skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Storj, maidsafe at least. There has been some talk about incentivizing tahoe-lafs AFAIK. I think from the altcoin camp there are also more projects.
Back in the '90s I was doing work funded by DEC and later NSF with JPEG and one of the things I did was find an decent way to store them at a smaller size and resolution. I found that having the first scan be just the MSB of DC of Y and then later the MSBs of the other two DCs was the same as having the first be all three give or take two bytes over more than 90% of our corpus and it let something display in about half the time (when a 9600 baud modem was target).

It's been a long time but I think what I ended-up with was first scan MSB of Y DC, next six bits of Y AC. Then MSB of Cb and Cr DC, then a scan with a few bits of Cb and Cr DC and AC and finally the rest. The idea was that for a B&W, greyscale, or color thumbnail the same JPEG would be used but only the first N scans sent followed by 0xffd9 with a width and height in the img tag. Anyway, I can't be the only one that figured-out in the days of SLIP over modems that doing this trick was a good idea.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10305855
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Grace Hopper explains it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8

"Between here and the satellite there is a very... large... number... of nanoseconds."
There is a Wikipedia article[1] about these destruction of old monuments.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_early_Islamic_h...
I love Rust, but it's important to understand what it promises and what it doesn't.

While Rust is considered a "safe" language, I think the term is a little misleading. I prefer "memory-safe." There are plenty of ways to mess up something like a password manager that don't involve failures of memory safety.

Additionally, Rust is only memory-safe to the extent that you do not use unsafe code and that includes the libraries that your project depends on.

That said, I am not qualified to evaluate the security of this project. It may very well be that this password manager is very secure.
The HN guidelines allow for articles of general interest to the community, which this falls under.
>You stated Java was #1 according to TIOBE a decade before Android was released.

No, I wrote (quote) "nearly a whole decade before Android was released".

Besides, you couldn't have missed the point more.

First the whole thing in discussion is whether Java became #1 due to Android or not (and it hasn't: it was #1 way before Android, and kept it until now for over a decade).

Second, TIOBE is indicative, not absolute. A language that's #1 with 25% in early 2014 doesn't suddenly drop 5-10 points to go below another for a few months -- that's just a momentary trend in searches or repos and other things that TIOBE looks at, not some indication that millions abandonded Java and adopted C for six months and then came back.
Just give Medicare and Medicaid the ability to negotiate and publish what they pay for drugs. Right now they are forced to accept a (self reported) average market price for every drug they buy.

They buy over half the prescription drugs in this country. They can be a bully and negotiate great prices for themselves. And once the prices are public, see if any insurance companies are willing to accept a 5000% premium over the Medicaid price.
How... unreadable. Congratulations Twitter?
Ah, yes. The confusion is assuming that advocating for deregulation means one thinks that markets are perfect - it doesn't. It just means they think that deregulation is not a good solution - much like someone can advocate against blood-letting as a cure for cancer without believing that cancer doesn't exist.

For example, in this case the regulation didn't prevent VW from polluting, but it did help them fool people by giving fraudulent approval to the cars - it's not hard to argue it actually did worse than if it hadn't existed. Then there's regulatory capture, misguided policies that promote worse solutions, etc.
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I don't think anything wireless(besides free space optics) will ever be able to match the bandwidth of fiber. There just isn't enough radio spectrum available. Using currently available COTS equipment you can easily push 100+gb/s over a single fiber. Such capacity isn't feasible even for terrestrial based wireless at this time.

That being said, I hope one of these projects takes off.
Most of the undeveloped world would benefit greatly from even just 5mb/s of internet.
I read something recently that claimed that Googol (the mathmatical term) was in fact a corruption of Google in the first place, though the evidence is thin, it's vaguely plausible:

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/05/15/comic-bo...
Is this such a thing:

https://github.com/raymontag/rust-keepass/blob/2b7b701b69541...

unsafe { ptr::write_bytes(self.encrypted_string.as_ptr() as *mut c_void, 0u8, self.encrypted_string.len()) };

?
Openstreetmap just got a big boost thanks to Maps.me
Pretty sure biodiesel emits carbon when it burns, the charm is that it's renewable, so long as we can farm vegetables. It's not carbon that was sequestered in the earth but it's still carbon
I am in agreement. Rule of law is a predictable stat that creditors like to evaluate risk. Thing is, China's application of law can be very political. So while creditors can't predict that the legal system will work as expected like in America or Western Europe, they can predict that even economically successful political dissidents are at a measurable risk to losing everything very quickly.
No, we're talking about something vastly more invasive. Beyond a certain extreme, they become very different things.
Do you have any specific advice? I have a small turbodiesel whose life I'd like to maximize.
U.S. Reaches Trade Deal with 11 Pacific Nations
I think the state of the art for Haskell has improved a lot in terms of scientific computing since 2010?

