skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to take this opportunity to shamelessly self-promote my own attempt at creating an entirely new calendar system, inspired by Paul Graham's Maker/Manager Schedule essay.

It's called Maker Time, and the current Maker Time is 35. Here is it's pitch:

Your clock has it backwards.

* Time is infinite, but our time on earth is not.

* Clocks should count down, not up.

* Time keeping should be based on meaningful celestial events like the year (one earth rotation around the sun) and the day (one rotation of the earth)

* Each unit of time should be based on a viable period of work for makers.

* Maker Time is reset on January 1st each year. The year is divided into 1095 blocks (1098 in leap year). Every 8 hours the count decreases by one.

Here is a browser-based Maker Time clock:

http://willholloway.net/makertime.html

Here is a github repo for a simple Maker Time API Flask server and the algo for calculating the current Maker Time if one wants to implement it. I still hope it catches on.

https://github.com/willholloway/makertime
Isn't the contrast with "toy benchmark" performance rather than with "actual real-world performance" ?

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/why-measure-toy-benc...
As the saying goes, "vote early, vote often."
Calendars are all kinds of crazy. But can you imagine the pain we would have if the French Revolutionary decimal clock had actually taken hold?

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

In some countries, a second would be 1/86400 of a day. In others, it would be 1/100000. Awesome potential for insane bugs!
I can assure you, you are not too late, at least if you are living in the Netherlands. :-)

What you do need is a passion or interest in this field. Age and/or work experience in other fields brings allot of advantages towards employees, something every 'totally new to working' all have yet to find out.

Frontend nowadays is very awesome, it is my day to day job as well (31 yr old), and I really enjoy it.
You can close the socket without dropping existing connections.
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That is weird to see Belgium in there in 1582. That's the date the territories covered by present day country switched over ? There must be some interesting edge cases there.
What brand/model is your generic hybrid?
Python can self host. I've heard great things about CherryPy which is actually used to deploy things like Flask, even though CherryPy can work by itself.
Select *
from fb_users
join wp_users
on wp_users.id = fb_users.phone_number

A really basic query that will give you all the fb users who have listed their phone number.

Also i just realized while typing this, i think fb started allowing logging in using your phone number around the time they bought whatsapp. So even the profiles that didn't give their phone number to fb, they could get it via this logging system. ( I guess i was a victim of that)
No. In fact, a guy on my team is a 45/46 year old guy who had been in management his whole life while dabbling with programming and decided to switch careers to being a front-end dev. He's certainly not the best dev we have, but he also shoulders a lot of managerial weight so that we don't have to and I enjoy having him on the team.
> The question could be: what could Apple do to re-energize this ecosystem and take it to its next level?

Maybe you are asking the wrong question. Apple Computer is gone (2007). Maybe they don't want to re-energize their computer company roots. That would be looking backwards and Apple as a company doesn't look backwards very often (their recent book was a strange departure).

Maybe Apple's future is entirely in the consumer products realm - watch, iPhone, and iPad. Doesn't Cook use an iPad Pro as his primary computer?
Okay, that makes sense, thanks.
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According to notebookcheck it is second to MacBook only http://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-XPS-13-9360-QHD-i5-7200U-N...
This is a bit anachronistic, since Canada in 1752 was still part of France, depending on how you see it (Acadia had been in British hands since 1710). I also wonder what political entities are counted for Germany.
The 17" MBP is such a beautiful and usable machine. I've been using a rMBP from 2012 until recently, but when Apple announced the new 2016 MBP I went and got a mint maxed out late 2011 17" instead. Just to give it a try really. I now love everything about it (especially the keyboard and the screen). Serviceability and the fact that you can run a 4TB RAID 0 or a 2TB RAID 1 is a huge bonus as well.

Regardless of the justifications Apple may have to continue on their current path, it personally (and very subjectively) makes me sad. They used to be a tent pole in my digital life, but now I feel we've lost touch with each other...
I'd guess the OP means restoring configs and the fact that Jenkins setups tend to turn into snowflake servers. Here are some issues:

- State is stored on the filesystem across a bunch of XML files, rather than in a DB.

