skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows is quite sufferable for JS development: Node and NPM work fine for most things using cygwin as my preference to run it, can use Atom as an editor, git works fine etc.

For other languages like Haskell say its a no-no you really have to do it in Linux (or Mac). So I run a VM in that case.
It's not a conspiracy, it's a prospiracy -- http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=67 The prestige media -- NY Times, Vox, NPR -- all see themselves as being on the same team. They seem themselves as having a public responsibility to guide America toward a better, more progressive future, and to limit the errors of the retrograde, perhaps bigoted middle American. Thus, they all slant their coverage to fit that narrative and worldview. And if members fail to fit the narrative, if they say, "illegal immigrants" instead of "undocumented immigrants", they catch a lot of flak from their fellow teammates, they risk getting ostracized, and so over time everyone falls in line with a certain consensus.
Well done. Great idea and execution!

Have you giving any thought of using a different platform? I like the idea of writing a chat bot myself that would work iOS built in Messages but I can't seem to think of a way around it short of using SMS and Twillo which would start to get expensive. Anybody have any suggestions?
Is this the type of furniture we'll all be using in the future?
That was a great read. Illustrated the problems really well. I thought the antibiotic thing was hilarious. Still need more condensed posts to drop on anyone skeptical about the SJW effect happening where lines are drawn in prejudicial ways with words that are used as weapons. Many people might not go through such a long piece.
haha this will hopefully do the trick! If it doesn't, let me know how it could be better! :)
Nice, would be cool if clicking on the chord would play it
But without any sensible regulation or assignment of property rights to fly commercial drones, advertising drones could be buzzing around everywhere!

To limit the ability of stores to put signs wherever they want, the are both signage/billboard regulations. If a store can't secure a billboard at a desirable intersection, they sometimes pay to put a person with a sign there. That loophole is only acceptable because there is a cost of the employee that creates a natural cap on the use of unregulated signage.

With the advent of drones, the cost of will fall dramatically and the expected result is an exponential proliferation of such drone signs. Yes, current battery technology is woefully incapable of this currently and autonomous technology isn't there yet, but as soon as the drones can be 100% autonomous and can recharge themselves on charges on the roof of a nearby building, then it simply becomes a capital cost of the drones. I think at that point is won't be simply for publicity stunts anymore. Let's hope this isn't the future we find ourselves in.
My lay understanding is that any contract clause that a reasonable person would find unreasonable is by default not valid.

How would anyone enforce such a clause? Contract law isn't criminal law -the state nor federal prosecutor isn't going to come after you- so the aggrevied party would have to sue the other. Which wouldn't even make it to court for such an overreaching clause.

Edit: having said that, it seems unlikely a reasonable person could write that clause, so I'm not sure how such a thing could come about.
Thus turning the original wiki into something non-editable? If it can't be maintained as a wiki, the experiment is already over, right? Ward Cunningham isn't under any obligation to provide static archives, and these already exist elsewhere.

Edit: turns out this was already the case. What I really want to say is that we should respect Ward Cunningham's choices in maintaining the site how he wants, in whatever way works for him.
I should read some of the related papers first, but would some of these techniques potentially be useful for LC-MS/MS proteomic data?

I'll probably you with more specific questions
Very interesting, I think we need a git for data. What is the performance of diffs and merges? What data size does it become too slow?
One definition of a problem is that whenever there is a gap between where you are and where you want to be and you don't know how to cross that gap, you have a problem. Programming allows to cross many gaps regardless of importance, and since throwing something across the room into a bin can bring a weird satisfaction to humans you can see how programming can bring them satisfaction.

For example:

I was on a website that allowed people to comment. Their emails were displayed. It had about a 1000 pages. It was a nice exercise to download all the pages and extract the email addresses. Now I have 709 unique email addresses of people using an accounting software from a specific country.

Another example was that I was looking up a job on LinkedIn (being unskilled does that to you) and the Apply button disappeared. I started writing something that requested the page every minute and looked for a specific string that would suggest the job was available again. Then friends called me to go out and I wanted to use my laptop's SIM card to send me an SMS when this happens.

Yet another example is my frustration that in my country where most people have prepaid phones, you can send airtime/credit to a subscriber only if you are both with the same carrier, do I started writing a sort of impedance matcher.

I'm not a "programmer" but I mainly do that because it's interesting. I've never "shipped" anything or made a living from it but I try things (APIs, OAuth2, Twilio, GAE, Docker, etc) just to have an idea how they work and not to be overwhelmed when/if I have to build a system involving the different pieces.
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Open-source tech like this is nice. This could be used to build a distributed document editing application, for example. Or any application where you want to spin off multiple instances and reconcile the data later.

EDIT: At least one team is investigating layering Noms on top of IPFS [1]. I guess the idea would be to construct something similar to GitTorrent [2]; layering various version-controlled datastores on various p2p protocols could result in several viable architectures.

