skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, you could duplicate the records and work on them - but these are likely to be old COBOL systems working on fixed-width records where the location of everything is hardcoded and the application is covered in global variables. If you're going to refactor one of these applications, you might as well spend the money migrating away from it (into a language the agency can actually hire for).

A possibly more doable approach would be to provide a read-only dump into an external SQL database at the end of every batch job for external systems which desire such a thing, but I'm not convinced there's a whole lot of benefit compared to the cost of doing so. There's no part of the agency which needs the information out of office hours, and it's honestly quite reasonable to say "come back tomorrow" in the few cases where the public might want the information out of office hours - note that the web interface is replacing having to call up the DVLA or visit one of their offices, which would have the same restriction.

It'd be much more reasonable to spend money and the time of the people who have experience with the system attempting to migrate off it. Hopefully they're trying.
DeeR: DEEp Reinforcement learning framework
What is the Instagram shop section?
This is a fun tutorial. Only the outline. It seems very simple, so much that I wonder why we still need humans for that ;)
I refuse to be pressured into installing Messenger. I will tell my Facebook contacts not to use Facebook messaging.
Lets not also forget how allergies are more common in the developed world and particularly in children living in the cities who don't generally get a lot of outside play time.
Neandertal stone circles at Bruniquel Cave
When it this last time you logged into a box and /bin/bash wasn't an option? Let me guess 1999 on a SPARC box running Sun Solaris?
Is HN going to make the bar black colored?
so... will it still work on facebook lite? For those of us who avoid the official apps for battery/data consumption, FB Lite is an available middle ground...
a lot of photographers (amateurs and pro) use instagram, they generally shoot on DSLR and then have to transfer to their laptops and then to their phone in order to upload to Instagram. I know this is not the majority of the users but its still a significant number. There are hacky apps showing up on both Windows and OSX that will do the trick but they are hacky nevertheless.
Then there's people like Brendan Eich and Joss Whedon.
It's all about perspective. Trump should jump on this because in spirit they're alike; at least when it comes to a duty to succeed as a nation by vanquishing others with competitive success.
That doesn't seem to have pedals. It looks like an electric scooter, not an electric bike.
Glad it's not just me
I'm sure if I fussed enough, I could get a handful of my friends to use some app I was fixated on, just for me, and they'd do it just to avoid stressing our friendship to its end as I drone on and on about privacy and encryption and sheeple.
It seems quite mature already, runs Rails and passes 100% of the Ruby specs.

I think it's going to become the default in JRuby, but probably not before Java9 comes out, which includes a crucial component that enables Graal to sit on top of HotSpot (currently you need a modified VM).
The first augmented reality social network
Hi guys,
we are working hard to create the first augmented reality social network.
We have already spread all over the world but we still have a few users.
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A Little on V8 and WebAssembly [pdf]
Jacob Appelbaum
If you get to see all the posts you want, in the order you want, you'll leave the site much sooner. Got to keep the rats in the skinner box, shower them with stale content and reward them with the (very) occasional new thing.

Facebook also shows you time sensitive things from yesterday ("come hang out with me tonight!"), to increase your fear of missing out.
They claim it's street legal but it is not. The federal motor limit is 750W.
Being honest with yourself, would an employee exactly like you really be an ideal employee? Would they dedicate all of their productive hours toward your business or might they be spending some energy working toward starting a business on their own?
The only reason why Facebook has as much power as it does is because of user lock-in, but that use lock-in is only strong because no one fights it actively.

Therefore, I started evangelising from WhatsApp to Telegram

Telegram is also a close silo. Tell your friend to use programs that use an open protocol like XMPP [1].

