skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My observation of the rise of JSON/HTTP was that it was a thing happening in the dynamic language communities, and that only came into the Java world when the battle was already over.

I suspect the dynamic language communities preferred JSON/HTTP so strongly because it was so much easier to use: they didn't have big corporate backers releasing SOAP tooling, but it's trivial to parse JSON straight into structures that are more or less native to the language (arrays of objects in JavaScript, lists of dicts in Python, arrays of hashes in Ruby).

Java did have heavy-duty SOAP tooling, and didn't (and doesn't) have a natural way to represent JSON's objects, so it was much less of a win there.
You can do this in all modern GC languages.

Either with a using/try with resources/with construct, or by using closures.

// Pseudo language with FP capabilities
let withFile filename action =
let fd = open filename
action fd
close fd

withFile "config.sys" (fun fd -> write (readlines fd))

Real production code would also take care about proper closing the file in case of errors.
No.

But A LOT of them were.
Colin Powell was never Defense Secretary, he was Secretary of State. In any case, as the report notes, the CIA was already running amok before 2004, so any purge then was not a necessary prerequisite for the CIA to run amok, though it might have removed a constraint that would have reigned things in sooner.
They plan to build a data center on the West Coast.
Austin isn't much better.

We have a 9% jump in the last 6 months.

http://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-austin-rent-trends...

http://kxan.com/2014/08/01/austin-hottest-real-estate-market...

While these seem like peanuts for Coaster's, its having a pretty huge effect on long time residents. We're undergoing a building boom that feels insane.
This is interesting--I'd love to read more about it. Can you link some sources? (I'm not being snarky)
I tend to believe it's better to keep it private and then introduce it later on when a beta or alpha is done and get feedback then iterate.

People have too many opinions about stuff.
Could the magnet links be distributed by adding them to dummy transactions using the BitCoin "coinbase" blockchain method?
I let the algorithm run to the end. 78992 points. Not only did I win I got a 4096 square (which is black btw) and another 2048 square. It died very close to getting an 8192 square.
And the happened well into the Obama administration.
Tech Deals on Business and Customer Support Apps and APIs
Is Pirate Bay & file sharing really that big an issue among the general public in Sweden?
Using Moleskine’s New Smart Notebook Is Like Magic
From this video, I'd say no:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MswMYk05tk
How do I get allocated a subnet for IPv4?
How would I go about getting my own subnet like, say, 194.71.107.0/24 (not specific, just an example).

Does this type of thing cost a lot of money?
And if things like this become public without anyone being held accountable -- signalling public approval for the abuses -- that will happen less the next time.
Interesting experiment, but I'd like to see the data for Ultra, since Super is obsolete.
Forget Mistletoe Drones, These Inventory Drones Are Where It’s At
"He pointed me at a Gliese astronomical dataset with 2223 of
the closest stars. It's an older dataset, but it was perfect
for what I needed."

Are you the author? You may be interested in ESA's Hipparcos catalog, which reports parallax distances to 118,000 nearby stars. This is the most complete distance catalog to date (its successor, Gaia, is currently measuring another ~1 billion).

ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/pub/cats/I/311/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparcos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_%28spacecraft%29
If they had devoted all this effort to beating the MLB they'll be rich.
As someone who hated math in k-12 and excelled in reading, this is interesting to me. I have gotten more into math as a soon to be college graduate, (Econ/Acct) where I have learned I am not bad at math, and the math I have done for my degree, econometrics, calculus, were all interesting (though not on a high level). I think if I had been taught math as a child better than what I was, I would have moved more toward a CS/CE/data engineering degree instead of business. The math scared me off.

For my kids I look forward to trying to supplement their K-12 education (math especially) with other forms of education that I hope foster an interest in math. K-12 never really gave me a chance to find math interesting.

Does anyone have any great tools/resources to help supplement public math education?
This is huge.

var proto = new Proxy({}, {
get(target, propertyKey, receiver) {
console.log('GET '+propertyKey);
return target[propertyKey];
}});

I've been following ES6 pretty closely, but somehow I missed this huge feature. Don't get me wrong, I love generators and destructuring, but this is soooo cool.
While I welcome the move to a Nix-like transactional package management system, the notion of "bundle everything in your app" leaves me extremely queasy. How are you going to guarantee that individual application developers update insecure versions of bundled third-party libraries in a timely manner?
So....what happened to the "raid-proof" server array they were talking about in September? (https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-runs-on-21-raid-proo...)
For those looking for a little more context or who want to see the App Container Spec in action we recorded videos following the initial announce of Rocket -- the initial implementation of the spec.

