skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Voter ID, which is going to allow Gov. (Mitt) Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania -- done."

"I think we probably had a better election. Think about this: We cut Obama by 5 percent, which was big. You know, a lot of people lost sight of that. He won, he beat McCain by 10 percent. He only beat Romney by 5 percent. I think that, probably, voter ID helped a bit in that."

2 Pennsylvania GOP officials (Mike Turzai and Rob Gleason). There you go, it's substantiated!
Lin-Manuel Miranda is now fighting ticket bots across the US
This somewhat sidesteps an advantage of microservices that they are language agnostic.
The Katamari Damacy Effect is the same as Creeping Featurism.
>> Uhm... I don't know why you have a problem with building your own package with the newer version. I do it all the time, for software both others' and mine.

> Maybe things have improved in the past few years, but last time that I built a dpkg for a Python library it was far from painless

"Past few Debian releases", since debhelper 7.x, not "years" (well, this
incidentally matches, too). Debhelper can build properly Python using
setup.py and doesn't require anything special (no need to specify any paths)
to put artifacts where they can be found by /usr/bin/python. It's actually
easier than building analogous C code, since you don't even specify where to
put what.

> [libxml vs. libxml2 / libgtk2 vs. libgtk3] "Rename the package" seems more like a work-around than a system to handle the issue at hand. You're not saying, "I want libgtk with version 3.x".

For DEBs, yes, this is the case, but you can have several RPMs with the same
name but different version.

On the other hand, working with the OS is much easier when the packages differ
in their name, so this "workaround" is much more pleasant to use, even though
it's not a "pure" solution.
Lots of things.

Make syntax consistent across RE engines for one.

Improve the syntax.

Introduce clear modes with different tradeoffs, so you don't get e.g. regex based DOS attacks.

Make them easier to compose, not just through copy pasting...
A Deficit of Leadership
Air travel has numerous externalities and shifted costs. It's also completely dependent, at present scales, on liquid hydrocarbon fuels, for which there's not yet a non-fossil-fuel alternative.

Long-distance air travel can be pretty efficient, and compares favourably with personal auto travel -- you'll consume about as much fuel driving across the United States in a car as you would on a plane, and travel at about 1/10th the speed (though you'd also be free to stop and take in the scenery where you wanted).

What ground-based alternatives to air travel offer most specifically is alternate modes of energy supply. A fixed-track system (conventional or high-speed rail, maglev, hyperloop) can have energy delivered electrically, meaning transport is divorced from fossil fuels.

There's some disagreement in this thread of total CO2 emissions, which translate strongly to fuel consumption (burning a given mass of kerosene, a/k/a jet fuel, produces a fixed amount of CO2, no matter where you do it). The figure I've seen is about 6% of global emissions, and recently an 11% of US emissions figure (possibly a result of falling electricity emissions due to reductions of coal use, now that I think of it).

I'm actually not a fan of Hyperloop -- similar systems were proposed in the 1970s, explored by RAND, and rejected on multiple bases. But a high-speed, ~300 kph wheeled rail connection between regional hubs in the US does seem quite sensible. It's working out well in Europe.
The Olympics and Posthumanity
How Much Is My Information Worth on the Dark Web?
Thanks! Makes sense.
In the same languages the ballots are written
I find figure 7 very interesting, "Share of newly mortgaged homes by property type". I seems like a very large shift in what types of homes that are mortgaged (e.g. condos going from ~19% to ~43%).

Anyone with deeper insight in this trend? As an outsider European I was not aware of such a strong urbanization trend in the US, or are there other mechanisms in play as well?
I do it to have a visual signal of when the new build should be ready and available on other devices (and so I can catch syntax errors).

