skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is great, but for people who want to "get started in computing", don't they also need a display, a mouse and a keyboard?

Who are you quoting there? It's not the article.

Is Raspberry Pi being marketed at beginners, or for conventional desktop use? That wasn't my impression.
Same as a Sinclair ZX81? Approx 70GBP for the assembled system, 50GBP for the kit.
Interesting.

> The single USB port on the model A is capable of working as a USB slave (OTG mode). The model B cannot do that because of the USB hub/LAN chip being in the way.

Please, please do not tell me that the Pi CPU has only a single USB controller?! facepalm
Excerpt from the article

> The firms, which included Microsoft, HBO Europe, Sony Music and Twentieth Century Fox, estimated that the financial damage amounted to thousands of pounds, with Microsoft alone valuing its losses at 5.7m Czech Crowns (£148,000).

> But the Business Software Alliance (BSA), which represented Microsoft, acknowledged that Jakub could not pay that sum.

In addition to the financial settlement, the 30-year-old was also given a three-year suspended sentence.
> It said bad actions shouldn't be tolerated.

What do you mean by not tolerating if not stifling? If you look at the Mizzou and Yale things, stifling is exactly the right word: "we're just walking forward", "we can't hear you" and others.

> You seem to hold a revisionist historical view that the civil rights movement was entirely unproductive, even though it was unpopular at the start (again, morality doesn't depend on the majority).

My argument isn't that it didn't work, but that you fail to understand why it worked.

It worked because the arguments were convincing, not inherently because people pointed to something and said "this is stupid".

It has nothing to do with being loud (in the literal sense that I understand you to mean it).

Perhaps a better way to say what I'm trying to is: I think that the reason you arrive at the "right" conclusion is coincidental. The approach is flawed and it does and will lead to nonsense sometimes.

Another way to show what I mean is by counter-example: if someone advocated for, say, racial tolerance because they argued that we can't know who's a Christian based on race, I don't care if we agree on the conclusion, the process is a big problem.
Same with Python. I wonder if there's something similar.
Exigency is considered an exception to the 4th Amendment requirement of a warrant. So, for instance, someone calls in a hostage situation, or someone shooting with a gun.
I left college at the end of freshman year to work as a product/software developer at a vehicle data company. It's an absolute blast; my team is great and the environment couldn't be better. After 4:30, I have total freedom to work on side projects without distraction. I'm learning more than ever before and I'm meeting all kinds of interesting people.
The websites I am trying to browse --- very often they don't load at all when I type in the site in Google's search field.

For example, when I type soccernet in Google's search box, in the past , the results were returned almost instantaneously with no delay.

Recently, however perhaps 50-60% of the time, it just freezes up and doesn't proceed ...
The detail of engineering inside of Apple's products is impressive. A lot of attention paid to things that one almost never sees. Like others though the cable ends on computer and iPhoje chargers do always get frayed. I wish they could make that bit better.
> It seems you have the impression that the problem with congestion is that cars aren't driving fast enough.

No, that's not it. The road isn't being used efficiently. Traffic gets locked up behind slow drivers who cause a ripple effect. The reason people zig zag sometimes is because there are huge empty gaps in front of slow drivers.

These slow drivers and the lack of rules to manage a layering of speeds is part of the problem.

I am not saying I want everyone to driver 100 mph. No. That's not it. Quite to the contrary. People need to driver at the best speed for the road and road conditions. And those who want to drive slower need to get out of the way and enjoy their leisurely Sunday drive off to the right.
PG had the same worries about HN.

http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

In general, as long as the community continues to value substance and the principle of the most charitable interpretation, it will survive. When we start seeing memes and catfights, that's a sign the community is dying.
No, but we also call what we do "enterprise".

I forgot that I also push around a little puck on the table that also changes the pattern of the lights depending on its position, and I have to push it to a different specific place and press a button. I repeat that many thousand times per day.
A programmer automates a lot of his job – and email his wife and make a latte
There is a sentinel character on the mag stripe which identifies the card as chip and pin. As mentioned in the README of this repo, it can be disabled - for the purposes of backwards compatibility, this is a necessary evil.

Fortunately, it is easy to detect! The terminal will send the magstripe data online when authorizing the transaction, and the backend systems will identify the corruption in magstripe data and identify it as fraud.
This can possibly lower costs, but it doesnt really do anything to improve airport throughput. That's runway limited. Can anyone estimate how much of the ticket price could be saved if this all worked perfectly?

Seems to me that devices for moving people quickly around airports and take them directly to their gate would be much higher value for much less cost and complexity. Sensible or not, safety restrictions make fast moving walkways unworkable. I'd like to know why personal rapid transit is so darn difficult to make cost effective. They seem ideal for airports.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_rapid_transit
C isn't simple. It has few parts, yes, but it requires you to combine them in ghastly ways. It also has the worst typing I can imagine.

