skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not denying that IO is important to a certain class of Python programs too; but I still can't see what leads to the conclusion that IO bound programs are the primary use case for Python. There are enough evented and async io libraries being built for just about every platform right now, that doesn't make IO the center of any of them.
Do not marry before 30
Overlayfs has a static limit of 1 ro layer, which makes it useless out of the box for docker. It's also less proven in production than aufs. Aufs works great and has no decent alternative.

Merging aufs into mainline feels like the logical thing to do, but clearly someone in the chain disagrees. It's disappointing but it is what it is.

Btrfs seems like a more likely alternative for docker.
What do you mean? While there are places that may look down on homeless people more than San Francisco, I don't think there is any place in the US were being homeless is a crime. That would be unconstitutional.

Maybe you are saying that homeless people are more likely to be criminals, which may or may not be true. But I can't imagine a place in the US where just the act of being homeless is a crime. Do you have a source or a reference to backup that claim?
Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/beNrvCU.png

My initial thoughts are that it's dead-simple (not what I had expected) with minimal functionality. The only feature I requested in my survey was to add a Mark All As Read -> Older Than A Day option.

I'm not too fond of the excessive whitespace in the reading pane. It could just be my browser.
It may sound reasonable, but ultimately is against the universal spirit of the web, and thus should not be standardized. Your #1 should be No, because if it were Yes, we'd have a mess of mutually incompatible, vendor-specific, proprietary languages fragmenting 3D content on the web.
I've always thought that we are lucky to have the moon. A nice little stepping stone.
IT Consultants – Be the puffer fish and act larger than life
IT consulting firms should act larger than life to win larger, more lucrative projects. Small firms get win boring projects.
I can't answer all the questions but it seems that the current generation is tested until it can no longer make progress for a certain amount of time (displayed as the bar next to its number decreasing, only to be refilled when exceeding its current maximum distance.)
Bay Area: Panel with the founders of Parse, Crashlytics, and Ink
Comment Period for TSA Proposed Nude Body Scanner Rule Ends; 97% Opposed
Always better to nail one thing down really well before you start thinking of other possibilities for a project/product, because it can most certainly distract you from accomplishing the small wins. Dwelling too much on all the things you can do over what you need to do at that very moment has proven to be toxic time and time again. As someone who has committed this very crime, I definitely understand where you're coming from.
> Electronics can activate the brakes, but can't cause the brakes to not activate because the pedal is connected hydraulically to the calipers

right, because ABS does not work by pulsating the pads off and back on...

What I would do if it was a spy movie:

1. plant bomb underneath.
maybe just a small (hard to find) fuse in the gas tank.
make it activated by airbag sensors.
2. hijack car electronics
3. when target is inside, locks door.
accelerate and mess with brakes
4. he can turn as he wish. by the time he realizes what's going on,
all he can do is try to avoid a high speed crash by then.
5. with doors still locked, car crash and goes boom,
just like they do in hollywood.

all the evidence left would be a burnt fuse in the exploded gas tank, and the firmware on the burnt electronics.
Confused rant.

Pick a topic, servant to your employer or servant to pretty things?

Studies show people who are employed are happier than ones who are not. I'm sure the grass is greener on the other side right now, but there's a lot of evidence employment gives people more meaning than not having it, it's why lotto winners don't do as awesome as one would think.
It all depends^TM, mostly on the wavelength and the size and shape of the gap and the phase of the moon.

dB is a logarithmic scale, so this kind of back-of-the-envelope reasoning is sometimes made easier and sometimes counterintuitive.
I agree that choosing poverty as a lifestyle can be egotistical, but monastic silence does not mean never interacting with humanity again. It's more to do with not speaking unnecessarily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastic_silence#Practice_of_s...
In the end we are all servants of one kind or another. An entrepreneur works at the service of customers, clients, investors, and employees. A rank and file employee is a servant to their boss.

Everyone is a servant to the government, too which you pay taxes.

Even those that don't pay taxes are a servant to their friends, family, it takes work to maintain those relationships.

Even those that don't care about friends or family, or a servant to god(or "the universe" if you prefer).

At the end of the day there is always something that tells us or guides us in what to do or how to act, wether it be nature, a boss, friends, or often times just our own conscience. It's the nature of life... which isn't to say that seeking freedom and greater power, control and independence over our own lives isn't a laudable goal, but it's a balance, and everyone has different priorities that make them decide where to strike that balance.
Here's one application: http://youtu.be/zB7QEFCR1Zk?t=16m59s
A couple of years back a friend and I tried the same thing with my stainless steel colored LG fridge. It totally blocked the signals on our phones. He had a blackberry and I had an el cheapo LG smartphone.
Your exactly right, with the fact that those features serve 1 purpose and 1 niche.

