skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, the React app I would be using Webpack for (currently using Browserify and Babel) doesn't actually do any server/browser checks, the entire difference is handled via two different entry points and a few module swaps for browserify in my package.json file.
"Often the very education may a stumbling block in the process of learning."

People don't want to learn because it's hard?

"Most users of regexps or any other device do not need to read a thick theory book on it."

Which is why they should at the very least read Friedl.

"Cobbling together expressions from online tutorials is a perfectly good way to learn effectively."

No it's not, otherwise we wouldn't have so many bad regexes and people asking silly questions about them, would we?

"Admittedly, it is not the best way to write production code, but there are often economic considerations that override the expert's desire for perfect design and implementation."

Nobody's talking about 'perfect design and implementation', just 'not be a moron' level. Because car analogies are everbody's favorite, let me use one here: no-one is saying that one should have a Formula 1 licence before driving (using regular expressions); just to have more than 20% vision in both eyes and not to drive after drinking 5 beers while texting your wife that you're on your way. Which is the car-driving equivalent of the majority of regex uses in the wild.
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There is a Google Summer of Code project for D3DRM:
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/g...

There is a lot of recent D3D changes in the wine source:
http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/shortlog
Do you have any statistics about underweight mothers? Because all the research I've seen says it's not a problem. The child is going to be fine if the mother is underweight - although it's not ideal. But there is plenty of evidence that overweight mothers face increased risk of harm.

So, advising pregnant women to eat what they like, with no controls, increases risks and carries almost no benefit.

This is not suggesting that mothers should diet!
Beaty is a themed responsive CSS grid, with layouts outside of bare CSS grids
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btw I didn't flag your comment, I thought it was funny =)
That could also happen in Germany. It’s not that the connecting train has any obligation to wait, rather, the operator of the late train has an incentive to bring its customers to their destination despite the delay. If both trains are run by the same company, having the second one wait may be the cheapest way to achieve that.

However, if that is – for some reason, e.g. last train late at night or somesuch – not possible, you can well get a voucher for a taxi ride to your destination a few hundred kilometres away.
And therein lies the rub perhaps.

When people praise train travel it is largely long distance.

When people complain it is likely to be commuter lines in and around cities.

BTW, TGV is French...
Wasm is basically the evolution of pnacl with backward compatibility through a similar mechanism to asm.js, no? Less wonky and more standard.
Underage high School girl lies <==> international scandal.

Seriously people.

At best this is, stupid media gets fooled by a troubled girl at a time many teens are at a tough time in their lives. Classmates not as stupid.
The is a major Dutch bank that expects freelancers to work unpaid for their first two weeks. I expect them to be scraping the bottom of the barrel, but they seem to be having this policy for a couple of years now. For me it's been pretty easy resisting their offers, though.
Here here. Also, what possibly could be Chrome-specific here?

After looking into it a bit, I believe the only issue is that the author failed to add an r property to the SVG circles. Apparently Chrome defaults to some non-zero radius, which seems like a poorly-chosen default.

Which means the author just didn't care to try it in any other browser.
So, what's the last time a Fortune 500 company's IT systems failed so hard they couldn't do anything for two weeks?
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Spain is also suffering and they didn't cook their books. It was also an open secret that Greece's numbers were manipulated, but the ideal of a united Europe with one currency overruled economic pragmatism.

Even if Greece had no corruption at all they would still be in a nearly indistinguishable position. They still would have been flooded with debt (simply a consequence of interest rates dropping during the boom) and they would still get a crushing depression (because that's what happens when you share a currency with larger and economically stronger countries).

When Greece joined the Euro the outcome was nearly inevitable, so blaming Greece for this makes little sense. The austerity policies the troika imposed on the Greek people were brutal and completely unnecessary, though. So that's the outrageous part.
Transatomic has a page that charts their progress in designing and then building a molten salt reactor.

http://www.transatomicpower.com/whats-next
Ask HN: What are some of the best written programming books?
I recently read Russ Olsen's Eloquent Ruby and I loved it.

It is incredibly readable; the code and the stories mixing amazingly with real world examples and what not.

What are some of yours?
Technically this is stupid media gets temporarily fooled by a troubled girl respected parents. The girl wasn't doing this on her own.
it does it because by exponential population growth
>social economics shared by everyone else.

Well, this is about social economics in environments where things are decidedly not shared by anyone else, because ruling hierarchies and structures preclude civil rights, duties, and responsibilities. In a place where every single person in your village knows exactly what is going on, what sort of civil duty outside the village can thrive? Alas, for us rich Westerners, it may seem obvious: you have to take responsibility for your own life, and get the hell out of dodge if there is no work, but indeed every single human being alive has to work and feed themselves.

