skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big miss in the methodology here. (CTO of a MVNO, watching data usage and pricing trends is a huge part of my day)

Those plans and costs ignore that at least a third of the US is on far lower cost plans from MVNOs, CSEs (Carrier-Sponsored Entities), various prepaid plans, as well as T-Mobile and Sprint.

They also absolutely ignore the fact that there is an additional talk and text price embedded in those. It's very techie to assume that the cost per MB for a plan is just total cost/Mb; the reality is that you easily have to figure $20-30 for the actual phone part of the plan.

Personally, I'd prefer to give subscribers far more value from their plan; advertising isn't the only problem. Many video apps default to greedy mode; pulling as high quality video as possible; without consulting or making it easy for users to requests lower bandwidth streams. Add that to FB video auto stream which just eats up bandwidth by scrolling through your news feed (and has had at least two separate places to turn it off- making harder to educate users) - and you have a trend of content and app designers assuming wireless connectivity is a commodity and unlimited for all.

Many, many people have smartphone plans with less than a gig of data because that's what they can afford - and the ecosystem devalues the actual experience of that gig more and more.
No, I don't think I ever hear American progressives assert that they want less government.

Less corrupt government? Absolutely, but the idea that government is "too big" seems entirely in province of the contemporary right (and you can partition that up into the industrialists who want to abolish the EPA, the code-worded-racists who want to end welfare, the bootstrappers who want to privatize everything, etc).
Rationale was discussed on IRC, see:

https://wiki.php.net/_media/rfc/php.ns.txt

Linked to at the bottom of:

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespaceseparator
While money buys political access, a large part of the responsibility does rest with the voters (who are mostly ordinary people, not big money) who keep voting for reps (or don't vote) who support regressive policies. Also big money doesn't control the govt -- there are lots of times where they don't get their way -- immigration reform being a prime example where nativist sentiment has stalled it for more than a decade even though the business community is largely for it.
http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader

It's been a while since I've unlocked an HTC for someone else, but I've never had issues with mine.
Yes, the first graph is for the entire app. But we (try to) make it easy to quickly drop down to a view that shows you the most time consuming controllers and then let you quickly see performance for just a single one.

Feel free to drop me an email at lightbody@newrelic.com if you decide to check it out again and have more feedback.

Take care!
Anecdotally, it's very often not bad, (and in fact sometimes "good") to over-provision MAXPROCS. We have used as much as 3 to 6x the number of hyperthreaded cores with good results, depending on the workload. This could insulate you against some container changes.
There's also the fact that it seems extremely likely that gambling laws will continue to be relaxed, continuing to reduce their risk.
Former Fantasy Sports employee (engineer) here.

My guess is if he did use tournament data from DK to populate a team on FD, he did it for himself alone. But he absolutely has access to all of the data they say he did. This is definitely a huge advantage for the big tournaments, because you need low-percentage ownership players in order to stand a chance at having a top lineup. It would help to see how the top players picked their tournament lineups on DK so you could extrapolate that into a team on FD.
"Attracting talent might be tough, though, as Byttow developed a sour reputation as a manager in the final days of Secret."

Does anyone know what happened?
I agree, but to be fair, the NFL has long known that a huge driver of its popularity is gambling related.
I know it seems crazy, it seems crazy to me too, but this is what I encounter time and time again. No matter how carefully you explain it, it seems too unlikely to them. Once the explanation passes a certain threshhold of complexity (for which the bar is frighteningly low), they tune out and shut down.
blah blah blah - more from the "let's take every comment and twist it into something sexist" crowd.
Except in cases like those noted in the EFF's documents, where FB will change your publicly listed information without your consent and remove your ability to change it back.
It counts characters rather than bytes. Maybe it's a GNU thing?

EDIT: It appears to be part of POSIX wc.
I would like to see a YC clone for Dude's businesses, companies that interested in building a profitable business that pays dividend yearly. No exit, No billion dollar valuation, actually no valuation necessary.
My stepson tried to stay off Facebook. But then he started missing parties, not being part of evening conversations, had difficulties with groups at school, was missing out on his theatre group.

If you just ... stop ... you may find your social circle leaving you behind.
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One of my coworkers has this issue. He brought in a trackball for that reason. Makes sense the trackpoint would be the ideal mouse in a laptop for that reason. No need to move your hands off the home row.
Labels are over. And contacts could be done ousted of IMAP.
I don't know if I understand the point.

"More shocking: 99% of users experience ~99.995%’ile HTTP response times. You need to know this number from Akamai if you want to predict what 99% of your users will experience. You only know a tiny bit when you know the 99%’ile."

What does this mean? Can you explain this better? How is this a truth? I'm not convinced.

If I'm making requests for assets for a page and requests 100 assets, sure... But the worst asset doesn't dictate the user experience. We're primarily concerned with the API response time - not all of the individual static assets. Assets don't block so if one little image is slow I wouldn't take that as a breaker. We don't even measure entire page load times - just what the user needs to see to have some sort of interest especially stuff loading above the fold etc.
The environmental laws you mention happened more than 30 years ago. It sure seems like bigcos have gained the upperhand in the last generation.
Google When? – adds a timeline to visited links in Google search results
We have always been at war with EastAsia.

When I was in junior high school, I had to do a project on propaganda. This was during the time of the USSR and I had the great idea to listen to Radio Moscow and compare it to western media. My project was to find examples of different kinds of proganda and I dutifully did so. Eventually I had to find an example of "the big lie". I singled out a story of a big military victory by the USSR (probably in Afghanistan, but I don't really remember). It was not reported in any other news outlet, so I used it as my example of "the big lie". Of course I got an A+ for the project.

Some weeks later, I happened to notice a one paragraph story buried in the back of the newspaper which finally reported the soviet victory. I then started to look for evidence that my other examples of propaganda were incorrect. I readily found such evidence.

I have always felt embarrassed by they episode. It was my first revelation that media outlets have political agenda and that they adjust the way they report news based on that political agenda. But even more important was that I had participated in that agenda by re-reporting that view of the world to my classmates.

It is amazing how easy it is to allow a mixture of arrogance, pride and prejudice to galvanize a view of the world that is just wrong. You then spread that false-certainty to others. Together you work tirelessly to maintain that fiction without ever knowing it.

I have often thought that I wish I could have redone my project on propaganda after I made these realizations. Such is the strength of propaganda, though, I'm quite sure my revised project would have resulted in an F.

The OP does not realize his error, I am quite sure. He probably can not be made to realize his error and will argue vehemently on behalf of the puppet masters pulling the strings of his belief. I think the best we can do is to try to notice the strings pulling our own limbs, for we are surely not immune to this problem.
Oh.. right. I think we're saying the same thing then ;)
> A 2014 study by the National Academy of Sciences found that at least 4% of people sentenced to death are innocent.

That means that 96% are guilty. That's beyond a reasonable doubt and probably not far from the best accuracy you can expect from an inherently fuzzy system. The system is not the problem. The problem is people who are willing to still have the death penalty in a system where beyond a reasonable doubt means 1 in 20 people who are killed are innocent. That's not the system's fault. That's the public's value judgment.
Who are you to judge me?

If you are a domestic violence victim, you need to think about opsec while your tormentor is walking free. Sorry if that offends you, but preserving you and your children's life and health is more important than futzing about on Facebook. For extreme cases, states like New York actually provide state managed postal mailing addresses to prevent inadvertent disclosure by banks or other companies. This is a real issue that I take very seriously.

My employment contract features an ethics clause that leaves me personally vulnerable even in some fairly benign circumstances, so my Facebook page consists mostly of "happy birthday", pictures of my kids and community events. Does that suck? Sure, but my career is more valuable to me than Facebook commenting, and unfortunately I can be subject to the whims of thin skinned people.
Government is quite different from infrastructure.
> I think it might be possible to create a build system that can automatically
> collect the profiling data (branch stall cycles and data stall cycles)
> and use the branch likely and prefetch instructions to auto-optimized the
> critical path code.

Recent versions of Clang and GCC actually support profile guided optimizations using gcov format files to trace executions. There are a number optimizations that the compiler can determine profitable knowing how something typically executes. They don't use sampled or simulated metrics though, and I'm not sure if they add prefetch or non-temporal optimizations.

The ones you mentioned aren't exactly equivalent to cache partitioning (etc...) though. Partitioning allows explicit allocation and prioritization of a contended resource instead of only improving utilization for a single process. So, for example if two threads/processes have an 8MiB working set, and they run on the same cpu, they can easily step on eachother's data in the cache. If you partition it though, less frequently used data doesn't have to step on more frequently used data.
UK spies can hack smartphones: Snowden
Great quote about ‘Unicorns’ (lightly edited from verbal form):

“I looked through the list of companies that have an over a billion dollar valuation recently, and more than half, I think, were valued between like a billion and 1.5 billion, and something like a quarter were valued exactly at a billion. So people are clearly obsessed with getting to this mark, and they are willing to put all sorts of weird structure on their terms to get there. If you were looking at the financial data, you would say something is amiss. You’d say there is some fraud going on or something, if you were just looking at the numbers. Because they don’t fit the distribution you’d expect. There is this huge desire to get right to a billion or just over. I don’t care about it. I think it’s dumb, but that’s not going to make a company great or not.”

