skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep the San Diego Fry's also moved into an Incredible Universe after they closed down (probably 15 years ago).
Fry's never gave it a theme though and never even took the Incredible Universe logo off the delivery trucks
It might be he is burned out with all the politics surrounding the claim of his work but not with the work in general. People who enjoy doing something rarely get burned out doing it lifelong.

From the newyorker article linked by deuill:

The prospect of being awarded a Fields Medal had forced
him to make a complete break with his profession. “As
long as I was not conspicuous, I had a choice,” Perelman
explained. “Either to make some ugly thing”—a fuss about
the math community’s lack of integrity—“or, if I didn’t do
this kind of thing, to be treated as a pet. Now, when I
become a very conspicuous person, I cannot stay a pet and
say nothing. That is why I had to quit.” We asked
Perelman whether, by refusing the Fields and withdrawing
from his profession, he was eliminating any possibility
of influencing the discipline. “I am not a politician!”
he replied, angrily.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/08/28/manifold-destin...
> My opinion of them started to go south about a decade ago when they began insisting that they needed to know my zipcode every time I bought something.

When I worked for RS just out of high school (1990) that was already corporate policy.
Enthusiasts and Skeptics Debate Artificial Intelligence
A few of my favorites:

Bartender: http://www.macbartender.com

Custom Menu: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/custommenu/id572551593?ls=1&...

Shade: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shade/id546881298?mt=12

Add spaces to Dock (to group apps): http://css-tricks.com/snippets/html/add-spaces-to-dock-in-os...

Lucida Grande for Yosemite: https://github.com/schreiberstein/lucidagrandeyosemite

Do a search for Mac Kung Fu.

Just in general you want to turn off as many animations and magnification effects as possible in System Preferences to keep everything as quick as possible.
"CORTEX is our next generation platform that handles real-time financial data flows and notifications. Our stateless event-driven compute engine for dynamic data transforms is built entirely in Clojure and is crucial to our ability to provide a highly agile response to financial events."

Amazon is building a competitor to Bloomberg?
Amazon.com is up for me, but is entirely missing product images.
Really, not enough applicants?

That's a choice. Pay more, and will might give up our contracts. Maybe..
Is it any different if you shell out the big bucks for support?
AFAIK donations go to mozilla foundation.
mozilla corporation cannot fund mozilla foundation, so the foundation works solely on donations.
Even with generators we still need to yield something or await on something. C# awaits on Tasks, in JS Promises would be a logical choice. You definitely need a value though - you can't await for node style callback functions as they provide no value to yield (or otherwise pass to the runtime) between calling the function with a callback and your callback getting called.

Even so, lambdas, observables and some FP constructs such as map/reduce/filter/etc can potentially eliminate the need for imperative style code. There are also some semi-imperative solutions to certain problems that work okay [1]

Another advantage of functional code is that its easy to extend - adding a combinator that implements filtered (typed) catch for promises is a lot easier than implementing a language construct such as `catch (e if e.code == 404)` for generators.

var only = (predicate, handler) => e => {
if (predicate(e)) return handler(e) else throw e;
}

promise.catch(only(e => e.code == 404, e => {
handle...
}))

Here is another example (its a bit of an overkill though :)

https://github.com/spion/promise-streams/#example

[1]: https://gist.github.com/spion/8009559
would you disagree with the idea that there are a lot of good ways of describing something, that are true for many cases but very wrong for others?
Reddit increases minimum password length to 6
I've written a very fast Scrabble program in JavaScript which I think should perform on par with it (i.e greedy algorithm that chooses word with best possible score for the next move)

http://amnond.github.io/jscrab/
Thank you so much for posting this. As a diaspora kid of expat Pakistanis it's like absolutely screaming into the wind arguing with people in the "old country" about the blasphemy law and being called a heretic and traitor. It makes it that much less lonely to know that people are doing something about the RSS pracharaks here as well. I had the distinct pleasure of once introducing myself in an RSS run Panun Kashmir meeting in Boston as a Pakistani - not an experience I'll be going for second helpings for.
It also lets you find missing commas more easily.
The Grace Hopper Movie: 2015 Production Fund
Hmm, seems like it's changed since the original incarnation. That's probably a good addition, this seems like a very _why project.
Google Link to get past pay wall:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Amazon right now http://i.imgur.com/Ed2jtn2.jpg
Ask HN: What are some interesting Chilling Effects queries?
For those of you who don't know, Chilling Effects (https://www.chillingeffects.org), is an internet repository of takedown notices for DCMA, libel, etc.

