skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's a cryptography expert, but is this relevant? Factoring 96-bit primes (faster than before) is hardly the beginning of the end of 2048-bit RSA?
Or am I missing something
Why can mozilla not put these videos on youtube :-/ air is horrible. Can't watch without downloading.
"In any case, my main point remains: why hasn't anyone done the obvious test to prove that this device is real? We're not talking about some delicate scientific experiment producing subtle mysterious phenomena. We're talking about a concrete physical device which the creators claim is a megawatt nuclear reactor. Isolate it and make it produce power and prove beyond all reasonable doubt that it does what it says. Why is that so hard?"

BTW, to this point:

In the information I linked was data from the 12/12 LENR NASA run which produced 62 KWh of excess energy over the course of a 96 hour run - using one gram of material.

That is entirely consistent with LENR, and utterly inconsistent with any chemical explanation. It was observed under rigorous experimental conditions by NASA research scientists.
The 5 dysfunctions of a team also closely echoes Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

However, I have to chime in: I don't agree with the accountability aspect. Responsibility is necessary, along with knowledge and support from the whole system: this broad "ability to be effective" makes accountability obsolete, and is superior.

That combination of Knowledge, Psychology, Systems thinking, and a fourth: an understanding of variation and statistical reality -- leads to a much more complete and functional model of the organization. This is W. Edwards Deming's System of Profound Knowledge.

However, you can see why "The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team" caught on, and his name didn't.
I think they buried the lede here! By combining the ability to determine dispersion in the signal path and now pinpointing the source, they recalculated the percentage of matter vs dark matter.

Dark matter makes up 95% of the universe now?!? As the article states, this is indeed mind boggling. We're missing a BIG piece of our understanding about the nature of the universe itself.
I think this is not properly accounting for the difference between something that's 90% done, and something that is done. (Nothing is ever finished, of course, but you know what I mean.) As we all know, the difference between the two is not simply a gap of 10 percentage points. Far from it.

Teams of people were required to write Haskell and Dr Whatshisname tossed off Qi by himself. OK, but people use Haskell, does anyone use Qi? If not, then it's not a problem for Qi to be 90% done. And that's a lot easier to accomplish by oneself.
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Yes, sometimes 'car' and 'cdr' are replaced with 'first' and 'rest' and are some of the first things you cover when learning the language, so I don't think the names would really be hindering adoption for those that try to learn the language. The benefits of car and cdr are that they can be composed: (caadr l) instead of (car (car (cdr l))) for example.
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I guess that's ironic, but with people coming up used to all the ornate syntax, one of the common balks is "all those parenthesis, it all looks the same" and "there is no syntax, how do you read this."

It's like going from Arabic numerals to counting by groups of five; initially, it feels like you're losing expressive power. And, of course, at a glance, you can't read "|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||" as quickly as you can "28".
Depends on the time and region you select your sample from. In some provinces of China at different times, the average person might have six tenths of a penis.
Your live example is trying to fetch something from `localhost`.
Will this work with d3, because d3 is pretty slow with a lot of elements and it would be quite nice if we could get gaming performance in the browser.
In Chrome you can have javascript disabled by default, then whitelist all of the javascript on individual hosts (it does execute all of the javascript on the page, as compared to noscript).

Then on each host, Chrome starts off with no javascript, and there is an icon in the URL bar to enable it. Thus I can enable all javascript for trusted hosts. And in regular mode, that change is permanent, so I'm not bothered

Additionally, open up an incognito, and allow javascript for a host, and that decision is only valid as long as the incognito window is open.

So the workflow is:

1.) Always surf with javascript disabled

2.) Permanently allow all trusted hosts

3.) When needed, temporarily allow a host via incognito (ex: blogspot sites)

This does not require any additional extensions.
It feels like you may, in the longer-term, sacrifice different thinking for productivity. If I worked with the same team for years, unless we were some how really, really pushing ourselves as a group, I think I would miss out on whole worlds of approaches to problems.
Looks cool, but could you guys list some of your content? Like is this just a bunch of low-value videos of tree frogs or are there some decent documentaries? Hard to tell from the landing page...
I wonder why there is all the anguish around why Lisp hasn't flourished, and seemingly less anguish around APL, or even Smalltalk. Is there a reason it engenders so much loyalty? Is it the idea that macros allow you to extend the language, and that seems like the pinnacle of the programming hierarchy? Could there be insight gleaned from looking at programming languages as a fad or style?
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Neat. I'd never seen this. Some links in case others are interested:

https://www.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/comments/3yh1ll/introdu...

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/1p4gqg/new_poli...

