skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- I have over 100 different apps on my phone. I have over 1000 online accounts. That's too much to manage. I want just one.

- I want financial independence so that I can stop worrying and start living.

- I want to get rid of all physical possessions. I don't want to own a house, a car, a fridge, food, a phone, clothes. I just want to get these things on demand, as needed. When I no longer need them, they disappear.

Basically, I don't want to have to think and worry about stuff that doesn't matter. I want freedom. I want a constant "My mind like water" state.
Unfortunately, the Web Crypto API doesn't automatically get you safe cryptography either. It was added by the W3C to allow video vendors to implement content DRM in pure Javascript rather than requiring plugins, and so it includes a great deal of legacy crypto.

Long story short, you need an expert in cryptography to design this for you, whether or not you use WebCrypto.

This isn't something you should take risks with. It would be better to advertise a decentralized social network with NO CRYPTOGRAPHY (which is what this essentially is) than to say it has "cryptography that hasn't been audited" (which most users won't distinguish from real crypography).
Thank you for having some real concerns with the language.

Some of these are addressed in PHP7. Performance is increased significantly, and exception handling has gotten some major improvements as well.

The encouragement of bad code I disagree with though, you can write bad code in any language. It isn't up to the language structures to force the developer into a certain way of writing.

For typing issues, there are strict modes as well, and type checking is something that's being improved in PHP7 again.
There may be individual exceptions, but the key point "write simple, understandable code" for most people and cases is the right thing to do.

I like tweaking younger engineers with C eccentricities, but any commercial code tends towards being as vanilla as possible with lots of error checking and docs to be as clear as possible.
The equations that govern quantum mechanics are time reversible, and describes a system of consisting of superimposed states.

The Copenhagen (traditional) interpenetration of quantum mechanics posits that when a system gets large enough [0] these superimposed states collapse down to a single state. This interpenetration does pose a problem with time reversibility, as if you run time backwards, then forwards again, it is not guaranteed that you will arrive in the same state after collapse.

A more modern interpenetration is Many Worlds. In this interpenetration, there is no collapse. So when we observe the cat, the universe is in a superposition of us having observed a dead cat, and us having observed a living cat. When we run time backwards, we end up at the point where we put the cat into the box, as you would expect. If we run time forwards again, we arrive at the same superposition of observing a living cat, and observing a dead cat.

Without looking at the math, the ability to go from a superimposed state to a pure state may seem like it presents an asymmetry, but the equations allow (and we have experimentally done) this in forward time already. As it turns out, the mechanism that allows for this to happen (interference) is the essence of quantum computation.

[0] The standard phrasing is is "gets measured". I read this as "gets large enough" because we could, in principle, consider the measurement device to be part of the system.
Only if you are speaking about the boring ISO Pascal.

All Pascal dialects like Apple Pascal and Turbo Pascal had pointer arithmetic.
In 2013, ReVelle recalled the moment the second bomb's switch was found. “Until my death I will never forget hearing my sergeant say, 'Lieutenant, we found the arm/safe switch.' And I said, 'Great.' He said, 'Not great. It’s on arm.'”

Holy crap.
I support the idea behind this, but I love the community on Diaspora, and more importantly it is also decentralized and open-source.
because your.address@gmail.com and you.r.add.ress@gmail.com are the same thing, so there are multiple ways people can misspell something and end up using your account.
Sed and Awk are the traditional old school tools for scripting edits of large text files. Perl is a more recent option. And there's nothing wrong with using Python or Ruby or whatever.

On the Emacs versus Vim, Emacs is fatter with features by design. Vim is designed to be lighter weight so it can ship on memory constrained systems by default. The Emacs community tends to have a more substantial interest in scripting and customization and one of its features is built in tooling for writing scripts, e.g. the eLisp REPL.

Good luck.
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If you get a reasonably good combination of hardware/drivers, 802.11ac works well. I'm able to get 407.99 Mb/s Down, 462.39 Mb/s Up on a 2012 Macbook Air + RT-AC87U WiFi Hotspot on 5 Ghz to speedtest.net in Singapore.
Where do you keep up to date with the latest carrier/wifi/networking news? (besides HN of course)
In general it's safe to assume that the world will default to thinking that you, I, and technology are all irrelevant. Like, people will say that it's important in the same way that politicians say that voters are important.

So when it isn't irrelevant, it's because things have snuck in to change the status quo. The internet, I think, is a big enough idea that it's still not really seen it's full impact yet - today we just see the waxing phase of the second attempt to lock down the network under the thumb of a few centralized players. (the first one being AOL et al.) but networks are really quite powerful, and I have faith that the pendulum will shift again.
Duh, sorry, but the culture and history of Russia (and neighboring slavic countries) is an example of how to run away from all sorts of responsibilities.

Probably it sounds good in our classic books but in reality the only "other people become dependent on you" case is nepotism like in Middle Eastern or Central Asian cultures.

