skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ES6 performance sucks! Strong mode is a mode for ES6, you cannot use it without using various ES6 features. However, idiomatic ES6 code currently is substantially slower than ES5, across all browsers -- easily by 2x, often by 10x or more. Due to the sheer size of ES6, plus a number of unfortunate design choices, it will likely take years until implementations catch up with ES5 optimisations, and the hundreds of man years that went into those.

This has been my suspicion for a while. Perhaps I've missed other comments to this effect, but I don't think I've heard anyone else articulate it.
I dunno. OP has a point. Should users really have to "include" "exact" "terms" quote marks on every word in a two word search query?

But I thought people were right to be annoyed when Google took the plus operator away until they said that most people didn't use it, and of the ones who did use it only a third used it correctly. (Something like 1 in 600 searches used it correctly, IIRC).
I think "secret" is a misnomer here.

The process results in a client ID and, in some cases, a client secret, which you embed in the source code of your application. (In this context, the client secret is obviously not treated as a secret.)

https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/OAuth2 (under "Installed Applications")
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http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net/ Here's a great way to get the IMDB datasets, also http://www.imdb.com/interfaces
I never could get into Delphi, it's quite a hefty cost whereas I can try other languages for free. Heck I can get Visual Studio Ultimate for free as a student or even a business. I guess I could try FreePascal / Lazarus but it's missing a bit of documentation.
Take it from the source - NPR is playing to a pro-organic audience.

I personally hope organic is healthier because I can afford to buy it, but I'm reminded of watching the super at my old building toss the recycling into the regular trash - perhaps it's all really treated the same.
If it's any consolation, there's a LaTeX quick lookup: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=latex+integral&ia=answer
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I really like the inlined progress bars!
Oh please. Yes, Hillary is the establishment candidate, I'll agree, however there's no evidence yet that she's going to be "appointed". The only way that'll happen is if Bernie wins enough primaries/caucauses to get the Dem nomination, but the DNC gives it to Hillary anyway (probably because of the superdelegates), in a non-democratic process. From what I've read, this has never actually happened before; the Democratic candidates are selected by voters in primaries.
>the efficiency of the CLI

lol
Julian Assange has some "big balls." Either he really likes pushing his luck, or his end game is way bigger than anyone realizes.

He was just starting to curry the favor of the general public. He was the subject of a prominent biopic, he received a positive resolution from the UN. He has a lot of supporters, but they're not all fully sold on his philosophy.

Many of his supporters might consider this leak not in the same spirit as the others. The NSA is doing its job, just like the SIGINT agency of any world power. Game theory, tit-for-tat, and mutually assured destruction all make intelligence gathering necessary. As long as one country has SIGINT capabilities, its competitors must match them, even if only for the purpose of defending their sovereignty.

As others have said, the NSA spying on foreign public officials is hardly newsworthy or unexpected. If you believe all SIGINT should cease to exist, then this should also not be news to you, because you already believe these SIGINT capabilities exist, by definition of you opposing their existence. So in no case should this news shock you.

Therefore one has to wonder what Assange's motivation is behind this leak. Based on its timing, it seems far more likely that his motives are personal more than philosophical. It furthers no agenda but his own.

(Or perhaps the NSA is behind the whole thing. This is a pretty nice puff piece for them, and they've gotta be on the offensive finding job applicants these days.)
Correct. If you're drunk in the driver's seat on a public roadway (say, street parking in front of a bar), you're breaking the law. Doesn't matter if the car is parked, or if the engine is even on.

If you want to sleep it off, make sure you're in the passenger seat.
What about a person carrying a weapon do you find terrifying? Does it include police? Does it include other equally deadly things that aren't politicized such as a baseball bat?
> Looks great. But it makes me really wonder why somebody is doing Google's job.

The same could then be said of any mobile app used to browse HN or Reddit I guess.
Yes, thanks for correcting me!
I'm sorry I gave you the impression I hate Apple, thats certainly not what I intended.

One of the implicit ideas underlying Apple's arguments is that they are more trustworthy than the government.

But theres a lot of evidence that they are not as strong on privacy as they should be. Casting Apple, and private industry in general as privacy heros does a disservice to those very valid concerns.

