skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bad idea, because users may not give you a second chance. The research says over and over again, users respond negatively to small increases in latency.

In fact, if I knew of a way to decrease the size of the first load, at the expense of making the second load take longer, I'd probably do it.
Sorry, I meant British African Americans
According to the paper in OP: "Precomputation for a 2048-bit non-trapdoored group is around 10^9 times harder than for a 1024-bit group, so 2048-bit Diffie-Hellman will remain secure barring a major algorithmic improvement".
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This.
Thanks for posting this. Everyone likes to shirk personal responsibility and put the blame on others. If you are too challenged to distinguish between real life vs reel life, you should excuse yourself from such matters.

EDIT: Thanks for the down votes, the truth is a bitter pill to swallow, isn't it?
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Might we also criticize the portrayal of Jews in Palestinian kids cartoons? I am not certain there are many Muslims complaining about those portrayals.
You could suppose there is an insane person in our government who is killing for fun, but that has all the usual logical pitfalls of a conspiracy theory.

As for economic gain (not sure what is meant by "petty" economic gain), that has been a large part of the source of most international conflicts over the past few hundred years anyway. So that just sounds false.
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Some commentary here: http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-...

and here: http://gnusha.org/bitcoin-wizards/2015-10-14.log

cross-post of https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3or365/bitcoinng_p...
If it took two minutes to load the framing page, how would they be able to stream the video?
I think it could make pages load marginally faster, because NoScript only stops scripts from executing, where a hosts blocklist would stop the scripts from ever being downloaded.

I think, not totally sure how NoScript works.
The huge false equivalence you are making is Obama is waging a war against a truly evil organization. But the college shootings are senseless violence purposely used on innocent people.

You can throw in the hospital attack. But that attack obviously wasn't purposeful. It also wasn't a drone. It was ground support strike, something Obama wouldn't be involved in.

You can blame Obama for keeping us in the war. In that respect he is responsible. But the hospital was bombed during a major battle against the Taliban, who were attempting to take the 5th largest city in Afghanistan.

Obama is trying to kill people to make the world better. People like the Umpqua shooter are killing good people to make the world worse, on purpose.
Fixed in post-production for the dvd release.
Brilliant idea. I had this idea myself but I love your execution. It's awesome! My idea was to 'provide a service that makes websites as light as possible (while still user friendly)'
Online US fantasy sports wagering is booming, but it’s at a crossroads
Syncthing.

After trying out Unison, Sync, and plain old rsync, Syncthing turned out to be the best of the bunch for me. Open source, modern interface, relatively simple to set up, seemingly quite secure... Hard not to like it.
YOU CAN ('T) DO IT
>If people would rather use something else to trade with

This is the key problem with moving away from bitcoin. Both parties have to accept whatever the new currency is. The real issue any of the alt coins face (and even bitcoin itself) is user adoption. People won't adopt a new currency just because it's good, it has to be popular/accepted.
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Radicand Is a Radical New Collaboratory for Hardware Startups
Chrome also has this feature if you switch to device mode (Ctrl+Shift+M).
Humans aren't pretty good at it, and we know the problems we have are exactly the parts where machines are already stronger than us. We also have some good deployments of automated technology, notably in air travel, which is flying on decades old technology anyway.

> I mean, here on HN, discussions of computing products like phones and operating systems are full of complaints large and small about problems, shortcomings, etc. Are there any programmers here who think their product is bug-free and safely survives all edge cases?

The problems with phones and operating systems are often not because of engineers, but because of businessmen. Especially phones and webdev - you can often trace the problems back to decision made in order to increase sales or save money. Most phone vendors ship shitty UIs and buggy devices not because they have bad engineers.
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The interesting message is that you can recognize these sorts of behaviors and then shut them down. And when you see them persist in a person you can better manage that person's role to be non-destructive.
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"is it easier to convince the university/funder to do a study that could potentially connect with 6,000 students at just $5 a piece, versus a study that, at most, could reach 600 students at $50 a piece?"

My guess would be that people would be more inclined to ask whether it couldn't be 600 students at $25 a piece for the same effect, than they would whether it couldn't be 6000 students for $2.50 a piece. Certainly, in the limit there will be some truth in that. You don't need to offer a single student $30.000 for 15 minutes of work to be virtually assured that (s)he will bite; $10,000 will do just as well.
> Motive is the big reason. It's not like America is killing people for (...) some petty economic gain.

Is that so? And what do you base that idea on? [ed: I see a more charitable reading of your statement is possible - I do not believe it is for petty economic gain no. More like deciding the future of the world economy and access to/control over natural resources.]

> (...) drones only work when you have total air supremacy. Any halfway decent airforce can protect against the huge drones America fires missiles from.

Very important point. Committing war crimes with drones in Yemen is like shooting fish in a barrel. Except of course for all the dead kids.

