skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is exactly the progression that software made. When was the last time you wrote your own bios, bootloader, os, device drivers, filesystem, network stack, etc.? You don't do that now, as you said, "most things are assembled as blocks," except it's worse than that, you just get a big monolithic "OS" now days install that on your desktop and then you write "custom code for your domain."

I don't think this is a bad thing, since all that software that you don't write yourself is available as open source and you can still dig in and see how it works if you want. I'm not a close follower of arduino, but from what I understand the low-level code and board schematics and layout are open source, so it's kind of the same idea. I don't think the processor is open source though (having the verilog code, timing constraints, layout, etc. for that would be the ideal).
I'd like to teach myself to be less tense while programming, and by "tense" I refer to my sympathetic nervous system. What's the best sufficiently cheap way for me to use gadgets, software and sensors to measure my tension minute by minute? An Apple watch would qualify as sufficiently cheap for the purposes of this question.

Thanks in advance.
If the Swedes have tried and haven't been allowed in then it's disingenuous on Assange's part. If the Swedes haven't really tried, then they're outright lying. Someone is lying, and it would be worth knowing who.

Maybe some Swedish comedian (or Sacha Baron Cohen in a blonde wig with a fake Swedish accent) will rock up to the Ecuadorian embassy, claim to be a Swedish prosecutor and ask to be let in and we'll finally learn the truth.
I assume from your answer, that you do use it for professional purposes?
> Initially, we experimented with using Ruby's threads instead of multiple processes

Why, to be cool? Tests are a classic case of things that should be run in isolation - you don't want tests interfering with earth other or crashing the whole test suite. Using separate processes would have been the sensible approach to start with.
Ask HN: Do US tech companies ignore quality applicants because of visa hassles?
I just graduated with a PhD in computer science from a top university in Germany. I've sent out a dozen applications to well-known start-ups and bigger tech companies in California but my applications are being ignored. My LinkedIn profile is definitely being viewed but I hear nothing after. I'm wondering is there something glaringly wrong with my CV or is it just because they don't want the hassle of finding visas.
Ask HN: Anyone worked at Tesla?
What is it like to work there? Any engineers?
I wasn't intentionally equating all of those scenarios. The only relation that they have is that they are hidden from society and illegal. The point I was trying to make is that if large operations like this are taking place behind the curtains of society, surely there are more that will eventually be revealed (or never at all) in the future.
You can add the first three using Cython, which is a small step from Python.

As for struct-based OOP, why would you want to teach that?
Careful! You're cruising for a shadowban with that line of inquiry.
Reddit's statement on IP Blocks
Gentrification is bad because it pushes out the people who can no longer afford it. How does Arduino do this to electronics hobbyists?
Cloud storage providers must be sucking up a huge amount of HDD supply... I wonder if that is putting a floor under consumer HDD prices.
Advanced MEAN-Stack ExpressJS and PassportJS Sessions Deep Dive
I worked for a company helping WalMart get facial recognition working in their stores - with Big Data to cross reference their identity with other data. So when I read about the new WalMart stores with "smart carts" to personally price items for you - I see something that will be used to maximize profit based on what the billionaries who own WalMart think you can pay. We need much more regulation of business in general. (Denmark has employees on boards - but that isn't enough.)
NetRipper – Smart traffic sniffing for penetration testers
The guy employed parolees so they wouldn't turn to crime and he himself didn't have a criminal record. Sad he took his life.
Related (police pretexting):

http://cryptome.org/police-pretext1.pdf

http://cryptome.org/police-pretext2.pdf
In my opinion, yes, definitely yes, and probably not, or at least not automatically.

