skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If he can automate his work, milk it for the weekly paycheck, and do it well enough to stay around for six years, more power to him. He made his laziness pay off.

Least amount of non-automated work for the most amount of pay off, I respect it.
There's something existentially terrifying about being able to quickly zoom out from out from a view of 5 minute intervals to one of several decades.
or V for Vendetta
Because there are many OS services and user-installed programs that do send and receive data to the wider internet, even though they may not be web servers per-se. Also what @daly said.
RationalWiki is biased trash that can't be trusted for anything.
GlobalHack VI
GlobalHack is hosting a large-scale civic hackathon with $1 million in total cash prizes. The event will be held Friday, October 21 to Sunday, October 23, 2016 at Chaifetz Arena at Saint Louis University.
The Native interop changed with core >= 4.0, so that relatively straightforward way of accessing native js no longer works, and the new Native is (deliberately, I believe) undocumented.
> standard airplane emergency parachute which any random bozo can use safely with about three minutes

I would argue that there would be very few people with zero parachute experience that with just three minutes training could jump from a building and not die catastrophically at the bottom.
Another one to try is Howl (http://howl.io)

It's newish but very stable and uses Lua (not Javascript) as the extension language. It is very lightweight and faster than Atom.

Disclosure: I'm one of the contributors.
I think only time can tell if that sort of argument works. Your team's habits matter, but so does the rest of the ecosystem. Strangers with libraries too central to ignore might end up forcing inscruitable templates and macros on you.

As far as I can see, the Python community has done a pretty good job of using magic sensibly. The Ruby and C++ communities, not so much.
To be fair, "magic in moderation" is subjective. It may seem to be moderate until you have a new dev that is struggling to spin up on the codebase.
I said time, motivation, and uncommon resources.

As to the "uncommon resources" part- what percent of the people that you know have two steel tubes of the right diameter? I didn't say it was like securing refined plutonium for an A-bomb, but I stand by my statement that those resources are not common possessions.

As to the time part - yes, absolutely, it does. Just because you've got craft skills does not mean they are common. Do most people who own a home defense gun build them themselves using common parts from a hardware store? In fact, I bet that's extremely rare.

I didn't say they were super hard, and I didn't say the resources were super rare. They're not out of reach of any dedicated person who is intent on achieving a goal. But then, a speed bump doesn't force you to drive slower, either. You can sail over them at 90 miles an hour, once. But speed bumps still do their job.
Also, I doubt they could handle it, their scope is huge: new OS, new programming language, networking, encryption, time, compilation, virtualization etc.
I don't believe group of 5 unknown people can handle it.

Like, Urbit time: https://urbit.org/docs/hoon/library/3c/

Where the hell are timezones, Leap seconds etc.?
They just store constants!
If you know about Yarvins other beliefs, the fact that t seems obfuscated makes quite a bit of sense in my view. I think it's a superiority thing for him.

At its core? I think it's kind of interesting. Would have been more useful if he had made it simpler to understand/develop in. In its current form, it seems like a vanity project to me.
>to an advanced civilization that a nuclear radioactive waste dump may well be of value.

Actually it has value to our civilization, because much of the low-grade uranium "waste" could be put into breeder reactors and turned into plutonium - and reused as nuclear fuel.

Read about it here: https://www.withouthotair.com/c24/page_163.shtml
I couldn't find it wth a quick search but I remember an article about how the food industry was voluntarily reducing the amount of salt in things. One interesting part was reddenbocker lowering salt in popcorn. They did this by realizing that it was actually the amount of surface area of salt on your tongue not the mass of the salt that mattered. They had therefore gone to ultra-fine ground salt and had reduced the total salt content of their popcorn by like 70%. Wish I could find it but there were some interesting things by googing "food industry salt reduction".
Admittedly, I haven't read the article, but the tone of the message suggests that it's not meant for future generations of our civilization, but for future generations of whatever cultures come after our civilization is gone.