It may also be nice to have an idea of the relative weight of each of your dependencies. Of course, since its in dev mode, what Dashboard shows probably isn't the same as the final bundle size.
I have. Last time I checked, the Kobo couldn't open DRM protected books from Amazon.
How to you run webpack-dev-server during development? You might have a script in your package.json that runs it - if so, add --quiet to the end of the script there.
Govt HPC buys.
No Javascript :-(
London Bookstores Go Rogue as No Wi-Fi Zones
Two fuel/engine efficiency problems solved:

1. Calculate perfect speed to hit the light exactly when it turns green, modulo safety

2. Engage engine/gear preemptively 5 seconds before light turns green
Yes. Those would be government websites providing essential services. Not privately owned and operated websites.
Obviously the seller's grasp of English is quite poor. Perhaps someone with a linguistics background could speculate on what their native language most likely is? At novice proficiency, presumably a speaker's native tongue influences how they speak a particular language.

Of course, the seller could always be pretending. Given the seeming authenticity of the leak however, it's doubtful they're western—unless they're operating very illegally and trying to cover their tracks.
The Shinkansen was extremely expensive to build, comparable to the hyperloop. The lines cost JPY 400 billion in 1963 currency and the whole thing basically led to the regionalization and privatization of JNR.

Hyperloop supporters claim that the Hyperloop is more economically feasible than traditional high-speed rail like the Shinkansen. This is, of course, based on estimates which can only be trusted somewhat. However, those estimates are by no means ridiculous.

The original Hyperloop proposal is interesting reading, you might want to take a glance at it. It covers the economics, including issues like land use rights, which are a major component in any high-speed transport system which must necessarily have a course with limited curvature.

The location is also a big issue. Consider the profitability of Japan's Shinkansen in light of the high population density and the ease in which you can serve 25 million people with a single 250 mile train line--other Shinkansen lines are not as profitable to run.

To be clear, I'm relating the arguments in favor. I'm also fairly skeptical.
This argument makes perfect sense to half of the people reading here :ob
On the other hand, tracing back a dockerfile that pulls in an obscure one-off base image, then repeating that all the way up the chain, you can find yourself left with a dozen Dockerfiles that you need to read in the right order to know what you have.

That's if you can even find the original Dockerfiles - I recently ran into a situation where a container image was in the registry, but the original Dockerfile was completely lost.

Docker/containers in general move the complexity to a different plane, but they only move it - they don't eliminate it. Care needs to be taken to avoid situations just like the one above - or any of a number of other pitfalls - or you end up with an environment that's far more complex to understand than a VM housing a monolithic dev environment.
Mysterious Group hacks NSA
That's motivation for me to write the book. :)

This article was written for more of a CEO audience, which is why it's not as technical. You might like the podcast I did on Hanselminutes. It gets into more technical stuff than I did on First Round. http://hanselminutes.com/539/learning-to-love-legacy-code-wi...
ewwww_snake_case
No, but he's clearly the best thing to have happened to the Democrats in decades.

"The gift that keeps on giving" is what they're probably calling him, behind closed doors.
To clarify, by data processing I mean extract-transform-load, where the outputs of the extract/transform phase(s) may not be immediately obvious. Bash as an simple automation tool for simple tasks is fine.
Right. Except that's just one of the many ways it's defined in the article. The article is a hot mess.

Even then, from a business perspective, reducing costs can be completely intentional and pragmatic. Meaning it can be profitable, so debt really is the wrong word. It's closer to sacrifice, or even frugality. You could go as far as to say it's technical efficiency, granted it does what is expected of it.

But if it breaks or starts causing problems, then you just have problems. At which point call it whatever you like.
In terms of front-end, definitely go Redux. If I can toot my own horn, I suggest React/Redux/Radical (http://www.nathan-rice.net/projects/radical/ ); it greatly simplifies working with Redux. I also suggest Typescript, you're already going to be on the hook with Webpack, you might as well take the small extra step and get a much better development experience.

As for a back-end, Postgrest is absolutely amazing. There are examples of how to implement auth with Postgrest on the official site. If you implement your application logic as stored procedures in the database, you don't need Flask/Django/etc at all.
Could be affordability, as single-family homes become unaffordable in many markets.
I'm not defending Gawker; I'm saying there's a better way to have this debate.

