skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The immediate future is probably:

- frameworks continue to waste resources in order to reduce perceived time-to-market from adopting that framework.

- speech recognition has already shifted to the "cloud". Other more computationally intensive apps will also be run in the cloud, resisting piracy and enabling surveillance.

- developers will add more virtualisation layers.

- nobody will solve the IoT security or interop problems, but nonetheless the number of tiny not very powerful processors with radios will increase. ARM will ship their trillionth core.
We'll find out when we can compare the fine that VW gets with the one that GM got for selling cars that actually killed their occupants.
The examples on the homepage kind of underscore how little like Perl Perl 6 actually is.
> The replacement for a $100 problem is to buy students iPads and use an app and touchscreen?

When put exactly that way, yes that sounds silly.

But what about an app and a stack of much cheaper tablets? Not one per child but a pool for the school which are available to use in lesson time, exam time, and for the less well-off students to be borrowed for homework. Those that have their own Android tablet can just use their own and run the app on that, just needing a school one for exams (where they would not be allowed their own because they could bring notes into a closed-book exam).

For exam use they'd need to be locked down but that should be easy enough. Require that all students use a school provided one (so they can't hide notes and other such on their own devices) and re-image each before the exams start (so yes, some admin time to factor in here) with a base OS plus the desired app and all wireless locked off.

I mentioned Android above for cheapness mainly, if you are going to target one platform then for this use the one you can get the least expensive units for should win. Having said that, you don't need to go the native app route: build it in JS and you can run it on any device. For what the students will be needing even those cheap god-awful-slow tablets will cope quite nicely unless your JS and DOM manipulations are grossly inefficient. For the locked-down situation in an exam room "run" the app from local files and use the local storage options in the browser if you need to maintain state.

There would be an up-front cost (buying a job lot of tablets initially) and ongoing maintenance (a rolling program of replacing them as they break and some admin time updating/resetting them as needed) but you can get easily get 7" tablets for less than $50 each as single units and that price should drop when buying in bulk. For a smaller device something like https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-wor... might be more suitable (smaller screen but easier to pocket and has physical keyboard) when they are available.

And of course the schools don't have to provide them, if they already expect the students to have a TI calculator how is requiring them to have a cheap tablet or similar any different?

The key problems with this idea as I see it:

* Getting the new app-and-devices idea accepted as a viable alternative (the current graphing calculators are pretty entrenched).

* Writing the app in the first place, and then maintaining it. I doubt there would be a commercial impetus for anyone to do it so it would need to be some form of F/OSS arrangement or funded from education budgets. Maybe if I win the lottery and need a project to fill my spare time with I'll give it a go...
Is media consumption zero sum?
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Well, isn't that the entire problem at the US side? Your Congress has 60 days to read and understand several thousand of badly written legalese, and make a decision on it.
1. Self-driving cars have cameras
2. Once #1 is known, the odds of someone not adding the ability to record video and send it over OnStar, et al. will approach zero as soon as the insurance companies hear about it.

In fact, it's unlikely that the manufacturer wouldn't do it directly since they're going to have to survive the first wave of lawsuits any time someone gets in a crash and tries to claim it was a software bug. We've already seen this with Google's use of footage to demonstrate that crashes were caused by the other driver – I find it hard to believe they'd risk losing a lawsuit over a few dollars worth of flash memory?
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Does that have anything to do with selling raw milk?

Political fallout would be huge if this thing doesn't go through, right? All players in the game are heavily invested in this passing because without it, years are wasted, so I'm expecting it to pass.
AFAIK teachers spend quite a lot of time grading student papers. This would be easy for multiple choice type homework, but grading essays etc is all manual work at the moment.
Extending Python’s generators to support mainloops
Ah, OK, I see. My understanding of Tor is far from complete, I should point out - it's not my area of expertise at all, and I'm just an interested observer!

But surely the point still stands? Even if you only see the DNS lookup as it emerges from the endpoint, you still know that User XYZ uses Tor to access Service ABC, correct?
Thanks. If a reader from those countries is seeing, please chime in!
GCC Compiler Optimizations: Dissection of a Benchmark
Are you aware that you sound like a right wing concern troll trying to make #BlackLivesMatter activists sound stupid?
well, is it that Congress has 90 post-publishing date or are we counting from today?
People might get mad at you. The board of directors might decide you're an embarrassment to the company, and golden-parachute you. But to impose some kind of angelic, super-human behavior requirements for top business leaders seems a bit naive. Quite a few of these hard charging types who made it to the top tend to have, shall we say, unpleasant personalities.
>Intriguing that this renders Tor essentially transparent in some contexts - that could almost seem by design.

