skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some defacto standard formats such as CRS, CSC, list of tuples etc. Layout of the third should be obvious and it is not used much for cases where speed matters because one loses locality in this layout. For the other two they are laid out column after column (or row by row), row ids, and offsets to indicate the start and end of columns (rows).
Yeah but how many companies actually adopted SV ways and values? Banks are still banks, you still need a suit. Automakers are still automakers, you still need to be there 9-to-5. Investors are still investors, and outside a few precious hubs (SV, NY, Boston) they won't just drop millions on a bunch of nerdy tweenagers with ambitions (unless they're Someone's Child, of course). Politicians talk a lot but the big public-investment moolah still goes almost entirely to large-workforce and well-connected companies.

SV companies influence consumers' lives, sure; but not really how post-fordist capitalism works.
I don't use PHP anymore. However, if you want to web program it really is the easiest to get started. So many of my friends who have no interested in programming but want to do simple web stuff learn how to setup apache with PHP and copy paste what they need.
The US has missile test bases in the Marshall Islands. Watching what is done with these would seem to indicate the state's intent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Ballistic_Missil...
I tried to play this game, and I think that the interface is a complete bottleneck. Once you have more than 12 dwarves, which you are completely intended to do, it's tedious and difficult to access them, organize them, and generally, the interface to the simulator you have is like drinking through a straw. I think the fun would be massively improved with making it easier to interact with the simulator.
Is this different than the DoD having a root certificate in iOS (and I think Windows, too)? Couldn't the DoD also MITM the traffic any time they wish?
That's a big part of it. Also, there is at least one other parallel to the phone space: customizing your desktop wallpaper and ringtones. The original iPhone didn't have many options in this regard whereas many others did. Later, they added more options to customize these things more thoroughly (though never to the extent of homescreen widgets).

On the watch side, I don't have an Apple Watch but I picked up a Moto 360 for around $150 last year. Not gonna get into the eternal Apple vs. The Rest debate but one things I've noticed (aside from agreeing with your thoughts on the adequacy of using it as a simple phone extension) is that my other most common activity is changing the face of the watch.

It seems like such a simple thing but honestly, if someone offered me a $150-250 watch that simply told me the time and mirrored notifications from my phone, I might not be too enthusiastic. But if the proposition was just $150-250 for a watch where you could change the face to look any way you want, I think I'd still be tempted even without much in the way of other "smart" features.

There's a huge range of watch faces I can download and there are simple tools that allow me to make my own. I can easily swap from something minimalist to something that looks like a luxury watch to something that looks like a Fallout Pipboy to something that looks like a neon sign with a couple of taps on my phone or watch.

It's something I didn't expect to care much about but the sheer flexibility of a programmable and customizable watch face has made it one of those head-slappingly obvious features I should've seen a mile away.

I wonder when/if the Apple Watch will give more options in this regard. Because no matter how cool the apps are, a watch is still a personal piece of jewelry as well. When that piece of jewelry is also a computer with a display, there's a lot of room for customization and personalization, even if they want to keep the core interface the same for consistency. A user-defined or even user-created default face for when your watch is just sitting on your arm would be great to have, even if tapping or interacting brought up the standard Apple Watch interface.
Personally, if I were doing this, and I might still, I would focus on the challenges of actually mining. The reason is that rockets and probes etc are pretty well plowed areas but while Curiosity, the mars rover, can drill a small hole and using non-replacable reagents look for certain compounds, these things will need to process tons of material from an asteroid to try and extract kilograms of materials. That is a very unsolved problem and a very under funded one.

A lot of current extraction techniques use liquid water (not available on an asteroid), all extraction techniques depend on the raw ore being transportable by buckets or belts with gravity keeping things in place (also not available on asteroids). And many refinement techniques are very energy expensive (challenging to ship to an asteroid). So if you can figure out how to solve even one of those problems and asteroid mining company that hires you will be ahead of the game.
Is it really a gross misunderstanding or just a simplification? Keep in mind that aeon.co cater to an intelligent and well read crowd but it's not a highbrow academic publication by any means.
Having had a proper play with a Raspberry Pi (Zero) for the first time this week I've been very surprised that setting up wifi is so much harder than it ought to be, especial when taking it out and about.

