skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he was using "freedom" with the definition of Liberty with a capital L . Or Freedom with a capital F. Both used by Libertarians, where the interaction with the state, police etc is opposed.

"Freedom" with a car is more commonly used to refer to the feeling of liberation. You are both correct.
Miles Penn here, cofounder of MTailor. Feel free to post any questions -- happy to answer them!
There is lots of unexplored territory in molecular spectroscopy. The ALMA Telescope[0]—primarily operating at millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelengths, where the bulk of molecular transitions are—is likely to discover many spectral lines which have not been classified. Estimates suggest that 50–80% of the lines seen in some observations will correspond to unknown transitions of known molecules or transitions from previously unknown molecules. But the energies of molecular (rotational) transitions are generally far too low for an unknown molecular species to be a viable explanation for a spectral line in the X-rays.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atacama_Large_Millimeter_Array
Your point is a good one, but, in the case of Adora, you may be missing some of the facts. She was an accomplished programmer and had worked for Max Levchin at Slide, where he was so impressed with her that he agreed to be one of her first investors later on. (I don't believe she had any particular connections that got her the job at Slide.) She applied to YC (2x in fact) and we had never met her before. I remember being extremely impressed with her and Aaron during the interview and the idea seemed quite plausible at the time (even though it later failed). I also remember personally being really excited about the sister/brother team.

During the time Adora was at YC, we got to know her well and were even more impressed, which is why Paul invested personally when she said she had no money left.

Startups are hard. Most people quit and that's nothing to feel guilty about, of course. I guess I'd just hate for Adora's talent, effectiveness and level of determination to be misinterpreted as merely having connections.

I'm not saying all this to disagree with you, but to encourage you. Getting a job at a company at Slide or getting into YC are hard, but not impossible.
Ask yourself: What other language could those enterprise projects have used?

Of course there's the whole C/C++ world, but people were starting to realize that managing memory can be a pain, and that text-based preprocessors can be a pain too. In comparison, Java seemed easier.

Fortran was known to be good for numerical applications, but had a bad reputation for everything else.

Pascal? COBOL? really??

(Actually I don't know why people didn't consider Pascal more seriously; maybe it lacked corporate backing?)

Of course there were scripting languages, but big corps are conservative, so it had to be statically type-checked.

Many other languages came later, or weren't seen as mature enough back then (C#, Haskell).

Java, OTOH, had a few pluses: static typing, OO, easy to learn (because it was a small language, and had similar syntax to C/C++), and a very well-documented standard library.
As I posted elsewhere.
Racism Is any action or attitude, conscious or unconscious, that subordinates an individual or group based on skin colour or race. It can be enacted individually or institutionally.

Source: US Civil Rights Commission

How is a white person subordinated and controlled in the U.S. based on race to where that white person does not have recourse to the the law, the courts, the police, them finding another job, or just avoiding the offending person? If you have a problem with a person you avoid them or address the law. Racially oppressed people don't escape the situation so easily hence why racism is debilitating.

If you are white in the U.S. you are not going to get racially subordinated. Stop worrying, you are just going to make yourself sick.
It's not too late. Cities are constantly changing and reinventing themselves. Many cities have old industrial areas that are being converted to other uses, or very low density residential spaces that are being rezoned to higher density. Any time a neighbourhood undergoes change there's an opportunity to do it differently.

Vancouver's Olympic village (built from old industrial land) is an example of a brand new neighbourhood in a North American city built close to this form. It's not pedestrian only in width, but the streets through it are only a single car width wide.
Appears to be a typo - https://github.com/jxnblk/gifolio looks like it
I don't know about the police part. I think people should be able to party during the weekend. Maybe it's just my berliner perspective, but if you don't like noise you shouldn't live in the city - I don't want to tip-toe around because someone else can't be arsed to close the windows (and if someone has a single-pane window that's not my fault).

When it comes to buildings concrete is basically the answer; it is an excellent noise insulator.
>If you can't drive you're not going anywhere. Most of America doesn't have access to good public transport

This is the problem. Would cars be worth their expense and inconvenience if there were decent public transportation, walkable cities, or people could generally live near where they worked?
Bose Sues Beats Electronics Over Patents
So will it work with a gccgo?
Sunken civilization of Heracleion
This is what I thought of too when looking at the first few images. How can they "walk" in those places?.