Note that there is no support by the reddit software, so this just shows up as regular comment and can't be edited by the crowd. I'm still impressed that enough folks have recognized the value of the general idea. (Too often, asking for a tl;dr is considered ADD/low-class/impatient/etc.) And it also emphasizes that this could be useful not just to save time, but also to keep article quality higher, if submitters are required to justify the intellectual value of the submission.
Will this make its way to archive.org? I can't think of a better place for it.
Hi there,

We showed the median national salary for reference, but for the city calculations, we used local median salaries.

Kelly from Estately
Someone linked to B4RN [1] the other day: community owned, non profit, symmetric gigabit internet in the north west of England, for £30 / month.

If more of these networks spring up, then maybe something good will come of BT's tardiness in laying decent infrastructure. Granted, B4RN is strongly enabled by being able to easily lay fibre under farmland, but there are other models that are more appropriate in urban areas - see e.g. the guifi network [2] in Catalonia.

[1]: http://b4rn.org.uk
[2]: http://guifi.net
Interesting approach with designing a web engine like a game engine.

If you think well, it is actually making sense, at least for the CSS part.
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In fact, I don't care that Einstein told it. Or didn't.

I quoted it because it sums my thesis pretty well. People are very, very stupid. You cannot count on them not being swayed by some pretty words and blowing the whole treaty out of the water with some misguided protests.

Perhaps if you frequent HN, you don't know how stupid people are, because you only talk to the the smartest 10%.
2008? Electronic Trading Firms were very active.
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> taking things out of context

Who gets to establish the context in the first place?

I would rather have naive Carter than condescending Kissinger represent me.
Re the building, if you're on mac with homebrew, it should be as easy as:

brew install --HEAD servo/servo/servo

and

servo -w http://wikipedia.org

Keep in mind though, servo has a long way to go.
Really, the major difference syntactically is:

(f x)

vs.

f(x)

I've never really understood why people seem to have such a hard time with that.
Sorry, maybe I should have been a little more specific. I was looking for a primary source that shows this part: "FBI talked about how they couldn't beat iPhones but NSA had them in the leaks & was parallel constructing to FBI." The link you posted only talks about "hacking" iPhones, but nothing about parallel construction. Additionally, it only talks about how the NSA is making use of the device's (local) backup. As far as I can tell that doesn't imply a hack of the iPhone itself.
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I think you have more faith than I do in the process. Couldn't the relevant LEs pick & choose the most friendly judge?
Looks nice, we do similar videos of our meetups (example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35UVffLINkc). What gear do you use?
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I would say the fact MS is shipping products on Linux, considering their historical stance, makes it more likely, but your sentiment is probably correct in that it may not mean it is likely. Ten years ago I would have laughed at the idea. Today, I have to think quite a bit more about whether it's likely.
What is "HFT in its current form"? If you're going to project some harm from automated electronic trading, I think you need to be specific about both the form of trading you're concerned about and the harms it might visit on the market.
There's so much mistrust and doubt that it's hard to see a solution that would satisfy all when it comes to communicating political processes with the public. Sure, we all might prefer for the process to be open, to have edits and additions recorded together with the "who" in some kind of revision system, but would we then trust those who maintain the repository?

If we do; who would then be trusted to read through the 600 page document and give an objective report on it's content? Because it has to be viewed in context, right? Not just a single paragraph used as click bait to up the advertising revenue. Who would we agree on should be considered a "real journalist"?

It's tricky. We fear what we don't know and distrust those who do.

A dreamy solution would be a system that allows politicians to comment on laws and voters to assign and re-assign points to those they agree with. Voters wouldn't decide laws but be able to show their support for different view points which we could graph over time and match against politicians votes.

But, yeah, internet voting is equally tricky.
Nissan just killed the mobile app hackers could use to drain car batteries
VLANs can be used to achieve this goal with a non-trivial network too.
There should be fewer exchanges and less competition? Why?
Would it be a reasonable compromise for the FBI to turn the phone over to Apple, allow Apple to access the data using whatever method it deems necessary, transfer whatever data is recovered to the FBI and then destroy the phone along with any custom FW Apple had to develop in the process?
It's about being able to determine when people are resenting you and why. The article focused on people who were sensitive enough to determine when others in their group were feeling upset or left out or something. Also if everyone speaks and interrupts and jokes as much as you, they should be allowed to also express their dissent in that they don't think your jokes are appropriate or that you don't listen or whatever.
That's not how banking works.

