skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While there's arguments on both side for TCO of Cloud, I'll offer one idea - a solution like BigQuery is zero-Ops, lets you scale to thousands of cores in a second, and you pay per-second. This is both cheaper, faster, and easier to use, simply because it breaks many assumptions folks make when doing TCO comparisons:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/02/understanding...
pdftk, an essential tool for pdf manipulation and used inside many other toolkits, is not supported on CentOS 7, a popular enterprise distribution. A bounty is being started to fix this.
Today that's true, but if we go back and look at the origins of gold in human society, the question is really, why did gold become so desirable vs. any other substance ancient humans observed.

1) The low chemical reactivity means it doesn't tarnish or break down. This is a BIG one for jewelry--a gold ring still looks bright and shiny 50 years later, unlike other metals, shells, bone, or pieces of wood, dyes, paint, etc.

2) It's continuously divisible into any amounts. You can easily chop a ring in half and sell half of it, if you only want to barter with a portion of your gold.
“Mom go back to bed we're becoming famous DJs” – Crude parody video of EDM
Yes, anybody should be able to do that with no legal consequences. If you don't want to give people access to your network, don't provide them with a fucking port and cable explicitly designed for doing so.
In Windows 7 and Linux the built-in card "just works" and supports the "n" protocol too. The dangling dongle just to have WiFi isn't really the convenient alternative. If your WiFi card in the notebook is a half-size PCIe, you'd surely be better of replacing it.
There is no Myth of Nuclear Safety, all energy production has known pro's and con's and approaches are made to mitigate these risk factors. Nuclear energy's risk factors are the easiest to swallow for the waste output.

The Fukushima reactor was built to withstand a huge amount of risk factors, they just all happened at the same time. The risk mitigation concept would be to say that you need to design a house to withstand a 10,000 year storm.
What Slack is doing to our Office and our Minds
I think OP's point is: given our obvious economic equality differences, of course you can expect different educational outcomes. Economic inequality as an indicator of social issues seems an obvious point by now.
There are certainly poor libraries and bad advice going around (why people tell beginners to use SBT or ScalaTest is beyond me), but that happens in every language. IME the average quality on maven central is if anything better than on PyPi/rubygems/npm/etc., and the IDEs/profilers/debuggers are better than anything you can get for the other languages.
Could also be solved by using the passport instead of the identity card. The NFC-feature can't be disabled and most people have NFC smartphones (well, at least the people who are using AirBnB)
It has 4 memory slots and supports 32GB RAM. Try calling Dell, they can likely sell you "upgrade kits" for memory and disk. Or use aftermarket memory.
You'd need to access the balcony first, assuming there's one. Why would you think of that first?
but I'd hope HN could come up with some informed suggestions.

That is an informed suggestion, informed by the reality that participation in the political process does not work, at all.
A brief history of mobile development at FreeAgent
This is why I absolutely believe and publicly talk about security being a matter of developer ethics. I have used my walk away power to get a company to do the security they needed in a similar, but not quite the same type of situation.

Here is the professional ethics piece of a talk I gave last year to a developer meetup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj196NhPyWs&t=43m36s
So don't choose a bad framework?
"Duncan tried to contact legal but was refused."

That's a little bit of a stretch of the scenario.

If I want to contact the Legal department of a multinational firm on a -legal matter- related to contract law and software licensing, I (or my lawyers) send a -letter- or at least email to the legal department.

I -don't- call Tier 1 Customer Tech Support for the vehicle, demand to be put through to legal, run off to the web and talk about how BMW stonewalled me.
If the rumours are true on GM acquisition of Cruise for >$1bn it's a major home run for YC; founder Kyle Vogt’s second YC unicorn (after Twitch) and third YC exit (after SocialCam).

(Twitch and Cruise will be the only two YC unicorns to have exited and Kyle is co-founder of both. I imagine he'll soon have a queue of VCs lining up to fund his next thing....)
Yeah, it got about twice as slow going 1.4 => 1.5, which makes it just slow enough to be annoying.

