skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The blog post you are talking about can be found here[0]. Despite an active push by Scott for a standardized data format and communication protocol, little has been done in almost 5 years.

As a person with diabetes for 14 years, I feel frustrated about the roadblocks to accessing my data. I am currently investigating reverse engineering the one touch verioiq.

[0] http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/articles/SweetSpot-The-B...
Wow. You know so much about me based on one comment.

That's amusing.
The hair on my neck was raising up until I got to the /s

Well played.
I believe I did adjust some settings. May have gotten it wrong, or maybe there were no options to get results I like. I doubt I would just run it and not see if I could adjust it, but I don't recall quite what I did.
The most popular one right now is probably Angular.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=angularjs%2Cbackbonej...
> This is not a new thing

Yeah, what I wanted to say was "the only aspect worth noting" or something similar. I knew about structural typing and vaguely remembered that row polymorphism exists (but I'm not really sure what it is).

Actually I wanted to play with Joy for a couple of times now, but it seems unmaintained and rather hard to approach. I ended up learning some Forth and (little) some of Factor instead. I think I'll give Cat a shot, I'm not a fan of CLR, but I'd really like to know how you can type concatenative language.
There are many reasons for leaks in Firefox, and none of them had to do with not using GC for everything. In fact, there were failed attempts to do exactly that (XPCOMGC), which failed due to performance problems. A lot of those "leaks" were just cases of using too much memory, which pervasive GC actually hurts due to the lack of prompt deallocation (which deferred reference counting loses).

GCs are simply not appropriate for every use case.

Reference counting is not a panacea; once you start wanting to break cycles (which history tells us you will), you start having to deal with stopping the world or concurrent collection. If you don't have thread-safe GC, then you have to either copy all data between threads (which limits the concurrent algorithms you can use) or you lose memory safety.

Finally, your implicit claim (that Rust's safe memory management is more vulnerable to leaks than GC) is untrue. Rust's safe manual memory management is no more vulnerable to leaks than GC. The compiler automatically destroys memory when it is no longer reachable.
Access was in fact limited to validated students. I think the administration was concerned about graduate students and others who weren't authorized having access to the data.
Nimrod's GC is not thread safe, last I checked. So if you aren't careful to avoid races on shared memory, you can segfault. Also, you incur full heap scans to clean up cycles.
The difference is that electricity storage is inefficient. Also, it's generally 240V split-phase.
Nice site but I take exception that backbone is the most popular framework.

While I don't think popularity alone is how you should chose a framework. It appears that AngularJS tops all except jQuery at this time.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=angularjs%2C%20backbo...
Value of openssh cannot be understated. it is one of the most important pieces of software ever. Even if Theo's attitudes are distasteful.
I'm adding them to my resume right now.
Off topic but $180 is cheap. We pay $450/m for 50/15 from Time Warner for our business class cable which is a backup to our fiber which is 50/50 which we pay $1500/m which is a Time Warner owned fiber but our service is with another provider.

As for the bandwidth is precious, the cable loops are shared. It took over 6 months to get our fiber provisioned so we were on cable for those 6 months. We did notice a huge drop in bandwidth around 6pm at our office. We correlated to people getting home.

One thing I realized with last mile connectivity/bandwidth is that our city/neighbors were partially to blame. We talked to Verizon about FIOS, they said they would run us a line if we could get city to allow them to dig up the roads. They said they've been trying to do it but the city won't grant them permits. The city blocks them because people complain about noise and construction. Without having an alternative we have no leverage to negotiate pricing.
The $1.25 mackerel is used as a currency. I believe inmates who work a "job" get paid as much about ten dollars per MONTH. You can have someone on the outside put money into your commissary account each month. Assuming the inmate has someone on the outside with the means and willingness to do so for them.
Would you feel better knowing that statement dates from at least August 2012?
If an ISP can give you "in-browser notifications", you don't have an internet service. You're just hooked up to a corporate intranet.

This is why commercial services need regulation. Intercepting and tampering with your data should be illegal, and not just a little bit.

A country where mail fraud is a major crime but this is considered normal business has completely forgotten its fundamental values and principles.
Bumps on a Road to Revival for Yahoo
Wow, I was reading this thinking how great it is, but the comments here are the opposite.

Up here in Northern Canada, a 100Mbps plan has a 250GB cap for $140/mo and a 50Mbps plan has a 150GB cap for $110/mo.

Overage charges? $5/GB !

People up here that are getting multi-thousand dollar overage bills are thinking about a class action lawsuit against the sole telco because they believe it's intentionally over-counting data used to drive up revenue....
It was quite surreal reading this article right after reading Betrand Russel's "In Praise of Idleness."
But I agree with the author, the worst idlers are the ones who think are working.

http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
What are the reasons these people cite for not using Backbone?
Yikes. It sounds like you are in a constant state of trying new file systems and backup solutions. Why not simplify and go with a good enough solution?

