skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This just moves the concurrency issue to the client, particularly for xhr requests.

Say you double click on some action with a one time token, the first request gets to the server and succeeds while the second request fails due to the token being used. But, the response to the first request is delayed and the second response (failure) gets to the client first. The client can either 'obey' this failure response or wait till all in flight requests return (or maybe till one comes through with success). The solutions to dealing with this look a lot like debouncing/throttling the requests in the first place.

Using a one time token is very useful for avoiding multiple executions of non idempotent operations but it's really a separate issue from dealing with multiple requests/responses on the client. i.e. the UX.
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TELEPATHIC QUADRACOPTERS
No need to be ashamed, French politicians are far better than US ones. It's not the US politicians who have built Google. As US have concentred all the money, Europe's companies have hard time investing in some technology that will not yield revenue immediately. Google got its first revenue few years after its foundation, that's impossible for a EU based company. Europe should create more conditions for its startups, otherwise no new technology will come out Europe.
I remember as a kid I passed about 5 crossing guards each way when I walked to/from school. Now I drive through that same community and the crossing guards have been replaced with speed bumps, bus lanes, and extended entrances to the schools. The walking path through the woods I used as a shortcut is overgrown and I bet if I asked any of the kids there today they wouldn't even know it exists.

I remember one day I was walking home from school and crossed the street not at the crosswalk. By the time I got the crossing guard who spotted me had called my mom and I got a stern ass chewing about using crosswalks (never happened again :)
no they don't. we don't need them telling us when our children are responsible enough for particular tasks. When our first reaction is "is this illegal" we've gone too far. When bad laws influence good parents, its wrong and needs to be repealed immediately.
it's pizza hut ...ew
30 Day Next Steps: Day 4 – The Bible: A Word for All Ages
How can kids get to school in such an environment? They are not old enough to drive after all...
Isn't it ironic that we are looking at these "real photos" on the internet using a computer monitor.

Sharing your work and discussing it seems far more important than what medium it is created on...
How is this a revolving door?

- Bernanke has never worked in private industry before

- The Fed doesn't regulate hedge funds or HFT firms (Citadel has both)

They're hiring him because he's going to be amazing in front of new LPs when Griffin raises funds. How do you not give a global macro firm that employs Ben money?

Not everything is a conspiracy.
Yeah, no. The government shouldn't be supervising how we raise our kids, except in the most extreme circumstances.
They exist, believe me, I know a few, and it's pretty terrifying. Law-enforcement is basically backing their paranoia and confirming their biases on the daily.

It sucks, but there's little that non-terrified people can do, without risking having their kids abducted by the state, which is actually significantly more terrifying, and far more likely than the prospect of stranger abduction.
This is awesome - I feel like this is the future of IaaS user experiences.
It still blows my mind when I hear about or remember that people still watch Television. Not just the furniture its self, but the scheduled programming its self. Whaaa? Do they have no autonomy? Do they have no desire to follow their own interests?

The only exception I can think of is sports. Cable channels seem to have a pretty tight reign on live coverage.
Stop Vilifying Almonds
I'm British, but I live in Zürich; it's awesome to see random packs of kids roaming around doing stuff on their own.

I think there's two main things which make this possible: firstly, the amazing public transport system, which means that it's basically impossible to get stuck everywhere; also the culture that adults are not scary, which means that they feel comfortable talking to adults (and vice versa). Admittedly, they mostly talk in thickly accented Schweizerdeutsch, which I don't understand a word of, but they're still talking.

In the UK it's dangerous for an adult even to make eye contact with a child.

Another interesting observation is that packs of children here that I've observed are, IMO, well behaved and polite. I have yet to see anything like the adult/child antagonism that you see in the UK. They're obviously doing something right here, while we're obviously not.
Getting over a hundred thousand wells mapped in government and NGO programs in Africa, Asia and South America. And this is only the beginning. Soon to be released as open data sets.
http://akvo.org/blog/over-one-million-surveys-collected-with...
I taught myself to code by post/mail.

I didn't make the smartest choices when I was young(er), but I turned that around, found a career, ended up co-founding a company and making a cool game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nethernet) then started a new company to help people figure out wtf they can do with their lives (https://www.somewhere.com).

Saying that though, the stupid robots I built, the side-projects and the articles in Hack Circus mean just as much.

Of course, pride comes before a fall so, yeah, cheers.... ;)
Sublime Text is still the only one that just works among its kind, but it needs to stay on the pace of improvement, otherwise it'll gradually age out just as how TextMate did.
Very valid point. But not every product, as much as the stakeholder would like to believe, is a space shuttle.
under particular circumstances, yes I would. If my 10 year old was responsible and my 6 year old was responsive to my 10 year old's responsibility, I'd let them go down the street to the park. What's sensationalist bullshit is the garbage the police are spouting and the garbage CPS will be spouting as they take kids from their parents. They seem to think the foster care system will do a better job of raising the kids than these parents how have raised kids to be able to play at the park unattended.
As one of the more than 1.6 million French citizen living abroad [1] (2.5% of the French population [2]), I could tell you a lot about the actual effects of attempting to create barriers around the French market.

