skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
-m 'foo' -m 'bar' is one way.
--message-file <filename1> --message-file <filename2> is another way.

You can randomize input somewhat by using \{connection.id % 100} expressions right in the -m and within the files.

But yes, tcpkali can do simple randomizations, but does not support full-blown scripting. For that, consider using http://github.com/machinezone/mzbench or other alternatives.
If you're using Linux only like me, Kazam is unbeatable to capture your screen. I got similar results with ffmpeg, but Kazam is just dead easy to use.

After that, in case you need some editing, I recommend Blender. It has a steep learning curve, but as long as you don't want to do really complex editing and your hardware is not too old, it is perfect and the results are great.
I think it's fair to say storyboards haven't improved much since then, although it's a fairly divisive topic.

Personally I still very much fall on the side of not using storyboards for non-trivial UI.
I remember in highschool picking up a copy of the i ching. I found the poetry in simplicity to be really meaningful to me and could feel and relate to it. Something like water and fire I always found humorous because you can see fire as a hollow shell while water flaky yet connected. I think the I ching has a lot to offer and similar works that base their philosophies in trying to make the world less complicated. However, its place and impact in the world probably will not be fully felt as, from a religious/philosophical marketing perspective, it tends to be more of a cute idea than something to devote a life to.
Protecting the Privacy of Internet Users
Arctic Time Series and Tick Store (Python, MongoDB)
Wow. Just wow. Not that I would need this IRL but it still deserves a thumbs-up in a way that this numeric type is not forgotten.

Unfortunately, we lack even complex number support in most languages standard math APIs, let alone quaternions. But when it's time to port this type, I'll definitely look here.
Well, I guess I can count myself amongst the "haters". Specifically, I noticed your

> 4. I hate dynamic typing

... but I absolutely disagree with the phrasing. Your underlying assumption seems to be that "dynamic typing" is a Good Thing, by definition. I want to challenge that.

Thing is... I don't hate dynamic typing[1] as long as everyone is being "consenting adults" about it (GvR)... I just LOVE static type checking since it helps people who absolutely hate each other to get along on >= 1 axis! So much so that I try to evangelize at every opportunity.

> 5. Javascript is broken beyond repair

This is a straw man. People usually have very specific and valid(!) objections to JS semantics... and, sure, they can and probably will be fixed at some point, but given the facts and constraints of the web platform it's going to take years and years. Personally, I'd want to be programming in a better language ASAP rather than in several years.

[1] Should really be "dynamic type checking", but whatever.
Functional programming at Facebook
Shouldn't this be fairly standardized and easy by now?
It doesn't make sense to have a scale of consciousness. The argument that consciousness is a manifestation of a complex brain is rather weak. Either an organism knows about self, and therefore tries to preserve self. Or it doesn't. I don't see how an in between exists.
> it becomes a crutch and will stifle their future success

The need to work already stifles people's success. People spend time working "dead-end jobs" where every hour worked diminishes their chance of future success.

If people didn't have to work that _______ job, they wouldn't. But they do, because they have no choice.

A basic income gives them that choice. It does not "stifle" it.
Dopamine also excites a _downregulating_ part of your brain, that's why it focusses you.

See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10368605
I happened to have hazelnut.io until recently. Unfortunately I let it expire since the original project I was planning on using there was much more complex than anticipated. So now it's parked by someone else [1], otherwise it was yours

[1] http://who.is/whois/hazelnut.io
Summary:

http://www.seif.place

"HTML free based application delivery system based on [stripped down] node.js and QT"

He describes a "Helper Application" that he wants to convince browser vendors to install.

Features as I gleaned them from this talk.

- Replace DNS addressing with <publickey>@<ipaddress>/<referral>
(since these are not human friendly: QRcodes and Petnames)

- Replace HTTP with a "Secure JSON over TCP"

- Content based addressing through file hashes

- communicate with QT through a messaging protocol

- For some reason reinvents an RNG(!) (what?) (EDIT: this originally said "running in Javascript(!)", based on the git repository that's probably not true)

- apparently no password will be needed ever again

All of it sounds a bit hyperbolic...

(OK I admit it, I stopped taking it seriously when he mentioned the awesome idea of adding microphone/camera input into the RNG for randomness, that just sounds like something which seems common sense on the surface, but is a totally incorrect thing to do in practice).
In which case there's really no point to them using bitcoin. If they're converting it to USD immediately, they derive no benefit by using a decentralized currency.
"And global remittances, store of wealth, international monetary system resistant to government and bank controls, ..."

BitCoin might be taken more seriously if their advocates explained why any of those need to be solved, and how BitCoin does it better than the existing solutions.

Global remittance isn't something people need very often, and there are already solutions for it.

