skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Barman[1] gives you something better than incremental backups actually. It sets up the backup server as a database slave via PG's built-in replication. It gives you point in time recovery with the nicest CLI of any backup tool for any DB I've ever used.

If you think backup tools are a minus for PG, I guess you've never used barman. Easy as pie and has saved my bacon several times when CASCADE DELETE wrecked a few dbs for me due to coworkers futzing around.

[1] http://www.pgbarman.org/
The story of DARPA's stentrode, “Building a bionic spine”
why weren't they ready before, according to you?
First Look at Tesla’s New Autopilot and UI
If anything, it seems like this might be a reasonably untapped area for innovation: making repairs more efficient.

Right now all of the business and efficiency gains seem to be invested in lowering production cost, selling fast and hard to gain market share.

It seems like a way to make repairs more efficient could be a solid way of attacking a market slowly with a quality product. Slower growth but you build a brand for resilience and your market share is more defined by customers who aren't looking elsewhere than new acquisitions.
Does this loosely translate to "We want to sell Swift consulting services to the enterprise"?
The ones that really get my gripe are the ones that are flagged for being off topic.. Off what topic? This is a place where technical questions are asked and answered and this is a technical question that needs answering - Why is it closed?
I literally just started to go back and re-learn some of the core concepts for the latest version... wow is Swift ugly!

EDIT: I'm not attempting to discredit the greatness that can be had... Just wanted to describe a feeling which I had while using it is all!
I could'n agree more. Be _very_ careful with this illusion. Multi-master replication implementation like this makes sense for very few use cases and even then the development team better know what the hell are they doing or a lot of unwanted/unaccounted things will show up in production
How is it going with Linux, Windows, BSD, etc. platforms? Anyone with experience using Swift on something other than an Apple product have a story?
The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3 Specs
Increased costs for health care(1) are a measure of where workers are spending their money. That's an orthogonal issue to measures of worker productivity.

1. It's a side issue, but I'd also dispute your statement that people are getting less. Life expectancy has increased ~10 years in the US since 1970.
I work in emergent technology and R&D.

My questions don't have a SO question, let alone an answer. I get that in general programming, SO is great. Or if you need to know how to generate a N-dimensional array and initialize it for floats -- sure.

But what about: How can the Hololens be used in an Academic sports setting as training hardware? I'm brainstorming rapidly, then digging in what the Hololens can do (by experimentation, no less), and then investigating the API for what's exposed.

The API is the easy part, as it the simple programming.
>But they didn't and they couldn't.

They most certainly could have.
Just to clarify, the product you should be reporting this on is Google Search, or whatever site you're trying to use the browser on that's giving you the annoying reminder. Not the browser itself.
My specific example - sourcing "real time graphics experts"- was a bit obscure. It's a niche. The first problem arranging training would be to first figure out how to train and by whom. A learn-by-doing projects of increasing complexity from raytracers and scheme interpreters to a real time 3D engine and shader languages would probably do part of the trick. Then add 3D modeling and some drawing courses to make sure they appreciate the art as well. Doable in two years, full time - yeah sure. But what are the economic tradeoffs?

The personnel to arrange all of this is available in Helsinki area. The problem, I think, is that the quantity of people sought is so small that it would be harder to arrange all of this properly than just headhunt for them around the world. It would be awesome, though.

There are trainings for people like SAP experts. The curriculum is fixed and the problem domain fantastically constrained. In this case it's fairly easy to retrain for sought out skills - especially if the number of new experts is counted in the hundreds.

I have to strain once more that my example was obscure and for a specific, fairly small niche. I have no idea where the thousands of missing specialists are needed. Probably for usual backend/frontend development, would be my guess.
The memory this sparked in me was of the great old Speakeasy cafe in Seattle, which opened circa '94/'95:

http://www.historylink.org/File/3300
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Office UI Fabric – Site now focuses on React
Are you sure about this? Lenovo, Dell and Acer all put big LiIon warning/danger stickers on their laptop boxes when shipping. Are they doing this voluntarily?