I'm also not sure French culture is preserved that well in France. Sir Colin Davis was a better Berlioz interpreter than any French conductor I ever heard (and I was born 50km from la Cote St Andre), and even traditional Haute Cuisine is better abroad (particularly in Tokyo - see Apicius).

On the upside, a castle in Normandie or the South West today [3] costs less than a 1 bedroom in the nicer parts of Sydney. And those mostly empty TGVs where first class can be cheaper than second are nice when you need to get between Paris and Geneva and avoid those awful Parisian airports.

Acemoglu and Robinson [4] describe how the descendants of the world-leading Venetian Republicans now serve ice creams on their ancestors' plazas to today's "Venetians", visiting from Houston or Hong Kong. Sometimes, going home for Christmas feels like that. Luckily, London is only 45 minutes away with EasyJet.

[1] http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ais_%C3%A9tablis_hors...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_France

[3] http://www.patrice-besse.com/ is one of the best sites for castles. http://www.realestate.com.au/ for Sydney prices.

[4] http://www.amazon.com/Why-Nations-Fail-Origins-Prosperity-eb...
You're completely right. I wouldn't pay a 10 year old, but I'd have one watch my kids for a bit while I nip down to the store.
Just like and even moreso than vinyl, there are sound, non-"hipster" reasons one might choose to shoot film.

The major one that keeps many artists coming back is medium/large format. It's much much cheaper to get an extremely high resolution photograph on film. Medium format is something like 100 megapixels, and it costs about a dollar per shot after initial expenses. The higher resolution might not matter on monitors, but it makes a huge difference in size limitations and sharpness when printed, and prints are generally the goal for artists.

True large format like 4x5 costs something like $10 a shot depending what film you use (I've heard it can cost a lot less if you shoot cheapo medical b&w), but has insane resolution, measured in gigapixels. You can print it wall-sized, no problem. On top of that, you can only perform the full range of movements such as tilt shift and correcting for some types of perspective distortion on a large format field camera.

This stuff does not matter for photojournalist or weddings or sports, but many professional artists still choose film. They never really stopped. This is in contrast to DJs, the largest supporters of vinyl through the 90s and 00s, who seem to have mostly stopped spinning vinyl unless they're scratching.

As a hobbyist, I appreciate that film makes me think more about each shot. I hate the immediate feedback of digital. I love film's tactile nature. I love turning off the screen and hitting the darkroom. But for me, I agree it's definitely a lifestyle choice.
Actually, he wrote this employment letter in 1482, before he made anything of serious artistic importance. He may have been somewhat known in the artistic community, but he was by no means very well known.
"Here’s a shocking statistic that doesn’t get enough attention: nearly one-half of California’s farms still use 'flood irrigation'"

This should be the incredible, head-lining statistic. It turns out that CA does have enough water, but much of it is squandered on flood irrigation and the political will to do anything about it just doesn't exist, for now.
Australian startups make it big in London's Tech City
They were found in a parking garage where a homeless man was "eyeing the children"?

So the police officer got the homeless man's information, right? Oh, no, no evidence to back up his story? THAT'S SHOCKING! Police NEVER lie in order to paint the story they want, EVER!
I'm surprised there are no digital large format cameras or backs. I'm also surprised the medium format backs are so expensive. Isn't making larger photo sensors supposed to be easier?

Btw, if you had never seen photos made on a large format camera, find a gallery near you, and go see some prints. I'm yet to see a digital equivalent of that.
If there's money changing hands, it's bribery or extortion. If there's no money changing hands, it's still at least non-neutrality: the ISP is picking winners by determining which service providers get a competitive edge.
You forgot the best part!
"...by means of a comical witticism"
When I see security as a second-class citizen on user-visible elements, I assume that the same philosophy was applied on the parts I can't audit, even after the front-end stuff was fixed.
Congratulations for your hard work and achievements :)

I presume you know other people with your background that haven't managed to achieve this, do you have any insight into what the differences are?

Innate abilities? specific values? good luck? - I can imagine the general differences, but the specifics are really interesting to me.
Does this mean that French politicians are willing to study Computer Science for 4 years?
> This is mainly due to the fact it is hard for them to settle payment between the Kenyan Shilling (KES) and Renminbi (CNY).

Why? Let's solve that problem. Not complicate it with bitcoin futures/derivatives to hedge volatility (which should not be a factor in small international trade to begin with).

I think there exists more established markets/exchanges/escrow accounts for currency exchange than there exists for bitcoin futures/derivatives.

