skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
React itself can be used as a framework to make front-ends.
The current XPS 13 has been a mess of critical BIOS updates, especially as a Linux user. Really pretty disappointing- my next laptop is probably not going to be a Dell.
I can understand some of the need for this. On the other hand you could make it trust all privileged ports, which implies root access - but this is a separate concern for other users.
A small investment of 2B.
Oddly their demo shows Safari 9 (el cap) as not supporting http/2, but only spdy. Other test sites (akamai) show safari using http/2 just fine -- safari does appear (wireshark capture) to be sending the tls alpn h2 thingy.
Towns want Verizon investigated for abandoning networks through neglect
They still do that, they haven't be sued, and they haven't lost. One of those articles is from May this year. And as far as I know they're still injecting trackers into the HTTP headers of mobile traffic to this day. It is opt out.
I think Moxie is a (left-wing) anarchist with more than a smattering of Crimethinc.
Seems to be working pretty well so far, especially compared to the highly regulated taxi industry.

"a verbally abusive asshole who can't drive well, blows smoke into your face at a 15 second interval, doesn't know the city, and has basically no regard for human life or decency" sounds a lot more like taxi drivers than Uber drivers (with the exception of "doesn't know the city", fortunately we have other mobile apps for that too!)
If you're referring to VS Code, it doesn't use Atom at all.
How much does it cost to design an app?
Does renewing a certificate require completing a challenge, or is that only for the initial certificate?
Actually, no: the default 90-day certificate lifetime was chosen such that it wouldn't be too inconvenient for manual renewal if necessary, but was intended to encourage automatic renewal: https://letsencrypt.org/2015/11/09/why-90-days.html
I wonder if these will be recoverable by traditional data recovery means, or if opening them and exposing the platters to normal air instead of helium would mean they can't spin/run correctly.

If helium-filled HDD technology becomes more widespread I am curious about the potential impact to the data recovery market.
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> LetsEncrypt intentionally chose 90 days for the duration of the certs. Presumably because renewing a cert is a positive confirmation that you still retain ownership.

LetsEncrypt does domain validation only so there is zero check who owns the server. So no, that makes no sense. You can already crontab the official client anyways.
Sure, I don't doubt that these people really want to secede, but undoubtably some rather large component of this is created by external support.

Throughout history nationalism, religion and ethnicity has always been used to destabilise countries, this is nothing new.

I don't put any extraordinary blame on the US for this, it's what most powerful nations are doing in their quest for even more power.

About the Cherokees: Don't know if it is due to their low numbers, or simply because the US is powerful enough to prevent this from happening. Maybe the Cherokees are happy as it is or the right people are payed off by the government.

In general this can be exploited best when a country is in severe economic trouble. For example Chechnya after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The US is not even remotely in a comparable state.
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Sure but what's the intent? If I own a lawncare business, or any business, seriously--what can the hijacker do? Change the phone number? Change the map?
If a CRISPR change doesn't kill you, it seems to me unlikely to kill your offspring. This may be naive, I don't know to what extent a gene variant would be fine in an adult but not fine in a child. Most self gene edits would not be random, but would be more along the lines of "in studies x% has variant A;A and y% has variant A;G or G;G. A;A is "better" in some sense I care about, and I have A;G, so I'm going to edit that G to an A." Maybe there are dependent genes that need editing as well that we don't know about because otherwise you're no longer a viable lifeform, but it seems that any cascading effects would come up before you had a child. It's like editing a character in the string constant pool of a program. Maybe it'll be fine, or maybe you need to edit some other part whose logic depended on the original character to match the new character and avoid a crash or misbehavior.

Getting my genes sequenced for $100 revealed I'm a carrier of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay%E2%80%93Sachs_disease It would be highly irresponsible of me to breed with another carrier due to the 25% chance of an offspring with the disease, which all but guarantees early death. If one of us parents has the gene edited away, or it is edited away in the womb, this is a good thing.
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Let's Encrypt gives encouraging automation as a reason why they choose 90 days:

They encourage automation, which is absolutely essential for ease-of-use. If we’re going to move the entire Web to HTTPS, we can’t continue to expect system administrators to manually handle renewals. Once issuance and renewal are automated, shorter lifetimes won’t be any less convenience than longer ones.