[1] https://github.com/attic-labs/noms/issues/2123#issuecomment-...

[2] https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent
It hasn't been editable for a long while now
Sam's does this in the US, too.
See also http://www.neural-symbolic.org/
Survey: 69% of Americans Have Less Than $1,000 in Savings
I did four floors of SEG with a 360 video camera: https://youtu.be/DIwvGxjEKaE?list=PLzGeUG3dR0tKtO0KVkANv4D2V...
It should at least qualify the domain(s) with which the work pertains to.

Like I can't mow the lawn for the little old lady next door. Or take my friends kids to school.
I thought that too initially but now am starting to wonder. Some of the emails sound like they were written by cartoon villains and if orca100 is a crank, it's crank that sounds like they have been put up to this, cranks are normally on the defensive and expository but this just sounds like a report with the occasional personal opinion thrown in.

I suspect that political groups send out requests to see the perspective of different factions and this may be what this is.
I wonder if Unicode, Dammit would be helpful.

https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#unico...
I used to work as a consultant to a subsidiary of one of the largest software security firms. The security hole exploited by the hackers was essentially closed by Windows 7 embedded in 2010. Target was running Windows XPe (embedded).

I had read the Bloomberg article when it came out with some interest, because the reason Target was hacked was simply because they did not upgrade the POS OS as recommended and it was for this reason that Target was hacked.

"Both Home Depot and Target Corp. (TGT) -- whose registers were compromised last December -- appear to have fallen victim to a decade-old exploit of Windows XPe.

What's more, these losses -- which may total as many as 100 million customer credit and debit card numbers -- could have likely been prevented by simply paying to upgrade to a more modern Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) operating system, such as Windows 7 for Embedded Systems." [1]

Each version of Windows has security upgrades (sometimes using new features of Intel CPU hardware) that previous versions of Windows don't implement, even with security updates.

Many of these security hacks happen because firms that use computers refuse to pay for proper security software, perform recommended upgrades and to hire very competent people to work with their systems. Of course, the systems can still be hacked, but there are easier systems to exploit and the attacks can be caught earlier and with limited consequences.

[1] http://www.dailytech.com/Appalling+Negligence+DecadeOld+Wind...
If by "Git for data" you mean accumulate-only (or append-only), immutable data stores... There are already many existing solutions. It's always good to see alternatives, though!
I find this very interesting. As a related topic, would it be possible to use deep learning to classify samples based on the quantities of pre-identified chemicals? If so, how would this work roughly? Does anybody have any ideas? Traditionally people use linear discriminant analysis, PCA, PLS, etc. I can't really wrap my head around the use of multiple neutral network layers for such problems.
Analytic Personality Disorders (APD)
How is this different to software engineers meeting up?

Software engineers getting together to talk about which programming language is best, what software to use, etc..
A couchbase killer.
Thank you!! :D

I actually started out on SMS with Twilio! I switched to Facebook Messenger simply because it was starting to get expensive and I really started to miss the niceties of using a proper chat platform: thing like predictable message delivery, getting someone's first name without asking, and easy/free image embedding.

I'm going to try and do Google Hangouts and Slack next - unless someone has other good ideas for platforms to support?
Unlikely. At least in Gitlab's case. Why would they have reinstated it?
Reading Psycho-cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz.
This is a valid point. Both the source code and the CFG can hide bugs pretty easily.

I would argue that reading source code is much easier, though. For example, if you are auditing code written in a memory-safe language, you don't need to look for memory corruption bugs. You also have an audit trail for all source code changes.
I found this a very interesting paper. But given, 722 impacts over 7 years with a median sized 25 meter diameter crater, that is about 490 m^2 getting hit every 11 days.
If such impacts were perfectly randomly distributed that is like 20K years before you have hit everywhere on the planet. You still have a much better shot at getting hit by an natural disaster that destroys your Earth base than this.

That said, it does mean you should keep watch for incoming impacts. Even a couple of kilograms of Chondrite coming in at 27,000 miles an hour is going to leave a mark on your fancy moon base. Subterranean safe rooms and auto sealing atmosphere preservation doors are going to be required equipment.
It's in the colon, which implies a causation, an explication or something similar. Here it means, CLS is a great figure of French philosophy, therefore a figure of the past.
But MCTS works in AlphaGo because the 'world' can be fully represented by a tiny state vector which fits a billion times into primary memory these days. The real difficultly of real world problems is the ill-defined, mutable, high-dimensional and partially observable state space.
What's your comprehensive alternative then? Attempt to contact the owners? And where that has proven fruitless? Tell no-one?