The network effect alone is a huge barrier to entry. Second, the only obvious way to undercut Uber on prices would be by being bigger. There are significant fixed costs in software and analytics, and with Uber's profit margin being quite thin (compared to the fat economic rents imposed by the incumbents), it would be near suicidal to compete directly. Even if you could be twice as efficient as Uber, the price difference for the customer might be measured in pennies for each ride.
He maybe just woke up earlier and started spending more time in the sunlight, which definitely helps with acne.
> Startups.co CEO Wil Schroter says he learned about the opportunity when, as a Zirtual client, he got the service pause notice. He also acknowledges having done relatively little due diligence into the company’s books, believing that speed was of the essence in order to retain clients who are being wooed both by other startups and by some ZAs who are going into business for themselves. For example, Schroter does not know the outside investor that bailed, or why.

Well, that seems a little silly.
among the big themes in this tragic story, a minor gem :

"Cote went on, “Beekeepers (particularly the hipster versions) in Brooklyn sometimes (often?) lead a myopic sort of existence wherein only their world view, or their set of needs, is valid or important.”"

while it may seem only hipster related, one can see how DA/LE behavior in this story pretty much lends itself to the same "myopic" description. And in general it is among the main characteristics of our species.
I think it's interesting that you and others are using the term "industry" here. Sesame Street is made by the non-profit Children's Television Workshop and it has always aired on Public Television. It was founded specifically with the intention of not being industry.
Black Hat USA 2015: The full story of how that Jeep was hacked
It's super easy to create a new branch and push it upstream (especially when creating PRs).

I know I could write a script to do that for me, but there's something so nice about having little things like that already baked in.
This something like in thinkpad x240 and x250 but up to x 230 were not drop down hinges, maybe looks modern but not thinkpadish IMHO :)
Way cool. Just curious, are the Persied points in this map/diagram/art representations of actual known objects?
NPD: Chromebooks outsell Windows laptops
If you really want to get into TCP/IP it's not the worst place to start, and all the others who just browse for fun aren't hurting you any, are they?
Public television is not about competition
This kind of nonsense is why as a tourist, I would think very carefully before ever going to the US, and have little desire to.

Based on what I know about the place, I'd feel uneasy the whole time I was there, as though I could be arrested at any moment just for crossing the road the wrong way.

One time I took my Irish passport instead of my NZ one by mistake when entering Australia, and I was subjected to dog sniffs and minor harrassment by the border control staff, which made me very uncomfortable. From what I understand that's nothing compared to what you can expect as a foreigner entering the US.

Do other non-Americans feel this way or is it just me? I can't imagine this situation does wonders for American tourism or business.

FWIW my experience of police (in both NZ and in Germany) has been that they're always very pleasant to deal with.
On an ethical level: Because there's quite a lot of difference between major versions, and you shouldn't be forced to replace one product with another to get basic fitness-for-purpose fixes on something that's only a year or two old.

On a practical level: Tons of devices are stuck on 4 and it's not hard to backport the fix. Once you do that, just compile it for the devices you sell already.
Since baseball stadiums rarely sellout (unless you're AT&T Park) I think it's more to protect the broadcast agreements with whatever local cable network it is that caries the game. The NFL used to have agreements like the one you mentioned, where the game was blacked out unless the stadium sells out - but I think they got told they couldn't do that anymore.
JSX is a separate spec. https://facebook.github.io/jsx/

"It's NOT a proposal to incorporate JSX into the ECMAScript spec itself. It's intended to be used by various preprocessors (transpilers) to transform these tokens into standard ECMAScript."

Anyway, I really like this article. It pains me every time I have to deal with angular templating.
Remote Exploitation of an Unaltered Passenger Vehicle

Dr. Charlie Miller

Chris Valasek

August 10, 2015

http://illmatics.com/Remote%20Car%20Hacking.pdf
My thoughts on running Sandstorm in an app on a server that runs apps is similar to my thoughts on running ownCloud on Sandstorm. There's definitely uses, to be able to use features the parent app platform doesn't support (Sandstorm doesn't do everything ownCloud does yet), but running an app platform inside an app platform is sometimes silly. (Though it's probably relatively trivial to run Sandstorm inside Portal Platform.)

