skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well there are dozens of theme builders for bootstrap already, including free once. Not just getbootstrap
Screenshots, even showing fragments of the concepts, would be helpful. The idea seems a little odd and not something I could see myself using, but I still want to see how it might look.
Are you really suggesting a Hitleresque racial motive behind these experiments? Or just sad that black males (in that locale) have a higher incidence of homicide, and therefore more likely to be suitable for this procedure?
You forgot to mention CUDA, which is trouncing Fortran, C, and C++ in performance and being adopted at a fast rate. Now, one could argue that CUDA is a dialect of C++, but it is much more than that.
Rather ironic typo:

"Strapfork is still in beta, should I wait untill it's launched?

Quality is really important for us..."
Instead of going through the docs and code i used dir function inside repl to figure out what to do, how something works and so on.
> No exceptions [...] If I want higher-level error context I need to propagate the error upwards, with an if at every function call along the way.

This is flat out false. Go has fairly standard exceptions (panics), though instead of using try/catch/finally blocks it uses deferred functions that perform a hybrid of the "catch" (if they use "recover") and "finally" functionality.

It is a go convention that library code doesn't let panics escape to the calling code, so if you are going to use panics in your own code, to follow the convention you should be recovering from them somewhere in the call chain that you control rather than letting them escape across the public API of your code. But that's it, they exist, and can be used. So, while there may be some ground to complain that when calling the standard library you have to handle error returns rather than catching exceptions (equivalently, "recovering from panics") -- though, IMO, there is a good reason for this design choice -- there is absolutely no reason, aside from sheer ignorance and not reading even the most basic Go documentation -- to say that you don't have exceptions that you can use within your own code and that you have to to error-return handling at every level in your own code to deal with error propagation. If you make that complaint, it is clear you don't know what you are talking about.
What's the alternative to test the thing practically? Getting people to opt in before they got stabbed or shot or whatever would be phenomenally difficult - making contact with that demographic - and could delay the study by years or decades. And in the mean time more people would possibly be dying, something they haven't consented to either.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Is Here
YC's time machine startup will be in stealth mode.
The post links to it as well.
Superiority Complex – Time Inc.'s Empire of Excess – Town and Country Magazine
I think the author misses the point. The number one reason Go was created was to build maintainable softwares, the kind Google uses at large. The easiest way to build these are:

- Automatic memory management -> GC

- Bug catching before the software is run -> Static typing

- Overall simplicity -> few features, added only if it is extremely needed

The thing is, when you start using Go, you already know its features. There is nothing particularly new, and it all fits in your head. It is a bit strict though, so there is some boilerplate (error checking, sort.Sort, ...) but that's going to save you when you edit your software in 5 years.

Here, performance (both compilation and running) is a byproduct of simplicity.

Now, I'm not saying the OP's use cases are invalid, far from it; they're just not what was intended in the process of creating Go. Like OP, I tend to think that Go is the new Java: "boring" (ie no revolutionary features) but it just works for server-side softwares.
My thoughts as well. This is an implementation optimisation - It seems wrong to put this kind of stuff into user space. Especially as it seems like something that should be possible to solve with a smarter rendering engine.
It's not just her family. She was applying for government assistance. People try to defraud government programs so countermeasures are developed. One is ensuring that the children people claim as dependents (and thus will get money for) are, in fact, their children. If someone turns up with 3 kids and falsified documents, DNA tests would reveal the attempted fraud (assuming the kids aren't their identical twin's or a very genetically close sibling's).

In this case the bureaucrats, as you call them, were faced with someone who appeared to be attempting to defraud the government. She insisted (rightly) that they were her children, but initially the DNA evidence pointed to that being a lie. They asked about them being her sister's children (suggesting she was the aunt), she denied this. They inquired about surrogacy, in vitro, etc. She insisted that the children were conceived normally and delivered by her. Once the latter was proven, the DNA still didn't match which left the surrogacy angle (which presented a risk that she'd defrauded someone else). She'd likely get assistance if it had been surrogacy (but she kept the kids legitimately) or in vitro with donated eggs and above board, but she kept insisting (because she was right) that it wasn't, which left the investigators in a bind. The facts didn't match the claims.

It's unfortunate that she happened to get caught up in all of this when she was totally innocent of any wrongdoing or attempted fraud, but given the odds of chimerism the bureaucrats were not wrong to investigate further. Now that the condition is known and understood hopefully this will be resolved more quickly for future chimeras.
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Edit: works now
Safaricom's M-Pesa Turns Kenya Into a Mobile Payment Paradise
I think that it's not for those people that know how to modify the css code of the bootstrap theme. They also offer a nice UI and a useful tips of design to create your own theme.
Yes, indeed, good for them. The ISPs are counting on general ignorance and a PR battle to win them the right to charge incoming tolls on their networks. This has to be resisted. However, I read this morning that Netflix caved and agreed to remove the messaging early. I hope it's not true, and that they keep up the fight. Three Netflix accounts in our house.
I quite like the UI in terms of interface.