It's perhaps more interesting what kind of precedent this sets for inevitable proxy wars across the Middle East and Africa -- when cruise missiles, drones etc fired by Chinese/Russian contractors kill US/NATO contractors.
What does religion have to do with whether Homeland is racist?
That's why I said 'from my perspective', or is there something specific that it says about me?
At the risk of focusing on your specific example, rather than your larger point which is a good one:

If you're talking about balanced trees, I sort of agree with you. That's the kind of algorithm where it makes sense to write it once, test it thoroughly, stick it in a library and never worry about it again. But there are plenty of other uses for tree-like things. Think filesystems, or the HTML DOM, or JSON documents, or (generalizing a bit) dependency graphs, and so on...

I actually like tree problems. You can take something with practical significance (laying out a web page, or syncing two directories, or simplifying a boolean expression) and strip away the details of the situation to get to a core algorithm that depends only on the tree's structure. In my experience, the biggest factor in how well interviewees cope with kind of question is their ability to reason clearly about what their code is doing, instead of just pattern-matching from their previous experience.
The writers can't keep up the quality as they write the season. They're rushed for the later episodes.

So characters start out as nuanced and then become more one dimensional towards the end of the season. Also they need to deliver twists and shocks.

So it's not exactly stupidity but it's not really intentional either.
The local oscillator in the tuner emits some RF. This not only indicates that there's a TV receiver present, but indicates what channel is selected.

This was more of an issue with older tuners, because standards have tightened on emitting unwanted RF signals. Tube era tuners emitted a lot of RF, since the tubes themselves were out in the open, not behind shielding. Modern tuners are in small metal cans [1], which both shield them from nearby RF sources and prevent them from emitting. They also operate at much lower power levels than older tuners, so they don't emit much RF.

One of the unsung victories of regulation is that electromagnetic compatibility is quite good today. In the early days of consumer electronics, personal computers emitted so much junk RF that they'd interfere with TVs and crash other devices. A Radio Shack TRS-80 and a Milton Bradley Big Trak toy would both crash if nearby. Today, cell phones have four radios (cellular, WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS) going at the same time without interference. When the FCC clamped down back in the 1980s, there was a lot of bitching, but the FCC was right. Now, it Just Works.

[1] http://www.electronics-eetimes.com/en/compact-tv-tuners-focu...
This depends on what you're after. HBO, Showtime, comedy central, espn the simple solution has been cable or satellite.
I'm trying to drive the cost down to $1-2 per pin. It's obvious the MIT team did not optimize for cost. At $20/pin (from the SparkFun link), a 28-pin display (the minimum you'd need for a 4 digit, 7-segment display clock would cost $560. To so anything interesting, you'd want dozens or hundreds of pins. Cost is a huge reason keeping this idea from being more wide-spread.
There are some amusing bits... At 1:38 it suggests Saturn orbits at a radius of 25 light-years from the sun. ("50 L.Y." in the upper left.)
If you did it properly

In this case, you've just wiped out your whole statement with weasel words. What does it mean to shuffle a deck properly?
I can't say whether it's better or worse. It's different. With NoScript you still hit "remote" servers when it comes to other resources, like images.
Incorrect popular use doesn't make it correct. This venue if any ought to know the difference.
The same day of the Umpqua College shooting (10 dead), US drones in Afghanistan targeted a hospital and killed 22 people (12 staff, 10 patients including 3 children).

Deplorable though it was, the Kunduz hospital strike was done by an AC-130, not drones. Also, it was not, by any stretch, a "targeted killing" in the sense of the attacks targeting specific individuals that the article addresses. It had absolutely nothing to do with that program, in fact.

If you want to hyperbolize, make apples-to-oranges comparisons, and beat your chest about things you can't really do much about from behind a keyboard, that's fine. But please try to get your basic factual narrative straight.
[Experimental] CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) based PhantomJS
"conversations", the most Orwellian word of our time. Real meaning: "we talk, you listen"
As I said, algebraically both approaches are equivalent, so there is not much harm in using this notion. But the "relativistic mass" does not have physical meaning and does not make any sense because of the way relativity theory is defined. And I would not count wikipedia as an authoritative source, anyway. 2nd volume of the Course is a bit more legit.
I wouldn't take fake background graffiti in a TV show as seriously as an Internet Essay. The graffiti that don't claim racism are mostly just silly, and "X is racist" could be read as being in line with the same type of silly humor as much as a "silent protest" or whatever. For all we know, the producers asked the artists to paint that text.
tvfool.com has been the go to resource not only will it help you determin what type of antenna you will need but also what stations you can expect to recive as well as what direction the broadcasts come from so you can better am your antenna.
FWIW, that's sort of the reason the community code of conduct was introduced (which many of the folks you complain about pushed against). I don't know how effective it is as I tend to avoid "community" groups for programming languages, but the major parties all claim to have adopted it.

http://coc.golangbridge.org/
Yeah, I'd like NAS support as well. I think their thinking is that the variability introduced by the network speed (especially since they advertise it with wifi), might cause unexpected failures that they won't see with a usb drive. They seem to be riding the line between a "just works" appliance and something more configurable. I'm surprised, frankly, that there's not an option to just get the HDD bundled with it and call it a day, in order to guarantee the user is using a known-good HDD.

