skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> GNU parallel

Which is a 15000-line Perl script, so to be expected.
Many of them started as local-only, "short-line" railroads in the first place.
They being China or the US?
It's indeed simple but that doesn't mean it's not difficult.
I suspect the tough part of whatthefont isn't so much the visual search but having a large database of labelled fonts.

There are other services that does this but personally I've always heard good things about whatthefont.
The US economy will see a series of booms and busts. As all economies will. As will China's. When? Who knows? But I wouldn't be the one to bet on never.
We don't have one, but you can make your own, e.g. Ungläubigkeitsekelehrfurchtsrespekt.
US Military's XS-1 Space Plane Will Be Built by Boeing
Piper is their perforce-like server. You check out certain files, as you'd with p4, work on the tree using git, with reviews, tests, etc. You periodically do a sync which is like pull - - rebase. Then you push your changes back into the perforce-like monorepo.
I didn't say it was recreational or supposed to be fun. I just wanted to point out that you don't need to rely on drugs to suddenly understand your life a little better than you did before.
It's so ironic that their argument for preventing user's control of their phones is security.
Why is this stuff so hyped? It does not surprise me at all. A computer can calculate every step in milliseconds. Whats so surprising? When did the first chess computer beat the world champion? 50 years ago?
The price-point is what really has me excited. Their last e-paper reader / annotation tablet was nearly $1000!
On Removal of the Statue of Robert E. Lee, and New Orleans Mayor’s Explanation
If you save an Automator workflow as an app, anything can launch it. Including this.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that what they did? Didn't they do it on the usual patch Tuesday?

I don't have any old versions of Windows installed, so I truly don't know how it rolled out there.
Repository.

Application Lifecycle Management.

It's Brian Harry's blog, he has a farm, sometimes he posts about the (mis)adventures of his animals.
When Will AI Exceed Human Performance? Evidence from AI Experts
The biggest group holding US debt are its citizens. The social security trust fund has been raided for decades by the general fund to spend on defense security state and has not been paid back.

Politicians and their funders hope everyone is hoodwinked into forgiving the debt or just taxing everyone more to make up for the stolen^W borrowed money.
This focuses on the tragedy but is unrealistic about the social reality. Syria has been loaded with sectarian divisions and strife for thousands of years. Many of the clans fighting in this war have been in conflict for very long periods of time already. The quote peace unquote that existed in Syria did so in large part because the leadership had so aggressively murdered its detractors. It is true that much has been lost, but it is false that this is all some kind of strange mystery that was put upon Syria from the outside. Conflicts festered in Syria for a very long time and eventually without adequate solutions bubbled over and initiated this catastrophe.
Based on that I would look at Funatics since they seem to have the "bigger" traffic, or even AdRoll...

http://tech.adroll.com/blog/data/2014/11/17/d-is-for-data-sc...

Edit:

To be fair a lot of the companies there look like they handle heavier loads. Also Garbage Collection is optional, and there are alternatives to the "standard library" for D that others have made that are probably usable without GC. Some people have done successful embedded systems programming without the GC, I remember one guy talking about it on the D irc channel.
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Setting up Windows 10 to run Rails using WSL
I use tmux to do something similar which I got from thoughtbots training site I think it was.

I have a script called just c with the following:

------

name=$1

if !(tmux has-session -t "$name" 2> /dev/null); then

tmux start \;\

set -g set-remain-on-exit on \;\

new-session -d -s $name

tmux source-file "$HOME/.tmux.conf"

tmux source-file "$HOME/.tmux/profiles/$name.tmuxrc"

fi

tmux attach -t $name

-----

Then I cp a tmux profile from a template depending on the project language/framework into profiles and rename the directories in it then I can just do `c project` in the future to have everything started up.
The vast masses of Chinese citizens are not those people.

History isn't in agreement, and time after time, the peasants will starve before the bourgeoisie suffer to a point that they feel enough pain to revolt.

It's economically cheaper for the State to continue to pay for the ruling classes' requisite "hookers and blow" than it is to pay for social programs.
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Did you just link to something from this (http://www.energyadvocate.com/) website?

Roy Spencer (the guy who did the chart) has been thoroughly dismissed. Not because of his views, but because his models terrible, he never does any actual studies, and he will tweak models until he gets the output he wants.

http://www.livescience.com/15293-climate-change-cloud-cover....
10/10/10
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All skills take considerable effort to become adept at. And contrary to the author's belief, telling kids that programming is "complicated, technically and ethically" is a quick way to lose their interest. Anecdotally, I began programming because I thought it was fun.
Nsync: Google's fast synchronization library
Yes, I am curious about this argument too. Is there any links related with this?
Hey thanks! That's some helpful feedback. I'll have to fix that URL issue. Unfortunately some sites take down their articles after a period of time so some links that worked previously don't work anymore.