I would have commented on your tinfoil hat, except for what Microsoft did to Skype post-acquisition:- Completely rewriting its protocol architecture from one which was P2P with end-to-end encryption and practically impossible to wiretap or monitor, to a centralized architecture (ostensibly for scalability reasons) which made it much more easier to wiretap or obtain metadata.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/skype-ditched-peer-to-peer-supe...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-c...

Here's a choice quote from the above article.

"In July last year, nine months after Microsoft bought Skype, the NSA boasted that a new capability had tripled the amount of Skype video calls being collected through Prism;"
They have 90 days from publication, don't they?

At any rate: every member of Congress has a staff with a million dollar annual payroll.

Are they going to carefully review the TPP for problems? Of course not. But the negotiation process has nothing to do with that. They'll vote for or against free trade as a valence issue and nothing more. What few surprises we'll get will be a pure result of election year posturing against Obama.

As for whether this is a problem, again, I think that boils down to a valence issue. Either you believe that free trade and trade rule harmonization led by the US is a good thing, or you (reasonably) do not. If you don't, then the process we have now is terrible, because that process creates the potential that trade deals will happen. Because of course, if Congress was looped in on TPP negotiation from the outset, with advise-and-consent on each successive draft, there could be no trade deal. This Congress couldn't work out an agreement to fund a pothole repair if the repair was close to a contested district.

Remember here we're talking about Congress deciding about laws for other countries, much more so than for their own.
Different problem. That session identifier is probably unique to each session. The complaint here is that the CID is always the same for you, and can be used to look up more information (your profile)
Tuning toolbox for DDoS protection
Quantum suicide and immortality
> but how come graphing calculators haven't advanced at all.

They don't really need to so there is little commercial reason to develop better models. The old TI-81/TI-83 designs are still perfectly sufficient for the courses to a certainly level, and above that you need something much more than just a bit improved so you can run chunky software like matlab. There isn't really much of an exploitable niche in between.
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"TPP raises significant concerns about citizens’ freedom of expression, due process, innovation, the future of the Internet’s global infrastructure, and the right of sovereign nations to develop policies and laws that best meet their domestic priorities. In sum, the TPP puts at risk some of the most fundamental rights that enable access to knowledge for the world’s citizens."

https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp
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That would at least not reveal them in DNS queries, or the TLS SNI
Would you explain how it really works, then?
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Well they wouldn't be included in DNS lookups if they were not in the host name.
It looks like they are building as fast as they can to be honest. I'm sure its only a matter of time.
The fast track background:

"The fast track negotiating authority for trade agreements is the authority of the President of the United States to negotiate international agreements that Congress can approve or disapprove but cannot amend or filibuster."

It "was in effect from 1975 to 1994" "and from 2002 to 2007" "Although it expired for new agreements" "it continued to apply to agreements already under negotiation until they were eventually passed into law in 2011." "In June 2015, TPA passed Congress and was signed by the President."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_track_%28trade%29
I'm encouraged that this website looks this bad. We're in the last seizures before dying of Perl. Seriously, look around at the other options, they're all better. All of them.

I'm so tired of this delusional community. Let Perl be legacy; turn the lights out.
Obviously targetting the preschool market. Get 'em young!
Probably quite a few, but no matter what an inactive account is -- spam, a novelty account, or an actual inactive person -- if you have 3 times as many inactive accounts as active accounts, there is something awry.
Hi, thanks for your help sorting this out! I quite don't understand your point though:

- The Free Trade Zone seems to be related to customs (which, by the way, I was never asked to pay…).

- Even if China's postal system is heavily subsidized, there's a part of the shipping that is handled by non-chinese people (once the package is in the customer's country). So who would be paying for that part?
You're right about Medicaid paying the least and having very favorable pricing in general. Also repayment rates vary wildly by state, etc. But the baseline rates are still based off the reported average price. Drug manufacturers know that the government will always pay some fraction of sticker price, regardless of the volume the average price is based on. CMS can't negotiate in the face of these dramatic price hikes.

