skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha, I also thought your comment was a response to what I edited-in about my hardware idea, but yes, we must have been writing it at the same time.

When Bitcoin hardware wallets were first getting developed, I wondered why people didn't just start with open, barebones commodity hardware like you've described. Well, I suppose one reason may be that it may not exist, but it seems like it should be pretty cheap to pay some low-end Android manufacturer to remove a few features from their design. Or maybe you even buy "normal" hardware and strip out radios. At some level, the wallet manufacturers are all trusting someone, as I don't think any have designed their own low-level components. Anyway, maybe I will revisit that idea to see if a suitable locked-down, easy-to-hack, super-cheap device is available, as I agree that cutting all unnecessary comms is a good idea.
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The current CPU microcode download appears to be 0.81 MB compressed for every single Intel CPU since the Pentium 4.
For the amusement value, Massimo Dutti is owned by Inditex, parent company of Zara.
Load Test your App and API's with 1000's of concurrent users
German spy scandal deepens
You can check for web sites common Diffehellman primes on
ssllabs.com
Check section Protocol details
"Uses common DH primes"

Also the latest openssh package warns against Diffie hellman ssh keys now we know why they warn us.
Well, here in Europe the outsourcing and off-shoring is still playing catch up with US.

I see no signs of it stopping. :\
Downside: They might throw it or smash it on the ground like they might with a regular hammer.
I've driven a brand new Range Rover with the assist package, and that car was fully automatic in city and motorway driving for all intentions and purposes, as long as there was a car in front of you. You would engage the "smart" cruise control, and it would just follow the car in front of you perfectly, making turns, stopping and starting. I've driven it on the motorway at 80mph, then a car in front of us was taking an exit, I put the blinker on, the car followed, and drove around the bends following the car in front, until we came to a stop at a set of traffic lights. Then when the traffic started moving again, all I had to do was to tap the accelerator, and the car started following again. That was without me touching the steering wheel at all.
I guess a few Irish MPs probably also have a shaky past.

That being said we are on a slippery slop when the State thinks it needs to protect itself from its elected members of parliament.
You can't zoom in normal apps.
I still consider using an (ad)-agency for software to be "outsourcing".

Like when taxi companies are outsourcing their iOS applications to agencies while Uber has in-house engineering(?)
Actually, that's exactly what outsourcing is. You buy a well-known commodity service off the shelf from a provider that has the scale to maintain real expertise and reap significant economies of scale. It's been done that way for physical products forever (you never see a company with an in-house carpentry shop making it's own office furniture).

It's the "replace an in-house team with a broadly equivalent external team" version of outsourcing of recent years that's the bastard.
Should be entitled why some companies have stopped outsourcing. From my viewpoint in Europe it's still every managers' preferred route to promotion and a big bonus.

Also, what about the practice of bringing in cheaper labour to undercut the local workforce. This seems to be growing everywhere?
>You put a fried chicken shop in a place where lots of people go

I think the idea of the article is that you put one in a place where lots of the "wrong people" go.

E.g. that "up and coming" urban professionals et al, don't go much for "fried chicken" -- as I understand in the US it's associated with rednecks, blacks, and the poor? (as opposed to Starbucks or Whole Foods).
I tried to submit an interesting article very similar to the NYT story, but couldn't. HN silently blacklists breitbart.com.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/07/exclusive...
I don't know if you're trolling, but in this case H-1Bs are being used to outsource: large consulting companies obtain H-1Bs for their (stereotypically Indian) employees, bring the employees into the US for 3-6 months to learn how to do the job, then send them back to India, from where they complete the job remotely, and where they can of course be paid much less due to the lower prevailing wages/cost of life.

This is a classic outsourcing strategy. Insourcing is the complete opposite, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insourcing.
40 years of history showing failure, of course for most of that time they have had between a millionth and half the computing power we have today, and most of those years had now where near the capability of image sensors and other sensors. So how much weight should we really give history on something like this?
Killzone: Shadow Fall has some absolutely amazing, jaw-dropping architecture. Even after playing its multiplayer games for a few years, I still occasionally stop and notice something in the background that has incredible detail.

