skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the problems we have faced when multiple engineers ding exactly similar work (e.g. Create and Update operations of a CRUD module) but in a very different class and method structures. Now whoever makes it to master first becomes the standard and others needs to modify to confirm to that style. However everyone's style is correct in some sense but reviewer needs to make sure all code is written by one team not that one file has factory pattern and another one has switch case .
The Wisest Man on Earth!
While it's twice the amount of water, the water is not as dirty (when you shower twice as long you may not be twice as dirty and may not be using twice the amount of shampoo).

Is that reasoning unrealistic? I don't know a first thing about water treatment.
If they established a following, yes. Someone mentioned "blinds.com", still #1 for "blinds" in the US. Furniture.com is also ranking well for "furniture". The number one result for "cars" is "cars.com". Hats.com is #2 for "hats", and so forth...
I've been using tarsnap as a backup tool for a small NGO, especially backing up DB. I take a dump of the DB every 2 hours (we have almost 1k users now) and send it over.

The biggest pain is that it now takes ages to list archives. I think i have like 1500 of them. But otherwise: i'm really glad tarsnap exists.
I deposited $5 in november and have $4.673539677478560010 left (i'm pretty sure Colin can now tell who i am, using the unique amount of picodollars)

My stats now:

pawwer@pro16:~$ tarsnap --print-stats --humanize-numbers
Total size Compressed size
All archives 137 GB 42 GB
(unique data) 2.0 GB 489 MB

pawwer@pro16:~$ tarsnap --list-archives | wc -l
1425

Thanks, Colin. It's a great service.

However, i backup my personal photos someplace else, tarsnap is a bit pricey for that. You can get backblaze for $0.005 / GB month with free transfer, so i use that.
This is one of my favorite pieces of code, and absolutely the coolest having to do with Forth.

Thanks!
No you cannot.
Android net/media boxes are becoming very popular, to the point you can grab them off of Amazon for very cheap.

I haven't jumped into that ecosystem yet so I'm not sure how great they are or what the best ones are. I've been thinking of buying a few of them to replace the Rokus around my house.
> For the sake of eliminating an if, you are lifting everything else into what is effectively a separate language with the original code embedded in that language. Overall, that doesn't look like a win to me.

Whenever I write Java (or Java-like OO), I always have this exact "separate language within a language" feeling.

I'm supposedly working in a high-level, object-oriented, loosely-coupled, message-passing/dynamically-dispatching world of classes and instances; yet an awful lot of code is actually written in a separate language of "primitive values" with opaque control structures like if/then/else, for/while, etc.

Compare this to e.g. Smalltalk, where "ifTrue" is a method on boolean objects, "timesRepeat" is a method on integer objects, etc.
I suspect this might be something people outside Germany or Europe are unaware of but

> Do you know why we still hunt down Nazi's 80 years later?

is actually a thing. There are still warrants out; Nazis (without the "Neo" part) are still arrested and convicted from time to time. Although I suspect this will come to an end soon, since people tend to die of old age now. Iirc some of the more recent trials ended with a conviction to incarceration, but no actual incarceration due to old age / medical issues.
I've been to countless offices that use Mac Minis for dashboards and CI monitors.
I think its reasonable to hold them responsible for his reprehensible policies as that is what he promised during his campaign.
I think the limiting factor is not money, but mental bandwidth. Even if they could just go out and buy a whole extra product team that's up to their standards, they would still need constant attention from the leadership to be successful.
Well, good to know I've been of use to at least one person today...
Here in Europe the situation is mostly the other way around. Netflix is available in most countries for a year or two.
Amazon launched only a month ago in most European countries.
Also the author mentioned Eye TV which is DVR software.
Google’s Privacy Changes You Should Know About
> It's why enterprises get solutions which, again and again, are unperformant, don't meet their actual needs, deliver poor satisfaction ...

This is a caricature that I would also have believed until I was involved in it. It's the vision of some lumbering dinosaur stumbling to it's death, bloated with age and cranky. There is definitely some truth to it but like all caricatures that truth is greatly exaggerated.

