skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We were in the Highlands and Speyside this summer and did some tours as well.

It's worth knowing that most of the famous distilleries roll up to one of a couple mega-corps --- Diageo, Ricard, Suntory. Lots of those distilleries are small operations. It's the same in the US: the best known, best regarded bourbons are almost uniformly owned by giant companies.

There's an interesting comparison between the tours at, say, Aberlour (a mega-corp-owned large-scale distillery) and Benromach (an independent small-scale distillery). I'd rather tour the small operations. But honestly, I'd (mostly) rather drink the products of the larger ones.

(A warning: I'm more inclined to nerd out and even less qualified to hold forth on this topic than I am on criminal law or cryptography. Sorry!)
No. There are various types of LiFePO4 - some are as you say used for receivers etc but the ones I am specifically referencing (and perhaps should have been more explicit about) are the A123 systems Lithium Iron Nanophosphate batteries, which are capable of 60C burst discharges and 5C charging rates. These are definitely used as primary power-packs for flight - I flew with people who were using them when they first came out.
Couldn't agree with most of this more.
HTTP/2.0 seems to be me to be an entirely pointless set of unwanted complications and agendas disguised as technical improvements.
My first jobs are all about Wordpress! :)

I agree we all you say, with wordpress it was easy to find my first job and my first clients keep coming for small features. My worry is about how to move forward.

In my pass day job I build a ecommerce hosting platform with wordpress and it was exciting at the beginning later I didn't like the repetitive tasks and the making the same themes over and over is annoying, my past employer forbidden me to talk directly to the customers and I know they want more good looking websites and they feel they were overcharged, so I decide to go freelance. And right now I'm not finding this unhappy clients.
I have found that often (but not always), individuals who claim "awkwardness" or hide behind a label of awkwardness to avoid criticism for misbehavior are, in fact, assholes (as this article would seem to define them). People who are truly awkward don't go around telling others how awkward they are (close friends/partners/family excepted).

The difference is easy to suss out: approach the person in question, say "hey, I think behavior X is causing an issue between us, can we work on it?" and wait. If they agree to try and then actually do(even if they don't succeed), they're not an asshole. If they make excuses, or agree to change but make no visible effort, they are.
The State of Accelerated Graphics on NetBSD/sparc, Updated
Smart gadgets are a major threat to privacy and security
Exactly. The Rust team is trying to give C/C++ devs a better, safer, and at least equally performant tool to use. They're not trying to replace one group of people (C/C++ devs) with a different group of people (Rust devs).

The fact that it's also attracting the interests of Ruby and Python devs (who may have found C/C++ scary) is a bonus.
For package management why not use Bower ?
I agree. It's a worrying statistic for sure, but it has nothing to do with startups.
I was not an asshole when the company hired me...the company turned me into an asshole!
Will unbundling make cable consumers worse off?
Remember your units!!

http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-...
You could always pull stuff daily off of something like reddit's /r/wikipedia for a more curated selection of articles.
Great article! I've used reader macros to implement readers for little assembly languages. It's also super-awesome that Lisp has this nice compiler right under the floor boards. And I don't have to touch any parser generators.
Picozu www.picozu.com/editor/, HTML5 image editor built in Js with the help of some 3rd party jQuery libs.
Look in your community for a Toastmasters organization - their goal is to help with public speaking. They work on various activities to get you familiar with speaking in front of people, speeches on the fly, etc.
Substack's essay applies as much to this tool as it does to webpack:

https://gist.github.com/substack/68f8d502be42d5cd4942

Importantly, overloading require like this:

var collections = require('npm:lodash-node/modern/collections');
var $ = require('github:components/jquery');

... means that you can't publish this module to npm and have the require statements work as expected.
Yes, my early jobs when I was in school was about sysadmin and later learn PHP and Python. at first I sell my profile as a sysadmin expert and reading the comments I feel that was a mistake.
You are clearly unfamiliar with the nature of the relationship between doctors and the Hospital companies that employ them. They have little to no say in anything that happens on the grounds, and with typically high student loan debt and 'the resign' as their only real resort, they cannot make whiteknight stands on emotional bases.
I see why adventur.es see the need to do something like this, but like all methodologies, this recipe is liable to being hacked, cargo-culted, and used as a weapon for assholes, believe it or not. There is no hope of measuring and comparing objective data. I suspect, this is a far too simple answer to a real problem. It was surely meant well, but it will end up producing worse.

(Edit: Typo)
I actually worked with a guy like this. He was a very intelligent, almost brilliant programmer at a very young age. But as brilliant as he was, he also was pretty socially awkward. It took me a lot of time and patience getting used to his way of communicating. At first, he sounded like an arrogant a\\hole, who always knew better. After some time working together, I was able to reinterpret his behavior so that I wouldn't feel offended by his ways and even found him being an actually cool guy to work with. But I know for sure, that a lot of people didn't try, which in the long run could cost him some of his reputation.
So is this a return to pre 9/11 or pre 1990s standards ("Broken Windows Theory")?
wolfgke was talking about people who are awkward, not people who label themselves awkward.
I think this is a point a lot of open source projects miss. They can, and probably should, sell the software even though it is open source.