There's a pretty remarkable old English poem that survived from Dark Ages Britain, in which the author marvels at the ruins of Roman Britain, wondering what giants must have once inhabited the land in order to build such things. From the sounds of it, these markers are targeted towards people like that, not our own immediate descendents who will already know it's a nuclear waste site.
You jumped straight into the 'advanced types' section of their high-level language documentation, which is quite different from most "mainstream" programming languages, so of course a lot of concepts are going to be very foreign to you. You might want to check out their talk at LambdaConf for a better overview of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I94qbWBGsDs
I do mark events like vacation, etc so that I see them coming up and for planning. That keeps me from putting events in the middle of my multi-week vacation.
Luxembourg to Invest $227M in Asteroid Mining
My impression from people who have been involved is that it's not just a self-enriching racket; mainline Cisco is actually really bad at building new products that aren't just minor variations on old ones. Sometimes they innovate through acquisitions, but if there's no external company to acquire sometimes you have to make your own to get your good engineers out of that environment of "sandbagged targets and guaranteed payouts" for a few years.
You can read WSJ articles if you arrive via a Google search. If you click on the "web" link at the top of the page, it will automatically do a Google search for you on the article's title.
The law here is the FTC's "Mail Order Rule".[1] Properly, Tesla allows consumers to cancel your order at any time and receive a full refund. The other requirement is that if Tesla misses their ship date, they have to send the consumer a letter with a new ship date and an option to cancel. That part is "opt-out". If, 30 days after the original ship date, the product hasn't shipped, a refund has to be sent unless the customer explicitly requests otherwise. That part is "opt-in". The seller can't just keep the money at that point.

This is why, if you're selling online, you have to make sure not to take orders you can't fill in time. In the early days of the Internet, this was a big problem, because many sites had online ordering systems that had no connection to inventory control. By now, everybody with a clue knows to check inventory in the shopping cart program.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/bus...
… your basement was plastered with iconographic warnings against entering due to interminable life-ending substances contained within?

… did you enter?
In reality 10,000 yrs is probably longer than humans will be relevant on Earth.
Seems like overkill. What's a few poisoned people in 12,000 years? I imagine that people dying around the site will be the most effective ward to keep others away.
It's really interesting to me to see architecture used for its typical antithesis. It is typically used to bring a sense of bring out positive emotions, to inspire, to bring facility to humanity, to sanctify. Here it is being used to desecrate, to decrease utility, to ward away.

As a hacker, I'm used to the thought of "what is the worst possible way I can make this UI", but it's cool to see it applied in an entirely different field.
Given that this type of accident happens all the time in all types of cars, why is it that the car owner's memory is preferred to a sensor? Because you're basically saying that ALL cars have the same flaw. It's a lot more likely that humans are fallible.
> "CardStack aims to create and maintain authoring tools that persist data in data stores that the user controls, rendering engines that enable scrumptious user interactions on the client while generating structured markup on the server, and distribution hooks into the native tools of popular social platforms and mobile operating systems."

http://cardstack.io/
>This place is not a place of honor.

>No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here.

>Nothing valued is here.

"But I just need to use the laundry machines."

>...Fine.
I was waiting for US to explode in the end of the animation.
Were you even trying to answer the question? All that you did is reinforce his point. Postpaid is better for the customer. Prepaid seems better for the company. Why offer incentives for postpaid?
Interesting. I know that the idea of launching radioactive waste into the sun or out of the solar system is highly criticized for the potential for things to go wrong (and rightly so), but do the critics really think that the earth -- with humans on it -- will be more reliable in 10,000 years than space flight even 100 years from now?
Trademark Assignment made easy in India
Hi, nitpick comment, but the boundaries of the countries on this map are not changing over the course of almost a century.
I personally hate the H1-B/visa system for anything but skilled graduates being targeted for specific roles. I also hate the loss of the social contract where companies actually invested employees and helped them grow.

