skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking forward to adding the end of drug prohibition / war on drugs, to this list in the coming decade. In theory there should be another significant drop in crime, from the reduction in direct and indirect drug crime.

In fact, I'd argue there are only two concentrated causes of crime left in America: prohibition, and black + immigrant poverty (with the war on drugs and the prison machine having a significant role to play in black poverty).
I keep a few months of food/medical supplies in the house in case of emergency. People think I'm weird for it. And to be clear I'm not a doomsayer and believe I will not likely ever need it. But once I was looking at insurance and considered what I care about in the house. Two things I wouldn't want to lose, my photos and my family. So I got cloud backup for my photos and pulled together some suppliers that would keep the family going in case of emergency.

While I don't think I will ever need it, on a long enough time scale there is bound to be some emergency be it my generation or following ones.

I find it strange most people have contents insurance on their house, to protect tables/chairs/TV's and think I'm strange for this. The way I see it, is while I'm significantly likely more likely to lose my house contents via theft/fire etc, I don't care about these things. And there is nothing a few shopping trips wouldn't fix. However in the rare event food supplies were cut, then I really would care. Also its significantly cheaper than contents insurance actually saving money as I bulk buy food on special I already eat so a bunch of what we eat is on permanent special.

As a side comment the crazy test for people to prep seems to be ask them how the world will end. If they think they know how or when, they're crazy. Otherwise its just being prepared.
There's no way they'd do that. There's a rift because of LLVM's licensing philosophy: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2014-01/msg00247.html
I recently learned that Steve Jobs didn't give iPads to his own kids and maintained an atmosphere to intellectually stimulating conversation with their kids, as it has been before tech. He gave them bookBooks instead (hilarious IKEA book book ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOXQo7nURs0).

Other tech CEOs limit at 30 minutes screen time per day for their kids.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebecca-jackson/why-the-creato...
Given all the reworks of software projects that have a) been started b) then delayed c) then delayed more, "because this time we'll make it perfect" and d) then failed to gather traction because of incompatibilities, it's my humble guess that the only way would be to continue ELisp as it is and slowly rework the compiler/interpreter and the runtime into a more modern codebase, and add missing features such as thread/process based concurrency. Guile, Clojure, Common Lisp or whatever language are going to basically restart Emacs from scratch, no matter how well they're coated with compatibility macros.

It's better to create slight incompatibilities gradually (so that packages can catch up in some humane timeframe). I could imagine the ELisp runtime being intertwined with the Emacs C code badly enough that making radical changes to it would seem "impossible", just like in the CPython codebase it is considered impossible to ditch GIL and modernise the code. But those kind of comments are often excuses because people are lazy and it's nicer to write new code.
Another piece of emergent behaviour is the "impossible pogo trick": http://www.shikadi.net/keenwiki/Impossible_Pogo_Trick
Aye, upvoted. Unsure why you're being downvoted so heavily.

I think we can all agree that cabs in the Bay Area are terrible. Uber and its kin have certainly changed the market.

Uber however, seem to be resorting to immoral and rather ruthless tactics to serve themselves.
No they cant - because they have been grossly overcharging for what poor selection of low quality hobbyist equipment they had for a decade and forced everyone to go find the cheap online alternatives.
Since iPhone 4, iPhone design seems going downhill. With the same display size, iPhone 6+ is much bigger and heavier than LG G3. Its quality is so much better than others, especially on camera and battery life.
I'll take dog tiles vs sites "cleverly" hiding and showing content based off of scroll position.

Modern web sites often feel like flash hell from the 90s (
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/03/03 )
Do you know of any retail stores that still sell electronics components besides Radio Shack? Honestly, that will be what makes me the saddest when they go - when I really need a switch, resistor, or LED I just don't know of any other store that I can walk into and have it right now.
The Risk of MVP: Thinking Small Means Staying Small (2013)
I wouldn’t say that kudos are totally meaningless, nor your quest to undo yours. By displaying kudos on their article, the author falsely purports to have more fans (implied by the name “kudos”) than they really do. By attempting to correct that number, you were fighting against (slight) false advertisement, which could cause other visitors to waste their time reading an article that you don’t actually recommend. Though bumping the number by 1 has a negligible effect, fixing all bumps that people were tricked into making would probably save many internet readers a small amount of time.
That's completely fair. Consensus systems are very difficult to (re-)implement correctly but I would argue there is value in doing so. There is also great risk and we appreciate that.

This time we took a slightly different approach. Whenever possible, we directly ported the validation code from bitcoind. Granted, the script runner is the most fragile part and for that we are relying on bitcoin-ruby which does not directly port it from bitcoind.