Is there any reason why Pi plus Raspbian can't/won't/doesn't have a Chromecast style setup built in, i.e. boots up, finds wifi adapter but no known network, hosts own network allowing connection from smartphone app to configure wifi settings for new network?
At any given time, some large fraction of the human race is engaged in pointless amusing diversions, and that's been true for as long as we've had leisure time. The only difference now is that it's become much easier to measure.
It's not that. Personally, I usually like to give the author a chance so in such cases I just start skimming instead of stopping reading altogether. But this quoted part suggests that the author doesn't understand how categories and naming things work, which is very damning in an article about consciousness.
There are already bots and other tools in operation on English Wikipedia for fighting vandalism automatically and semi-automatically. They're mentioned in the blog post (Cluebot NG, Huggle, STiki).
So, you are proposing ancap? Or, just the an part I guess.
I would imagine that in Israel, it's easier to criticize what Israel is currently doing without the assumption that you hate Israel's existence or, worse, Jews.
While all of what you said might be true... it shouldn't be a felony to hand out flyers telling people what others had decided not to tell them. If the jury has a set of rights then they should be made aware of those rights, even the unpopular ones. If people feel strongly enough that a particular jury right should be revoked, then they should pursue steps to revoke it. But they really shouldn't be arresting people for passing out that information.
Who cares about the coding language when the market is telling you otherwise? Isn't that the very essence of starting a startup, YCombinator, the whole Silicon Valley mantra? Listen to your customers.

The customers are telling you PHP is preferred to other languages and is here to stay as evidenced by 25% of the web using a single PHP application as the backend.
On this note, if people have more resources related to sales, I'd be happy if they could share..! I think for most technical entrepreneurs, sales is likely one of the challenging areas to master..
Is it the final release now?
The real problem is the creator's stubbornness in not including others in his effort. Even if he doesn't want to release the source he should put some effort into making components pluggable so that others can do the boring work of, say, refactoring the UI.
In US (or is it just Comcast) - it is exact!

Seems Comcast maps IP (which they issue) to postal address to exact Geo coordinate.
Somewhat related would be Tor's flashproxy bridges: https://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/
RStudio (IDE for R) has a great MarkDown to PDF, Word or HTML using Pandoc. http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/pdf_document_format.html

Might help you to see their process. You can do the whole thing with CLI but easy in their IDE.
Android and iOS phones? They might as well be any generic cheap Nokia, flavour du jour. Did Finnish culture have profound effects on the 40-60% of mobile phone owners at the time?
This sounds pretty bad and we can just hope that this doesn't become the new norm.

What makes me kinda angry is however where this originates from: There are countless so-called "IT security" products that had this idea of MitM-ing all traffic before. Basically it's just the same idea on a bigger level.
> C++ has lots of support for language level isolation. Yes, due to C compatibility, if you diddle with memory you can find ways to violate those contracts,

No, it's not. The memory unsafety in C++ is fundamental to the language (think iterator invalidation). It has nothing to do with C compatibility and comes up all the time in well-written C++ code in practice.
Lol :)

Thanks!
We're checking if the display of an ad is possible, but the only reason we're doing this is to inform the website owner of how ad blocking is affecting them. Once they have this information, a lot of good can come from it that would benefit all of that websites visitors.
Related: OpenOffice won't print on Tuesdays: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file/+bug/248619
It's interesting how he says videos are important. I find videos to be much slower to parse than reading features or reviews from notable people within the industry the app is part of. For example, in the case of Sketch, I didn't watch the video (didn't even know they had them until I checked today) but instead read what it's like to use the application from a couple different designers.

In the case of Dropbox (whoa, that was a long time ago), I think I just had it verbally recommended to me from techies or I just read about it on HN.

In fact, all of what I end up installing and using comes from the backs of people rather than videos. Maybes it's a generational thing.
Movie-Stark's mannerism is openly based on Larry Ellison, who helped finance (and even had cameos in) the IronMan films. Other self-styled magnates were also an influence, of course, but Ellison is the big one, afaik.
Probably because they got sick of embassy staff stealing the TVs they kept buying for them. 8)
and if you do this you deserve to burn in a fiery pit for being a bad bad bad release manager

If you tag a commit you better stick to your guns and never change it. You can't just re-tag or re-roll your releases because you found a bug. Bugs happen. Increment your version number, cut/tag a new release, and move on. You will never have a perfect release. Ever.
Ha, nice, a saw that on Reddit when it got popular there. Fun to watch something blow up you created, no matter how trivial it may seem.
Yahoo considers sale of Internet business, but it isn’t worth much
The time-limited trial is essential for selling productivity software, unfortunately most companies are doing it wrong.

Beyond Compare[1] has a 30-day trial that is 30 days of use - not just 30 consecutive days. If I actually use a piece of software 30 different times on different days, then it's definitely worth a purchase. It's too bad more developers don't design their trials this way.

[1] - http://www.scootersoftware.com/
You're describing GeoIP derived from "public" information sources such as the physical address of the assigned entity or the location information provided to the registrar by the block owner.

