skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems to be down, try this: http://web.archive.org/web/20150612061202/http://www.maltano...
The X-37b's big brother revealed
Database Error. Looks like the same thing is here though: http://www.delightfulknowledge.com/everything-taught-origins...
> “Dominant companies can’t abuse their dominant position to create advantage in related markets,” she said bluntly, formally accusing Google of exploiting its supremacy in general search to dominate the market for online product searches

It seems completely ridiculous to call those two different markets. Finding the most relevant X on the web is fundamentally part of the same market no matter what X is.

Now, if they'd accused Google of using their market position in search to promote gmail, for instance, they might have a point. Not a very good point, but at least an understandable point. But calling "general search" and "product search" two different markets? They seem to just be looking for a way to extort concessions out of a company that seems like a tempting target, all the more so for not being an EU company.

Later in the same article is an indignant accusation that Google's display of other types of search results don't label themselves as ads. Of course they're not; if you search for an address, and you conveniently get a map of that address (which is one of the most likely things you were looking for), that's not an ad, that's the content you actually wanted. (By contrast, the garbage next to it telling you about other services related to random keywords in the search terms are ads.)

Now, the crazy 2014 deal that fell through certainly does sound like antitrust-style collusion; it's certainly ridiculous to have competitors bid for the right to appear as a list of competing services at the top of Google search results. But far from the "extortion" it's described as, it sounds a lot more like collusion between multiple large companies to exclude smaller players. The solution isn't to find a way to include more companies; it's to forget that that anticompetitive arrangement was ever proposed, and continue on with the current situation where Google shows users whatever it thinks they're looking for.

(I'm not suggesting that Google has pure and altruistic motives here; far from it. They're out to make money. I'm just saying that they've done nothing wrong here, and more generally that there's no wrong here for anyone to be accused of doing. That some random local company in the EU got annoyed at not being at the top of Google search results should not be Google's problem, or anyone's problem other than that company's.)
I believe the author previously disclosed to Intel.
RSS has been damaged by in-fighting among those who advocate for it (2006)
Dropbox's block storage system is written in go, and we're pushing terabit+ bandwidth around in it; I'd say we're in the running. :-)
Please note, this is why stuff like Twitter and Facebook do so well. Those of you who are surprised, or discouraged, when the public chooses a walled-garden like Twitter or Facebook, please remember how self-destructive some technologists have been, when promoting technologies that could server as decentralized alternatives to Twitter and Facebook.

In this particular story, the villain is Dave Winer, but at other times there have been other technologists who have undermined the very thing they were nominally promoting.
only one mention of INADDR_ANY
T-600s were covered in rubber - turned out people could spot them easily, so they were poor infiltrators.

Tesla should consider covering these with living tissue to make them more palatable to humans.
Also, it's not really worth reading.
sounds like efax
I'm glad you brought up subreddits—that's generally been my strategy as well. If you build your own SaaS, you'll generally have to do your own content marketing. It has to therefore be an industry you care about/know enough about that you won't mind reading and writing about it daily.

So I take my list of followed subreddits and identify which ones have b2b markets, which really narrows things down for me.
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At 0.1% per day, I get 30% boil-off in 1 year (0.999 ^ 365 ==> 0.694), which is expensive but probably still a net win. I don't think boil-off is a problem once you're on Mars because you can probably just use the hydrogen gas as feedstock into the Sabatier process.

Which is not to say that Mars Direct isn't overly optimistic, possibly about many other things as well.
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Apart from the coolness of it, I think this is the main actual use-case.

As the cars get more autonomous, being able to initialize charging robotically (either in a supercharger-queue, or when the car parks itself at home) is useful.
Does that mean that it's better to securely erase flash disks with FF's rather than 00's?
Or to Mark Twain's estate, seeing as he actually wrote those words in the first place.
Sam Harris' book on the same subject - http://www.samharris.org/free-will
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No, people that routinely eat extremely spicy food eat as much of it as anything else. It might put off the occasional eater of spicy food, but regular consumption depletes the neurotransmitters that generate the effect. It is an acquired immunity that can quickly escalate the level of spiciness required to perceive it. (You lose that immunity relatively quickly though.) Being able to eat almost arbitrarily spicy food is a trivially acquired ability.