BitCoin is not a very great store of wealth. Keeping a box of cash under your bed is more likely to retain its value than BitCoin. Storing wealth isn't even a very good idea, though, and if a person has enough money laying around they'd be better off investing it anyway.

Finally, being "resistant to government and bank controls" isn't very convincing either, and I would hypothesize advertising it that way actually hurts take up by making it sound subversive. A drug kingpin would love a money system resistant to the government and the banking system, but what actual benefit does a normal person get from it? And is it even a true statement?
Same device here, works perfectly with OpenWRT.
Is there a 13 or 15 inch laptop without a number pad that supports Ubuntu for less than £500 that uses an Core i5 Skylake CPU?
> David Hinton is, with Arthur Waley and Burton Watson, the rare example of a literary Sinologist—that is, a classical scholar thoroughly conversant with, and connected to, contemporary literature in English.

Just wanted to recommend both Waley and Watson's work, which i thoroughly enjoy. I especially enjoy Watson's full translation of the Zhuangzi.
I'm confused by what you're trying to say. The article repeatedly stated that levodopa has been observed to create higher impulsivity.

I imagine any pure dopamine agonist can be prone to creating an impulse disorder if you take a sufficiently high dose.
First, that bug is closed. Second, the last comment has nothing to do with TSM. Just because a user thinks it's related to the storage engine and posts that, doesn't mean that's what is actually happening.

For that particular user, it is something else they're hitting. Without more info we have no way of knowing why they're hitting that error.

Either I'm lying about people using this thing at significant scale or that user is having some other problem. Put simply, TSM is well tested and works. I'm certain other bugs will come up but the comment you linked has nothing to do with TSM.

I should also note that we have users running Telegraf on thousands of hosts sending metrics to a standalone InfluxDB server.
If a majority of a society wants only to barely survive, rather than improve themselves and/or humanity, that is a problem itself. I see little reason to let anyone suffer, regardless of that fact that they may have "earned" their suffering.

Do you have any modern, long-term examples of basic income failing?
Welcome to the CRISPR zoo
> It is trivially easy for anyone not emotionally invested in failing to understand it, to understand how this is different from giving people the freedom to commit acts that everybody agrees are illegal, should be illegal, and should stay illegal, just because apple has figured out how to engineer a product 100% immune to government scrutiny.

I could have, and did have, devices 100% immune to government scrutiny before the iPhone existed. So, you go ahead and believe that if you want. It isn't true in any real sense beyond popular history that isn't rooted in reality.

Similarly, encryption doesn't give you the ability to commit those acts. I have the ability to commit those acts without encryption. Your logic can be used to ban everything from guns to crowbars to cars.

You can't simply ban tools because you feel people use them criminally. That works literally 0 times because the criminals are simply going to keep using the tools anyway.

> The people, via the vehicle of the government, collectively decided to make those acts legal, thus giving people the freedom to commit legal, non-criminal acts of speech, which were 1. legal, and 2. not illegal.

Yes. That doesn't change the principle was based upon the right to rebel via speech against the Government. That principle hasn't changed since the founding. Removing the ability to communicate privately removes the ability to dissent privately.

You are a very short term thinker and operate under the assumption it'll be used solely in truly important and critical criminal investigations. That is not the case historically with this sort of power. This power also provides you with essentially nothing in return for giving up that ability to act privately.

France had the power to stop the terrorist attacks and has everything the people in power in the US ask for, they failed [despite being warned by a friendly government about some of the attackers].

What exactly do you expect to get out of this?
I have that model -- install OpenWrt, and you have an very stable router: http://imgur.com/cMhIwmp

I'm quite irritated that TP-Link is locking out OpenWrt now. For the last 7 years, TP-Link is all I've purchased or recommended. Not now though.
I second OBS. It works great for capturing windows and screens. The only issue I had with it is that Windows Media Player won't play the "Advanced Video Codec" that it records with, so I had to run it through Handbrake.
My suspicion is that people feel it's "trying too hard" to get donations
That's interesting. What causes the correlation?
One surprising performance issue with Swift was identified (and fixed) by IBM recently:

https://github.com/apple/swift/commit/259d57bbe7784955108caa...

The problem was that the print operations was being done character-by-character and it resulted in the printing being a significant overhead in the execution of the tests themselves. With this change they saw a speed up of many times simply because it was using buffered output.
Well, you do have to account for the difference between enjoying watching or reading something and wanting to actually do that thing. That's a real difference.

For instance, most people who enjoy murder mysteries or horror movies wouldn't want to be involved in a real life murder or zombie apocalypse.

I like historical novels about the Age of Sail, but that doesn't mean I want to actually have scurvy, and certainly don't want to have people firing cannons at me. :-)
My co-workers put together https://github.com/CodingZeal/react-boilerplate but the documentation is a bit lacking at the moment, you really need to know a lot about redux to use it.