I've struggled to refine the value prop over time. I originally built tracket to scratch an itch I had and I've been trying to come up with a better value prop for others.
The fact that the only competition is unaffordable to a product with 85% global market share is a strong indicator we need to bust a monopoly for the public interest.
I always seem to remember this project sort of limping along, only to forget it a while after as even though I'm an artist and I could make some use of it, the setup is far too much of a trouble when a Wordpress blog would do the trick for sharing my works just fine. Maybe it needs something akin to what happened with GNU/Social and Mastodon to be thrown into the limelight.
GoCD: Rubygem to fetch various information using go's APIs
Large seas of debt made sense when they were somewhat more underdeveloped, and every additional unit of debt could be used for 'easy' value creation. As it currently stands, I don't see their rate of value creation servicing their debt. Similar dynamics, albeit to a lesser extent, are in play in India and other countries in South East Asia.
The article emphasized that the counterfeit currency cost about the same amount to make as the actual trading value of the currency.
From the start Ke Jie had chosen the path of narrow but certain defeat, without himself knowing. Alphago knew it all the time and therefore let Ke Jie to take the course of euthanasia. The end result is a close defeat but it was a total defeat all the way.
Thanks! I'm using a td-idf algorithm to rank similarity between stories. It's evolved over time and I'm constantly refining it.
If your choices are to take a drug or die obviously you will do whatever you can to pay, but that hardly means the price is reasonable.
And to make it even worse, Object.create does parent-relationship, and Object.assign does the cloning(if you squint a little bit). Which seems like it should be flip-flopped, since "create" is closer to "cloning" than "assign" is. Even the es5 improvements ended up getting it wrong!
>but the typical Android phone owner will tend to do nothing in response to a new security paper, while malicious actors will tend to write exploit scripts.

If there are enough open, unpatched exploits people will switch to other phone vendors.
The dark side of extreme productivity, and how to steer back toward the light
Shows a 123reg holding page for me
Behind-The-Scenes GIFs Reveal How Special Effects Were Done in Silent Films
You might also check out spacemacs, it has perspectives pre-configured. Or...steal their elisp :)
This was a top YC company back when they were in it
Or just sharing private content you don't want the big companies to have.
You know you are correct. When a photo sharing app sells for billions everyone interviews the founders and praises them. When you save 10 lives and charge billions you are a criminal. I am not sure which one is right or wrong, but it certainly isn't fair to the drug makers.
AGPL is great for letting regular people host stuff without large companies taking over your project and giving it to their 100000000000000000 centralized user base.
They failed their mission to instead chase profits to the detriment of the public. What's to say they don't have a financial incentive here?
China's development has really been fascinating.

10-20 years ago I can remember the analyses arguing China can only continue to grow with liberalization, even outright requirements for democracy. Perhaps these pronouncements are still being made.

I've come to believe that what's really useful to people isn't "democracy" or "freedom" rather rather stability. That means political and economic stability.

One thing I find fascinating is China's ghost cities. I remember reading some report that said housing for 64M+ was sitting vacant, largely unaffordable to locals. Now one can argue that such work is stimulating the economy by providing employment.

But here's another view. As much as we might (rightly) deride Trump, there are the (very) occasional nuggets of truth. Some might say even racist clocks are right twice a day [1]. Whatever the case, the specific issue is infrastructure.

Infrastructure in the US is crumbling. What's more, a lot of infrastructure exists now that would be completely uneconomic to build now. Look at the Second Avenue Subway in NYC that apparently somehow cost $17B+ to basically go 50 blocks. What's more, a lot of this infrastructure has not and is not being maintained.

So why is this unaffordable to build now? I suspect the answer is that labour is simply too expensive as is real estate.

So what if China is simply building infrastructure now while it's relatively cheap to do so? Obviously once built infrastructure depreciates but inflation also works in your favour (assuming positive inflation).

Now I don't know if that is the Chinese government's thinking but I find it an interesting thought.

[1] https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/133477/new-patv-e...
I disagree -- regular ol' people generate way more video and audio content than the artists of RIAA+MPAA. If you want to distribute copyrighted content, there are much better solutions to that problem than Mediagoblin. But if you want to put a video of your class lecture somewhere students can see it, it could be a much better option than Youtube. Especially if your classes discuss works of art still protected by copyright. Even though it's your right to discuss it via fair use, who wants the headache of arguing with rightsholders and Google's bots?

It's AGPL specifically because it's a GNU project. shrug if you want to write a BSD one, that's your right. IMO they're not extremists. I like the BSD license a lot. But I also think that sometimes some companies exploit software developed under BSD licenses and in those cases coders and users alike lose out. For that reason I think it's very appropriate that the GPL and AGPL exist.
Being that this is an end-user application (and not a library), what does the AGPL matter? Would you otherwise be releasing proprietary MediaGoblin extensions?

