skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Politically it would be very difficult. The problem with the EU is that it fantasises about being a United States of Europe.

The problem with this is that Europe is not united. We have different languages, culture and histories. This is also what make Europe a beautiful, culturally rich place. The political elites are trying to impose a one size fits all model across Europe which won't work because we are not really all that united.

We don't have a common European demos that means that individual countries are fighting for their own interest and their is no overall strategy for Europe because the electorate doesn't really care about Europe, just what they get from being a part of it.

We really need to go back to being a trading block and to remove all of the political dictact and interference. If we really must have political unions, then they need to be between countries that share a common language so that the people can challenge their political masters collectively. This would mean Britian and Ireland, Germany and Austria, France and Belgium.
Satoru Iwata 2005 GDC Keynote
Python seems faster than this gopherjs solution.
I thought they'd be about equal or the JS being faster since JS is supposed to be really fast at math.

I ran 2123456 in both and Python was quite fast, Ivy on gohperjs quite slow
Second this. Given your couple of bootstrap areas too, either language (or both) will be beneficial.

I will say though that in most low level systems that demand absolute performance or that have been around for quite a while it is still mostly C/C++ based. So if you are wanting to break into those areas, then C is going to be the language to know really well. I have worked on a number of telephony systems and am familiar with a few financial trading platform architectures, and C is really core and popular in both domains. Other languages are used in both domains, but just wanted to toss that out there to you.
Still requires an underlying OS which may need to be patched or upgraded.
When they announced iMessage they said they would make it an open standard. Haven't heard anything of that since though.
Bringing the best of Bash scripting to Ruby
No, Seattle "died" when a bunch of people moved from California and Almost Live was no longer culturally relevant. Outside people trying to recreate California with California problems. Tech lynch mobbing is lynch mobbing.
I think the live ones cost more.
In Los Angeles, Voting Is Getting the Silicon Valley Treatment
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This part of this.
Uh, no: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI
This is a bit old, but interesting.
Finnish study: Smoking and drinking coffee might prevent Parkinson's disease
I got that it was a special game from the comments, but so far I only have screenshot to judge. I might pop an emulator to try it though.
Thanks for the link. I've never heard of an inflatable mattress being called an "airbed," so I still didn't get it.
The fact remains that we saved private banks with public money and we forget about that conveniently.

I don't trust those guys neither, but, maybe we are not talking about the same guys.
So what does this mean? It's either senile and healthy or smart, but dying? Damn, son.
Elon Musk's high-speed Hyperloop train makes more sense for Mars than California
The entire article is FUD – the license is rather clear in indicating that as a condition of using AWS you promise not to bring IP lawsuits against Amazon, the duration bit is only too long if you don't read that clause all the way to the end, etc.

This is easily explained by the attribution:

“Bart Eppenauer, former chief patent counsel at Microsoft and now managing partner of law firm Shook Hardy & Bacon’s Seattle office”

A quick search leads to http://www.shb.com/news/2013/11/shook-to-open-seattle-office... which suggests that their Seattle office was founded to expand their IP practice:

“Eppenauer has served as chief patent counsel at Microsoft Corp. in Redmond, Wash., since 2003. In that role, he led the Patent Group in the Legal and Corporate Affairs Department, where he developed Microsoft’s patent portfolio of over 35,000 issued patents worldwide and managed a team of more than 100 patent professionals offering patent counseling and product development support across all of Microsoft’s business and research divisions. With extensive experience in complex, multilateral IP transactions and license agreements, Eppenauer has also worked closely with government and judicial officials, academics, and industry leaders worldwide on IP policy issues, in addition to participating in the recent passage of major U.S. patent reform legislation.”

So we have an attorney leaving a company with a track record of aggressive IP enforcement to open an IP-focused office for a law firm which does things like send people to chair conferences on monetizing IP (http://cf-conferences.com/conferences/ip-strategy-seattle-20...) telling businesses that he's deeply concerned about their ability to hire people like them to bring expensive IP lawsuits.
If you do not reproduce, then the existing population has to work longer, or you need immigration to make up the difference, at least to care for the retired generation until they pass away. And at least for Japan, they don't seem to be a big fan of immigration.
Hackr.io is pretty close to what you are thinking about.
The problem with Amazon RDS, and they freely admit it, is that it's not built for the scale at which some companies operate. If you need advanced features of your DB, or need to operate at large scales (the magnitude of scale differs by RDS engine), you'll end up wanting to run your own DB on an EC2 instance.
Best Practices for Managing Your Code Library – Practical Business Python
It seems like only methods can be decorated. Is there any hope for decorators on top-level functions in the future?
No. What I am asking for (although note I am not the author of the grandparent comment) is to be able to be logged into Chrome without being logged into a browsing session if I so choose. And as far as I know there currently is no way to do so.

