skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Libraries are fantastic at lending me physical books. Really, really good at it.

I've been an avid consumer of books on my various Sony readers (I prefer them to kindles and other brands) for most of the last decade, but as I type I have nine physical books from the library within a few feet of me. They charge me fifty pence to fetch it for me if they have to fetch it from some other county library, and two and a half pounds if they have to fetch it from anywhere in the UK and Ireland. I have six or seven books on order at the moment from the library, and they've got two waiting for me (one of which came from the county store, fifty pence, and one of which came from a university somewhere, two pounds and fifty pence).

Unbeatable value for books I want to read but don't want to buy. Sometimes I even forgo piracy for the extra convenience of having it in physical format; novels that I read cover to cover sequentially are more convenient on the Sony, but textbooks, reference manuals and technical guides are so much more useful as paper. I completed a part-time degree last year and the library was an absolute viking at getting me maths textbooks and histories from all over.

Libraries can (still) lend me books at fantastic prices.
Here's a very simple, no-knead bread recipe that I've enjoyed baking several times. Some people enjoy the kneading process, but if you just want some bread, it is worth making: http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/11376-no-knead-bread
The fact that you just said this, in this context, shows me how clearly embedded the AM/PM 'standard' is for people. Though that doesn't mean it's still a good idea to use it for meetings. It just signals to me that the only way of displacing this imprecise messy standard is to teach people to schedule meetings differently; and to have their smartphones display both the AM/PM time, and the standard meetings time.

Unfortunately that would probably still be as a 'timezone', and if we're doing that it may as well just be UTC since every timezone library I've every used already has that and best of all is only off by a few seconds at most without updates. (Close enough for applications that care about timezones instead of leap seconds.)
Thought Vectors, Deep Learning and NLP
Isn't this a case of hindsight being 20/20 though? Maybe when China was first considering population control, there was no one there to think of applying just economic pressure? Or maybe the voice got lost in the usual $politics?

Fortunately, future decisionmakers now have competing examples of China, Hong Kong and Singapore to learn from.
Show HN: Libcurl bindings for Node.js
OpenROV Launches Super Fast Underwater Drone
For Sale: Serial YC-Rejected Startup
Windows XP looked like Fischer-Price toys, so maybe it was a combination of the graphics and your age!
EU Parliament Votes Snowden Should Have Asylum on Human Rights Grounds
I see many (most?) people block themselves into false dichotomies, in this case: "Either I can work as whatever I was trained at or I must stay at home". There are more options, always.

I was not presuming to know what will work for you, just mentioning there are lots of alternatives. Many require courage and effort, but still, they are there.

Don't forget that if the Canada plan doesn't work.
IANAL and this is not legal advice, but trademark law doesn't favor you. In order to keep their trademark, they must defend it. Unlike patents, trademarks must be actively maintained. They owe you nothing for the domain name because they didn't ask you to register it.
It's not that results are unimpressive, but the market has dictated faster compile times. When a PGO compilation is an order of magnitude slower, for the 90% of applications out there where the extra 5-25% improvement means less than a 60 sec improvement, then you won't care about PGO. You need to have an application an order of magnitude larger (in run time) to care about PGO. Smaller than Google, bigger than your startup. See xkcd [0][1] for when to care.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1205/

[1] https://xkcd.com/1445/
The library glues together React's rendering model and d3's powerful animation primitives.
Video games programmers have to learn more and make less. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, especially since I can barely understand this particular blog post.
Literature reviews of over 54 studies say it's not true. Elite athletes live longer than average.

>Considerable support was found for superior longevity outcomes for elite athletes, particularly those in endurance and mixed sports

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26301178
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19574095

There may be confounding factors e.g. genetic factors, lifestyle, wealth, and status.
Exactly. Had the court deemed it unconstitutional, it would be a different story, but that's not what they said. Also, the Freedome Act was signe about 5 months ago, so this only authorizes continued collection for about 4 more weeks.
Could this DHT be used to store _any_ content?
And in theory, dependent types are the awesomest thing ever. But they're not ready yet, and there's no guarantee they ever will be. There's a gulf between even having a few focused, carefully-chosen proofs of concept and a practically-useful technology.

