skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're still working on the full documentation for the Twisted and asyncio backends. We'll put it up in the next days.
You can find the Tornado documentation under the link coffeemug mentioned.
Sundar Pichai: the little-known new chief of Google
I would be interested in this platform if it dropped the external GPU. In a past life where my laptop spent alot of time compiling OpenEmbedded and Android builds a Xeon would be desirable.
Docker 1.8.0
He's roleplaying as the alien from [Google's real fast] American Dad. [0]

Having questionable tabs open during screenshots is a gag. Seeing as he is an alien, he has alien porn open.

It's a bit of humor - unfortunately it hurts my ability to take this project seriously.

[0] https://github.com/six-pack
I understand where you're coming from, but I feel like the situation is basically how taurath described it. A lot of people buy into these narratives that make it seem like this is an issue of free speech vs. not being offended. In my own experience, as someone who recently graduated college, this is not what is happening in reality. I have never met someone who actually could be said to be against free speech in any meaningful way. I agree that there are specific cases of people getting way too carried away, but when you take these cases to be at all representative of the reasonable opinions of the other 99.9% of college students, then 99.9% of college students are going to get annoyed with you. I don't see any reason to believe that the people who take it too far are really being taken seriously by people (except by people who disagree with them), and so I don't really see why we should give them so much attention. The only function it serves is to misrepresent and distract from valid points raised by others. By all means tell me if you think I'm missing something.
My favorite kind of graph paper is engineering paper. The grid is printed on the back, so when scanned it isn't visible.

What it looks like in person: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Engineer...

What it looks like scanned: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wP_s3WyQd4A/S-s4B-sm4oI/AAAAAAAAAe...
Which particular instance of HFT firms getting early data are you referring to? Different people might be talking about wildly different things when they say that.

The general answer is going to be: the HFT's early access doesn't implicate a principal/agent problem. The people generating the data HFTs act on don't have a fiduciary duty to the shareholders of the companies they report on.
What non-Californians don't know about Carly Fiorina – but should
I believe there was additional information that they removed, but maybe its all there now. That was a complaint I had read somewhere else, so I'd take that specific one with a grain of salt. Still, I think it would be silly to ignore the fact that the developers have a monetary incentive to making the project hard to compile and distribute. Maybe I'm just biased, but their site and github gives me a distinct impression that they would pretty quickly shutdown all open source aspects of the project and completely close the source if they legally could. They are hiring a CTO and another engineer. Why does an open source project with this size of scope need so much money and employees? Its clear their number one goal is to make money now, not create a quality open source project. Combine this feeling I get with how they have treated users and potential contributors in the past, I would dissuade anyone from using them as a model open source project.
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I love it because it puts garbage in that intrusive tracking analysis.
> I've been tracking this debate (or, until recently, lack thereof) for years and no one is articulating this well, myself included. Specifically, no one is articulating how this doesn't even make sense from an economics perspective.

That sounds like very bad economics. Because
a) Either the spending power of the population is constant. In that case, there is no cost (for consumers), because they don't spend more, they just spend differently.
b) Or, spending power increases as a function of amount of ads. In that case, there is no cost (for consumers), because their increase in spending due to ads is precisely offset by the increase in spending power.

Unless you are somehow suggesting that people would just insanely accumulate wealth, instead of spend their income, if only there where no advertising.
>That doesn't mean a project should tolerate any form of hate.

Here's a better replacement that addresses all concerns:

Attacking someone based on their real life identity is not allowed, regardless of what that identity is and furthermore is off topic as this is a technical project, not a sociological one.

