skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the idea is brilliant! But the purpose of my source code is to use "real-time" gif images in mail clients. Unfortunately, videlalvaro's solution is only possible for mail clients which support loading images from its original source. Google loads the images from their proxy, which downloads the images first. It DOES re-download each image at the moment you re-open the e-mail message, but it won't make it possible to manipulate the images real-time. I've tested it. It does work in clients like outlook, cause outlook shows the images from its original source, but gmail doesn't. So sending a gif image with a certain amount of frames is better, in my opinion.
Performance insight into the upcoming release of PHP 7
I dislike Microsoft in general, but I believe you can accomplish this with SQL server easier than other SQL databases. SQL CLR and your own defined types. Maybe you could even go as far as using some dynamic types with ExpandoObject to have fully dynamic lamda expressions on the columns, however I dont know how well this would perform.
The US is still in the top "energy use per capita" countries.

Of course it is, the US is responsible for a huge percent of the world's output. How could you create things without energy?
I think its the teachers job to earn the students' respect, by not only being a role model but also demonstrating genuine interest in the topic they are teaching. I think that when I show how deeply I love the topic I'm teaching, it rubs off on the students and they go along with it.

Also, you seem to be arguing from the perspective of what is rather than what ought to be. I'm arguing for a shift in perspective where teacher competence and enthusiasm and high expectations of students isn't something special or extra, but rather the norm.
> The lack of a before/after demo.

See the graphs here: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgzNDA

We also have various real-world performance demos showing that, for certain workloads, parallelism results in measurable FPS wins. I haven't wanted to get on stage and publicize them at this point, because it's early. But we do have them.

> What, specifically, were the performance goals then?

I wasn't involved with the design of flexbox, but I didn't see performance as the main goal. Rather, the goal was to make "springs and struts"-style UI layout easy to use, because simulating it in CSS2 had bad ergonomics. Performance wins, if anything, would be relative to doing all of the layout manually in JavaScript, not relative to the CSS2 primitives.

Historically, relatively little attention has been paid to layout performance at all. The main performance wars have concerned DOM performance and JavaScript. (Look at what Dromaeo tests, for example.)

> Link?

I don't have time to create an actual demo for the specific thing you're asking for, but I've done many similar tests. Animating transforms will achieve 60FPS.
I tried to casually walk down the Pre aisle at SFO a couple weeks ago and the TSA agent correctly assessed my ineligibility. I think it gets encoded into your boarding pass.
Ah, convenient. As of this privacy impact assessment update, you can waste significantly more of their time. ;)
I pasted a url into the big ole' search bar on the front page, and it took me to the IA.

I can see how that's confusing, though, since it's a different use case than what we associate them as having.
I remember that, and that also greatly concerns me. I can be held by the TSA solely for being concerned for my or my wife's wellbeing.

Disclaimer: I'm not a nutjob. I completely understand the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation. I simply don't believe enough research has gone into terahertz imaging, and don't believe I'll have any recourse against the US government (based on their track record) in the event its proven to have negative health effects in the future.
You were part of "managed inclusion" in TSA Pre(check).
When you are asked to sign a non-compete agreement, or agreement to use binding arbitration where no such agreement was in place before.

When your supervisor isn't interested in keeping you busy.

When suppliers call you instead of accounts payable because no one in accounts payable is answering the phone.

When you can't get approval from the top for ANY large purchase requisition.

When the VP of HR is extremely busy just before really bad quarterly results are announced.

When the CEO of a California-based Corporation is overheard in the hallway bitching about onerous employment laws.

When there are lots of unfamiliar people walking around the place in suits, and a lot of closed door meetings.
When do we start panicking: Bacteria that resist 'last antibiotic' found
I can't believe that I was an adult when I first learned that seasons are not universal, and I don't mean that July is winter in Australia but summer in Europe. I mean like how in Mali, there are three seasons: the wet (rainy) season from June to mid-December, the dry season from mid-December to March, and a hot season from March to June. The epiphany I experienced was kind of like the one I had during a software engineering class, an exercise in internationalization where students had to write a program that took people's names as an input (which turns out to be quite complicated). It always amazes me how many unexamined assumptions our minds make about how the world works, and it always surprises me when I run into one.
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Mocking obvious logical fallacies and contradictions is an easy way to condemn religion as a farce, and religious people as being hypocrites at best, or imbeciles at worst. It signals intellectual superiority on the part of the skeptical in-group.
I'm not saying the racism the author has experienced is right, it sucks, it's wrong, and I actually know how he feels because I have had similar experiences with race in my own life. But I have read A LOT of arguments on HN trying to downplay or outright deny racism in tech, when that black engineering leader at Twitter quit, and for the combative white people there, who seemed to refuse to deny that racism existed here, but sympathize with this white guy here, let me ask you this:

Why should sushi restaurants lower their standards and let this white guy into their established restaurant, just for the sake of diversity? Sushi restaurants are all for equality, but we would never want them to lower their standards and serve lower quality food right? Also, if this white guy really wants to get in, he needs to change his culture. That laziness, loudness, and lack of respect for tradition will never get him anywhere in the sushi world.
thats creepy, what if i don't want to be on that database :/
If you don't want to provide clearbit with additional information (e.g. location), it might be useful to remove yourself with this link via a VPN or hide.me
Here are the rest of the links:

https://github.com/watson/ipp-encoder

https://github.com/watson/printcat

http://printb.in
That was probably the precheck lane. They send randos through it every once in a while. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be a sales pitch or if controlling the lines plays into it.

I have precheck and have never seen a dog there, but I've randomly gotten swabbed for explosives a few times.
They are effective at getting people to falsely believe that they are effective.

"Look! It's a 'scanner' just like on Star Track! 'Bet they can detect anything with one of those!"
> I thought you would have been thoughtful enough to follow the rest of the discussion to get the missing pieces of my argument.

I didn't take the time, this time. I let your words to me stand on their own, and they weren't standing up very well. I repeatedly asked, and you didn't clarify some of the apparently very important nuances of your view point.

> Data does not predict anything.

That's ridiculous.

The entire history of science has been gathering data, and making predictions. The predictive power of science is ASTOUNDING. Even without a deeper understanding of the underlying mechanisms. Newton and Keppler invented formulas that fit the data they had at hand, and the predictions they made were uncanny, even though they didn't understand the actual forces that were creating those phenomena.

> How do you know this?

By answering the phone call when soup kitchens were desperate for donations, by helping my family when they were stocking, by volunteering my own time and money when I had the spare time and money, and by looking at the other people who were similarly stocking the shelves.

Sure, it's anecdotal.

> I do enjoy it.

If you enjoy it, then please refrain from the negative comments ("the very way you think about wealth is utterly silly"). I doubt they increase your enjoyment, and they negatively impacted mine.
can anyone explain how they might be getting all that data from the email in an automated fashion?
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I don't understand how "in that sense" qualifies the meaning differently. That does "that sense" refer to exactly?
Some of the entries in the table (e.g. Redis) seem to have nothing to do with Hadoop.
I'm curious to hear from a SaaS which moved from a public to a non-public pricing (or vice-versa). Why did you do it? Did it work better?
Context: I work for a professional services firm. We sell, implement and customize enterprise software for large organizations, including public universities.

We NEVER provide pricing upfront. This is despite the fact that our software vendors have their prices listed clearly on their pricesheets. We know the price of a user license. But the first time our clients see the price is after we've performed our due diligence, learned the ins and outs of their business, and are sitting in front of their C-level people presenting the final proposal along with the Scope of Work document that outlines implementation details.

The reason we don't provide prices upfront is because it commoditizes the software and therefore our skills and services. It encourages clients to do an extremely shallow feature-by-feature comparison of the competing products. Doing that makes sense when purchasing commodities such as toothpaste or laundry detergent. You can look at two products at the shelf, compare their features, and go with the one that you think is better based on the messaging on the package ("25% more whitening power!"). But enterprise software is not like that. It is very complex and the price of the software is often only a small part of the final price, which is frankly unknown at the start of the engagement. That's why me giving you pricing information wouldn't help you one bit (in fact it could make you look bad to your superiors when the final price is several times higher than what you gave them originally).

Here's the thing: most of our clients LIKE the fact that we don't discuss price upfront. They understand that software is a different beast, and its value is dependent upon how well it fits into and/or can be molded into the needs of the business. Only very inexperienced purchasers push us for price, and over the years we've found ways of disarming or at least sidestepping them.

The bottom line is that companies who provide price upfront end up competing on price. And history has shown us that that's a race to the bottom.
lol. been to some Chinese village cor a holiday and became a China expert.
The honest answer is, probably not.

One could argue that there is possible danger in satire if it makes the target seem less threatening, or allows the audience to become more comfortable with the presence of the system being ridiculed. But that effect, if it exists, is probably minor.
My colleague, Ed, wrote a post about B2B SaaS pricing pages a little earlier this year: https://blog.chartmogul.com/2015/05/b2b-saas-pricing/.
I came here through a mention on the http://www.JoelOnSoftware.com Business Of Software forum. I unfortunately missed the party there and it was already dying down when I started reading the forum on a regular basis.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10773843
Probably an accurate statement. My understanding is the Chinese method of resource aquisition is to ship skilled Chinese workers over to extract them whereas the States tend to send over money and let it work itself out.
Do you have a source for this? Have all US airports upgraded to the "no pic" technology?
Same, I always check every line difference when I commit
There's not a 100% correlation with low temps and being far north. The Seattle area is as far north as most of Minnesota, and our winters are nothing like theirs (record low here is 0F - Seatac 1950) and it's typically overcast and 45F.
> See the graphs here: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgzNDA

That's not what I'm asking for. You're pointing to low-level metrics and I'm asking for high-level examples of things not achievable today that Servo will enable.