To clear a little confusion by what I mean on unrefined products, I can think of a prominent Swiss Army Knife...Google.

If I asked you to convey to me what is Google as if I didn't know, you'd probably say they're a search engine. While I don't mean to discredit all the products Google has, they themselves have been known to kill off their own products (Reader, Checkout, Buzz, Wave, ect) to refine a centralized purpose (ex. if you sign up for youtube, you now have a google plus).

This is the art of the niche, bringing multiple features to form one cohesive purpose.
As usual, Bob the Angry Flower says it best: http://www.angryflower.com/atlass.gif
That looks like a really cool idea.

One thing I don't like about its filesystem is its insistence that all binaries go into /bin. As a user, I greatly appreciate the concept of having some sort of /local directory to distinguish between files (or just executable in this case) which the end user installed and which are part of the distribution. If you abandon the idea that /bin has no subdirecories, then I could see /bin/local as a viable alternative (although I think I would still prefer a /local folder where that had /local/bin, /local/etc ...).
Amazing how few people I've worked with have any concept of FHS.
I agree that the threat is present, but rather than restrict freedom it is better to place decisions in the user's hands sometimes. There are security threats everywhere, even beyond the software or hardware level (i.e. phishing for passwords). I think that rather than not implement WebGL, it would be better to ask permission if the user trusts the domain (just as Chrome does with any plugin).
Assuming that, you'd think the author of this codebase would have done some sort of calculation on expected daily return from renting a botnet created via this software, and priced it accordingly. There is a calculation similar to what I described to determine what a successful poker bot is worth.

Otherwise it would make more sense to just run it themselves -- although that would of course expose them to [more] legal risk. Reminds me of bitcoin mining -- can you make more money selling ASIC miners or just mining BTC with the ones that you've built?
"Tradeoffs" implies a balanced look at the positives and negatives of each design/engineering decision under discussion, and what is being traded off against what.

This article is a paean to Clojure, a torrent of praise with little to no (or very faint) criticism, and has very little discussion of what is being traded off for what, and what the positives and negatives are, what the benefits and costs are, of each tradeoff.

The "Tradeoffs for Individuals" paragraph is a good example. Literally every sentence of that paragraph is a variant of "Clojure is cool". There are no 'tradeoffs for individuals' actually discussed in that paragraph, inspite of the title.

This is not to say Clojure isn't cool. It is. Rich Hickey has a great sense of design and is a brilliant engineer. But an article titled "Clojure Tradeoffs" should actually discuss, you know, tradeoffs.

Misleading title, but otherwise a decent article. A good alternative title would be "Why I Think Clojure is a Great Language"
Our web development workflow is completely broken
I sometimes wonder what's the least amount of money I could spend if I put a lot of money into capital that would save me money. For example, get a big solar array. Get a Tesla that I could charge at home. Get a hydroponic garden set up that would grow all my food. Save seeds. Dig a well. Solar water heating. Etc, etc. Obviously the upfront cost would be absurdly high compared to just going to the grocery store but it would be a fun project if I ever got enough money to do it.
They use public airport weather data
I've seen police investigators using some sort of Faraday bags to preserve evidence while working with cell phones.
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Neat service. I have a typo to report: If you try to create an account that already exists, it says "name alredy exist."
If you leave your phone on and put it in a faraday cage, the battery will drain at the maximum rate as the phone goes into "find a tower" mode which is basically to broadcast at maximum power over and over trying to make contact with any towers that might be within its maximum range.
>Yes, the government grants the copyright and its courts enforce it, but that's all.

You're skirting a very deep issue. Copyright is a legal construct, whose every aspect is completely arbitrary, and comes about from a balance of competing goals. You find it perplexing that for certain copyrighted material distributed over a certain medium in a certain way, government sets a fixed price? I find it perplexing that you find it perplexing. Shouldn't you should also be asking why the copyright term is over a century long now, why there are satire and 'fair use' exceptions, why certain kinds of remixing is allowed, and others not. There are countless more strange and weird aspects to copyright, because everything about copyright is completely arbitrary.

> For example, if I write an e-book, I can determine the price I sell it for and I'm not forced to allow Amazon to sell it.

You may or may be allowed to restrict resale of your book. Your work is allowed to be reproduced (without compensation to you and without permission from you) in braille, for the blind. You will not be able to restrict state libraries from lending (for free) copies of your book.
This does not match my experience. I write macros to make my code shorter when I notice a repeating pattern. To see what the macros do, I use macroexpand. Is debugging a problem? Well, I understand the macroexpansions so I can read them when I need to—so no, it's not that big a problem. You're not the first Clojure person I've heard talk this way about macros, and I don't understand why anyone would be so eager to deprecate such a powerful technique. Especially since it actually works (and works well) in Lisps, and not nearly as well elsewhere.

