skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I imagine when you "buy" your supplies and don't pay for them until about ninety days after you took delivery of the supplies, that is considered debt as well?"

Yes, it is. In both an accounting sense, and a legal sense.

"I mean if they have to go through a rough patch again, won't any credit terms they get (banks, investors, or suppliers) automatically be worse?"

Yes. It's a standard death-spiral path for a company to be viewed as unable to pay their suppliers, and thus becomes unable to generate revenues. The way out is usually some sort of senior or secured (ie collateralized) debt.
They said web hipsters, I think they know they are basically the security obsessed cvs hipsters themselves.
Assume there were a revolution in the US. What are the chances (after years of bloodshed) that we'd end up with something better?

Who exactly, among the politicians and leaders, or anyone else for that matter, would you be willing to follow into battle?

A revolution has a huge cost, it's not just a matter of fear.
> Just how many LUTs is 308? The smallest Kintex-7 FPGA is the K70T with 65,600 logic cells (“the logic equivalent of a classic 4-input LUT and a flip-flop” according to User Guide UG474), so we’re talking about a resource consumption of much less than 1% of that very small programmable device.

So...you could put 100 8088 work-alikes on one FPGA?

At the risk of inducing /. nostalgia in the old timers here...can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?
Pretty obvious weak move restricting by UA$.

Allow by IP range? You can probably find a somewhat accurate range for Google and whoever's crawlers.
Every time you add another comment you modify the proposed diet....

But anyway, key points on the rice diet:

> patients were hospitalized for several weeks at the beginning of treatment.

This was a diet specifically created for people who were otherwise going to die. It was never promoted as a healthy diet for normal individuals.

> white rice, sugar, fruit, fruit juices, vitamins and iron

So not just rice. Not just rice and fruit juice. But also whole fruit plus vitamins and iron to account for the fact that just eating rice will kill you.

Also, not brown rice at all. You're just pulling in random stuff to try to support your wild claims.

> Kempner described his diet as "a monotonous and tasteless diet which would never become popular.... Kempner's only defense of its use was the fact that “it works,” and that the diet was preferable to the alternative of certain death"

Sounds like a great endorsement of the diet from its creator.
Yes, police don't ask the storage unit owner to break open the door - they just do it. In this case they're even asking first and willing to reimburse Apple, which is nice for a change.

If you think anything more than one phone's security is being "demolished", then you've been mislead by Apple into thinking their devices have security properties that they don't actually have. If their reputation takes it a hit, it will be due to their negligent design and marketing, not from the inevitably resulting correction. Security does not suffer politics.
Given that fonts are attack vectors, why style text at all?
I agree with you, but then who would pay for my travel points and cash back?
Folks have been using React in production since way before version 0.12, which is when Facebook should have released version 1.0. Releasing 1.0 doesn't in any way limit your ability to make changes in the future. It does, however, allow for more nuanced semantic versioning with the full range of major, minor, and patch versions. This extremely is useful for both library authors and consumers.

Better late than never, I suppose, but I just don't understand the pointless sentiment that results in waiting to release a fabled "1.0" release.
> r1.3 added blinking to the page.

... because epileptics should suffer, apparently.
Secondary shops flooded with unicorn sellers
Because it's difficult to read.
They are already fairly luxury priced, so a price doubling wouldn't be as big of a sales depressor as you would think.

And many other things would go up in price with a depressed currency in general.
There's nothing you can do in a 0.x.x release that wouldn't also conform to the Semver rule around incrementing the MAJOR version: http://semver.org/#spec-item-8

The idea of 0.x.x reflecting a level of instability not reflected by MAJOR version bumps is cute in theory but broken in practice.
Telling a good story is everything and 25 other lessons I learned as GM of Vine
Most Chinese don't read English, so they can't access this site anyway.
> it protects the data by immediately wiping internal storage of all key material.

Yeah, so how, exactly, do they wipe their data? Is it a firmware process? What if they are unpowered as they are tampered?

Or is the media attached in such a way that physically removing it would damage it physically?
Unauthorized? If you put up a sign and tell people they have to pay to look at it, is it illegal to look at it and not pay? This should be a rhetorical question.
How does that law apply to foreigners?
There are around 200 nodes with 12.0 installed as of now. https://bitnodes.21.co/nodes/?q=/Satoshi:0.12.0/

Not all of them are going to be on machines with Tor running.
> The proposed tax hikes on mansions...

They show an example of a "mansion" later in the article: a 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath house with two car garage.

Without any peg to inflation, everything will fall under the new tax in a few decades.
I did the same with the same article and got paywalled from Google results.
That was right around the time the OSSU-UI and OSSU-API teams left the project en masse.

Tracking profile progress via GitHub issues wasn't feasible so we were working on a site where users could login with their GH account, choose a curriculum track, and manage their progress.

