skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone reading the comments before the article: this article is not principally about the banal fact that everyone knew that the Earth was round in Columbus' time, nor that Columbus underestimated the size of the Earth.

It's about why the elites of Europe thought that a landmass like the Americas was impossible. Which was new to me and quite interesting.
Hmm, still no support for MediaStream Recording or Media Capture APIs. That's unfortunate as I'm currently developing a web app that makes use of microphone input. I'm a Safari user myself, but I'm forced to direct my users to use Chrome or Firefox to be able to use the microphone utilizing features.
I hate to break it to you, but climatology is also an ideological movement.
In the US, though, it's most definitely fringe, and that's what's pertinent to the discussion in this thread.
I don't disagree the crowd size issue is pretty silly.

That said, if some gov't agency started Tweeting negative things about the Obama administration after his inauguration, would any talk about a "chilling effect" if he told them to stop? I'm not his biggest fan, but I wouldn't fault him for that.

The job of the National Parks service is pretty clear. Tweeting their political opinions using their employer's account are not one of them.
I also interpret it this way.

If you recall the famous Wide Finder benchmark for parallel programming by Tim Bray, back in 2007 as well [1], those were essentially the results.

Languages like Erlang or JoCaml (Ocaml plus joint calculus), whose models are inherently parallel yield simple and fast solutions.

Other languages too, but they require a lot of expert optimization and ugly code.

[1] https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/09/20/Wide-Find...
FWIW, I have a lot more faith in a company that allows its engineers to communicate directly with the public. If there's something in particular that should remain quiet, then that should be handled as such on a case-by-case basis.

Moreover, as others have noted, the EPA is a public institution, and should be answerable to the public.

This is authoritarianism, and nothing else. Control, intimidation, and fear.

The EPA functioned fine with Obama. Trump just doesn't want to be answerable for what he knows are unpopular policies.

He didn't win a majority of the vote, it's on his mind (he feels obliged to explain this with paranoid conspiracies regarding immigrants). He knows that what he does is going to get pushback from the public, and he doesn't want it.
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Further, it's not an ad hominem to insult somebody while arguing with them. It's only an ad hominem if the insult is the basis of your argument.
WebGL2 brings a few nice features but a lot of the cool stuff is already possible in current WebGL across most browsers.

Here's another WebGL2 demo I had the opportunity to work on — the WebGL 1 version looks pretty similar. :)

http://www.jam3.com/work/#mozilla-webgl
What they need to do is make a deal with Facebook. Solve the social component without necessarily ruining the widespread enterprise product.
That's exactly the purpose a literal face book served before Facebook implemented a digital equivalent. Granted, it's not been the sole purpose of the site for quite a while, but originally that was the value proposition for users.
I thought time-limited trials were not permitted in the Mac App Store? How did this get through the review process?
I don't think it helps that the largest non-Ericsson commercial entity that attempts to curate and bounding-box the community has a kind of identity crisis around whether or not it's a services or products company.

For whatever reason they didn't do much in the way to create and maintain modern tooling to make on-boarding easier, which would have facilitated increased adoption, and lead to more revenue potential. Neither relx, nor rebar, nor erlang.mk, etc. were born out of said commercial entity, despite those kinds of things being perfect candidates for a services company to produce to make their own lives and the lives of potential new users easier.

There have been some huge high-profile Erlang use cases that would normally feed a Silicon Valley/Hacker News style hype-cycle, but somehow those came and went with almost nothing to show for it. It almost feels like if Elixir hadn't shown up on the scene to attract new users and splinter off a chunk of the massive Ruby community that the Erlang side of the world would all but dead already. Sometimes I wonder how it is one goes about blowing a 15+ year technology lead and 10 years of huge and publicly visible wins, but that's sorta what's happened.

In the curation of said community there's also been an overtone of nostalgia for "the good old days" & "yeah, that part is supposed to be painful", and a sort of long-running tone deafness around on-boarding, usability, general-developer-ecosystem-friendliness, etc. complaints that certainly could have had a lot more done to be ameliorated by the commercial entities who stood to gain the most by Erlang having broader adoption.

Frankly, much like Elixir breathing a bit of new life into aura around Erlang, if it weren't for people like Fred, Tristan, Alisdair, Garrett and a few others (who again aren't part of the core supports for Erlang commercially) being really passionate against all odds about making Erlang easier to use, and to explore new use cases, and to meticulously and engagingly document all of it... Erlang would probably be dead already.

All of which might be overly harsh, but I'm having a very acute existential crisis around Erlang at the moment. I love it. I love developing in it. I love introducing it to teams and projects. And as time goes on I feel rapidly and increasingly more guilty about that given the decline it seems to be in and has been in if I'm being honest with myself in retrospect.