It has the same effect of banning all -isms by default, is clear enough and unambiguous enough for even a troll to understand and not being able to rules lawyer their way out of (people's identities are off limit, end of discussion), and keeps off topic nonsense out of tech projects.
Comics is awesome.
Ok, what is the use case for it doing that by default?
Regarding the Gallo word "ennuyail", which the writer describes as being often translated as "boredom", I'm surprised he doesn't reach for the French cognate "ennuis", which is often translated as "troubles". Indeed, the word "troubles" seems to fit Virginie Desgranges' situation very well, and is probably what she had in mind when she used that term in her native Gallo.
When was the classical age of app icon design then?
From what I understand of icon design, the goal is to make something that's instantly recognizable when glanced over. Your mind shouldn't have to interpret colors, light sources, shading, depth, etc. just to recognize a brand/app's icon. The Twitter and Apple icons are instantly recognizable no matter how small they are or how fast you glance over them. Facebook and Google have their icons as just letters with one specific color and typeface, and when you see that color + typeface together anywhere you instantly recognize what brand it is for.

Flat icons may not take as much effort to make (which is debatable... in some cases, they take even more thought to create since you have to think about every little line and curve) but they do get their point across a lot faster and more effective than a fancy, shaded, intricate icon with tiny little details. In my opinion, if you can't easily draw an icon on a piece of paper in a few minutes, it's not a very good icon- it's more of a picture or a drawing.
Headed-mode runs a single XAML app in fullscreen, and there is no taskbar or start menu or anything.
> then scan the bus for PCIe Option ROMs and copy the worm to them as well. This allowed it to spread to other systems via shared Thunderbolt devices

Is a thunderbolt display considered to be an "option ROM"? Meaning it would be possible to have a rogue monitor spreading a firmware infection?
What's so bad about the estate tax? Afraid your sheltered little brats can't hack it with only $5M?
I agree that QUERY would be nice, to disentangle some of GET's workload. PATCH, I honestly don't care for: I'm of the opinion that one should POST (or PUT) and be damned, there are enough codes to specify what the status of the resource was before the action.
How to Select a Backpack for Back to School?
Exactly. Likewise for safe spaces, outreach programs, and other such efforts.

Perhaps someday, if all these various efforts are successful, it won't be necessary to have such things. But it'll be a lot easier to get to that point if every attempt didn't have to put up with this kind of "but my free speech!!1!" backlash.

I'm part of just about every privileged group possible. I don't need a safe space; the world is my safe space. I don't need an outreach program; I have many opportunities others do not. I don't need a group dedicated to my concerns about inclusiveness and being welcoming; I'm already included and welcome by default. The very least I can do is not complain when others try to deal with that, and to recognize that some of the advantages I have will go away in the process, and that's a good thing. Better yet, I can actually help with that whenever I can.
I bet Hitler didn't leave any smartphones unencrypted
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10041651
Feedback means so much (to an entrepreneur)
> Also Google is, for a carmaker, tiny. VW, for example, is over twice as large as Google.

By what measure? Market cap, Google is one of the biggest companies in the world, (#2 behind Apple, last I heard) in the neighborhood of $450 billion. VW Group is around $100 billion. Google's cash on hand is on the rough order of magnitude of VW's market cap.
GC and runtime.

A modern GC is a large, complex beast. Python, Ruby, Lua, etc. all have their own implementations of them, and those implementations are specific to the semantics of those languages. (For example, Python's early finalizers. Ruby's FFI, etc.) That's a big blob of code for you to push down the wire with your application every time the user hits your site.

Also, that GC doesn't know how to play nice with the browser's own GC. If you have an event handler that has a reference to some Ruby object that in turn has a reference to some DOM node, neither GC can trace through that path and tell when those objects can be collected. That means you get memory leaks.

On top of that, the language implementation itself is large. The Python executable on my machine is 2 MB. Do you want to add another 2 MB to your app? Is Python enough better than JS to justify forcing all of your users on their crappy mobile networks to download that before any interactivity begins on your page? What about when you start using the additional 45 MB of standard library that comes with Python?

Also, how do you make those standard libraries work in a browser? Who is going to rewrite them all to stop using the native OS libraries they currently use and instead rely on APIs that are available in JS?

That's not to say this is an insurmountable problem. But my belief is that it's a big enough headache to outweigh the benefits you would get from writing your app in another higher level language.