While we are passing Matt Corallo's brilliant test suite, it is not currently recommended that anyone use Toshi in production for the purpose of managing bitcoin. And if you are going to run it in your environment we highly suggest running it behind trusted bitcoind nodes. There are many pieces still missing -- like all of the DoS penalty code. We currently have the demo running in the wild for the very purpose of giving helpful people the opportunity to break it.
The first graph from those questions is weird. It seems to stop in the mid 2000s... in 2004, at least 280,000 people died in the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. That would make the graph sharply rise again, yet it isn't on there. Does the graph stop at 2003 on purpose, is it not listed, or something else?
Why it’s hard to find Android developers
IoT and tech classes for seniors.
U.S. Investors Sail Away from Russian Travel Company Ostrovok.ru
You mean the standard galactic alphabet: http://www.shikadi.net/keenwiki/Standard_Galactic_Alphabet
So, you don't find it bitterly ironic that Symbian was replaced by a hybrid kernel based OS (NT) instead of a monolithic one?
I rather suspect that it's simply because SpaceX needs less money to finalise their space flight capability. That's typically how government contracts work - suppliers make bids and the government chooses the winner based on price and other criteria. Presumably SpaceX's bid was lower than Boeing's.

Off topic: it's "making do", not "making due". Non American English speakers pronounce the two quite differently, so this is a really startling error for us...
The only thing that amazes me is that more workplaces don't do this (refresh the macbook of all staff with an updated high end model every time a new one is out).
Modern Parisians speak the most atrocious Latin, wouldn't you agree?
This is the first hn clone i've bookmarked :)

One thing I would say, however, is that while meteor is cool, having a simple server-side-rendered app would be way way faster, and way simpler, for the aim that you're going for.
> Which part? IOKit, for writing kernel drivers for Darwin's xnu kernel is C++.

Everything.

> I'm not seeing what C++ brings to the table in any of these cases.

Making C move out of the scene and moving into safer languages for systems programming. Even though C++ also has its issues, but at least it is way safer than C.

There are C++ OS like Symbian, OS/400, Genode and also Windows is moving into that direction.

However having a desktop OS to point out to as example, would be nice to the C++ community.

> The beauty of the C ABI is that pretty much everything implements it, some languages with direct C FFI APIs.

This is a consequence of C ABI being the OS ABI.

Outside the UNIX world there are a few OS were this wasn't true.

> Now a kernel written Rust… that's something I'd like to see. But then again, what would the userspace interface layer for such a kernel look like? POSIX?

Me too. POSIX is tied to C, the API should be something modern.
Java Applets? That thing that had exploits like clockwork?

Yeah, that worked great

Regardless did you even bother looking at the documentation of SecurityManager? That would be a disaster to try and support. It can't clamp down per-library, it's all about current thread. Mods run in the same thread, they have to. So now you're suggesting that every. single. call into or out of a mod is guarded manually by updates to a permission manager that you are preventing the mod from modifying via reflection through... magic? Yeah, there's no way in hell that would ever work.
I adore this kind of data and analytics. I feel that this kind of data is mainly shared by game companies and a few SaaS -- can anyone proof me wrong or find other links where they showcase the internals of a company ? (And I won't count annual reports of big companies as deep insights into a company, even if they are useful in investment decisions)
The result I've heard about may just be localized, for example in New Orleans: http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2014/07/new_orleans_m... (there are several similar stories for other crime-prone metropolitan areas).

Simpson's Paradox can also mess with these statistics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox – like, is crime decreasing because we are suburbanizing? And therefore, if we hold the community type constant, is crime decreasing? And so if you ask someone "is crime decreasing in your area of perception?" then someone can reasonably answer "no".

(There's also the possibility of a fallacy where everyone ratchets up their expectation – e.g., a person who moves to the city from the suburbs says crime increases because it probably has for them, but a person who moves to the suburbs from the city starts looking to media to make observations about their former neighborhood.)
Updated "hr" tag in terminal. Inspiration “a problem well put is half solved”
That's interesting, I never looked at it that way. What exactly do you keep around the house, if you don't mind me asking? Do you also keep any arms to protect supplies in case of catastrophe? I imagine the neighbours wouldn't mind taking some by force if food was scarce.
Literally dozens more.

Look, neither Common Lisp nor any Scheme implementation are exactly topping the charts in popularity these days. This should be about the technical merits of the choice, because I'm pretty sure Emacs Lisp both has more code and more programmers (both represented in the forms of small scripts we've shoved into scratch and evaluated) than both.
Le jeu Angry Birds Transformers, bientôt disponible sur mobiles
Stockholm, Uber just entered it, so that's going to be interesting to follow.