Personally, I like zfs and rsnapshot. That is what I use on my NAS and it seems to work without me spending time one maintaining it after the initial setup. Why rsnapshot and not snapshots of the zfs volumes? Because I want to keep lots of backups and my understanding is that zfs loses performance after you cross into a few dozen snapshots on the type of hardware I have.

Now, I never understood backing up your home for. Why? I keep any documents on the NAS (thanks VPN and ssh for making life easy here), dot files on GitHub, and source code in git with origin on either GitHub or the NAS depending on if it is private or not. Chat logs are going to be my one exception, but perhaps the servers will back them up for me instead a la GChat.
Oh, they also have a copier/printer that costs on the order of ten cents per copy. The phone system is also outrageously expensive. In the camps (think minimum security) they have limited access to computers which have e-mail which has a similarly absurd per minute rate.

If you could score the government contract to provide those services you'd make quite a bit money with stupidly large margins. It's a damn racket.
Both lambdas and closures are there: http://nimrod-lang.org/manual.html#closures

There is some support in the library for things like map, filter.

It's not the focus of a language though, which is ok - I love FP, but it's not like it's the only way forward. Diversity is good.
There's a lot of fuzzy thinking in this thread. The idea that the emails which somehow come to our attention because they appear on internet blogs or something due to their OMG WTF value are representative of their author's normal, everyday output has as much merit as assuming, for example, that that photo of rackmounted OpenBSD computers on the openbsd.com page represents the entirety of the project's electricity usage.
I really don't know how the complete landscape looks these days, but I'd imagine most reasonably metroish areas still have decent DSL providers (even if they're primarily targeting businesses), which will cover most people here. And I know there would be a lot more DSL build out by CLECs if people didn't automatically dismiss it "too slow" without doing a true comparison.
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found a dead link in the article: http://killdream.github.io/2011/10/09/understanding-javascri...
“Disappeared” in the sense used here refers to domestic opponents being covertly kidnapped—and usually murdered—by their governments; a usage that originated in connection with Argentina's “Dirty War”, but which has been used for many other situations since.

The use of “disappeared” this way here I would say I is very conscious commentary in itself.
I think OpenBSD should reach out directly to manufacturers of the many hardware platforms they support (HP, SPARC (now Oracle), etc) and ask for donations. Of course, only the companies that are still in business.
Have you thought of implementing a system for custom handling of edge cases? Realistically you can't handle all edge cases, so leaving the last 2% up to the user (which is a developer) would be a good idea. It'd still save him 98% of the work, but also give him the comfort of knowing it won't break even if site X is doing something weird with their HTML in the future.

I'll leave it to you to figure out how one would implement such a feature ;-)
I've been lectured by the wife for driving her pod car...err...prius at speeds she doesn't appreciate. That speed was somewhere between said post and what Woz was cited for. It it possible, though in general they prefer to stay in the #1 lane at below the posted speed limit.
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Use CSS transforms. Unlike absolute positioning, percentages with a transform bases the resulting value off the transformed element's size. So something like this:

figure figurecaption {
transition: all 0.4s;
transform: translateY(100%);
}
figure:hover figurecaption { transform: none; }

Will get you the effect you want.
I looked into Business class, but wasn't willing to sign a 2-3 year contract with Comcast for it. Maybe I'd be happier with business class, but I wish that 2 years from now I'll have a different provider.

This article was the reason I checked it out: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/why-i-...
> I don't think it matters that much from a library maintainer's point of view

From a large scale application developer point of view it matters a lot.

In code bases developed by 50+ developers across multiple sites, it is important to be able to look to a struct definition and be aware what interfaces in the code base are supported.
Theo's bad attitude is more the stuff of rumor rather than fact. More than a decade ago, when I first heard about Theo's abrasiveness, I went through nearly every mailing list post he'd ever made looking for the dirt (I was a teenager with time to kill). The end result? A dozen or so flames directed toward people who, in my eyes, seemed to have it coming.

It's a shame people don't talk as much about his tireless dedication to an important but relatively small open source project. He really is one of the true open source heroes.
I have no idea why you are arguing against a conclusion that neither crazygringo nor I expressed. I have no idea why you think we disagreed with you - crazygringo explicitly agreed with you and I never expressed an opinion.

I've discovered that I learn far more when I treat questions I have no answer for as an opportunity to learn than when I treat it as an insult and a straw man argument.
This is the beginning of a revolution for affordable,accessible education.
I feel your pain... $10 for extra 50G sounds so much reasonable than what we are paying...

btw if you are with Rogers, I believe they can give you unlimited data for $30/month, or $10 if you are also using their TV and home phone.
Wonderful news! I hope this thing works!
What is your use case? Very nice project, BTW.