- Configuration of Jenkins itself happens primarily from the UI rather than in config files. This makes it very difficult to provision automatically.

- No HA story. Or there is a workaround and it relies on NFS. Which is basically the same as no HA story. For a piece of critical infrastructure this is very bad.

- Startup time is horrendous. If you build an AMI and put it in an autoscaling group to attempt to get some vague approximation of HA, boot times often tend to be so long that you need to increase your warmup health check a ton so the autoscaling group doesn't kill the server in an infinite loop.

Sure, you can ssh into your server and apt-get install it, but really you should be writing automation and not doing setups by hand.

So while it's nice to see some effort focused on the UI, since Jenkins relies on it almost exclusively, there are a lot of other fundamental problems.

I always try to use anything other than Jenkins unless forced to.
Also CE->SWE here, if you are criticising these issues in the software world you will hate being a civil engineer. While they are in some corners of software development, it's basically all there is in civil engineering.

Civil engineering is already figured out. In the first world, what you are supposed to do for most situations is not only almost entirely mapped out but is actual regulations. That's great for society, but there is just no stimulation for CEs. In the first world, being a civil engineer is mostly about knowing and keeping up with the the rules (which is a feat in itself considering how many organizations are involved and how scattered the information is), applying them, sending drafts to clients/regulators/etc. and waiting for weeks for responses.
But then you need to manage a server and ensure that the time is running accurately. Why add such a large level of responsibility for little to no gain?
Interesting idea. Do people not find stressful a clock counting down on them constantly? I've always been stressed out by the idea of time "running out" in various contexts (games, tests in school). So much so that it hinders my performance.
Why the 5-31 in Latin ?
What would we gain by switching?
I think you forgot to include the link to the repo, but I'm still a little confused - so, repo time counts Years up, but Blocks down? And if so, why do years start in 1981? And if it's a calendar, why break it up by a finer increment than a day?
You can also look at Zareason[1]. I have been interested, but my 2015 MBP still gets things done. I did install Lubuntu on my old 2009 MBP. Runs well, but I have yet to get the keyboard mappings right and a USB mouse makes things easier. I want to minimize GUI bling and use my CPU cycles for number (and image) crunching...

[1] https://zareason.com/shop/Laptops/
Time to wait five weeks until it's "repaired", just to have it randomly freeze again all the time.
I would say the absolute opposite.

Google has grown to be incredibly targeted. For instance , when you search "pizzeria" or "gym", it will return the shops which are close to your current location.

This is a big improvement for SMB owners. They're way easier to find for the local population.
Oh wow. I have never used glusterfs on GCE - how difficult was it to set up and manage it ?

What about ceph ?
Thinkpad T range is also right about this: a thick, powerful, utilitarian machine.
> it being fined up to one percent of its annual turnover

Now they're fines we should be proud of. Not like the pathetic smack-on-the-wrist fines they've dished out to banks and Google that they can earn back in milliseconds.
If you are interested in thought experiments, this book does a great job of providing you "tools for thinking". The book is called intuition pumps and other tools for thinking by Daniel Dennett.

https://www.amazon.com/Intuition-Pumps-Other-Tools-Thinking/...
At that time, the current territories of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg were part of the Spanish Netherlands. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Netherlands)
Can you identify specifically the critical features of OS X that aren't replicable with a reasonable amount of effort on other systems? I've spent considerable time using all 3 major OSes as daily drivers and while each platform has perks, I've never felt a strong commitment to OS X for daily use. I'm curious what many people feel is so crucial about it that they'd consider switching to the massively unstable Hackintosh over a customized Windows or Linux installation (or some hybrid of the two, which is what I run).
Your Lead Generation Goals Are Dead
Oh wow interesting. Will definitely give it a shot then. Thanks again!
I usually read (or listen to) The Economist linearly, so interesting titles make sense when I don't need random access.