I rather dislike the UI for a couple of specific things: expiring links, low contrast in places, and not seeing points.
I'd pay money for that - $20?

The thing is - obviously I'd prefer it to be open-source (not from a free perspective) but because I believe in OSS, and personally it's kind of neat being able to trawl through the source yourself to see how things were put together.

However, I'd gladly Gittip or donate that amount to a project.
I think, definitely not an expert, that when thinking about ways to travel faster than light would not actually involve an object moving through space in the classical sense.

You could look instead of at the means (i.e. moving through space) at the goal: Mass first being somewhere, and then being somewhere else in a relatively short amount of time.

So the solution would be to cross distance at a low velocity, so you don't have all the downsides like getting heavier, requiring insane amounts of energy, but still arriving at a location sooner than a conventional ray of light would.

The concept of a worm hole would be that there would be a path between two points in space, over which matter can travel, that has a shorter physical length than the shortest paths we can come up with now.

So faster than light travel might simply be 'regular' velocity travel over undiscovered paths.

(Note that in a mathematical sense, under the rules we learn in school, there can not be a path between two points that is shorter than a straight line. What we know however that the universe around us does not conform to these rules precisely, we already know for example that space has curves in it.

The key to knowing whether there are paths or if we can create those paths, that are shorter than the ones we experience now lies in understanding the structure of the universe better.)
How soon before they give up even the pretence of pretence, and just say "No." Or go dark.
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I think I've seen this House episode before. Spoiler alert: The chick dies in the end.

Seriously though, with these new types of procedures I feel like we need another checkbox next to the organ donor one that says: "Try risky medical procedures if the attending doctor honestly thinks it gives me a better chance of living with no permanent brain damage when compared to conventional treatment." Or probably something a little more succinct.
Comparing protocols and extensions in Swift and Elixir/Clojure
I use Codebox. I just save my CodeBox file to Dropbox and have it synced on all my computers.

http://www.shpakovski.com/codebox/

I also have Code Collector Pro, but I prefer CodeBox though.
This logic doesn't follow. Most video games don't optimize their gameplay mechanics for conversion to micropayments - and the ones that do are widely under attack.

Sure, all mechanics in all games are man-made, but to continue the analogy, we're talking about an entirely artificial wait time to check out that's been specifically optimized to make you pay for the "express" checkout. In other words, the wait exists for no reason except to extract more money from you.

The whole core of the argument is that developers used to optimize the mechanics of the game for fun and enjoyment, and now instead optimize the mechanics for how frequently and continually they can suck money out of your pockets. There is now a gigantic philosophical and developmental gap between the "pay once" and "pay monthly" business models and the "pay always" business model.
Surviving as an entrepreneur. Why we need a Universal Basic Income.
It seems kind of silly to pay that much for what is essentially a paginated front end for http://getbootstrap.com/customize/ + an unproven CDN.

I'm not sure this is really addressing a pain point for anyone.
I generally try to not manipulate properties directly through javascript, rather declaring a class for the purpose. Doesn't seem like an unreasonable requirement for proper performance? (I mean, compared to having stuff like `will-change`)
Generic methods is one place where non-explicit error handling is essential. What if your map/select call fails? You have to make sure to thread error handling through everything that would ever take another function as an argument (since the error handling characteristics of the unknown function are open), which, in this day and age, is ridiculous. C# couldn't do LINQ at all in this case.

Sometimes a bit of dynamic scoping can go a long way.
Looks like they took it down then fixed it again.
I get that sentiment in general, but what does it have to do with a new hinting feature? Would hinting look different without legacy baggage? Would it not be needed? I don't see how it's possible to create an ideal browser that is fast at everything and also memory efficient. And there are always legitimate reasons to want to juice the most performance out of your pages.
> There's a panic/recover in Go, but they aren't serious.

They are very serious.

> At least, to my limited knowledge of Go, there are no guidelines on using them properly, so everyone panics with whatever they fancy, and this lack of conventions is a bit problematic, like `raise "Failed to open file"` in Python.

The convention is that you don't let panics escape across the public API of your function -- which also makes most other cross-project conventions for panics unnecessary. Its probably useful to have internal conventions within a project for internal consistency, but since none of your panics should ever escape across a public API boundary, a broader convention would have limited benefit.
RHEL 7 is out
I think there's some good ideas here, overshadowed by the the 350 character limit. A scannable truncated feed of all your emails is worth considering, and that's what they should be pitching.