Heres an article from earlier this month:

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/05/error-53-apple-...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/09/16/apple-rel...
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Dont even need to connect. Simply need to find the hardware uid and it can make the connection
I'm type 1 and I don't mind jabs about weight. Diabetes isn't a completely random autoimmune disease; some of us have it because of our mothers' diets, bad periods of sickness during childhood and so on. Late adult type 1 diabetics can often point to overwork, bad diet and some type 1s likely have issues with fatty pancreas disease (those with very low, but existent, c peptide, for example.) I believe we would have fewer type 1 diabetics in a healthier country. I also think that, though type 1s aren't as obese as type 2s on average, we can always do better at reducing our need for insulin and keeping ourselves fit and mostly well-functioning. I don't believe we have much to gain from telling people not to lump us in with pure type 2s as if we are a protected class.
While it's arguable that Berlusconi was a sensible target...How does that justify spying on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Afghanistan? Or from previous revelations, UNICEF - the children's agency?

FWIW, I've just started laying out one aspect of this debate and how intelligence operation blowback can affect the perception of neutrality of NGOs working on the ground. This increasingly seems to lead to a rise in deaths of aid workers and many of the people they work to help. E.g Polio in Pakistan.

https://medium.com/@roryireland/latest-wikileaks-documents-i...
Were you also a self taught spammer or did you go to school for that?
Um, there is an alternative: Bernie. But while I like him, I can't say that a majority of Americans are big fans of him. So far, the majority of Americans appear to be fans of pro-spying candidates, so I think it's safe to assume that the majority of Americans support spying. And it's not just that one issue; most of those other candidates are also in favor of policies to benefit the moneyed elite, not the common voter. But Americans have convinced themselves, by and large, that they're all temporarily embarrassed millionaires and happily vote against their own interests in every election.
Heh, similarly I haven't done much with the OTA programming because I keep my ESPs on an isolated WiFi network and it's a pain in the arse to access them directly from my workstation.
This is THE STANDARD

Almost 6 years old and still referenced everyday. Amazing documents. I would love to see more added to it.
This is an interesting tug of war. Considering 50% of Americans are taking the opposite stance, the SV elites are in the minority. (35%) Yet no pro-government business executive has emerged. I guess it's a risky position to take.

I have a feeling the government will eventually figure out a way to get its way without our realizing.
I don't think he believes all spying is always wrong, he believes there is a "non linear effect of leaks on unjust systems of governance".

If there's nothing outrageous about the who/why of your spying, you don't have to worry as much about your staff's desire to whistleblow, or the kind of consequences if they do, so you don't have to adopt dysfunctional internal policies trying to prevent leaks. Assange's job is to make leaking in general as safe and easy as possible, so the "secrecy tax" will disproportionately damage the unjust use of secrecy:

> "The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie. This must result in minimization of efficient internal communications mechanisms (an increase in cognitive "secrecy tax") and consequent system-wide cognitive decline resulting in decreased ability to hold onto power as the environment demands adaption."

More loosely though he believes in privacy for individuals (a protection for the weak), with transparency for organizations. Spying on states doesn't violate the former, and I imagine in some cases you could argue it aids the latter.
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I'm actually interested in knowing the specifics of the time. Does anyone know whether at the time of the passing of the Bill of Rights whether a warrant was required for: intercepting mail, searching your horse buggy/carriage, or bank records? It wasn't invented until nearly 100 years later, but I'd also be curious about telegraphs.
I use mbsync and alpine but obviously since alpine is just an interface to the local maildir I can hop between different mail clients without anything breaking.
Perhaps a little more privacy? You can browse the web without being logged into Google.

I know you can have separate Chrome users, but this may separate concerns slightly more. Not sure.
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I wonder which features are slow. I'm assuming generators and by extension the for-of syntax, which is otherwise a thing of beauty. I imagine proxies are somewhere between slow and horrifyingly slow.

I have noticed that none of the features I'd hoped would save cycles (const, generators, fat arrow functions) seem to be helping at all in the browsers of today.
How the Idea of a ‘Normal’ Person Got Invented
Why do you need to do that? Have you looked at the merge request approvals feature https://about.gitlab.com/2015/07/29/feature-highlight-merge-... (EE/.com only)?
I would be absolutely shocked if the government didn't have numerous ways to get into any information on any commercial phone. What they don't have is a simple device that average joe agent has access to at the local office, and of course his civilian police force compatriot.
Trader+coder here.

This article is missing something very important, the fact that coding doesn't mean you're going to trade better.

