skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree that they would have no trouble winning conventionally, but are you sure they know how that would end?

A few years ago, I think consensus would have been that Russia wouldn't annex a sovereign state or deploy military assets in support of a separatist movement.

... I think reality is a lot more complicated.

If they decided to go for a big push, and realized they could hasten victory substantially by deploying a few low-yield tactical devices? The international community has proved nothing other than "It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission."

Besides, in a hypothetical case of annexing all of Ukraine, does "Russia used some tactical nuclear devices" really look that much worse than the also-present "Russia invaded and annexed a sovereign state"?
Will any half decent android tablet still be functional after 10 years of vibration and exposures to vast thermal variation?
I'm guessing a big part of it is "The explored volume is 19 percent of the pyramid's volume." Eliminating the possibility of huge chambers is cool, but it would also be cool to find out if there's anything in the other 80%.

Do you know if they ever succeeded in searching the whole pyramid?
This is water [pdf]
Well, that is much less ancient, and from a different part of the world.
Quebec Internet Blocking: New Bill Mandates ISP Blocking of Gambling Websites
> ... their dashboards are (likely to be) gorgeous and
> vastly improved over the mostly superfluous dials and
> gauges car manufacturers think we need to see (when was
> the last time you had to check your RPMs or engine
> temperature?).

Being aware of engine RPMs and temperature is important.

I'm all for better interfaces. Personally, I drive a diesel Volkswagen and having a customizable dashboard that could provide access to additional engine parameters and sensors, such as I can access today with a laptop connected using Vag-Com (see http://www.ross-tech.com) could be useful. But the key is to provide better situational awareness for the driver, not more distractions.

In the US alone, more than 40k people die every year and millions are injured while operating or riding in these machines. Self-driving cars may be the future in some urban areas and on interstates, but we need to continue to optimize vehicles for drivers, not make them into more distracting spaces where people can continue to indulge their addictions to communication and media consumption.
Spring Boot 1.3.0 released
Crowdsourced parental leave dataset
Drug Resistance: Worse, and Still a Lot to Learn
> Mate is gross, and my gourd rotted away because I didn't cure it properly.

I'm not Argentine, and find mate to be extremely delicious. Just to provide another data point :)
Emacs calc is convenient and very full featured to say the least
Stalked by Socks
Also with everything sync to cloud, your new Windows Phone will be exactly same as old, including settings, sms, phonebook, photos, passwords. Bad for privacy, but awesome convenience.
The Power and Potential of Twitter
>It's not correct to lump all westerners into one group like that.

You're nitpicking. Sweedes, Danes, Russians and really everybody in the Western hemisphere is miles more individualist than the Japanese.

The irony is that you seem to be mistaking me for an American while having no real counterpoint; the fact remains that we're probably missing a cultural element.
Get some big cranes, take it apart, record where everything goes, then put it all back together again when done. Carefully of course...
> And that's in a nutshell both the solution and the problem because users have only so much to spend on product.

I don't see the problem? It's probably much more expensive per impression than traditional advertising, but probably much less expensive per sale (which is the metric that matters). This arms race means that if I'm a plumbing supply company, I can now spend my money on displaying ads for specific plumbing goods to people searching for specific plumbing goods, even when that means I'm going to hit some people no longer in the market for these goods -- but even hitting people who are no longer in the market is vastly better then hitting people who were never in the market. This lowers the barrier to entry (less cash required to advertise your products) which means more and better competition which means prices go down.
Studies (recent and past) have linked red meat consumption to certain cancers. Are Argentina's cancer rates actually any higher than anywhere else or is it basically negligible?
No doubt about that, but it doesn't make the logos "immediately recognizable" or "assure your users that their freedom is being protected".
An obvious example of this is the diamond engagement ring scam that succeeded by almost nothing but advertising. Some of that advertising was very subtle as well.
"ruined" is a pretty strong word. The logos are rather ugly anyway.
Who are the responsible vendors (and ultimately we're talking about carriers)? This would be at the forefront of my decision of which Android phone to buy. If only there was some sort of alliance to update Android devices reliably.
First of all, you're probably a stronger coder than you think you are. Secondly, your B.S. in Computer Science (assuming you absorbed at least a tenth of the material) gives you an advantage that many "rockstar coding ninjas" are operating without. So, you're worried they'll figure out you can't code, but they're just as worried you'll ask them about the runtime complexity of what they wrote.

Also: taking longer than others isn't the same as being weaker, especially if you do a better job. I would happily pay 50% more (in time) for 15% fewer bugs, or better performance, most of the time.

