skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would somebody do this w/ D3? Are there any similar bl.ocks that anybody knows about?
Is there even an open bug tracker for launchd?
The main page is mostly marketing no-speak apart from mentioning Google Apps implementations. This article (http://www.techrepublic.com/article/pwc-partners-with-google...) has more info.
tl;dr - PwC are implementing Apps for 45k of their 195k workforce. Partnership to give Google Apps legitimacy for large enterprises.
Sorry guys, I really didn't expect this much traffic. I still have to do some compatibility testing, I'm aiming to do it this weekend.
My personal problem with HN is all the different links with titles that half of the time do not really cover the contents. So I spend to much time opening links and wait valuable ;-) seconds just to discover it was unnecessary. Or skip links which might have been very interesting.

So to speed things up, my ideal reader shows not only the link, but also at the same time a screenshot of the page behind it and preferably even (part) of the actual text. That way I can judge really quickly if its worth opening and reading the page.

I would certainly spend money on that one.
There is still some SVN floating about but its primarily git
First-Ever 'Dead Heart' Transplants Performed by Surgeons in Australia
Preferably with a better language, but yes.
That's a good point. I have an HTPC, so I don't need any of that.
Are screenshots really that useful or interesting? I'm not being snarky, I'm genuinely interested.

99% of the software I've written has been embedded deep inside some expensive piece of machinery. A visual portfolio would be useless since it would consist of photos of the machine, which would offer no insight. Instead I describe what I've done, how it works, problems I had to overcome, etc.

I've interviewed people for many types of positions, and I can't think of a single time when the ability to answer questions about the software they've written wouldn't have sufficed. As it is, I rarely even get that :-(
It would make more sense to me to have an safe but api-compatible library version that doesn't use unsafe.

Not a great sign for lib updates in the future.
Who still uses IE? In some cases, people who are forced to: professionals working in corporate environments that prevent alternate browser installs. These are probably going to be large, conservative organizations like big companies and governments.

Without looking up demographics, I would bet that such people have a higher-than average likelihood of being a parent (or grandparent) with some disposable income.
I expect it's a combination of not having time during polling hours or not being able to make it to the polling place easily. Since moving to Seattle, where ballots come automatically in the mail for everything other than primaries, I've voted in every election. Before moving here, it used to depend on if I could get off work, had time, etc etc, so I voted a lot less.
I would love that too, but Python is a poor choice for mobile environments where every CPU cycle costs you battery life. Python code often takes up to 30x more CPU to accomplish the same work. I already get annoyed at how quickly my Moto X drains the battery when navigating or playing games; if that were 30x faster, the phone would be useless.

Now, you could argue that maybe Google should just make a more efficient Python interpreter. They did that for Android Java anyway, with Dalvik. But the design of the Python language makes it hard to optimize; witness the failure of Unladen Swallow, and all the incredibly talented engineer-hours that have gone into PyPy. A lot more happens, semantically, in each expression or function call than happens in Java or C.
If it helps, chromebooks are nice little laptops that can be had for a couple hundred bucks. If you have monitors and keyboards a Raspberry Pi might work well as a computer and is about $50 with SD card, power supply, etc.
If one of these statements is true then it's more likely that the other one is also true. It's a chicken and egg relationship.
lol I made something like this a while back :P interlude.im

needs polishing though (i.e. XSS screening etc...), did it over an evening :)
Please explain the secure part
With a title like that, I thought for sure you had build what this person was asking for at the same time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8539307

So... not really "Tinder for HN" in that sense but still a pretty cool idea. I'll need to wait for an Android version to really check it out though.
>Interesting. I wonder if those same people would explain a lack of gender diversity in tech as "women aren't interested in tech"?

Contrary to the declaration of independence, it is not self-evident that all people are equal. We can say that the lack of women in tech is primarily a result of cultural reasons because we have evidence that there is minimal innate, relevent, difference. We have not shown this to be the case with political parties. Furthermore, we have reason to believe that this is not the case, because political parties carry with them values and ideologies.