Please read [1]

[1] https://communicationfreedom.wordpress.com/jabberxmpp/
It allows you to get around the tethering limit and use unlimited data. T-Mobile inspects packets to determine regular phone usage vs tethering.
No, this was pretty much a sheeple post. I'm following the herd of friends and family to Facebook because that group is large and my 40+ cousins, most of whom are blue collar and happy just to have place to share baby pics, are uninterested in bizarre discussions about corporate malfeasance.
To me, this is why he will always be “The Greatest.” Not his feet or his fists or his showmanship, but his humanity:

Zawadzki picked Ali up at Pearson International and they were on their way
downtown when Ali asked Zawadzki, the son of Polish immigrants, about his
family. The Etobicoke native mentioned to the former three-time world
heavyweight champion of the world that his mom Wanda had spent years in a slave
labour camp during the Second World War.

“Suddenly, he said he wanted to meet her,” said Zawadzki. “So even though we
were already halfway downtown, we turned around. When we walked into our condo,
Muhammad walked up to my mom, gave her a big hug, and the two of them sat
together, and talked and hugged for a good 45 minutes. She told him all about
her experiences in the camp.”

“When you walked away from Muhammad Ali, you were a better human.”—Ed Zawadzki

http://news.nationalpost.com/sports/toronto-author-ed-zawadz...
Use messenger.com
I trust GCHQ more than some MPs.
> we drink 30-40 (depending on the week) 2L bottles of soda a week, as well as a couple of 12-packs of soda cans, maybe an 8-pack of gatorade/powerade, and 15-20 half liter bottles of water

WTF?? That's a very unhealthy amount of sugar. Why would you buy bottled water?
while their opponents were a bunch of overpaid nobodies who hated their jobs and overall really didn't care

Every sysadmin I've met cares a lot. But they get to rely on products from disparate vendors that are full of zero day exploits and helpful users who are easily socially engineered.
This is kind of convenient; it gives me one more excuse not to use facebook. A few days ago I got the usual notification email that somebody had sent me a message on FB. Clicking is a low barrier so I clicked, curiously. Then I instead got the "No, now you have to install Messenger app" screen. That was enough of a barrier that I said "oh forget it, who cares, anybody who knows me would know better than to send me an FB message anyway, if it matters they'll get in touch via a 'real' communications medium like email, text, or phone"

So sending me an FB message is now a black hole and I'm fine with that. FB's decision just pushed me and all other similar users (users that already are on the fringes of FB usage, using it only rarely) even further away.

I'm not sure if that's a bad thing or good thing for them, since honestly I don't know what FB could do alternately to win back people in my "barely use FB" demographic, and from comments here it does seem like people who actually use FB regularly did not share my reaction ("screw it then") and instead felt forced to install the app and move on with their lives.
No. A lot of places just don't accept them. It's probably against their merchant contracts to have discounts/surcharges for specific cards.
I think you're missing the point if you want this. Boot once, leave running, swap in new code, interact. A clj process (like most lisps) is alive and dynamic in more ways than you might be used to. There's no need to be constantly booting it.
I am away from FreeBSD because today is OpenSource is mostly Linux-only development, no interest from software author to get application on FreeBSD, no support. Nothing ;-(
If demand technology appear in FreeBSD it occurs many years after Linux. All companies invest money and develop pwoer only in Linux.
Hmm, does DNScrypt helps here too to increase security?
How exactly does a "hacker in a coffesshop" spoof a Google cert without Chrome complaining? These certs are pinned. Or is that just an implementation detail that if they had to explain would prevent them from writing such click bait?
A quick googling tells me there are about 10000-15000 planes in the air around the world. GPS coordinates take less than 100 bytes, but let's give some headroom for plane ID, timestamp, etc.

That would mean about 1.5 megabytes per minute, globally. I think the global satellite network is easily up to the task.
Messenger.com blocks most mobile browsers.
It's that "on and off" that killed you. Dig in, practice, get better, and it will become much less of a problem. Set your goal "I will get better at debugging" and not "I will immediately be a pro".
IANAA.

They probably see it. Let's make up a story without any proof that it's real:

In some place in the countryside, they see a light moving in the sky and a not very far explosion. (The ones that see a nearby explosion are dead.) Imagine something like the meteorite at Russia a few years ago. (From the videos it looks like a nice show if it doesn't land on your head.)

