skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just introduced my 5-year-old to Scratch (1.x, since 2 requires flash) now that he can read phrases and understand some basic concepts. At this age, he can handle dragging and dropping some blocks. Although he can type, I think it'd be a bit overwhelming for him to use a text-based programming language for a few reasons:

- He still spends quite a bit of time finding keys on the keyboard, so that'd be a major distraction and would break flow.

- Memorizing keywords as text and reproducing them is a bit more of an abstract concept than being able to remember the color, location, shape, and appearance of text on the blocks in Scratch. For us, we can imaging keywords and expressions as these conceptual units, sort of like blocks. But we can also reproduce them as those units---we don't mentally deconstruct them into individual characters like my son would have to as he struggles to type them.

- Similarly, with typing, you start with a blank canvas and nothing but a daunting array of tools (keys on the keyboard, which we think of as a single tool) that alone mean nothing until placed into a very specific syntax. With Scratch, you start with a set of identifiable blocks that concretely mean something.

- Scratch aids him in other ways, like providing character and sound selections via a dropdown. You can get this type of things with certain IDEs, but mileage will vary.

Essentially what I'm saying is that I feel like my son using a keyboard at this point instead of blocks is like taking each of those blocks and smashing them with a hammer, and telling him to first assemble the blocks before determining how to use them to assemble the program.

I do wonder when I should try introducing him to text-based languages. He's also learned how to use Minetest in the past week, which is scriptable in Lua, so I wonder if that would be an interesting transition. I thought of maybe introducing him to lisp because of how naturally the syntax of the language translates to/from blocks, but I also don't want to disadvantage him practically when most of the world uses C- or Python-like syntax.

I'm totally new to this. :) But it's exciting!
Inside the Mind of New York Angel Investor: John Ason
Older consoles often get used in developing countries for quite some time since they're much cheaper (typically at least one console generation longer than the US).

IIRC Microsoft only shut down Xbox 360 production very recently, because it was still selling well in South America. The Playstation 2 had a similarly long lifespan, I think production was just shut down a couple years ago.
The Mandelbrot example has implementation problems. The check for a point being outside the set is implemented totally wrong, even the comment (which is not even consistent with the code) is wrong.

Not judging the language itself, but that is not really convincing.
Mind Reading Algorithms Reconstruct What You’re Seeing Using Brain Scan Data
The Washington Metro keeps a single attendant at each station, so maybe 3 attendants per day. And employed what seemed like less than 1 janitorial person per station, given that you only saw one person cleaning at any one time, and that was only for an hour or two each day. You don't need double those numbers for a 7 day week because employees are a system-wide resource.

I understand you're going to need more maintenance personnel, etc, but 162 additional staff for two stations sounds like a concession to the unions. Which in the grand scheme of the whole system might be defensible--more employees as a compromise for capping wage growth. But let's call a spade a spade.
These aren't the same things at all. The U.S. / NED did not hack Russian politician's computers and spread disinformation about them. However, it is standard Russian propaganda to make wild allegations of equivalencies every time they do something wrong. 'We invaded Ukraine? What about Serbia? Texas?'
> 2) Is there any costs associated with this. Do i ever need to pay

See https://ngrok.com/product#pricing.
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I used to use Ngrok, then I discovered ultrahook which gives me a persistent endpoint, for free.
Viertel neun for 8:15 and drei viertel neun for 8:45 are commonly used in Austria.
I'm in the same boat. I cranked a lot of things out with CodeIgniter back in the day. Expression Engine is superior to WordPress but if you like either I'd suggest Craft CMS now and moving forward. For general apps, I use Laravel or Lumen. And React PHP for scraping. And don't forget The League [1]. Lots of great PHP stuff out there.

[1] https://thephpleague.com
I personally don't see the dangers of even mild recreational use, and performance enhancement is definitely not recreational as dosage has to be kept low, and strictly controlled.

In medical terminology, substance abuse has a well known definition covering addiction, increasing use, and use to the detriment of mental, physical or social well being.

Someone getting a performance benefit from a drug is not abusing it, whilst they are using it within the safe parameters defined by their doctor.
or vpn which has better performance due to udp
That is a common claim, but at this point it's not adding anything to repeat it. Where is the research and evidence?
Wow...extraordinary the detail they can resolve to. Probably we'll all be tracked in real time by AI bots analyzing real time satellite video feeds soon...
Is localtunnel free?
That can be said about a lot of code bases.
You are forgetting crates don't exist in isolation, rather they have a dependency graph, many times with overlapping nodes.

Those two minutes are actually around ten minutes to compile something like rustfmt, just because binary dependencies aren't supported.

My average C++ projects, mixed with Java or .NET code are the ones actually taking two minutes, on the same system.

