skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For when your pickle cat needs that special extra something: analogue synths
>Unless, of course, they're kept alive by force.

Which has increasingly been the case since the 70's:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailout#Cases
The government owns things and employs people as much as any corporation does, and as much as the government exists at all.
Same here. I actually can't run it in this configuration, I have to have something plugged in to draw a little more power and keep the battery active. Most of those batteries are designed for 1A+ power draw of a charging tablet or smartphone!
uhm, what?

Can you give an example where I have a file (a.txt) of 100 file names and need the basename of each? I'm pretty sure dvh just used echo to show a simple example, not an actual use.
Note that CSS pixels are not the same as physical pixels. Browsers are free to rescale CSS pixel values. Indeed, it's written in the document you linked to:

> If the pixel density of the output device is very different from that of a typical computer display, the user agent should rescale pixel values.

So actually 12px font should look about the same on all output devices, regardless of their physical DPI. But I agree that 12px is rather small for copy text.
Ranking Finland's Schools Proves They're Actually Equal
You just beat me to this :)
IMF on the Verge of Naming China's Yuan a Reserve Currency
The US media machine, picks and chooses when some words are appropriate and when not, depending if it fits their agenda.

How about the name "Dick" ? As in e.g. Dick Cheney ? Why isn't it considered a slur, just like "cock" ? It an elephant in the room no one speaks about.

How about the word "pussy" as in a small cat ? It has been used to report by the news on "Pussy Riot", which has a direction connection to the female genitalia.

I think it might be because of the sensationalist nature of the US media as such and their juvenile handling of anything that's taboo.
I'm imagining some poor anon or redditor getting a stroke and only being able to communicate through memes.

I think if you can think in English, that counts as bilingual. Ever had a dream in English?
Fedora 24 Linux Operating System to Switch to Python 3.5 by Default
Quit School and Become the Next Mark Zuckerberg
Have recommended that before: CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) preparation materials. You can buy used ones for cheap as they lose their value extremely fast for people preparing for the exam, but small changes of accounting regulations should not concern you if you are reading just to educated yourself.

They might seem overwhelming, but I am yet to find another set of books with such neatly organized and concentrated material on Economics and Finance.
Un político divide a las personas en dos grupos; instrumentos y enemigos
Another case of conflating a phenomenon and its measure.

Rather than write good tests, people have gotten side-tracked by chasing magical number that may or may not reflect the phenomenon of interest.

Heuristics are sometimes wrong, but always fast and not fundamentally bad. Writing unit tests for high-risk code is a good heuristic, god dammit. Chasing after 100% test-coverage is pedantic, and -- I honestly think -- evidence of a development team that favors form over function.

I'll continue writing unit tests that actually test critical boundary conditions, and I will continue not to care if only 10% of my code is covered. If that 10% represents 80% of my bugs, I've won.
OK you beat both melling and myself by an hour....
I interpret "Uber for X" as: Non-Professional people providing professional service X
I can read fluently in Thai but writing is nearly impossible. I can understand (listen) with significant fluency but speaking is much harder. These are four very different skills, trust me.
Re. the Wh/kg figure - If the sodium chemistry has properties comparable to lithium IRON (LiFePO4) in other respects, such as safety and robustness, then the 90Wh/kg figure is quite good in that comparison. The LiFePo4 chemistry is quite interesting and very stable and a drop-in-and-forget-about-it replacement for lead-acid battires, which is harder to do with the more sensitive and aggressive high-Wh Li-ion stuff. Afaik Tesla use LiFePo4.
I do think it could be neat with the support for a tag for "this is can be cached" in TLS streams, which could be applied to privacy unsensitive material, which identifies the ciphertext blob and thus lets the ISP tell the server sending it "I'm now going to cache this blob, tell every client on my network to use the same decryption key for this blob for X time and I'll hand them my cached copy".