Source: I eat quite a lot of habaneros and thai chilis, mostly because those are the peppers that taste strongly "spicy" to me on a day to day basis. If I eat too much on an ongoing basis, even the habaneros start to lose their spiciness. Most people have a "spiciness" threshold so low that the pepper is barely detectable to me. I was not born this way, peppers have been a regular part of my diet because I like the flavor and that confers a natural immunity to the effects.
If you look at what has happened in China after Google left, how they were able to quickly grow massive web companies, protectionism seems like a no-brainer for every slightly advanced country. Silicon Valley sees the huge first-mover advantages and is moving as fast as possible to move into every liberalized market. But it makes no sense for a country to allow Silicon Valley to take these industries for themselves. This is the fastest growing industry for the next several decades with the best paying jobs. It only makes sense to nurture the local companies and local talent instead of giving it all away to the Americans. Europe is always fretting about how they need to create their own Silicon Valley but it's easy to do, kick out the Americans! You'll have your own Baidu, Tencent and Alibabas in no time.
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Still, it was fixed with Sandy Bridge 2 years ago.
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At the expense of the citizens. Why not let companies compete?
AFAIU, all Intel CPU prior to Sandy Bridge and 2013 atoms.
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MS should build an amazing version of Visual Studio that lets you build Android, iPhone, and Windows Phone apps. It's free if you release Windows Phone apps along with your Android or iPhone apps.
O'Reilly School of Technology is shutting down
Eating rancid food increases lifespan.
Mozilla often opens up security bugs after a while (when they feel like everybody's been patched), so that can be useful when looking at the advisory page in the future.

Sometimes things end up forgotten, though, since that seems to be a very manual process.
Are you saying short people who ate spicy food lived longer than everyone else?
There is no competition, it's just monopolies. It's been shown over and over that the first-mover advantage on the web is almost insurmountable because of the network effects.
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This interesting, I'm also looking for an Actor framework for python to do work with video.

It would be good if this could use a nanomsg and its zero-copy mechanism instead of just raw sockets.
Some countries have no problem banning the best technology so that the best local technology can win, even if it's worse, and even if the best technology did nothing wrong. It's easy enough to make up excuses for that after the fact.

It would be nice if at least one such country could just blatantly state their motives up front to be judged on their merits: "We're choosing to prohibit a non-local company to encourage local replacements."
Sea silk
Which is why Google was the first search engine ever, and before that people just banged rocks together in the general vicinity of phone lines, because any prior search engine would have had an insurmountable first-mover advantage that Google could not possibly have overcome?
IIRC there was a bug with early versions of compiz where you could hold Alt and drag the screensaver away. Can't find a link though.
> kick out the Americans

How? Great firewall of Europe? Or what exactly are you proposing?
I thought it used to be C/C++ and only based on Carbon. Has that changed?
Why the heck would you not want all that juicy ES6 ES2015 goodness?
Yeah, what the hell? Even 2.5 is way too old, I generally only support 2.6+ nowadays. If something breaks compatibility with 2.5, no problem there. Hell, Python 3 has been out for years!
This is exactly what any economy with self respect should do. China is so happy now. The last thing you need is an NSA arm operating a monopoly in your country.
That's not the American!™ way. Just drink lots of milk to dampen the pain and keep chugging.
Yeap. We're all still using Altavista, MySpace, Hotmail and Livejournal.
Well, that escalated quickly
The point I was trying to make is that the golang community has a lot of respect for the current core team. If the community didn't have that respect, then I speculate that there would be a fork (or takeover), and it would then look more like the kind of community-controlled project that you seem to prefer.

This kind of thing has happened in the past: XFree86, OpenOffice, gcc, etc.
First of all, the reason why they differentiate product and general search is, because Google injects a carousel at the top of the page, regardless of its relevancy. Thus, the differentiation.
Secondly, the big discussion of abusing its market dominance was ultimately triggered by Yelp and other vertical search engines. Google first ripped of Yelp by scraping their content and then added it to their own Google Places search. After that, they decided to give their own service more relevancy. This would not be a problem, IF they were competition in the European market, but Google has an average market share of 90 percent in Europe (note, that it has up to 99 percent in other markets like Germany) and thus Yelp is super dependent on Google.
Overall, this is NOT a fair market and Google has such a dominance in that market that new players are not likely (or ever) to appear. A 99 percent market share is a monopoly, there are not many non-government markets that experience such a malfunction.
You obviously never had currywurst

Or kebabs with spicy sauces
I think language and writing system also plays a significant role in the emergence of Chinese native web giants. It's not just about Google getting kicked out; they probably would have had a very hard time adjusting their Western product for the local market. (Google tends to think of their products as "universal", and that doesn't quite work in China.)

