skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Putting these prices in perspective for western readers should result in laughter: the new price for 95-octane is equivalent to $0.11/gallon using weakest official Simadi FX rate of about 203 VEF/USD, and 5 times less using the black market FX rate. The price previously was 0.097 bolivar/liter or about one-fifth of a U.S. cent per gallon.

And while the price is indeed laughable to western readers, price increases such as this one are all too tragic to the local population which is paid in local currency terms, and for whom this is merely the latest checkmark on the hyperinflationary wall."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-17/venezuela-devalues-...
Apple telling reporters they can bypass Secure Enclave on newer phones
> JVM configuration

This is the mother of all premature optimization. Other than maybe modifying heap size or setting client vs. server, most of the default JVM configurations work for almost everything.

> build system configuration

I actually find maven pretty easy to use, but maybe it's just that I am used to it.

> IDE configuration

I don't know what crazy IDE you are using, but both Intellij and Netbeans need very little, if any, configuration out of the box.

> [Java] community goes off on some crusade

As opposed to everyone else? /s
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This is quite impressive! The vehicles and flight simulation suggests that this is being developed for some specific game, but I couldn't find any references on the page. Does anyone know if this is the case, or if the engine is just being developed for more general purpose use?
> Devils advocate: if you think it is important, then why don't you want to know when it's fixed?

Because I've implemented a workaround (after spending a few hours tearing my hair out wondering why the straightforward version didn't work) and I may or may not ever remove the workaround, not to mention I might have dropped the project or changed company entirely by then.

I may or may not care that it's fixed (though I probably do in the chance that I have to do this again in the future and have by then forgotten about the need for a workaround), but I do want to notify somebody that I have hit that issue and have had to work around it, and that it would be nice if future users didn't go through my own experience.
All security features can be circumvented. Security is not absolute
I find it interesting that many people look at governments differently than they look at say grocery stores or auto mechanics. If a grocery store or auto mechanic is charging too much or providing poor service, I would go to another one. Why don't people do that with governments? Obviously, because they're kinda "stuck". Moving can be a serious pain in the rear.

So how to make moving easier? If you're renting a home, then it's certainly easier to move than if you're owning. However, it's still a major pain if you own a lot of physical stuff. But as far as I can tell, owning lots of physical stuff is becoming less and less necessary. You no longer need a huge amount of music records, paper books, VHS movies, billiard table, pinball machine etc., since you can fit all those things into a tiny computer. Also, online shopping makes finding/buying any item easy, so keeping things just in case you might need them someday makes less sense now than it used to.

I currently own a home, but I'm tempted to become a renter.
Never heard of it before. That group seems to have published a phase II trial so I would assume they'd be looking at a phase III.

I always look at "promising results" with skepticism, especially when the authors have a direct financial interest in the project.

To keep in mind: complete remissions and partial remissions are good, but they're "softer" outcomes. What we want to see is an impact on "harder" outcomes, mainly overall survival. Cause-specific survival is another good one.

We like to associate tumor shrinkage with better survival but it's not that simple (unfortunately). Do we kill people with our treatment? It shrinks the tumors, but for how long? Is the treatment convenient? How did they define "partial response"? What tool did they use? -- the list goes on.
The previous paragraph says that rats destroyed the trees. I'm not sure how rats felled the trees though - perhaps they ate them?
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If you're the kind of idiot who forgets that you have a gun in your bag you're the kind of idiot that forgets to put it in out of the reach of children.

We want those people to be discovered, and reminded to keep their lethal weapon in a safe place and to remember at all times where their lethal weapon is.
"the image is dominated by red and blue, a sign that scientists are more likely to cite the research that conforms to their outlook."

Or a sign that the green lines were drawn first, and test red and blue overlaid.
For personal projects, you can pick whatever language you want, possibly the most fun one that is still practical. Haskell or Elixir look promising in this regard.

For companies, there are more factors to consider, eg. finding devs at a correct price, getting existing workforce to work on a new tech, size of standard/open source library, getting help and bugfixes from community instead of hacking on your own, risk of language/tech losing steam, etc. That's why several comparatively "boring" languages still thrive.
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Yeah it seems reasonable to me that they take on the whole job in order to find where/if they might fit in to generate long-term profits.