Edit: typo.
You need to either become a lot more organized, have a specific time for everything, which means you get no time to rest, just constantly do stuff (apart from sleeping of course, you will achieve nothing without that)
Or sacrifice something, I tried both. had no social life or a relationship then though. I trained twice a day, tried to learn spanish, study for uni and a job. I had no time to see friends. I was very fit and i have two records in powerlifting , i havent really learned spanish, uni went okay and now I have my own business too. It's too much but doable. I was quite happy, a little tired but I didn't keep it up.
Just set a time, obviously work is compulsory, unless you can work less ( but also sacrifice some income)
then say 3 times a week you work out, or set a time like one hour this week i will do this and one hour i will do something else.Make yourself a schedule.
> Would you believe for a moment news published directly by facebook?

Yes, just as much as I believe other outlets. All those same criticisms apply equally to other news sources.

In fact, at least Facebook would use data to drive their stories.
I found this one in Swift which is pretty good and definitely targeted to nubes like me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCAHFKL5FtU

Ran into some issues with Swift 1 vs. 2.1 (error handling) but i'll try and post a solution when I get one :)
A lot of people are using ORM's.
Well, no, the term 'type inference' is used to describe var. See here for more:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/479883/how-good-is-the-c-...
My feeling with Argentinians has always been that they could easily come from the South of Italy and you would notice no difference. There is a very strong connection between Argentina and Naples too. It's amazing how an Argentinian and a person from Naples can feel more connected than, say, Naples and Milan.
It's only "better" if you philosophically agree with its imposed restrictions on the code. I for example happen to agree with Linus arguments against v3. For example, the clause against "tivoization". If you believe tivoization is wrong, then yes v3 is better, otherwise it is not.
I don't know that I would just walk into a ladies room. As others have mentioned, that could lead to no end of trouble.

What I do is ask a lady entering to let the ladies know I need to change my child's diaper. They'll understand and helpfully clear the way for you.
Depends where on the Blub scale you are. For those above java, sure.
That was my first question. The attribution requirement for the alternative logos is quite a drag. I really wouldn't bother with a logo that requires credit like that.
Trident whistleblower: nuclear 'disaster waiting to happen'
> It's just nicer syntax.

Which is mostly the point. Ultimately, everything is no different from <some lower tech thing doing the same thing>.
But you don't entrust your life - and that of your family - to any half decent Android tablet. With cars, you can't "break things, move fast" as in some other industries.
Ask HN: Where was the security breach made that stole my information?
I recently got 2 emails, one from Amazon and the other from LinkedIn, both saying that I should change my password because my email and password were posted somewhere online.
There was no mention of where it was and they did't respond to my email.

Do you guys know anything that happened recently that could have caused it?
I'm not sure that I've ever seen these logos actually used anywhere, except on the GNU web pages, and on a page that I once maintained.

I certainly recognize them, but I'm not sure about most people...
There seems to be some not yet explored or understood implications on the effects this could have on the psychology of a child when, not only can all their confidences be recorded and listened to by a parent and stored for an infinite period of time, but also the added impact that the constant shaping of a childs thoughts can have- thoughts that the child does not believe are being shared with by anyone but their 'friend'. A parent, in theory, could constantly allude to things the child has spoken to the doll about, or try to shape their thoughts in a certain way based on everything they say during the developmental stages the article alludes to. Even with good intentions, the impact this kind of result could have is unknown.

There is also the added nightmare that comes with private companies having this information available in a way which allows them to correlate the data with individuals- and possibly with the child- in the future.

“...we may on occasion hear or review transcripts of conversations that we can associate with a particular account...”

Comments like this don't exactly instill confidence.

Personally, I would never consider for a moment that this would be a good idea to give to any child, and would actively discourage people who would consider it. It seems ripe for abuse and unknown outcomes, with the main victim being the child who only wanted to play with their toy.
Moving can be expensive. The majority of my current debt is due to multiple moves from state-to-state. Most of the time the moves were because of jobs. If he's unable to save money then it may be hard for him to move away.
It's "federation-as-a-service", basically.

A common use case is federation between two Slack teams (share a channel).

Another common use case is federation between a group in Skype and a channel on Slack.

Or IRC and Telegram, etc.

Making existing systems work together really well is priority one. API only makes sense once that's done.
100 ms delay on every click (measured in Chrome's Profiles tab). I'm on a 2013 MBP. Seems a bit too much for making a number bold.
Sure, everyone is happy with normal tax planning.

But some of these tax avoidance schemes are only legal because tax authorities do not have the number of staff needed to investigate and prosecute all of them. They use weird loopholes (which get closed, and which sometimes require repayment of unpaid tax) and bizarre corporate structures which only exist to avoid tax.

Tax avoidance has changed its meaning from normal tax planning to become that gray not-yet-regulated area near outright tax evasion.
Sharing Secrets with Teams
Complicated? Or just complex?
IMO, I use a smartphone enough that minor improvements are worth a fair amount. On its own a low light camera and longer battery life might not be worth much. But, add in larger and better screen, faster CPU, etc. and it's worth it.