It's nowhere near my only problem with Chrome, but it's one of the big ones.
Everything is fine with my infrastructure - network (active dir.) & PC time, e.t.c.. It might have in a different geographic area to the Google servers/CDNs though. One would never have expected this kind of weird error/notification with Google services. I am thinking many other users will be encountering such frustration.
While there are new comers like Swift, Go and Rust etc. Still the biggest language and lots of chores in future, will be Java. If you want to just work <tm>
I'm currently using Pale Moon. It works fairly well. It's a Firefox fork, but as time goes on its diverging further and further from FF.
This is not even a problem if you're using Ansible (and possibly others): you just say you want the latest version of the package installed, and ansible will to an `apt-get update` for you as a preliminary step, and install/update the package if needed.

So basically, all the machines you're running ansible on will have the latest version (if that's what you want, of course)
Three suggestions that can positively improve this product:

1. At least on mobile (didn't see it on desktop) the landing page only contains the subscription form with no detailed indication of what is being offered.

Suggestion: given that space is free put at least the last issue alongside te subscription form, this way people can easily decide if they want to receive more of this via email. Also, it can retain people that won't subscribe but will return weekly for the new articles.

2. Sensational titles like "Become Bad Ass at Sales Without Sounding Like A Douche" may catch the audience but at the same time to push away others looking for a more professional approach.

3. Avoid articles and summaries like this:

Want your content to consistently make the front page of Hacker News? Think about all of the traffic, leads, and customers that will generate. In this book, Justin Jackson teaches you about the inner workings of Hacker News and how to take advantage of them to regularly get your posts to the front page.

It reads a lot like "how to spam HN for profit and get away with it" even if the content is not.
Finding Template Documents with RethinkDB and the Bing API in Python
Yikes. One would think that could be pared down by a significant amount: Node is only ~40mb installed, and the various webkit browsers aren't much bigger than that.
I think it would be a wrong approach because with a style like HN, articles disappear from the main page and are hard to retrieve very soon. While in the case of a tutorial it might remain relevant for a long time and the order in which they are submitted is not important. While with news, how fresh a news is, is important.
IIRC that "open standard" part was tacked on at the 11th hour by people who were unaware of what that actually entailed. (Not to excuse Apple for saying this)
Yanis Varoufakis full transcript: our battle to save Greece
CSTA: Google Surveying Educators on Unconscious Biases of Students, Parents
PyDev of the Week: Kevin Ollivier
While the humorous distinctions are all great, they are also sort of tiresome to me. Maybe I'm the only one. To me it's a symptom of a world where we have too much specialization. To do "science" a scientist will often have to do "engineering" and I also feel like engineering expands knowledge just like science does.
Groping women force barmen to give up kilts
If France or Italy cant recapitalize on the free market anymore we can shut down the world economy for good.
there are several zsh autocomplete type plugins. I like this one https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search
How is it financially possible?
Paper has a cost
Ink has a cost
Postage has a cost
Either it is done from the office and this will soon be detected, or it is done from home, with a bankrupcy risk close to 100%
Sorry!
Nicely done! At least you didn't try to paste half of wikipedia into the input field as my nice collegue did :)
Out of the ones you listed, and grit my teeth to say it as I must: Go.

Go is the new C, for good and ill.

We're going to be stuck with it for decades. Might as well become conversant.
Drop the Euro, devalue, re-adopt the Drachma, exit the single market currency and agree to more flexible debt repayment terms whilst not dictated to by the Troika. Obviously Greece will still have to make repayments, they'll be more on their terms, rather than the ECB's.

With the devalued drachma restored, the tourist sector will boom, and their exports will improve drastically. Subsequently their GDP will rise and they'll be in a better position to make repayments to its creditors. Without exposing further risk to surrounding Med member states who are not much stronger at the moment.

Individuals should convert their euro's into bitcoins or other, more stable, flexible assets to use whilst this happens and until the Drachma stabilises.