As a sidenote, Sam should probably stop antagonizing his interviewers by dismissing the business pontification featured on their shows :) I agree with him but it’s also a bit unnecessary.
Main takeaway: "Buggy software is not a moral failing."
I'd like to know more about #4 and #5. Do you have links to sites/articles/papers for more information? I'm having trouble searching for good sources.
I mostly agree. I guess you misunderstood what I wrote.

I was double-checking to ensure that you understood that my original comment was addressing only the author's assertion, [0] and that I did not intend to assert that the only way to achieve the same security properties of the current way of doing things was the way things were currently done. :)

> 1. You're eliminating entire classes of root-level processes.

Eh... Given that the way this sort of thing is currently handled is to bind as root, then drop privs and fork, handing the FD to the bound socket to the forked child, nothing competently written ends up running as root that doesn't need to run as root for other reasons. (For example: sshd needs to switch to any user on the system, so it runs as root. Apache only needs to access things that httpd can access, so it runs as httpd.)

Edit:

> 2. You're restricting all other non-root processes from accessing those port(s).

Linux already does this, but in a more general way. If you don't pass SO_REUSEPORT, you can't bind to a port that's already in use. If you do use SO_REUSEPORT, only code with the same EUID as the first code to bind to that port can bind to that port. See [1] for details.

Edit 2: This might also interest you: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/413807/is-there-a-way-for...

[0] Which was: "It is no longer a catastrophe if an unprivileged process binds to transport layer ports less than 1024." (Emphasis mine.)

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/542629/
The you need to watch "the true cost" if you don't understand how this all connected, Mr. Dildo.
I don't see the similarity. Where are the disadvantaged and at-risk groups arguing that Facebook's name policy is a good thing?
Crucial hurdle overcome in quantum computing
The word terrorism now belongs to the "Newspeak".

A guy who infiltrates into an enemy army base in order to kill soldiers from a foreign country cannot be terrorist.

And a country that drops a bomb from a drone into a wedding party because someone suspects that there may be some enemies among the guests, is obviously practicing terrorism.
PFsense has an amazing GUI. what problems did you experience?
Well how do you address a trollish question then? Honest question. At some point, you need to push back.
San Francisco: 3 Weeks in
You're comparing a fresh meal from scratch to mystery mixes sitting under heat lamps for hours?

Wait, the Whole Foods salad with meat is more expensive. And the Fairway meals are as expensive or more for what looks like slop.
nope. pet peeve - symbolism isn't irrational. "a billion dollars" is a powerful symbol, and may well pay off as much in psychological benefits as it loses in structural weirdness. or it may not, but it's definitely not clear-cut enough to dismiss as "dumb".
Why does everything start with a backlash? I do not get this language at all.
They do if you connect to them via VPN.
copy any potential idea coming out of the US which I don't understand the issue with.

Except, they don't just copy the idea, they copy the entire products and companies wholesale (interface, API, UI, user interaction model). How is that not bad?
In my experience HP has never been good at software or networking - that their two weak points. Will be interesting to see how this pans out.
The rake is so high on these sites (10%) that it's pretty much a scam whether they're pulling tricks like this or not.
While I don't disagree government has been at time effective (in making life better and improving the world), one doesn't have to look very hard to find to find instances where they have not been effective or even counterproductive. The government of today isn't necessarily the government of 30 years ago. It's bigger. Maybe slower. Maybe filled with worse people. I don't know that all these things are true but as they say in the stock trading commercials... "past performance is no guarantee of future success".

But I do believe people shouldn't give up and should be informed and try to participate in elections and citizen activisms. I mean... if we don't try how can we keep the corrupt from running the show?
Will it be ratified in a referendum?
Unfortunately the government gets its money for those damages from its citizens.
The menu items were not grouped logically, eg in order to change something in one feature I had to browse through every single config page in order to find the related options. It was possible to do, and PFSense Support was phenomenal (by chance the co-founder answered the phone when we called Support), but the UI left much to be desired.

Compared to my experiences with the Sophos UTM, it's downright painful. With the UTM the UI elements of every part of a service are grouped together, and are duplicated in sections where it's intuitive to do so. Eg Certificate Management can be found in multiple places in the UTM but all things related to the web filter are in one place, all things related to routing are in one place, et al.
> I wish the EFF and others who are against using real names would at least acknowledge the drawbacks of pseudonyms and the proliferation of fake accounts and fake names which comes with them.

Facebook's Real Name Policy isn't actually effective. I've got ~15 accounts with fake names [but "real sounding" in that they are real names].

> The real name policy has huge benefits. I'm not constantly bombarded by fake friend requests like I am on Twitter, Skype, or any other platform which allows random usernames.