Some of the batteries are removable, but others aren't. Maybe it's related to the size/capacity of the batteries?
I ran into the same problem myself recently. Only in my case the original poster didn't agree with the edit either, since the wording was "obvious to him". He recommended i propose an edit and let mods decide (failed twice already, same reason as for you), or write my own answer (question was locked).

It led me to try and find the mission statement of SO and it only says it wants to be the biggest resource of questions and answers. No word about quality.

I suspect they only care about answer amount as that helps their google rank, and quality doesn't.
Well and how would I go about that? Your suggestion doesn't make any sense because it's not viable.

There's a setting to disable SafeBrowsing in Chromium, too. You can just disable that. But force-disabling it is dangerous.

I'm not sure what your point you're trying to make with the invasion comment.
I see.. though it(swift 3) was just released. I didn't know the enterprise world changed so much(i.e. adopting a technology immediately after release).
The core/std library `is not yet ready for production use, and in fact are still in the earliest stages of development.`

I also heard Swift 4 is likely to have breaking changes. (ABI) stability will start only on Swift 4 too.

But what do I know...? Swift is great and everyone should abandon whatever obsolete language/tools they have in favour of this shinning thing because it has a nicer syntax.
Gauss did some interesting work related to least squares and linear regression, but Fisher came up with the null hypothesis and P-values, Maximum Likelihood Estimation, the concept of a control and designed experiment, and some other stuff.

50% of most standard statistics courses fell out of his head.
I was just going to say the same for Russian, but you beat me to it. Never really thought about why we have named it that way though, it was always something I just accepted... seems weird now.
It's a systems language, and imo way more beautiful than c++.
Robinson Crusoe economy
If you have an iPhone or Mac, check out VoiceOver, it comes as part of the platform.
http://webaim.org/articles/voiceover/ has a pretty good intro to VoiceOver on the Mac.

I'm on windows, and personally use the free and open source NVDA screen reader http://nvaccess.org
Once again it looks like WebAIM have some good instructions to get you started: http://webaim.org/articles/nvda/
One argument that has good traction lately around me is data privacy. It remains the killer argument of Firefox against Chrome.

What's old is new again.
It would advsersely affect profits and the argument would be that it's unfair
Then you can disable SafeBrowsing in Chromium's settings. My point is that disabling it without warning users about the risks of doing so is a bad idea. If you make an informed decision to disable it, I won't try to stop you.
Yeah. I don't think FDA-approved will ever happen for a majority of the substances, since it's too expensive.

Perhaps "proven" could just be several independent studies showing something works in a certain way. Even if most doctors were not able to use the database initially in their daily work, it would still be valuable to researchers.

TCM - I'm not overly familiar with it, but I think an ideal system today would need to be subject to much more rigorous scientific examination in terms of what works and what doesn't. Traditional medicine and folklore can greatly reduce the search space of plant compounds, but probably isn't enough on it's own.
I think you underestimate how much energy it takes to cool down and freeze water and how inefficient it is to simply place that near the server.
The problem is that to be able to do OTA updates, you have to have the control system hooked up to the internet in some capacity. The only way to avoid this is to airgap the 2 and make the user plug in a patch cord to update. Of course that runs into the issue of interfering with their fleet telemetry and background 'alpha test static verification'
It depends on your definition of opportunity cost.

Recently my ~20 year old fridge stopped working and I spent the better part of the day diagnosing the issue, getting a replacement part and fixing it.
Sure, I could have spent that time doing wage labor, call someone to fix it or even get a new fridge and I would have ended up with a net profit.
But to me personally, the bigger opportunity cost would have been missing the chance to tinker, learn about fridge circuits, compressors, thermistors, diagnose and fix the issue and enjoy success.
I don't see how your second sentence follows from the first one? It's true that Swift is heavily type safe but that makes it appealing to me. I actually really enjoy writing Swift.

