skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My biggest worry is the whole "security culture" that developed shortly after Snowden is encouraging more of the population to embrace locked-down walled-garden systems in which they can feel secure but have little freedom, and the general push for secure-by-default rather than open systems. A necessary condition for civil disobedience is the freedom to disobey, to defeat access controls, to exercise one's beliefs.

The fact that Snowden's leaks were made possible by insecurity, and now seemingly everyone is against insecurity, is ironic enough that it makes me wonder if that was really the intent all along...
Um... re-licensing the kernel at this point has been deemed completely impossible [0].

0. https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/1774/why-does...
That's a bit far. I'll just stop using mine to plot major crimes.
Thanks for all the hard work you guys put in! Seriously, I'm hoping for the best. Glad you're thinking about numpy too.
I doubt very much that this transition is going to be smooth, but I don’t think it will be made any easier by delaying change.
>Solo neutrons don't exist for longer than 10-20 minutes

Don't equate the bound states with the unbound states.
Not sure I understand the reasoning here. It's bad to take things for free from scihub, so instead, take things for free from this other source which is much slower. The end result is the same, except the latter impedes research and involves a bunch of busy work for somebody.
Been using Google's shortener for a while, does the job. http://goo.gl
NZ does as well, where I am.
> Do you even

Any comment that begins with that is unlikely to be a good fit for HN. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
You worked internally in of all these and more?

Sorry if I'm a little doubtful but that's quite a resume.
Same problem here in Firefox 44. If I disable the CSS rule that sets the font to Fira Sans, the text renders normally; that font seems to not render at all. The "Fonts" view in the console doesn't render the sample text ("Abc") either.
> It's not in anything that's been leaked

Yes, it has been, though the exact nature of that "data" depends on your interpretation, and "everyone" is obviously only and approximate value. The NSA has even admitted to collecting most telephone records under the "phone metadata program".

They also keep a sliding-window capture of data that includes a "full take" of the backbone in some areas. This was still being deployed at the time the leaked documents were written, so the coverage is variable, but we can assume it's only increased. Note that this is covered by one of the NSA's "creative reinterpretations"; they pretend that the data isn't "captured" until someone actually looks the data up in XKEYSCORE. This is patently absurd.
Is HD quality the only difference between the Basic and Standard subscriptions, or is there extra content as well?
Restructured pricing, now require a paid Mailchimp account as well. See here for HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11170713
Dark matter is probably popping into and out of all our minds, all the time, and we just don't notice it.
I am sure this will be very comforting for the creators of this once they are sitting in some US jail. Ask the leadership of FIFA how pissing off the US government by double crossing the USA over the 2018 world cup worked out.
Everything that man says about privacy and digital freedom is ultimately proven true given enough time. Unfortunately he's still considered a crackpot.
The FFs were a numerous bunch who didn't even agree with each other on many things. To lump them as all having the same opinion on today's matters is a mistake. Americans are exactly the same way. There are many who will differ with your opinion and who are just as knowledgable.
Um... If they really cared about making a quality product they would fix their existing problems, including their (apparently) poor choice of a license. Just because it is hard doesn't mean their shouldn't fix it.
If you think of C and C++ point of view, yes.

On the other hand the Frameworks are quite expressive for applications, but one needs to use Java 6.5 or resort to third party solutions like retrolambda and Kotlin.
Right, so transportation is the big issue. Last I checked it was the big tankers involved in large volumes of international logistics that generate the most green house gasses.
I am unaware of any technology, so-called "clean burning" oils, electric, or whatever, that solves this problem.
In fact this is probably unsolvable if I think about it free trade is going to keep these boats polluting our air until we die. I'm starting to really believe that sometimes when I'm really drunk
Effectiveness
Google Street View
I know it's the title of the article, but this is NOT confirmed!

There is a paper about it, and some hints it exists, but it has not risen to the level of accepted particle.
You're right, it's the only place I found John Addison's soundtrack for the Movie Sleuth (1972, Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier).
"If a four-neutron nucleus did occur it lasted about a billionth of a trillionth of a second before decaying into other particles."
CS language papers from the 50 and 60 don't share that opinion.
I don't think it's right. I contacted Mandrill about it, and they pointed me to this support article[0].

> Is this cost included in my MailChimp plan?

> No. Mandrill is becoming a paid add-on for monthly MailChimp accounts. Any paid monthly MailChimp plan will satisfy the new requirements. Monthly MailChimp plans start at $10/month, and you can find more information on MailChimp’s Pricing Page. Purchasing Mandrill blocks will incur monthly charges in addition to your MailChimp plan.

[0] https://mandrill.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/217467117
Dang, sorry! What browser are you using?

Did you try the arrow keys?
> "[...] Narcissists also lack empathy. That’s Trump all over. He has no empathy whatsoever. Sure, he says he loves wounded veterans, underemployed Americans, and even the undereducated. But you know all of that is lies."