If you already have a home server, this is probably not as good of an option as you could just add some software and a dual tuner for $75-100. The EPG thing is more of a hassle once WMC gets deprecated. For mythtv and some others, you can do schedules direct for $25/yr. There are some free setups I've seen using scripts and such, but they mostly seem to be held together with twine and bailing wire and seem likely to break if a 3rd party decides to crack down.

For someone who's looking for a whole-house DVR though without running a bigger media setup though, it seems reasonable.

If you find a good appliance that'll get stuff onto a NAS on the cheap using reliable EPG, I'd love to see it.
Actually, today's speech recognizers are really good and ones like Google's have accuracy >90%. So writing a speech recognizer ourselves with 50% accuracy and training it endlessly without ever reaching Google SR's accuracy sounded like a terrible 'reinvent-the-wheel' idea.

Instead, we wrote algorithms that further boosted the accuracy of the existing speech recognizer with machine-generated phonetic dictionaries. (You can think of it as standing on the shoulders of giants). The plan is to work with a couple of partners to train our machine learning system for their products to really bump up SR accuracy.

If you're building an app that's going to go live, send us a message, we'd be happy to work with you (for free!)
A synonym for culture jamming is "reality hacking," so I think it might qualify.

If you read many of the antics documented in compendiums like sniggle.net, they can be remarkably crafty and intricate, so I think they would count. Particularly someone like Dick Tuck is doubtlessly a hacker.
If you think that's true, you must assume that bitcoin is just a hokey experiement, because nobody would switch to it in the first place.

Sure, if bitcoin were widely used, it would be very hard for something else to overtake it. But it's not widely used yet. We have not really reached that point. Something else can still be http and bitcoin can still be gopher.

That said, I am still speculating long-term on bitcoin becuase I don't think anybody can/will come out with something that is non-marginally better.
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There is such a thing as a war between a country and an army of people. Attacking a member of that army isn't going to war against a person.
Casts and type parameters do not mix
A lot of research has actually been done on how humans and individuals perceive colors and tons of statistics exist. The results was the creation of many perceptual color spaces such as XYZ and CIE Lab that more closely match human perception axes of lightness, blueness and green-red-ness.

While it is true that our perception differs, we mostly share the same attributes close enough that we can fix standards (except for different cases of color blindness). For instance, we physically perceive blue, yellow, green and red as distinct colors and the rest is a mix of those (magenta being kind of a special case).

What we see as pure blue is actually a precise color point defined by how the eye physically perceive light. Reds, yellow and green are a little bit more fuzzy because they depend a lot on the ratio of red and green cones in our eyes so the brain is taking a little more liberty there.

The major difference between individuals is how precisely they can differentiate two similar colors.

I think the problem with CSS is they tried to qualify way too many colors with subjective terms instead of sticking to a clear and predictable system (either mathematic or designed), even if imperfect.
agreed. especially for currently non-curable conditions, social/lifestyle interventions for sufferers and their caregivers with big benefits at next to no cost are a big win.
Can you do collaborative code on this? That's a game changer.
The world needs new norms on cyberwarfare
Are macros useful in a web development context? I don't feel like I've been missing them in Django, but maybe I've just forgotten because it's been a long time since I wrote anything substantial in Scheme. (Are Elixir macros similar to Scheme macros?)
I'm looking at you Airbnb that I often need to access from bad hotel wifi in a far away country :(
Yeah and no TLS handshakes need to be performed either.
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I had friends at Twitter OSS too and the ones I knew are pretty well poised to do whatever they want at this point. They definitely are high tier engineers.

It sucks, one of them got me my job, but they're going to be in pretty high demand.
My understanding is that he moved on.
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Is there a reason the publisher links to a Google search of the Antennas Direct link instead of to the direct site? It was the only link that went to a Google search.
There's also a big difference between loading something out of flash storage and loading it off the internet.

My 4G connection right now is speedtesting at 46.68 Mbps download.

An iPhone 6 benchmark I found on MacRumors can read at 6720 Mbps (840 MB/s) [1]

Given the choice, I'd take the option that's 140x faster.

[1] http://forums.macrumors.com/attachments/img_0005-png.514599/
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> if you ever used Django, raise your hands if you've ever had to delve into the source code to understand what is going on

This is a sentiment I don't understand at all. Why wouldn't you delve into the source code of tools you use? I do this with almost all the tools I use, be it languages or libraries (obviously I don't use non-opensource ones if I can avoid it). Looking inside libraries teaches you quite a lot and isn't even that difficult, especially if your editor+language combination support "Jump to Definition".

