skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe in a parallel universe where I have time for these kind of things... It shouldn't be too hard to reverse-engineer botocore, use the these JSONs here [1], and generate code based on them.

[1] https://github.com/boto/botocore/tree/develop/services
Great article. I am not a real programmer (but regular user of Postgres for scientific data storage) and do not get every detail. But do these changes have a chance of being implemented in a future version of Postgres or are these improvements tied to CitusDB?
Not to mention that the whole thing would be illegal. It'd have child porn, state secrets, libel, copyrighted software, etc.
Don't Facebook employees use @fb.com addresses though?
And who is to say these users are inherently low quality? Enjoying any anything socially unacceptable doesn't preclude them from creating content you may enjoy in another subreddit.
Presumably I'm one of the 'suckers' you refer to.

Author copied everybody's content verbatim without obtaining permission first, what you are saying is simply not true.

I think this is a very worthwhile project but that doesn't mean the author should trample over other people's rights.

So no, your 'logic' does not hold up for google because they LINK to the content rather than that they copy it and display it in their own environment (incidentally, google images does do that and I think they ought to be slapped for that).
This really is something I don't get. I have a pretty busy digital and real life, and I really can't think of having more than a couple of CC (one Credit, one debt), an EC Karte and maybe a couple of cards for gym membership and (in this very moment) H&M giftcard.
Even Apple Pay strikes me as a solution looking for a problem. Maybe that's a fundamental difference between the U.S. and Europe, but I really don't get the gist of all this "scrape the huge heap of card crowding your wallet" excitement.
The commentors on fuckedcompany were the kind of people that like to rubberneck around accidents and disasters. Some people get off on other people's misery. That doesn't mean that the site itself served a purpose, and a FC sans comments would already be plenty useful.
A comparison with http://breach.cc would also be useful.
I'm not generalizing, and I don't really care about Slack. I'm just putting forward a hypothesis about what might be going on in a security researcher's brain when they stumble upon a vulnerability.
> One concern, though, is that some social skills may not develop as effectively when so many interactions exist online.

Maybe we're just adapting ourselves to the new social environment. We forget what we don't need to survive, and we learn skills in a different form from what is considered as a "normal" in this present time.
Vintage tips on future management challenges
If we only pursued endeavors that produce money, our civilization's development would be centuries behind and our life would be (more) miserable. Fortunately, not everyone is motivated (just) by money and power.
The article addresses that pretty clearly and they say that a price spike into negative territory during the day is not a normal operational event at all and that in this case it was directly traced back to solar production by residents.
Gauteng Premier Pledges R1B to Improve Township Infrastructure
I disagree. I think the point the article makes - that it was because of the war that people were more or less banning German. In turn, the people who would make grants stopped accepting research to be published in German.

Had there not been a ban on German, then we probably would have native English speaking funders funding research published in German.

You see this in in most non-English speaking countries where funders are not native English speakers but research is still published in English.
Reddit isn't the government; they're not under any obligation to permit all-speech-no-matter-how-odious. The site chooses who to provide with a platform - why shouldn't the poster you quoted judge them based on that choice?
What's wrong with being an asshole? The fact that you can't handle it is your problem, not the asshole's. An asshole is simply someone who won't allow themselves to be swayed by anyone else's ignorant opinions.
That certainly isn't true of the Cambridge one.
Python 3.4.2 released
Of course, I may be overlooking something, but this sure seems like a case of overeducated engineers overengineering a solution that then underserves users relative to a naive solution.

Individualized closures to keep track of what each user has already seen? Why not just have a single, current ranking of stories for everybody and let me pick how many of them I want on each page (up to a point). So, I have a preference that says I want 100 stories per page. Well then I get 3-1/3 pages worth of non-repeating stories without all the computer science. If I later click the "more" button, I get the second hundred, whatever they happen to be at the time I click "next".

That's easy enough for me to deal with. If it has only been a few minutes since I loaded the front page, most of the second page will be new to me. I don't care if a few of them aren't. I'll just skip past them. I'll have plenty of titles to scan over. But if it has been, say, a day since I loaded the front page, instead of clicking "more", I'll probably just reload the front page. I can take care of that myself. No big deal.

With the new API, of course, we can now just build it ourselves, but all this engineering sophistication that resulted in a fixed, 30-article front page and the maddening inability to ever get far past the first 30, reminded me of Ted Nelson's Xanadu Project, which was so cleverly designed to prevent dead links that it never went anywhere, while the naive Web (dead link?, oh well) changed the world.
> Only nuclear power is outrageously capital intensive. Solar and wind are much, much less capital intensive.