We don’t have to accept or excuse Gawker’s worst stories to protest Thiel’s dangerous playbook for attacks on institutions of civil society.
NASA Made a “Mars Rover” Game to Celebrate Curiosity’s 4th Anniversary on Mars
I'm no germaphobe but I'm shocked that he went into the dumpster without shoes and just ate an apple straight from the garbage bin!
Actually, this is the canonical JS with prototypes. The more common style nowadays is to (ab)use the module pattern.
I'm honestly not properly educated to answer that. My responsibly on the team has been controls & networking. I don't think the tube necessarily has to be perfectly straight as the pod could bank on the turns like a racecar or roller coaster.

I think the tube itself could be made reasonably cheaply compared to the CA high speed rail system. We transfer oil in huge pipelines with high pressure differences so I think it should be pretty feasible to keep it properly sealed. I'm more worried about the cost of the safety mechanisms and them being able to secure the land rights.

Elon mentioned at design weekend that initial versions could even use wheels if they aren't going over ~250MPH.
Berkshire takes bigger bite of Apple (BRK disclosures for Q2)
Find+out+how+to+lose+weight+while+pregnant+|+Life+Weight
When I played around with XMLHttpRequest to a locally running Jupyter server I got the following error:

No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.

It seems that should have prevented this exploit as well?
> I feel like I'm working on something people will want

Read Four Steps to the Epiphany and apply the process described therein. You'll be able to turn your feeling into an actual conviction.
That's why I like living in a (relatively) large city. Here we have enough audience to sustain a couple of "weirder" theaters without concessions, ads or interruptions which show older and/or more independent films.
Shouldn't be.

When you automate "setting up your environment", you are able to switch between several of them, create new ones for forks or extra tests, and roll back to debug production issues.
I suspect you read too much into my comment. I wasn't making a value judgment. If anything, I'm actually in favor of thinking no more than necessary to get high-quality results - but also no less than that.

> I'll play the devils advocate: what ever logical structure of the data you come up with will not line-up with relational DB tables

That contradicts my experience. The relational model isn't a panacea, but it lets me model most scenarios adequately. Whenever the relational model is deficient, what I want is more powerful schemas (sum and product tables, constraints spanning several tables, etc.), not less.

> Hell, we have been trying and failing to do Object-Relational Mapping for years now, and it's still a shit-show.

I'm inclined to think the problem is actually at the object-oriented end of the bridge: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11861520

> With NoSQL I'll just dump the new document structure and call it a day (or rather, deal with the differences in the application layer).

Correctly managing these differences without help from schema-aware tools is rather painful.
LinkedIn sues anonymous data scrapers
the link isn't working :(
Poisoning the well, are we?

Tunderf00t's youtube channel may seem to be a product of complete lunatic, but is actually an result of years of antagonisation between members of the community that used to be very close but underwent falling out due to internal agendas and opinions on what their community actually should be.
Just on groceries that is a free flight every couple years. Of course I also buy clothing, phone bill, car repairs, birthday presents... In short, I charge almost everything. I'm going for the 1% cash back not the points, but to me it seems normal to be getting back more than $100 every year. Note that I do not carry a balance. Everything in that list is something I do anyway, and I have the cash sitting in my back account (so I should probably add another buck to the $100 above for interest in my bank accounts)

Note that you have to be able to control yourself. If you ever carry a balance the math fails.
Regulating Taxicab Safety by Algorithm: How to Build a Safetybot
When only some people have security, nobody has security.

This is the sort of event that should -- though it obviously won't -- lead to a policy debate about the wisdom of locating cyberdefense and cyberwar within the same hallwaus.
Angel Investors V. “Angel” Investors
The rate of voting fraud for in-person voting in the US seems to be around 1 per 10 million votes cast or so. The rate for voting fraud for vote-by-mail seems to be around 1 per 100,000 or so.

