skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't find any mention on the website -- does it support one time numbers for online transactions? If not, I'd be very reluctant to use it. One breach and your bitcoin account is gone.
Facebook for Business: A Facebook Tutorial About Customized Metric
Wow - this was very helpful. Thanks!
What happens right after you press Enter. Episode 2 – Pressing
The intent is usually to keep them on the road.
Just write your Java code without a try/catch block anywhere

The point of checked exceptions is that you can’t do that. It is a compile-time error to not either catch the exception or explicitly indicate that you will propagate it.

Unfortunately, at least in Java, that style proved too onerous for a lot of programmers and motivated the catch-all, do-nothing wrapper idiom that is completely unhelpful as far as safety goes.

Exceptions don't stop programmers from doing anything.

At least in principle, you can statically detect any failures to handle possible exceptions if you have a suitable type system. Of course, if you just hack around those warnings, as we’ve seen Java programmers do with checked exceptions and catch-alls, then you’re no better off than if you ignored a relevant return code in the first place (aside, perhaps, from making it much more obvious to a static analyser or during a code review that you are doing so).
I'm guessing that Hawking would love to exercise. He just can't. Unlike a "couch potato", who can, but won't.
VW to Pull Back on New Projects Amid Costly Emissions Scandal
Well, when this utopia you imagine comes to fruition, then you can complain about how airplane WiFi ought to be free. I bet it'll be a lot cheaper to provide by then. But for now, let's focus on how things currently are, and how they are is pretty much nobody needs internet access while on a plane, and those who do should be able to afford the $10.
They should rewrite it in node: Almost no function in Node directly performs I/O, so the process never blocks. Because nothing blocks, less-than-expert programmers are able to develop scalable systems.
thanks, i appreciate the response; that's a distinction i didn't know about.
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The arguments for (and against) Docker are all over the web.

It's useful in both cases; it's not clear to me what you mean by "actual benefits". You have precise control over what's getting deployed and have almost zero reliance on anything on the deploy environment.

If you have "install scripts" that do all of that then you're duplicating the efforts of Chef, Puppet, Docker, etc. that are probably (but not necessarily; benefit of the doubt and all that) better than your deploy scripts. You're also still at the mercy of the environment where those scripts are run.
Anecdoesn't confirmation can be just as important in science as anecdotal.
Jolla files for debt restructuring [pdf]
I love it, use your bitcoin without all the hassle of making a transaction on the blockchain.
To evangelize Emacs as the most powerful general purpose Unix tool ever, I used to leave a file called README at the top level of my public ftp directory that contained:

README: No such file or directory

When people emailed me asking about why they couldn't read the README file, I'd tell them:

Just run "emacs README" and you'll be able to read it with no problem!

Nobody ever got back to me after that bit of advice, but I hope it taught some people to love Emacs.
FreeBSD 11-CURRENT

num: command not found
tr: Illegal byte sequence
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How to decimate a city
Yes, although transducers are more general than iterators. Iterators model lazy series from which you must 'pull' elements. Transducers can also be used with elements that are 'pushed', such as events coming from channels, or whatever. Essentially they decouple the transformation from the mechanisms by which input elements arrive and result elements are received, whilst still allowing separate transformations to be composed into more complex composite transformations.
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Exactly. This is a lib created by someone that didn't get, at all, the point of iteration in Python. We have lazy coroutine exactly for that. It's embeded in the language. You got itertools, sum, any, all et comprehensions to use them.

Iteration is everything in Python. It's the core philosophy.

We already got tools to do this in better, lighter way.
Programming Concepts: Static vs. Dynamic Type Checking
Does CloudFlare provide free certs for anyone, or do you have to actually use their CDN?
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You'll have all the rights of a Visa cardholder, such as the ability to file a chargeback.
Nerver used bitcoin, but cannot you simply create another bitcoin account for petty cash VISA transactions and transfer funds when need be?
In a word, yes. Spend some time Googling around and analyzing backlink profiles in high spam areas (designer goods, pharma, etc) and you'll see tons of pages propped up by link spam ranking highly. If you are smart about it some automated link building tactics still work very well. It's not sustainable but most people take a "churn and burn" approach and just move on to a new domain if it gets torched by Google.
Flow and TypeScript part 2: TypeScript
I should market a drone that only flies in restricted airzones.

We own the sky yall.
Although a lot of people are pointing out (correctly) that it's trivially easy to ignore a checked exception, it does at least do two things:

1. Signal to the calling programmer that some error condition can occur. For example having to catch SomethingNotFound tells them that it's possible that Something might not be found.

2. You just put in your coding standards that you must do something sensible inside of a catch block, and get a code checker to break the build.