The way to look at capital in this respect is to look at $/W of installed power. So even if in absolute numbers you don't require a huge amount of $ to put a solar plant into production versus putting a (small) nuclear plant into production the capital costs are still considerable when you compare apples with apples. Also, nuclear scales better in this respect than solar. So capital costs are not per-se the best way to compare solar, wind and nuclear.

Endless volumes have been written about this, one of the biggest benefits in my opinion is that solar and wind put fewer apples into many more baskets which should - if properly implemented, which currently they are not - in theory result in a more resilient power infrastructure.
Negative price is still weird. Does it mean I can use energy and get extra money with it?
Well, no one forced said companies to set ground there. Especially when a ton of their employees don't even want to live near Mountain View, Cupertino or Menlo Park and thus have to be bused for an hour+ from SF. Jus' saying ;)
From my careful reading of their released material this is how I think they are doing it:

They clone the magnetic stripe part of a chip and pin card and then have their own chip and pin layer that they put on top.

In the UK the only reason you can't use magnetic stripe is because no shops allow it (if they do then they are completely reliable for the authenticity of that transaction) - if you could add a chip and pin layer on top of mag strip data then this might work (would still require a lot of fiddling and as far as I can see transactions would have to go via platc like google wallet).
It's much harder to use Reddit to issue a death threat to someone when they don't use Reddit. Twitter especially is a tool for magnifying hate in a way that other venues just aren't.
The article specifically mentions instances of weev's tweets appearing in her timeline due to retweets, Twitter suggesting she follow him.
This is really awesome, and at its core a powerful concept. After checking the diva out, a thought occurred to me: any new language revision should come with an officially supported tool from the authors to translate changes backwards.

Counter to the logic of tools like Python's 2to3, I think the more important need is to start writing new code, not porting old code. If you can run new code on the old runtime / interpreter / whatever, you get all the good feels. Porting sucks. New features rock. It just seems like a far superior experience for everyone involved. If happiness is how infomemes spread, assuaging the porting woes couldn't hurt.

I realize there could be concerns involving performance, changes to semantics, etc. that may make back-transliterated (transpiled?) code inherently worse. But if language designers took design of a backwards compiler into consideration when writing the new grammar and semantics, we might see smaller changes brought about in an overall faster pace of iteration.

Just a thought.

This tool is neat. :)
Great Infographic: Multichannel CRM: Going with the Flow
Link in announcement is wrong, download here:

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-342/
If they're generating 500 errors while serving up static sites, someone is doing something very wrong.
It calls for noble labour.

I'm guessing, from your choice of words, that you've never tried to change public opinion in a forum like Reddit, Twitter, HN or 4chan?
The argument of copyright is that 'published' information is not public. It is still owned by its creator (or more often by one of the corporations that employ them), you just get a very limited license to do certain things with it, like reading it and maybe creating personal backups, but not other things, such as sharing it with others, either for free or as part of a commercial venture.

This distinction between owning and licensing information didn't use to be necessary in the publisher's business model for popular culture, because the cost (and, equally importantly, the profit margin) of distribution was significant: authors made and continue to make far less than their publishers, with rare exceptions.

The cost of distribution of digital information is so low that consumers will do it for free (BitTorrent). And since the power of publishers primarily derives from their ability to distribute copies, that is what they attempt to preserve, even though they do a lot of other things that continue to be valuable in today's digital world, like financing and advertising. This (not entirely irrational) attempt to preserve a dated business model is in turn perceived by consumers as a clampdown on their rights, leading to a backlash to the established publishing industry and enabling the (so far limited) success of new services like Spotify and Netflix, which don't have to take into account any reconceived notions of what their business is. People associate licensing an ebook with buying a treebook, but they tend to associate streaming with borrowing a book in the library.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014
Tianhuangping Pumped Storage Power Station has a 13GW/h storage capacity and about 2GW generating capacity, using two 6.8 million m^3 reservoirs - one artificial, and one built on the Daxi Creek, separated by about 900m of pipes (but I believe the vertical drop is about 600m). (if you're curious, that adds up to about 1/7500th of the worldwide average usage in 2008)

If you assume 50m high structures (the lower dam is actually 72m), the area required for each reservoir is "only" 136,000 m^2. With only 20m tall structures, you need about 340,000 m^2

That's within range of the largest buildings (e.g. Boeing's largest factory has a surface area of about 400,000 m^2, and a volume of 13,3 million m^3; Tesla's factory covers an area of about 510,000 m^2).

Of course this is assuming you can find somewhere suitable to give you a 600m drop, or water volume required grows quickly. But the system could be mostly closed to reduce the need to be straight on a major river.

And in Japan there's pumped storage plant with a 250,000m^3 pool 500m below ground, so clearly it does not need to be a matter of building one of the reservoirs 600m up a mountain side like with Tianhuangping.