(For that matter, I just grabbed that example off the top of my head as the thing I knew that most resembled the various fancy optimizers I've seen over the years, but it seems to me that dependent typing are full of things that would be darned useful for an optimizer. It would be funny if the fastest path towards whole-program optimization went through dependent types being practical.)
Making daylight saving time permanent could reduce crime
It's not just bread, it's other wheat products as well.

Take a tortilla, for example. Taco Bell and Walmart have the worst of the worst. Chipotle's tortillas aren't much better, they still have that 'soapy' taste. Visit a local Mexican bakery (panadería) and buy a package of fresh-made tortillas and you'll be amazed at the difference.

This expands to every other bread you think of. Pita, paratha, bagels...
HN is becoming the single source responsible for most of my total book spending... Anyway, just purchased it. Thanks for the recommendation!
> Profiling is a heuristic substitute for a real cost model.

Even a perfect cost model can't tell you the difference between hot paths and cold paths. Profiling can.
Seifnode – Node.js implementation of SEIF protocol helper modules
Related video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHRXPlq9XNw
If Wikipedia doesn't know about it, it's probably not important. In light of this new information, I hereby pledge my support for these reformations.
Not having a well-written client is murdering them. Sometimes the hard way is the best way.
That's just a special case of http://qntm.org/destroy .

qntm's got you comprehensively covered here.
When did you got the illusion that "there is some parts of the world can handle democracy"?

Or when did you got the illusion that "human are capable of handling democracy"...

Dont tell me USA is a democratic country... There is hardly anything people can control in this country, let along democracy...
I don't disagree with what your saying.

The counter argument goes something like this. Let's double every 1,000 years for the next 1,000,000 years that sounds easy.

Let's see that's only 7billion * 2^1,000 or err ~7 * 10 ^ 310 people. Hmm, there are only ~10^83 atoms in the observable universe. I guess they must be really tiny people.

So, yea it's not a problem in right now and probably not for a long time yet. But, as soon as you start doubling something has to give.
Facebook Blocks Internet Pioneer “R.U. Sirius”
Scientists create MALARIA protein that could 'destroy nine in 10 cancers'
Requiring jobs is not an upside or downside, it is simply a matter of relative expense. If it is cheaper to run the business by hiring people, people will be hired. If it is cheaper to run the business by buying machines, machines will be bought. One is not better or worse than the other.
We most certainly are checking cert validity. It is possible your cert is self-signed, or from a non trusted CA, or expired.

We also check for secure cipher suites and either fail or prompt the user to accept an insecure connection. We recently deprecated RC4 which caused quite a few support tickets. That could causing your connections to fail.

It sounds like you just got a confusing response from a CS agent (it is a complicated topic). They might be mixing up instructions for IMAP and Exchange which typically runs on 443.

Contact support again and ask them to assign it to Mike from Engineering and I will look into your problem.
Download+itools+iOS+9.1+device.iOS+Jailbreak+Tools+and+Jailbreak+Guide
A Vintage Crime (2012)
> As for your own experiences, the key thing to understand here is that our hiring processes are designed to have a high false negative rate and a near-zero false positive rate. It is explicitly a goal to pass up on many capable people in exchange for not hiring any bad ones. It's not perfect, and there are ways in which people are working to improve the system, but for the most part it's doing what it's designed to do.

Which is precisely why all small companies should do something completely different from Google.

Google is virtually guaranteed to get applications from the majority of people in the field, so gets very low cost for a high false-negative rate.
I wouldn't try fighting them on it. If you do and they take you to court, you are going to be SOL. Find a new brand name and the domain to go with it.