Is it just me or are the copyleft digs increasing in number lately? The little jabs seem nearly as immature as outsiders requesting that FOSS maintainers rewrite their projects in different languages.
The source of all the debt is money creation. Any amount of money can be created by central banks. The commercial banks can also create money by lending more (up to 10x) money that what they have.
Does anyone how much external debt is held by China ? I'd imagine their generally (well-placed IMO) aversion to IMF/WB folk might help them plod along with the help of their central bank. Money is fictional you know.
Appeals court allows Wikimedia to sue NSA for 'Upstream' surveillance
I wish JavaScript had been more like NewtonScript with Java influenced syntax instead of NS's Pascal-ish parts. Plus NewtonScript's frame and two parents was much nicer.
I've been trying Freeter since it was posted here. It's definitely not bad, but I don't think it solves the isolation problem mentioned - but it does help me get my workspace back up after a restart.
I don't have much experience with it but IMO mediagoblin might suit small organizations slightly better than individuals. It's probably best for folks who want their cycling club, makerspace, HOA, scouts troop, university, etc to be able to share media without being subject to content restrictions, silly communities, etc.
It's a catch 22, people who know the most about a market are almost certainly invested.
For sure, and Windows is not a microkernel, but it does have separated kernel-in-kernel and executive layers; it would approach being a microkernel architecture if the executive was moved into userland. This is similar to how macOS would be a microkernel, if everything wasn't run in kernel mode (mach, on which it is partially based, is a microkernel).

Of course the issue here is that after NT 4, GDI has been in kernel mode; this is necessary for performance reasons. Prior to that it was a part of the user mode Windows subsystem.

I'd be curious to see if GDI moved back to userland would be acceptable with modern hardware, but I suspect MS is not interested in that level of churn for minimal gain.
Not the OP, but 15,000 people died because of the tsunami. No one died from the radiation release at Fukushima and:

"A comprehensive assessment by international experts on the health risks associated with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (NPP) disaster in Japan has concluded that, for the general population inside and outside of Japan, the predicted risks are low and no observable increases in cancer rates above baseline rates are anticipated."

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2013/fukushima_...
It's one of those things where you can take a simple tool and probably make something hideously complicated with it if you go too far, but in simple cases it's useful all over the place.

For example, I very often write functions that take an initial parameter representing some sort of customisable context and then further parameters that are the right types to use with some standard higher order function like a map, filter or fold. Partial application then supplies the context and gives back something ready to pass into that HOF.
Peter Reinhardt has a great talk about that. You need to understand the feedback that you receive and sometimes is better kill fast your ideas to move on. If it is a product or a community doesn't matter, if your growth is flat you still didn´t hit the market that you need so you could eventually successful monetize your company.

People that really love what you do will "spread the word" and bring new people.
Curious to see this here, given that I've been trying to set up some of these "decentralized services" at my home servers and figuring out if it is really possible to replace the common mainstream services.

So far, I installed my own Matrix server (synapse), my own XMPP (ejabberd), yesterday I got semi-happy with my mastodon setup, and now I was just finishing some tests with ownCloud to see if I could replace Dropbox.

MediaGoblin is on my list of services to setup. I ran a basic deployment and checked some other instances of it before, but I didn't put it higher on my priority list because to me it looks like it focus too much on being a "community-driven website" instead of providing a solid service as a media-hosting/publishing/catalog system.

To me it looks like they are shooting for the wrong level of "decentralization granularity". Each instance of these services are aiming for a "community", and think that the people use the mainstream tools because they don't want to/won't manage the server.

The point they seem to miss is that this only creates another type of top-down organization. It would be MUCH easier for them to focus on a "single-user" system, and start from the point that the communication will work when the applications talk with each other.

To me this is why Diaspora failed, and Wordpress is still such a big part of the internet.

Another thing I noticed: the projects that really focused on separating client from server produced much better results in terms of UI/UX. With Matrix, I just had to setup the server, and then I could have the riot app just point to my instance. If by any chance a better client comes around, my instance would be untouched.
Infoseek delivered far superior results to altavista in that era.
Absolutely, but if the US (Moody's, even!) idea of China's cycle is valuable, then so must theirs be of ours.
gRPC is built on http/2. I imagine it supports flow control and delivery guarantees already? It's just http/2 + protobuf
It works nicely, your users have to download a ton of data, though. Long loading times. For nicer results, use something lightweight like CopperCube, or use a hand written lib like three.js.
On my Linux Chrome with version 55 - it says, "Sorry, but your browser does not yet support WebAssembly."
Just a few questions:

- Do you believe that an employer should only fire someone for things that are illegal? If yes, why, if no, how can we rely on the legal system if they are being fired for things that aren't illegal?