To the extent the ecological risk is massive, it's because it's presumably far cheaper to pick a suitable river and dam it than having to build two fully artificial reservoirs.
I'm a bit disappointed they didn't include a legend on the giant chart they put in the middle of the page.
Scala's collections have this function as headOption, which I use almost exclusively over head.
Great software developers, you are worth it
Guide to outsourcing your web development project
The boundaries of harassment are very blurry and tend to favour the powerful. For example, some of the campaigns against online harassers look even more like harassment than the actions they're going after people for: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/online-trolls-w... Except that because it's the press harassing people to the point of suicide, we don't see anything wrong with it.
I honestly can't see how jQuery dictate how you architect your code. jQuery is a DOM manipulating library and AJAX library. It is not a framework. It doesn't force you to organize your code in any particular way. You know that jQuery is not forcing you to not write everything in a single main function, right?

So I fail to see how using $('#...").foo() in your large project is going to be harder to maintain than rolling your own DOM manipulating library.
After AWS, WWS Cognitive computing as a service...
Fresh Web Development Tools for October 2014
[RUBY] Wisper adds support for asynchronous event handling
Actual Site Visit Fluctuations for Panda 4.1′s Winners and Losers
Facebook reportedly working on app to let people interact anonymously
> we don't see anything wrong with it.

Not entirely true - the reaction in the UK to this whole incident has been quite negative from what I've seen. Then again, we're not overly happy with our press at the best of times...
Ah, you're one of those who thinks that hacking has something to do with breaking into a computer.

I think maybe you're on the wrong site.
Except that stories can move up and down the list over time, and users do care. Slow browsers like me were hitting dead links precisely because we were slow.

Yes you can still store this much more centrally and cheaply than closures. You can have all stories with a timeline in and do a sort using next-thirty-at-this-timestamp and, despite you visiting every story and then sorting, I'd expect it to be snappy enough for a heavy hit site. Furthermore, you could speed it up with linked lists instead of timestamps too etc.
And like all religions, it ultimately becomes harmful.
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Something voiding the warranty or being illegal is quite different matter though. I'm pretty sure that disassembling your phone voids your warranty but I would be surprised if it was illegal.
"DRM is a "smart contract", a protocol for enforcing a contract without laws or violence."

No it isn't, because DRM fundamentally cannot enforce the contract it is supposed to; you can't allow people to view something while preventing them from copying it. DRM only "works" if circumventing DRM is made illegal; DRM is an attempt by copyright holders to introduce legal restrictions on fair-use copying and on copying devices with substantial non-infringing use. DRM is entirely legal and political, not technical.
Microsoft have a hell of a lot of teams (separate Slack instances). I'd be surprised if none of them are being used.
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Short answer: No.

Long answer:
Typical projectors have two lenses. The one at the front is obvious, since it focusses the image of the LCD/film onto the wall. Just behind the LCD/film is a collimating lens (usually a Fresnel lens), which ensures that all the light produced by the lamp is focussed so that it passes through the first lens. Something like this:

|Collimating lens
||LCD
Lamp .-||-. |Main lens
| .-' || '-. | .-'
|.-' || '-.|.-'
O--------||--------|------
'-. || .-'|'-.
'-. || .-' '-.
'-||-'

The light brightness over the plane of the LCD/film must be very even, and this is achieved by having a lamp situated a fair distance behind it. The lamp itself must therefore be small in order for its focussed rays to fit through the aperture of the main lens. In fact, the lamp must be (usually) no larger than the aperture in the main lens.

It is conceivable that you could arrange an array of LEDs behind the LCD, but you would have to arrange that all their rays are focussed through the main lens. The prevents us from using a large array of LEDs in the same arrangement as above, as the light from the LEDs at the edge of the array would not pass through the main lens. An alternative would be to place the LEDs closer to the LCD, and give each LED a lens sufficient to focus its rays through the main lens. Something like this:

O.|LCD
LEDs |-. |Main lens
with | '-. | .-'
lenses | '-.|.-'
O-|--------|------
| .-'|'-.
| .-' '-.
|-'
O'|

In this case, each section of the LCD would be lit by a different LED, so you would have to be very careful to keep the lighting brightness and colour even. LEDs vary in colour and brightness naturally.
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Absolutely!

Other screaming voices: learning which meetings you can skip (and how frequently), learning which emails you can ignore, learning what can be dropped without too much consequence, learning which 'emergency' requests can be deferred (as they will probably be overcome by events anyway), effectively delegating instead of micromanaging.

Basically, learn to stop sweating the small stuff.
Maybe this kind of exposure is the only way we will teach people to stop trusting fly-by-night cloud startups with their confidential data?
I think you've just invalidated contract law wholesale.
Yes, that's why I said South (for older versions) or Migration (for newer versions)

They're very similar, so learning South won't be detrimental (and it is useful from the moment you learn it)
There is academic work studying this. The superlinear return on time invested does occur in a variety of fields, and pay tends to follow the productivity gains.

