skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot to be said for a mechanical interference that prevents two things from moving relative to one another. Like say a bolt, in shear (or a pin). Better still is a bolt that exerts clamp force, thus leaving it far, far less in shear. Bolts are amazing and I can't see why people think glue is better. Welding is better, sure, but it's also a lot more permanent.

EDIT: I get why people like glue for things like carbon fiber bikes, etc because weight is an issue and you can't really bolt it. But for buildings? That's a different use case.
A highly reliable, rock solid robot nanny would easily fetch 30k and sell millions. This must be, what, at least a century away? I'm probably venturing into Jetsons territory here...
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No, it probably means that it blocks the anti-ad-blocker.
I view it from the other direction. If you aren't using the ORM, or the templating engine, or the admin interface, why would you choose Django? If your answer is for a plug-n-play RESTful api or authentication, you might want to check out PostgREST with PostgreSQL 9.5's row level security features, it's just plain better.
Not an expert; what I think jdpigeon is referring to, though, is that the information storage is just fine, even if the indexing mechanisms aren't.

Like recovering data from a broken filesystem - the directory structure is lost and for a normal usecase the data might as well be gone, but a lot of the content is theoretically there and recoverable if some indexing system (even one different from the original) can be created.
I went to UQ and they would specifically have to inform international students (primarily Chinese from what I saw) that cheating is not allowed.
The first iPhone was actually pretty bad at making calls... the internet/email in your pocket was the killer app there.
I'm in favour of creating a level playing field between men and women in tech (and any other X/Y you want to compare) but creating a level playing field and a lot of these measures don't seem (to me) to be the same thing.

Though in fairness this list is better than most I've seen.
1) I'm not sure I get what your theory about C is. I could get it if his machine was segfaulting, but how does C cause these problems?
2) C trivially can't explain any decline that's happened, because old Linux was also written in C.
Chuck you're thinking about some welds but not all. Many welds are actually chemical as well as just flowing the metals together. Especially bonds between different kinds of metals.

Also there are many adhesives that require temperature treatment so where do you draw the line between "welding" and "adhesives"? Just a thought experiment. I know there is probbably a strict definition.

However if you've ever used a mig or flood welder, it's really not very far off of from a hot glue gun or just dumping glue on the thing.
> extremely slow and laden with performance issues

I've honestly not experienced this at all; though I'm running Atom/Nuclide with only the Babel language plugin extra.
Like others, I have beefy machines and it's still somewhat sluggish. It doesn't bother me as much as others, but I still finding myself typing vscode "blah" instead of atom "blah" for simple file edits that will be opened, saved or looked at, and then closed.
Highest ratio I've ever seen is from Sean Lock with 2 tweets and almost 95k followers.

https://twitter.com/theseanlock?lang=en
Son, go to your room!

But I don't want to go to my room!

Son, go to your room!

Mommy, what would happen if on the way to my room I ran into a pack of wild dogs in the hallway blocking my path? Would I still have to go to my room?
I suspect that both are right. Some people are having issues and others are not. I don't seem to have any lag at all when typing even with multi megabyte size files.
Maybe you could give some more details into exactly what actions were slow for you and what types of files you were editing.

Actually, thanks to innovations in Mozilla's servo, the web may actually become faster than native.
CSRF anyone?
I've always thought of Singapore as the "Apple" of countries. Incredibly modern, clean, organised, and well-presented. But run according to very strict rules, like banning chewing gum entirely, and $500 fines for littering.
The Case Against Artificial Intelligence
The flask community really needs to rally around a project layout/boilerplate set-up; it took me a lot of trial and error to really nail scalable, intelligent flask projects and that is the #1 issue people run into with it.
I'm usually an early adopter, and was for fb, but recently I noticed my life is much better without fb/messenger/Instagram on my phone. It's been 6 months and whenever I go to fb web to check out I have hundreds of notifications and messages, but never once lost something truly important. They have my number for that. I sense a social media burn out on a lot of people lately. We're not built for this crazy amount of interactions on a single day.
It is possible to do so but may not be desirable anyway. It is completely possible to wire a fork bomb to the safe methods; you probably don't want to enable the bomb via crawler however.
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Project McQueen, Apple’s plan to build its own cloud
Sure, but in this case Apple isn't being accused of anything so the 5th amendment doesn't apply.
There is probably a correlation to the slow rise of the mac platform and the slow fall of the OS X platform.

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016#tech...

There are a ton of developers that will choose whatever language they have available and if developers are switching to mac they wont be reaching for C#. Then you have those that have moved on to F#. Objective-C has the same problem for those that have moved to swift. It is weird to think that next year perhaps 1/3 of SO developers will be on OS X. That is such a huge amount.

And in the last decade Linux has absolutely won the server market. It is going to take some time for the clr on Linux project to stop the bleed from projects that moved off c# just to move off of Windows servers.

Link to the full answers about tech from parent: http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016#tech...
My Atom on a 8Gb rMBP with an SSD handles it perfectly fine...
Beyond the case itself, doesn't this sort of ineptitude illustrate exactly why we should not want the government holding the keys?
> you'd likely be surprised what the compiler can't
> assume in almost any imperative language

If you're going to use language like "almost any imperative language" to implicitly mean "almost any imperative language with predominantly dynamic semantics", then you shouldn't be surprised when someone well-versed in static languages comes along to correct such an overbroad interpretation. Reconsider who's being uncharitable here.

(And I say this as a Python developer who has actually needed to hoist a lookup out of a loop before.)
I'm not saying I'm a conscientious objector, but I write a whole lotta bugs under stress conditions. This may take a while ...
Without a hint of irony: thank you for reading this so carefully. Some of the things you note are typos or poorly worded, most are things that I think are clear in context. In either case, yours is one of the very few comments about the actual book, rather than Clojure in general. I appreciate it.
That's what the stimulus package of 2009 was sold as. Then it turned out that seven-eighths of it went to various government cronies or to allow states to put off their pension obligations one more year. There were also, as I recall, complaints that spending on infrastructure projects would unequally benefit men over women.
There are even more American kids with the same amount of money.

You just don't notice the international students who come from modest means.
Keys under doormats: mandating insecurity by requiring gov access to all data
If we knew you wouldn't have to ask haha, he talks more about it in this mail http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2016-March/02...
This was really hard to read because it scaled to my 27" 1440p screen and that's really wide for so little text.
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uMatrix is even better than NoScript in many ways. It blocks all cross-site requests aside from CSS and images by default, and can integrate with uBlock Origin to provide a visual indication of which requests are to known ad sites.
Is she calling the shots? I took it to mean she was superciliously talking out of her ass to the reporter.
Of course "libertarianism" as such -- being even more farcical than nearly any version of socialism -- has never gotten a real toehold anywhere for any length of time, making the comparison moot. That's why I prefer to stick with comparisons of large-scale, real-life ideological systems ("by their deeds shall ye know them"). That is, not the platonic ideals that people (pretend to) believe in; but the actual, real-world systems they compromise for as its "best viable" approximation.

Which is where the body counts, ecological toll and general misery -- domestic and exported -- of the two allegedly opposite systems tend to even out to a far greater degree.
No matter what happens in this case, to the individual engineers or to Apple, the problem runs much deeper:

- Government power and rights > individual power and rights.
- Mass surveillance of their own people.
- Constitution consistently ignored.
- Civil liberties viewed as an annoyance.
- Militarized police force.
- Secret court systems that "OKs" any government action.
- Mainstream media little more than an arm of government propaganda.
- Whistleblowers treated like criminals.
- Indefinite detention laws ready to be used for any reason.
- Can justify any action in the name of "national security".
- Political class rules all.

We have a word for this type of government but but no one is talking about it yet. Whatever the outcome to Apple, a government like this will try again and find other ways to do what they want.
Surely nothing could go wrong if a voting system requires money or sacrifice of resources.
> To use with-open effectively, we must macroexpand it in our heads whenever it appears in the code.

I'd like to add that if you find yourself needing to mentally expand a macro every time you use/read it, you have a poor abstraction. Consider going back to the drawing board and coming up with a good abstraction instead.
Hey, this is a project I've been working on. The homepage has a demo of what the sidebar looks like (which overlays to the right of your browser when you open the extension). Feedback/questions appreciated!
Ok, I think a few things are going on here:

1) I don't have any stats to back it up, but based anecdotally on my job feeds, businesses in general want more MBAs, or at least more masters degrees. I chalk this up to bachelors degrees being the baseline for employees these days, so employers want another degree on top for more prestigious positions.

2) MBA graduates have always been most attracted to positions with the most upside. In the early 2000s this was the banking/private equity scene, so that's where most MBAs went. These days, big tech companies and well-funded startups are tossing around offer packages that are equally as lucrative as working for de-fanged banks, with better working conditions, so it makes sense that more MBAs want to go to SV.