Presumably you'd have to use a signed hash of the ciphertext as the identifier, and decouple the encryption of these blobs from the rest of the TLS stream (use independent key material) to ensure it remains secure. But this way, any ISP that sees the same blob appearing frequently can chose to cache it automatically and quickly start saving bandwidth.

Also, for maximizing privacy, I think this tag should be applied by the client only (can be disabled if you want to reduce metadata leaks) when the server tells the client "this particular data with identifier X can be auto-cached on the network level". One potential neat advantage here is that a LAN router/proxy could implement a cache for its own nodes by having the nodes send these cache requests directly to this router instead of letting the ISP see it, so you don't leak this metadata outside your own network.
Amazing opensource GeoCoder using Elasticsearch
Html5 v hybrid  v native apps?
That's what the privilege of wealth, especially hereditary wealth, is - freedom from having to worry about hitting the bottom.

And the higher up the scale you go, the less likely "company owner" is to be a single individual who only owns one company. It will be people or investment bodies with diversified portfolios. The most stressed person is probably the small business owner who is genuinely at risk if it fails.

The "precaritisation" is about pushing as much risk as possible onto those least able to bear it, reversing the expansion of risk-sharing that is the social insurance and the "welfare state".
I think it's interesting that 100 years later, you could replace "days" with "hours" and the mail would look (roughly) the same.

I wonder what the next 100 years will bring...
Emacs – the best python editor
My macbook pro is old (2012, no retina display). I think "font-size: 10pt;" should have same effects on retina and non-retina computers.
Apparently some people disagree with this statement, but it's correct - karma on HN is definitely countable, hence 'fewer'. Of course, it sounds stupid, but apparently the rule is ironclad, to always be followed.

Which reminds me, the 'split infinitive' rule is yet another nonsense grammatical rule that is overapplied.
This is how an entrepreneur can get an O-1 VISA
As @FooBarWidget says, this is about donating to the Mozilla Foundation, not the Corporation (which builds Firefox products). I'm an employee at the Foundation, and these donations help us keep running and working towards our mission, backed by these principles: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/
I agree but that's not what's happening here. They are just directly passing on the cost to provide service - the customers are paying Hetzner not the ISP (unless I'm reading wrong - but I did double check).

In this situation, Core-Backbone pays for peering with DTAG and Hetzner pays them to transport their data. I'm not seeing how that is an ISP billing another ISPs customer? Hetzner is paying Core-Backbone, Core-Backbone is paying DTAG. Same as Netflix paying Cogent to transport their data.
Not mentioned is the possibility causality goes the other way : people who are feeling depressed react by eating more comfort food higher in added sugars.
How to Use AWS Elasticsearch for Log Management
This link is about an EAL4+ evaluation
Nice response from the company, pity they made that many mistakes. Please note that this is not exceptional at all. APIs and underwater calls from web pages and apps to access some functionality are rife with bugs and security holes, the stuff you find makes you hair stand on end. Also, the SCADA world (which this product is a part of) is not exactly known for great focus on security, if there is security at all it's surprising, more likely it is just obscurity. These systems are used to remotely control building facilities such as heating, lighting, air-conditioning and all kinds of alarms.

One system I'm familiar with (I won't name any brands because this is a legacy system and imo impossible to fix without a total replacement) is based on the BASIC stamp and will accept UDP packets where every bit in the payload is the status of an output and will respond with a UDP packet detailing the inputs. Guess what happens if you start hitting those ports with payloads of 'all 1' and 'all 0' alternating every second or so...
Waking up early helps. Also, I've picked up on this small but very effective time saver - always leaving the computer in exact same state from where to continue the next day. This really helps me jump right into context when I leave something in between and open it the next day. I always hibernate, never shutdown my computer !
Show HN: MapStreetview – point & click streetview
Yes, honestly, I agree.
Hamburg is my birthplace. Looking at the architectural plans for the olympic village, I must say, I like what I see.
But indeed, professional sports has such a bad image currently. Too much money involved. It is not only doping and the supposed soccer corruption of the fifa. Last year I read the autobiography of the olympic champion Ian Thorpe and it is depressing what can become of a world champion after his active time is over.
There is a lot going wrong with sports these days.
>"CTRA gene expression was analyzed using mixed effect linear models (43) testing association between average expression of 53 CTRA indicator transcripts (44, 45) and either continuous UCLA Loneliness Scale scores or a 1/0 indicator of chronically high PSI (12) (UCLA Loneliness Scale score of ≥41 in at least 60% of measurements taken during study years 1–5) while controlling for study year, age, sex, race/ethnicity, marital status, household income, BMI, alcohol consumption, smoking history, and gene-specific differences in average expression level."
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/11/18/1514249112.abst...

