skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When there are no cars, the strategy is to simply drop them from high onto a hard surface (such as a road). They always fly off with their nuts when I try to help though..
Don't blame yourself
Amusingly, the reason that NIH uses FTP, rather than HTTP, for bulk genome file transport is that because in the old, old days, one PI (professor with a grant) was running an old version of IE which couldn't download files larger than 2GB. They had a lot of trouble with file corruption and because the PI was "important" NIH hasn't really moved to an HTTP content distribution method. Mirroring the NIH FTP servers was always a huge pain.
It also has some other benefits, where you can service traffic coming from different directions. When you drive on the highway and get off on an exit to get gas, most of the time you'll stop at the one on your side of the road so it's easier to get back on the highway. You also avoid having to make traffic modifications to deal with the queue of cars trying to make a left into the Starbucks.
New Achewood after 20 months of silence
Wow... For perspective, gnome-calculator[1] is 648KB and works fine with 17281580835365214242.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Calculator
My favorite is open the "About Internet Explorer" box. Now try and select the version number. You can't. So if you want to submit a bug report to Microsoft, which needs a version number, you have to carefully manually tediously type in that 20 digit or so string.

Madness.
I think this is terribly, painfully ironic. It's arguing that Americans are living closer to home in order to support their aging elders.

18 Miles is not close!!! That's a commute. You have to commute to see your mother, or for her to see her grandchildren. I haven't traveled far and wide. But based on the few places I have been this is bizarre and unhealthy.
In West Africa, parents either live with you or a few doors down. A few miles away at most, always within walking distance.
I think this is the broad case across the planet and in human history.
I also think it's way healthier.
>not in-line, instead a different "tab" hiding the data entry controls

You can resize calculator window to be wider, so history and memory tabs will became sidebar.
The compromise of the master key for TSA locks is a great example to give people, because everyone is familiar with locks. It demonstrates that all it takes is one person with access to the back door to screw up a little, and then everyone is less secure.

https://theintercept.com/2015/09/17/tsa-doesnt-really-care-l...
Why not just move somewhere with arable land?
You're right, urxvt refreshes at a maximum of 60Hz (line 1021 in http://cvs.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/src/command.C?view=markup). Above, I mistakenly measured only urxvt. Rxvt does a select() with a timeout of 5ms before redrawing (lines 1600 and 1664 in "src/command.c"). The total latency with rxvt is about 5.7ms.
>I have to wonder how effective those heavy-handed episodes of Family Matters or Home Improvement were.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bflYjF90t7c

Never doing drugs again.
A local user group?
Mark Zukerberg donated $100 million to Newark Schools, which I think is helping economically backward students. Internet penetration in US is huge, and there are several subsidies in place esp. in urban areas. Internet connectivity problems in US are mostly for rural and geographically distant locations. So comparing US vs India especially based on per KB costs does not give complete picture and MZ, told again again the mission of facebook is "connecting people" (that was nokia's tag line ;D )

There are full page ads in India for all sorts of things. Damn, if shell enough money, they would put a full page ad about my post in Hacker News. NYT and WaPo are in a different ball park, but they too at times are open to full page ads, what is illegal about that?
And where are the jobs?
From the License Agreement: [1]
Installation and use. you may install and use the Software on a single computer, such as a workstation, terminal or other device, residing on your premises that is running a validly licensed copy of either Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Server 2003.

Woo, Breaking the law. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L397TWLwrUU

1. http://imgur.com/bfOKbIf
And as soon as the crows understand the way to do it, their development will accelerate drastically too.
'Twas the Night Before Startup (1985)
Anyone have thoughts on keyboard switch type?

http://xahlee.info/kbd/keyboard_switch_mechanisms.html

Most keyboards (rubber dome, scissor) require the user to press a key to the bottom (i.e. A hard stop). Mechanical keyboards (e.g. spring, MX Cherry) register a keypress part way down. Cherry Blues, for example, have a pronounced sound and tactile feedback. Do these features make people better typist?
If you have 8GB RAM, you should be okay to upgrade. I'm running 10.11 on my 2009 MBP, works fine.
> investing all out efforts into ever-more-toxic clickbait.