Trouble is, those fore-mentioned "shared social economics". Family life in remote villages can be dire, dire circumstances. Who is doing the selling in these transactions? Totalitarianism starts in the kitchen. Everyone eats, those who provide food and a place to eat it rule the roost. It seems every family needs its kitchen, and alas human slavery is abject cannibalism.

I would support a special kind of "Get out of Dodge" pass for the poor, personally. It seems a lot of kids could benefit from a full tank of gas and a boarding pass.
While regular polygraphs are not reliable, I think usage for P300(i.e. brain fingerprinting) is more reliable, and even used in some courts.

for some numbers ,see[1]- "With both P300 and P300-MERMER, error rate was 0 %: determinations were 100 % accurate, no false negatives or false positives; also no indeterminates. Countermeasures had no effect. Median statistical confidence for determinations was 99.9 % with P300-MERMER and 99.6 % with P300"

So maybe this could be a good starting point for something useful for trafficking prevention ?

[1]http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11571-012-9230-0
Human trafficking seems by evidence to use prostitution as the way to generate money out of slaves, and anyone that wish to legalize sex work should also have a plan to address trafficking. I don't know the laws in Germany, but banks has a responsibility to combat money laundering so why not require brothels to implement some industry standards to counter trafficking? Signs of trafficking should then be followed up by police and slavers should be stopped and sentenced by the courts.
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We seem to be disagreeing about what the word "controlled eating" means.

I'm saying "don't eat too much; you're not eating for two; a woman with a healthy diet only needs an extra 200 calories per day".

You seem to be saying "don't go on a very restrictive diet".

I agree with that. But I'd be interssted to see any research showing harms from mothers on restrictive diets.

And you seem to be underplaying the risks of macrosomal babies, which are considerable.
Microsoft+made+a+better+YouTube+search+engine+than+Google
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He meant the 'properly finished' part of the quote.
I really, really lament Apple caving in on this. The deal they had before was perfectly reasonable - everyone's interests were aligned and both sides brought something to the table. Apple wasn't paying royalties during the trial because it makes perfect sense to have a model that says, "you make money when we make money." Besides, we all know that streaming revenues for everyone except the top .1% of artists are largely irrelevant, especially during a mere three month window.

It's obvious that Taylor Swift was motivated by one thing and one thing only: maximizing her own revenue. That's it...and that's fine. But I cannot stand her disingenuous "won't someone think of the children?!" nonsense. It's like LeBron James publicly pleading for the NBA to share more of its revenue so that the younger players can be better off in retirement, while leaving out the fact that he'll personally take 90% of any incremental revenue. Taylor Swift seemed so concerned about other people, but I sure don't see her offering a pay cut or anything. Instead she successfully guilted Apple into paying because they've got a ton of money. Pathetic.
If people quit, then supply goes down. If it goes down, the price would rise until more people willingly take up the job again.

A decrease of price isn't going to cause more women to be trafficked. Instead, the opposite would happen because there is less money to be made.

I suspect whats happening here is that its easier to bring women over, willing or not because before, this kind of work was illegal, so if caught they'd just send them back.

This whole sex slavery thing seems like hyperbole to me, though. If you've ever been to a third world country, you'd see that prostitution is rampant, even in countries where its technically illegal. There really isn't any shortage of girls, so I suspect they wouldn't have any trouble finding prostitutes willing to go to somewhere they could make more money, that they'd need to kidnap someone and force them into it.
I really really love this idea. My only beef, currently, is that it generates this kind of CSS (taken from [0]):

._23_aKvs-b8bW2Vg3fwHozO { background: red; }
._23_aKvs-b8bW2Vg3fwHozO { color: green; }
._23_aKvs-b8bW2Vg3fwHozO ._13LGdX8RMStbBE9w-t0gZ1 { color: green; }
._23_aKvs-b8bW2Vg3fwHozO ._13LGdX8RMStbBE9w-t0gZ1 .global-class-name { color: blue; }

This seems like a pain to debug using devtools. I'd love if the generated classnames could resemble the original classnames, e.g.

.my-fantastic-component-24xMw

Or even just

.my-fantastic-component-1

Given that webpack has global program knowledge anyway, it should be able to prevent name clashes if multiple css files use the same local class name, no?

I see that there's nothing in this standard, however, that would prevent readable class names.

[0] https://github.com/webpack/css-loader#local-scope
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To a conservative government purchaser working with a conservative software vendor on a system that doesn't do anything remotely fancy or magic, a relational database (Oracle, specifically) was most certainly the right choice 10 years ago, only moderately less so today.

