skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, not really. Now the total system is distributed, but the parts I tried this on weren't. They were Mac and iOS clients with shared code. I moved the architecture from two separate apps that have some shared libs towards a headless app that is basically the same and has two UIs (also with shared code) sitting on top.
Hadn't seen the jmol stuff before. We were putting this project together around 5 years ago. Shapeways was around, but we had resources on campus for 3d printing which we used.

Typically a chemistry student would have been using MacMolPlt [1] to visualize the process. If I remember right, it let you see how the atoms move during a reaction (I'm rusty on it though). It also had the ability to show orbital clouds. We were able to import the set of vertices making up the orbital clouds and generate them as a surface in Blender.

Screenshots in [2]. Unfortunately I'm having trouble finding my pictures of the final printed models. These are from an earlier version before we had the shapes by periodic table column.

[1] http://brettbode.github.io/wxmacmolplt/

[2] http://imgur.com/a/duGDd
Again, people find things funny for different reasons. You prefer to focus on the _method_ of telling a joke (timing and so on). While I definitely enjoy such jokes, the jokes I find really funny are the ones that actually relate to my life (or contrast with it) -- or even more broadly the ones that make me think. That's just the kind of humour I'm into.

Here's some counter-examples:

* Most of Brazil is funny for many different reasons. Yes, it has references to 1984, and the style and acting are very necessary to make the jokes work. But everyone can relate (in some way) to the extremely over-blown life of the protagonist -- someone who is stuck in a system working a job they hate with endless bureaucracy. What makes it funny is how blown out-of-proportion it is and how transparent the internal inconsistencies are.

* Rick and Morty is a complicated subject to approach (it has many, many different layers of humour), but some of my favourite jokes come from cases where Rick or Morty reference things that I e with. For example, the whole "inception is so hard to understand" concept was part of a very funny quip where Rick tells Morty that "he doesn't have to impress him" when Morty says "inception wasn't hard to understand". There are many other instances of that.

Again, I don't understand your point. Why are you arguing about what's funny? I thought we concluded a long time ago that humour was subjective. Why are you telling me what should and shouldn't be funny?

For example, I don't think that clip was very funny. But that's just me.
Just curious..if China could help build it with half cost and half time, would CA accept? If not, why?
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I agree, but a well set trailing stop (% behind based on volatility) is probably the next best thing and lets you sleep at night and go on holidays without worrying.
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KK0PICK/ref=kinw_myk_...

It's about tidying up, but also about making your living space harmonious without clutter. It's not one of those get a box and put your pencils in it and then label it.
Anyone willing to give me a loan for $10m at 2% -- I'm game.

2% is a good interest rate for a collateralized loan, and frankly, often it's not worth putting up the money yourself if you can borrow it (at 2%). Then again, a car isn't (really) an asset with a positive RoI..
Call me old fashion, but I think car salesmen ought to make their money off of selling cars instead of exploiting consumer's ignorance of financial tools and more complex math. This is so much more nefarious.
My friends and I blow off school pressure by playing smash. It is, no joke, the biggest addiction in my life. But it's exactly what you say – a way to regain some control in a world that otherwise is lacking in it.
So why not just snap to simplified Chinese? You'd get a billion person headstart and the ideograms are probably just as arbitrary.
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As someone who has been considering a Ryzen-based box for the assumed lightning speeds of parallel compilation, I'll be following this story.
They can't even get interoperability with Caltrain settled out, and building miles of useless track in the Central Valley is all they've done so far (from what I remember, could be wrong there).
Kinda amazing that the Chinese could help build our railroads again...
Why is this piece all about jobs? Where's the family aspect? The hours playing games that could have been spent socializing, courting, going to a bar, having sex? Those things are even more important than working hard at a career. Sorry but this does sound very American to me. You have a very work focused culture, it's where esteem is earned it seems. I think that is also a bit troubling.

In the end it is very simply though wherever you are from, you can either spend your time consuming or you can spend it creating.
That's a good research topic.
Considering the time-frame involved -- 20 years
you could infer that attempts at finding alternative strategies have been half hearted
The way the ISO and standardisation works is the reason for this.
99 out 100 researchers work on the mainstream
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I'd much rather see a spacious and quiet HSR than a cramped Hyperloop.
The spam call filter is arguably one of the best benefits of using a Google Voice number. My spam call and voicemail folder is full of SEO, payday loan, and other outright scam messages. Just activate the filter and you never see these calls unless you go into the spam interface on the Voice site. You can manually add a number to your spam block but most calls are auto-blocked against a list of known offenders.
Thanks for those answers!