In terms of invalidated votes, in-person seems to have about 1% of ballot rejections, whereas vote-by-mail has about 2% rejections. (No data on how many of those rejections were inappropriate and how many were appropriate that I could find). Citation: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/us/politics/as-more-vote-b...
FYI - WebStorm's features exist in PyCharm and you can count me as one user that finds them extremely useful.

I agree with the enabled on-demand comment however.
Much better source (linked as "via" on hackaday) and a much less clickbaity title: http://hackerboards.com/modular-moto-z-android-phone-support...
Next time please at least click the link before chiming in with a comment. The title was not the problem here.
Why did 75k Google “ghj” to find this video?
> Meaning it can be profitable, so debt really is the wrong word.

The reason why it's called debt is because you'll have to pay it later, with interest.
I think this is exactly the problem the author wanted to solve: you don't get info from the webpack logs. He/She wanted to do something that exposed useful info about webpack.
That's not at all true. There are still lots of republicans at the state and municipal level, and they're often the most competent candidate. The lower you go in government, the more likely it is that someone will be personally acquainted with a politician who's running, and they'll say "I may not agree with everything she stands for, but we had a good chat and she seems like she could do the job."
Almost no single entity has that much BTC (as of 2016 only ~15 million Bitcoins exist), to acquire it someone would have to aggregate the Bitcoins from many other entities by via buys on a Bitcoin exchange. This would cause a massive spike in the price of Bitcoin.

Interesting to note: there has been no new Bitcoin block for the last 1 hour 23 minutes. This happens from time to time, but it is a little suspicious.

See https://blockchain.info/
> but in your own words you "encourage folks not to watch that video at least without..."

Trying really hard not to get back on snark here, but... did you literally just stop reading there? Just finish my sentence: I "encourage folks not to watch that video, at least without [...] making an informed decision."

So, do you think folks shouldn't make an informed decision, or do you think my decision is wrong?

Just my impression, but it appears that you might be arguing one as a proxy for another.
The original "flying" hyperloop plan has a very low flying height - 0.5 to 1.3 mm, wrote Musk in his original paper. This requires a very smooth tube. Welded joints would need inside polishing. Expansion joints would be complicated. Tube sections can't have any sag, which probably means a stiffening beam will be required. All this pushes up the cost of the tube/track. The whole point of the "hyperloop" was that the tube/track would be cheap, on a par with pipelines. There are also safety concerns with such a tight clearance. The Transrapid maglev, the system used in Shanghai, has about 150mm of ground clearance, and about 10mm rail clearance.[1]

The Hyperloop competition (not Hyperloop One) had an aluminum rail down the track center, and the winning team (MIT) levitated magnetically against that at 15mm height. Maglev against an aluminum rail is energy-intensive, but they were only making a trip of a thousand feet or so, and could do it on batteries without using superconducting magnets.

Maglev in vacuum is an old idea. That's called "Vactrain". There have been many proposals, none built.

[1] http://www.transrapid.de/pdf/tri_engl.pdf
NASA: Last month was earth's hottest in recorded history
Yet, from the point of view of someone seating on the GDC Europe rooms hearing how Larrabee was going to change the world of game development, back in 2009, I think we can state it did fail.
Perl6 made a lot of improvements https://docs.perl6.org/language/regexes

Technically not regular expressions since they are appropriate for matching much more than regular grammars, but that's true for almost any programming language's "regular expressions".
> At that time, the separation of of portable and non portable parts of an OS (CP/M ran on very different and fairly incompatible machines) was quite remarkable

On microcomputers, perhaps, but not on computers in general. Unix is a well-known example of an OS that did this, with the hardware-dependent parts mostly confined to a small amount of assembly language and much of the C source platform-independent. This was the state of Unix by around 1973 or so. And that was near the dawn of minicomputers.

