skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that many developers are against GPL projects because "I want to use this software at work, but I can't because it's GPL". This always seemed ironic to me because I think it is the workplace that should be blamed, not GPL projects.
Excellent news. I wonder what's new? (Does anyone have a link for the Linux kernel changelog handy? I couldn't locate it.)
A high-tech hotel opening in Japan will be staffed by multilingual robots
Apple doesn't care about non-Apple platforms.
Myself being a college dropout (though not from some prestigious university), this all sounds a bit foolish to me:

> Before the crowd of technology enthusiasts, he sketched out his plan: grants of up to $100,000 each for up to 20 people under the age of 20 to "stop out of school" and pursue their passion.

Maybe I'm just being sore and jealous, but my decision to drop out was not for the prospects of pursuing my passions. Rather, it was based purely upon economic and temporal constraints: in order to go to school, I needed a ton of money; in order to get money I needed to work full-time; in order to work full-time, I needed to take less and less classes. The fact that I later ended up pursuing my passions was basically out of necessity, not because some investor said he'd been thinking about it for a year and thought it might be better to leave, and oh by the way here's $100K.
Actually it's possible this compiler uses LLVM under the hood - many compilers do these days.

This particular one appears to not be open source, though.
The Peanut Solution (2010)
Takeaways:

1. Educate your developers.
2. Use (or create) plumbing that makes it easier to be safe.
3. Application logic can still screw you.
File Sharing and Chat in Node.js
Hi everyone, I'm a Node.js developer. I would like to share with you all a site that I've been working on the past 8 months. Hopefully someone will find it useful. The source code is available on my github account.

The application is an IRC-like chat with file sharing.

URL: http://www.canisshare.com
GitHub: https://github.com/winicius24/open-source-drive

Let me know what you think about it.

Best Regards,
Bucking Charlie
I'd say it's probably because Thiel fellows overwhelmingly come from elite universities and privileged backgrounds.

Nobody worries that somebody who dropped out of Harvard is a "failure." Especially if they get $100k out of the deal.
You can only do that if you find a person with bitcoins that wants to exchange then for yuan located in China.

Not an impossible scenario, but it might not be the most reliable.
But does the A380 carry it's own tow bar? Or have a massive cargo nose? Or have a floor that can handle heavy cargo pallets? Can it kneel? How many spare parts fly with the plane?

Total apples and oranges. The AN-225 is built like a tank whereas the A380 and 747 are more like coke cans. Not joking. I bet they have mass/volume ratios comparable to aluminum cans.
About $ 90 million is necessary to complete the construction of the aircraft. Taking into account the aircraft testing costs, this sum increases up to $ 120 million.

That is surprisingly cheap for such a large plane; compare Boeing's freighter prices:

http://www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/prices/
The react conference videos are great. The technology seems awesome. But there was one quip that caught me off guard, the presenter said something like: "if your application still has urls to back up every action, like it's the 90s...," I instantly thought about how and why that would be a bad thing and how and why progressive enhancement is a great thing. I look forward to a time where JavaScript performance is as "free" as CSS, but we are no where near it.
Oh thank you, I did not want to have to fill out a cloudflare captcha to read this!
I guess I'll never really understand articles like this, or I just have poor reading comprehension. I don't see what the point of this type of thing is, it feels like a rant without any particular recommendations. It can be summed up as "don't use technology without understanding it, and don't blindly follow the crowd." But then again, how are you supposed to learn when a certain piece of technology should be applied, other than apply it and see how it goes? I certainly am not going to just take someone's advice and opinions at face value, unless they can provide hard evidence of why a certain technique results in failure. It requires a certain amount of cognitive dissonance to point to Etsy's 2000 files as a failure while at the same time they are a successful company. Perhaps these bits of incidental complexity we like to obsess over aren't, in the grand scheme of things, all that important?

To me, the notion of having strong opinions on particular techniques for web application (or web site) development strikes me as an example of a subfield having an over-inflated sense of self. Web app development and javascript frameworks are a tiny, tiny niche of software engineering which is an even smaller niche of the entire area of the medium of computing. And it's not a particularly interesting one, imho. I'm not sure why so much ink is spilled on it other than it's easy to form opinions around.
Thats very strange. In theory it should support everything that isnt a poll. If possible, I'd very much appreciate you linking me to any posts that dont work for you so that I can test and fix it.

I'm not planning on open sourcing it at this point in time, but I'll probably do a blog post at some point discussing the most interesting aspects
I'm not an expert, but I know that server-side JS is completely feasible approach here. However, it may truly not be the best tool for the job. Client-side JS being required is a fundamental problem for all sorts of reasons, such as accessibility and more.

One issue is: plain old HTML and CSS are better tools for regular people to deal with to lower the barriers to wider participation in the web. Having to learn JS to make sense of a website is an extra burden.

To me, it comes down to: see all the complaints about brokenness when client-side JS fails or is off. Building things with client-side JS as a requirement is unacceptable. Now, ignore client-side. Can you actually make the case that server-side JS is superior to other frameworks and languages? It shouldn't be used just because it's the same language as the client-side enhancements. If it's not the best option server-side, go with the better options instead. But I don't know enough myself to make that judgment, I'm just talking about the way to think about it.
Who needs skype when you've got ascii...
If you apply yourself, I agree. The problem is really that, when you're just trying to get a job done, you often don't run into all the edge cases and weird shit that can happen or even some of the less common error states.

It really comes down to how complex your project is and how integral the framework is to it.
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There was an article some time ago about fasting to boost the efficacy of chemo, by causing selective uptake in cancer cells.

I guess that should be relevant in this case to, since I guess the fasting should decrease the activity of mitochondria in normal cells but not in cancer cells.
Not sure where you are located but did you try community college? In some states they are quite subsidized.
​When Superintelligent AI Arrives, Will Religions Try to Convert It?
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> "the Buran was no "attempt". It was a working shuttle that flew to space"

Once. Does that even count as reusable?
Maybe I can fill in the gap?

If you are a developer, you shouldn't rely on Javascript. Yes, feel free to use Javascript to make things sexier, but the use cases where a web page should require Javascript to render properly has substantial overlap with the "we didn't think things through" slice of the Venn diagram.

If your page is unreadable with NoScript and RequestPolicy turned up to maximum paranoia, your webpage is broken.

If you're building a client-side application rather than just a web page, then it's okay if turning JS off breaks your app.
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While I sometimes wish it were not the case, most companies do not exist to improve the world... The purpose of most companies is to make profits, not to advance free software. Making software freer can often cost companies profits, hence, this is sub-optimal. As such, one can hardly blame the workplace for the restriction, since it may indeed be in the company's (and, to some extent, their employees') best interest. Perhaps no one should be blamed for the inability to use GPLed projects: it's simply a conflict in goals.
After reading this thread and comparing Influx and Prometheus, I've concluded that both look promising.
I was going to go with Prometheus (as it's easier to get started with), but I was really put off by the 'promdash' dashboard - it uses iframes and depends on mysql.
So I'm going with InfluxDB + Grafana and I'll keep an eye out for developments.
Just have to say, it gets more amusing with more balls and lines: https://zifnab.net/circles-bouncing-off-lines/
'veri7as: your comment is invisible because you used Tor. That's probably also why you were served a captcha.
This article does a good job of explaining the choice of features to implement in GPL software as a political strategy rather than a religion. Especially good timing for this to be brought back up with the recent controversial request by RMS for some LLVM interoperability to be blocked from Emacs. [1]

I enjoy free software, but it is painful to think that I might not be able to use Emacs with software that I consider to be equally free (LLVM) due to political strategies. I know RMS has been through enough of the embrace-extend-extinguish era to be suspicious, but given the quality of free toolchains today and the surrounding communities, I have doubts of this history repeating itself in LLVM.

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg003...
Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification
Leaving him[1] in the street with no job...

It's not that simple.

While I don't preclude that is a possible outcome, if you read the entire article you see that the fact that smooth zippers are more expensive means they can only be used on more expensive items, even though they don't give any practical increase in quality in terms of reliability.

If those smooth zippers were as cheap to produce as the ones with bumps, then it's possible (likely even? - after all, producers always want to differentiate their good in some way) the decreased cost of production would be invested in adding features that actually do something. One defensible possibility is "mass customization" type production, which relies on each piece being deliberately different in some way. I raise that possibility because most would consider that type of work to be "better" than manually threading zippers, and there could be more people employed.

Clearly there are a lot of things that could happen if both forms of zippers were as cheap to produce. My point is that it is difficult to say for sure the worker would be on the street with no job.

[1] It's more likely that the worker is actually female: Chinese factories generally prefer to hire women. It is only comparatively recently that the ratio pf production line workers has approached 50/50, and as recently as 2006 there were 14 men for every 100 women working on production lines in China. See http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c8948f1e-2653-11e3-8ef6-00144...
What’s Wrong with Git? A Conceptual Design Analysis [pdf]
Thank you for the info, Alistair! Nice work.
How to Set Up a Simple Scala-based Apache Spark App in IntelliJ IDEA
As my electronics professor said: "every digital circuit is really an analog circuit."
No numbers, not impressed.
It's a shame that Christopher Welch died. Funniest character in that show, and he had great performances in Synechdoche New York, The Master, etc.
I think I gathered this, but my point is why does this matter? If I run a site that is unreadable on NoScript and RequestPolicy turned up to maximum paranoia, but am generating millions of dollars of revenue, is my webpage "broken?" If only 0.01% of my users actually are affected by such a thing, and I don't care about that, is it still "broken?" If a webpage has a missing closing </div> tag, but is never hit by a human being, is it still broken?

I guess what I'm getting at is as I've gotten older I've grown less and less empathetic to arguments that seem to appeal to an engineer's sense of purity, correctness, and craftsmanship and not much else. Tie it to user pleasure, effectiveness, business metrics, anything, but citing the idea that somehow since the web was not designed with Javascript everywhere in mind meaning we should use it as the exception not the rule isn't much more than appeal to tradition argument to me. There are definitely areas of software engineering where you can find many examples where a lack of respect for the craft, or a lack of knowledge of history/standards results in failure, but I'm just not buying the idea that if you build a SPA with a fancy new javascript framework instead of making sure NoScript works you're somehow going to be paying for that in spades down the road because it's breaking some set of rules handed down by the high priests. There are about a million other technical decisions that have more of an impact in a serious project. (For example, instead of arguing about SPA vs non-SPA, or what framework, or whatever, ask yourself: "Is anyone on the team an expert in any particular flavor of this?" If the answer is "yes", then going with any one of those is almost certainly the best strategic decision regardless of the supposed merits or flaws of that particular approach.)
You're right, but the inaccuracy is a consequence of the differential equation model's assumptions rather than a math error. You'll see the same unphysical instantaneous propagation in simple models of heat flow and diffusion. Accounting for laggy propagation, although more realistic, is difficult and usually unnecessary in the classical regime with a few major exceptions, most notably that magnetism is actually just the "lag" in electric forces, hence "electromagnetism."
... and I realized after editing time expired that I wrote "it's worth nothing" instead of "it's worth noting". I sound so pessimistic now.
I really appreciate the detailed rebuttal over the more characteristic downvote!
would be interesting to plot the probability of a ball going to the right direction against the number of lines, when lines are moving clockwise or vice-versa.
In-browser message digest verification/generation tool
The 747 is an exceptional example of engineering for durability in a large airframe. Other U.S. made large-airframe aircraft have not fared so well, in particular the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy whose wing-spar weakness was so profound that the entire fleet was re-winged shortly after going into service but still enjoys a dismal distinction as having the highest operating cost of any US Air Force weapon system.

And then there's the F22 whose MTBF is, on average, less than 60 minutes.
I think I may have not been clear, or I am misinterpreting your post.

If you think of a person as having a balance sheet, with assets (property, shares, bonds, cash) and liabilities (loans), and a profit and loss of revenues (salary, dividends, coupons, rents, i.e cashflows) and expenses (food, shelter, clothing, transport, interest etc), then inflation:

* increases the value of your assets => asset prices rise with inflation

* decreases your liabilities => loan balances stay constant in nominal terms, but in real terms the liability is decreasing.

* increases your income => wages and salaries rise with inflation

* increases your expenses => the price of consumables increases with inflation.

So, ideally, in a high inflation environment, you want to hold as many assets as you can afford, levered as much as possible, with a high income, and low expenses.

So the rich purchase assets with debt. Inflation pushes the price of assets up, and the real value of the debt down. I agree that the assets you purchase should generate a cashflow to cover the financing drag. Inflation also increases dividends, rents and coupons.

Because the poor have expenses (outgoings) equal to or greater than income (wages, salary), price inflation erodes their disposable income, and price inflation is elastic, but wages are sticky, so the poor are always playing catchup, and in the interim, the rich are buying up their assets with cheap debt.
One of the captions says the An-225 Mriya is designed for 5,000 flights. The thing holds 100,000 gallons of jet fuel. Assuming it used 70% of that on average, that could be over a billion dollars in fuel over it's life assuming $3 per gallon.

747 prices have gone way up over time, way past inflation rates comparing newer models to old, but they have also improved fuel economy tremendously.

(also, is that $120 million inflation adjusted? And is it just the cost of modifying the aircraft it is based on, or the cost including the base aircraft?
I think that's taking the abstraction a step too far. ;)
Unless I'm missing something...

Getting rid of the CSC's is great for stopping the formation of new tumor-forming cancer cells, but you still need to kill and/or remove all the existing cancer cells.

So, this could treat the cancer stem cells as if it were an "infection-vector," but you'd still have to stop any current "infection" to save the patient.

This wouldn't really help late stage or aggressive types, but could make treatment efficacy better for cancers in early stages since it may help remove the cells that help a cancer come out of remission.

Maybe people with higher genetic propensity for covered cancer types could rotate on these drugs on a regular basis to reduce their risk? The eternal z-pak... Be interesting to see what the epidemiologists and actuaries come up with to assess the cost-benefit. Consistent anti-biotics would accelerate incidence of anti-biotic-resistant infections. There is no zero-risk since you can't actually take these drugs constantly. A tumor-forming cell could be produced between cycles. The long-term effects at such dosing levels were likely never studied and side-effects could be problems.

More likely, this would become one part of the full-court-press applied to treatment regimens.
Probably because we'd hit peak oil if you flew it any longer than that ;-)
Reading through the details dampened my excitement. It has proprietary extensions to the Swift language (http://docs.elementscompiler.com/Silver/LanguageExtensions/) and it has differences and limitations as well. (http://docs.elementscompiler.com/Silver/DifferencesAndLimita...).

They do however state it is free for use.
I wonder if Opus is being used in production anywhere yet. For some content you could get away with 48kbit or less, which would cut the costs dramatically.
Revolutionary leftism is a kind of authoritarianism.

The mainstream view of HUAC and the Red Scare is, in my opinion, extremely biased. HUAC investigated all kinds of subversive organizations, including German sympathizers during WWI and the German-American Bund during WWII.

HUAC acted purely as an investigative body and didn't have (and, per the Constitution, never had) the legislative power to blacklist people from working in any given career. The expectation was that HUAC would carry out the investigations to bring information to the public light. The studio executives who acted on the information discovered were doing so of their own volition; HUAC had no real power to compel them to do anything in particular.

House committees investigate things all the time, too; even things that are purely in the domain of the public sector. For instance, in 2005 a House committee investigated steroid use in baseball. And, largely as a result, Mark McGuire, who refused to testify, has never been elected to the Hall of Fame. Are the Hall of Fame electors "basically government proxies"?

It's also a matter of historical fact that most, if not all, of the "Hollywood Ten" were, in fact, members of the Communist Party USA, which as another matter of historical fact, was directly bankrolled and controlled from Moscow. In other words, the Hollywood Ten were, albeit indirectly, under the influence of Joseph Stalin.

If a Congressional investigation today discovered that ten screenwriters and filmmakers were members of a secretive racist organization under the control of a hostile foreign power, they would be immediately blacklisted by their private employers, and everyone would support that. Just as, if the owner of a basketball team were discovered to make racist comments in private to his own girlfriend, he would be immediately blacklisted from the league and forced to sell the team to Steve Ballmer and everyone would think this was OK.

Well, for a brief moment in American history, people figured that being a Stalinist was just as bad as people today think making racist remarks to your girlfriend or using steroids to break the home run record is, and reacted in exactly the same way.
"We need to break free of past assumptions. We no longer live in a world of products, but platforms."

Or products that are also platforms: Airbnb, Facebook, Twitter, Uber, Etsy, Amazon

Even my own small SaaS product is also a platform. JotForm is a form builder, but our form templates platform took off like crazy, and has 7500 templates. The only platform where people can share ready to use forms with each other. We are now creating similar platforms for form themes and form widgets.
The era of holographic computing is here
Maybe others are not as smart and enlightened as you and foolishly spending money their family could ill-afford on full-time classes that would grant them a career that can barely pay off the costs involved in their education - and Peter Thiel announcement of $100k reward for dropping out could be a wake up call.
Some Jews did really fight back, because they did know what was going on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising
The site does not make it clear that " this is no more in-depth than codecademy or code.org free tutorials." On the contrary the site pulls in data regarding salaries and time commitments that are completely unrealistic from the standpoint of someone who has "experience" These are all classical signs of a scam. Product x does amazing things for only the price of y trust me I know I needed product x that is why I made it.
I propose a convention of quoting the existing title when complaining about it so that later readers know what you are talking about.

Maybe a similar one for complaints about the other comments, too, although that's harder. Need snapshots, really.
Paying employees paychecks costs companies profits, but employees love paychecks so companies make deals. Many employees in the software industry, and almost all of LLVM developers, love software freedom, so companies can make deals here too.

I think the primary problem is that Apple (IMO, irrationally) refuses to make deals with GPL projects.
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That isn't the price from 0 to flying; it's apparently already more than half built. I'm also not sure how accurate that number is; different reports state numbers between $100m and $300m.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya#Developmen...
This is awesome! Wonder how it compares with mine (github.com/billyeh/termchat). Would love to share notes with the maker, since audio was something I did not even consider while I was making it. The image processing part is fun, though!
Anything's reusable if you throw as much resources into maintaining it as you would have rebuilding it every time. The Soviets just realized how stupid an idea that was. We didn't.
I could have really done with this a few months ago. I was trying to make animations of electrons flowing through wires of variable thickness, and really struggled trying to find examples online. I ended up having a three hour maths lesson with my brother over irc, to get my head around vector maths.
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