>Certainly the social issues are more extreme, but having a ~70% to 10% ratio of liberal to conservative thinking for foreign policy is still very lopsided. I think one all three categories would be too lopsided, not just the last one.

Is there a reason that 50%-50% is ideal? Consider the climate change debate; I do not consider it a problem that the scientific community is lopsided on this issue. Simmilarly, it may be the case that an understanding of these fields tends to make people lean liberal.
Positional arguments are a big nono for me. When I read the code, there's too much overhead to knowing what things do. One of the nice things about HyperTalk is that it's a bit self describing.

One of these three is entirely non-obvious

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I didn't bookmarked it ;)

I didn't because i wrote a small command line utility to open the site with the right parameters.

You can also use it (instructions for ubuntu):

Copy the folowing to file with the name per:

#!/bin/bash

NC='\e[0m' # No Color

green='\e[0;32m'

blue='\e[0;34m'

if [ "$#" == "0" ]; then

echo "Usage: $0 filename"
exit 1
fi

if [ "$#" != "1" ]; then

red='\e[0;31m'

echo -e "${red}$# Is illegal number of parameters.${NC}"
exit 1
fi

usage(){

echo -e '\tper'

echo -e '\tOpen http://file-permissions.ninja with permission of the file.'

exit 1

}

if [ "$1" == "help" ] || [ "$1" == "-help" ] || [ "$1" == "-h" ] ; then

usage

fi

mode="`LC_ALL=C LANG=C /bin/ls -ld "$1" | LC_ALL=C LANG=C awk '{ print $1 }'`" || exit $?

echo -e "${blue}Opening: ${green}http://file-permissions.ninja/#$mode${NC}"

xdg-open 'http://file-permissions.ninja/#'$mode &> /dev/null

exit 0

# EOF ----------------------------------

Move per to folder within the path.

Let's say:

sudo mv per /bin

Now grant it execute permission:

sudo chmod +x /bin/per

Now you can use it with:

per filename

it's supposed to open the site with the permissions of filename.
Fix your Ruby environment problems
People interested in furthering human knowledge in the area of social interaction are less inclined to be ideologically inclined to declare that the area of research is a solved problem?

You don't say.
In my own experience, every amazing engineer I have worked with has had at least one psychedelic experience, usually many.
>Academia ... republicans/libertarians/capitalists ... state ... leftism.

There are so many generalizations that this statement loses any value. Also state == leftism? What about fascist and quasi-fascist states?
I was just at a conference where I had a nice conversation with a new, but already profitable company that builds face recognition for advertisers. Their customer base basically all wanted the same thing: to be able to target ads to the people walking past them, such as at bus stops (it's live in Singapore, if you're wondering).

They eventually admitted they were working on voice recognition after strong customer demand, because that was much more promising; the machine vision stuff could only detect things like age, gender and income level. Yes, that's mining the content of conversations in the public space (like aforementioned bus stop) and generating ads on nearby real estate accordingly. Launching in Asia in 2015.

Also had a 1 hour conversation in a private meeting room at another conference a couple years ago with three sharp representatives from a certain Asian TV manufacturer that may or may not have been mentioned in this thread. I was stuck by how far they had already gone applying machine learning to their customer activity. They were multiplying their efforts and investments in the space and were very excited about the new generation of TVs that go beyond passively showing you content, because of all the data they would be able to get as a result...
You're the problem.
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Solaris SMF came out at around the same time as launchd, which looks a bit more like systemd. I don't think there is one single origin to these systems.
Totally disagree. We're moving in the direction of publicly-available APIs, standards-driven development, open-source development tools, and a wider variety of interfaces.
That _is_ the point. Why tie yourself to one VPS provider?
Yes
I think you have the philosophy of the web nailed perfectly. Let's all have a chrome tab running continuously
I never saw that followup - Thank you for clarifying.
I am French as well and I have been living in Scotland for the last 10 years or so, and although I do agree on the perception that Scots have a somewhat, perceived, regional dialect, it is true Scottish-English is actually seen as a language; Words that are spoken only on this side of the border are not seen as merely a form of dialect.

