skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW I've basically had the conversation seen in the show, albeit with a friend, not a stranger. He was running XFCE because it was the default in Debian, and I was running KDE (have been for twelve years). So I found the exchange at least plausible. I think it boils down to the fact that, some people find DE quite uninteresting (unlike editors), while others have strong feelings about them.
Docker Mail: an oss full mail server in a single docker container
Some parts of the original Patriot Act were written to expire. It's easier to get rid of those parts than it is to get rid of the rest because it's easier to prevent something from happening in congress than to cause something to happen.
One magic system I've always found would be interesting in an rpg would be Michael Moorcocks elric of melnibone. Specificaly having to depend on pacts with demons, gods and other supernatural creatures in order to obtain magic items or spells.
I once experimented this, and it worked. I wanted to do this because I needed a decent and fast CommonMark library, but Rust didn't have one. (Yes, I tried to embed JavaScript in Rust just to parse some MarkDown text!)

There are two libraries that embed V8 in Rust, but all of them seem to be abandoned for now. However if there become enough interests, a new project will arise I think.

(FWIW, I ended up calling CommonMark library written in Python from Rust, because embedding CPython was easier than embedding V8. Unfortunately CPython's performance is worse than V8, but as I know Python better than JavaScript it was a reasonable choice.)
+N to any Zelazny praise, for N a rather large integer.

An attempt was actually made to codify Amber into a "diceless" RPG. Had some great times playing it.
How nice of the government to protect me from the minute possibility that a bad acid trip will give me PTSD. If only they cared as much about all the young kids they send over to the Middle East.
"Sredni Vashtar" by Saki
"Judgment Day" by Flannery O'Connor
"The Laughing Man" by J.D. Salinger
"Bezhin Meadow" by Turgenev
"Regulus" or "Mary Postgate" by Kipling
"The Prince of Darkness" by J.F. Powers.

If novellas are permitted (and somebody else included one), the "Hadji Murad" by Tolstoy has to be on the list.
I worked at Google as a contractor. I got my position through a consulting company (a small boutique one in this case). I got the impression that the bigger companies used contracting companies just because it was easier to manage. Fewer vendors to manage, bill etc.
no love for the Justice League loser?
Brain death actually occurs at the time of resuscitation. As it wakes individual cells kill themselves as a result of a kind of "self check." If you cool the brain before resuscitation you can hopefully delay the self check to the point where the cells are correctly oxygenated and healthy when it happens.

Dying somewhere cold cools your brain, giving you a better chance when you are resuscitated.
Nothing that I acknowledge; but the quotation in the parent comment suggested that the Greeks were vegetarians.
Yup.

You'll want to add something in the lines of

xsetwacom set "Wacom Serial Penabled 1FG Touchscreen touch" Area 104 26074 115 16374

for proper calibration to your .xinitrc (as it doesn't survive reboots). As always, RTFM ;-)
I've been waiting years
to see someone like him running for presidency, but I lack experience in Politics to determine if he could have a shot.
Show HN: Beams, an OS for news
Is this the reason why small startups can tackle big companies?
I would actually recommend getting any Windows laptop and just use Hyper-V (or VirtualBox/VMware if you prefer Type-2 Hypervisors) to run Linux.

Most modern laptops can handle virtualization with no noticeable performance penalties even for heavy dev tasks, and the UX is essentially identical to running on bare metal if you use the full screen immersive mode that most virtualization software offers for interaction. The virtualization stack takes care of most hardware compatibility issues, and running Windows as your host OS means you won't have to restart to do Windows specific dev stuff and/or play games (Hyper-V allows full access to the GPU for the "host OS").