Recommend: https://egghead.io/series/getting-started-with-redux
Google's Project Tango – Vision Summit 2016
You have missed a significant digit. For a moment there, I thought I have missed something and netbooks are back again (with screens as small as 5", this time).
That's a major overgeneralization. For one, many people with ADHD who take Adderall for years eventually have to stop taking the drug because their dopamine receptors have downregulated so much and the medication no longer works.
SBIR would not have funded Einstein, the Wright Brothers and a myriad of other innovators who would not "qualify".

I've worked with enough PhD's to be guarded. If you want to get shit actually done sometimes a guy who knows nothing about the field but is full of fire and ambition can run circles around an entire industry.

That's not to say all PhD's are bad, I have met a number who are brilliant. And the secret, in all cases, is in who they were and what they did before their PhD, in most cases even before college.

Programs like SBIR are not about attracting the best. They are about great looking presentations with enough check boxes filled in. The best don't usually fit that mold.

Name the top hundred discoveries or developments of the last century. Let's see how many PhD's originated and drove them to fruition.
From what I understand your description is also experimentally validated. People on ADHD medication become like zombies and no longer seek short term excitements that cause distractions.

Perhaps there's something else in ADHD people wiring that cause a different response, but even normal college students took ADHD medication to help focus.
More than that but there's no regulatory push (outside of maybe healthcare?) to require stringent handling of peoples data. If anything the opposite is true where the government wants people to build a specific backdoor for them.

This is certainly one of the reasons I've become more aware recently of the amount of data certain companies have on me. Data breaches have the potential to be catastrophic and very few people are looking out for my best interests.
Necessity Is the Mother of Isomorphism: Poverty and Market Creativity in Panama
> What happens when this smart plug malfunctions and restarts your router every 5 minutes?

Obviously you buy a smart plug that monitors the first smart plug and restarts it if it cuts power to the router while the wifi is working :)

Now, if that one starts malfunctioning ...
Are you on GPRS? Cause the page loads fine even on 7Mbit 3G (HSPA).

The problem is it's still quite raw and full of demo-stuff. Not in the way it loads.

Although... yes, isn't Angular a bit overkill here?
Making popcorn now.
Adderral provides symptom relief almost immediately.
What if mining pools would deliberately hold back mint blocks until they find more? That way they could invalidate transactions if they like.
Why would anyone disable it these days?
It was fascinating when the author experienced a weird bit of nausea when thinking about the implications of AI. I'm not sure how I feel about it yet. It does scare me a bit.
I must have written it poorly. I didn't mean for it to be aggressive nor patronizing. I meant it sincerely as a thought experiment. I extended to you the Principle of Charity in that you believe that Obama would actually reduce innocent casualties if he could- I am saying that he believes that more information will help him do so. I apologize if it didn't come across that way. I try to not be a web asshole- +1 for calling it out.
They did a longer test as a follow-up and in that case found there was no difference at all with mentioning bitcoin in the same footer:
https://fundraising.mozilla.org/the-un-dramatic-conclusion-d...
Fair question. Sounds like you don't know much about encryption. I'll do my best.

Encryption is software-based and is as available to people connected to the internet as checking out a book from the library. Using encryption is free, and writing software that makes use of encryption is something anyone could teach themselves.

I think what you're getting at is, why can't we have some forms of encryption that have back doors for government, and other forms that have no back doors.

Think about computer viruses. They are designed to infiltrate your system, and any system that is like yours. If a virus targets Windows 7 and infects your computer, then it would be able to infect any Windows 7 machine. The same is true for bugs or vulnerabilities within legitimate software.

Say I run a WordPress site. The computer that serves my website runs WordPress 3.4, for example. Let's say a weakness is found in WordPress 3.4 that allows anyone using the username "jabberwocky" to log into my site and gain administrator privileges. This enables them to edit text and photos on my site. WordPress discovers this weakness and releases an upgrade to 3.5 which fixes the bug and no longer allows users to gain administrator status when logged in as "jabberwocky".

If I don't upgrade my site to 3.5, my system is still vulnerable. Further, everyone knows about the weakness in WordPress 3.4 because the 3.5 release notes explain the reason for the upgrade. My site becomes an instant target for any hackers. If my business were based on this website it could really hurt my reputation, profits etc. if someone were to gain control of my site.

What the government is asking Apple to do is allow them to login as "jabberwocky" whenever they have a warrant. By doing this, Apple enables anyone to login as "jabberwocky" so long as they have the special software which Apple is being asked to write. And, since the government is asking for this access permanently, Apple will never be allowed to modify this security weakness sufficiently so that it does not exist, because by court order it must exist.