https://letsencrypt.org/2015/11/09/why-90-days.html
I previously did NOT use cabs in Austin. I had 2 bad experiences and just never tried again. Over the last year since I have relied on Uber so heavily I have actually sold my car. I still have a motorcycle and I use it for most short trips weather permitting. But if the weather is bad or I need to carry something with me that wont fit on the bike I use Uber.
Why legal experts are up in arms over the trade-secrets bill Microsoft loves
Fair enough, perhaps I should have said "can be caused by"

DI (technically Dipsogenic DI) can be caused by neurological dysfunction or psychiatric illness without any hormonal disregulation.
It could be related to your power supply, honestly. I haven't had more than one or two corruptions in the time I've been using my Pis, and both seemed to be related to cheap/flaky power adapters.
Man’s hoard of nearly 5,000 guns shows ease of amassing arms
This is neat tool especially for people like me who run custom web servers or web server software that is not supported by the Let's Encrypt client.
You could always open them in a larger helium chamber.
> If you download a signed executable, but the signing certificate expired a while ago, does that mean you don't trust the executable?

Indeed, no you don't---not on the basis of cryptographic reasoning, at least.

Certificates expire for a reason. That reason is the assumption that they are being actively cracked, and so have a limited shelf life. You can trust a 2005 certificate only to the extent that you bank on the underlying private key not to have been cracked.

If the key is cracked, then the attackers can create a brand new file, and make it look like its existence had been certified in 2005.

Old stuff that still matters has to be re-certified with new certificates in the face the impending expiry of the old ones.
>And without the production of the individuals and businesses that exist in a society, the state would have no ability to skim off the top and spend that money.

Yes, because organizations are just collections of individuals. So of course an organization can't do anything without the action of individuals. Is anyone arguing otherwise?

> Believing in a higher entity with more rights than any individual is verging on something akin to feudalism.

There are many examples where groups of individuals have rights that are greater than the rights of individuals without bringing up feudalism.

No individual has the right to imprison another (for long periods at least). No individual has the right to use violence to enforce a contract. Do you imagine a society where individuals have those rights, or one where the state does not?

>which isn't "society", it is the governing body of a region of land)

No the state isn't society. In a democratically controlled system, the state is the proxy designated to act on behalf of society (the extent to which states actually fulfill this duty is highly variable).
Yeah but the cab market in Austin is exceptionally bad -- and expensive! If there was ever a market ripe for a service like Lyft, it's Austin.
OK Someone1234, I was not aware of that. So what ISPs should we avoid now?
Unless it involves Comcast.
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I dont know if snopes is the most reliable source, but according to that(http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/jackson.asp) Lennon/McCartney have always received 50% of the songs, so maybe the situation was as bad for sir Paul as he made it out to be.
I also want to be clear that I don't think that Michael Jackson is the only bad actor in this whole saga, and it looks like you may be right that Paul and Michael did try(unsuccessfully) to work out a deal.(http://wzlx.cbslocal.com/2015/08/10/michael-jackson-beatles-...). Seems that it makes for great gossip more than anything, and maybe it is equivalent to a "rap beef"...
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For a while, my ISP was using some sort of transparent proxy cache, which for some reason tended to stall HTTP connections (stuck in SYN-SENT IIRC). There were days when the only sites I could access were the ones using HTTPS, since the transparent proxy cache didn't touch them.

The most advertised gain from using TLS is security, but to me an equally important gain is not having to deal with broken middleboxes.
From a contributer's point of view, the inability to re-license practically is often a feature, not a bug. CLAs make the worst case scenario touted by GPL advocates about non-GPL licenses practical: They can profit directly and exclusively from your work without your direct consent.
How's the probabilistic programming use case in Julia now?

I don't like Python as a language that much (I prefer Lisps or MLs), but I reckon its libraries are fantastic: PyMC, Theano, NumPy... And loads of general-purpose stuff.
I believe cperciva's more trying to convey deep existential angst moreso than immediate threat.

His post is shot in black and white, as he is smoking while sitting in an cafe on an otherwise abandoned European street, when the desultory wind blows in a creased newspaper with the headline "MODULAR MATH FOUND NOT TO WORK", and he turns to look at the camera with a slowly developing look of pure horror that the camera person spends a full 5 minutes in exploring every last nuance of. Just over two minutes in, a violinist wearing a tutu wanders in, plays some 12-tone music, delivers a poorly subtitled rumination on the ultimate futility of life and its connection to prime number elliptic curves, and then leaves, for no apparent reason.

It's moving stuff, for certain audiences.
Laws also protect public resources which you would use if you hurt yourself. For example, emergency rooms. If you hurt yourself, you do hurt others, it's just indirectly. There are plenty of laws for preventing you from hurting yourself. Worker safety. Public health. Motor vehicle safety.
That article doesn't mention persistent data structures.
Good point, I agree that Gates must have saw something, but what precisely did he see see? I don't see Ballmer as some sort of marketing or technical genius (or even close). I'm having a hard time imagining what he offers.
Just tested my side project https://www.gitignore.io and it now has sub second loading time. Unfortunately, adding Google analytics doubles the loading time to about 1.8 seconds.
Unless you're disabled, which is part of regulations in place for taxi companies (that Uber and Lyft ignore):

http://fortune.com/2015/05/22/uber-lyft-disabled/

http://www.wired.com/2015/08/uber-disability/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/21/uber-disabi...

http://time.com/3895021/why-the-disabled-are-suing-uber-and-...
Not a go fan, but seems like if anyone has scale problems, google would, and go would give them these issues too which is surprising since that was kind of the goal to solve from their perspective.
Do tell, please.
Yes, exactly. The modern world of intellectual "property" (and there aren't quotes scary enough to put around the word) is fucking insane and kind of sad.
No, we don't know what we're discussing here. This is new technology with potentially wide-reaching, unforeseen consequences.

>Who is harmed or even impacted in any way if I, say, make myself immune to malaria? Or give myself red hair or blue eyes? And don't have kids?

When your experiment goes wrong, and you find yourself needing expensive hospital visits that you can't afford, who is going to pay for it?

And what do you mean "immune to regulation?" Is that like a "murder laws can't physically stop murderers, so why make it illegal" kind of thing?
23 years ago: the day Quantum Teleportation was born
Which would add a significant up-front cost that would have to be shouldered by the data recovery company. Potentially an issue for small shops (which most data recovery companies are.)
If gene editing techniques become mature enough to actually work reliably (with CRISPR is currently not), "damage to the gene pool" is a lot less scary.
This is very important, because I time my rides to the minute, and almost every time, the driver that accepts my ride is sitting in his living room (or at his office) and takes five minutes alone just to get to his car and start driving to my location. Drivers aren't just sitting there idling like taxis at a taxi stand.
everyone interested in conspiracy, please read the comments over here: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/11/a_new_free_ca... when bruce schneier wrote about let's encrypt.
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It would get removed from the title. HN disapproves of Unicode.
My argument is that you're an abnormality. Have kids? Have pets? (Can you even get a child seat for use in an Uber) Not selling your car and using Uber for all your transportation needs.

Its a solution for 20 something singles. That's not a terribly huge market, and definitely not one worth billions of dollars.
If there was, it wouldn't be open source. The Open Source Definition explicitly prohibits any license that restricts simple bundling [0]:

> The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources.

Same with the Debian Free Software Guidelines [1]:

> The license of a Debian component may not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources.

[0] https://opensource.org/osd-annotated

[1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
For able-bodied people with a $600 device in their pocket that relies on a $100/mo subscription, sure!
This is pretty awesome. If all of the platform dependencies could be abstracted away, this could form the core of yet another cross-mobile-platform development framework, but with better performance and richer tooling.

I think it really depends on how much control Apple intends to exercise over the IP. Could someone fork it and use it to create a mobile platform that would be free from legal harassment if it competed with the iPhone?
Ugh, I always screw up the difference between persistent and lock-free, data structures are not my forte.
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It's a low-key work environment, and we have a lot of management buy-in to build as effective a development team as possible. Development is primarily remote, so proactive communication, responsibility and accountability are at least as important as technical ability. There will need to be regular overlap with core hours (8:30-5:00 EST) but we can work out the specifics of what that overlap entails depending on where you live.

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Java: I made a cron friendly script to convert the letsencrypt keys to JKS format. https://github.com/ericbets/letsconvert
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Because they're trying so hard, and the only time I ever hear of people using Lyft instead of Uber is when Lyft is offering some massive promotion.

(disclaimer: anecdote, but then again we're talking about vague feelings)
Absolutely, certain people and websites should use https or GPG or whatever technology.

I'm only asking why it should be the "default" for the entire Internet? This is not a good argument to make it the default.

I'm not against https at all.
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While the first generation iPhone started out buggy and feature-sparse, the form factor was completely revolutionary: a phone with a touch screen and internet capabilities. A mini-computer in your pocket, rather than just a phone. It set itself up for future success as wifi, 3g + 4g networks, and the app ecosystem developed over the next decade.

[Some] will argue that there will be a different ecosystem of apps for the Apple Watch. To that I would say, fine, but what are the inputs, mediums, and outputs of this new form factor? What data collection, processing, and presentation applications will be better on the Apple Watch than they are on a smartphone or a computer? What new and compelling apps are possible from these new IO and processing capabilities?

The only input that the Apple Watch gets that is different from a smartphone is from its physical location on the user’s wrist — a pulse. Otherwise, outputs will be relatively restricted and less useful than the iPhone’s outputs due to the watch’s smaller screen. Who wants to play a game, read a book, or surf the web on a watch? Nobody.

The Apple Watch is a glorified fitness tracker that obviates the need to take your phone out of your pocket to check notifications. Its secondary function is a marker of status, but there are plenty of other things you could buy to signal wealth to potential mates. [1]

[1] http://roymurdock.com/essays/2015/07/apple-watch-form-factor...
> Frustrating because we will have to keep reworking our price per GB.

You don't have to pass every savings on to the consumer, you know.
I see your point, but that's like arguing compiled Haskell code is unsafe, since Haskell has type erasure.

Any code generation machinery is subject to subtle bugs and especially so the flesh and bones kind ;)
I remember Cliff Click said that some parallel/concurrent algorithms are infeasable without a GC, because the additional complexity of memory management. However, I do not remember any specific examples.

To speculate: A big graph data structure in your big server (not distributed) and some parallel algorithm working on it. There is so much data that you need to purge the obsolete stuff once in a while. Smart pointers are not enough unless you introduce weak references, which is unsafe and error prone. A C++ programmer would probably implement some kind of application-specific garbage collector, but I doubt it would be better than the JVMs GC.
lectrick "There's even studies that show this (your value to a company is largely exhausted after 2 years)"

could you please give some links to this studies I am very interested.
Thanks
to be fair the test that showed a lower bound on survive-ability caused the fellow eye damage. (wikipedia says it was measured at a peak "eyeball out" g-force of 46.2g and 25g for 1.1 seconds.)

I'd say 1-2g over a span of a few min might be tolerable by the general population but might not be need to be researched for suitability for children, the elderly, and the disabled.
Don't conflate NLP with pop psychology. Willpower or The Marshmallow Effect or even Thinking, Fast and Slow are pop psychology. NLP is overt psuedoscience that has never had any basis in fact.
The school system and the community are not the same body. The community is all the people who live there. The school system is the administrators, teachers, & bureaucrats that run the schools.
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I think it's because they need a repo before they can start collaborating, so it's best to set it up ASAP to allow people to start pushing code. In my opinion it also helps to set up the initial repo right away so you can benefit from version control features and be in the mindset of making proper commits instead of a huge initial commit that appears out of thin air.
Hah! We play this game in the office. "Any new Space Shuttle program would cost like 0.25 <our company name>s"
Good points. I started with ClojureScript earlier this year and I agree with your article. But for me ClojureScript is still much better option than staying in JavaScript land. Performance will be solved over time with faster machines (I've purchased high-end iMac recently, so I don't feel such pain :-). Workflows for incremental compilation like Figwheel also help a lot. And I think there is a great promise that tooling will evolve quickly.

I'm the author of cljs-devtools. I think for development it is perfectly fine to use Chrome Canary. Also I would recommend you to check out this article: https://github.com/binaryage/cljs-devtools/wiki/Figwheel-REP....

My public projects so far:

https://github.com/binaryage/cljs-devtools

https://github.com/binaryage/chromex

https://github.com/darwin/plastic

https://github.com/darwin/faceboard

https://github.com/binaryage/pure-frame
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well, the designers at apple get a lot more credit is what i mean... but that is one aspect of the beauty of their marketting.

i guess if they got the credit it wouldn't work so well. :)
Off topic, but tools left inside patients is common enough to be in the "risks we try to avoid" category. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retained_surgical_instruments
Naaah. That would be ok. The problem comes when this technology gets too cheap and people decide they want to live longer than they are supposed to. Same problem with stem cells. The elite can do whatever they want with this stuff. It's the masses adopting it that is troublesome.