skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The worry is:

1. Install system python

2. Install pip from somewhere

3. pip install requests

4. apt-get install something with depends on python-requests

Should the installation of apt's requests fail? Should it work but clobber your pip installed requests? What happens when the apt version is older than the pip version? Does this break whatever you used pip install requests for?

There's two resolutions to this issue.

1. Don't use pip, always use apt for your python dependencies. The Ubuntu devs would really prefer you pick this option but not everything on pypi is on their repo and sometimes working consistently across platforms is more about than within platform consistency.
2. Use a different python environment than the system python. This could be done by using virtualenv, a different python version or a separate installation.
The Economist becomes a family affair
Can you imagine how many of these things are probably going to be torn down in 20 years? I can still appreciate most houses built in the 70's and 80's due to the fact that they follow a lot of the basic tenets in the article. These things are going to be like those weird commercial building eyesores that were big during the 80's.
Speed is a problem in any reasonably complex app.

While i might say that riot's speed won't be an issue in 80℅ cases, what about the 20% cases? And its not like difference in speed is small.

As the benchmark(i linked in first post) shows, riot is very slow compared to the competition.

On the other hand, vue (especially vue 2) is among the fastest.
Here's a youtube video of people being driven around in it https://youtu.be/CqSDWoAhvLU

Here's another youtube of it driving around on city streets https://youtu.be/_qE5VzuYFPU
VeraCrypt to be audited
"zero sum" doesn't mean "zero net benefit". It's about competition, not utility. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_game
Most Metals Have Inadequate or Nonexistent Alternatives
Earth like planet around Proxima Centauri discovered
>Yeah, because better CPU, GPU, camera(s), and such are not innovative enough...

They're not. They're expected.

>Yeah, for those of us using our phone on the shower it will be a god-send. Waterproof! Such innovation!

Right...
Please add some basic instructions on how to use this on a local network.

I tried the following:

1. Download app and install

2. "Add folder" new key, select folder I want to sync. Ok.
Folder did not then appear in the list as expected. It should it appear in the window straight away, right?

3. I then installed the software on another computer.

4. On other computer clicked 'Open URL' and added "lvlt:<secret_key_from_step_2_above>". OK. This did nothing either.

Where am I going wrong. Please add a basic getting started to your site which shows the basic steps to add a folder on one computer and then set up another computer to sync the folder down onto.

Looks like a great little app. thx in advance for your assistance.
That is not how Japanese works in the slightest. Kanji represent full words, often multiple ones (due to use in compound nouns) not individual letters without inherent meaning on their own.
PINCE – A GDB front-end/reverse engineering tool focused on games
How are they preventing engine knock ? At 14:1 compression you'd have to be running premium gas, which would pretty much cancel the efficiency saving, in a $$ perspective.
I have a space alien.

The stubborn nigger will not suck my cock.
> you are, on net, supporting it.

I haven't donated to any anti Boko Haram orgs. Does that mean I support murdering children?
Relatedly: "More housing density keeps Seattle affordable for younger residents:" http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/more-housing-density-kee.... Seattle is doing better than SF or NYC: http://www.vox.com/2015/12/23/10657690/seattle-housing-crisi... but still not good enough. Tokyo should be its example: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/023562e2-54a6-11e6-befd-2fc0c26b3c....
Diesel's fatal flaw is particulate emissions.

Attempts to mitigate those, without cheating (e.g., VW), have proven difficult.
> work was ... more inspiring

work which is important but not urgent is inspiring. The more complex the society, the more opportunity for such work. Read history: it wasn't that long ago that most of Europe envied those who could afford mud huts.
Ah ok, when I think of a cookie cutter house I imagine neighborhoods where every house is the same with maybe an extra gable on some of them. Little boxes, and such.
Yes, read the browser docs, many browsers support languages other than JS.

However, if the browser only supports a given language than the final target must be that language, similar to how only machine code executes of a CPU, everything else is just a turing machine emulating another turing machine.
So here near Cleveland, about 20 years ago a development went up called Barrington. It was full of McMansions and was bought up by sports stars, music stars, a variety of rich and nearly-rich people.

The problem is that for houses of that size, they need a LOT of room between them. Even with 3/4th acre and full acre lots, the end result was what looked like a bunch of big houses essentially stacked right next to each other. There are other developments in other towns nearby that are similar. Large houses but not more than an acre between them. While what you say is technically correct, the overall look is not attractive.
Because one of the characteristics of McMansions is that they (poorly) copy the style elements of classic designs while ignoring the rules that governed those designs.

Modernist and postmodernist architecture isn't trying to imitate classical mansion architecture.
The Patriot Act requires bank to keep home address of foreigner in the foreign country on file. But otherwise, you only need to provide passport + 1 more type of picture ID to open the bank account. This was in 2010
To the extent local governments have sold monopoly rights to an individual ISP, I certainly think those should go away immediately.

