skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the big benefits I've seen as a cord-cutter: I've stopped mindlessly surfing. Without channels, and having to select what I want from an app, I have to decide what I want, instead of seeing "what's on". Now I still watch crap from time to time, but it have to choose it, which has made me go to it a lot less.
In other words, it's typical "enterprise Java" style. I worked with code like that for a short time, and it's not just wasteful of machine resources; debugging and maintaining such code is a horrible experience.
Your point is especially true when a bug is difficult to reproduce. In those cases, good logging can mean the difference between a few hours and a few months to solve a problem.
I don't know why this comment is being downvoted. A quick google will show the results.

Page 9 of the latest report: http://www.av-comparatives.org/summary-reports/
I see it as being more complicated than that.

Quoting wikipedia on "Free market" [1], "A free market is a market economy system ... in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority."

One can argue that programs like Facebook's "Free Basics" that just got banned [2] are a "price-setting monopoly". And now that the ban is in place, you have more "intervention by a government". That looks to me like India didn't really have "free market" for internet services before this ruling either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market

[2] http://www.engadget.com/2016/02/08/india-bans-zero-rating-in...
The Myth of Hypercomputation [pdf]
Tinder like application for gifs, built in elm
I notice similar improvements after removing Facebook from my phone - it's been gone a year - most people I hang out with rarely use Facebook anymore anyways
People say this, but I haven't ever found evidence that this is actually a practice that is common. The security deposit is intended to be just that, not a pre-payment on the last month of rent.
I think it's clear that his career as spokesman for the retro-encabulator was limited. Rockwell really dropped the ball on that project, and we can see many on the team fell a bit further than hoped.
Life isn't all about productivity, but it's an interesting question.
Dropbox link. I'm providing this only for educational and scholarly purposes: https://www.dropbox.com/s/z1ce4kapl3idi5v/Insect%20Literatur...

Note that Google has requested that this material not be rehosted. Are they within their rights to restrict distribution of a public domain work? I don't think they have the legal right to do that, but maybe I should remove my link if so.
all of the above. the bottom line - they are not paying for it from their pocket.
> it's just better to make GitLab the default choice for FOSS (and especially crowd-sourced!) projects

Care to expand? I think many would disagree and even counter that putting things on GitLab is a turnoff to some potential contributors (it would be to me). Nothing against GitLab, but I think it's tough to make an argument for any single platform being the "default."
It's life changing being notification-free (only email + text). I used to have my phone loaded to the brim with apps, now I use maybe 3 or 4 apps regularly tops. Hell, I'm even debating going back to a super barebones flip phone.
Repository: https://github.com/ParsePlatform/parse-server
The Zen of Erlang
Personally, I uninstalled the Facebook app but kept the Messenger app (with disabled chat bubble).

Works good enough for me. I browser Facebook on the browser when needed (never) and use Messenger for chat alerts.

On desktop, I use http://messengerfordesktop.com/ to avoid going on the Facebook website.

I also use custom CSS on the Facebook website to break some of it's linearity. This make it less likely that I will browse mindlessly. Facebook UI is designed as a precise drug and simply changing it a little bit will disrupt that. (I use a red UI, a noisy background, bigger fonts, etc.)
What "screws" are available to use on China and why do you think their use won't backfire.
Which makes you wonder about the quality of the products they develop 100% in-house.

In the case of the browsers, it "only" the bits they tampered with that's more insecure. For their own stuff, anti-virus, firewall and what not, they've "tampered" with the entire code base.
The Facebook app is one of the worst out there (among high profile apps), but their mobile website is one of the very best. I just use the latter.
From what people I've talked to have told me - they don't trust Microsoft to secure the OS.

Plus, e.g. Comodo gives you a firewall. While I know that Windows has a perfectly good firewall, it doesn't come with a systray icon with a button labeled "protection from active network probes: active" or whatever.

Personally, I just have a router between me and the big bad internet and use Security Essentials plus Common Sense 2012.
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I don't disagree with anything you wrote, but I don't see how it addresses my point.
The author does not explain whether he turned "Background App Refresh" OFF for the Facebook app.

When this setting is OFF, Facebook should not be able to use CPU when it is not on screen.

Facebook have been caught using dirty tricks in the past to get around the Background App Refresh setting, but my understanding is that those were fixed.
Those things aren't needed to get javascript to work properly, most such "hacks" are necessary because of the DOM, proprietary standards and the ridiculous variety of devices web content needs to be displayed on. Even if you had an alternative language, those problems would still remain.
Would it make a difference knowing the product behind the sniffing? Once your traffic went on the clear and there's people with access to it, that's game over.