At this point either path will be a long and difficult one, but I think there's light at the end of the #Grexit path.
Typescript adds support for React's inline JSX syntax
I am fairly sure NASA pays a lot of attention to the precise value of the acceleration due to gravity wherever it sends its devices.
I still haven't played earthbound (iirc it wasnt published in europe) and I'm thinking of trying this romhack which apparently improves the controls. Can anyone whos played the original comment if this is a good idea?

http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1111/
Win 12 Weeks Funded Mentoring with William Hill in Tel Aviv or London
Well, what's really important was that it was a learning experience.
> Smaller company playing a disruptive strategy against giant competitors.

Although before that, Nintendo owned the games console industry, so it wasn't exactly a small startup. It had market-leading software franchises to sell its hardware.

> seems so many technology firms have one or two hits then get wiped out when a new product under-performs.

Absolutely true. It's one of the main reasons why the IBM PC (running DOS) and then openly-licensed Windows came to dominate the PC market rather than Acorn, Apple, Commodore (Amiga), Sinclair and hundreds of other proprietary manufacturers.

That was never a viable strategy in the games console market because most consoles were sold at a loss, ie software sales subsidized hardware sales.
Thanks for your feedback. I agree that the representation is suboptimal. I will work on this if there is interest in the site. Regarding the ast representation, I will think about making it optional.
This site promptly had me returning back to GPG again when it first came out and I got access to it. After a couple months the initial novelty of it all wore off (yet again). It's a decent idea, but when even the tech people in your circles can't be bothered with your encrypted emails it's a sign that we need to stop fooling ourselves and move on to whatever the next idea is.
English. j/k.

Out of those, would pick Go
I wasn't actually talking about singletons, just the doublechecked locking pattern. It's also necessary for laziness on objects that are referenced by multiple threads.

I tend to think Singletons are a dubious design pattern, like a lot of other people.
I'd recommend changing the colors, blue on orange hurts my eyes.
>I survived and I'm still trying to figure out if I want to bail too

Layoffs come in rounds. Just because you survived one round means no guarantees on the second or third rounds.
I am not sure how much of actual "work" is going to vanish. My premise is that "work" is going to be relocated but not eliminated. Moving to cloud is not as easy as drag and drop. Netflix had to do plenty of re-work (and write a bunch of very cool tools along the way) to achieve it.

The problem comes from legacy systems. They are very real and very slow moving. People do not want to alter them as that may involve re-tooling their entire ecosystem. If they do want to migrate to cloud (eventually), they would have to deal with all the additional complexity of a hybrid cloud eco-system.

Where cloud is a huge win though is lowering the entry barrier for start-ups. More start-ups are getting more things done at lesser cost and lesser time than ever before. These are exciting times for innovation.
When you have enough business that RDS is too small, you are not going to be heartbroken about paying for a bespoke setup.

Until then, ignorance is bliss.
Interesting; so, boxfuse is one of these (..."micro" kernels? What's the name, of when you run in a hypervisor without a real OS, so no user isolation, no process isolation, etc.) OS/image-creation tools...

I didn't realize they were production ready yet, but sounds pretty spiffy.

What's interesting is that I think Boxfuse is spinning what most people would call a weakness ("if stuff breaks, I can't SSH into the shell and fix it (because, not only is that a 'bad idea', there just isn't a Linux OS there to SSH into anyway)" and calling it a strength.

Nice spin. :-)

If I tried boxfuse, I'd probably look at embedding the Apache Java-based SSHD server, not for app setup, but debugging ... assuming its terminal session would provide useful information in the Boxfuse "there is no OS" environment.

(The boxfuse site uses the term "Secure Micro OS, Few MBs", so if I'm misinterpreting what their platform does, someone please correct me.)
It is. It's apparent how much effort went into it when you build a project with it and realize how much of the nitty gritty has been abstracted away for you.
The part where you log in and then explicitly upload specific URLs to Pocket? The part where you navigate to the Pocket app and use it? This sounds like any other website.
Germany and France could, if they wanted to, completely void Greece's debt. They have a combined GDP of about $6.5 trillion. Greece GDP is $0.24 trillion and is one of the smallest players in the EMU. But the don't have to and they don't want to because then other countries could also think that they shouldn't have to pay their debts.

