skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use it for the GUI of a FLOSS project I maintain and it works very well. It looks to be quite active still.

Granted, my use case is rather idiosyncratic-- I have to support the use of multiple toplevel windows which communicate over a TCP socket with the "business logic" process. With Electron, this would either require an additional socket connection per window, or central node.js socket connection with the business logic which then forwards messages to/from each window using some form of IPC.

With nw.js you get the option of just accessing the window/browser context directly from the node.js context. That made it a lot easier to get the GUI up and running.

I should also say I'm doing the socket connection through node.js, and I've completely disabled the Chromium part of the toolkit from accessing the network. For use cases where the app needs to load web content over the network, Chromium makes all kinds of requests to Google for all kinds of reasons. That's kind of a weird thing for a general purpose GUI toolkit to do. I'd imagine the same is true for Electron.
I have never read a Dan Brown book (yes, really). Is he the type of writer who focuses on the plot rather than the literary merit of the words and sentences he writes?

Here's something the British author Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials) said in a 2013 TV interview that I've always remembered:

"Yes, there is a difference [between a storyteller and a writer]...For a storyteller, it's the events that are more important than anything else, the events in the story, how they fit together, how they unfold...plot is a very important thing for me.

But for a writer, I suppose words and sentences are the important things and plot is of less importance. Really, of course, they should be of the same importance." [1]

Is Dan Brown a storyteller rather than a writer? (If one goes with Pullman's distinction)?

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd2TNXC4rxU
It's not a summary, just cutting out the commentary.
Yeah, I watched it on KCTS (Seattle PBS station)
First, many years ago, they should have made an XUL IDE.

Then they should have focused on XML and giving the world an XML based web-browser, trying to drive XML further. XML would have had a much better chance on the web, if web-servers could have responded to URL encoded XPaths (or even XQueries in POST/GET), serving back XML Fragments which could have been XMLIncluded by the browser. They could have lobbied that.

Now we've got HTML5...
Me too - any links or articles for the best material much appreciated
Can't remember; I saw at as a meme, with the boy from Sixth Sense as the template.
Really wish I'd come to the comments first...
Macroeconomically, giving the poor money through this kind of redistributio will stimulate the economy and in fact ultimately benefit the rich and large corporations! (As well as small businesses). The reason is obvious, poor people are obliged to spend it all, since they have to stay alive.
The lesson of cost vs. benefit is what's important here, IMHO.
As your reference points out: "Newer aircraft designs such as the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 have incorporated hydraulic fuses to isolate a punctured section and prevent a total loss of hydraulic fluid."

A quick search for "A 380 hydraulic fuses" finds sources like http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=765509 :

> If one or both hydraulic systems fail, the following hydro-electrical backups remain available: For flight controls: The Electrical-Hydrostatic Actuators (EHAs) and the Electrical Backup Hydraulic Actuators (EBHAs)
For braking and steering: The Local Electro-Hydraulic Generation System (LEHGS)"

That's depicted in the image bad_alloc showed.

And, "hopelessly intertwined"? Is that your viewpoint as a software developer, or are you an aircraft designer? Because I'm sure that an outsider would see my code as "hopelessly intertwined" even when it isn't.
Sam Harris and Max Tegmark Discuss the Future of Intelligence
(1) The point is to dilute the distribution to within the tolerance that the law establishes.

(2) Most senior staff will be, well senior, and will counterbalance the tendency toward youth and fitness.
I've watched every episode of the series and from what I saw, they cast it very close to how you described it.
An open letter to Jeff Bezos: You are needed to disrupt health care
The $8M Replacement for a 20 Dollar Dollar Fan
"why is it always this same apocryphal crap version which is always spread?"

It's the winner of the memetic evolutionary war. No sarcasm. It doesn't mean much. I think that you're likely correct that the more complicated and nuanced versions don't survive, because they transmit less well. It's still not exactly a stretch to say that lots of money gets wasted all the time for very, very similar reasons.
> A year or two after a new, more intrusive format became ubiquitous, its performance would fall back to the old format's

When Sweden changed driving side, that is exactly what happened.

"The relatively smooth changeover saw a reduction in the number of accidents. On the day of the change, only 157 minor accidents were reported, of which only 32 involved personal injuries, with only a handful serious. On the Monday following Dagen H, there were 125 reported traffic accidents, compared to a range of 130 to 198 for previous Mondays, none of them fatal. Experts suggested that changing to driving on the right reduced accidents while overtaking, as people already drove left-hand drive vehicles, thereby having a better view of the road ahead; additionally, the change made a marked surge in perceived risk that exceeded the target level and thus was followed by very cautious behavior that caused a major decrease in road fatalities. Indeed, fatal car-to-car and car-to-pedestrian accidents dropped sharply as a result, and the number of motor insurance claims went down by 40%.

