skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have sold 100k Porsches on to an information superhighway that has only room for 1000 at a time so they only let each one use it for a relatively short amount of time each month. i.e the do contention management over a month.

Most providers sell consumer broadband access based on headline speed because that's what the fixed line providers do.

When buying "professional" satellite broadband; users can buy un-contented at much lower speeds. A Ford Transit with a dedicated lane perhaps...
I don't get it. How does disliking a butterfly logo equate to hating women?
Actually has led to a stagnant standard of living for the American lower class, but by all means stick with your delusions.
To be fair, these are real hashtags that real people use.

Some people are focused on living their lives, not tilting at every social justice windmill.
Crowdfunding of medical devices raises money and questions
Microsoft scans URLs included in Skype chats to e.g. warn about malicious sites, so that part at least can't be solely P2P.
I'm in Canada, which is slightly different but similar. Other posters have pointed out the large amount of dirty diesel trucks (and trains). VW's TDI engines have had some recent success. I own a 2012 Jetta TDI because I commute 56km each way for work, so the 5.8l/100km I get from it (80% highway 20% city driving) is handy, and it's fun to drive.

I understand in the US diesel is always more expensive than gas. Here that is only the case in the winter. In the summer it is 5-10cents a litre cheaper than gasoline. In the winter it's about 5-10cents a litre more expensive, the reason I have been told is the demand for diesel oil increases due to furnace oil consumption, which is basically diesel oil.

There are quite a few TDIs on the road where I am, but I live rural so there are a lot of highway drivers. They don't make much sense as an urban car, for stop and go traffic the fuel economy isn't good at all.
Enumerability in ECMAScript 6
Don't use your belief in a "free open internet" to justify why you don't pay for content. I believe in a free and open Internet as well, and as such I believe NYT is free to monetize however they want. I don't subscribe because I don't feel that most of their content is that much better than other publications which I already pay for or consume for free. But a "free and open Internet" doesn't mean that all the content is available for free.

If nobody pays for news, then the best news we're going to be able to get will be Buzzfeed articles written by a college student for $0.05 a word. That's a sad future.
An Icelandic Company Working on Artificial Intelligence
On the second point, presumably companies providing finance actually benefit from a scoring system which negatively weights people's propensity to involve themselves in the sort of "activism" the Chinese government tends to sanction them for. People imprisoned, prevented from finding employment or with assets frozen tend to miss payments on their loans.
We have some exciting news to share about Windows 10 devices
Sales Success Tactics
Seems there is another terminal emulator for Atom called Termrk. https://github.com/romgrk/termrk Both Term2 and Termrk still work on the latest Atom build.
> any competent web developer could make A non-scaling Twitter in an afternoon

I wish people would stop claiming how they could clone a social media app in an afternoon / weekend.
Drone drops leaflets over NSA facility in Germany [video]
yeah, but the fact that the static data area is marked as executable is luck rather than reliability.
A brand is born
Hardware Developers Make Life Better for Japan's Aging Rice Farmers
That is kinda how political negotiation works. One side says, "We want X." The other side says, "Ok, we'll support X if it also has Y." Repeat that, in this case for a few years, and you have a very large number of Y's.

The problem with saying this,

> 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.

Is that the thing that potentially would pass would never make it out to see the daylight without negotiation, which is how you get the things that potentially wouldn't pass stand-alone. (And I say potentially, because for every person we're probably talking about different things.)
CROBOTS is a programming game, for programmers or aspiring programmers (1985)
Indeed, the platform is responsible for the HTTP call, so I see what you mean. The side effect is happening in the platform itself. I should watch the second part of Chris Armstrong's video to see how he approached making testing nicer in Haskell.
Correct me if I am wrong, but the big advantage is that in most cases you no longer need to run a diff on the two values. You can do a naive comparison, and if their references are different then you can assume the values have changed.

If you truly do need to run a diff, you're going to run into the exact same optimization problems with both immutable values and mutable values.
Learning to Lead: Accountability
When a "secure" app has so many holes I would be tempted to think that it was designed to lull journalists into a false sense of security, but given that the app was designed by the IWMF, a nonprofit, I'm more tempted to think it's simply bad design.

That said, I really hope there aren't any female journalists in sensitive territory using this.
"good hacker" is a subjective term and an obvious True Scotsman. It might as well mean nothing more than "your interests correspond to the interests of the moderators."
In the 1970s, General Motors (possibly irreparably) ruined the market for diesel automobiles in the USA. Their offerings were so bad that outside from a few buyers who educated themselves, nobody would touch diesel cars for decades and even now that "common wisdom" has been passed down from older generations.
The authors are answering questions about this paper on reddit. (5 Oct)

"tl;dr Mutations are happening in your neurons every day! We looked at individual neurons to find out how many.