(It's still much faster than something like C++ though, and feels about the same to me as the (snappy) Objective-C.)
Just being a fussy mathematician, but I didn't see anywhere where in the article where it discussed the time of year where these figures were pulled from.

In addition to other chargers other folks are pointing out, it's not hard to see how that can affect the model to portray AirBnB or Hotels one way or the other.
Depends -- WILL I know them afterwards?
I would have hired you
Which was actually a major loss for Nokia, considering it bought the service for $8.1 billion a few years earlier.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2007-10-01/nokia-to-p...
I think there's an important difference between outright prohibiting someone from voting, and allowing them to vote but not counting it. If you prohibit someone from voting, at least they know it happened.

Paper trails are great, but are they checked frequently?
But Aluminium is not that reactive once the surface has oxidized.
It should be easier with Stripe's Atlas: https://stripe.com/atlas
That has much more to do with the software developers themselves than the underlying technology. I don't buy the accessibility argument at all. WebAssembly and accessibility are not mutually exclusive.
Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services
> Males rated the movie 9.3, females rated it 9.2. That's close enough that there being more males than females is irrelevant.

That's not the point the author is making at all. His point is the exact sentence you quoted.

Of course the highest ranking movie is going to be equally favored by males and females. You should expect that for it to be ranked above all others.

If you require seeing numbers that "look different" to understand, check farther down the list.
A merge of the most interesting tables (D = desire, E = experience, * = significant difference from the other group (men vs. women, internet vs. phone)):

D (overall) D (men) D (women) E (overall) E (men) E (women) E (internet) E (telephone)
Voyeurism 46.3 60.0* 34.7 34.5 50.3* 21.2 38.3* 30.4
Fetishism 44.5 40.4 47.9 26.3 30.1 23.2 31.5* 20.8
Exhibitionism (extended) 30.6 35.0 26.9 30.9 32.6 29.4 37.0* 24.2
Frotteurism 26.7 34.2* 20.7 26.1 32.4* 20.5 32.2* 19.2
Masochism 23.8 19.2 27.8* 19.2 13.9 23.7* 23.9* 14.2
Sadism 7.1 9.5 5.1 5.5 7.4 3.9 6.3 4.6
Transvestism 6.3 7.2 5.5 4.9 6.5 3.5 5.7 4.0
Exhibitionism (strict) 4.5 5.9 3.4 5.0 7.8* 2.7 5.2 4.7
Sex with child 0.6 1.1 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.2 0.7 0
Others NA NA NA 3.6 4.8 2.5 5.9* 1.0
On this emulator, option is mapped to ctrl.
Morocco is producing solar power at night
Absolutely true! I have to tell people that many attacks just try every door to see if its unlocked. They are not movie plot-style targeted attacks. And such an attack can and do lead to data breaches!
Completely off topic, but as a geologist, phrases like this are a bit like nails on a chalkboard:

>> "Gold is still rare, but it's also everywhere, roughly speaking. It's geologically distributed like this because it leaves the center of the Earth through volcanoes and other cracks. The Earth's surface has cracks all over it, so gold is all over it."

In context, it's innocent enough, but it's the sort of thing that makes me twitch grumble... (The phrase "fault line" provokes the same reaction... It's not a line! Just say "fault".)

The main part is that a) gold isn't everywhere. It's concentrated in specific areas. and b) Why add the "center of the earth" part in? That's just silly... Next, most(ish) gold deposits are probably sourced from metamorphic fluids rather than igneous activity. It's true that there is a major category of gold deposits associated with felsic magmas, and another associated with oceanic crust production, but way off base that "gold comes from volcanoes".

Next:

>> "Coming from the center of the Earth is going to ensure that gold has qualities not usually seen on the surface."

What?? Yes, gold is relatively nonreactive and relatively soft. That's because it's a noble metal. It doesn't come from "the center of the earth"... Yes, the core is probably enriched in gold compared to the crust, but the gold we mine at the surface doesn't rise up from the core. (In fact, it was probably added by meteorite bombardment after the planet was formed.)