And yeah, it's price by fiat, through the market. Welcome to government contracts - plenty of people have become very rich in this space, and I have no sympathy to those that complain about their slim profit margins on incredibly high volume transactions. It's a big job. Get rich doing it, or get out of the way for someone who will, because it's got to get done.
again with this? jobs was never ceo of pixar...
I think this[1] SO answer by the creator of Redux sums up well.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32461229/why-use-redux-ov...
Diesel is a factor here, too. The EU strategically switched to diesel in the 90's (I think) in order to meet carbon emissions standards. Diesels are more efficient. Drivers in Germany like diesels because diesel is also cheaper than gasoline, which is not true in the US.

Diesel has a problematic history in the US, though, and US emissions standards are tough on diesel by-products like NOx. I would like to know how much of that is anti-competitive and how much is genuine concern for the environment.

VW (and the EU in general) bet heavily on diesel. VW in particular had to cheat to meet the US emissions standards because they were under pressure to compete with other automakers to gain entry into the US market. Whether others did the same remains to be seen. US makers don't really product diesel cars, that is why they did not have this problem.
Does someone know if the treaty has to be ratified by all parties before becoming a law? If it's rejected by Canadian or NZ parliaments, would it still be implemented?
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It's a freaking email address. It won't take you more than 2 mins to setup and get over with it instead of moaning and bitching here.

Yeah I'm doubling down so the downvote goons can enjoy their field day to the fullest.
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You can convert YouTube videos with a duration up to 2 hours. Audio file is provided immediately without waiting until conversion process is done.
I understand that they are based in Europe. This was a grammatical question since the parent used the phrase "rent them to an US cloud company."
Why is this surprising? Everywhere every score is affected by what the people think about you who can influence the rating. That's why people work so hard to look good. That's why employees work unpaid nightshifts and extra hours without telling their bosses. That's why salespeople will laugh about your joke, no matter how bad it is.
PyInstaller 3.0 released – Python 3 support and more
And how does one determine whether the upvote button was pressed by "a good hacker" rather than "anyone?"
Flighty as a Bootstrap alternative
PyDev of the Week: Michael Fogleman
...a few years ago I was in Beijing and was utterly gobsmacked to see, in a ludicrously expensive fashion shop in the heart of the most expensive shopping mall in the city, a shirt with Little My on it.

So apparently we're not the only ones.
New Google Parent Company Drops ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Motto
So long as the query is passed over HTTPS, it is encrypted. But the domain/subdomain info is not concealed by HTTPS.
if N=1, yes

Can someone explain better the problem for people like me? What is P and what is N here?
I'm a hacker, and I found this interesting. What now?
R.I.P. democratic free society.
I'm not sure if you read the link or not.

The word "Googol" was coined in the 1920s. There's speculation that the child who came up with it was inspired by a Comic book character called "Barney Google" who was famous at that time.
Funny datapoint - 1e100.net (a googol) is used by Google for some of their servers.
That's a good question. I couldn't easily find a clear answer. Do the other 10 parties just go forward with the deal and exclude the defector?
Is duplicating a project on the road map?

We've been looking for a tool with a good interface to use as a collaborative check list. Every checklist shares the bulk of its tasks + it has a few unique tasks per project. Duplicating the tasks by hand seems cumbersome.

If anyone has an alternative, it would be appreciated as well :)
this, to me, is the scariest part of all these deals (TPP, TTIP, CETA, TiSA etc.) : they seem to be 'too big to fail', so chances are they'll pass simply because parties involved are 'deeply invested', not because they're actually good deals...
I created a simple Stylish

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document domain("www.youtransfer.io") {
body{
color:#000000;
font-size: 18px;
}

}
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem
As a former falculty memeber and Theological Seminary student. Academia has a serious issue with quality scholarship. Most people focus on one thing and make bold unsupported grabs.

My cool little twist on everyone else (I was into Historical Theology which is the most geeky of Theological disciplines) I liked to show the art of whatever period I was talking about. It would debunk 50% of the crappy research all the time, and this time it didn't fail.

