skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't get me wrong, I oppose the kind of government that the Iranians have right now, but the chemical weapons supplied by the West were mainly used against the Iranians. And with a terrible outcome for the Iranians.
They do, but Google's policing of the web store is an absolute joke. Tell it at parties, people will laugh.

I've reported malicious extensions and a year later they're still there racking up installs.
This fits within the scientific field of evolutionary linguistics (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_linguistics).
Well that's my point! In this particular case(BaaS) the current implementation is not worth it due the lock in. The issue with the lock in is that you can't fix it yourself if it's broken. Maybe if it would be free and my project would be a toy I would consider it but as it is now it's not worth it.
I also doubt you jumped on the AWS wagon on its day one. AWS has a wide range of services. With the right abstractions I think most of them can be easily replaced if you were to move to a different vendor or bare metal servers. BaaS is a totally different kind of animal. Did Beanstalk work well for you?
I've been using vim as my primary editor for a few years now and I love how there's always something new that just blows my mind, like the :earlier and :later in that pinned tweet.
Bags, definitely bags: http://i.imgur.com/W1hL4Tx.jpg

I only saw them in East Africa. The streets were littered with them. Very cheap and poor tasting. Basically ethanol and flavoring. Konyagi & juice. Disgusting, but I wish I was back on the beaches of Zanibar having a few.
Except in portability.
This comment was really helpful. We plan on using the information to generate leads for contractors so that we can get liquidity on the supply-side of our marketplace. We are a "social marketplace for contracts" and The Weapon is only a tool we're using the get contractors signed up on the platform.

In some cases, we are able to create entire profiles (minus some aspects) using information we have harvested using The Weapon.
Better to have access to information and not need it (Western model) than to need it and not have access due to government censorship (Chinese model).
Ask HN: What are the problems with chat products?
Why is it hard to create a scale-able chat product?

Spam? Trolls? Size of groups?

Just interested in having a discussion about this as I was thinking back to the old chat room days and why that is not as popular anymore.
Aww, still not seeing "shite" after like 60 seconds. Not so realistic after all ;)
are you saying they're not related?
I'm sorry, but that's not at all accurate. If you think the middle class in Colombia and Brazil are dealing with anything remotely like this, you are nuts.

Corruption is a parasite which adds costs to every resource flow it can find, but this is a wholly different scenario of resources being too scarce due to systemic degradation due to central planning misallocation combined with the drop in oil prices that had sustained it.
And also, again, not diminishing SpaceX's achievements, but the space shuttle was a substantially more ambitious project than the f9.
Have you read "Outliers"? He talks endlessly about deliberate practice. He is not saying "practice a lot and you'll get good".
Speaking as the author, there were certainly moments when I questioned my own state. That is part of the path, it seems. And indeed, most of us do harm at some point, yet are absolutely not psychopaths.
is this using electron?
Sounds like an opportunity for applying Ohm/OMeta?
Here's a description of the file format used by BBC Basic:

http://xania.org/200711/bbc-basic-v-format

That's Basic V, which was the variant used on the ARM-based Archimedes, but it's the same file format as the 6502 machine Basics.

Note that the line numbers used by GOTO and GOSUB were specially flagged --- this was so the RENUMBER command could find them. It also meant that computed gotos weren't renumbered...

(Of course, BBC Basic had proper named procedures and functions with local variables, but all self-respecting Basics had to support GOTO and GOSUB.)
What is the typical user/customer of this system ? I've found it very hard to get customers to spend time configuring a motoring system, let alone writing any scripts to gather data.
> in the 1930s, Russia was surging ahead and industrializing

It (The USSR) was also busy having famines that claimed millions of lives.
Because it was too busy selling gold and wheat to buy industry from Americans (that's who built all those plants).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

I think I'd skip an industrialization like that.
I'm not sure a repository of incorrect information would improve the internet. Or maybe I should have said "another repository of incorrect information".

