skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides mirroring the condescending tone, I was mentioning that in my (GNU/Linux) experience -- which is a lot more command-line oriented than Windows -- it's not true what he's saying. I use a lot of commands and very few of them become scripts, thus the conclusion that it's not merely a stepping stone. A command line language can have different features than a good scripting language. Further I was remarking on the limitation of Windows which ships with a "one size must fit all" language: the language used by their shell (and now there's a 2.0 version of that, called powershell).

I'm sure he knows a lot more than me about a lot of powershell-related things. Still, beyond him being (according to you) the inventor and "champion" of powershell, there's nothing that tells me they did UX research into this, so I added my experience because it differs from his viewpoint.
Correct. The soil is incredibly fertile, and at least around the Yuma/imperial valley area, it's literally the sunniest place on earth.
Absolutely agree with this. There is no reason we can't move people the way we move goods. Public transit, trains/planes, etc serve as the distribution network. Self-driving cars are the "last mile" delivery service.
>Solar will never be cheaper than coal

It already is actually.

http://www.sciencealert.com/india-says-the-cost-of-solar-pow...
I don't know much about Unreal but one difference is that a game engine can use a lot of unmanaged memory for the meat of the application and then provide a managed environment on top of that for writing the game. That way a much smaller portion of the ram usage is using gc
Developing a Street Basketball Game (Part 2)
ReactOS 0.4.2 Operating System Lets You Mount and Read Various Unix Filesystems
The military has plans for everything, because plans take time to prepare, and they don't want to be winging it should a need suddenly arise.
Here's one that's even faster (and relevant to your username): http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardwar...
What was your project, and what did you end up using?
> Zika has a number of neurological and other impacts on adults, as well as its impact on fetuses.

The effect on adults is not yet fully known (hence the OP!). This was just the first study on the topic.
Name one "unicorn" with a competitor that's at least half its size. In automotive, GM, Ford, Toyota, and Chrysler have been plugging away for decades, and all have US market shares within a 2:1 range. We're not seeing that in new businesses.
Assuming the facts as true, the shareholder might also have a claim for retaliation against the company, specifically:

1. Pursuant to DE law shareholder requested the books be opened to value his shares;

2. His request was not just unlawfully denied, but company in writing explained, by law shareholder was not entitled to the requested documentation;

3. Then "a few days later" the company fired the shareholder in his capacity as employee.

Could be a great claim for retaliation, though not the federal title 7 type, but the DE state equivalent.[1] Note the citation includes whistle blower claims, which is similar/associated with retaliation claims but they are separate. Basically the DE retaliation claim is triggered by the employer taking action contrary to DE public policy (i.e. Being fired for trying to exercise a right as a shareholder)

[1] http://www.workplacefairness.org/whistleblower-retaliation-c...
Can you elaborate a bit more on this? I'm fascinated by consciousness, and I've often wondered about how it arises in biological systems and how it might do so in artificial ones.

My basic intuition is that consciousness arises as a byproduct of any sufficiently interconnected (i.e. Complex) network which processes input from the outside world. The problem with AI right now is bottlenecking of both kinds — we don't have computers powerful enough to support the level of complexity of the human brain (100bn neurons with an average of 7k synapses each), and we don't have good enough sensors for capturing the real world (hint: touch is a BIG one).

What sort of game do you have in mind? I definitely think a game in which humans interact with an AI in an artificially-supported information-rich environment (say, the VR of 5-10 years from now) could help provide a suitable environment for "growing" such an AI. Consider the insane amount of
Stimulation and calibration human babies require for development! It takes years for the visual system to stablilize, for example.
Coal is a rock, but you still need to build a plant to burn it, and ship the coal continuously. With solar when you set up the panels you're basically done.
If I've understood it, the consumer app now gets decoded video whether it wants it or not?
I guess you could get away with the detailed mapping for a taxi service in a limited area.
2000 cuts with Binary Ninja
Yes and no. It's possible, but not very efficient per space/work vs. returns. Efficiency can be improved by using electricity after all, through solar generation. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_still#Practical_consider...

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar-powered_desalination_uni...

However, also see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawater_greenhouse for a clever agriculture scheme.
Thanks for the tip. I did yesterday actually by manually shutting down the node from SSH (sudo shutdown). It seemed to "just work" without having to do anything else. There might have been a tiny period of unavailability to one of my services but not enough for me to notice. Luckily, I don't have crazy high availability requirements yet.
Asking a end user if foo.com should be allowed to open a TCP connexion to host:port makes no sense. 99.999% of users can't make an informed decision, and they just want the damn to work so they choose "allow".

Never ask users questions that they can't reasonably answer, ie don't do what android did for a long time (looks like this has been improving since N).