Getting a Macbook and running Linux with VirtualBox, VMware Fusion or Parallels is also a viable alternative if you don't need to game on the Windows VM but need OS X support instead.
I agree, but on the other hand sheriff's makes the offer after MM pleads. I think that would suggest that sheriff is seizing an opportunity, not extorting MM or demanding sex.
I've actually been wondering about this in regard to microservices. As people switch from monolithic architecture (where one war or package might have both frontend and backend) to microservice architecture, are you finding it useful and necessary to change your team structures? A lot of place have product-focused teams with frontend and backend people mixed together, but as products become more about frontends consuming services, it seems that might imply a different team structure is better. (And kind of a variation of how Conway's law is stated in the OP since the architectural progression is driving the team structure, rather than the other way around.)
one rising up 11 stories

This is hardly "giant," even by the terms of low-rise SF (http://marketurbanism.com/2015/04/20/travel-update-a-tale-of...). 60+ stories qualifies as giant. In Seattle, the core downtown / First Hill / Belltown area has seen a spate of 20+ story buildings—which is precisely what's needed in high rent areas: more supply.
I played Morrowind long ago, and am playing Elder Scrolls Online now. Morrowind had lots of non-combat magical ability, but it was still a "scientific" system in the terms of the article, with some balancing errors that I abused brutally. (Who needs cheat codes when you can achieve 100% prevention of ALL kinds of damage, as well as rapid flight?)

Elder Scrolls Online has a system that's "scientific" for the players and for generic NPC enemies, but there are much more mystical forms of magic in the world as well, which are encountered in a considerable number of quests.

One nitpick -- I'd say that in most games I've seen, evenn "non-magical" healing works very differently from that in our real world. I'd say that most healing, therefore, is magical in nature.
Only if they really plan to add an API. What about Hangouts for example? Did they announce an API for Photos?
Presumably, the effect the action has on the actor's conscience is taken into account.
I see where you're going and frankly, it's awful.

But since you asked, no, there's no moral equivalence here. The reason why people who get raped, abused, etc. are not responsible for the crimes and assaults committed by others because they have a basic right to walk around freely and securely.

However, governments (or people charged with the responsibility for governance) don't have the same right to operate without being targeted by assholes. That's because a major part of their job is dealing with assholes. It is literally what they get paid to do. So unlike people (who are generally not paid to deal with rape threats or worse), the people who are paid to deal with assholes cannot accept their giant salaries then turn around and say "hey, we're subjected a bunch of toxic assholes."

This is about as unreasonable as a divorce lawyer getting upset because of exposure to people having distressingly sharp conflicts over irreconcilable differences. Seriously, if you have a problem taking out the trash, don't accept work in waste management.
Can I get some of the http/2 performance benefits by putting a http/2 reverse proxy in front of a regular http server? Does such a thing exist?
From the article: "At night, if there is no turbulence, Borschberg will be able activate the autopilot and nap, but only for 20 minutes at a time."
Performance testing tool was written in Go, but then Go seems to have been ignored for writing the server. Any reason?
When population growth rate is negative, it makes immortality all the easier to contemplate.
Meanwhile, MMOs are plagued by lag, especially in large-scale PvP combat, as they can't calculate what's happening in real-time. So introducing a little pseudo-randomness might be good, just to allow for more drastic approximations in the calculations. :)
There's a list of implementations here: https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/wiki/Implementations
Context: I spent my civil service (+2 more years as a volunteer) serving as a paramedic for the italian national healthcare in Milan.

Paramedics/EMTs can't declare anyone deceased (they are not doctors) and on ambulances there are no doctors. This means that, as paramedics are first to arrive on the scene, they HAVE to perform CPR and defibrillation over anyone until a doctor declares death (only exception is with conditions that are "incompatible to life", example: decapitation). Two more details: no doctor would declare a boy dead on the place - they would AT LEAST require the ambulance to bring the person to the closest hospital, which implies that CPR and Defibrillation is performed for several minutes anyway (usually, ~10-30mins to reach the closest hospital). Last detail, doctors are anyway required by law to ensure that at least 45 mins of CPR has been performed before being able to declare anyone formally dead.

All this procedure may seem overkill but I can assure you that I personally experienced at least two cases where I thought the person didn't stand a chance but then actually fully recovered.