Toxic clickbait is an investment with a substantial and proven return. What is the revenue model for effectively scaling communities? Users will presumably demand it for free and be averse to advertising.
> The end state is fairly obvious - every light, every doorknob will be connected to the internet.

Why does my doorknob need to be connected to the internet? Does my fork need to be connected to the internet as well? How about my shelf? Or my towel?

And if they are connected to the internet, who is collecting that data? Is it secure? What will it be used for?
You can use an HP48G emulator either on your computer or on your android phone.
And city dwellers don't have to pay for a car.
Of course we can help. Let's start making sites promoting a 50/50 sex distribution in all the mines! Let's convince Google and Facebook to finance "mining girls" programs, both inside and outside schools. Let's start shaming male miners for being males and discriminate against them when hiring!

What can possibly go wrong?
People who need a "degrees" mode (instead of radians) shouldn't be using a calculator anyway.
> You don't know if the future will be like the past. (...) But somehow investors are almost blind to everything other than recent return.

Maybe because I come from the "wrong" side of the Berlin Wall, but as a guy who was only a kid when he saw a thing that was supposed to last forever (i.e. Communism) fall to pieces in less than a year it always surprises me when I see these predictions made for 20-30-40 years in the future, all promising a 5% or 7% return like there won't be any new World War, any new nationalizations on a continental scale (see Russia after 1917 or China after 1945) or no new Spanish Flu.
I prefer this C-style arbitrary precision calculator rather than bc.

http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/
and infinite precision fractions!
I've been told before that it's not breaking the law, just the agreement between you and the company, which could result in a civil, but not criminal case :-)
> Why does my doorknob need to be connected to the internet?

Burglary perhaps.

> Or my towel?

Germs data collection perhaps.

> And if they are connected to the internet, who is collecting that data?

Whoever you authorize it to, perhaps.

> Is it secure?

I doubt it will be 100% secure.
It's likely that none of those "need" (by any definition) to have a chip or be connected to the internet, but that doesn't mean that they won't or that you won't find a lot of utility and/or joy in the fact that they do.

As to your questions - great questions, and the answers will be great opportunities to start/grow companies. "Who is collecting the data" and "is it secure" already are, "what will it be used for" will be in 5-10 years.
Great idea. This is your jailbroken old Android phone with Cyanogenmod and Python running in a Terminal.
Same here (mid 2009 mbp), and mine seems to be running quite a bit better on 10.11 than it did on 10.10 too.
The weirdest languages (2013)
They now have Cyber Monday on Amazon though!

Also there is a New Years Sale tradition that is very similar to Black Friday with the mad rushes for bargain items, fights for items (often women for clothing), "good luck bags" which is basically a lottery for trying to get lucky with the jackpot items, etc.
I just messed around with it, and it appears to treat the 64-bit word as signed, and refuses to go past 0x7FF... So I figured I'd do some subtraction, but that just always answers with the same 0x7FF... value. Weird indeed, that it allows you to access everything above 0x800... in hex mode, but not in decimal mode.
Well, skimming the vulnerabilities [1] didn't really see anything too interesting. Consider this "eval_remote" vulnerability:

var e = require("express");
var DVNA = e();
DVNA.get('/', function(req, res) {
var res = eval("("+req.query.e+")");
res.send('Parameter eval():<br> ' + res);
});
DVNA.listen(6666);

Yes, if you eval your requests that is a vulnerability, but it is a trivial one. I was expecting some side-channel esoteric stuff that, reading the code, you wouldn't necessarily see the problem.