We will be back at 2 pm ET (11 am PT, 6 pm UTC) to answer your questions, ask us anything!"

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/3nkdj5/science_ama...
USTR summary of the deal: https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-...
Don't be too hard on journalists. Humans, in general, think you write a sheet of vague wishes that you send off to an offshore developer, who will never tell you your specifications need work, or that you need a security specialist, or any other bad news.

The "several weeks" to open source the app smells bad, too. What horrors are being cleaned up? Did this NGO even get the analytics data or was that being harvested by their contract developers? Did anyone outside the contract shop, even an on-shore consultant, look at the code? Is the contract shop operating their back-end? That's deplorable, but also very common.
I have been doing applied statistics in combination with qualitative research and industry analysis; all pretty traditional project based kind of work since the mid 90s. In recent years as I added in NLP, SQL and web dev style programming skills to the mix I find myself building apps that in many ways automate analytical tasks.

With one product I developed for professional and trade associations I estimated that the average association would require as many as 10 full-time entry level analysts working with the typical Excel, Access and Powerpoint tools that so many of them use in order to even come close to replicating the personalized, graphical reporting that my platform could do for an association in real-time.

After feeling a bit guilty here is what I came to realize. The automation that I am offering lets the association offer a set of services to their members that previously would have never been considered because it was financially unthinkable. So if an association decides to use my platform they won't typically eliminate jobs. Instead they will add really substantial capabilities with an external platform supported service and no additional headcount.

This is just my example, but I think that might be true in many cases that automation of analytics (data science) will mostly add capabilities to organizations and not take away many jobs.
Nobel Prize for woman who beat malaria by scouring ancient Chinese medical texts
The shut-down of Twitter's JSON API a brave bid for monetization
It doesn't. The logo is more childish than it is feminine anyways.
we really don't need an HTTP status code level paywall anywhere.
> "Every action is logged," he wrote in his report. Google Analytics is built into the app, which stores the logs in a local cache before uploading them to Google's servers. Reporta also uses Twitter’s Crashlytics crash-reporting framework, he explained.

Doesn't TextSecure use Google's crash reporting? I heard that's one reason Moxie uses the Google ecosystem for app distribution.
The Dark Side of Social Entrepreneurship
>I know that they are rife with corporate subsidies and targeted protectionism

Actually, the goal was to eliminate a lot of that.

In trade, countries usually have two general aims:

1. Negotiate reduction or elimination of tariffs in foreign markets so that domestic producers can expand abroad.

2. Protect their own domestic producers from foreign competition by retaining the import tariffs that keep them competitive.

So, Japan subsidizes its domestic rice farms and tarrifs rice imports, but wants to sell its cars unfettered. Brazil wants to export its oranges and other produce more, the US wishes to export more of it's beef and cattle market. (These are the ones I'm thinking of off hand.)

The thinking goes however, that nations will gain more if they can all agree to open their tariffs, and allow goods to "trade freely". This means that while there will be short term disruption and decline in some markets, that their economies will have net growth on the whole, because economics is not a zero-sum game. For the TPP, the math is somewhat easy: One or more domestic industries will face internal competition, while their export markets will now be open to a dozen new countries. If they all do this, it's a net gain. (So the thinking goes.)

The portions that people seem to take issue with mostly in our line of interest have to do with the intellectual property provisions. This is to shore up the mismatch in legal protections that exist in countries with weaker IP laws. You can more or less sum this up with pointing out that pirated software and media is sold openly in countries like China and Vietnam. The provisions pertaining to those are other countries saying "Look, we'll trade, but only if you respect our IP."

Whether or not you agree with those provisions is of course, the million dollar question, and on things like that, the fate of the TPP depends. But that's the rationale.

And yes, you're exactly right, a rising global standard of living is /exactly/ what everyone wants. It's not some evil conspiracy, it really is that. And so long as no one can game the system (too badly), that's exactly what will happen.

(More reading on that last point. Can't recommend it enough:
In Defense of Globalization - Jagdish Bhagwati
http://www.amazon.com/In-Defense-Globalization-With-Afterwor... )
making the same motivational presentation about his Dad's pizza shop to anyone that will listen

Well then, consistency. And do we not all tell the same stories, live the same lives daily, do the same work daily, solve the same problems. It's all rewind and repeat, and I would not be upset at anyone who does this.

