skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. I used to love XSLT -- working in it finally forced me to understand recursion at, like, a deep cellular level -- but the whole time I was using it I knew it was a doomed language (because most people don't want to have to understand recursion at a deep cellular level just to be able to lay out a damn web page.)
If this video is authentic, cheating seems to be one of the lesser problems in Indian education. Instructors are hitting students:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zfC3kbOlQI
I never quite warmed up to KDE. I think the problem was that it was a "Windows-like" interface but it never felt quite the same as Windows. I found it easier to adapt to GNOME, precisely because it was different than what I was used to.

I did try the beta of Kubuntu with Plasma 5, however, and it seemed nice. I'll have to try it again sometime.
Monitoring Large Scale Data Pipelines
Single page apps seem like a hack to make browser apps feel like they are closer to native apps. Because most SPAs have a set flow, it seems like we should be able to use prefetching to tell the browser what is most likely to happen next. For example, if you are on a list, then you can tell the browser to prefetch the details.

<link rel="next" href="details.html">

What I feel like is missing from this equation is a nice transition between pages. How nice would it be to have something like this:

<a href="details.html" transition="slide-left">Details</a>

If the browser prefetched the details and handled the transition, I would see no need for an SPA. We would get the benefits without having to implement a hack.
I'd rather they spend nothing.
but then you don't go for tesla for proper fun drive, do you ;)
Looking forward to the day when you can just deploy an army of mini robots that 3d print their way along building the hull as they go.
The name of the organization is the Machine Intelligence Research Institute.
All of these have the same problems. If the client encrypts, then the client can be subverted. With webmail, the client is downloaded every single time, and thus can be subverted on the server.
Simultaneously its easy. We modify bacteria, fish, dogs all the time with success. Sure you can go wrong sometimes, but you can go very right too. Add limbs to flies. Make them glow in the dark. And so on.
How about just having no grades at all? The companies/universities get to decide which applicants to choose by their own methods.
>People invent religions that posit some sort of afterlife so they can comfort themselves with the belief that they are immortal, and this is such a powerful impulse that even the supposedly non-religious, like de Grey, recreate this belief in the guise of science fiction.

Just because immortal life is a religious belief doesn't mean that someone seeking it scientifically is "science fiction". Nor is something being science fiction evidence that it's actually scientifically impossible (Jules Verne was actually right in a large proportion of sci-fi predictions he made!).

Nature doesn't dictate how you "have to" feel about death. Welcome it, be indifferent to it, hate it -- whatever. Your life, your view.

But most people who've been fairly close to death don't exactly want to invite it where it hadn't already stuck its head in.
It's not a clever way, it's primitive, and does not monitor many advertising agencies (just 3 of them).

The clever way would be to discover ALL advertisers AND prevent spying on our emails.
Heat is transferred via 3 mechanisms:

1) Convection, i.e.: the mixing of bits of 'hot' material and 'cold' material such as the material itself mixes through. Think blowing an air conditioner in a room.

2) Conduction, i.e.: the flow of heat energy through matter that is touching. The matter itself doesn't mix, but the heat energy can transfer. Think putting your hand on a hot plate.

3) Radiation, i.e.: the energy turning into electromagnetic radiation and beaming through the vacuum of space until it strikes something. Think sunlight.

1 and 2 are out, as there's no matter (air, etc.) around the ISS for it to convect or conduct with. Thus, all heat must be radiated. The above list ranks them in order of efficiency, so heat rejection is in fact very difficult.
> Worth noting that, this kind of news are not news at all for BBC.

You really should check before asserting stuff like that. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7466438.stm
>> visitor IP addresses are anonymized before they are ever stored in Google Analytics..

That applies to data available to GA user. Google of course has access to more detailed data.
> (just to be clear, for a typical length pop song, writing it in an hour is _remarkably, exceptionally fast_).

I think you'd find that the vast majority of pop hits are written fairly quickly. Yes producing, recording, finishing a pop song, adding everything that makes a pop song.. pop... can take a long time. But the actual writing is literally just

1. Get an idea

2. put it into the standard pop song structure

Especially for someone like Pharrell who has probably written a hundred songs or so.

It's by no means _remarkably, exceptionally fast_.

Edit:

Look at the way Notch writes code. Yes okay, we could call it remarkably fast. But he does it consistently. It's not a surprise when he finishes a game during a game jam.