But these cute titles don't really work on the internet, where most people stumble upon Economist articles from a different context.
Not really, Microsoft has build some good and affordable machines. Had it been only to Mac, computers would wouldn't have reached the mass market. Same with iPhones.
They only want money for providing the build. The source code and build scripts are free/libre.

From the website:

How do I install Conversations?

Conversations is entirely open source and licensed under GPLv3. So if you are
a software developer, you can check out the sources from GitHub and use gradle
to build your APK file.

The more convenient way — which not only gives you automatic updates but also
supports the further development of Conversations — is to buy the App in the
Google Play Store.

Buying the App from the Play Store will also give you access to our beta test.
That's possible with hygienic macros. It's not possible with declarative macros, especially those that don't allow explicit violation of hygiene. syntax-rules is declarative hygienic. However, syntax-case and sc-macro-transformer are imperative hygienic. They're capable of what your examples describe.
Needs a (2015) in the title.
Electrical engineering is far more advanced technologically than compressed gas thermodynamics and the gap continues to widen.

You can make a very efficient turbine jet that runs at one pressure and one power output at very high expense and ongoing maintenance of moving parts. But it won't run or only run as dismal efficiency at half pressure or quarter pressure.

Meanwhile you can very efficiently move electrical watts around in various formats, cheaply, and scalably, and no moving parts.

As an example of what I'm talking about, liquid fuel has insane amounts of energy stored in it and only recently can we make turbines efficient enough to keep spinning while having fuel poured into them, only at certain constrained power outputs. Meanwhile its very easy with modern technology to run an electric motor from 0.1% to 100% speed using electronic speed control VFDs. You might have trouble cooling it but you won't have trouble making it spin.
I always liked the simplicity of 28 days/month fixed calendar [0] - 13x28 = 364, with delta time as global holidays.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
And while this is getting more and more OT from the original article... if you enjoy puzzles, it's definitely worth it to go and try it. Me, my partner, and two friends (also a couple) had a really great time doing one. There was a 1hr time limit, and we solved it with about 2 minutes to spare.

I suspect that how much fun it is is going to be pretty specific to how well the room is put together; ours was great. The puzzles were tuned so that the difficulty progressed nicely; a couple quick wins, and then they got harder. It was a mix of searching (find the hidden key) and thinking (from these clues, figure out the combination for this lock). This results in a great mix of individual effort and collaborative problem solving.

Anyway, I'm rambling. Great fun with the right group of people and well-done puzzles.
Styling Your Website's Twitter Feed
World map of Air pollution – what's up w Egypt / the Sahara?
Stories about Stayups
Interesting that Slovenia and Yugoslavia are reported as separate countries (with suspiciously close switching dates). Technically, in 1919 neither country existed - what is now Slovenia was a constituent of Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, which was renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929.
Toronto business wins accolades for fast growth
I would hope that new terms would emerge, like dhour, dinute, and decond.
Because my Surface Pro 4 can run 3 1920x1200 monitors just fine (I'm partial to a -|- setup (dontjudgeme)). The dock really makes it, no question. My monitors stands stay bolted to the desk and everything's cabled together, but I'm personally not tethered.

Best of both worlds, to me at least. (Except for when I need to do something irresponsibly inefficient like run three VMs and full screen video at once... which will work, but not be great.)
I have an ASUS ROG laptop[0] which looks pretty sweet, but sort of reminds me to some degree to the MBP my girlfriend has, it's just black and red instead. If you want a total lookalike I think the Razer Blade[1] is pretty scarily close. You'd still spend quite a bit for anything from Razer though.

Edit:

[0] Asus ROG: https://www.asus.com/ROG-Republic-Of-Gamers/ROG-G501JW/

[1] Razer Blade: http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade

There were other laptops I've been shown from Razer that looked way too much like a 'sexy' Macbook Pro style. Of course Razer / ASUS ROG are gaming specific laptops, so the specs and the prices will be higher than most laptops.
Xournal on my x86 tablet running Ubuntu.