You could encapsulate SSL in SSL, so the first SSL layer is decrypted by your "colleagues" but the second one should just flow freely.

The problem here is that (A) SSL is defeated in your corporate network and (B) other protocols are probably blocked, to force you to use the proxy to reach Internet, so you're stuck with SSL.

Disclaimer: We haven't tried these scenarios (defeat SSL sniffing on a corporate network) because it's not the main use of our product and actually, as long as it's legal and ethical you should follow your employer's rules, so bypassing your company's security systems is not our business nor we condone it.

But it's technically interesting.

We[1] do SSL tunnelling to create private networks; unfortunately we don't offer Internet gateways so it's not exactly a VPN tunnel. You could, however, install a proxy or a router inside your private network and use it to route your traffic to Internet through the private network.

[1] https://wormhole.network
The scroll-jacking is strong with this one.
And does #savetheInternet have or want branches outside India. It's not a local problem? Is there somewhere I can go and lend support ?
I personally traveled to Slovakia to meet with Martin, Mato and Pieter, a few years ago. I commissioned them to fix some annoyances I had with ZeroMQ.

I just want to say that they are all great people, they're very smart and have spent a lot of time deeply thinking about messaging.

I was really hoping to use nanomsg at some point, so I'm a bit disappointed to see all this. Really hoping that someone (Drew?) releases a new BSD licensed library.
"Given the undeniable popularity and usage of FB I think it's pretty clear it's been a net positive on society."

War, genocide, torture, brainwashing, we could list historically popular and widely used concepts all day that turn out to be bad ideas.
Not completely unrelated, but the scroll-jacking in general is annoying.
FoxBase
samccone works hard at this stuff, link to the original repo.
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That's interesting for code128. But the most part of Barcodes that a consumer deals (i.e. supermarket) are UPC or EAN13.
It's up to date. It has people who started last week.
I can't speak to the training of the models. I'm not a data science guy, I specialize in signal processing and feature extraction.

What I can say, though, which may give good insight into your question is this: The "Hushpuppy" project, which became known as the WhisperSync and Immersion Reading technologies, were not self-trained or self-reinforced. QA engineers in India were contracted to ensure synchronization between the book and the audiobook. These technologies, though, were the building blocks upon which Alexa was developed. The data collected from these operations became essential knowledge for the engineering team that developed Alexa.

EDIT: As an aside, Amazon bases all of its services around that Amazon account that almost everyone in the civilized world now has. Alexa is not the first, and certainly not the last Amazon service that learns and improves based upon the user's Amazon account.
Ask HN: Do you have to be racist to work at GitHub or does it help if you are?
These racist slides[0] from Nicola Sanchez[1] have been circulating in some threads recently. Apparently (reverse) racism is nothing new[2] in this firm.

Also "reverse racism" is simply "racism" IMO.
It takes effort to be always correct and totally PC when dealing with strangers who learned their social skills from years of flame-wars on usenet.

But this isn't some disagreement of 2 developers who chip in their own time to support an open source project! A salaried VP of a global firm should know better and IMO be held accountable with stricter measures. She acts as a role-model within the organization. The fact that github hasn't taken action and asked for her resignation illustrates that this kind of poisonous thoughts might be more pervasive and not just limited to one person in that company.

Can somebody with more internal knowledge of github shed light to why this is being tolerated?

[0] https://static2.businessinsider.com/image/56b3d2462e526543008b5049-705-529/nicole%20sanchez-diversity-training2.png

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/nmsanchez

[2] https://hacked.com/github-promotes-reverse-racism-sexism/
Because:

1. JScript added conditional compilation directly in the browser which was IE-only (extend, extinguish). TypeScript compiles to cross-browser JavaScript (which does none of the above)

2. TC39 is supposed to be working in a "pave the cowpaths" (1) mode. Before new features get integrated into EcmaScript, TC39 looks into what the community is already doing (existing cowpaths), then integrates that into the language. Not only that but TC39 can learn from the mistakes of TS and Flowtype when they add type system support in EcmaScript. We are in dire need of one - and thanks to Microsoft's and Facebook's explorations, we now know what kind of type system would work for JS.

(1) For example, we got arrow functions in ES2015 thanks to CoffeeScript.
Yahoo shuts down BOSS API (powering DuckDuckGo)
Depends on whether they're running Intel or not...
Probably the stigma.
Robot room service is coming to US hotels courtesy of startup Savioke
German crosswords use the 26 letters, too, but write ueber.
By the new German spelling, "Schloss" is written with two s, since the o is short. In the old spelling, it was written "Schloß".