Try using calloc, then you can tell me that C is simple.
When you walk into an anonymous message board and the first thing you declare is your gender, you shouldn't be surprised when other people think you are attention whoring.

Tits or gtfo is the perfect counter, since you want to a special snowflake, then we will treat you as your polar opposite - a generic bag of skin and meat worth nothing but a masturbation aid.

Downvote all you like. The truth hurts doesn't it?
Tell HN: Alone on Thanksgiving? Come to My House
Do you not have Thanksgiving Plans? New in town? Are you wondering WTF you are going to do tonight? Feeling broke and maybe just a little lonely?

If so, you should come to my house and join my family for Thanksgiving. My girlfriend Stephanie is making Turkey and yams and stuffing and all sorts of other good shit. We live in downtown Menlo Park 5min from the Caltrain and a few blocks from Stanford University.

Truth is that no one gets anywhere in this world alone. When I was 20, it was the people who picked me up on my cycling/hitchhiking mis-adventure down the California coast and let me stay in their homes on Xmas. When I was 25, it was the New Yorkers who welcomed me into a new city and taught me how to stay safe in my job as a paramedic. When I was 29, it was the entrepreneurs & investors who introduced me to Silicon Valley and showed me how to go from Zero to 1.

And now, I feel compelled to return these favors however I can.

So...if you're in San Francisco Bay Area and you need a place to call home for Thanksgiving, let me know. We saved you a seat at the table.

RSVP at http://mattmireles.com/thanksgiving2015/

Happy Thanksgiving!
-Matt Mireles

Co-Founder, Stealth(ish) Robotics Co.
Can you send something like this via lettermail to your country?
It actually makes the code concise and clearer. e.g.

(int, float, float) calcPosition(...) {
...
return (type, x, y);
}

var (type, x, y) = calcPosition(...);
if (type)
move(x, y);

or

var (int type, float x, float y) = calcPosition(...);

I would prefer the first case with automatic type inference.
I work on a product that monitors the client website's performance and fires alerts when some problems are found. My official title is software engineer.

I am also a student pursuing an MS program part time.
Haven't had a favorite job yet.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16571087

"Thus, collectively the findings provide little evidence that in euthyroid, iodine-replete individuals, soy foods, or isoflavones adversely affect thyroid function. In contrast, some evidence suggests that soy foods, by inhibiting absorption, may increase the dose of thyroid hormone required by hypothyroid patients. However, hypothyroid adults need not avoid soy foods. In addition, there remains a theoretical concern based on in vitro and animal data that in individuals with compromised thyroid function and/or whose iodine intake is marginal soy foods may increase risk of developing clinical hypothyroidism. Therefore, it is important for soy food consumers to make sure their intake of iodine is adequate."
Focuses specifically on multiserver interactions in reasonable detail. It was also targeted towards the m68k, but that isn't covered in this particular paper.
It's probably just a "shower thought" they are patenting just in case. Big corps do that a lot, maybe just to keep their lawyers busy.

Besides what you mentioned one also needs to factor in how many times small contingencies happen that are resolved in that wasted time, while the passengers are boarding.
Li-Fi Is 100 Times Faster Than Wi-Fi Technology: Real-World Tests Prove
> some kind of virtual train mode that would enable them to drive at much lower safety distance or virtually bumper to bumper

You just described the Massachusetts Turnpike going into Boston on most mornings :-)
Thanks for the massive set of pages. I already went through a similar course a long time ago.

You'll note that the notes don't derive the calculation of p-value. It merely gives a trivial example (curiously, the sum of two probabilities) with a fiat interpretation.

It's curious that my last post, merely quoting the third axiom and showing its properties plain, makes you think that I am deeply confused, when you cannot even refute trivial points and must resort to arguments (poor, in that they do not address our issue here) from authority.
Me too. Either, this as was one of the worst ideas ever, or one of the lamest excuses ever. (At least in the world of software deployment.)
Depends on the kind of food waste. Last thing you want to do is create Pig BSE.
Ethernet USB adapters tend to be very flakey. (At least that's my opinion/experience.)
Well, from a design and usability perspective, KnightOS is much more sophisticated. It supports multitasking and has a package manager and so on. That being said, there is poor support for math (yeah, really). I want to polish that up until it's suitable for classroom use, and then use it as a platform for promoting open source in schools and getting kids interested in programming/hacking in school. KnightOS is basically a Unix system, so it'd be nice to help bring those concepts into the hands of student tinkerers.
I'm a hardware engineer at Apple on the Accessories team. This is my first job out of college (dropped out of my PhD program to join Apple) and I absolutely love what I do.

My team is great, everyone here is insanely knowledgeable, and the work is very meaningful. I honestly feel like I've learned so much more in the last year working for Apple than I have in my entire life.
Now: Plane arrives, docks, people get out, cabin cleaned, new people get in, plane starts.