And just to be clear, that's (mostly) a good thing.
"World first traceable Umbrella"

No comment.
That paper argues that a lack of compliance with Islamic law promotes human trafficking. I also don't see where it shows that trafficking in Europe is mainly caused by Muslims. How exactly do you see it supporting your case that Islam is the problem?
You / parent mean "Windows OS"? PC is just one platform Windows runs on.
If you sink ~7000 Euro into a Bahncard 100 first class, you can go mostly anywhere for free. So by the logic of only counting marginal costs, it’s 25.4 € more expensive to travel from Berlin to Frankfurt by car as opposed to railway.

Berlin to Frankfurt takes about 4 to 5 hours. For the car, this is time spent driving. For the train, we may have to subtract about 30 mins waiting in Leipzig or Hanover for a connecting train, leaving you with 3.5 to 4.5 hours in the train. At a modest 15€/hour, your car trip is now 77.9 to 92.9€ more expensive than the train journey.
I have a 4 yo daughter and it's funny because I do this type of play instinctively (also my daughter simply loves it, and is always asking to do it again).

feels like a really natural innate thing really...
Good chat application is not like hello world app. You can build something like chat, but it doesn't have most required features and performance.
Consider option:
4) Start doing consulting work. That way you can survive as a team and gather resources for the next phase. Whatever it will be, productive dev team is an asset and it can be worth something.

PM me if you are willing to explore that scenario and consider relocating to Poland.
>The thing that I don’t enjoy is when people ask me if they should drop out of school or university to ‘start their own business’

Amazingly enough, it's not a binary decision. You can stay in school and start your own company. In fact, your school may even have an incubator program to help you. Being is school is probably one of the best times to start a company since you have free o cheap access to many resources that are expensive outside of school, and you have fallback when your first few ventures fail.

With that in mind, I'm always amused at the subset of programmers who rail against degrees. The most recent example I found was this: http://nickjanetakis.com/, where the author thinks a degree is a fancy piece of paper. A degree in computer science or software engineering can only help you in your career, and it probably has one of the best ROIs for any degree program.
Man I was scrolling and scrolling hoping this was from a few years ago and the whole thing is finished. Ah well, I will be surely glad to keep up with this project, because it is truly amazing. Simply waiting to have my mind blown by this is blowing my mind.

I had a boss once who recycled a bunch of arrays from an old phone switch and built a fully working CPU system with 12-bit word lengths and 1024 words of storage. Took days to run some things, but such things are a true joy to have on in the background during coding sessions.

Anyway, thumbs up .. go Megaprocessor, go!
You can try to use ours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9757243
But isn't that the behavior we want to encourage everyone to have? Most people will do the default: if the default is wrong, they don't care. If the default is right, they still don't care, but at least they're doing it right.
If the deal were considered in isolation you might have a point, but you need to consider the competitive landscape and why Apple wants to offer the 3 month free trial. (I don't agree with your being down-voted, you're posting a valid oppinion, just one I happen not to agree with).

Apple is offering a 3 month free trial in order to win market share for their service from the established streaming services. Doing that benefits Apple but does not benefits artists.

Say I'm a Spotify subscriber. I cancel my Spotify service and switch to the Apple service. Artists suffer a 3 month gap in revenue during which they're not being paid either by Spotify or Apple for my listending to their music. The only people who really benefit are Apple who now get a split of the revenue instead of spotify, and the only people who really lose out are the artists who lost 3 months pay.

There's no reason artists should have to forgoe revenue in order to benefit Apple in that way.
Construction workers in Dubai is a great analogy to "voluntary" sex work.
It was a typo meant to be "worth noting". Many people have bandied about Apple's "higher rate" than Spotify, but the difference is likely to be only one hundredth of a cent per stream. Apple will pay out 71.5% of their $9.99 fee vs the 70% that Spotify does. An extra $0.15 a month per subscriber divided by all streams works out to about one hundredth of a cent per stream difference. So, a popular artist's paycheck for millions of plays of their song would be $10,200 vs $10,000 using the typical average streaming payout of a little over 1/2 a cent per play.

Plus, there's the fact that Apple Music will cannibalize a lot more iTunes sales than Spotify does.
Unfortunately, you'd be very wrong. As a Unity developer, I had to drill down to the float sizes on specific Android devices (some genius noname graphic adapter used 12-bit floats, and it messed up my custom shader).

Game engines, as every similar kind of middleware, are an abstraction that is almost always leaky. It's still a great improvement over doing everything natively, of course.
The problem with the mismanaged economies isn't the bailing out, it's that they got such easy loans for such a long time, because the moneylenders thought they'd get their money back no matter what. If the moneylenders lose money on this, they'll probably be a bit more hesitant keeping incompetent and corrupt governments in the saddle.