However, there is a different kind of GeoIP that has the potential to be much more specific as to the location, based on a join between Internet traffic and transactions that target a specific location. e.g. when you purchase a physical item from an online vendor, with your house as the delivery address, they now have both your IP and location. Obviously for this to work it depends on a) the IP address remaining the same for some period of time and b) sharing of the necessary information to allow the join. afaik both are often true.
Google Cloud Vision API changes the way applications understand images
The location associated with the IP address they see may not be your physical location by quite some margin.

If you are connecting via a mobile phone the address is likely to be registered as at one of the phone company's locations which could potentially be in a different state. For many home/office serving ISPs this is similar. Also, if you are using a VPN of some sort the address you present to the web server is quite disconnected from your physical location.

If on the other hand they request your location via your web access client and you agree, it will be using localisation APIs that may well know your location with some precision: using GPS if your device has it and has it turned on, or via wireless AP availability based lookups otherwise.
I don't even know what we're arguing about anymore. Do you dispute this?

> (Netscape 4/Opera/IE) didn't have a JIT, didn't use hardware accelerated layers, trapped into kernel mode for GDI calls, didn't use accelerated SIMD for painting, and didn't have HTTP 2. It barely had any optimizations for dynamic restyling, so tons of stuff would get reflowed when it didn't have to.
5-10 times smaller for regular ones with it closer to 50 for separation kernels. That's not a fair comparison, though, as you need extra components to support the unikernel or just components on the kernel. A more fair comparison might be L4Re, a stripped GenodeOS, OKL4 w/ necessary software, or NOVA with necessary software.

L4Re was the first attempt I believe at an environment for apps on L4:

https://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/L4Re/overview.html
Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, Salesforce, Box, Dropbox, Twitter, etc. could have a very strong influence on changing this if they banded together to respond to this in some way.

The government might be doing what they think is right, but public backlash can change policy almost overnight. We saw this in the US recently with SOPA/PIPA. The "Internet" response was unprecedented.

The people of Kazakhstan can achieve the same outcome.
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> One of the most interesting cold war AFVs was an M113 chassis with a cherry picker and 15 TOW missiles on it. Armor is nice, but a hill is even nicer.

Is this what you're talking about?
http://russian-tanks.com/the-m901-armored-missile-vehicle.ph...
So much nope.
Apologies, I meant string literals.

There's no technical reason the language couldn't make it so that string literals can be identified at runtime.

There are several good ways to put a stop to SQL injection. Better education is one, better APIs is another. There is no reason to just give up on the idea of using SQL queries directly because of injection attacks.
Per my other comment in this thread, you could perhaps provide funding for researcher studying mining techniques in exchange for a partial interest in any patents that arose out of that work. But beyond that I don't think there is a way to participate yet as an outside investor, lots of ways to participate if you're just jumping in and doing the work yourself right?

Perhaps you could invest a few thousand in an S&P500 ETF with instructions to use the account value to buy into the first space mining company to go public? Might take awhile but you're investment would grow while it was waiting to be put to work.
Are they skipping 6.X releases or something?

The latest release according to php.net [0] is 5.6.15 which come out October 29th of 2015.

[0] https://secure.php.net/releases/
Well if you tautologically redefine "startups" to mean "as yet unsuccessful startups," then no I guess there isn't much effect outside the Valley bubble. But those companies all started small in the Valley and grew exponentially along the classic "tech startup" path.
Anyone else compare every other game they play to Dwarf Fortress? The only game I've ever played that even comes close (IMHO) is The Long Dark, and that's only because I know the studio pours their heart and soul into the game.

So glad this is still going. I hope development never stops!
By the way, you will note in my initial source that the final point in the dataset is level with the initial point (slightly below). So it is, in fact, unchanged. You can quibble about smoothing methods, how to fit a regression, etc., but that is the literal english definition of 'unchanged'.

Is that defended enough for you? Right now the sea level in the Marshall Islands is roughly where it was 23 years ago. That would be UNCHANGED.
> How is this protecting users?

Its protecting users from getting visits from Kazakhstan's security services for covertly communicated with foreign entities. That is, presuming that the content of their traffic isn't unwelcome by the security services, since otherwise, even with the use of the MitM certificate, they'll still get visits.
You would have asteroids to use as heat sinks.
That would be a pretty useful utility to build actually. I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work unless these wifi adapters don't have the ability to broadcast their own network. Would be fun to give it a try!
Well, as to your first question, that's exactly the purpose of https://www.nasa.gov/content/one-year-crew
If you have an AMD GPU the fix mentioned above is already released. Check AMD's driver page for the "15.11.1 Beta". But my card (an R9 290) was unaffected.
They also have a model to predict a quality of edit, based on the WP1.0 quality model that has been used as a guideline for some time.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ORES/wp10
I have a copy of the book. It was pretty good when it came out and the author promised to update the digital version as the game changed.
> Android and iOS phones? They might as well be any generic cheap Nokia, flavour du jour.

