skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like the entire whitehouse.gov site is built in Drupal, which is about as insecure as a site can possibly be.
I'm a Dynamics AX developer. Our environment takes minutes to compare text files. I would love to have your "half-second" delays :)
People tend to say it's about control, but companies give up control all the time. I think it's mostly because they don't have to. I'm not sure how good a plan it is, but I do think it was visionary. I think the Nordic countries a losing much of their raison d'être by not taking care of their middle/working class.
From a personal perspective, I find being athiest really makes me prioritise things. This is it. Today is today. I washed my hands and murdered lots of little bugs n stuff. That may be me one day. See a near car crash, think about what to do to make today significant.

Not sure what point I was trying to make really. Some days being a TV drone is OK, some days I'm tired. I don't want to spend every day tired, so I chill out today to make tomorow more epic.

Hm.
Why email is so damn evil
Ask HN: Is it legal to create an open blacklist of people / record of debtors?
I'm an iOS dev and I was screwed by my client. I just learned that he did it to other freelancers before. If I could find a list of 'DO NOT TAKE OFFERS FROM THESE GUYS / WORLDWIDE RECORD OF DEBTORS' I wouldn't take that offer in the first place
The line between "biological" and "synthetic" is blurry and gets blurrier all the time. You can (and probably should) see biology as super advanced tech. One of the primary benefits is self-replication - ability for components to consume various resources and build copies of themselves. This is huge, and it enables everything from self-regenerating materials to in-situ upgrades. 3D printing is a joke compared to that. So while maybe Earth organisms are a bit over-tuned (on the macro scale) to planet's environment, we'd do good to treat life as superior nanotech we don't control yet, and not some kind of joke that can be replaced with steel and silicon (not that you said that; it's just a point of view I often see on the Internet).
well it is not either way everybody wins. if people in these countries don't get better working conditions and end up losing their job because of the protectionism then they are clearly worse off. workers might be better off in developed countries but if you worry about inequality then this has made inequality worse.
Better a few weeks than a couple of years and millions of funding.
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Invading Bacteria as a Candidate for the Unknown Venusian Ultraviolet Absorber [pdf]
Deploying Ruby on Rails Apps Without DevOps Magic
> a database so powerful, flexible, and easy to manage that it can be the new DBMS standard for any team, in any industry.

It's good to see they haven't sacrificed the hype while working on other features :-/
I hope that the bit about containers being able to view the logs of the host was a transcription error, and actually the other way around.
It would be nice to combine such a project with a Linux emulator like

http://s-macke.github.io/jor1k/demos/compile.html

Of course the total loading time for the website would increase. But if use such a website you stay longer anyhow.
That is right, and what is the alternative? Suppose China had never opened their borders to foreign investments. What would these people do? I think I know the answer, just look at the following life expectancy graph:

http://www.china-profile.com/data/fig_WPP2008_L0_M.htm
3GB... 4GB - 1GB carved off for shared memory graphics?
Collect User Feedback with SendGrid and Stamplay
This is an excellent pratical howto design article, given by a non-designer. Here is the summary of the tips:

- Light comes from the sky

- Black and white first

- Double your whitespace

- Learn the methods of overlaying text on images (part2)

- Make text pop— and un-pop (part2)

- Only use good fonts (part2)

- Steal like an artist (part2)

part2: https://medium.com/@erikdkennedy/7-rules-for-creating-gorgeo...
pretty nice and promising!
It means "Save the thing I'm looking at".

Ctrl-S says to your browser "I want to save this".
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE – What Is Licorice Root?
"Google Maps has destinations and directions. Not sure if they store histories of where people searched for directions. (Anyone in the know have thoughts?)"

They do have your search history. And if you've established addresses as "Home" and "Work" or others with Google Maps they have that too. They also have your social graph based on your emails if you or those you communicate with use GMail. And they probably have the addresses of those people you correspond with, over email, to use as destinations. And they have your emails to connect relationships across that graph when your Mom signs her email "Love Mom". And they may have your calendar to figure out where you may want to go on what date if you use Google for your calendar. They have street traffic information to let you know how long it'll take you to get where you're going. They may have your Uber receipts in your GMail to connect an Uber driver's use of Google Maps with your email receipt -- so they now may know at least some of the "who" was riding in which Uber at any given time.

Google likely knows WAY more than Uber does about its potential riders.
Interestingly, I went west from DC to the Valley within the past year - I have found that DC (industry) is surprisingly savvy, and much better at process management & leadership overall than the Valley. DC also seems to have a wealth of talented designers compared to the Valley that I have seen.

However, government is indeed a different world. One of my friends complains how he has to file a request in order to get permission to do anything (he is a contractor for the Department of Energy) - this is normal based on all I have heard from my ~4 years in the area. I heard in another organization, they are forced into short product cycles by the requests of representatives and senators for investigations. One forward thinking VP of Engineering came into a different organization and shored up a lot of the tech & brought a modern stack to the organization, making all of the developers very happy, but was ultimately sacked (I forget the exact reason told to me, but I remember it not reflecting well on the federal government).