They forgot that immune activity and gene expression are reported to be seasonal[1]. They should control for week of year that data was collected. If, for example, people who come by in the winter months are scored as "lonely" more often, this would correlate with expression levels of various genes even if the two are largely unrelated.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25965853
same here, had to watch some of those lectures at 2x speed
What Makes Paris Look Like Paris? (2012)
Thanks for the name, I found the article here: http://blog.jgc.org/2010/01/more-fun-with-toys-ikea-lillabo-.... However, he only solves for 16 pieces. This post and program solves for any number of pieces.
No, I am referring to PDF page 195.
Make HTTP Requests in a NativeScript Mobile Application
Financial Technology, but I guess Future Tradings would also be something I would want to learn? I'm at the beginner stage where I don't know what I need to know!

But my long term goal is to combine my CS background with Finance and do something interesting in it, if that makes any sense.
> I'd walk 10min up a hill to get on a bus that took 45min to get to my office

Why not just walk the 3 miles directly? It would take less than 55 mins for sure.
You might want to take a look at the 'Stylish'[1] extension if you often feel like modifying the CSS on sites you visit.

Personally I got used to changing the zoom all the time, with the amount of sites that solve the DPI problem by multiplying the size of everything by 2.

[1] Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/stylish/

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish/fjnbnpbmke...

Find styles: https://userstyles.org/
Collenchyma: CUDA, OpenCL and Native Machine Intelligence for Leaf
Put an synopsis version of the story outside the firewall and do the in-depth article with reference, graphs, etc. inside the firewall. Paid subscription with a google friendly, ad supported front-end. People who aren't going to pay the fee probably just want the synopsis (executive summary) version anyway.
These 8 Disciplines Define a Fundable Entrepreneur
I love these repurposing hacks. No matter where you stole it, realizing that you could use this mechanism for your problem is imo just as neat as the project itself.
Would you advise one to start directly with TLA+ or work through some logic/discrete math seperately beforehand?
This is where "r > g" and Picketty's work is relevant. The rate of return on capital matters. Centralised capital earning a return will always pull ahead of small-scale capital unless there's enough regulatory and other handicapping to the advantage of the small capital investment.

Can decentralised capital get a better rate of return than centralised capital? If so, centralised capital can just invest in it. If not, you'll end up paying your decentralised returns back and more in rent. Property is the ultimate centralised store of capital.
Optimist: Look how good things are getting, we're only a few generations away from universal prosperity!

Pessimist: Look how good things have been, we're clearly only a few generations away from this prosperity bubble bursting.
Solar or Coal? The Energy India Picks May Decide Earth’s Fate
>I can imagine hundreds of these in the sky at once in Chicago if not thousands.

Which sounds like an utterly horrifying scenario. It's not so much that I can't imagine this sort of delivery not working in some scenarios as that I have a lot of trouble imagining it working at scale.
When studying power consumption for this type of devices, it's extremely common to measure the current being drawn, rather than to put out values in watts.

For one thing, it's the current that you usually measure in these cases anyway. For the other, power consumption in watts is not what you generally want to know when you design a battery-powered circuit. And, last but not least, it's more useful to have a figure in (m)A than (m)W when batteries are rated in mAh.

