skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't write a lot of tests, do you?
NewRelic adds AWS EC2 monitoring
> I'm working with Heartland and we're getting a hair over 2.1%

2.1% isn't your whole acquisition cost. You will have to eat the inevitable chargebacks and associated fees too (which is not an issue with Bitcoin).

> You'd have to get below 2% on an ongoing basis

I'm not sure what you mean by this. We've never charged more than 1% for merchant processing and I doubt we ever will.

> with all the fraud/rewards/other stuff cards provide, 2% still seems cheap.

Why would I use my 1% cashback credit card at a trusted merchant when I can get a 2% rebate from the merchant instead? I'm not alone in this thinking, many Americans choose the 'cash price' when pumping gas every day.
Let's add another problem to the list: The packages uploaded to npmjs.org are typically not source packages, but "binaries" (in that they aren't source). They often contain minified JS files and no test suite, making them effectively useless for anyone that wants to build from source. Of all the language-specific package hosting sites, PyPI is the best I've encountered as they do proper source releases.

Also, a package manager should not be a build tool. A build system should never require a particular package manager to be present. It's okay to say "you can optionally use this package manager to get all the dependencies needed to build", but it's not cool to say "you need this package manager in order to build."
A couple of other things that haven't been much highlighted:

- Perl 6 right now runs very well on two back ends: a custom VM and the JVM. It is spinning up a Javascript back end, I think primarily for NodeJS.

- Concrete representations are carefully separated from core semantics, so Perl 6 currently supports native values from C, Perl 5, Python, etc. It should be able to support native arrays as required for high performance scientific computing etc.
My confidence in the economy was great until I read this...
I've used punch cards. I prefer a text editor.
I think things will eventually come around once reputation in life is unavoidably attached to everything they say, though, but it might be messy getting there.
One of the articles mentions that Porsche parent company has Android Auto options. The other mentions that Android Auto has opt-in just like with Android - you start out as opted out. There's also a rebuttal from Form and GM.
What sort of fool doesn't admire somebody who'll stick to their principles, even if those principles aren't always agreeable?
It was Marissa at Google. 30 Yahoo! logos in 30 days was Marissa at Yahoo!.
I don't like that there has to be 2 ways to do one thing. For example: https://docs.python.org/2.0/ext/dynamic-linking.html
Engadget Security Flaw (JavaScript Comments)
This girl is asking Taylor Swift to go to her 22nd birthday with a YouTube video
It's probably this one, but I might have been reading some other blog post talking about that post, but anyhow.

https://www.quora.com/How-did-Stripe-come-up-with-its-name
> Executable PHP in the Database, as a single example...

Do you have a specific example of this? WP itself doesn't use executable PHP in the database, although there are plugins that do (and are hence heavily discouraged).

(You _could_ be referencing storing complex values as serialized data for options/meta, which can technically give you some sorts of executable capabilities: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/PHP_Object_Injection )
Long V-Neck Alyce Formal Gown
I've googled around but can't find any details about how the power generation works. Perhaps because it is in the process of being patented and they want to keep it quiet for the time being. Where does the energy come from? The only explanation I could find: "harvest energy from blade oscillations present in the rotor blades of the aerial vehicles" makes it seem like they misunderstand thermodynamics.
If you had tried to invest a little time to actually learn Perl, you might still have a beautiful mane on your head.
StackStorm developer here!

Just to clarify, YAML is one way to write the workflow spec. Just like how YAML is way to write docker compose file. We picked YAML over JSON because it is less verbose and allows one to add comments which is pretty useful if someone is looking at a remediation workflow early in the AM. We do use YAQL expressions for some variable manipulation but that is not a YAML spec. A workflow is a collection of actions and actions can be written in almost any language (as a script) or python (first class actions). So you can think YAML workflow as a declarative spec rather than a programming language. Maybe that helps?
This paper smells off.

From the @rambler.ru email (emails have been shown to be important for papers [1]), to the declaration conflict of interest, you already have a hint that this isn't very promising.

Their findings, for anyone who does cell culture in a biomed lab, are hilariously trivial.

This is bunk.

[1] http://www.nature.com/news/publishing-the-peer-review-scam-1...
Is Dolphin (browser) the New Chrome?
I Hope Today Is Not Tim Clemans' Last Day at the Seattle Police Department
"we've come a long way"

That's your takeaway? It's like we're reading two completely different versions of HN ;) I'm so jaded from all these medical and scientific miracles of which we're constantly on the cusp. I wish there were a content-blocker that somehow removed links to any story regarding a breakthrough that hasn't already occurred. Future "cures" and "revolutionary treatments" are a dime a dozen, and nobody bothers to write an article when they don't actually pan out.
That is my docking station at work! Fully linux compatible, built properly too, albeit Apple aesthetic rather than the black plastic that is more me.
The original claim also included the word "cure", and according to that site there is no "cure." Diet/exercise only reduce the risk of developing it in the first place.
Laser Beaming Recharges UAV in Flight (2012)
Not really, a licensed private pilot can fly into class bravo airspace in something like a 172. Happens all the time and the NYC controllers are actually quite good with this. Flew with a pilot friend and ATC took him right over Manhattan and JFK in a little Cessna. However if you act like one of these drones and fly in with no radio comms and no transponder, that's when they scramble the fighter jets.
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I go by the 'hate' metric. The more someone is motivated by hate, the less I tend to agree with them.