What about just trading in USD over paypal?
This is dead on. This is also a fairly accurate model of why I find many conversations draining and frustrating. To make any sort of valuable contribution to the conversation, I usually need more information than what is initially provided. More often than not the other person gets shifty and defensive and I feel like an interrogator.
What's your point? It's what I meant with split the community. And I meant Oberon 2 (not 4 which doesn't exist) - two different Oberon 2 versions exist. My point was introducing incompatible language changes that splits the community usually isn't that good, in the long run.
What I wonder more is why voice consistently is more silent than action. I am just watching Avengers 1, and I have to scale the sound every two minutes, because action scenes are too loud and dialogue scenes are too silent. I have no 5-1 sound system, but I think my modern TV has a Linux inside. It should have the power to scale accordingly!

*edit: Sorry I haven't read the other comments before. Thus, this is merely a +1 to them. If you want to comment about this topic look at the other discussions. Thanks.
Getting rid of “Terminate batch job Y/N” while developing Node app on Win
I scanned the comments below the article, they seemed to me to be mostly against children being able to roam.
What on earth are you talking about? SSA has nothing to do with monads. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_single_assignment_form
Apparently the affair was too quick for the tastes of that time, anyway.
Yeah but why is my TV not able to recognize manually that I use the TV's default speakers and therefore only have stereo? Would there be a way if I watch over a Linux under my control, like on a Rasperry?
Fully agreed. Not to mention the fact that a digital back for my Hasselblad would be $10-50k :)
Confronting Russia's Weaponization of Information
In theory yes, but in practice the kindle's not a general purpose browser device - it's got a slow cpu and the rest of the hardware also provides an incomplete internet experience with no sound, color or camera.
Don't trust advice from rich old white men.

Get investing in Stocks as early as possible with a buy and hold strategy for companies you believe in.

Sex isn't worth the pedestal it's often placed on.

FOMO (Fear of missing out) is a life killer. You'll never be able to do all the cool things all the time.

Find a mentor.
Author wanted Wrinkle in Time to warn against trading freedom for security
Op-ed: Why the entire premise of Tor-enabled routers is ridiculous
Like all countries were; however, economic growth has been since stimulated by opening trade.
> I think overall we're seeing a growing trend, or growing condition I believe would be more apt, where people are searching for substance at a time where the digital/modern life has removed or cheapened it.

Ah, the old appeal to tradition.
We're so obsessed as a society on making life "easy" for our kids that we completely remove our children's ability to fend for themselves in the real world.

These parents were doing their children a service and trying to break free from the overprotective craziness that has everyone keeping their kids inside. And the response they received is crazy. As if its not hard enough to go against the grain and give your kids more independence, now there is precedence that if you do, you may be at risk.

Our jobs as parents is not to protect kids from life, but to give them the tools to navigate it.

Part of giving them tools is giving them the opportunity to fail and learn from it.

The rates of depression, suicide, bullying and drug use have been climbing higher and higher -- we're not helping our kids stay safe, we're keeping them from gaining wisdom.

Eventually it will change, though I suspect things will get worse before they get better... change comes when the pain of staying the same is too great -- we're all too comfortable keeping our kids inside.
The story of a Saviour born in a shitty place to free it's people from oppression is a recurring model on human history.
And in the docs[0], the manual instructions ask you to run their agent container with --privileged=true, which gives the container access to all devices on the host and more.[1]

Looks super neat but I'll pass.

[0] http://lastbackend.com/guide/
[1] https://docs.docker.com/reference/run/
Moore’s Law Is Dead. Long Live Moore’s Law
This article list out these points.

Fuzzy file finder (cmd+P or cmd+T).

Command palette (cmd+shift+P): Execute any command offered by Atom by typing its name.

Split editing: Edit multiple files side by side.

File (cmd+F) and project search (cmd+shift+F).

Git integration.

Key binding resolver (cmd+.): Best way to learn keyboard shortcuts.

And lots more: Project tree view, go to line/symbol, multiple cursors, markdown preview…

The power of reading.
Yay technology + markets in action!
s/want to consume/are willing and able to work around government censorship to consume/

Google explicitly decided not to play ball in mainland China years ago. It will be interesting to see the reaction if this goes through-- both exposing ranking algorithms and pulling out of France seem pretty improbable.
No, they are chips, and making large defect free chips is hard. Chips are best small.

You can get large format scanner backs, but they take time to scan.

Sheet film is a huge cheap disposable sensor, just add a scanner and you are done if you want digital.
Look, if you want to shoot film, shoot film. If you like the look overexposed Polaroids have, shoot overexposed Polaroids, or shoot with your lens not attached to your camera body, or whatever floats your boat, artistically. Just don't argue that other people are somehow not "real" photographers just because they don't like what you like, and don't use the "it's good because it's what was on the market the specific decade of my twenties" argument.
That is bad advice. Hiding or destroying the oil would be prosecuted as obstruction of justice, regardless of the legality of the cannabis, and it would be futile because of evidence from receipts or discarded packaging.
I've been fortunate enough to enjoy success in the tech field, but by far the accomplishment that I'm most proud of is that I was able to bring friends with me. This isn't something that I ever would have envisioned starting out that I would be this proud of.