So, the whole story makes perfectly sense :)
Company buys skymall for 1.9M, will make “dramatic changes”
I had a job interview like that for Fidessa in London not so long ago. The interviewer dressed liked a slob. His shirt might have fit many years ago, but now it just stretched out over his expanded waistline. Rumpled trousers and a tatty belt. I did what I could to set him at ease, but there was no way to hide the fact that I was smartly dressed and he looked like he'd slept in his clothes.
My concern at this point is Picasa being abandoned. It is the main hub in my photo processing process.
I suspect that has more to do with the fact that communication and management overhead tends to scale with the square of the size of the company.
We explicitly washed our hands of "cultural fit" on our careers site, which took a bit of persuasion on our board - https://careers.bytemark.co.uk/process

We need 1) skilled people who can 2) learn and 3) work in a team. That's it, and that's one of several reasons we're interviewing anonymously, through IM - no names or CVs.
He has a shot, and it's great to see him taking this stand, but he's a flawed person/candidate in many other ways.
Please refer to what guide? The webcomic?

Can you be specific about which webcomic had law enforcement blackmailing someone? I didn't see one that covers our case there.

> 'because an innocent person would say "no".'

Doesn't that imply that all entrapment is legal? And is it even true? People can be blackmailed for things they haven't done and even easily give false confessions of guilt...

Thanks for the conversation Natsu. I don't think you're the legal expert I was hoping would be in this thread. Again thank you for sharing your opinion.
Obviously not in any way an answer to the question asked.

edit: Please provide a better response than downmods.
Not too much really said in this article, but the topic is something I keep re-thinking. On some days I am totally into the goodies that living in Google's world provides. Other days I feel like going back to something like a Firefox OS phone, run my own web services and opt out of social services.

I am also tired of apple's little sandbox, as nice as it is.

I will probably go a middle road which is paying Microsoft and using one drive for photo sharing via custom share links, keep using fast mail, and get a simpler phone
Sony Design Exhibition: MSX Computers
A review by NIDA scientists explains that "neurotoxicity" arguments were based on overdosing animals, and that similar effects are seen with SSRI anti-depressants:

Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2007 Jan;189(4):407-24.
3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) neurotoxicity in rats: a reappraisal of past and present findings.
Baumann MH, Wang X, Rothman RB.
Free full-text:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16541247

It has been previously claimed that overdoses of MDMA caused structural damage to serotonin axons ('axon pruning'), but there has never been any good evidence of this. Most evidence points to modulation of expression of serotonin transporters without damaging the axons themselves:

The Nature of 3, 4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)-Induced Serotonergic Dysfunction: Evidence for and Against the Neurodegeneration Hypothesis.
Biezonski DK, Meyer JS.
Curr Neuropharmacol. 2011 Mar;9(1):84-90.
Free full-text:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21886568
> Contrast this with something like Jinja2 where if you mess up it'll only break a small bit of the page.

Do you have some examples of error that are easy to make with Jinja2? I personally find it to be a thing of beauty, but it's possible that I don't try to make very elaborate things with templating engines and thus might be missing out.
Do you know if there is a way to edit the metadata of a photo in Carousel? I couldn't figure out how to add tags to the photos.
Catapult: An FPGA-based reconfigurable fabric for large-scale datacenters
You seem to have a disagreement with what steveklabnik said, so please take that up with him.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9554676

edit: Please provide a better response than downmods.
That's fascinating, could you point me somewhere I can read more? I'd always assumed something in the cells was decaying without oxygen preventing them from functioning again. Is it some sort of reaction byproduct that normally is part of a chain but the lack of oxygen breaks the chain and makes some other reaction occur?
You might really like Ron Edward's RPG Sorcerer, and in particular, a later supplement book he wrote focusing (in the sense that a love letter focuses) on the sword-and-sorcery genre, Sorcerer and Sword. The game focuses laser-sharp on getting power from dangerous, mysterious entities.
Why is that I always confuse Rand Paul with Ron Paul?
Pdfmake could generate LaTeX, which can then be properly compiled to a pdf (potentially with texlive.js).