To be fair though, Uber's app is (now) better than the existing taxi company apps, with its integrated payments and map where you can see how far away your car is, so there's some value there.
They were forced to change the name as they had lost the rights to use it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Source_(retailer)

Briefly: international Radio Shack stores were put under control of InterTan, a Tandy spinoff. When Circuit City bought InterTan, Tandy cancelled the licensing agreement to the Radio Shack name.
HTML isn't code, you can't execute it.

And JavaScript runs in a VM designed specifically to handle untrusted code.

Neither applies in the slightest to the Java VM or Minecraft mods which, by definition, occupy the same process space with the same permissions as Minecraft itself. It is not a web browser, it does not have process sandboxing, it does not have a seperate VM specifically for mods, etc...
Boeing is also the safe bet. There is zero chance that in three years Boeing will be bankrupt and have no way of completing the capsule. Realistically I could see this happening to both SpaceX (1 in 500) and SNC (no clue about the ods maybe 1 in 50).
It is the standard.
No, the un-Unixlike part is having so much functionality jammed into one binary.

The Unixlike solution would be to have multiple servers, each speaking one protocol (or thereabouts), and then you'd only install what you need.
That's not really true. If an app wants to be able to constantly communicate with other apps it can pretty easily launch a background Service which can be bound from other activities.
Water Leaks Suck (And How to Save Yourself with Notion)
They essentially defrauded their chief competitor, i2, so that they could copy their features and reverse engineer their software so Palantir's system could integrate with it.

Read the full complaint here for the juicy details: http://www.scribd.com/doc/36371667/i2-v-palantir-080910

Note that all the Palantir employees involved in this suit are still high-ranking Palantir executives.

There is also the case of the Wikileaks/HBGary fiaso; the main individual involved in that mess is still a high ranking Palantir employee as well.
Yea but not $5k worth. The Watch according to my calculations might contain about $1k in gold. So if they sell it at $6k like Gruber thinks, they won't be able to give you back much of that on trade in. Most people would probably just keep the watch with those prices.
A touch screen on the side of the object is just begging for false input as people steady their fingers by holding onto the sides of the face of the smart watch.

Before you continue on your criticism of the digital crown as an input method, why not actually try it?
Why not? I'm not in a phone 'camp' either, but I have had both the flagship phones (currently (until Friday anyway), iPhone 5s and Nexus 5) for a long time, and the statement seems very accurate.

The camera and app ecosystem are, and have always been, better on the iOS end. OTOH, Android does manual data entry and voice dictation much much better.

They have different strengths and weaknesses.
Drop the rules and think cloud
I call this 'software literacy' - where the world needs to learn to program and then like post-Gutenburg all sorts of magic happens
The "things" changing being the information about what the Apple Watch is capable of on its own vs paired with a phone.
I stumped the $ for MiniHack as my iPhone and iPad hacker news client of choice after using about half the other free ones and two other paid ones, totally wish I found this first.

https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/minihack-for-hacker-news/id6...
Yeah I'm game to be that person. I have been willing to work on it for months, but between school and making money to support myself to go to school time has been scarce. Feel free to bother me online, pressure is good.
Map of every country to declare independence from UK
In many countries it actually does, by law
Yeah, and it sounds like they were under political pressure to choose just one winner, so even the choice they made was a bit of a push for them.

If they had chosen just one winner, I presume that, given the inherently risk-averse nature of NASA and the political realities of lobbying and pork-spreading, it would have been Boeing. The same factors almost certainly meant that Boeing would have to be one of the two winners under the current plan.
I do not. I only have a regular account I guess since I don't pay them any additional fees. Some country code TLD's have made me fill out extra registration forms however.
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UWSGI plugin for integration between the Emperor and Docker is available
It's three pages.

Also the sentences that either contain bold words or are offset make a pretty good TL;DR.

But again, three pages; the article's already a short summary of several pieces of research.

(Don't get so upset about people downvoting a non-contributing comment. It's not personal.)
Checkout bloc. They offer a full stack course: https://www.bloc.io/web-development

It will be more focused than a general CS degree, and and a lot faster. Given your previous coursework in the CS fundamentals, I think this is what you're looking for. If its not, I can put you in touch with the founders to see about doing something custom.

bloc.io

Full disclosure: I went to school with the founders. They buy me beer sometimes.
I think, at least where I live, that role is filled mostly by local speciality stores. I can think of a few in the Toronto area, and they don't exist outside Southern Ontario.
Any word on why the Stanford class is marked as closed to signups?
Not to mention programming languages in general.

We're still wrapping our heads around decades-old ideas. We can be sure software development is finally a mature field when we're unflinchingly using 100+-year-old constructs because they've withstood the test of time.

One of my favorite fields, DSP, leans on math from around the turn of the 20th century. Far from shameful, I consider that a win for mathematics.
The decision to go either Common Lisp or Scheme was made based on RMS very personal reasons and conflicts with close-source Lisp machine companies during the first half of the 80s.