Between the 2 teams there were about a dozen very active contributors. Things were marching quickly toward a MVP. One contributor even purchased a domain name for the site.

Eric came kind of late to the party to the actual development. We had already elected team leads and used a consensus model for decision making. Eric either didn't understand or didn't approve of the direction some things were going.

He probably meant well but he was leaning very heavily on the 'my way or the highway' approach to coercing the devs. At one point I stood up for the decisions the teams had already come to a consensus on and was threatened with being kicked from the project as a result. I left soon after when he started screwing around with write access permissions to the project repositories.

One of the other core contributors reached out to me directly a few weeks later. From what I heard, Eric decided to ditch the existing development effort in favor of building a static generated HTML site. As a result, all of the active devs left.

That's pretty much the exact point in time when his contributions stopped.

Aside: I don't know if this has anything to do with it but he was trying to get me or one of the other devs in the US to create a non-profit organization (ie 501c) for the project.
Why is your dev/qa/prod code different? For that matter, you could use a julian date... break.year.julian if, for some reason more than one a day break.year.julian-patch##
Why do clocks show 12 hours when there are 24 hours in a day?
It makes it harder or impossible to do it in covertly, and it may also not be possible for legal reasons.
It's not engineering, it's common sense.
They interviewed him along with someone else. That's at least showing effort.
The biggest issue in upgrading is that all these libraries tend to change their APIs in totally negligible but backwards incompatible ways frequently. Subpar documentation for upgrade paths is plentiful.

I wish many of these libs could stick to an api instead of needing every piece of new Javascript hotness every version. =/
I'd even say ALPS switches are a step down.

Matias hasn't made them suck any less than they always have.
This has absolutely nothing to do with Keynesian economics, unless you've redefined the term to mean "everything I do not like in the world".
I looked for ages a d ages and compared many tools. In the end, me and many colleagues and peers agreed Microsoft Power BI is currently one of the best offerings out there when evaluated from a price/value/feature perspective. It's about as good as Tableau (considered the industry leader), better generally more powerful than most web based solutions and best of all, free.

It's worth watching some videos on YouTube about it.
I can somewhat relate to this. Meditation ups my sensitivity level of all sensations it seems, including the negative ones. There are times when this is a good thing, like when I have the time and energy to solve personal and inter-personal problems. Other times, when I just need to get some shit done, it can be exhausting.
What has she done to provide value to Yahoo shareholders? She has had many failed acquisitions, failed to navigate the Alibaba situation to expectations, failed to stem the brain drain and even punted and hired McKinsey to help with her tough reorg decisions.
In those cases, had the terrorists escaped custody and carried out their subsequent attacks would law enforcement having the ability to instantly access their phones have made any difference?
WSJ is big enough to negotiate their own terms with Google Search.
We've been using the Python 2 support at work for the past ~month and it's a gamechanger for me personally. I like that it's easy to incrementally add types, and silo it to one piece of the codebase at a time.

Thanks Jukka!
Transplant yourself to any other police state. Anywhere with a very strong government hell bent on controlling its citizens. Eastern Germany, Or the USSR, or Germany under the Nazis.

How did the government get such power? Immediately via overthrow, or incrementally?

At what point do you draw the line? Has there ever been a government that got some power and then stopped trying to get more? Look at the history of the USA for the past 200 years.

Apple is trying to draw a line in the sand. We can debate about where the line should be, but there has to be a line.
To put the mind-boggling amount of logic in a contemporary FPGA into perspective, the smallest device in the Kintex-7 family seems to be the XC7K70T...

http://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/fpga/kintex-7... (<-- HTML overview page at Xilinx)

...which contains 10,250 slices where one slice contains four 6-in-2-out lookup tables and 8 flipflops:

http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/user_guides/ug47... (<-- family user-guide)
http://imgur.com/viEdQUv (<-- png of page 19 with "schematic" of one logic slice)

On page 19: The four boxes on the left are the lookup tables implementing combinatorical logic (A/W/O5/O6/...), the eight squares on the middle/right (D/CE/CK/SR/...) are flipflops (store one bit of data each). There's a bunch of random multiplexers (the trapezoid ones, they choose one output of X inputs) scattered around. This "schematic" is of course simplified ;-).

So, 10250*6/308=199.7 fits the 8088 "IP" 200 times. Of course this is a very naive calculation ignoring any routing between cores or any peripherals to make them do anything useful, and one would use one of such a 8-bit CPU for easy housekeeping tasks, and not 200 of them. But it shows nicely how incredibly dense current FPGAs are.

Of course, just one bare chip will set you back around $120. https://octopart.com/search?q=XC7K70T (<-- part search)
It reminds me of this: "Trying to save a quarter..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4nRHHPpnVc
Do you know of a language called "C", as opposed to C?
> I'm growing more to like the "social network at a utility" model that I believe some in Twitter unsuccessfully argued for in its earlier days.

