skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just read the full original paper, and this seems like the most likely explanation to me:

"[T]he main considerations might not have been technical at all, but rather Agency-specific — that is, related to the difficult situation the NSA was in following the Snowden leaks. The loss of trust and credibility from the scandal about Dual EC DRBG was so great that NSA might have anticipated that anything further it said about ECC standards would be mistrusted. The NSA might have felt that the quickest way to recover from the blow to its reputation would be to get a “clean slate” by abandoning its former role as promoters of ECC and moving ahead with the transition to post-quantum cryptography much earlier than it otherwise would have."

I spent >10 years working for the government, and this scenario is entirely consistent with my experience there.
That other hand and its callbacks to anti-competitive behavior and whispers of monopolies don't have much bearing on anything unless you are prepared to substantiate exactly how this behavior impacts the market share of other competitors. (I wish you luck on that very, very long row to hoe.)

Meanwhile, even that "good behaving" Linux distro will happily remove Windows's boot record in favor of GRUB's, rendering the system reliant on a component that breaks if you want to remove Linux (and most people are way more likely to want to remove Linux than to remove Windows!). Hardly neighborly behavior in and of itself. And yet, I'm still not seeing a reason to cast aspersions on GRUB or Linux distros, nor am I seeing those twirly mustachios on their faces.

No OS gives much of a damn about anything else running on the computer. Claims to the contrary are literally farcical and the pseudo-damages it could theoretically cause to the easily bruised are silly.
Weave 1.2.0 – Fast data path released
I hope that this will allow the Android tools team to start seriously considering supporting it with Jack & Jill (if that's not already the case).
I'll add that I can't find a report of this issue upstream on the Chromium issue tracker. :/

If we remember the hotword detection issue from a few months ago, once the issue was filed, Chrome engineers responded rather quickly. (As of today, hotword detection is 100% removed not just from Chromium but Chrome as well).

If anyone can reproduce this issue, I'd like to help getting it filed so we can determine what's going on.

Edit: We've found the upstream issue: http://crbug.com/498272 In it, we've isolated two separate pings in this scenario. One is to grab an experiment status; we're looking into if this is neccessary.
The other ping is for the component updater, to evaluate if your Chrome extensions should be updated. Neither of these pings report what sites you are visiting to Google.
This is normal at my school as well.. Typically if I bought everything on the syllabi of the courses I'm taking, my bill would easily be greater than $300. Probably even closer to $500. Pretty much books that cost anywhere from $150-250 or so each, with even used copies at least half if not more of the price for a new copy.
This (x100). A lot of otherwise highly educated people I know just cannot understand this simple economic rule of supply/demand.
Facebook expands Search to 2 Trillion posts
Burning trees doesn't actually change the atmospheric balance at all. Every tree releases its carbon, either by being burned or when it dies by rotting. It's effectively a non-trapped part of the atmospheres circulatory system. Remember trees breath the stuff in and eventually they exhale. The problems only crop up when you extract trapped hydrocarbons from underground and burn those. Oil and Coal bad, Tree's not so much.
VeriDrone project: building quadcopters people can bet their lives on [video]
Meet Quarter – the fastest charging powerbank using the MagSafe
Agreed. Methane is way worse than CO2 as well. It is really shocking that companies inside the US borders are allowed to do this.
To spell it out, the point I'm trying to make is that historically oppressed and/or underrepresented groups trying to get a foothold in society, trying to get an identity or trying to celebrate their culture... as soon as they get a foothold, that foothold is taken from them by having its definition changed or diluted into almost nothing.