Here is a paper which cites a lot of the literature (note: primary topic of the article is flamewar inducing):

http://www.aeaweb.org/aea/2014conference/program/retrieve.ph...
You implied that was all that was offered by these sites by asking a leading question instead of an open one.
Facebook might have a directory of employees, ldap or something.

Too bad slack doesn't support any of this. This is the price they have to pay for reinventing username and password authentication and requiring everyone to register.

It is also bad since employees quit or are fired, and you don't want to have to maintain a directory of employees on every application you use.

Shameless plug, I work for https://auth0.com and we make this easier.
And what about using Bluetooth to detect when the card is lost? That sounds awfully power hungry for this form factor.
Actually, according to this worldwide map of card and terminal EMV deployment, Africa/ME had chip & pin tech, as of Q4 2013, in 38.9% of cards and 86.3% of terminals.

http://www.emvco.com/images/EMVCo_WorldMap-9-2014.png

The other regions are:

(Region/percentage of cards/percentage of terminals)

Americas (excluding USA): 54.2 84.7
Europe: 81.6 99.9
Australasia: 17.4 71.7
Russia: 24.4 91.2
Given that he's arguing a should statement rather than an is statement, "appeal to consequences", in this context, is actually consequentialism, and is the best framework we have for rationally justifying imperative statements.
Reminds me of Manula http://www.manula.com/ which makes something that looks like this. And has been around for 2 years (since 2012). There aren't many solutions that tackle this problem, so keep up the great work!
It doesn't even need to change to allow fair price sales. Just spot priced supply and a way to easily get the current price would allow a lot of optimisation.

E.g. consider a washer-dryer or dishwasher with a "wash within X hours, or at predicted best price point" option. Most of the time I don't care when it runs when I put something in at the evening, just that it's done before I'm home from work the following day.

Or aforementioned electric car with a similar option.

Or water heaters with a storage tank and logic to optimise heating.

Or a data centre that tries to optimise air con settings depending on predicted cost (e.g. pushing temperatures down further than necessary when the power is cheaper to allow running at lower power for a period when power is more expensive while the temperature rises again).

With access to spot priced supply, there'd potentially be a massive market for adding intelligence to various devices where part of the energy usage could be time shifted.
Excellent idea.

Not completely sure what scope you have in mind.

It reminds me of two things:

1. Tools of the Trade:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5235137

they do an edition per year.

2. and somewhere there is a google spreadhsheet of all hacker news derived websites (all the guys who scrape hacker news to build "derivatives").
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If you use enough to be able to buy in the wholesale market (in this case), yes.
How much evidence have you actually looked at? A priori pessimism is no more innately correct than a priori optimism: both are ungrounded until you look at the data.
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One idea: it might be worth asking for email addresses. You already had 27 people interested. Build a quick unbounce page and get the emails so you can recontact.
your idea might be better. I could help if you need support.
Actually, is Microsoft really using Slack if they have Lync and Skype?
See the new API too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8422599
How does it handle module loading in the browser?
Sending $580B in '14, migrants paid 2x as much as they should in $ transfer fees
I think something like this should replace credit cards used today (or at least having it as an option seeing the price). Authentication on the card could be extremely useful and secure. They should ditch the magnetic stripe tho, it's completely insecure, use only the chip.

Situations:
1) someone steals your pin code (there are overlay devices for ATMs, could happen), after that they steal your card (they can't clone it since it does not have a magnetic stripe). They can't use it since it has locked itself (default state being locked, unlock before transactions).

2) Buy something online, specify that you buy with plastc, it guides you to a challenge response authentication page. Type the challenge in the card, type back the response to the page. They hack the site, get every credit card info and your money on your bank account remains safe.
Bake – a continuous integration system written in Haskell
Many of us complain about not keeping in contact with your friends regularly.

What would you think about an application that notifies us to communicate with friends frequently?
Glad to see there is an API. What about the ability to delete accounts? Why do I have to beg to delete an account?
It doesn't. Module syntax is translated to CommonJS syntax. There's a Browserify plugin available though which will include and compile your modules into a bundle. https://github.com/sebmck/6to5-browserify
I have never used DI in my 16 year professional career in C++ and Java land.
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I just read it, skipping the non-essential parts, after quickly scanning them.

I might have missed one or two points, but it doesn't really matter.
Shadow of Mordor Benchmark
interesting point about touch (light stroke) at the end, which online can't replicate, and the apple watch idea of communicating your heartbeat
On Paying for Promotion
This. That was exactly a kind of vulnerability that is meant to be publicly disclosed. Nothing of matter will happen to anyone because of that vulnerability, but people might remember it and next time they'll think twice about how they handle authentication.