Images: https://www.google.com/search?q=killzone+shadow+fall+archite...
I don't necessarily agree with the premise of this article, as many other commenters point out.

To offer an alternative, my own theory is that the 'up and coming' areas are cropping up down the Shoreditch fringe, i.e. Borough (which is seeing a lot of commercial and residential development, and Elephant & Castle (same as Borough, albeit more behind in completion). Such a 'fringe' also spills off into the East, too.

You could extrapolate this trend to Peckham, one of the primary areas the author has highlighted, however I doubt we're going to get anywhere near same level of 'pop-up' commerce/entertainment in these much more southernly areas for some time to come indeed.
Well, as are most things in life, even in science before they are checked out -- they start as observations.

The important thing is whether it serves well as a predictor.

If we were that interested we could do a scientific analysis, counting coffee shops and chicken places in different urban areas, averaging incomes, checking trends etc.

But since it's not that important to most of us, we can just use it as a kind of gauge of where things are going, and judge for ourselves if it has merit or not. Might help someone make a few bucks by buying property in the right area (although the most succesful of tose people already use this and a ton of other metrics, plus insider knowledge of future municipal plans etc).
I would say that "coffee" = daytime activity and "chicken" = night time activity.

What a data scientist would have done is find the list of shops and property prices and see which correlate.

Of course, you also need to do it over time because "up and coming" implies the future state, not the current.

1. Buy cheap housing in area that attracts new grads / creatives / artists

2. Those people attract certain business types

3. Hot area attracts richer people + people in 1 get more money

4. Property prices rise

5. Sell
God that's completely unintuitive.
I mean that if websites where more well designed users won't need to zoom at all most of the time. Not that they must not do it.

Pinch to zoom is a beautiful feature and part of the success of the early iPhone and iOS, and it was there because at the time there was no mobile web design at all.

The fact that so many users still go in panic mode today reveals how mobile web design is far from perfect.

That said, there'd be also legitimate design reasons to use the viewport metatag to disable the zoom. Good designers know the rules and know when they can break them. I don't believe in accessibility dogma.
So, it's like HN?.

On a more serious note:

Twitter has a large following of powerful/smart people who don't leave over night. Sure, over time these people could leave, but why would they? What would a twitter competitor offer that twitter can't offer?
It feels like this post is somewhat also addressing the very high burn rates which companies have, and that you should have control over your trajectory before you begin burning all your money.
Phil Plait's take on it:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/10/14/weird_st...
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Yeah Half Life 2 had that Eastern Europe in distress vibe. Was pretty cool.
Assassins Creed during the Crusades and Renaissance was also cool
Unmanned aircraft flies in UK civil airspace
Why do you keep posting the same thing over and over again?
If I wrote "A must read for every physics student" then it felt more like duty. But actually it is fun to read the Feynman lectures because they are so inspiring. One of those rare books that are written so well that it becomes fun to study - even such abstract things like physics.

Few scientists have a talent to present abstract things as well as Feynman. Daniel Kahneman and Sigmund Freud, whose lectures are also a pleasure to read, come to mind.

I couldn't read the Feynman lectures for my courses though (we followed the Berkeley physics series), but when ever I want to refresh my mind or find a nice way to explain things to students, these are a swell reference.

I still prefer the printed version though because of its nice layout with images and drawings in the margins.
I suspect this is excellent news for just that reason.
Social Media Cracked the Case of MH17
That already happened a while ago (though MI5, not GCHQ), according to this guy[1] and several other "theorists" (viz. [2])

MI5 themselves beg to differ[3] (though they don't address Wallace's allegations directly, it seems.)

And the whole idea, with a fictional PM, was made into a novel by eminently monitorable ex-MP Chris Mullin[4] and then a miniseries.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Wallace
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Wilson_conspiracy_theories
3: https://www.mi5.gov.uk/home/about-us/who-we-are/mi5-history/the-cold-war/the-wilson-plot.html
4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_British_Coup
How is property not a fake right by that same logic?
The Washington Generals Infamous 1971 Win
Confessions of a Private Space Rocket Engineer
As much as I'd like to believe it, another case like the faster-than-light-neutrino incident is more likely than alien megastructures.
Speaking for DeviceAtlas in particular I can assure you that detection reliability is better than most assume. The stated 99% detection accuracy rate isn’t marketing speak—it is continously verified on real traffic from all around the world.

