skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds more like an MTA availability backup, not a data backup solution...
We have lots of code that runs on both the server and the client. It has the same responsibility whether it's run on the server or the client.
>Except the UK economy has been expanding for a long time now and it's still described as using austerity.

That's a slightly optimistic definition of growth:

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/gdp-growth

It might more realistically be called "bumping along the bottom."

But austerity doesn't just mean cuts in social services. It also means using "austerity" as an excuse to pay workers as little as possible, while making their living and working conditions as insecure as possible.

This has the interesting effect that what little growth there is very unevenly distributed, and most of the population doesn't benefit from it at all.

You have to think about this for a while to understand what's really happening: the true meaning of austerity is a calculated crippling of real economic expansion in favour of regressive wealth redistribution.

This is the one consistent meaning - and it also applies to the use of debt as a weapon against countries and individuals.
I notice that once you go down the "is it for a legitimate business" branch, the answers are all "NO". They could have omitted all the follow-ups.
Your point that simple regressions with small(ish) sample sets are important is valid. This:

> "The vast majority of businesses will never deal with machine learning."

However, is myopic. It plausibly will not hold for much longer in most areas, and is already not true for a significant number of industries.
Reverse DNS is a pretty big issue. You're not going to actually deliver any email without valid reverse DNS.
> I'm starting to feel that the only way to get fluent in Django would be to get a job in an experienced Django shop, which IMO should not be the case.

Like learning any serious language/framework, it requires a relatively large-scale project to really understand all of the moving parts. Project Euler isn't going to cut it, but most web-application ideas you might have should expose you to quite a bit. To-do lists, workout logs, weather trend tracking, etc. would all be decent learner projects. Basically anything with somewhat normal data that multiple users can input & view.

It's obviously more complex than something like Flask, but it's definitely not as convoluted or unintuitive as Twisted. Django covers a lot of territory with the number of features it provides (ORM models, URL routing, request-handling views, templating, management commands, middleware, etc.), but each of those features is well-isolated and reasonably easy to grok if you focus on one at a time.
> assuming you're the culprit of any possible problem the computer might have in the future.

I learned this the hard way with my girlfriend's grandmother. After I fixed a whole bunch of stuff, all complaints became "Omegaham monkeyed with my computer and now it won't work."

My mom is a lot better about this, though... and my grandmother has been programming since the punch-card days. So it's not all bad.
The Supreme Court just refused to review a disastrous ruling on API copyrights
Most of them are NUnit tests, which don't care what source language the assembly under test is written in.

A few of the oldest FogBugz tests are in `unitTest.asp` and were written in Wasabi. They got transpiled over to C# like everything else. Some are confirming Wasabi language features (e.g. `testLambda`, `testDictionary`, `testErrorHandling`), so I could remove them.

All of Wasabi's unit tests were deleted with Wasabi.
Shure, if you find a nice person who takes a screenshot.
The rainbow flag is overloaded and has deeper semantics than gay pride. Hence, "Marry whoever you love. Even if they're not a developer."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_flag
It makes me wonder why moving away from Java is not an higher priority for the Android Team.
According to the AOSP tracker, their current efforts at the language level seem to center on the integration of Java 8.

Sure, as far as languages go, I there are many tasks more beneficial to the platform than changing its language, but the legal issues they are encountering sound like another good motivation.
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That's a nice myth, however in practice what happens is exactly the opposite, mostly because people lose sight of the whole picture and end up super specialized on small pieces of the puzzle. This is what happens in corporations, where the whole reason for why projects succeed is because of the invested resources, work still being done on the model of the Egyptian pyramids, with thousands pushing large bricks. There's a reason for why micro-services that don't start as a monolith are failing - people have this impression that micro-services are imposing clearer boundaries, which is of course wrong.
Just to be clear, because it is not mentioned in the article, this is about UberPop. Uber is legal with some caveats.
I clicked on Boston and got videos from Harvard or MIT..
and zoom out to see multiple world maps :)
Be the sport and send them your suggestions. There was email address in contact section. :)
The biggest problem is that there is no concept of DRY in law. No single source of laws about $X. It's layers upon layers of conflicting code and it becomes a maze.
100% confidential? Nothing is 100% confidential if it's connected to the Internet.
Fair question.