Sorry man!
The Altwork Station is an expensive marvel of desk engineering
Cod’s Continuing Decline Linked to Warming Gulf of Maine Waters
What was the downside to doing the same thing as before by default?
This version seems tethered to a power source and not self-contained with a battery.
Château Sucker – Wine Fraud (2012)
Not crazy about the lack of defaults for the old behavior, but this concerns me more...

Time to transpile "class Foo {}"

babel 5.8.23: 0.55 real, 0.54 user, 0.05 sys

babel 6.0.2: 2.37 real, 2.19 user, 0.23 sys

Why is babel 6.0 four times slower than 5.8?
$12/meal + shipping. Price is obfuscated on the website. I'd imagine that Gobble will struggle with the same things that every food delivery business in the world struggles with - low margins.

People just aren't willing to pay high margins for food that gets delivered. There is constant pressure to offer more food at lower prices.

Their most likely exit strategy is to build a brand strong enough that they can get a line of frozen prepared meals picked up by major grocery retailers or sign a licensing agreement to do something similar.
Not the OP but I'm on WSPR on 20m right now as KC2ZUF!
Meh, that's becoming less and less true. We're definitely never going to do that again.
If you live in the US, you lost. Do what the letter says. They definitely will not pay for you to violate their trademark, either.
Insulation from performance concerns also makes your performance model less predictable. Because the ends of optimisations are observable, but their means are not, people resort to “butterfly programming”. As a small example, in ActionScript 3, people used to write their conditionals like this:

if (a) if (b) {
...
}

Rather than this:

if (a && b) {
...
}

Because the dumb compiler generated better code for the former.

In the real world, I’ve seen seemingly benign code changes prevent optimisations from firing—optimisations we didn’t know we were relying on. So people start coding to the implementation, rather than the language or the human, without even being able to see what they’re doing. I really don’t like that.

Optimisers are like garbage collectors—they give you better ergonomics than, and equal average performance to the manual alternative, if you’re willing to relinquish predictability and a non-voodoo mental model of your code’s performance.
"Isn't that backwards? "If its easy, its not real" is too simple."

good point @Joe, what I'm trying to explain is, it's inspiration that's hard. The Muse. Art that comes easily, rarely looks/feels bad.
For LoRa, check out Multitech, LinkLabs, and Libelium. Semtech has a development board, too, though it would need to be paired with a microcontroller. Warning that most of this stuff is not for the faint of heart -- you need to be ready to dive into datasheets, bring up radio drivers, etc.

For Sigfox, if you're not in an area with a Sigfox network, there's not much you can do. But TI has some killer FSK dev boards. http://www.ti.com/tool/smartrftrxebk and http://www.ti.com/tool/cc1101cc1190emk915

Ingenu has radio modules and dev boards, but I don't think they're set up to sell single-unit quantity.

If you're in San Francisco, we're making a going to be distributing dev boards that will work out of the box and come with a bunch of sensors. Just sign up on our website: www.beepnetworks.com
> Which of these are clickable?

All of them

> Which will result in the phone making a call

In the calling screen, each one. In the contacts screen, none.

> and which will result into going into looking at the contact?

In the calling screen, the three dots. In the contacts screen, each one.

> How do I send an SMS rather than a call?

Click the text balloon icon (in the detail view)

> How do I edit it?

Click the edit icon (in the detail view)

> How do I get a call history?

Scroll down a bit (in the detail view).

Have you actually used the thing you're complaining about?
The analysis part mostly is about legality of the transformation. Humans have a larger view of the program and change code to behave slightly different but way faster. A compiler can't change the behavior of the program.
José Mourinho's Body Language Analysed by Professor Geoff Beattie
Cypress – a test engine that runs unit and integration tests in your browser
They even have a link to their trademark rules, which explicitly tell you not to use their name in domains, on their front page, so it is not exactly surprising...