I don't think anybody is trying to say that checked exceptions have "solved" the problem of people ignoring error conditions. It does at least give you an easily visible thing to point at and say "that's wrong" though.
Trust the engineers – don’t put bugs on your roadmap
This is just about the most inefficient way possible to power an electronic device. The EM radiation radiates out in all direction, and thanks to our little friend the inverse square law, your device's antenna only receives a tiny, miniscule fraction of the original power input. This is going to more than offset installing a few fluorescent light bulbs.
That's what you get for thinking it was a good idea to render html in email.
Seriously. What did they expect?
I just used this feature with them the other day. The way it works is that if you enable SSL on a site passing through them, they'll auto-generate the front-end cert. I believe you can add your own cert for a premium. The back-end cert can be set to validated/unvalidated/unencrypted.
"Parasitic worms bore into our organs, steal our nutrients, and sup on our blood—but their effects aren’t all harmful"

The point of the article is largely that the same is literally true of babies :)
I practice immigration law and work with startups as well as established domestic and global companies. It can be challenging to get a job in the US and get sponsored for a work visa while living abroad, particularly given the limited supply of H-1B visas. One overlooked approach is to obtain a job with a multinational company outside the US and then seek to transfer to the US after one year. This would be an L-1 visa.
Perfect illustration of 'free as in speech or free as in beer?'. Wonder who I should contact at CloudFlare for my 'free' DV cert that I can use on my server...
She worked directly for Amazon? That's the only situation I'm referencing.

I participated in a handful of other 'contest' like situations, one of which also ticked me off because they changed the process to suit their own preferences.

As in, the stated process was pay $40 (or $90 for 1 page of feedback), 3-5 finalists would be selected, brought in for interviews, and from there up to 3 winners would be chosen. What happened? They got so many submissions that they broke out 5-7 different categories and had lists of 10 finalists within each category, and were going to move to some other kind of judging platform (social media votes?) in order to continue to narrow down to the eventual 3-5, then winners.

That doesn't fit the definition of a scam, but it certainly isn't abiding by the rules. I didn't bother with any charge-back on my card, but felt pretty tempted at the time. "Contests" for art, in my experience, tend to be a waste of time and money unfortunately, because the enticement is so damn strong.
Your point sensible , but I think that is wishful thinking we are seeing from google . Comparing android success and thinking same think will happen , for me it sounds like wishful thinking. (android was great opportunity. other competitors was so busy , Nokia,Microsoft, market needed an alternative for apple proprietary product ,and google was in best position and they pushed it greatly , even though android design itself was not the best.but they did it very well.)

Imagine Oracle is going to push cloud as hard as possible - and they have fuckload of money/resource - (Because they know , their survival depends on cloud business in long term), when you consider big names like Amazon,Oracle,Microsoft are pushing cloud as hard as possible - again because all of them know this is the one of the most important and key technology of future world - , that kind of thinking does not sound very rational.If you don't have best plan , you are going to have hard time . It sounds like google don't have plan and don't want to focus on cloud as much as possible.
The lead pipes are highways. Not "information highways"; literal, people-bearing transportation systems. For a relatively short period in human history, it has been easily possible for just about anyone with a small amount of wealth to leave the place of their birth, to escape those pesky social problems that always crop up in groups, and to do so without a great deal of risk.

...And now the 'net is making the world small again and an awful lot of folks are realizing that they don't like being part of their society any more than their ancestors did. We got our scarlet letters and our witch hunts and our untouchables and our religious wars and it's all ruining our ability to laugh at the ancients because more and more we look at ourselves and see the same failings.
"Telegram is a messaging app with a focus on speed and security...."

If it's not actually secure then they shouldn't advertise it as secure.

An app that advertises itself as secure but isn't is naturally going to attract more hate than an app which doesn't advertise security in the first place.

Nobody forced them to advertise security. If they just wanted to be a a good chat service with the advantages you listed, they could just do that. But if you advertise security, you had better deliver!
What is we could buy things without having to deal with banks? I have an idea...
Civil rights is about a lot more than just not being murdered.
That's what I was saying : this is from somebody not knowing Python.

Generators have a "send()" method to push data in it.

We have yield from to delegate to sub coroutines.

And generators can be classes for more advanced behaviors.

All this lib does is to make something that already exists in the language, in a heavier and slower way.
Today I fucked up by using Math.random()
This is a really interesting concept and it seems like the execution is there too. As someone who used to do marketing for startups I do have some unsolicited advice about your spiel.

I'm not sure if 'jQuery for law using git' is the best tagline. While it sounds intriguing, and definitely got me as a developer interested, it took me far long to actually understand what you are doing.

