skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if they would like to buy any Typhoons, A400Ms or aircraft carriers.
The French and the English built the Concorde in the late 60's and the French also built the HST known as "TGV" in the early 70's, a train that to this day (with newer iterations) holds speed records for a conventional train (proof that the initial design was excellent). After all this, people still like to joke about how the French are "not good engineers".
I'm curious as to how that comment even ended up here :S
It paves way to start a war by ripping off legal framework first like "versailles treaty". Germany earns the trust to be responsible country to do peacekeeping overseas by reconciling with neighbours. Japan is different story. it hasn't even shown any gesture of sincere apology.
IPv6 will get a big boost from iOS 9, Facebook says
Or be like every news outlet out there and pretend this is a known and common term and just use in quotes.

All 10 articles I've seen about the VW thing, each and everyone of them used 'defeat device' in either double or single quotes without explaining what it is just that the EPA doesn't like it.

From autonews to the various posts and times and the editorials no one explained it.

Heck even Google doesn't really knows it, i found the explanation for this only in a site containing definitions for shipping (as in a Ship) terminologies.
The Campy Cosmic Horror of H.P. Lovecraft
Note that with a long list of int values, it's also fairly easy to get the order wrong. Having a proper point type makes this less likely, as well as making the intent explicit.
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The case of France is a quite simple. Governement wanted to lessen road related death, so they actually subventionned city and state to build roundabouts.

They are flourishing everywhere, but at this point there is not much need for it anymore. But they keep building them to keep their subventions, it redistribute money to local company (and also keep mayor in their place).

Sometimes you can drive 100Km without encoutering a single crossroad but hundred of useless roundabouts, it actually reduce speed on main road and provide little but no value to actual cross section.
Animated map shows the undersea cables that power the internet [video]
Microsoft sues recycling company that allegedly leaked 70,000 Office serial keys
I'm not seeing the connection...?
> If you count professional music artists, producers, and songwriters among fans

If they're making something outside of work and sharing the result on niconico for free, I don't know why I wouldn't.
auto can be a great aid to readable and maintainable code. It can also be used to obfuscate when not used in moderation.

for(const auto& elem : container)

is vastly more readable than

for(my_long_type<specialised_type>::const_iterator iter = container.begin(); iter != container.end(); ++iter)

I recently had to rewrite some C++11 code to C++98 to fit into a project. Using nothing but auto and range-based for loops, it nearly doubled in size by switching back to the older more verbose syntax. So long as you don't go to the other extreme, these have much value.
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Only people who can afford endless impound
fees will "just park in the street".

It depends if all the other parking in the area is restricted - the jargon I've heard is "displaced parking" and I've seen it in action.

When a university near me raised parking prices, any road or grass verge or dropping-off point on campus that wasn't marked 'no parking' got cars on it. When those were marked 'no parking', they started parking in the customer parking of nearby shops. When the shops restricted parking to two hours, people started parking on residential streets further out. So the residential streets needed a residents permit scheme.

Now, if parking is already extremely heavily regulated you might already have the street parking and customer parking and residents parking restrictions (and admin and enforcement for them) in place. But it's my experience that restricting the supply of parking spaces isn't always a simple matter.
I'm not sure if this is a completely intentional joke or actually mojibake—if encoded as Latin-1 and decoded as UTF-8, you get "pµøoorly formatted."
When you singing and someone else steps in
I came away disappointed about the level of detail on that too. Also I wondered on the political nuance of why Semple was expelled, that part was quite terse.
Stammering goes
The limit is cardiovascular, not muscular. World class rowers and cyclists have about the same power output. A rowing bike would be larger (so less aerodynamic) and difficult to engineer.
Yeah but SF makes a metric f ton of revenue off parking fees and fines. So they'd need to dramatically alter their revenue sourcing to get rid of parking spaces.
Even without reading the rules - no. Otherwise, why not spend 8 hours to go the 5 miles, charging up the system the whole time, and get a brief burst of 100+ mph at the end? It'll end up seeing who can build the better power capturing mechanism, not seeing how fast a human powered vehicle can go.
Pretty sure http://rogueamoeba.com fits the bill. I enjoyed an interesting interview with the founder Paul Kafasis on Debug. I had a good laugh at the discussions about having employees for years and never meeting them. http://m.imore.com/debug-66-paul-kafasis-rogue-amoeba
Last time this was on HN, people also wondered why you'd have hundreds of representations of the same number, and how you'd do a fast equality check.
For those lazy to convert that's 137.94 km/h . That's just above most of the world's road speed limit.
locator-app.com: refactoring backend structure into microservices using seneca and rabbitmq. We're a bunch of students developing this platform [it's german and has currently no internationalization].
What is sad is how critics, like the Times Jon Caramanica, are complicit in this system.
That's crazy!
I love random forests but IMO the default should be extremely randomized forests. It's interesting that he advocates random forests as ExtraTrees (sklearns extremely randomized forest implementation) is also visible on his images.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.65....
I think that at least Apple could put the Xcode binary files onto a CDN inside China. I'm trying to download Xcode 7.0 from the App Store today, and it's still hanging after a few hours.
You must give each new Javascript version a different filename (by including either the hash or a version number) and keep old Javascript version available forever or at least for a large enough timespan.
I prefer the MIT OpenCourseware style, where there's no signing up, no trying to get money out of you and you can come in and just take what you want out of a course, much of it graduate level classes where knowledge is dumped for it's own sake, whereas Udacity/Edx/Coursera all seem geared to introductory courses and selling credentials. I typically just want the lecture notes, assignments, and the recommended reading now. I find video lectures too clunky to load up in the bulky UIs of MOOCs, bandwidth problems, and they eat up too much screen space for working along writing out the programs. I appreciate the condensed versions in the notes too since I don't have a lot of time to dedicate an hour to watch a lecture I could read much faster.