The passive aggressive auto-responder is a massively bad idea though. Between clients, VIPs, and dear family members, I imagine the number of fuck you's sent to important people would massively outweigh the benefits of automated snark.

Let's also not forget that some companies have ridiculous email signature policies. Ours is fairly sane and I'm still looking at over 100 characters.
> I almost never used operator overloading in C# or Java.

Dude, you can't overload operators in Java. You can overload methods of a class, but not operators. Operator overloading means that you can overload '+' for example for your particular class, which would enable you to write code like (in Java):

Matrix a = zeroMatrix(4,4);
Matrix b = identityMatrix(4,4);
Matrix c = a+b;

You can't do that, so you would have to write:

Matrix c= a.add(b);

Which makes your code verbose and makes Java (and Go) painful for doing numerical analysis.
Author of Invoker here, I dunno why the title was edited by mods? I thought existing title served it better?
There are numerous typos on the front page which contributes to my overall feeling of nope.
Still just looks like Bootstrap to me...
I don't buy Apple products, your reply is utterly vacuous, and you should be ashamed. Use iPads for plates for all I care.

edit: and as a programmer, I'm largely going to be the watcher, not the watchee. I'll program for it, but I'll never use a product that is openly user hostile.
Vermeer's paintings might be 350 year-old color photographs
I did not. As the article stated: poor (black) people do have a significant higher change to end up in that experimental room.

Your comment did made me think about not-so-old CIA experiments on poor powerless people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation...

But lets be clear: this is not CIA stuff.
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Launchbar is similar to Quicksilver/Alfred and has very good snippet support: http://blog.obdev.at/post/introducing-launchbar-snippets/

Syncing and backup can be done via Dropbox or Git for example.
There are too many variables to give a straight answer. Writing to a bunch of different files at the same time? Postgres is probably faster since all that disk IO contention gets turned into a write to the WAL. Don't have the resources to give postgres? Files maybe faster than watching pg choke on a lack of RAM or CPU time.
FYI, the trailer for the documentary at the bottom of this article has a clip that makes it clearer what exactly he does with the mirror to help him paint photo-realistically. It wasn't super clear to me until seeing that.
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How about: "I reserve the right to have my life terminated if I come out of a procedure with no brain activity"?
Edit: From the older discussion on HN: "Assuming they (patients) have been getting 'good' CPR for the 10-15 minutes the ER team spent attempting to resuscitate them, there is still a good chance that their brain was not being perfused."
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Thanks for the recent cooperation between Red Hat and CentOS, we may not have to wait much!

http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/1/red-ha...
Facebook Accidentally Launches Slingshot(Snapchat Clone),Then Makes It Disappear
Well, I think that's the lesser moral problem here...
You can still receive long form emails as you always have, I think Toastio is just offering another option that's more appropriate for day-to-day routine communication.

I'd imagine auto-respond being an optional feature as well so you don't have to feel like a jerk if you don't want to. However, I'm not certain about this but it only seems natural.
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I am aware of the interesting duality between compression and learning. I have spent quite some time thinking about it.

However I am still not convinced that this upper bound is going to provide us with the information that we need in this case.
What we are looking for is a relative measure of the complexity between each genome. The upper bound will not necessarily give us this relative measure because it may not be able to compress the genetic code of organisms by the same factor. The compressibility of a particular genome, by a specific algorithm will be dependent on the method of encoding of information used by the organism. For instance the organism may repeat codes for redundancy, but it may permute the letters of the copy in a predictable way, for it's own reasons. The compression algorithm used will not pick up on this.

It is useful to use compressiblity by a range of algorithms as the input to a machine learning algorithm, or as part of the model in AIXI, but it is not useful for estimating algorithmic complexity (as far as I am concerned, I am open minded, but not convinced yet).
From the last time around this appeared:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7144128
So:

* Docker

* XFS as default filesystem, btrfs available

* systemd and .service files replacing the duct tape of overlapping services and shell scripts

* Normal RHEL stuff like SystemTap support

More info: https://access.redhat.com/site/sites/default/files/pages/att...
Hugi Demoscene Mag #38 is out
I hope Netflix makes this a standard feature for all ISPs. Bonus point for more transparency, e.g. network graphs comparing peak to off-peak.

This sort of visibility into the real problems means the ISPs can't hide behind their lies.
It was most likely edited to reflect the <title> of the page
Verostko is represented by DAM Gallery in Berlin.
I had the pleasure to see some of his works in real life in the exhibition Frieder Nake a & Friends at the same place. If you're in Berlin, check out the gallery. Right now Vera Molnar is exhibited. (Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with the gallery.)
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Bit of information which is on Wikipedia, but missing from the article:

A lawyer for the prosecution heard of a human chimera in New England, Karen Keegan, and suggested the possibility to the defence...