Love having the xournal files go to my personal server that I can browse through with my laptop or desktop later on, anywhere, anytime, without having to bring around binders and notebooks.

I also like that you can erase and move blocks of ink around.
TB2->FW + TB3->TB2 in theory. http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD464LL/A/apple-thunderbol...
Even without thinking about storing some context, replying to NTP request is probably similarly expensive as evaluating whether it should be rate limited.
Better still:

https://archive.is/qjCM7
Yoshuawuyts/choo: – sturdy front end framework
Pen and notepad. Way faster than farting about typing on a tocuh screen or desktop and drawing diagrams is orders of magnitude faster and easier.
Why Hash Tables Are Awesome
Someone please tell Apple than when you need to hold a press conference to convince people you're committed to your product, you're not committed to your product.

Wouldn't Apple have to do that first so that someone can then tell them?
How is that extra responsibility? Do you think Snapchat aren't already running servers?

And you don't care whether the time on the server is running accurately if you're just using it to generate tokens which are checked against the time on the server. It just needs to be consistent, it could be an arbitrary counter and would still work fine as long as it counted up reliably at consistent intervals.
Perhaps there are reasons that effect both toy benchmark and "real-world" performance ;-)
$5 to Elsevier for a PDF of this paper. That made me look up the organization, the federal-sounding National Bureau of Economic Research. They're not feds at all, they're some private think-tank. It seems to me that "economic" think tanks are always tools of the crypto-fascist imperialistic elite, if you'll pardon the hyperbole. So, I'm not surprised by (a) the $5 fee, and (b) the finding that incumbents generate most innovation, which is kind of false to my experience, at least, and maybe false to common wisdom.
I find parameters an unpleasant hack. I can't understand why RnRS doesn't just add dynamic variables back in (as lispm pointed out to me, they were in R0RS).
SGI is no more. They collapsed and sold their branding off and it traded hands a few times into virtual non-existence.
Programming models as an interactive Prezi presentation
After being an Apple "Loyalist" for over 15 years, I recently sold my rMBP and built a desktop (i7 4790k, GTX 1080, 16Gb DDR3 @ 2933Mhz). It was by far the best hardware decision I have ever made. Building the system was an absolute blast. Plus, I now have an extremely powerful PC with first class Linux support, tons of I/O ports, and no vendor lock in. The best part is it cost me about 1/3 of the price of a (maxed-out) Mac.

As for portability, I bought a ARM Chromebook and installed Xubuntu. I also have an iPad and iPhone. The three get the job done.

The toughest part of leaving OS X was knowing I was also leaving hobby OS X and iOS development. And homebrew. Man, I will miss homebrew.
I tested support for the Islamic (Hijri) calendar last year. The tabular variant can be handled at the locale level for the most part. The observed variant, on the other hand, is a bit of pain, as it depends on whether someone claims to have seen the new crescent moon (hilal).

Since a lot of people depend on Saudi observations, I imagine this will be influential. People grumble about Saudi Arabia, but they set the trends. They're kind of like California that way.
> How is filling out struct fields more complex

It's also about reproducing all the business logic provided by nginx, not just configuration. You can't pretend like net/http package gives you everything ngnix provides, that's a lie.
That won't help those who don't have resources to add support for a redundant API, and would rather leave MacOS without some features than do the former.

Example: https://www.winehq.org//wwn/404

> An open issue with anything newer than Direct3D9 is that wined3d still depends on legacy OpenGL 2 features and many drivers do not expose some features necessary for d3d10/11 in legacy contexts. With the MaxVersionGL key set wined3d will request a core context, but certain blitting corner cases are still broken. Mesa and the Nvidia binary driver mostly work. On MacOS you are most likely out of luck.
Sorry about GitLab.com having performance problems. Self hosted is indeed the only way to work around it in the short term. I hope you can set it up quickly. Please use the Omnibus packages that should install in a few minutes https://about.gitlab.com/installation/
Firebug has plug ins that I live by and aren't offered in the other browser tools. Firepath is one.
A group of students did build a TTL version of the Beta processor many years ago. Unfortunately, the web being what it is I can't find stuff about previous years of the 6.004 course so I can't give a proper reference.