I know that locally if they don't remit the taxes then the state certainly has nexus and jurisdiction to go after them. Not only would it be a civil issue but also a criminal one.
I pay about $20-25 more for my business line than residential service, for the same speed and 5 dedicated IPs. Yes, it's more, but it's not 500% more....
It would make sense to add HTTPS to your website if you are promoting security and privacy....
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According to this article, there's evidence to suggest that keeping orcas in captivity is detrimental to their well being. Why does having that evidence suddenly mean having an opinion on what to do with it is off limits?
Stupid question perhaps, but don't we have the ability to 100% simulate the rocket physics and the code it runs on in a simulation environment? Or are they just punching out code, shoving it onto rocket controllers, and testing in the real world?

I'm curious as to the QA system used here. I imagine with proper simulation this should have been catchable. I wonder if SpaceX's low cost approach means cutting certain corners and situations like these where catchable issues make it into the wild because of the difficulty of rocketry in general with the added difficulty of cheap spaceflight tacked on.

I really hope they didn't just find themselves in a STS-51-L moment where it'll take months to truly iron out the root issues. Thank goodness there was no loss of life and SpaceX's stack isn't man rated yet.
Did they though? At the time wasn't Java supposed to be "open source"? By that logic many companies who used (and use) Java have made the same mistake.

I would say it's Google's executives and engineers who have dropped the ball if the moment Oracle won the case the last time, they didn't start planning and working on stripping Java out of Android. If they still have a "let's wait and see" attitude about it for another 2-3 years or how long these Court battles will take to settle, then THAT would be a major fail on their part. Because by then they would have to pay who knows how many billions of dollars and it would take yet a few more years (5+?) to do the whole transition.
I know that's how PGP usually works, unless you have a backup somewhere. It's the #1 reason I don't promote using it very much. I was hoping this team had thought about improving that part of the user experience.
I'd recommend talking with the VASSAL people if you haven't already. I was looking into something similar (defining pieces and rules in a DSL that would spit out an engine suitable for AI) a few months ago when I was all motivation and no outlet.
That orcas avoid harming humans has long been a part of the legends of Pacific Northwest tribes. And, as this article suggests, Orcas do indeed seem to have a taboo against eating us:

http://science.kqed.org/quest/2011/07/20/why-killer-whales-d...
This is actually a step toward how PowerShell (is it still called that?) works, where you pipe objects (ie. a schema) around instead of arbitrary strings.
The thing is -- despite all the "Iron Man" winks and glamour of being a billionaire who wants to colonise Mars, etc. -- Elon is truly, deep down, a nerd's nerd. Which means that his respect for the PR department is probably roughly proportional to how much duct tape they've wrapped around his head.
Why, the only thing I see on the page that could be compromised is the mailto: link.
Not a typo, EAP-SIM:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Authentication_Prot...

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4186
I would say the author's point about buying things and distraction from being connected is pretty weak. There's actually a tension there: why buy other stuff when you only ever interact with your phone?

You can be a complete minimalist, live in a house with nothing in it, and just lay on the floor in the dark surfing the internet on your phone, chatting with friends on facebook etc, and all of the problems the author complains about will still exist.
Sounds like quite a few major sw projects though. ;-)
Yes. I've seen certain areas where CPMs are falling, falling, even as reported traffic is rising. Such sites do whatever it takes to boost traffic some more. They also tend to cycle through a lot of "chief revenue officers" every 18 months or so.

It's a nutty way to run a business, but in the short-term it can pay the bills for lots of folks.
There are different kinds of security. Confidentiality and availability aren't exact opposites, and I don't think you have to compromise so hard on one to get the other. A good key escrow system or at least encouraging people to keep their passphrase in their wallets or something would go a long way to reducing the users' risk.
I agree, but two points regarding need:

a) people make stuff that they need themselves and share it so in a way it is need-based.

b) yes it doesn't work in situations where there is need but no ability. I am guessing such situations are rare, because projects in many cases are willing to make modifications to help a large portion of their users. Also because there are usually enough people able to do these things to fit most needs. Finally, if you are a part of this microcosm, you can probably code yourself.
I like Uber's service, but it's obvious that they are a taxi. A better taxi company, but a taxi; and they should get their licenses in order.
Compromising a page doesn't necessarily have to alter existing content. It would be easy to add a "Download Preview Build" link pointing to a trojan, add links to a fake kickstarter, etc.
I'm already humbled, but if you make them gently interact with each other, I will jizz in my pants.
Fred was great. I used to love watching his programs when we moved 'down south' in my early teens.

From the overhang video: "Up here, if you make one mistake, it's half a day out with the undertaker"

Brilliant!
There is a project to encode law as code:

http://codex.stanford.edu/
So as to make things clear, UberPop has been outlawed in France months ago but keeps operating.

The fines are considered "operating costs" by UberPop, who takes care of paying the fines when UberPop drivers are getting caught.