On the other hand, for "Straße" the new spelling does not change the ß to ss, since the a is long.

The best possible way to handle the ß is not transcribing it. In crossword puzzles it is transcribed as ss. In general, it is discussed whether one should rather transcribe ß as ss or sz (since ß is originally a sz ligature).
Shodan using NTP Pool servers to track IPv6 addresses
They can't be bothered to do things that are actually effective, like reading installation dialogs fully, installing an ad-blocker, and avoiding the downloads from the sketchiest of porn and torrent sites.
They never needed much of a designer anyway, since if you look at the old site, which I think worked perfectly well, it was generated by "RosCMS". That was their own, GPL licensed, CMS.

Replacing that with a commercial template doesn't seem very FOSS to me.
But why are they so fond of German words, then?

Edit: And why don't they look up the transliteration rules before? I mean: I only know few words of Esperanto, but I know the transliteration rules for the letters in the Esperanto alphabet that are not ASCII characters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_orthography#ASCII_tr...
Assuming for a moment you're not a legal nihilist, if you feel "banning cash would make illegal immigration harder" is bad, a more logical solution is to make legal immigration easier. If you're OK with all the other consequences of a regulation -- in this case, making it difficult to avoid paying sales/income/social security taxes, making it difficult to purchase illegal drugs or weapons, to fund organizations deemed by the government to be "terrorists", etc etc -- and there's only one or two known consequences of the regulation you're not OK with, it's quite possible in many cases to legislate around the downsides.
yes, ueber became uber.
I had a look at app sizes on my phone and noticed a "cluster" around 60MB. I wonder if there's some common, huge, framework?
Why is that not cool? It's not like they are forcing anyone to anything (like you could argue was the case in the 90's).

I don't use it but I appreciate that the JS is being explored and expanded by projects like it and many others.
A tip for all you Android users out there.

Step 1 : Uninstall both Facebook and Facebook Messenger.

Step 2 (Optional) : Use Metal instead of the Facebook App :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nam.fbwrap...

Step 3 (Optional) :Use Disa instead of Facebook Messenger :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.disa

Step 4 : Enjoy your vastly improved responsiveness and battery life.
You've never been in an office building with more than two different companies inside?

I mean, serious question. In the office building I work in, my company only owns two floors. The next floor is another company, and the floor above that is yet another company. My company owns more than half the building (the bottom floors has more space for various reasons), but the stuff made upstairs isn't made by my company.
I advise my techie and non-techie friends alike not to bother with antivirus, but rather to ensure that their files are backed up and their software is up to date.

Those are the most important parts, assuming the user is above the level of downloading and executing malware by themselves.
Boost has variant, which is also a discriminated Union though the visitor pattern ergonomics aren't quite as nice as result in rust or doing the same thing with enums in swift. There's work to get something like variant into the standard.
Clash of Stacks
It makes a difference if they're dealing with a disproportionate amount of revenue concentrated in the hands of only a couple major customers. If the customers end up having disproportionate control over revenue, they can use that bully pulpit to force Intel to make changes the rest of the market may not want, hit certain price points that Intel wouldn't otherwise, etc. using the threat of do it or we go to AMD/ARM/IBM Power/build our own chip.

Edit: Fixed wording.
Going through that right now.

The girl I've been with for the past seven months I've never really felt intense feelings for. But I really enjoy her company, and it's been much easier to keep the relationship going than previous ones, which always felt like I had to make serious effort to keep it going beyond a month or two.

It used to really bother me that I didn't feel intense feelings of love and worried that maybe sometime I'd have to end things, but things keep going really well, and as we've shared more experiences together and mutually support each other, I've been having those thoughts less and less.
Hedgehogs aren't nearly as common road-kill casualties as people tend to think - it's just that their prickles break down really slowly, so we see more of their remains on the road than other animals. Not because so many of them die, just because the evidence hangs around longer.
"It could go on to show that extreme (exercising at low intensity for 8 hours a day for 5-6 months)"

That doesn't sound extreme by any definition. It sounds really hard and is a lot of output over time, but it is not at all what I would characterize as "extreme".

If I were trying to discover what "extreme" exercise did to ones heart (or body, whatever) I would simulate a life or death scare that would enlist adrenaline and then present an insurmountable obstacle (basically a steep hill, or staircase that doesn't end) and have them run to muscle failure.

That sounds like extreme physical output and that would be an interesting scenario to test heart health in.d
That comparison and its respective graph seem a bit meaningless. Of course
The system is self-regulating. The hedgehogs are self-regulating out of existence. If you don't like that outcome, something needs to be done about it.