Would you rather it were dynamic so you could write less code or something?
This reminds me of the big announcement of IBM partnering with Apple for iPad in the enterprise. I wonder how that worked out?

I am a little sceptical of IBM's business plan, all in on Watson, etc., but I have used their Bluemix hosting services and it is fairly nice. BlueMix is has a great free tier level' you can run one or two small web services or apps for free. It is a good idea supporting Swift in the server.
My oft-recommended book Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy [1] hammers on this idea of that financing of speculative vs. mundane ventures are fundamentally different games. The author argues that speculative finance is a good thing, as long as it's not just speculating on finance itself. In fact, it's so useful that the government should encourage it. He cites the long-term advancements produced by incredible amounts of public money injected into the defense industry, the space industry, the National Institutes of Health, the NSF, and so forth. But, he argues that such speculation needs to be cordoned off from the mundane economy, so that when bubbles burst, they don't take down the systems everyday people rely on.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Doing-Capitalism-Innovation-Economy-Sp...
Swift 3 is the version with large source change. It required a lot of refactoring. Fortunately, many of the fixes were handled automatically by Xcode. I'm keeping a list of changes:

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2016/09/17/my-ios-10-and-swift-...

Any breaking changes going forward should be much less. Of course, you might be in the camp that wants zero breaking changes, then Swift probably isn't for you.
Michelin awards the whole experience in the dining room and doesn't check what went into creating it (they don't step into the kitchen). From documentaries I learned the low level kitchen staff gets a lot of pressure and many are only enduring it (low pay, longer hours) to have that on their CV. I'm not sure I'd call that "amazing and enriching experience", maybe it is later if they look back.

I would see https://developer.apple.com/design/awards/ as the tech equivalent award currently.
Absolutely. I'm not attempting to put it down as somehow not worthy of anyones time, just thought I'd mention how "cushioned" it all felt :P
Given the way the "enterprise" works I would guess that their clients caught on to the high level of BS and low level of value of previous "technologies". In true enterprise fashion they have now found a new shiny marketing opportunity and only recently put the finishing touches on the sales presentations ;)
Yes, preferably on top of IBM Cloud.

http://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/swift/
AFAIK, Swift runs on Ubuntu, I think they've ported a large part of the Foundation framework to Swift.

On Windows, some people reported about using Swift under the new Bash for Windows (Windows Subsystem for Linux).
> To be fair, asking on SO isn't all that difficult. It just requires a little patience, to read and understand the guidelines, and to craft a high quality question.

This is what is troublesome. There are far too many questions with many impassioned comments that suggests they were closed and reopened multiple times. It seems the interpretation of rules is done too stringently and arbitrarily for most people's liking.

> I'm amused to see programmers.stackexchange get a positive call out, because it used to be the paragon of moderator intolerance. Perhaps that culture has changed for the better.

I had a nice run there as a participant compared to stack. Even as a lurker, I don't find that many questions meted out the stack treatment.
You shouldn't have to set up your own server to have secure communication. It should be the default for all users.
San Francisco's air quality is among the worst in the country, it's even worse than Pittsburgh, Pennyslvania.
That's a pretty niche issue though, Firefox is much faster web browsing and uses far less resources than Chrome.
Russia unveils supercomputer that can control robot army
I've been building a O365 add-in and using ui fabric. It looks like the documentation site I was using for reference has completely changed to focus on react components.
I should have specified that it wasnt an attempt to put down the language, as there are many, MANY caveats... only wanted to point out how writing it almost makes me feel unclean somehow hah
It runs fine on Ubuntu, but you might need umake to install it, or compile from source if still using 14.04 LTS.