Beyond that, though, having a monopoly doesn't inherently imply anti-competitive behavior. Nor does it excuse creating a new anti-competitive ISP.

> So community owned ISP is for sure the only option there if you want to have high quality modern network.

I agree, a community-owned ISP can be a great solution, especially for areas under-served by available options.
Yes for questions with very less audience, you can offer a a bounty after a limited duration (3 days if I remember). You will have to give away your points as bounty. If you do not have enough points to give away, sign-up on other Stack Overflow affiliate sites that give you 100 point for every sign-up. And give it out as bounty.
Calling it a compiler is certainly accurate but transpiler seems more appropriate in this context.
I got one of my best roles like this. Admittedly there was also a part where I was asked to share my laptop's screen and after one look the guy said "ok you're hired."
It seems that we made a pact with the devil by positioning housing as an investment asset. By doing so, we've encouraged people to commit a very large fraction of their net worth into a rather illiquid asset, tying their financial fates to the future assessment of that asset. As a result, protecting the price and appreciation of this asset has come to overshadow the other crucial roles that housing plays in our society.

If I bought shares in AAPL at $50 (now $100+) and someone comes along asking that AAPL let them buy some shares for say, $65, I'm obviously not going to be happy since the value of my investment is under threat. This is the kind of reaction we've unfortunately promoted for ourselves. It didn't have to be this way, as other countries have shown us. But now that we're here, it's hard to imagine a way to turn back time.
What is MAYA HEAP?
> That's the point - as a natural monopoly, ISPs are inherently anti-competitive.

No, last-mile fiber is a natural monopoly; connectivity through that fiber is incredibly competitive. I'm not arguing that last-mile fiber shouldn't be a utility; it especially makes sense to put it in when building new infrastructure, ideally along with conduits to allow for future expansion or maintenance. But that shouldn't imply acting as an ISP.
fyi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-to-source_compiler
I remember noticing this back when MTV Cribs was a thing. So many of the people on there had these big houses that had huge bare white walls everywhere and the same staircase and living room with the 15 foot ceiling and one wall of windows.

When they showed a house that was older and was better quality it was a stark difference.
Some ruminations on graduate students
Yep saying transpiler is just being more specific, like saying car instead of automobile - although it is probably superfluous when including the names of both input and output languages.
McMansions look asymmetrical and have terrible "rhythm" on purpose, because it makes it MUCH more difficult for a casual observer to tell they are cookie cutter.
It would help to clarify what you mean by "tech blog". "Tech" encompasses a lot, and most blogs (aggregators aside) are single-issue or few-issue because most people are knowledgeable about only a few things. What specifically are you looking for?
"Downing and her husband, an attorney and programmer, respectively, say they simply could not afford to pay almost $150,000 per year for housing alone while starting a family in Palo Alto."

It's interesting the difference a couple of miles make. $150,000 per year is $12,500 a month. The most expensive house for rent in East Palo Alto (3 miles away) is $6,000 (half that) and there are many choices under $4,000 per month. They could live in Gilroy and ride the train for free[1] for around $3,000 a month. They could do even better if they decided to rent an apartment or a townhouse instead of a detached single family home.

Whining about not being able to afford to live in a neighborhood where multi-millionaires want to live is not very productive. Unlike San Francisco there are a lot of housing options up and down the peninsula, and since they work (or used to) in Palo Alto it is extremely close to the train station (so an easy "no drive") commute, which saves them even more because the City pays for their rail ticket and they don't have to buy gas.

[1] https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/40...
It's a community blog, news for nerds, stuff that matters :).

http://slashdot.org
http://techdirt.com - for techno legal matters.
http://techmmeme.com - aggregator of blogs & news sits.
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Think about this way. Imagine if you could spend the next year absolutely any way you want to (within bounds of laws and human possibility and decency).

Larry Page chooses to do his job instead of doing that. I can't imagine the unenviable parts of his job adds up to anything beyond a rounding error.

The one part I can have some sympathy for is the lack of any sort of privacy (and the accompanying inability to go for a walk in the park by yourself), but those aren't the points mentioned here, and are worse for your regular TV/Hollywood types, who have less privacy as they are more recognizable, and much less money.
I agree that in "Swift to JavaScript transpiler" the word would be replaced with compiler and nothing would be lost; however, by your own definitions you can see that 'transpiler' is more specific than 'compiler.' Someone out there saw a need for the word, just like someone saw a need for coupe and sedan.

You shouldn't worry until academia starts using it. Oops. Here's an article with 'transpiler' on the title: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2173694

It's a good thing that English is descriptive and not prescriptive.
Concur. American suburbs are my idea of hell. http://static1.squarespace.com/static/53dd6676e4b0fedfbc26ea...
> (but of course, not effective for all)

Learning styles are a myth. The best way is pretty much the same for everyone.