>>it was modified to mean largely the same thing but a bit different

To you it's a bit different. To me it carried the constant struggle of poor minorities, including my parents, and that difference is huge enough that I don't go just tossing the word around freely. You're definitely not going to see me with coffee mugs & pencils with "hustle" engraved on it. Btw, "The Struggle" is also another term that carries significant weight in poor communities. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=the+struggle ...yes, you can show all the history of the word "struggle" but it now carries a big definition with poor people, especially african americans. At this point, there's nothing more I can say. This kind of thread never ends on HN and eventually someone will come along and say something that requires a whole school semester on history, culture and the different forms of oppression throughout history to respond to.
I believe that in Hacker News (and Silicon Valley in general) .NET is underrepresented.

Most startups don't use .NET.

See Hacker News Hiring Trends:

http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/

So, to get hired, if you work mostly on the backend, it's Ruby + Rails, Javascript + Node.js and Python + Django.

Java and .NET are almost nonexistant.
The article title is misleading though. It was for 1 day that they emitted more. So overall about 1% of us emissions if you average for the year or 100 times less.
I don't follow. We're talking about body appendages from dead donors that have been washed of any cellular material so they can be retrofitted with cells from the recipient? I guess I'm not seeing what exactly is "lab-grown" here.
Hmm. I did do that for myself, sort of manually. That's a good idea! Although I don't think I will profit much, and looking at my EC2 box right now it seems pretty centralized to me.
“The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.”
> that in some situations is more effective than usual shy polite careful... whatever,.

I think this is where the difference is perceived rather than real.

I'm not shy, but I am polite. It's a virtue, not a bad thing. I generally (in social/relational situations) put others above myself. This is really networking 101, ask questions and listen, rather than make everything about yourself.

Now you characterized modest culture/people in a narrow minded way, just because that's not who you are. And I then in return gave it some more depth and ended with characterizing the "american" side in a narrow minded way.

I do see and understand your comment. I think there are upsides and downsides to both. You prefer yours and I see why I don't blame you for it. I prefer mine for different reasons. We both really are focused on the upsides of our own choices and then slowly try to incorporate the upsides of the opposite.
This doesn't make a lot of sense as a critique of choice. If you don't like the options available in a regular supermarket, you can go up one level and visit higher-end supermarkets, or even smaller specialty stores instead of chains.

Now, it is true that it requires more effort to find the foods you're interested in. That's because most people aren't interested in the same foods you are. There's no way to "fix" this problem beyond heavy-handed government intervention, and in a socialist society I can guarantee you that -- unless the Supreme Leader is also keen on foods without refined sugar -- you're going to find it even harder to locate anything which isn't preferred by the mass market.
No, because for this to work you start with a bone-in leg of lamb, then strip out the cellular material and regrow it with new cells more suitable for the host.

there is no point if you just want to eat it

however, I guess if you want to have different type of legs (picture Pan) then I guess you could strip out the cellular material from a goats leg and repopulate it with human ones then graft it on.. hmm, I wonder if that would work anyway
I've been in computing since the TRS-80 Model I, and I have only ever heard the "won't run" variant.
Don't you guys think it could undermine contractors lives and even performance?

Sure, it's fair to pay for the hours you've worked, but tracking every minute of work could be overwhelming.

I'm pretty sure that's something many managers would do.
Sort of. It would be nice if we could sequester the carbon already in the air in trees. The benefit is two fold: More trees, and removal of carbon that is already in the air from burning fossil fuels.
And, though environmental groups are loathe to discuss it[1], animal agriculture is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, more than the combined exhaust from ALL transportation[2].

[1] http://www.cowspiracy.com/

[2] http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.HTM
You study it in the Future, duh!
Wow, that was amazingly condescending. "Too many students, not enough teachers" is real, and likely applicable here, but that could have been said in 40 words. And it sure as hell didn't need the air of "I'm God's gift to Silicon Valley."
So the fact that it's releasing as much in one day as the entire US does in a year means nothing?

Wow...that's strange...it's going to take a bit to get my head around the logic of that. I'm not saying your wrong but I have to ponder it a bit...