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...
I always saw the point of micro services as not having to figure out the scaling part yet.

If you focus on grouping by purpose rather than what resource they might use then you can keep them on small instances until you better understand what kind of resource they require.

Once you learn their usage pattern you can adapt more quickly (if scale is needed at all) and not have to first split up the code.
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I think countries could first try to legalize cheap generics of that drug, as it already happens in India. But then an economic war would ensue. Each country would counter sanctions with other sanctions. Then negotiations would come, where a middle point would be sought between the trade blocks, similar to WTO, or patent portfolios and non-aggression pacts.
There's been some talk of collaborating with those projects, so it's definitely a possibility. IPFS is more about tying together all the existing components in a nice way, rather than trying to reinvent everything itself. Please get involved if you have ideas about the direction that should be taken :)
OS X users don't have that option unfortunately.
While you're at it Microsoft, please also give a way for users to remotely log out all active sessions on other computers and devices.
New Concepts in Wireless Security Solutions for Large Businesses
In the light of the emergence of the threats to the Windows 10 platform, as well as the major data breach of sensitive information orchestrated by hackers attacking the wireless networks of Italian company Hacking Team, it is natural large companies increasingly concerned with how to protect their wireless networks from external attack and intrusion. Because many companies spend extremely large amounts of money to cover their wireless networks from outside intrusion or attack, it is necessary to spend money and make strong efforts to develop a wireless network solutions that can be installed in a central computer center and extend protection across the entire company or systems of sensors spread across the area of a company’s installations in order to achieve the same protective effect.

However, even if wireless security solutions like WIPS are installed at great expense, it’s not easy to detect or prevent outside attacks or threats. Because hackers and those seeking to expose information can use simple methods making a hotspot to check the WIPS security and then use diversion methods to get around it. It is also difficult for large businesses to establish complete security due to the sheer number of wireless devices used on their facilities and the fact that strictly classifying all of their MAC addresses would be impossible or extremely impractical.

Because of these facts, now many of those charged with network security look at ways to identify and eliminate vulnerabilities instead, a effective wireless security solution. This involves regular check-ups of the entire company’s wireless infrastructure to identify weak points and problems areas. This method is more efficient and accurate method of detecting problems or potential problems, and can be used along with sensors installed in areas where problems or vulnerabilities frequently arise. New developments will allow companies to inspect their wireless vulnerabilities regularly via drones as well.
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True that. And it depends on the situation which approach is better. If all drugs companies are profiteers - then regulation is the better and more effective option. If only some bad actors among them are - why burden the rest with regulation.
It depends on the course, some courses are kept available and others are shut down after the action is over. I think the choice is left up to the instructors. I started downloading all of the videos when I sign up for a course for this reason actually, because I tend to go through them too slowly to finish with the main group.
Does anyone here use www.passwordstore.org? I read through the source and I simply love how simple things are... therefore I wonder why something like keepass is preferred over passwordstore?
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Great feedback.

Only comment I'd make, based on the stickers, is that ISO8601 [1] should be embraced, even by (especially by?) North Americans.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
what is the meaning of: curses-based password manager
Heh, yes, I noticed that. That's a good example for invalid reasoning leading to a correct conclusion.
Where in Europe?
FTA: "It says patients are largely shielded from price increases by insurance and financial assistance programs the company offers, so that virtually no one is denied a drug they need. But Mr. Pearson, a former McKinsey & Company consultant, has said he has a duty to shareholders to wring the maximum profit out of each drug."

This is the classic coupon strategy to maximize revenue - if you set the price very high but offer discounts to those who can't afford it, you can get more revenue than if you pick a single price that would be less than what some buyers were willing to pay and more than others were willing to pay.

In the first example of the article, an older woman (Susan Mannes) had to take on a second job to afford a drug that Valeant increased the price on in order to keep her husband from dying. I don't know what the upper limit is on how much Susan and Bruce Mannes will pay for this drug, but I suspect it is limited only by their current assets. In other words, Valeant could feasibly take everything they own.