The reality is a lot more subtle. In many cases it is decades of institutional experience that creates a deep conservatism.

> [...] Microsoft can make a ton of money selling some of these hacks to enterprises

I think this is the negative way to view it and again the reality is different. The conservatism is the opposite than what you think. If I say "we need to stitch together these base systems ..." the questions I get are "How to do we monitor the integrations? Who gets called at 4am when something downstream goes down? Who ensures those integrations are kept up-to-date over the lifetime of the project? What are the ongoing maintenance tasks and who does them?" etc. They are in fact trying to overprotect themselves against hack solutions since these systems may live decades.

All of those questions have answers of course, but they are additional pieces of planning and infrastructure that we have to bring to the table. They are also questions that must be answered before we even consider beginning a project.

So I think it is more fair to see Microsoft not as "selling hacks" but more as being a patient guide through all of the peculiar institutional conservatisms. They speak the right language and take the time to understand the concerns of the managers.
Doing it for the right Reason
I agree being an SRE exposes one to kind of problems that can occur in large scale production systems, the problems which one might not have thought during development or not unearthed during QA. But I think being oncall is flipside of being a SRE. To me being Oncall is oncall, be it be from home or oncall from office. If you are oncall during non-working hours, except what you save for the commute to being on office, your focus is drawn away from what you are doing (might be spending time with family, or book/movie you are enjoying, sleeping, or working on your project).
I've been tinkering around with it since the last two iterations. The primary reason it might not have worked out of the box is probably due to the bios not being updated to the latest version. Otherwise, I've installed Ubuntu on over a dozen of these machines for a project without any trouble. If you try to swap the SSD from one NUC box to another, you might run into some trouble though... the bootloader needs to be repaired.
So he shames people that are clueless with a computer but at the end admits he's the same with his car.

The truth is nobody can master everything so there's no reason to feel superior to someone that is clueless in your domain.
Introduction to JSX
>According to the filing, Hameed Khalid Darweesh was granted a special immigrant visa on Jan. 20, the same day Mr. Trump was sworn in. He worked with the United States in Iraq in a variety of jobs — as an interpreter, engineer and contractor — over the course of roughly a decade.

This is completely insane. Not only is it a blatant violation of human rights and our treaties regarding refugees, but this is going to be a major blow to our national security. The promise of American citizenship is one of the major driving factors for informants and interpreters around the world that help our armed forces. Trump seems hellbent on making life miserable for anyone tasked with actually protecting our country.
Did you know that the NYT & WaPo have published factually correct articles before?
That's why I'm in favor of the RW libertarians view of big government and how it's in the best interest of society to have as much small a government as possible to avoid situations like these as large bureaucracies tend to corrupt over time and when they turn evil, they hurt innocent people that come close to them.
Sometimes Linux might take more effort to set up (but in my experience it's quicker to install and set up [ed: than windows] on hardware that's a year or two old - since volunteers / third party developers usually do the work of supporting it, not the vendor). But once set up, Linux requires much less maintenance than windows. That's been true for years (and AFAIK that's also true for BSDs).

[ed: part of the reason setup and maintenance of Linux is easier is thanks to powerful, integrated package management systems, like apt]
I've wanted to use Forth IRL for ages, but have no good use case for the problems I solve
I know people from the banned countries who got their degree from best in the world PhD groups, who are going to or went to Canada for jobs because of this election.

A surprising number of Iranians get PhDs from Stanford, MIT and CMU. They're exceptionally talented and kind, in my experience.
I thought the author had an older Mac Mini that would be upgradeable, since they were looking at buying the 2014 model.
I've tried this but i've struggled mightily getting audio via HDMI from the Nuc. no matter if I install Windows or Linux.

I simply replace the mac mini with the nuc, same hdmi etc and nothing.