But at least people from these cultures care about their elders and far relatives. Russians do not.
The 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz audio protocols seem to not be wifi-based. (Which makes sense, you don't want them to be IP-based.) They just transmit uncompressed analog audio over probably something like FM.

900 MHz headphones seem to be readily available, and to have been readily available for years.
This is pretty much the whole point of test-driven development. Once the tests are the authoritative source of truth for what the code is supposed to do, knowledge of the system in the mental-model sense becomes almost superfluous: all a buck-newbie coder needs to do is find out why some test failed and make it pass. Of course you can't sneeze without writing (perhaps lots of) test code, but hey, the company's stock price is no longer beholden to snobbish devs who monopolize the mental models of the code. Hallelujah!

Like open-plan offices, the benefits to management of TDD cannot be overestimated when considering what drove its adoption.

Also I get the feeling this guy has never read The Mythical Man-Month. Top-down development following a strict waterfall model? Brooks shows that even inside stodgy IBM, no one did that if they wanted to get work done (as opposed to producing reams of paperwork in order to satisfy auditors and assure them that work is getting done).
> Zero-day security issues? They're handled by a managed server host. All kernel level updates are.

And that is how much per month? A quick check with a well known company shows £350/mo. That sounds expensive, but on the other hand I'm not sure I would be leaving my security in hands of a $10/mo shop :)
Spielberg finally makes the grade (2002)
Does eating at night make you gain weight?
But, what are you basing that on? Have you actually researched legislative content, votes, positions, etc., or are you basing your perception on what media tell you?
Yeah definitely shouldn't try this at home.
Binge On seems like a genuinely useful feature for getting more value out of a data plan, but T-Mobile has done a terrible job with the rollout.

1) They were completely misleading about what the technology actually does. It is without a doubt "throttling". I can understand and accept them wanting to use the word "optimization" instead of "throttling" in their marketing, but there also should have been a clear "how it works" section somewhere on their site for customers who wanted to know what they were signing up for.

2) It should have been opt-in rather than opt-out. There are a lot of customers out there (maybe even a majority) who don't use anywhere near their allotted data caps each month or who pay for unlimited data. These customers are going to experience buffering and reduced video quality, without getting any of the benefits of Binge On in return, and automatically opting them in is not in their best interest.

3) T-Mobile should "zero-rate" all video streams that they detect and throttle, as opposed to only zero-rating streams from select partners. Clearly they have both the ability to detect when a user is streaming video, regardless of source, and the network capacity to support unlimited streaming at 1.5 mbps - so this should be technically feasible. Zero-rating all detected video traffic would keep them from getting tangled up in thorny net neutrality issues and would keep the likes of the FCC, EFF, and Google off their backs.
I can't even do that! The tiny little neckbeard doesn't connect to my mustache at all. It doesn't even come up onto my chin. It just makes me look like a weird dorky 19 year old who's trying to grow his first beard and probably trying to enroll in community college.
Leaf cutter ants take suboptimal paths when the pheromone trail is strong enough. This implies a folly of the crowd, which definitely is not something we should aspire to follow

http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/pub...
The fastest sorting algorithm? (2000)
I dropped my kid off at school. Bison.
Hello World in 40 Programming Languages
Managing SSL, backups, and updates well and correctly take time. Not just the time to do them but the time to learn what needs to be done. A productive software developer is not one who worries about squeezing every dollar out of her service providers. If you already know how to handle all the other services or enjoy learning, go for it. But for some people it's best to focus on what you enjoy and are good at, and outsource the rest.

I agree that if this app is just a hobby, it's not worth having all the extra services. But given the services provided, $250/month, when weighed against a good software developer's time, is a good value.
I don't think this is the boast that you think it is.
Yes. The human tendency to find patterns where none exist makes the whole thing feel more compelling than it is
Isn't this the one application were JS crypto is OK? As far as I understand, that is not at all, here JS crypto is used to offload the computation from a trusted server to a trusted client and afterwards the server distributes the encrypted message further.
Sorry, let me clarify:

I'm a guy. For some reason, in my mind, adulthood for guys is defined as having a really great beard.

And for some reason, I can't grow a beard. I get a tiny little patch under my chin, and that's about it.

Because of this, sometimes I feel like I'll never be an adult.
To pass the advanced filmmaking class exam Spielberg submitted his epic, Schindler's List.
True.

Parent seems to believe in nginx. But as a guy who actually tried to do a few of those things with nginx I can confirm that nginx's code base is pretty awful and working around all the usual pitfalls of C in nginx is a huge PITA and enormous amount of work.

(same username on github)
I get ~180Mbit with my Asus RT-N66U (802.11n) with 2x2 clients and the RT-N66U is capable of 3x3. A friend recorded over 700Mbit with his Nexus 9 and an Asus 802.11ac AP.