> "How do you know? Simple! You know because you are far smarter than normal people [...]"

Or perhaps you know by having looked at his proposals and listening to what he has said about people he doesn't need votes from...?
This is all great but one thing bothers me: they still apply to some government requests to give some data [1].

I know that adding a backdoor is different, but why not also protect for example emails on a server?

http://www.apple.com/privacy/government-information-requests...
Assuming you've got a buffered channel with non-blocking send and receive calls, I seriously doubt that the three lines protected by a mutex are the bottleneck for scaling your service. It's basically exchanging one set of atomic ops for another one.

I'm not saying that you couldn't optimize if you have a very specific need, but it's disingenuous to pretend that the lack of a "lock-free" queue is somehow a fatal flaw or preventing you from scaling go programs.
They talk about Clojure because they weren't even born when we were using Lisp systems.
It's not that it is hard, it is that there are literally thousands of contributors that have contributed code under a gplv2 license that would have to be hunted down and consulted about any license change. I'm sure if you're up for it they would be happy to have someone give it a shot so that if a re-license was needed in the future they could do it, but right now there is simply no way to legally re-license the code without spending thousands of hours getting people to sign little pieces of paper that could be used improving the kernel (zfs or no).
Anytime I see "world famous", I like to imagine the shop's owner mother is from some other country overseas - bam, world famous baby.
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/vision/SUN/
I may have misunderstood but it appears kubernetes as a service was chosen (via GCE), but this is compared to alternatives which you have to install by yourself.

This is slightly unfair as the setup and configuration of kubernetes on your own kit is fairly difficult, at least it was the last time I looked, especially the networking side of things.
Yeah there was →.ws or something like that. Still longer than "to" though.
Peergos – A decentralised, secure file storage, sharing and social network
On the criticisms of PHP on swap, those are way out of date. Swap in php:

list(a, b) = [b, a]

Multiple return values:

[a, b] = function(){ return ["one value", "another"];};
Except neutrons are protons bound to electrons, so that's really just 4 of each, so maybe this is just some exotic Beryllium, or a clump of degenerate neutron gas as might escape from a dead-ish star.
Apple vs FBI legal filing
Smule’s Open Mic uploads your karaoke songs from the Web (exclusive)
How to set up cron job for Getflix IP Update? What cron job setting shall I use?
Today his fear is really really justifiable...

Why, exactly?

Usually I like people to know where the photos I share publicly are taken. Indeed, that's why I go to the trouble of captioning or manually geotagging them.
But I can hate on Obama and the democratic party and the Chinese can't do the same against the Communist party.

Functionally I don't know how being able to criticize the government actually changes anything. In terms of corruption or abuse, the Chinese government is more than happy to listen.

It's just when you starting hating on the only party that is allowed to exist that they have a problem with you for the potential of causing social unrest.

How much functional difference that makes in my opinion is not much.
About the last bit, a long time ago I would use the ctypes library in Python to inspect, list, and call functions defined in .DLLs. All the symbol exports are right there in the object file, so for non-C++ callers you don't exactly need the source code to call functions. It doesn't seem like a large stretch to ask whether the same thing can be done with classes, or to expect that this particular aspect would have changed sometime in three iterations of the standard.
What does "right month" and "right year" mean? Server time or local time? Either you're trusting the user's device, or your clock is always 12 hours off for some users.
Wait until "those who jail" start watching code check itself into a decentralized git repo on IPFS after receiving a consensus based payment from a thousand anonymous individuals. Seriously, they have no fucking idea what is coming.
Escape from the Cubicle Farm
In 2008, when not all of us are using smartphones, we always remind the smartphone users to protect their privacy. We told them not to upload their photos.
But now, who cares? Everyone should know where I am!
Private corporations already have the data. Did you see the list of companies supporting Apple?

Nobody is worried about this. We think that companies have the right to keep dossiers on people, as long as they make a scout's promise that it's only for advertising. And selling to each other. But don't give data to the government, that would be unethical.
Well you'd think that it wouldn't be that hard to create a blade server style system using Raspberry Pi Compute Modules. A 256 node, 1U server might just be possible. Of course, the power supply, cooling and LAN fabric would be an interesting challenge.

Rather than 64 bit and ECC RAM, you could have high redundancy on the module level. AFAIK Google do not use server grade systems, just lots of them in a failure tolerant configuration.
Given how badly Yahoo seems to be doing financially, and considering other high profile "failures" like Parse being shut down by Facebook and Apple being challenged by the state: I wonder whether these big companies can continue to extract rents after open sourcing and retrofitting everything with decentralised protocols, encryption etc.