However, I believe not all of the examples were steep stepped or cobbled but had vehicular access and were level, and the article explains issues about access and ambulances etc - it would work out fine - arguably better in terms of human closeness.
IBM adopted Java early on as a client side development technology to be used in client/server computing that was so prevalent in the 90s. IBM also had a lot of their customers rebuilding 20-30 year old applications in Java to address Y2K issues. IBM supports Java running on their zSeries and pSeries systems. IBM supports Java applications using JMS over MQSeries to interoperate with legacy applications and supports Java accessing DB2 databases. IBM even has tools to allow COBOL copybooks to be exposed as web services, which Java can then easily consume. There's still a ton of legacy COBOL applications and thanks to IBM, Java can interoperate with that legacy code and extend its functionality.

And it's not all about IBM either. Obviously Oracle, another enterprise favorite, is playing in the Java space these days and provide an application server, WebLogic, along with great support for accessing Oracle's RDBMs from Java. Oracle also has several industry vertical solutions all based on Java.

Finally there's Red Hat. Lots of enterprises run RHEL when running a Linux server and their JBoss application server is highly regarded.

Java then offers enterprises a lot of flexibility. There's multiple vendors from which they can choose to procure application servers, there's little risk of platform lock-in, they can fully interoperate with legacy applications and there's a ton of reasonable cost developers available - who are mostly happy with a language that's fairly modern. There's actually quite a bit for an enterprise to like about Java.
Traction, of course. Perl and TCL were far more popular when Java was exploding.
I think this is a rather romanticised view of a traditional city. I don't want to live in a city dominated by cars, but that doesn't mean the best alternative is to build extremely narrow streets.

All cities need contrasting spaces. Even the medieval town or city was marked by narrow streets that led to an open piazza or square. The feeling of walking from a confined narrow space into a wide open expanse can give a feeling of exhiliration. It's something architects continue to use today inside buildings. Think of the walk through a corridor into the grounds of a stadium and the excitement it generates. Or the excitement of walking through a corridor in a theatre before you enter the large expanse of the auditorium.

The scale and proportion of buildngs in relation to one another creates a sense of enclosure that can either feel comfortable or uncomfortable. The author calls the extremely narrow streets "intimate" and they are in many cases, but they can also be claustrophobic (especially if you live in them).

For housing, not everyone will want to live in streets as narrow as the pictures in the blog post. Who doesn't prefer long views out of their window? (Preferably of some greenery) That doesn't mean building huge spaces between houses as is often the case in modern car suburbs. But there needs to be enough distance to psychologically feel you have a sense of privacy from your neighbours.

Here is a random Victorian street (in a very expensive part of London) that I think has a good scale. The road is not too wide. Cars are parked on the street rather than in garages. The houses are of fairly high density. This is a better template for housing than modern car susburbs in my view. But it won't be for everyone.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.556208,-0.165162,3a,75y,36...
Sure. But as you said, that's not really the point of my analogy. I used it more to illustrate the idea that atheism, like tennis non-fandom, can be a conditional state, "called" only when the subject of religion (or tennis) comes up.

Religion is a much more fraught subject than tennis. But the precise subject of the analogy wasn't intended to be 1:1 congruous. I'd be sitting on my butt for weeks, trying to come up with a different analogy, if I felt I needed a measure-for-measure match. :)
Both Python (1991) and Ruby (1995) existed at the same time Java (1995) was coming to the market.
"Generally, it is the pharmacy chains that sell their own, branded generic medication at the stores."

The same is true here in the U.S. You can find generic brands in all the drug stores chains and supermarkets, right next to the name brands on the shelves.

My guess is that the pervasive advertising of the name brands somehow convinces people subconsciously that these products are better, even if they know that they have the same ingredients as the generic versions.
DUAL EC DRBG: No more of that.

Or as another example, consider what happens when the NSA discovers a security vulnerability in a common crypto library. If the NSA is allowed to use it for surveillance then they will do that instead of disclosing it, meanwhile the vulnerability persists in the wild just waiting for someone even worse to discover it. You can imagine the epic fail if the Chinese government got hold of Heartbleed six months before the OpenSSL maintainers.
Also worth reading is Manning Marable's excellent biography Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention.

http://www.amazon.com/Malcolm-X-A-Life-Reinvention/dp/014312...
I came here to say the exact same thing.

Even if you're using synchronous storage, wrap it in an asynchronous API and save yourself a world of hurt later.
How does the "measure with your iPhone" thing work? That seems to be the most error-prone part of the entire process, yet you claim very high accuracy? That would seem to imply that you can somehow get accurate measurements out of the camera?
I've seen the same kind of narrow streets in LA, which gave the same cozy feeling. I'm talking about places like The Grove in LA.[1]
The difference between these and the authentic type of narrow streets is, that the grove is a privately owned estate area, that can set its own rules.
Whereas the authentic ones are owned by the city, and don't just close for the night or ban alcohol, or what not.

