skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is zero chance the offshore team has the built-up institutional knowledge the original HostedUI team painstakingly accreted over decades to quickly integrate seamless container virtualization into the desktop-hosted Workstation and Fusion products. Not a knock on the offshore team. Even a brand-new domestic team would have zero chance. The container virtualization market is moving fast, so quick, effective integration is required.

That's unfortunate. I was looking forward to something like a VMWare Fusion/Workstation-powered session that starts off with a virtualized OS, auto-generates a container configuration file by watching everything you install and detecting what the installed app uses while you run it through its paces, creates and deploys a containerized app, perhaps onto your laptop and perhaps injecting directly into a cloud instance you point to (bonus points for integrated account support and API hooks for customizing the cloud deployment flow or injecting into your Chef/Puppet/etc. infrastructure)...then does it in reverse as well. Or "sync" a container to a virtualized OS version of the app, where you can deploy the full panoply of debugging tools to inspect what is happening on the container in ways that would be terribly inconvenient or not even possible on the container, like using log file analysis tools that wouldn't be on the container. It would take a performance hit, but for some the trade-off might be worth it. Or create an "instrumented" container, that intercepts failed operations like a library missing from the container, which then starts a sync with a virtualized OS version presumably with the missing library that completes the call. The possibilities I saw were endless.
>This is absolutely not true. Have you ever lived in an inner city? Yes some people are fighting with each other but if you act respectfully, you'll be left alone.

I've lived in downtown areas of Chicago and DC, but never what people mean when they say "inner city" (i.e. ghetto).

They won't leave you alone. They'll rob you or break into your car. Criminals murder and steal from the people who live there at alarming rates.

They don't really leave the ghetto (other than one summer when kids did flash mobs in Chicago). So I could live in Chicago and feel entirely safe.

But last time I spent time in Englewood--a woman I was meeting with had her car broken into within 15minutes of parking on a major intersection.

>As someone who's lived in all manner of socioeconomic areas of the US, I would say without hesitation that the biggest problem here is the cost of healthcare, education and housing.

These are extremely middle class problems. Most people don't need or want a post-secondary education. 85% people have healthcare coverage. Housing is only bad in a few upper middle class areas.
SpaceX with their reusable stuff is definitely changing the whole space industry. We might have an option to fly out there in our life time without being a millionaires.
The key to succesful education is involved parents. It's really that simple.

Are you a parent yourself? (I am, of four children, two now adults.) Have you ever been a parent in more than one country? (I have both here in the United States and in Taiwan.) Do you regularly communicate with other parents about how well school programs are working for their children? (I participate in a national online network of parents of gifted children every day.)

Parent involvement of a certain kind is necessary, but it is not sufficient (unless it takes the form of homeschooling, which is something I did for the primary education of all four of my children). With equally involved and caring parents, pupils and students do better or worse depending especially on curriculum design, and depending also on teacher training and school administration. Studies of school districts that had forced changes of administrators of schools under the now-expired No Child Left Behind law showed that changing administrators in a school can improve learning outcomes for the same group of children brought up by the same group of parents. Moreover, teachers often increased their job satisfaction after such administrative changes.[1]

Almost every thread about education on Hacker News has a top comment saying, "Parental involvement is the most important thing." I could agree with that statement (I largely do, as a homeschooling parent) without thinking that statement is any more than a middle-brow dismissal[2] of the submitted article's detailed text unless we have something to discuss here about a) what brings about more parental involvement and b) what else can be done at the margin to improve schools for parents who are already well involved. Let's discuss those issues here rather than be dismissive.

AFTER EDIT: I have my own top-level in this thread with substantive response to what the original article author said, but it is pushed far down below the fold by the long subthread development here.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/10/27/443110755/no-child...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4692598#up_4693920

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10103985#up_10106466
Did you resolve this? Make sure the root that shows up on the certificate details page is UserTrust - if it's not, it's possible someone is performing MITM on you.

SHA-256 Fingerprint for tails.boum.org should be:

F8:DC:67:21:96:77:46:F5:9D:77:BD:7B:87:C1:39:42:C8:4E:4B:25:97:34:AC:E2:80:24:99:35:D9:81:9C:B6

If that doesn't match the value you see in the Firefox or Chrome certificate details page, please, send as many details about the chain as you can back, I'm very interested to see what's happening here considering you're not on a corp network and seeing this and even moreso because this is the Tails site, something that might very much interest some attackers...
This textbook is a classic, and downloadable as a PDF:

http://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/

Don't be put off by what you don't (yet) understand. Even someone with a math PhD, but not specifically in the areas covered, wouldn't recognize much of the terminology they're introducing.

But feel free to jump around, and look for concepts that seem more approachable -- particularly where case studies are presented, often with very nice charts and diagrams -- and you can get a feel as to whether it's something for you.