At any rate, enough ranting. Neither of these have any bearing on the topic of the article itself.
TP-Link blocks open source router firmware to comply with new FCC rule
Maybe a better one would be a team <150.

Ex: You work on a project with ~20 people, 3 or 4 teams report to one manager.
Ancient Greece is still an age or two away. I am interested in your pigment argument, however. If I get into specifics about what makes gold good art I'll check into that. It would be interesting to look into, say, the price of gold versus purple dye in Ancient Rome.
did you consider haproxy?
Except that the paper is referring to the province of Quebec, not Quebec City...
But JS isn't just a "worse python" either. I've gotten around when it comes to languages, from business-basic to c++ to go to python, php, ruby, js, lua, and lisp. Having spent a non-trivial amount of time in each, JS has by far one of the best ecosystems i've ever seen.

See, I hate talking about languages because it's hard to define what a language even is.

Is it purely the syntax? Is it syntax+standard library? Or is it the whole set of syntax+libraries+ecosystem+idioms?

From a purely syntax point of view, js is lacking some things and while they are getting fixed, it's taking longer than most would like. And i agree that in this aspect js is currently "mediocre" at best.

From a "whole ecosystem" point of view, js is wonderful. It's fast, secure enough to give arbitrary code from anyone in a browser, has a stupidly huge set of libraries, an "idiomatic" style which works very well for some problems, and it's almost literally everywhere and on everything, has multiple competing implementations that helps drive performance and reduce bugs.

Yeah, it's got it's quirks (and in JS's case, a lot of them), but every language it's age and older does.

Now if there was some way to magically take all of the "other" parts from js and apply them to another language, you'd have an overnight success, but the fact is that the language syntax is such a small part of what a language truly is.
In my humble opinion, something that folks may want to think about is existing NSA data retention plus the statutes of limitations.

Now various agencies can trawl back through decades of data collection and see what people can still be prosecuted for, extorted with, etc.
Croteam releases Serious Sam Classics engine under GPL
Jigsaw Finally Arrives in JDK 9
Ask Amazon Alexa to pay your bills, with new Capital One app
The cheapest Chromebooks ship at $149 and have a pretty much unbrickable automated update flow that includes the firmware for the CPU and embedded controller(s).

It's not a matter of luxury, it's a matter of having people work on it who care.

Disclosure: I work with them. Much <3 :)
Sadly I'm not that good a math either. I'm trying to figure out ways to make it fun for my kids. The only thing I can think of would involve programming or electrical engineering.I think making a game would be one way. Or doing the math to build a charge pump circuit so you can charge capacitors and zap your friends might be another.
That's a totally legitimate fear.

These days, this is the kind of thing I negotiate up front. When they ask me how long something will take, I explain that they can have a prototype quickly, but only if they promise to throw it away as soon as the experiment is done. I explain that they can have me build a movie set or a real house, but that there's nothing in between. [1] And then I leave the choice up to them, explaining that it's really about their business judgement.

Generally people keep their promises on this, although sometimes it takes a little reminding. When they do, the business benefits are substantial. A good product person really benefits from doing quick, cheap experiments. And they also benefit from having a solid platform of high-reliability code for production use. But they can only get the benefits of both if they're careful not to mix the two.

[1] There is actually something between, but they don't want it: http://agilefocus.com/2009/06/22/the-3-kinds-of-code/
How to Learn Advanced Mathematics Without Heading to University
I've found that Scala beginners google around, and come across lot's of blog posts extolling the virtues of Scalaz, implicits, using higher kinded types, embedding DSLs and so forth. All that is worthwhile, but not really accessible to beginners. It's understandable that Scala bloggers want to write about cutting-edge material, but this misleads beginners, who think you need to use Scalaz, monads and the like to be productive. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The OP has the means to home-school, so can live off a single income.

The OP has the means to pay their children nearly double the national average income (calculated on an hourly basis).

So, yes, in this case, the OP more than likely does have the means to move.