You can remove the quotes at illicit.
Why not as long as they don't want to cash it out or retire?
While we're at it, please also get rid of fixed elements, especially on mobile devices. They obscure parts of the page for limited value, and they often break in horrible ways.
> Wolfram was young, smart, cocky

He remains two of those things to this day. I have no doubt Wolfram is legitimately a genius (despite his arrogance and tendency to take credit for other people's inventions) and I adore Mathematica as it is, but I can't help but wonder how much better it would be if Wolfram's personality was less... abrasive.
Certainly:

https://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pidgin/tree/master/skypewe...

I'm using it from arch, via the AUR package purple-skypeweb-git
It's information leakage at its finest.
Yeah, I did the same thing. The problem is just that a small percentage of my friends and family still call my original actual cell phone number instead of the GV number. Moving to fi would mean I'd keep the GV number but lose the older cell number, and those late-adopters won't know they're texting the wrong number.
So your ISP is not providing you an internet access ? That's lame.
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Huh, ring.to looks like a good idea. I can switch my handset number to being just my plain-old GV number I've had forever, and port my legacy cell number to ring.to and set up autoreply on SMS and some other stuff just to help the transition and make sure I see who is calling my old number.
The licenses are what made the taxi system so inefficient.
Yes, unfortunately: other providers like Verizon also price their data at $10/GB increments.
To provide a bit more context: the number of licenses is very limited. When sold by the state the license is cheap, but then it can be resold privately and then the price will skyrocket as there is a too limited offer.

This creates lots of nastiness. Private taxis typically get their license on the private market, it's a significant investment for them and they count on being able to resell it when they retire.
Big companies can lobby to get a good share of the (very limited number of) new licenses, when any.

It's been clear that this limited number of licenses should go. But the question is how to deal with it. The reasonable approach would have been a planned and regular increase, leading to a gradual depreciation of the market price of the license that all could have taken into account. But the taxis always opposed this (with good lobbying from big taxi companies, who of course enjoy the quasi monopoly situation and are good at lobbying politics and playing their drivers). And the state has no money to pull the licenses out, compensate for loss and get rid of the scheme quickly. So the taxi system hasn't changed much so far.

Now we're in the state where new entrants are coming, reducing the taxi monopoly bit by bit with taxis screaming all the way through. That will (hopefully) force changes.
I wonder if they'd degrade to the point where they were no longer trustworthy? If we're talking about decades and decades which it seems like we are then at some point you'd maybe end up having to repair/maintain the ladder/access bolts as well as the tower itself.
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HTTPS still leaks the domain name, so that wouldn't help too much. (Unless you meant some other information?)
The title here is wrong; it's Oracle v. Google, not Google v. Oracle. The plaintiff's name always goes first.

(EDIT: This was incorrect; the original case was Oracle v Google but the appeal is the reverse.)
Political slogans usually aren't worth entertaining in any serious debate, that's the point. Nonetheless, I'll bite:

Linux is only free if your time is worthless.

That time has value is an idea that has been exploited to create so-called time-based currency and time banking.

Free software: more expensive than money.

The amount of man hours put in some projects means the costs of a from-scratch rewrite is probably higher than to simply bite the bullet and go by licensing terms. This may or may not be true depending on the project, though some may indeed have a utility and COCOMO score that makes it so.

We make free software affordable.

Pure marketing slogan, not worth discussing. Probably Cygnus' way of saying they had great support and contract development services (which they did, they're responsible for a large part of making GCC what it is today).
Anyone interested in this project might find this interesting.

http://paperize.io/beta
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The above has been tried in mid-1990s, with some success, then suddenly exploded, and now we ended up with HTML5 + CSS3.
Classes are unavoidable in JavaScript if you care about performance. Recreating redundant functions inside a closure in performance critical code is a sure way to have slow apps.
you are correct, but blatantly ignoring the law is usually not the best way to fix that
I see them in discount stores as well, so the hype has probably passed... (guessing that you're from the Netherlands as well)
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Has abuse actually happened? Have you considered that the author might have actually thought about it? Hurray for pre-condemnation.
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I don't know anyone who actually works 80 hours a week and I'm in NYC. They're all exaggerating. Most I know of is 60 and he loves it (finance). I'm in one of the most prominent coworking spaces in the city full of startups and the place is a ghost town after 7pm and before 9:30am.
Because it's the only way to make sure there's less squandering. Mediterranean countries are screwed because they're so lame they couldn't do anything worthwile with the easy money they got, so they wasted all of it. Airports that have never been used, stadiums in small towns close to each other, so-called "phantom" cities... And that's just the "shocking" tip of the iceberg of widespread mismanagement. You either force these low-lifers to cut spending or they'll keep getting themselves in a position where they'll never repay their debt.
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Rocket physics are actually relatively trivial and, yes, can be fully simulated (and are). Rocket plumbing is always the hard part. Perhaps the threads on some connector got stripped as it was screwed together. Perhaps there was a manufacturing flaw or unexpected bit of corrosion in a particularly vital bolt. Perhaps a bit of contamination in a fuel line caused something catalytic to happen. Perhaps a bit of excess H20 condensation in a LOX valve caused an ice dam to form and the supply line to over-pressurise. These are the sort of problems which bring rockets down: really damned complicated plumbing problems.
>Ryanair (European Southwest essentially)