For example this course on Elliptic Curves http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-783-elliptic-curve... I decided to take after going through djb IETF working group mailing list posts which are so detailed I wanted to understand the basic math involved. Every post he writes is so thorough it's typically almost a class in itself in modern security analysis
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/msg07335.h...

Also, I originally learned "real development" (my decade of hacking around C willy nilly modifying programs doesn't really count) from Sussman's "Adventures in Advanced Symbolic Programming" where you read chapters out of SICP and then work on assignments, with mini lectures built into them in just plain text http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
With std::unique_ptr (you can set the deleter) and ScopeGuard you don't need to create new types for every type of resource.

I respectfully disagree with leaks not being a problem.
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See famous "The Black Knight" scene from Monthy Python.

Question remains, what can we do about people in denial? Because many problems won't solve themself.
Did anything happen to F = m × a in the last 20 years?
Acceleration a is heavily dependent on the mass m.
Since a = F / m having half the mass would result in double the acceleration with same amount of force F available.
I'm a fan of pop music. I've always liked some pop. It's manufactured to be liked - rather like sweets: not nutritious but many of them will do when you want a sugar fix.

I've never been a fan of a "pop singer" particularly but isn't that type of fandom more the preserve of teenagers [girls particularly?]?

OT Aside:

>"the intensity of religious faith depends on the notion that prayers are heard by a deity" //

You're clearly off the mark here as some religions don't have a deity but nonetheless have fervent and intense followers.
The title of the article is misleading, as the participants were reading on a tablet, not an e-reader. ("During the two-week inpatient study, twelve participants read digital books on an iPad for four hours before bedtime each night for five consecutive nights.")

Having used an iPad, a Kindle, and a Kobo, I know from experience that there's a huge difference in the quality and intensity of light emitted by the devices. At its lowest setting, an iPad emits much, much more light than an e-reader at its lowest setting, and the e-readers I've used have to get above 25% or so before they begin to match the light intensity of the iPad at its lowest setting. The displays also differ in the way they're lit: tablet LCDs are backlit, and e-readers are generally front-lit, with the light being pointed at the screen and bouncing back off it.

I wouldn't be surprised if the blue/white light used on e-readers also affects sleep, but I think a study needs to be carried out using those devices before it can be concluded that they do.
The title could be misleading. It's light-emitting e-readers that affect sleep cycles, especially iPads which they used in the study.

That means my sleep shouldn't be distracted significantly just because I read on my non-backlit Kindle.
Sounds like a ripe opportunity to write browser and implementation-specific JavaScript instead of trying to solve real world problems in a readable and reusable manner.

This would be more interesting if it wasn't specific to Chrome only, but looked at the web at large. Maybe specs/things like this could be extended to be part of the standard instead?
I'll just leave this here:

The United States of America, the Republic of Korea, and Japan held a productive and substantive security meeting from April 16-17 in Washington, District of Columbia, to enhance trilateral defense cooperation in light of the evolving security environment in the region.... The officials reaffirmed that their governments will not accept North Korea as a nuclear-armed state, and agreed to closely coordinate to deter North Korean provocations.... In addition, the three countries held a productive discussion on cooperative measures for non-traditional security issues including humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, counter-piracy operations, and counter-ISIL efforts.[1]

Three years ago it was impossible to imagine the US and Iran co-operating about anything. Now the US has provided de facto aircover for Iranian operations against ISIS.

[1] http://www.defense.gov/News/News-Releases/News-Release-View/...
At 4am, when most people are sleeping and few need a car, what do all of the unused cars do?