Anyway, this project won't be the first 32 bit homebrew TTL processor. But it seems it will be able to claim to be the first still on the web :-(
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I had a manager at the IBM Global Services company I was contracting at breathing down my neck for even using Linux on small cheap one-off tasks on old hardware, as late as 1998. The argument was we should be using a licensed SCO Unix. Mind blowing.
Thanks. Yes, the US ethanol situation is a mess. It seems to have worked out better in Brazil.

There's been talk of using solar energy to help with oil sands extraction ( https://www.google.com/patents/US9039893 ), because oil sands have such low EROEI that the cost of fuel for melting them is a considerable part of the cost (as is finding the other chemical feedstock for diluent to produce "dilbit"). In some ways this is great - replacing a fossil source with a renewable - in others it's terrible, as it increases the transfer of carbon from the ground to the atmosphere.
It was that way for a long time for me. My computer would just get shut down for 5 minutes every day, until that dreaded "Update Ready" icon would show up. It's a bummer to hear they haven't fixed it, but it is less noticeable on a newer machine.
LinusTechTips on YouTube just uploaded a review of this machine and was extremely negative towards the keyboard.
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Thanks for working on such a great idea. I know that Firebug has saved me enormous amounts of time, and it was a big part of my tool chain for a long time.
Exactly the chain of adapters that beat was complaining of.
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I have tried Wire. It's very slick and loaded with features but I notice its a bit of a resource hog buy the potential is there.

I would love to see a unbiased comparative review with other messaging apps
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I am noob and 28 years old. I don't want to waste my time.
The rundown is very slow and gentle, and then it resets on January 1st. Right now there are 35 eight hour blocks of time left in 2016.

It's a numerical representation of the time left in a year. I like to think of it as 35 chances to make meaningful progress on important things in 2016.
Yes, but when your IT is incompetent they do the first half (block NTP to anywhere outside your network), then don't provide their own time source. Then try to blame users when they complain that their time is always wrong.
France might first have switched in 1582, but that ignores the bit in the middle where they decimalised time and reset the year counter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar
Where did Szilard write this? If you had a reference, I'd be grateful.

Research funding was easier a century ago: https://dirnagl.com/2014/01/14/otto-warburgs-research-grant/
I assumed that when the poster said replace the macbook, they were specifically talking about replacing it with the same thing. Obviously one can get a windows laptop with those specs for MUCH cheaper. Replacement in this context = replace with the same thing.

To wit:

"It would cost $150,000 to replace my Porsche!" You don't argue that one can buy a Nissan Leaf to replace it for $9k.
Yep, that's how I do it in Scheme myself, though I've called the construct `let-if` :)
If the GPU fails and you want to fix it this seems to be the only "permanent" solution: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-Macbook-Pro-A1297-820-2914-B-1...
Of course they can. Every city, county, state, individual and corporate entity in the US can go bankrupt. The federal government can't, technically, but it can default,
> I'm not sure why they're losing holidays - wouldn't those just follow under different Gregorian days, like Easter does?

If you're referring to the "extra 11 days", it doesn't have anything to do with losing holidays -- the solar calendar is simply 11 days longer than the lunar one. So in other words, it's a silly complaint.

Though I suppose if you earned a yearly salary on the lunar calendar and your employer gave you the same salary on the solar calendar, you'd be taking a 3% pay cut.
0. Leuchtturm (or Moleskine if I can't get a Leuchtturm) notebook, blank pages, the middle size.

1. vimwiki in a tmux session in an XMonad scratch buffer. Pandoc for occasional PDF output.

2. Some screenshot / screencast gif scripts around byzanz and scrot.