skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very serion, it's exactly the heart of the issue in France. The French countryside is huge (as compared to the urban area) and it's not a wild space, as, say, a big part of the US territory. It has always been cropped. You just can't stop. You have to find a way to keep people working and living in this area otherwise within a decade or two, France is a rainforest.

That means paying farmers with EU subsides.
Can you expand on how technical debt caused a two-week outage?
I'm partial to Emacs on Windows. Install a few extra GNU utilities and for the most part you won't even be able to tell you are on Windows. :) (It's really only a few: I just use aspell, diff, grep and find.)
Nice job taking the qualifying terms out of the quote.
Great article, but it should probably be marked 2002.

I love reading old stories about how the final frontier was (and is) being won.
Safe shell coding tip #10451: Variables containing directories always have to end in a slash, and paths may never be built using variables and slashes.
You are awesome for taking the time to explain. Thanks.
This article from 2011 actually tells the full story: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mrs-sherlock-holmes-ta...
Old, old news, but still funny IMHO:

http://arbroath.blogspot.it/2008/10/german-police-seek-speed...
No, but any Brexit discussion is always rife with huge denials and lies.

So when one of the first comments on a report of an actual, verifiable consequence is implying that "This has nothing to do with Brexit and is just lying about it to get clicks", then I think that shouldn't be allowed to just stand on it's own?
No, they are adware. Or "get monitored and profiled".
or require.ensure()
Pretty cool! Just to make sure: keras.js so far only supports inference/prediction, but not training (including autodiff, SGD, etc). Is that correct?
Why scientists should research emojis and emoticons
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typo: MashaBLE is a blog and media property nothing related with APIs
I figured one counter example was sufficient. Thanks for adding to the list
Your point is off the mark, propaganda works, it cost Hillary the election; that last minute FBI story swayed people and secured Trump as the winner despite the story being false.
I am so excited to see this happening with as much momentum and industry interest as it seems to have. For various reasons, the standards used by podcasts have largely remained static over the last decade. While this has meant a relatively stable platform for building interesting experiences, it has meant that certain things have been impossible without defining new, proprietary APIs.

Organizations like Podlove and MediaRSS have made serious efforts and R&D into improving the situation and addressing specific technical needs, but without significant industry buy-in, they've faced a bit of a chicken and egg problem. By getting many small and medium sized industry players to band together, I think Syndicated.Media represents a serious opportunity to create a critical mass which will drive the possibilities for user experience forward.

Disclosure: I co-founded RadioPublic, one of the companies listed as a partner.
Reflecting a bit more, I think that if I stayed away from IRC it would have been less weird. Now I'm just wondering how the web client works. Do I trust my encryption to JavaScript?
Time to make open source alternatives...

I've been wanting to do the same sort of thing for my house, but self-hosted.
How would you know? It's an unreliable piece of shit, at the best of times.
How RSA works, with examples
"The idea that ordinary language is expressively inadequate to account for mathematical (or even logical) reasoning became a recurring theme in the ensuing tradition of mathematical logic, so much so that the term ‘symbolic logic’ became synonymous with this tradition. Doing logic came to mean simply working with special symbols, not with ordinary words. In this respect, it is worth noting that the humanist authors had criticised the Latin of scholastic logicians precisely as ‘too artificial’, and even the Greek language that Aristotle relies on for syllogistic logic is regimented and removed from ordinary ways of speaking at the time. In a sense, perhaps a certain degree of ‘artificiality’ is at the core of logic throughout history, as it operates at levels of abstraction that are at odds with ordinary language usage."

True that, but were/are there alternatives? Difficult to say.
I wasn't under the impression that Zuckerberg had a sterling reputation among the ultra liberal crowd in California.
I guess it's the problem of unprecedented events, that there are no systems in place to deal with them, which leads to a bad fit as people try to make the event fit existing options.

At the moment, I just can't get past the fact that without leaving the single market, they can't address the core concerns of the winning side (at least as I see those core conerns, and here we're back to the problem that these were never really accurately articulated past political rhetoric), so this path seems inevitable.

I'd love to see political reform in the UK to get a more representative form of government, but I fear absent a major resurgance in the fortunes of the Lib Dems, that doesn't seem like a likely prospect...
I used Nylas for a while after it was first released and really liked it. Then one day out of the blue I started getting sync errors and it basically stopped working (I've talked to multiple people that this happened to). After spending a couple hours, removing, reconnecting, re-installing, all with no success I gave up and stopped using it (actually attempted using again a month or two later with the same results). Would've been great to have local sync from the beginning as I actually might've paid to use it if I wouldn't of encountered so many issues and lost time trying to fix them. Now it looks like everything that I used to use and like about the app is only included in the paid version, and there's no way I'm going to pay just to see if they fixed the issues.
Centering longform text is a bit of a UX no-no.
Engineers to build software using Electron cost money.
The idea should be that you don't have to reinvent how to authenticate users (client developer and end user), apply different quotas, charge money, detect abuse, log any of that, nor a number of other things that are common to all APIs.