[1] https://www.google.dk/search?q=The+Grove+LA&tbm=isch&tbo=u&s...
I remember media reporting a survey of children which "discovered" that a full 1/4 of children under the age of 12 had been involved with committing armed robbery in the UK.

There were some methodological flaws including asking children in groups what were their experiences of crime.

Turns out kids like to maintain social standing with over kids through exaggeration.

Who knew.

Yes there are morons out there who think God is personally going to save them first as they will be closest to the altar. But most of my problem with religion is not religion - it's lying and power grabbing and manipulation and deceit and murder and social entrapment and the inertia of crowds.

Religion corrals this behaviour but it's humans not religion that does it. If you want to convert others beware of your own motivations. They won't be different to those of religion. Because you aren't different. And that's my point.
I disagree - it is very much worth reading. Even without a single word the pictures make a powerful statement. It presents a typology of built environments and makes the important point that human-scaled, walkable environments are found throughout the world and share some important advantages that the recent places we've built do not.
Use -vo caca for color output via libcaca:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur3iEHo6rI8#t=25
I'd love to hear theories for what might have installed it. If anyone still has that certificate, it would be helpful to export it and email it to support@stripe.com.

We've worked around the issue for now by not using EV certificates, which isn't a great solution.
I wonder if we can apply the same lines to map English as we do other languages. English, largely through conquest and trade, has become the de facto language of technology and science, much as Latin was in its heyday. But we know Latin was exclusionary as the Christian clergy and the erudite were the most fluent in it. English, by contrast has democratised access to the common folk.

It was even in use in the Star Trek universe aboard Federation ships, but that may not be too unrealistic. English, I mean, not the aliens or warp drive.
Actually, I think you have it reversed. It's popular with universities (which is just one of the reasons I find most CS programs lacking because they don't even touch on other languages until the 4000s so you have a bunch of grads who never even learn Python unless they are naturally curious until after they graduate, but that's a separate rant) because it is popular in corporate environments.

I know on HN most people dont approach software development from a corporate or enterprise POV, but that's where the majority of CS grads end up working. At small, medium and large size corporate shops doing custom software usually based on outdated models and working with legacy systems. Java is perfect for that.

Ok, that was totally unfair. There is a lot of stuff that Java can do really well. And I'm not a developer by trade (I'm just a hobbyist who likes to tinker and in another life would probably be a mobile or front-end dev; maybe next decade if I'm bored with media), so I can't even really speak from expeienece implementing Java. As others have stated, it came among at the right time, perfectly timed with the explosion of "the web" and became really easy to be a drop-in for a lot of places for C++. Plus, it was portable, which is a huge thing when you have so many environmental variables.

Schools started to teach it as soon as they saw that it was what all the big businesses were adopting. It also happens to be a very easy language to teach, even if one could argue (and I would be one of those) that teaching C first would be a much better first-language just to get the fundamentals down. But I mean, it's not just colleges that teach Java, they started teaching Java (replacing VB, which was I "learned" (read: slept through)) to kids two years behind me back when I was in high school. And that was like 2001.
I'd love to use this - guess it's not available outside the US? I'm in London.
ooh, that is a good one! I wonder if some people would mention the same project?
Well, you could build multi-million cities in a traditional style. You'd need subways, of course, as well as some mayor arteries to get goods close enough to their destination that the rest of the trek is short enough to be easy.

A simplistic solution would be a grid of mayor arteries, NY-style but bigger, and then have the "blocks" of the grid be traditional-style no-car zones with subway stations in the middle.
Okay, upon further review, this thing is buggy as hell.
Ask HN: Job manager/queue for cloud instances
I have following problem to solve and in order to spare me from reinventing the wheel, I hope for some pointers to existing solutions or services:

On top of a cloud infrastructure (AWS, Rackspace...) I need to somehow be able to manage jobs (research software which can take from a couple of minutes to a couple of hours to run), i.e. starting jobs on idle instances, spin up new instances if needed and stop unused instances.

Does anyone know of a solution or service which could help me in this regard?
Without sarcasm, yes I would like to see how you branched - it's not an easy solution - and to be honest the hard part of this (and I have a github project for budgeting too) is getting data into a form where you can easily do a projection

What was the household budget in originally - a RDBMS? Mint or quicken ?

Not meaning to be aggressive - just wanting more context - and yes, please let me see code :-)
It is my impression that it's exactly the other way round: it's popular with universities precisely because it's popular in the industry.