I agree as well to the advise given to listen to locals having conversation. It is probably the best way to learn colloquial conversation skills and therefore blend within the local population.

On the accent, it is really hard to leave completely behind your native accent and requires huge amount of effort to replace it. I am not saying it is impossible, but as mentioned by grownseed, some folks will be completely oblivious to the fact that you are not a local and some other will just recognize a twang in the way you speak that isn't quite what they expect from another local.

That being said: "practice makes perfect" ;)
When code aborts, you don't have to reason about it in calling code. When you decide to abort, you are not just suggesting that there might be a problem. You are asserting "nope, there is no reasonable way I can continue here." Which is exactly what task failure is supposed to be used for, incidentally (which is why it was renamed to panic!)--normal, expected error conditions that you can actually do something useful about should be handled through the type system, not propagated through code that might not even be aware of its existence.

In the meantime, abort completely cleans up any in-process state--closing network pipes, deleting temporary files, deallocating mmaped memory, and so on. And what it can't clean up can't be relied on anyway, because programs can always be aborted unexpectedly in other ways. Whether it's the OOM killer, various Rust behavior that triggers abort (panicking during unwinding, for example), stack overflow, power loss, or just SIGKILL, a robust program can never rely on its destructors running anyway (and destructors failing to run is explicitly not part of Rust's definition of unsafe).

So ultimately, the reason abort is easier to reason about is that except in a few special cases (like embedded, where you may have complete control of the hardware--but you likely don't want to be using task failure there), your program already has to be designed to expect an abort at literally any time. Aborting may not always be desired behavior, but it never introduces additional cognitive load, or creates unsafety where it didn't already exist, in the way that exceptions do.
Apple and microsoft have a permanent patent deal since the 90's. They can use each other's patents for free as long as they don't make direct competitors. Hence why this is a fitness band and not a smartwatch ;)
How long do GUIDs really need to be?
If I open this in a tab and wait a while to go there, it never plays the animation.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z57g1fmmn10qmej/Screenshot%202014-...
Quoted for those who avoid social network sites:

"Fed up of SystemD ?
Kdbus the final straw ?
Linux community too large and noisy ?
Yearn for the good old days when you knew every contributor by name and the source code fitted on a single floppy disc ?

I am pleased to announce the initial (very initial) code drop of the Fuzix OS. The goal of Fuzix is to provide a reasonably complete Systen 5 Unix experience without all the bloat. At this point in time the kernel needs about 40K, plus memory for user space.

The Initially supported processor architecture is the Zilog Z80. The code uses no "naughty" instructions so should run correctly on clones and variants, as well as on things like the T80 FPGA core. The core code has been built for 6809 and 6502 as a sanity test but more work would be needed to bring up an actual platform. In theory if it's got 8bits and banked RAM you can probably run Fuzix OS on it.

At this point there is no 8086 port. It's certainly doable for a PC/XT or PC/AT style box but needs a usable open source ANSI C for 8086.. I've done some initial work on pcc (http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/) but could do with help on bringing that up further as I've not had time to make much progress on it.

So why Fuzix ?

- There are various other "modern" OS for Z80 systems but they are not CPU portable, and except for CP/M mostly non-free or depending upon non-free tools. In time they will become a liability not an aid to playing with old systems

- UZI is neat but constrained by limits in the tools and unbanked memory configuration

- UZI180 is neater but still lacks some basic features

- All the existing UZI variants are forks, and generally incompatible. That's not a long term sustainable way to maintain retro systems.