The local governor/priest/whatever heard about it and send a crew to the site, let's say 5-10 persons. They found some molten glass and a strange metal stone, that is like bronze but has a weird color.

They share the story for generations, if you are lucky someone they wrote an inform for the pharaoh. Everyone think they are nuts, but a they have this weird stone.

Wait a few centuries, and repeat this a few times, and now you have a collection of weird stones and/or the weapons/tools made with them, and they share a similar story. So the story is not long so weird.

Anyway, the knife made with the stone is better than the usual knives, and it has a nice story, so someone send it to the pharaoh.
Most mobile browsers are blocked by messenger.com though.
First Experimental Demonstration of a Quantum Enigma Machine
If you're doing a really grungy, grotty text mangling task in a UNIX pipeline, suddenly all those crazy Perl features start making sense. The reason why Perl is arguably not the best choice for other tasks, such as creating large systems, is precisely that it's actually got many distinct advantages over Python for that sort of task. It's also really good for "I have a UNIX pipeline but this one chunk of it needs a database and this other chunk needs a JSON file and a few other things that shell just can't do".

For instance, for the first time in 15+ years, I recently had a reason to use Perl's half-deprecated, off-handedly-included form printing support, and, you know what? It's really nice if that's what you want. Many dozens of lines of code replaced by what is basically a picture of what I want.

Python is a great language, but every once in a while "explicit is better than implicit", which is generally a philosophy I agree with wholeheartedly, results in a lot more "explicit", in the form of "code I had to write", than you might be looking for. (Or, alternatively, you start writing Python that is a lot more implicit, which isn't exactly a huge victory for Python here.)

Nowadays I'd also suggest that if you find yourself having a lot of those tasks, you need to ask some questions about how you're storing your data. But pretty much everybody ends up with some of these somewhere; it's hard to eliminate them, and not really worth it (due to diminishing returns).
I have a bit of a theory on that, which I bet will be a bit unpopular but is based on some social things I have seen. A dynamic language gets popular[1]. As more people show up, they want to bring their way of doing things (e.g. "prototypes are stupid, we need classes") instead of fully adopting the language. Improvements are cool but some of the changes alter things in a fundamental way (e.g. dynamic to static). Sometimes it leads to second systems (e.g. Objective-C to Swift) and is often accompanied by "the need to grow up". Then we get a new language.

1) could actually be any language that doesn't fit the mainstream mold
> What makes it ours?

The fact that we created that data.

Here is an analogy. If I buy a piece of paper and it contains an EULA that says that any works written on that paper become property of the manufacturer of the paper, then would that be legally binding? If so, then do we want to live in a world where paper manufacturers have control over our intellectual property?

Note that paper is a commodity product, but the same holds for online video services, and messaging services. The ones we are using today have no or little competitive edge over other services (other than network effect), they were just lucky enough that we chose to use them.
Hezoo is a collaborative peer-to-peer service between France and Tunisia
Make sure you stock the employee fridge with La Croix. It shows the investors you're cutting edge, and every company I've been at has been bought within a year after they started stocking the stuff.

If you stock Coke or Pepsi, the investors will interpret that as a sign you come from a poor family.

Coffee is a safe bet to have around, but won't make you stand out.

Tea is a good gambit, but you have to sip it in a way that conveys social class. Make sure you have glass teacups.

Don't stock energy drinks: Having early 20s software developers around gives off that fresh hipster vibe, but only teenagers will drink a can of Monster and that will drive off the investors.
One wheel electric skateboard
Which makes sense, because anyone who could install a root certificate on your system could easily disable any such check, backdoor Chrome, install a keylogger, etc.

This would lead to a false sense of security, which I believe would be worse than the status quo.
An irrelevant framework drops another irrelevant framework as a dependency.
Does anyone actually believe that IoT is anything more than marketing fluff? What are the benefits of my LED lightbulbs having an IPv6 address?
Not as much as you'd think. NYC is (by USA standards) notoriously law-ignoring, both in the sense of people ignoring rules and of law enforcers not bothering to enforce them -- ESPECIALLY any rules or laws related to traffic.