Maybe the case of TCP/UDP could be improved by showing a human readable version of the prompt for some well known ports. So a browser would ask "Do you allow webmail.com to use a secure IMAP connexion to mydomain.com?" when webmail.com requests access to mydomain.com:993
I was working on a Chrome app so this is interesting to read, thanks! Are you planning to convert your app to an extension now? Is that possible? Did you consider monetising this as a web app somehow?
>The housing market crash was due to central planning. Hardly a counter point.

Citation needed on how central planning led to MBS and CDS exploding.
I'm aware of that possibility, but their main niche seems to be sucking human blood and passing diseases around. Other mosquitos feed on other animals and plants, but A. aegypti really loves to eat people.
Stupid game. The only movement to win it, is not play it.
I think Google is working toward the consolidation of all their platforms, like Microsoft did with UWP on Windows 10.

You can run Android apps on some Chromebooks but it doesn't feel optimal. I wouldn't be surprised if both Android and ChromeOS were replaced by "Fuchsia" eventually. You could have a single platform for mobile phones (including VR/AR), desktop, IoT (replacing Brillo), server, etc...
Your claim is that two films with the same title, very similar plots, and the same producer have "literally nothing to do" with each other.

I don't know if Herzog "owes" Ferrara anything, but somebody thought so, because Ferrara was paid (just not much). Why would he be paid at all if the two films have "literally nothing to do" with each other?

What "facts" would Ferrara have to check before deciding to be pissed off about this? What are these supposed "false accusations"?

I'm willing to believe that the two films are artistically quite dissimilar, but everything in my comment is true regardless.
I don't think that will be very likely as you'd be surprise how little information you're given about users who make any purchases.

Currently, it's up to you to create hooks upon successful payment to ask for information (which is extremely weird to the users because they're under the impression that they paid you directly and already possess that information).

Every In-App-Purchase (or app purchase) is not linked between platforms. It sort of makes sense that any IAP you buy in iOS will not (automatically) make it over to Android, but it makes less sense between Android and Chrome (considering it's the same Google user).
Inclusion over diversity
I agree about your larger question, and would enjoy exploring that. But, for this conversation I find it most interesting and relevant that the citizens don't even see the military budget as an issue. On this issue we need not even worry about my naive belief that citizen's have power, because in fact the citizens don't even see the need to change anything as they fully subscribe to the belief--put forward by the rulers--that the military budget is essential.

So, yes, citizens could stand to wake up, I agree.
I think at the end of the day Google will win this game with their self driving cars. Why they should buy Lyft and compete with Uber and lose billions of dollars, the better strategy is to get the self driving car first before anyone else and come in and crush Uber and Lyft and whoever is in the market. this will not get sued by driver and will not be under scrutiny by the regulators!!
Some ideas are doomed no matter how clever, motivated, or well-considered the working environments.

We champion Newton for his work in gravity, optics, and mechanics.

Not so much in alchemy.

If the field you're plowing isn't fertile, no amount of good agronomy will help you.

Yahoo may not have been abolutely intractable, but it was in a bad position and getting worse. I had no interest in working for the company or using its products, and I'm no particular fan of Meyers (I think she's accomplished a few useful things, may be felt by her absence at Google, and has also done and said some tremendously stupid things as well). But hanging Yahoo on her neck alone is false narrative.
I don't have anything valid to back up my claims here, so take what i have with a grain of salt unless you find external validation for it. That being said i will venture a guess:

Yes and no. Neural networks have a lot of nice properties like being easier to grasp, easier to parrallelize(?) and have better tools which i guess is because neural networks are applicable to more problems than SVM's because they are extensible.( see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_neural_network for example).

Either way SVM's still do what they do very nicely and in the field of "Human Activity Recognition" where i did my thesis neural networks are practically never used but SVM's pop up from time to time.
Facebook’s new teens-only app Lifestage turns bios into video profiles
Historically they haven't done anything. OTTO was just 8 months old when it was acquired this week, and they had two blog posts - one saying they formed, one saying they're acquired.
After installing a third party bootstrapping program. I suppose that's as close as it gets.

Windows still ships with VBScript, but it's not a language I'd want to look into either. Everyone that has worked with it sighs when it comes up and nobody actually uses it for automation as far as I know (everything's either powershell, good old batch scripts, or custom .NET software).
Special thanks to @the_thagomizer for publishing her excellent article “Diversity is not a check box”. Prompted me to finally finish this article.

http://www.thagomizer.com/blog/2016/08/12/diversity-is-not-a...
Which is vastly different from how it works now.