I think they are ruining the Euro project because they are creating a lot of animosity between peoples. Greece will survive but it will be remembered for a long time that in their worst crisis they were being bullied by their bigger brothers. Right or wrong, that's how it is seen.
Mother and Mother 2 are both available on Wii U as Earthbound:Beginnings and Earthbound. Good reason to buy them legally :-)
Everytime I read of Mars settlements and I think of eventual childs born there, I feel there is something wrong. It's a strange feeling. Nonetheless, the chance of visiting Mars is super cool and I'd take it!
I worked on Cloud Foundry buildpacks for 7 months. I was working at the Pivotal Labs offices in NYC and I can tell you this for free: devs want SSH access too.

When a box dies in staging, it's nice to learn why.
Steve Jobs said that about FaceTime, not iMessage.
I think this is missing the point about resource management, which I think it's one of the most important things about engineering. That is, the difference between "effective" and "efficient"
Maybe we need to look towards the DS for inspiration. At the beginning, the touch aspect was heavily promoted and a lot of games came out with only touch controls, that worked mostly well. On the other hand, the DS has one very important feature - a stylus with a sharp point. Even if you do get a stylus for your phone, most have very wide ends, nothing like the precise pen that came with the DS. I sometimes wonder whether if mobile phones had all come with styluses, we'd have better games.
That's the way I read it, although more detail from Trend Micro would've been nice. This vulnerability seems to relate to the browser plugin:

"The Browser Exploit Prevention feature in the Endpoint Security in Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Suite detects the exploit once the user accesses the URL that hosted it. Our Browser Exploit Prevention detects user systems against exploits targeting browsers or related plugins."
And if you enjoy that, then you should probably read his "Laundry Files" series, currently up to book 6 and counting. It's the same mashup of Lovecraftian horror, Cold War thrillers, and scientific/IT geekery, but on a larger scale.
The Democrats have a lot more intelligent, competent politicians among their ranks than the GOP, but that doesn't mean most of them aren't self-serving, out of touch assholes.
A Life on the Rails: The Dedication of Railroad Tourists
Spyware that you have to log in to? Spyware that you explicitly send URLs to?
Sorry for the delay. The monthly costs (which are actually closer ~$800-1000/month), are a small part. A bigger worry is if we take money from people, we really have some obligation to provide "reasonable" service. We've had relatively few system-administration incidents so far, but I'm concerned about something happening when we are on vacation or busy with other things.

Worst case scenario is Chrome changing how extensions work, which requires us to actually write code, or someone finding a serious security vulnerability.

As a conclusion: It really would take more like a total of $3000/month in fees to make it worth someone's time to deal with the paperwork, the administration, and to be willing to be on call. It seems unlikely we'll get there, but I'm investigating the possibility.
Thank you, looks like I was mistaken :D
I Want to Work at Jagex
> If your method is modifying data non-atomically, then you can still have issues with data consistency when another thread attempts to access the object in the middle of your update.

Externally-visible data should not be mutable.

> That's simply not a universal truth.

Let's talk specifics then. My preferred model is: every piece of persistent (beyond a single method scope) mutable state is owned by an actor, and accesses to that state are performed by sending State values to that actor and receiving values back. The type system enforces that any state modification happens in the appropriate actor; since State is an ordinary value you can refactor safely without worrying that you're changing concurrency boundaries. Monadic syntax (for/yield) makes it easy to compose state changes that should happen atomically, and since the call to actually perform the modification is explicit, it's easy to see which changes are atomic and which are not.
I don't have number but instead of promoting command line tools we should start with stuff like this. It is not hard to learn enigmail
RIM published a BBM app for android and iOS a long time ago and still keep it up to date.
The Firefox team has been very aggressive about performance lately. Each extension you have installed increases the startup time, so that's probably why they baked it in.
This is most interesting...

The garbage traffic came from about a hundred thousand
infected servers, most noticeably, in LeaseWeb B.V.,
Hetzner Online AG, PlusServer AG, NFOrce Entertainment
BV, Amazon and Comcast networks. That said, the attack
was distributed evenly across thousands of hosts and none
contributed more than 5% of the total volume.

I used to host a lot with Hetzner, and while quite expensive, they mostly responded to these kinds of things very quickly and with a certain level of technical competence (which definitely cannot be said of every hoster). Also, I'm quite surprised to not see OVH in there, as their network has a kind of "reputation" for these things...

Fighting back would‘ve been a little easier, if the abuse
departments in most of the mentioned companies didn’t
process requests 9-5, Mon-Fri only. (Hours more befitting
a scuba-diving shop in Vatican.)

Business as usual I would say...although I don't scuba-dive...

Edit: formatting
Why a Greece Deal Matters: A Visual Guide