The GCC ABI 5.0 breakage doesn't play well with Swift source code, when using their own binaries.
Until you start usings database-specific types. JSONB, hstore, etc :) Django isn't really the limiting factor.
In light of his comment on the Sun encompassing the Earth, interplanetary travel isn't going to cut it. We've got to CRISPR-ize ourselves with tardigrade genes for radiation protection and with lobster genes for indefinite lifespans so that we can travel to the stars.
IIRC there's a legal limit on the allowed capacity of a Li-ion battery in a device on an airplane, yes. That might be related.
How many people does that really describe?
Well saying you are not some form of Christian. Both an atheist and a Muslim would have no chance of being elected. Jewish seems to be generally okay. Not sure on Buddhist or other eastern religions.
As others have said, the first objective of stackoverflow was to destroy expertexchange, which it has succeeded admirably at. Finding answers through search engines is now far easier.

I've posted very rarely on the software stackexchange, but I've been very active on the electronics stackexchange to the extent that I'm in the top 2% and rank #28. It has very aggressive moderation of 'bad' questions, and I sometimes wish there was somewhere chattier and less fussy we could gently steer the less well formed questions to. It does feel bad when someone asks a question and gets the door slammed in their face. But on the other hand there are a lot of repetitive 'bad' questions from people who've not yet understood what a resistor is.

Remember it's been gamified, so we might as well treat it as a game. Consider the motivation of the question-answerers.

(I also opportunistically karma-snipe the "hot network questions", so I have 1.4k rep on math.stackexchange from only two answers)
Aws cost optimisation with/across latency comprise
So... what's the "elevator pitch" for Swift?

It has anything interesting over Elixir or Go (well, go's feature is "lack of feature" but you know what I mean) or Scala or Kotlin?

I know that iOS and MacOS desperately needed a modern language, and great for them that they have it now, but does the rest of the world need it?
I cannot take this seriously. Even minor versions of Swift have breaking language changes and depredations. That tells me precisely it is too early for the enterprise.
Given the state of taxis in Brooklyn, a two year old with a tricycle is probably bigger than taxis.
I'm not questioning having property taxes. I'm questioning a proposal based on the idea that any capital gains from real estate should be shared with society. Right now, most people pay zero tax on their primary homehold capital gains.
Great project! If you could look into making ARM/raspbian build available I would be superhappy..
Hilarious that IBM still thinks of the enterprise as the arbiter of quality. Consumer is now setting the defacto standards, including on things like information security.

IBM's days of having a voice in that conversation are probably more limited than they realize.
What language do you prefer over Swift? I'm curious.
Even if you didn't know how to fix that car or washing machine, there was a good chance someone in or close to your family - your uncle, your son's girlfriend, etc. - could do that for you. Many of such people started repair shops that could fix pretty much any device of a given category. This secondary repair market is what's disappearing thanks to stuff being less serviceable and more disposable.
That's part of the design, click on Close in the upper-left corner then use the site menu to see it in action.
We Have Never Been Closer to World War 3 Than Now
For this story, I disagree. Changing the title to be more 'clinical' seems incongruous with the life and death themes the essay addresses. On a more general level, I am wary of 'unwritten' rules in detail due to their propensity to segregate outsiders from insiders. [1]

For me, the original title follows directly from the high level guideline of 'intellectually interesting' because it turns the normal meaning of 'please share' on it's head. By which I mean that 'please share' normally refers to the requester's content in the message and here it refers to remote content created by others.

[1] edit: Considering the Hacker News member who submitted the title may say something about unwritten rules.
The article mentions IBM's web framework:

https://developer.ibm.com/swift/kitura/

Has this one gained the most traction?
Sorry, I fail to see that. Works for me works great for me ninety percent of the time.
You can keep looking, it doesn't exists!
"Enterprise" uses nodejs just fine... probably this is what gave IBM the idea to even try :)
In what sense? I’m using Chrome Beta on Android, and I don’t recall being prompted to log in. Perhaps there was such a prompt during initial setup, but it has never tried to log me in quietly since.
> It seems every problem you have is already answered in like 2010

And that is often a problem, because in 2016 the answer has changed. ;)
I'm by no means an entrepreneur but I'd like to keep trying to be one.