So tread carefully.
> I don't know their final timeline, but I would be very surprised if the new APIs weren't available before we turned off old-style extensions, and I have already started working on a new branch that implements TabCenter as a WebExtension.

Did you even read your own link past the first sentence?
If you can make a Mac Mini into an HTPC, you can follow some Youtube videos to replace a Hard Disk and RAM. It's just a few screws and a single cable.
It's an opinion piece, not a news article.
Good. Maybe it has finally sunk into mainstream consciousness that e-mail is completely insecure.
Remind me, who exactly voted the narcissistic nationalist into the executive office controlling the worlds largest surveillance and secret service/police apparatus?

Small Government is a nice, and good, idea, but history shows us that neither surveillance apparatus (pl.) nor secret police (pl.) relinquish power, ever, within existing in the same continuum of legitimation (ie. state). There has been no previous instance where either were reduced; they only grow until chopped off entirely.

It's an infestation of the state. There is only one - proven - cure. (And I think it's naïve to assume that those who built and grow these structures are not aware of this)
Fake Netflix apps allow hackers to take control of your devices
You gotta weed people who can't code somehow.
The huge disparities in US life expectancy in five charts
If you already have an expensive IPS monitor which Mac do you buy to do your design work? There's the old mini and then the really pricey trashcan Mac.
That's a very inefficient way to track prices over a long period of time.
> When the malfunction was identified – a problem with “telemetry” [...]

They should know better than to use Windows 10 missiles, the ones with Windows XP have no telemetry ! ;-)
Trump is putting the lives of soldiers who have to rely on these interpreters and local fixers at risk.
It's now clear to anyone in Irak that whoever works for or help the Americans takes risks on all sides, and will not be supported. Just grrrrreat.
I don't like spec. I liked the other one (by Mars I think that actually checks nested objects).

Perhaps I'm just stuck in my ways, but I like to be able to see in the code I'm looking at what attributes or actions are applicable to this thing. With Clojure I lose all of that. What is in this map? Well, I better print it out to know.

Clojure's dynamic typing, and any dynamic language to me, is only useful if you're never more that 2 stack frames away from your data's source. After that it's a lot of documentation to make sure you don't cock it up.
"Well, but how is it not democratic?"

It's quite simple, it's not democratic in the sense that the majority of the population voted for another candidate, but in the end Trump got elected.

Final ballot count:

Hilary: 65,844,610 votes

Trump: 62,979,636 votes

Now, I understand these are the electoral rules in the USA and I'm not saying Trump won unfairly, but he certainly didn't win democratically since the majority of voters didn't want him there.
"Uber Loses at Least $1.2 Billion in First Half of 2016" (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-25/uber-lose...)

How is that winning? Is capitalism dead and profits don't count anymore? Then what are the social benefits of company known for sabotaging unions and fighting against labor protection laws?

The original idea, to share car rides, was really good and worth investment. Now it is just a big bubble waiting to explode.
Since I follow the "Inbox 0" principle, I just set up an IFTTT recipe for that. Combine with the search of Gmail make it really easy to look up after.

https://ifttt.com/applets/14412595d-quick-ohlife-replacement... (I have no idea why we now can't share recipe on IFTTT, that's sucks...but it's basically, every day at 8pm, send me a mail with the title "How did your day go? #ohlife")
Not me.

You're right though, the biggest problem is all the people cheering this on. I read "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" and this seems to be escalating even faster.
Public Speaking: Presenting Piers Morgan at the 2017 NTA Awards
Profits are for after going public.
Is there any reason he would have heard of those? They're all pretty fringe, arguably moreso than Forth, for some of them.

Some of these do look neat: I've had an interest in both Ada and Oberon, although I haven't been able to get over the verbosity and unpleasant syntax of either (it's not COBOL, or anything, but it's not nice).