These initial improvements did not last, however. The number of motor insurance claims returned to 'normal' over the next six weeks and, by 1969, the accident rates were back to the levels seen before the change." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H
Yeah, a lot of the lesson seems to (unintentionally) be "don't outsource small things". Even completely ignoring the fan solution, the CEO could have assigned one existing engineering employee to work on it and gotten an $8k system with a non-precision scale.
The maintenance guy already spent $20 and fixed the issue. Why spend $20 more to fix something that isn't broken? You'll take on webserver maintenance with that, so a webserver doesn't really cost $20.

Anytime you want to replace a simple analog solution with a complex digital solution, your costs aren't 1to1.
The paragraph in question:

> Now Susan was even more doubtful. Encryption algorithms were just mathematical formulas, recipes for scrambling text into code. Mathematicians and programmers created new algorithms every day. There were hundreds of them on the market-PGP, Diffie-Hellman, ZIP, IDEA, El Gamal. TRANSLTR broke all of their codes every day, no problem. To TRANSLTR all codes looked identical, regardless of which algorithm wrote them.
I can't be 100% sure that you're joking.

If you are joking, and I'm going to assume you are, you might want to be careful. Somebody will see your comment and think it is a brilliant idea.

Hell, they might even suggest a blockchain to verify output in the two-out-of-three CPU check. ICO forthcoming.
Ask HN: I've been away from Java for 10 years. How do I get back?
I did Java for 5 years and left right before Generics was introduced, things were mainly JBoss, J2EE, Struts. Spring started gaining momentum. Since then I did 7 years of project management, and 3 years of python/django lately.

Basically I want to get back in the game and be able to jump in a mid level Java position and work effectively. I'm interested in language recap and top 5 current frameworks used, etc. Preferred format is books, maybe moocs, and of course I want to spend the least amount of time for the optimal result.

I really appreciate it, thanks!
He lost me at the whole Bible code thing. The plot was just too riddled with deus ex, and that is just no fun.
> which I think you’d want in Iceland

Why Iceland more than other places?
I agree with what you wrote.

Burns has said he makes films, not documentaries. PBS shouldn't have relied on him to do a Vietnam "film", but I guess he still brings in the ratings.

A good documentary on the Vietnam war would have every Republican and Democrat denouncing it and calling the director a traitor. That would never happen with a Burns film. Bill Moyers would have been a better choice.

Sidenote: "Kill Chain" (book) by Andrew Cockburn also has some Vietnam War era stories...that also relate to the current "war on terror".
Half Tile Offset Streaming World Grids
> Where it has failed to do so are in areas that are not free market, like health care.

Alternatively, the free market has failed to work in certain areas forcing the government to get involved to attempt to fix things. If the free market worked for health care, we'd be using it.
You will get few kids excited about programs that run on a character screen nowadays, so any starting program will require quite a bit of boilerplate that sets up an interesting environment.

Swift Playgrounds on iOS has that, and allows you to inspect some (most? All?) of the source of that boilerplate code.

I wish it ran on Mac OS, because it currently is too limited for ‘real’ work.

The ‘lessons’ are nice, though. For example, there is a playground using ARKit now)
Allysia Finley is a WSJ editorial writer, so it's reasonable to assume that this is an opinion piece. Yet the root, wsj.com/articles/, is normally used for news articles by journalists. This seems wrong. I mention this because one of the things I like about the WSJ (I'm a subscriber) is the strict demarcation between news articles and editorials. Now I'm starting to wonder if that line is getting blurred.
FreeCodeCamp: Learning Python from Zero to Hero
A couple questions:

- Aren't zerocoin and zerocash two different currencies? Did you mean to say zerocash in your previous comment?

- If what Matt Green is saying is true, is there a way to create a backdoor in Monero or any other new crypto that comes along?

- One of the reservations that I have around z-cash is the "don't roll your own crypto" mantra even if you are an experienced, academic cryptographer? Is z-cash inherently more risky because its using newer crypto?
What magnitudes are you taking about? The Czech Republic has much lower wages and costs of living than its developed European neighbors. Are the judges paid well-for-Czechia, or well-for-Germany? And are the bribes large by Czech standards or German ones?
>Being the seat of a bishop is what a cathedral is.