Just as I do not find it surprising that one of the most accomplished songwriters of his generation writes a song in an hour
The article (and the articles it links to) multiple times points fingers at other services doing things Google was accused of. But the "others did it too" excuse isn't as straightforward to apply when you have a monopoly. Same reason why Apple gets a free pass for stuff that Microsoft would be and was crucified for.
I embrace this. What will race matter, when we meet people of different species every day? It will change everything.
There are already projects doing open scrapping and indexing. Please donate money or time to any of those. I don't want to link to avoid looking like spam.
If you want to spend some time helping people, please consider https://hackpledge.org/
Could the problem be solved by eating pythons? We turn them into food supply and profit opportunity. We could also find some reward system for python hunters.
If one person owns all the dollars then dollars become useless as a medium of exchange. People have always and will continue to figure out their own currencies when the official one fails them.
I building something based on Splunk.
Open source + free Splunk license.

http://www.mensk.com/traffic-ray-new-splunk-app-to-visualize...
> The default behavior of young people who have lots of free time is basically what college students do: drink and copulate haha.

Also: network, engage in three million different hobbies, travel, volunteer, learn new skills, build stuff, do art. Beer and sex tend to get boring quickly - every stereotypical college student I knew eventually found something useful to do with his or her free time.

> Think about the invention of the internet. Sure some people use it to learn and connect meaningful. But what do most people use it for? Cat pictures, YouTube celebrities and Facebook stalking.

I'd say that is what people with jobs do to procrastinate/relax. Again, who do you think writes Wikipedia articles? Or creates those cat pictures? Or the programming tutorials you grew up on? Often, they are the high-schoolers and students and unemployed - people who have free time to do things that don't bring in profits.

I used to contribute to Wikipedia and write programming tutorials and code games when I was in secondary and high school, and at the university - basically, when I didn't have to work most of the day for a living. Now I'm stuck at a shitty webdev job (believe it or not, programming jobs can also be shitty and boring as hell) and I barely have time to do anything useful or interesting for people around me or the world at large. It's soul-crushing. God help me escape this madness before I have kids.

Frankly, I find this stereotyping of people offensive. All that drinking and sex and sitting in front of TV is what humans do because they can't really afford to do anything else. Every single human being I met has some dreams, passions and interest, but they can't follow any of them because there is not enough hours during the day. You can't, unless you have super-strong willpower, really engage in any meaningful activity if you spend 8+ hours at work every day and come home tired. So people don't.

My best friend used to write a lot; she studied journalism and wanted to be a reporter and a writer. After university she got caught in the cycle of shitty jobs. Mind you, she's not lazy - she's actually the most hard-working and professional person I have ever met in my life. But years of working 8-10 hours a day, six days a week, on bullshit jobs under abusive bosses, made her almost unable to write a single sentence. And constantly asking herself, "will I ever write that book?".

So in TL;DR: no, I don't think most people would use universal income to be lazy. They would use it to do meaningful things with their lives. And honestly, if some group of people really decides to spend their lives drinking wine and singing, I say let them. Because if they can and it costs us nothing, why keep everyone enslaved so that some people won't get do things we find unworthy?
I think many people know that this ruling is not some test-case that will unleash a wave of lawsuits.

People have been successfully sued for less than this, many times before...

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/sam-smith--tom-petty-...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_plagiarism#Cases
Instead, why don't we eliminate the need for Apps in a browser to require HTML. Right now, our large scale app has one div inside the <body>. It's just an anchor for our SPA built in React js. We should push for browsers that can launch from a .js file, rather than requiring html. Have a base UI.kit that can even keep css, or use javascript to stylize. I'd like the 'base' UI to be as skeleton and simple as possible. We can keep the <html> style markup, but with javascript first. Similar to what JSX does with React. This would also fix the DOM problem we are currently stuck with. This is a rough, quick typeup, thoughts though?

EDIT: and most importantly, get multi-threaded javascrip in the browser. Running the UI, events, and logic all on separate threads. Many observe patterns would most likely be used.
Progress in controlling fusion heat bursts
“<A href="sql:select from *”>"

An anti-pattern if I've ever seen one.
That's not really an answer, though, is it? Because the feature is just as gone, it's just that it still remains API-compatible.
"Are they more likely to find a partner as they get older?"

Even if not, it's still a good thing to hope for. It is a psychological effect that gave birth (no pun intended) to a market. After finally acquiring wealth in exchange for one's prime years of life, there aren't many further things worth exchanging those gains for but another dream.
I've been using RSSOwl for a while now to browse RSS feeds, but I just tried out your demo login (thanks for that! maybe you should add a link on the landing page to demo) and I really like the UX, well done. It's slick and I haven't noticed any problems as of yet.
HTML does not do templating, either.
Listen for yourself:

https://youtu.be/ziz9HW2ZmmY
Of note, an excerpt on a related blog (excerpted from a paywalled article: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6228/1301.full)

... Rumors are rife, presumably from anonymous peer reviewers, that scientists in China have already used CRISPR on human embryos and have submitted papers on their results. They have apparently not tried to establish any pregnancies, but the rumors alarm researchers who fear that such papers, published before broad discussions of the risks and benefits of genome editing, could trigger a public backlash that would block legitimate uses of the technology.