We measure two main aspects of performance:

- Per-request detection overhead: Willy’s preferred way to measure impact on HAProxy performance is the per request overhead added. DeviceAtlas adds a few µs per request. Typically this does not cause much of an issue. Example: if a load balancer is serving 20,000 requests per second with 80% CPU, that's 40µs of CPU time per request on a machine that can
go up to 50µs. If we add 4µs to that we reach 88% of CPU under the same load, and the end user performance is not degraded in any meaningful way.

- Memory footprint: DeviceAtlas lets you configure the per-device property set to tailor the memory and performance impact. The resulting memory impact ranges from about 12MB to 100MB.
It seems to be made for games. I see a nice focus on serialising/deserialising data.
Some of the text does not render correctly if you set your own browser fonts.
For someone who does not accept the idea of divine authorship or inspiration of the Biblical text (like me), the question is: why is it written into the Bible as a divine commandment? Where did this religious law come from? A lot of the laws in that text have some sort of systematic/philosophical justification for them, however alien that justification might be to modern ears, so what is it for the Kashrut laws?
If someone has access to your local passwordmanager he can also keylog everything you type in. Okay, if he can hack your passwordmanager he gets all of your passwords at the same time. Thats a point.

It matters with one goes faster: Cranking your PW manager or you typing in all your passwords.
People deface bills all the time with more egregious doodles.

The "HAWAII" on the front appears subtle[1].

[1] http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m5...
His point was that you can't just say "they're reckless if they're breaking the law", and you certainly can't say "they're only reckless if they're breaking the law". There is a lot of nuance to it and in some situations, breaking the law is even required to prevent a catastrophy and it's reckless not to.
> but it still does the really important things well which is a fair vote.

I wouldn't call any political system which allows Citizens United or any form of lobbying fair. It overshadows and taints the entire electoral and representative processes.
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That was actually a pretty good chuckle reading that, thanks :-)

One agent spammed me once because he was recruiting an architect... to build a supermarket on the south coast. The 'software' bit in my position name didn't seem to have registered!

However, I use ONE agent, who's probably one of the rarest kind: he's /careful/ of not wasting my, or his client's time and seems to have realized that if he does that, he gets returning business -- and he does, he got a 'cut' from placing me a few times now -- and I don't really care, he saves me a lot of time, 'sells' be pretty well (as he knows me well now) and has even managed to convince me to try other things... So by now he's acting more like 'my' agent instead of 'one' agent...
Hopefully I can find it. I'll put it on guthub if i can.

Please do. It sounds very interesting.
You want pragmatism, but what you're giving cyclists is the exact opposite of a pragmatic situation. Cyclists are being extremely pragmatic when they cycle on regular roads...
While I understand Linus's position, it would be a pity if all the update-to-new-api patches are refused for this reason because these are precisely the kind of jobs that potential new contributors would gravitate towards.
I've lost count of the number of times I've watched through that first series. So awesome.
Pretty useful python snippet to get user's dn (&) from Active Directory
Indeed. Our old discussions about "omega-continuous semiring homomorphisms" as the way to try to make something half-way between Dyna and the datalog bits I was working on have been very much present in my mind lately. =)
I remember this happened to a minor league baseball coach for the Red Barrons back in the '90s. Basically, someone who knew the guy wanted to send the coach an envelope with cocaine in it. So the genius gave the envelope to his secretary to mail. The secretary accedently spilled some coffee on the envelope and decided to open it to check the contents. She found the drugs and called the police.

The police, now having the drugs and the guy that was going to send them, hatch a plan. First, they mail the drugs to the coach. Then shortly after the envelope arrives they search the coach's room. Low and behold they find cocaine and the coach is arrested.

I'm not sure how it turned out but it looks like the coach is still coaching to this day:

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=199...
How can you get a compile-time error if some_string has a hash collision?
I just tried San Diego, CA vs Dallas, TX and the site tells me that the cost of living is "about the same" - which is nowhere near accurate.