Suggesting that Greece as a whole is single-handedly responsible for this mess is silly. Yes, of course their governments over the past decade and a half were incompetent and corrupt, but it was because of the cheap loans that they could cover up the problems and keep up the appearance to the voters that all was fine. Without that, they'd have been voted out of office that much sooner. Instead, the easy money left the bad situation to fester for far too long.
On slightly related note, USA doesn't support airport transfers without visa - which is taken for granted in the rest of the world. Which basically makes Latin America an island since most flights there are routed via USA, its gatekeeper.
I can't really fully comprehend this. Did she actually work as a sex worker and exposed herself to all sort of STDs? And not only that - having to deal with all sorts of nasty people... what a brave woman.
I doubt this does anything unless you have location services enabled for Facebook.

Most people do, of course.
Hi Matthias, could you describe how your website is built? It looks like static HTML files built from a WYSIWYG editor.

Also could you describe how your website analytics work? I see you're using a 1px gif to log requests. I guess this just logs to a file. How do you find out when you get a surge of traffic like from Hacker News?
What about Go? I haven't seen it mentioned in any of the answers.

Go looks very appealing and according to folks on #go-nuts it can be used for scripting. Also, it comes with a standard library that covers crypto, networking and most of what you might need.

I would think that being able to cross compile and deploy a single binary when doing pen testing would make Go a good candidate for the infosec field.
When there's any hint of rain, I carry (and wear, if needed), a lightweight raincoat made from a breathable fabric. This means that when I am not wearing it I can fold it over my arm and not have to battle through a busy street, or on public transport with a stick-like thing.
Hah. I went to TJ and, at a gathering with a few other high school classmates, I bemoaned how unhealthy I thought the atmosphere was there. I'm not saying it was disastrous when we went there, but it was a divorced-from-reality, barely-visible-high-pressure environment. Going to a prestigious, competitive state school was seen by several of my classmates as "failing" because it wasn't as good as going to an Ivy or another high profile institution.

An environment made up entirely of kids who are accustomed to being the smartest student in the class is going to produce some very unpleasant results under high pressure. I wonder how the counseling team approaches the problem.
This is a complete BS narrative made up by people campaigning for the criminalization of prostitution.

Prostitution has been legal in Germany since before WWII. That is, neither the offering nor the use of sexual services was a crime (pimping was and still is). What changed in 2000 is merely that prostitution lost its "unconscionable" status, meaning that it can in principle be the subject of enforceable contracts.
Yup, that might be... though theoretically it might be possible to calibrate this in a more fine tuned manner if you know/have access to the WiFi hot spot/box beforehand.
But what is it? The author doesn't bother to describe	problem definition and context.
The point of a lock is twofold (in most cases* ). First, to discourage casual/opportunistic access. Second, to make unauthorised access evident. I believe this lock meets those criteria, albeit at a minimal level - but it's purpose is to educate, rather than to directly secure.

* In specialised cases the expectation is that the lock will also take a finite amount of time to get through, which may exceed that of the door, allowing for a response to alarms, for example. In other cases a lock may be designed such that the contents would be destroyed by any action which would defeat the lock.
The complete absence of anything warranting the letters "communism" in the title was a huge letdown. And it would be so easy to make a relevant point: in a traditional market economy, it is very much possible to incrementally grow from a single taxi into a larger operation, or from a small b&b into a hotel, into a chain. Both communist and centralizes "market as a service" economies don't want that to happen, hence "dotcommunism".
Keep in mind that Apple has confirmed they will be paying a lower rate during the free trial that they will not disclose currently. So, nobody has won anything.
I haven't looked at recent studies, but actually (normalized) grades and standard test scores are a pretty good indication of academic performance in university. If that was your only metric, you'd probably lean pretty heavily on those indicators. However, elite schools are--for better or worse--aiming for a mix of student backgrounds, interests, and experiences on the theory that this creates a richer learning environment than one that's solely optimized for conventional academic prowess.

It's probably also true to say that the Ivies and other top-flight, especially Eastern, liberal arts schools were historically more concerned with admitting "the right sort of people" than the most studious. So there never really was a history of an exclusively examination-based approach--though one can find Harvard admissions tests from the 1800s--e.g. http://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-entry-exam-2011-7
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>> "Lewis hovered 2 - 3 seconds behind Nico and could do nothing."

I guess it depends on your perspective but THAT IS EXCITING. For me at least. It showed Nico still has what it takes to beat Hamilton + it brings the championship battle even closer. I agree with you that the last few races have been slow but only compared with the last few seasons. Particularly during Vettel's dominance we got lots of close races. But F1 is always talking about how to make the sport more interesting and exciting - the discussions never end.