Also, when a consumer of software created by government contractors finds a critical bug that causes a non-functional app and reports exactly what is failing (important scripts not loading), good luck getting the contractor to fix it - I've seen it take 10 months to get an acknowledgement of the problem, which affected the entire Marine Corps in not being able to satisfy a required class for that duration since it was required to complete it online.

The federal government needs to change how it runs things - I'm hoping that the USDS can make waves, but having been in the federal government world myself, I don't want to touch that beast without much better compensation & work environment.
But poor children still need to eat, sleep and it takes a while to replace them when they wear out. Machines on the other hand can run 24/7, on just electricity, and there are both practical and economical systems already in place that will let you replace broken ones with new ones quickly. I think machines will be cheaper long before sweatshops run out of children.
> Generally investing in stuff and then scraping it immediately before it could possibly work, is not a very good idea.

Seems to work for Google... and Microsoft.
I agree the 2MB limit is weird but, like I said, it rarely impacts me. I use Atom for coding and don't think 2MB source code files should be a normal situation.

I don't notice any half second delays though. I used to be an Eclipse user and recall it being much more sluggish.
Idk, still beats wallowing around in the mud waiting for UN handouts. Europe and developed Asia have all been through this stage of development. It's what it takes to modernize.

* I'm not arguing for abuse or child labor of course. There are limits.
The "tendency" was due to american protectionism and quotas introduced during the nixon era google the "Multi-Fiber Arrangement"
Agreed. Trade.

First they sew your T-shirts. Then they assemble your smartphones. Then they design your smartphones. Eventually, they will also design your T-shirts, other fashion and music.

This is what the U.S. did a hundred years ago, what Japan did 50 years ago, what China has done in recent years, and it's also what other formerly poor nations are going to do, if they are ever going to be formerly poor nations.

That also doesn't happen without some hickups in the nations that were formerly quite rich. Think of Argentina, for instance.
I find the polish programmer layout very intuitive. National layouts for languages using latin alphabet are often failed customizations of design already not optimal and nightmare for foreigner. Italian - need tilde character? sorry. German - dedicated key for each umlaut and brackets cluttered under 7 - 0. French - AZERTY? really?
With boycotting these goods and reporting this issues we can actively improve the situation for those people now.
In Mao Zedong times we could do nothing.
You can use arrow keys, Ctrl/Cmd+x/c/v, and your mouse in gvim and macvim just like any other editor.
Hide text within text with patent pending app
Java is years behind C# in most aspects. Of course it doesn't mean it follows the same path, but there's less to learn if you switch from (modern) C# to Java than the other way round.
"There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution."

-John Adams
KISS Intro/Psycho Circus Cleveland, OH 2014
Direct injection of LOX into the lungs is dangerous. That's -180C. It will freeze lung tissue. You must have been mistaken.
I'm an American with a left-wing upbringing and still broadly left-wing politics. When I graduated from architecture school in 2001, I wanted some international experience, so I moved to India. What I saw there utterly transformed my preconceptions of sweatshops -- because I saw it before the sweatshops began opening.

One of the projects I was helping to design was a "science city" tech campus. The workers lived in an encampment next to the construction site. They worked from dawn until dusk for 6.5 days per week -- half a day off on Sunday -- every day of the month except for the new moon. Children as young as 6 were working -- moving and sorting materials, but quite dangerous inasmuch as it was on a live construction site. The standard wage was roughly $3 per MONTH (although food and very nominal shelter -- really more like "camping space" -- were provided for free). These were not outrageously abusive labour practices -- they were absolutely bog-standard practice of local industry, preferable to many of the alternatives for these people.

Seeing this situation with my own eyes, I realised that if these people had the option to work in one of those $1/day sweatshops I'd heard anti-globalisation activists go on about -- in line with my own sympathies -- it would be an absolute DREAM. Since then, I've been rabidly pro-globalisation. These days, I get incensed when I see people going on about the horrors of globalisation, with absolutely ZERO understanding of the counter-factual. Utter ignorance of how bad it would be otherwise.

The one case where I'll allow that sweatshops are problematic is when their owners become so powerful that they corrupt the local politics and take steps to ensure that that the population cannot develop its economy any further. This has happened in some places, creating locked-in populations for whom the sweatshop is not the bottom rung of the ladder, but the top. That's an actual problem, where it has happened -- but in most of the world (eg. India, China, most of the rest of East Asia), that's NOT the story that's played out, and sweatshops have been a vital (but temporary) step in economic development.
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> To me, this is proof they are still in bed with the ISPs (which is not surprising)

"Light-touch" is a buzzword at the FCC. It refers to not killing investment into the market with FDR-style regulation. There's very few economists who would come to the defense of government price controls.

