skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Block `twimg.com` and see the count climbing to over 460 -- because of the avatars in the comment section. Personally I block such ubiquitous hostnames by default (using uBO's dynamic filtering), as they are as good as trackers (for Twitter in the current case).
Do you really think it affects Github as a hole and not just a single repo?
You are not alone. Seen it happen here and there, including me too. One guess I have is that it is related to information overload that is prevalent these days.
New free open source python web app for sending passwords over insecure channels
"There will still be people who waste their BI for a variety of reasons, and I don't think society will be fine with them living destitute with no additional safety net."

I am not "fine with them living destitute", but if a person cannot get by with a reasonable income provided then clearly they need some sort of help beyond the financial. "Means tested free stuff" doesn't seem a very good fit.
I'd double check the emissions readings before and after this "bug fix".
> Perfectly illustrates why more nuclear states are not needed until the challenges of command and control, and waste are addressed. For example Iran's "right" to a peaceful nuclear program ought not to be absolute when a single failure to keep its materials and people secure can mean disaster for many other nations.

"U.S. Air Force relieves nine officers following nuclear test cheating probe"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-ai...

"In Error, B-52 Flew Over U.S. With Nuclear-Armed Missiles"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_States_Air_Force_n...

"Bill Clinton 'lost vital White House nuclear codes"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8...

"Wikipedia: US Military Nuclear Weapons Incidents"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accid...

So when do we (I'm a US citizen) hand in our nuclear card? No nation state has any business having weaponized nuclear materials (or infrastructure to weaponize non-weapons grade material) in their possession.
PredictionIo joines salesforce
Why not just use less dots to begin with? Or, in other words, apply the Law of Demeter[0]. To me, diving so many levels deep into dependencies is a code smell because it tightly couples code to sub-dependencies and makes refactoring more difficult.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Demeter
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I would rephrase it slightly as "Twitter is predominantly a push platform for celebrity".
You don't need AI for something this simple
I'm into tech. I don't use or consume Twitter. May it ever be that way.
If the server you're targeting is quite slow in terms of sending a response back, let's say its 500ms on average, isn't this an expensive exercise? I mean, AWS Lambda charges for every 100ms of utilisation.
DECRIPTION OF 22 TYPE OF VIRUS
The Scotland Bill is currently working its way through the House of Lords (currently at committee stage) - http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/scotland.html

The Bill recognises the Scottish Parliament and a Scottish government as permanent among UK's constitutional arrangements, with a referendum required before either can be abolished. In addition new powers/control given to the Scottish government include:

* The ability to set Income Tax rates and bands
* Control over several benefits and removable taxes including Air Passenger Duty and Disability Living Allowance
* The right to receive half of the VAT raised in Scotland
* Extended powers over Employment Support and Universal Credit
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There's a whole caste of people you will never interact with, they're the TED attendees.

I'd venture a guess that as soon as TED became a little popular, it's value actually went down because a bunch of blow-hards would spend the 8500$ to try and give a sales pitch to the elite caste. When that happens, the elite move on.

As an example - in Toronto there's a thing called 'Granite Club', which's just a big gym with tennis courts etc. The initiation fee is 53,000$ per couple.

That's just to make sure people who actually work for a living can't afford it.
I was talking about triggering a change in taxable value, not a house being assessed at $1
I think one of the core aspects that attracts people to social media is feeling like they are in the loop. Twitter is very good at creating that feeling by encouraging its users to send lots of short messages containing real time information. But the problem is exactly this: There is way too much noise. The users receive all of these messages that make it seem like they are wired in, but in reality they are bombarded with lots of vacuous nonsense. It's similar to reading celebrity news: It may seem like you are getting important information, but in reality none of it actually matters.
Jeez, did you have to use "journey" in your announcement?
Ask HN: Is there a benefit is working as fast as you can?
I suppose the reason for this post is I am starting to burnout at work.

Frankly I am just not as fast as some people and it takes me longer to get to the end result. In a more relaxed atmosphere you have time to work these things out. Sometimes I'll be doing pair programming trying to solve an issue. My mind needs time to connect to dots but some people are just so fast one thing after another. So in those cases I am blank. They look at me like I'm nuts but I just haven't gotten there yet.