IBM, Disney and others are trying for a race to the bottom.

I also know that it is incumbent on people in our field to stay on top of things, continue to learn, etc. But not everywhere has the same access to knowledge (or may not know how to find it) as those of us already naturally curious.

In no form should Visas be granted to bring workers over to be trained by those replacing them. Unless maybe it's something insane like $100k/head going into training programs. But, that's all fantasy on my part.
It's a cult creation technology: anyone who expends enough effort to launch a ship will have convinced themself that this is really cool, and that they are very much smarter than the average bear.
It's a very interesting idea at its core implemented by a man seemingly high on his own sense of intelligence that has some very reactionary views.

I'd love to see another project like this that doesn't talk down to its user base and doesn't use a strange language or unreadable source code.
Can you point me to the "why" i.e. why Picnic CSS as opposed to Bootstrap and the myriad lightweight CSS alternatives? To be clear, I am not saying Picnic is not valuable, but just want to read the reasoning.
A quick start on that list: the Protestant Work Ethic; Democracy; the value of a dollar; each of the 10 Commandments.
Regardless of whether your argument is correct [0], I can't imagine your target audience is more likely to sign up (vs. bounce) when hit with a second pop-up before reading half an article.

[0] e.g. pop-ups --> less tech savy users 'dismiss' popup by signing up --> newsletter unread and/or marked as spam --> can't {accurately} track whether you're having any impact --> etc
Hard to scroll down and read the stuff about this app of yours, since the "app" itself captures my scroll wheel. Had to use the scrollbar instead, which was a bit lame.

Interesting idea, though.
Sacrificial Architecture in Web Development
...and as such, any large monumental works are more likely to attract attention than to repel it. May even become a cult place of worship. More effective to bury and obfuscate the site entirely?
Critical Atlas of Internet
Not really, I used it daily a year ago but since then not so much. If I want to get in touch with the key people of the 'project' I am involved in I'd open it. But now Slack replaced it, it is not exactly the same people but almost.
Just wanted to say I accidentally fat fingered a downvote while trying to do the opposite. Sorry!
It would be interesting to see a comparison of Korchnoi vs
Samuel Reshevsky as Reshevsky was quite strong as senior GM:

"... He won his last American championship in 1971 at the age of 59. In 1981, at 69, he was a finalist among Americans seeking to qualify for the world championship matches. And in 1984, at 72, he tied for first place in the Reykjavik International Tournament, his last world-class showing..."

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/07/nyregion/samuel-reshevsky-...

There's a story of how how when Reshevsky was quite old he went to watch
a strong tournament in Europe and someone dropped out, and they asked
him to be a last minute substitute ("house player"?) and didn't he surprise
everyone by winning it?

But Korchnoi RIP, such great fighting spirit and interesting games.
Yes, I get that, but because they're both based on Electron, they're essentially both browsers and will do all their rendering through DOM manipulation. Yet VS Code is reported to be much better at it than Atom, so I was wondering what architectural differences account for this.
I'm curious, what chemical waste can you not safely dispose of? All organic compounds can be incinerated at a high enough temperate to destroy them (even nerve agents). The only thing I can think of would be metal poisons, but even those can be turned into a form that is less toxic.
I work at a medical device company, and a coworker of mine uses this lunchbox - http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/e72e/

The first time I saw it in the company fridge I completely freaked.
“In some extreme cases, we have to address it to preserve the sanctity of a residential neighborhood.”

Bull fucking shit. This nimby crap has got to stop. This is a public road. If you were smart you'd buy the road and put a toll on it.
Surprisingly constructive tone in that thread.
Hm. One million years an counting so far?
Miles Davis’ legacy, represented by every Wikipedia page that mentions him
Agree that it is an ad, but is it fundamentally that different from any companies blog post? i.e. that's part of their marketing too.