Your imposter syndrome is showing! Designing and building a tool like this and selling it qualifies you as an entrepreneur.

Get a low-cost marketing channel going (or improve your margins to make other marketing options feasible) and see how far you can run with this.

Thanks for the interesting read.
This strikes me as a classic place to consider whether this link is a correlation or a causation. It's really easy for me to imagine that diets likely to produce a great deal of body fat also produce a home for particular sorts of gut bacteria.

It's less obvious, but it's also not such a stretch to imagine mechanisms for positive feedback, in which some of these bacteria reinforce chemical signals that lead to consumption of more of the food they thrive on.
The closer you are to actual research, the less helpful anything in print or online will be in answering your question.

SO is for questions that have known solutions or quickly knowable solutions.

Sounds like you're actually looking for a collaboration tool.
If you do the math, it can be seen that a large enough software company, with a strong enough anti-recycling ("upgrade") program, could be responsible for more toxic chemicals being wasted compared to the chemcal waste from companies like Dow and DuPont.
another option is to host your blog on a decentralised network like IPFS. Though a massive DDoS would annoy people who use it, it's unlikely it would bring it down.

Better security models for internet connected devices is ultimately needed so people can't build these kind of botnets in the first place.
There is. It is called Postmates.
"My question maybe hurt's so bad, since your have thrown everything you got at me, otherthan giving simple answer.
Your military justice system is fucking worse than terrorist."

I apologize -- I suspected and but didn't fully realize I was dealing with someone who was unhinged.

I have thrown basically nothing at you, and your ridiculous defensiveness here is suspect.

And to call the Military Justice worse than terrorist [sic] exposes you as non-English.

Your rabid bias against America is evident, your overwillingness to use rather petty and ignorant hyperbole is evident, and when someone dares not agree with you, you become unhinged and defensive and quite nasty.

Have a good day, Hater, but know that your immature nonsense does nothing but embarrass yourself.

P.S. will you watch a video of ISIS beheading people as they scream and blood squirts? Will you watch ISIS dropping 24 children into a vat of acid where they scream for HOURS? Your knowledge of military justice and terrorism makes me wonder your allegiance. One would have to support ISIS to find the acid-torture of children to be better than solitary confinement.
Here's the thing - the more disposable and non-serviceable the stuff becomes, the less likely it is you'll find someone to pay that $50 - instead of going to the repair shop down the street, you have to find the Licensed Repair Shop of the vendor, pay $200 and hope it'll be done before next month. And a new bike will cost you $199 anyway.
I see a bunch of stuff in their github (https://github.com/ibm-swift), but not the language implementation itself. Does anyone know what its license is?
I couldn't easily find statistics but I do know of four people first hand.

One after a coma, one after a horrendous decision to have a liquid only diet, and two after eating something very dodgy whilst climbing.

Lets be honest, it isn't the procedure I would run to tell people that I have had.
One reason for post-scarcity to not exist is that the more resources we have, the more we will reproduce which will end up in consuming more and more resources. It degrades the ecosystem and brings down the quality of living for everyone involved.

This is pretty much what is happening around us. As we get hold of better resources, we reproduce more to make it impossible to have everything for everyone.

Again, we will have to re-discover the definition of scarcity because we have too many people unhappy with the system.
> Just because an organization is 'not profitable' does not mean they are not efficient, and that there aren't stake holders raking it in.

Hence my linking to the financials so you can see who is "raking it in".
Now that you mention it, I've noticed that. The pages seem to load quickly enough, but take a while to appear. I might be some funky client-side JS rendering "stuff". It reminds me of how a lot of material design web-component/apps take forever to change after you "load" or "click" (for example).
Aka small gate
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