Truth be told they would take much longer when compiling everything from scratch, but we never do, because we already have the binary libraries.

So it is a bit hard to sell Rust when the toolchain is slower than C++, which I am pretty confident it will certainly improve in any case.
Rent-seeking is an economic term that refers to things like Microsoft getting $5 to $15 for each Android device sold despite doing jack shit to improve Android.

It has nothing to do with property rental.

[0] https://www.howtogeek.com/183766/why-microsoft-makes-5-to-15...
"The Independent isn't a reliable news source and it has no place on Hacker News."

Show me what news sources are good for Hacker News ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=sudojudo Oh, complain but offer no alternatives.

I found it interesting, ads or not (I adblock everything) and hand't read about Dame Steve. Fantastic to think that F1 made 30 or so of their software employees, mostly women millionaires.
> where's the proof?

That gives foreign intelligence agencies license to interfere in your country and others, for they rarely leave proof, if they are any good, and much evidence is classified. Shall we just give them free reign? Is the Russian FSB innocent until proven guilty?
off topic but Instagram's pre-production servers are getting indexed by google: https://preprod.instagram.com/vivek.be/
"can be said about a lot of code bases."

True, the poster asked specifically about T3X.
> He is also of a generation from which most people barely use emails

This does not match my experience at all. Most people I know of his generation use email heavily.
I don't understand how google is so incompetent and just left facebook this field entirely to themselves. Why couldn't there be a Youtube Stills app for example?
I just released the game 2 weeks ago and thus there are very few users and you might not match with anyone to play with as of now :/. However, the game has a practice mode where you can experiment with randomly generated planets and gravitational fields, which is quite fun. You can also try the web version of the game here http://www.playslingshot.com. (Play it in full screen. This is just a simple local 1v1 couch Co-Op version of the game).

Hope you guys like it. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for trying out my game.
Even if you're not using a full-fledged framework, a router is a must these days. Anyone dropping a dozen or more .php files in the webroot that all include the same dependencies or header/footer is not following modern practices. And by "modern", I don't mean the newest fad from the past 1-5 years. We're talking about a standard way of doing things that is 10-15 years old.

WordPress is a perfect example of extremely poor code. Worth vomiting every time you think about it. No seasoned developer would put together a project the way they still have it. It has nothing to do with "backwards compatibility", or "easy to host with free/cheap hosts". It's not just "not modern", it's actually straight-up unacceptable. WordPress looks like it's put together by a group of php3 juniors writing their first script, having never held a professional job. That's not so much an opinion, as it is a factual assessment that any honest professional developer would give.
Also - can this last part be written different? Feels monolithic

sudo -u postgres bash -c "cat > /var/lib/postgresql/9.2/main/recovery.conf <<- _EOF_
restore_command = 'env ......blahblah"
Security researchers say it's the Russians, based on evidence they have seen. It's not that people are throwing a dart at a map and picking Russia.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/world/europe/france-macro...
If you are interested to run your own pastebin (or alike) analysis, AIL is a "modular framework to analyse potential information leaks from unstructured data sources like pastes from pastebin or similar services or unstructured data streams." https://github.com/CIRCL/AIL-framework
So here's the thing: Facebook said they'd leave Instagram to be Instagram. But saying Facebook isn't holding that promise because things have changed isn't necessarily accurate.

The people in charge of Instagram may have used more and more of Facebook's tools, looked at better analytics, tweaked, used lessons learned from Facebook, etc.

While I agree it's unlikely that Facebook left them entirely alone I don't think it's necessarily fair to say they meddled just because things have changed. Nothing stays the same especially in the tech industry.
slightly less excited now :(
I imagine he would've commented in Swedish, not Finnish
Swift is probably the closest thing to this today, where new versions of the language ship with a migrator tool.
Agreed! This is gold for debugging webhooks and prototyping APIs. Pretty much a "me too" post but just wanted to express my appreciation to the dev
Not really, consoles are just one category. With the open PC hardware PC gaming gained traction with Wing Commander in 1992/93. And before that home computers like C64/Amiga/etc were popular. Only since 2002/03 PC games and console games and since 2010 also tablet games are developed on PC and ported to several platforms. Nowadays PC not only means DOS or now Windows but also macOS, Linux and SteamOS. It will be interesting to watch how Windows 10 effects the PC gaming world, now that Windows 10 S forbids all non-store apps, preventing Steam and GoG. As there is only one Win10 only game at the moment, there is still very little reason not to just stay with Win7 or 8, a much more stable and privacy aware system, if you ask the educated users. On consoles PS4 is going very strong with Pro, VR and a lot of exclusive console games, and the second best sales are from Nintendo also with several exclusive console games. They others have a very small world wide marketshare and little exclusive games.
1) it depends on the network. the best way is simply to try it
2) yes
3) nope, they can use whatever standard tooling you already use
Richard Feynman and Computation [pdf]
It seems to be!
ecological homeostasis has been discredited for nearly half a century
What's an example of "broad soft science"? Astrology? Telekinesis?
Do you know how they're able to offer it for free?
Certainly, although even with complete adoption of ipv6, i suspect we'll still see most networks locked down to prevent incoming connections
I was talking about the amount of media attention given to pilots/SEAL/etc. But yes wars are won with artillery. But luckily, we haven't had a war like that in awhile, especially for US.
http://greenwaves-technologies.com/en/first-internet-things-...