All this ad is an excerpt from the book, so closer to linking to something in books.google that one finds interesting.
I haven't read the whitepaper, but from what I've gathered, urbit is a virtual machine that runs on a network, maybe with support for untrusted nodes? If that's the case then that's amazing, and it's understandable how esoteric it all seems. But that's quite an extraordinary development and I'm skeptical.

It would be nice if they would give a clear description of what is they've made. Does this enable running a server jointly with a partner you don't trust, with neither party having physical access, and without involving any third party?
Simple.com closed my $52k bank account without warning
They claim I violated their "personal use only" policy, which I presumably did by paying contractors to work on my house (this is only a guess, they have not been clear on exactly why). But that doesn't mean it's excusable to leave me in limbo for almost a week without access to my money (and quite a bit of it) while I need to pay people I'm employing. I've done absolutely nothing wrong nor illegal. Their customer support has been useless.

I don't know what recourse I have anymore short of waging social media war. Please retweet if you sympathize, thanks in advance: https://twitter.com/pmarreck/status/739994477339758592
I've read the report several times (it keeps coming back every 5-7 years or so) since publication, and I've never felt like a reliable solution had wither been found, or was in the offing. There is good thinking, but the problem itself seems very daunting. I think that is the real lesson.
This has a strong "Shinichi Mochizuki's proof of the ABC conjecture" vibe to me.
Similarly the orange dust on highly-flavored snack chips is superfine, to give an extreme blast of flavor for very little ingredient investment.
Hillary Clinton Has Clinched Democratic Nomination
>Just log into Amazon from wherever

Good luck with that! Their anti-fraud systems will fuck you 99% of the time.
SuperNodes, which Skype used up until Microsoft bought them out (in May 2011) and stopped doing that (in April 2012)?

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-s...
The Great Barrier Reef: a catastrophe laid bare
It (this particular plutonium isotope) is also really useful for building bombs.

(edit: made it more clear what I meant)
Open Knowledge Maps visual interface to worlds scientific knowledge
> It is typically used to bring a sense of bring out positive emotions, to inspire, to bring facility to humanity, to sanctify. Here it is being used to desecrate, to decrease utility, to ward away.

Not that uncommon. I have known 2 architects who used architecture against probably what they learned in school or dreamed of building.

One was designing casinos. Apparently they did "dark patterns" before computer UI people did it. Think about open places, to inspire and generate positive emotions and so on, well their guidelines was to entrap, confuse, isolate and promote whatever kept people playing longer. She eventually quit and became a housewife.

The other one, lost their job where they designed office buildings, and the only job they found in their town was building prisons. Talk about soul crushing. Well, they said they didn't care it was just a job. But, I know it would bring me down if I was building that.
"Tucker: A Man And His Dream" was a good movie. I too thought of the Musk parallel many times.
Probably a lot more than you. How do you get from $1000/month to $50? Or did you just make the whole thing up? You can get 5 years in the federal pen for dealing trivial amounts of pot if you manage to piss off the government.

My point was running a criminal enterprise isn't really an acceptable option for most people.
> Yes we have two datacentres

That's all that Multi-AZ is mate ;)
But we've only been relevant for ~7,000 and if we do not make the Earth inhospitable ourselves in the next 10k years then the chances of a cataclysmic event are ever increasing to assist us. 99.9% of all animals ever to exist on the Earth are extinct, we're not that special.
Except for the fact that it is well known that he was a French Defense hero and not really much of a Caro-Kann player.
The only thing missing from nvalt is support for better organization. Tags are supported but not searchable for instance. With hundreds of notes it starts getting harder to search.
Understand the reason for the worry, but given the climate change that has been kicked off by the CO2 released to date I don’t think people are going to be worrying too much about tripping over a radioactive waste dump.
I dunno. This thing is weird, but they put a lot of work into it, and you can download something that runs.