Also, these comments seem odd:

A properly done (and properly used) macro

The big problem is not macros, but code which uses macros.

The macros I know are effectively impossible to misuse. They tell you how they're supposed to be used and you just do it. There's not a lot of room to go wrong! Can you give an example of a macro which is hard to use properly?
Many of the criticisms on this page are valid, but the author's expressed sentiment, taken in moderation, can be very healthy.

I recently cut out a lot of unnecessary spending: Coffee drinks, restaurants, nearly all alcohol. My furniture is patio furniture from someone's curb. I stopped paying people to fix my appliances, preferring to order parts online and spend the hard time tearing them down (and yes, making mistakes). My main remaining expenses are housing and groceries (and since we've learned to fish, we don't buy so much protein). None of this is strictly necessary, I'm very gainfully employed, but it sure makes me feel a lot better about the value of my own work.

And now, the point of all this: I have a 6-month glide path in the bank, to protect against a job loss or other catastrophe. I also have a small sailboat and a small powerboat, which would be even more unnecessary objects, except that this is the one thing that that my wife and I do: We explore the sea as often as possible. In my honest opinion, this is one of the nicer definitions of having the world by the balls, and it doesn't involve being rich.

Sure, you have to serve others, and whether you choose (it really is a choice, and I fail as often as the next guy) to enjoy it is up to you. But you can still win, as long as you're damn certain of why you're doing it, and you do not waver.
Learn in any order you want. I wouldn't completely forgo C and C++ though.
I love my current job. I enjoy going to work every day.

I hated my last job, but I didn't feel the need to have a public existential crisis about it.
I feel like I've seen this some time ago, with the release of Go 1.1. Perhaps the article itself is new while what it describes isn't. It just feels very familiar despite the recent date.
> though I suspected that the risk of the phones being removed from the car while everyone is inside would be pretty high in Hong Kong.

The crime rate in Hong Kong is relatively low, especially compared to Snowden's country of origin.
I don't think anyone ever really believed that an open vacation policy meant that you didn't have to show up for work. Rather, I took it to mean that the company trusted me to be able to look at the deadlines for which I was responsible, and manage my own time accordingly.
I've done it numerous times over the last several years and while it's probably not trivial, it's definitely not hard. If you're looking for a "one true way", it's Python's C API.
They can sign their own alternate ramdisks, and the default PIN is only 4 digits, so that's not surprising really. It's been possible to load similar forensic software on A4 devices by anybody for years now.
To me, the specific and carefully explained experiment is the big contribution here.

In other comment threads I'd heard the opposite: that when new iOS devices were activated, they didn't get access to past iMessage threads, just future ones. Perhaps that's because there's a "new device" activation flow and a special "replacement device" one. But that doesn't matter. Your iMessages are only as secure as the weakest link. OP has found a pretty weak one here.
So what? When it comes to global climate trends, a single year is one insignificant datapoint.
Happy to report this major victory to you guys. The TSA for years has cited badly worded and poorly conducted opinion polls to show that America is ambivalent towards the nude body scanners and pat-downs. This is a clear blow to any argument of a public mandate.
Would Google buy Square? I doubt Google really wants to get into the offline payment market. If Google really want to fight Paypal as alternative online payment platform, it would be better for Google to buy Stripe.
The problem with cycling is that powering up is the least efficient part of the cycle. So a fridge (or an air conditioner for that matter) that cycles frequently is spending more time running in its least efficient mode.

I'm not a fridge nerd either, but my understanding is that adding thermal mass to the fridge will reduce the heating spikes from things like opening the door which will reduce the frequency at which it cycles up. So you can make your fridge more efficient if you have the space to put big jugs of water in the fridge and big blocks of solid ice in the freezer.

You might only save a buck that way, but if the space isn't being used for anything else you have nothing to lose.
/usr/games

One of my pet peeves when I work on clusters before I even mess with the fstab or ufw is always deleting this folder.
I deactivated and scheduled to delete it (the option which was so well hidden that time) my account 3 yrs ago and created a new one but with same email account earlier this year. FB magically showed me all my 190 friends in the friend suggestions. I guess they never deleted any of my information.
This is just brilliant.
CyanogenMod is building secure user-to-user push messaging into their ROM
IMPORTANT information about usage statistics (ex. Analytics)
It has been illegal in the past to be a vagrant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagrancy_(people)#United_States
While 200K is silly, I don't think 1M is really enough to never have to work again assuming a family.