From what I can tell you are shortening legalese to readable text, correct? So in my opinion it would be better to say that from the beginning. Legalese is a cool problem to solve, and would definitely have people interested, so if you just say that from the get-go I think it could be a lot more effective.

The jQuery thing sounds cool, but I think its one of those tag lines that sounds awesome but doesn't actually describe what you are doing.

Good luck!
I've always told people to get a VA, maybe this will help
Which is in part what they are competing with to drive the need for them to take this direction.

This will make it free without using cloudflare (which isn't desirable/suitable or all circumstances).

It is free via StartSSL too, though some people have issues with that option.
Correct. People with only the basic gist of "Economics 101" fail to understand that supply and demand economics do not apply to the housing market the way they do for consumer goods.

In a nutshell, hyper-inflation of rents in a metro area actually decreases the rate at which new units are built. Landlords have incentive to keep supply down; and when they do build "nice new" units for rent, those rent prices increase the average rents on the market.

In a sense, landlords are able to bully renters into being "customers" for longer period of time. Harms middle-class housing in two ways:

(1) larger portion of renters' income dumped into
rent decreases ability to save for down-payment to buy

(2) fewer people buying decreases rate at which new
units are built, and thus never allows the "housing
supply" to react to actual market realities.

And what causes hyperinflation in rents? People being unable to "save enough money for a down payment" to buy.

Great documentary called "The Flaw" that explains more.

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"The default PIN is the last four digits of your registered mobile phone number. Please call Shift support at 800-897-0717 to reset your Shift Card pin."

That's a terrible idea. This isn't a library card. You're PIN shouldn't be known by anyone who knows your phone number.
It's harsh to say but I tend to agree. Most of npm employees are more active in tweeting and commenting about social justice than doing their work.

Last night I was watching South Park and I thought PC principal is looking like IZS!!
At the frequencies and distances at which WiFi normally operates the magnetic component is all but invisible, it's mostly a matter of electric fields.

At lower frequencies the electromagnetic field portion becomes dominant. This is one reason why the 'antenna' inside one of those old fashioned AM receivers is actually a coil with a ferrite core (and conveniently internal to the device), and an FM radio (the A/F have to do with the modulation, not specifically with the frequency but the bands are between 455 and 1600 KHz vs 88-108 MHz) typically uses a rod antenna.

Now you could make an FM radio with a coil for its antenna or an AM radio using a rod but neither would be very efficient.

So it's the small distance and low frequency of RFID technology that drive the choice for magnetic coupling, whereas the high frequency and longer distances of WiFi make the choice for antennas.

AM radio, with its low frequency and enormous power output allows magnetic pick-up at very large distances from the point of origin, this is also why it is not 'line-of-sight' but WiFi is line-of-sight (yes, you can bounce radio waves off objects (such as the moon or the Heavyside layer) but that's another subject entirely).

The higher the frequency of operation the more you'll be looking at properties resembling those of light (which is also a form of electromagnetic radiation).
will be interesting to see if they can make this available internationally.
Are you sure? This is debit, not credit. I believe your rights with debit a fair bit weaker (might depend on issuer though).
Most things around my life in the last 15 years fit familiar, cynical pattern that politicians spit in our face and get away with it. That leads to desperation and learned helplessness.

To give EFF a credit, they actually fight. Unfortunately, quixotically
Finally, something that might actually be available to consumers.

To everyone else that is talking about it not happening because of inefficiencies etc, wouldn't the fact that we are also working on ways to generate more renewable energy and working on improving efficiency factor into this equation?

If nothing, any extra improvement in energy efficiency can be considered the overhead needed for wireless power.

It might start of as a luxury more than a necessity.
I can't really find details on how this works. I assume the merchant still receives USD in the transaction along with the typical Visa card transaction fees. Which in that case, what is the point?
> none of which are named simply "VMware"

Ehh... my pedantic alarm was triggered. For a while the only product VMware created was what we now call Workstation, so much so that when people say "I'm using VMware", it's not at all uncommon that they mean "I'm using VMware Workstation." (The Workstation binary is still named "vmware" for this historical reason.)
This kind of thing doesn't matter. Encryption simply can't be stopped by governments.
I had a perl script to do mean, median and std dev; it'd be great to have this functionality available through the OS vendor as a package.
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If you have to use their CDN to get the free cert, then it's completely wrong to bring it up as "already is free" in this context.
Linus on new Google+ – “What is this, a G+ for ants?”
It's nice that more companies are building dorm rooms. But it would be great if someone would build dense urban living for families too.

A lot of the growth of suburbs isn't necessarily due to people wanting to live there, but because it's the largest (and sometimes only) option for folks with children.