Won't they park somewhere, and if so, who do you think will run the parking facility?
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A checksum can only tell you if the file is identical to another. Even if it did - you downloaded the file from untrusted location for a reason - you don't have access to original source.

Checksums are useless if you don't have access to an alternative source.
The headline doesn't reflect the content:
"Although iPads were used in this study, researchers also measured other devices that emit blue light, including eReaders, laptops, cell phones and LED monitors."

So, they did a user study using iPads, and only measured the other devices. They then claim the results apply to those other devices.

TFA didn't have a link to the paper (as far as I could tell), but it's here: http://www.pnas.org/content/112/4/1232.full?sid=a0e8cb09-0a5...

"The randomized, crossover protocol design consisted of two conditions: (i) reading an LE-eBook (iPad; Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA) in otherwise very dim room light for ∼4 h before bedtime for five consecutive evenings, and (ii) reading printed books in the same very dim room light for ∼4 h before bedtime for five consecutive evenings (Fig. 1)."

This seems like a strange test. When I read a physical book in bed, I need more light (e.g. from a lamp) than when I'm reading on a Kindle or an iPad (which I often read with the lights off, which also means I can turn the backlight to a low setting).
feynman's "QED": http://www.amazon.com/QED-Strange-Princeton-Science-Library/...
> you don't have access to original source.

Not true, they have access to original XCode (and checksum), but the download speed is very slow.
The t2'15 infosec cryptanalysis challenge is on
Skype for web will soon work without plug-ins on Microsoft Edge
I think you would need to decide what kind of programming job you want and make a "bet" on it. OK you chose python. Are you going to be using Django for building websites? Are you going to apply to research institutes to use Python in a scientific way? Do you know how to do this? Maybe taking a course for statistics with Python or R?
It's nice that they used examples of problems denied by supporters of more than a single political party. I think we all do that.

(Go programmers are less likely to acknowledge problems solved by generics as real, C++ programmers are less likely to acknowledge problems solved by garbage collection and boundary checking as real, Python programmers are less likely to acknowledge problems solved by static typing as real, same for Haskell programmers & lazy evaluation, etc. This is "political" in the sense, for instance, that a more popular language is tremendously more useful, so you want a language you've invested into to be popular even if it fails badly at solving a real problem; there are real benefits to denying it being a real problem if others believe it isn't real and that belief makes the language more popular.)
Crappy choice of terminology for this article. They're talking about reading in iPads (or other backlit LCDs, presumably).

Was hoping for some insight on frontlit eInk readers like the Nook Glowlight or Kjndle Paperwhite.
Different email address it seems.

https://github.com/XcodeGhostSource/XcodeGhost/commit/e5b527...

https://github.com/XcodeGhostSource/XcodeGhost/commit/014f78...
It would break anyway because pages are usually designed to degrade when JavaScript is disabled, not when the JavaScript fails to load or behaves in an unexpected way.

For example the <noscript> tag works that way.
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I share the awe of RF (especially as they look naive, but turn out to be extremely good for a wide range of problems), however, the main problem is that they are black boxes. Typically, it is easy to get good results, but almost no insight, or further pointers.

Many times I ended up using linear regression (with properly engineered variables), or something as simple, because it gave almost as good results as RF, but I could interpret the results, inputs, etc. (And may task was academic or business analytics, so CV score was not the only figure of merit.)
Dark matter and energy are there to solve an issue with the cosmological constant which is a "value" that was introduced by Einstein to make his general theory of relativity work with the back was accepted as a static universe, basically it's the energy density of the vacuum in space.
This constant was then "abandoned" after Hubble discovered that the universe is expanding, it was still there but it's value was (assumed to be) zero.

When the scientific consensus reached a point where it was agreed on that the universe is accelerating the cosmological constant came back into play because with it you can explain the accelerated expansion, the problem is that we can't account for the additional energy needed to account for the acceleration so dark energy was introduced as a concept.

Dark Matter was introduced to solve another issue, one that can be seen on much smaller (or own galaxy) scales, basically if we look at the motion of stars and the rotation of galaxies we seem to be lacking mass, and quite a bit of it (although not nearly as much as dark energy) so again a place holder device was introduced in the form of dark matter

Now normally you would say well when you need to introduce additional doodads to account for something in your theory not in 1 instance but in 2 and maybe in many others your theory sucks.
The problem is that we've sorta proven that gravity works for the most part as we think it does, and if we go into weird stuff like localized gravitational constants well they don't account for the observations that required dark matter or energy, oh and they kinda break the universe.