Nobody at Twitter talks to Jack anymore

Gosh, there are 4000 people at Twitter. One could hardly maintain a true working relationship with 1% of the workforce.
Slackware's base configuration tools are largely (n)curses-based, plus its highly vanilla unpatched nature with manual, guided package management means you can assemble something like that easily.
Who had the most significant role in getting Twitter results prominent placement in Google desktop results? That seems like a mutually beneficial development.
Guess it depends on where you live. We have had days where we couldn't sit in the garden due to the smell. Also I had to through away my home grown tomatoes because they were basically growing in cat-shit.
Estimate Errors
The quoted clause is part truism part obviousness. There is and never will be absolute security. Then they just state that they do their best - to the extent commercially acceptable - to protect the data (who doesn't?). I really don't see anything wrong here. If someone else promises you something else they're most likely either over-confident or lying. Or investing in their security more than their budget allows them to do.

Paired with liability clause, basically this reads to me (my personal interpretation) as "we'll try our best but don't trust us with anything you that you really value and can't afford to lose". Which is probably acceptable for teams with low or no secrecy requirements, although it probably won't fit a group with stricter needs.

Disclaimer: not affiliated by any means, just looked up few pages, found no demo, haven't bothered to sign-up, still have opinion (haha)
Roost (YC S14) is hiring a senior dev in NYC to help build the future of the web
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One issue with the sample code. In the runQuery snippet, you call .set(...) on queryCache. But since it is an instance of Immutable.Map(), without re-assigning it to queryCache, it would really have no effect.

queryCache.set(query, results);

vs

queryCache = queryCache.set(query, results);
Why web design is not boring and how to keep it this way
Contabilità Polonia
In general, agreements like this seem to be a threat to classical liberalism. Perhaps this is a simplified view but integration is a 7-stage process that ends with supranational organizations and political unions. Or to be specific, an eventual global government rooted more in EU-style bureaucracy rather than (in theory) American-style classical liberalism.

MEP Daniel Hannan elucidated this nicely in a speech regarding the Treaty of Lisbon-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SsAmAgn_i8

Details on the 7 stages and lists of these agreements from the first 2 stages-

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multilateral_free_trad...
> the most common criticism of the TPP --- that it's a "secret" deal --- is both inaccurate and not particularly significant.

I disagree. The scope of this deal, particularly the ISDS (which seems to have been amended due to widespread criticism), is incredibly broad. Undermining the basis of justice and democracy in secret negotiations without any feedback from the public is a terrible idea. If it was just about tariffs, sure, go ahead. But if business can get awarded massive damages in private courts because a democratic system decides not to tolerate their harmful practices anymore, well, that's unbelievably harmful to any semblance of justice and democracy. Stuff like that should never be negotiated in secret, but be subject to democratic checks and balances. The status of ISDS is to me still the primary factor in whether this deal will be acceptable or not. And as long as it's an inseparable part of the treaty, the treaty as a whole should fall if this part of it is considered unacceptable.
> The Congress will vote for anything that their corporate overlords want.

FTFY
Is the irony lost on you? The technology exists but the leading proponents of diesel chose not to use it.

Same with nuclear, sure there are pebble bed reactors and other safe designs, nobody proposes them on the industrial scale. Why is that? Efficient and cost impact profit.
Another solution would be Google Contributor.

Why is this not accessible outside of America yet? >_>
In my experience the Gopher logo is the second most criticized feature of the Go language, right after the lack of generics.
Fixing Discourse performance regressions, Rails profiling and debugging
Facebook integration might be nice here so that you could simply allow your FB friends, or perhaps those in a certain group, to share files.
In retrospect, I understand this. I suspect part of the point of the puzzle is to force people to intuit this aspect.
It's possible that the [tax] incentives were the result of oil industry lobbying -- as the sales of fuel oil fell, refiners needed to sell more diesel fuel, which is a similar type of product.

Unlikely. This may have been true a long time ago, but refining technology has come a long way.

Diesel (or home heating oil, or kerosene, pretty much all the same thing) used to be something of a waste product in the refining process. Thus it was cheaper than gasoline, even though its energy content per volume unit is higher.

Today, with improved cracking technology, refiners can make pretty much any amount of gasoline or diesel they need from a barrel of crude oil -- what waste is left is very heavy oil used for ship engines or industrial use.
This App Lets Anyone 3D Print “Do Not Duplicate” Keys
Absolutely yes! It's a nightmare in high-density cities like London.
Closing a door
From the candidate who said he wanted to "re-negotiate NAFTA". This is a betrayal to American workers, and it's a disaster for the Pacific signatories.