At least now I can bring this list to the awareness of tech-savvy friends who might now have an opportunity to talk to their friends and family and so on.
So.. CRDTs?
Ha, you're right. I forgot about that, but I even read the first book in the series about the butlerian jihad that Frank Herbert's son wrote. I should finish that series... So the thesis was "machines will enslave us but drugs and religion will set us free"? Because, of course, all fiction should reduce to a single sentence thesis, otherwise all those words would be a waste...
Like wyager said, she takes a term that usually applies to real, undeniable harm then applies it without evidence of equivalence to something controversial. She uses the same word, though. This is so reducing (controversial thing here) is equivalent to reducing "abuse." This is to setup the passive-aggressive (aka SJW) defense where anyone arguing against the controversial claim must also be arguing for "abuse." They can then side-track the discussion by accusing those that disagree of not caring about stopping "abuse" or being an abuse "apologist." You can insert any negative claim related to social justice into that construct and the setup still works on many readers regardless of logical claims of their opponent.

It's a rhetorical device that relies on readers being fooled into the equivalence of what practice the sophist wants to go away and some form of harm. There's no equivalence, though. It's just rhetoric to obscure their actual argument that's probably indefensible or just weaker to rational people. The author of the counterpoint shows that nicely by illustrating what the actual critiques were with evidence, showing the author that was griping had a personal stake in that evidence not coming out, and was just using sophistry to preserve preferred status quo and her career.

Do you understand the technique now? I can provide more links to disinformation tactics in general or the ones preferred by manufactured-harm subset commonly called SJW's if you need.
So if I didn't have to pay the tax, I'd still have to pay in increased costs for goods. Either way it's costing me.
That was not what I was inferring, I was just geniously interested in counterpoints.
This is a cool idea! I'll start using Jumper.
For a good analysis of the problems of living with AIs, read the web comic Freefall.[1] This long-running comic has addressed most of the moral issues over the last two decades. Of course, that's about 3000 comics to go through.

[1] http://freefall.purrsia.com/
The 1/r thing is just emergent from it being a 2d space, since the surface area of a 2d ball goes as 'r', a divergenceless field goes as 1/r (since the flux through any contour around the particle ought to be constant). In 3d this would correspond to 1/r^2.

The hairy ball theorem is an interesting point. Maybe to equate particles with vortices we have to work in 4d spacetime, since that theorem only applies to even-dimensional spheres?
Adam Leventhal (DTrace, OpenZFS) took a look at building a FUSE filesystem on Noms using Go.

http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2016/08/09/nomsfs/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12255450
"Next, economics?"

I vote for that field's BS to be thoroughly dismantled next. Like psychology, they often stray too far from the real world almost as if the goal is just citations, funding, and academic prestige. Common in general in academia but the connection to reality is thinner with a lot of economics. The amount that try to understand what's going on in U.S. economy without factoring in bribes to politicians and self-forming cartels in oligopolies might be a starting point for the filter. The first thing anyone should think of about a government subsidy, law, or regulation is, "Did someone pay for it? And how would that affect things in local and global sense?"

Same with media reporting. "In todays news, this chemical company and these specific drug companies paid this amount of bribe money to the following Congressmen for the following law to be passed drastically reducing what they have to pay you if they maim you for life, pay your family if they kill you, or pay your town if they mess a whole town up."

A little reality check might change both purchasing and voting behaviors. It's gotta be presented in the model people are reading or hearing. If the effect exists & is not in model, then that's just politically or scientifically dishonest. Often for a reason. ;)
One essential thing about k/q is its speed. When you use javascript, you lose everything.
Same here. I've been using Simple less and Ally more. It's nice to have a checking and a savings account at the same bank (instant transfers). Check books are also convenient.
I was curious what you get from Github/Gitlab that you can't get from a simple git setup on a VPS, I was not trying to say you're wasting money or that my setup is better, there's no need to be aggressive. All I ever needed was `git init --bare` and giving out the credentials for the project members, which for me is quicker than setting things up on Github.
Meet Fancy Bear: the Russian group accused of hacking the US election
I wasn't aware of that, thanks for the clarification.
Which ones are you thinking of?

The nice thing about git is that it doesn't really require much of the server. I run my own "git hosting" with linode, apt-get, and ssh.

Most of the solutions for immutable big data don't have that level of convenience, as far as I know. Anything which requires a lot of sysadmin and ops work will eventually become a commercial cloud service... git on the other hand is useful by itself, and good companies can obviously be built on top of it as well.
I know some H&A guys who would probably find that interesting.
Yes I'll give you that

I have essentially written four mini-essays exploring the topic today in attempts to reply to your message. I'll suffice with:

"All UI's are communicators of quantitative information at heart. And many are shit"
Personally I think the author is celebrating a recent successful tenure defense.
Many/most PHP platforms these days do claim to be either MVC or Rails-based or both. CakePHP is not a bad example there. There are however a few other very large projects whose take on MVC is lacking to some degree. Drupal is not bad, Joomla is worse, and of WordPress the less said the better. Note also that those projects are listed in order of increasing popularity.