Then: Plan arrives, docks, container is lifted, new container is put in, plane starts. Reduces turn around time for plane. Depends on size of plane.

(New) Container is boarded while plane is still in the air.

(Old) Container is unboarded while plane starts. Container is cleaned while plane is in the air.
How to Overcome Anxiety at Your Next Job Interview
I bought a copy of MagPi, and my Raspberry Pi Zero does not light up when I apply power. But if I connect it to my PC with a USB cable the Broadcom BCM2708 Boot device is detected, so I assume it is working. I haven't tested with SDcard present.
A brief history of USB, what it replaced, and what has failed to replace it
http://www.google.com/teapot :D
At thrift stores they can barely give away mice and keyboards. Just checked craigslist, keyboards and mice were $5 each and a monitor was $20. So a few hours work at minimum wage and you have a computer.
I don't think that sexual gratification has anything to do with his behavior. He's a sadist psychopath who enjoys torturing his victims and inflicting as much pain as he could on them but he picks women due to their natural response "tend and be friend" in these situations unlike men with their "fight or flight" response in confrontations. He knew very well he would face a violent reaction if he tried any of these sick mind games on any grown up male.
See my response here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10630389

You are doing it wrong. A p-value based on a single observation is meaningless. P-values are much more useful when they are continuously computed on a running experiment with sequential observations.

See the work at the LHC for an example.
> we've seen remarkably little use of it so far.

It's been less than a year since 1.0. Most development is closed source behind closed doors, so you won't get to hear about new things being built in Rust. A bunch of startups, as well as Dropbox are using Rust, for example.

I would call Redox and Piston large rust projects as well.

There has been at least one OS course being taught with Rust as well.
The problem is that would involve the state conceding that SWAT teams don't exercise sufficient restraint in choosing when to utilise deadly force. It very much should be heavily prosecuted but that is why it can't be attempted murder. Much like why the police can't "shoot to disable" it's to do with the legal implications of what you are admitting.
My point is: if it's so easy to create fake exigency via a phone call, then we can't really consider a phone call, in the absence of any other evidence, sufficiently exigent to warrant such an exception.
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I would say go and rust.
> There's no good way for the SWAT team to actually confirm the story without going in.

I don't think I agree, especially as communications technology matures.

On its face, this "hostage with gun to the head" story needs to be regarded with enormous skepticism, just because of how rare it actually is.
> this is clearly being done for profit.

No it isn't.

The reason behind Pocket integration was thus:

Firefox wanted a similar "temporary bookmark" feature to augment Reader mode and other things. Instead of coding it themselves, they decided on using an existing addon that gave the same functionality.
Old news? When even game consoles, the standard for going proprietery for performance, went amd64/arm, the consolidation of platforms was a foregone conclusion.
US testing an 'air traffic control system' for drones
I would expect the complexities of distributing a workload over 10 boards would result in downtime far exceeding that of a single more powerful machine left doing its thing, for all but a few highly battle tested applications.

A fair accounting includes the fragility of software, not just hardware.
> hm, as a European I miss radio news more. not dedicated channels like here, but the mandated news breaks every radio channel needs to broadcast.

Same, however my commute to/from work is luckily listening to the Boston NPR station, where I get a full dose of BBC News in the mornings and a random NPR news show in the afternoon depending on when I leave. I unplugged my cable a long time ago, and I stopped visiting most news websites even longer ago. If it weren't for shares on facebook, I'd never find out about what scandalous thing a politician said to get in the media's eye again. If I could filter facebook to only have text and photo shares from friends, I'd be so much happier with the site.

It's interesting what you say about what's going on in his head. Before I graduated school or worked in software, I had a pretty interesting repeating summer job as a QA technician in the nuclear industry. I did a great job and got along great with my boss and coworkers, and often we'd get together over holidays and special occasions. He was an older guy nearing early retirement. On one such get-together, the boss revealed his real opinion about "who caused all this crap shit we're in", being "niggers and spics". Ugh. I was shocked that I was working for a racist, but what shocked me more was just hearing that, period. I couldn't imagine holding an opinion like that at all, let alone having it my entire adult life and believing it worthwhile to share.

I have a hard time believing that most politicians are as dumb as the words they say to get on the air, and Trump is a master at constantly being on the air. But, at this point, I wouldn't be surprised by it.
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Well really, open source doesn't mean anything in the context of a Website. So what if you have the source code Google uses to run their query engine, crawlers and index if you dint have all of their data. The same applies to facebook.

The Open Data movement is more applicable here. With that in mind there is Common Crawl and Open Street Maps.