Rocket & App Container Spec Overview by Brandon Philips - (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYgpaAZMe-E)

Rocket Tutorial and Demo by Kelsey Hightower - (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9WVjxaRkKU)

Google Hangout with CoreOS: Rocket and the App Container Spec - (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3UmFQbUsN8)
How's that illegal thing worked out for curbing GHCQ?
And skyscrapers in two weeks... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajlUVSiUvWg
Pretty cool. I wonder how often the wifi database needs to be refreshed? How often do the wifi points change, go offline. I assume that database also uses some info from the IP address as well.
Hey, one just popped up: http://www.jobscore.com/jobs2/simplyinsured/software-develop...
Doesn't matter what your RAND_MAX is if you're taking the result modulo anything that's not a power of two.
It's so full of witty tech industry insider humor; he definitely won't be single for long.
If I understand what xorcist is saying, is that Android does not have updates for components of the core system. So replacing a specific library has to wait until the next complete push of Android. Phone makers package up system updates as full android releases rather than component releases. You can update apps, but now your App is at version X and the android it is running on is at version Y.Q.R (my phone is sitting on 4.4.2 atm) so App vendors are at the mercy of keeping as many versions out there as there are Android versions (which vary with respect to the needed component).

All of which could be fixed with something like Snappy where the OS component that is improved could be pulled OTA by the customer.

The meta discussion is that customer cannot do that because a handset maker has no way of reasoning about how changes to a component of the system will affect all handsets out there, and so new versions of android sit in all-or-nothing testing limbo at the handset QA lab.
he says. "You can't rape the whole world and remain safe."
Why on earth would you post this as a series of tweets.. and then embed them in a tumblr post.. without any additional commentary..
Easier said than done. If the amount of humidity at the wall is not ideal, you have to visit and water the moss regularly. If the conditions aren't right you often just end up growing mold graffiti (https://vimeo.com/44045555).

Guides like this one often include the work of Anna Garforth (http://www.annagarforth.co.uk/) but she uses a different method. She grows moss and cuts it into typography, then adheres it to the wall. I have yet to see a real example of grown moss graffiti.
I don't feel that the claim is even correct, that the size of the output is proportional to the largest size. I mean, assume that the largest size is 1024 bytes. Then take two files that are gigabyte each into 1024 byte chunks. Make a function that encrypts each chunk into the appropriate chunk in the second file. I don't think this is possible to do without being on the order of a gigabyte (the number of documents being encrypted).

If it behaves like a one-time pad, where f(d1, k) = d2, and you can find a d' such that f(d', k) = d3, then it means that d' is likely to be gibberish and I don't understand what this is doing.
The (4) and (5), if they're good-- both in terms of being skillful and having a strong work ethic-- will usually seek managerial roles or transition out of programming.

Contrary to what is often said about middle management being hell on earth, it's not worse (on average) than being on a team, just different. You don't have to be unambitious to want a job where you primarily evaluate others' work instead of doing the work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Sweden#Politica...
It continues to strike me as odd that there isn't more focus on building high-density highrise housing in SF. Is this related to earthquake danger, historical preservation, idiocy on the part of local politicians, or some combination of these?
I think the hard part will be to try and stay focused and establish milestones. If everyone is giving input at the same time, it'll be extremely spread out and inefficient. Working towards the first few releases (0.1, 0.2, etc..) you need to be really focused on your priorities and not distracted by the big picture too much.
Evolving swimming robots to study origins of extinct vertebrates
Uber’s Real Crime Is Giving in to Politics as Usual
Everything is on the rise that you're tracking. Which would make me believe there are just more job postings and for all I know the term passionate may actually be on a decline in how often it's use vs how many job listings are made.
"I'll move if less than 97% of my neighbors are like me" leads to less segregation because everyone is always moving...
The beauty of AWS is that the marginal cost[1] is low.

It might cost slighly more to use an AWS instance than servers(s) than to run server(s) of similar computing power. But once you build those servers, you're stuck with them. You also need a swathe of IT staff to care for them. Thus, the marginal cost of adding computing power is quite high, since it's hard to scale back, short of selling the server or leasing out it's capacity to others.

AWS was one of the first _usable_ services that allowed people to purchase computing power on demand easily.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_cost
No, that's not normal. There are two acceptable scenarios:

1. You get paid.

2. You are a co-founder and have a large share of the upside if the business becomes successful.

Anything else is unacceptable and exploitative for a for-profit business to ask for.
The site's still up, just has a different URL.

https://thepiratebay.cr/
https://www.iana.org/numbers
What gives you the right to decide that for other people? Objectively having your genitals cut off is much less bad than dying. But I know plenty of men who would rather take a bullet than feel a knife sliding into them. The methods used by the CIA are exactly like this; and that is entirely by design. Why else would you do these things if not to cause massive psychological pain?
Meet the company that's behind HP's smartwatch
I believe around the founding of the Swedish Pirate Party, they got a lot of attention (and votes) because of TPB being featured heavily in the news.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Sweden#2009
io.js is doing new things, they might be polyfillable on top of node, but more people will use new versions of inbuilts like 'process' of 'fs' if they're in io's stdlib than if they're in some optional module people could (but probably won't) install on node.
Fighting patent trolls with the LOT Network
The problem is twofold in America: first and foremost, no one wants to hear that they need to lose weight and exercise more, they just want a quick fix. Second problem is that there's so much profit motive involved that companies are eager to hype the quick fix, especially in terms of pills that doctors can prescribe in a fifteen minute office visit after plugging your numbers into a company sponsored calculator.