Anyway, the trend is toward platforms that support editing to improve accuracy: e.g. Wikipedia and StackOverflow. That is it's less trouble to create a trusted source and get a good ranking in Google's page rank than to worry about XKCD386.

Good luck.
I didn't mean radio programmed in flight just before they were loaded proximity fuses could be armed and configured via rf.
> "Spiritual successor in the sense that it is highly customizable with lots of shortcuts?"

Spiritual successor in the sense it's targeted at power users, has aims to revive some of the classic Opera functionality, and because it's developed by ex-Opera personnel.

I'd recommend taking a look at the Vivaldi Wikipedia page for some of the background into how it came to be:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivaldi_(web_browser)
If you read enough old books you'll notice that the authors ascribe a general temperament to each European nation. The word temperament today is not in common use except in animal breeding and the nearest equivalent we have today is the word stereotype, which captures some but not all of the meaning.

Here is a formal example of what I mean:

http://i.imgur.com/r3bom1c.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Qen8lBA.png

While some of this is hilariously old fashioned or historical period specific, it is also interesting just how many traits are consistent enough that we recognize them centuries later.

This could be astrology or tea leaf reading, but I think it merits a genuine scientific investigation. It may be anecdotal but far too many people agree the Italians are very fond of chatting, including the Italians.

All of this is to say, while it is true that Islam is dominant in countries where periodic religious warfare breaks out, it is possibly Islam is derived from collective temperament and not the other way around. It should definitely be treated seriously as a hypothesis.
It sounds like the difference is just syntactical. Is this true? I have no experience with react, so I wouldn't know.
I think a decade or so ago a lot of the washing machine manufacturers screwed up and made them too reliable. They've apparently all since more or less simultaneously fixed this with sealed-in bearings that cannot be replaced and limit the lifespan of the machine to something more profitable.
An extra problem here is many app-embedded HTTP clients are configured to ignore HTTPS certificate validation.
> I'm not a linguist, but I'd think divergence ends up negatively impacting interchanges

I think this is true if there is a meaningful iteration between the persons.

For example, some of them get some food and some water, and they have to interchange a some of it because both need food and water. And they only can interchange it if they can talk a little (only a greeting? a minimal barter?) Else they die and are somehow replaced with new agents.

But IIUC in simulations is more simpler and the agents only bounce against each other, and the words are somewhat contagious.
The language lock-in issue seems to be mostly an issue with Lambda at the moment, and I suspect it will resolve itself over time. As it, even on Lambda you have the choice of JS, Python, and Java, which is a lot of flexibility. I expect we will see "official" Go, Ruby, JVM languages like Clojure and Scala, etc.

If you can't use some obscure hipster language, that might be a problem. But my biggest gripe at the moment is lack of Ruby, and I'm sure Amazon will fix that.
Venezuela elected Chavez in at least three internationally verified and observed elections (1998, 2000, 2006).
Yes that is the caption but the picture shows a store with ample bread products, cereals, meat selections, canned vegetables, oils and other cooking supplies. When the discussion of the article is a "hunt for food" those things all seem like stuff you'd consider "prey".

My question is whether or not that store is accessible to everyone (as described by my father, in the USSR the 'diplomatic' stores were not open to regular citizens) and if the prices are extortionate or merely market priced.

The root of those questions are whether or not an actual economy could be bootstrapped underneath the current mess or if it is too late for that. It is a sad story either way.
Parent post didn't say anything about abstracting away "serverless". Lock-in refers to (as the OP article discusses) the fact that if you use AWS Lambda, you are tied to their APIs and deploy mechanisms. If you want to move to Google's FaaS offering, you have a lot of work to do, and may need to restructure your app logic as well.
https://robhagemans.github.io/pcbasic/ is a GPL3-licensed implementation of the BASIC language this game is written in. PC-BASIC is written in Python. Supposedly it can run this game, although I haven't tried it.

