skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The selling point was you just do the bare minimum and otto figures out what other specific things you need to get your project up and running. That's not scope, that's magic.
Lots of places in the US have mosquito control boards that go around inspecting properties. For example, this page lists residential site inspections as one of the methods being used to combat Zika virus in Florida:

http://www.miamidade.gov/solidwaste/mosquito-control.asp

Searching on "mosquito control board inspections" returns lots of similar results. I suppose people might not always follow recommendations.
> He said his ex-wife and his lawyers had claims to a
> “portion” of the money, without being more specific.

I imagine his lawyers (and ex-wife?) will be a little annoyed.
What about it is impressive? Could you elaborate?
Watch this tool called kops - https://github.com/kubernetes/kops

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There are a couple of "aspnet" entries, not being familiar with the ASP.NET universe are those unrelated to Core or not?
Bandcamp is now my go to place to buy music. It's a welcome relief from the bloat of iTunes, and the oversaturated wasteland of Spotify. It's a great place to discover new music, and it plays fair with artists.
There is a ton of usable land around, and it comes cheap. It just isn't in San Francisco.
If they were the "good guy", they would deliver content 100% DRM-free and actively support the public domain.

And pay the hundreds or thousands of people involved in making a major movie or demanding TV show for months or years of their time with what, sunshine and rainbows? It would be lovely if we could all just contribute our skills and talents for the general improvement of humanity, but the thing about professionals is that their profession is what pays the rent.

I've always been pretty down on DRM, more on the basis that it often winds up inadvertently harming legitimate customers than anything else. And yet from personal experience, there are few things more depressing than spending years of your life creating something truly original, offering it without DRM-like protections for a fair price, and then watching as people just openly rip you off anyway. It turns out that if you challenge them, sometimes they freely acknowledge what they were doing, and in a stunning bit of irony, even ask you what you expected if you made your content available without DRMing it.

If you want to "win" from your point of view, you'd better start with telling people who actually create content at considerable expense in time and money how to deal with the problem of freeloaders in some other credible way. Otherwise, the only thing your approach would remove is a large amount of the creative work that gets done in the world. As I said, I don't much like DRM myself and typically don't buy DRM'd content unless I'm reasonably confident of my ability to break it should the need ever arise, but that's a long way from calling anyone who employs it in a genuine attempt to protect themselves from illegal behaviour a "bad guy".
I can't second this comment enough. On all fronts. 1000% accurate.

> serendipitous conversations

To make this one concrete (and a little bit personal), I still remember that conversation in the airport after a conference when you said, almost offhand, "you travel enough, why haven't you looked into tracking airline miles yet?" Completely changed my life. Saved me thousands of dollars and made things much, much more comfortable. And that's just one example that's come to mind, and frankly, a minor one in the scope of everything.

Or, for a totally different kind of anecdote, near the end of Jim Weirich's life, I had the pleasure of speaking at many of the same conferences as him. While he was always warm to everyone he met, they were a chance to experience his wonderful person a number of times. The last time I spoke with him before he passed was one of those little offhanded "bump into you in the hallway" times at a conference.

It's not the same when it's not in person.
cool insight. vertical integration rockefeller style
How many ways can you tile a chessboard with dominoes?
There's a wider spectrum on the severity scale with G-B. My experience was ~ 3 months wherein I lost sensation from my legs up to my waist when I was 17 or 18 years old. I had to walk with crutches for a few weeks. I then quickly recovered and have no lingering ill effect.

It is still among the swath of horrifying things for which we have little-to-no preventative or responsive care.
They're extrapolating from current trends. To them, everything seems worse 10+ years out.
Great, now fix PubSub and Stackdriver, and GCP starts to look attractive...
might be a superior method of curation than streaming. I wouldn't mind grabbing one every friday.
Python only has what you call "dynamic heterogeneous" structures because Python is a dynamic language. The ramifications of that are by no means limited to lists and tuples. It seems like you basically don't like dynamic languages.

Some of your comments make no sense even given the above, however. For example, Python lists and tuples certainly support iteration.
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That puts it up to 2011, sure :)
source @ColinWright via https://twitter.com/MrHonner/status/766780135336927232
If I have a problem with Firefox and switch to Chrome, that addresses my problem and is a solution; yet it isn't a fix! When I use words like "address", I'm specifically being weasely, avoiding the word "fix". :)

> The whole reason to maintain backwards compatibility is so you don't end up in this situation.