One might even conceive that they'd do it just to stir up the market and, like you say, see if anything sticks.
Port of Rotterdam doesn't randomly check containers. They have pretty good systems to determine if something strange is going on. You cannot just extrapolate the 4% if the distribution wasn't random.
I'm always confused about the duality of our pro-China but anti-Cuba attitude.

The idea of saturating Cuba with Americans to try something different to awaken the people to alternatives is a good idea, at least better than what we've done for the past half century.

And the scale of the evil the Castros have done is nothing compared to China. Cuba doesn't kidnap people from other countries and have them suddenly appear on Cuba TV confessing to crimes.
>Nope, because everything is ultimately dependent on the hardware key in the Secure Enclave

The phone in question is an iPhone 5C which does not have a Secure Enclave, only a burned-in hardware ID.

It's also worth pointing out that there's no clear evidence that the Secure Enclave must clear all keys as part of a SE firmware update (just speculation that this would be reasonable).
It'a good they didn't do some other consumer-facing product this time. Algorithms and infrastructure are their strong points.
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"The number of Americans trying to smuggle guns on to planes keeps rising"

Is the actual headline. And it's one I find fault with. The mere presence of a gun in somebody's bag does not imply "smuggling".

As alien as it seems to us in the UK (and elsewhere), there are certain parts of the US where people think absolutely nothing of carrying a gun around with them all the time. I have little doubt that some percentage of these finds are just due to forgetfulness, and not to any malign intent.
Don't get me wrong, Leonardo's work was very important, but I am okay with not knowing something he didn't believe was worth knowing.
> My accountant is over 45 and can use computers just fine.

"I'm not racist, I have a black friend."

> Why do you need to interpret things in such a black-and-white manner?

You said something absurd, so I said something absurd to highlight it.
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Do you know any framework using http2 on go lang?
Yeah they got me it seems.

https://i.imgur.com/jiGTnnp.jpg
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Is there literally no other way that the FBI could get the data off the phone?

I'm sure they could download the memory, stick it all in some kind of iOS VM and try every 4-digit PIN in no time, all without worrying that the phone would self-destruct.

Couldn't they?
I started off python learning python 3, but a few months into it, I was forced do a project in python 2. It was a turning point, I immediately ported over all my python projects to python 2. To me, it just seemed more simple, elegant, and cleaner. It was the more pythonic version of python. And if I'm still working with python after 2020, I'll be using python 2.
Minor incidents? People would be letting their kids play with them and shoot other kids/people with them, police would have to meet every plane landing to arrest people for tasering the people behind them kicking their seat.

BTW if you let all passengers have them, you'd be arming terrorists, sooner or later - all they have to do is use it on a pilot going to the bathroom, if they are ready to die they don't need anyone to land the plane.
Maybe you're right but I think that you would have to be very absent-minded to accidentally bring a gun with you into airport security.
I don't understand this, what is more "pythonic" about 2?
It's certainly not a forum for one single particular type of computer enthusiast.
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I wonder whether the components will be available a la carte like they are now, or if it's going to be a single bundle.
Apple vs. FBI vs. Cuban's suggestion
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Cuba is a new market for startups of all kinds, including natives making their own startups (once they get reliable internet).
Not going to happen IMO, yet no advantages to do the transition.
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Robot arm in to an insulated dropbox with an automated door?

More likely you get a text message with an access code and pick your boxes out of the trunk.
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The CIA had spent a lot of time and money installing and arming the Batista regime, a murderous, brutal but pliant Mafia-backed kleptocracy in Cuba, and were absolutely furious when it was suddenly taken away from them.

The US has basically been sulking ever since.
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So you're in favor then of psychological profiling and no fly lists? Because those certainly block people who the government "thinks" are dangerous, regardless of the actual danger posed by the items on their person.
It seems to me that in otherwise healthy people, they are able to deal with excess salt by getting rid of it, but when people have issues they are unable to do so as efficiently and that's when salt is bad.
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Coursera and keystroke biometrics
Have you ever accidentally brought a bottle of shampoo or scissors? You are vastly underestimating how common it is to have a gun in some parts of the country. It is just an everyday item like anything else to some people.
here's another idea:

1. Create a grocery list online, 2. pickup packaged ready-to-go order at local warehouse
For a start DirectX, so it wont work on most devices.
How long would it take, given the immense computing capabilities of the government, to try every possible permutation of Apple's signing keys in order for them to be able to sign their own home-grown version of iOS? With over a billion devices at stake, isn't that what intelligence agencies would actively be targeting?
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The author of this comes off as an aggressive jerk, but I will agree that a lot of entrepreneurs and start up founders have this holier-than-thou attitude. I took a (useless) course on entrepreneurship at my university and a large part of it was studying the personality traits of successful entrepreneurs and how your personality should be like. It all just seemed to devolve into mental masturbation with entrepreneurs giving talks about how they were great and how you should be like them and how important they are to the world. Another thing I've noticed is that this self-aggrandizing attitude leads those same people to treat others (employees, friends, etc) like shit.
You would have to have a taser license perhaps, and you'd get a discount when flying. Especially if there's a shortage of security people on a particular flight. Airports could have 20 minute courses while you're waiting for your delayed flight anyway. This is normal par for the course, one would just sell it as normal crowd sourcing / uberizing of cabin security. ;)
My favourite thing about logstash-forwarder was that it was apparently an actual intentional design decision to shut the service down if none of the log files it was watching moved in 24 hours. I'm still trying to figure that one out - a quiescent service... shuts itself down... by default... to what end? Ended up having to cronjob it to restart every day. If you wanted it not to do that, from memory you had to rebuild it from scratch.

I've never actually come across that in a service before, one that shuts itself down due to inactivity. I mean, they must be out there, but I never would have guessed it'd be intentionally designed into a log shipper.
Actually, there are universities doing genetic research on corn that have published some variants under free licenses.

So he might actually be able to eat corn under GPL license.
As a content Android user (don't own or plan to own a single iOS device though I have used iPads at work) and I replaced my Nexus 7 (2013) with the Pixel C.

So far my only criticism has been the price tag. The keyboard is pretty much mandatory to get the full experience and with the keyboard and two spare cables I ended up with ~€800 for the whole package.

Yes, some apps can get laggy (more so than they should) and it's good to see the firmware is getting some updates but it's far from "completely dysfunctional".
The last time I flew in Europe, there was a huge skip next to the security check. As far as I could see, it was full of exactly two things: bottles of drinks and bottles of sunscreen. It seems a reasonable assumption that these weren't being "smuggled" on board for nefarious purposes but had instead been left in people's bags unintentionally or due to ignorance of the rules and then picked up on a scan when it was too late to transfer anything worth keeping to checked luggage. One would hope that anyone possessing a firearm would be more aware of it, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if at least some non-zero level of passengers in areas where people routinely and legally carry do forget.
>> Last year, undercover TSA agents managed to smuggle concealed guns and bombs past security 96% of the time

The system for gun/bomb detection is only as good as the agents responsible for it. For example, I saw my friend accidentally sneak a knife onto an plane two years ago. The metal detector flagged him, and he confidently told the official present: "Oh, it's my belt!" and after taking it off he walked through, with no further probing. He literally forgot about his EDC knife and wound up with it on the flight. It must be noted that this was in South Africa, but having travelled to both the USA and Europe, I know it could have happened there too.

The current system is not robust to human error, and this is its fundamental flaw. Con artists and psychologists know how to systematically induce human error [1, 2]. It is conceivable that malicious actors (or TSA people pretending to be) can do exactly that and reliably subvert a human detection system. As an aside, it would be interesting to see TSA people try sneak weapons onto an El-Al flight [see 3, 4, 5 for why]. A humorous anecdote: once when returning from Israel, I had my bag full of dirty clothes thoroughly man-handled by an irate woman from El-Al security. I had two books inside, each with a metal inset in the spine. As soon as this was found out, I went from being treated like a terrorist to a non-threat in a few seconds. It was remarkably efficient.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias

[3] http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1001458258397595640

[4] http://edition.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/11/yeffet.air.securit...

[5] http://www.tabletmag.com/the-roll/102229/the-gatekeepers
Why does a respectable news outlet/paper like the Washington Post lower itself to clickbait titles.. I don't get it.
Don't lash out at people you clearly don't understand. When storing a gun in a bag you don't leave it loaded and you certainly don't leave it loaded with the safety off. In many cases these even likely have a lock on them (I lock when transporting them).
I can't wait until the Goog finally builds entire cities, countries and planets. Stop trifling with the details.
Those demo planets look they are only few hundred miles in diameter. Is this a hardware limitation or it is simply done here to shorten the demos?
I think their point is that if you forget about a gun when you are travelling on a plane then you are the sort of person who probably does not take a great deal of care of your weapons, i.e. knowing where it is at all times. It is these sort of guns that are found by children, not the ones stored in gun cabinets or in locked drawers.
Okay, I see you are trying to have an argument there. But what's with all the rage?
python-modernize[1] tries to automatically make your codebase compatible with both Python 2 and 3, using 2to3 and six[2] underneath. I haven't tried it yet, though.

