skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if it would be worthwhile to use Cheerp's approach to compile C++ to Dex bytecode for Android. Given that ART compiles Dex bytecode ahead of time to native code, what would performance be like? Yes, Android has the NDK, but apparently working with that is quite painful. And compiling C++ code to Dex bytecode would reduce package sizes, since it would no longer be necessary to ship binaries for ARM and x86, in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors.
Since democracy seems incapable of progressing with changes in the world, would it ever be possible to have a bureaucratic technocracy? Something where technocrats write up and implement legislation rather than people who have no understanding?
"strong privacy protections ..", what do you mean? The Cookie law?

"held national governments to account for privacy invasions"? They are sending our data to the US (e.g. data for airline passengers).

"have broadly stronger environment and safety legislation" Maybe on paper, the EU agencies did know for years that VW (and other EU car producer) did cheat.
C11 defects: C threads are not realizable with Posix threads
Because people have more money than sense? Same with any luxury item really. And I don't mean that more money implies _less_ sense, just that sense is limited and money isn't.
Fifteen minutes – doing more in smaller chunks
His first example is eiπ = −1. Note how that was displayed fine inline, just by
using <sup>, which has been in HTML for years, along with <sub> which I
used to show the TEΧ e. Writing in utf8 means I don’t need a special
sequence like \pi for π.

... So all that tells me that instead of doing `^{content}` for superscripts I have to use the longer and more painful `<sup>content</sup>`, and that I should always have a Unicode table on hand to copy/paste from for special characters that I can't write using my EN_US keyboard.

There's currently no strong case to use HTML (even with full CSS3 and SVG support) as a replacement for LaTeX, mainly because HTML was made for web typesetting - which is normally focused around shorter blocks of text - while LaTeX was made for people who want to be able to typeset and read documents which are tens and sometimes hundreds of pages long. The two domains just have different requirements.
Short term maybe but it is detrimental IMO.
I think GPGTools for OSX does a great job of a client.
The market is a rigged place where individual traders matter a lot less than the movers and shakers which take home most of the winnings at the cost of individuals.
Casino says woman's $8.5M win is 'malfunction'
Productivity gains imply that the architect must know the workflow in detail. Stories about students living in a hospital for some weeks to acknowledge the subtleties of the workflow are rather common in academia but in the real world things are hard to put in practice: time constraints, work-life balance, squeezed budgets (in most industries) and subjectivity (hard to quantify productivity/happiness gains before building it) make change very hard. R&D in architecture is already fueled by architecture interns working pro bono.

Normally the higher you go in an hierarchy the more conservative it gets till you get answers like:

I completely agree with you but without an open layout how do I control my employees?

With an open layout I can put more people in less space.

This is what most business people think. All the rest is poetry.

edit: best office concept I know: http://www.angelinthenorth.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Gl...
My home town's ISP (http://pris.ca) does this for its wireless customers. Transfer between midnight and 7AM doesn't count towards your 10GB/mo cap.
> Of course, this theory makes the (incorrect) assumption that poor folks are working. Most are not, and very few of the remainder work full time.

Would you mind supporting this factual claim with evidence?
Here's the most detailed examination of this I could quickly find http://www.epi.org/publication/poor-people-work-a-majority-o...

* 35.2 percent of the poor (18 - 64) are NOT ELIGIBLE to work (retired, going to school, or disabled)

* 64.8 percent of working-age poor ARE CURRENTLY ELIGIBLE to work

* 62.6 percent of eligible workers are working

* 44.3 percent of eligible workers are working full-time

* 37.4 percent of working age poor eligible for employment are not working (this includes 3.3 million unemployed poor people currently seeking a employment)
"And it's clear: When, like that, the number of subscribers dramatically declines, young people no longer subscribe to newspapers as my generation did, when the number of papers sold at newsstands declines, when the classified ads for the labour market, for used cars and for apartments decline because it all becomes an online service then newspapers are in existential danger. One can either accept that, or act now – in five years it would be too late."