In Haskell this is possible with similar DSLs. Very useful to generate reports.
Why did you include so much bullshit in with the one good piece of evidence?
Finally, there is the simple matter of trust or, if you want to be kinder, future-proofing. The presentation notes that Google are deprecating SPDY from early 2016. That is the supposed HTTP replacement that was the New Shiny... yesterday, I think, or maybe it was the day before.

SPDY was never meant to be "the supposed HTTP replacement". It was clear from the start that it was an experiment, designed to research alternative protocols and inform the design of some future hypothetical HTTP/2.0 - which it did, since they actually used SPDY as its base.
I experimented with this back as a teen. It's easy to simulate. Just switch your hands. Left hand goes on the right handle bar and the other with the other.

Do not do this while in motion. You will fall. At least I did. It was deathly frightening. A good jolt of respect for all the work going on behind the scenes to make bodies work together correctly.
I almost didn't reply because it sounds like you have a bit of an axe to grind against HTTP/2, but the concerns you state are overblown. All I really gathered from the presentation was that spriting and concatenation negate the caching advantages HTTP/2 could provide and are unnecessary. It doesn't make HTTP/2 worse than HTTP/1.1. As for protocol turnover, arguably adopting SPDY was premature, but everyone knew it was when they did it. It'd be the same for someone who chooses to adopt QUIC now. One point of standardizing HTTP/2 was to let the more conservative among us start to use it now.
You are definitely on the right track: biologists call that (viral mutualistic) symbiosis. Check out [1,2, inter alia].

[1] http://www.nature.com/nrmicro/journal/v9/n2/full/nrmicro2491...

[2] http://jmm.sgmjournals.org/content/58/4/531.full
Thanks for this. I've been looking for a solution for this problem for a while and this looks like a good attempt.

While bank statements scraping or API is good, it may be useful for somebody to note that that it's often possible to import your historic bank statements using scanned images or PDFs. Excel and many accounting programs have this feature. (I haven't personally done this yet though)
Honestly, both can work. That said, python has a few well-known open-source rest api libraries/frameworks that have strong community support like Django Rest Framework or flask.

In terms of security, best practices would be to use https, api keys for each application. I'd also suggest setting up oath2
Seamless Computing: Your Mobile as a Desktop
Whenever someone writes bad things™ about some language, one of the language's fanboys shows up and starts nitpicking! Yes, now is the time!

> Another bad part is Rust’s JSON handling. It badly needs macros which make things easier.

Actually this is not the end of the world. As you mentioned, Rust's JSON library supports `ToJson` for primitive types, but also provides compile-time code generation for arbitrary `struct`s. Quoting the code from my project:[1]

#[derive(RustcDecodable, RustcEncodable)]
struct Msg {
cmd: String,

id: i32,
x: Option<i32>,
y: Option<i32>,

speed: Option<i32>,
}

What the mystical `#[derive]` thing does is to direct the compiler to create the boilerplate for converting the `struct` to/from a string automatically. So, now you can do this:

// Decoding a JSON string
let text = r#"{"cmd": "move", "x": 5, "y": 10, "speed": 200}"#;
let decoded: Msg = json::decode(text);

// Encoding a Msg object to JSON
let msg = Msg { cmd: "new", x: 10, y: 20 };
let encoded = json::encode(msg);

The `Msg` struct is full of `Option`s because my project allowed many fields to be missing, but if the JSON messages in your protocol are in fairly similar format, you can eliminate most of them.

One more benefit of this approach is that it type checks. If the JSON you received is missing some fields that are not defined as `Option`, the decoding process produces an error! So you can be certain that you're handling a valid JSON after the decoding stage. This is analogous to schemaless vs. schema-enforced database design.

> Compared to many static languages, the handlers look tidy. Compared to dynamic languages, they’re terrible.