That seems like a preferable direction from a consumer point of view than forcing society to rebuild everything from scratch, despite the fact that things like GitLab, blockchain and p2p social networks are not inherently inferior. Adoption is hard. "Charity" is the same as PR, so there might be more side benefit than the original speculators hoped for with the failed centralised business models by opening up and decentralising.
Cut your losses, get a paid gig right away. Sounds very dodgy to me.
That's not quite right. These days Naughty Dog uses a DSL called DC built in Racket to write all the "data" in the game (everything from cut scenes to character attributes). Running DC produces data files shipped on the DVD of the game, and used by the big C++ engine that's running on the PlayStation.

Dan Leibgold gave a talk about their system at RacketCon a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSmqbnhHp1c
Please correct me if I am off the right track here, but is not the distinction the fact that:
in a "functional language" or maybe "parenthentical up-cup evaluating language"

functions are invoked in an encapsulating way, and no state is kept between function-cup-up-segments-of-code, but there is a R.E.P.L that (replies) when you invoke a (parens) which is, in LISP-land known as a program.

However, now that I have mind-dumped that ^ I recall haskell and erlang also being called "functional" but I don't know their syntax any more than a chimpanzee knows that the sun is round.
Try going to about:memory to see if some tab is taking up a lot of memory. I've got this CI system where if I leave it open overnight it takes a gig or two and makes the browser unusable (Firefox and Chrome; it's a problem with DOM elements). If your GM scripts retain DOM elements for a long time (and the tabs aren't closed) that might be an issue too.
>Ultimately, you hit the ceiling of what you can do with it, and you have to migrate off (if you’re a business that is trying to grow, anyway).

I read this post and the one that was linked to and I still don't understand what the problem was that they faced with Google App Engine. A few specifics would have been helpful.
Right. So hard? Its a lot of work that is unplesant and nobody wants to do, I think that qualifies as "hard". I do agree its impractical, but it seems that for something as important as a function, working file system (and don't suggest that butterface fs is a production ready alternative) that somebody would put in the work to make it happen. After all the file system is everything, if you can't safely store your data, whats the point?
As an addition to the above, clearly ZFS is better than the common alternative: raid cards running some unknown firmware (that is most definitely open).
The Formatter class in Java
It sounds like the requirements for becoming a doctor in Australia are quite a bit different than those in the US.
ZOO EMD WOW KIDZ
I guess I found what I was asking about, i.e. NDK: http://developer.android.com/ndk/index.html
'game industry'. Whenever I hear that term, I shudder at the idea of working loong days and nights and weekends the industry seems to require.
Fascinating. Never crossed my mind that this was an area I could break into. Thank you
Archive Team will have their hands full if and when Yahoo finally shuts down. Their footprint on the web is still enormous and quite a bit of that stuff is valuable.
Are you using NDK? I was reading about it earlier, it is something that I would like to look into, when I have some time.
> neutrons are protons bound to electrons

No, they are not.
Yes, and your CEO is clueless. That's not how equity or investment work (you don't "reserve shares" for an investor, new preferred shares are issued and everyone holding common gets diluted). Good investors want to see founders with roughly equal shares; a large discrepancy indicates that some founders are insufficiently incentivized and probably won't be around long. The best way to maintain majority control of the company is to be profitable - percentage ownership means nothing if you're about to go bankrupt and the only way to save the company is to negotiate a deal where the investors get control.

Stop hanging out with this loser, build up your technical skills so you have a track record of projects built from scratch that you can show people, and then partner with someone who'll actually value you like a partner.
Note that we've made big improvements in the performance of Typed Racket's generated contracts just since that paper was written, so many things are now better.
All I can say is that on first glance it appeared to me to be a url shortener, and the thought that it, um, shortened landmarks... or something... never crossed my mind.
I've been chumpier than that. Get out while you can.
Storing Data in a Living Plant
Apps Are a Teacher’s Best Friend
Yes I know this genie can’t be put back in the bottle, but if they decide to go after you it can be very unpleasant. Given how the USA financial sector and law enforcement work together it would be a good idea to follow Satoshi’s example and be very hard to find.
A proton is neutron bound by an electron? Where did you get that from?

Beta decay goes both ways[1]. In β+ decay, a proton decays into a neutron and positron, and in β− decay, a neutron decays into proton and electron. (I don't know much physics, but I suppose there's a limit to them decaying from one to another, and I suppose each proton/neutron is unique in terms of its mass/energy content.)

[1] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_decay
Riot Games is a pretty big one.
Looking at erlangs site selecting a few:

AdRoll
Facebook Chat
TMobile

http://erlang.org/faq/introduction.html

Amazon SimpleDB
Delicious
From: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1636455/where-is-erlang-u...

Also many of the companies using Riak (written in Erlang) also leverage erlang. Some pretty big names use it.

http://basho.com/about/customers/

I would say that Erlang has more than proved itself.