It's not correct terminology, mind you, but then neither is that of energy in your energy bill, so I guess this can be forgiven.
I'm primarily thinking of cases here like consumer ISP:s wanting to charge Netflix directly. This particular case might be quite different from what I had in mind.
You're joking right? A quick google search returns hundreds of resources from nasa.gov about research into bone and muscle degradation.
Coq has been around for 26 years. The USA is not the world. No one is offended. Be more inconspicuous when trying to bait next time.
This is exactly right. I'm an engineer at the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, and these donations keep us working towards our mission (found at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/details/).
Ask HN: Macbook average lifespan?
I need an old macbook for doing some tests and also allow my son to learn a little about development (I want to give him a slower machine on purpose).

If I replace the HDD for a SSD and the battery, do you think a model from 2008/2009 (A1181 IIRC) can still last a few more years? Like, what's the average life span of such beasts?

I might install Linux on it!
I agree with that point, but that's just a different form of market research, nothing new to see here. Instead of doing surveys over the phone or on the street, they're using an app.
>In other words, you think that they didn't release the video because they have something to prove.

Really what I'm saying is that if I'm going to try to extrapolate something more from the information presented that would be the direction, not "Can we be sure he hasn't faked this picture?". My point is that you're speculating that someone is guilty despite a strong piece of neutral information: the DA dropped the case and he was released from jail.

Sure, it's possible the attorney faked the picture and it's all bullshit, but there's nothing to demonstrate that as being likely besides your own biases.
well, donating to mozilla and not openSSL, freeBSD does not make a better internet.

Nowadays we have strictly NO LTS free/open source portable build chain of decent quality (compiler, linkers). (maybe also because of the norms)

When I say LTS compiler, I mean a compiler that can portably and reproducibly build code in C without flags on the CLI to the same exec and without developers having to archive their compiler every time compile to be sure to be able to build it once again with the same results.

You think this situation is not yet existing?

Hu hu hu hu hu ...

Houston, you have a problem.

Even though I appreciate LLVM/GCC, LLVM/GCC new major release may imply to patch specifically the C code for the $CC release.

And Ox flags may give weird unexpected results per compiler. And you may nowadays need GCC for some platform with specific code, and LLVM for others.

So how do we handle this complexity? The C code is less and less idempotent in time and architecture and performance...

How do we fully support long time support for reproducible multi platform build ?
I have pretty much never seen a component specify wattage. They always specify the voltage and current draw.

Voltage and current are easy to measure with a pair of multimeters, so it's more useful to have those numbers than wattage.
Mochaccino – jasmine-like testing with mocha (JS)
Decision Tree for Blockchain Applications:Problems, Opportunities, Capabilities?
I'm not sure how you interpreted what I said, but I meant it to mean exactly what you said! Isolated atheists have no signaling mechanism, and thus are often assumed to have no, or a very different, moral code. ("Else why would they not subscribe to my religion?")
Cyber+Monday+2015+–+Shop+Cyber+Monday+Deals+|+Amazon+UK
Ghost in the Machine
Goodbye to Wi-Fi, Hello to Li-Fi
Mozilla has become too politicized for me. When the board intervenes to fire the CEO for basic civic engagement which we should generally encourage in citizens, then they don't need my money any more.
I listened to the Business News on BBC Worldwide on SirusXM one night. A more left-leaning broadcast would be pretty hard. I found it pretty biased. I turn into the BBC for breaking news, but their analysis is biased.
> The more 'batteries included' something is the more time you'll spend learning about the eco-system and less about the language per-se.

Not necessary. As a young programmer who did not grow up in the java dominated world of 1990-2008.

I took one look at Java and noped the fuck out.

I found C to be more useful.

But its hard to beat the simplicity of java-script.
Mainly experimentation.

Reference: https://www.parallella.org/
If you read slide 4, you'll see that the SIM card was evaluated at EAL4+ level and the design of the Java Card System at EAL7 level.
Ask HN: How to help a developer that can't pair program?
I've got a developer who seems to be very talented, but absolutely melts when I'm working with him one-on-one. It's like his mind shuts off when he's at the keyboard and we're trying to work through something - he can't type properly, his thoughts race in many different directions, and we never seem to accomplish anything. When he's working on his own, though, or isn't at a keyboard, he can very clearly explain his thought process and ideas. I know that he's not just pretending to know how to code - it just seems like extreme anxiety in certain situations. He's aware of the situation, and has apologized for it a handful of times.