Many professors would like to teach something much purer (Smalltalk or Eiffel for OO, Lisp or Haskell for functional programming), but they also often have trouble forming a consensus on any of those. So it's easy to give in to the pressure from the industry, and simply teach Java.
I agree. This is the kind of work that inspires me. Sure you can make pretty 'apps', things like this might change the world.
Motorized wheelchairs is what's mostly used in these cases.
Spain's 'Google tax'
We are not giving humanity enough credit here. The standard nuclear hazard symbol would suffice.

Even assuming there is some sort of civilization ending event, and specific knowledge of nuclear technology disappears.

People are certainly smart enough to recognize a pattern of distinctive symbolism and learn to associate it with danger over time.

A good example is cargo cults that sprung up in the Pacific Islands in WW2. Groups of people without much previous contact with modern civilization learnt to associated 'airplanes' dropping aid supplies with food. Despite having no previous knowledge of what planes are and how they function.

I imagine future primitive cultures would learn to associate the nuclear hazard symbol with illness in a similar manner. And would probably end up constructing their own mythical narratives around the symbols.
> This thinking is ridiculous, and doesn't really appear in any other industry. Do you care whether your accountant's idea of an enjoyable Friday night is sitting at home making more spreadsheets? Would you demand that your eye doctor go home and craft her own lenses in her garage for fun?

Actually, it does appear in other industries. Many of my friends who are designers do various sorts of art in their free-time, whether that's drawing or even the same type of photoshop stuff they do at work. One of the best CNC machinists that I know has come into the shop on weekends to experiment with making ornate snowflake ornaments, folding knives, and motorcycle attachments on the mills... His job consists of machining parts for cable laying machines, but he enjoys the challenge of figuring out how to manufacture complex parts so much that he does it in his free time.

I don't know any accountants or optometrists very well, but I wouldn't be surprised if the passionate ones spent time outside of work learning about the latest advancements in their respective fields.

> Competency doesn't require fanaticism, and no employer should expect that their employees devote their entire lives to their occupation.

True, _competency_ doesn't require fanaticism, but if you want to _excel_ at something (and don't want to end up hating your life in the process) you had better really enjoy it because you're going to have to put in several thousand hours of learning. Spending all that time exploring your particular field of study won't be a problem if it's something you love, and you're more likely to continue exploring it and keeping yourself up-to-date if you're interested in it. Thus, passion makes a pretty good predictor for success among high-achieving employees.
Every morning I wake up and check all of my stats for apps/sites/Bitcoin
More details: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&hl=en&ie=...

More opinion: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/07/26/spanish-congress-co...

Maybe someone who speaks Spanish could provide a more detailed article? The English-language web appears to be shallow this time.
> I'm not seeing there waiting as long for the C++ compiler to do its work.

Then turn down optimization in GCC. The point I was trying to make is that you're likely making an apples/oranges comparison. With defaults, yes, GCC compiles slower but also produces faster binaries, you can turn the optimization level down and the results are more comparable in both dimensions. (YMMV depending on the project)
'professionalism' is not the same word as 'professional'
There's a documentary called Into Eternity[1] following the construction of the Onkalo waste repository in Finland which is designed to last 100000 years.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_%28film%29
It's the same scenario at GitHub. I've had a half-dozen or so GitHub users report cert chain issues on OS X over the last year and a half and it has always turned out to be a stray cert in the 'login' keychain. Still no definitive explanation for where the cert is coming from, but in at least one case the user had been prompted to import the cert by the code signing utilities.

My understanding from DigiCert is the cross-signing with Entrust had been done awhile back to improve mobile browser compatibility. Perhaps this is some strange combination of developer tools installed and the platform they are developing for...
Or, in this case, ->>:

(def lols (->> strs
(filter #(re-find #"LOL" %))
(map upper-case)
sort))

How I read it: take strs, filter the strings that contain "LOL", turn them into upper case and then sort them. Basically it reads the same as the pipeline example in the README.
Be the change you want to see in the world, sarcasm doesn't really get anybody anywhere
The New York Times Calls for Marijuana Legalization
Hi,

Thanks for the nice words. I wrote BiCon over ten years ago and never touched it again. It definitely wasn't before SIGWINCH was introduced as I was barely four years old then :).

I checked the code, looks like code for SIGWINCH was there, but not working. I believe this got broken during the pty rewrite we did back then. At any rate. I just fixed that, and fixed initial window size. Enjoy, and in the future, feel free to shoot me an email if something I maintain bothers you!

https://github.com/behdad/bicon/commits/master

Cheers,
behdad
this looks pretty cool