I'm interested in finding some queries for takedown notices that were unfair, wide-spread (while being meaningless) or ridiculous, or examples of individuals trying to shape their image by trying to censor negative opinions.
Having lots of issues on the EU side too (Route 53 + Cloudfront).

Noticed:
- trello.com
- import.io
- intercom.io

as some sites as well as ours who we've noticed issues with.
AWS Status shows Cloudfront DNS issues, which is reflected in our page's assets not loading. Kinda makes me wish we were using something like https://github.com/etsy/cdncontrol/ but that's a fight for another day!

<title type="text">Informational message: DNS Resolution errors </title>

<link>http://status.aws.amazon.com</link>

<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2014 17:00:39 PST</pubDate>
<guid>http://status.aws.amazon.com/#cloudfront_1417050039</guid>

<description>We are currently investigating increased error rates for DNS queries for CloudFront distributions. </description>
Email address seems to be a too low barrier. At least one other piece of information, e.g. order number, zip code would help.
Ideally though, if the website wants to avoid user registration and/or passwords, it should send the information via email or send a link with a random long URL. Of course that looses convenience (waiting for email, maybe switching apps on a smartphone) but you avoid registration.
I didn't say anything that could be construed as an apologist argument for the cable industry, or even the wireless industry. You can only accuse me of being a T-mobile apologist - and what they are doing hugely benefits me, considering my limited budget. And I'm not alone.

Nothing of what you said replies to the difficulties in competing against Facebook or other internet giants when they're paying to prevent competition from newcomers.

1) I argued that zero-rating music services isn't as anti-competitive as it's made it out to be. Since 27 services (many of which I hadn't heard of) made it onto the list, it can't be that hard for a newcomer to get onto the list.

2) Facebook Zero is a developing world issue. I said earlier that I don't have the experience to comment on developing-world issues, but let me take a stab at it now (this is sort of long): if you lived in a part of Africa that had no electricity but had cellphone reception (this is quite common), there's a good chance you would rather have Facebook and Wikipedia for free on your phone, as opposed to having a level playing field among all services yet being able to afford none of them. (<-- TL;DR)

Of course Facebook isn't being purely benevolent in offering this for free - they want to increase their MAUs and ad revenue, and get a hold on the market. Which is why I said I don't necessarily agree with that they're doing. BUT, you can see how the argument has its merits.

Yes, this makes it hard for another social network to gain usage share in that market. Duh. It would be hard if you were a startup from SoMa, and it would be equally hard (but much more soul-crushing) if you were a startup from the same region and can't get what Facebook does from the local wireless carriers.

What do customers in such markets want? The bottom 90% of customers in such a market will almost certainly want Facebook and Wikipedia for free.

3) As for congestion: I just wanted to pose the Spotify Premium vs Maps question to you. No wireless company ever mentioned "reducing congestion" as the reason for their zero-rating policies (it doesn't make sense anyway), so the subject of congestion is out of place here, and your questions about congestion are completely irrelevant here. That part of my response was very poorly worded now that I read it.

paid traffic being prioritized over free traffic is essentially reinforcing the internet slow-lane.

Not quite. The important difference is that it's paid for by the consumer, not by the content provider. Even today, those who pay more for a better internet package get their traffic prioritized over those who pay less and everyone's fine with this. See, for example, Google Fiber's slower free tier in Kansas City.
I completed a few of these foobar challenges, and I'd love to keep working on them, but it seems to have stopped working for me. I can no longer save files in the editor, and I get a "Not Found" error when I run the verify command. Anyone else run into this bug (and maybe figure out a fix)?
> I'm curious: would the same sequence of pitches be more or less meaningful ...