Blargh :-(

edit: look at the increasingly dwindling sponsors list of Erlang Factory San Francisco over the last several years as an indicator of the above rant/cry-for-help.
Dear God, please kill me now; I can't take any more of this bullshit. How about actually improving the software instead of piling more marketing bling on top?
1984 here we go
>I'm more leery about LinkedIn's really spammy culture leaking into the really cool things coming out of MS, on top of privacy complains already surrounding windows 10.

Windows has a lot of business users and is a consumer product; now i would guess that the privacy issues don't quite help with the business audience - but i guess that's a major cash cow; Anybody care to explain how they happen to put a major revenue source in jeopardy? I mean as a software company they aren't too much into targeted advertising anyway, so what do they do with all the data that they are gathering?

i don't know much about business, please enlighten me.
I'd be fine with government doing as you describe. For my entire life, we have lived under a system that is not that. The overreach of government is immense and it has the effect of crushing the individual and their spirit. I'm not suggesting I want total anarchy, but government as an arbiter and source of redress is like an 18th or 19th century concept it would seem.

I also think our government has been co-opted by Marxists, but I know I'll get shit for that.
That is a very important idea, but it was atomism that lead to it.

For thousands of years, people explained natural phenomena like disease through alleged supernatural causes. Then Greek science-philosophers attempted to explain them through thoroughly natural causes. They tried various ideas like everything is fire, but it was atomism that was successful, and it lead to modern science in general.
It's downright impressive how comic-book-evil this administration is. Next up, the white house will presumably be moved to a volcano base with overly large ventilation shafts.
Honestly I'm not sure. My process for buying a game would generally be: Open Play store, search for e.g. "toddler math", filter for "Paid" and then look for something with good reviews. Even with that criteria you are likely competing with 100's of other apps.
Ask HN: How do you get out a career rut?
I graduated in 2012 and went to work for one of the big tech companies. I wound up working on a pretty cool project for about a year. I felt like a big part of the team and was able to learn and grow a lot. The project wound up cancelled which was disappointing but I was still pretty happy with the results.

After the project got cancelled I wound up a project I really didn't enjoy. I was very frustrated and eventually I asked off the project. I know that sounds lame, but at the time things were not going well. The team had a lot of problems with mismanagement and poor team dynamics. Anyway, I stuck around for a little bit after but decided to leave company as I got an offer from another one of the big companies which sounded like a good fit and came with a nice bump in pay/title.

I joined the new company as a new team was being spun up to work on a part of a new infrastructure effort. The problem itself is pretty interesting, but I don't feel like I'm contributing. I'm by far the most junior person, and most of the people have been at the company for a while. Most of the actual work on the project gets done by the two most senior guys. The other people are doing a bunch of tooling and analysis work. I've done some stuff that's fine (metrics pipeline, some tooling) but most of my time is spent doing mundane stuff. It's important work, but it's extremely dull.

I've reached the point where I think I'm going to just write off this job as a poor fit. The problem I'm having is that I'm ending up failing phone screens with places I was easily able to get onsite with previously. I have been brushing up on the algorithms, but it's frustrating. I also feel like I've wasted two years and now I'm 5 years out of school with about 1.5 years of time where I was actually learning and growing. I'm feeling stuck and it's becoming quite depressing.

tl;dr: Took a job and it's been a poor fit. Feeling like I'm behind the curve in skills and have become stuck in a rut.
I heard a news report that what happened at DHHS was normal. What happened at the EPA was not.

The USDA has since released some statement that there was some confusion, and the gag order email should not have gone out and was incorrect.
I always thought the lack of density was SF's problem! Too many nice old houses in the way of proper apartment buildings.
How do you know about Tesla's cell cooling system, and how do you know how much the utility is planning on using the battery? Or do these two things not matter?
Designer here. I took programming in collage as part of my education and remember for the first time in my life, Math made sense. From then on, I was at the top of every math class I took. I started to see that math was logic and also that it had real application in my life. I wish I had that realization earlier in life but like you (and the author) I want to go back and take them again with that renewed perspective and purpose.
As a side note, I don't remember much of that movie beside the 'mental feedback loop' of experiencing live what you're recording. Terrifying.
America's forefathers were all wealthy men, it did not mean they were oligarchs. Was George Washington an oligarch? Jefferson? Madison?
Agreed no one in practice will likely ever see this. Ability to compile vs warned about it are two different things. Those that know Java would quickly be aware that a) type erasure is a thing, it allows stuff like this b) even if they wrote some of this their IDE or compiler would generate a ton of warnings. Generally when you have a compiler - you learn to look at the output of it.
According to Gruber / Apple it's a max of three prompts per year, regardless of version.

https://twitter.com/gruber/status/824022727870861316

[UPDATE] There's also an App Store setting so you can disable requests:

https://youtu.be/_qA5p9dQGas?t=2m40s
It sounds like you think the rating system is there for developers, it isn't. Those one star reviews because you're nagging your clients is good for me as a user because it's an indication I don't want to use your app.
That doesn't really matter, they pushed CSS Transforms, Transitions and Animations long before they were "standards", hence the slew of prefixed properties still enabled on many browsers.

It's more about politics and priorities.
Calgary, AB is another one. Felt like going back in time when I visited from the bay area.
When an app nags me for a review, it really gets in the way and hinders my usage of it. A bad review is a totally legitimate response to that.

If this is your only solution to biased reviews, then you have no solution, you just have a way to move the problem around some. If you don't want silly one-star reviews complaining about the prompt, don't interrupt people when they're trying to get something done.
> Please don't give an app a 1 star review just because they ask for a review.

Perhaps don't pop up things begging for reviews?

There doesn't seem to be any way of turning it off ("Disable app review requests") for people, thus these kind of user responses. :/
When you make it your own somehow. Mathematics is not a spectator sport. Nor is it about rote-learning, although some people try to get by on that.
Indeed. And downtown Brooklyn, and LIC, and Industry City, and so on and so on. NYC is capable of adding a dense "downtown" that would dwarf the entire CBD of most American cities every year or three. There's really no comparison at all in this country at least.
Oh, absolutely. But they were unusual. Often kind of grumpy and a bit misanthropic.

Burns' films do seem to file out a few heroes ( meaning there seem fewer even than they were ) but there were not that many other people, especially in government, who felt that way. You had many more "man has Dominion Over Nature" types, like Floyd Dominy of the Bureau of Reclamation.

Also; within Burns' film ( which is, as always, excellent ) note the rather large changes in management style over the years - and we're still learning . The part about how litter alone caused problems was pretty entertaining. I'm old enough to remember when people just littered.

What's different now is that environmentalism to some level is now nearly universal. Even people who oppose the EPA have some belief in the importance of the environment.
I was curious if a case could be made for First Amendment rights, but I just re-read it...

"Congress shall make no law regarding..."

I guess Executive Orders can bypass all of that.
In traffic probably, if you have lots of bags and its not rush-hour or you aren't close to the train/in a suburb where you'd have to go downtown first then a car is much easier/faster.
Thanks for the tips. Where do I send the spreadsheet?

Also, if you know a forum with valuable, intelligent, somewhat sophisticated discussion of international relations (i.e., non-partisan, non-ideological, non-Internet-style ranting and hyperbole), I would love to know about it.

> read everything and don't believe any of it.

Unfortunately, I lack the time to read even the good stuff. My RSS feed is up to 500+ items per day and I try to be picky about what is included.
I don't think indeed.com is representative of the market, many rails jobs aren't even online.

Besides, if for 133 rails jobs and 763 PHP jobs there are 60 and 1500 rails and PHP candidates (respectively,) you're clearly better off choosing rails.
I am looking for reasonable explanations for this, but keep coming up blank. I grew up in a country where this sort of censorship and fact hiding was the norm, and hated it.

I now live in a country that is much freer, but for the first time since 1938, no longer has an active US ambassador, with no replacement in sight, since President Trump fired all US ambassadors to foreign countries on the afternoon of his inauguration... [0]

[0] - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trum...
Funny. But there is still an escape key and it's not altogether impossible to use
They have the ability to run views entirely out of process. I can't guarantee they're doing it here, but I don't think it would be hard for them to make it completely immune even to private API abuse.
This same thing happened to me when I moved to a small town and stopped driving for a year. I lost 20 or 30 pounds.
Very sad that Trump spews all his shit over twitter and yet these organizations can't even do a formal press release with these guidelines
It's even worse than that. It is static. It would work without javascript if they didn't put

<noscript>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=https://pragprog.com/no_js">
</noscript>
Can confirm the darkenss is more of a thing than rain. Rain is easy to fix, you throw on a wind breaker. Also rain is easier to deal with than snow that other places have. The darkness on the other hand, especially if you work can be hard. Sun up at like 8:15 and down by 4:30 can be easy to miss if you spend your time in an office. Then you live the summer months and you think: "This place is perfect".