Shows it has some sdr capabilitues in tbe 1mb/s range
These are completely separate hires from the rest of the BART system. Because Santa Clara County didn't buy into the system in the 60s, choosing to build a network of expressways instead, VTA is operating these stations completely separate of the rest of the BART network. So that means you're going to need redundancies that you wouldn't need if you had a bigger station and employee pool.
I think it is a combination of all those. It's just an overlooked cause. I think many avoid it entirely because they believe it demeans women. As I said in another post, more capable about came to the fore in much large droves than the US could ever take at one time from immigrants. We now had a massive surplus of labor. This would drive wages down.

With this, the collapse the union base, and add new cheaper labor in the rest of the world. Also enact free trade policies that didn't tax imports that used essentially slave labor to make their products.

The end result is depressed wages from without and within. So too automation rendering a portion of this pool redundant.
http://greenwaves-technologies.com/en/first-internet-things-...

Has radio capabilities in the imb/s range.
When you are interviewing the entity that can throttle visits to your articles, it's a bit more complicated than that. Coincidentally, many of the "fake news" links they knocked down were sites that also criticized Facebook.
> The immigration problem is seen as huge ... in the US. Therefore people choose candidates that are against more immigrations

That's not true. The candidate that supported immigrants and immigration received more votes in the U.S.; an entire major party is supportive of immigration, as are some members of the other party.

> What would any of you think when 500 people from a far away country were placed near your house? You would experience it as a some kind of problem.

I would not; I would be thrilled for them, proud of our country and community, and I would find out how I could help them. Many others have the same reactions. The U.S., for example, has been welcoming immigrants for its entire history - almost every American is one or is descended from them. Canada was very welcoming of them - look at their pointed response to Trump's immigration policies.

> If we look back in history, we can see that a part of these (mostly male) immigrants are coming from Syria

I don't see how this is related to acceptance of immigrants.
I don't know where the expectation of anonymous complaint came from.

If you complain about a business or person, you ought to expect that they'll be allowed to defend themselves against you.

Especially if you complain to some 3rd party who already has an existing relationship with them... why would one expect preferential treatment?
But the constructor approach does not explain what makes a sum type a sum.

If the readers already have some background in a programming language, you could also start with e.g. a struct from an imperative language:

struct Foo {
X x;
Y y;
}

This is a so-called product type, because the number of possible values of Foo is the number of values of type X times the number of values of type Y. So if X = {Red, Green, Blue} and Y = {Light, Dark}, then this product type has 3 x 2 = 6 different values:

Foo {Red, Light}
Foo {Green, Light}
Foo {Blue, Light}
Foo {Red, Dark}
Foo {Green, Dark}
Foo {Blue, Dark}

What if instead, we wanted to have the sum of the possible values of X and Y? In other words, where we'd have to choose between a value from X or from Y?

Foo {Red}
Foo {Green}
Foo {Blue}
Foo {Light}
Foo {Dark}

That's a sum type: it is a type where you can pick a value from X or Y, giving a total of 3 + 2 = 5 possible values.

Then give a motivating example where one would need such a type (e.g. trees nodes) and introduce proper notation.
> FPGA demos of GAP8 are available to customers today, and GAP8 samples will be available in mid-2017.

That probably means that commercial availability will happen on q4 at earliest.
Isn't the Facebook HQ (former Sun Microsystems campus) located right next to the salt ponds?
The US military's approach to officer development is totally different from the civilian world. Someone who's been an officer should describe it here. It's normal for officers to go from combat units to full-time schooling and back again. Biographies of generals often show several cycles of that.

The military maintains schools of its own, and will ship promising officers off to civilian universities. Gen. Daniel Bolger got a PhD in history from the University of Chicago during his career, between his two tours in Iraq and another in Afghanistan. That's normal at the higher levels of the military.

At the lower levels, everybody gets run through task-oriented schools, which are usually better equipped with equipment and simulators than civilian operations. In the military, after being lectured on something, you usually practice doing it. Military education is set up to produce results in minimum time, not at minimum cost.