Asking for them to give you money would IMHO be very rude (and pointless, since they have no reason to do so)
Ah, the good old "future generations will solve it, so let's trash this place"
I dunno, plotting the trajectory is pretty much the easiest part of intercepting a comet. The hard part is everything else.
"Bypass the Youtube player" is what I meant, but reasons to use as is: its interface is simple, it's maintained (this is a hack, why trouble yourself when youtube breaks things), and you won't have to read this: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/ext...
Wow this is great! Any thoughts if I could substitute something lower carb for the flour? Flax meal, or almond or coconut flour?
Seems they don't want anyone using PIA to access their blog... Tried reconnecting and got denied again, had to switch endpoint country to actually get access.

> Error 1008
Access denied.
The owner of this website (engineering.riotgames.com) has banned your IP address (108.61.57.217).

> Error 1008
Access denied.
The owner of this website (engineering.riotgames.com) has banned your IP address (108.61.13.45).
Development is not something that happens naturally if you just leave people alone. Overpopulation hinders development. They most certainly wouldn't be as developed as they are if they had grown faster than their economy could sustain.
This reminds me of a very good read on film restoration focused on the Star Wars films. Lots of interesting info about how film degrades, what can and can't be done to save it, and so on.

http://fd.noneinc.com/secrethistoryofstarwarscom/secrethisto...
I've been tracking what I eat for a while, and one thing I've noticed is that bread makes me hungrier and I feel worse. I've completely dropped bread, and my life has improved dramatically.
sounds great. I have a scientfic library that relies on a mix of loops and matrix multiplication. I need to find some time to test it with PyPy
Indeed. Often the slowest code for us is due to cache friendliness more than algorithmic complexity.

For the data to be laid out correctly the problem needs to be solved way earlier in your toolchain as well as downstream with a rewrite of any algorithm that touches it
.... Said every murderous dictator when he decided a certain segment of the population was polluting the gene pool and he no longer wanted to see or hear them.

or in other words: the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I think dependent types are amazing, but even the tiny subset of dependent types known as refinement types opens up huge avenues for optimization. Some optimizations (loop nest optimizations for a simple example) might only be feasible with static range definitions or with profile guided optimization...but if you throw in refinement types, you now have static guarantees as to the cardinality or range of a variable, and loop nest optimizations can be statically determined. I think full dependent typing could be great, but compilers can still be improved with small language improvements.
Considering a stingray is no more than a software radio and laptop does this mean all cell communications are vulnerable to easy surveillance by almost anyone ?

Are Cell Phone calls encrypted, does this mean the police devices have the universal decryption keys ?

If the police devices have such decryption abilities then it is probably safe to assume they have leaked and various criminals possess this as well.

Thankfully those in power have the best interests of the citizenry at heart ;) /s
I have a contact in my phone labelled "Spam" that lists 30 numbers and counting. Calls from those numbers go straight to voicemail and their texts are blocked. I'll gladly donate them to the database.
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More like extreme warming: "From 2004 to 2013, the scientists found, temperatures rose faster in the Gulf of Maine than in 99.9 percent of the global ocean. “It was a magnitude of temperature change that few ocean ecosystems have ever experienced,” said Andrew J. Pershing, chief scientific officer at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute and the lead author of the study."
Google to Fold Chrome Operating System into Android
Security and Privacy in Your Car Act of 2015
Cool stuff, sure. But, in my opinion, IoT will be slow to take off until the security aspect is solved - and it is a tough one.
Fiber is still, by definition, carbohydrates. Not saying fiber is bad though.
Does anyone know of any good articles on the actual tech she is supposedly developing?

Like some other folks here, I am kind of weirded out by this company that seems to be worth so much, yet seems to have, so far, done so very little. I wonder if "brilliant young woman" does, in fact, equal "cult of personality." I am a woman. I have a tendency to attract a lot of attention, but usually for the wrong reasons. I have had a very hard time translating that into work that is worth something to other people and that puts money in my pocket. Some of the things I have experienced makes me inclined to fear that pretty young woman, charming all kinds of brilliant men, is all this boils down to. I fear it is, in fact, vaporware.