Exercise moderately and eat healthier are probably the most important "preventive" means of health care. Even for conditions that aren't directly related to being overweight or lacking exercise, it can help immensely to correct those two issues.
Wow you really are a piece of work
You'd either need to thread the rope through some kind of guides that would make it follow the contour of the track (which would almost certainly introduce vast friction losses in the force on the rope), or else the force on your rope if you just let it go freely through the air is going to be at vastly the wrong vector for efficient pulling of the sled as it goes over the secondary rises. I suspect you'd find that it becomes unfeasibly hard to pull the sled over the second rises via a rope that is pulled from the top of the primary tower.
NIMBY Squared
The recruiting email I got noted that from my resume, she could tell I was clearly a gamechanger, but challenged me to question whether I was surrounded by other gamechangers. Because, you know, it's lonely being the only gamechanger at a company replete with non-gamechangers.
Sadly, because tweetstorms are getting more and more popular. I think it gives people a superiority feeling ("aha, look at how much brilliance I can convey in so few characters!"), whereas the reader is just frustrated.
http://www.miniwebtool.com/doubling-time-calculator/?r=13.5

At this rate, rent will double every 5-6 years.
You can download "an archive" that has all of the magnet links at the time of the creation of the archive. This is not helpful for finding new content. Most importantly downloading a 9 gig archive of magnet links is not a workable system for average users; Bittorrent is only as good as the number of peers in the swarm.
Bad example. The items in the movie are mostly paraphrases or summaries of the original. This would be more like releasing a movie where in one of the scenes a wall in the background contained a slide that said:

WIZARDS
- NEVER LATE OR EARLY
- PRECISELY ON TIME

Does that require the Tolkien estate to grant permission?
But killing them is ok?
You fundamentally misunderstand the rationale behind the conventions, and particularly the parts of them that apply specifically in conflicts that are not conflicts between state parties (e.g., Common Article 3.)

Anyhow, there is also the Convention Against Torture isn't even related to conflict or POWs, but applies universally, and obliges parties to it (including the US) to prosecute (not merely avoid engaging in) torture, whoever does it, wherever they do it, and in whatever context they do it. Torturers are hostis humani generis, the common enemy of all mankind.
The beauty of free markets (when they actually work) is that the unchecked salaries would have been corrected by the market when they reached an unsustainable level (like it did in the previous dot com bust). Regarding people who refuse to face reality that their prior salary is not reflected in current market rates, well that's the person's own problem and can't be taken into consideration in arguing for suppressed wages via cartel behavior. Personally I would like to get the maximum money I can get for the work I'm doing. :)
Here's an idea that I don't have the wherewithal to implement:

Take this location-based image service and pair it with something like artful (link is probably still on the front page) to give you imagery - not just maps - that are relevant to where you are. (eg local artists, photos of local landmarks, historical sites, etc)
The short history of nearly everything - Bill Bryson

This book rekindled my interest and love for science.
No, not really. The somewhat associated Pirate Party used to be a big thing here, but then the party was hijacked by a new leader who mostly seemed to care about LGBT issues. Said leader just resigned last week, and the Swedish Pirate Party is now in a reboot phase.
Meteor 1.0.1: security fix for allowithdeny rules
Fair enough. But you did understand that this tool is a way to decrypt something, under duress, which provides a credible plaintext rather than the actual plaintext right? And if someone asked you decrypt your "home videos" under duress and you used the alternate key to decrypt the "cat videos", the people forcing you to do the decryption might be suspicious that you're encrypting cat videos at all.
Slow, 500 errors everywhere, and doesn't seem to have the blog. Are we sure this mirror is legit?
C++ is a bit different in the variety of domains that it's applied to. To expect the same standard library to be useful in games, microcontrollers, medical instruments, aircraft control systems, kernels, and CRUD apps is a huge ask.

Maybe you don't like that, which is fine. But C++ is much broader than what's available in the standard library. C++ is a close second to C in the "how optional is the standard library?" contest.
True, and I would love to see a solution to it, but downloading an archive makes it at least a little bit less centralized.
Despite the headline, what that article describes isn't "raid proof." Instead it describes a system that can be recreated at a new hosting provider even if the current accounts are terminated or hardware confiscated. A disaster recovery plan.
As another datapoint, the only time I learned about Japanese internment in school was in my high school Supreme Court elective.
It uses Apple's CoreLocation framework. The data was, I believe, initially bought from Skyhook, and then augmented by iOS devices reporting SSIDs from a known GPS fix.