"Let's watch X!" "Is it on Netflix?" "Aww damn, give me 5 minutes." "Alright, I've got it!" downloads xxx_X_1800p_brrip_supervids.mp4 "Just let me plug in my laptop" "THIS MEDIA IS PROTECTED BY INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT LAW" "Haha, I love it when they leave the warning in." enjoys movie.
Spot on! Once you get everything running you're so exhausted documenting it by writing a blog post is not on your mind, sleeping for a week is...
Does the word "equity" mean anything anymore?
Who’s Left to Embarrass Silicon Valley Now That Peter Thiel Has Killed Gawker?
> The Central Valley is not a desert,

Quite a bit of the southern part of the San Joaquin Valley (which is the southern limb of the Central Valley, the Sacramento Valley is the northern limb) is, in fact, desert.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Thanks for the hat tip! TinyMtn is my fun hobby, and I've been making high-resolution 3D printed maps from USGS and SRTM1 data for over three years now. I'm just getting into the extensive LiDAR data now, too. The process is: download the highest-resolution data I cna find from USGS's National Map Viewer, process with GDAL, convert to a triangle mesh (custom tools), and then upload to Shapeways or convert to GCode for my XCarve. Some of these prints, along with CNC models of Meteor Crater, Telluride, Mt Fuji, Mt Hood, and Crater Lake are on Etsy:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/TinyMtn
> JACK

> simple to set up

Try getting it to run with basically anything, seriously. Pulseaudio is plug-and-play.

> Which init system "just works"

Neither of the ones you mention fit that description

> It's an init system that's also a cron replacement

Wrong.

SystemD is a project with a similar branding issue that KDE has.

Systemd is a project.

It develops a set of libraries.

And, on top of that, an init system.

And a cron replacement.

And a syslog replacement.

You do not need to use them together – just like you can use Gtk apps in a KDE environment – but together everything works best.

> for no reason and breaking code (screen sessions die now)

For the reason that shutting down my PC means it spends 10 minutes waiting for screen sessions to kill themselves, and I can not stop that without either doing a killall, alt-print-reisub, or just pulling the plug? It also provides a way to keep things running still.

> increasing the chances of a kernel panic

Never had one, and I’m running bleeding-edge arch

> Systemd is a tiny step forward, followed by a massive step back, and of you can't see that, you haven't been paying attention.

Systemd is the least worst option.

There is not much of an alternative for such a kind of project, that properly handles things in a more modern way.

I want a userland that works plug-and-play, I want syslog as a daemon with database, not as a fucking flat file. I want more dbus, and, ideally, I’d have all config files in a database or registry for easier administration and sync.

I want proper udev and containerization, I want programs of my user to be killed upon logout unless specified otherwise.

Lennarts projects don’t provide what the old crowd of nerds want.

But they provide what the average user want, and what’s required to make Linux actually usable for your sister, your grandmother, and your retarded neighbor that can’t even turn on a PC.

It also reduces the workload for server admins, like me, again.

I can write systemd unit files in a few minutes, can easily stream syslog over the network from multiple servers and aggregate, I can easily handle namespacing of software.
> Could work, though I think it would add operational complexity ("hey, I paid to swap in good batteries, but these barely held a charge!").

That is part of the business model: the batteries know how much charge they can take, so when one no longer has full capacity you sell it for less. Someone needs to work out what the price levels are so that people don't feel cheated, that is tricky math, but I think we know enough about battery life cycle (over different usage) to come up with something. It will probably be a multi-level thing, a "new battery" will be slightly more than a "slightly used" one, and have a longer safe range before they charge you abuse fees. A "new battery" that is never abused will after so many uses without abuse degrade to "slightly used", the users of it as "new" will pay for the normal wear and tear. If you are not trading in every time the battery needs charging you just pay a small monthly rental fee - if you never abuse your battery when it wears out you can trade in a "no longer usable battery" for a "new one" for just the normal trade in fee. If you abuse the battery you just pay for the actual costs that your abuse did to the battery.

It could work, the real trick isn't the technology (that is a simple computer watching the recharge and discharge rates). Even the business model isn't that complex (though the math is tricky). the hard part is convincing everyone to use your standard form factor for batteries. If every different car has a different battery in some way this will not work. It is only when you have one (or a few) models of battery that everyone has that this can work. There are only 3 grades of gasoline at the gas pump - if your engine would be fine on 60 octane gasoline (like my antique tractor) you just have pay for the more expensive 87 octane anyway. If your engine needs 100 octane (some race cars) - too bad you have to buy your own drum. The same way you need to ensure there is a one size fits all battery. (if you want more having two is an option)
If you move etcd to separate t2.nano then upgrading is easy. The only stateful part is etcd.
> Perhaps, they have become an integral part of our society.