I am reminded of the vintage wine scam that occurred a few years ago (which I just posted two links to).

Edit: The wine scam links I posted, for future reference:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10474174

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10474167
A mental inventory of bloggers who routinely say they did not hand over their HD unlock keys to Apple haunts my mind after reading this. Apple are one of the few tech companies who could throw money at the crypto debate and win some Internet Points, but they would have to counter the claims of many bloggers who said they don't trust Apple to guard their unlock keys
"We" get fat because we eat too much. I don't like to blame food for people's bad behavior. Just eat less.
Saga is a self-hosted embeddable platform for artists
You're probably better off using the BitCoin blockchain (which is a distributed network). It's well documented that you can include data in BitCoin transactions and pretty secure.

But I'd bet you could store information in the DHT itself. Here's the issue: to store the information in the DHT you'd have to attach it to a torrent. To make it relatively persistent the torrent would have to be popular so that it will continue to be seeded and not disappear for a while (like a movie file or a popular music album). If you're doing that you might as well stick the info in the torrent itself instead of hacking it into the DHT. That's what torrents are for.
They didn't bother to remove RC4 from it before doing that? I wonder if they did any cleanup at all or just released it before the current encryption backdoor trial concludes.
population doesn't keep doubling over and over again. It follows a logistic curve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function ). Human population probably reached the midpoint of the curve around 1980 (http://www.growth-dynamics.com/articles/Kurzweil_files/image... ) and is expected to become fairly level between 9 and 13 billion (http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Graphs/ select Population -> Total Population -> WORLD)
Updated: Having read the article, my own opinions miss a feature of libraries that I had forgotten existed. Human search aids that can better translate the questions of humans in to the domain of curated information that they might also maintain.

I am happy to see that I was mistaken in my belief that they would be talking about just books, given their domain name.

-- the remainder is my thoughts prior to reading the article. --

For me, it begins with asking, what is a library? If you ask any normal person they'll start talking about books. Books are just one medium for storing, preserving, and disseminating information. A library should be about more than books.

A library is a temple for worship of and enlightenment through information; for some of the very aspects that separate us from our ancient ancestors and even more so from the other creatures that live in the ecosystems we share.

Libraries can, and should, be repositories and distribution points for information, in all forms and medias. A library should be a well connected hub, not just for books, but also our networks. A library is where local content should be cached, and remote content mirrored. A library should work /with/ local not-for-profits of all types who share the goal of spreading education, enlightenment, and progress in the useful arts of science.
Undersea Internet Cables Are Vulnerable
Our offices are equipped with sensors with LoRa radio's. We're partnering with a local cell service provider (proximus.be) who are upgrading their base stations to be LoRa base stations and we're a pilot installation because we're developing software that does things with the sensor data (smart office type stuff, like adaptive cleaning schedules based on space utilization). The sensors are pre-configured for their network. You stick them to the wall, pull a latch, and they connect directly to the public base station, no additional hardware involved. Surprisingly, it works, and they're claiming five years battery life.

There are some downsides though. The sensor+radio combo's are custom orders for now, meaning they take too long to arrive and are too expensive. That issue will get solved over time. They also have an extremely low data rate. A single set of values every 15 minutes. That issue probably won't be solved. Still, you can learn a lot from a CO2 reading or a door opening counter reading even if it's only every 15 minutes.

The hard bit is the intelligent software that processes the data. If anything is the achilles heel of IoT it's that lots of data does not necessarily lead to any insights.
Alphabet’s Google to Fold Chrome Operating System into Android
> Not having a well-written client is murdering them.

"Murdering them" how?
Thinking About Second and Third Order Effects – A Sample Methodology [pdf]
Yes, http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0044.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10459695