skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to talk too much about these details yet, but rest assured that I will be quite heavily involved in Rust regardless of what shakes out. :)
What about verifying LinkedIn profile? I'm sure there is no silver bullet, there will always be exceptions. The community around it has to be good for a tool like this to be valuable.
Rare, Hi-def pictures of the SR-71
so current (pre)heating of the Earth happens to be only pre-movie show. Buckle your seat belts, it is only a matter of time before somebody would do something like this on a global scale. China if not US, or Russia or ... some wealthy individual :

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/oct/15/pacific-i...
Saying "I don't want to listen" is not a useful contribution to the discussion. If I had a boss, it would be wrong for him or her to withhold income from me because we agreed that we would exchange my labor for his or her money. That is nothing like copying data. I find it interesting how people who push "intellectual property rights" so often do so by poor analogies. If you feel a moral obligation to pay people for copying data, then go right ahead. Pretending everyone else is also morally obligated to do so because "I can't tell you why so here's a terrible analogy" is not compelling.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowpiercer
!images goes straight to google images.
A journey into the basement of Hawaii's tech infrastructure
Do you use Google search? Google promotes Chrome on their own sites all the time.
Yes, on top of a relatively short number of years coding -- impressive indeed
Webinar: Bruce Schneier and Jon Oltsik, Year-End Review and Predictions
My favourite example of this is "tomorrow" because obviously, tomorrow is when you and I wake up the next day, NOT a minute past midnight.

Annoys me to no end that most calendar systems still don't understand that.
I've spent OODLES of time in the rust irc and the only thing I've ever seen is users being told to behave properly for even minor violations of community guidelines. It's also stickied on /r/rust. etc.
There are several different data sources for Atlas:

* There is a poller cluster that gathers SNMP and HTTP healthcheck metrics and forwards them to the Atlas backend.

* There are on-instance log parsers written in Perl and Python that count events in Apache HTTPd and Tomcat logs and send data to the Atlas backend.

* The Servo library [0] is used to instrument Java code with counters, timers and gauges. There is a separate client implementation that handles forwarding metrics to the Atlas backend. The client also polls and reports JMX metrics from the JVM that it runs inside. Spectator [1] is a new library that provides cleaner abstractions of Servo concepts.

* The Prana sidecar [2] was extended to provide REST endpoints for Servo and the client, so that metrics can be delivered from non-Java code.

[0] https://github.com/Netflix/servo

[1] https://github.com/Netflix/spectator

[2] https://github.com/Netflix/prana
Leaked Emails Reveal MPAA Plans to Pay Elected Officials to Attack Google
For what it's worth, a big part of this is slowly winding down earlier commitments over time. I joined TAG a couple years ago, and decided not to run again this year because I had largely achieved my original goals of changing the composition and mission of the TAG, and others can carry the torch forward. I also retired from the Rails team this year after a somewhat-long period of inactivity (from day-to-day decisionmaking) for similar reasons.

The closest I can get to a single "secret" is aggressively delegating. What I mean by this is delegating before you feel comfortable delegating. The only way I know of to get everything done that I want to get done is to set the vision for something, do some initial implementation work, and find people who share the vision to help as early as possible. The primary reason I end up working on so many things is that things are way more connected than you might expect, and the full picture of something like Ember involves both day-to-day work on Ember and advocacy around a whole host of related technologies. I'm very grateful for the number of groups that have welcomed my participation.

I got involved in Rust largely because it was the shortest path to a low-overhead, non-crashy agent for Skylight, even counting the work we had to do to keep up with ongoing development over the past year. When getting involved in a technology so early, I tend to get really invested, and try to find holes that I know how to fill and fill them. That's what happened with Cargo and a whole bunch of other areas in Rust.
Maybe "wycats" is plural and he has a team of people implementing him, like Stephen King or TJ Holowaychuk.
The Foundation to Decrease World Suck
Haha, yes, Amazon, where they offer digital copies of movies that can only be downloaded when your physical copy arrives in the mail. Fooking ridiculous.
very true. I was in zimbabwe and I could go to a shop where the guy would select music for me and fill up a 1GB USB stick for $2. that's how many people distribute music there. they plug the USB stick into a TV or into a little player in their car that plugs into the cigarette lighter jack.

some music labels in that area have gone back to making cassettes because its much harder to copy those. CDs get ripped right away
Nice article, but I would of liked to see how you did the marketing for your book, your article didn't really dive into that?

I like your idea on pricing, smart move and it obviously paid off.