Though running individual Sandstorm apps as individual Portal Platform apps is probably also doable, since SPKs contain everything a Linux server needs to run an app. Sandstorm and Portal Platform manifests are pretty similar, and the way the apps are run are similar.

My thought here is just that if your 'install' script can unpack and set up from an SPK file, you might be able to take advantage of some of the apps already being published (currently) exclusively for Sandstorm.

I've been poking around Windows' SDKs to turn iOS and Android apps and stuff into Windows apps, so the concept of this sort of thing happens to be fresh in my head currently. :D
Hmm. Actually, the algorithm could be very transparent. It would be there to consistently apply the rules. If the rules were too harsh, and not effective in some way, they can be tuned.

The algorithm could be as simple as:

first time offender, non violent case, 0 bond
second time offender, non violent case, 100 bond
etc.

Another idea that may benefit all would be to force people who have gone through the system to create a bond "deposit account". Like a health savings account. This amount could be collected slowly over time -- forced deductions from pay.

People without jobs or money -- must be released without bond then, in the case of non-violent crimes.
Thanks for sharing!

It shows with :java the produced Java code.
Arc is on the list, but considering its creator (PG) and the founder of YCombinator and HN (also PG) then maybe not so surprising.

What's the criteria for a language being "obscure?" I consider Erlang an obscure language but I'd bet that most people do not. Does it need to have less than a certain % userbase?

What criteria determines a language being "rediscovered all the time?" One post about that language per month? one per year? I don't remember seeing a front page post about several of those languages for quite some time.
FWIW, analog film doesn't clip in the same way as digital, but instead has a nonlinear roll-of on either end of the brightness scale. Still there is a limit to the maximum contrast, of course.

If you're interested, try Tri-X for BW and Fuji Velvia 50 for color. Any late 70s Nikon will do well as a camera, the old 50mm f1.4 is particularly good and cheap. Tri-X is best developed yourself, but the Velvia needs sending to a lab that specializes in positive film development.
People spend $1100 getting their decks designed!?
There are definitely limitations, but many developers are willing to trade those for access to an extremely high-profile app marketplace rather than hoping their apps will be found through other channels. Tech is only one piece of the 'successful app' puzzle.
Is that the best case for changing a single cpp file, or the worst case for changing a header file shared across many translation units?
You must be too young to remember the original Sesame Street: wild birds interacting with French mimes. Now THOSE were the good old days.
If you're vying for satire, it's not immediately obvious. :(

Poe's law is an Internet adage which states that, without a
clear indicator of the author's intent, parodies of extreme
views will, to some readers, be indistinguishable from
sincere expressions of the parodied views.
45k iops is not terrible, but it's not competitive with current Intel enterprise SSDs (S3500 is 70k+, S3710 is 85k). I suspect that Samsung had to make huge sacrifices to the controller and DRAM portions of the drive to fit that many NAND chips into the 2.5" form factor. They're basically trying to create a new class of flash storage, which is space-optimized rather than performance-optimized.

I'm sure there's a market there, but I don't know how big it is. This is denser than current hard drives, but total cost is probably heavily in favor of hard drives for most use cases.

I find it particularly confusing that Samsung (seems) to have gone for a SAS SSD versus NVMe. NVMe would allow them to do a PCIe card form factor, which would surely be easier from a physical space perspective. And it's not like anyone has a PCIe flash product at 16TB either -- Fusion-io tops out at 6.4TB.

NVMe also might allow them to improve the iops. Intel's P3500 NVMe is 430k iops at 2TB. Night and day compared to this Samsung drive. So in one 2U chassis you could have any of:

24x2TB Intel P3500
= 48TB
= 10,320,000 iops (read 4k)

24x1.6TB Intel S3500
= 38TB
= 1,572,000

24x16TB Samsung PM1633a
= 384TB
= 1,000,000 iops

(meanwhile HDD would have far lower iops, but also probably a lot cheaper)

While the Samsung one is alluring from a space perspective, I can't really see replacing either the 'fast SSD' tier or the 'slow HDD' tier with it in my deployments.
This is about 50% of the pain of Scala for me. I want to like scala, and some of the concepts behind it are neat, but in reality the act of writing it with the java interop, opaque unrepeatable errors, and compiler slowness makes it a fantastically unpleasant experience.
They would be if they're entering actual patient data into Google, which would be silly (Android voice recognition would be less silly, since doctors do use voice recognition software for dictation, though in my experience this is usually something locally-installed on a PC, like DragonSpeak).