Try reading up.

http://bankunderground.co.uk/2015/06/30/banks-are-not-interm...
Well as I mentioned there it doesn't necessarily have to be on the host, that's just one option. At home I use the linksys based solution I mentioned in my edit which was more the way I was thinking - and probably more comparable to commercial firewall appliances like you might be thinking of but deployed internally and on a cheaper scale.
> Learning to do advanced kinds of static verification with Haskell's type system is actually rather difficult

Perhaps. But it benefits greatly from being a consistent way of doing things: everyone does their static verification the same way, because the language supports exactly one way of doing it.

> and usually requires language extensions.

Sometimes. But again at least those extensions are relatively standardized, rather than completely ad-hoc as a macro can be.

> Indeed, Haskell programmers often use QuickCheck to do ad-hoc verification of type class laws, for example, since they can't be proven in the type system.

Yeah, that's one of the reasons I'm excited about Idris. But even in your example, QuickCheck is again a standardized way of doing this.
This is great.

Mozilla is focussing on its core competency. No mobile OS, no identity built in the browser, no distractions—no, it's just about the browser and how to make it better. What this guy showed is just impressive, well done and please more of such achievements.
Yeah, a friend of mine just moved into a new build with FTTP. Signed up with BT for a 12 month contract. Then got a letter in the post saying Hyperoptic was available in his building :/

The price difference, let along the speed difference, between the two companies offerings is insane.
You know, at first, I really thought Apple & Tim Cook were taking this stance for the PR value of it. I still think that's a little bit true.

However, after watching this interview, I think he's sincere. I think it's great that he's flying in the face of public opinion and the government and trying to protect people from a dangerous precedent.

Good interview.
As someone, who is right now debugging an .ear, my preferences right now would have JVM or NET stack at the end, behind all scripting languages imaginable.
Is it a compiled bottle? I remember last time trying Rust I had to wait maybe half an ahour to compile everything. I think it was the time when servo was compiling their own version of Rust :)
And WinForms is never really going to go away as long as Windows is still built around the Win32 API.
I love seeing the handwritten notes...
This is good! I wonder if this is another reason people like Typeform's UI - they only show you one question at a time.
I didn't say there aren't programmers making $400k or any particular figure. I said it's not common. And I don't think you've written anything here that would convince me that it is common. Could you link to some statistics that show $400k base salaries are common among programmers in the Bay Area in any reasonable sense? If so, then I will completely re-evaluate my stance.

My guess is that $400k is about as high as it gets (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong -- with a reliable source, mind you). If we're going to do a fair comparison to doctors, then we need to compare it to a top income for a doctor as well, which is easily in excess of $1M/year.
reproducability is the main issue and IMO determines whether generation is a hassle or not.

Unless you have full control over the delivery tool-chain, then generation is not much of a problem, even less so if your stuff is open source.

But what if you're building software that generates code for long running projects/code bases (e.g. aircrafts, defence, power-plants, telecom equipment, medical devices, mobile radio base stations). Selecting some closed source tool to generate foo can cost you dearly.

You have to version these tools (e.g. the binaries if you don't have the source) to the generaters in your VCS to provide reproducability. Ok you can also ignore all this and simply version what was generated and lose control over the generator but that is a horrid idea and you would never do that of course.
I can understand the need for quality testing, but what's the medical threat they're trying to guard against from ultrasounds?
Could it have anything to do with Wikipedia usually being the number one result people are actually searching for for a great number of queries? And they want to distribute that traffic more democratically?
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Well we have tons of big budget and high quality pieces from producers like BBC, NHK, and stuff that's been on PBS. Feel free to check out and preview our library https://app.curiositystream.com/
Didn't mean to imply you were - just a saying in the locksmithing community. If you look below, I have contributed a tad more than a short quip. No worries.
If you mean Lisp as a straightforward expression of "Lambda calculus" then I would agree.

However, Lisp as in Common Lisp most certainly has a good amount of syntax. And let's not forget macros which amount to user defined syntactic extensions.

Here are some examples of syntax built into the standard:

Lambda lists have varying syntax depending on context. http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw70/CLHS/Body/03_d.h...

Declarations have both standardized and implementation defined syntax for introducing information into the compile-time environment: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw70/CLHS/Body/03_c.h...

Type specifiers introduce new syntax for both standardized and user-defined types:
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw70/CLHS/Body/04_bc....

Logical pathnames:
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw70/CLHS/Body/19_ca....

Feature expressions:
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw70/CLHS/Body/24_aba...

And of course, programmable reader macros which is how syntax for every single language primitive in the language is introduced:
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw70/CLHS/Body/02_d.h...

Here's an example of a complex standardized macro with its own domain specific syntax (loop):
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw70/CLHS/Body/06_a.h...