I'm sure someone might say, "what if I really hate Nazis?" in reply to that, but then I'd have to point out that the Nazis hated others to the point of mass-murder, which is a lot more than they're hated and say that I balance things out that way.

In other words, some hate is just blowback and how willing you are to harm others for disagreeing with you is something to take into account when figuring out what people to socialize with.
Agree with your point. Under that extreme "win or die" situation, immigrants will need to work harder to survive.
The Influence Playbook
Why does this remind me of the invention (and widespread adoption) of the Cotton Gin, which itself is partly blamed for the United States Civil War? The parallels to the Industrial Revolution are everywhere you look these days.
Your last paragraph is how I view the non-trauma side of American medicine.
A personal device to let you test samples of food for allergens
How Are H-1B Holders Affected by the U.S. Green Card Application Flip Flop?
I'd still disagree on many of the hardware aspects if we're talking about some of their latest X series or slim T series laptops, but you have a point.

I only continued to buy Thinkpads because I knew how to remove all of the Lenovo crapware the moment I got the computer. Especially with the latest privacy issues, Thinkpads are no longer the computers you buy when you just want a solid computer without frills.

The W series and the T520's though... they were always too big to be real laptops and too wimpy to match desktops. It's an awkward place to be.
Seems like an expensive device since the capsules aren't reusable... But if you have severe dietary restrictions, I can see how it would relieve stress about eating out.
Also, some sites have things like capital letter cannot be the first character. Punctuation can't follow a digit. At most 8 characters... The list goes on.
That's certainly possible. I'm not seeing what I missed. Maybe if I sleep on it, it will be clearer?
Lycos Unveils Their Own Brand of Wearables
The database will get bigger but I'm sure it will accommodate ranges rather than individual IPS.
How to Implement Architecture to Support Omnichannel Services
> Creating things like Lambda to make NoOps possible is better

I think its hilarious that there's an idea of NoOps. That's like thinking you can automate software development to machine learning.
I agree that high quality content makes it more enjoyable but do you think part of that has also been more time to enjoy the new content?
Why? What are the benefits? % can have as much information about the string and the arguments as .format, can't it?

If I remember right, % used to be deprecated in Python 3, but was undeprecated again by popular demand.
Yes, it's a problem. Where are all the articles about confirmed breakthroughs, say of work that was done 10 years ago? Are there really so few of those?
> it's a concern that the Internet won't be global anymore

Why not? Facebook, or some other centralized cloud service, is not the only way you have of using the Internet.
If your application is on the web, it is being attacked. There's no whether about it.
We have conflicting views on this. I see academia as pretty much the only culture that actually builds interesting things in system software and CS research anymore, which I think should be quite an indictment on the industry, given how much academic software ends up abandonware quickly.

Docker is an awful example. You actually have your history of containers off. By 1998, they weren't just academic, but already an emerging industry standard in at least IBM i machines.

The only reason Docker exists is because an ex-Plan 9 developer (Al Viro) introduced namespaces into the Linux kernel to make the VFS model more tolerable, and some years later some Google developers lifted Solaris process contracts to make cgroups. The first and central part of Linux containers, then, is a direct result of half-assing an academic system software advance for its usefulness.
Random ascii letters and numbers are just as good as random bytes.
That's definitely fair - I was approaching it from the measurement perspective but I'm not sure there's a real distinction. Think of the use scenario of the self driving car - that's a bunch of time that's immediately opened up that was used doing something else and can now be filled with consumption. Of course we have a max of 24 hours * our concurrency level each day but we're nowhere close to saturating that.
11 essential elements of a great productivity app
[Old news]  Aliens already walk among us said defense minister
If you don't know what the PRNG (DRBG more appropriately) is for, you didn't watch the tech video.

Video is not suited for technical details.

It's not easy to quote / excerpt, to quickly refer back to previous (or later) parts, to take more time over parts that need it, etc; not the way text is.

My default reaction to "you'll understand if you just watch the video", is that someone is peddling bullshit and doesn't want me thinking too deeply.
Great article and the interactive diagrams did a better job visualizing than any I've come across.

DSP is an area I just haven't had the opportunity to work in, so I always find it interesting as I piece things together over time.