You should be getting muuuch faster speeds. snbforums is a good place for wifi help.
I'm reasonably fit, but I'd never stood for the whole day, until two weeks ago. Then I started running the family business while the parents went away for vacation. I decided to stand / walk instead of grabbing a stool because I thought it would compensate for the lack of other exercise I'd be getting - business hours are fairly long, and I really don't feel like workout out after.

Take-aways so far:

- When standing, I automatically change it up - sometimes I stand up-right, sometimes I stand with my legs split a bit.

- After a couple of days of discomfort, I can basically stand all day, no issues.

- I come home, and sit. And if I'm watching TV, I pass out for a good 20 minutes. Automatic nap.

- I don't feel sleepy at work at all. Zero lethargy. I don't feel sleepy after lunch.

Some advice:

- Try to engage your core, your glutes, legs.. different muscles to keep you upright.

- Change things up. I try not to lurch. To lower myself, I split my legs a bit. Sometimes for fun (while reading email, random junk online..) I do a half-squat.
You should really make this into a novella, it would be a fascinating world to map the world of start-ups onto.
It seems to me that the NRA positions itself to the
government as a representative of all gun owners.

Rather, the media position the NRA as the representative of all gun usage.

Blaming existing law and the NRA after a highly-reported shooting is common, even when the gun was obtained illegally and the shooter not legally eligible to own one. An analog would be blaming Planned Parenthood when a newborn is abandoned to die.
I think you were downvoted for using a straw man fallacy. I wasn't saying adulthood was defined in terms of beards. Just that I don't feel like an adult because of my lack of beard. Man, I'd even settle for a great mustache. But nope, nothing.
When the fluids are mixed by a spoon, surely work has been done by the stirring spoon on the system and energy of the system increased. But this does not by itself imply entropy of the system increased. The reason is the system got to a non-equilibrium state which has no macroscopic thermodynamic description and no unique way to assign entropy and detect its changes.
Sun, Oracle, AOL, EMC, Nortel, Lucent, Cisco - all took huge shots from the ecosystem of dotcoms going under.

Cisco for example, in the 4th quarter of 2000, grew sales by 61% (55% for the year). Famously they had basically accelerated growth every quarter for a couple of years. The projections had gotten almost insane, about how big Cisco was supposed to be in just a few more years.

The money quote from August 2000:

"We see no indications in the marketplace that the radical Internet business transformation in practices like customer service, supply-chain management, employee training, empowerment, and e-commerce that is taking place around the world today is slowing -- in fact, we believe it is accelerating globally," said [then CEO] Chambers.
...there were pre-existing LOTR movies: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_(1978_...
Given the way US export laws and ITAR work, it's safe to say the guy who shipped those nukes from one state to another is in less trouble than the guy who sent the Hellfire parts to Cuba.
Single nations and even single cities in the EU are adopting universal income as we speak. I'm sure they found a credible (though perhaps not not guaranteed) way to make it work. In any case, we can learn from their experience.
Artificial intelligence, reusable rockets, and cryptocurrencies looks pretty interesting to me.
Exactly. The institution of school destroys the healthy relationship with intrinsic motivation, curiosity, self-discipline and relationships with others by creating an unhealthy environment and modeling highly pathological versions of the above as the norm.

While, ironically, labeling some children's inability to accept and tolerate such conditions as ("treatable!!") pathology.

A human child who grows knowing herself, knowing how to determine what's important to her, knowing how to meet her own goals, knowing her own value, and knowing how to gain support and resources to achieve what's important, is very difficult to control or "guide."

There are very few institutions which support gaining such knowledge, like democratic schools. Public schools do not.
A quick google suggests I might still be fine. Its advertised as "in the same room" so it will probably punch through a thin non-stone wall.
So um, early adopter, I have a Mozilla Flame as my daily phone.

Will it continue to receive (nightly) build updates to gaia and gecko plus security fixes as Firefox OS diversifies and matures?
If the model is Hamiltonian and the phase space finite, then any state will get eventually reapproached. For systems with infinite phase space (infinite volume suffices) or non-Hamiltonian systems, such conclusion may not be true.
For me it was when I had to put the presents in my first child's stocking. Not only was I responsible for him, I had also to supply the magic and there was nobody doing this for me.

That's when the buck really stops, forget the bills and all the rest.
I want a pony.
Just how big is the Amazon cloud anyway? (2012)
So, you could condense my knowledge of physics to an index card, but here we go...time seems like it's always based on the measurement of a regular thing. Say the oscillation of a quartz crystal. So we have no proof there of time, just that certain phenomena can be very regular in intervals/cycles.

I've heard things like, "if you go the speed of light, or at least really fast, time will move differently." But that seems like it would be a side effect of that local system moving at a rate that interferes with its physical interaction relative to what we consider normal.