1 - https://github.com/quantumfoam/DVNA/tree/master/vulnerabilit...
Goes to show that you can be mobile friendly even with table based layouts! This is one argument against that I heard.
The worst thing is that they got rid of all the "worksheets" that the Windows 7 calculator shipped with. I'm looking at houses now, I sorely miss the mortgage payment worksheet that was built into the Windows 7 calculator.
Great to see this quantified! My pet peeve is laggy interfaces. I'm not surprised to see Atom on there, because browsers do seem to have a big problem with this. Ubuntu seems to have a big problem with this too, e.g. in the native "gedit".

Back in the Ubuntu 4.0 days (2006 or so), the default terminal was really slow. I didn't really know how to use Linux then, so I would SSH into with Putty on Windows, and use the terminal/Vim that way. This was actually more responsive than a local terminal!

Does anyne else feel a sense of raw power when they switch to a native terminal (Ctrl-Alt-F1) ... ?
Why String Theory Is Not A Scientific Theory
That's because you might think designing hardware is as easy as coding software. There's a world of difference. ;)

Decent intro to ASIC design with FPGA comparison and a pricing chart to illustrate the high costs:

https://www.u-cursos.cl/ingenieria/2010/2/EL653/1/material_d...

Note that the tooling that makes this possible, esp design synthesis, can run to $1+ million per user per year. Some are merely upper 5-digits to lower 6-digits. Really inexpensive. Mask costs have come down for older nodes in recent years because fab equpiment is finally paid off. Yet, you're still talking millions for a full SOC with modern features. And it will be slow as hell because it's on old stuff if it's a CPU.

That the market demands more speed, more functions, less power, etc is why they keep dropping to smaller node sizes. Each one adds new effects that try to break the chip. The electrons even tend to leak out of the transistors. Can't even assume they'll stay in them haha. Actually, from what I've read, it appears chips are broken all over on latest nodes with lots of logic there just to correct that. Here's an example of the crap they have to do at 28nm, which isn't cutting-edge anymore:

http://electronicdesign.com/digital-ics/understanding-28-nm-...

So, you need specialists that make big $$$, $1+ million in EDA tools, mask costs at millions a set per trial, and other stuff like boards (regularly 6 digits on kickstarter). That's for an ASIC. An FPGA's design flow ends at the RTL simulation part, has no mask costs, free to cheap EDA, and often has pre-made boards you can use. Price you pay is lower-than-ASIC performance, higher watts, and very-high per unit price. Still a better deal on lots of systems plus can be converted to a hybrid later (see eASIC Nextreme).

Hope that clears up why one would choose a FPGA over an ASIC. All that said, the difficulties they're facing in this case is largely due to choice to stay on Intel, Xen, and other difficult-to-secure crap. If one forgoes those software, then one can use Cobham-Gaisler's SPARC SOC's since they're designed for easy modification & already at quad-core. Academics made many secure CPU's out of his stuff. Just gotta license it, modify it, and run it through later parts of ASIC flow. FPGA still cheaper, but you can FPGA it too. :)
> To put it technically, he was delta hedged but not vega hedged.

Delta, the first partial derivative on price of the Black-Scholes model of option pricing [1], is the rate at which the price of an option changes in relation to the price of the underlying asset. For example, a call option with delta=0.25 requires one own 1 unit of the underlying for every 4 options (keeping things simple) to be perfectly hedged, i.e. indifferent to changes in the price of the underlying. If you are running a leveraged operation, delta-hedged means well-hedged.

Unfortunately, as the price of the underlying changes delta changes. Yes, one can describe this relationship in terms of volatility (as the price changes, volatility will spike, which in turn feeds into the value of delta). But it is simpler to describe it in terms of the second partial derivative on price, gamma. Gamma is the rate at which delta changes in respect of price.

Non-derivative assets are delta=1 assets; for every dollar change in the price of AAPL the price of AAPL changes one dollar. Duh. Buying and selling delta=1 products helps one hedge delta. Gamma, being a second derivative, is non-linear. That means only non-linear products will aid you in your game against it. Options, and option-like products, are really the only ones with "gammaness".