It's what cathedral's etymology is.

Words are defined by how they're used, not their etymology. Most people just use the word to mean any large church.

In fact, from dictionary.com:
(2) (in nonepiscopal denominations) any of various important churches.

Also: Following the Protestant Reformation, the Christian church in several parts of Western Europe, such as Scotland, the Netherlands, certain Swiss Cantons and parts of Germany, adopted a Presbyterian polity that did away with bishops altogether. Where ancient cathedral buildings in these lands are still in use for congregational worship, they generally retain the title and dignity of "cathedral", maintaining and developing distinct cathedral functions, but void of hierarchical supremacy.

The term "cathedral" actually carries no implication as to the size or ornateness of the building. Nevertheless, most cathedrals are particularly impressive edifices. Thus, the term "cathedral" is often applied colloquially to any large and impressive church, regardless of whether it functions as a cathedral, such as the Crystal Cathedral in California or the Arctic Cathedral in Tromsø, Norway.
For what it's worth, Cormac McCarthy hasn't read much fiction in a long time (so he says), but his books are some of the best in the second half of the 20th century.
> freeing up humans

What a nice euphemism for unemployment, because that's what it does.
Not only they might have not heard that, but they also use the word with another, looser, definition.
Not just airplane systems... airbag systems. Javascript is the future of programming.
That's because the story is bogus. Weighing products for QA (to make sure there wasn't underfilling) is extremely common. It's called "checkweighing" and you can buy COTS scales to do exactly that.

https://doranscales.com/checkweighers/in-motion-checkweigher
That sounds rather unpleasant from a user or non-XML-loving developer perspective. Such a heavy focus on XML for XML's sake would have guaranteed Firefox's decline into obscurity.
Sorry, when you say it isn't experimental, are you proposing a study where we abuse people enough to give them an unhealthy body image and then see if they gain weight? That seems... well, unlikely to pass an IRB, for one.
Purpose can be found in many things unrelated to wage labor.
This is actually the reason I switched back to Android for my primary phone -- complete lack of auth token support via USB or NFC.
Sure, but this law doesn't really cover those edits.
At least that’s a real pen, albeit not developed by NASA.
Item 96 ("Solve go") can be made tractable by setting the board size to n=2.

At first I thought this was an "assume a spherical cow"-style joke, but no, it turns out there are 386 billion possible games you can play on a 2x2 Go board:

http://tromp.github.io/go/legal19.html
"Because I'm sure that an outsider would see my code as "hopelessly intertwined" "

That depends. Do you use the object oriented programming model? LOL
Maybe the cowling did contain the disk failure, it just didn't stay attached to the rest of the engine afterwards.
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Microsoft Just Won the Cloud Wars
You don't need a person to tell you what it is. You can tell by that amazing uplifting music that this is a next level idea.
Same here. I subscribed a few months ago and have received zero issues so far
Strongly agree with everything here. Just wanted to add that getting people accustomed to this has unintended consequences as well. Say you grow up in a place where this is the norm. Then you go to some place where this hasn’t caught on yet.

You’ve been trained to look out for these obvious things and therefore pay less attention in general. You are now a more dangerous driver outside of this environment and possibly even within it.

Some things are not supposed to be “easy”. When you’re driving around in a heavy metal object capable of killing or at least injuring other pepple, you are supposed to be actively paying full attention to all of your surroundings at all times.

Making things stick out like this and tricking people into freaking out a little bit trains people to pay less attention in the long run.

It’s the same thing you were saying about bigger and more obnoxious ads. I’m just making the connection explicit.
You're forgetting something, you can still choose to work and collect the basic income; that's rather the point. BI does not make you dependent on government, it simply allows you the option, which by the way gives you more control in your life as it allows you a safety net thus allowing you to take more chances in your pursuit of work because you can now turn down bad work.

A lot more people would be taking a crack at running their own small businesses with such a safety net in place.
What I want to know is: which of Tower, GitKraken, GitHub Desktop or Stash do the kernel developers prefer?
Physical bitcoin, can be transacted offline. Just hand it over like a dollar bill:

https://opendime.com

Still mostly useful for larger amounts, though, due to the relative high cost of hardware, but it's new.
Its so surprising to me how little is going on in the Las Vegas tech scene. I expected a lot more, particularly after Tony Hsieh's big push to create a robust tech environment at the downtown container park a few years back.