[EDIT] So the article edited its conclusion after I posted this...please consider this before you ding me. It originally said the fires were releasing that much. Thank you.
"for nothing"

At huge cost to the economy and freedom from government regulations and bureaucracy. Plus, a lot of "green" solutions aren't utopic or practical.

It's not all or nothing, and I support being ecologically conscious. But I don't think it's wise to dismiss all criticism of the climate change cult.
The article says the fires are especially bad because they're burning peatland this year, which is releasing trapped hydrocarbons into the atmosphere.
Does this mean that Bitcoin has a different tax status in the EU vs the US? If so, does this suggest future bitcoin growth will be favored in one or the other?
The State of Text Rendering (2012)
I can't think of a better (more accurate and neutral) title right now, but if you or anyone suggests one, we can change it.
>This is a conversational dead-end because there is both no evidence for it in this case, and no way to disprove it.

Doesn't that make it a conversational endless road?

Being able to prove or disprove it would make it a dead-end, getting the conversation to stop :-)
TLDR: They're students, retired boomers, or sick middle agers.
Wouldn't raising the cost of energy around the world mean that goods made in China become more expensive. Meaning... we'd maybe move some jobs back to the US. Maybe a carbon tax would actually boost the US economy?
The obligatory Joel post ...

"Jon Ross, who wrote the original version of SimCity for Windows 3.x, told me that he accidentally left a bug in SimCity where he read memory that he had just freed. Yep. It worked fine on Windows 3.x, because the memory never went anywhere. Here's the amazing part: On beta versions of Windows 95, SimCity wasn't working in testing. Microsoft tracked down the bug and added specific code to Windows 95 that looks for SimCity. If it finds SimCity running, it runs the memory allocator in a special mode that doesn't free memory right away. That's the kind of obsession with backward compatibility that made people willing to upgrade to Windows 95."

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000054.html
The attack on ADA is enough to make me wary: Didn't we already determine this fear of chemicals is overstated?
This is a weak argument. No one is saying that smog in cities is desirable. But rather that there is insufficient evidence to show certain interventions are necessary/economical/effective.
Am I missing something? Emby appears to have the exact same business plan with Emby Premiere.
Encrypted communication hasn't historically been a serious deterrent for one of the world's premier intelligence services. I like to assume the FBI hires capable detectives, but this recent "crypto frenzy" indicates otherwise.
>>that determinism has nothing to do with free will

>The theory goes that, on an atomic level, interactions between particles is a deterministic process - it's wholly and completely predictable because the outcome is determined by a knowable set of rules. Given the fact that our brains are just[1] a huge set of particles and chemical processes it should then follow that a perfect computer model of someone's brain would make the exact same decisions as that person.

yes. Absolutely true. In theory. The coin head/tail outcome can be modeled and predicted even more easily than brain. Thus the coin is an example of determinism. In theory. On practice though it is the thing that comes among firsts to mind when we talk about in-determinism.

Giving the amount of computations necessary to perfectly model even a coin, less a brain, and the minimum energy cost of a unit of computation, it may be so that such perfect computer is just not possible inside our Universe (it may happen that Universe is the smallest computer that can run such simulation and that exactly that it is doing right now :)
>Don't you guys think it could undermine contractors lives and even performance?

A lot of people think that, yes. I've seen it happen to some of my friends. They can't plan their lives more than a week ahead. It's emotionally draining.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-hour_contract

To be fair, this app seems to allow the employees to specify their preferred working hours too. I wonder how it's generally used in practice.
You cannot just infinitely accumulate trees. In a steady state, forests neither sequester nor release carbon.
How's this new at all?
"BestBuy is one of the biggest electronics retailers in the world. If they can't sort products properly, then it's not reasonable for a vendor to expect anybody to do it."

Lots of enormous corporations are desperately incompetent at various things; that doesn't mean it's unreasonable to ask for competence. In this case, perhaps Best Buy was very good at selling electronics before the Web became a primary way to shop for products, and never managed to make the transition effectively. It happens all the times.
This is why I've been working with rpi/arduino stuff: I can build it myself. Sure, it's more work, but the pre-built options all suck, as far as I've seen.