A coder doesn't know how to trade right off the bat, they'll only know how to code in a specific trading rubric (most trading algos aren't even good unless we're talking HFT) that has been told to them from someone that already knows how to trade successfully.

Anyone that's a real trader and has managed clients money will instantly be able to tell you that this is articles title is misleading.
For those who were wondering what strong mode is, this is a post to the Strengthening JS group, which for discussion of "strong mode and type system extensions that the V8 team is working on."

Strong mode is "a new language mode (an extension of strict mode) that implements a stronger semantics by removing brittle or costly features."

https://developers.google.com/v8/experiments

The conclusion is that "we have reluctantly decided not to pursue strong mode further."
We don't have worse outcomes for the largest most serious illnesses, cancer and heart disease. The US medical system is top tier in those for one of the largest, most obese, generally unhealthy and diverse populations in the world. It's actually a miracle to have these kinds of outcomes.
Can they not just clone the disk and bring it up in a vm? Is there anything that would prevent them from building some tooling for that?
Icons kind of suck when you can just use text which is smaller and more descriptive. This is definitely an improvement over using webfonts for custom icons though.
Good question, how we deal with that is detailed on https://about.gitlab.com/about/#stewardship Please let me know if you have any questions.
Given what I saw when I was at DO, everyone should back apple in their refusal to unlock the iPhone.
From what I am reading it is being maintained. Is this the case or am I incorrect?
You have to understand the accused are dead, and destroyed their personal iPhones before the attacks. There is no criminal trial for dead people.

The only iPhone the FBI have is the work phone, which he might not have used to contact terrorists with it. If he did he'd destroy it as well.

The problem is that judges and politicians are not tech savvy enough to understand why they shouldn't force Apple to make a tool to break passcodes on iPhones. How that makes any iPhone insecure in the wrong hands.
> that's what the market is primarily for, getting capital to companies that need it;

Personally, I believe that is incorrect. The amount of market activity related to getting capital to companies is dwarfed by other activity. As data points:

- Commodities markets don't allocate capital to companies (or farmers or whatever) at all.

- Most new stock sales (IPO or otherwise) happen outside of the public markets first, and are allocated to a minority of the market participants.

I think a much better way to think of the markets is as primarily about pricing risk. That this risk assessment function happens to provide a good way to allocate capital to companies is a by product.
Does anyone know the name for graphs like "Station Fullness Over Time of Day" is?

I don't remember having seen one before (I don't look at many graphs) but find it incredibly readable, even being color deficient. Also, can't say I dug further than the homepage, but it was striking enough for me to ask.
I consider the "50% of Americans" stat to be useless. This is a complicated topic for technologists to grasp. To expect the general public to understand the implications of what they're being asked in order to provide an informed answer is a stretch.
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Interesting. Thanks for the link! I wonder why they still require a client_secret in installed application?
Nit: The first articles in the series came out in 1999, so more like 17 years old :)
whats with all the open letters lately? mostly all on medium too...
An English translation would be helpful. HN is primarily an English language discussion site.
Last time I checked, fat arrow functions have a performance penalty because of all the optimisations that's made around scope in regular ES5 functions can't be used.

I believe ES6 fat arrow functions are slow for a similar reasons as why regular functions are slow when you use the magic arguments variable.
especially when the answer is loaded (the think of the terrorist/children/drugs trick)
Quite a commercial.

The app rates only 3.4 on Google Play.

Worse yet, it demands access to all this data:

Version 2.92 can access:

Identity:
find accounts on the device

Contacts:
find accounts on the device

Location:
approximate location (network-based)

Phone:
read phone status and identity

Photos/Media/Files:
modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
read the contents of your USB storage

Storage:
modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
read the contents of your USB storage

Device ID & call information:
read phone status and identity

Other:
receive data from Internet
view network connections
full network access
prevent device from sleeping
control vibration
run at startup
pair with Bluetooth devices
use accounts on the device
Who Is Responsible for Your Company's Big Data?
This was a pleasure to read. The researchers are tasked with reading letters on a scroll burned to a complete char. The progress they've made is incredible.
I wouldn't be surprised if const and arrow functions actually make things slower. const, or at least a naive implementation of it, requires checking if the value is changed which var does not. Perhaps that could be equally performant in time.

Arrow functions seem like they would take (marginally) longer to parse than explicit function declarations due to having a more verbose AST that does not start with unambiguous tokens. That, and you have the implicit this binding which must come with a cost. Again, in time this might be okay.
"An update on X" is a google meme for "X is dead"
Will you give me a real-world task and see how well I do?