Personally I didn't find myself wanting all of the Racket syntax to be transformed. but I certainly more than once wanted to have a form which would offer infix syntax for everything inside, like TCL's `expr` (IIRC). There's https://github.com/marcomaggi/Infix/blob/master/infix/infix.... but I don't know if it works with Racket. Having a `lang` for infix notation seems like a good alternative: everything that would benefit from it (mainly maths in my case) would be in a separate file anyway.

So you have at least one interested person now :)
https://npm.nodejitsu.com/ says "we raised over $300,000 for the project".
But isn't the point kinda to let the users come up with data providers themselves? If you say "Only these 500 data providers are available for scraping", you don't have a business. If you don't' have such a limitation, you'll not be able to work directly with all data providers. You'll have IP problems.
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Depending on where you are the business plan might not be more expensive. I went from a Comcast standard to a Comcast business plan and pay the exact same amount per month. The only difference is that for the business plan they had me sign a two year contract.
Funny, as I have found most of the newer courses seriously lacking any tangible depth or usefulness (Intro to Hadoop/MapReduce took a few hours and barely covered the basics). The old Artificial Intelligence or Parallel Programming are probably some of the best on the site.
So, Btrfs+linux or ZFS+BSD for a home server ? I thought the former was not production ready. I am confused.
What is it like to land a plane at the world's busiest airport?
New age slavery is what it is...
She didn't beat a ticket; the state had no evidence to present to the court that proved she'd done any thing wrong; a neat side step by the judge.
Dr Bernstein claiming to have type I diabetes since 1946. There was not proof on his site - no epicrisis, there was no sources chapter in his book ...
> It's hard to argue that wouldn't be an improvement over what we have now.

I mean, I guess it's ok if you want to speak on behalf of your wife, but now you're just putting words in everyone's mouth. Enough already.

I strongly disagree with creating a new Constitution; we have so many people in Congress looking to take away our rights that we'd be lucky if our First Amendment rights stayed intact. Imagine members of Congress trading abortion rights for non-establishment. It would be a shit show on every level.
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Haven't you heard? ISPs are "information services". Not some sort of socialized public utility, i.e. a "common carrier" of bits.
Schneier, a non-governmental security researcher, was asked by the representatives to hold a meeting with them. He suggested to hold it in a secure meeting room. They tell him that he's not allowed in there.

And you're blaming Schneier for his assertions?
Actually jQuery or is it not framework anymore?
When you give advice that could screw pretty well someone's life, probably you should prove the advice is beneficial or not harmful at least.
Portland, OR also has caps. I remember trying to research this about a year ago when I was running into the then 250GB cap with Comcast. None of these lists seem to include my region, but I was still receiving warnings, and could see a maxed out bandwidth usage meter when logging into the Comcast account management site.
Probably. It's the Internet. We still have white supremacists sites hitting the top of Google for unrelated searches.
This bring back memories. I did the same thing at my university way back when - especially back when people still didn't bother to develop for iPhones.

I imagine they were afraid that people would get the wrong information, which is fair in a way, but if Yale's website was anything like my university's, then the website would far outweigh the alternative.
Where we you when Adria Richards was being virtually bullied? My guess is that you were DDoSing SendGrid.
D-Wave 512 qubit computer provides no meaningful quantum speedup
I am kind of shocked that, on HN, most of the comments are talking about the 300GB limit rather than the HTTP and SMTP (or IMAP/POP3) injection...
Debatable. I haven't been doing Ruby for a few years, but when I did, it was mostly used as dictionary keys. So, sure, you didn't need to define your constant somewhere, but on the other hand, you end up a typo away from an invalid lookup. Getting a NameError is a much easier way to locate the origin of the problem.
I love rdio, but what is up with the lack of gapless playback? I love continuous albums, and even for the lack of being able to play these without the annoying silences between tracks I still prefer rdio, but this is the biggest issue I have right now with the service.
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I wish we all had unlimited lines and paid by the gigabyte. It would honestly probably be cheaper for most people and makes more sense as at the network levels everyone pays by bandwidth consumed anyways.
Makes me wonder, though. There are plenty of fairly large commercial offerings based on those systems. The corporations using them (e.g. Sony, Apple) could probably easily afford a million in donations.
"I've got this thing and it’s fucking golden, and I’m just not giving it up for fucking nothing."

Occasionally statistics are released by companies on how much traffic leaves their site when it is 100ms slower, or the percentage drop in sales conversion rates. Furthermore, the sensitivity of visitors seems to be increasing.