That isn't related to the real name policy, sorry. If it was, I wouldn't have ~15 accounts with different names.

> People who are trying to disconnect their Facebook identity from their real world identity are not using Facebook the way it's meant to be used and should probably just leave it.

I've successfully done it and each account is a silo by interest.

It isn't hard. :/
Yes but anytime you are engineering “financials” instead of engineering sales and customer satisfaction you are headed down a path that warps things. In the case of unicorn valuations it’s your term sheet: investors who are getting in at high symbolic valuations are asking for special provisions to protect downside that you wouldn’t otherwise grant them.
How is it not dumb? It's an arbitrary number of digits in base 10 numerals.

Perhaps your point would be better addressed during your next regularly scheduled Bloomberg interview?
3. China is working on that by building a lot of nuclear reactors. Give it time.
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Well, why isn’t he interested in pontificating about the business environment? It’s probably because he doesn’t consider it worthwhile. I would just say that: I don’t pontificate on trends when I don’t see concrete value in reasoning about them. If you’re literally on someone’s show and dismissing their program or channel it’s a bit biting. Their whole raison d’etre is to talk about the business environment.
Yes. A plausible explanation of our cultural prejudice against "hearing voices". An amazing and thought provoking book. Even if you don't agree with his thesis. Highly recommended.
This is very important to realize about "the news". The conceit is that consuming the news will make you informed about the state of the world in the present, that is utterly false. It's a tiny soda straw view of some of the more exceptional things happening around the world at any given time. Actually educating people about the overall state of what's going on around the world is a much more difficult task which most news media organizations more or less avoid doing.
Proof is in the version control commits.
> And finally: the foundations of modern economic wealth, vast quantities of nonrenewable resources, tapped at uttelry unsustainable rates, are quite simply not sustainable. Without looking to this basis, effectively the fuel in the tank, observations of altitude or velocity tell little.

the fuel in the tank has been increasing a lot actually in the past 20 years. Did you notice that the US became the first producer of petrol ? And vast amount of natural gas have been discovered, and we have uranium for the next 10 000 of years at least.

The real question is: are we running out of Energy ? The answer is a resounding NO. and Peak petrol never happened, despite everybody claiming it would, 20 years ago.
But as a counterpoint, the crypto war. The second one we're in right now. Didn't this get settled? Oh wait, new administration. Time for the powers that shouldn't be to try again.
Maybe Benford's Law[1] has something to do with the distribution being skewed toward the $1 billion mark (at least in part).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
Is there a Python to Rexx transputer? :)
Yes, yes, yes, Rosling is right all the way and he is a very good communicator on top of that, and hates the political correctness.
Always-On VPN.

I won't buy a phone that doesn't have that feature.
4.6M identities compromised in Scottrade data breach
When debugging environment-specific issues, knowing the recent changes to a language can save you a lot of time.

There have been many times (in my experience) where a project's production, staging, and localhost environments may be running slightly different versions of a language/interpreter. When something goes wrong somewhere, being able to recall the unique properties / idiosyncrasies of their environment can help you debug very quickly.
There is a big problem in America with people not knowing how to cook anymore, especially from scratch. I wasn't taught very well as a child and had to learn myself in my 20s. Now I spend a small amount of time cooking and trying out recipes, and have gathered a huge notebook of things my family loves. We do lots of soups which take very little time to make and can last for several days.
> for this future in which we rent music, I also blame piracy

Um, how? Why not blame high-speed internet instead?
So this is where some folks on HN should come and complain and the raising inequalities, despite the fact that literally everyone is getting richer. Which is what ultimately matters.
Who cares if the congress people have enough time to read it all?

If I wouldn't have time to read it all, if it were all I did other than eat or sleep in the allotted time, then there is not enough time for it to be sufficiently considered, and should not be passed.
Interesting article, I dislike vanity metrics too. Seems most stats are designed tell the best story, rather than the truth or nitty-gritty.

Instead of looking at normalised stats, look at the worst offenders. Be it the URLs or the heaviest queries. Then find out what is using most of the resources and focus on those first.
I disagree. HP Networking is a great mid market solution.

If you want a bad network solution check out the LG IPECS line of network gear.
Where did you find that out ceras?
If you want to know more about this movie, check out this Sam Harris podcast with the maker, Joshua Oppenheimer:
http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-moral-gaze
Except the law will not be applied to protect the rights of independent musicians. Only of big business. Everyone will pirate the indies and those rights holders will be ignored. This law, like all laws today, will not be applied evenly. It's not meant to serve us. It's meant to serve power.
What is the difference between staticmethod and classmethod in Python?
It's solidly an argument for paywalls.

NB: I strongly dislike advertising/tracking networks and paywalls.