Let's not forget that most of what one might think of as built-in features in Common Lisp are actually standardized extensions to the language built with macros.

All of the power, expressivity, and extensibility of Common Lisp is what makes it my favorite programming language. It's what makes everything like above possible and gives power back to the user. But ignoring the syntactic complexity will not win us any followers!

TLDR: Common Lisp isn't simple, but it exposes one of the most powerful and empowering programming environments we have.
Couchbase is perfect for this use case and, in fact, a grocery list app that syncs between clients is their primary demo app.
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I bought "unicorngrill.com" out of a half-assed idea to do something similar. Haven't had time yet, but every time I see something like this, I'm tempted.
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Seems like placeit.net, very much so. Any connection?
> Cryptome was created by John Young and Deborah Natsios, both highly successful architects.

Regarding their Cryptome's style: it's my understanding that architecture was one of the first disciplines to heavily take up postmodernist philosophy, and postmodernists are known for their ponderous and impenetrable writing style. So Cryptome's writing may just be postmodernist.
Nothing as far as I can tell.
Do you have anything to back that up?
Last time I checked I think they used some kind of user-space RC4-based PRNG, but it was seeded properly from window.crypto.
I take it this is each way. Mine is about right, though I cheat by not counting the evening commute, when buses tend to bunch, nor by counting the days I walk and double my time.

I have to say that the numbers seem low for the Washington, DC, area.
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It is mind boggling, but it isn't new. The article is saying that these researchers were able to confirm the 5% estimate with a direct measurement.

Here's a book from 2011 on the subject: http://www.amazon.com/The-Percent-Universe-Discover-Reality/...
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> The United States Congress does not really get line-item veto on giant international trade agreements that affect dozens of countries, all of whom also must ratify the treaty.

Its not a treaty. If it were a treaty, it would have to be ratified by a 2/3 vote in the Senate, and could, indeed, not be modified on a line-item level. What is put before Congress is a regular US law, not a treaty ratification, that needs a mere majority, but in both houses, and which just happens to be intended to implement an non-treaty agreement negotiated by the executive.

The US Congress does, really, have line-item authority over regular US laws.

> Trade promotion authority is simply the authorization for the administration to negotiate the treaty.

No, its not. Its a (without binding effect, since Constitutionally the Congress cannot bind its own future actions) commitment as to how Congress will apply its powers after such negotiations. The power to negotiate with foreign powers and submit whatever it wants to the Congress after such negotiations is inherent executive power that requires no authorization.
So, how do they compete when AirBnb launches this feature in a few month's time?

To be honest, this sounds like a nightmare for hosts. Hotels can do Hotels Tonight because they have paid staff at the checkin desk 24/7 and usually some spare, made up rooms. I'd have to get paid a lot to open up my spare room at a moment's notice.
Yeah this bites me nearly every day. I can only assume that they have some data that this helps 60%-80% of their users in some way, and they are optimizing for the common case rather than the uncommon case.

Not sure that it's the right decision, even if it helps the common case, but it may be. And I say this as somebody who's not particularly fond of Google as a company or its policies.
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Native chromecast support is something we have in the works, we agree that mirroring doesn't truly cut it. And we're currently in the process of brainstorming how we can build out more of a community to add more of a dialog to our pieces. Thanks for the feedback!
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If you don't treat people with respect in a discussion they won't respect you. If you act childish as you have people will treat you like a child, as we have.

The community's general response to you has been very kind considering how you are acting, I think to its credit.

I have of course said nothing of the sort about rational actions and neither has anyone here. I expect nothing of the sort from any of those groups, of course, and neither does anyone. It must be convenient to be able to tell everyone you disagree with what they are thinking and then argue against the position you've invented. What you've done is typically called a "straw man" and is generally associated with arguing in bad faith.

It seems you've decided you have the answer (and surprise, it's the status quo) and anyone who disagrees with you is naive and stupid, so there isn't much point in continuing this discussion for either of us.
This is not at all meant as a know-it-all pedantic attack, but I found it much more difficult to read your post because of "there" being used where you meant "their". I hope this helpful instead of annoying!
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pgloader (Dimitri Fontaine) is a great piece of software.

There's also cl-abnf from the same author and project which is another great example of the expressive power of common lisp.

Also, everything Fernando Boretti does is awesome ;)

https://github.com/eudoxia0
http://eudoxia.me/article/common-lisp-sotu-2015/
https://github.com/dimitri/cl-abnf
1. You may not have Javascript enabled.

2. Doesn't the captcha unlock you for the whole browsing session?

3. Cloudflare is working as intended. They could just block Tor outright. I think this is probably the best compromise.