OTOH, I am immediately suspicious of any product that claims it's professional and also has BASIC in the name...
They definitely should bear the blame for his policies whether they're willingly support them or not but that is not my point here. What I'm saying is that people need to differentiate between the faction in Trump camp which is drawn to him for his nationalist economic rhetoric and the other one that endorses his social policies like this awful ban and the latter is the one that should be the target of all the ire resulting from his despicable policies.
Am I wrong but couldn't this be used to create an extremely powerful quantum supercomputer?
France bans unlimited sugary drink refills
It may be possible to turn the PC OP found into a hackintosh. There's nothing preventing Apple from taking that machine and making macOS run on it. I can't imagine they'd need a lot of people to do that.
I wanna build a tool like this for my marketplace idea.
http://onlyusedtesla.com/
i have 47 listings and growing weekly. Would love to offer some useful metrics to my users.
tLoL doesn't really do that. I think you might be thinking of Build Your Own Lisp (And Learn C), another excellent book.
Opaque control structures like if/then/else? They seem to be pretty clear when used in human languages.
Nope, if they're not using SNI, you'd just see the IP address. Fire up Wireshark some time when you're browsing and watch what comes through.
The August, 1967 article in Scientific American on the split brain has an interesting comment about communication between the two parts of the brain: if one side of the brain saw a drawing (by showing the picture to only one eye), the person might not be able to describe it because voice functions were handled on the other side of the brain, but if the drawing was somehow embarrassing the facial flushing (from seeing a sexy picture on one side of the brain) could be detected by the voice side and the subject would be able to vocalize that he or she was seeing a racy picture.

Note that my recollection of this 1967 article on the split brain is a bit sketchy, I read this article in a library (in 1967) and it is unfortunately now available only for purchase on the Scientific American website.
I was only getting started! There are so many much more interesting cellular automata than Life, which is so overrated. As Marvin the Paranoid Android says, "Life? Don't talk to me about life! Loathe it or ignore it. You can't like it."

The classic book on the subject is "Cellular Automata Machines: A New Environment for Modeling" [1]

This article has a lot of great references: "When–and how–can a cellular automaton be rewritten as a lattice gas?" [2].

And Fredkin's "Digital Mechanics: An Informational Process Based on Reversible Universal Cellular Automata" [3] is also a classic paper about the subject.

Fredkin, Toffoli, Margolus and others have done a lot of interesting research into reversible computation, which has many practical and theological [4] applications, and will some day be very useful at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe [5].

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cellular-automata-machines

[2] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304397508...

[3] https://books.google.com/books?id=6o6zx5MRRcQC&pg=PA254&lpg=...

[4] http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15665399.2010.108...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Point
I was just thinking the same. This breed of nationalism has been steeping for some time. Likely before 9/11, but that was when it really started taking off.
Good news for Canada. Toronto and Vancouver are going to swell with tech talent who want the U.S. time zone without the visa hassle.
Just bought a NUC with an added 32GB of RAM as a dev machine. It's been great so far.
Yes, as long as iOS stays a solid market, iOS developers are going to own one Mac at least. But when the Mac platform itself stops being attractive to developers and they are only using it because they "have to", it is going to have an impact onto iOS as well. Innovations go, where the developers like to be.
How do you think this would help with a quantum computer?

Not that Wilczek's work is unrelated to quantum computers, just not sure that this bit is.

Ed: For anyone wondering about the connection, Wilczek worked on anyons, which are the basis of Microsoft's research into quantum computing.
Indus Script is not currently in Unicode. There was a proposal in 1999 with about 250 code points. http://www.unicode.org/L2/L1999/n1959.pdf
I've been picking up Intel ComputeSticks: $99 gives you Win10, WiFi, 4GB RAM, HDMI & USB. I seem to remember I put a 32 GB SD card into my first one... I've been putting them behind our TVs, giving them web access.

All I put on them are Chrome and Mame.

The $99 ComputeSticks are just powerful enough to play standard def video from someone like NetFlix or Amazon. Higher bit rate streaming video is too much, and the'll stutter. But they have higher spec ComputeSticks I've not played with for $199, and $299. (Maybe I'm being grumpy, but most video content simply does not need to be 4K, or HD.)

