skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the world needed OpenBSD programmers to write high-impact replacement software so badly, the world would offer to pay for it. And since evidently no one wants to pay them to do so, it seems pretty reasonable to expect that the unpaid programmers -- volunteering their free time to write programs that they give away to the world for free -- would set their own priorities, address their own needs, and invest their time and effort however they see fit.
Schelling's segregation model (in JavaScript)
Ultimate Breaks and Beats: An Oral History
I'm not sure I properly understand you, but we look at using sshfs for mounting local folders directly into the container.

It's a neat hack that bypasses a lot of setup with NFS or other shared folder tools, assuming you have an ssh setup in place. Needless to say, we used it at work.
Leaving aside the fact that anybody intended on snooping on you doesn't really need the semantic desktop to accomplish his goal, I would argue that while on your setup disabling baloo is clearly the right thing to do, when dealing with TB of (local) storage baloo is faster than find/grep (also, grep cannot read inside odf files). In this sense it is similar to akonadi: there is a threshold after which, if you have a fast connection, it makes dealing with 20GB of email better than using an email client which uses sqlite. In a sense I always felt that while nepomuk and akonadi where plagued with implementation issues, part of the hostility in the KDE community was due to selection bias: people who like KDE in general grok the "hierachical filesystem" metaphor, viz. how kcm is structured. However the random Windows/OSX user (to which a desktop environment like KDE has also to cater, to a certain extent) more often than not has a terrible time organizing files: he creates "dumping ground" folders, and then nest them eight times, or simply puts everything on the desktop and ends up relying on finder for everything. Thankfully baloo now can be easily disabled (and works better than the old nepomuk), and users who need a fast Qt-based IMAP client can use Trojità.
Any ideas why it was down ?
Or with a balise (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balise).
I'll quote what I said in the post you're responding to:
"Please note that I'm simply responding to the argument that Facebook mines all the data your friends put up."
That's the only point I made.
I really don't like how someone in the article is saying that new games have no stories, but sierra, their team were these great storytellers had all kinds of funny in them. When I was a kid in the 80s, yeah kings quest and space quest had lighter moments, but they weren't all that funny. As an adult I definitely don't think they are this hilarious rose-colored gem that has never again met competition in the modern age. They were quite the pain in the ass too. I think these games desperately need a remake to make the more fun. They worked for the time because they had no competition, I mean you could argue that having to repeat a large portion of the game was annoying but you didn't have reference to other games that made it easier. When the puzzle is how to word a sentence to match the game word syntax, it's not really a game to me. Sierra did a lot of great things first, but it's silly to think they were these geniuses of fun and story.
The Statistical Sins
rather much java-esque boilerplate and doesn't respect DRY
True - There are always "extreme counter-examples" to every situation and I enjoy people who like to be contrarians for the purpose of pointing out there are other "less simple" or more complicated definitions.

It does appear that your post didn't really address my main point, which was that "Education" separates the immigrant from the expat.
Pi Day Guerilla strikes local Safeway on 3/14/15
kind of an old school selection:

Deitel & Deitel (all of them?)

Kernighan & Ritchie - The C Programming Language

Numerical Recipes in C
Because arguably, the reason you shouldn't put these substances in your body is because doing so can be unhealthy. Criminal charges and prison are definitely unhealthy.

Making a person's diet a matter of law just goes against the values of many people. I'm well aware of the fact that some compounds lend themselves to addiction/habituation but so do many legal ones. You don't see people throwing winos and pack-a-day smokers in prison unless they otherwise break the law in a way that infringes the rights of someone else.

Likewise, if someone fails to use intoxicants or other recreational drugs responsibly and develops a debilitating habit, it makes more sense to do as we do for people who want to quit drinking or smoking, not as we do for people who rape and murder.
Calculating π by Bouncing Balls in Phase Space
Not the shadow profile. Not at all.
Tenderlove Presents: OMG RUBY AND RAILS PERFORMANCE1
This was the reason I was given at London Victoria Station for the doors taking a long time to open. Oh for the days when the doors weren't controlled by a computer, and passengers could open the windows -- always a joy when the air conditioning fails.
Most of these messaging protocols will still benefit from compression, since the payload will typically be text of some sort.