Or, the OP also has the means to be actively involved in the local schools and try to make them less awful.

My negative opinions on home-schoolers are based mostly on personal experience with home-schoolers in my area. They generally fall into one of two categories:
- fanatical Christians (public school is full of heathens and rapists etc)
- fanatical libertarians (I got mine, so fuck you)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc0vb5jImuE
why on earth are the 2 largest and highest valued technological companies in human history repurposing mainframe multi-user computer operating systems from the 1970's (extended even further with sandboxed app containers!) for mobile phones!?

It smacks of deliberate incompetence to sell hardware.

iOT on top of this just smacks, again, of deliberate incompetence, to either sell hardware or raise the attack vector profile (the NSA loves you!)

why on earth is there still no reasonable competition to either android or ios?
Correct, which is why the choice of the framework should be done intelligently and not haphazardly. A good framework is flexible enough to handle weird corner cases with grace. Sadly, this is often lacking in the frameworks for web development.

The author suggests not using any frameworks at all, while instead they probably should write what they or most everyone should look for in one.
Confessions of a Manga Translator – The Rule of Rubin
The World According to Domains
Am I the only one or is there something wrong with scrolling on this site?
> Breaching encryption is like Watergate but without all the tedious need to physically break into a hotel.

I don't agree. When I'm in a hotel room, I'm supposed to enjoy some privacy. If this bill passes, you will know a priori that electronic communication is under judiciary control. As I said before, it will be the same as it has always been with telephone.

Really, absolutely-private remote communication didn't even exist before the advent of computers. And now it looks like it's a fundamental human right and no discussion is possible. I don't think that such a bill should be forced on UK (or any other) people, but fighting criminality is at least as important, and I'm not shocked that compromises are being proposed and discussed.
PagerDuty relies on Scala for many of its critical services.
I'm old and have been in this industry a long time, and I'm genuinely surprised on those oh-so-rare occasions when what you describe doesn't happen.

Prototypes-become-products is a trope much like _The Mythical Man Month_. We all nod knowingly when it is mentioned, we all know how it will turn out, and then we (well, management dictates that we...) turn right around and do the opposite.
It's a viechle for value. If not gold, there will be other viechles.
How much, or how little, is the Cruise kit's focus on digital security as well, and not just the "self-driving" part?
And yet, they're making billions despite not doing what you say. So...
That's definitely something on my mind originally. But since I can't get traffic data from Github, the best thing I can do is to filter out the highly established repos and weigh new repos higher in the rankings. You can see that even with just 150+ stars gained for a brand new repo this system will show it at the top top of the rank despite other popular repos that might have gotten 700+ gains on that day.

However, that said I do plan to improve discoverability even more with traffic data since now I can atleast measure views on gitlogs.
How can this answer be correct?

Some applications use the GPS, for example, even in background mode. If I kill the only such running app, there is no need for the GPS and there should be a substantial reduction in power usage, no?
This is more along what I think they were doing with this article/picture.
Hard Tech is Back
This seems to be the media lab's "PubPub" platform. Interesting UI. Comments get a far greater role, presenting them on the right hand side and linking them to highlights. There's a revision history, too. Not sure who would want to read prior revisions of a blog post.

See: http://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/design-as-participation

It's good to see a slick blog site to accompany their publication.
There are significant differences. See the table I just posted.
>UK Does something evil

No way!
None of these things sound like killer applications, and few of them require any kind of computational power let alone networking. There are much simpler ways of accomplishing the same things. That is my point; IoT proponents are adding unnecessary complexity for dubious gains. Some examples:

You want to have your lights come on at a certain time.

I can get a timer at a hardware store.

You want to add motion detection to lights turning on.

I can get a motion sensor switch at a hardware store.

You want your lights to turn on inside your garage when the garage door opens.

Yep. That happens with most existing garage door openers.

You want your front hallway light to come on when your door is opened.