Compare how many events and how many people expressing interest in said events in Vegas to Utah and the contrast is pretty stark.
Lucky break that didn't happen over a city, that's some pretty serious aircraft droppings and if they had fallen onto a market or a highway hear the point of departure (or anywhere else, but typically aircraft are only overflying cities near airports) it would have been very ugly.
Regarding TEOTWAWKI Bitcoin is just as vulnerable as the existing financial system. In fact, lower level disasters can take out the existing system before they take out bitcoin. Why aren't you asking "I would love to hear keynesians answer to this!" Power outages are power outages and will harm every electric system, including gasoline, electric cars, food production, etc. The entire society relies on electricity.

As for physical bitcoin, which can be transacted offline. Just hand it over like a dollar bill:

https://opendime.com

Still mostly useful for larger amounts, though, due to the relative high cost of hardware, but it's new.
I picked up The Information by James Gleick when I was visiting the Living Computers Museum + Labs in Seattle[1]. Really interesting book... talks about the development of language, the birth of computing, the concept of randomness, the physics of information, etc. A fascinating and comprehensive overview of the topic.

[1] This place is awesome and you should check it out if you're in the area: http://www.livingcomputers.org
MGS3 too, it's how Naked Snake escapes Tselinoyarsk at the end of the Virtuous Mission (the prologue).
Alternatively: You can do it your own way, as long as it doesn't conflict with the law. Like all other things in a democracy really.
Thanks for posting this.

Good luck in avoiding a political argument.
what is the point of the gold coins? if we get to the point where people start asking for gold there will be absolutely no fixed exchange rate
The free market, whatever that really means hasn't been involved in healthcare in the US since WW2.
There's some suggestion that it was over Greenland: https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/914197103026622464.
On a route through Germany that I take with some regularity there is a passage where they have been working on the road for years now. At the entrance to the roadworks are two giant flashing triangles, those work well in full sunlight but at night I have to close my eyes or look away while passing near them or I'll be totally nightblind for the next couple of kilometers which is not a very good thing to deal with while in a construction zone. Extremely silly that those things do not decrease their brightness at night.
You mean for those Soviets who survived him?
This, while probably seemingly unimportant to a lot of people,
is extremely great news for a project I'm a part of!

We're working on a full iPhone emulator based on QEMU, and currently, while we are able to boot into early userspace from an unmodified iOS image, the release of the iOS-specific code will be quite helpful in speeding up bug elimination and the development of the virtual graphics hardware that can get us past a basic graphical framebuffer.
The Roadster, Model S, and Model 3 aren't the same car.
Yes. The prose is execrable.
If people who opposed bitcoin had less attitude, and more arguments, and less unsupported assertions about what can and cannot scale, then I would be more concerned about bitcoin.

Bitcoin can, as of now, scale to support the current needs of 10 billion humans. Some of those solutions are still being completed (eg: beta, not golden master) but there's little theoretical risk, and while there will be bugs there's little indication of anything stopping it, should that level of adoption be desired.

Most likely you don't understand what bitcoin actually is.
> How would you get a job a job as a junior dev without any form of dev training.

By demonstrating the skill of computer programming, a skill you can teach yourself at home anytime; you do not need on the job experience to gain this skill.

When I hire devs, I give them a toy problem to solve at home on their own time, and then I base my decision to hire on the potential I see in their solution. I don't care about experience, I don't read their resumes, I simply judge them based on the solution they provide.

Surprisingly, those with little experience and a natural aptitude generally write much better code than those with experience who aren't really cut out for the job but made a career out of it anyway and could solve any problem you give them. It's easier to train the first guy, than to teach the second guy how to be better.

> Side note: how could you be a Dev without knowing the fundamentals of how to code?

Learning to code requires neither a job, nor a degree; it merely requires the desire to learn and access to the internet.

Computer science isn't about programming though you need to learn some programming to do it, it's about computation and what it can do and can't do and what the fundamental limits of computation are and how to understand them and measure them. Computer science is the physics of programming; Computer science is to programming what physics is to engineering. Computer scientists create knowledge about computing, computer programmers use that knowledge to build things.
> Clearly that person has never read the GPL,

It's not about "reading the GPL". It's about power.

If the only people allowed to decide morality / ethics / legality are lawyers, then they have power, and you don't. This is fantastic for the people in power. Less so for you.
They're in range of the polar night, and headlights are mandatory to be on at all times. It can be a dark place.
I think empirically people do choose jobs because of money. Otherwise why would Wall Street firms pay so well to attract talent? Why would people go to work there if they didn't care about money?