This is the property of the Iron framework, not of the Rust language itself! Another web framework for Rust, namely Nickel.rs[2], provides much simpler APIs.

I believe the author of Iron is trying to establish essential things first, and build more "user friendly" APIs on top of them. (FWIW, the Rust project itself follows the similar strategy.)

[1] https://github.com/barosl/pgr21-online-server/blob/master/sr...

[2] http://nickel.rs/
The problem is not what they believe. The problem the obviously abusive and amoral approach the people in question have taken in acting on those beliefs.
conformality and area are preserved on globes, both physical and virtual (like in google earth). as a kid, i remember thinking africa was huge from the globes that teachers had in classrooms.

in ~2007 or so, i actually tried to buy a physical globe for my desk. i went into a couple office supply stores and the high school age employees had never even heard of a globe. it was the strangest thing trying to explain what a globe was: "it's like a ball with a map on it".
Is there a typo in "Gmail Proofreading/Editing Example 2"?

>Thank for asking

Should that be "Thanks for asking" or "Thank you for asking"? Or is what Wordzen have used correct?
Yup. How about some smart ways to make the system more efficient? There must be a modest proposal somewhere.
Simple jokes are almost always voted down. Even when they're funny, they're not the target tone of the site. It's not personal, it's just an editorial and community-direction choice.
Then provide us with a precise definition of "culture fit", and some notion of how you screen for it.

Maybe none of us will disagree with it. Few of us have a problem with a "no asshole rule", for instance.

Precision is important here, because it needs to be communicated to everyone who interviews, lest "culture fit" assume its inevitable role of "escape hatch for allowing interviewers who are having a bad day to neg anyone who doesn't jump out at them as someone they'd enjoy having a beer with".
> Further, offering you hitman services is NOT entrapment.

Nope, but creating a false circumstance of blackmail is. That's what we're talking about.

But we've gone in circles. I think we both need to talk to other (knowledgeable) people. Thanks for the chat.
> $500 on freelancer can get you really far in replicating pretty much anything.

I doubt this very much. You get a bunch of half baked code that you now have to maintain.
>So inventing languages is a good thing, as a research topic into how natural languages work (with plenty of provisos, of course).

That might be your opinion, I don't think it's a useful research project. Are you aware of any insights into natural language that have been arrived at via artificial languages?

And, as a human nature hack, marketing them as tools for world-peace, etc. makes them much more likely to be adopted by idealistic humans who may have the motivation to actually test them for a few decades...

That seems very cynical. Why do you think artificial languages are so important that misleading marketing is justified?
Yeah, felt the same, but it could be our own head that's just playing against ourselves.. it's a psycho game after all

The hostile tone is part of the game which, in a sense is trying to be well balanced, and it may help to avoid your brain filtering the message.
Well I have failed on all 5 of those points and am unlikely to make my last 2 years any different, thanks.
Another D3 powered lib is C3.js - it can make charting a bunch easier
i built an interactive virtual globe using open gl (like nasa worldwind/google earth, but with real time satellite imagery). it's super fun.

when you're dealing with things like constellations of satellites, it's often useful to have a map alternative, since you can only (continuously) see half the earth at once with a globe.
I took a fair amount of the stuff back in the 1980s -- at one point I estimated my cumulative total consumption as around 15 grams. (I'm sure there are people far beyond that now.)

It is definitely neurotoxic -- I could tell that the first time I took it -- but in my experience, the noticeable effects are temporary, being mostly gone in a couple of weeks and quite undetectable after a couple of months. As a software developer who works in a fairly technical field, I'm quite sensitive to how well my brain is working on any given day. I did not notice any long-term falloff in my abilities as a result of MDMA use.

All that said -- it does invite abuse, and I was abusing it. In 1990, my then-SO left me, and I realized I had to quit.

I wouldn't worry about occasional, supervised, therapeutic MDMA use by healthy individuals.
MGM/UA Under Kerkorian Meant 20 Years of Change (1990)