skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hah, this was a running a joke at my last place of work ('Double it, change the units') where we were developing for clients and so were often publishing estimates externally.

More recently they moved into the world of science and actually fed back the results of previous estimates into the estimation process, to try and address systematic mis-estimation. Yes, each estimate may not be right, but it's surprising how if you average them out you can get them pretty close.
Yes, you are correct. Some parts of LTE and WCDMA use a pre shared secret and rolling keys to allow UEs to identify themselves to the mobile network. There are however many non-data carrying parts of LTE that are not encrypted or authenticated, sort of how 802.11 has AES but management frames are still fully unecrypted.
The Ryen account is a little far down that page. Since we heard one story in anatomical detail, how about another?

"The first time I met Kevin Cooper I was 8 years old and he slit my throat. He hit me with a hatchet and put a hole in my skull. He stabbed me twice, which broke my ribs and collapsed one lung. I lived only because I stuck four fingers in my neck to slow the bleeding, but I was too weak to move. I laid there 11 hours looking at my mother who was right beside me.

I know now he came through the sliding glass door and attacked my dad first. He was lying on the bed and was struck in the dark without warning with the hatchet and knife. He was hit many times because there is a lot of blood on the wall on his side of the bed.

My mother screamed and Cooper came around the bed and started hitting her. Somehow my dad was able to struggle between the bed and the closet but Cooper bludgeoned my father to death with the knife and hatchet, stabbing him 26 times and axing him 11. One of the blows severed his finger and it landed in the closet. My mother tried to get away but he caught her at the bottom of the bed and he stabbed her 25 times and axed her 7.

All of us kids were drawn to the room by mom's screams. Jessica was killed in the doorway with 5 ax blows and 46 stabs. I won't say how many times my best friend Chris was stabbed and axed, not because it isn't important, but because I don't want to hurt his family in any way, and they are here.

After Cooper killed everyone, and thought he had killed me, he went over to my sister and lifted her shirt and drew things on her stomach with the knife. Then he walked down the hallway, opened the refrigerator, and had a beer. I guess killing so many people can make a man thirsty."

[EDIT: this is from Ryen's testimony in 2005.]
I think terms like "DevOps" and "full stack" are as meaningless if you've been programming for more than 3-4 years, as you likely fulfilled those roles before they had a cool label.
I really enjoyed reading this. I don't fully agree with the author that anytime you see these words you should run. I think that some places thrive on language like this because it represents the environment that you're joining. A place that is fun and doesn't need to take itself overly seriously. 2.) On the other hand, there is a major problem with these which I also recognize. As companies saw success with these phrases, now almost all companies seem to be using these phrases in some way or another. Either way, thanks for sharing!
I'd imagine they'd be called a "Designer".
I joined a running club in NYC. It had classes ranging from walkers to elite marathoners. Probably fairly unique to have such a range but I believe this was quite key to their long term (30+ years) success. Having a complete cycle helps everything run smoothly. It was run by Shelly and Bob Glover, two well known names in the world of running.

Running is a great way to get to know a diverse crowd. I met girls, cardiologists, musicians, students, postal workers, young and old. On the pavement we were all just friends talking about our PRs and next races.

We were very supportive of anyone of any level and really encouraged newcomers. If you have access to a running club or class, I recommend it. The class was paid, which might sound ridiculous at first, but once you get into it you quickly see the value of experienced coaches and supportive classmates.
You pay reddit per impression, not per click. Getting an ad that works out to $0.02 per click is not as easy as it sounds, especially if you're just trying to make them buy something on Amazon. Clickbait doesn't lead to sales very much, and advertising to capture attention of people who'd actually buy it leads to a very high cost per click.
As a Debian user, that isn't really what I'm looking for. I like Debian's release management. For a stable Debian release, I don't want upstream being allowed to either: 1) push major feature and API changes, or 2) remove the software entirely. Then I'd have to deal with every random upstream's release model, whereas today I understand and trust Debian's synchronized release model.

I think it's fine if this doesn't meet the wishes of how upstream wants to manage releases. Part of the point of free software is that we have a right to adapt software to serve our own needs, without needing permission of the original authors. Rolling-style releases, which get updated whenever upstream wants to push an update, are a nice option to have. But a Debian-style stable release model is also a nice option to have. So I'd like both to exist, and wouldn't want upstream package authors to be able to veto the existence of stable releases.
This is not an over-reaction in even the slightest way.

The barrier to entry for this implementation is a little over $600 USD. If someone brought this solution online in their apartment in midtown Manhattan NYC, they would potentially affect hundreds, if not thousands of devices.

Someone who is deploying an OpenBTS in the middle of the desert probably already has a good understanding of their existing RF environment.