The force of gravity and hence the gravitational constant has been proven to be "correct" in from the smallest (even atom level) observations and calculations to the macro and universal scales, and while it's true that we might be wrong, if we are we are wrong by not a mile but probably several parsecs this means that relativity and other current accepted gravitational theories are more wrong than the "Ether Theory".
There are entire communities and industries of artists, musicians, etc. that are outside the popular media machinery. There's plenty of authentic art out there, and it's plenty popular, but things like radio and tv provide a very, very narrow view on the world, like looking through a straw.
Dutch Standards Board mulls making ODF mandatory
"Backlit devices" would be much more accurate, but I doubt this information is news to anyone here. I have a Kobo, but use an external LED clip light. To solve the problem, I popped the external light open and replaced the "white" LED (which are actually blue) with and RGB LED and only connected the red and green LED. It is plenty bright for reading, but I am surprised that I've never found an actual product that does this.
I agree completely. MOOCs require too much commitment to be frank. I'm currently finishing my EE degree, so I can't really afford to "follow along" given my already full course lod every semester. In addition, I'm more interested in slightly advanced topics covered in a rigorous manner.

MIT OCW is the best solution. The self-paced courses on Coursera and Udacity are OK, but the UI as you say is too clunky, and the content is a bit shallow.

Right now I'm starting to work through Computer Systems Security on OCW [1]. They provide lectures on Youtube, so no need to fiddle around with a third-party app on mobile. They also provide all lecture notes, exams, and labs for learning purposes. The content of the course itself looks extremely interesting as well, and covers a wide array of topics related mainly to RE.

[1]: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
The "full-stack developer" nanodegree mentioned in the article appears on Udacity's list of nanodegrees but, when you click through, it takes you to a page entitled "Full Stack Web Developer Nanodegree".

The curriculum seems decent enough[0] but it's focused on a particular skill set (building and deploying server-rendered web apps and the APIs to support front-end code). It doesn't cover front-end development (e.g. JavaScript or specific frameworks like Angular/React), and so it falls short of 'full stack web', and further short of 'full stack' in the original sense.

[0] https://www.udacity.com/course/full-stack-web-developer-nano...
> Japan did invade China during WWII.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War

Started well before (1937) and ended a month later, to be precise.
If "we don't like the solutions", this means that proposed measures are not "solutions", as they do not solve the problem properly. It's better to keep looking.
Aren't all of those properties/methods standardized to query something about the document that require it to be laid out? What do you think the standards are lacking here?
My guess: As a problem that I feel threatened by becomes a greater target for action by society, the solutions enacted by society feel like an unnecessary imposition on me--since I don't believe the problem to be real--and the (potentially) building consensus around that problem makes me feel as more of an outsider. Not feeling like a part of a society's approach to that issue may lead me to withdraw from that society in a continued effort to deny the existence of that problem, which is to say not being confronted with society's narrative.

As my opinion on a problem diverges from society's, I fit less and less with that society, prompting me to withdraw from it.
How about the other Chinese IOS APP?
Alright, I'm going out on a limb to suggest we need an aggressive approach to DNS resolvers. Someone should build a RESOLVBL of resolvers that don't respect RR TTL. I'm certain resolvers will rethink their approach when end users complain.
I can't help but not feel sympathy for people like this. Did he sign up for the arming expecting not to be a soldier? Not to kill people? Not to risk physical and mental injury? The job of a soldier is to suffer these problems and inflict them on other people too. That's why they're given a gun.
I needed to know these "implementation details" between css layout and javascript also regarding css transitions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12088819/css-transitions-...

tldr: you can "fade in" a new element only if you trigger a reflow at the right moment
Flow is a type checker for JavaScript, so what is it?
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I thought about this too and started to write down some ideas: http://bixense.com/coffeepp

In the end though I never had enough time to bring it to a usable state, it was just a toy project for me to play around with waf-build and boost.test.
They can go a long way to park (industrial districts). They can also park more efficiently (by lining up).

The taxis in Beijing have their little hang outs where they park at 4am in the morning. Parking is notoriously hard in our city, but at 4am, the roads are deserted and they spill into a few second lanes without the police caring (and they are all gone by 6 as peak time is starting). Not a problem compared to the wild parking habits of private personal cars.
Because of the Peter Principle
The `(int, int, int, int)` version doesn't really help here though, because just because both libraries have int parameters doesn't mean they're compatible (eg as said above, could be different coordinate systems - but they look compatible!). At least with two point types its obvious that you need to convert between them.
Ad Blocking should be illegal, this is like stealing money from people who work on creating content, I believe that people will leave content providers who serve too many ads in an intrusive way anyway. so there is a balance in place already.
Benchling (YC S12) is hiring engineers to build a platform for biotech research
Yes, but arguably there is more financial motivation for the publishers. You end up in an arms race.