(This isn't a good thing. A poorly enforced law is a great vector for discrimination.)
Try craigslist. There are often cheaper ones available used. Keep in mind that 30 mi is on the high end of what most ebike battery packs can do.
Most of it is accounted for by two of us. My typical fluid intake is around 6000cc/day, including soda, coffee, bottled water, and tap water. The myfitnesspal site claims 2L of Coke Zero has 70 C, which would imply that a total (after coffee creamer) of ~200 C a day just from soda consumption. Apart from that it's just slightly acidic salt water, so I don't think I'd characterize it as "very" unhealthy. Perhaps "somewhat". :)
We have those in parts of Canada as well, though I don't remember anyone using them. I think cars have prettymuch just started could since my childhood.
The page seems to have been removed.
Seconded! I use the paid version but the free version supports Facebook messenger just fine. I just got my brother on it yesterday and he already recommended it to everyone fed up with the new change.
Flow vs. Typescript: type systems for Javascript
This document goes to imply that corporations installing a private CA on your machine for SSL interception within business networks, somehow means any using any wifi anywhere compromises all communications. This is quite a leap.
The counterpoint is that I know heavy FB users (myself included) who have opted to just install Messenger on their phones, essentially being able to get rid of FB on the phone, to limit distractions but keep the nice communication

While I kinda get removing it from the mobile app, I don't really know what the rationale is for getting rid of mobile web chat though. It's not like it's disappearing from the desktop web app anytime soon, right?

right?
I commute via ebike 6 miles round trip. I still sweat. The main advantage for me is that I have much better acceleration, can cruise at 20mph without a ton of effort, and can climb the steep hill I live on at 10-15mph instead of 5mph.
How old are you currently?
Shell makes it easy to spawn multiple processes. It makes it reasonably easy to read those processes' standard out or standard error, though it's not that much fun to try to do both at the same time while keeping them distinct. [1]

It pretty much doesn't do anything else that you might want to do with multiple processes, though, and it tends to encourage multiple processes to communicate via text which is a problematic limitation that one often finds oneself "working around".

Shell is really powerful, but it hits a certain limit of what kind of tasks it can do and it hits that limit hard, and that's why when one imagines orchestrating many processes on a machine to do some task, to say nothing of orchestrating many processes on many machines, you don't see solutions based on shell, and indeed the very idea is laughable. Shell is best used by making sure it stays firmly restricted to the domain it shines in and not so much as trying to dip a toe into the spaces where it is not.

[1]: Note "not much fun" != "can't". Shell is fundamentally written around the idea that a process has one stream STDOUT that may go to other processes, and one stream STDERR which is generally intended to go to the console (or other user output like a log) no matter how complicated the pipeline. While you can get both streams and do things to them, you're starting to fight shell, which really wants to create pipelines with one "through" path with no branches out.
> 1. Hardcore cyclists are elitists in the US and will hate it and make life miserable for the e-bikers.

How will they make our lives miserable? They are the minority. Most cyclists are not "hardcore."

> 2. Non-cyclists will do dumb things in them like ride on the sidewalk.

Cyclists already do that with regular bikes.

> 3. Many state laws require registration and plates for these things.

Really? Which ones?
It is not free but eM Client[0] offers a "light" version of Outlook's UI and it has the best CalDAV/CardDAV support on Windows compared to Thunderbird + Lightning or 3rd party Outlook plugins.

Currently Version 7 is still in Beta but it is stable enough to be my daily driver and it offers some important features like a message thread view, which is still missing on their current, stable 6.0 release.

[0] http://www.emclient.com/?lang=en
The 9.7“ iPad Pro Review
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While you joke, about the drinks etc. Percieved legitimacy may actually be even more important for customer acquisition. A lot of the rules they mention here are even more important for customers.