> Over-the-top linear broadcasting via the internet has been possible, at least technically, for a long time now. And we have the bandwidth in this country to pull it off. The roadblock are the major cable companies who are making far too much money in their complete dominative ownership of the infrastructure to deliver video (currently), as they do not want to lose that business.

The cable companies certainly do not want to lose the video business, and it would be disastrous for everyone if they did. If you look at these companies' SEC filings, video service is what justifies building the pipes in the first place. E.g. Charter, the largest "pure cable company" runs a loss, but without video service it'd be losing $1 billion a year.[1] See also this analysis of Verizon's FiOS build-out: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/a-bear-speaks-why-v... (concluding that VZN won't make up their investment for any type of customer, but triple-play customers will come closest).

[1] Page 40, 42 of their 10-K: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9N.... Getting rid of video would cut $2 billion of programming costs but $4 billion of revenues.
Actually one of the biggest failings of the original Pi was that you couldn't do timing-sensitive I/O operations on the GPIO pins reliably. If you can dedicate one of the 4 cores for GPIO processing (we're not talking a lot of data throughput here), that problem goes away. My biggest beef with the Arduino platform is that the CPU/RAM is just too small to really do much with other than act as a pure sensor<->serial bridge -- and functional GPIO means the new Pi is essentially a half-price replacement for an Arduino Yun.

You'd probably need to write the code in C/C++ (rather than Python or some other interpreted language) to get deterministic execution, but that's an acceptable limitation in my mind.

Is there an implementation of RTLinux on ARM? If so, is it (mostly) compatible with the RPi2?
That's not wrong, but it does kinda miss the point. The argument isn't we should stop buying and let them go back to living off the land. The argument is they should be paid a living wage to do work that has value. If the work came back to first-world factories, they'd have to pay at least 10X the wages, so just agreeing to 1.5X or 2X is still a bargain.
Does anyone know if the RPi 2 has hardware accelerated crypto? A project of mine that serves HTTPS video streams from an RPi was not usable on a model B with more than 8 users.

By comparison, I know CubieBoard has accelerated crypto but I don't want to switch horses half way, so to speak.
I don't think this is a stage of development. It is a business concept. To keep some rich we need a poor majority. It is not that complicated. We like 6 new fashion collections a year, we like the primark for selling it for virtually no money, we like big brands advertising. We just dig cheap crappy fashion, and more over we dig not paying the full price.

I always find it interesting if people attribute poverty to a stage of development. That just does not work. It is not something you go through, and in the end we all come out richer. It is far more part of the system, it is not a country being going through infancy or puberty waiting to mature. We benefit so much from their poverty.
But the thing is with Sublime, these months-and-months-long gaps in the release cycle yield incredibly modest improvements.

The 8+ months between 3059 (2013-12-17) and 3065 (2014-08-29) yielded 1 significant (but Windows-only) feature, 8 very minor new features, and 4 bug fixes (including crash bugs).[1]

That's so much less than, say, Bare Bones does in an equivalent time frame with BBEdit[2], that it is laughable.

And, significantly, it is also much (much!) less than Textmate 2 does currently[3].

I think Sublime Text had its Textmate moment[4] sometime around ST2, and it shows. The dev gets rich[5] (congrats) and then — sure! — doesn't feel like working on a text editor for a few weeks, which become months and years.

Textmate solved that by going legit open source. It is hard to think that Sublime Text will be able to solve it without following suit. (But I suppose it's also possible that a year of waning sales might re-light the fire.)

Disclaimer[6]: I have paid for and still use Sublime Text, Textmate, and BBEdit, in addition to many other fine and not-so-fine text editing products.

--

[1]: http://www.sublimetext.com/3

[2]: http://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/archived_notes.html

[3]: https://github.com/textmate/textmate/blob/master/Application...

[4]: http://blog.macromates.com/2006/year-in-review/

[5]: for values of rich approximating 'can buy a $1,000,000 house with cash, but still can't afford a private jet'

[6]: in the modern usage meaning 'tangential statement about my background that is not actually a disclaimer'
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> "Donating money" is not an indicator of "morality" at all, because it has tax and PR advantages.

Do you imply that tax and PR advantages completely make it impossible that some companies still might want to give money away to good causes for moral reasons?

In other words, you think that moral choices are solely based on money?
1) There is something called "polish typewriter keyboard", now is more like a unicorn than computer part but... I really had one in 1995.
2) in `80 Poland produce some computers "on it`s own", like elwro:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Elwro_800...
And they had polish typewriter keyboard...
3) And, there was a polish made clone of IBM PC:
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazovia_%28komputer%29#mediavie...
and, yes - it has a polish typewriter keyboard...
I worked for a different agency which required a Public Trust and the answer is yes.

For a basic public trust it was just a credit, background and drug test (the same treatment you would get at any employer who didn't trust their employees).
Other than shared storage (drives, source control servers, etc.) email is the only network technology I rely on.