- Do you believe that this innocent until proven guilty legally applies even if other employees are leaving as a result of their conduct? Say a manager whose reports seem to quit very quickly complaining about sexual harassment. When does the company have the right to fire the troublemaker? One employee that quits? 5? 10?

- Should a company be liable for actions that its employees take on its premises during the working day? That is, if I complain about a coworker, and then am forced to continue working with them, and then am hurt (we'll say physically to make this simpler), should I be able to sue the company for forcing me to continue working with that person despite my complaint?

- Related to the prior two, but broader: at what point does the economic effect on the company outweigh their moral duty to protect employees accused of misconduct? Keep in mind that a company has a duty to shareholders as well as to its other employees. I hope you don't think that a company should be willing to go under to continue employing a single employee, no matter their alleged misconduct.

- A company has a moral duty to protect employees from firing based on implication. Does it also have a moral duty to protect employees from harassment?
IMO, VC comes down not to tracking what was actually done, but to creating snapshots of logical steps that are reasonable to roll back to and git bisect with.
The Gardened Wall model. Interesting gambit.
Instead of --word-diff, I like --color-words.

Though it can be difficult to notice an addition if it's just one or two chars.
I think this was in The Wolf of Wall Street or some other stock market related movie.
I think they should've thought of a much more useful demo for screencast.

Something practical that appears to their audience, which is probably developers.
Linux, Python and R are great assets for BI and or data viz. He should be learning Javascript for D3 or similar as well as play with a demo of Tableau. Startups love advanced degrees of any sort even Quantum Physics. Helps them make the leap;-)
What if the hard disk is password protected?
> Somalia is way worse than high-functioning governments like the United States

Yet my libertarian friends on Facebook all seem to want to tear the enitre government down.
You've got the timeline precisely backwards here. The move towards making computing less and less like a motorcycle and more and more like a train was _not_ pioneered by companies like Google: they were the ones fighting it kicking and screaming for years. The market demanded that things get less and less hackable and more and more shiny, or at the very least rewarded those (like Apple) that felt that way too.
Their front page right at this moment has several unpleasant articles, including three Islamophobic items, one anti-Semitic item, and one joke accusing liberals of equating conservative economic policy and racism. So that's probably not helpful to their prospects.
But the article also claims that the central bank would have to buy the counterfeit (and legit) currency at a premium, so that it's worth it to the citizens to exchange.
Yes, but that's just begging the question — where is value being created in this equation?
‘I can’t even get a job waitressing’: Gen Y on its work woes
> you don't get to define fake news. Fake news is as simple as it sounds: articles that are factually incorrect.

I'm happy to debate the nuance of the term fake news, but I think it's ironic that you presume to glibly assert your own definition of fake news right after exclaiming that one cannot do so (unless you're suggesting that CNN and myself, in particular, are forbidden from doing so).

Anyway, fake news is not simply "articles that are factually incorrect", otherwise every misreported fact or journalistic error could be classified as fake news which any intellectually honest person will admit is not what is intended to be described by the term fake news. Further, something cannot be fake news if it is not "news". Random images floating around the internet is not news. People posting memes and rumors on social media is not news. Honestly, even partisan bias and selective reporting by news organizations is not "fake news", and the terms "bias and selective reporting" accurately convey those qualities. Fake news is a loaded pejorative that carries the baggage of the 2016-2017 zeitgeist, so if you're going to use it at all, stick to the definition that common sense would have given us prior to 2016: reporting of current events that is deliberately presented as true when the authors know it is false.
I've been blogging for over a decade. As an independent consultant... While the leads I get over the Internet tend to be weak, it's still given me visibility. Most colleagues & startups I meet with in NYC have already heard of me. Name recognition is huge.

As others have said, honing your ideas is also a process that blogging chisels & fine tunes.

http://www.iheavy.com/2017/03/13/30-questions-to-ask-a-serve...
Here is how I solved the problem of switching between multiple projects/workflows: https://hackernoon.com/how-i-hacked-my-workflow-45e328ad8d9b

TL;DR Try Freeter: https://freeter.io
I actually solved this problem in my first year of learning programming; mind you I didn't have a computer, only (limited)access to it at college. The only thing I knew was recursion. I thought hard for 3 days, discovered (he hee..) back-tracking and found the solution. For some reason, I cannot solve interview puzzles, and tried and failed to get into Google and FB.
Facebook does for that grandmother what Email could not. But that still doesn't make Facebook all a saint.

In alternate reality, children and grandchildren should be calling her often on possibly Skype or better services. They should be emailing her their pictures.

But above probably proves that by now, Facebook is not running their business for grandmother or her kids. Hence, the cancer.
Very key for independent consultants. Almost essential
Interesting that nathcd's comment (on this comment thread specifially) is 'dead'. Basically he explains politely and using analogy why AGPL seems just fine and then points out there seems to be a trend of anti-copyleft on HN lately. Subsequently his comment is now 'dead'... point proven?