Not sure how much of that does Amazon accomplish, nor to what success.
> suddenly it's become easy and enjoyable.

Actually it has become easy and enjoyable ;) Even for complex UIs.

Just think seriously about what a stack like es6/React/Redux brings on the table against plain old ES5, and you'll be struck by how well things have become.
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Well, the same is true of astronomy. One could spend their entire life looking through a telescope at only planets, and still be considered an astronomer.
Influencing opinion online is many orders of magnitude easier to accomplish than faking WMD's in Iraq.
...tediously reposted, for about the zillionth time
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There was a subthread on HN not too long ago from a guy who quit his day job to scale ipinfo.io, which sells an API subscription product for geoIP lookups. He's doing fairly well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13328971

So I think there is a market for services like this, especially since API Gateway takes away a lot of the kinds of scaling headaches the creator talks about in the linked post.
If I had to guess, I'd say it's probably an issue with the build/deploy system. Perhaps someone deployed a broken build, then tried to revert/rollback, and realized that the previous version didn't build "cleanly" anymore.

This could happen if you have a lot of dependencies, switched compiler versions but left the binaries "in place" and deployed changes incrementally.
regardless
Guessing they were sent the data by the attacker
Excellent question! If I may add to that:

How feasible is it to raise money for companies outside US (Europe or Canada) at different stages from VCs using this in and out approach?
>So, even in a major event where all lives aboard were lost, investigating the whole problem and finding opportunities for improvements will make aviation safer, simply saying "the pilot screwed it" won't get anything done.

Yes, it does. Many aviation crashes are attributed to "pilot error". There's only so much you can do with procedures and such; at some point, the pilot has to be held accountable for screwing up, and investigations do exactly that many times.

Usually, in major events, you're looking at commercial airliners with a pilot and co-pilot and in those cases, it's usually something much worse than a mistake by the pilot, and frequently several bad things happening at once. But in general aviation, where you have one pilot, frequently non-commercial, flying a small aircraft, the cause is frequently just "pilot error". A common example of this is the pilot running out of fuel because they did their calculations wrong. It happens frequently with private pilots, and in a Cessna you can't just pull over when you run out of gas.
You're overstating the Inmarsat situation: Inmarsat moved one satellite to ArianeSpace:

http://spacenews.com/inmarsat-shifts-satellite-from-spacex-t...

Inmarsat still has 2 launches on the SpaceX manifest.

Money quote: "Inmarsat is looking forward to continuing to work with SpaceX going forward," the company said in its statement.
I take your last point, I apologise.

So, the problem with permaculture, its that they like to share techniques but not the results in any meaningful way. There are some places that do proper scientific studies, but they are often drowned out by the "beardy weirdies" Its very difficult to asses which technique is worth trying.

However, the take away is that you make nature do most of the work. For example mixing crops in the same field, This increases yields in some cases, and reduces the need for weeding (mechanical or not) in others.

You also have to take care of the soil, some crops are nitrogen fixers, some are not. Other leave nutrients, some take them away. One example still in use is beans. You'll see bean crops rotting in the ground after harvest, this is so that the root nodules release the nitrogen they fix during life.

Traditionally, you'd rotate the usage of a field, sometimes wheat, sometimes beet, potatoes, and then lay to grass and get the animals to shit all over it. However that doesn't work everywhere. Some places, laying to grass means you loose half your soil.

But, with average field sizes growing, and subsidies, it means its often not practical to run animals over it. plus it can be a massive hit in profits, having a whole field devoted to animals.

Then there is drainage. Pesticides kill the soil. I know that sounds stupid, but the soil is a massive sprawling savannah of microbes, beetles, fungii, worms, bacteria, and things not yet known to science. Why is that important? because a) it provides a way of transmuting stuff to nutirents, and b) it makes a soft, water retaining self regulating temperature controlled sponge.

You can make some your self. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta if you are feeling advances. Or more simply, take one weeks food waste (a good mix of wet and or fibrous material) shove in cardboard box in the corner somewhere, not to hot or cold.

leave for a few months (if you're lucky it'll generate heat)

then take the rich dark odourless compost, and grow something in it. as a control, take sand, and use which ever balanced fertiliser liquid you like.

sorry that was rambling. However, does that help in any way?
I agree that bolting on the Born rule seems a weakness of the many world view. It would be nice if you could say everything follows the Schrodinger equation and hence the probabilities naturally come out the way they do but it doesn't seem to work that way very easily.

Everett himself however seems to basically "enforce" the Born rule without justification so I guess that would be Everettian.