Trademark (?) protection would prevent a third party from using their name even though it was open source (at least I think so based on the whole Iceweasel event).

Personally, I'd also gladly pay Filezilla a small amount even though it's open source.
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis552/lectures/RedBlackGADT1.htm...

Red-black trees via GADTs, courtesy of Penn's CIS 552 course.
> For example, we tend to get on well with science and chemistry, which means that it may be easier to teach high-quality meat cookery based on Mailliard reactions, denaturing of proteins, conversion of connective tissue, and so forth.

These things are fine to learn, but they're not essential to learning how to cook. Knowing about the connective tissues isn't going to suddenly make you better at cooking a steak or braising short ribs. Time, practice and patience is what's going to help.

Realistically the easiest and simplest way for anyone to cook is with a crock pot. There are a million recipes out there for basic crock pot cooking. And even better it lets you make large enough batches for multiple days.
WebSockets with Elixir – How to Sync Multiple Clients
`dang has pointed out the Principle of Charity [0], and I think it's beneficial to go one step further and choose to interpret that people are trying to be helpful by default. In fact, I think that if a person merely chooses to interprest best-case first by default, you can generally get along with anyone (until they incontrovertably prove you wrong... then it gets a bit awkward fast).

I think that if the others are trying not to be jerks, then this awkward soul won't have much trouble. Properly implemented, there can be a lot of slack available to such a person. (Heck, I'm not brilliant, but many people seem to put up with and like me despite being fairly intense when wound up.)

EDIT: Hey, references are cool:
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8800322
You need to just do it. Start going to local industry groups and presenting. Once you've done it half a dozen times, it will feel completely natural.
I subscribed after reading this review - I love what you've done, Bemmu.
> in any case venture capitalist firms don't ten to put 50M on the table for snake oil.

You have a much higher view of VCs then I do then. I'm personally aware of a few tech companies that exist solely to siphon money from the investors to the founder. Rich people aren't always careful with their money, particularly when they are putting it into something hot, like tech, that they know nothing about.
So, as the rightful owner of the laptop, with proof (serial numbers, receipts, etc), could she not just have walked in, asked to see it, and walked out with it? What are they going to do, call the police? And are the police really going to charge her with theft of her own property?

* edit: typo
Lessons from next-generation data wrangling tools
Ask HN: How can we help more people to start coding in 2015?
As a community I think we agree that we need to get more people interested to join our little neck of the woods. So how about sharing what we’ve found to be great groups and causes over the last year so we can all find and work together on those in 2015. Some that we worked with and enjoyed:

http://www.resilientcoders.org/ - Talked to a group of students there, really interesting cause. If you’re in Boston definitely reach out to David (happy to introduce as well)

http://railsgirls.com/ - We helped out with a few of those events in Austria. Has always been fun and a great way to help more women get started in software development

https://codestarter.org/ - Collects donations to give laptops to kids to get into programming and CS. Great initiative started by Tom and Theresa Preston-Werner where we happily donated a laptop (and so should every other funded Startup)

What are organisations, events or causes that you’ve found great and that the community should support? Which cities do you need help in?

If you’re looking for help in either Boston, MA or Vienna, Austria reach out to me: flo@codeship.com
Upvoting this because it's worthy of discussion, but in my mind a little off-base.

Ever work in a big, dysfunctional environment? I have. My job is to help teams work better, so I get a chance to work in startups, BigCorps, government IT shops -- pretty much everything.

As a rule, large dysfunctional environments are full of people who are extremely polite to each other. You have to be: when you've got a thousand people, you can't walk around ticking people off. People don't survive like that.

But those are the worst places to work. Even worse than the out-of-control, balls-to-the-wall startups. Why? Because hidden apathy is rampant. People will smile, help out, be polite -- even applaud new ideas. But nothing changes. The organization has eliminated assholes to the point where no difficult conversations take place.

Don't go there.

Ever see a high-performing team? Got news for you. Sometimes people say things they shouldn't. They're incivil -- but not on purpose. It's just that they care deeply about what they're doing and you're not always able to express criticism in the most fluffy way possible.

A better way is to go with fierce opinions, lightly held. People have difficult conversations, sometimes with invective and emotion, but from a standpoint of caring for each other and the work. Once they've made their case with as much vigor as they like, they're amenable to change.

So it's not assholes. Everybody is an asshole. It's part of being human. It's manipulative people -- weasels -- whether they use bullying or "facilitation" to manipulate. People who don't have a clear and simple mission that everybody knows and agrees with are poison to any organization.