The benefit of compression is that if you send a value once, sending it again in the same document is nearly free. This makes rendered HTML very inexpensive to send over the wire once compressed - there aren't that many HTML tags.

Plus, compression is quite inexpensive when compared to the overhead incurred by SSL.

> but it is lighter and typically contains only data rather than layout metadata

That layout metadata is still being sent to the client, only in the case of client side rendering it's sent in the form of JMX, or the initial HTML page, or... The only difference lies in the ability of the client to cache the layout (which works as well in a hybrid model).

> If you pair client side rendering with say msgpack you get even bigger wins in network overhead and server CPU time for parse and serialize.

This comparison (done by someone else) makes me think that this requires a bit more research before blindly following this advice.

http://pastebin.com/3gyWHeh9
Watch Four Years of Oil Drilling Collapse in Seconds
Zuse's independent development of ideas that paralleled other early computer scientists' makes me wonder how much of our modern computer science (Von Neumann, Lambdas, clocks, registers, and all) was inevitable discoveries and how much was shaped by our pioneers.

If we did it all over again, but with different people, would we end up with something similar, or something very different? Would we have digital, basically serial computer cores with layers of memory around them? Would our languages be like assembler and C and Lisp?

Or are there potentially very different but equally practical alternatives out there?
Yes, there's a market for that $10,000 Apple watch
I usually try to do something fun for the pi searcher for Pi day. (http://www.angio.net/pi ). But this year, I felt lazy, so I abused the RESTful interface I created last year to find the first occurrence of "piday" in Pi, using a very simple alphanumeric mapping (00 == a, 01 == 1, 25 == z, 26 == a, etc.).

The answer is to search for: 1560810050
and check the alpha display below the results. :)

But the method is the part I shouldn't encourage others to use... but, hey, it's Pi day, what's a few more AWS instances up and running? I was too lazy to do this the right way, so I pounded on my own web interface with a quick little python script. Please don't judge me for poor python written quickly the morning of pi day. ;-)

import urllib2
import json
import time

for p in xrange(15, 100, 26):
for i in xrange(8, 100, 26):
for d in xrange(3, 100, 26):
for a in xrange(0, 100, 26):
for y in xrange(24, 100, 26):
time.sleep(0.2)
pistr = '{:=02}{:=02}{:=02}{:=02}{:=02}'.format(p, i, d, a, y)
r = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.angio.net/newpi/piquery?q=" + pistr).read()
dat = json.loads(r)
idat = dat['results'][0]
if idat['status'] != 'notfound':
print dat
sys.exit(0)﻿
Also, happy birthday to Albert Einstein and me (in that order of significance).
A Rainbow of Noise
I think this whole argument is silly. I really do not think one is fundamentally better than the other. Factor of 2 constants will exist no matter which one you choose. Might as well go with pau http://xkcd.com/1292/
Yes, yes and yes. In general my philosophy is this: you aren't a genius so KISS. Ohh you are a genius? Well the guy next to you isn't and he has to work with you so KISG (keep it simple genius).
Should we make fast food illegal? Since there are probably more people harming themselves with unhealthy food than drugs. It's a dangerous precedent you set when trying to restrict people's freedoms based on perceived use of them.
While I agree that substituting a single word is a very easy target and easily manipulated, so that I shouldn't have gone for it, I think "life" is very relevant in this case, as for many people it is either part of their life or their social life exclusively evolves around FB.