PS: Then again, I am on a legacy plan 60$/month unlimited data + lots of rollover minutes, so signing a 2 year contract for a large discount seems more reasonable.
Here's an example. ZTE Valet, $9.99

http://www.amazon.com/ZTE-Valet-Android-Prepaid-TracFone/dp/...
Tips for Creating and Exporting Better SVGs for the Web
Only These Five Companies Matter for the Direction of the Market
Transparent Protection of Commodity OS Kernels Using HW Virtualization (2010) [pdf]
C++: Efficient Packing
Show HN: Web-based, pluggable home mirror
uhtred, I hope you expected to be downvoted :o).

My dentist, who also has a phd in chemistry, always tells my about beef. Beef has to rest for a while in the cold storage until it becomes soft and eatable for humans. During this time, which counts as a quality time for the meat, it actually rots. Yes, beef lovers (me included), it rots! - It is called ageing in the ads, as if it were good, red wine.
The phd thesis of my dentist was about the number of poisonous substances that build up during the ageing process. He found 200 different poisonous substances! This is most likely the reason why colorectal cancer can be statistically related to beef consumption. Problem is: it only shows after 20-30 years, so there is room for procrastination.

<irony>Enjoy! And ignore the facts. Looking at facts makes life so much less enjoyable.</irony>
Most phones in US are tied and branded to a single carrier. You can find an unlocked WP the cheapest being 49.99 and but a more decent spec ones from 99.99 USD. AT&T is the most WP friendly carrier and T-Mobile is a distant second. Verizon and Sprint, are most often not on board since they are CDMA. Hopefully VoLTE will change that.
> the Prime Minister and 30 other Ministers -- are part of the government

That is only the executive branch of the government.
Someone always feels the need to point that out. That isn't the point here though. A lot of these offshore jurisdictions are used for dirty money from Russia, China and the Middle East. The reason the US has become a lot harder on offshore jurisdictions isn't primarily because of tax reasons, as illustrated by continued existence of the loophole used by large tech companies, but to give more power to the NSA to prevent terrorism financing and conduct other forms of intelligence, like industrial espionage. That's also why they spied on SWIFT transactions and why they don't care that the US itself is secretive.
Nom, the fast Rust parser combinators library, just reached 1.0
Seriously, the death of Google Reader drove me straight into the arms of Facebook.
I doubt they were grain stores, but elevators in the USA store grain and corn like that all the time in a pyramid shape and it doesn't hurt the grain / corn (other than moisture).

There is a "ski Indiana" photoshop showing a skier on one of these grain hills.

Here is a nice little pdf with a lot of ways we store product http://calculators.agstar.com/uploads/GrainStorageMethods070...

[edit: I agree they would have been a bad shape of an old style grain store, plus wrong era]
iOS and Android application development company
Thanks. Really useful and you save me a lot of time!
If I found some problem I'll contact you ;)
I'd like to add that it didn't happen to news media (yet). I help with SEO for one middle-sized news media, and FB traffic is up to 25%, not more. I have read that others have bigger numbers, though.
Yeah, the "authority" for my old was the "Charleston Passport Center," the authority for my new one is the "United States Department of State."
I have been using Java since the first beta, and have written a large pile of Java books (pun not intended), but I too prefer Clojure as a practical, simple to use and simple to read language. That said, Clojure / Java interop is really nice. I frequently find myself simply adding existing Java code to my lein project file.

I would suggest just keep using Clojure and when it makes sense, mix in Java when you want or need to.
I really wish I could revert my iPhone 4s to iOS 6. On ios9 things are really slow. Especially Facebook, but it's hard to say whose fault that is.
Android secret codes for Androids users
Microsoft Invests in Affordable Internet Access with New Fund
It might not be license-compliant, but if I were to ever use these logos, I would claim to satisfy the attribution requirement through comments in the page source. After all if you write a CLI tool that links GPL stuff you don't have to mess up your output with license crap. Those who want to know will read the source.
> I bet you will find thousands of C++ devs that don't even know that there are newer versions of C++98.

Actually had a guy tell me (in 2006!) that the main problem with C++ was that there was no standard. :|
> advertising is much more powerful/effective today than it ever was before

There's just so much information available to us now through the internet/TV/radio that it has really become exhausting to conduct the necessary critical analysis to defend against malicious ads. Who is funding this advertisement and why - how does the value flow back into their pocket at the end of the day? If the ad industry keeps the firehose on, we get tired of asking these questions, and some ads will inevitably get through our mental defenses.

Sometimes biased/misleading ads are pretty easy to spot, such as in most Tech Crunch/VentureBeat articles where the product or service that is being "objectively reviewed" or covered on a seeming whim is clearly sponsored content. In some other cases its much harder...PG's 2005 essay "The Submarine" [1] is a great read and continues to gain relevance 10 years later. PR/ad agencies manufacture what is hot and trending, and it's usually incredibly hard to determine how or why.