People here just tend to work 9am-5pm incredibly aggressively. Other going out to lunch and meetings people are completely focused going 100% at projects. To me it's incredibly exhausting. I leave the office everyday zapped.
It is. You have to give this book some time, but it is just Eco's way to present though provoking ideas.
Mutation is a passive phenomenon. Evolution requires mutation and selection, and selection is very much subject to external circumstances. A mutation that makes an organism less likely to die from predation has no value in an environment without predators and won't be selected for. The same mutation in a sea of hungry enemies is a huge advantage and the organism that carries it will outcompete its relatives.
I started using Let's Encrypt for a new app backend that I am building. I find very useful its free service as it give developers the opportunity to use secure servers to keep users privacy and server's security for free
Google's advertising revenue-via-search-monopoly gives them a lot of cushion. No matter how poorly (or well) managed they are, problems won't be visible unless the search advertising market starts to dry up, because no one will question their performance. It would be interesting to observe an alternate universe where Google that had to derive revenue solely from hardware sales.

Yes, applying any single philosophy as a replacement for sound perspective on your business fundamentals seems like a bad idea. However, you don't typically see executives preaching communism as a solution. There is something particularly seductive about Randism to a certain class of corporative executive.
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> We fucked up the front door, but we totally won't fuck up the back door.

This is the most apt summary of this whole situation. I expect to see a family-friendly version of this phrase in the media over the coming days.
The Different Ways Tech Startups in SF and NY Spend Money (Infographic)
Twitter's market or demographic is recreational lynch mobs. It amplifies people's worst natures. The sooner it implodes the better the world will be.
Xiaomi plans to use smartphone chips designed in-house
... waiting to hear about google's indirect funding of sea steading projects.
you wrote
> why not just make it free??

And i i've answered your question and pointed why it's impossible now. I've wrote about free food in about 100 years from now, it would imply you referred to that it this context, saying it would still have high costs in 100 years from now too (If not then why even write anything about current situation if whole talk is about future ?). Seeing how world changes, i don't think that what you wrote will be true in 100 years from now.
Maybe it's just past due? Communities die over time. Twitter was innovative back when the options were limited. Now days I get a better experience from other options like the rooms in Whatsapp. The only thing they seem to have going is the amount of "celebrities" that maintain an account. Though I dont know how sustainable that is over time.
They have access to the iCloud backup, but they want access to the phone's contents. The backup is more than a month old.
I started using Let's Encrypt for a new app backend that I am building. I find it very useful as it give developers the opportunity to use secure servers to keep users privacy and server's security for free
I wish I could post the tweet where I said something like, "the beginning to the end of the twitter." That was right after their anti-developer community $hit. That's what happens when your in-house product team is insecure about the brilliance of the community.

Ok probably little harsh there. But I used to love this service and its potential. Now it's meh.
But also remembered to change the name of the original game.
The D IDE Coedit is not a RAD tool like Lazarus. It does nothing with reflection, like Lazarus does, typically object streaming based on what's done by the user in the visual designer, written to a file, that get linked in the final application and reloaded at run-time with object de-streaming.

In comparison, Lazarus + LCL + packages is 1.59M SLOC while Coedit barely reaches 30K SLOC.

Coedit is really a simple program, it's just an editor dedicated to D, with facilities to compile projects (DUB, DMD-based custom format) and also to run D modules from scratch, it's just a GUI with a lot of piped sub-processes under the hood ^^
StartSSL isn't free. They charge for certificate revocation.
i think it's a generational thing. if you asked people 10 years before facebook to post pictures of themselves voluntarily all over the web, they would have the same response.

the same will happen for 3d likenesses once it's trivial to post '3d selfies' on '3d instagram'.
Here's the tweet:

"The County was working cooperatively with the FBI when it reset the iCloud password at the FBI's request."

https://twitter.com/countywire/status/700887823482630144
Hiring a tax law firm at $1,000 an hour is probably way cheaper :-)
Meanwhile, you can use Rust now where traits (which fill a very similar niche to concepts) have been available for a long time, and are widely used in the standard library.

Of course, once you do, you find that some of the traits you would like to be able to use aren't expressible without "higher kinded types" (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/324), so there are still some big features that everyone kind of hopes will happen soon but there's no current plan for. But the existing trait system gets you pretty far for a lot of what you want to do.
> particularly political partisans

I think I identified the problem. Hey, let's boil down all complex answers to complex problems along a 1-dimensional axis and then completely and voluntarily ignore half that axis! What could possibly go wrong?

> how much does presentation matter?

A lot, in my experience trying to change minds.

> can we present the same facts in a way that is more pallatable?

Humor is perfect for this. "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you." -Oscar Wilde

> what if we tried to coax the audience into believing they came to the conclusion from the facts themselves?

This is much easier to do on an individual basis than en masse. You basically hand-hold someone down their line of thinking until you get to the dissonance, then comes the important bit, you take a step back. If the person feels coerced in any way, they will push back, which is why you simply try to walk them down their own train of thought. Eventually they will stumble, especially if you gently lay some facts in the way... At all times you must respect their opinion.