Now, if your language can compile to JavaScript and has a decently small runtime library, that's a different story. At that point, you're back to only one GC and relatively little overhead for your language's semantics and core libraries. It means you don't have to worry about a large existing standard library that #includes everything under the sun.

This is why I think CoffeeScript, ClojureScript, Dart, etc. are feasible. But I don't think anyone will be writing web apps in Ruby or Python anytime soon. Languages that look syntactically similar to them (Opal, Red, Pyjamas, Brython, etc.), sure. But the real deal where you can have some app that does, I don't know, "import requests" and have it actually work in a shippably-sized web app? I think that's going to be a much harder path.

It's a great goal for the WebAssembly folks to work towards, but it's an aspirational goal.
So how long until someone deanonymizes "Socrates"?
If you take version 4, stop the first while loop once the size is at most 32, and then do linear search from there, it's faster (on my machine). For example, version 4 is 102ms and this tweak puts it at 83ms. (On clang x64.)
On the other hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb-cKVxmVGk&spfreload=10

(The article begs the question that undergraduate computer science programs are a good idea in the first place)
If these trades were being done by DB or Citadel, there'd be a slap on the wrist. But if you're a rogue trader, or god forbid a lone 30 year old in your parents basement, off to the big house for you.

If anything this just shows that the SEC has all the tools in the world to stop illegal activity, yet it does nothing, so long as you're part of the Wall street establishment.
No I would not do it on my preconception of their understanding, that is what a civics test would confirm or deny. If its required to gain citizenship why should it not be a requirement of voting? LowInformation voters have not been a benefit to this country.
I'm not jaded, and as to whether I'm obtuse, I have to let the other commenters judge.

I agree that, yes, in theory, you legally have that freedom. But if Mozilla thought users were practically able to exercise that freedom, there would be no way for them to impose a change like this; all the users would switch to a fork. In practice, maintaining a fork of a major active software project is a huge amount of work and easily to do poorly (think of the Debian OpenSSL hole), and nearly all the people qualified to do it work at Mozilla or are burned out. And Mozilla, if they want to make it harder to maintain a fork, has a wide variety of strategies at their disposal.

(In case it matters, I'm typing this comment in Iceweasel!)

As a side note, it seems to me rather in poor taste to attack my intelligence in the first line of your comment, and suggests that you think your arguments won't stand on their own merits.
Change Your Name, but Don’t Sweat the .Com – A Response to PG's Naming Essay
Astronauts Eat First Ever Lettuce Grown in Space [video]
This sounds similar to RosettaCode (http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code).
Qualcomm Launches Snapdragon 616, 412, and 212
Computer programming isn't what Computer Science courses are attempting to teach.

You're describing a Trade School. I think Trade Schools are a decent idea.

But learning the trade SHOULD NOT be what they teach in a Computer Science curriculum.
> While working on an "isomorphic" app

now you should say "universal", "isomorphic" was a poor choice of words at first place and led to a lot of misunderstanding(and bad blood between js developers and mathematicians)

http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/08/netflix-universal-javascri...

> As applied to JavaScript, Charlie Robbins presented the idea in 2011. He called it "Isomorphic JavaScript" which has resulted in years of debate over the poor name. In recent months, the term Universal JavaScript has gained acceptance.
After Zirtual, Your Next Assistant
Okay they maybe the link text should say
"Thor – A Project to Hammer Out the Next Royalty Free Video Codec".

I'd be happy to see VP9 actually get deployed on any significant scale before putting another new codec into the mix.
Or (I'm assuming, IANAL) you could pursue a court battle, and attempt to prove that your independent invention means it's too obvious to be patentable.
His proposed amendment is here:

http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/14010963493/proposed-28th-amen...