See https://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/manyworlds/pdf/dissertation... page 34

>we define a square-amplitude distribution, Pi...

Probability is a funny thing to deal with. Say you have an experiment where you push a button and a red light or green comes on based on some quantum effect but the green light is 1000x more likely. In many worlds you'd end up with different worlds with an observer seeing one or another but it's tricky to see how the 1000x thing comes in.
Heck, I clicked thinking maybe "Nylas Mail" was the name of some political prisoner.
I would say that 8 years to write 60k LOC is slow. I worked as the sole GUI software engineer for a hardware firm and wrote > 100K LOC in 3 years, not including the test projects proceeding the actual real project. This was in C++, and included client/server stuff, entirely custom resizeable GUI, OpenGL 3D graphics and modelling of 3D assets and textures etc too. And getting it running under OSX + Win32, fixing issues on both.

And that wasn't a stressful place to work with insane deadlines - it was fairly relaxed for the most part.
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Weird that you as a German actually want data protection laws relaxed. I would have though given your history you would want more of it. I certainly do.
Microsoft CEO Nadella: 'Steer AI Away from Replacing People'
This would not surprise me at all. One of the main level designers for Dishonored also did City 17 in Half-Life 2. When I first played through it I was like "wow this person really got inspired by HL2". Turns out it was the same guy. Dishonored was honestly a better Thief reboot than the new Thief, but then again the new Thief really made me furious. I think I got < 2 hours in before I just couldn't stand it anymore.
To me, the validity of the communication changes drastically when a comment is being paid for by a larger organization, vs being communicated a human who directly backs an agenda. I'm all for the second, but think we need legally required disclaimers on the first in casual comment forums.
A treasure trove of great anecdotes.

Just one example:

A few weeks before the launch, the Navigator Command Module Pilot, Jim Lovell, spent a few hours practicing on the earth-horizon sextant simulator at MIT. He consistently identified the “horizon” about 20 miles above the real horizon. Great! Jim Lovell could be calibrated and his bias number loaded in the flight computer.

In the same vein as this article, I am always deeply moved watching Dr. William Widnall's lecture on Apollo's guidance, navigation, and control:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vf6Y98ZjwQ
The author is comparing how off overall power consumption is from the stated thermal design power under a sustained, heavy load; which is not what TDP is intended to measure ...

"TDP is not the maximum power that the processor can dissipate."
-- Intel

Keep in mind that TDP is only a target number for typical use, not mprime. Not to mention Intel and AMD define it differently, see:

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article169-page3.html

"Intel is listing TDP numbers that are significantly lower than the actual maximum power draw of their CPUs."

That article is THIRTEEN YEARS OLD!
The Chrome experiment in question ended before AMP was even a thought, and AMP and Chrome are separate teams inside Google. I doubt they're even mildly related.
Exceptionalism.

We all know how well that turns out.
It is my understanding that those microcode patches can be applied by the OS as well at runtime.
hmm interesting. I guess I haven't really thought of this from cost point of view. It is nice knowing that I can have a Flask endpoint up on AWS Lambda + API Gateway that can scale using only my credit card. That peace of mind, once you write a code you won't have to worry about scaling seems like a pretty good deal and should carry a premium.

I'd be happy to have 85req/s hopefully by then I'd be charging lot of money.
One hour after you've posted this comment, I went through every single comment in the thread and found 1 (one) negative comment about Opera. Considering that, wouldn't you say it's fair to say that your comment is bait?
Bibisco: novel writing software
Yup, and as a Brit I have to facepalm every time I recognise this in the people around me.
Right. I think it's limited to one external link (could be wrong). Makes sense they'd include the download link over the homepage link no?
> Competition between producers already incentivizes eliminating labor whenever you can do a job cheaper without human labor. That provides enduring pressure for more automation without any basic changes to the incentive structure of markets.

That was not the question.

> How do you get human liberation instead of IP-holders-and-landlords-own-everything after human labor is 90% obsolete? Several possibilities here:

None of your answers address how to allocate goods to the masses when their labor is no longer necessary. When robots created by capitalists can do everything, but few people work and have no money to buy anything, capitalism fails; it would fail long before that. Unless the government steps in and runs the automation itself to distribute the goods to the masses, something big has to give.
>The question is, what is the truth?

you won't learn this reading news articles online, and especially not from comment sections.

the irony of the term "fake news" is that it creates the false notion that there was once such a thing as "real news". information channel manipulation is a very very very old tradition.
It may have changed in the Silicon Valley/tech startup bubble but definitely not in the rest of the world. Engineers still receive far more prestige than IT workers (which is what programmers are largely seen as, technicians) and in most countries, it's as prestigious a career path as being a doctor, lawyer, or professor.