What they want to build, from the user perspective, seems to be a federated social network. Like Diaspora, only with some of the problems solved. The two big user-level problems they claim to solve are 1) spam, and 2) being tied to a service provider.

The solution to 1) is that you have to buy an identity from someone. You can't create identities for free. This is a profit center for someone, although I'm not clear whom. Not clear how much a personal identity costs, but there are only 2^32 of them.

The solution to 2) is that you can pick up your ball and go home - take the entire state of your online presence and move it to another server. The routing gets fixed somehow. Sort of like cell phone number portability.

Those are both good features. Right now, they apparently power only an online chat system and the ability to host web pages driven by programs in their language. Somebody could potentially build a Facebook-like system on top of that.

The terminology and the cult-like aspects are seriously annoying. It reminds me of Xanadu and its team. (I knew that crowd. Mostly extreme libertarians. Everything is pay per view in Xanadu.)

I wonder if this could be used as a lightweight container system for server-side web applications. It has a container system, and those containers can serve web pages and talk to other containers. Unlike, say, Docker, you don't have to lug around a whole Linux environment in your container. Being able to move your container to a new hosting service very quickly would force hosting services to be competitive.
Very, very good! Works dandy on my mobile browser. May I ask what js framework, if any, are you using?
I feel fairly confident you're not referring to the 10/100 Token Ring switch, so... could you clarify?
Yes. I would tend to suggest that it would be better to hide the waste very deep and destroy all knowledge of where it was buried.
If it becomes a "cult place of worship", then that's probably Mission Accomplished; the faithful have a tendency to defend holy places against those seeking to defile them (read: dig into them and expose the world to nuclear waste). If they can be convinced that such sites are "God's Temples" and that defiling them will unleash all sorts of plagues (which they very likely will), then the current generation's job is done.
Streamlining the Sign-In Flow Using Credential Management API
Thanks, this is good feedback
Terrifying yet inspiring! Must make the best of such short existence :)
What's a few poisoned people in 12,000 years?

They're people, is the important point. If nothing else, this is about keeping a clean conscience, knowing that you did your best to save them.
Give me a place for my email so you can tell me when it's iOS ready, please!
A Pair of Pie Chart Papers
Facebook chat streak calculator
Oh I see. I figured they still used them. Skypes Ui sure has suffered sadly.
This.

(At the risk of getting down voted)
Cisco is a sales driven company not an engineering company. Barring a few business units (and that too I'm being generous) there is absolutely no innovation or drive to build new products. It's a terrible place to work if you are an engineer with aspirations to tackle engineering challenges.
Yeah, it sounds like platformers just aren't your thing. Which is totally legit! Platformers are very much my thing, so finding a platformer with the depth and complexity of a roguelike blew me away.
I'm definitely smart and lazy. My previous manager was very smart and very hardworking. It was a hilarious nightmare. We both really liked each other as people, and respected each other's work, but our work styles were so completely at odds. Once she knew how to do something, she absolutely did not want to change how that process worked. On the other hand, I would change a process because I figured out a way to cut 15 minutes off a weeks worth of work.

There's a running joke at work that under no circumstances should someone complain to me about a problem, because I will drop everything to discover the cause of the problem, and then 2 days later the entire process will be rewritten. Everyone else thinks I'm working myself to the bone, but I'm rewriting processes that used to take several days to complete so they only take a couple of hours, and the computer does most of the work without input. In my mind its perfectly lazy, because it means I don't have to walk anyone through the procedure or fix any problems caused by humans gumming up the works.

Plus, it feels so good to say "What does the text next to the button say?" When someone calls to ask what they should do next.

I have a theory that most programmers are lazy, because a certain kind of lazy person goes "I'm sure there is a better way of doing this." and then that person goes on to figure out how. The only problem is that sometimes that type of person can get sucked into learning a new framework when they could have used the less efficient framework in the first place and already have been done.
Acquired Podcast 13: Push Pop Press (Facebook Instant Articles) with Todd Bishop