And yeah, section 2:
"The First Amendment shall not be construed to limit legislation enacted pursuant to this article, save to assure content and viewpoint neutrality. Neither shall the First Amendment be construed to limit the equivalent power of state or local legislation enacted to regulate elections of state or local officers. Nor shall the First Amendment be construed to vest in any non-natural person any unalienable constitutional rights."
One of the problems with the extreme complexity of submitting code to GCC, and FSF projects in general, (having to complete copyright assignments, which are very slowly handled) is that this is unfortunately unlikely to end up in libstdc++ (although I would be happy to see it there).
Is this how all engineering paper is (or pads)? Took a quick look on Amazon and only one had the same or similar pattern.

What's a good brand?
And you might want to consult a contemporary account of Rockefeller, Ida Tarbell's The History of the Standard Oil Company.

https://archive.org/stream/historyofstandar00tarbuoft#page/n...

Particularly chapters 3 "The Oil War of 1872", 4 "An Unholy Alliance", and 5 "Laying the Foundations of a Trust".

The oil industry has almost always been controlled by a small cartel, though that cartel has varied though the years: Standard Oil, the As-Is agreement, the Texas Railroad Commission, the Seven Sisters, the National Producers, and OPEC.

It's not been a competitive market.

Though I'd argue that oil has been tremendously underpriced since 1869.
I use the VELA lay-flat softcovers, and am super happy.
"Company names will increasingly become less bombastic and more like single letter diminutives, the way hipsters sign their emails "j"." A couple of days later, Google becomes abc.xyz. Can I have the jack pot numbers man? I promise to give 50% to the charity of your choice. :D

Joking aside, I am seriously mindblown by this comment. Can't upvote it enough and gotta read it a couple more times for sure.
It sounds like you're saying that using English as the lingua franca of aviation puts at risk the lives of flight crews for whom English is not a native language, as well as their passengers. This seems like a good example of how English-as-lingua-franca gives special worldwide advantages to native English speakers.
Are you aware that Lessig lost that case? Why don't you read that link I provided? Doesn't Lessig seem to agree with me when he notes, "I had let a view of the law that I liked interfere with my view of the law as it is."

His attacks on Citizens United are just another example of this. A pragmatic legal mind would see that there is nothing corrupt about a couple of amateur filmmakers making and advertising an amateur film about a politician. A creative legal mind would find a way to fight corruption without fighting the First Amendment rights of amateur filmmakers.
Is the Internet of Things now a Raspberry Pi 2?! A quad-core 900MHz CPU with a whopping 1GiB of RAM and a dedicated GPU?

So, for how long can you run a RPi 2 from a CR2032 cell or an AAA battery? A minute or two on full bore? Because that's the kind of energy budget people are generally talking about when they mean internet of things.

The RPi2 is a fully-featured media center, not a door lock or light switch or power sensor.

I guess the problem for Microsoft with the whole IoT thing is simply that they will never have Windows there, the devices you actually use for IoT measure their RAM in KiB. And, frankly, operating systems are very far down the on list of things we need to make IoT a reality.
Alphabet or copy-cat?
When I first read about Google's alphabet news, I was quite surprised. Scratch that. My jaw dropped. Yes, there are many companies with alphabet in their names, but I have not found a single one that has assumed that name because of their products!

Except of course, for one: CampaignRunner!

Over the years, I have seen a lot of our content and ideas lifted straight from our website by competitors but google? Weird...

Here is a screenshot and a link to the archive.org that shows it:

1) Screenshot from 2008: http://imgur.com/kucxLck

2) Here is the archived version from 2008, which we used until a year or so ago:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080919120903/http://www.report-runner.com/wrunner/solutions/bi

When you clicked the More button, it would then show the following content:

<b>Have You Met Our Letters?</b>
Some call us the <span class=\"bold\">alphabet company.</span>
Here is our alphabet, in no particular order:
<ul>
<li> <span class=\"bold\">C</span> is for CampaignRunner.
</li><li><span class=\"bold\">J</span> is for JobRunner.
</li><li><span class=\"bold\">L</span> is for ListRunner.
</li><li><span class=\"bold\">R</span> is for ReportRunner.
</li><li><span class=\"bold\">W</span> is for WebRunner.
</li><li><span class=\"bold\">I</span> is for iFDN
which makes it all possible.
</li>
</ul>
</p>
4 Steps Toward Better Code Quality
Yep. It's got a chip covered by b57.c in it.
I'm not sure how you 'estimated' the 30% Payment Completion numbers, but that is way too high. That's 50% of your Payment Initiates. According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonment_rate), you should expect something more along the lines of 20%, not 50%. This puts your effective CPM at $3.10 rather than the $8.05 you claim.
http://www.startuputility.com