On additional thing customers want some way to get a sense of, is that before they buy they believe you will still be there in a year or two years, etc. Especially if there is a long integration process.
How did you make your friends use telegram instead just for you?
I use iMessage with my best friend and my dad because it is my preferred way of communication (it is fairly secure, easy to use, and I can reply from my watch, Mac, iPad and iPhone, unlike any competitor except email). For everybody else I have to use what's app because they cannot be bothered to install an app just to contact me once a week (or some even once a month) and email (my second preferred method of communication) is too complicated, clumsy, old, or just too uncool for everybody to use (except for checking for that registration link on Instagram).

You cannot just move a large group of people to another platform if you don't have any authority over them (e.g. their boss) unless they want to switch on their own (because their previous method is too unreliable, inconvenient or expensive).

I, for one, would be happy if I can make my teacher believe that WhatsApp is not a good idea to contact me for various things regarding my final exam. The best way to reach me is always through email.
GNU Taler 0.0.0 Released: GNU Tries to Get into Electronic Payments
If you read down a bit, you'll notice that that's exactly what they're calling for: increased protections for "MPs, lawyers, and journalists."

This is like when Diane Feinstein was shocked and appalled that the CIA hacked the computers being used to investigate them.

Politicians are either not intelligent enough to understand that they've given away include their own privacy in their Faustian pact, or... Well, we're already too far gone.

Assuming ignorance, the politicians are the first natural domestic targets of a surveillance apparatus.

How do they not realize that?
Do you live in or are you at least familiar with Philly? This comparison is cherry-picking a WeWork the nicest area in the city and juxtaposing it with an office space in/near one of the worst neighborhoods. Of course the prices are going to be like this.
31 years later, we found the flight recorders
Is the Era of Free Streaming Music Coming to an End?
I put app a few months ago and then deleted it. For me, I just didn't feel like there was any incentive to create messagees or even view other's. It's awesome work though. I commend your team for putting it together. Social networks are hard.
so you never ever use FB on the desktop ? You can still read messages there. I have quite a lot of international friends on FB of whom i don't have a phone number but use Messenger to communicate. Of course, i could try to find out their skype/email but the endresult would be the same, just more hassle to get there. With WhatsApp and Messenger i can pretty much reach anyone i know right now, but i could remove the regular FB app from my phone though.
Sure. In my case that legacy burden is Facebook.

I work for a living and carry a work phone that is managed due to compliance requirements. I could pop on Facebook and check the occasional message. Facebook makes the mobile web experience as user hostile as possible, but it's sort of works. Now I'm stuck, as are about 20,000 of my coworkers.
The "fun" thing about this article is that pretty much every claim they make is debunked one or two paragraphs later, but that doesn't seem to be stopping them from making click-baitish claims.

I'd almost be willing to accept this, because while we do have tons of new mechanisms such as HSTS and HPKP that prevent most of this from happening, and while most big sites have adopted at least HSTS, the same thing certainly cannot be said for every single financial institution and many other sites out there. So I guess there is some truth to the statement that HTTPS is no silver-bullet for public networks ... yet.
Is it meant to be a successor then? Or are they complementary? It's misleading that the FAQ only seems to mention advantages.
I think it depends on the JVM. You can use compressed refs on JRokit with > 32G heaps. Its a bit of "bit twiddling." This article explains it pretty well:

https://blogs.oracle.com/jrockit/entry/understanding_compres...
venmo.com does the same thing.
One thing that I would love to see is the ability to schedule coroutines accross threads. Currently, you have to choose to spawn a new thread for your coroutine or keep it on the same thread. Although I believe adding a thread a pool and an assorted dispatch capability shouldn't be too hard.
> Why don't you get all your friends off there?

That is a bit naive. If you have friends from different backgrounds and periods of your live with different interests than yourself, i can tell you that most of them could care less than to change the messenger of choice because someone likes a different messenger more for reasons they don't care about.