[1] https://github.com/mitsuhiko/python-modernize

[2] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/six
For one thing it means you wouldn't have to screw around with the peculiarities of the JVM.
What do you believe distinguishes "science" from "data science"? I.e., why can't "logistics" be a subset of "science"?
At least the we can all agree that salt is good for our passwords.
Can somebody explain what this means? I'm still confused. Firmware lockdown, does it mean I can't install dd-wrt or something? Any other consequenses?
Try to put yourself into the mindset of somebody who categorises their gun along with their wallet, phone, and pocket knife as items they routinely carry around all the time, rather than as something foreign and frightening.

You would have to be absent-minded, but perhaps not quite as absent minded as you might think.
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It's definitely a failing of modern virtual-memory operating systems that there's no nice way of doing this without getting the filesystem involved or creating race conditions. Windows almost does this right with the Nt* APIs for manipulating sections, but user space programs are not supposed to use those directly. Instead they're stuck with the Windows 9x-era public APIs. A modern API for manipulating virtual memory would be a really powerful thing to have.
Like ORM, NoSQL looks as a good decision at the beginning...

http://blogs.tedneward.com/post/the-vietnam-of-computer-scie...
Cash is dangerous. You never know when Abe Lincoln will leap out of your wallet, knife at your throat, demanding all your Benjamins. Also, 100% of people with AIDS have touched cash in their life. Coincidence?
The majority of American airports are not serviced by trains. Public transport to an airport usually involves several bus transfers and at least an extra hour or more of travel time, on top of having to transport your luggage on and off each bus and hoping there is room for you and your items.

Americans don't hate public transport, it's just simply not available like it is in Europe. A lot of this stems historically from automotive manufacturers buying up streetcar companies and then dismantling them to force people to drive and also the antiquated rail infrastructure that gives preference to freight cargo over passenger trains.
Titles like "Scientists can't decide" always grate on me. Almost as bad as "Science has found out x!".
In the US, the 30 year fixed rate mortgage is the most popular type of mortgage by a wide margin.
Yeah, I was wrong, he was arrested for not appearing in court (although it's not clear that he actually received the summons to appear in court). This was blatant spreading of FUD on my part. Props to you for actually reading the sources others post, and I am ashamed of myself and will try be more like you and read articles fully, not only skim them, in the future.
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I would prefer much more to have something hosted by me and being open source
at the same time (I'm looking at you, Splunk). I'm desperate enough to write
such thing myself (and I'm already doing some research on indexing
semi-structured data), even if it would turn out not-too-scalable (I only have
~1.5GB/day of uncompressed logs), but I'm scared by the need of tolerance for
abrupt shutdowns and hitting a free disk space limit, i.e., database
recoverability.
Flask actually performs better on CPython than PyPy as of right now
http://www.blevesearch.com/

It has an very long way ahead to catch up with Lucene, but it's a very promising start.
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>The idea of saturating Cuba with Americans to try something different to awaken the people to alternatives is a good idea, at least better than what we've done for the past half century.

Except this wont happen. The natives will become (as they are now) second class to tourists and foreign businesses. The people this benefits are the Castro regime, foreign business, and people that want a new cheap tourist destination.
Elasticsearch is Java, and the logstash tarball includes it and kibana from memory, so you can run it as an all-in-one where logstash launches it's own Elasticsearch.

While I don't have the tiniest font in my terminal, I still couldn't read the entire Elasticsearch process line in htop, even when I'd stretched the terminal all the way across three monitors! The middle one was an ultrawide! I really wish Java would stop using arguments instead of storing config somewhere...
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I typically use elasticsearch-py[0] to build and test queries. Deeply nested JSON documents are a headache.

[0] http://elasticsearch-py.readthedocs.org/en/master/
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Nope. Latitude is the entry-level business line, then there's Optiplex, with Precison workstations on top.

There's also Vostro, which is the small/home office line.

I wasn't making a comment on build quality, just on Dell's branding and pricing.