I definitely understand the "yeah sure" bit, even as a "normal" :). Well, actually, I don't think I'm a "normal", I'm probably a "hyper", but... whatever.

As long as there's no mistaken signals, everything's cool. I mean, I sometimes "go rogue", I just tend to announce it a few weeks in advance ;).

No need to reply to any of this, I just found it very interesting to read this experience "from the other side" and from an "honest" perspective.
result := collection collect:[ :a | a process ].
result := collection collect process.

collection do process.

1 to: 10 do: [ :i | stdout println:i ].
stdout do println: (1 to: 10).

All just plain messages and plain message syntax, no special control structures needed.
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Can someone please explain this to me like I'm 5? I get what tokens are but I still don't understand it.

Traditionally say I have a php/mysql site, that's on a server, say Digital Ocean and files are uploaded to Amazon storage.

How does that translate to Etheruem? What about private messages? If everything is public on the block chain, isn't that an issue? Does Etheruem run code?

Can anyone point me to some reading on this? And how to create a 'decentralized' social network?

This is the future and I'd like to get a handle on it, thanks!
What leads you to believe this would be a cheap process?
agree, the article offers almost no substance.
We'll technology does tend to be cyclical.
London Bridge incident: Terror attack as van ploughs into up to 20 pedestrians
I feel like more international airports in SF and LA would be much more useful. More locations to touch-down in, less crowded airports.

Getting from LA to SF is already quite easy travel wise - a 1 hr flight. It's getting to and from the airport and how crowded they are that's most annoying. More airports would help solve both of those.
You can do a Google image search for old video game ads to prove my point.

Here are new NES games retailing at $55-$70 - http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/4240/90scommercials1324wwwk...

Here are new SNES games retailing at $60-$70 - https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/b9/57/24/b957...

Here are new Genesis games retailing at $45-$65 - http://farm1.static.flickr.com/215/523645427_a566d2d110_b.jp...

Here are new PS1 games retailing at $50-$55 - https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/08/89/34/0889...

What might be clouding your memory is that as a console generation ages the games might drop in price until a new generation comes in to reestablish the price at approximately $60. It is certainly possible at the introduction of the PS2 that most PS1 games were retailing for less than $50 and then it was repeated when PS2 aged and the PS3 was released, but it certainly wasn't the PS3 that introduces the $60 price point.
They started along that direction with MPEG-4.
But it didn't go very far then.
a co-worker did this, it took him to a screen that was designed to imitate the windows blue screen of death.

I assume it was also attempting to deliver some kind of payload as well, because the browser crashed on that page.

There is no way an advertising standard in which google was a part of laying the ground rules could be considered a "Better Ad".
London Bridge incident: reports of van hitting pedestrians
More like hype-loop!
True. But it's not in meatspace. It's primarily online. And it's not really a nation. Voluntary associations only.

What you don't get is the ability to fight wars in meatspace. But long term, that's not such a bad thing. You'd need to focus on asymmetric cyber warfare. Maybe drone armies, if it came to that.
Well I was thinking the nihilist programmer gets fired a lot less often than an optimist programmer does. Mainly because he gets the job done, while the optimist programmer often finds he's bit off more than he can chew and is choking on it... and the company is not happy because they are not getting RESULTS, which is all that they care about.
There aren't a lot of good places to put them, at least in the Bay Area.
What we want is the right to be left alone. It's a form of nonviolent resistance.
Guy accidently drops production database on first day at new job
Unions, regulations, politics. Also quality issues maybe.
And have your mobile number forward to your Google Voice number if you don't answer.
This is so well written, I just wish it expanded a bit more in the end. I'll tell my experience rocking from one side to the other:

When I started as a self-taught programmer I was basically fighting the code all the time and reading about these better practices and all. I followed a top-to-down learning focusing first on the deliverables. As I started learning more and more and constantly struggling with my own code, the ideal implementation (of course involving OOP) seemed further and further far off, always elusive. You could always add an extra layer, an extra abstraction here and there.