For me, Yes. The core of the issue is that the sequence of pitches is not meaningful on its own, like all communication. When I am listening to music, assuming a human made it, I explore and project meaning, emotion, and thought on to it as if expecting it to communicate something that would complete my mental model of the artist or environment. All in an effort to feel what the music was conveying.

If I find out it was just auto generated, I feel like a fool looking for meaning in tea leaves.
Historically, our interactive diagrams rendered to VML for IE8 support in addition to the SVG used by modern browsers, so we couldn't use any SVG features that aren't shared by VML. We no longer support IE8, but our code is still mostly built around this assumption so it's nontrivial for us to take advantage of any native animation support. (In addition, these aren't animations per se; rather they're cases where we move elements of a diagram in response to a touch interaction, which (I believe) requires JS to power it regardless.)
It's okay. I'm not a fan of Java or Java-like languages, though. I'm not at all certain about its future: https://medium.com/@richardeng/the-future-of-dart-is-dim-517...

But even if Dart is here to stay (as a niche, or "just another web technology" littering the web landscape), I can think of other alternative languages that are a lot more pleasant to use, for example: https://medium.com/@richardeng/js-christ-im-using-js-1d1d086...
I tried to tell this to the RS closest to my home, they won't. I even offered to give them a 3d printer for two months to try, they won't. The manager there told me that the electronics stuff is basically overhead, they're there to sell phones 11 months a year and RC cars in December. The funny part is, the guy is a hardcore libertarian.
Chrome (38) on Mac (10.10). Refresh refreshes the page but nothing else. "Your cart is empty."
I liked this quote from the article:
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When Diamandis was telling me about all the large old companies and organizations that are doomed because of their leaders’ “human inability to understand exponentials,” I realized it was the first time outside of science fiction that I’ve encountered human as a pejorative.
Feels like we are all preparing for exciting adventure.
I found it almost a necessity when I started generating larger DOM trees in JavaScript. No more games of hunt-the-missing-comma-on-the-ragged-edge: https://gist.github.com/insin/8e72bed793772d82ca8d (These syntax woes are one of the main problems React's JSX solves)
Quartzy Is Hiring an Associate Product Manager (YC S11)
No, the game was written directly on the Win16 API, something from which I have still not completely recovered.
One wonders if this is same matter currently afflicting a certain infamous torrent site ("..downtime appears to be a routing issue as the site is still reachable in most parts of the world"): http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-goes-down-locally-141...
> I'm a weekend wannabe systems programmer
> and was attracted to Rust from Ruby because C scares me

I myself was attracted from Javascript for the same reason, you're among friends. :)

> this is where Go users laugh that Rust attracted a
> Rubyist instead of a C++ user

I don't think anyone's laughing at anybody. Different languages will appeal to different people, we don't need to begrudge anyone for that!

> I'll have to research C++ lambdas some more but given
> the safety, usability and performance gains

Performance of Rust closures should be the exact same as C++ lambdas. Safety-wise, you get all the usual guarantees of Rust. Usability-wise, the main nicety of Rust closures over C++ lambdas is that Rust doesn't force you to specify a capture clause, and instead infers how to capture all of the closed-over variables based on context. I think that Rust may actually be strictly less powerful than C++ here (as C++ allows you to explicitly specify the capture mode for each and every upvar if you like), but we believe that you'll have all the power you need in practice. Whether or not this turns out to be true will have to be determined by experience.
We have business-level support through AWS activate, and it's not any different really - we could submit a ticket and get a phone call back within a 1 hour guarantee, but I'm not sure that would get you much more information or faster resolution for an issue like this. The really big customers presumably have contacts within the AWS team who give them extra information in cases like this.
There isn't, but there's a frontend library that you can use to add fallbacks to <script> tags:

https://github.com/shinnn/script-fallback-from-urls
No, but it was developed at about the same time. The late Dave Snyder, founder of the company, rounded up young programmers on Compuserve and put out a ton of shareware games during that period. There was also another version of MVP Backgammon later, but I had no involvement with that one.
Well, observables would just be used as a mechanism to implement a flux-like architecture or decouple various parts of your server-side codebase (making them open to extension). A bit like event emitters, but without the stringly typed event names. I don't think thats evil? [1]