You would have to purchase a house, it should be in a safe area with a good school district, so that's probably 200K? (I don't know what prices would be far away from the coasts)

So now you have 800K generating dividends for you, plus you have to save every year to be able to cover your kids college tuition since you can't get any need based money due to your nest egg. Even assuming you somehow do that on 50K/year (or your kids get merit scholarships), in 30 years (by the time you are 60) your 50K has the purchasing power of ~25K.
The race detector was introduced into stable with Go 1.1. This article is what's new, not the race detector.
If it was known (assumed) that Snowden sent Greenwald files, don't you think every intelligence group in the world with an interest in obtaining US classified information would be very motivated to obtain that chip?
Thank you for this! I've heard similar things from a friend who is knowledgeable about wine. Enjoying good wine seems similar to enjoying good coffee or beer; price is more of a reflection of the limited markets for specialized styles and costs of transporting from the country of production than a simple function of quality. You certainly don't need to spend much to find something good if you are willing to look around a bit.
Unless your ssh'd into a machine, it's annoying to type long dir's. What's worse is compensating for spaces in filenames.
On OS X - /Users/[user]/Library/Messages/Archive

Your whole chat history is right there, readable in TextEdit.
But in SL you had to specifically and manually whitelist the website to allow access to the graphics api.
Why do we waste so much of our lives as servants to people that we don't care about?

I avoid that situation at all costs. My advice to anyone asking themselves this question is to simply stop working for, or around, people you don't care about. Solving that doesn't require a change in your economics, either.

No, we want to be servants for a large portion of our lives, apparently. We grovel at the foot of a master so that we can try to paint over the deadness we feel inside with bullshit...

There's a difference between being a miserable servant, and feeling enriched when put in a position of service. It really does have to do w/the type of person you are, and the type of people you surround yourself with. There are some people I truly enjoy working for, whether that be due to friendship or respect, or both, and I'll gladly devote hours of my life to their cause if they ask it.

At no time, however, have I drawn the conclusion that OP did. In cases when I've worked around people I'd rather not be around, I simply looked for better people or teams to work with. I didn't change my purchasing or other economic habits.
The point of standards is that they define how others (distros, vendors) should interact with your system.

Debian Policy makes this more explicit by noting that it defines what packages (and hence: package maintainers) must do, may do, and must not do.

Among the latter: other than creating some of the hierarchy under /usr/local, packages may not delete content under this tree. That is for local system management.

Similarly, /opt as a location where third-party vendors can install their crap, excuse me, packages, is a pretty well established standard. Note too that you can offer the filesystem view independent of the underlying storage view, whether by symlinks (e.g., ln -s /usr/local/opt /opt), union mounts, or other means.

Any parts of the filesystem you create outside the defined standards are pretty much yours to worry about, though I've also got extreme reservations about polluting the root filesystem excessively. Better to create a structure under /usr/local or elsewhere (if for no other reason: it simplifies backups). This is a practice often respected in the breach in reality, however....
Everything about this is beautiful. The idea, the UI, the timing, etc.

Furthermore, if you click around, it seems to be a higher end market. Is this intentional or do you think these were the only businesses interested in selling online?
When you go to airport security, you have to show a boarding pass and ID with your name. However, doing so doesn't alert the airline that you are there. Also, you aren't required to show ID once you pass security.

It's quite possible to enter the airport with one boarding pass and have a separate pass with a completely different name on it. I would hazard to guess that he booked a flight under his name to Russia as a diversion while he actually boarded a flight under a different name to a different country.

There has been no confirmation that he was on the flight from HK to Russia, no confirmation that he is in the airport, and he never boarded his flight to Havana.

I call smokescreen and diversion.
If you're young, healthy, and streetsmart enough, and the risk is acceptable, go for it. Take a summer and be homeless (or maybe even a year if you're in a survivable climate). You'll have some exciting adventures in amongst all the boredom and misery. And if you survive it, you'll learn a lot. Like why you don't want to live like that and what you actually want out of life. (Also maybe how to explain that gap in your employment at a job interview.) Plus you'll have some cool stories to tell your kids once you get old.

If you're older or wiser, you might want to consider a more positive-oriented way to address a midlife crisis - focusing more on what you want instead of what you don't want, and considering how to get the most value out of your time instead of how to get more time that's not as valuable as you'd like for it to be.
No, Joe Blow is just some random dude. He did Sergey a solid once, and in return he gets access to all of Gmail. ECPA is a dead letter, and was specifically about government not private actions anyway.

My point, which admittedly I'm still not making clearly, is that it's weird to consider phone calls to be some sort of judicial fluke that was far outside accepted 4th Amendment jurisprudence. Americans didn't want the government listening in on their phone calls. Since we clearly couldn't elect a government that would abstain from that noxious practice, it was a good thing the third branch stepped in for a time to stop it. Maybe sometime in the future we'll be that fortunate again.

If one is uncomfortable with the Joe Blow example, consider how much worse it is for the government to be reading all of Gmail than it would be for Joe Blow to be doing that.