But in truth the main reason is simpler

- Because it's fun.... and it's halloween which as an ex Red Hatter is kind of the right day for a release

https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX﻿ "
Yup, I evaluated Slack and HipChat about a year ago and went with HipChat mostly because of Slack's lame Windows user experience. (IMHO, the Slack client also had too many bells and whistles. I would've like a default "simple" mode that just is an IM client with group chat.)
For certain definitions of healthy, food can certainly be too healthy. You wouldn't want to live off celery and iceberg lettuce, even though they are low fat, low carb, and high in fiber. Likewise, things can be too interactive. No one seriously looks at a car and says "if only I could turn my front wheels a complete 360 degrees." It's only safe to turn them a few degrees in each direction most of them time. Sure that might mean you need to put the car in reverse and try again, but at least you don't need to worry about getting yourself into unexpected situations like starting off with your wheels pointed straight (but straight behind you). However, I have seen some specialty vehicles (like some trucks, semi trucks, and forklifts) where these rules don't apply or only weakly apply.

I'm happy you have the options you want. I also have the options I want. I don't want a mouse to navigate my media player, and I can't agree that the mouse is the best option for that use. A mouse is great for navigating a web page where the links are scattered everywhere or through a document where you might need to click at any point to begin editing, but for structured lists, even on a computer, I navigate with the arrow keys (and occasionally pgup/pgdn/home/endm giving me an 8-way d-pad). My list is straight up and down and straight side to side, I don't need to go 10 degrees up and to the right.

I use an iPhone and iPad because I don't want to dick around with file structure and patching and rooting and rom'ing. I use a Roku because I don't want to organize my own content and make my own media player. I get enough of all of that when I'm working.
Switched to Google domains a few days ago, still configuring it properly. Thanks for letting me know about the link, looking into it.
The metric 'percent-of-race-to-be-flagged' is more a measure how how homogenous the names of people of that race are and inadequate for this analysis.

If they actually wanted to show prejudice they should've normalized for that factor, then shown that certain people were still targeted at a higher rate.

That a strategy works better or worse for certain races may be racial, but is only racist if it was designed to work that way.
I'm not a contractor - if I were contracting, I'd definitely charge around that rate.
Outsourced. Kodak ditched its internal electronics development years ago. It is now just a brand slapped on whitebox designs from Chinese developers like Westinghouse or RCA or a host of other recycled domestic brands.

-- Former Kodak employee
That flowchart is bizarre. I don't understand how "live stream occurs in realtime" happens after downloading the recorded video and editing it. Is this the process of making a recorded yoga video appear to be live?
If anyone is interested, these researchers from Russia have proposed a way to accelerate a spaceship while in flight – firing a ground-based laser up its backside

http://www.osa.org/en-us/about_osa/newsroom/news_releases/20...
You had submitted this yesterday. Note that deleting theb resubmitting is against HN rules.
If people in academia were that driven by money, they wouldn't be in academia.
Yes this helped a lot too. Thanks.
Terminal Overload, open source FPS using C++, Blender, and Torquescript
Slack is massively better at dealing with documents.
Core Data was based on the Enterprise Object Framework from NeXT.
On Technical Interviews
It's time to revive Hyperwocky
I also had slack forced on me after moving from IM to partychat, to hipchat and now slack. I didn't think it was all that great at first. However, it's really grown on me. It works really well for teams that include contractors and it's not the same level of distraction as IM.
Java has the biggest community of application developers, so the decision made perfect sense.
Cool! We've been using a similar technique in our in-app sales page, also inspired by the Verge articles. I'll upload a video when I get a chance.
Not necessarily Republicans, since they are statists too, although somewhat less than Dems.

But for the sake of argument, yes, conservatives tend to be biased against statist academia because they are aware that since academia wouldnt exist without a state it is biased toward the state and against contra-statists.

The notion that conservatives would indeed be biased against an independent, non-statist academia, simply because they are -as is often implied- biased against knowlege itself, is not convincing.
While 16Mp seems to be a reasonable resolution for traditional images, basic pano resolution is usually (for instance, on 360cities.net) 6000x3000 for equirectangular images, that is 18Mp. Of course if you wish to allow zooming in even a little bit, that number is much, much larger.