The problem is that, by way of Windows 10 effectively having a keylogger installed, pretty much any EMR accessed via a Windows 10 machine is automatically insecure, since the data entered into said EMR is being sniffed and sent to a third party. If Microsoft experiences any sort of data breach, hospitals throughout the U.S. will be having a HIPAA/HITECH hell-day.
Apple Said to Delay Live TV Service to 2016 as Negotiations Stall
You can see our old site and product on archive.org if you have any doubts, everything is different, but it does seem true that our idea of Show HN is not quite what the policy is. We'll make only regular submissions from now on. Thanks for undoing the demotion.
I don't use this software. I have no reason to read the license.
Show HN: Anonymous Chat Session for Your Twitter Followers
The article yields its fruit! Thanks!
Was anyone else expecting the article to be about replacing Ruby with a compiled language?
Haha good question! It's nothing specific, but I intended it to look kinda like a thermostat. When we launched this new homepage animation, we had just announced our IoT support so the goal of this animation was to convey that Parse runs on a lot of different things :)
Once again, I'll endorse the use of the tilde ('~') as a punctuation mark to indicate sarcasm or satire. To use it, replace the end punctuation of a single sentence with the tilde, or wrap an entire block of text in two of them, like quotation marks.

~It's so very difficult to use.~

Fortunately, the previous post is written such that a Poe's Law check would probably confirm my suspicion of satire.
So...

1. Bees start to turn red, causing people to think of the maraschino cherry factory. They're tested and found to be carrying red die #40.

2. The cherry grower looks for help with all the bees coming into his factory.

3. The New York Times runs an article implying that the bees are red because they're harvesting factory runoff.

4. The bees are found to be harvesting from vats of cherries in transit within the factory. Those vats are sealed, and the red bee problem is no more.

5. The Brooklyn DA's Office notices the Times coverage. They've investigated the factory owner for marijuana production already, but failed to find anything they could stick him with. They suggest to the Department of Environmental Conservation that this merits an official check of the factory for illegal syrup runoff.

6. The DEC checks for illegal runoff, and also for marijuana. They find neither.

7. A new DA is elected and decides to drop unresolved cases. This prompts the Office to try one last time to get the cherry factory guy.

8. Although it is now definitively established that there was no illegal runoff and the bees were feeding on in-production vats (which they're not doing any more), the DA's Office gets the DEC to investigate the factory once again for, you guessed it, illegal syrup runoff. They justify this based on the old news coverage.

9. The DEC finds no illegal runoff. They do find marijuana this time, though.

Truly, a high point in good governance. How exactly can the DEC investigate this guy for a problem that (a) it's already investigated and found no evidence of, and (b) is supported only by a theory that is already known to be false? :/
It does when you're knocking down older, cheaper buildings and replacing them with luxury units.
I don't think so. You see if you move away from mining you need the agreement of the users not the miners, who by design will become surplus to requirements. If a method of securing the Blockchain without miner is found you could be pretty certain most people would back that option if it promoted further decentralisation.
The bees weren't just a ruse for them to raid the factory. They investigated him for illegal runoff based on speculation in the New York Times that that was how the bees were turning red, even though the cause of the red bees had already been determined to be something else.

Usually, when you have a pretext to do something, at least the pretextual reason is, you know, true.
If you're trying to raise a few million dollars and you're not a PowerPoint jockey it feels like money well spent to me.

