be the work of someone (such was the belief of Pythagoreans, Stoics and Neoplatonists). Nowadays people look at some other physical quantity and think that this has to be the work of someone. In this sense, they're pretty similar. And if the error of those ancient philosophers lies in that supposition, I don't see how the degree of reality of our idea of who's doing it (e.g. aliens vs. a hazy concept of a "Demiurge") makes it any better.
promisifyAll is _blazing_ fast because it does this: https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/blob/master/src/pro...

It builds a function dynamically and then compiles it and lets the JIT optimize it - it incurs very little overhead.

This is impossible if your only tool is the promise constructor. That said - there are packages that do this without bluebird - like thenify.

Also note - you can use bluebird for promisification and native promises for other stuff if you'd like and it'd work seamlessly as bluebird passes the Promises/A+ test suite.
To be fair, it must be pretty complicated to actually keep it running. Then you've got all the security, spam detection, designers, UX people, search engine, multi-lingual features. And then you've got the overhead of any medium-sized business - marketing, PR, sales, accounting, admin, HR (have I missed anything?). I guess it does add up.

But (so as not to contradict myself) just having all those people doesn't count as an achievement. It's just a cost of doing business that you want to keep as low as possible.
Amazon has search?
but if you run the numbers, you have to admit, people doing this don't stand any worse chance of having a successful family life. But if they don't act quickly, they may never before it's too late.
GitLab used to have themes that made it dark but we found that this was hard to maintain. New features would look bad in themes that were less popular. Right now you can only change the color and syntax highlighting theme in GitLab: http://i.imgur.com/6v3b0g7.png
My personal blog[0] uses the Wintersmith[1] static site generator with content hosted on Surge[2]. I previously used nanoc[3] but started to find it was more complicated than necessary for my needs. If you happen to be interested, the source[4] of my site is on GitHub.

[0] https://michael.mior.ca/

[1] http://wintersmith.io/

[2] https://surge.sh/

[3] http://nanoc.ws/

[4] https://github.com/michaelmior/michael.mior.ca
So I'd have more energy to enjoy them, have more of a window between them growing up and being old, and so I'd have better odds of living long enough to get to know my grandchildren.

Let's put some numbers on that. My first child was born when I was 35. I turn 48 this year, and will not have all my children in college until I'm nearly 60. I'm not looking forward to figuring out college when I'd like to retire.

Moving on, my family health history sucks - I do not have a male relative who has reached 60 without a heart attack and/or stroke. That includes 2 brothers that I know of. I'm working to take care of myself with diet+exercise, but already have hypertension. If my children have children as late as I did, there won't be a grandchild until I'm in my 70s. I have very few male relatives who survived to 70, and none arrived there with their minds intact. There is reason to believe that I could do better, but realistically there is a good chance that I won't.

I was aware of most of these facts in my 20s. They just didn't seem relevant to the life choices that I was making then. In retrospect, I wish I'd chosen differently. I won't push my children towards any particular life decisions, but I hope to give them tools to make choices that better reflect what they want in the long term than I did.
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Sorry to be negative, but this sounds like a solution to make something which is horribly broken a teeny bit less horribly broken.
What about for custom CNAME records though?
This is not true. Most dividends are priced into the value of the stock because they rarely change.

Go look at a MSFT, PG or any other stocks that pay regular dividends on Google Finance. You'll see their stock is obviously not influenced by the value of the dividend payment at all. It's impossible to tell when dividends are distributed by looking at the stock price change alone.
Pretty sure the core isn't always on.

On top of that, the Core is probably less capable than your cell phone - which could already be listening to you 24/7. You'll trust Facebook, Microsoft, Google, and Apple in your pocket everyday but not Amazon? Get real, if someone wanted to spy on you, they wouldn't wait for you to buy a core.
Plus you can get it pre-installed!
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That's equivocation; the sort of confidence that people are looking for and critical of lacking is not the same thing as mathematical confidence. Mathematical confidence is basically entirely inhuman; we do not think that way naturally and generally can't think that way even if trained.

There is no contradiction in being 90% confident of something and acting entirely humanly confident in it. Whether it is wise depends too much on context to make a snap decision.
On the cultural control issue, I can grant this. On the surveillance issue (US companies are suspect because of US government behaviors), not so much.

American voters may not love Snowden, but they're largely indifferent-to-opposed on mass surveillance. Since the 70s or so they've had essentially no say in the behavior of intelligence and security organizations - all credible candidates have had broadly-similar views, and it's not even a votable topic when what's being done is only known in retrospect.
Nodejs+Couch/Cloudant express app written in Iced Coffeescript, called flat-white. I'll be open-sourcing it and its dependencies over the next few weeks. Current running version: driverbeats.com .

Uses Redis sessions coupled with Couch authentication, so it's ready to be clustered out-of-the-box.
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I think your examples could be simplified:

export default function getUsers () {
return getUsersFromDB()
.then(filterUsersWithFriends)
.then(getUsersLikes);
}

And there's just about never a reason to use the `Promise` constructor in real world code. If you already have a promise as in your example, so you can rewrite your refactoring as:

export default function getUsers () {
return getUsersFromDB()
.then(users => filterUsersWithFriends(users).catch(err => trySomethingElse(users)));
}
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It's convenient, because multiplying probabilities together quickly gets very very small. Typically smaller than can be represented in floating point even.

Whereas logarithms make multiplication just addition, and they get small very very slowly.

Personally I prefer geometric mean. Which is equivalent to the average log likelihood. It has an upper bound at 1 and lower bound at 0, and represents the "average" probability you assigned the correct answer.
> American left has for decades been slowly allying themselves against the West.

The US, including both parties, has been shifting rightward for decades, so it makes sense that leftists are feeling alienated.
Is there a Sublime Text plugin?
Sort of. If the brand is good (e.g. Amazon), people will come back later to buy.

On the other hand, you can model some buying as periodic, not need-based. I go to the grocery store when I need food, but I go to J Crew once every six months. If I'm traveling this June, I'll delay my trip until July, so while the revenue isn't "lost", it's pushed into the future. My next trip is then in January, not December, and at this point, J Crew has lost one month of my sales forever.

There's a similar effect for many items at Amazon. I only spend so much time shopping, so if I can't do it now, there's some opportunity they miss out on in the future. The aggregate ends up looking like revenue that's lost forever.
This is specific to the Pebble Core, which is not a smartwatch and isn't worn on the wrist.
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>Not when the "diversity" is someone looking at the market and saying "there are too many good movies

I take it you are against affirmative action?
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