I say, let them die. Most newspapers are a joke. I don't subscribe to them because it's actually a way to become misinformed about any specific topic. Or at least that's what I see in their take of any topic I know profoundly.

There are alternatives. Reader-supported news like LWN seem to be working. I get most of my content from topic specific websites, blogs, and mail lists.

About the classified ads. Why is that a problem at all?

"Maybe Google will only accept an European provision, accept European instruments because then, if needed, via the competition law and the European Commissioner for Competition measures, penalties and legal action in case of breach of European rules are possible"

Transcription -> Steal.
My next startup is going to be a digital payments provider which takes the headache out of VAT compliance for EU SMEs.
Libel specifically says you cannot say provably false things. You can ruin a reputation, without lying, without a problem in the US.

The difference is evidenced by the "right to be forgotten" ruling in Europe, where the ability to hide past actions was deemed more important than the right to publicize those links / events.
There is a lot wrong with that scorecard, and it's dispiriting to hear that it is actually influencing research.
He's got a good point, though. Consider how many people go flying by a SPEED LIMIT 55 MPH sign at 70 mph.

Or the ear-to-ear grin on the mug shot of the mom who was arrested for beating the guy who molested her kids. I'm sure at that point the cops were just going through the motions and she was released in hours.
In case you haven't seen them, here are Greg Goebel's articles on the fighters talked about in the article.

F-86 Sabre:

http://airvectors.net/avf86.html

MIG-15:

http://airvectors.net/avmig15.html
But if you're operating below that limit, the marginal cost is zero.
Surprised they don't mention wine, beer and chocolate (and to a lesser extent, tobacco) which also involve fermentation.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new... (ruled default filters where illegal)

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_STATEMENT-15-5654_en.ht... (ECJ overruled blanket Data Retention).

http://www.wsj.com/articles/eu-court-strikes-down-trans-atla... (safe harbour struck down).

Specific instances show there are problems but all large scale human systems are messy.

Yeah the EU isn't perfect but nothing is, I'd sooner my country (the UK) was in it than not though.
In these plans it feels like the highest priority is to make the design comprehensible for the planners. An expression of incredible laziness. And still such a common planning behaviour. On a smaller scale you might look at one skyscraper and consider the raw quantity of human activity contained within, all utterly erased by the architecture so that every floor and window looks the same - what a loss!

On the level of roads and navigation we can start to consider ignoring comprehensibility entirely. With navigation systems and even more with automated vehicles we can traverse a city without understanding it. Who needs the strict hierarchy of transportation from the Radiant City? Or even the hierarchies we have now.

Transportation is the beginning, but commerce will follow - will we need the hierarchy of warehouses, big box stores, local shops, categories of retail...? New Urbanism principles may survive, but only as an aesthetic, urban planning as decoration.

The organic city structures we'll see (organic because what use has nature ever had for comprehensibility?) could go more than one way. Like an algae bloom of suburbia, structure without character or meaning. Maybe suburbia is already an expression of this trend.

But if we don't fetishize old patterns like New Urbanism, and we don't create spiritually beige non-patterns like suburbia, what other structures do we have to meaningfully organize our cities? I'm somewhat at a loss. But then no one is asking me anyway ;)
I suspect that the 300GB figure comes as a result of (poorly) capacity planning for 1Mb/month @95th percentile per customer. If they can encourage people to stay within that limit, they can say: we have 1000 customers originating from PoP X, so we need to provision 1Gb bandwidth to cover that.
Tobacco has a healthful reputation? Where?
Must be 15 or so years old I guess.

These http://i.ytimg.com/vi/OlydiO2EpA8/maxresdefault.jpg nothing to set the world on fire but the sound quality is spot on for me and they are basically indestructible.
one thing that has always fascinated me is how the spread of "civillisation" is often akin to some "auto-domestication" in the traits that appear in a general population.
LC was the culmination of a barbaric trend, yes. But isn't it important to take the purest exponent of anti-human modernism seriously, since he's influenced our lives so much?
Good regulations have almost nothing to do with technological change. We have regulations against pollution or fraud not because the technology has changed but because the incentives otherwise don't line up. You can pollute the air using technology from 1895 and if it's cheaper to do that than to install emissions controls then economics will drive you to do that unless regulations prohibit it.