You might argue repetition means someone might get bored and give up, hence a fun style is better even if it's slower.
How could one tell the OP was fluent?
> Imagine trying to compete for last-mile water or electric service.

It is funny that you write that. As you probably know, but to inform others, electric service in several states is competitive. Customers choose a supplier and that supplier puts enough power on the grid to serve their needs. Suppliers are generally unregulated in terms of pricing and customer selection. The last mile poles and wires are owned by a regulated company with that company's rates subject to oversight and a requirement to serve every subscriber.

That's how we should do internet connectivity.
Tip: You can stick to `const` when declaring `i` in the loop header (at least as far as the ES spec is concerned -- mileage may vary on current implementations / transpilers).
"Sustained burst periods of traffic"
People have already mentioned Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language and Timeless Way, but I'll note that he has further distilled those ideas in his The Nature of Order Series: http://amzn.to/2b4XYf5

1. Levels of Scale
2. Strong Centers
3. Thick Boundaries
4. Alternating Repetition
5. Positive Space
6. Local Symmetry
7. Good Shape
8. Deep Interlock and Ambiguity
9. Gradients
10. Contrast
11. Echos
12. Roughness
13. The Void
14. Simplicity and Inner Calm
15. Each in the Other
Mazda has 14:1 for regular gas.
> Objecting to that doesn't seem particularly unreasonable; a government ISP has inherent anti-competitive properties

Technically anti-competitive, yes. Although in the case of Chattanooga, residents now have the option to pay a price more in line with the global first-world market rate. comcast was simply not interested in increasing speed or lowering prices. Now that there is real 'competition' (from the govt run utility), good old comcast has magically lowered their rates and increased service offerings. Because they totally were going to do that anyway /s.
I'm curious, when are these kinds of compilers truly useful?

Maybe its my own ignorance, but language design often doesn't map 1:1, so wouldn't it end up feeling forced?
There is usually something wrong with the ontologies approach as it rarely works. There is roughly two decades of evidence for this for anyone who cares to look. Five decades if you loosen the definition to include the family of logic and constraint programming - see AI Winter. There is nothing new about these ideas. It always looks and feels like it's going to work which is why humanity has persisted with it for so long and will likely continue to persist for some time to come.

There is a whole generation of better techniques that have come out of machine learning that totally eclipses ontologies and I know Palantir isn't using them. Their corporate culture isn't set up for fostering that kind of applied research.

No-one is advocating for a fully automated approaches. I don't know where that notion came from.

In my view is that Palantir is a consulting company that is pretending to be a tooling company. And their consultants are not worth the money they charge. Just one of many Silicon Valley based frauds.
Any approach to representing a complex problem or system in code,is like any tool - only as good as the person using it.

Given a really complex problem domain, functional decomposition and data modeling have their own issues. Other than an object-oriented approach, what else is left? Constant experimentation with procedures and subroutines until anything that can possibly work is discovered?
How would you compare the risk you had vs the risk they had in terms of earnings? Presumably you got lucky given the failure rate of startups,no?
It would be a large piece of software, built to time and budget, that was perfectly functional, met the user's requirements and that they were happy with.

So nothing like most software at all.
VR?

HTC Vive sold 15,000 in ten minutes, and 100,000 in three months: http://www.roadtovr.com/htc-vive-sales-figures-data-100000-s...

"Digi-Capital cut its rather optimistic forecast for spending on virtual and augmented reality in 2020 to $120 billion, down from an earlier forecast of $150 billion." - http://fortune.com/2016/07/05/virtual-reality-htc-sales/
But think about the sort of pressure that would be on Larry's shoulders. If he quits, or makes the wrong decision, that potentially affects thousands of his employees, and their families.

For a poor single mother or 40 something factory worker, their stress is more localised to their own family's well-being.

I think the problem here is that people try to compare or value stress on a scale of entitlement. I don't think it's that simple. I agree everyone deserves sympathy, because at the end of the day, we all experience stress on some level. One person's experience of stress is never more valid than another's.
Aspose Launces New Java API for Working with AutoCAD DWG and DXF Files in Java App
Aspose is proud to expand its Java APIs family with the addition of a new product known as Aspose.CAD for Java. This is a new addition to Aspose for Java APIs and allows users to work with CAD formats including DWG and DXF formats. Aspose.Imaging for Java also supports CAD formats but these formats will be removed from Aspose.Imaging for Java in next three months and all features related to CAD formats will be the part of Aspose.CAD only. This release of Aspose.CAD for Java supports converting DWG and DXF formats to PDF and raster image formats. Converting CAD layers and layouts to PDF and raster image formats has also been supported by this release. You can also remove entities from DWG and DXF documents. Aspose.CAD for Java allows you to convert CAD drawings to PDF format. Aspose.CAD for Java allows you to convert CAD drawings to raster image formats. Image.load method can be used to load CAD drawings, CadRasterizationOptions can be used to set vector rasterization options, ImageOptionsBase can be used to set image options and com.aspose.cad.Image.save method can be used to save output image. Aspose.CAD for Java allows you to remove specific entities from CAD drawings.
It's a double whammy when you also consider that property taxes are generally based on real estate value. City and local governments are dependent on that income and have little incentive to see real estate values (and thus tax) go down.
The real property with an easement is, however, affected when someone accesses it.