The winter is Seattle is best spent hopping from coffee shop to coffee shop and getting snug with blankets.
This seems like a great idea. Great way to keep news/journalism business models pure while promoting awareness of whats going on in the world.
It was very effectively used on "Gravity" for the space station interiors.
Why on earth is Node considered the default for concurrency with its shitty single-threaded callback execution model? Anyone switching from Rails for improved concurrency would surely be better advised to choose Elixir?
I'm glad that someone made this! Ever since I've known about ML and HN I've wanted to make something like this
Presedential power has grown a LOT in the past 50 years. I still think we have a strong enough constitution to prevent a Hitler, but not as sure as I would have been in the previous generation.
Okay so I completely disagree with this, so try harder to convince me! Let me bring to the front, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsten_Gillibrand. She's a democrat, but of course a good republican would work here too. SO you painted with a tremendously broad brush, but of course Kirsten isn't a criminal. You're suggesting she is though? Is John McCain is a criminal? Who specifically are the criminals..?? Lets start with that... but I think maybe you're trying to make a point that everyone is twisted and greedy and these are such profoundly human traits that believing in a political party is a foolish choice because off course humans are evil, and the party leaders will automatically be "frauds, hucksters, and criminals" and a good person in politics is a myth. Maybe you should just come out and say that instead? Is that what you really meant? You don't really care about politics, you just think people are bad yea?
So you are saying that PHP is worth learning in 2017? I think it goes beyond job posting counts.
Everything looks slightly less bad in hindsight
If Safari starts supporting WebExtensions we're halfway there, but I don't see them switching from their current model anytime soon — sadly for its users.
> the script-heavy init system that preceded it

... was the non-shell-script upstart on at least two major operating systems, for quite a few years.

* http://uselessd.darknedgy.net./ProSystemdAntiSystemd/

* http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/09/05/0/
I dunno, I thought part of Facebook's instant success was because, with the exception of wilfully-obtuse student columnists, most students instantly "got" it because they'd had some sort of internet profile and compulsively-updated statuses since their parents had finally succumbed to the avalanche of AOL CDs in 1997. Even the university, moving at such glacial pace it still ran a nineties Windows NT, was trying to get us to blog on their platform and chat with other students in the fresher's forum in 2004.

And for all the joys of smartphone browsing on the go and novelty of proximity based search which doesn't involve typing postcodes, I just logged into a popular uh... people-meeting service that fundamentally hasn't changed design since earlier than 2004, and it was dated-looking then.
Obama was the first President to have a war going for the entirety of his two terms. At best, I think he was completely spineless. So many times he could have stood up to the banker class and the war mongers, but he failed to do that. Now Trump is going to take them on.
I used to take taxis, but there's a whole world of difference between not having any idea what a trip will cost or how long you have to wait, and getting an estimate and seeing how many cars are available within a few blocks. I will never use a taxi in cities with Uber.
Cashless Society: Security Considerations for a Chinese Social Credit System
That's the thing though, they weren't! Occasional smart people did follow something similar, but not with the methodical approach required to produce real results. Up until fairly recently, almost all humans believed that you could divine everything you needed to know about the world from pure contemplation. The idea that your hypothesis is worthless until backed by hard evidence is relatively new, and coincides pretty well with the sudden rapid advancement of technology.
Thanks for the insight. Out of interest, what company are you referring to in your first paragraph?
The president can't issue unconstitutional executive orders but has great powers over the executive branch which this falls under.
Can you elaborate on what you worked on? Was it part of academics or industry? I guess it was embedded systems, as these domain seems pretty open to formalization (as they are pretty low-level), as they often demand high reliability.
The first tech IPO of 2017 is cancelled: Cisco is buying AppDynamics
also:
https://citizenlab.org/2017/01/cashless-society-cached-data-...
Surprised and shocked that this is not already included in Safari. I use the download attribute on some CDN and it would not download with it (tried everything). So today I learned it would not work on actual Safari :(
I'd accept "on average." The original comment up there didn't even say that. It just said, blanket statement, high resolution would be worse, and high framerates would be worse still.
I'd strongly disagree with Python being behind relative to JS. They're roughly on par (with Python being slightly ahead due to smarter caching and more deterministic builds). Unfortunately neither does namespacing nor good versioning, especially in the cache. Take for example Maven (from Java), it caches namespaced and versioned dependencies and is pretty reliably deterministic in the build process.

Verses node which makes horribly assumptions that allow dependencies of libraries to be resolved and dumped into the same library namespace as your application. It also allows users to use the shrinkwrap feature, which imposes the dependency's settings on me (say, for example, I want to use my own npmjs proxy, this is bypassed...)
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Wow, you sound like a very busy person doing important things.
Mmm - it's a continuum. This one looks like it's entirely telepresence - the only part that may be missing is the software to make it fully automatic, and perhaps some of the sensors depending on where they've hidden the control station (e.g. is some of it line-of-sight control):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvI8XMaRBJY
I've been looking at 'bright screens', for varying values of 'bright', for 40 years - and I'm not blind, yet.
Also happening with the National Parks Service [0].

[0] http://gizmodo.com/national-park-service-banned-from-tweetin...
It's a minor inconvenience, and my retaliation is in proportion to that.
He also never set foot on North American soil.
Good to know, thanks. That seems rather negligent that per session encryption wasn't built into the protocol.
Well, I don't think anyone's taking much notice of that advice if you go by job stats. Drupal is enjoying tremendous adoption and if you look at Drupal 8 code you'll discover it is built on Symfony components.