I grew up in a very small town in the US with not a lot of opportunity and lucked into getting hired by an information security firm in a bigger city back when many companies had never heard of firewalls. I had close tech savvy friends from back home that were struggling and was able to convince my employer to hire them.

Since then, they've become very successful in their own right. Yes, they are very smart and have worked hard, but knowing what I do now about the power of networking and getting the right opportunity at the right time, I like to think that how I was able to help them made a huge difference in how their lives turned out.
Twitter privacy updates
US Propaganda: Weaponized Disinformation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycg-YTy0tkA
It almost sounds as if some people want Fed Chairmans which aren't highly sought after in private industry...
I was working as an accounting intern, making $80 a month in a third-world country. I taught myself how to code, dropped out of college, and make a good 6-figure living.

Before the age of 22, I earned my freedom, and discovered what I truly love in life.
Well done! I see requests for this sort of seed project constantly in IRC and GitHub issues.
I'm afraid I disagree. It's not a different art form, it is just an evolution of it. There is literally nothing that film cameras can do that digital camera's can't do, and in most cases do better. Comparing the transition to painting versus photography is just ridiculous - you might as well compare painting to sculpture, because they are genuinely different art forms. 3D printing and sculpting are completely different processes to produce a 3D shape - film and digital photography are two almost identical processes to produce the same end result. I don't see a single argument in favour of film besides nostalgia. A much more accurate comparison would be someone who insists on heating pots over a wood fire every night, rather than using a gas flame.
These discussions often hover around how safe our current world is, and how any dangers are just perceived dangers, where the perception is way out of proportion to the reality.

The claim is people have wild perceptions influenced by dramatic media coverage, and the world is just as safe as, or safer than, it ever was.

But, I'm not so sure. I think the reality has changed too.

Since the days when we used to walk five miles to the toy store, everyone has better access to technology, transportation, and information, than they did, and this is a double edged sword that enables both good and bad people to have more capabilities.

Also not just perception is the fact that Reagan defunded mental health treatment, leading to the massive homeless situation we have (I'm not saying homeless people or mentally ill people are necessarily dangerous, but as with any unknown variable, their presence does make it harder to determine when a place is safe or not).

Still, in this particular case it seems like the police went way over a line of reasonableness... maybe not in picking the kids up, but in what happened next.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1086391
You say "bias", I say "quality".
Then it's not a string, it's a ReQL query object. Same way a Django model instance isn't a string. Your comparison seems way too artificially made up towards Rethink, so much so that it discredits itself.

Imagine me saying "here's a SQL string, let's see which database can execute it more easily, Rethink or Postgres. Hint: Start with writing a parser to convert it to ReQL".
Great points. At least for me, though, Atom isn't slow at all. Other than start up (which takes a couple seconds), I never experience any slowness or perception of slowness.
Not even while searching through a gigantic project.
Gnome Builder 3.16.2 – Features Review and Coding Practice
In my opinion, "antifinancism", the hate of finance, is rather less ingrained in startup culture than in the overall society.
Sublime has all of those things, though? (except possibly the key binding resolver, I've never tried that)
> One thing that people advocating FDO often forget: this is statically tuning the code for a specific use case.

Yes, I meant to mention this but forgot. The numbers I posted are a best-case example for FDO, because the FDO is specific to the one benchmark I'm testing.

> Ok, so feed it with a huge mix of benchmarks that simulate typical usage. But then the profile gets flatter and FDO becomes much less effective.

True, though I think one clear win with FDO is helping the compiler tell fast-paths from slow-paths in each opcode. I would expect this distinction to be relatively universal regardless of workload.

The theory of fast-path/slow-path optimization would say that fast-paths are much more common than slow-paths. Otherwise optimizing fast-paths would be useless because slow-paths would dominate.

The fact that a compiler can't statically tell a fast-path from a slow-path is a big weakness. FDO does seem like it should be able to help mitigate that weakness.
Subsequent requests to the same token don't have to fail - they just have to silently pass.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9398237
Getting my first start up job. I couldn't afford to stay in college. Had zero professional experience in anything related to software. Bought an HTML book and got a photocopy of a JavaScript one, created a demo site on a floppy disk (1998) and showed it at my job interview. Was hired for the lowest rung position, worked my up to Web team lead.

I will always be grateful for my boss for taking a chance on me, which is why all the bullshit, risk-averse "hiring process" discussions always get to me. I try to give people the same break I got, and it's surprising how often it works.