... But scientists don't yet understand all the possible side effects of tinkering with germ cells or embryos. Monkeys have been born from CRISPR-edited embryos, but at least half of the 10 pregnancies in the monkey experiments ended in miscarriage. In the monkeys that were born, not all cells carried the desired changes, so attempts to eliminate a disease gene might not work. The editing can also damage off-target sites in the genome.

Those uncertainties, together with existing regulations, are sufficient to prevent responsible scientists from attempting any genetically altered babies, says George Church, a molecular geneticist at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Although he signed the Science commentary, he says the discussion “strikes me as a bit exaggerated.” He maintains that a de facto moratorium is in place for all technologies until they're proven safe. “The challenge is to show that the benefits are greater than the risks.”

... Although many European countries ban germline genetic engineering in humans, the United States and China do not have such laws. Research with private funds is subject to little oversight in the United States, although any attempts to establish a pregnancy would need approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In China, any clinical use is prohibited by the Ministry of Health guidelines, but not by law.
General Atomics and US Research solve heat burst problem with nuclear fusion
Firstly, he works at Microsoft Research in Cambridge. Secondly, he's using MSR's Z3 SMT solver which maybe has really nice F# bindings. Thirdly, he suggests somewhere toward the end that he finds Visual Studio + F# nicer than Emacs + OCaml for doing exploratory programming, though he doesn't exactly explain it at all.
Probably the part where you said, "If that is still not enough, extra cloud instances are probably cheaper than wasting your time with extensive profiling and manual optimizations."

At least profiling showed the author why page aligning all the things is silly. I have yet to work on an architecture where it isn't at best a waste of time, so I'm not sure why the measurement was necessary, but hey—running the test cured a potential delusion.

I also have yet to work on a system that can talk over the network faster than it can to another core that shares a layer of cache with it.

Besides, hardware savings are multiplied over all your customers—it's only 1:1 if you're working on software for a single entity. If that's your case, then you're probably right—any time on making quality software is probably wasted because few will benefit, and hardware probably is cheaper than dev time. That's not the world everyone lives in, though.
To me, meaningful monetization of something like a compiler requires identifying big dumb companies for whom it would provide a significant competitive advantage, and tackling enterprise sales.

The misfit with YC/VC is that such a company is more consultancy than startup. The potential paying customers are snowflakes if not unicorns.
“Your password should be committed to memory rather than using a password mgr”
This is very nice. I was creating manual changelog via Github releases. I really like that way because I can see the latest changes immediately and pick the relevant changes:

https://github.com/fatih/vim-go/releases
So now they're spending nothing they have no way to know if people are using their sites. They have no idea what sites are useful and what sites are not. Do they assume sites are not being used and have just a "Hi we are the USA" homepage or do they spend money on sites that are never visited

Even the government needs analytics friend
So if you have a list of 100 links you are going to prefetch all 100?
@ceejayoz

I should say the same.
The article link that I posted was reported in 2012.
The link that you shared was from 2008.
I think the problem here is that they went to YC with a technology, not a business.

(Not that I'm detracting from the great work these guys have done)
Typesafe (from their web site) sells a packaged version of their "stack" (similar to RHEL), plus support, plus what looks like a proprietary management tool (ConductR, which I think is pretty new). Also training and consulting.
The GNU versions of find and date accept natural language for times. For find in the --newermt and similar predicates and for date in the the --date option.
At the time of terminating RubySpec not a single MRI contributor had committed any code back to the main RubySpec repository for over a year. Sure, they might use it in terms of "run the specs" but they never contributed anything back. Besides their fork was highly outdated compared to the original repository.

Besides that I don't really get the fuzz about the particular tweet mentioned. This was in regard to various small changes being made that while nice were not very significant in the grand scheme of things.
Determining the Maximum Projectile Range with a Numerical Model
Great whataboutism!
Cheating in U.S. higher education is really a moral crisis, and the amount of accomodation for cheaters is shocking to me. I was bored one day and decided to read through the opinions of my school's honor board proceedings. You wouldn't believe the shit people got away with. One student plagerized most of his final paper from one of the professor's books. He said in his country that was a sign of respect! And he got away with that excuse!
"At the time, already the pretentious aesthete, I quickly decided that the popularity of neon signs on the continent was a sign of poor taste."

Yeah, in the original article this line really lost me:

"Neon is spectacularly flexible and inarguably lovely."

And I just had to bail out with a big ol' BS light flashing in my head. This same person writing at the time when neon would have come out would have bitched about them then. And in 30 years when flashing holograms are telling us that shops are open, he'll be writing a paean to how wonderful LED lights were...

"They were so physical... you could touch them. Someone had to care enough to hang them up, and find a place on the wall where they fit. They had that irreducibly human touch that let you know a real person had been there, caring, pinning his or her hopes for the success of their business on this sign, this physical object. It humbling to consider what hopes resided in this fragile arrangement of real atoms, instead of mere ethereal light."