3) MBAs hire MBAs. Always have, always will for a variety of reasons. As more MBA-holders have proven themselves in SV either within companies or by starting their own, they've started hiring more of their classmates and recent grads. Over time, this contributes to an increasing number of MBA-holders working in SV compared to a few years ago.
The author is making the following reasoning: Conjecture 1 and Conjecture 2 can not both be true. Conjecture 1 is believed to be true. Therefore Conjecture 2 is false, which implies that there must exist a heavy cluster of primes out there.
> I can't see why people think glue is better

It's cheaper. And you can glue wibbly shaped bits together easier than bolting.
The view from the leaning motorcycle was awesome. I took it for granted that stabilization meant seeing it from the vantage of the rider, so seeing it from the aspect of an external viewer was a bit shocking and really cool.
The same happended to me. It was for an Accounting class in Australia. They switched to mandarin to make it easier on everyone else.
I just find it absolutely silly that people expect a lowly grunt to follow the same rules and have the same punishment as literally the head of the institution that made the rules. It just seems plainly absurd. If the state dept makes rules about private servers, the head of the state dept can break those rules. That's just common sense. It's like workers complaining that the owner of a company breaks the rules he sets out for employees.
I don't want a robotic domestic servant, I want my existing appliances to take on more responsibility.

I'd pay a few extra thousand for a car that drives itself, or a closet washer/dryer that automatically washes, folds, and stores my clothes, or a fridge that can make basic meals, or a vacuum that cleans my house while I'm out.

Maybe a humanoid robot that does these things will exist one day, but I'd rather have a home that does all these things frictionlesly than share my space with a robot.
Does underlying logic have any performance/responsiveness-measurement hooks?

Would help in the "it is a dog on i7! / no, it's fast!" discussion :)
The official confirmation might help convince a judge to vacate the gag order on Ladar Levison, possibly revealing things we didn't know before...

Or maybe we already know all that matters about the case.
No, normally what people desire of a fixed-point representation is a subset of a floating-point representation. Most fixed-point stuff is prototyped as floating-point, then painfully converted into a mess of nasty macros. Ideally there would be assertions to protect against failure due to the limited functionality of the fixed-point type, but probably you don't bother.

It's not maintainable.

We should be able to take that prototype, mark it up with hints for the compiler, and then build with fixed-point enabled.
"nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself" (https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/fifth_amendment)

This is a criminal case, however. It would apply to real people, but likely does not apply to corporations regardless of rulings treating corporations as people for other purpose. I imagine the Apple lawyers would have had it as part of their defense strategy if it did.
Documents at:

http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/2y256314e/virginia-eastern-...
Harvard students _have_ always been noted for their humility... /s
You can put carbon fibre into glue. We make epoxy kiteboards and hydrofoils. Very very light, very strange shapes.
Had? It's still there come visit we don't bite, that costs extra.
If this becomes a thing, the world is going to run out of islands faster than companies can buy them to evade totalitarian governments.
>That's the problem, HackerNews comments aren't supposed to be humorous.

I don't know where you got this impression but it's not true
> "it does seem that (much like Lavabit), the service is built on the premise of "won't" read your mail rather than "can't" read your mail."

Can you help me understand this comment? I get that the usual problem with webmail is that it's "plaintext in, plaintext out"... So you just have to trust the server operator that they're actually encrypting anything, doing it well, not compromised, etc.

But if that's the problem, why isn't the answer to have client side code handling the encryption? From skimming the page source and reading https://protonmail.com/security-details, that's exactly what Protonmail does.

First you use a username/password to authenticate with protonmail - that's cleartext in/out - this only determines which account you are accessing. Once you're authenticated, your browser runs an open source AngularJS application, which asks you for a separate, client-side-only password. Once you've authenticated, your browser only sends/receives cyphertext.

I know you by reputation and I'm a big fan of your work... so I assume I'm missing something. Am I misunderstanding the problem? What am I missing here?
Why is this getting downvoted?

Edit: In for a penny, I suppose: why is this getting downvoted? I don't think "why is this getting downvoted" is a controversial question.
A lot of companies have, and then Twitter shut down their access. Twitter is the poster child for "Don't build software in another company's backyard."
I don't know how that would work. The filing compels Apple to follow the order, and doesn't name any engineers.
You expect me to believe that with those specs Atom really runs like a 'complete dog'? The fact you also mention Sublime too really just tells me that your opinion was biased from the start. Finally, JIT compiled languages can be just as fast as native, simply because they can optimise to your hardware specs. You are getting mixed up as to why things are the way they are; JavaScript is a dynamically typed language, so the engine doesn't know AOT what types have what members, so this can cause a slow down compared to statically typed languages. BUT any JavaScript engine worth it's salt quickly figures the stuff out on startup so it's not a problem, as long as you don't use too many dynamic tricks that it can't optimise.
Sure, but then we wind up having to broadly categorize most people as low-lifes. Which may be true, but that's all the more reason to construct a system that can survive them, not a system that falls apart when representative human beings are part of it.
"Even we cannot read your e-mails!"

Exactly what those guys said 10 years ago, and exactly what Proton is saying now.