I think we'd be much better off, as an industry, if people learned to appreciate code reading. This would make writing readable code more desirable in the first place, which would be really great.

And BTW, Django has a really good looking codebase. You shouldn't start your reading with SQL compiler in the ORM, but, for example, class-based and generic views are a nice starting point. Another related codebase I can recommend is Django Rest Framework - really a must read for pythonistas who use Django.

> using large libraries feels too much like magic

That's actually my biggest gripe with Elixir. The fact that it happens on compile time (using) and not at runtime doesn't make its magic less magical. And it's very often not documented appropriately. The docs or examples tell you to `use` a module and that's it - you don't know what symbols are imported, let alone what the module macros will do with your code. And it's hard to tell by just looking at the module in question, because - macros. I can deal with it, but in general Elixir should either document its macros better or make things much more explicit.

> I've had a fling with Go, I really like some of its ideas, namely static linking, native compilation, no exceptions, easy deploy

Take a look at OCaml. All the features you mention and a non-brain dead type system on top of that. Multicore is a problem, but I hear it's improving fast.

> It's a mix between Haskell without purity and types and Clojure without parens, with a Ruby-style syntax and a battle-tested framework for concurrency and distributed computing.

That's probably the least flattering description of Elixir I've ever read. Haskell without purity and types would be utterly broken and useless. Similarly for Clojure and sexps. Elixir is neither - it is a nice langauge in its own right.

> I know I talk like a fanboy [...]

Well, I like Elixir too, there's nothing wrong with it. Really, Elixir has many nice features and a great potential; it's still growing, I think, and needs a bit more time to really mature, but is a viable choice for some projects already.
This is clever and interesting, but I'm not sure it addresses the central problem.

Reddit made the news in the last year for some (mostly unfair) claims of censorship. However, rather than directing censorship which the plebes had to accept, the social pressure from the plebes necessitated these overt acts. For weeks afterward with FPH, we kept reading comments like "well, what about coontown?". These commenters may have felt they were being ironic, or espousing fairness (hey, what's good for one is good for the other), but the collective/aggregate effect was to clamp down even further. These same people are the ones who were able to push Reddit's management in that direction in the first place.

These people won't disappear if you implement blockchain-reddit. (Though, there's probably a plausible argument that they might stay away.) There will be no blockchain-reddit management to pressure into overt censorship, but they ruined reddit long before they got that far. They'll ruin this too. Downvotes are, after all, a "fuck you" and not a "you're fallacious". Disagreements are, after all, evidence that the other person is wrong/stupid/uncool, and not a difference in perspective.

The problem is people, and there is no computer science fix for that.
Good read:
http://dev-human.io/~pascaldevink/things-i-was-unprepared-fo...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223472
I misinterpreted hussong's comment, I thought they were asking about the US specifically. My bad!

As desas said, I meant British African Americans ;)
As much as people like to criticize Dropbox for having a republican on their board of directors, Apple's Board of Directors is also interesting:

Arthur D. Levinson, Ph. D.
Chairman of the Board, Apple
Former Chairman and CEO
Genentech

James A. Bell
Former CFO and Corporate President
The Boeing Company

Albert Gore Jr.
Former Vice President of the
United States

Robert A. Iger
Chairman and CEO
The Walt Disney Company

Andrea Jung
President and CEO
Grameen America, Inc.

Ronald D. Sugar, Ph. D.
Former Chairman and CEO
Northrop Grumman

Susan L. Wagner
Co-founder and Director
BlackRock
I am conflicted - on one hand it is a great hack, no doubt. But they also screwed over the producers, who trusted them and paid them for their work.
A Swiss gun used near (40 minutes drive) Switzerland but yeah let's look for a Nazi ...

And how do you justify the cyclist murder : judging by his photos he was white (yeah I know, embarrassing witness whatever).

Like I told in another comment, everybody and his dog has its own theory and knows better than the investigators.

You can say a lot of bad things on the French police (Gendarmerie in this instance) but on big cases like this one their track record is pretty good. So if they didn't find the killer there are only 2 options imho : they were ordered from above to not find anyone (possible in the case of a state sponsored murder) or the killer simply didn't leave enough clues to be found.

If the guy is not local, not in European fingerprints / DNA databases and was not seen, explain me how can they find him ?
HN is really becoming such an insufferable community. How did my previous comment deserve a downvote? This is a legitimate question, that's how fucking science work, you use control groups to isolate variables and reach conclusions. Maybe the harassment has nothing to do with gender but with the medium writers choose, or their topics, or whatever.
Nah, NoScript blocks them at load-time, too.