That's the ideal, which ignores the negative aspects of absolute backward compatibility. Very good backward compatibility most of the time is all round better than perfect, absolute backward compatibility.

If you want perfect backward compatibility and an excellent design everywhere, then you have to make only perfect design decisions in everything right from the start.

Dennis Ritchie regretted not fixing the precedence of the & operator in C. It's strangely low because at one time there had been no logical && operator and & was used in its place. He wanted to fix it, but, alas, the story goes, they already had several hundred kilobytes of C code written across three machine installations. The result: a piece of technical debt spread to immeasurable numbers of lines of C written since, world over.

> I don't know why you're acting like it's hard to find uses of the tokens "curl" and "wget" in ps1 files.

Simply because I'm thinking of the whole class of possible backward-incompatible changes in a language or library, not all of which can be necessarily found this way. For the ones which can be found by looking for specific identifiers, you need reliable release notes to tell you what they are.
Hey Eddie, thanks for getting back to me.

I was wondering when image recognition was going to play a stronger role in the use of drones for agriculture. When I was doing it, it was simply using combinations of spectral bands and not really delving into pattern recognition. Sounds like that's the right way to be headed. Obviously just at the beginnings of it and I appreciate that you know the current limitations of the technology. But still, that's impressive.

Also curious if you are using satellite imagery in any contextual way or to train your image recognition in any way? Or if you are using the lIDAR already available at all? I imagine you are collecting higher-resolution LIDAR when you fly over?

Anyway, good luck with this, sounds like you guys are doing it right.
When I was growing up along the Indian River in Florida, they used to send trucks through the neighborhood on summer nights that sent out huge clouds of mosquito killing fog. 
I'm sure that was perfectly safe.
Forgive my ignorance, but isn't the Chrome App Store also the place where you get extensions?

Presumably there will still be some centralized place to get extensions.
> In Python's case, I'd advocate to just get rid of tuples and be done with it.

That would be a bad idea for at least two reasons: sometimes you want containers to be immutable, and mutable containers can't be used as dictionary keys.
Yes, like that, except I think you could make the process even more efficient. Make the modular units more "plug-n-play". Maybe even make them replaceable, so if an apartment is old and damaged, a new unit can relatively easily be swapped into its place and the old one recycled.
After a lot of thinking about DRM over the years, I realised this is one of the great myths.

Yes, DRM is often readily broken. And yes, much of the content is available via "alternative sources" for those who know where to look and how to protect themselves from whatever else might try to come along for the ride. Those who really want to rip something and have a bit of know-how will most likely be able to do it sooner or later.

However, DRM can still prove a significant impediment to casual copying, which in itself may protect significant revenues for the content providers. DRM also makes it very clear to those with access to the content that certain things -- say, trying to keep permanent copies of content streamed from sites like Netflix that rely on subscriptions to operate -- are not intended to be possible. Again, in a culture where a lot of people have barely even heard of copyright and just assume anything available online is free, that can be a big win.
I think the DRM-less Netflix can only work if they would sell you the movies; they don't; they rent them. You did not pay $25-30 per item you watched after which you can say you own it; you paid a fraction.

So I agree with you; they make it easy for me to watch legal content, something I have been shouting for for years. I would not care about DRM if I could watch everything like I can on Netflix; unless I buy it (on a DVD or online, no difference), in that case I'm actively against DRM. I generally am because it doesn't really work for the purpose it's used for so then it's more of a hassle, but like said, I wouldn't care if it's seamless. There were times when I could not watch content in Linux because the DRM decoder didn't work in Linux, so even if I paid, I couldn't get the content I paid for. That's another story, but with HTML5 that's all fixed.

The only time I pirate things still if they put geo restrictions; if some episode (and this is not an IF this is reality) of a series i'm following is aired first somewhere else and I really want to keep up to date I have no choice. If Netflix could break that mold...

Maybe someone knows; for Netflix originals they presumably own the rights right? So why do those not air the entire world at the same time? As if my assumption is the case, that makes them more evil again. I do not know much about the rights in this case though so maybe some greater evil forces them to...
I thought the Google cars are fairly close?