The problem with a utility is you have to pay for usage. The majority of the internet has shown they aren't willing to pay $.02 for an account.

This being the case the only way to build a business model is to capture as much of the value as possible from your user which creates the Consumer v. Business relationship where both are trying to extract the maximum value they can from the other.

Walmart, Amazon, etc. does the same thing with their suppliers.

Businesses always align with their customer's short term interests [via voting with their cash] in relatively free markets. Long term thinking isn't something consumers do.
Live demos were definitely helpful. Nicely done tutorial!
How the UK's eating habits have changed
Couldn't we find more about this by searching for patents around the Secure Enclave submitted by Apple Inc?
in a dense city that is definitely a mansion
This is not true. If you only eat potatoes, you will wind up deficient in B vitamins. It doesn't take much to make potatoes a good basis for a diet. This is why the Irish Potato Famine was a big deal: Large families with small farms were mostly growing potatoes to keep everyone fed. But, no, you cannot live on potatoes alone with just salt or herbs without ending up deficient.
I don't understand who would want the python 2 support, the language does not natively support types, is no longer maintained (except for security patches). People that use python 2 generally maintain existing code base.

Wouldn't be better to concentrate on 3.x only and full async support?
Ask HN: Do you still read RSS feeds?
Curious what your point is? It's pretty common to pay cash for a used clunker as your first car because you don't have money to buy a new one, and then use it to get to work so you can save up more money to buy a new one.

Or at least, it's pretty common among the folks I hang with. The car-loan phenomena is baffling to me; why would you pay interest on a depreciating asset?
It implies that, because the power to require Apple to take action today is on the same side of Rubicon as requiring them to take some other action in the future.

Once we permit the FBI to task private companies via court order, there's no way to predict how far that tasking will be permitted to go.

> If the FBI demands that you open a door for them, does that imply you're not allowed to brick up the entrance later on?

The FBI is not demanding that Apple open a door, it is demanding that Apple build a custom software system for them. If the FBI can tell Apple how to build software today, then the FBI can probably tell Apple how to build software tomorrow.
After three times that more you'll probably realize that you really need
something totally different from computers. It's not to say you'll ditch your
work at 5 o'clock, but you'll be glad from time to time to do something that
is not computer-problem-solving.

Having that said, I make things (clippad stand, marker tray for whiteboard,
detachable box for pencils and ballpens, things like that) out of corrugated
cardboard and I'm trying to learn some woodworking. I also read a lot, and
I enjoy role-playing games these rare times I have a group and game master.
Are you saying that you think that Comic Sans is difficult to read?

(I'm prepared to believe you, but the main complaint I've ever heard is that it's "silly" or "frivolous" or... well, actually I haven't heard much beyond that.)
Half the world to be short-sighted by 2050
AppFS
Everytime I read something about SemVer, breaking changes, etc, I can't help but think about how well Symfony (the PHP framework) handles this.

With Symfony, major version changes are not there to break things or bring in tons of new stuff. Instead, it just removes BC layers for stuff that has previously been working but deprecated (with appropriate deprecation warnings).

This makes it easy to switch to a new major version: simply fix all deprecated calls and upgrade, done. At least that's what I experienced moving a project from Symfony 2.x to Symfony 3.x.
They don't.

They spend the entire time pushing their plans into execution (that's in plain sight). And when a terrorist attack happens, they probably just commemorate, adjust tactics, and follow on.
Yes, my question exactly. I know one of the countermeasures devices like the RSA tokens use is to fill the body of the device with plastic or resin to make it really hard to pull apart, but I'm curious how it works for a microprocessor.
Yes, you're right. We have to edit article's introduction.

Our original intention in doing this research is to answer the question "how much do we lose in terms of latency and throughput?" So, as you've said, flannel's aws-vpc is equivalent to out of the box k8s/AWS solution, flannel's host-gw is equivalent to calico. Since they use same "backend", in benchmarks we focused on flannel because it's easier to switch in flannel from one configuration to another (basically just put new config via etcdctl and restart the daemons).

However, thanks in pointing it out. In the article we should state our motivation clearer and add references to another solutions, such as calico.
That's if you want to use a sheet-feeding scanner, in order to save time. It's a bit of a weird suggestion, since I'd imagine the people who still have these books probably aren't the sort of people who want to destroy them just to save some time, but there are lots of other options.

You could pretty easily meet their requirements with a DSLR on a copystand. I'd do the left and right pages separately (unless you have a two-camera setup) so that everything is nice and flat.