One business self-help guy put it this way: intent counts more than technique. You can be a bit rough around the edges as long as you mean well and are flexible. What you can't do is use aggression to force people to your will. But there are plenty other tricks besides aggression to do this, and they're all bad.
> What's the point of making generic code ? Do you really think your code will be re-used in the future for similar cases ?

Re-use is only one aspect of generic code. The other, no less important aspect, is a reduction of possible implementations, which results in less bug-prone, easier to read code.
It would surely be original but Bangle's idea of "original" is pretty unique: http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/storyimage/CA/2011041...

BMW had to put him on a leash after the "cat-eye" 5 Series. Sales fell 2% year over year while Audi A6 and Mercedes E-Class were rocketing upwards.
I think it is a bit too soon to tell what will happen. Keep in mind it has also been bitterly cold, crime is generally down when the weather is like this no matter what.
I think interest in other Spirits particularly Rum may begin to suck in those who would previously have stuck with Scotch.
In what situation would this be otherwise? "I'm going to do something that takes time and money and ultimately hurts me" - Masochists of America, unite under one CA?

Even if Jesus Christ managed a certificate authority, someone would complain. Everyone - even G-d - has a conflict of interest.
Yeah, there is value in simplicity. I am trying to understand tmk to modify it and it is a challenge.

At some point I want to make something like the Atreus but with a bit more buttons. Basically the ergodox without the thumbs pads and most of the bottom row and without a split.

On the subject of keymaps, it seems like a finite state machine with transitions on down and release. I haven't seen any firmware try that yet. Perhaps its the debouncing logic which makes that too complicated.

Keep up the good work!
Most of the shiny toys' cost (capex, training, maintenance) is not paid by the NYPD, but through grants/subsidies from the Department of Homeland Security's anti-terrorism programs.

So, cutting that would be great, but wouldn't do much for NYPD's bottom line.
Good points. I would expect there to be some circumstances that wouldn't require the authorization step as they would have been preauthorized (small transactions).

Train gates and buses for example should only require presenting the phone to the terminal to authenticate the ticket or pass you previous purchased. The iPhone already has all the pieces (Apple Pay, NFC, and Passbook) in play to do this and I'm sure Apple is already talking to the players in this area to fit them together.
Yeah, pawn shops are usually very wary about buying / taking stolen goods - after all, they'd be guilty of fencing if they bought / sold the stuff. I'm pretty sure people have to leave a copy of their ID too (or if not, they should). Although that can be faked, of course.

Anyway, if I was a thief I'd steal something, make sure to wipe the thing as soon as possible and power it down (due to Apple's remote location service), then leave it for a month, maybe two, before selling it on a random online auction / secondhand product website, preferably with a new / fake account and through seven proxies.

And even then I'd be hesitant. Apparently the thief only got $225 for the macbook - probably some more from the jewelry and other stuff. Is $500 worth spending years in jail or whatever for?

Then again, $500 for some is a small fortune.
Thanks! I think a lot about this, and start changing my profile, at first I was mention the tech skills in my profile I change it to more functional speech.

And I promise I will be less technical when doing proposals. Thanks for your comment I really think a lot about this.
Good story. However, even though she got her Mac back she was still pissed! I'd have been doing handstands down the street!
I can't imagine it would be that hard to make the battery removable? (I don't know for sure, just pure speculation). At any rate, I'd expect at least some phone manufacturer to create a modern smart phone like that.
Okay - but as far as I can see, the same rule applies. I guess my bigger issue here is this feeling I'm getting from this discussion that we should be making excuses for others on the basis of their intellect or our presumptions about their behavior.
I agree that this is not about the most serious infractions (though it should be noted that even arrests for violent crimes are down, just not so drastically). But we're not just talking about "nanny-state tickets" either. We're talking about plummeting arrests or tickets for robbery, fare-evasion, DWI, parking violations, and moving violations (speeding, running red lights, etc.), among other things. I don't see any future where the citizens of New York decide that enforcing traffic laws was just a failed social experiment. I think we're just seeing the entirely predictable lag between decreased (or nonexistent) enforcement, and the social consequences.
I generally agree with the sentiment that police are overbuying toys, but if there is any city where the police are justified in having that kind of stuff, it's New York. The terrorists are not going to attack St Louis Missouri, but they have attacked New York multiple times.

I say this having just seen the NYPD bomb squad show up to investigate a bag outside my apartment this morning.
I recently came across a blog post[0] that examined where U.S. whisk(e)ys were actually produced. Turns out many of the top-shelf brands aren't actually produced in the manner which they are marketed. My impression, at least among bourbons, is that there are several brands that, while owned by mega-corps, still control their production in a mom-and-pop manner.