Or they can also be used in place of asynchronous lists (like "object streams"). I find them handy for various tasks :)

Regarding es6-promise, its too minimal for my taste, and missing my favorite feature (provided by bluebird. when and p-promise): long stack traces on (possibly) unhandled errors, which are quite invaluable on the server side when debugging longer chains of events. p-promise has the additional advantage of being a relatively small library which is pretty awesome :)

[1]: example: flux implemented with rxjs: https://github.com/fdecampredon/react-rxjs-todomvc
Also, the Jameco warehouse on highway 101 is open to the public. Super handy for same-day printer filament, ICs, or just picking cheap shipping and getting it the next morning anyway.

And the lady at the will-call desk is a wonderful human being for being patient with me taking forever to fill an order.
Why? There's plenty of consumer drones around already, heh...
They do, but it's one little corner of the store. It used to be at least a full aisle.
Not a gem, but from jQuery days:

<script> window.jQuery || document.write("<script src='js/jquery-1.10.2.min.js'>\x3C/script>")</script>
Seems like the best way to verify an AWS outage is via Twitter (#AWS) ... This doesn't feel right ..
I don't have any inside info, but the common perception in the industry at the time was that Microsoft raided Borland's talent, and thereafter Microsoft's development tools started getting better. Borland at the time was easily the most innovative programming tools company. They had "Visual" tools long before Microsoft, so it's not surprising that Redmond focused their wallet on disrupting that narrative.
Hey, if you're able to load status.aws.amazon.com then clearly it's working!
We're doing something similar in JS/Raphael. Currently working on many more cities around the world. http://www.findproperly.co.uk/tube-map.php

In fact the station data looks to be from the same source but we added more stations if you're interested.

This older project is also similar https://github.com/benbarnett/SVG-Tube-Map
Mobile video making finally democratized by new video app MV
That's my sentiment, too: https://medium.com/@richardeng/the-future-of-dart-is-dim-517...
If you were embarrassed posting boring video selfies to Instagram or Vine, you should really reshoot it with MV. It's now in Beta on mv.com.
It's just as well they don't use CF for anything critical on the status site...
Clearly it's possible to escape Earth orbit, but would point out that the Van Allen belts have been used by conspiracy theorists to 'prove' that the moon landings were faked.
Same, but that was all we used it for. I do recall running into some horrible memory issues on another project (Iona's Orbix, but that's another story) and wishing I had SoftICE to tear it apart with. But for most application issues it was overkill. The existing debugging tools (and 3rd party stuff like Bounds Checker) were usually good enough.
It's also complicated by the fact that competition in mobile broadband is much stronger than in cable broadband. Personally I would like to see net neutrality limited to cable broadband.
> (I suspect it's only the Sears captive brands that have let it hang on as long as it has, given how woefully it's been managed its last decade.)

The Sears you are thinking about before the last decade was already dieing -- the current "Sears" is the result of KMart buying Sears in 2004 (during a brief profitably period shortly after KMart's own bankruptcy, and the combined entity -- which was called Sears Holdings Corporation -- went south pretty quickly.)

I don't think Sears captive brands are keeping it alive for the last decade, I think the temporary reset it got at the acquisition by KMart has been keeping it alive.
I'm an author on several physics papers published before I switched careers to become a programmer. So I've been published in "big name" (for physics) journals.

Peer review, even without people scamming it, is still broken. The reason is, presuming you have an ideal peer panel, everyone is competent in the art of the paper. This means that they are all working in schools of research relevant to the paper they are reviewing.