I don't see a way out of this without regulation, and I don't see that happening when the pharmaceutical industry has been so effective at influencing federal laws.
Perhaps somebody here knows, why are tents still used at the midway point in Mina? It seems that permanent structures and infrastructure would do a more efficient job of housing all the pilgrims. Is it tradition or a religious requirement of some sort?
How should Microsoft resolve this? Not using CIDs at all?
Genghis Khan's success was in due to his ability and willingness to innovate
3rd-party YouTube App for the Apple Watch
This reminds me of when jQuery had a cartoon ninja on their homepage. Am I seriously looking at a page targeted at grown adults with a talking butterfly on it?
I normally eat them raw too, even on home made pizzas (add them after the pizzas come out of the oven?) ... but I suspect a slight soaking / spray with something acidic (lemon water is the obvious candidate) may stop them browning quite so badly.
I'm guessing the new/old value is a carry over from how KVO works and could be useful for a few cases.

Holding a ref to the subscriber so that it can be unsubscribed.
Complete guess on possible engineering teams that could make up that 250-350 people: SEO/acquisition, various "admin"/marketplace functionalities (adding, removing, updating products), analytics, financial reporting, marketing reporting, payment processing, probably some kind of "core" team, general bugs/RTB, etc etc etc etc.
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I'm really keen to know this too. I see they have add-ons for postgres, redis etc... but what about sentry, new relic? What would be the process to work with those?
Not to be glib, but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curses_(programming_library)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_manager
Are You Really Middle Class?
The objection is to your making light of protests focused on people being executed in the streets by their government because of their skin color.
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I hate cats now. They shit in the gardens of other people. I think they should be forbidden to walk freely outside.
Experian hack: T-Mobile customer data is already on sale on the dark web
I'm going to work at Zappos and do magic mushrooms all the time, refuse to wear shoes or change out of a wardrobe solely comprised of yak fur, and develop myself into the most central node on the org chart by generally being the chillest, most non reductionist dude in the organization
Does anyone know why Amazon mandated they migrate the platform to Amazon? This multiyear project appears to be a sinkhole to me. Multiple years where very little changes in your company except for a backend migration to Amazons platform. Whats the value add? Would it not be less costly to keep the system and create a migration to any necessary systems?
Google employee deletes an old company blog; spammer takes the URL over
Blogger used to have a beta program named "Blogger in Draft".

The "Blogger in Draft" blog hadn't been updated in a while because they've decided to use their Google+ page and other official blogs instead to tell users about new features.

However, many of us still had the old URL in our RSS readers since we still expected to get new posts from it or just forgot to remove it from our feed list, and today we're greeted with poker spam: https://archive.is/uVpA4
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It's always worked for me, on all the big five. I've just tested it now (having disconnected from my PIA VPN) and it worked fine.

The VPN works too (obviously). I do sometimes find that switching to TCP (which should make it slower due to overhead) makes it faster, but it's ISP dependent, which implies the OpenVPN UDP traffic is being throttled.
The prove that there is no intelligent designer ;)
Open Source Guilt
I used them once, it's a good service. I prefer Scalingo over Heroku because there is no virtualisation layer.
I don't think meeting physically is a problem if you only do it once, or periodically during your life. The problem happens when every organization that wants to be sure you're really you requires you do go through the same ordeal.

Imagine there was a company that had offices around the world which would prove your identity and give you a USB key to reuse that proof whenever you needed it. You could use the same identity to open a bank account, get married, get a drivers license, get a passport, everything.
This strategy only works because its so expensive and time consuming to bring a competitor drug to market. If it was a lot easier to get a competitor drug approved and to market then this strategy wouldn't work. Alex Tabarrok has some enlightening opinions on the FDA:

http://marginalrevolution.com/?s=FDA
"Because an unreadable language deserves an unreadable website"

(sorry, cheap shot. I like Perl really)
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Why is this your first reaction? You really can't see why it would be better to have some sort of way to interact with the app before entering an email address?
People are worried that Jack will be too busy between Twitter and Square, but what they don't know is that the dude's been completely spaced out for the last 4 years, making the same motivational presentation about his Dad's pizza shop to anyone that will listen. Nobody at Twitter talks to Jack anymore, even the most Senior people.
I doubt it works like this, and if it does, it's exactly why people think it's a crazy idea. Do you really think it's possible to be the CEO of a major public company, one that's changing the game and has a very high profile, and have a schedule where you take three days "off", to work elsewhere?

Then again, somehow he's doing it.
I believe Google is using anycast for their DNS servers.
Basically, the device responding to his ping from Cambodia likely isn't very far away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast
Thanks, yes. That one is awful.
Leaving the fonts scalable while rasterizing everything else would be fairy doable, yes.
That seems to be wrong, look here for the details:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol

The terms googol and googolplex were first published in 1940.
This is some really distorted thinking in an attempt to salvage the false notion that we are all helpless without the government protecting us from "evil" companies.