One aspect of it is that it is used more of an infrastructure language so not many people see it as glamorous as rushing out to the Go community to brag about their new backend. Its a lot of mature companies that have been around a while and don't really need to show off their infrastructure.

Also Elixir is gaining momentum (but still a blip) as a very viable language built on erlang.

Use what you want and what works.
And otter-browser[1] is a FOSS alternative of an Opera clone, it is somewhat older than Vivaldi btw, I wonder why it's so less known.

[1] https://otter-browser.org/
Preventing memory leaks is better than restarting. Please participate in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3700 to help.
link fail. This works:

http://kenrogers.co/meteor-react/
Thanks for trying GitLab! We're not happy with the Bitnami version, from https://about.gitlab.com/installation/ "One-click installers are frequently out of date and might not contain our Omnibus packages. An example of this are the Bitnami packages in the past couldn't be updated and are now much harder to update than the Omnibus packages. We advise to not use one-click installers but instead start an vanilla Ubuntu 14.04 instance and use the recommended Omnibus package installation. This is almost as quick as a one-click install and you're sure of the latest version and easy upgrades."
>Simply do not follow these people if you don't want to see "abuse".

I don't think that's the solution of abuse, or even the source - trolls on Twitters keep on making new accounts to @mention their "targets" with vitriol/threats of violence/etc. The attacked can keep on blocking these new accounts, but that's it. By default the Notifications tab has everyone mentioning you - you can set that to "People you follow", but then you can't interact with your audience, which is the major feature of Twitter.

If I do, let's say, science communication on Twitter, I want to be able to interact with every "stranger".
> Who says they're expending resources on Canonical?

Well, they say it, right there in the article: "Conservancy contacted Canonical to inform them of their GPL violation". And at the end of the article, when they say "Our lawyers, in conjunction with our GPL compliance and software forensics experts, have analyzed the Linux+ZFS that Canonical includes in their Ubuntu 16.04 prereleases". That's three kinds of experts, all doing "analysis".

And I say it above, when I talk about the article itself taking effort to write and the conversations it references also taking effort. These kinds of contacts aren't a one-sentence email fired off to 'hello@canonical.com'. They have to be thought out and worded correctly, and they engaged in a conversation afterwards. No, it's not like that email takes a week to write, but neither is it trivial; it's the result of thought, debate, and conversations.

> So distributing CDDL'd source and asking the user to do "make zfs.ko" is fine.

I really think you're missing my point. You keep speaking to the technical argument - I am not saying there is no merit in the technical argument. I want to reiterate (for the third time) that I think that this is far too small fry for a resource-starved group to chase after. Yes, there is a distinction here. No, it's not worth the time to chase, given other, more severe violations.

I am making a starved resources argument, not a technical merits argument. In the grand scheme in the world of violations of free software licenses, Canonical's violation (providing a binary and the source it came from, not just the source) is about as mild as you can get. The core spirit of the GPL (that the source code is freely available) is not compromised by the presence or absence of a build artifact.
Drat, I was hoping it was like a cassette tape adapter and would work in unmodified disk drives. Do floppy disks advertise their own size, or do systems assume that they can only hold 1.44mb? You might need special driver support I guess, which takes some fun away.
Apart from keeping track, a related problem I'm facing is making sure that I am able to re-implement what I'm doing.

So what I do is the following:

1. I break down what I've learned into steps or checklists

2. I then put these into Scrivener

3. Each topic that I've learned has it's own page

Here's a small example from my notes around PDF generation + attachments in Rails. This is just the overall picture -- each bullet point expands to another bunch of notes which has actual code details.

* build a mailer with mail(to:, from: content:)

* build a controller what delivers that content

* the controller should render a notice that says that the post has been successfully created <via a respond_to method>

* make sure that you configure the SMTP settings

* build a pdf creator (PrawnPDF::Base)
=> this initializes a PDF w/ some view_context

* configure a MIME type within config/initializers

* configure a controller that triggers a respond_to for this

* add a button that links to think Printable receipt

* save the PDF into some foldere

* insert a paperclip file type into the migration

* add this intot he user model

* go back to the PDF / order controller and then add a custom path to save the PDF (pdf.render file…)

* then save that file inside teh database & set it to the certificate
Cash: Cross-platform Linux commands without the suck
Is there a distinction between developing software and operating it? Usually. Always?
I have always thought this was code for “I was previously lying to you, but now I am telling you the truth”. I think not.
no errors in console
There is a piece of software called VirtuMVP that attempts to use both the iGPU and the discrete one.
Paywall.

Is this stable for some reasonable length of time, or is it one of those "particles" with a lifetime in nanoseconds?
Airbnb admits to purging “unfavorable” NYC listings before releasing its data [pdf]
Would you mind expanding on this? I've never implemented a ring buffer and am genuinely curious.