I would say they're the European equivalent of Spirit Airlines, or rather Spirit Airlines is the American equivalent of Ryanair.

Southwest is head and shoulders above both those carriers as far as customer experience goes (Two free carry ons (1 overhead item and one personal item), two FREE checked bags, free peanuts/almonds).
Agreed, I wish GTK was isolated from Gnome like Qt is from KDE but I can't see it happening.
Link to the actual paper: http://www.slideshare.net/lutherlowe/wu-l
I'm currently on t-mobile, so the project fi network is at least as good as what I have now. The pay-as-you-go data plan is also going to work out to be cheaper for me - I currently have the 3 gig plan with rollover, because every few months I end up in a hotel with bad internet and really need more than a gig of data. I'm definitely paying every month for a service I only occasionally need.

I wonder what it will be like, psychologically, when I'm paying by the megabyte for data. Right now, I know I've already paid, so I just stream stuff. Under project fi pricing, my total cost per month will go down, but it will also be metered- I can have it go way down if I'm frugal. Not sure if I'll download that audio book on LTE if I know I'm going to end up paying an extra buck for it. I mean: it's just a buck, but still. Interesting to see where I land.
A 20 minutes digest from the (nearly) 20 hours classes.
That sounds like altering existing content by adding new content btw.
Is reading a FAQ really that much to ask nowadays?

> The link is filtered by a question. Depending on the level of surveillance you think you are in, the question can be a simple captcha to avoid bots, a secret question that your correspondent can answer but not the NSA, or a request for a password previously exchanged with your correspondent, or no question at all.

> Your correspondent will have a web interface to answer your message privately. You can also activate a permanent HTTPS interface for anyone to send you a message privately at any time.
I also listen to noise instead of music to block outside sound. I use sox on mac/linux/windows to generate brown noise which I find less tiresome than white noise.

Sox is well documented but here is the command I use for 90 minutes of brown noise (I try to get up and walk for a minute each time it finishes).

play -n synth 90:00 brownnoise brownnoise
TBH, that hex editor thing sounds like bs.
The smoothness of this (if it is substantially better than existing VoLTE+Wifi implementations) more than likely has to do with improvements in the handset Wifi implementation and the underlying network evaluation criteria, etc.

Put simply, handsets that are capable of this (and there are many) typically establish an IPSEC VPN back to the IMS network core. When the IMS network needs to switch between cell and IP+IPSEC (usually over Wifi) it is no different than the handoffs that have been happening between individual cell towers since the beginning of cellular. To many aspects of the network the IPSEC VPN looks just like another cell.

The tricky part here is getting the timing right - this is the real reason cell providers and sites have such precise and well coordinated time.

I don't have any experience with it and I haven't seen it work but more than likely the handoff between VoLTE capable carriers is accomplished using similar methods.
If you submit personal information to any business you're putting yourself at risk.

Social media companies have a lot of data, yes, but most of it is pretty benign. The world should be far more concerned about the PII that gets transmitted around less tech-savvy smaller businesses and non-profits. Particularly for-profit education companies.

Education companies have gobs of very sensitive info like social security numbers, previous addresses, family relationships with full contact info, medical history etc and many of them are clueless when it comes to privacy and data security. Not only are they at high risk for data breaches but their lists can also get acquired and traded when the business changes hands.
Two Uber executives taken into police custody in France
And with good cause, I think. Mathematica syntax (both the verbose form and with the various syntactical sugar) is immensely more readable to the average person than Lisp. Of course, this could have been done on top of Lisp anyways (and wouldn't that be nice?)
Really like this! Merging text with a png to render to the terminal could be the future of cowsay! ;)
I'm curious about this too. Are these kinds of acquisitions ever a simple buyout, where the founders and early employees take their money and walk away?
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It's usually a market segmentation strategy. You have to pay for a "business" connection if you want to run a server.

Also, blocking standard email ports on residential connections is a common anti-spam measure.
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