Our pitch deck was just black text on a white background but would have loved to have thrown some design time at it.
The real url where the latex rendering takes place seems to be here: http://tex.s2cms.ru/

The link that was submitted has an editor that detects latex formulas, send them to the link I mentioned earlier, get back an svg and insert it on the page.
LuaJIT is such an amazing just-in-time compiler, faster than the traditional Lua compiler, supported on many platforms and used everywhere where speed and performance are a priority.

For example it's being used in Redis to provide Lua scripting, and can also be used with nginx (OpenResty). While developing Kong (https://github.com/Mashape/kong) we noticed that LuaJIT provided substantial performance improvements.

I hope that the recent step down of the main committer won't affect the future of the project [1].

[1] http://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/Looking-for-new-LuaJIT-...
If Microsoft came out and said they weren't fixing a critical Windows 7 security flaw to force people to upgrade to Windows 10, HN would have bottomless wells of criticism. Google refuse to issue a security fix for a critical vulnerability for a less-than-2-year-old OS, and what, that's ok?
Popular Airline Passenger Routes from 29K Wikipedia Articles
Sure. And I don't mean to discourage you from sharing good work. Think of Show HN as a list of "new things to play with". If the community has already tried out your base service, a repost isn't a new thing to play with (at least not at first sight).

But if it's a new service, or there's something major for people to try that they couldn't have before, that might make a fine Show HN in its own right. In that case the title and the post should present what's new, and it should be more than just an incremental upgrade. That line is admittedly fuzzy, but this is about as clear as I can make it.
I noticed you also did not give any information on the accuracy of DL versus other techniques.
One thing I've noticed since coding with immutable data structures & functions (rather than mutable OOP programs) is how tests run really fast, and are easy to run in parallell.

I/O only happens in a few functions, and most other code just takes data in -> transforms -> returns data out. This means I only have few functions that need to 'wait' on something outside of itself to finish, and much lesser delays in the code.

This is coding in Clojure for me, but you can do that in any language that has functions (preferable with efficient persistent data structures. Like the tree-based PersistentVector in Clojure).
Because no truncation happens. In this case [] operator doesn't specify any type, only that the expression inside is an integer expression. While normally the type size_t is used for object and array sizes, [] takes any integer expression and the compiler won't complain.
Rugged Box-PC Runs Linux on New Quad-Core via Eden CPU
> I hope this marks a return of an innovative and competitive LucasArts.

I don't see this as innovation. It's simply a continuation of the path towards higher and higher levels of eyecandy. Unless they put one in my living room, I cannot see this bringing any fundamental changes. I'd much rather them do some more cutting-edge writing, new ideas and concepts to make a game enjoyable beyond the demo.

I want Tie Fighter + WingCommander:Privateer + Eve Online. I couldn't care less about realistic facial renderings. (Yes, I am aware of star citizen, but atm I am ready to drink that koolaid.)
I think part of the solution is to ban quotas for performance review. The only metrics that should matter are the average rate of reported crimes (solved vs unsolved if they're investigators) and the average number of non-trivial complaints (excessive force, IA investigations or infractions, and so forth). Anything else should be ignored as to the LEO's performance such as the arrest rate. It just seems logical that we get our metrics of how well cops are doing in line with what actually needs doing.
Hey, this is really neat. It reminds me of the lesswrong.com community, where the goal is to figure out ways of offsetting cognitive biases.

One thing I've always wanted to see is a mandatory A/B test built into any new legislation. That is, funding for a study after X years of the new law or program being in place would have to be part of the law. It could even including a threshold of the desired controlled effect of the law or else it is immediately revoked at that point.

This way we'd force people to argue not about 2nd order issues ("I think mandatory sentencing is good" vs. "No, I think it's bad") when they could agree on first order issues ("We all want to see a 10% decrease in robberies within 3 years.") This way a bad program would automatically expire if it didn't meet its goals, and the goals would have to be open enough that people could throw out bad laws ("Goal is to incarcerate 20% of the population" wouldn't pass, no matter what your political leaning).
As I understand it, uBlock is based on httpswitchboard *2013.