I used to always follow the newest automation releases, but I gave up, because they were all closed-source, internet-required devices. Screw that.
I've never really been a part-time employee, but I know a lot of people who have, and fluctuating schedules are a major pain point. Human decision-making really affects the process; people have to fit in somewhere and since one schedule change has a ripple effect, everyone is affected. The human in-charge goes for the easiest result, since this is something they have to do frequently, and everyone ends up unhappy because their schedule is unpredictable.
Ask HN: Giving away 2% equity during bootstrapping for free housing?
I'm in the process of bootstrapping a startup with no funding (I'm at the very beginning). My friend has a rather large community house where he has offered me to stay for free for 2% equity (or something like that) per year but I could negotiate the deal. I'm very good friends with him.

Living there is cheap. Rent would be around 230 Euros per month (incl. utilities).

Is that something that I could consider? Why shouldn't I? Will it scare away future investors?
So what?

The "info"graphic just lists some basic nutritional info without much context. It also highlights a few choice ingredients and makes weird comparisons like "this is used as a blowing agent in yoga mats!" or "this is a form of butane!" So what?

A lot of fear mongering going on here. I'd be more interested in seeing WHY those chemicals are unsafe for human consumption. Why is double-frying the fries so terrible that it made this list?

I mean don't get me wrong, McDonald's is gross because it tastes bad, but it's not necessarily "filthy" for any of the reasons highlighted here.

EDIT: Also really? "Meat slurry"? Shouldn't we be celebrating the fact that McDonalds is trying to use as much of the animal as possible? If it's tasty enough and nutritional enough isn't that fine? As long as they aren't using the spinal cord or brain tissue there's no real additional risk of exposure to contaminants, right?
A big loser here (in my opinion) is Kotlin, whose equivalent of LINQ doesn't support deferred evaluation
The methane burns off so it's "just" CO2.
Paul West, Writer Who Shoveled Absurdity into His Books, Has Died
Hey Jamasen,

We have primarily been focused on startups. This means that we have had people sign up with 20 workers, then end up with >200 after a few months.

We're finding that it takes at 30 workers to recognize the automation benefits and cost savings. Workers also need to be treated equivalently in terms of skill. So, a small restaurant workforce where people change roles every day may not be the best fit.

We think that call centers, fulfillment companies, and retail stores are good early fits. This is because they need different people at different times, and the number of people they need changes throughout the day.
that's true if they let the trees re-grow to maturity and let the deep layers of peat reform (which AFAIK takes a really long time).

for better or worse these stands of older trees are a finite resource, and once they've burned them all the problem stops getting worse. But by then the CO2 is released and unlikely to be re-sequestered in Indonesia anytime soon
This is not the point, nor the problem....

1. Tropical peatland is not just trees. Its also got peat - a pile of vegetation that isn't exactly rotting - but rather storing carbon. In fact peat is a fuel source in many parts of the world - not coal or oil, but similar to those in releasing otherwise stored carbon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_peat

2. The process in this area also releases a lot of methane, which rotting doesn't always release, and certainly doesn't release this quickly.
Semi-permanently eliminating forested regions for alternate use shifts the environmental carbon balance - doesn't it?
I'm really not a fan of the "you have to sell your house!" rhetoric. Why is it that in startups, people who do unethical/obviously stupid things in pursuit of a rare chance at possible money are considered desirable?

Is there data that suggests that such people actually found and lead successful startups?
Saying "you will have enough skill to be useful" is naive if you are basing it on your own personal experience of learning to "write code in a little under three months and immediately got a job as a Jr. Dev".

+++ On My Personal Experience +++

I also learned to write code on my own and had a junior dev job with no college experience. I then attended college part time to get my CS degree because

1) There are a large set of potential employers that will not consider hiring if you do not have a degree; so in times of job scarcity your options will be limited.