Thus every paper either supports or opposes the peers school. If your paper helps confirm their theory, great. If not, they have a tendency to let politics get involved and reject the paper.

Now, a lot of funding comes from government. Imagine the situation where government is funding research with a desired outcome. This desired outcome has a policy implications. Result: Your peer review system is going to highlight results that confirm the government's policy position because the peers are getting their paycheck there, and it is going to bury results the disagree with the position.

I think that a better system would be to have peers give written reviews, that would be attached to the paper, with a rebuttal from the papers authors. Publish more papers, air differeing views, and make more money (since more paper sold means more library fees, etc.)

Then peer review will be less about "censorship of radical ideas" than about "hypothesis-antithesis-synthesis".

And yes, even in obscure areas of materials physics, there is a lot of politics... cause the stakes are so low.
Great article! ... I'm glad I already disable hardware acceleration having hit kernel panics there on OS X before. (I did a write up, http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-05-23/osx-10.9.3-is-to..., but it's much less interesting/useful than this blog post).
Twitter app graph steals list of your mobile apps
The Route53 (AWS DNS service) is 100% SLA: http://aws.amazon.com/route53/sla/

I would hope they honor this dns issue under the same guidelines although its technically not the route53 service we are paying for.
west-1 down, but intermittently. receiving monitor alerts from Sydney, Sao Paulo, Singapore, London, New York and SF, but never experienced issues locally (Boston).
> I'm just curious if you believe there are inherent risks in Wordpress, or if you meant specifically Wordpress in the wrong hands and with the wrong plugins/extensions etc.

Well, in the context of submission link -- serving straight up static HTML content, you have essentially zero risk of security vulnerabilities. I meant to contrast this in a general sense with Wordpress, so I moreso did mean to imply Wordpress is insecure for both its inherent risks (fewer or greater than Drupal) and risks that come with plugins (which a significant amount of Wordpress users do end up getting).
Not fixed yet, CloudFront is down. DNS resolution not working.
They should take it out of the console as well.
I wonder if we should except s3 to degrade pretty badly if this isn't fixed soon. Going to be seeing a much higher than normal rate of requests.
The world of technology and art is amazing right now, because it's like we just discovered linseed oil and are seeing people begin to create the first oil paintings.

There maybe some work to make it more... relatable? or communicable? expressible?
Concorde Trip Report (2003)
Really amazing app!
For physics and astronomy, there is the arXiv. Essentially all the papers (at least for astronomy) are posted there. The next step would be to add a community voting/vetting scheme on top of that. Statistics could be displayed alongside the article, and access to more detailed comments could be facilitated. Version tracking would enable people to update their papers to address criticism and suggestions. (arXiv already does allow people to replace their papers with new versions, and they retain the old ones, but there isn't really an easy way to "diff" two versions of the paper).
Anecdotally, our site is now loading quickly for me: http://canary.is/.

However, digging the Cloudfront name servers times out intermittently:

$ dig +short @ns-666.awsdns-19.net cloudfront.net
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
Any decent code analyzer will pick that kind of thing up. I'd say the Apple bug speaks more about their process than their coding standards.
I remember when this was posted on FlyerTalk. The author of the post read that British Airways would cease to operate the flights, and promptly booked one with miles just for the experience. I wished I'd done that.

The last Concorde flight took place 11 years ago today.
Interested in hearing about opportunities for entrepreneurial apprenticeships?
I'm mobile so don't have a good way to just test this myself... Any idea how good/bad base64+gzip is (ie gzipping the json before submitting it)? If it's within a few percent then this probably isn't a bad solution!
> and redirect web traffic from HTTP to HTTPS.

The original post [advises against this][1]:

> Redirects are discouraged since they allow sloppy/bad client behaviour without providing any clear gain. Clients that rely on redirects double up on server traffic and render TLS useless since sensitive data will already have been exposed during the first call.

[1]: https://github.com/interagent/http-api-design#require-tls
Against the social contract as technologists understand it. But we're not the bulk of users any more.