A couple of interesting features of the game (quotidian to those of us around at the time, but...)

1. The "PLAY" statement is barely used; the sounds are mostly done with the SOUND statement, maybe in part because they are being generated randomly. In fact it seems to be used only to verify that the program is being run on a BASIC interpreter that supports "advanced" features like DRAW.

2. The "DRAW" statement, which has its own mini-language similar to that of the "PLAY" statement. Later these were dubbed "Graphics Macro Language" and "Music Macro Language", even though neither one allows you to define macros. This is used to include vector graphics of the donkey and the racecar in the program, in the subroutines on lines 1940 and 1780, respectively. But the interpretive rendering of these vector graphics (and especially the flood fills, lines 1900 and 2010) was too slow to want to do it every frame; instead it's done at program startup (into an on-screen buffer, since that's the only way to do it in GW-BASIC or BASICA; you can see the painting happen briefly before the game starts) and stored in the arrays CAR% and DNK% with GET statements, later to be PUT onto the screen in the right place each frame. There's a bit of sloppiness there: CAR% is DIMmed right there in the subroutine on line 1910, while DNK% is DIMmed up at the top on line 1470. (And the sprites for the halves of the donkey and car are dimmed there too, along with a planned sprite called Q% which is never used.)

3. There's actually an additional sprite, B%, which isn't set up with a GET statement; it's filled in "by hand" to a simple fill pattern on lines 1510–1530. My memory was saying that the data format of this array was undocumented, but it does seem to be documented in http://www.antonis.de/qbebooks/gwbasman/, which I'm pretty sure is the actual GW-BASIC manual from Microsoft. Anyway, B% is a vertical line that's getting XORed into the framebuffer (the default PUT raster op was to XOR into the framebuffer, violating patent 4,197,590 if you use it for a cursor) to make the stripes down the middle of the road "move".

4. See how AND is being used as a bitwise operator? That's why true was -1 in MBASIC.

I think there are some important lessons in GW-BASIC/BASICA about how to design user interfaces for end-user programming, and the DRAW and PLAY statements in particular. Also, I can't have been the only person who never figured out how to use the vi-like line editor in BASIC-80 but who edited existing code all the time in Z-BASIC/GW-BASIC/BASICA because I could just use the arrow keys.
The China during the Cultural Revolution was not a success. Millions were murdered, people starved, and a terrible stain marks that period of China's long history.

It was the pro-capitalist reforms that turned China into the success it is today, and as China starts to falter with it's unmanageable debt and unproductive, government-directed parts of the economy, the reforms will inevitably be capitalist, pro-market solutions that remove the state and promote competition.

So yes, some economies can succeed despite their socialist, government-controlled economic policies, but when things start to fail, solutions all point to the markets.
8.1 is better than 7. 10 is better than 8.1 Both simply require ClassicShell to be installed; the actual underlying OS kernel is actually faster and more stable.
I've had the same results as you, though without the glasses. I really don't understand why people prefer such blurry fonts. The biggest practical problem I've had with turning antialiasing off though is badly hinted web fonts. Sometimes bars or stems just outright disappear.
Nobody is saying socialism is inherently bad here. The Nordic model, for instance, still has a free market means of production. Socialist safety nets are fine.

Venezuela has for years had a full-on centrally planned economy with the state setting the prices for goods independent of their costs of production, all as a tool to continue winning electoral support from the poor. That is a very, very nasty aspect of a socialist system, which is avoided by successful socialist nations.

Edit: This was meant to be a reply to the parent comment.
> Once you've written a bunch of code in a language, you're pretty much locked in - without a massive effort - in any event.