When someone accesses, or, copies, a copy of a copyrighted work, the owner of the copyright is not affected.
I don't know how these things work, but I'd have thought showcasing your prior work goes a long way in determining if someone wants to hire you. A bit similar to how, if I wanted you to create an ad campaign for my product, I'd more interested in seeing other campaigns you'd done, more than anything else. To see how you quantified the problem and the solution you came up with. Isn't that what front end dev is?
I'm sitting here in Seattle where these buildings just, thankfully, recently started to become popular.

I despise traditional architecture. Give me something so modern that it makes the neighbors puke.
> Every differentiable function is continuous!

Under who's definition? The Heaviside step function is discontinuous, but it's derivative is usually considered to be the Kronecker delta function. Both of these are used extensively in physics and engineering.
The full quote is saying the exact opposite of what's in the title:

`And while he’s quick to trumpet Apple, he is also unassuming, quickly noting, after saying his job can be “lonely,” that “I’m not looking for any sympathy. CEOs don’t need any sympathy.”`

Which is exactly why Tim Cook is such a great guy.
Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry's vs. Amazon (2000)
i would say it was always a massive success from the beginning. maybe that's arguable. but to say iphone finally hit its mark with the iphone 4 is calling it a bit late.
You seem to be making a totally different argument against war now. I'm not disagreeing.

I'm just saying that attaching a poison pill such as forced labor to a war-like policy is:

a) anti-democratic (since democracy involves allowing the mob to make decisions, including decisions you disagree with)

b) not a valid argument against war since all sorts of policies would be horrific if forced labor were involved.
If the solution to packaging is "I'll use docker", i.e. I will need essentially an entire OS as a dependency of my application, this shows that Python packaging is broken. More sane packaging system allow to define dependencies per project, and only install packages globally when required
> It offers a simple API in three basic languages: C, Lua and LED

I haven't been able to find any reference to LED as a language, anyone have a link? Just curious.
Noise canceling headphones combined with low key music have greatly increased my happiness and productivity. I've got the big Bose ones that are very obviously anti-social.
Have you seen https://www.typescriptlang.org?
Quick note: Lenovo x240 and T440 Laptops can still be had new in some places and they can run FreeBSD 11 quite well.
A W3C standard has to be open. Macromedia / Adobe used their EULAs and IP law to fight all third party swf renderers.

Macromedia / Adobe thought they had something too valuable to share, so now it's dying.

Also binary formats aren't as great as you think for vector formats that need to work between software written by different devs who don't have access to each other source code. Problems become very difficult to debug.

EPS files are also text files.
You may be interested in a tool I wrote that builds standalone executables: https://github.com/ers35/luastatic

For the following program:

iup.Message('test', 'hello world')

Build the program to a standalone executable:

luastatic example.lua /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblua5.2.a -I/usr/include/lua5.2 libiup.a libiuplua52.a libiupcontrols.a `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-3.0` -lX11
>I cannot say enough bad things about Palantir.

I cannot comment about the technology but I sure as hell can at a people level. I was a speaker at a conference where one of the Palantir cofounders gave a keynote. This was a conference organized by college students for their peers. As with all such situations these kids worked incredibly hard and his talk was incredibly disrespectful to that.

If I hadn't been so disgusted I would have thought to record it. Rather than talk about anything relevant to his audience, or frankly anything informative, he told 'stories'. We have all seen that type of talk, but I have never seem one which so blatantly braggadocious about his interactions with this and other country's intelligence branches. I saw it somewhat ironic that for someone who works for Peter Theil the level to which the talk, and his representation of the 'good' the company does was so absolutely and apologetically statist and authoritarian. He talked about who's jet he rode on, who he knew, and other things that seemed simply organized to ensure we knew just how important he was. Several of the stories were overtly misogynistic, and none of them had any useful knowledge about Palintir or working for them. I was sitting with another speaker and we were literally shaking our heads. I felt bad for the organizers and felt the shame he[the speaker] seemed incapable of.

Edit: clarified ambiguous pronoun
Steven Pinker interview: case against bioethocrats and CRISPR germline ban