The final point I would make is that since encryption is so readily available, any user can download software that makes use of encrypted communications in less than a minute with an internet connection. Compelling Apple to weaken their encryption system does nothing to provide the DOJ with access to data within these other communication programs. Some examples are Signal, wickr and Telegram. Senator Lindsey Graham makes this point at the end of his questioning of Attorney General Loretta Lynch [1]. I hope you'll give it a listen.

[1] https://youtu.be/uk4hYAwCdhU?t=1m44s
I'm highly skeptical that it was just offering bitcoin that reduced donations.

For example, if they're making an API call to the payment provider on each page load to generate a new bitcoin payment button, the page load might be slower, and it might be that additional slowness which accounts for the change.

The conclusion was not scientific.
The Ashley Madison data breach was such a disaster for the company because it saved its customers' real names and credit card numbers. It didn't have to do it this way. It could have processed the credit card information, given the user access, and then deleted all identifying information. To be sure, it would have been a different company. It would have had less revenue, because it couldn't charge users a monthly recurring fee.

This seems to me the wrong way to solve the problem. The crazy thing about credit cards, social security numbers, and bank account numbers is that these numbers are supposed to be kept secret and private, and yet you need to constantly give them out to people. Everyone you write a check to gets your bank account number, every place you buy from gets a credit card number. This is insane.

The right way to solve this is that Visa and Master Card need to develop a standard to make super easy to generate a unique payment number everytime you make an online purchase. Then that should be built in as a browser extension or component. So I browse to a site, click to pay with my Visa card, and Visa automatically generates a unique code for that site and fills it in on the form.

Also it is insane that someone can steal my identity by simply knowing my social security card. The right way to solve this would be to have an indentity provider that has a short 10 second video of myself on file. Then, when I want to sign up for a credit card or bank account, I take a 10 second video of myself using my cell phone, granting approval to open the account. A staffer at the credit card company then compares the video with the video on file with the identity provider, and verifies that it matches. The identify provider also sends a message to an email address or mobile number on file, so that I am alerted that someone is opening an account in my name. Using these two simple safe guards, identity theft would be much, much harder. A video recording of a person is very hard to fake, much harder to fake than a signature.

A final key innovation would be if email providers would make it super-easy to generate aliases per site. I do this myself manually with fastmail, but if there was a simple browser extension that would automatically create an alias and fill in a form, that would be great, because I could have a unique address that all funnels into one place, for everything I sign up to.
Why do you think social skills aren't heavily influenced by environment and experience? I'm curious because my intuition is the opposite: that it's mostly based on experience and practice.

I only have in support anecdotes, but I've met several people who were homeschooled, and they had a really hard adjustment to high school / college. All of them ended up being loners because of how different they were from everyone and how hard it was for them to relate. In the opposite direction, the person with the most impressive social skills I know is someone that had to overcome a childhood of poor social skill development and consciously train for it as an adult.

Honestly, as someone who is mediocre at socializing, I really wish I had more of it growing up (I lived in a neighborhood without other kids). It's a pain to improve as an adult.
I'm not talking about downregulating receptor response, but entire areas of the brain like the insula and parts of the frontostriatal circuit.
>Training in statistics, linear algebra and algorithmic thinking is more relevant for today’s educated workforce.

>unless you're an engineer

Not so last century, eh?
This brings to mind "Review"[1] on Comedy Central, in which the protagonist attempts to review life itself.

"Life!" the show begins. "It’s literally all we have. But is it any good?"

Highly recommended.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Review_(TV_series)
> Isn't this just an example of the halting problem? As in, you can't prove that a program won't ever halt.

Not really, the HP is about writing a program which automatically proves halting/not-halting for every possible program you feed into it.
System76 Galago Ultra Pro. 8GB. 2 years now.
> Lenovos gets pretty hot and noisy under load while MacBook is silent in the same exact situation

This may be true for your experience with X1Cs, but it's hardly true for Lenovos in general. My t450s rarely makes any fan noise under stress, and it's never become uncomfortably hot to the touch like my work MBP has.
I picked up a UniFi AP AC Lite for $84 a couple months ago and couldn't be happier with it. For home use, the full version is probably overkill.
> Lenovos gets pretty hot and noisy under load while MacBook is silent in the same exact situation

This may be true for your experience with X1Cs, but it's hardly true for Lenovos in general. My t450s rarely makes any fan noise under stress, and it's never become uncomfortably hot to the touch like my work MBP has. My work MBP also definitely gets very noisy if I'm pegging a core or three.
Considering that what two three mining pools make up the majority of Bitxoin and can thus decide it's fate vs the number of governments and banks and being their varying policy I really feel like bitcoin is if anything more controlled. At the very least a cash transaction doesn't need to be okayed by a third party.