It's abstracted away behind the API, but I think the framework uses trilateration of SSIDs with signal strength. The fix is often very precise - even shifting slightly between the front and back of my house.

It doesn't use any IP geolocation - it's just not precise enough.

http://www.skyhookwireless.com

Disclaimer: I wrote the app! Nice to see it here.
The support structure may be overdesigned, but that's OK. What bothers me is how the cart attaches to the track. Here's a view of that:

http://formlabs.com/en/company/blog/2014/08/27/from-3d-print...

The retention wheels are just riding on the underside of the plywood sheets. If they had a jam at a track joint, those might tear through the plywood or break off, allowing the car to derail and fall off the track. Unsupported plywood edges are weak and not good working surfaces.

Here's a standard roller coaster wheel assembly, with six wheels.

http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/files/dsc_0207_3.jpg

Any 3 wheels can fail without serious trouble.
Someone please make an app that makes psychiatric analysis based on voice! I can think of a million uses, from tracking my own mood to secretly diagnosing my co-workers.
The local politicians and their votes are mostly s. The rent control laws have made affordable housing rare but luxury housing and office spaces reasonably priced.

The problem is further compounded by the zoning laws, parking space related laws and the local community which is consistently voting against any housing projects to make sure their property rates do not go down because of increased supply.
iCracked Is Building a Global Empire One Cracked Smartphone Screen at a Time
Ask HN: Anyone remember this thread? Please help
This has been on my mind for a while, and I have forgotten the website/original submission on HN.
From what I remember it was a beautiful website that he was using to document his travels and also fitness/health related information. The comments were mostly about how great the site looked. It was a blue with awesome animations between pages. If someone remembers and can point me to the site/HN submission I will love you forever.
Epic new front-end build tool
'"Politics always attract extra attention," Darkside writes. "We do not want that."'

But interview with Wired will not attract any attention? Something fishy is going on.
Note it's probably not useful to "stop and refuel" on any trajectory in space, since there's nothing slowing you down in a vacuum. Space flights are free ballistic trajectories: you don't consume any fuel on the way, you just coast.

A more interesting network would look at gravitational slingshot [0] opportunities between stars -- from their relative motion in the galaxy, or from binary stars (orbiting each other), or exoplanets. Freeman Dyson noticed [1] that if you found a white dwarf binary in its late stage of inspiraling, you could get an absolutely ridiculous slingshot (~2,000 km/s = 0.01c), entirely for free! Unfortunately these are extremely rare, since these orbits quickly decay until the stars collide (possibly causing a Type Ia supernova [2]... so, maybe not so unfortunate).

It's interesting to look at how interplanetary probes fly. According to the Cassini engineers for instance [3], the shortest path from the earth to Saturn is go fly around Venus, then come back to Venus a year later, than return to earth... then go to Jupiter first.

You could benefit from powered flybys [4] too. There are nearby gravitational wells much deeper than the sun's. Sirius B [5] (the white dwarf) should have an surface escape velocity around 7,000 km/s -- although it'd be rather crazy to engineer a white dwarf flyby (up to 100's of g's of acceleration, 10^10 W/m^2 thermal load).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_assist

[1] http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~barnes/ast242/Dyson_Machines.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova#Thermal_runaway

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens_timeli...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberth_effect

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius
I'm confused, isn't it an open standard? http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/links.html#link...

Perhaps their implementation differs, but they even showed the JS they're using to perform the prefetch in the post. It doesn't seem like they're trying to hide anything.
A while ago someone from TPB guys explained their setup. Their web-facing webservers connect to the actual backends via a VPN that does some fancy routing to hide the real location. On top of that, they have a ton of mirrors and proxies running.
While you worry about survivorship bias, you also want to be careful about confirmation bias :). If you only know miserable PHDs because you know more people who been in to bad programs or so-so schools then world would look very gloomy indeed.
Vehicle Data Science Corp - Oakland, CA - Sr Software Engineer

VDS teaches autonomous vehicles how to drive. We provide kinematic models of the road network by processing vehicle sensor data (GPS, IMU, camera, etc).

Federal funding through NSF and DOT. Revenue generating through large OEM customers.

Python, Postgres/PostGIS

Competitive salary. Early-stage equity. Fun, small team. More at https://angel.co/vehicle-data-science-corp/jobs/45644-senior....

Thanks!
I'm much more comfortable with blowing up bad guys than with capturing them and subjecting them to a combined anal rape/feeding procedure.

Does this surprise you? It shouldn't.
My rent increased by 9% last year. This year it is increased by another 9%.