The devil is truly in the details. You're covering 99.5% of all driving situations with 99.9% reliability? Well, then the remaining bit is going to be pretty devilishly hard! What do you do about cars that are stuck stationary on the the side of a bit of shoulder-less road? Here's what a human being does: They "sense" that something is up on the road ahead because the traffic patterns are different. They observe what the drivers ahead are doing, then start exercising caution concerning what's going on at the side of the road, maybe even to the point of hugging the other side of the lane out of caution.

Are "driverless" cars doing this now? No. Are you going to have to develop human-equivalent AI to do that? No. But is taking things like this into account going to take a lot? Damn straight!
> How to Make TNT

Dammit now I'm on a list somewhere. Phrack was the real deal.
Care to elaborate on the issues you have with GCP billing?
I honestly don't recall the name of the specific piece, but I do remember that it's anthologized in his collection Expanded Universe, and it was clearly the "Singularity" he described, although of course not by that name - there's even a chart and a curve for those readers not yet familiar with the concept of exponential growth! I remember it quite well, not least because I'd thought I was years past learning anything further from Heinlein, and here he was teaching me that there's nothing new under the sun.

Unfortunately I can't give a page reference right this minute, because my last paper copy of the book disintegrated under heavy use some years ago and the samizdat electronic version doesn't have charts or page numbers. But it's in there, and when the new paper copy I've just ordered arrives on Monday, I'll look up the page and reply to this comment with a link to a photo or something.

That's not the only thing in Expanded Universe, of course; it's quite a long book and contains a great deal of other worthwhile material - short stories, articles, and transcripts of various talks, which together both entertain the reader and lend insight into the qualities of the author. It's not the first book I'd recommend if you're only going to read one Heinlein - that would have to be The Door into Summer. But if you're only going to read two, I'd suggest this be the second one.
Whatever you want your next job title to be.
When building an app, does changing the default allocator effect all imported libraries? And is that allocator used for boxing, when boxing requires dynamic allocation?
On the other hand... who actually disables over-committing on their Linux servers or the machines they run image editors on so that you could actually handle out-of-memory errors? I've never come across anyone who's changed the setting unless told to by a specific piece of software (almost always database software).
It's one of those crimes that requires knowingly lying. If you can convince the court that you were honestly mistaken, who's to say that you weren't? It might be hard to enforce in this case.
True but that is too theoretical and way in the future at this point.

Uber will just become the service provider. That is their goal to become the PG&E of transportation.
And Nomad is an order of magnitude easier than k8s. Might not be as full featured but for basic use cases of give me X resources to run Y it's really great. I was shocked at how easy it is to setup and run. The folks at Hashicorp are doing some great things.
It's probably a mix of a) society becoming more stupid b) the media not being able to hype something that doesn't kill at rates similar to bird flu or ebola c) the media not having as close a connection with the victims as media darling diseases like HIV.

This is something that can cause severe retardation in children at somewhere on the order of 5-10x more than Downs Syndrome where mothers are infected- and that's comparing to rates for Western countries with women having children at the extreme outer edge of the healthy childbearing age.

Bird flu is bad, but when it kills, it's a rapid death, and the places where it has occurred don't have particular problems with population replcement. Zika, on the other hand, can mean that the mother's life and a fair amount of government and NGO money is going to be tied up caring for the affected baby. Not as bad an impact as HIV has had in the third world (outside of Cuba), but it still needs stopping before the problem grows.
What about our (Russian) first strike plans? Any known to public?
You mean in Python or in computer science?

Because I'm pretty sure that it's possible to use mutable objects as keys in general. The users just have to observe restrictions: like don't insert the keys into the dictionary and then mutate them while they are in the dictionary and expect the dictionary to still work fine.

(Objects can also be used as keys even if they are mutated while in the dictionary, if identity-based equality is used for the dictionary; i.e. two keys are equal if they are acually one and the same object, and not just two similar objects.)
Lots of useful, successful things appear to be magic (especially in their selling points). Early Heroku is a great example in this space.

I didn't see anything in the initial premise of otto that was technically untenable. We could speculate about the "challenges" - the scope was too wide/unbounded, it was open source, it was a distraction from other company goals, it didn't gain enough early traction - but that's simply speculation without details from the creators.
> What are the probable/theoretical distuptions and consequences?

This is actually a pretty well-researched question! (Wish fulfillment I assume.)