2) The subset of employers that will hire someone without a degree is then further broken into a subset that will pay you less since they know you have less options not having a degree.

+++ On Dev Bootcamps +++

1) 12 solid intensive weeks of learning to write code may be enough to get someone an entry level job if they learn/retain enough to get through the interview process. Having this as a focused class room where assistance and guidance is provided is likely of benefit to some people; so they are not entirely useless.

2) In my experience bootcamps have either not published or have been deceptive with job placement numbers. As a for example; I know of a bootcamp that published a 100% job placement rate. This was deceptive since they did not publish that 1) More than 75% of the attendees did not complete the bootcamp and so they were not counted (only graduate placement was counted), but they still were out of pocket for tuition costs. 2) Being hired for ANY job was considered as a successful job placement, but only about 1/3rd of the graduates actually found jobs that were in the field, the other 2/3rd were counted as successes because they were employed (e.g. if you found a job as a waitress you would count towards the success metric.)
All animal-produced carbon came from the air. Converting CO2 into more interesting greenhouse gasses generates a constant offset from the "natural" state. It's irrelevant in the long term view.
Come on, that's incredibly disingenuous.

Of course it's not terrible to improve the atmosphere. But you're making it sound like all methods are equivalent; when there are limited resources to address the problem, they need to be allocated accordingly.

It's a similar situation to water in California -- yes, everyone should cut down on consumption. But the single-family mega-mansions using as much as 90 normal residences [1] cutting 10% of their water usage has a much bigger impact than an average residence cutting 10%.

Edited:

If a billion dollars spent in the US reduces US emissions by 5%, and US emissions and emissions from these fires are equivalent, and it costs less to incentivize Indonesian / Malaysian palm oil producers to stop burning peat forest and reduce emissions by 5%, we should be doing that instead.

[1] https://www.revealnews.org/article/the-wet-prince-of-bel-air...

Original before edit: If the US could spend a billion dollars to reduce our carbon emissions by 5%, or could spend a billion dollars paying Indonesia & Malaysia to stop setting palm oil on fire and reduce THEIR emissions, the results are not equivalent. The latter is 200x more effective. [the 200x was from a misreading of the article]
For an average Java dev (the silent majority, not the ones writing blogs, speaking at conferences etc.) it is new, exotic and mind-boggling I assure you.
Does that therefore prove that having lots of choices in a supermarket is bad?
Can you email me which company this is? I have also had similar issues occasionally and am wondering if it's the same.
Size does not automatically imply competency
Mashape acquires Gelato.io to provide Dev Portals for everyone
That is not what the article says. The article claims that for a single day these fires emitted more than the US did on that day.
First, you start with a naturally grown bone-in leg of lamb. Then you completely decellularize it by running a detergent solution through it for a week. Then you culture the replacement lamb cells, and inject them into the appropriate places on the limb. Then you place the leg in a bioreactor and wait until the cell cultures spread throughout the existing matrix. Then, when you finish, you have a lab-grown leg that is 80% as good as the natural one!

Having to start with a natural limb seems to be the roadblock here.

So we're going to need to be able to volume-print an extracellular matrix before anybody gets any vat steaks. I'd guess a destructive scan of a single natural beef tenderloin and some stem cells from the World's Most Delicious Bovine would allow for unlimited numbers of vat-grown copies. And then it would still take quite a while to bring the unit cost down below feedlot cattle.
Crocodile humor.
NoScript is unfortunately quite sketchy, I don't use it any more.

It has a whitelist supposedly to not break "top websites", but this list contained IMO some questionable choices last I checked it. It also tries to connect to the dev's website for no reason at all (addons are updated directly from Firefox) and after updates, "to show the release notes".

Last but not least, this is the same dev which got involved in a scandal for trying to underhandedly whitelist the said website into an ad-blocking addon.