I've never seen this implemented, but it could be done in a multitude of ways such as the motion sensor or a simple contact switch on the door itself.
This is written in extremely simplistic language, as if trying to explain to a small child - has it been through the Randall Munroe Thing Explainer filter?
What does eSports on TV really need?
It's cute that quants think what they do is advanced, isn't it?
Sometimes you can and it is not even too hard to make them interoperate. This begs the question why would you want to though.
Layoffs and reorganizations affect those departments too.
Come on now, you really think people should be able to unplug cables anywhere they go? This could have major consequences at a hospital.

Edit: Completely agree Ska, no excuse for making it this easy. I'm just pointing out that just because it's easy to pick a lock or unplug some wires to MiTM doesn't mean it should be legal.
Sales figures trump surveys, every time.

It's just really difficult to prevaricate when you're speaking with your dollars and euros.

In all likelihood, the phone survey results are skewed slightly just because people feel less anonymous with that technology, particularly now that phone numbers are more closely connected with a specific person than with a fixed location.
Does Skipping Breakfast Cause Weight Gain?
If you can show that ancient placer deposits were the result of meteor strikes and not volcanic activity I'll change the article. Everything I read pointed to volcanic activity.

If you mean modern mining activity, not germane.
The security risk in an app-controlled sous vide machine includes starting a fire that burns your house down.

- Sous vide normally uses a water bath at a controlled low temperature over a long period of time.

- Hike the temperature up past the boiling point, and the water is evaporated, allowing you to hike the temperature up to ignition points.

- Or, cycle the electronics fast enough to overload the power supply. If it isn't designed well, either the wall circuit blows or the power supply bursts into flame.

- In any case, the expectation of a long unattended cooking process means that human observers might not be in the loop.
> You'd need to access the balcony

Or a camera equipped drone.
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> Superhot

Isn't that game meh? Not a great example.

> Minecraft gained popularity originally because it added enemies that came out at night

I've never heard that point of view before. Rather that it was a cubic world were everything could be destroyed and created.

> Portal, the mechanic was neat, but the story is what people always talk about

What? Besides "the cake is the lie" there is no real story, people talk about the game mechanism not the story.

Conclusion: I disagree with 3/4 of your post.
Woo! Go Kyle! First Twitch then Cruise. Maybe this will help GM catchup with Tesla (in terms of deploying tech and not just R&D).
It's not the newspaper's responsibility to keep secrets. That's actually pretty much the opposite of their responsibility. If the key was intended to be secret, then the organizations that use it should have done a better job keeping it that way.

Somewhat related, it wasn't that long ago that the TSA published their own master keys:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/09/tsa_master_ke...

And here's a case where a prison put a picture of their master key on the cover of a booklet given to every prisoner:

http://www.news.com.au/national/killer-escaped-prison-after-...

Mainstream media isn't showing their utter ignorance of security so much as showing everybody else's.
I think the point of calling people VP, executive etc is explicitly to not do that. It's meant to sound impressive. :)
There's more people than you think that would be put on edge accepting that money. Either they're too proud to accept help from their friends, or they constantly feel guilty whenever they see their friend for not paying it back already (hell, I get that way just for forgetting to bring back my friend's DVD each time I go to an event he attends).

Regardless of the terms of repayment (even if there are no terms), it adds stress to future encounters, and they may outright refuse it out of principle anyway.
> Blaming it all on 'auto industry propaganda' is not fair.

I'm not "blaming it all" on anyone (I'm not sure what "it all" is even supposed to refer to in this context). If anything I'm defending cyclists from being accused of "asking for it".

The only thing I said was that auto industry propaganda is responsible for the blatantly wrong idea that roads exist purely for cars. That's not the same thing as discussing why bikes are or are not popular (although there is overlap).
"The things which have the greatest value in use have frequently little or no value in exchange; on the contrary, those which have the greatest value in exchange have frequently little or no value in use. Nothing is more useful than water: but it will purchase scarcely anything; scarcely anything can be had in exchange for it. A diamond, on the contrary, has scarcely any use-value; but a very great quantity of other goods may frequently be had in exchange for it."

-Adam Smith , from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations