skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just thinking the same thing. Elsewhere, someone asked how to handle "build it and forget it" jobs of the type handled by small web contractors all the time. Drupal is a really popular engine for those kinds of contract apps.

At this point, if I was advising someone building sites for small businesses and the like, my advice would be:

Can you use a hosted service? Wordpress.net, Shopify, that kind of thing? If you can make that work, that should be your first and only choice. If not... are you really sure that you can't use a hosted service? Okay, then build a site that does static HTML for end users, with a carefully locked-down admin section. On a different domain, if you can.

If you need dynamic features for users (a shopping cart, etc.), again, see if you can integrate a hosted service with your static site. If the reason you can't use a hosted service is because your client is too cheap to pay for it, do not take that client.

Otherwise, if your client absolutely needs bespoke, dynamic features for their end users, and absolutely no hosted service will work for them, they need to invest in a support contract, and you need to tell them up front that they'll have to do that. There are actually contractors out there that do long-term support for other people's apps, if you don't want to be saddled with it yourself.
Yeah, but SMIT is still the best old-school admin tool ever.

Back in the day, I considered doing an open-source knockoff, just to call it SMUT.
As I understand it, that's only because consumers weren't amenable to paying the real price of the hardware up front. Much like video game consoles. If the manufacturer didn't have the game market locked down, they would have to sell the consoles for several hundred dollars more, which strangles demand.

The lock-in model is, in many cases, an effective way at reducing the front-loaded nature of captial expense. The lock-in is defended because if it vanishes halfway through the market play, the whole play fails.
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From Revenue on Day 4 to $3M/year: How Buffer Started Lean and Stays Lean
> it's pretty clear to everyone what's going on here

It's not clear to everyone. You believe it's clear because you've stopped listening to anyone who disagrees.

In any case, I hope we can all agree to expect each party to act mainly in promotion of its own electoral success.

I'd encourage you and anyone else who is technologically inclined and concerned about the integrity of the electoral process to focus on spreading awareness of the dangers of unauditable black box electronic voting machines.
Funnily enough Drupal already has this as a contributed module, would imagine Wordpress has similar. But it's not a massively popular approach as a) it can lead to considerable complexity as an update to an atom of content may need to propagate to many parts of a site, and b) the whole web is moving towards contextual dynamic delivery.
I think that one usually cites the paper were the idea was first proposed, and also some of the latest advances in the trend (including, as your example, papers where the experiment is redo with newest technology).

The thing is that "the latest paper" on the topic is very likely to change over time, but the first paper that proposed the idea is likely to remain the same.
Coinbase is insured, so in theory yes.
There is also a video version of this interview for UK viewers (not sure if it will work for viewers outside the UK)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04p5b36
https://github.com/sass/node-sass
This is the coolest thing out of HP in a long time. I hope they don't screw it up in the typical HP way through tone-deaf responses to the market. They are going to have to work pretty hard winning over consumers because their PC and device brand has been damaged almost irreparably through decades of selling characterless beige boxes with poor performance, durability, and customer support.
It doesn't have a backend for editing content, does it? This would make it unsuitable for the proverbial parish choir.
That seems to have been a web startup, see http://daniellefong.com/2008/04/11/one-response-to-rejection...

Still food for thought that YC would reject a founder so obviously good (although perhaps not obviously then) as DaniFong..

I wonder if getting rejected was one of the reasons for her to start working on something more "zero to one", and closer to her area of expertise?
Hollywood Ending Near for Orson Welles’s Last Film
I have a question about 1.0. I know you can define your modules' stability, but how much of the modules that will be shipped with 1.0 will have LTS? Specifically I am wondering if I follow http://doc.rust-lang.org/guide-plugin.html AFTER 1.0 if I'll still have to keep up with point releases because I am using the internal AST.
Yes! There is a photo of the NeXT cube hosting the SLAC website at the bottom right of this page:

https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2014-10-29-earliest-webs...

And on that cube is a yellow post-it note: "PLEASE DO NOT TURN COMPUTER OFF":

https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/sites/www6.slac.stanford.edu/...

Shades of the original server of Tim Berners-Lee:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_Web_Server.jpg
I got the hardware guys to merge some of the conditions that caused a loop exit into condition groups that were tested by other micro-instructions until a couple went away. Getting out quick was important, sorting out why was less so.
Except that the majority of PC users never upgraded or changed out their hardware.

Its building a device for a market that barely, if ever existed. The replaceable model benefited manufacturers (not customers) by making customizable PCs to sell with price discrimination easier.
Everything in that generation of machines was micro-coded except for the Model 195 which was then IBM's super scientific computer.
I really don't like Foundation because of the way it looks out of the box. Everything is way to square and brightly colored. Bootstrap just looks quite good from the start. After a quick look at the markup however, I really think Foundation is winning there.
ShutIt script here:

https://github.com/ianmiell/shutit/blob/master/library/osque...

There are deps on thrift and rocksdb modules defined at the bottom.

Should be useful for those looking to port to other CM tools.

cf:

http://ianmiell.github.io/shutit/
Microbial Diversity: sometimes you have it, sometimes you don’t
Of course this did also happen on usenet. Call me old but a good flamewar beats a good shitstorm any time (and the names might even be an indicator why).

But one design element of twitter might make it easier to stumble into the realm of people who will wildly disagree with a poster's opinion.

Just replying to some tweet you can not know what kind of domain you are entering. With usenet groups the name has always been a strong indicator what people you will encounter.

If you post "Ruby sucks and is dead slow, Perl rulez!!1eleven" into comp.lang.ruby, you shouldn't be surprised if you get flamed. With twitter accounts, this is not that obvious.

Of course, this is a core design element of twitter that it is concerned with accounts and not thematical groups and both have their advantages and disadvantages but I think this is one of the reason that you can much more easily and unintentionally anger the wrong people on twitter.
It's pretty clear from the smiley in the title that he was just teasing her. I just found it odd that he would write it in the title of a blog post meant to be read by thousands of strangers. It's like shouting some bit of raillery at your friend across a crowded public plaza.
If you can convince the 10% of Australia's population to stop using IE8, then I'd be happy to. As it stands, where I work charges a lot more for IE8 support, but most places are happy to pay it :(
To further clarify a detail that might not be obvious, the lock file is designed to be committed.
Yes, when I and the vendor both know it's supposed to be an executable. What a smart question. Also, an application is only as dumb as the OS allows it to be.
I went to a talk by one of the people responsible for the Apollo guidance software (Dr. Battin from what was in the 1960s the MIT Instrumentation Lab) a few years ago. One of his stories was about how some astronauts visited Raytheon where the code was being effectively "woven" into the core memory. As he explained it, one of the purposes of the visit was to impress upon those (women) who were making the core memories that it was really important not to make a mistake because otherwise these nice young boys would die.
Everykey: The Wristband that Replaces Keys & Passwords
Besides the JVM and CLR pointed in sibling threads.

What about P-Code (1978), M-Code(1978), OS/400 TIMI (1988), or the granddaddy UNCOL (1958)?

Parrot was hardly a new idea.
War starts today.
When Bootstrap first came out, it looked way better than Foundation out of the box -- had better typography. I think that's mainly why. I think it's possible Foundation has caught up.
Sounds more like the FCC wants to regulate the internet
This is a head-scratcher. I have two ideas about why Apple may have done this:

1. They are planning on releasing their own calculator notification center widget.
2. This is the hypothesis put forward in the article, that Apple conceives of notification widgets as essentially read-only sources of at-a-glance information.

Either way, it's clearly a case of the right hand not knowing what the left...etc.
Everything has stability markers. Currently, user defined macros and syntax extensions are not marked as stable. Syntax extensions will absolutely _not_ be stable at 1.0, macro stuff is a bit less clear, expect to hear about this soon.

That post is about syntax extensions, so yes, you'll have to be using the nightly build if you want to keep using them. They'll be considered high priority to stabilize, but given that they rely on compiler internals... I actually argued against writing that guide because of this, but eventually said okay.
That's true and not true: http://doc.crates.io/faq.html#why-do-binaries-have-cargo.loc...?
Syntax extensions and the compiler internals are most likely not going to be stabilized for a while. Committing to a stable compiler core is a serious effort.
GoPro Captures Rare POV Footage of a Lion on the Hunt
Direct link: https://wayback.stanford.edu/19911206000000/http://slacvm.sl...

If you view source, it's utterly depressing that literally 98% of the page's code is dedicated to rendering Stanford's fancy overlay. The actual site, OTOH, is 8 lines. Wish we could have stayed with that simplicity and elegance.
Is there any reason someone couldn't do the same thing for Sass?
> you find yourself overriding and customizing them to such a degree that it's more productive to just build your own "vanilla" components that are specific to the way your site or organization uses them, and then just ditch Bootstrap altogether.

This has been similar to my experience. Bootstrap can be overwhelming at times, and there have been a few cases where I had to solve buggy behavior by specific Bootstrap components by writing elaborate fixes that would not have been required had I used my own framework. From that standpoint, working on a time-consuming, yet practically throwaway-type site, Bootstrap was really frustrating.

I do really like the low-baggage approach of Initializr's Responsive configuration as well as the Responsive Grid System.
There is a Sass port of bootstrap that is labelled 'official' and is in the same github project as the 'canonical' less version:

https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap-sass

It's already got a 3.3.0 available, it is kept sync'd.

I have very occasionally run into a bug or problem with the sass port not being kept properly parallel to the original less, but mostly it just works fine.
Note that it is encouraged by convention to check your Cargo lock file into your VCS if you are developing an application. This means that everyone checking out your code will build your application using exactly the same versions of the dependencies you used when you committed the lock file.
Tools are top priority. You must read this: http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/engineering-management-tools-a...
The strangest part of my recent trip to Canada was places using cash. It was odd having that bulky stuff in my wallet, I haven't paid in cash for at least 5 years, for anything.

However, New Zealand has the world's largest use of card based payments - everyone takes cards, from the supermarket to the food trucks which are just taking off here.

Credit cards aren't widely accepted though, because of the fees. The bulk of the transactions are via EFTPOS, which has low to no fees for both parties.
Or discussing QE and stocks ad infinitum.
This look really promising! It will probably help paving the way towards a proper Go debugger?
> At this point anybody who uses Reddit is either immune to scandal or already gone.

At this point anybody who uses Reddit is hearing the scandal via Reddit.
> Funnily enough Drupal already has this as a contributed module, would imagine Wordpress has similar.

Sure, static export plug-ins do exist in plenty, but I don't think that core functionality like this should be implemented as a plug-in.

First, if it isn't enabled by default, most people won't bother to enable it. Second, who knows how long and how well the plug-in will be maintained? Third, if static export is an architectural afterthought, it will probably break unusual features and workflows.

> a) it can lead to considerable complexity as an update to an atom of content may need to propagate to many parts of a site

We shouldn't let perfect be the enemy of good. Even if some blog article from months ago won't get the updated shiny new sidebar, what's the matter? The New York Times still have content from the web stone age on their server [1] - it doesn't use the latest template, but isn't it more important that this content is still available? It probably wouldn't be had they used a dynamic CMS back in 2001.

> b) the whole web is moving towards contextual dynamic delivery.

I'm not talking about amazon.com. They can probably afford proper maintenance of their fully dynamic site.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1014.h...
Clarity Through Static Typing
Yes. Quite clear actually too.

My follow-up then would be how would this compare to OpenStack? If they serve the same purpose, where do you want to differentiate from OpenStack?
As noted in the comments, "Compat" means compatible, not "Compact", which I and probably most people will read it as. Even after knowing what it means, it still takes me a mental process to "reverse" the meaning of the 2 versions.

So I strongly suggest changing the name. I don't like "legacy" as suggested in comments, maybe just reversing the names will be better -- "3.0" (fat version) and "3.0 Compact".
"""The Drupal Security Team was informed of this issue in the third week of September of 2014. Given the severity of the issue, we debated about releasing it early. Our main concern was when people would have the time to perform the upgrade. Drupalcon Amsterdam started on September 29th meaning that many of our community members were busy preparing for that event. The week after Drupalcon is typically busy catching up from being at Drupalcon and then October 15th was the first regularly planned security release Wednesday. We felt that it would be better to use the regularly scheduled date which also happened to be the first date when the Drupal community would be likely to have time to focus on the upgrade."""

https://www.drupal.org/node/2357241
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This requires some combo of having a support contract with a budget large enough for manual QA or having built automated tests with the initial work. Vast majority of projects at build-and-forget CMS agencies simply won't. (The reason Drupal and PHP thrive in these environments is because clients can't be upsold out of their cheap LAMP shared hosting.)
Meetup Is Discontinuing 'Meetup Everywhere'
Un-respectively. 1.x is becoming jQuery Compat, 2.x is becoming jQuery.
I had to go look up that quote.

https://twitter.com/jmhodges/status/527189222546227201

He's saying he's quoted out of context now: https://twitter.com/jmhodges/status/527480854314905600

Reading the full conversation I don't know how that's the case.

Anyway, it doesn't change the point antirez is making on his post.
CurrentC is ramping up and isn't even taking real customers yet. There target user doesn't read Hacker news. This doesn't affect their business at all except for the slow down of trying to figure out the attack.
JSON Patch – a format for describing changes to a JSON document
We just adopted Angular for a new project at my job about a month ago. And while I understand the reasoning behind all the changes, Google does come off as quite aloof with respect to the business implications this will have for real users.
Generation 64: A Harmless Story About the C64 Generation?
It is absolutely crazy to think about how NASA got to the moon in freakin' 1969. Ten years ago, we didn't have FB, YouTube, widespread WiFi, flatscreen TVs, smartphones, LTE... That we landed a spaceship on the moon 4.5 times longer ago (45 years) when the state of the art was a photocopy machine is truly mindblowing.
Virtual patching is the main benefit on WAFs for cases like this.

We were able to issue a virtual patching signature for our clients in less than 2 hrs after the disclosure.

Plus, our generic SQL injection signatures were already blocking this attack even without it.

That gives our clients more time to test and deploy patches without worrying about being compromised in the middle.
Manage Objective-C Dependencies with Cocoapods on Swift Project
(note: I work on GCE networking)

Yes, certainly, it's always possible that hardware will fail with no notice, and any architecture needs to account for that (this is equally true if you're running your own infrastructure, of course). For some applications downtime in these situations may be the right value tradeoff, for others they'll need to architect things assuming always-on redundancy. In terms of data durability, though, local SSD gets you a performance win by being local. If there's a catastrophic failure of that machine, data is gone.

What live migration buys you, the prospective cloud customer, is transparent avoidance of (a) Google's planned hardware maintenance windows (for example, network or power infrastructure maintenance) and (b) outages due to hardware failures which can be detected and migrated away from before they cause data loss.

The second category includes any number of situations which, if you can't migrate your workload, require taking a machine out of service, replacing some gear, bringing it back up, and hoping the replacement fixes the issue[0]. If we can instead migrate your VM away from the issue (say, for example, it's a bad root hard disk -- we need to replace the drive as lots of things in the VM hosting environment depend on it, but your workload is otherwise completely unaffected), we are able to service the affected machine with zero downtime for your service.

[0]: Think about the number of things that could manifest as a flaky network connection. Could be any (or all) of: bad cable, bad NIC, bad motherboard, bad CPU, or even bad RAM (since NICs use bus-mastering DMA from host memory in most cases). After migrating the workload away, we can take as long as necessary to reliably diagnose and fix the machine. Huge win for us and for our customers.
Hydropower May Be Huge Source of Methane Emissions
Yeah, like we don't have enough wristbands already...
Where is the development happing? SF or Barcelona?
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"Good design cannot save failed content." - Edward Tufte
Disqus Is Looking for an SRE in SF or NY
hi, ex-basho here. disappointed by antirez's continued, harmful anti-intellectualism. just curious, what exactly is a non-CA database? kthxbai
okay I just wanted to get your opinion.
Commenter might be implying he doesn't want to sign up to just try it...

The copy on your page implies you need to signup, even though you have a login as "guest" feature.

Maybe change the copy to something to just, "Check It Out Now"
Does libsass work 100% with the Bootstrap sass port? Every time I've checked on libsass support it is behind the ruby version in some way.
http://www.pimpworks.org/ibm/aixled.html

:-)
> The libsass library is not currently at feature parity with the 3.2 Ruby Gem that most Sass users will use, and has little-to-no support for 3.3 syntax.
Security Companies Team Up, Take Down Chinese Hacking Group
> Is there anything else we should avoid doing

The main other thing is that we want people to vote for stories because they find them interesting, not because they or their friends are promoting something.

A lot of work has gone into making the HN software good at distinguishing promotional votes a.k.a. voting rings. If a submission gets many such votes, it is likely to be penalized, as are the accounts doing the voting and (in repeat cases) the site being promoted.
The IDE could parse the macro definition and highlight accordingly. (It would know where to expect an identifier and where to expect an expression etc.)
'Ambulance drone' prototype unveiled in Holland
Still quite vague... 2016 launch.
On the plus side, several materials are discussed (even metal).
The expected way to handle Chip + PIN transactions is that the final price is set before you enter your PIN. It is never changed after you put the PIN in - because at that point, it becomes a card-not-present transaction.
So glad I stopped using Drupal to build websites long ago.
That's a very good candidate for a postgres FDW ...

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers
If you aren't getting the form, you can write info@archive.org with any thoughts or comments you have and they'll be forwarded to the dev team, who are gleefully swimming in mail as we speak.
Is there a rationale for not just ignoring the lockfile of dependencies rather than insisting they not have them at all? I actually have always found this duality in bundler irritating, as when I work on a gem with someone I still want to be able to communicate an ideal dependency state. Not hanging a lockfile makes this difficult.
Does all data have to be stored relationally or can you pick and choose?

Reason I ask is for example something like a game session blob from a multiplayer game, I might not want that to be merged with the relational data and just throw it away after a certain amount of time/days/weeks so they are nice as blobs but other data would be better relational.

Yes there are app/cache level ways around this but might be cool if there was a way to choose auto relational or blobby. I guess ultimately you could just have multiple stores for live and archival data but something to think about.
>There is nothing artists (and scientists) like better than a new toy.

Yeah, but this isn't Apple. HP doesn't have its own OS that they're putting on this thing - it won't be nicely integrated and it will be a pain in the ass to use. I predict it will be quickly abandoned.
Physicists' simple solution for quantum technology challenge
Ah, yes.

What did that use internally?
Oh, all those machines used linear ECL (Emitter Coupled Logic) circuits for speed. Terribly hot logic family but complimentary FET based devices just couldn't yet cut the mustard.

FWIW, the transition from the Model 155 to the 157 heralded the introduction of table driven virtual memory. We called it "relocation" hardware then. :-)

The first engineering model of the 155 used core memory but transistor memory became fast, reliable and cheap enough during its development that a very disruptive re-design was performed across the whole family of machines.

That was my first job out of the university and what fun it was! And what an incredible experience working for IBM was then.