Did you use your blog to 'push' your book sales? Did you run a Google Adwords campaign? Ask friends to help you sell it etc?
You don't "know" Java or PHP then. Not to be a dick, but you don't.
Well, if you're a Firefox user and don't use the latest Firefox I think it makes sense to show "upgrade to the new Firefox" message.
Decentralized applications making a difference with the block chain
I have met him in person many times and so if that's it, they also have a single person handling interface. :)
You Can Now Officially Create Gifs from YouTube Videos
I had that problem with Linux Mint on some configurations too. I found that by going into chrome://flags/ and disabling everything related to GPU acceleration the crashes went away. YMMV, of course.
Anyone care to mention the best reasons to start using/learning Rust? There must be a lot with these guys joining the team.
No, the citizens of Poland MUST watch Avatar 2 six months later than the citizens of the UK. /s

Why is this the case in this time and age?
Try Comodo Internet Security, it's free and it does not bother you or just FREE yourself from the Matrix(Windows) and switch to the real world(Linux).
What colour is it? The Time. Now in colour.
Across America, whites are biased and they don’t even know it
I don't think that follows at all. One could be most important on any of the dimensions that I listed in my comment, and still other languages might be used. Even if there was one overall best language - which is a different question again - it might not be best for every circumstance.
Not just Chrome users. I am on Firefox and I got this message too. I'm guessing they show it to everyone who's not using FF34.
And each of them are lucky to have a share of his time. His contributions to open source are immense.

Much of the software our company use has been shaped, at least in part, by Yehuda. I hope we'll grow the company, so that at some point we'll be able to reciprocate.
DuckDuckGo is cute but doesn't seem to offer anything in the way of competition. It seems very limited in the results it gets and doesn't come close to offering the features that the big guys offer. There really is nothing significantly better about it that I can think of.
The feedback effect might be like the world is hanging on a pendulum, we can disturb it but it will always settle down back to the resting state. Or it might be like it is resting on a pedestal, disturb it some and it may wobble back into place, kick the shit out of it and it may fall over.
Feel bad for the guy holding the mic
Literally every technical person I work with pirates movies, because of poor availability, restrictive DRM, or because they like to have local media in the format of their choosing.

All of these people also use netflix, amazon, itunes, etc., but it's hardly a catch all.
The only yahoo properties that I'm aware of that I use are groups and mail, both of which are a buggy mess. When I started noticing the "Upgrade to firefox" spam I cringed a little bit inside at how far firefox has fallen. I'm using Chrome over here, it's the world's most popular and arguably most powerful browser. I don't need to "Upgrade" away from it, makers of yahoo groups and yahoo mail.

It doesn't come across to me as being good advertising.
Press your spacebar repeatedly, it's a set of slides with an irritating UI but some substance to the message.
Yes. To me, a "prompt" is UI that requires user interaction, like annoying flyover ads.
Why do people still continue to use the crappy web interfaces for email?
That particular type is an Iterator over two HashSet intersections zipped together. I'm looking forward to getting rid of it!
The fact that it's proprietary, closed-source software probably doesn't help.
I would also agree that spatial reasoning is key to strong programming ability. Most data structures are best understood through spatial reasoning, for example. But I would also say that spatial reasoning is key to mathematical ability. I'm actually surprised that you would consider yourself strong with spatial reasoning but had trouble with calculus. Perhaps you just had a bad teacher or lacked proper motivation?
Yeah, reading this article my first thought was that it probably wasn't entirely malevolence. Not that I agree with the way video content providers run their businesses, but I suspect that running 4K video in the browser would chug the average user's machine. My 3 year old laptop works pretty hard just to display HD.

If I was Netflix I wouldn't want to release 4K if it meant only a small segment of customers would get a good experience. Releasing a disclaimer that the user requires adequate hardware won't satisfy the majority of computer users who don't know or care about the specs required. Most people just want it to work.

I also take issue with the line, "Anyone who knows technology knows the computational and image-processing capabilities of even an average PC or Mac far outstrip those of a streaming box." Dedicated hardware can outperform a general computer while requiring less "processing power" (measured in FLOPS or GHz or whatever). The Chromecast has a dual-core CPU and 512 MB of RAM and it runs HD video perfectly.
The Simple yet Brilliant Challenge Steve Jobs Posed to Employees
Hi, thats me. Last minute issues when organizing a conference...
> I know quite a few people who use torrents

Selection bias.

You and the people you know still represent a vanishingly small fragment of the population.

"People" don't flock to torrents, only tech savvy pirates do.
>Does a netflix subscription give you rights to torrent movies that exist on Netflix?

When did anything remove my right to copy data freely anyway? Copyright is an illegitimate joke.
Getting as little sleep as we do is 'un natural'. I'd argue that, including a nocturnal wandering break of some kind (as I recall hearing used to be normal prior to the widespread use of electricity) around 10 hours of darkness (on average) and 'rest at night' would be what we evolved as being setup for. To instead push the boundaries to midnight or later (as I tend to want to do my self) and then to be required to get up before even 8AM is really not leaving enough time for good rest.