Regulating very new technologies is almost always unwise. There will already be existing generic laws and regulations against serious bad outcomes (you are not allowed to knowingly kill people regardless of method) and for less serious outcomes it's generally better to let the technology shake out and take some time to study and understand it, even if there is a short-term cost to doing that.
Take Ottinger out of the Commission, and this idea will die. He was the one pushing for such a tax in Germany, too. He has strong ties with GEMA there.
You discriminate by partitioning up your bandwidth. Like they always have done. Data is free, bandwidth is not. You partition the bandwidth you have with a certain overbook factor and sell that.

The Comcast cap has nothing to do with technical decisions, it is purely there to discourage video streaming in favor of Comcast's own options.
But who would use it? This study is all about getting the average computer user to use PGP. Most people with webmail accounts won't want to switch back to a desktop client and possibly have to change their email address in order to send & receive secure mail.

Besides which, 'make a new client' doesn't answer the main issue, which is how to write a usable client. There are plenty of existing unpleasant PGP clients out there, unless you can detail what makes your new attempt better, it will most likely fail as well.
East Europe universities, particularly lithuanian (VU and KTU) pays about 300$ per month for PhD student.
The psychological power of narrative
The government sets an agenda and uses all kinds of tricks to get it through the parliament as fast as possible. A real democratic process is not desired. MPs usually don't have enough time to even read bills, doing proper research is completely out of the question, and therefore they trust the party position. Disagreeing with the party is sanctioned, e.g. you won't get listed in the next election (-> you lose the income you need for your mortgage), less speaking time, etc.

Source: Members of the Bundestag and "Von Rettern und Rebellen" by Klaus-Peter Willsch
1) Flatten the server/VM/whatever
2) Load the last clean backup image
3) Apply updates made since the last backup
5) Carry on ....
You do have back ups don't you?
You do develop off-line and push deployments to servers don't you?
No? Then remember to renew the notice in the front window of your house telling the potential burglars you didn't lock the place up and there all the valuable are stored.
Did you guys read the paper, or even the abstract? This whole paper is about Mailvelope and the difficulty people had using it.
I didn't think the Korean-War era MiG-15s were still in combat service in the Vietnam war. The similar looking MiG-17s were certainly a tough opponent in that conflict.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-15#Vietna...
lutusp rejects all psychiatry and psychology. He denies that phobias are real; he denies that OCD is real.

His sailing is interesting. His NASA experience is interesting. His posts about psychology are mostly full of errors.
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I've found the rise time of starters to be too unpredictable. These days I make my bread with a small (1/2 tsp or so) amount of yeast, but let the sponge grow overnight. Results in very tasty bread that rises on my schedule.
Mars’ Atmosphere Stripped by Solar Winds, NASA Says
While mostly true, it's not so clear-cut. While some improvements to usability would reduce the security, there are also things that can be done to make software easier to use and still keep it as secure (for example, in-app help)
I assume PG meant that every kid should learn how to code like every kid should learn how to write, not that every kid should become a professional programmer or writer.
I lived in a small bus in New Mexico for a while and got addicted to this site, http://tinyhousetalk.com. You don't have to be a gypsy to admire the space efficiency and DIY furniture. Most of what I've put together (sofa, bookshelf, etc.) feels incredibly stronger than anything I could get for 4-6x the price. But that's just how things are, some trade off of price for quality for time. Anyway, I admire his/his wife's attitude and ability to look at the situation optimistically and make it work.
Bragging about your exploits on Twitter and giving interviews to Wired is what informants do to fish for more hackers to snitch on.
Of course. That's exactly the justification for charging more during congestion periods. That's when you're operating close to the limit.
oh ok.

