skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the hacking in that was just right for a heist film (not technically impossible, but probably would fail 9 times out of 10), and the cast:

Robert Redford, Sydney Poitier, Ben Kingsley, River Phoenix, James Earl Jones, Dan Aykroyd... probably more, but that's 3 Oscar winners, and a fourth with a nomination in there alone...
True, DIN certainly is a compromise. Of course the version we're accustomed to is never the 1931 standard committee's original take, but a digital modernization.

The de rigueur digital version is FF DIN by FontFont, which was released in 1995:

https://www.fontshop.com/families/ff-din

The changes made in this 1995 version are described thus:

"The shape of the new FF DIN differs from the original mostly by thinner horizontal strokes and by more fluent curves."

So, sounds like you're absolutely right -- line thickness and curvature were reworked to make the typeface more generally useful. (To my taste, all the weights of FF DIN look excellent on a high-dpi screen.)
> Whether or not such a device exists, or could possibly exist, is irrelevant.

It is a little bit relevant in a post that is replying to another post that says nothing in Sneakers is impossible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223284
I think then that the author has illustrated the "ills" of postmodernism through their own example, just in their own philosophy? So their criticism of postmodernism is also a criticism of their criticism of postmodernism! lol!
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Working on a 'Dislike' Button
Very related. For those who don't know Szabo is as close to the anonymous founder of Bitcoin as it is possible to get.

Nick Szabo: If banks want benefits of blockchains they must go permissionless

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/nick-szabo-banks-want-benefits-085...

"So they keep trying to re-inject points of control, and thus points of vulnerability, into blockchains, e.g. through 'permissioning'; but this nullifies their main benefits, which come from removing points of vulnerability."
Bike-shedding on mailing lists has produced some... interesting protocol decisions in the past.
> That said, I always wondered why it needs to be a language instead of just a library in another language.

It can be -- and often is. Depending on the language, the syntax may not be as convenient as using Prolog directly.
Of course they are. Dramatically so.

Are: eBay, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Uber, Priceline, Expedia, SpaceX, Tesla, PayPal, FirstSolar, GoPro, Salesforce, Workday, FireEye, Splunk, Netflix, Yahoo, Twitter, DropBox, Palantir, Pandora, etc. good for the US?

They were all the equivalent of small unicorns once. So the question is: as opposed to what? All of those companies existing somewhere else, and most of the benefits going to other nations instead (jobs, taxes, investment, innovation)?
I appreciate your saying so. If I may be so bold, I believe I have a better frame for interpreting IQ results when it comes to population studies. IQ tests were initially created to assess pupils' readiness to succeed in the French school system. It was only when transplanted to America that they were used to 'verify' that populations were fundamentally less intelligent.

Such fundamental assessments have been undermined time and again by the fact that population's scores will go up or down with their relative socio economic and cultural success.

If we were to use IQ tests in the spirit in which they were originally created, they could be used to assess whether or not there's a problem that needs to be addressed by society. So when we see a particular population underperforming in IQ tests, we should A) attempt to assess whether or not there is bias in the test itself, and B) understand that we may have discovered a population that is disadvantaged in some way.
I just reached out to you via email to see if I can help.
"Breaking news"
These banks clearly disagree with you.

It's not cryptographic protection of data. It's the cryptographic audit trail that's useful. No one can break the rules of the system except for validators, and everyone instantly knows when a validator breaks the rules so they can stop trusting them.
This look similar to mermaid diagrams, but mermaid seems more complete
Gurbaksh Chahal Sued Again: Employee Alleges Harassment, Intimidation, Slurs
Well said, I don't think logic is parents strong point though.
Suspect it would be difficult. There are differences like new data is completely independent of previous data and the source of truth for region distribution is HDFS for the block locations. There are multiple replicas per shard while HBase has one region for each shard etc. Across bulk loads, the number of shards (regions) can be changed for the same fileset or table - not possible with HBase. The data sharding is not range based like in HBase but mod based, as output by Hadoop HashPartitioner. There are so many differences that its hard to accommodate it into the HBase code.
I know my state representative and senator are accessible; I've had email conversations with both in the last couple of months. I've never contributed to either of their campaigns.

However, there's an obvious difference when one sends letters or emails to the federal level. When I've gotten responses, it's always been at least several weeks later, and sometimes several months. The messages I've received have been loosely related to my original message, but they have never addressed any actual point I might have made. I'm not feeling the love.
I kept reading and reading, waiting for him to get to the point. He never actually tries to refute Moynihan's central thesis, that destruction of the black family and black men (by slavery, Jim Crow, and other things) is the central problem facing black Americans, and the ideal issue to target for a solution. Instead, it's mostly a bunch of meandering and frequently confusing anecdotes [1], emotional descriptions of (awful and disturbing, let me not dispute) white racism over the years, and pointing and sputtering at Moynihan's conclusions [2]. Ultimately, he throws up his hands and says, "Forget it! We just need reparations! Read this other article I wrote!" Well, we happen to be in agreement. How does affirmative action not constitute reparations? Because it's also provided to modern-day Somalian immigrants? There's a pretty simple solution to that.