Which restores a little bit of one's faith in humanity.
Okay, but what about the other questions I had at the bottom? I'm trying to visualize how you's like to use this thing.
Docker comes preloaded on Ninefold
I think a larger focus needs to be placed on location based navigation. I get that it's primarily poland right now, but the drill down options for location are abysmal: http://lifetramp.com/search?place=Chicago-Miami

I would be MUCH more willing to hook up in my state than other countries, etc.
By what I'm reading you shouldn't have the property in a style sheet at all. The author implies that every usage of the property requires resources that are never released as long as the property is still active. The property in a style sheet will mean that the resources are never released.

Thus, the suggestion to use the property through javascript so that it can be applied and then removed. That just seems totally weird to me.
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There are applications where 99.99% uptime matters. There are applications where it doesn't.

Maybe there is a lesson here about engineering to a set of requirements.

Maybe there is a lesson about customer selection.
> So, if I read this right, you basically buy a theme. I don't really see what they add of value.

It's one step further than that. They sell you the theme that you just created for them.
Ask HN: Who'd hire full stack developers
I am a full stack web developer with roughly 10 years experience. I am comfortable with back/front-end dev as well as design work. I am also Ok with setting up and maintaining Unix servers.

My startup concept (https://nota.io) isn't taking off the ground so I am back on the job market.

What kind of place would hire me?
I left that piece out because I just assumed it would be sufficiently obvious. That was my bad.
Or more verbosely:

Hackers that know what they are doing and care about that particular account use good password policies.

Hackers that don't know any better (perhaps I should use "people who claim to be hackers" to define this sub-set) or really don't care about that particular account, use bad passwords.

Just like the rest of us.
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> With a database you're using more CPU

That's incorrect, you're potentialy trading several system calls (open, read, close) and their associated copies, which have high fixed costs for, with the right database, no system calls at all. I've spent most of the past year working with LMDB, and can decisively say that filesystems can in no way be competitive with an embedded database, by virtue of the UNIX filesystem interface.

> this is a user forum for people to comment on news stories, not an e-commerce site

That much is true, though based on what we've learned in the parent post, until today all passwords on the site were stored in one file. Many popular filesystems on Linux exhibit surprising results rewriting files, unless you're incredibly careful with fsync and suchlike. For example, http://lwn.net/Articles/322823/ is a famous case where the many-decades traditional approach of writing out "foo.tmp" before renaming to "foo" could result in complete data loss should an outage occur at just the right moment.
Video: The dangers of relying on user feedback 
Hi guys,

This is my first ever YouTube video. I think I have some interesting views and insights that could be useful for people in the industry, so I decided to start a channel.

I know it could be better/more coherant but I realized that talking into a camera is surprisingly hard! I hope to improve that in future videos :)

Anyway, thanks for watching and in any case it'd be great to get some feedback on this subject!
Is there a way to make this a JS-only interface or property, then? Heck, the article made it sound like using it directly in stylesheets would often be a bad idea anyway.
There is an awesome Swift Cheat Sheet and Quick Reference: http://swift-cheatsheet.co.uk
I have no idea what you just said, but I think that it confirms my understanding that doing console colours on Windows is a pain in the buttocks.
Hmm, still looks like bootstrap to me...
Pardon my ignorance but don't containers share the same kernel as the host? Meaning I can't run a Ubuntu container in a BSD jail or vice-versa? I don't want to use containers if it limits my OS choice to being from the same family as the host.
I posted some notes and links to suggested reading in this area, adapted from a talk I've given several times for Houston start-up forums [fora? fori?], at http://www.OnContracts.com/legally-lean. As it happens, in different places the notes cite both @patio11's and @tptacek's comments here at HN.
If you are interested in the long history of computer art, check the work of Manfred Mohr and Vera Molnar: they both started around the mid 60s, using science computers and plotters.
Nice pictures here: http://dam.org/artists/phase-one/vera-molnar/artworks-bodies...
This version of RHEL has all of the base bits for running docker as well. Super exciting times!

Also, the project atomic stuff looks very interesting:
http://www.projectatomic.io/

It is a quasi-coreos like version of RHEL that does atomic binary updates via the ostree software.
Wow that's interesting that you use files to store the data. Is there any sharding across machines or is it all just one machine? Do you use big SSDs or old spinning disks?
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How many other websites can be browsed with Links?

http://links.twibright.com/
What does this add over top of just plain foreman?