> I don't have time to create an actual demo for the specific thing you're asking for, but I've done many similar tests. Animating transforms will achieve 60FPS.

Understandable, well I know there are many such widgets on the web and I've never come across one that fits my requirements. Maybe they are all doing things as slowly as possible, but I doubt it.
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Thank you sir! That is revealing and informative.

Keep up the good work :)
Now they just use millimeter wave machines, which have the body outlines only.

Do you have a source for this? And have all US airports upgraded to this "body outlines only" technology?
There needs to be a way to get a sense of a company’s values
Seatac they will check your boarding pass.
Was that policy decision worth it? Well according to
http://www.globalissues.org/article/4/poverty-around-the-wor...
"""
Accounting for the increased population between 1981 and 2005, the poverty rate has, however, fallen by about 25%.

While this at least sounds encouraging, it masks regional variations, and perhaps most glaringly the impact of China:

China’s poverty rate fell from 85% to 15.9%, or by over 600 million people
China accounts for nearly all the world’s reduction in poverty
Excluding China, poverty fell only by around 10%
"""

There has indeed been a tradeoff with pollution here which they need to fix. However, I don't see why income inequality is a problem here. If you are starting from massive amounts of extreme poverty, then how would you possibly alleviate that without making some people wealthy?
It's ironic this article was written in record-breakingly warm December (in the Eastern United States).
Google has a state sponsored actors warning. I received it a few years ago, a red bar across the top of GMail.

So I turned on two factor auth and the warnings stopped.

I wish I knew which state and why my account was being attacked? I'm guessing it was not a specific attack but perhaps the attacker was trying credentials found in some other breach.

Considering that Google cooperates with the USG, I'd guess that it was some state other than the US, but who knows. I'm not aware of having done anything that would be of concern to any government.
Reading comments is good too
Their customers stop sending them money? Would probably shut down most operations pretty quickly.
Odd, I'm getting completely different MD5s from the three example images.

~ curl -s https://blog.cloudflare.com/content/images/2015/08/white.jpg | md5

ccf22bc377846166ed65cd3cd58d2e3d

~ curl -s https://blog.cloudflare.com/content/images/2015/08/brown.jpg | md5

810cac197d97da7b216c7883be523495

~ curl -s https://blog.cloudflare.com/content/images/2015/08/black.jpg | md5

6bede506abffe08d0c2406d92fbff393
managed inclusion ended at the beginning of september.
I guess singling out 4 floor walk-ups as something we need more of kind of muddles the point. The scale of the current crop of new apartment buildings is often measured horizontally.. The trend in development these days, in my neighborhood at least, is for developers to scoop up as large a parcel as they can get their hands on, demolish it and build a very large mixed-use complex. Most of them span at least a quarter of a block. Newly constructed smaller buildings get built only when the lot size doesn't fit much else.

Increasing density around transit accessible hub areas is a strategy championed by city planners these days, with somewhat good intentions. I just don't think anyone has really thought through what happens when entire neighborhoods are dominated by massive mixed-use condo buildings. What happens if these areas lose property value? What form does a contemporary condo complex take when blight sets in 20 years from now?
$ curl -s https://blog.cloudflare.com/content/images/2015/08/white.jpg | md5
ccf22bc377846166ed65cd3cd58d2e3d
$ curl -s https://blog.cloudflare.com/content/images/2015/08/brown.jpg | md5
810cac197d97da7b216c7883be523495
$ curl -s https://blog.cloudflare.com/content/images/2015/08/black.jpg | md5
6bede506abffe08d0c2406d92fbff393

Let me guess, the CloudFlare CDN is recompressing the images? :D
Do you base this on something?
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Based on other comments, the info is bought off Clearbit. You can opt out here: https://claim.clearbit.com/claim
Working fine for me
>if I'd played my cards right, I could've been drawing unemployment for my first year at college.

What state was this in? That is certainly illegal in California, and I would assume most states, though people do get away with defrauding the system.
C++, Java, Groovy, C#, Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, Smalltalk, Objective-C, *86 Assembly, and played around with Go, Swift, Lisp and Haskell

oh, and Visual Basic!!!