They are great with 3D graphics, as far as rendering. I write 3D, and have been having a good time with their 3D performance, using WebGL.

Seems like the Nuc prices are just at that level that one could pick up a desktop with the necessary CPU, video card and RAM while being expandable to the future - where the Nuc is not...
If you want to build an SBC, than Forth is the language to write that code in.
Another view: https://stactivist.com/2017/01/28/doing-it-for-the-right-rea...
Show HN: Pydb – a lightweight database with Python syntax queries, using ZeroMQ
If the goal is to make it simple to run, why not support SQLite?
Visual Studio 2017 RC (build 26127.00)
This is not as specific as your tool, but similar I believe, if anyone is interested: https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/price-trends/
From the article:

"Trump signed an executive order Friday prohibiting entry by people from seven majority-Muslim nations for 90 days. Citizens of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and Libya would be banned from entering the U.S. for the period, while the government determines what information it needs to safely admit visitors."

I... have a hard time finding this to be that outrageous. I noticed the article mentions that they are muslim-majority, but they are also war zones, which I think matters much more. If it was an anti-islam thing then why wouldn't they ban people from places like Indonesia?

For our firm this won't really make a difference right now, and we'll figure out what to do in the coming months. I don't really have a problem with better vetting procedures for people from these countries.
Really? Have been an xbmc/spmc user for years now got a new device with recent Kodi and default skin (I think) and it might be 'somewhat' clunky but I definitely wouldn't call it 'extremely clunky and slow'. I consider it just fine and not that much of a difference with spmc of a couple of years old. What are you runing it on?
When playing the marketing minigame, sometimes my pieces just disappear from their space. This leaves me no choice but to hit end turn, click through the "you've still got actions" alert and continue until time runs out. Very annoying. No idea what's making this happen...
One of the most disturbing things is that one of T's closest advisers actually thinks that there are too many Asian tech CEOs: http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/16/13653490/steve-bannon-tru...
I refuse to make these distinctions.

Sure, some folks that voted for trump are worried about their health insurance premiums (as Jon Stewart used as an example).

But they were willing to overlook the racism and misogyny that Trump possesses. Even if they don't agree, they are enabling it when they could have just held off and taken other measures, such as looking at the representatives they are sending to congress and voting appropriately.
That's true. And APL and its children is still quite popular in finance.

By the way, I found a rather neat page about building a Jupiter ACE: http://searle.hostei.com/grant/JupiterAce/JupiterAce.html
What baffles me is why there is so much fear of a country with a GDP less than that of California alone.

Any time you hear Russia being invoked as a reason to do or not do something, you are being manipulated by fearmongering.
I don't think the general population realizes how easy or effective automation is in these contexts.

But also those ads are more about delivering exploits than actual product sales.
Long-deleted folders spontaneously reappear in Dropbox
Not that there isn't value in having everyone follow the same patterns, but I find it gets emphasized over just getting work done a lot of the time. I've seen projects waste so much effort making the code uniform instead of delivering features. If the code works and is readable, who cares if it varies somewhat from similar code.
Sonarr + NZBGet really is the winning team (+ extra nerd credits if you run it on an RPi of course). Can't believe I spent years using SickBeard. Discovering Sonarr was like 'ah, that is how it's supposed to be'. Will check out NZBHydra.
Lead author of the paper here; AMA.

The main novelty about this work is that we had 100 people play repeated PD for a month instead of <1 hour which is typical in behavioral experiments, in an attempt to make rather stylized cooperation experiments in the lab closer to real life (admittedly, it is still only a small step.)

The findings can be summarized in a sentence as "a minority of nice people can make everyone better off."
There's one mechanical part which affects the execution speed: the fans. When they fail (or when the heatsink gets completely filled with compact dust), the CPU can overheat and throttle its speed.
Electrons and photons are in perpetual motion. Perpetual motion is only a thermodynamic problem when the system is shedding energy in some way (friction, radiation, photon smacking into a detector).