All of this would be much easier if people didn't tie their egos to their beliefs so tightly.
You should try version 2, it's better. It supports DUB natively now.
If the player is able to rewrite the rules of the game (or prevent such rewriting) in order to benefit themselves, they gain culpability. Yes, we should focus on fighting them, but that was never in question.
I agree with you. Unbelievable. I upvoted you btw :-)

Quality of readers of HN and reddit getting lower all the time.

Look forward to being downvoted for ageeing with you :-)
There's no problem with twitter - there's a problem for twitter's investors and people who want to make money from Twitter. They can go solve their rich people problems all day :)

As a user, I've always liked it - it's nice and simple.
http://www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/site/CERTFR-2016-ALE-001/index.h...
I read somewhere on the internet that Twitter is a "write-only medium". As in, you write to expect feedback or exposure, but really don't care about other's tweets.
> If people think this is wrong the same people should ignore taking any deductions on their personal taxes.

That's a false equivalency and and you should be smart enough to know it.
Who is Donald Trump’s sister and why is South Carolina so interested in her?
> I would bet that the engineers described what would need to happen. ... The FBI took that "solution" and ran with what they described.

I think you absolutely nailed it!

For a high-profile investigation like this, Apple would have given the FBI access to the key developers in the security group. The developers are smart guys trying to be helpful. They are not thinking about Apple policy, or constitutional law, or the big picture of world liberty and privacy. They are tasked with finding the solution to a technical problem: How to get access to protected data.

What likely happened--exactly as you already suggested--is that the FBI asked the developers to explain how the security system could have been designed so as to permit easy government access in cases like this. The FBI was asking "hypothetically" of course. The developers happily gave a blueprint of how the system could have been designed.

The FBI now demands that blueprint be implemented.

Apple should have talked to the FBI through lawyers only.
Yes but some are more stable.
> Computing with units (which is tough to put in a language, but so is compilation

F#'s units are nice.

> Computing with dates in a sensible way

The new Java time API is pretty good. But honestly my favourite datetime API would have to be Postgres'.

> BigDecimal for currency, let me laugh

Out of curiosity, why?
Conflict of interest.
well, and no one uses sms any more
If i had to hazard a guess? Some slightly muddled thinking, mired in the ill-considered application existing digital copyright law concepts.
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I thought it fit in with this answer and also not display stuff for other social networks:

https://twittercommunity.com/t/displaying-tweets-amongst-oth...
This company might find it easier to recruit good developers if they had better working conditions. The photo[1] shows everyone sitting in one room with people hunched over tiny laptop screens (poor ergonomics for extended work) sitting across the table from other people. I'd be really creeped out if I had to work with someone staring across the table at me all day.

[1] The photo's file name is "Coccoon-team-800x400.png", so it does apparently depict working conditions at Coccoon.
I used to use Twitter. I stopped, because it didn't fit in my life anymore. I have a fixed amount of attention every day, and more critical things use almost all of it. None of my friends use Twitter anymore, and news aggregators bring me up-to-date in much less time than my tweet feed.
I was involved in putting concepts into the g++ standard library, for the aborted C++0x concept design.

My feeling is this is a classic example of an area where the perfect is the enemy of the good.

At one extreme we have C++'s current design -- try substituting the types into the template and see what explodes. At the other extreme (which is what C++0x templates did) is that if a template passes 'concept check', we know, 100%(ish), that the resulting code is going to compile.

The problem is, that this means when you write the concepts for a function, you have to have concepts for every corner of the C++ language you could make use of. This means for many functions the concept list ended up being longer than the function! Further, it is easy to miss optimisations (such as rvalue references), because you didn't 'concept' for them.

The latest aim is (to me) a good middle-ground. It checks (for example) that something is "numberish", or "iteratorish". You can easily create freakish types which will pass concept check, and then not compile, leading to the kind of error messages users currently get. But the common cases, of people passing sensible, but wrong, things into methods, will get much nicer errors.
Lots of people install ublock but never look at the settings or enable dynamic filtering. Thats probably why you get more than them.
We had a similar issue about half a year ago while driving 2016 XC60 D4 (i.e. 4 cylinders) on a highway. I guess they'll have more cars to recall.
<satire>

This makes me fucking sick. Google is a beautocratic monolith and doesn't deserve to be subsidized by the people. They should pay the government in full so we can finally get back to making progress.

I don't want to suggest Google would spend all that money on hammers(as this was largely a myth) but they certainly won't be spending it protecting the american people. Google should do the right thing here and pay up.