Learning math is like learning a language -- it takes a lot of time, and not a lot seems to happen right away. But in the long run, it can be very rewarding.
Sometimes if you want an accurate answer you have to ask someone whose career/income doesn't depend on the answer.
Well you answered your own question. Customers are willing to pay double for an extra 2.7% because these CPUs are rare, because there is no equivalent product from the competition, which is the definition of a monopoly (many buyers, only one seller).
I remember hearing about how bad communication played a role in the warning not being heeded. But reading the memo now for the first time, I don't agree with that at all.

Don't forget this warning was to a VP of Engineering and was referencing previous issues that were being worked on. There seemed like plenty of context there to me.
You dont think that normal user should use encrypted phone sevices? Are you serious?
Hi everyone, I am the author of the post. Network tomography is a very intriguing idea and very promising. However, it hasn't taken off outside the academic/research realm.

I am wondering what networking folks think about it.
There is a problem with how parents are involved with their kids education.

This is being too harsh on parents. My parents were very much involved with my own brother's education. They tutored him, got him extra help, set up incentives, etc, etc. But he still did far worse than me. Meanwhile they had to pull me away from the books. I never got help with math homework because I never had any trouble with it. School just came naturally to me. I was just born much smarter than my brother. My parents never had to pressure me to learn programming, I picked it up because it was fun and I was good at it. Heck, I taught myself calculus because I found the problem solving fun.

And I see this observation over and over again. If a person is naturally good at cognitive work, sooner or later they will go whole hog on learning some economically useful cognitive skills. If a person is just naturally a bit slower, it will always be an uphill battle.

These personal observations are corroborated by adoption studies and twin studies. Twins raised separately end up closer together than non-twins raised together. Adopted children end up closer to their biological parents than their adopted parents. Etc. (sources; http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023048987045774784... http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/10/genes-dont-just-influ... )
I appreciate the licenses folder but could you add that information to the readme as well? It's useful sometimes to gather all the information I need about a project in the "readme" at least for me, just the names of the licenses and the files they affect could work if it's not too much trouble, but even just naming the licenses works. Thank you! :)
What are your thoughts on pathogenic causes? The reasoning I've read is that genetic causes would have been eliminated by natural selection.

I've read that poorly timed infections can mess up the immune system, like getting mono as a teen, which then does long term slow acting damage to the brain.

I've also read speculation that maybe than an ancient pathogen was subsumed (?) by our cells and our DNA repair mechanisms are in a constant state of war keeping it at bay, maintaining the balance, which can also be knocked out of whack by an early infection.

My interest is that someone close to me is afflicted. I'm a complete plebe on this stuff. And without the proper background, my comprehension is low (ELI5). And I very much would like to know how to best help, care for my loved ones.
A major concern to me is how to Debug Nim. Considering it compiles into C as a first step, I would have thought that Debugging may have quite a few issues and gotchas as well as some good tips and tricks.

I am not sure if this is covered, but did not notice it mentioned in the contents.
> The key to succesful education is involved parents. It's really that simple.

I don't buy it. Parental involvement has some value in early education (learning to read and write, for example). But beyond that, I suspect "involved parents" is a proxy for wealth.
They also need the parachutes because if there is an emergency during launch, the thrusters will be used to separate the capsule from the launch vehicle.

They demonstrated this with their pad abort test:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_FXVjf46T8

Perhaps later this year we will also see an in-flight abort test, which will be very exciting.
WHY THE FUCK IS EVERYONE TELLING HIM TO BYPASS WHAT LOOKS LIKE A LEGIT MITM ATTEMPT?

Oh my god. It's like none of you stopped to think for even a fraction of a second.
Murder rate is probably the only statistic that can be trusted. Police are under lots of pressure to make sure crime stats go down, and it's really easy to misclassify or ignore reports for things like armed robbery or rape. A body is harder to hide.
I'm not trying to be even more glib, but imagine just how much harder this would all be on your sister in the event your parents didn't care about her education and weren't involved as much as they are.
Since nobody uses Obj-C without Xcode, you actually never need to type out a long method name. Typically you'd just write "sha", Xcode will autocomplete the method, and you press Tab to fill out all those parameters. Seeing them all at once as part of the method name is pretty convenient.

I'm not saying that the method name in your example makes any sense, it's definitely insanely long... But the Apple API mentioned in the original post is OK in my books because it's a rarely used initializer for a low-level object. It essentially wraps a raw C pointer into an object, so of course it needs all that metadata about what the pointer is! Putting the same data in a struct wouldn't save any typing.
I had same issue but now that's it's smoothed out it's a nice laptop I don't thing about it it just works great.
what keywords did you use? I tried "database marketplace", "data to sale" without much success.
There's even Qubes-whonix: "Qubes-Whonix is the seamless combination of Qubes OS and Whonix for Security + Anonymity."

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Qubes
Today Is 30 Year Anniversary of Space Shuttle Challenger
Verizon Made an $8B Bid on Yahoo
I'm generally against unions because I think they too easily and often evolve into serving the organization at the expense of the members. However, if the purpose of a union is to protect against an abusive monopsony, who could be more of an abusive and myopic buyer than the average taxpayer?
I am a parent of two boys.

I am originally from Denmark but moved to the US with my family.

My wife is part of the PTA group.

My oldest is in Success Academy a charter school.

I am not saying it's sufficient not sure how you got that idea. I am saying it's what makes the difference for the children getting education is that their parents are involved.

You can't always decide what teachers your kids are getting or what school they go to, who they hang out with and so on. But you can decide if you are going to be involved in your kids education.
> But then again, what can we really trust?

Textual evidence. The first demonstrable text wins, until an earlier is found. Sometimes it's fuzzy, because quotes morph (they get pithier over time). But most of the time it's clear enough, and the techniques for studying it are well understood.

Edit: The same is true in reverse, too: if a famous person really said X, it will be easy to find a precise textual source for X by googling. I don't mean a website claiming they said it (those are legion), but the original text, e.g. from their collected works, or an original newspaper interview. Since they're famous, that territory will have been trodden many times and there will be websites linking to it. Therefore if you can't find it, the famous person probably didn't say it. “Absence of evidence is evidence of absence” (hey, I wonder who said that one?) really works in this case.
Don't forget access to the faculty and your peers.
I would probably get a Thinkpad T460s before this laptop, especially since the new T460s is even thinner than it used to be (closer to the X1 carbon). What do people find so attractive about this laptop? I'm thinking about getting one this upcoming year and neither the XPS' touchpad nor the keyboard seem very good.
Personally I'm wondering if/when they'll expand the sleek Latitude 7000 series to 15". After being disappointed by where Lenovo took ThinkPad, I've been really happy with my 15" 6540 (c. 2013) and would happily buy a 15" machine from Dell again.

http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/latitude-e7470-ultrabook/p...
Funny thing is I read this about the Saudis and OPEC last night: https://np.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/4203ko/oil_price_...

Basically he says that the Saudis don't trust OPEC, are pro production cuts but won't cut their own production because they got burned in the past.
And if anyone said it, it wouldn't be Bill Gates, because it wasn't Microsoft who set the memory limits of the IBM PC.
To clarify. It's serious volumes with hundreds of thousands of records. Which could be used for research (ML and so on)
Nice straight forwardness in this lib - love the async stuff for url downloads/access.. its modern.. its C.. its confusingly normal!
That's a good data point. I've been running 15.10 since I got it with minimal issues. This is another good resource: https://github.com/advancingu/XPS13Linux/issues
As someone who has been buying MacBooks since 2006, I'm starting to feel envious of the various PC laptops out there - in particular the XPS 13 and the Surface Book. With OS X not proving itself to be a fantastic OS in recent revisions I'm wondering how long it'll be before I give into temptation.

Maybe when someone finally gets a trackpad that's as good as the Macbook. Almost every PC laptop I've tried has paled in comparison.
Cable Card was hamstrung because the FCC left design and implementation largely in the hands of Cable Labs, which was owned and operated by a few of the larger cable companies. It was intentionally design-by-checkmark; it met every one of the FCC's rules, but was overcomplicated and hard to use. It was designed to fail.

That said, if you can get it working, it beats the pants off of any cable box. I have an HDHR box with a Cable Card in it, and I can use it both via DLNA and on my Apple TV.
> This is a technical discussion, not a discussion of selling.

Incorrect. The context is one of an indie developer trying to bring a product to market. This is similar to being a one-man startup (before hiring / contracting more staff). It is absolutely essential to make good decisions about scoping the project, marketing the project, and selling the project.

It is very common for technically-minded people to get into a pattern of addressing technical objections point-by-point, without realising that the technical objections are not the problem per-se, but just a symptom of a more important concern or problem.

If the goal is Linux advocacy, then nit-picking the tech objections isn't really that effective, unless you want to leave a rebuttal for future searchers. What would be more effective would be to try to understand why Linux was not right for this developer, on this project, at that time.

> Yes, I am arrogant by the way, I learned not to be afraid of standing tall with my own point of view.

Standing up for your beliefs is not the same as arrogance. Not realizing this is a sign of arrogance, and arrogance is not a good thing. It makes it harder to develop an accurate model of the world, and thereby makes it harder take effective actions.