Obviously not, or people wouldn't be spending hundreds of extra dollars to abandon their generic cheap Nokias in favor of Android and iOS.
All these accusations of the cover-up seem to imply that it was just to "delay" the release. That's certainly bad.

But it seems to me that the had _no_ intention of ever releasing the videos, of ever charging the officer.

The intention was not to delay justice, but to suppress it entirely.
Haha, to bring in another psychology principle, after watching that I watched it again with my eyes closed. Definitely does not sound like Chewbacca unless you have the visual of Chewbacca in your mind making it easy for my mind to connect the memory of Chewbacca to aluminium dragging on a surface.
> "Where are the people today who would like to create a 1,000 person community? Where are the wealthy who would like to try a bold experiment in communalism, anarchism, feminism or whatnot?"

There are similar experiments happening on a smaller scale. I would argue that you wouldn't want to fund these communities through wealthy benefactors, otherwise it creates a sense of deference and obligation, it's far better to have a more egalitarian community IMO.
Kazakhstan, always playing catch up with America.
No desktop client (personal computer), no web client (work computer), no multi device support (multiple phones/computers). Telegram has all of these things.

EDIT: Apparently they're bringing desktop and "web" through a Chrome extension and possibly a desktop browser wrapper. Also multi device support for desktops but apparently not yet for mobile.
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Is this really a bad thing? If there's a bug on only one day of the week, then writing your unit test to work on the current day will actually catch that sort of bug. Whereas if you hardcode a day then it will never catch that bug. So it seems there is at least one advantage to this sort of testing in practice.
If all of their https traffic is compromised, would we not be able to break all of their financial traffic remotely?
The pdf of the book is linked to in the article, and after reading a little of it I'm struck by its similarity to "Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Penumbra%27s_24-Hour_Books...
I'm interested in the answer to that, too. A member of the Chrome team asked what static analysis or advanced verification tools I thought they could use in a significant C++ project. Digging around, I think I just found one, limited one plus two ways of doing Design-by-Contract (asserts & OOP). That was it. Not inspiring lol.

Now, there has been work on type-safe or memory-safe version of C++. They're non-standard. They also get smashed when a memory error occurs and that will happen. So, suggesting to rely on language-based isolation in C++ is a more a joke than something worth trying.

Good example of work on C++ safety:

https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~eir/papers/2013/ironclad/paper.pd...
The equivalent of a M4.x10large running 24/7, which would cost $1814/month, costs about $400-$500/month lease from Dell or HP.

There are other costs, like cooling, power, peering, networking gear, colocation/building costs, having spare parts on hand, paying sysadmins, et cetera, that are going to vary based on your requirements and region.
He meant the really important ones like twitter and facebook and the other oft over-praised SV "tech".
"We were trying to do a boldly cutting edge Natural Language Processing startup, but without a top-notch Natural Language Processing expert."

Of the many, many, many management problems present in this article, this seems like the most atrocious. Attempting to complete a task neither google nor apple nor any big player has tackled is total madness. Where is the phd level research? You have to at least understand the technical aspects of your project at a high level and bring on someone who has a deep grasp of them as a founder. Who wants to build this for you without having the equity and stake?

Someone should have just taken a pile of $1.5 million and lit it on fire.
I've been anticipating this for a while. Some great additions, especially scalar type hinting and type hinting on return types. The ability to enable stricter typing via a directive is also great. It's a shame internals voted down short-hand syntax for anonymous functions, including implicit closure over outer scope variables - a function with closures in PHP can get ugly very fast. Using higher-order functions becomes far more unwieldy.
Go with the previous version before this release, 40.24

While getting a handle of the basics of the game you really won't miss out on any of the new features in the latest version. They're at a somewhat more advanced level and you'll be spending your time trying to figure out the menus and how to not die of starvation and thirst, and less concerned with what instrument bards should play.
I find time limited trials useless. For user, it is inconvenient, because maybe the time is not enough to test complex software. For developers it's bad because user can simply reinstall the software again when trial period is over.

In my apps, I limit the amount of data you can store in trial version. So, you can try it as much as you can. For example, if your software was an e-mail client, you could limit it to 30 messages in any folder (inbox, sent, trash).