[0] http://recenteats.blogspot.com/p/the-complete-list-of-americ...
The main issue is really the lack of module concept in Javascript core. I hope things get better with ES6, because at this point it will be much, much easier to write a library to load them all, without relying on "proprietary" loaders.
There's two sides to the coin.

My dad worked for NYC during the Dinkins administration, which took a stance of not antagonizing the population with minor tickets and citations. His big story about the downside of this approach was a major snowstorm, which crippled the city in many areas. In his case, he was stuck at work at a public housing project for 3 days with the residents, because the city didn't ticket parking violations and the plows couldn't clear the clogged streets.

It made life miserable for the residents as well. Broken elevators left the elderly trapped in high-rise buildings for days. People with medical emergencies had to be carried by fireman down the stairs and down the street to an ambulance on an avenue.

One of the reasons for the current practice in NYC is the Mayor Giuliani did a complete 180 and aggressively enforced all sorts of laws. Chaos transitioned to order. The optimal answer lies somewhere in the middle.
That's a very important point if you're distributing your software to non-technical users, but a download button in either the README.md should do the job. You could also use a GitHub site and host a simple download site for your repo.
I would love to use hhvm,
unfortunately my IDE of choice PHPStorm doesn't support it yet :(
despite a big long list of customers requesting it.
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-21737

What editor do Facebook and Wikipedia use for their HHVM/PHP development out of interest?

edit: downvoted? really? for what?
Well, not quite, at least by my reading. It says specifically:

"that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed."

In other words they are acting on behalf of the owner of the owners of the content being infringed (the content located at the URLs).

If the content at the URLs is NOT owned by Wicked, than they are claiming to represent the owner of the content at those locations, when they are in fact not.
Why. Not.

Does Google forbid 3rd party app stores on a device with full Google Services installed?
I wanted to learn JavaScript, so I made a few small programs.

Fallout Hacker Helper http://faehnri.ch/fhh/ - a utility to help with the hacking mini game in Fallout 3

WRAP http://faehnri.ch/wrap/ - Web Register Assembly Programming, a browser version of Daniel Dennett's RAP machine, a simple register machine and language he uses for some theory of mind concepts (read his Intuition Pumps)

Disrupt Inspiration http://faehnri.ch/disrupt-inspiration/ - something I made quick after a friend and I were joking about startups. Generate startup ideas in the form of "X, but for Y." Submit ideas!
I've only been in the job market for 6/7 years, and only half of that in a very corporate environment. Luckily it's (in my limited experience) an individual character trait and not any systemic cultural issue so far.
That's a really good idea, thanks!
I always install FileZilla through Ninite or apt-get, so I know my installation is clean, but I'd like to stop using and recommending FileZilla out of principle because of this (and reading the responses on the filezilla forum). Everyone else in my office uses FileZilla as well, and I'm sure many of them used the sourceforge installer and didn't fully read the options.

But you're right, I don't know any other decent FTP clients that I would recommend. Maybe someone on HN knows of a good alternative?
Yes, please. A video, and explanation of how to get beat data from Abelton to the server, anything helps.
In addition to that, the firms have all moved away and figured out a solution for their office space in the past 14 years. It's not like the financial firms were waiting in hotels all that time for them to build a new tower. The demand will have to come from companies looking for new office spaces, so generally growing or shrinking companies.
Text in WebGL is still really immature.

I've done a bit of tinkering with a variety of modules for word-wrapping, etc. None of them are "fully featured" or 100% stable but I have used them in a couple of production environments.

https://github.com/mattdesl/fontpath

The WebGL module on top of that:

https://github.com/mattdesl/gl-sprite-text

The main issue I have with most text libraries (like TxtJS) is that they assume 2D canvas, or trivial WebGL applications. The bulk of the text code really just deals with laying out rectangular glyphs; the rendering (whether geometry, bitmaps, SDF, etc) should be separate so the dev can choose the best technique for their app.

An example of SDF / fontpath in action:

http://mattdesl.github.io/xmas
> __even the creator of git doesn't like github__

That's like saying "even the creator of baked beans doesn't like Tesco". So what?
It sounds to me they don't like some people for whatever the reason, tag them assholes and refuse to "tolerate" them. I've always wondered whether the criteria for an asshole is the same for each intolerant individual.
Quantum made simple
Just seconding that opinion. I love my chromecasts. Using it with videostream on an Android phone is a great combination.
Apple's charger has already been compromised. http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/partner-zone-infose...

(I think they have issued a fix for this since)
it's all too common that a victim loses not only by crimes committed but also by being a victim. Having had a motorcycle stolen, the police recovered a bag which had been attached to it, and it took my time and money to get to the police station and identify it, and the bag was never returned to me after the court case was dropped.
It is bitterly cold this week, but it hasn't been the two weeks prior. And the article itself includes the relevant reported crime statistics. They're down a little from this week last year, but nothing like the decrease in summonses.

Check out the infographics.