Big operations gamma hedge as much as they can while trying to keep their delta contained. For example, if you sell 100 puts, you would keep yourself delta-hedged while you try to profitably buy 100 puts. Provided the price doesn't wiggle around too much, this works.

This strategy is problematic, however, if your counterparty is Mexico. Mexico wants LOTS of options. If you can't give Mexico LOTS of options, Mexico can't bother dealing with you. So you tend to want to provide Mexico with LOTS of options because LOTS of options commonly means LOTS of profits (and LOTS of fees).

But the market doesn't have a bunch of people buying and selling LOTS of options. Just lots of options. So whereas one might usually be 20 or 50 or 70 percent gamma-hedged, when one just booked LOTS of options, 2% seems like a pretty good rate for the first week after the sale. Sucks to be you if Libya or Iran or the Sauds decide crash the party in that time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black–Scholes_model
Not related to calculator but the Skype for business application refuses to send anything over 800 characters to the other party. Whenever I run into this (mostly while copy pasting chunks of code or long URLs to colleagues), I curse the engineers/product owners who put that stupid limitation. I mean WTF were they thinking when they put it in there anyway ? It's not a frigging SMS for crying out loud.

PS: One can right click and send the same message as a story and get upto 8k in length but that just shows how stupid the entire workflow is.
And a memorable sunset.
Don't forget Romania :-)
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/aircel-to-...

There are better ways of giving out Internet for free. By giving out slower internet. Or internet with a free data cap. Or a way of "earning" Internet data after watching some ads (see: Grameenphone in Bangladesh). I'd somewhat agree with the "Some Internet is better than No internet" argument, except that there are better ways of doing the "some Internet" which Facebook isn't doing.

> why not facebook provide free internet access to poor.

Facebook isn't even paying for the data in Free Basics. The telecom operators are (I assume their business plan is to get more people hooked onto the Internet so eventually more customers for them. A valid plan.). They can use the same business plan (in a net neutral way) for the slower internet or internet with a data cap options; and I believe that's what Aircel is doing.

(Aside: When you look at it this way it becomes even more obvious how devious Facebook is here -- without putting in money of their own to finance the actual data, they, a third party, jumped in and convinced telecom operators to enact a scheme which Facebook has a lot of control over despite not being the primary financers of the scheme. They get lots of credit and lots of control, without actually doing anything. When framed this way the parallels with the Brits' takeover of India seem a lot more real.)

And really, the "no access" part of your argument isn't really well founded either. For most, data plan costs aren't the barrier to internet access (in fact, a smartphone capable of working with the modern internet[1] is more expensive than a few years' worth of basic data).

[1]: Fun fact: Facebook's mobile app evolves pretty fast and becomes unusable on older phones either due to browser compatibility, OS compatibility, or speed issues. Same with many other sites and apps.
Anything emulating a particular handheld calculator will also be better than the trashy default calculator applications that are just a steaming pile of skeuomorphism.
Excellent question that gets right to the crux of the issue
It isn't realistic to think that this will drive any noticeable amount of proxying/tunneling traffic. Not even close to realistic.
There's seems to be an emulator for everything these days. This is not the point. A physical calculator (and not a touch-screen app on a tablet) has something that the surrogate doesn't.

For one thing it does not require you to do GUI context switching. It does not compete for mouse (or keyboard) with the other tens of open programs. I find this invaluable.

On the other hand, touch screens take away tactile feedback. This gives the same bland taste as the soft power-off switches.
>a Western corporation trying to aggressively meddle in India has an unhappy precedent.

Are you referring to the East India Company as the linked article does? Please be clear, I am not familiar enough with Indian history, and I've seen no-one else bring it up on this page.
salivating to know what the number is.. enough to retire, apparently
The report of scientific findings: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151222/ncomms9880/full/nco...
> India is already cheap enough to be near the cost of a phone

Indians are very frugal, if they bought the phone, then that's the end of it. They won't even spend a single penny to buy the Internet.. Only way is to give it for free and let them experience the usefulness and long term effect.

How to give for free? That's up for debate.
How to Talk to Your Parents About Encryption7
Santa is Satan, but why?
GeoIPs aren't 100% reliable - there's a small but non-negligible chance that geolocating your IP will place you in a different country than you're actually in. When faced with the choice between accidentally censoring legitimate content that you have a right to see vs. accidentally letting you see content that is banned in your country, Google would much rather let you accidentally see the banned stuff.
Christmas pudding means a kind of very rich soft cake you pour brandy over and set on fire for effect.

US pudding is called custard in the UK.

Now you'll be amazed what they think pants are.
As an Aperture/iPhoto/Lightroom user, there _is_ a perfectly viable way to test this out. First, find your iPhoto library, then copy it to an external drive. then, attempt the iPhoto upgrade. iPhoto libraries are self-contained, as are aperture libraries, so you can very easily duplicate folders. I suggest you run a library rebuild through iPhoto before copying it, and if you want to be extra sure, I also suggest moving it with a utility that can tell you if certain files have errors while copying. In the past, I have found Ditto to be pretty good for this.

I did this recently, as every few months I take a complete copy of my aperture library and migrate it to an external drive which I keep off-site at a friends house. He, in turn keeps his library at mine. The overall point is that iPhoto > photos is fairly trivial to test it out, and see how it works for you. (PS. this is even easier if you have enough space to just duplicate the drive in-place. If you do that, though, I still recommend library rebuild before duplicating.)
FYI, I just upgraded my MacPro1,1 from Snow Leopard to El Capitan (very non-trivial requiring a custom boot file.) I wanted to run a bunch of music software that never got past PPC, so I needed to keep Snow Leopard around. It turns out the easiest solution is to buy Snow Leopard server from Apple. Parellels and Fusion allow it to be virtualized, and it can still be purchased new from Apple for $20. Because I bought it right around Black Friday, I got it with free two day shipping. You have to call them as its not on the online store, and it helps to know the part number, but it's still for sale.
This is interesting, but plan B has appeared by the FDA with no age restrictions or prescription in 2013 and the effects they analyse are from 2009-2010. The demand for it might be well driven by partly by "16 and pregnant".

Now if only MTV could make a show "16 with an STD", American teens might start using condoms as much as European kids.
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It's okay we'll have artisan "analog" doorknobs that we can pay 5x for.
>The problem is once you've tried this "impure" method there is no turning back. Once an ISP finds out they can offer some apps free but make other apps count towards data usage, the whole nature of the internet changes.

No it doesn't. There used to be free WhatsApp + Facebook/Twitter access over 3G/GSM here in Brazil for a year or so, NOTHING changed, except the poor could communicate with their friends for free and people spent less. Then came net neutrality* and now people have to pay to STILL only use social networks to communicate, like they did before the free plans and like they'll keep doing. Get a bus here and all you see people doing is chatting via WhatsApp or Messenger, even though they can access whatever they want for the same price.

As some other commenter mentioned, NN crusaders frequently seem like people who can afford data plans and have no contact with reality on a moral crusade about something they have no idea how it would or wouldn't work IRL.

* there are still some plans where you get "free WhatsApp", but you have to pay for the plan itself and the "free Whatsapp" part has something to do with your data cap ending and still being able to use services with low bandwidth.
In another 20 years, I imagine those 'physical items' to include human beings too.
Algorithms need managers, too
The cake is so you have something to cry into at home if you're single.
All these points don't seem unsolvable problems to me. The only failure was to abandon the project before it had it's chance out in the world.
Well, git's "did you mean" is probably the most frustrating command line experience imaginable, but it's quite nice in a language!