GNU has had two common Lisp implementations under their umbrella at least since mid 90s (CLISP (of Viaweb fame) and GCL (of Maxima fame)), but due to RMS' hate of Symbolics and Common Lisp, all of the effort was invested into making Guile run properly (which took them 25 years and still nobody is using it) and the two Lisps were basically orphaned.

The latest effort of guile-ifying Emacs is more pushed by the Guile guys, in order to attach themselves to an already existing killer app (emacs) and to basically force more and more people to use Scheme, because nobody is doing it voluntarily.

The Emacs guys, as you see from the post, are not _really_ excited about the idea of switching to another _language_. They want FFI, multithreading, etc, but they do not necessarily want Scheme. Actually they dont want Scheme at all, adopting Scheme would be just a price to get FFI, etc.

Of course the proper way would be to go Common Lisp. Elisp is and has always been a subset of Common Lisp, and they've had a Common Lisp compatibility layer for decades, and a lot of packages use it. The problem is simply highly political. You'd have to confront RMS, and you'd have to finally get rid of Guile's "official GNU extension language" status.
> it is not currently recommended that anyone use Toshi in production for the purpose of managing bitcoin

Does Coinbase use Toshi in production?
It's still up: https://analyzethe.us/
The really evil part of me is thinking, and maybe I've got the wrong end of the stick here, like this:

When you request a ride with a taxi-service, it's up to the discretion of the service which car to send. You need something for a wheelchair? Fine, they send you what's available from their fleet.

When you request a ride from Uber or Lyft, those two are just middlemen who put you in touch with one of a thousand little companies. Potentially, each one is available.

So, here's the evil bit: require each ride-providing service (a taxi company or an Uber contractor or a Lyft contractor) to provide a minimum of one or two ADA-compliant vehicles.

The independent contractors for Uber and Lyft immediately go away, except for the one or two that are so wealthy as to be able to afford a ramp-van or other compliant vehicle.
https://www.writelatex.com/ has worked well for me in the past.
OS updates for $SPECIFIC_PHONE are generally reliant on the carrier to decide to push out a patch, even after AOSP itself is patched. So an answer "from the Google side" can't really answer your question.
Is Yahoo really a products company or a content and advertising company?
Wow!
Once more many thanks for your time and effort. It is much appreciated. You are a Javascript GOD :-)

Cheers
PK
I initially thought, "no way bro, contractors will swallow up the savings as additional profit!"

But then I realized that since construction contracts go through a bidding process, the cost of building is a "cost based price". Buildings really may become a little bit cheaper from this. That's awesome :)
I said I doubt it's significant. I said nothing about "coercive."
The fact that he even uses the term "adversaries" in this post is disheartening. It's really disappointing that someone who could potentially be such a force for good in the world gets derailed by what is basically tribalism.

Two parties can disagree on 99% of their beliefs, yet still find ways to come together on the 1% that they happen to agree on. These parties can work together to each others' mutual benefit, and the world is better for it. But nooooooooo, not RMS. He has to demonize anyone who is not 100% in lockstep with him on everything, to everyone's detriment, and throw his "adversaries" into a trash bin labelled "Others".

It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's easy to drive people apart in the name of some ideal. It takes actual leadership to drive otherwise separate people together to actually accomplish something. I have wished for so many years that RMS would care enough to provide the latter instead of the usual former.
utterly amazed how they invented such a powerful concept of functional programming for the shell

You might be interested in the classic McIlroy-Knuth dialogue:

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg...

The Unix "Software Tools" philosophy -- small kits composable into something big -- is deeply shared by functional programming.

I don't think one begot the other. It was just obviously the natural thing to do during that era.
Migrating Wikipedia to HHVM
That Wikipedia link claims that Commander Keen was the first PC sidescroller, but it was predated by (at least) Captain Comic.

I'm not sure if you'd call Sopwith a sidescroller but it managed to scroll sideways on CGA.
I like cooking, but I rarely have time so I basically settled on a little system that works for me.

I have a large chest freezer, and it's split roughly 50/50 between assorted bags of premixed snap-frozen vegetables, and freezer bags of 2-servings of meat (for me + wife). The meat bags might be 2 steaks, or 2 fillets of marinated chicken, or 2 fillets of fish.

Each morning before work, grab a random (literally, reach in and grab without really looking) meat bag, stick it on sink to thaw throughout day. In evening, pan-fry or oven-bake the meat, and microwave 2 cups of frozen vegetables for each person.

At most we have 1 frying pan or baking tray to clean, and the 2 plates we microwaved the veges on then ate off.

The only real preperation needed is on shopping day to split the meats into separate bags for the freezer, and because of the chest freezer we only shop once a month or so.
I decided to close my Facebook account