Warning slide show for ads but it is a slide show of cats in the Middle Ages.

http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/08/cat-pics-from-the-mid...

Cats as pets, guardians against mice, etc.

This myth started about cats because people thought Middle Age people were stupid and that they got the wrong idea about cats and that killed them because then the plague came. If the stupid people just had cats no plague.
As do humans.
"focuses on actually important things rather than mere money"
He seems to be there mostly for PR and customer relations.
I have used both Reflux and Redux.

Um I guess they both have their place.

Reflux is simpler to understand and forgoes switch statements and has various ways to connect stores up, even allowing one store to trigger stuff on another. It's more easy to make a mess I think, largely dues to the multiple stores and how they interact with eachother.

Redux is more cleanly uni-drectional, has a larger community, amazing debugger, amazing hot reloading support, and a lovely concept of middlewares that can extend actions as they pass through your system. Most importantly I've found a single store/source of truth makes everything cleaner. It's also simpler code underlying it than Reflux and more of a nice design pattern.

I think Redux is clearer what is going on in my final programs and will tend to use this going forward.
Or, in other words, they'll vote the bill by its title, and won't ever care to know what is in it. (And that is the naive explanation, the cynical one is way worse.)

Do you really not think this is a problem? And how will society push Congress to represent its interests if nobody had time to read it either?

(And, no, that's not about the US Congress deciding about laws for other countries. Each country on the treaty must accept the bill independently. Each one of those countries has a process for it, that's usually at least as broken as the US one - it's just that I was commenting on the US process.)
do you know something we don't?
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Dave Winer mocked up how a fat tweet could look and I think he has it right:

http://scripting.com/2015/10/02/whatWouldAFatTweetLookLike.h...

Obviously, they've thought of this internally too. I wonder what the point of the 140 character limit is today (I think it made sense originally).
Same for Brazil
I hesitantly applaud such trade deals. I know that they are rife with corporate subsidies and targeted protectionism of politically favored domestic industries but it is better than the alternative. Interdependence and trade have led to a much safer world and a rising global standard of living for all.
Las Vegas style casinos have more class than that building, it's truly terrible.
And that's of course the reason they're turning it into such a massive beast. Because tons of it is likely to be things that would not pass if they were part of small little individual deals where the vested interests were not so huge.

Personally I believe the sheer scope is reason enough to reject it on principle as a massive abuse of process.
I think that many agreements have a minimum number of required signatories before coming into effect. But once that number is met, in theory, other countries approving or not approving has no effect. This can vary in practice, though, as the United States or UK not signing on is vastly different than Austria not passing an agreement. This isn't meant to disparage any other country but in international politics that's just kinda the way it goes.
You're perfectly right I should have written "from". I can't edit the sentence anymore though.
The enemy sees that someone using Tor exit node E is accessing Microsoft using user id XYZ and they can infer that other traffic coming out of exit node E is also more likely than average to be from the owner of Microsoft account XYZ.

Obviously, the enemy may know more about the owner of Microsoft account XYZ: for example, they may know the name you typed when registering it or, if you login to the same account from your home internet connection, they may know that it is the same person that had assigned IP I at time T and may thus know that it is the same person that the ISP who was assigned the IP address block containing IP I claimed presented ID stating he was Mr X to the ISP as part of subscribing to the ISP.

This means that between accessing the Microsoft account XYZ and doing other things that you don't want to be associated to the owner of Microsoft account XYZ, you should use the "New Identity" button in Tor Browser, or use a separate machine or Tor Browser instance. Of course you cannot know which services reveal your user id to your enemies, so you should always do that regardless of whether the service is known to send it in plain text or not.
It seems that passwords are stored in files with plain text names that identify the website, service, etc. that the password is used for. Most other password managers don't expose this kind of information.

I haven't looked at those 3rd party clients mentioned on their website but I would say a console based command isn't an option for most people when there are password managers that come with a simple management gui and a convenient keyboard shortcut that insert the right account and password information directly into html login forms in your browser.
> Seriously, look around at the other options, they're all better. All of them.

What's a better option to Perl 5 or Perl 6 that doesn't have associated downsides?
It's much more complicated to build a system that can do undo without immutability IMO. Redux requires that you never mutate the global state object and things tends to be faster on large numbers of operations/clonings if you use something like Immutable.js.