this is actually harder to solve than just 'here have thunderbird'. how do you replicate keys across computers? how do you send e-mail from a new computer when you don't have access to your old computer (it turns out the answer is you don't). how do you back up your keys? where do you store them?

there are some high security answers like "ship our users HSMs" but those are very brittle to common failure modes like "i lost it". I think you'll discover that if you try to create something that is both resilient to average negligent use but still encrypted, you'll wind up with something that is basically hushmail.
Will this also way the other way around ? I.e. will newspapers also need to pay if they link to external source?
A $1B Bet on Artificial Intelligence in Silicon Valley
I thought this was going to be about the excellent BBC series "Places That Don't Exist"[1] that covers Somaliland, Transnistria, Taiwan, South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Places_That_Don%27t_Exist

Simon Reeve himself has posted it on youtube, so I guess it's OK to link it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRET1fHLWdE
I think it's easy to pick on a weak example, but much progress has been made since the original "Why Johnny Can't Encrypt".

A recent example: Textsecure / Signal has been very, very smooth for me and I doubt it'd be much more difficult for laypeople either: https://whispersystems.org/
Real secure encryption is and always will be not user friendly because it means only you can know the private key. This means no "Forgot my password" functionalities, no fancy powerful cloud AI analyzing your data and suggesting cool stuff, no free hosted full text search of your data, no open directory of friends to search on etc. So basically, no gmail, icloud, facebook, dropbox etc. It would require a complete new paradigm, sure there are interesting techs such as ethereum and bitcoin but they are not user friendly, and don't scale much to the regular user (downloading the whole blockchain is a no-no to most people for example) but most importantly, current solutions are too convenient and work really well (bar privacy and security issues most don't care about). So you'd need a tech that not only is way better, more efficient and smarter than current ones (gmail, google, facebook, icloud etc) but also secure and decentralized. Not happening any time soon but hopefully not impossible either.
I'm yet to be convinced they'd be useful for anything.

Other than, perhaps, signing on to a competing project to bring it down as well.
>Now Comcast claims that 98% of its subscriber base won’t even come close to going over the 300GB cap.

I am the 2% !!!

Date Download Upload Total
2015-10 419.63 GB 50.89 GB 470.52 GB
2015-09 601.49 GB 129.11 GB 730.60 GB
2015-08 1,011.83 GB 196.79 GB 1,208.62 GB
2015-07 504.28 GB 56.33 GB 560.61 GB
2015-06 398.04 GB 43.94 GB 441.98 GB
2015-05 305.05 GB 42.20 GB 347.25 GB
2015-04 375.06 GB 81.83 GB 456.89 GB
2015-03 215.10 GB 65.89 GB 280.99 GB
2015-02 316.11 GB 180.48 GB 496.59 GB
2015-01 413.11 GB 135.68 GB 548.78 GB
2014-12 457.10 GB 56.55 GB 513.65 GB
2014-11 270.25 GB 76.81 GB 347.05 GB
2014-10 311.27 GB 86.75 GB 398.03 GB
2014-09 381.53 GB 119.21 GB 500.74 GB
2014-08 237.63 GB 271.40 GB 509.03 GB
2014-07 277.23 GB 388.38 GB 665.61 GB
2014-06 213.32 GB 162.85 GB 376.17 GB
2014-05 223.88 GB 67.49 GB 291.37 GB
2014-04 258.21 GB 124.38 GB 382.60 GB
2014-03 205.78 GB 77.03 GB 282.81 GB
2014-02 315.23 GB 448.78 GB 764.01 GB
2014-01 342.07 GB 279.32 GB 621.38 GB
2013-12 128.54 GB 114.93 GB 243.47 GB
Well, I literally (literally) slept trough this discussion, but for the record please tell me how the "check the box" rule is not a loophole. It was a mistake from trying to make the tax rules simpler which wasn't supposed to happen and they've tried to repeal it multiple times without success.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/31/us-usa-tax-checkth...
There is actually a whole paper about this by Roger Dingldine: http://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/usability:weis2006.pd...