EDIT> Part of the hostile reaction you're getting is because of the way you dismissed Jon Blow for not being able to install Linux. This is one of the best game developers out there. It's like calling some Nobel Laureate stupid because she decided not to use some particular niche app that you care about.
7 Confessions of Working from Home
Piwik is a wonderful tool but one of our criterias for web analytics tools was that they must be SaaS based. I will tell the research team to look at Piwik Cloud again though.
Not to mention Shannon, the name of the town!
outputImageProviderFromBufferWithPixelFormat:pixelsWide:pixelsHigh:baseAddress:bytesPerRow:releaseCallback:releaseContext:colorSpace:shouldColorMatch:

No, this is great! I can glance at something calling this, and, without any comments, determine immediately what each parameter is!

Note that standard formatting is to place each argument on its own line, with the colons lined up, and that Xcode does this automatically, and will autocomplete the entire nonsense. It's fairly disingenuous to line the whole thing up as if you need to type it all out.

Also, this is an API that clearly bridges to C-style data structures. Higher level APIs will have much fewer parameters.

> What’s the difference between a tap and a touch?

In Apple-land, at least, a tap is an action (touching somewhere and releasing quickly, as opposed to a swipe, etc.), and a touch is where a user's finger is currently placed.
I dunno, we have no problems wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons systems or trillions of dollars on unnecessary wars brought about by liars (where exactly are those WMD?) If this were important to politicians, it could be done. And the necessary step to making it important to politicians is voting.
New Feature: A JavaScript Console (Codepen Blog)
I'm not sure I'd call the XPS 13 the best PC laptop. The keyboard is pretty terrible, and the touchpad is so wide that my palms will rest on it and cause the cursor to move around while I'm typing. There's also some bounce on the spacebar which results in sometimes registering double spaces (the latest BIOS alleviates the problem, but not completely).

The DPI of the screen is really high and doesn't scale well under XFCE, but I'm not sure if that's really a fault of the laptop.
How much did that cost? If you price on AWS or GCC the equivalent and multiply by the length of the match was it like $20k?
HTTPS is rather more secure than what HTTP is. Because it creates a relative secure tunnel between the client and host. But HTTPS does not mean 100% secure, it's easy to be hacked by MITM or traffic been spied.

I think that getting rid of HTTP should not be shamed in that way. But google is planning on doing this thing.

Just as someone said, MITM attackers can switch google ads to others, and I think this is the reason why Google wants to shame those sites who use Google Ads and not use HTTPS. Google can make an increasing revenue by this act.

And yet HTTP2 is out, will google shame those sites who only support HTTP1.0/HTTP1.1 ? I don't think so. Because this has almost nothing to do with revenue for Google.
I understand your larger point, but that's just how news works: you report on the new stuff, not the old stuff. Humans beating computers at chess was old news when Deep Blue happened, so it wasn't worth reporting when that happened. Nobody talks about computers beating humans at chess anymore, because that's old news now. It would be (really big) news again if a human started beating the best chess computers again.

It is old news for humans to beat computers at Go, but the reverse is still new news.

I agree with you that people who infer an impending AI takeover of the world from computer success in specific games are just being silly.
My experience looking at ROI on direct mail pieces shows that this totally works.
Yeah, the worst Linux laptop I had in years:

1) the touchpad never worked;
2) the keyboard still has problems;
3) some of the more important programs look just horrible on Linux, as the resolution is just too high;
4) sometimes WiFi just does not work;

...so much for the Sputnik project.
You should mention bikes on r/Chicago.

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As a pedestrian and a driver... screw the bikers. 95% of them are really shitty. The other 5% are well experienced in biking, and they hate the 95% of the other ones as well.
Looks like a comprehensive and mature personal toolbox, which one would accumulate over years of working on C projects. Not exactly easy to reuse due to the lack of documentation and other reasons, but totally worthy of sharing nonetheless. A very interesting read.
The US Should Expect 'Limited' Outbreaks of the Zika Virus
Simplifying a bit...

They knew the o-rings were being eroded away during the flight, but the secondary o-ring was 'squishy' enough to fill in the gap and prevent the erosion from actually destroying the vehicle. While the erosion was unexpected, they figured the 'backup' was doing its job, and actually ended up increasing the predicted safety margin (i.e. it's only working 1/5th of the way through, so we have a 500% safety margin, yay! despite the fact that any erosion was unexpected in first place)

The problem was, the cold made the secondary o-ring stiff enough that it didn't 'squish' as much as it had in previous launches, so the o-ring failed completely.
Given the strength of Intel's latest integrated GPUs, it just doesn't make sense any more to add weak dedicated GPUs to laptops. As the author said, "this isn't a gaming laptop". I'd claim that the whole category of gaming laptop no longer has relevance.
As with other types of interface design, the best way to write a good api is to get frequent feedback from the intended users.

Liberal application of the WTF test is critical[1].

As the author of the api, you yourself will be too close to it to judge fairly. Poorly named functions and over-complicated architecture will appear perfectly reasonable to you if you don't seek outside opinions.

1: http://commadot.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/wtf.png