The one oddball requirement is that users convert to CMYK. I'm not sure why they think that's a good idea. Most home scanners are purely RGB devices and they're just going to convert (shoddily) to CMYK in the driver or in a conversion program downstream. Seems like they're asking for color issues. I'd have asked for sRGB-colorspaced RGB, or "don't touch the knobs you don't understand". shrug
Ask HN: Is there a tool that sends reports on Twitter followers?
I get so many bots following me on Twitter. Is there any kind of service that sends a report summarizing the background of new twitter followers? I want to identify when a person is a real person (ie. low follow/following count) or if its a person running a service (pattern of following large quantity of new people).

Any thoughts?
PlanGrid (YC W12) is hiring a Controller – come build with us
And depends on the environment and project... if it's a website, then the core release would best be platformNum.releaseNum ... where platform is the underlying platform/architecture, or full rewrite number... Where release number is just incremental... and maybe tying to a git hash or something beyond that.
Love it. Is this from Lord of War? That is my all time favorite movie.
I don't think this is a particularly surprising or controversial report. Isn't it generally accepted that the F-35 Block 2B is still in development mode and the military has no plans to actually use it until the 2018-2020 time frame?
I rather like this quote from Knuth: "Rather than trying to stay on top of things, I am trying to get to the bottom of things."

I've recently been learning some of the history of my field, chemical information. That was a Big Data of the 1940s, and many of the information retrieval pioneers presented at and even worked on chemical information management.

As a side-effect, I've been reading about the information overload in the post-war era, the information explosion of the 1960s, and the need for 'current awareness' for all the world's literature.

Except for a few details, the complaints and issues then are the same as now. I think the headline call out to 'Millenials' is a good one, since it's a lesson each generation has to learn on its own. But it's also one which isn't fully learned by any generation.
Building APIs with Node.js using ES6 [Ebook]
Going through Calc III for the first time. I can't imagine how many more trees I would destroy if I had to write out double integrals longhand. Not to mention, it would make it a lot harder to reason about everything going on...

When I first started in my adult adventure in math (never doing well with it academically, I started on pre-calc with Khan Academy about a year and a half ago; I'm now working through multivariable calculus on MIT OCW), I used scratch mode in emacs because hey, I'm right there on the computer.

I gave up and started using graph paper as my scratch pretty quickly :)

I can't imagine trying to actually _do_ math with something "descriptive" like LaTeX.

Math, from what I've come to realize, is less about describing how to compute something and more about describing something in such a way that it can be manipulated in order to reveal something new.

And that's why the obtuse iconography is popular in math, and why the obtuse iconography of APL never became truly mainstream in programming.
Electronic fuses and secure (fusing) EEPROMs are not uncommon in HSMs, but I honestly don't know what Apple is using.
> If you take the plot from an episode of Star Trek and modify it such that it fits into the Dr Who storyline, you've created a work that's derivative of both Star Trek and Dr Who. Similarly, if you take code from Solaris and modify it such that it tightly integrates with Linux, you've created a work that's derivative of both Solaris and Linux. Since ZFS can only be distributed under the CDDL and since GPLv2 requires all derived works to be distributed under the GPL, you can't satisfy the license.

That is analogous to writing a new piece of software intended to be similar to an existing piece of software rather than a port of software under license. Examples of the former include the Linux kernel (meant to be similar to UNIX SVR4) and the wine project (meant to be similar to Windows). If that argument is valid:

1. Oracle is in an excellent position to sue every Linux user not using Oracle Linux, because they own rights to UNIX SVR4, which they inherited from Sun.

2. Microsoft is in an excellent position to sue wine users.

3. James Cameron and 20th century Fox would also be in trouble with Disney for Avatar's similarities to Pocahontas.

4. Probably plenty of other bad things.

However, this argument does not apply to ZoL because the code originated in OpenSolaris and is under license and exists as a discrete module, rather than a whole program.

So far, the only thing that you have concretely stated is that you met some attorneys who were unwilling to make a decision on legality. You are not an attorney (unless you have obtained a bar number since I last asked) and I have yet to hear that anyone with a bar number that agrees with you.

If you want to prohibit people from using software you write with things that you consider to be derivatives when the law does not recognize them as such, you need a license that makes that explicit. Such a license could not be called an open source license under clause #9 of the open source definition:

https://opensource.org/osd-annotated

Consequently, the GPL is definitely the wrong license for that.
I never want to eat protein. I do, however, often want to eat meat. It has nothing to do with meat being high in protein and everything to do with it being tasty as fuck.
Yeah, it's kind of like an admission that at least some of the public value privacy.
Heavybit's Dev Tools Digest – Feb. 12 – 18
The consideration of fonts as attack vectors is highly overplayed - the bytecode allowed in TTF in OTF fonts is pretty limited, while mistakes have certainly been made in FreeType and other implementations it's no worse than the JavaScript sandbox most people are already relying on in their browsers.