I may just be motivated to sit down and give it some proper time and effort, thanks for a great post.

If you have any other links or resources you recommend, I'd be super interested. I'll likely look into audio, but will spend some time on the fundamentals. It would be cool to mess with SDR at some stage too...
Haha I know exactly what you mean. Current internet longform is super masturbatory. I hate it. So many articles draw me in with a interesting subject matter only for the first three pages to have literally nothing to do with said subject.
AUDUSD Recovers Higher, Sets Up to Extend Strength
Well Apple just announced a device chasing the Microsoft Surface, so I'd say MS is back on track.
I love the `thunderstruck' theme song but the `start me up' one from the stones was a better fit when MS communicated about Windows 95.

I remember some Office ad campaign that had more punch and coherence too.

Adding the weird Lumia branding I'd say there's a decline in MS marketing efforts. But I might very well be in an echo chamber of my own.
I suspect a lot of people didn't take the time to actually learn Perl which is why there's so much "there's-more-than-one-way-to-do-it" Perl code in the wild.

For whatever reason, I went the PHP route and I can say from nearly 20 years experience that PHP has the same problem even if it doesn't have the same philosophical approaches as Perl. Too many people who never actually learned the language producing near unmaintainable code.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3507121/ By all means

>Practice of FGM has no relationship with religion. Muslims and Christians practice it, but it is more widely spread in Christian predominated parts of Nigeria.[2]
The problem as always is the basic premise of capitalism: who reaps the benefits of productivity gains. It doesn't matter a fig if we automate away all of the labor in the world if all (or nearly all) of the gains go to the people who "own" the machines. Since 1970 this has been almost entirely the case - none of the productivity gains made by American workers have gone to the working class, they have gone to the rich,and mostly to the ultrarich. Why, then, should we cheer for any productivity gains?

This problem is purely political, not at all technological, and we can only solve it by clawing power away from capitalists. So, sure, robot sewing machines. But let's make sure we all get to eat the benefits.
Yep, it is absolutely a problem. I even made http://perl-tutorial.org to battle it somewhat.

The worst part is that people who believe they learned Perl by doing, instead of reading the reference docs and structured introductory texts, believe themselves to know Perl and speak publicly in the belief that the knowledge gained that way represents universal fact.
The submission title does not match the content. The majority of this post concerns the author's investigation of processes running on his Nexus 7.

He claims to have empirical evidence of Chrome being slow, but does not supply it. Something like a dump of logcat showing lots of GC is an idea of what to expect.

It does not state if the list of processes was obtained after a reboot. A complete list of installed apps would be useful, too.

Code for the ProcMan app that he used to get the list of processes is not provided under the excuse it was ugly and incomplete. This is on a website dedicated to sharing code.

All in all, article should have spent more time in the oven.
Looks like a good way to get concise news and facts on Twitter. Even by searching events and hashtags currently, there is a lot of junk that comes up between actual, good information. Since Moments has curators, hopefully the information can be streamlined and presented in a clearer fashion.
Long ago, Perl as a coding Leatherman, along with C/C++/Java.

Python took Perl's place on my belt. I'm using Python2, because all the reasons everyone else gives, and because it's Python2 at work. I've been wondering when I'd finally decide/be able to move to Python3.

And now I'm rubbing that faint Leatherman imprint on my belt, and wondering if I'll just skip Python3 for Perl6.
And yet there is no inflation: http://www.multpl.com/inflation/table (no doubt helped by the low cost of labor and oil).

I guess people can't figure out how to make money from these zero-interest loans.

As someone with a mortgage, I would really like to see some inflation (well, wage inflation anyway).
Fraud: every liar's loan which was sold on in a mortgage-backed security was a fraud. Arguably, any liar's loan, where the lending officer knew that it was a liar's loan, was a fraud.

See Bernanke's take: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/10/04/ben-b....
I just keep a bottle of caffeine pills at my desk. They cost pennies per pill, don't yellow your teeth, and take almost no effort to consume.
Whatever happened to the ParrotVM? I always thought that it was somehow intrinsically tied up with Perl6.
If you aren't afraid of Google you aren't paying attention. They're the collection arm of the NSA.
Congress Bans Federal Agencies from Researching Gun Violence
The most ridiculous university ranking
> If it were possible to dual boot to Linux, I'd be sold. I have my doubts that it is, however.

Why do you have your doubts? It's typically pretty easy and people have guides for doing it on the Surface Pro 3; it would be odd if the Surface Book couldn't do it as well.
If you need something more robust but more complicated, the Hilbert envelope can be a good choice.
Yes, all we're waiting for now is GNU Hurd, and software will be complete.
What's good for Zend is good for PHP (2005)
Besides the service interface side, how does this compare to something like an F5, baracuda or the IBM ISAM WAF?
Does it target layer 7, packet filtering, ssl termination or tie in with the identity service?
Any comparisons in functionality to some of the existing options would be interesting, anyone have any good links?
Colouring in Disney's Augmented Reality Drawings
Not sure why this was downvoted. I'm currently still in Python2 and looking to upgrade to Python3. Having solid automated tests is vital for us to do it confidently.
No. It does not depend on how you build it out. Lync sucks, period, and has for a long time. Similarly, Sharepoint sucks irredeemably. It looks and acts like bad 1990s software. It's consistently the most painful, frustrating part of my workflow, and I use it as little as I can possibly get away with.

Next time you want to defend the full Microsoft software suite, just don't mention Lync and Sharepoint, and your argument will do better.
Logitech Circle
Here are the official words from Larry. There will be 2 beta releases and the major one in December.

Larry goes by the handle TimToady

http://imgur.com/1Vrpl2G
You are correct that not all deaths are equal. Someone dying of cancer at 60 is losing maybe 20 years of life, while someone dying at 20 is losing their entire adult life. That's the concept of Quality Adjusted Life Years, which is sometimes used instead of just regular statistics.

But even so, the QALYs lost to smoking is orders of magnitude larger than that lost to murders. And car accidents don't discriminate based on age too much

>seeing every traffic crash would simply numb people to traffic crash reports — not terrify them. We are almost becoming numb to mass shootings, which is a scary thing in itself.

It's not numbness. It's just loss of interest/novelty. People aren't becoming numb to mass shootings, they just aren't as interesting or novel. They are still afraid of them. Emergency responders who see accidents every day still buckle their seat belts. More than the general population.

Anyway I am not saying that we can get the news to stop reporting on mass shootings or make people uninterested in them. I am saying that we can correct perceptions that they are more likely than other risks. We can educate people better. We can fight our own biases and strive to be more rational.
Node.js: User Authentication with Passport Local Strategy
We have, overall, come a long way medically in the past hundred years, but I'd be very interested in an article that looked at how much of that was revolutionary breakthroughs and how much was incremental. And how much was both: e.g. being able to transplant many organs for the first time in the 20th century, and then the gradual increase in post-transplant life-expectancies since then. (And that's an area with a potentially scary future, too, if the superbug scare proves to be more real/less media hype than many positive "breakthroughs.")
AngularJS: Directive with Isolated Scope
Fierce is an app to empower those suffering harassment on Twitter
> The Bloomberg Terminal interface looks terrible, but it allows traders and other users to pretend you need to be experienced and knowledgeable to use it.

It's actually not too terrible. I kind of like it, and it's not particularly difficult to use. The allure of the Bloomberg terminal is the sheer amount of data that you have instantaneous access to... I know of plenty of other places to get real-time quotes, and company information, but none that have all the info in one place like the Bloomberg terminal.
Every time I hear/see "Sublime Text" my ears perk up because of the many languages one could be using it to accomplish professional work, there are many smarter editors available.

Take your ruby for example: RubyMine is unbelievably smart (https://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/), NetBeans usually has passable scripting language support (https://netbeans.org/features/ruby/index.html) and even the old battleship Eclipse claims to have Ruby support.

I do hope this doesn't come across as preachy, but for a fellow anti-command-tab, "there is never too much screen real estate", workflow-optimization person, I thought it might interest you if you haven't already considered it.
If it was necessary in the short term to meet debt service payments, then I would agree with you, but it is not.
Mostly I was trying to highlight how Uber and Airbnb take a monetary-intermediary approach, while the entire RE industry sits out of the actual transaction itself.

This is probably why I trust the average Airbnb host/Uber driver more than the average RE.

As a buyer, I was never "found". Without representation, I would seek the listing agents directly and have them give the tour. I figure the listing agent would be very eager to earn a bonus/double commission from their selling client, perhaps to my benefit even though I have no exclusive with them.
One thing age and experience have taught me is how often stating the bleeding obvious is in fact necessary. If the point is obvious to you, simply noting it is sufficient.

And, yes, mapping of complex realities onto interfaces for mediating those realities typically results in complex interfaces. Those which aren't sufficiently complex have simply squeezed the actual complexity elsewhere.
It sounds like the author is just saying that the definition of elegance is not subjective in this context. The author defines it. Obviously the author's definition contains subjective elements, like who counts as a programmer, who counts as "familiar with the tools used," etc., but I don't think the author is implying that there is a completely objective way to assign a score to each submission.
How much you kern may be subjective, but kerning itself (and other aspects of typography) are very related to legibility which is less subjective. Of course on a one word logo that really won't make a measurable difference.

Related reading:

http://fontfeed.com/archives/nyu-researchers-discover-defini...
I'm not interested in being condescended to, so