So I've engaged two different strategies to help deal with malicious and/or deeply submerged ads:

(1) Disconnecting from many social media sites that serve as media/info aggregators. Facebook, snapchat, and instagram all had to go. I stay on HN because I find the community to be a bit more ad conscious and averse, but it always pays to remember that HN is both a great tool for discussion and a marketing tool for YC.

(2) Engaging friends and family heavily before making any sort of major "upgrade" decision. Perhaps your friends in said city would have had some interesting advice to share with you about your move had you asked for their frank and honest opinions beforehand.

One negative side effect of the constant barrage of ads/info is a certain critical, skeptical, and frankly negative mindset that has become SOP when digesting any new information. It's really a problem of trust at the end of the day, which is the fabric of any healthy and productive unit, whether that be a relationship, a family, or a society. It's not a new problem, but I feel like it's a hard and important one that has increased in difficulty with the rise of the internet.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
I'm half way through my time on this task already and I haven't even touched the unit tests.

Well, my first bit of advice would be to avoid HN/FB/Twitter/etc during high pressure situations. Forgive my misunderstanding if you didn't mean you were literally halfway through it while posting.

That brings me to about half way through my allotted time and then I start to panic.

I recently had a candidate experience a panic attack during an interview. I felt badly (I've dealt with anxiety/panic myself) for him but there was nothing to do about it... the interview ended and of course he didn't get an offer. Point is: if you're prone to panic in high pressure situations it's nothing to be ashamed of but something you'll have to deal with as a separate issue.

There are a zillion amazing strategies for managing anxiety; meditation, breathing exercises, playing music and petting cats are the ones that I prefer.
Any idea on how one could optimize the rendering function to reduce this lag (which BTW I can barely see on my 2015 MBP)?
Introduction to TensorFlow
This looks very cool. Does anybody have any experience using Typed Actors? Or with Akka Typed?
Yoke – Postgres HA cluster with auto-failover and automated cluster recovery
Wouldn't it accidentally serve malicious builds to unsuspecting non-botnet users?
I'll say it can keep saying it until the day people start realizing that it was real, Zuckerberg has expressed that he wants to replace the internet with Facebook, even if just in the vast majority of people's minds and thereby essentially atrophying and starving the open internet. He is a direct threat to the internet and freedom in general and that doesn't even consider the deliberate and cooperative relationship he has with the intelligence networks to create mass surveillance systems which each individual maintains a dossier about themselves on.
20 kW? Wow. I wonder what the future holds; 20kW is just an order of magnitude higher than you can draw from a normal 20 amp socket. I want a mips64 supercomputer in my basement.
A Tutorial on Spectral Clustering (2007) [pdf]
Why New York City Subway Stations Are Missing Countdown Clocks
Free SSL with CloudFlare and Heroku
From what I've heard, Jane Street mainly (or at least often) hires developers who have never before used OCaml or even functional programming in general.
Please do! Also if you have any feature request use github's issues to let me know!
All Seventh-day Adventist are NOT young-earth creationists.
Isn't that rather hard to do ethically? How would you make this "malicious build", given that it's probably going to be running on my dad's laptop at some point?
It's easy to underestimate what the advocates of functional languages are talking about. One can pass a function (pointer) to another function in C for example. Lots of languages have library support for pattern matching via regular expressions. Types are supported in various ways in most programming languages. However, these things aren't even close to what is being talked about here, and that is why the comments are being down voted.

If you are interesting in studying and comparing programming languages, I suggest picking up one of the five big functional languages: F#, OCaml, Haskell, Scala, or Clojure. Scala and Clojure are great, they run on the JVM, they perform well, are practical and pragmatic, but are probably not the best way to learn "functional" programming because they include too many additional features or leave out some features that some consider important. I would recommend starting with Haskell and then comparing it to the others to see if one of these could be helpful in your own programming. There are good, free resources for learning functional programming, see [1].

[1] http://learnyouahaskell.com
Pretty sure these devices don't work unless you use the correct carrier's SIM card--like, they refuse to boot.
That group of people was Apple. They threw their weight behind the CUPS project in the early 2000s, hired the main developer, and continued to finance its development.
> Seventh-day Adventist and he does believe that the Pyramids of Giza were built by the Biblical Joseph to store grain.

This is not a belief of the church. We have enough FUD spread about various religions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2q-Csk-ktc
I had one crash when I left a terminal open and my four-year-old came in and began playing with the mouse, copying and pasting the same stuff over and over rapidly.

I've not been able to reproduce it yet. He's still in there, it's been 2 months now for four hours each day. My wife says it's not good for him but the needs of OSS must come first!
And not just humans, all life is this way.