Modern PHP frameworks and tools are good, perhaps even excellent. Composer and the PSR-# efforts have spurred a renaissance in code quality and interoperability, and PHP7 brings some truly impressive speed improvements. For those of us who aren't stuck supporting legacy code, that is. One of these days I will be working with a language whose syntax I enjoy, but until then the language that puts the "sin" in "syntax" will (for better or worse) keep getting the job done.
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> (a) Previously unknown TOR endpoints get found out because they invariably are the source of vandalism and/or spam.

The English Wikipedia uses the MediaWiki TorBlock extension to automatically block Tor exits from editing, it has since June 2008, and before then they were mostly all automatically blocked by various bots so I don't understand how vandalism would be happening from them. Also, the Tor Project publishes a DNSBL and makes relays with the exit flag available through the ONIONOO API (which TorBlock uses). There are no "unknown endpoints", they are all publicly known.

> I have never seen a good edit from a TOR endpoint. Ever.

This is likely true since they are all automatically blocked before they can edit.

> (c) I have never seen accounts created via TOR or that edited through TOR that weren't demonstrably block evasion, vandalism or (most often) spamming.

You can't create accounts via Tor or edit while logged in via Tor -- not even Administrators can (although I think you can get a special exemption by jumping through enough hoops).
For an intro interpreter/"how do I use K", using Javascript seems like a big win.
No. My suggestion would be to find one of the groups already working in this field, get involved with them, and learn the ropes first, before starting your own group.

You have no activism experience. You likely have no organization experience in activism. It reads like your economics training focused on the needs of capital, and not of labor. What do you know of labor history in the US? What are the other groups working on this topc? Eg, I see the AFL-CIO is against on-call scheduling, and http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-on-call-scheduling-201... from 2016 says:

> A coalition of advocates launched a national campaign Tuesday to press large retailers, restaurant chains and other companies to end on-call and last-minute scheduling, which allows companies to assign shifts to workers with only a few hours' notice.

How aligned are you with their positions, what are your differences, and why should your group get funding instead of theirs?

That NYT article from 3 years ago says "Legislators and activists are now promoting proposals and laws to mitigate the scheduling problems", and concerns California. Have those laws gone into place? Do you think the right solution is to improve the laws? Or better enforcement of the laws already present?

Is on call scheduling your only focus? Or primary focus? How does it tie in with wage theft, calls to raise the minimum wage, and other labor issues?

Suppose someone says that on-call scheduling promotes job growth. What principles do you use to judge the balance between the desires of those who control capital and those who labor, and decide we should do something which might lead to less job growth but a better home life?
Sexy Error Messages arrive in Dotty (new Scala compiler)
Given my savings account pays 0.01%, and a 30 day CD from my bank pays .75%, and the average dividend yield of the S&P 500 ETFs (like blackrock's IVV) net-of-fees is 2%, is it all surprising that nobody uses Savings Accounts anymore? Seems like rational behavior to me.
One of the most annoying things about physical fitness is you can't really outsource it. In the end, you have to do the work, with a trainer or whatever. There's just no way around it short of perhaps steroids speeding things up.

For cardio, the most tolerable way I've found to do it everyday is to get a heart rate monitor, get a machine that can adjust difficulty based on a target heart rate and then do that for 30 minutes with headphones and a good podcast or audiobook on. I try to ignore everything but the podcast. Things seem to work OK that way.
Similar study from the UK "Millions have less than £100 in savings" http://www.bbc.com/news/business-37504449
I read that paragraph a dozen times before writing my comment. Still not 100% certain that the analysis saw the newfound craters, or calculated that they existed based on visual data (such as splotches). I'm leaning 80/20 to the fact that they visually identified the 222 craters, but I wouldn't give 20:1 odds on it.
The Curta mechanical calculator
Maybe you can take a look of an api gateway like apiman which can leverage the auth & authz to keycloak, or perhaps kong may be the one.
DDos-es, defacings, Twitter-bragging, (not to mention the Olympic doping hacks) and no real evidence they "are burning through zero days" makes me think these guys are doing this for the lulz not the state. Anyone else get the sense these are Russian AntiSec types?
A rare event is still rare, even if it happens 1.3x as often.
>so tired of that shit
>ugh, why am i cuck
>screw this person's points, he thinks I am a cuck therefore his points are invalid
>ugh pol makes me resent myself

ok big boi
very interesting. Do you have a link to documentation? I'd like to take a look before I try it out.
WebTorrent Trackers Memory Usage Improved 16x
Reliable User Datagram Protocol
If stack overflow users hate newbie questions they should add a filter option to ignor questions with users under 100 points.
Implementing a Tor relay from scratch in golang (2015)