Look at Russia. They don't have Chinese-style technical or political protections to keep Google out, yet the market is dominated by local players like Yandex and Mail.ru.
i'll second `tmm`'s comment. i skim-read Armstrong's Erlang thesis a while ago, it is very readable. if you invest a few hours one evening in reading it you can probably get a good overview of what is important, and which parts you might like to learn about next in more detail.
Do you think Esperanto is a bad idea?
ups! fixed. thanks :)
> Haskell's type system models effects through things like monads, applicatives, categories. If you don't agree with this then you're going to have to tell me what your definition of "effect system" and "type system" are.

Haskell's type system, as you rightly note, models effects through types on return values combined with monads. But Haskell code -- since the language is pure -- by definition has no effects. It triggers effects in the runtime by returning monadic values, but it doesn't actually have effects (if it did, it wouldn't have been pure). An effect system[1] describes the effect impure functions have rather than the types of the values they return (i.e. they don't require effects to be modeled as values). An example of an effect system is Java's checked exceptions, or Koka's effects.

> Wow, that was good timing!

You'll be disappointed if you're expecting a discussion of effect systems...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_system
China is so happy now.

That's an awesome troll factory slogan.
Why an article like this is on HN?

What will be next? An article praising homeopathy or reiki?
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> I'm not sure who makes me more cranky: Apple for apparently sitting on the fix, or Stefan Esser for flinging the vulnerability into the breeze for anyone to catch.

One party makes billions off their users, and will most likely continue their practice of not supporting 3 year old systems even if they are still in wide use for the next time. This should pretty much clear up who is worse.

> Esser has his reasons - "Short reminder: Europeans are not allowed to disclose vulns privately to a foreign company like Apple without registering dual-use export"[1] - but it's hard to believe he couldn't have told them anonymously.

You're suggesting that he should feel ethically obliged to break the law for helping out a company that takes part in the usual tax and labor law evasion tactics (not to mention customer protection evasion in the US)?
Just add asserts to your code. Make an assert for any assumption you make no matter how trivial or unlikely to be broken. And don't disable the assert in release versions.

That can, as a very conservative estimate, cut down time spent debugging by 50%.

Life is too short to spend it debugging undefined behaviour.
Right now, there is no clear "right to record" for a person being detained on private property. Steve Mann was "accused" of shoplifting by an exit alarm, at a department store, and began recording a video to create evidence to help exonerate himself. Then he was detained specifically for recording a video in the store.

Now legally, a shopkeeper can only ask someone to stop recording, and ask them to leave the premises -- if the person doesn't comply, then they can be charged with trespassing. But the shopkeeper has no legal right to destroy a video recording or equipment. So, the only legal rationale preventing people from recording in privately-owned public spaces is the risk of being charged with trespassing. And, it doesn't make sense that someone can be charged with trespassing while being detained. Therefore, while being detained on private property, a person has the legal right to create video recordings.

This is something Steve Mann (who, as a cyborg, is often wearing/being a camera) would like to establish as case law, and is looking for help to do so. We created a small webpage to explain the situation.

http://wearcam.org/CanadianTire2014jul16/indexpasswordctcdes...

If you're interested in this case, or could point us in the right direction toward someone who could help, it would be greatly appreciated.

Contact :
"Steve Mann" <mann@eyetap.org>
> Parsers are easy. It's the grammars that are complicated.

What is this supposed to mean? It sounds something like "Programming is easy. It's the classes/objects that are complicated."
> Languages like German and Japanese have markings on nouns that convey the role each noun plays within the sentence, allowing them to have freer word order than English.

Since when has German a freer word order than English?

German has precise and strict rules about the placement of

1. normal verbs
2. verbs used in conjunction with modal verbs
3. conjunctions
4. particles in separable verbs
5. stressed parts of the sentence

And we are not talking about rules followed only by prescriptivist grammarians, but very common rules used in everyday conversations.

The article (the PR article, not the academic paper that I haven't read) looks like a poorly researched piece.
all the bans that are implemented for only political reasons rather than socio ones have the fortune to fail because they are not aligned with our practical lives. And like any other none practical rule, this one will not only survive but also result in a higher negative(for the gov't)numbers. Just like we saw during the Prohibition period, this will also make people to see the law as whimsical and unimportant, instead of something good and protecting. It did nothing to encourage the respect and obedience the law deserves. I agree there is a lot of harm that's caused by porn, both personally and sociologically. Personal one is our own free will, governments cannot ban everything that is harmful to us but in this case I can understand and support governments who will fight against sociologically disruptive porns with the content of rape, beastiality, extreme fetishism and definitely child porn.
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While I agree with the sentiment, I would argue that the network effects now are significantly stronger than they were 10-15 years ago. Back then, the internet was still a novelty for many (those who had the internet, anyway). This was before broadband was commonplace, before smartphones, before Facebook and the iPhone were a thing.
This appears to be a bit of bubblegum neuroscience. First, the article states:

He asked participants to report, using the clock,
exactly the point when they made the decision to
move.