They don't need to match suburban house sizes. Most people don't need 1800+sqft. But if we could start getting modest 3 and 4 bed urban condos with 1000-1300sqft, it would do a lot to improve things.

Incentivizing a huge chunk of the population out into far flung suburbs doesn't seem smart from a efficiency, infrastructure, land use, or pollution standpoint.
Well, it does say "default" PIN. Still not good, but you can at least change it, presumably.
That's pretty horrendous. Should be inactive until you activate it, or randomly generated and displayed to you securely in some way.
That all sounds really interesting and I'd love to read more on that. Do you have a book or an article that would be a good start on reading up on this?
Someone please change the title to Anywhere IN US :)
So if Clojure had some form of fusion of composed functions on lists, that would equate out to what transducers are doing?
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To be able to spend your bitcoin balance without a manual conversion and bank transfer?
You don't have to hold dollars to spend dollars, is the only thing I can think of.
The PS4 can now emulate PlayStation 2 games
ANXIETY, NOSTALGIA, AND MISTRUST: Findings from the 2015 American Values Survey [pdf]
Smart is not necessarily the same as healthy. Is your dog prone to bouts of depression?
There was, ironically, a MythBusters episode[0] on last night in which they were flying quadcopter drones into dummy torsos (complete with major neck arteries) to see what happened.

I'll admit I was surprised to see that, indeed, they were able to puncture through that poor soul's ballistic gel neck and sever the "aorta."

0: http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/drone-d...
Don't get the point of this. I'm assuming it's going to be a slightly more expensive way of buying things with a card? As supposed to me being charged in $, I'm assuming it exchanges some of my BTC balance for $ which is going to come at some cost.
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Because of the bureaucracy...

I have invited people from debian to make conferences and know myself one of the former DLP.

Debian has something scarily bureaucratic in its organization.

As an effect of conway's law (structure of the organization gets in the product) the debian developer's guide is like hellish, their level of indirection for forcing everyone in the LSB without breaking the change in the "reasonnable" default conf are heavy.
And not even close to correction : the spliting package policy (avoiding too much dependency) makes installed python or latex feels broken.

It is like the heaven of both former soviet idealism (comitee of workers handling the positions), and engineers (debian can easily be considered an example of the best practices of ISO 9001/ITIL process)

With good intentions.

I used to be a debian sysadmins for 15 years.

I mean, they really are trying their best to : satisfy everyone in choosing the best default conf/options/requirements so that other packages integrates well. The embedded world, x86, ARM, virtualisation.

But I think bureaucracy sometimes ends up like a cancer. Bureaucracy requires to drains part of your effort into its sustainability, and sometimes the energy involved in bureaucracy itself out sucks to much resources for even getting the job done.

I think they try to hard to do what they think the right things. I am not even sure they have a clear view of their monster blob distro.

Mozilla fundation is another new growing tumor in the world of open source. Do we really need to had statefullness over a stateless protocol in order to bring RT in a non realtime-able container ?

When will the brainwashing of the XUL team will end?

NO! the web browser is a terrible substitute for GUI especially in async fashion.

And js is a terrible scripting language for GUI. Tcl/Tk should be back again.
Signal doesn't upload your contacts anywhere. That was the whole point of their "Private Contact Discovery" blog post. ("How do we determine which contacts are registered with a service, without revealing the contacts to the service?") [1] A hard problem that no other messaging app has bothered to solve, AFAIK.

Yes, Signal The App reads your contacts to construct the blinded signature query. Does it then do something nefarious with them? No: https://github.com/WhisperSystems

What alternative solution to the PKI key introduction problem would you rather see? You could go the iMessage central key broker route, but that means trusting that Apple won't introduce the wrong key to you (or be compelled to do so). [2] Or, you could let users exchange keys in person a la key signing parties. That's a reasonable feature request at this point, but advanced usage and not something that gets you traction with normal people. TextSecure/Signal wouldn't have gotten to where it is today with that much friction around key introduction.

[1] https://whispersystems.org/blog/contact-discovery/

[2] http://blog.quarkslab.com/imessage-privacy.html
Jolla is in big trouble: funding delay results in ‘temporary lay-offs’
Just in case you don't know, if you upvote a comment then it becomes available on your profile page under "saved comments."

Obviously, if you're extremely liberal with the upvote button, this may not be useful as a bookmark....
The text says "at over 38 million merchants worldwide" which seems to imply that it isn't limited to the US in the sense in which you want to change the title.
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tldr: working class whites, Republicans, and Tea partyers believe there is strong discrimination against whites in the US. Also don't believe the country discriminates against Muslims.
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This actually is a pretty good analogy given that highways have been a key contributor to climate change.