If you're comfortable with that, then there's no problem here, sure.

"there's absolutely no reason for it other than sport, "

You mean, other than the reason given in the article?

I will say he's at least objectively correct in one part of his article; yes, other parts of the world do this sort of thing all the time. Huge swathes of the United States must have deer hunting season, and even if one finds hunting personally distasteful, the environmentalists generally don't complain too much about it. Every few years the deer hunters don't get assigned enough permits, or the deer hunters don't take them all, and we all get to live through a reminder of what happens when there are too many deer. Deer have the difference that when you hit them with the car, you may die, which is not a problem badgers have.

But, yes, it is absolutely true that it is well-understood in much of the rest of the world that if you want to live without the apex predators in your food chain that you have to take the responsibility yourself, or the ecosystem will happily "self-regulate" into an unpleasant direction. This is only hypocrisy for radical anarchists; even for libertarians who generally approve of government in monitoring roles, this is just another monitoring role.
I didn't have a choice about uninstalling the app on my old android phone. It was a built in app and all I could do was uninstall updates.

I never installed the update that included the referenced version of messenger.

On my new phone, I have never installed the app. I use use the website and it does 90% of what I want to do without the issue of running extra processes in the background on my phone.

I'm waiting for the day that Facebook depricates and/or discontinues the mobile site to force people onto the app.
While DDG uses a myriad of data sources, it's main search functionality is powered by Yahoo BOSS API. They should easily be able to switch over to BING API as Yahoo BOSS has delivered 100% Bing results anyway. However, the ads that DDG shows, and therefore their whole business model, are also powered by Yahoo BOSS API. So they will be able to continue their search engine but they won't make any money from it unless they cut a new deal for search ads.
I was in that debate too, at the end I chose to go with a two year windows phone...similar results :) , but still i can check the web if i need to.
Yes. Microsoft, alone among AV vendors, shares any signatures it finds with every other major AV vendor, so everyone is going to find everything Microsoft does, plus what their own research turns up. That said, I don't think it matters enough to bother with the problems for-pay anti-virus vendors bring.
Google's cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:r4cj06t...
This seems like a roundabout to go about finding the useful data. If a few others could just open Settings > Battery > Last 7 Days, then tap on Facebook, I'd like to see your numbers.

48 min on screen, 13 min background, 2% of overall battery

Note: Background App Refresh for Fb was set to off!

The ratio of background time to screen time is high but Facebook isn't the worst offender. For example:

Instagram - 5.8 hrs on screen, 1.5 hrs background, 18%

Snapchat - 57 min on screen, 1.4 hrs background (whoa), 3%
That's a Chrome for Android feature, you can stop it from your notifications. http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.ca/2013/02/chrome-for-a...
Ask HN: How do 100+ person startups efficiently manage employee expenses?
I can mirror this experience too. Properly working Intel SSD fwiw. Mine impacts not only file copys but also all small file I/O like listing directories (explorer would hang for 1 second entering a new directory) and the like.
Check out Angkor, Champa, Srivijaya, the (early, pre-Han) Shu Kingdom, Nanzhao, Pala, Pyu.
I think in this case "having to get a license" means "you'll have to allow us to monitor the communications if you want the license".
Real Estate Broker Arbitrage in Vancouver
https://medium.com/javascript-scene/what-is-webassembly-the-...
VPC Support is announced, see:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-lambda-update-python-vp...
Out of Band XML External Entity Injection via SAML SSO [pdf]
What's also interesting: Yahoo didn't really anounce this. I'm a Yahoo BOSS customer as well and I haven't been contacted by anyone. I only found out by randomly visiting their website.
Its so very very easy to substitute horse for beef and cut costs. I imagine the separation is to try to eliminate even the appearance of that possibility. Same reason you don't see "Yoshi Sushi House" and "Bob's Live Bait" under the same roof.
Does it count if he is using a snorkel? I know that's like the world's dumbest question, but I am really tempted to use a snorkel at my local swimming pool to help get exercise and avoid the whole not breathing for half the time issue.

If he can, so can I :-)
We're happy to machine your parts at: http://Plethora.com and happy to ship to Germany.

Pricing varies, but we have no setup costs (i.e. the expensive up-front part about mass production), so a single part can be as cheap as about $50.
Of course the use of the German proposition as a hint has decreased -- I would think the clue "car service" is being used with greater frequency these days
I find myself coming back to stackoverflow after I leave a language/toolset for a while. I'm not a "beginner" in those things but stuff like syntax may not be fresh on my mind, and SO is great for reminders like that.