skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And not a single modern website will run either. If you're willing to disable javascript in 2015, you might as well not use Internet at all.

Please take a long walk off of a short pier. People who require code execution in order to read data are, quite simply, wrong.

In fact, since as we see forcing one's readers to become one's users by allowing JavaScript necessarily means exposing those users to malware exploitation, people who require code execution in order to read data are evil.
The former: http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/98jan/climate.ht...
If you don't read anything else, at least read this
"Doom and Metal/Rock: A Comprehensive Comparison"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H3BB2gKKeY
MIT is a private college.
Some laptops have a USB port always powered on for recharging other gadgets. Also check that you don't have Wake on Lan or Wake on USB and such enabled. If that's the problem you should be able to disable from the BIOS.
First of all, you don't distribute self-contained components, you distribute text, markup, and media. The browser renders it. Second, how much technology do you think we need to do this? Should we be talking to NASA? Third, supporting old tech is important and inevitable.

A website is literally just text and pictures. And video. That's it. We really don't need it to be so massively complicated, to suck up so many resources, and to be such a security nightmare.

In 20 years, your browser will probably use a gigabyte or two of ram minimum, require four CPU cores, and consist of several hundred thousand lines of code - maybe a million.

To render text.
That's why I have a separate machine which I use just for browsing the Web, which I keep disconnected from the Internet in a sealed steel box.

...

Unplugged from the mains.
>Lobsters, shrimps or mussles are actually delicious, and are thus expensive. Insects or dog/cat meat on the other aren't

Deciding something is delicious or not has more to do with culture and upbringing than actual taste.
Is rent tax deductible now? :P

Also remember all your local services are done by employees that have to pay rent too, and businesses have to pay rent (that one actually is tax deductible).
If anyone would like to do things with Cmdliner, then there are few libs that would be great to have as stand-alone executables (it's part of the MirageOS Pioneer Projects) [1].

https://github.com/mirage/mirage-www/wiki/Pioneer-Projects#c...
The key thing to remember is 'global': while the East Coast of the US has had one of the colder, snowier winters in recent history, the West Coast has just come out of a hot, dry winter. Local weather is a terrible guide to global climate.
As a candidate, I tend to ask that one of two conditions be met for these kind of projects:

Either:

1. It's open-source and I can show it/share it as I see fit in the future

or

2. They pay me for my time.

I prefer #1 actually, and most companies will be okay with the open-source thing, but will usually ask that you not share it publicly (on a github or anything), so that other candidates can't find it. I like this option because it gives me ammo the next time I'm asked to do a coding challenge ("Okay sure I'll do it, but did I mention I'm already in talks with a few other companies and have already finished their coding challenges? Here take a look! If these don't show you what you need to know, I'll take your test too."
Why Elton McDonald built a tunnel
This is a work of art in of its self, never mind the icons made.

It is also inspiring for ascii to graphics representation utilities as well. I wonder if this could be extended to make shape holder content, where in the art you can specify the stretch locations and protected zones. (kinda like how you can do a boxy like configuration on images for dynamic content inside via CSS3)
Japan got over the ickiness of insects a long time ago: http://aeon.co/magazine/society/why-the-west-fears-insects-w...
I perfectly understand his position, and that his Freedom has to come via restrictions (just like our personal freedom requires the rule of law).

I don't think 'more freely licensed' is ambiguous, in the sense that the license allows more freedom of use of the code. It's not 'more Freely licensed', and it's not 'more free' (or 'more Free'), but in the end none of that is really relevant to the point I'm making.

The point, specifically, is that GCC is made better, and people who endorse, enjoy, and use Free Software have a better product to use, specifically because Clang/LLVM exist. He doesn't have to like the licensing, but it's an inherently better product in a lot of ways and his argument seems to be 'it can be used non-freely so who cares'. He can only plug his ears and sing to himself for so long before the world passes him by, and by and large that's what's happened already.
> You can fit more characters per line in a justified layout.

Ummm, justification is about adding space to spread a line out: it's impossible to fit more text on a line that way.

Kerning is about removing space. It's related to by independent of justification. A well-laid-out work will do both.

> Absolutely, but well executed left-alignment can also look good

Meh. For printed material I think it's worth the effort to justify.

> in a format where you don't necessarily have control over the size of the page and the time to properly justify the text it should be preferred. IMO, left-alignment beats poorly justified text every time.

No argument there.
As reprehensible as that sort of thing is, I think Reddit's admins are just trying to live up to it's claims of offering free speech. Or at least free until the press hates them or someone threatens legal action.
It's sort of silly to imply that only RedHat users care or that only RedHat users should benefit. All users need and benefit from stability.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts
Wanting publish healthcare is "extreme left"? Isn't the US pretty much the only first-world country that doesn't have it yet?
Should probably stress that they aren't just releasing the data, but they've been fairly active in reaching out to the tech community and encouraging them to use it.
The gender pay gap has been debunked.