99% of companies I interact with have no way to deceive me in any significant way, and the few that do (e.g. maybe a bank, insurance, or other financial companies) I double check on and I take action to mitigate the risks.

Moreover, companies who commit fraud eventually get caught and their people go to jail.

That is all part of a free market system, not a command-style, over-regulated Marxist one, which just hurts people in the long run.

People who advocate that kind of system are serious evil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_trade_zone

China uses free trade zones extensively. This means that some items a moved in bulk to domestic staging areas, so not everything is leaving from China, I believe that there are requirements that they be postmarked from China due to import export rules.

Second, China's postal system is a social system of a communist state, it is heavily subsidized and therefore much of the costs are hidden in the system.
Python 3 is not even in the same boat. Please stop trolling.
Although the UI looks good, there are a few problems that are still keeping me from using it:

1. When two or more people are editing the same card's description, the description goes out of sync and ends up not saving either of the changes.

2. The UI doesn't feel very snappy -- it feels kind of slow.

3. The state field of a column has no other purpose right now than to mark it as completed so that cards end up moving there automatically when completed. Perhaps show the state field somewhere?

4. Why are cards automatically moved when completed? I liked Trello because I can organize it in whatever way I wish..I'll turn off the Completed lane for now.

5. I can't assign more than one label/tag/color to a card.
Not include them in the (sub)domain name?
It is optimised for fun.

http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-6/optimized-for-fun.html
What are the uptime metrics on Scalingo? I see there are no uptime guarantees /SLAs. http://www.paasify.it/vendors/scalingo
Here is heroku's uptime metric by way of benchmark.
https://status.heroku.com/uptime?region=EU
Facebook is going to start beaming Internet to Africa next year
To be fair, so do foxes.
OOC how many people would be interested in a Perl 6 Corporate Look n' Feel type site? Where everything is just designed to be boring and on message for production use in a business setting. Front page has Docker deployment and continuous integration setup steps etc. (that all exists and works FYI) Everything would be muted colours and mostly cloning the style of https://www.haskell.org/ or https://nodejs.org/en/ or even as spartan as https://www.rust-lang.org/

I love Perl 6 but I utterly reject and hate the Fisher Price look and feel. It makes it impossible to have a serious conversation at work about Perl 6 or get anyone less than light hearted to care about taking a look at the language. There is so much great stuff there, and basically none of it is for children. I'd go as far to say as Perl 6 would be an awful language for very young children. Something like Scratch has put the effort in there. The idea of Camelia being friendly to kids is a great sentiment... but thats as deep as anyone's effort or considerations have gone for children learning to program in the Perl 6 community. IMHO anyone who feels that's a harsh assessment has probably never attempted to teach programming to young children, I have! It's a near impossible task, and the last thing you touch is syntax or documentation websites. I cant help but feel Camelia and her scheming colours are ham stringing adoption by anyone else looking in from their cubicle or startup loft. Maybe I'm very wrong and everyone loves the bug?
Isn't the real point that one should not be able to obtain that much information simply by knowing some user id or user name?

I would guess plenty of services include the username in some URLs.

Edit: of course the autor also stated that, but more as a side note. Leaking the CID would not be a problem if there wasn't any futher information to be gained.
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Exactly. The never really evolving product is what hampered their growth lately.
I am not a very important person but I certainly ask for it, and I'd like you to stop discarding me and my "kind" as "no one".
Kafka-esque
I noticed that my bank (Halifax) sends a long numerical code to webtrends for every page that I visit. The code that it sends seems to be unique for each session.

This is blocked by uBlock but it is concerning.
Splash screen? So '80s.

Looks pretty, but I gave up after one screen change due to the horrible navigation control.

I can only ask... why?
This looks so awful. How can you take the language seriously with a homepage lke that?
I don't know whether there has been a modern reinterpretation. The way i remember being taught in school, Muslims are allowed to keep dogs for hunting and guarding purposes, but we are not allowed to touch them (except perhaps on the head?), or let them into our houses.

Not sure what exactly has changed except perhaps we don't hunt much any more.
Nope. It's pretty much guaranteed that each side thinks their own position is superior. Else why would they hold it? The problem is when a party is so certain in their superiority they are unwilling to acknowledge the possibility that they might be wrong. That guarantees an unproductive discussion. I'm beginning to think that this might be an example of such.