Can I know that for certain about this specific person? OK, no, not really, but tell me it's not a really good guess.
Google Builds a New Tablet for the Fight Against Ebola
5 Interview Tips on How to Stand Out in a Technical Interview
Maybe it was a qualifying test? I don't know, it was held in the school.
We already have one. Not so new, actually. My undergraduate school[0] was founded in 1970. No required courses, tests, or grades. It's not the only one. Subjecting yourself to this torture is voluntary.

[0]https://www.hampshire.edu/
Curl is great and all but I don't think this quote makes much sense. Are there examples of services that would, for example, load in a browser but not through curl? I'd think it's rather the opposite since you can through pretty much anything at curl and it will work.
> Instead, why don't we eliminate the need for Apps in a browser to require HTML.

Accessibility.
I live in Norway, and I think it's pretty close to an utopia.

Not that there aren't flaws, but people tend to complain for the sake of complaining.

This often makes outsiders think that it's all just a facade and that behind the scenes it's actually terrible, that Norway can't just be a good place to live, there has to be some sort of dirty secret that undoes all the good things about the place.
Not surprised you can't figure it out.
No, that is not really the use of prefetch. It is for more predictable flows.
I'm guessing it refers to the problem when docking the shuttle or other spacecraft of making sure that thruster exhaust is never directed towards the station itself. I remember seeing a video that showed the shuttle approaching the station on a nautilus-shell sort of trajectory, so that thruster fire was always directed out and away from the station.

Apart from the obvious danger of impact from ice and other debris from thrusters, unburnt hydrazine is nasty stuff- you don't want to deposit any on the station, only to have an astronaut on EVA scrape some off by accident and bring it back inside.
KDE is a breath of fresh air in the current Linux desktop space. It gives you all the nice integrated tools that Gnome gives you while not trying to make you part of a Borg collective and actually (gasp!) listening to its user community.

The artists in that community have some questionable taste (and I thought Keramik was ok, so yeah...) but, overall, the project has a very sane development approach.

I'm a post-3.5 refugee in WindowMaker (and sometimes ratpoison) land, but I honestly think KDE is a big, big deal. It still values customization and still tries to place the user in control of his device, unlike the ahem other guys who seem to be following in Apple's very questionable footsteps.
The app is Facebook. A lot of shows are listed there. Obviously, the location is obscured in some way. For punk shows, it's the name of a House, to find out where that is, ask a punk. For folk, it sometimes is just a phone number listed, call for details.
These are not low-quality results. The trial of O.J. Simpson was the most publicized murder trial of the 20th century. When you search for "the simpsons crime scene," you should not be surprised to get videos related to the scene of the crime for which O.J. Simpson stood trial.

I'd go even further and say that "The Simpsons" has been on the air for over 25 years, and that if the O.J. Simpson trial had never happened, "the simpsons crime scene" would still have been simply not a good enough query to find what you wanted.
I see three problem here, none of which have anything to do with HTML as a markup language.

1. The amount of DOM manipulation required for a relatively advanced single page app is not very efficient, quick or performant.

2. Web apps don't work well without a reasonably up to date javascript engine - users may not even allow Javasacript to be run. This breaks alot of web apps.

3. There isn't an (easy) way to request parts of a resource easily using HTTP.

Luckily these issues have solutions:

1. Invest time in a new successor or radical improvement over the current DOM - think an asynchronous, thread safe API. Fix things that deal with HTML, don't try and make HTML anything more than a markup language.

2. Either make your web apps fallback to HTML + CSS or start convincing people that using Javascript isn't a huge privacy issue. Fallbacks can be easy if you want them to be.

3. I'm sure there are way to request specific parts of a page (indeed, I coded such a way myself in PHP a few years ago), but someone needs to build an awesome abstraction over HTTP to make this easier.
Thank you! Oh if you could only package that in an app. For every article I see, I get a notation "Story elements left out that didn't fit the narrative".
Google mobile algorithm update to have bigger impact than Penguin, Panda
A canvas accessibility api would be great.
bummer .. paywall

pastebin anybody?
It undermines the moral fabric of the society. It's not a coincidence that in India (or Bangladesh, where My family is from), you have to bribe someone to get your phone hooked up.
Very cool. We have been building a slack bot to do something similar, for internal release notes https://github.com/DispatchMe/meteor-rosie
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The laws are not strict and followed allowing students to cheat and not fear getting caught. If student was banned completely from higher education if they cheated once then no one would cheat.
And? I linked clear evidence that the BBC covers problems like cheating/fraud in the UK's educational system. You asserted they don't.

What is defamatory in the BBC's coverage here? The photographic evidence looks pretty conclusive.
I am puzzled; to which "that" are you referring?