The difference is one doesn't have access to Lambda infrastructure itself. IF I write an entire app in XYZ lang, I can still run it on my own server or make it an executable and call the code through RPC. If I base all my work on a third party vendor infrastructure I can't replicate it requires an even more massive effort to migrate to something else, because now I basically have to re-write my app from scratch. FAAS may have killed BAAS but isn't going to kill PAAS.
Tourist activities were expensive. The gorilla viewing was $750, much higher than in Uganda or the DRC (the section of the DRC with the gorillas is definitely not recommended going to). In Kigali, locations regarding the genocide are a must see (museum, UN base). Not that Rwanda was boring, but I just enjoyed other countries better. Lake Kivu was nice, but Lake Malawi was incredible. Malawi is in undiscovered gem.
We've a slightly different computational model, so that takes two passes.

You can calculate the highest value now (topk) or the highest averages (topk+avg_over_time) and now that you know which timeseries you want, graph those. I believe this is doable in Grafana.
Says the person who has never lived under socialism.

We were a functioning democracy, in fact we were the most stable and rich country in latin america.

Socialism has led to a non–functioning democracy, shortages, massive crime and violence.
They don't really use so much AI - They have a prediction engine for the product called compass.
For you. At the moment. "Dead on arrival" has a meaning, and this isn't it.
This seems like it's probably massive overkill, have you compared with a simple bag-of-words linear classifier?
MacOS back in the System 7 era (1990s) had a clipbook utility that shipped with the OS. MacOS had generally better copy and paste support in general though, since it could handle virtually any file format the computer could handle. Text, audio, pictures, even video were all valid in the cut buffer.
I grow-up in similar conditions. It is always funny when some spoiled kid with $500 handbag calls me privileged cis-gender white male.
If that happens, then they will either change or go out of business. But so far, it doesn't seem to be happening (though I wish it would).
How Do We Beam Pictures Back from Jupiter?
There's a pragmatic definition buried in the article... if you can't spin up your app in 20ms and run it for half a second effectively, it's PaaS, not serverless.
Like any major OS upgrade, you are better off with a clean install rather than an upgrade. Let the installer run and activate, and then use a boot disk to nuke the system and install a fresh copy.

I had a few minor twitches like that too, and they've all gone away after doing a clean install.
Adrian Cockcroft: "If your PaaS can efficiently start instances in 20ms that run for half a second, then call it serverless."

https://twitter.com/adrianco/status/736553530689998848
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2483957/microsoft-windo...

"'We were just ahead of our time, like most of our mistakes,' Gates says of personal agents like the notorious Clippy character."

"Gates has a personal connection to Microsoft Bob -- more than it being just another product launched on his watch -- as his wife, Melinda French Gates, was a marketing manager on the Bob project."
You need to read Hayek's The Road to Serfdom. He explains how giving the State the power to make all the economic decisions necessarily devolves into this kind of dystopia.
And short.
Biggest difference I found was having a fast Dev loop while programming. Using watchers to auto-build and run.

Having a good ide with intellisense made a big difference. My brain could be engaged for hours on a problem.

I still end up slacking if something takes more than 5 seconds. The brains on a whole level of train thought.
Venezuela is on the brink. It has a socialist majority because previously the rich bleed them dry. Now the boot is on the other foot and the socialists are starving out the middle and upper classes who traditionally voted for the elite that controlled the media in Venezuela.

So sad. At some point it will flip again and the cycle will repeat itself.

Meanwhile the US continues to pressure the socialist government through sanctions in order to break a government that they don't approve of. Whilst the oil price remains low, the socialist government can't profit enough to get back on track.

The innocents, including children are going to starve, because the USA refuses have any kind of socialist leaning government in its back yard. it's been going on for decades. Rinse and repeat. Meanwhile the socialist "elite" make sure that they have good on their tables and punish the middle classes for their refusal to accept their ideology, happily lining their own bank accounts.

It is somewhat ironic that their neighbour Colombia, that for years was the black sheep of the region, has swapped roles with its previously rich sibling.
That's true for things like Parse, but much less true for Lambda.