It doesn't help that the area I'm in is closer to the 49th parallel than the 45th and also has easterly mountains; thus making natural sunrise artificially later. It's no wonder Seattle has such a caffeine addiction.
Nor to prop up their own browser on their searches.
And what Julian Assange said. Google is basically part of government - they go to other countries as some sort of US ambassadors and are active in US foreign politics.
I replied to this a bit on the other HN thread on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8741987

TL;DR embedding small libraries with high-performance or low-memory requirements into programs written in high-level languages.
And thats the thing. If it was "just a init", it would be just as replaceable as sysv, openrc or runit. But it is not, so it is not. As best i can tell, a major argument for going systemd is that something more user facing (Gnome) depends on a subsystem of systemd, and that in turn requires that systemd is used as init. In other words, systemd as a project is invasive and insidious.
This was from the conference I organized a couple of weeks ago. The other videos are also available [1].

Sorry about the screen visibility on this, as it was being live coded it was a bit hard to film.

[1] https://operatingsystems.io/
Stoked to see what's happening here in the Big D and surrounding areas!
Lifting artificial limitations doesn't count.
No, its from http://kx.com/ see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language)
Google Earth API Set for Execution
How many years?
>The earth has warmed and cooled many times in its history.

yep, an it brought up and down massive civilizations. Roman Empire, Caliphates, Viking Age, Mongols, Medieval Europe/Black Death... somewhere here goes our current world order :)
I am writing a novel. After more than two years of working on it intermittently, on nights and weekends, I consider it about 80% complete. (Naturally, it will probably take 2 years to finish the remaining 20%.)

I am not being paid to do it. I have no particular expectation that anyone will give me money for it after it is done. I also know that it is probably not as good as a novel written by any of my favorite professional authors.

To indulge this new hobby, I have something called "a day job". Other people who create artworks frequently have one. Only a select few have the independent means to create art full time, and some have acquired a large enough base of supporters to make a living at it.

We have a wealthy society. As such, we are capable of supporting a certain number of people as artists.

But the world does not owe you a living. Less popular and less prolific authors cannot expect to earn enough to write full time just because Stephen King can. A musical performer can't expect to buy a new car even once in his lifetime just because Taylor Swift can now afford one every year for the rest of her life. A painter can't expect to get out of community service because a Banksy can sell for thousands of dollars.

The plain fact of the matter is that there are more people who want to be professional artists than society is currently willing to support. Society likes some artists enough to make them rich, but you're not going to be one of them (unless you get really lucky or are terrifyingly talented). There are plenty more that society will support in a middle-class lifestyle. But for the most part, the aspiring artist's default assumption should be that society wouldn't give two steaming piles for a new work, and it should stay that way until well after the first check clears.

As for myself, I have no plans to quit my day job. Even if I think that my book is better than Twilight, the author of that... piece... actually has dollar-denominated approval from productive society to write books as her full-time profession.

Currently, my plans are to eliminate piracy by seeding the torrents myself, while also providing a painless way for readers to pay me what they want, even if it is just a compliment with no money attached. If I get even one penny, it will be more than what I expected in return for a work of art that no one but me ever asked for.

That is why there is no danger to artistic culture. Even if no one else cares for it, there is still a reward for the creators in their pride of craftsmanship, their knowledge that they created something unique, that did not exist until their will brought it into existence.
> You can't count it as a cost on you without adding the value of the employer share to your base income.

I agree with you, but I think I did that. I was trying to say $100,000 of payroll expense causes $15,300 of payroll taxes. Then the other taxes, and subsidy phase-outs, pile on from there.

> Its absolutely not even similar, much less "mathematically equivalent", to the latter alone, which is how you presented it.

You are right, they are not "mathematically equivalent", let me try again;

By "progressive subsidy" I mean a declining benefit as you earn more. That is, income from the government which decreases as you earn more. An example is Medi-Cal and ACA subsidies, food stamps, shit we didn't even mention SSI, etc.

By "progressive tax" I mean an increasing tax rate as you earn more. That is, an increasing number of cents out of each dollar in payroll expense is confiscated as you earn more. An example is Federal Income Tax.