What is different?
Not only is it already pervasive in government, this type of dissembling has also been policy at Google for a long time.

LIZ FIGUEROA, (D) State Senator, CA, 1998-06: We walk into this room, and it’s myself
and two of my staff— my chief of staff and one of my attorneys. And across from us
was Larry, Sergey, and their attorney.

All of a sudden, Sergey started talking to me. He said, “Senator, how would you feel
if a robot went into your home and read your diary and read your financial records,
read your love letters, read everything, but before leaving the house, it imploded?”
And he said, “That’s not violating privacy.”

I immediately said, “Of course it is. Yes, it is.” And he said, “No, it isn’t.
Nothing’s kept. Nobody knows about it.” I said, “That robot has read everything.
Does that robot know if I’m sad or if I’m feeling fear, or what’s happening?”
And he looked at me and he said, “Oh, no. That robot knows a lot more than that.”

(from PBS Frontline's "United States Of Secrets", part 2)
hey guys I want to learn node.js, and react.js where's a good primer on learning these things along with javascript fundamentals?
The average citizen is poorer. That doesn't mean that in absolute numbers there aren't more people who can afford an expensive education.
I'm not an astronomer, so don't take this as gospel, but I believe that large undiscovered planets are expected to be rare. Mainly because they would have had to form in the inner solar system (where all the matter was) and then somehow flung into the outer reaches of the solar system (perhaps via a major collision).

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1633/
That's what memes are, aren't they? A prison for your mind. I'm sure corporations and governments are already researching how to exploit the viral nature of memes. It's inception, except we're awake (arguably). Social consciousness is gone, replaced by tiny "nano"-ideas that spread faster than an Asian woman's legs for a white dude.[0]

[0] http://oktrends.okcupid.com

(Adding the source so dang doesn't accuse me of incivility when my speech reflects reality. I know HN is a no fun allowed zone, but I couldn't resist.)
And replies are still broken. When you reply to a tweet in TweetDeck, it prepends the new tweet with your handle. Which makes absolutely no sense. Users have been reporting it for over a month and they just don't care to do anything about it.
How not to take criticism on your project
China, like many countries but more significantly than most, has a wealth distribution gap. The richest 1% of the country own 33% of the wealth.

Now consider how many people live in China (1.3bn) and how many people fit into that 1% (13.5m). That's a lot of families who can afford standards of living greatly different from the averages in rural China. They may also have various incentives to spend that money outside of China rather than build up local institutions for their children to attend.

In theory this cash influx is good for foreign educational institutions, but only if they are smart about the money they take and how they factor it in and spend it. I'm not really convinced they are being smart, but time will tell.
The unimaginable corruption (as opposed to our run-of-the-mill corruption) is a symptom of a communistic/dictatorial government.
"There will have to be habit changes: those who want to compete will likely have to embrace autodidactism-for-life / training-for-life (free college / cheap online learning makes this one much more palatable.)"

Your comment reminded me of Star Trek: First Contact when Lily asks Picard about the lack of money and he said we work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity. Ever since that movie I was always fascinated with that unseen part of Star Trek canon where somehow the world figured out how to finally stop warring and competing and made human progress a first priority. I'm thinking we'll be in a few more wars (over resources) before we get there. Especially if our man-made climate change screws everything up.
I'm surprised that nobody here pointed out that this was another Martin Shkreli case, nor did USAT in its title choice.
I'm actually surprised they chose a date that far in the future. Automatic braking reduces low-speed forward collisions by up to 14% [1], which is a huge improvement in overall safety.

[1] http://www.iihs.org/iihs/news/desktopnews/crash-avoidance-fe...
There is no reasonable formula for generating prime numbers. So let's treat primes as if they were empirical data points instead of deterministic mathematical constants. From this lens, the statistical properties of primes are very simple to predict. That's what all these conjectures are about: finding out what sort of probability distribution would produce random numbers that look like the primes.
"What’s new is that the technology will be standard, not an option that can cost $1000 or more to add onto your new car."

They're not going to give electronics away for free, so the base price of the car will be higher, to include the price of the safety systems. However, the price will probably come down to something closer to the manufacturing cost once they can't treat it as a "premium" add-on, so maybe the cars will cost $500 more instead of $1000 more.

Does anyone know how mature this technology is, or have first-hand experience with it? I'm thinking of getting it on a new Honda Civic, but I'm concerned about the usual bugs that come with any new technology.
There seem to be a whole bunch of people waving around odd ideas.

The idea that this would be a new low is ridiculous if one takes the time to consider conscription.

If you don't like that the government can coerce you (conscription, work in jail, contempt of court, eminent domain, etc) then rally against those laws, rather than the court using established powers
Health effects of sit-stand desks at work are still unproven