Here's a US Navy simulator.[1] That's not a real ship; it's a full-sized mockup indoors, near Chicago.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0eGmEcACBM
From storeis though, panicked passengers in flight tend to stay calm... there is a sense of helplessness and acceptance that takes over pretty quick when you realize there isnt anything you can do
True but the fact that EU power is vested in an unelected and unaccountable elite who make the laws has been a very significant factor for Brexit.
Hmm, not sure if "extracts profit margins" is the right terminology. In mobile games, you could have a lifetime value of a user that is higher than their acquisition cost. This generates a model where you can spend money to make money.

In this instance, advertising is fuelling user acquisition which fuels profit.
renpy is a visual novel engine you were looking for. https://www.renpy.org/
The thing is, you cannot decide which crate someone will depend on, regardless how it is labeled.
It always baffles me when people say that algorithms aren't relevant to software development. It's like saying thermodynamics isn't relevant to engine design.
same idea, great project. folks pay for ngrok because it's 1) more reliable 2) more featureful
What happened to the post?
The social value they're creating is that people like me are able to have a common medium through which I can maintain at least some semblance of socialization with a multitude of people who don't all share common interest other than being people I've communicated with at some point.
Macron emails leaked online ahead of presidential vote
> Historically, most online communications have emphasized text, and emojis add much-needed emotional content to text-driven communications—and often help people express themselves more precisely.

Au contraire ... it's more like "Here are a bunch of emojis so you can interpret my message any way you want but if later it should turn out that I disagree with your interpretation, it's your fault!"
Russia copies Chinese censorship, blocks WeChat
3D Printing Bionic Devices Directly onto the Skin
>> not have all of your files be web accessible

cough wp-config.php cough
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I see all the posts of anyone I follow in the temporal order in which they post. Do you even selfie bro?
Not at all. The article focuses on how Instagram has continually evolved itself despite the tendency of loyal users to decry change, specifically mentioning the ranked newsfeed and Snapchat-style stories.

Having said that, I don't think it's "Facebook" doing this. This has probably been Instagram's approach to product from day one.
I agree with this. I a sure there were changes for the better and worse do to the acquisition; but Systrom said that Instagram retained a lot of autonomy. I am not a user of FB or IG but certainly over several years the platform would change; all good tech products evolve.

Contrasting this with Oculus; I think IG was given a lot less hands on MGMT.
Give whom free reign? Your chosen bogeyman? If we're going to go down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole, who's to say that the conspiracy is not being committed by our own governments to instill fear of other governments and to strip away our rights? Just because you trust your government more or what? What ability do you have to ride on your claims if you can't back them up?
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APL.Swift[0] is a Swift 1 library that adds APL operators. It probably wouldn't be that hard to port it to Swift 3.

[0] https://github.com/CodaFi/APL.swift/blob/master/APL/Operator...
Do you have any basis for these otherwise baseless allegations? Major cities are filled with immigrants and cultures from all over the world, and are the engines of advanced economies. New York is one very successful example; London is another.

In my experience, it's the people with the least experience with immigrants who have the most objection to immigration.

> A trickle of immigrants from, for example, east Asia is clearly enriching

I don't know what country you are in, but if you are in the West than East Asian nations certainly do not share your 'values'. Visit one of those countries some time.

But this comment is outright hateful ethnic stereotyping. One essential Western value is to judge people by their actions individuals, not by the color of their skin, their nationality, their sexual preference, etc. Another is liberty, which doesn't mean liberty to do what someone else happens to like.

Every generation of immigrants has the same things said about them: They don't integrate, they speak their own language, they don't share our values, etc. etc. But their kids grow up natives. How sad that you have so little confidence in those values that you don't think they will win over these immigrants just like they've won over every generation of immigrants before them.
There are really nice features like a local request log, a replay button, a debugger, automatically good TLS, &c &c.
I have an $3000 XPS13 and it's the worst computer I ever had. Very bad build quality. Too hot so glue dissolves. Makes weird noises with load (or browser scrolling). Fan broken in no time. Performance not what I had hoped for.
I guess Email or text messages are no longer cool?
This is about the handgun/watergun emoji, isn't it?
Yes, that is the whole point...
> most of them pragmatic

I'm not sure how you can count them and say 'most'. Certainly a lot of racism is involved. I've rarely heard many economic analyses or real evidence that provide pragmatic reasons, but that doesn't rule them out.
The most -ahem- interesting takeaway from this story IMHO is that Orleans Parish DA Cannizzaro describes being jailed as a material witness as an inconvenience.

If I were a local judge, I'd love the opportunity to lock him up for a few weeks just to have that 'inconvenience' metered out on himself.
Then, it could be that this leak is intended to destabilize the next president and that this time-window is the perfect time to release it without opposition. (If he win - most likely -, then he won't focus directly on this. Any bad informations will strengthen the opposition - he is challenged by both left and right.)