[1] Odell Newton...shot and killed the driver...Odell had the very bulwark that Moynihan treasured-a stable family-and it did not save him from incarceration. One guy with a stable family committed murder. Forget about it, and just keep subsidizing single-parent households through TANF and WIC.

[2] Discussing what he’d do about the problem among blacks in cities, Moynihan said, “When these Negro G.I.s come back from Viet Nam, I would meet them with a real estate agent, a girl who looks like Diahann Carroll, and a list of jobs. I’d try to get half of them into the grade schools, teaching kids who’ve never had anyone but women telling them what to do.” Everything about this quote is wrong. It's just wrong? That's it? You don't think kids should have positive male role models, or you don't think veterans should have help with housing and employment?
I am not sure what mega does... is their source open? I guess I should just try it. My concerns were having a large enough sand box (files could be 1G+, and many of them) and if there is, even for a short time, a 2x storage hit. Then the second hit of copying (not moving) from sandbox to local or remote drive.
That is a lie that the Register likes. There is actually lots if real tech. Perhaps less actual silicon than Cambridge but lots of tech. Some decent exits in real techn prove it.
Yes, in the US "organic" is a controlled term, and it is illegal to put the word "organic" on a food label unless it meets certain legal requirements:

(b) Products sold, labeled, or represented as “organic.” A
raw or processed agricultural product sold, labeled, or
represented as “organic” must contain (by weight or fluid
volume, excluding water and salt) not less than 95 percent
organically produced raw or processed agricultural
products. Any remaining product ingredients must be
organically produced, unless not commercially available in
organic form, or must be nonagricultural substances or
nonorganically produced agricultural products produced
consistent with the National List in subpart G of this
part. If labeled as organically produced, such product must
be labeled pursuant to §205.303.

http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?rgn=div5&node=7:3.1.1.9...

(Pay no attention to the potential 5% of non-organic ingredients behind the curtain)
Ah. I thought the OP was implying they said "dot".

We used both versions depending on context (twenty eight point eight and twenty eight eight). Might be an age thing though, I was post teen years when the movie came out and tended to hang out with a lot of overly precise military members/geeks.
It will be very interesting to see their implementation of the 'dislike' button, and the nuances they will have to build into the system to avoid (namely) hate-spamming, etc — the reason for the feature's lack of existence thus far.
Except if you want to go somewhere - and then stay there.
I think it's perfectly reasonable to place a large emphasis on the IQ distribution when trying to explain population trends. It's not laziness or cowardice in the slightest in the same way placing a large emphasis on BMI distribution is legitimate when trying to explain the prevalence of heart disease and other lifestyle diseases among populations.
I'm not sure the date of the linked page, but this is why RE2[0] was created. Russ Cox has some examples where PCRE falls over flat[1].

EDIT: Looks like the original linked page was first published in 2001[2].

[0] https://github.com/google/re2

[1] https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://perl.plover.com/NPC/
Thanks a bunch.
Dealing with Bad Apples
This is a typical white supremacist line. I'm sorry to see it here on HN.
he's talking about a modem, and it should have been twenty eight eight.
Bringing Chaos to Order
The University system certainly has something to do with it. Compare the startups from those who've graduated at Stanford/Harvard [1] with Cambridge [2]

[1]: http://minimaxir.com/2013/07/alma-mater-data/

[2]: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/01/cambridge-...
This would be another explanation for why African Americans (and Africans) are doing so poorly.

It's a good argument and so it weakens the likelihood of my argument but it doesn't actually refute or argue directly against my points.
I wonder how they will differentiate between:
1. People expressing sympathy with a bad event (should show up in news feed.
2. People not liking what they need (should not show up in news feed).

Interesting UX challenge.
Japanese hidden tenon joint technique
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
As explained in the article, this is not an additional option, it's just going to be an alternative label for a button that does the same thing as "Like" for negative/sad stories ("my cat died", etc).
There's a fourth reason NSA wouldn't have tipped off every vendor impacted by HT exploits: because they have no business breaking into commercial vulnerability research teams networks, grabbing their exploits, and burning them. It is in fact probably unlawful for them to do so (those actions having as they do an impact on US F-500 companies that use --- for better or worse --- tools from companies like HT to evaluate their own security).