The progressive subsidy offsets the benefit of early income, the progressive tax offsets the benefit of later income. The net effect is reducing the vast majority if not all of the the "Realized Family Benefit" from $0 - $150,000 of [household] payroll expense! I mean, it's disgusting to think about that way, but it's the economics of the system we've created.
A robotic, self-driving wheelchair
Recursion is as hard as mutable state to grasp if not harder.
We might find a few people who can do one thing sligtly better than the other one, but not complete blanks.
The 3 Main Challenges, Faced by Users
Same here, for some reason Google Images doesn't work in Chrome for me. I switched back to Firefox.
Semantic Domain: Garbage collection and purity
Batten down the patches: New vuln found in Docker container tech
language is proprietary, nothing preventing it from going South overnight
And, likely, some good computer scientists would be lost to the world. You should also ask them why they want to learn programming. Many of them will answer they want to become programmers, while they do not have a clear picture of what that entails (it is not code writing all the time, most programmers do not write games in languages they chose, a lot, despite the fact that it is a job where all workers can automate repetitive jobs, a lot of the work is repetitive, etc)

Maybe, once they realize what is the difference between programming and computer science, they prefer computer science. Problem is you cannot learn them the difference in a few weeks; it takes years to sink in.

So, what do you let them do in the mean time? Waiting is a waste of the years in which learning is easiest for them. So, do we let some grown-up decide who likely will make a good computer scientist, or do we let many more start on that trajectory and see how far they get?

I think the latter is the better choice, if we also provide smooth ways to move from one to he other.

[slightly related: I once read a teacher in a nursing school state: "when they come in, all the boys want to ride an ambulance, and all the girls want to work with kids. We have to work a bit on that in the first year"]
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I worked for a company that had a media encoding lab approved by 5 of the major Hollywood studios, and I can assure you, this is purely studios not approving PCs and not allowing Amazon or Netflix to talk about it. Good lord do studios hate technology if they don't feel they control it completely. I invented two studio approved DRM schemes for embedded devices and you can be quite a bit simpler with DRM if you control the whole thing. If you want to cover PCs, you have to use more extensive DRM, usually 'off-the-shelf' as we call it, and you don't get more attractive content for that market. For instance, in airlines, you can get pre-DVD release movies for approved systems, but you can't for personal devices (even mobile devices).

To the people talking about torrenting it instead, that's again the entire point. It limits access to those able to torrent, but still enables studios to control a significant part of the market that can't or won't torrent. It really is all a control game.
You're from THE Sykur? That's awesome, you're one of my favourite Icelandic hipster bands.
Trillion Dollar IT Trade Deal on a Knife-Edge at the WTO
> Despite hours of studying and tutoring, most of these underperforming students struggle with, and many ultimately give up on, programming as a career

They should follow the lead of those who figure out earlier they're not cut out for programming: embellish the CV with fake study, and go straight into the workforce as a programmer. Or they could get transferred into programming from some user department pitching to bring a "valuable user perspective" to IT. Or grease up some IT manager after-hours who'll bring them in as contractor with "special skills not readily available in the labor market" to bypass the usual HR checks and aptitude filters. Or if they're not of the same ethnicity as the HR personnel, send in a double to sit the aptitude test for them, knowing HR staff don't check applicant ID's too closely because they know no-one's going to make it through to an IT interview if they do. Most HR staff and IT managers just want the staff count up, they don't care whether they're productive or detrimental to the projects. If they have staff they have people to blame.
Why are we working on new distribution channels like The Pirate Bay?

Because we categorically reject the notion that corrupt, law-breaking middlemen who abuse the artist's right to be paid and abuse or refuse service to the customer -- I mean the MPAA, RIAA, etc. -- are a better alternative or economic model for a digital age than the free sharing of bits which is what the internet (and before that, usenet, and before that, sneakernet) has always been.

We categorically reject the notion that we need state-sponsored controlled locked-down DRM ecosystems where hackers are thrown in jail for sending an HTTP request to an open server and cell phone unlocking is illegal, just so that the MPAA can continue to exist.

The free as in zero dollars alternative _is_ what is happening to software: the price of an operating system is being driven to zero dollars.

We celebrate this as the liberation of technology from the monopolistic, predatory, illegal activities that happened 20 years ago.

We applaud the brilliant, profitable companies that are not hostile to free software (as in freedom).

We hope more companies will learn how to do something like Github, The Linux Foundation, or Amazon EC2.

Meanwhile, you can question the magic. It might not make sense to you, but it makes sense to John Perry Barlow:

https://projects.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html

Why aren't you championing Actors Guilds, Authors fighting against Amazon's policies and fees, or even the fight against DRM?
Unfortunately I stopped using Firefox a few years ago, found it to be more of a distraction than a benefit.

But it's good that Yahoo is doing something to compete with Google, if they don't than who will? I'm personally a big fan of Google, they lead the way of change.
I have but one, and it's that it consistently fails to find me what I need as well as Google does. I made a serious effort this week to use DuckDuckGo and made it my default search engine. I wasted so much time googling stuff I'd just DDG'd to find what I actually wanted. I love and support DDG fully, but Google still does search better, imo.

Apparently !g is a thing though? I may have to give that a try so I can have the benefits of DDG, but the results of google.
What to do after finishing an online course
Lots of people make music and art for fun, without any intention of profit. I don't think this applies Chinese sweatshops