A modern DSLR with a pano head and a super wideangle/fisheye lens typically enables shooting somewhere in the range of (depending on actual lens setup) 60-300Mp panos with little effort - but of course we're talking about an altogether different gear.

BTW, what's the purpose for a crowdsourced StreetView, when we have sites like 360cities.net?
Conservancy Files Petition for DMCA Exemptions for “Smart” TVs
The shopkeeper ahs a few lines and is on screen for a few minutes. The family is onscreen for perhaps one or two seconds. Certainly less than 5 seconds. There is absolutely no mention of the nature of the family in the film.

This is the example being used to show Disney is "progressive"? An ambiguous possibly gay family that gets less than 5 seconds screen time?

Saying that this miniscule gesture is hetter than nothing is missing the big point. It's the twenty first century - Disney should have had gay characters and even gay leads by mow.

And for all its progressiveness Frozen still has a scene where mental illness is linked to danger using stigmatising language.
Works great for me on Safari 8 (Yosemite)!
Top Big Data Tech News You Need to Know: Halloween Edition
>That's just a truncated key fingerprint, not the key, and a collision would I suspect (but haven't checked) be a loudly visible error.

Actually, a name collision would still mean hijacking the traffic, even if they don't have the same private key. The last HS to announce "owns" the name.
> Social conservatism generally seeks to preserve existing power relationships. Science is about discovering new understanding.

The lack of self awareness on HN is profound. Sure, confirmation bias exists, but that's mostly a problem for other guys, not me.
Note that, although you are right that you should usually use https on tor, it does NOT APPLY to hidden services. Hidden Services are end-to-end encrypted, regardless of whether you use http or https. That is also why a site like Silk Road simply used http: it was a hidden service.

The reason for this is that it never leaves the Tor network. Traffic from a tor client to a hidden service goes (encrypted) through relays, but never exits. Basically you are entering a validation of the public key when you type in the .onion address, so nobody can tamper with the connection.
second that, this gives very interesting insight about the mixture of 60s counterculture, then still legal psychotherapeutic and/or recreational experiments with psychoactive substances and the beginnings of "personal" computing

reading this helped a lot realizing the innovation and impact "The Mother of All Demos" really brought and getting a understanding about the environment in which this was envisioned and implemented
http://www.wired.com/2013/12/tech-time-warp-engelbart/
What I find interesting is that there is overlap between knowledge and object that will surely be eroded by courts in the future. We are setting a precedent that a key and a fingerprint are equivalent, and fingerprint can unlock a password, which is knowledge. So what happens when the government authorizes the unlocking of passwords through replication of fingerprints? Would we agree that is permissible by the government's line of reasoning, i.e., rationalization? Well, what happens when brain wave reading technology is perfected and someone's brain wave patterns can be precisely read and thoughts read? Is that then also fair game to use technology to access the key, i.e., your brain waves, to gain access to your knowledge?
That explains why academia is so pro-military. Oh, wait....
I definitely agree that it's really a great, mind-opening experience for developers to learn a LISP and a functional statically typed language. I feel like you might be missing some things about Clojure here, but I'm too inexpert at it to really fill you in. Anecdotally, I find that when I'm faced with a problem in Clojure, I spend a lot of time thinking about what to do, but rarely spend much time actually writing or modifying code. In Scala, I feel like the type system and more familiar syntax (just because of my own experience) lets me just dig in, but I probably do more actual editing/typing/work. I basically really like both languages, even though both have their annoyances and rough edges, and I wish I could use them both at work - Clojure for when it made sense, and Scala the rest of the time.
Let us know what you think, guys
Even though it's lost popularity in the last few years, I still really like Tcl/Tk for being a language that is easy to get started with, that has easy graphical capabilities.
Works fine for me with the same setup (Safari 8 on Yosemite).