Assessing a candidate is as simple (and as hard) as that. Watching someone while they code isn't useful. https://data.triplebyte.com/take-home-interviews-d7f7ea13067...

Just give me something real to work on.
> Organic crops tend to be exposed to higher levels of stress — including insect attacks, Seal says. And in response, they form compounds to help combat the stress.

I wonder then... what about indoor grows using organic methods that are bug free and stress free with all variables controlled for optimum conditions.
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I hadn't realized there was such a difference between cash price and prescription price.

Through work currently we can use a web site to help find your cheapest place for prescriptions. One bottle of Novolin R like you said about is about $25 from Walmart for cash price. One bottle of the same prescription with a discount coupon is $138 dollars.

That's still cheaper than Novolog/Humalog, but how in the world is it more expensive to buy insulin with a prescription and insurance than without? When I pay a 20% co-pay am I essentially paying my insurance company the extra money?
You are right! TIL Thunderbird is still being maintained!
The only pattern I can think of is to construct via a free function. The free function would call the real (basically empty) constructor, and then fill it in via other member functions or by directly accessing the data (via friendship). This free function would be able to allocate memory, etc, and return error flags.

You could even make the real constructor private, which would prevent inadvertently creating an object with an invalid state.

(Could also be done with a static member function, I suppose)
Sorry about that. There was a brief interruption to GitLab pages while we fixed a vulnerability. It is back now https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus/status/701897151790653440
Apologies, what is DO?
Ah, thanks for that. I've seen the shortened version so often I'd come to believe that was the actual quote. The longer version makes much more sense and is far less absolutist.
i want to believe. but i'm having a hard time.

according to the new york times, for whatever they are still worth

> Apple had asked the F.B.I. to issue its application for the tool under seal. But the government made it public, prompting Mr. Cook to go into bunker mode to draft a response, according to people privy to the discussions, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/technology/how-tim-cook-be...

is the nyt reporting correct? i know they tend to side with natsec bullshit. i fear this being a really big pr stunt.

also, the nsa siding with apple is just an expression of rivalry, no?
Semantic analysis is a post-parse task. Difficulty of constructing the parse tree has no impact on consumers of the parse tree.
DO = Digital Ocean. The parent wrote the abbreviated term subconsciously because he used to work at Digital Ocean.
50% of Americans can only take the opposite stance if they know what stance they are taking. The reporting on the poll doesn't reveal any screening questions to determine whether the respondents understand the issues at stake. If they don't understand the issue, then the 50% is answering a question about something else.

If they asked the question "Should Apple make it easier for terrorists and foreign hackers to access information on American phones", I suspect less than 50% would say yes.
That is pretty cool.

Some people here have questioned the science behind the claims of focus and relaxation etc, but even without that as a product feature what you're making is pretty awesome.

I can imagine a product where you can combine a bunch of composers and genres and it'll just write songs for you to listen to :)

I'm signing up just to listen to the music your thing makes!

P.S. I played a few Bach pieces while learning Piano, he's one of my favourite composers!
I guess its a heat map.
As a DO (digital ocean) customer, care to elaborate?
Many people use third-party email clients via POP, IMAP, or an application-specific password. Just think about all the people using Thunderbird, mobile email clients, etc. The day they stop permitting that is the day they no longer offer an email service.
The best thing about organic food is that it uses no gas to produce fertilizer like for conventional food [1]. Using gas to produce food is just crazy if you think about it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertilizer#Nitrogen_fertilizer...
Better metrics is certainly something we want to do:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/110
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/112
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13409
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4044

For the rest of our strategy please see https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/
B.S Nutritional study.
My mom just told me in tears today it cost her over $400 rather than the normal $80-90 copay she was used to
you could also say that a PR campaign putting all our trust into apple with a behind-doors deal to actually privately share that information is worth even more to both parties.

you could also argue that the NSA has the data already and would know if it even needs to be unlocked. If not, someone is smart enough to know: it still makes for a good PR campaign.
We would love to make this happen but there is so much functionality in GitLab it needs a ton of memory to run.
This is the most amazing Mir story I know. Dave Wolf and Anatoly Solovyev finished a spacewalk and were locked out by a faulty airlock. Radiolab has a tremendous recording of Dave Wolf recounting the experience.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/242184-dark-side-earth/