All I'm saying is that when a friend of yours decides to share information about you in public, you should hold them responsible and not the channel he is sharing this information. That's it.
(Ahem - I should point out for others that I open sourced the pi searcher code a year or so ago, so if you really want to pound on it, you can do it locally, in go -- https://github.com/dave-andersen/pisearch )
Desk pads, when branded thoughtfully, can be a really nice freebie from suppliers, and is one of the few items for which I'd break my `no gifts' rule. The problem I find is that a lot of suppliers go completely overboard on the branding and decoration, and leave almost no space for writing on. The last two years we received them at my old work, the recruitment agency supplying them had covered about 80% of the surface with black gradients, green `starbursts', and various other bits of advertising information, leaving a tiny island of usable space --- perhaps the size of a sheet of A4 paper --- in the middle of the pad. They ended up in the recycling because, for most people, an A4 pad was more useful.

As for the strength of butcher-paper, all that I've encountered in the UK has been pretty strong, and resists breaking/ripping when pulled from either end. The downside is I've never seen it for sale by the roll in anything other than kraft/brown, which might limit its usefulness in this case.
I take my (three-month-old) son for a walk in his stroller every Sunday. It gives my wife time to herself to do whatever she wants, it gives me some bonding time with my son (well, once he's more aware of me being a thing that exists), and it gets me exercise and a reason to get outside.
Proxying typically loses a lot of information, like client address, client certificate info and so on. If you take care to make carry over everything transparently, it would more accurately be called privilege separation (ala sshd).
Ask Balanced to confirm for yourself. We are Forte are very saddened to see them go, but will continue to support them and their ACH processing until the day that they turn out the lights.
> Why is this so? By axiom?

According to the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, yes. The rights belong to the people, not the government. It's the government that gets the restricted set. One group of people shouldn't be able to tell another group what to do if it's not violating anyone's rights.

I'm not saying everyone can control themselves. I'm saying trying to prohibit is less effective and more destructive than education, rehab, and prevention. I for one do not want a society entirely engrossed in recreational drug use but prohibition is not the answer. When you prohibit heroine you get krokodil.
When peeing in public in this German city, beware walls that pee back
Thinking about this some more, I still don't understand. If the goal was door safety, why not use the same release systems automatic trains (eg underground) have?
Is there any empirical support for this idea?

I hear it repeatedly on fitness forums, but haven't seen it tested. I do leangains myself, which is intermittent fasting + barbells. In the leangains community the idea is widely derided. Martin Berkhan, the man who made leangains, is pretty scrupulous with citing studies, so if something supported the six small meals idea I suspect he would have mentioned it.

I did a few google scholar searches, but I'm not familiar with any specialized terms that might be relevant. Are there studies I might be missing?
If it's a good idea execute on it properly, brand it properly and make it the 'standard'.

Ideas are easy, it's the execution that is hard.

If you don't execute on it, eventually someone will 'discover' the same idea and do it. If you do execute on it and it's good/popular they will clone it.

Make yours the first/brand name version.

Brainstorm how to do it right then make it happen.

Good luck.
Add a line scanner on one edge.
In case you ever need it, here is Pi to a million decimals. http://www.pimillion.com
SSL status of Taiwanese banks: a sad affair
Happy Pi Day
Celebrate Pi Day on 3/14/15 9:26:53!
> he "run but don't read" strategy belongs into ports, not base. Hence nginx moved to ports.

Why is there a webserver in base?
"The sad fact is that these people have not been aware of the realities of the industry they have been working in".

IMO the observations provided by the OP are not sound reasoning for the above conclusion.

In a recent gig where I was responsible for helping the company hire new developers I made a conscientious effort to avoid making such sweeping generalizations. Web development is one of the most diverse fields that I know of. So much so that in my mind you can't assume a qualified employee has ever touched the specific technologies you use in your stack.

I think the hiring practices described by the OP may be the dinosaur here.
Almost everybody I know, that was using KDE, did it because of the pure desktop and not because of the semantic Desktop. Every time, the discussion came to the later, it was how to disable it.