And yet I think it would be very difficult to argue in court the specific harm caused by 50ms of added latency in 2020. Consumer ISPs could easily offer 'prioritization' to companies for a fee. Perhaps a Facebook of 2014 could make a subtle case measuring the harm of low priority, or cover the nominal fees to get that prioritization, or get users to complain to their ISPs. However, a company equivalent to Facebook of 2006 on the other hand would just have its growth slowed by a degraded user experience.

Already the structure of the industry for consumer ISPs encourages rent-seeking behavior. The slow spread of gigabit-tier broadband is likely related to those dynamics. Altering the landscape for content availability and latency, so that it is not neutral and is likely to favor incumbents, seems like it does not optimize the internet for innovation or the growth of new internet properties.
Your penultimate sentence contains some sweeping generalizations. Not everyone who submits a review for a class is motivated by spite. Of course, as with any voluntary review system, participation will come from those who are strongly opinionated. But that goes both ways (Also, I could be wrong, but I believe that the site only included numeric reviews...leaving no room for reviews such as “sucks ASS and Booawles!!!!!”, or whatever that means).

Some teachers ARE lousy. And some teachers present the course material in an engaging, captivating manner.

And yes, some students are lazy. But others want to learn, preferably from the latter type of professor. Labeling any student who forms an opinion about a professor as an "entitled [student] who failed after submitting a paper a month late" reveals a lack of faith in the ability of a young adult to take a genuine interest in his educational experience.
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>My guess is that the $7K price that seems revolutionary in the US is just too expensive in a worldwide context.

Yep! That would be my guess too. As an American who immigrated to Europe for an affordable Master's degree, I can understand both sides of this. $7K would have sounded completely reasonable to me 5 years ago, but now after I have paid only 500 Euros a semester, that is my new threshold for what I'd probably be willing to pay... Not that there is any strict logic behind what an education is or is not "worth," but compared to other opportunities there is no reason for me to pay more.
I'm not convinced that the sort of people who read Yahoo! News would rather read hip young up-and-coming journalists than New York Times veterans.
Or they participated in the right to free speech and claimed to be communist.
...Okay? You just linked to a random corporate policy FAQ page; I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be thinking here.

Is your point that 300GB/month is not enough for your needs? Well, I agree, which is why I haven't signed up for 300GB/month service. If I had signed up for a service like that, I think I'd really appreciate that they offer flexible and customizable notifications and are up front about where the limit is and what happens if you cross it (you pay $10/50GB overage, no additional throttling). You hear so many horror stories about folks being suddenly threatened with nebulous consequences for crossing invisible lines, and apparently XFINITY doesn't do that, so good on them!
I can only listen to 30 seconds of the songs. I have not logged in to Rdio for over a year, so it couldn't be the monthly limit still being in effect.

Anybody else experience this?
The concurrency issue is not mine to fix. Javascript provides native concurrency by Web Worker which (compared to Erlang processes is a very heavy-weight, no-shared code environment. LuvvieScript is just realising that (given those prior contraints) an OTP-ish Erlang dom-script language can be created.

The alternative (a light-weight process language) involves building a scheduler in Javascript - which is a very different beast to a transpiler with a message-consuming/emitting runtime built with existing JS libraries.

To be brutally honest, the later is beyond my competancies.
i expect driving to become automated sooner or later tho. I think human driving is the major cause of accidents, and automating it is really the best way to save lives, create better traffic conditions for smoother transportation, and also relieve the time required for the driver, so that other activities can be engaged.

Think about the avg hourly commute to work - how useful would it be if that time could be used for something else!
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Here's some research from Thad Starner, who is actually the person in charge of the Glass project over at Google: Citation: http://dmrussell.net/CHI2010/docs/p1695.pdf. He studied the performance of people doing a warehouse box-filling task using orders given on paper in a couple of forms, spoken, or presented through a head-mounted display like Glass. Summary was that workers using HDMs are more focused, work faster, and commit fewer errors overall, mostly because they spend less time switching contexts and have the information much more available.
As long as this stays local, or on a secluded branch, why not... but if you push a broken commit to master then you fix it immediately. And there's no place in a team for someone who intentionally pushes broken commits to master.
No, you need to initiate a secure session manually, and my experience was that unless you knew the other person was for sure using text secure, this could cause problems, since of you tried to handshake with the other person using a stock app, it could get stuck in the handshake. This was a while ago, so I don't know if the problem still exists.

Text secure is great, though. Really, really great.
How many characters is "é́́"? To our eyes, one. But it's actually four code points (the e and three acute modifiers). This is the case whether you're using UTF-8 or UTF-16.

Regardless of the encoding you choose, you need to understand how it represents characters.

Also FYI, most programs don't display text on the screen. To most programs, text is a sequence of bytes to be shuffled around, and nothing more. Display and text manipulation is the minority case.
So, must used Google Glass with Google Driverless Car.
Until when? Until they decide not to be?