A good summary of research is here:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/what-if/wha...
(includes links to studies)

TL;DR: probably worth it for humanity
Yes, but extensions are unaffected. This is about 'apps' from that same store.
Come with an open face, you coward!
The iss has only two possible resources to be exploited for profit in space. Both of them by conventional unmanned satellite companies.

1) the possibility or repurposing it's solar cells.
2) generic mass in orbit to be used for orbital inertia or counterjettisoned in orbit and used as propellant.

Most likely, the iss is just a liability or at best, worthless.
Facebook removes another popular comedy page
Ok, thats a fun hack.
Reverse-Engineered GEOS 2.0 for C64 Source Code
Currently, "the allocator" is global in Rust. That is, the standard library uses liballoc to do all of its heap allocation, and it's liballoc that aborts on OOM.

You can of course write code that does anything, including use some other mechanism than liballoc.

There's motion on several fronts here:

The first, and currently unstable, is swapping out the implementation of liballoc for a different one. (we ship jemalloc and a pass-through to the system allocator with Rust)

The second, and currently in the "working on an RFC" phase, is per-object allocators.

Both of these are unstable because we're not 100% sure of the interface we want to stabilize yet, it's still a work in progress.

> when boxing requires dynamic allocation?

Boxing always implies dynamic allocation.
Brian has been talking about how much he hates Java, its programming model, event loop, and everything else about it for many years, to anyone who will listen. Tastefully chosen for the augmented reality, self-organizing, and real-time use cases, the building blocks: UI, rendering, and app framework, all this looks like what he would create for the next generation of connected devices, of which phones are just a momentarily important example. Without Andy Rubin shoving a tech stack down his throat, I would add. I am somewhat disappointed by the DART choice, but overall really excited to see what this turns into. Great that it is open source for now, but this is Google, so you know where that will go.
Japanese is an unusual language to write. It's influenced by Chinese (in two separate eras), English and perhaps many other systems. Symbols alone aren't a perfect fit for the language (since they add tense and such), but neither is an English style alphabet.
> while we're at it, we need an update with statistics, data science and machine learning.

See this post and its comments[0] to get some foundations upon which to think about these correspondences.

[0] https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2014/10/where_do_probab...
@bemmu is that a square symbol or something else?
Personalized VIP treatment, automated?
It's a bit light in Safari on OS X on a non-Retina screen.
A coworker got this a couple months ago. He was out for a month, very scary
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Indeed.

And in practice, the small, new entrants to a market will write migration tools to migrate away from the entrenched players as a way to get customers.

If this isn't happening, then there's apparently no will from either player to write migration tools, which suggests to me that there would similarly be no will to use standardized data formats, unfortunately.
What about languages that do not include their own hash tables? C is allowed to, but Rust is not?
Here's hoping someone torches that pedophile apologist rag next.
How? We give a list of issues in the email.
Otto, the successor to Vagrant
772 points agonzalezro a year ago 177 comments (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/otto.html)

Me at the time: Are you kidding?!

Me now: Oh, I even forgot about that, the world of software engineering isn't always insane after all, I should lighten up ...
"In my opinion, this is the biggest issue. I'm more concerned that our democracy isn't functioning properly."

@swalsh, the US democracy hasn't functioned properly since '63 ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12324273
I'm not a lawyer but it sounds like a class action lawsuit would be a good idea in this case (and a nice payday for lawyers involved).
Lol, I meant that I need the energy consumption of walking to support my carb-eating habit. I can handle the time commitment of eating mostly.

As to the policy questions, I admit that I don't know how to solve that one. I know a start would be to clean up the mess made by FHA standards. And I think a lot of places have moved, or are starting to move, away from Euclidean zoning, which is a step in the right direction, if not a very large one.
Because you're not buying shows/movies from them....?

You're essentially renting here. I see DRM as generally bad only when it's on things you purchase.
Bandcamp and Patreon serve artists at different scales. As a part-time musician who uses bandcamp for bands/solo projects, I much prefer the "single product" model (fans paying for a single track/ep/album as they choose) rather than an ongoing payment structure. I have zero illusions that I'm ever going to "get big" (read: support myself) from making music, so bandcamp allows me the opportunity to share my music and if fans choose to pay for it, great! I'd feel very uncomfortable soliciting recurring payment for something I do a few times per month.