I think, it was a bold idea, but not well implemented. Maybe it also was to soon for such a bold move. With the advent of more cores and faster disks (eg. SSD) there might come the time for an other desktop to implement such thing. When you have eight or more cores, you don't have to worry when one is doing an indexing job all the time.
Tangent: Are there any good open source Docker books?
4 Big Restaurant Technology Trends
It's funny, sounds like a bad transplant.
I think he was referring to testosterone gel ( http://www.drugs.com/cdi/testosterone-gel.html )

Also testosterone is used in anti ageing procedures ( http://fusion.net/story/42619/why-testosterone-is-the-drug-o... )
> Criminal charges and prison are definitely unhealthy.

Making someting illegal does not mean you have to put people in prison. You do understand that we can forbid a drug and try to stop the sale of drugs, and still provide support for people who develop drug habits?

Funny that you mention cigarettes. I'm quite sure that cigarettes will be made illegal at some point in the future.
But changing our number system to base 12 would destroy pi day!
I just had the odd experience of having a small apple pie delivered to me as part of an uber promo where they are driving around Brooklyn with a car full of pies and delivering them to people.

So there's that.
unvote would be nice due to misclicks, or fix misunderstandings when initially reading a comment (e.g. in cases delayed detection of sarcasm.)
While an interesting technique and premises, there are yet some oddities. Such as Beethoven in the middle of Rock songs (http://i.imgur.com/HgwuREl.png), I guess there are others.

I wonder how this would compare with Apple Genius, which I never used.
According to the linked PDF, it follows "OpenBSD's coding practices, and uses style(9) aka. KNF".
Especially when it's MMDDYYYY ;]
It's not a big deal living without a cell phone. I have been living without a cell phone and have only bought one recently because I grew tired of having to justify myself every time someone asked why I didn't have a bloody phone. For me the reason for buying a phone is 100% social pressure, it does not make my life easier or more pleasant in any way, au contraire.
The security theater is obnoxious. This is just gaming the security theater.
To help get you warmed up: http://www.buzzfeed.com/generalelectric/25-jokes-only-math-g...
Pastebin of the text http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=u4VrqmNe
I find it difficult to believe this was all deployed without manual overrides. What about in the case of an emergency?

Also, isn't the first objection to GPS anything usually "it doesn't work well in buildings or around buildings"?
I used to always use one of those Desk Pads. Very handy. At least for me, the problem today is that my desk is centered around a keyboard/laptop and the rest of the surface ends up getting buried with stuff. Back when I used a desk pad, I always tended to have an open spot in front of me because that's where I wrote.
Beyond Vbulletin functionality
Gives a new meaning to the term, "crash-only software".
pwgen?
How I, a designer learned to code and released an app in 4 months
The trade-off of relevance to humans, and short generations (a day) seems to be best with fruit flies. I'm sure scientists have worked out what areas of research have worthwhile comparisons with mammals.
Wavelet Regression in Python
Jailbreak iOS 8.3 with TaiG Cydia download for iOS 8.3
They also have an enormous downside compared to the other 'bad drugs' in that they leave you essentially non-functional for 3-24 hours depending on the drug. Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of hallucinogens, but essentially all recreational drugs have a downside.
We recently adopted it to provide a sane base to our Javascript. Personally, I LOVE it. It's cleaned up our code so much.

My problem with it is that it seems to have gone somewhat stale. It's been almost a year since the last update, and at least for the JS target, a number of the great external libraries never made the hop over to the 3.0 codebase.
White butcher paper definitely exists. (Staples carries it.) I've seen it used for disposable tablecloths.
I can't point you to a post or series of comments at the moment. Theory of Reddit may have some posts specifically discussing this, but I know of scattered comments and discussions by victims, as well as grey beards who've left the forum. I've also visited the subreddit.

SRS subscribers have long since past the stage where they just made fun of comments, and actively brigade and/or ally with other subreddits to punish various kinds of speech/thought.