There are probably tons of holes in that. But my point is that we tend to think of time almost as an invisible "thing", and I really have trouble wrapping my brain around that. It just feels like things happen and we call it time, but really its ordered intervals of effects.
The X.Org Foundation was formed for stewardship of X, the window system and its canonical implementation.

Since X is now deprecated tech (the foundation itself even states that Wayland is the future), a name change is perhaps in order.
IMHO the biggest problem on roads is not speeding, it's drunk/drugged driving (most often caused by a lack of adequate public transit at nighttime and cabs being more expensive than the drinks of the night)... and morons who didn't drive for 10 years, are afraid of driving, don't seek help and then fuck up big time when they have to drive (like a distant relative, who hadn't driven for a decade and then had to drive her husband to the doctor. Nearly caused three accidents on the way due to panic).

With pilots we have minimum flight time per year as well as medical requirements. I suggest similar but for cars because people physically unable to drive or people just being morons driving 10 km/h under the speed limit are a risk to everyone else, not just them.

The problem is that the trend to data-driven insurances and other bullshit like this won't help for these cases because computers and especially deep learning models are inherently fallible. A skilled mathematician may look at a risk calculation and check if the premium is adequate (and in case of old people needing their cars to not lose their entire freedom, also "close his eyes")... no way to do so with a neural network. Not to mention that all that data IS going to be abused. If you want to check for public acceptance of government snooping, look at the fan reactions for NCIS episodes. No one ever objects to the portrait that surveillance and hacking is neccessary for law enforcement...
tks! the nesting topic is the most polemic, but also the most important to me :)
Really? Does this mean a radio tuned to the right channel would be able to play the audio stream?
Japanese look alike girl covered the Internet's Get Away
There is an obvious pattern. The Fed is intentionally inflating asset bubbles to fake economic recoveries. Those asset bubbles inevitably must implode because they're not supported by fundamentals (such as the extremely slow GDP growth the prior six years). They did it in response to the 2001 recession, and they did it again in response to the 2009 recession. They openly admitted they were attempting to inflate assets this time around.
For clarity, you're talking about:

https://github.com/blynkkk/blynk-server (etc)?
> whom I am convinced is among the top five humans with back-to-front understandings of the CSS specification

I'm flattered, but I don't even rank among the top five CSS wizards in this building, much less on the planet :)
Water interaction model for boats in video games: Part 2
Can you tell us what model router and dongles you are using?
No, that music listening we are getting from Spotify through Facebook. The app info is from Rescuetime though.
I have a Intel WiGig laptop + dock that uses wireless ad under the hood.

The bandwidth can be used for much more than just network transfers. I've personally had 2 1080P displays playing video + USB3 external hard drive transferring at max speed + Gigabit Ethernet transfers using the dock without anything skipping a beat.

Wireless ad docking + wireless charging on a laptop will be absolutely amazing.
Using an admittedly expensive Asus RT-AC88U with my MBP connected over 5ghz, I can get ~900mbps on speedtest.net using my gigabit connection.

Example test below [0], admittedly the downstream results aren't the best but I've got some rather large downloads and streaming going on right now. Upstream shows the capability though.

[0] http://beta.speedtest.net/result/4980829561
People of the U.S lost it because they allowed this to happen by "not caring about it". And the whole privatized everything is bollocks. See what the costs of "health care", "college education" and most importantly "how the cops" have become. Health care and education has to be free if the people in the society is to remain intelligent. Even by the scale of economics, providing with good health care for free would cost much less that what it currently costs. The police is severely lacking accountability that it much needs. Read the original article linked in here. Think about it.
Is there any reason they'll remain exotic, expensive and not that small? (I don't know what interface the typical high-dpi oled touch screens use, like the ones you find on a Galaxy Note 4 etc) -- but it seems that HDMI might make perfect sense for a tiny 4k screen (and it seems reasonable those will become more and more common)?
That's not disabling journald, that's disabling journald writing messages. It's still receiving every byte sent to the system log, it's still in memory, and otherwise still running.
9 Steps to Coming Up with a Good Enough Startup Name
What a silly comment.
MixPanel has very generous free plan and many free users. Sales people were hired to try to convert free users into paying customers. Plan failed, sales people shown the door.

This is why companies need to think really hard about freemium model. In case of MixPanel, many of their free users keep adjusting so they send just enough data to stay under free plan. They are probably not going to be persuaded by sales people to pay.
Unless your a doctor assistent in a undeveloped country using a old windows program ( which came with a dumped computer from a massive toxic rubbish tip curtosy from the 1st world) and about to loose all your life saving data because you cant upgrade and dont even know about having any upgrate.programmes ,apps arnt even available or being sold like Coca Cola everywhere at a relative price point.Plus some countries can use this copyright law very effectively against budding buisnesses and the programmes arnt actually sold legally in that poorer country anyway
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