Basically, you're more anonymous the more people use Tor, so increasing Tor's usability increases it's security.
Genelec is renowned for their studio monitors.

These aren't simply "high quality speakers", it's really a separate product category from the kind of audiophile-focused hifi speakers the article is talking about.

> There’s a reason why experts advise against using “ordinary” Hi-Fi loudspeakers for monitoring your audio. These speakers are built to fill a living room and should be listened to at a distance. They come in fancy shapes and exotic wood finishes and are hyped for that full and rich musical sound. Hi-Fi speakers are meant to look and sound pretty.

In contrast, nearfield studio monitors are designed to be placed within a few feet of you in a small room that is close to dead, acoustically speaking. Instead of complementing the source, studio monitors need to be detailed, neutral and reveal problems to the critical listener. If something sounds off, they should let you know.

The difference between a Hi-Fi speaker and a studio monitor is like the difference between a fan and a friend. A fan will flatter you. A friend will tell you the unvarnished truth. That’s probably why most monitors look as sexy as a black brick.

http://www.nethervoice.com/2013/12/04/the-truth-about-studio...
Don't you have to heat it, though? I vaguely remember making yogurt once and I thought I had to keep it at just over 100F for hours on end.
You need a choir to make a chorus.
One case where HTML won't work as a TeX replacement is when you have to think in terms on a page. For example, if you're making a resume and don't want it go over one page, it becomes a tedious process to "change CCS, Print preview, repeat".
:) 400 sqf with two kids might be a drama for people in the US but it is completely normal in other places of the world, even including the EU. It's not comfortable, but 600-700 sqf is completely usual for families in where I live (an apartment like that costs around 15-20 times the average yearly salary).

EDIT: typo, I meant sqf and not sqm.
Steel roofs are a lot louder when it's raining and such, so it might have something to do with that. Also, they don't look as good (not so much for me personally, but in general) as a shingled roof. No question that they last a lot longer. I very often see large garages and barns built with steel roofs.
TeX doesn't even support dynamic restyling, or things like flexbox. It works great for article-style documents, especially those containing a lot of mathematics, but let's not wear rose-colored glasses.
It has to be an all-in-one solution that you download that has to pretty much do everything for you so your mother can download a file and just go. With a simple wizard that lets you register a new e-mail address and potentially allows you to invite other users via their e-mail addresses... imported from Gmail or something like that.

I would not worry too much about compatibility with existing mail solutions or what not. It's a new service which is completely different from e-mail as far as the user is concerned. More advanced users can use it as e-mail if they want. Who would use it? Anyone who does not want all their mail to be a public spectacle.

Plenty of paranoid Americans out there right now that might be willing to give it a try.
So it's just about charging $30-35 more for the same "unlimited" service. I don't understand how that's not false advertising when taking into account the real definition of "unlimited" and the fact that you have to read some obscure FAQ / TOS to find out that "unlimited" is not "unlimited."
We could try to get Linus to care more about the security of the kernel, but that's an impossible task, so I guess Linux users should soon start using anti-viruses, too.
Not sure why this made it on the HN frontpage.

It seems its lacking any relevant information and is mostly some marketing for an antivirus vendor that tries to tell Linux users they need antiviruses, too.
But they've made gnome worse, not better.
Where can we read more about what's wrong with this scorecard ?
It doesn't necessarily seem _political_ to use flag mottos for release titles.
Even then I don't really see the point. If you want to teach kids problem solving skills, logic, breaking down a problem, etc. then that makes much more sense as it is applicable in many areas of life but spending an hour a week for several months teaching a kid how to make a little game in Python isn't really going to benefit them at all in the long run in my opinion.
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Interesting; I'd really like to hear what issues you have with that scorecard.
Ask HN: Is Apple beginning to railroad its users to update their iPhones?
Yea, it totally is.