This is a positive comment, not a normative one. I don't know how I feel about entities busting up companies like HT, but I do think I know that the world would be better off without companies like HT.
It is. That doesn't make it incorrect. Additionally I'm not arguing from a position of advocacy for white supremacy in the slightest.
The Brilliant Doctor Behind My Favorite Obscure Website
It's an assumption to me, simply because there were no facts or evidence presented. This is purely speculation based on what Bruce thinks the NSA might have done. I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out the NSA had breached them prior to this, though.
Body Modification Is the Future of Modern Medicine
Do you mind if I add these to my own library? https://github.com/Lerc/whio (MIT Licence)

It's a library I use when I teach kids JavaScript. It provides simple global functions to let them get started before they have to deal with ideas such as canvas context objects.

A Wiki page showing the functions they get to use is at http://fingswotidun.com/code/index.php/API

The functions you show here are exactly the sort of thing that would be useful for beginners.
Disclosure: I created GBD Compare (the website Gates tangentially mentions in his book review) as part of my masters work in 2011.
Yes, you are right. Since yupp is a third layer, yupp is able to generate C macros, for example:

($define,,assert_bit_mask( value, mask, op ),,($do ]
bool test = ((( value ) & ( mask )) == ( mask ));
if ( !test ) {
ut_fault( "expected mask to be set", __FILE__, __FUNCTION__, __LINE__ );
op;
}
[ ))

will result in:

#define assert_bit_mask( value, mask, op ) do { \
bool test = ((( value ) & ( mask )) == ( mask )); \
if ( !test ) { \
ut_fault( "expected mask to be set", __FILE__, __FUNCTION__, __LINE__ ); \
op; \
} \
} while ( 0 )

but you don't need to think about backslashes)
For probably more than 95% of the Fortune 500, vulnerability intelligence that is years out of date is more than sufficient to own up those firms' entire enterprise networks. The half-life of most software vulnerabilities is long. Simple IT problems like inventory remain unsolved in the real world.

So the same logic suggests that NSA has owned up every company of any real size in the world.

Could NSA do that? Absolutely yes. Did they? I doubt it. I do not see how NSA secures a single extra headcount by illicitly hacking every US and/or European company, and securing additional headcount is literally the core mission of NSA.
Traditional shift/reduce parsers are impractical to write without a specialised tool and often difficult to debug, PEG parsers and parser-combinators are great to work with but are often inefficient and produce unhelpful syntax errors. If there's some other parsing scheme that could be a best-of-both-worlds, I would love to learn more.
Don't forget thirty-six-six.
Software neural networks are a poor approximation of biological ones, but it may still be interesting to compare spike frequency distribution to see how general this observation is.
Wasn't dotcom bubble mostly an American issue though? The banking crisis was actually world-wide.
26/26
Straight Shooter for Upper Management
Anyone here has experience using allcountjs? From the first look this looks promising, just never heard of it before.
For whatever it's worth: I do not believe --- and this is an opinion I think is shared by lots of people in my field --- that Scheier has any special insight into the software and network exploitation capabilities of NSA. Schneier is a writer first, then a policy guy next, then an academic/standards-group cryptographer. Information security is a huge field with lots of subfields, and nobody specializes in all of them.

My take on this post on his blog is that it's probably a stretch for him to be analyzing the Hacking Team story in any depth.
everything is feasible in ksp with enough struts.
>"Google Play - Read The Grammar of Graphics for $103.41"

I wonder what negative impacts textbook pricing has on software development.

If I was going to start a graphics library as a non-profit side project, that'd be a big barrier.
Er, from personal experience I can say that at least some well-known CAs absolutely do review keywords appearing in SSL certificate requests. For a (really stupid and disappointing) example, see:

http://forums.comodo.com/ssl-certificate-b14.0/-t106480.0.ht...
Are you saying that people who use the chakra abstraction to think about the human body are claiming that they have magical powers? That is not my experience.

It's just an abstraction to ease consideration of the complexity. It's no different than dividing the body into "circulatory system," "endocrine system," etc. These designations are also not well-defined (ie, reasonable people disagree about whether various parts of the anatomy belong in one system or the other), but they make it much easier to learn about the body and how one can expect it to work.

The chakras were created (ie, defined) in the 700s and have worked well for many people since that time. Nobody (that I know of) is claiming they are "magic."
The assumption of the decriminalization/legalization stance is the drug market has a demand that currently is only supplied by murderous drug syndicates which is for the most part created by the effects of prohibition.
Which is really as it should be. I also find it amusing when people are SHOCKED that a kid would have a cell phone. Sure, they don't need an extravagant $700 smartphone, but who needs a cell phone more? The adult with multiple credit cards, money, reliable transportation, and sits at a desk 8 hours a day with a telephone sitting right there on it? (and then commutes by comfortable car to a house that likely has a landline.. or at least used to when I originally formulated this argument)? Or the kid who rarely has access to a landline, no credit card, no transportation of their own, relies on others (school bus, parents, etc) for transportation to a schedule that might vary each day of the week, and who is much more likely to be "stuck" somewhere?
Ask HN: What are you reading?
Here it is! The long awaited 8th edition of the Hacker News Book Club! Do not even think about posting. I will smother a kitten for every book mentioned.