The thing about collecting data out of good will or for some nonprofit mission is that you have different standards, motivations and methods for connecting data than for public for-profit corporations. Some data should not be collected, at least without permission. Privacy and copyrights are issues Google and Facebook deal with after the fact not before they collect the data.
With Android, iOS, OSX, Win <=8 the users decides when/if he updates. With Win10, the update is forced on the user. I overheard old people in public transport that discussed how to install Ubuntu Linux and how bad Win10 was.
17 is 5pm expressed in 24-hour time. :)

I like your interpretation as well, though.
For an overview of applied topology, Ghrist's Elementary Applied Topology is full of interesting ideas. Not rigorous, but inspiring.
https://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/notes.html
I agree. From the title, I would have thought that there was something about the format, and not the generation method, that made it insecure.
Looks like your link broke walmarts website. Don't expect that from larger companies...
Well, consider the percentage of police killings that are classified as murder... .1%? .01%? If someone is killed in a SWAT raid (swatting or otherwise) it's almost always written off as a police officer "justifiably fearing for their life". The officer that shot a sleeping 7 year old girl? Not murder (tried for manslaughter twice, two for two mistrials and then prosecutors dropped it). The officer that threw a flash-bang in a 1 year old boy's crib? Not attempted murder, no charges at all.

But to be less negative about it, the vast majority of swatting don't result in accidental police killings, probably for a variety of reasons including the higher concentration of well-trained, veteran officers as SWAT team members than in the police population at large, and the fact that the SWAT team almost certainly outnumbers their targets and all the cognitive effects that can have on the participants.
why do you ask?
I will reply before your comment disappears into oblivion (which it will and should):

No, no, a thousand times no, because there is nothing wrong with being a woman.

Everyone's gender, man, woman, or however they see it, is part of what makes them a human being. It makes up a part of your identity whether you're conscious of it or not.

Announcing your gender is no more "attention whoring" (itself an awful, loaded phrase) than announcing that you're a student, that you're a teenager, that you're old, that you drive a Chevelle, whatever.

That people will attack you simply for being a woman reflects wholly on them, and how awful they are as people (or possibly, to be charitable, just immature and ignorant about the world).

Your defense of that is shameful, and you should take time to reflect on your world view, because it will not serve you well as you move through life.
ARM's probably the processor architecture least suited to making toast.
Elementary Applied Topology – Ghrist – online book (2014)
Doesn't the random nature of uuids make them extremely inefficient candidates for primary key as they can't be indexed well?
This should have 2014 in the title. This article has been discussed several times.
I'm a Software Engineer at Improbable (http://www.improbable.io).

Before this I worked at Google for four years, and before that I ran a small game development studio (http://www.mysterystudio.com) for almost 10 years. Improbable gives me the best of both worlds -- the speed and the impact your day to day work has in a startup, and the world-changing ambitions of Google.

I get to work on very challenging technical problems, building core systems from scratch, within an engineering culture and people of a caliber comparable to Google's, but perhaps even more motivated because we're more invested in the success of the company. I'm enjoying every minute of it!
Well, flip the response around - respond low and then upgrade. It's possible that this would lead to less death overall. But it would also mean that any situation requiring escalation would probably indicate such through the death of a police officer. Would you want to be the sacrificial officer who knocks on the door to find out if the situation is worth escalating? The overall numbers might work out better in that case, but the whole "someone will definitely die" factor is a big psychological hurdle.
> speed (launch and JS speed). It was way ahead of Firefox or IE.

By the time V8 shipped, SpiderMonkey's TraceMonkey (and not long thereafter JaegerMonkey) was pretty competitive. There were differences between the engines—TraceMonkey fell off fast paths more often while V8 sans Crankshaft had fewer optimizations for tight loops—but they weren't night and day differences.

This is all history, of course. Nowadays, V8 and SpiderMonkey have essentially the same architecture (although as I understand things SpiderMonkey is more unified with the IonMonkey JIT core powering both Baseline and Ion, whereas Crankshaft and non-Crankshaft V8 are more divergent).
Surely everyone is on the tram now ;)
Mill Computing will release a new CPU with much potential since it will be fast and consume 1/10 of the energy of an Intel CPU. I hope that they will be successful and I plan to buy a Mill computer one day. BSD is a better OS than Linux so it will be my preferred choice.

I wish that the author would be able to accept the world how it is: like a priest, one does a lot of good work and receive little appreciation. That is how it is. If you are able to get satisfaction from the fact that you do something good, you keep on doing good for the rest of your life.
Unfortunately it isn't clear what might be considered "evil" or an "attack". Probably section 1.1 should be extended accordingly.
This may be better than allowing the bit to desynchronise your firewall's state machine. However, if you want to be nazi like that you may actually prefer not to route your network to the Internet at the IP layer but rather provide application-level proxies (IIRC Check Point products can be configured like this).
He married Mileva Marić in 1903, who was also a physicist. At a minimum, she would have been reading his work and giving him feedback.

That really takes away from his "lone genius" status.