Perhaps, but I don't believe anyone has demonstrated that mosquitoes have this crucial in impact to he health of the ecosystem. In fact, the aforementioned Nature article explicitly argues against that idea, though obviously it's only a sample size of 1.
It does no such thing. Market makers prefer not to interact with people that have a directional view as they may move the market. If a market maker gets caught with inventory and the price is moving they will lose money. Market makers tend to be less involved in price formation then other types of investors.
It seems to use UDMH and N2O4 or similar, a hypergolic mix that's convenient for maneuvering thrusters but is not particularly efficient.
He worked for NSA and his firm does a ton of vulnerability research and development, including creating probably the most sophisticated pentesting toolkit this side of a nation state(in fact I believe its explicit design goal is to simulate just that).
Basically the reality version of children of men..
This is of course a mouse study, on mice bred to have an immune deficiency to Zika. Immediate extrapolation to humans is a little premature.

I've taken to scanning the NHS's page analyzing health news stories. It's a very useful antidote to potential sensationalism: they go to the original source and summarize it fairly clearly.

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2016/08August/Pages/Animal-research-s...
Smartphones. Blackberry, Symbian, Palm, and Windows were the leaders just a few years ago, but now iOS & Android pretty much own it all.[1][2]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/09/20...

[2] http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3415117
Oh God yes, this nonsense is most of my life - kerberos, ad, and my favourite un covered area of enterprise integration, storage. Nfs4 plus Kerberos anyone?
That is because you could not build it :)

I am sure you could make money off looking for exploits that could be sold to black hats.
Along the same thought is RFC 2549 and RFC 1149 for IPv6, IP over Avian Carriers.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
Is Our Country as Good as Our Athletes Are?
Beyond your question of ecological impact of killing all mosquitoes, as others mentioned they don't all need to be killed.

Historically, South Florida engaged in annual mosquitoe controlling campaigns. Essentially aerial spraying during the Summer. These were stopped because of the budget cuts related to the collapse of the Florida housing market.

Not only did the mosquitoes become intolerable, but before Zika we had a breakout of mosquitoe transmitted Dengue fever. Moreover, the historical mosquitoe controlling never killed all mosquitoes but the were effective in preventing breakouts like Dengue Fever and Zika.
> US military spending is one of the major engines that powers the American economy

I always get lost on this argument. Americans largely see socialism as evil (obvious consequence of the cold war). Yet, the argument put forward above is essentially arguing for a special form of socialism that applies only to military contractors.
Feels more like AI spring than autumn to me.
Please do not comment like this here. We ask that you comment civilly and substantively or not at all:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I believe the repricing behavior you describe is far more common now than the more aggressive strategy. Several years ago, before the exchanges got rid of "flash" orders, a variation of the more aggressive strategy was common, but under limited circumstances. The way it worked was that after a limit order was partially filled on exchange A, it would show the remaining size at the limit price very briefly before routing it to the other exchanges (this was the "flash"). If the limit price was a few ticks through the other exchanges best prices, the HFT's would take those prices out and offer at the order's limit price. Less risky because they knew the order would be automatically executed at that price as long as there was an offer there.
Oops! My mistake, I usually try to forget Bakersfield exists.
I noticed that on old computers (Windows 95, I think, and certainly 2000 and XP) where it would classify .js files as executables. I was about 11-14 so I didn't understand much of Windows at the time, let alone in a foreign language (I'm Dutch) when I wasn't even allowed to use the Internet (dialing up was expensive per-minute stuff), but yeah I remember that.

Still, I've never heard of anyone using Javascript or VBScript to automate anything. It's either powershell (these days), cmd scripts or custom .NET software. I've never even heard anyone mention using javascript in Windows (until apps came around in Windows 8) and vbs is only ever patchwork for legacy third-party software products as far as I've seen in my sysadmin days.
It's much simpler to me. Tuples are used when you need a sequence but don't need to modify the contents, for instance returning multiple objects from a function call. Lists are used when you want to add things to it.

Namedtuples are wonderful! It's like a class with only attributes, except you don't have to define a new class and get slapped across the back of your head by more experienced programmers for creating a useless class. Access objects by index, by name, or by iteration. It's very versatile.
There is also a chef version a colleague of mine wrote:

https://github.com/IshentRas/cookbook-openshift3
That sounds like an absolutely massive infrastructure investment. How much would it cost to move water for tens of millions of people thousands of miles?

Growing up in one of the wetter areas, we can't even figure out how to deal with a spring thaw bringing so much water that it floods and destroys towns. What you're proposing sounds even harder.
All of these things can be grown elsewhere, where massive, intensive irrigation isn't a necessity. Potatoes, onions and carrots can be stored for many months after harvest, even without refrigeration, and cauliflower and broccoli hold up well to freezing. Lettuce is of very questionable nutritional value to begin with... but it can be grown with minimal effort and great productivity in greenhouses.
The article mentioned Google Container Engine as one of the 'easy ways' but it didn't mention Rancher http://rancher.com/ - This is not quite as easy as GCE but I found it pretty easy.