It also says that living in Des Moines, Iowa is 18% cheaper than living in Tokyo, which seems a bit off to me as well.
Hackers can "pwn" you by not even hacking you. If someone can hack e.g. your phone provider or something you can get even worse problems and you did not anything wrong.
Nope, they are too pricey and their Windows version is not that smooth like competitors. I'm using Sticky Password - http://www.stickypassword.com
Already in consideration for SO - http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/307513/the-power-of-...
Actually, Intuit came up with the idea for using mobile phones to accept card payments in 2007 - long before Square.

They ran trials in the Bay Area in summer 2008, launched GoPayment properly in early 2009 (with a Bluetooth reader supporting various feature phones), and launched an iPhone app in August 2009.

Square announced their card reader in December 2009 and didn't actually launch until the following May.
I'm European. I disagree with you. Stop generalizing.
I recommend this extension to find malicious chrome extensions. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-apps-extens...
I answered your question.

If it changes the population, it directly affects me.

I'm not sure what you're not getting.
Because we think we can have it all, and we may just be right.

* for some ambitious but obviously not literal definition of "all".
As far as I know, Dyson doesn't say that man-made global warming isn't real - he just questions the validity of the models. It just comes out weirdly anti-global warming in this interview.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson#Global_warming
Hey, now http://socialchamp.io can do all above in one click.
It can fetch an image from a link and post it as separate image. Try it out.

PS: It's being optimized to fetch images from more websites.
> 2nd theme: lab tests from Theranos differ from generally accepted standards. How do they differ if in fact they are using the same tests as everybody else? Is it just the general variability of lab results and similar variability could be find in quest diagnostics as well?

Because Edison and the dilution procedure produce low quality results. Thus for a large number of the tests Theranos is less accurate than traditional methods.

> 3rd Theme: almost all people say Theranos is dramatically cheaper than competitors. How is that possible when they are using the same equipment as everybody else for most of the tests? Is it a process innovation in operations rather than from Edison/better equipment tech? Or are they just subsidizing these costs and being cheaper and possible have bad unit economics?

The above is possible because they are not currently focused on profit, rather market share. All that money that they have raised has had to go somewhere.
Isn't the tech Tesla is using licensed from Mercedes?
Whether or not the problem is real does not validate the concept that the models are trustworthy. It's possible to get the "right" answer in the wrong way, especially when the "right" answer is a somewhat fuzzy binary answer and not something that is more narrowly falsifiable.
Couldn't you use like, Google Maps?
Thanks for sharing that article. The CCP world is so convoluted that when I start thinking "I got it", I realize the rabbit hole keeps going.

Here are two articles for anyone who is interested in learning more:

[0] : https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-a-payme...

[1] : http://www.chetu.com/blogs/finance-2/choosing-between-paymen...
This is more about how hackers use phishing (old) to get passwords etc. Nothing new. Actually looks like phishing works best on those not hyperconnected or heavy internent users because they would most likely know the pitfalls.
UK refuses Assange safe passage to hospital
What if it's the other way around?
I dunno, 90s era table layouts weren't exactly flexible either…
"my username is a reference to Star Trek"

Goatie, S2 OTS.
Yr Client’ Dream – a PHP project finished under budget and before DL. How to do it
So, what’s the deal with K3 surfaces?
Tandems are also used when recruiting pro bass players / drummers since you often need one and only one of them in a band but it has to be always present for gigs.

Usually they are in duo, backing each others in several bands.
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Secular? Angela Merkel fairly recently (in the context of whether to expand the EU to Turkey) made a statement about European values being Christian values.

Not that I agree with her (the "Christian" values of modern Europe are secular values that have replaced the original Christian values because we spent centuries figuring out that they're wrong so calling our modern values Christian is incredibly misleading) but I wouldn't agree with a blanket statement like "Europe's culture is a secular culture" either.

If anything, Europe's culture is incredibly diverse. Saying immigration/refugees threaten our secular culture is just a nice way of saying you're afraid of the possibility of Islam affecting our liberties -- which is fine by me, as long as you're honest about it.
Wow. Our 'up and coming' excuse for living in South London is actually turning out to be true.