Previous Editions:

7th: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9830779

6th: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9636361

5: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9543693

4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9443897

3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9394397

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9342886

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8918181
> Of course, no server is actually that dumb - even a file listing with file sizes can get you part of the way there. But if you've got 10000 files in a file store, that list can still get pretty heavy.

Exactly. remoteStorage has ETAGs in folder listings for that. The point is that you can implement a folder structure that enables you to update say just the last week of events plus upcoming ones, which is usually nowhere near 10000. Except with CalDAV you can't (according to the article, I haven't actually looked into it myself).
Wow! They initially couldn't reproduce the study because the researcher and the postdoc were doing the experiment at different times in the day.

"It’s now known that every day, this transcription factor’s levels start at almost nothing, making it impossible to detect in the morning, and then rise 300-fold, making it easy for the postdoc to find in the middle of the day."

Now that's a tough bug
https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

[...] For example, blog posts, email signups, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they don't count as Show HNs. [...]
Sneakers is a better film: better written, better acting, and better expression of the motivations of real people... but it also falls down on technology.
A military active sonar is going to be as loud as possible in order to get the maximum echo signal back from military submarines underwater. I imagine this would be orders of magnitude louder than navigation sonar, not just a little bit.
Do it. I've only seen Hackers once, maybe 15 years ago, but Sneakers is an all-time favorite.
"+1" seems like a neutral enough option that endorses the sentiment of the post, without ascribing an emotion to it.

Except Google+ is already using it.
If they don't have miners or Bitcoin, then who is securing the ledger?
Or thirty-three-six.
26/26

I agree. It is much more difficult to tell which note played, in each clip, is out of pitch if you have no frame of reference. Having heard a version of the sound clip goes a long way in this test.

This is a pitch test. IE: If I play middle C for you, then play a flat or sharp version, you should be able to identify the difference.

Asking people who have never heard middle C to identify middle C doesn't make the test relevant.
Subjectively, Boston feels like it has more startup activity than Austin to me, as someone that moved down here for cost-of-living reasons.
Slight tangent, but interesting: Earley became a therapist and has been practicing since 1973. From his bio:

> Jay also has a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University and was formerly on the U.C. Berkeley faculty, where he published 12 computer science papers, one of which was voted one of the best 25 papers of the quarter century by the Communications of the A.C.M.

https://selftherapyjourney.com/Pattern/Beginning/Who_We_Are....
Here's how many URLs we crawl every second with 80legs (http://www.80legs.com)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/44889964/Descartes%20%20...

This translates to about 700MM/month. The bump you see this month is just us adding more crawling nodes to our cluster.
Oops, you're right. I was thinking of the mobile app, not browser extension. Brainfart :(
"The human brain, which accounts for less than 2 percent of the body’s mass, uses 20 percent of its calorie budget, or three bananas worth of energy a day. That’s remarkably low, given that spikes require a lot of energy."

What is amazing about this fact is that this is only 20 watts of power. The brain computes at 10 quadrillion calculations per second. While the largest supercomputer (China’s Tianhe-2) is at 34 quadrillion and has "beat" the human brain, it comparatively runs at 24 megawatts of power [1]

[1] http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolu...
Spit the hook.
Why aren’t people sharing their data and code?
I salute your sentiment: the world would be better off without companies like HT.

It is in fact probably unlawful for them to do so

I realize that the patriotic employees of the NSA work within a legal framework, and seemingly pride themselves on doing so. But they haven't bothered to share that framework with the rest of us. So my first response was to snicker to myself, and that's unfair to you.

Also, Hacking Team was Italian, not US, so would it really be illegal to slurp up all of HT's exploits? That is, if you want to stay within the bounds of the law, if not the bounds of ethical behavior.
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I Developed New Social App – Need Help
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We need help with our promotion.

Release will be in a week so when the app goes out we would need alot of coverage to get enough users.

PS what do you think about the subscribe phase? We were building up the base of preregisterd users for the last month

Any tips?

tnx
Marin
Oh, using the same system but taking advantage of the additional signals already present on emergency vehicles... that's pretty clever thinking.
Absolutely nowhere have I advocated for white supremacy. Any sort of racial supremacy is sick and irrational.
I agree with the other commenters. I'm not going to login with Facebook when it's an "Anonymous" chat app.
Super-Cannes - JG Ballard
It would make me so happy if you would read the second part of the sentence I wrote earlier, which provides some important context for the first part.
I was delighted to learn recently you can get a nanosatellite to orbit for not very much money, and at the same time disappointed to find out that it would not stay up there for very long. Somehow I thought satellites could stay on orbit permanently