The TPP should be treated as a Treaty, requiring 2/3rd in congress. The majority of the agreement has nothing to do with trade.
The New York Times reaches 1M digital only subscribers
To put those different "Trade Deal" in their context, wikileaks has made a short but informative video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw7P0RGZQxQ

tl;dr - US is trying to rewrite the rules of world trade because they are scared by mounting BRICS influence over the World Trade Organization.
People with a vested interest in twitter seem to be thrilled. And they are the ones defending twitter in this discussion. Neutral outsiders are much more apprehensive. Take that how you will... could be that they know more than us, as you imply. Could be bias. Time will tell.
Yeah, in a situation where the conservatives don't win the coming election, I have no problem imagining the NDP or Libs rejecting it on the basis of it being "a treaty Stephen Harper negotiated in secret"

Although, reflecting on the limited number of campaign ads I've heard, this seems to be something that no one is really talking about.
The problem with these deals is that citizens of a partner country cannot easily overturn them. When you agree on international standards and some partner wants to introduce higher standards in their own country, they are liable for the losses of companies who suddenly cannot sell their products in that one country anymore. Of course I do not know the specifics of this agreement yet, but clauses that enforce this have been introduced into all attempts at international trade treaties for more than a decade now, so I think it is a safe bet to say this one contains them as well.
For the benefit of non-US readers: Ross Perot was a third party candidate for President in 1992 and 1996 who ran on a platform opposing adoption of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Growth in U.S. Services Cooled in September as Orders Slowed
My favourite bit of JavaScript game dev from 2004 was DHTML Lemmings (http://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/) - a great implementation of Lemmings, including destructible terrain, without canvas/webgl!
I don't think that Wiki is official; that said, the NYTimes, CNN, Forbes and others all claim he was CEO of Pixar.
I doubt the citizens of Vietnam have much say in this whole process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Vietnam
Data Science in my experience is 80% data collection, pre-processing, picking the right tool for the job, interpreting the results and communicating the results to the stakeholders. The actual crunching of data is just a small part of it in all but the most extreme cases, and those cases are far too specialized to simply be replaced by automated platforms.
You can, but the site has to pique your interest to make you bother to do so. Usually it's easier to just close the tab.
>>"30 page document"

Not quite, it's a "30-chapter text" according to the article. I'd imagine those chapters are quite a bit longer than one page each.
The thing with the Dutch adoption rate is indeed the use of public television for massive pitching of the product. He had an 'Oprah book club' opening and executed succesfully.
I'd like to think we can progress as a society to a point where a person doesn't have to carry a weapon at all times to protect themselves.
I'll give him the CEO, but I disagree with the founder status. He was an investor, not a founder.
Note that the Byzantine iconoclasts were heavily influenced by the very early Mohammedan conquests, which rather tends to support the Wahabbists' claims to be the original Islam.
Very true. The medical-debt induced bankruptcy is the most visible sign but don't ignore the absolutely huge sums diverted from paying employees to paying for health care

The USA pays more than twice what the rest of the rich world does for health care for no better outcomes. This isn't only due to drug pricing but drug pricing obviously cost USA consumers tens of billions a year in increased health care costs just because it means they pay much more in insurance costs (or even less noticeable have part of their paycheck diverted to pay inflated drug prices impact on health care costs) doesn't mean they avoid the high costs of this corruption based pricing.

It is very unlikely this system is going to be changed. It has been going on for decades at huge costs to the USA. Maybe (I just maybe) it will be slowed some if the public forces politicians to reduce the amount of the paybacks given by the Democrats and Republicans to drug companies at the expense of everyone else. Meaningful change is very unlikely. The parties are far too corrupt at this point to make any significant change in policy likely.
Better late than never: Scalar Type Hints in PHP 7
There was already a thread about this last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10298727

The video that thread links to is gone but the info is the same.
How's that any different than fertilizing them with, say, cow manure, which your store-bought organics might be using?

I'm not certain of the chemical composition of cat manure, maybe its nitrogen content is too high or it screws with the soil pH?
I'm all for live and let live... until I find some perl on a legacy box I have to maintain :-(
The sudden flip from "we're against anything Obama supports" to suddenly standing with Obama to support the TPP is highly unusual, and more than a little suspicious.
What makes you think it's for entertainment? Why are you so touchy? Plenty of people who don't believe in Churches or other places of religious worship still visit them, purely out of curiosity if not anything else.

Your last question is in extremely bad taste - and I say this as a non-believer.
"see more" link? groundbreaking stuff. someone get Twitter on the line!

i know Dave deserves respect but if i was even a janitor at Twitter this post would piss me off.
I think Perl 6 has some unique and refreshing features and I'm looking forward to deploying it.
You may not like the design of the homepage, however it has tons of good information and that's what matters more.
I went up to the parent dir of the URL and found this link: http://kelvinxu.github.io/projects/capgen.html