I didn't say JavaScript is all anyone needs for every situation, just that it's great imo.
Many people attempt this ad-hoc through the inflight beverage service.
It doesn't matter whether they are dangerous or not. The fourth amendment is clear. The US Code 18-242 makes it a crime for them to search you, a felony if they are armed.

The idea that the TSA has the "Right" to do what it does, but that expecting the US government to obey the law makes you a "nut job" is what's really nuts.
I didn't realize just how much I relied on Zite until it was gone. I tried to launch it several times a day in the week after it was turned off.

If anything, Flipboard has taught me that the UI of flipping pages is best left to physical magazines, where each page can have enough information density to make it worthwhile. Maybe the flipboard flip action works better on a tablet; but on a phone I can't bring myself to use it, no matter how much of Zite's technology they fold in.
Poverty stunts IQ in the US but not in other developed countries
Independent of the general problem of security theater, are you actually concerned about electromagnetic-based scanning on pregnant women? All the ionizing radiation-based scanners were (somewhat ironically) moved to prisons about two years ago: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/banned-airport-full-body... Unless you're concerned about wi-fi and cellular signals affecting pregnancy, you probably don't need to stay up worrying about millimeter-wave scanners.
been looking for something like this to control Nvidia Shield and my Android phone from the laptop. Teamviewer seems to be popular, was hoping Splashtop would offer something.

Will give Vysor a go - is it tethered only?
CISA is a terrible bill and not a solution to this problem. Security teams have been able to manage this data on their own for years without government intervention.

There have always been other methods for determining if an attacker is state sponsored. One example: Seeing your account, and a number of dissident or activists being attacked from a block of IPs or similar password attempts, probably means the attack is state sponsored.

That being said, in security, attribution is a very hard problem, and the methods used to determine state sponsored attacks are also quite hard to design.

There's a reason why companies won't elaborate on how they do this, but it is usually a combination of login/account intelligence and threat feeds.
Wow I never knew such a thing existed. I wish I could sign up, this is amazing!
Safari user here, not noticing any scroll highjacking currently. Thank you. Your web site still does other awful things, but at least you've banished the most obnoxious, most instantly-want-to-close-the-tab sin.
The article seems a bit simplistic in the way it draws conclusions. Still I wonder why so many companies picked the most counterintuitive solution.

Edit: I've come to believe that enterprise customers are likely to have different, more strict requirements compared to SMB customers. This is probably why, for enterprise sales, it could make more sense to approach the pricing part in a more traditional way.
It's programmable.
The hassle of a 2 hour flight is no longer "cheaper" than a 7 hour drive. I didn't even think about flying this holiday... never even looked up the prices. I know it would be monetarily cheaper, but I can't abide the abuse.
They said they don't generate or store images period, which is at best misleading. It might not generate or store a commonly used image format, but it's still an imaging machine. The machine generates images or it's pure security theater. Either way they are attempting to deceive people and they shouldn't be trusted. (doubly so since previous claims that they don't store images is a proven lie)
I'm not going to deny that at all lol.
Not an exhaustive search, but there doesn't seem to be a definitive source that explains that all machines have been replaced, however the TSA has laid out the timetable for June 1, 2013, and that all machines were to be removed by Rapidscan at their own expense.

http://blog.tsa.gov/2013/01/rapiscan-backscatter-contract.ht...
We've spent several years trying to get pregnant, and had to resort to several rounds of IVF before success. Yes, minimally researched terahertz body scanners that are mandatory for travel keep me up.
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I'm curious what they did to make you uncomfortable? Aside from some pissed off grumbling it usually doesn't elicit much of a response.
Hey it looks like some "kids" are in their 30s. eg: "Maja, 34"

What's going on there?
I agree that there hasn't been enough research on terahertz X-ray scanners. The kind of justification they used wouldn't be enough to get a PhD. There's no call to put the health of millions of people on the line with that level of carelessness.
Did you intentionally obfuscate your code?
Really? I call the process "molestation" and refer to the goons as "kiddie-fondlers" in every day conversation, but honestly I've never been uncomfortable with how they've actually touched me. I don't particularly want to be touched, but maybe my violation meter has already been pegged by the larger process or maybe I'm just happy to finally get through the obvious-target-of-next-false-flag chokepoint and interact with someone closer to being a human. Or maybe SFO is different due to having privatized thugs plus SF, uh, customs.
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I have a fairly unique last name, which is in my email address.

So far two dead relatives that never really used the internet have been "marketing matched" to my email address. So I get spam for my deceased grandmother and uncle. Its a little jarring. I'm not sure what kind of matching they do but clearly its not working.

Plus isn't the point of using a service being able to decide to match it with twitter, Facebook or just not link to those things.
Why do you question it's subjectivity? Do you have any metrics you would use to measure it objectively?

I would argue that any task can be done with creativity, even working on a production line in a factory.