I feel like this is preventing him from reaching his potential, but I'm not sure how to approach it. Should I be putting the bulk of my efforts into helping his anxiety, or should I put my efforts into working with him in ways that are more comfortable for him? If you have been on either end of this situation, could you offer any advice?
Start doing more things alone
> turning up in a suit is a very reliable indicator that a person cares about dress.

or that they expect to be around people who (act as if they) care about dress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_paradox
Meet Zoltan, the presidential candidate who drives a coffin
Have you ever spent a Sunday afternoon reading a giant newspaper?
Regardless of what a politician says, if they try to increase the funding (or keep program alive) then they like it and their complaint is pro-forma only. Its fun to watch floor speeches in the US then see what they actually amended the funding bill to be.
That's one possibility. I can think of a few cases where I'd rather toss in a $5 board with a 50/50 chance of getting it/data back, rather than a more expensive circuit or something that includes a GPS device and could still get lost.

Also, there are other ways to communicate that can potentially use a lot less power than Ethernet or WiFi :)
I had a 2006 Macbook just give up the ghost - but it was used (and abused) daily. I have a 2008 Macbook that I just upgraded to an SDD, a new battery, and maxed out it's memory for my daughter in a similar effort to what you're wanting to do for your son. I've already gotten 1 year out of it since doing the upgrades and I'm expecting to get at least 2 more. All told you can expect to get roughly 10 years out of a Macbook.
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While I think it's well-agreed upon in this community that code coverage is not all that big a deal, I think we also should consider the methods used in this study before we all pat ourselves on the back for having 'proof' of what we know.

> we generated 31,000 test suites for five systems consisting of up to 724,000 lines of source code

You auto-generated unit tests suites, and you're surprised they weren't very good at finding bugs? Well, no kidding, they were auto-generated! Would you trust your unit tests to be generated by a computer? Of course not.

Do a study of real-world software, and compare the unit test coverage to the Test Suite effectiveness. Then I'll be interested.
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If not, you'll end up paying your decentralised returns back and more in rent. Property is the ultimate centralised store of capital.

I think this would assume that decentralized investments won't be able to afford autonomous, off-the-grid living arrangements. There's still a whole lot more land out there than we need. And it wouldn't need to support everyone, just enough so that there's an alternative to keep rents from skyrocketing.

Anything else you pay for can be decentralized, as the article demonstrates.
I can see pretty much why FUBAR was switched to -----. I'm more curious as to what ----- stands for.

[Edit removed the secret message to keep the suspense ;)]
Only to major hubs, the "last (100) mile(s)" still will cost you a lot of time.
https://www.goabra.com/
Thanks. Safari is my main browser. I prefer cmd+= to the extension. I found zooming in Safari is much better than in Chrome. Zooming one tab in chrome makes all tabs zoom. That is ridiculous.
China Is Building a Giant Animal-Cloning Factory to Feed the Masses
If you have had the equivalent of an undergraduate course on Discrete Mathematics you are probably fine; an introduction to logic course (covering e.g., soundness and completeness of propositional/first order logics) probably isn't necessary.

There is a self-contained book; IMO chapter 1 gives a good overview of what you should be comfortable with:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/tla/bo...
The City of Paris turns to hackers to help prevent future terrorist attacks
A Movie Site Combining Rotten Tomatoes, IMDb, Letterboxd and Metacritic Scores
Check out "Finding and Understanding Bugs in C Compilers": http://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/papers/pldi11-preprint.pdf.

The paper explains what-is-bug/what-causes-it/what-is-impact for selected bugs. Complete list of 282 compiler bugs found (79 GCC, 203 LLVM) is also available online: http://embed.cs.utah.edu/csmith/.