At some point I realized I was lost in an abstraction sea and not getting anything done. I abandoned some of the projects at mid-size and made https://picnicss.com/ as an example of the opposite. Oh boy, what a difference. A single stylesheet made in few days with great adoption and feedback from the community. I just saw a video of Google IO 2017 and they used it there in a demo! It also helped that I switched from PHP to Node.js around that time.

So I kind of got hooked to that. I have made quite a few tiny-sized, one-off projects ( https://github.com/franciscop/ ) and learned a lot about this quick-iteration coding. I wouldn't say it's the same as the OP's description of nihilist since that seems to be based on a large codebase. What I made was nihilist in the sense that some projects superseeded the previous ones. Example: first I made https://umbrellajs.com/ , then decided to re-implement it all and created https://superdom.site/ with an alternative syntax.

Now I think I've found a balance in the middle as I'm finishing https://serverjs.io/ ; the library's public API should be fairly stable, but the implementation details can have their shortcomings and be kind of messy at places. To finish off with a great saying for the situation:

Perfect is the enemy of good.
The CTO should be fired immediately!

If I didn't read wrong, they write poduction db credential in first day local dev env instruction! WTF.

This CTO sounds to me even worse than this junior developer.
The line simply shows one third of your recommended daily allowance (based of the somewhat popular notion of "three square meals a day" I imagine). If anything it's useful.

A single serving that breaches the line should be treated with caution, making it straightforward to understand which foods are contributing disproportionately to your daily allowance.
"My first thought is how I'd parse, modify and write it back without losing user's comments, formatting, changes and suchlike. Is this some well understood format with libraries for common programming languages?"

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Indeed. But if it's just 1 guy who's the dev, I was trying to go for something that was rigorous, still yet very maintainable.

Ideally, you want test->stage->prod , with puppet and ansible running on a VM fabric. Changes are made to stage and prod areas of puppet, with configuration management being backed by GIT or SVN or whatever for version control. Puppet manifests can be made and submitted to version control, with a guarantee that if you can code it, you know what you're doing. Ansible's there to run one-off commands, like reloading puppet (default is checkins every 30min)

And to be even more safe, you have hot backups in prod. Anything that runs in a critical environment can have hot backups or otherwise use HAproxy. For small instances, even things like DRBD can be a great help. Even MySQL, Postgres, Mongo and friends all support master/slave or sharding.

Generally, get more machines running the production dataset and tools, so if shit goes down, you have: machines ready to handle load, backup machines able to handle some load, full data backups onsite, and full data backups offsite. And the real ideal is that the data is available on 2 or 3 cloud compute platforms, so absolute worst case scenario occurs and you can spin up VM's on AWS or GCE or Azure.

--Our solution for Mongo is ridiculous, but the best for backing up. The Mongo backup util doesn't guarantee any sort of consistency, so either you lock the whole DB (!) or you have the DB change underneath you while you back it up... So we do LVM snapshots on the filesystem layer and back those up. It's ridiculous that Mongo doesnt have this kind of transactional backup appratus. But we needed time-series data storage. And mongodb was pretty much it.
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It's not just a misleading y-axis, it's completely the wrong kind of graph for showing that kind of data. Should've used a stacked bar graph...
So the hispanic couple thought they were being given a free car?
Sure, would like to know really what happened. Will email you shortly.
But the carrier who provides the service to advertisers to target messages and directly load them into subscriber inboxes can charge their subscribers lower prices because they have another customer, so your hypothetical ethical carrier will lose out to them. Hell, if they can open up the ad sales channel enough they could probably give away calling for free, just like a proper modern internet business.

Does the existence of ad-funded free search engines mean the market naturally ought to produce spam-free search engines that steal all the customers?
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Musk did predict there would be large cost overruns...
Better-than-market returns are possible.

You, personally being able to beat the market on risk-adjusted returns with any sort of predictability is the part I find difficult to believe.

RenTech has a legion of Ph.Ds and billions of dollars at their disposal — advantages I suspect you are not likely to have. And they are only one of a very, very select few who've reliably demonstrated the ability to beat the market.
What (and when something) ends up on the first page never ceases to surprise. I've used this I don't know how long. Could it be 15 years? Their official tagging client (Picard) is OK, but I prefer tagging using Mp3tag and the MusicBrainz database.
I feel like there is a natural tension between adults having the right to make their own decisions, and 'protecting' them from making bad decisions. Maybe what we need is a two-part market for financial services, a tightly regulated one where only regulator-approved, simple products can be sold, and one with much looser regulation, but that only those consumers willing to take a financial literacy exam are eligible for (with the financial firm being responsible for checking, and contracts being void if sold to unqualified buyers). After all, even brokers and traders have to take an exam before they are allowed to trade more complicated financial instruments (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_7_exam). We also don't allow people to drive a car without proving they can do so reasonably safely.

The public could reasonably assume that the government might provide guarantees for products in the first group, in the way they do for bank accounts. Products in the second group would explicitly be excluded from any government guarantee - if you passed the exam, and want to risk your own money, totally up to you, but don't come expecting your fellow citizens to bail you out if things go terribly wrong later.

So for example, interest-only home mortgages are almost always a bad choice for most consumers, so they would probably be in the second group. So you could still get them if you really wanted one, but you would have to prove you knew what you were doing, and were willing to give up any hope of a government bailout.
IIRC, SNCF, the French consortium, had offered up a plan to build the HSR from SF to LA. They asked for no public funding. http://marketurbanism.com/2012/07/10/what-i-learned-today-ab...
After developing Android apps for a while and finally taking an iOS class, XCode felt like such a step back compared to Android Studio. I ended up downloading AppCode and only using XCode for UI related task.
Insightful observation. Makes sense.

As a variation on this idea... I have a job now where I do have control over some stuff that matters to me (and it definitely helps!) But I still like to take a video game break once or twice a day.

My game of choice is a Risk-clone on my phone. It's nice because it moderately cognitively challengeing, offers some variety with different maps, and the AI is quite mediocre -- which means I usually win. Games generally take 5-10 minutes and winning I notice gives me a little lift (even though I know my opponents are at an inherent disadvantage). So I've concluded overall it's a plus for my mental health.

Of course, every once in a while I do lose, which makes me a little grumpy. In that case, I'll usually just play another game straight away and win.
I thought house prices were relatively flat, on a long-term, inflation-adjusted basis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case%E2%80%93Shiller_index
Just say that it's a signed log of the session. "Cryptographic proof" isn't necessarily incorrect but it has other connotations which don't make any sense here and make it sound like it's doing something it's not (think cryptanalysis or ZKPs).
I've been using MusicBrainz' Picard to tag my music files (that I acquired 100% legitimately, I assure you.) for a few months now.

They seem to have everything I throw at them, except for:
1) Extremely new releases (on the order of a-few-hours-after-release)
2) Some niche songs that haven't been officially released (soundtracks for some Korean television shows)
You should be using the methods on the URL struct to compose a URL, rather than string interpolation. You wouldn't use string interpolation or concatenation to compose an SQL query, would you?
>We KNOW this can happen in a first-world western nation because we've seen it happen several times.

oh? do tell?
Based off our inability to build infrastructure?

Boeing still builds a ton of airplanes in America. Tesla is founded and manufactured in America. In 20 years we've created the empires of iPhone, Google and Facebook.

Wasn't CRISPR discovered in America as well?
I feel like that wouldn't fix the issue in such close proximity locations.

Flying isn't optimal for that type of distance (less than 400 miles). You could lay track and get more volume on some high speed trains with comparable times (if you take into account the time for arrival / security clearance / etc at airports), the train could even be faster.

Land rights are obviously the issue (esp in california), but adding more airports as a transit option for end points that are less than 500 miles doesn't seem ideal at all.
> There aren't a lot of good places to put [airports]

The Bay Area is mostly low-density sprawl. Pretty much anywhere is a fine place to put it. The problem is the veto rights small groups of people have over projects with regional utility, i.e. there's no way for 9 cities to over-rule 1 city for something that benefits them all.
> The facilitators aren't fleecing them as much as just meeting their needs.

That's a misleading statement, unless you replace "needs" with "wants".
I don't see a lot of "accountability to the people" anywhere. Just bullshit, propaganda and exploitation. The truly wealthy own everything, and the rest of us are pawns at best.

It's been that way for thousands of years. I see the Internet as the best shot for transforming that. Because it can empower individuals, permit free and private association, create space for people to be free of coercion, and so on. Time will tell.
How does that work? How do you use MusicBrainz to tag music files?
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What I learned today about SNCF and California HSR (2012)
interest-only home mortgages are almost always a bad choice for most consumers

Just for future reference, if anyone lets you make an infinitely leveraged 500,000 dollar bet that you can walk away from at any time, you take that bet.