More information:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023035327045794837...
> So all you'll get from 1 pixel image is confirmation of email delivery, which is something you get with SMTP anyway.

You'll get a read-receipt, which SMTP doesn't offer.
FUD, FUD, and more FUD.

Also outdated, the new version 1.4 of their formula removed more than half of the maltodextrin in favor of lower GI carbohydrates, which was one of the few potentially legitimate complaints.
> "there needs to be major force to drive useful functionality down into canonical library packages"

This tends to happen over time, as the community naturally converges on certain libraries, but it's rather opaque for a new user as to what those are. In some cases, you end up with two options and then life is a little more complicated (cf. async and lwt).
That's like saying you shouldn't be mad at someone who attempted to murder you because they failed. There's a reason we have a crime called "attempted murder". You may find the wikipedia article on "Inchoate offense" interesting, specifically the section on Impossibility[1].

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchoate_offense#Impossibility
do you like green eggs and ham?
It's unfortunate that some of the recommendations here - particularly around reusing objects - are going to be out of date, and potentially deoptimizations, when Android gets smarter GC.

There's a tension in platform optimization. Whether it's CPUs or runtimes, people who make platforms tend to look at where they can get the biggest wins for existing apps. So if you bend over backwards to do weird things that get you performance, that weirdness will be exactly what prevents you from getting as big a potential win from future platform optimizations.

With GC in particular, that usually means avoiding the creation of objects that die in middle age. Most GCs are optimized for objects that are ephemeral or long-lived. Ephemeral objects have too few references and not long enough of a lifetime to survive multiple GCs. Long-lived objects live too long to be worth collecting for most GCs. Generational GC uses this to split memory into at least 3 logical buckets (survived 0 GCs, survived at least 1 GC, and long-lived).

Working hard to reuse objects means those objects will become part of the long-lived heap. But reusing them means updating their fields, including their references to other objects, which means they still need to be scanned. So they'll increase the cost of what ought to be cheap GCs of the ephemeral objects; writes to them needs to be accounted, and they need to be included as roots.

The situation becomes even worse if you reuse an object for some time, but eventually find some of them surplus to requirements (the middle age problem).

The costs of designing an application to reuse objects are not to be sniffed at either. It's a reinvention of a typed memory allocator, with all the benefits and drawbacks of manual allocation. Best kept to the implementation-side of properly scoped modules. Don't let the approach pervasively infect the entire app.
I bought Threes, but I prefer 2048. I am terrible at sliding puzzles and strategy games, so Threes is too hard for me.

Edit: "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
Apple cracking down on iOS antivirus apps
I had never heard of Meerkat before, but live in SF, and use plenty of apps, and am a developer. The more I see things like these, the more I grow suspicious they're yet another form of "submarine" articles, in pg terms.
Guess we can expect a full NSImage export feature in the full version. I just started using Monodraw and this was the first thing that came to mind as well.
Or maybe -- he posted something that the fact of his posting it revealed he actually intuitively knew it was bunk.

See "Belief in belief", which is right near the beginning of the first sequence....

http://lesswrong.com/lw/i4/belief_in_belief/

It should have been obvious to Roko that either it was a worthless idea (in which case he was safe to post it... but shouldn't, because it's worthless); the other case was that it was a serious, valid idea, in which case he obviously should not post it.
My grandparents raised 6 kids in the 1950s and 60s on the salary of my grandfather, who was a sales account guy for a cardboard box manufacturer and spent a lot of time on the road.

But they never talked about it as a time of ease and plenty, and the kids all went to college on scholarships, not parent payments. My grandparents were nostalgic for some cultural norms of the 1950s, but not the economic conditions. They seemed to think their kids had much nicer lives with more opportunities, and the grandkids even more so.
This article is full of misinformation and unbased speculation. Any of the arguments provided in this article can be refuted with a little bit of research, but if guidance was needed, their "about" section and FAQ are quite in depth [0]. This article also employs a logical fallacy of appealing to nature in just about every paragraph [1], just because it's not found outside in nature doesn't mean it's bad. And vice versa, nature makes bad things too, see arsenic, found naturally in many minerals and is toxic to humans.

Lets start with the the addressing of the fish oils found in soylent. They claim fish oils are good, "but just how high-quality is the fish oil going to be in a mass-produced beverage?", yet they didn't think to check the website where they cite that their fish oils come from algae and even provide information on the shelf-life of soylent based on when the oils in it are likely to be rancid[2]

Moving on to sucralose. The study it cites that was published in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health has been revised by studies that have been conducted since then and found that the study was "deficient in several critical areas" and that its conclusions "are not consistent with published literature and not supported by the data presented".[3] But hey, why cite that when we could just be scared by old crappy studies. The other wildly inaccurate claim of the article is it addresses the effects of "cooking with sucralose at high temperatures" when that will literally never be relevant while consuming soylent which is recommended to be prepared at room temperature and stored at even lower temperatures. Another case of employing scare tactics instead of a little bit of critical thinking.

As for maltodextrin? The claim in the article hinges around the high blood sugar spike from maltodextrin which is offset by other ingredients in foods, but if that's not enough, they've measured the glycemic index of previous recipes of soylent and they're doing so for Soylent 1.4 (the most recent recipe)[4]. The point is, this isn't some hidden scandal that this author uncovered in the two seconds that they looked at the ingredients list, it's known and tested and accounted for.

The list goes on with every one of the other concerns with appeals to nature here and scare tactic there (including a false and now corrected claim about an ingredient coming from "a beaver's ass. Literally."). In conclusion, I think the source you cited is not a very high quality one and readers should be aware of it.

Edit: Spaced out sources to be more readable.

[0]:https://faq.soylent.me/hc/en-us/sections/200307055-About-Soy...

[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature

[2]:http://diy.soylent.me/wiki/perishability

[3]:Brusick, D. "Expert Panel Report on a Study of Splenda in Male Rats."
Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology 2009 Oct;55(1):6-12.

[4]:https://faq.soylent.me/hc/en-us/articles/201273715-Soylent-a...
I'm going to join you here in the grey. Objective-C is a disaster of a language on many levels. Portable C++ is the smarter and better choice(and those few cases where it isn't is solely because of intentional and unethical design decisions by apple to lock you into their platform).
Software is eating the company
We're working on a prototype but it takes time and having a full-time job limits our commitment and progress. It's good to know because being funded will literally help to be focused on this idea.
It's remarkable to me how it's publicly acceptable to despise and loathe smokers and smoking. If you wrote 'I can barely stand being near black people,' you'd rightfully be cast out of polite society, but say, 'I think bars should be legally forced to ban smoking' and one is applauded.

Part of living in a free society is learning some tolerance: tolerance for other viewpoints; for other races; for other religions; for other cuisines; for other modes of dress; and yes, for other lifestyles.
Actually, something very like this has been done for a long time (the XPM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_PixMap

All the best,
"In fact, trying to sell any compiler is a very bad business plan, because you're basically competing with free."

Don't discount writing new types of compilers that people want.

At one stage pre pg stepping down, an RFS explicitly asked for compilers. Special types of compiler that have yet to be written that speed up programming across multiple machines. Disappeared in the RFS list: cf http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/#program
No, not really. Some forms of voting facilitate it, while others discourage it.

Voting that is done in person, in private (for instance: voting booths) is less susceptible to coercion than voting which is not done in person (for instance: mail-in). Systems that give out a receipt for the vote placed are also more susceptible to voter coercion, particularly if they are mathematically provable receipts that cannot be fabricated (nearly all "blockchain" proposals).
The problem with the statement "make something people want" is that people most often don't know what they want.

Most people didn't want the first iPhone, or even the first car -- they were happy with their non-smart phone, and their buggies. If people did know what they want, there wouldn't be a huge marketing and PR industry to tell them what they want.

The statement can lead to the kind of thinking that only products like Meerkat that have viral growth are worth investing in. Some companies may require a large marketing push to get off the ground. Even Paul Graham's first company was spending $16,000 a month on PR.
You might find the intro to Real World OCaml interesting as these ideas have percolated out from languages such as OCaml. It's great if that helps lower the barrier for people to try it out.

https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/prologue.html#why-ocam...
Yea, well they could stop a lot more terrorism if they just shot everyone in the head they suspected was a terrorist or interacted with anyone they suspected was a terrorist.

Criminals don't play by the rules, you know.
You're correct that the marginal value of great code vs. good code is...marginal, MOST of the time. But I think the 1% cases are where the big (200k+) comp packages are for ICs. Stuff like perf optimizations at big scale, 1% adwords CTR improvements, optimizing JS runtimes, etc.

I agree that for most organizations management is the highest-leverage (ergo, highest-paid) path.

A better way to frame the problem is to think about the organization's economics and how your contribution fits into it. Figure out the 2-3 key metrics for success at the org and figure out whether you can move those, and if so, how. And realize that in a lot of job roles, you won't move the key metrics, and won't be paid as such.
No. The exact opposite. They aren't rich. They're broke. It would make sense that they would sue to get $16M since they could sure use that.

The hilarious part is that had 'Buddy' not sued his building for not selling him a 5th apartment, none of his malfeasance would have come to light, at least not so quickly.

When he asked to buy a fifth apartment in his building they asked to see his financials to see if he could afford it. Routine stuff.

Problem for him was that the board was filled with very rich and very financially literate people who immediately saw through his financial smoke screen and realized beyond a $50,000 bank account he had no real assets whatsoever.

The fact that he sued them allowed them to subpoena financial records and really dig into his accounts through the court proceedings. That then got the SEC's interest.

'Buddy' is a real character. Small time hustler but still, a real character.
I never said that politicians have no goodness in their heart. I am criticizing your absurd wiliness to believe that politicians want more people to vote for purely selfless reasons.
Better scientific overview of this story from In the Pipeline: http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2015/03/20/biogens_alzh...
Would love any feedback and information on other services we should include.
Once people are addicted, it's very hard for them to quit. Even after they saw relatives or friends dying from cancer. So I don't think the warnings work for them. Hopefully they prevent people (usually teenagers) from starting to smoke.
I've just stopped visiting Reddit. I used to spend all day every day on the site, and now I visit once a day and post extremely infrequently (I have two 100K+ karma accounts, to give you an idea of how once active I was).

Reddit used to be a site for fairly intelligent discussion mixed in with some humour and memes for good measure (I am talking back in the pre /r/Reddit.com era), then the discussion slowly got worse and worse, and in recent times the bigots have moved in and the site is now intolerable.

I could live with the lower quality discussions but the bigotry is hard to stand. It also spreads like a virus into other subs and into the comment sections, and now you cannot read anything without seeing a race/gender/fat people/disabled people/etc "joke." Ick.

Then on top of that you have what can only be called "hate subs." These are places that exist only to bully and harass. They take pictures of members of the public to mock and victimized, several of which have tried to complain or hurt themselves, but nothing has changed.

Sorry, but it isn't a site for me. I don't like bullying and bigotry which is what Reddit has turned into through and through.
Poor people don't have children because they are bored, but because they are poor and they need the labour to work the farm. Or because they know the infant mortality rates are awful and children under five die from easily treatable illness (eg diarrhea, treatment a few cents of oral rehydration salts and some clean water).
This is a non issue, provided that economic growth continues. That 10% of energy costs which desalination would add, we just choose to spend it on things not as vital. With economic growth, we just spend more and more of the new wealth on building desal infrastructure. If we're able to add nuclear to the mix, it lowers our total energy cost freeing up some additional room for desal. Fusion will definitely make this a non issue.
>Dumping a diff of commit logs. Just don’t do that, you’re helping nobody.
(c)https://github.com/olivierlacan/keep-a-changelog

It's very hard to maintain it in a good maner. The Issues fits for this purpose much better. (JMHO)
Yeah, just look at Reddit Gifts. I can totally see more stuff like that pop up.
It's got a ways to go for sure, but the exciting thing is this is the first drug ever to make it this far, with statistically significant reduction of plaques and cognitive decline.
XPM is only for resolution-specific rasters. His technique allows for bezier paths, arbitrary fills, etc and is resolution-independent. It's pretty clever, IMO.
Typically a paragraph of justified text (at least in most word processors) has some lines that are uncomfortably compressed and others that are uncomfortably spread out.
There's some very interesting things in that video. It set me to thinking about things Facebook isn't actually doing that Zuckerburg says he cares about. Which are things worthy of some further thinking to see what opportunities exist there...
I do not care what people look like or even how they act, I do care about being forced to inhale disgusting and cancerous smoke in enclosed spaces because of their habit. I see no reason why we should accommodate that as a society.
I care about impact on people, not neuronal activity, and the point I'm making is that there's a minimum below which the real impact on a given person, considered in aggregate with the impact of everything else that's a part of being human, is effectively nil.
>avoids the urge to go to the black market (or NSA, etc).

You can still sell your exploit to the black(site) market and later collect a bounty on it. You take some risk that someone else finds it or the party you sold it to leaks it.

Price accordingly.
They have improved a lot recently but some things I'd really like to see...

* Ship native SSH (inc scp/sftp) and rsync clients and servers with Windows to make interoperability easier in heterogeneous environments. eg make SSH a first class transport option for Powershell remoting.

* Simplify the server licensing complexity, and then stop changing it all the time.

* Stop the secure boot shenanigans.

* Stop treating most HA, security or robustness features in SQL Server as "value adds" that are only in the really expensive editions.

* Contribute more engineering resources to improve open source interoperability projects and various 'DevOps' tools eg WinRM libraries, Configuration Management tools, Packer, Vagrant etc.
Did you read the article at all? It's hardly even comparable.
Researchers Solve the Centuries-Old Mystery of Darwin's “Strangest Animals”
While we're sharing GSoC project ideas, I'd like to highlight the list we have at lowRISC - covering a wide range of languages and just about every part of the hardware/software stack. http://www.lowrisc.org/docs/gsoc-2015-ideas/