Gets around 1500 visitors a week. I haven't touched it since November. Hosted on Heroku, Play Framework, S3 to host the images.

Probably a cool use case for it if someone wanted to invest more time in it. I'm pretty busy working on other things I'm more interested in.

If interested, shoot me an email.
Windows 10: broken update forces some users into endless reboot loop
Eventually we're going to reach a stage where having the .com doesn't matter. Are we there yet? I'm not sure, but the amount of people primarily using .io domains is encouraging.
This is all well described in the RFCs and http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0160.html
> And then you've entered the quagmire of defining "awful, hateful people".

Which is exactly why codes of conduct do so at length, rather than assuming everyone will agree on a "simple" definition.

> This is not a winnable battle. Some people find being told "no" to be oppressive and horrible.

They'll get over it or go somewhere else. That's not what codes of conduct are there for, and that's exactly why this issue came up in the first place: some people use a code of conduct as a weapon when they're told that their actions are not acceptable.

> Would you accept Linus Torvalds on your project? He's known for his technical ability, but also known for taking little to no crap and calling out said crap with extreme prejudice.

Sure, anyone is welcome, right up until the point where they make themselves unwelcome, at which point they don't get a free pass for it for any reason. Even the kernel community seems to be getting somewhat better in that regard, though sadly not nearly fast enough.

Note also that criticizing code is not criticizing people. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O2zgNfvsh0 for a great presentation on the various levels of awfulness that often appear in a project.

> If the answer is no: You clearly value social communication over Getting Shit Done®.

http://www.slideshare.net/dberkholz/assholes-are-killing-you...

One person can drive off many potential contributors, and a steady flow of contributors is often more critical to a project than any one person.
HFT firms don't get data early[1], they just can act on it faster than any human can.

1. There have been a few cases where data was available seconds early on certain feeds, but those were mistakes.
Because the concurrence would happily take your users if you start asking for money.
Advertising could also just make you aware of a product that you didn't know about, no? As far as I'm aware advertising can be a win for both the advertiser and the consumer.
Ah, I apologize 'oppressive' isn't the right word. I really meant 'outside of our budget', but I'll certainly be test-driving the CE this month. Thanks again.
Could that be due to lack of hardware support?
What Is True Automation in the Ad Tech Industry?
Given his support of GamerGate (http://matthewhopkinsnews.com/?cat=64) I don't really think his opinion on this matter are very fair and balanced...
I think sub $1 Cortex-M0s like ST's STM32F100 are going to slowly kill the 8051s (also likely AVR and PIC) of the world. Hard to argue with the price and performance.

Using the same toolchain as higher performance MCU (Cortex-M4F) simplifies things because everyone hates bringing up embedded tools (debuggers, compilers, IDEs, etc) and enables re-use across product lines inside product companies. Factor in the increased popularity of the open source toolchains and their quality will improve as well.
Can you give examples?
I'm totally cool with Facebook mining my data if their open source keeps up this pace. GraphQL + Relay are total game changers for structuring web + mobile applications. Code bases get cleaner and more reliable. Less data gets sent over the wire. Other cool libraries are going to be built on top of Relay (I'm pretty excited to see what can be done now with ClojureScript components in .cljc files).

This is so awesome. Much love to everyone at Facebook that has made this possible. With React, React Native, Rebound, GraphQL, Relay etc... You're saving us all from drowning in complexity when buiding web/mobile apps and I love it. Keep fighting the good fight.
Please include http:// when you post URLs.

Or start very long lines with four spaces.