Subreddits/Forums can easily develop a shared culture different from the initial founders. SRS is one such case.
The choice of configuration file is described in the PDF:

"The httpd.conf configuration file is using OpenBSD's modern style of a sane cofiguration language, that attempts to be exible and humand-readable. It does not use a markup with semicola or tags, just english keywords and blocks identified by curly braces (\
fg"). This is commonly called the parse.y-based configuration within OpenBSD, because it originates from the grammar and parser that was written for pf."
Show HN: Meta API for Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive and Box
Listening to Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me?
Okay, so he doesn't like that someone is a senior developer because they have been coding for 5 years. Fair enough, I guess.

Then they go onto say that you need to keep your technology current, and always be moving on. Okay....

So how does one become a senior in his position when you're always suppose to be moving on? By being a master with PHP? Not much has survived/been popular for >5 years that will make him happy.
$700 for 6 sq meters of paint? I'm gonna make a wild prediction and say this won't catch on.
Richard Stallman does have a lot of good ideas. But he also seems distrustful of anything that isn't entirely built on free software, and of anything at all to do with governments or corporations, and I think he gets praised for some keen insight when, really, anyone paranoid about the modern world and the government would have been just as insightful, although maybe not as literate. You shouldn't get credit for hitting a bullseye if you spray the target with an uzi.
I find it useful to be able to read the paper as a PDF. Many times it is hard to find the PDF for the paper if you only have the abstract for a paper.
Node.js truly on Android and iOS
I would think you'd need some kind of layer over the database for security, I think managing security at the db level would be very clunky at best.

But since the idea of GraphQL handles so much from the logic standpoint, your programming layer can just act as a gatekeeper for access.

That said, Postgres is pretty powerful. Maybe there is an elegant way to do row-level access control.
Or the PDF published version of the report https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-ojoEvI-qk7UW03XzhuRVNzOG8...
Qo: a build system for C/C++
Your claim needs evidence. A hypothetical murderer could open a door and push people out, no weapon necessary. In a fire, passengers could fall out a door onto third rail.
I once had the opportunity to drive along in a locomotive here in Switzerland. En route, the computer has detected an issue in the engine, has restarted the whole machine and came back up fine.

This happened while driving at 160 km/h and if we had not seen the messages on the screen, nobody would have known.

That was seriously impressive and I wish I could do something like this. Not only did it properly detect the failure, it also rebooted and then came up correctly and still was aware of all the state needed to drive on.

If software works like that, I can live with it being used more and more.
The core problem isn't that there is a lack of software creation; there is a lack of software but the problem is that the buy is uneducated and conflates priorities. The most successful software services firms aren't those with great engineers, they are those with great sales guys.

The lack of discernment of the buyer is creating all this software waste. This is one of the reasons that MS Excel and Access run most of the world's financial data. The format is open enough that it basically imbues the user partial programming ability without having to worry about things like new line feeds and uptime.
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I think games are ripe for Big Data and IoT as they are less critical usecases compared to health etc. Following is two similar efforts with football, first done by us and second by SAP.

1) Glimpse of the future: Overlaying realtime analytics on Football Broadcasts, http://srinathsview.blogspot.com/2014/06/glimpse-of-future-o...

2) http://www.sapbigdata.com/stories/tsg-hoffenheim-uses-spatia...
Vi Hart's Anti-Pi Rant, 3/14/15
Maybe 10 years, not much of an age difference as far as I know. They were all under 40 I imagine.
ISO is big endian, conventional rest-of-world is little endian, and the USA is mid endian.
I agree. The entire thing sounds a bit like running a web-based Javascript solution on an embedded system because that's the only technology you're familiar with.
I like Terence's suggestion of using 2pii as the fundamental constant. Sqrt(pi) could also be useful given how often it appears.
Since the digital age started, aka when CPU was invented. Rebooting and erasing all rewritable memory gets the system into a known good state.
Distributed Estimation of Pi for Pi Day – Join In
All the developers started calling themselves "software engineers", and we wanted in on the fun too. ;-)

More seriously, I agree the term "engineer" is problematic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineer#Use_of_the_t...
Внутренний круг влияния
The buses where I'm from started using the odometer to show the next station on a digital sign some time in the 90's. This ought to work even more accurately on a train.