For the most part, Lambda code is just normal JavaScript/Python. It would take fairly minimal effort to take that code and package it up to deploy on a normal (non-Lambda) server.
@eudox. Rigged elections.
UK gov admits 'Snooper's Charter' would ban end-to-end encryption
Yes, Honduras is in a far worse state right now than Venezuela after Obama and Hillary supported the military coup against the majority indigenous/mestizo backed president, and the handful of white landowners of 90% of the land had the US trained/armed/funded army take over. Berta Caceres is just the latest murder, scores of political candidates, organizers etc. have been murdered, the murder rate is higher than Venezuela certainly, Hondurans have been pouring over the US border as reported etc.

Venezuela has been very heavily dependent on oil for decades and this happens every time oil's price plunges for a long period in Venezuela, look at its history since WWII. The same is happening to every oil-dependent region in the world (except Saudi Arabia, which is doing the market flooding).

The article opening lines talking about how unique the situation is without mentioning what is happening in Honduras this moment is a laugh.
But what was totalitarian about it? All of the economically destructive measures (price controls, currency exchange rates, impositions on the rich/foreign investment) were immensely popular, right?
My reply is about 2 days late. But thank you for the feedback... I am genuinely trying to improve the process since I've been at the receiving end of it at one time as well.

I'd definitely like to run something like this but I'd need folks to install a good screen sharing tool (join.me, webmeeting or some such thing...). But I'll definitely be open to asking the candidate's willingness to do so. That way they can get working code in an environment they are comfortable in...

We do most interviews remotely and offer a remote work setup as well. So its always not practical to physically have the person code in front of me.
> central planning misallocation

Having somebody in charge of the economy that does not understand that he doesn't understand how the economy works.
Shouldn't serVER architectures be/get easy enough that the flexibility/transferability far outweighs whatever the BaaS's are providing? Is it really that hard to run a server in this day-in-age?
Uhhh... how about almost every Nordic country?
Roger Waters: how a war veteran led the Pink Floyd star to where his father died
"Mostly" is quite a stretch, since the shuttle is completely dependent not only only the fuel in the external tank, but also on the solid rocket boosters. Indeed, the solid boosters composed the majority of the launch weight and provided the majority of the thrust. For the first couple of minutes, the shuttle was mostly just along for the ride (just as the X-37 is completely along for the ride on the Atlas).

The key analogous role I'm referring to is the ability to deploy, capture, and return payloads to Earth, which is shared by the X-37 and the shuttle. It's not a coincidence that the Air Force developed the X-37 when the shuttle retired.
Only in unix-world would it be considered wise to call the place where you put blocks of text for later use the "kill ring."
Yeah. It's bad. I feel sorry for her. I can't say I'm surprised. But what am I supposed to do with this information?
The implication is that HN is to blame, since there were some "negative comments" on here. (Un)fortunately the majority of those comments seem to have been deleted[1] so there is no opportunity for us to review the facts and form our own opinion.

Without that context, the author's message seems only to be that HN is a bad place that fosters negativity and sexism.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12112888
When I say socialism and communism, I mean that the government regulates the economy or large pieces of it. Successful "socialist" western democracies are free-market economies that have higher taxes to provide a social safety net. I wish we could call that "empathetic capitalism".
PC-BASIC is a great re-implementation of GWBASIC. I tried it on some of my old gems from the late 80s and they still worked. :)
Take a look at Fractalide http://github.com/fractalide/fractalide It uses Nix Expressions to lazily coordinate the building and port linking of components.
Are you sure you replied to the right comment? I can neither see false rhetoric nor any form of double standard in the parent. Otherwise, please do explain what you mean with that.
>whereas humans rather enthusiastically behave in the opposite fashion.

What are the worldwide rates of interracial marriage? I see in the US (a country where the majority race makes up about 60% of the population) that it's now around 10% for new marriages, and has historically been much much lower. If your statement were true, wouldn't we expect to see much higher rates of interracial marriage than 10% in the US? Wouldn't we expect that the historical rate was also much higher?