Then, it goes on to say:

There’s no reason to think that we are reliable
reporters of every aspect of our minds.

Well, this is quite the conundrum. Which is it? Report exactly when you do something or accept that we are not "reliable reporters?" Yet the author goes on to further say:

Even supporters of Libet have to admit that
the situation used in the experiment may be too
artificial to be a direct model of real everyday
choices.

Given the delays in perception we all experience due to working at "chemical speed", as opposed to light speed, this experiment smacks of fast-twitch muscle measurement more so than exercising free will.

Even the original premise of Libet's experiment negates a free will choice:

“let the urge [to move] appear on its own at any time without any pre-planning or concentration on when to act”

How is this free will? Free will is a conscious choice to do something, not a subconscious act.
There was an easy solution for Yelp: opt out of Google search results.

What Yelp wants, is to have their cake and eat it too. They want to benefit from what Google offers, and they want Google to behave exactly as they would prefer, assuming control over Google's product through government power. Classic competitor hypocrisy, the same behavior displayed 15 years ago by Microsoft's extremely envious competition. They didn't want to beat Microsoft in consumer operating systems, they wanted to chain and control Microsoft's operating system to their benefit.
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To me, this sounds like it is based on a fundamentally different understanding of "the net" held by a bygone generation. The title sounds much like "Third of all teens who meet strangers in the supermarket are meeting them at the bowling alley too." Um... of course they are.
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dart2js is designed to produce output that runs as fast as possible and is as small as possible.

Speaking of small: What's the size of the dart_runtime/dart and dart/core that seemingly always gets imported?
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PDFium wins on functionality and performance; I thought pdf.js won on security but this vulnerability makes me wonder. If PDFium and pdf.js are on par (or even close) security-wise, in my view that tilts the tradeoff toward PDFium.
The last line I thought about including in my GP post but didn't: "If you're a fulltime employee and you have NSOs, the founders botched the paperwork, plain and simple". As a founder myself, I think that's inexcusable in this day and age.

Condolences. That really sucks. :(
Wolfram is also another name for the chemical element "tungsten" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_(element) ("2 wolfram" probably means "give me the second meaning of 'wolfram'"). Mathematica/WolframAlpha is probably not smart enough to figure out unambiguously how much mass or energy could be in one nano-dijkstra, which it would need for such a conversion.

On the other hand, referring to "1 wolfram", some would argue that one wolfram could greatly exceed 10^12 nano-dijkstras... Dijkstra was actually quite smart and from reading his essays, I'd consider him quite humble, not arrogant at all.

He had that "old-noble-European cold-joking-seriousness" and most Americans are known to be incapable of understanding this tone of communication.
This would appear to be an argument in favor of trans-national trade deals that stop nationalist protectionism.
That seems like a really clean way of building the abstraction.

Are the only downsides the overhead of writing to the extra schema and the space required? Anyone know how bad the hit would be for the writes?

With this setup it seems like you don't lose much by trying it. No interruption to the current db, you have the extra data if you want it, you can always cull to free up space and you can remove the whole thing at any point.

Or am I missing something?
Sounds like there's an impending division between wheel-powered and unpowered-wheel land vehicles...
It still pains me that OSX ships with the firewall disabled by default. I don't think its reasonable to presume that every OSX device will be on a private network behind a NAT, and that everyone else will know to turn their firewall on. However, this appears to be the assumption Apple are making! You can do better!
Unfortunately, the plugins.enumerable_names feature was disabled and later removed (by me, sorry). [1] There was no way Firefox would be able to ship that feature because it broke too many websites for the minor reduction in fingerprinting. Even with your plugins "hidden", websites could still use Flash to enumerate all your system fonts.

The navigator.plugins array is now sorted alphabetically [2] to avoid an issue documented in Jonathan Mayer's thesis [3]. Gecko and WebKit sorted the navigator.plugins array by the plugins' "last modified" time. Users with the same plugins installed can still have unique fingerprints because it is unlikely that they installed their plugins in the same order.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1169945

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=793978

[3] https://www.stanford.edu/~jmayer/papers/thesis09.pdf
Well, two questions: what about employment at will? And, why would you prefer NSO over ISO?
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Russia does not have political protections? http://www.reuters.com/video/2015/08/06/russia-destroys-seve...