The vast majority of companies that work with physical things, like silicon designers/fabricators, auto makers, manufacturers of capital equipment like machining tools and lab equipment, energy companies, agricultural machine suppliers, hardware conglomerates like GE and Samsung, and on and on, still view (for the most part) software as the red headed stepchild, a necessary evil because their hardware has gotten so complex.
Not to sound rude but genuinely curious, why are you asking on behalf of your brother?
When disk space is limited and you are working with large files, you need to clean up after yourself. And human make mistakes. I am not sure if this still does anything in newer rm, but it used to be a common mistake:

$ rm -rf / home/myusername/mylargedir/

(note the extra space after slash)

The real solution is comprised of:

* backups (which are restored periodically to ensure they contain everything)
* proper process which makes accidental removal harder (DCVS & co.)
The Mathematica book might be what you're looking for.
Do you have any links about paid propaganda on /pol/?
How the ICIJ Wrangled 2.6TB of Data to Decode the Panama Papers
Still so actual..!

Did you read Discipline and punish, I learned what is a panopticon in that book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_and_Punish
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When I was a consultant I saw it happen often, BUT, seldom does technical debt get called out explicitly as a reason for failure. More usually it goes like this:

feature requests with no mind to maintainability/cleanup -> tech debt -> slow dev. velocity -> failure to deliver features for the businesses -> failure to retain/grow/compete
Hi, my name is Bryan. I'm in the process of starting a software company called TheftFree. (view on Twitter @TheftFree) The purpose of the software is to make credit card/debit card purchases literally theft free. I want to work with a company that's already established and has the same goals as I do. Do you think it's safe to reach out to them for discussion or do you think I should build the tech first? Any advice is appreciated! Thanks!
To be honest, for your target audience, I'd charge a buck a conversion :)
What's killing WeWork?
Zuckerberg may be President some day, but if so mmn it's almost certainly not going to be by winning one for the next two elections (he's got a lot of work to do to be a credible candidate even to the portion of the electorate most likely to be favorably inclined outside of a very narrow group), so he's not going to be the next President.
You missed the ecosystem ;)

NPM, even if it has plenty of do-not-use-that-packages crap, is still far more furnished that Qt will ever be, for example.

> The only thing I can think of is that it's free and allows the typical web developer to avoid learning anything new.

One could say the same for the typical Qt developer that refuse to get serious in learning the web platform.
No, he won't.
I never said they were alternatives. I specifically referred to federations of democracies where power is shared between state and federal government.
Not for Nylas, since spending the time to do that research wouldn't benefit me. I'm happy to do it for a salary though.

Having said that, I can offer you this isolated anecdote (as worthless as that is): The last company I worked for used to use Nylas, before the pricing was set to $7 a month. When your company started charging for Nylas, we all stopped using it, both personally and professionally, and the general consensus during the transition away from your product was basically, "I'd continue to use it if it were around a buck." We understood the need for your company to make money, but $7 a month seemed too steep to us, so we went elsewhere.

I think it is great if you're able to succeed at $12 a month. I certainly won't begrudge your success. It just seems to me that at the $12-price-point, your competitors are offering much, much more. There are also free options, like Boxer, that work satisfactorily and are still free.

I'm not knocking your product. I liked it when I was using it, and I think you're trying to succeed in a difficult market, so kudos for making the attempt. I just don't personally value Nylas Mail at $7 (or $12) a month, and reading through this thread, it seems there are others who feel the same way; which I would think you'd want to consider as you fine-tune your business model.

Anyway, best of luck to you. I wish you all the success you deserve.
It made the numbers move, but those are the same numbers that predicted a Hillary win. Clearly those numbers reflected more factors than absolute voting intention. For example: how acceptable it was to oppose Hillary in public.

Nobody gets to rerun the election in a Comey-less alternate universe and see if he changed it all. Pretending you can is self delusion.
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Adam Curtis has an unique style of cinematography and story-telling. This documentary is no different. Its a bit long, but in my opinion, totally worth the watch.

Here is Description from the site :

"We live in a time of great uncertainty and confusion. Events keep happening that seem inexplicable and out of control. Donald Trump, Brexit, the War in Syria, the endless migrant crisis, random bomb attacks. And those who are supposed to be in power are paralysed - they have no idea what to do.

This film is the epic story of how we got to this strange place. It explains not only why these chaotic events are happening - but also why we, and our politicians, cannot understand them.

It shows that what has happened is that all of us in the West - not just the politicians and the journalists and the experts, but we ourselves - have retreated into a simplified, and often completely fake version of the world. But because it is all around us we accept it as normal.

But there is another world outside. Forces that politicians tried to forget and bury forty years ago - that then festered and mutated - but which are now turning on us with a vengeful fury. Piercing though the wall of our fake world."