Even before Unix and minicomputers, it was starting to become common on mainframe computers as manufacturers started releasing revised and novel models (and dealing with the porting efforts). Notably, the Burroughs B5000 didn't have an assembly language at all, and system software (the Master Control Program, an awesome name that (perhaps unfortunately) lost the jargon skirmish with "Operating System") was written primarily in a dialect of Algol-60. The MCP went on to run on successor systems starting with the B6500 with only a small number of changes to support the new architecture, and Unisys's offerings to this day still run a continuously updated version of that original MCP -- first released in 1961.
I always wondered, can blessed/react-blessed be used in the browser? I've been looking for a good JS terminal emulator for a while (not something like [1] that connects to an actual shell session). Actually, this thing featured on HN recently via Nodal looks promising [2].

1: https://github.com/chjj/tty.js/

2: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cmnd
Forget two-factor authentication, here comes context-aware authentication
They could even use the blockchain as a source of randomness to choose which chunks of the encrypted file they reveal for free.
I don't think it's really bash, more the utilities' inconsistent APIs and single-letter flags (which are not descriptive at all). Each command has its own API with different options, so it takes a lot of exposure to really learn them.
Feels like someone faking a poor grasp of English -- there are linguistic "tics" in there that to my mind seem indicative of Asian and Slavic languages, but scattered about like chaff. My guess is that they're working to make it difficult to try and trace their native tongue.
Is 16GB really that measly when it comes to podcasts? Even at, say, 128MB per hour (!) you've got over 100 hours of capacity there. Enough for a full waking week, nonstop.
And the potential! Think of all the bugs we can now fix.

Expect to get a lot of updates in the next weeks.
One of the big issues I see with accounting/reconciliation systems (automated or even if managed by an external bookkeeper)is that if there isn't good oversight there's a significant cleanup cost usually at a pretty inconvenient time (e.g. just before a due diligence or audit). It's a pretty painful form of infrastructure debt.

How are you guys making sure people remain involved in overseeing and understanding the financials your software's feeding into?
You're correct about that there are different degrees of seeking support.

Seeking VBR MP3 with perfect accuracy is trivial by forward-reading. However, this is obviously highly inefficient on long duration seeks.

For instant seeking support, you need to (partly) depend on the optional VBR headers. This comes with its own set of issues, e.g., the most commonly used Xing header contains only 100 seek table entries, which may not provide enough resolution for large files.

I'm still surprised about the complete lack of support for those headers in AVFoundation, since I would consider it a low-hanging fruit in terms of improving usability for the majority of use cases (excluding pod casts).

Disclaimer: I've worked on MP3TrackDemuxer for Gecko/Firefox.
Those are all problems with a specific, objectively crappy container, as you've noted. There are many alternative containers and no reason the podcasting community couldn't come up with its own, such as by extending Matroska. This obviously creates separate problems, but I'd like to see the podcasting community start to shape its own destiny a bit rather than expect others to innovate for them or kludge older formats to do things they weren't supposed to do.

Why not a podcasting specific container that handles streaming and fixed cases, includes support for all the novel stuff podcasters want to do, and so on? Container development is one of the easier parts of multimedia, and there's too much thinking around a specific codec being tied to a specific container (just like your comment). Legacy support is of course the big elephant in the room, but I'd venture a well-founded guess that the average podcast listener is listening on a device that supports apps. (Maybe I'm wrong.)

I can't think of a single good container format. They're all rubbish. Even Matroska is arcane and very poorly documented, and suffers from the end goals and types of media it is used for being encoded in the design. Containers are a giant space in which to innovate and have been that way for years. Unfortunately, open source multimedia development is largely tied up by a certain group of people with a certain background and very specific use cases in mind.

That context from the podcast would have been awesome in this piece. Why wasn't it there?
You may notice that the quote in my original post is from the DoJ to Netflix. If Netflix is subject, why wouldn't Facebook be?

The ADA also applies to privately owned stores as well, so there is certainly precedent. Ever wonder why your office building has a certain number of handicapped parking spots in its parking lot? The ADA is why.
The candidates who are running are listed with contact information at city hall. You can call them on the telephone or write them an email asking detailed questions about whatever is relevant to your interests, and you will probably get an excellent reply. If you don't, then you can vote for their opponent or write in your own name.