Almost 3400[0] people die from terrorism, if you include people in the middle east directly interacting with terrorists as well as domestic terrorism and also actual instances of terrorism. Does google really think 463billion is enough to protect America?

Leave the decision making to the people who are qualified cyber security is a big deal and I need a group with a success record to protect me.

</satire>

Edit: Made it clear this was in jest. While I regularly state we incur risk using google for everything pretty obvious it is a net good and even from a non-financial return on value, i would invest my taxes in google.

[0]http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/02/us/oregon-shooting-terrorism-g...
Could they modify IPv4 in a backwards-compatible way, allocating more address space to that part of the TCP header for example? And including perhaps a version flag?

In fact I'm not sure why it wasn't done that way to begin with, unless IPv6 fixes a bunch of other problems I was not aware of
Thanks for your input! The are a ton of challenges ahead, and scaling experts is one of them. But as for now, getting demand is harder than supply. Although the demand is surely affected by the quality of the experts.
I'm a normal person, and I can't figure it out. Every time I see a link to twitter, I can't tell who is responding to who. It looks like snippets of conversations, but I can rarely figure out the context. I don't think I'm looking at a timeline view, just a particular tweet.
In this article:

Left-wing intelligent! Right-wing evil or idiots!
Implementing a monad is only 30% of the deal.

Being able to abstract over monads (and other type constructors) ... that's the part that really matters.

C# is not expressive enough for that.
The money isn't really lost though. It would go towards services and infrastructure for everyone. Are those alternatives considered in the corporation's accountings?

Please, take this down to -4.
This is like the icing in the cake! If it turns out the FBI's incompetence to secure the apartment prevented them from reconnecting the iPhone to the wifi in order to get a fresh backup off of it.
Wait, a company decided on their own to build a better product? Without government regulation? And then became wildly successful? I don't think Ayn Rand would have a problem with that.
That happened pretty soon after the original submission.
TED is now a full-blown lifestyle company like GoPro or Whole Foods, except instead of one or two celebrity endorsements, they gain a new implicit endorsement every time they book a new speaker. franchising TEDx was a brilliant move; first, for the casual consumer, TED content (by people like Bill Gates) is confounded with TEDx content from some local idiot. from a valuation point of view this increases your average ad rates. line/brand extension, this is marketing 101. TED jumped the shark a long time ago when they started having poetry readings and shit.
I expected this to be a thing 15+ years ago, starting with this at Stanford: http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/mich/
For those with lower social skills, there are plumbing, home improvement (hard/risky for elderly or the ill), security guards, public infrastructure development (welding, checking for leaks), household/public gardening, etc. There are a lot of needs which humans will be more cost-effective than advanced robots in the foreseeable future.

If everything is perfect in a country, they can send aid to a foreign land for compassion, goodwill, and diplomatic relations. Always more work is available to do until..

When the whole world becomes like heaven and nowhere is left to improve, which is a long time to come, money would be far less important than it is now.
99.999% chance it's a scam to collect the money and run, or to collect the money and earn interest, then refund.

There's a very little chance the phone is subsidized in some obscure way, but I doubt it.
But the question never stated that 108 and 23 meant anything more than numbers you use in the formula. So, if she were given 216 phones per week, and she fixes 46 per day, then the formula would hold true.

So the question does not provide enough information to select the answer they have designated as correct.

(This is many days later and I no longer have the question in front of me, and I'm not willing to invest the time to find it. But this was my thinking when I posted this).
Call it *untu, and be done with it? :D
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The distinction is that trading labour for money/capital is a creation of society. It's not a natural rule. There are gatekeepers. I can't simply decide to go out and kill some wild animals or whatever and eat, and I can't decide to chop trees down and build a house. Getting a job is not a simple matter of just deciding to do it.

By contrast, eating well is, aside from in cases of poverty, completely a matter of free choice.
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One noteworthy bastardization of modern justice is that our right to trial by a jury of our peers has long been infringed.

We are supposed to be judged by people of our approximate age, origin, location, background, etc, to allow for a greater understanding of context.

Random jury selection is an abomination.
The hard drive content is encrypted. Assuming there are no backdoors, seems like the only thing they can try is to make bruteforcing easier.
Half inched - pinched - stolen.
IIUC, there's https://github.com/buggins/dlangide that's gonna become a RAD tool, based on this GUI library: https://github.com/buggins/dlangui .
Thanks dchuk, you too! Gearing up for a "go big or go home" kind of attack soon... definitely can't complain!
My point is that you have to present your ID at a British border control. Germany to Spain - nichts, nada, zilch. I just walk straight through.