I'm willing to bet that just about everyone participating here lives in an RF rich environment where if they brought solution online, it would impact someone.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11413252 and marked it off-topic.
Need to include the subtitle: "A Conversation With Stephen Wolfram"
And what allows outsourcing to be achievable? Technology, perhaps?
How will this impact decisions to release console-only (or rather, XBox-only) games? I realise an amount of that decision is marketing, but will users accept it when it's a 100% marketing ploy?
Now that is a brilliant and evil marketing scheme.
And that's the only one who matters. The owner of the capital. At least that's how our system is set up.
Why+is+Success+So+Elusive?
You can have a tiling window manager under windows as well, like HashTWM https://github.com/ZaneA/HashTWM or AquaSnap http://www.nurgo-software.com/products/aquasnap . Window management under windows can be just about the same as it is under linux.
FYI this gives a javascript error in Safari 9.1 private browsing mode. Disabling private browsing fixes the problem.
> Another issue here is the wealth disparity. I think your typical millionaire could easily outbid five middle class families or even ten middle class families.

They often could, but would they choose to? Less trivially.
Show HN: pbcp – a cloud clipboard
Time time debugging is something different here. It's on working with different states of app and try to find issues.

This is a way to list components and show their different use case. We can also develop individual components by just looking at this.
Aaron, I have only read the executive summary of the briefing from Amnesty International you reference, but I fail to see that they make any suggestion for restricted encryption.

Can you please clearly cite what in that briefing makes you conclude this?
Indeed I have not read the book. I'm not really inclined to buy it, but I did skim the Amazon preview which seemed not to include any of the interesting sections (aka. chapter 6).

> I think your assumptions about what is slow or fast are off base.

Large lookup tables are unwieldy. If massive lookup tables worked above 8 bit or so, why wouldn't they be used already?

> these computing number systems [...] have a dyadic system wherein every represented number is some multiple of a power of two.

For IEEE floats, sure. For Unum IIs, logarithmic number systems or level index number systems, no. Except in the sense that every real number is a multiple of some power of two.

It's true that Unum IIs include intervals, but I factored that out of the question when I pointed out it's equivalent to just supporting open and half open intervals without them. And then you do indeed have a subset of the reals.

I don't really get why you say you're not representing real numbers. 1 is a real number, and is exactly representable in IEEE floating point. (Technically infinities and NaN mean it's not strictly a subset, but that's pedanticism.)
> I'm sure Valve would sue them, because no-one gives up a billion dollar business without a fight, but I don't see why they would win.

Because Windows is still more or less a monopoly, which puts Microsoft in a special position. Apple can deliver Safari as their browser on Mac OS without problems - IE on Windows was far more problematic for Microsoft.
Tile38 – geospatial index, realtime geofencing. Now uses native Redis protocol
I think the poster is referring to Sandboxing and SIP.
Thanks.

I'd like to get you feedback on what we can improve. Could you post your feedback here - https://github.com/kadirahq/react-storybook/issues
One other thing. The bay area interestingly has hills much like Austin. This surely has to do with high cost of housing in specific areas. The closer you get to the hills the more it cost to live. Now with the number of people moving here the center of town gets more unaffordable. If the amount of people moving here continues I don't think multi use housing can fix this fast enough.
Of course, you could connect an Amiga (1200, though) to a VGA monitor with a simple modified cable. I did it with a nice old VGA mono monitor and it was great.
Is this actually O(1)?

Because the electricity has to to travel the shortest path it seems like it is at best O(shortest path length). The constant factor is of course very small.
Thanks for the feedback. This is the first time, I got a feedback on this.

I used it for highlighting points. I think I am over using it. Will minimize it.
"I was supposed to be executed one minute after midnight on February 10, 2004. ...

The prison also started sending a psychiatrist — it was clear that they wanted to make sure I was not going to commit suicide."

So absurd!
This is why world population growth is dramatically slowing down (not exponential, not even linear — it is now sublinear, and expected to stop completely around 2050).
I think the bigger question to be raised is whether or not spying on all parties involved in diplomatic or fiscal "negotiations" is an activity that the free world should be partaking in
Oh, absolutely. All of the numbers I've seen say that pretty much all kinds of danger are rarer than in the supposedly good old days. Yeah, there are some risks, but you take some reasonable precautions and get on with life instead of trying to reorganize society around reducing every risk to zero.

The media and political classes just creates an environment where it seems more dangerous for their own benefit. People who are constantly afraid buy more newspapers/click more news links and will vote to reduce their own rights. All the better if the dangers are essentially imaginary - the gravy train can keep running without worrying about figuring out something to do that actually solves the problem, or the problem going away once it's solved.
Engineering is rigour, understanding, accountability, the balance of competing concerns, communication and cowork with other people, the application of ethics, and continuous improvement. If your occupation strives to include these properties, and you strive to learn and improve your own skills and your field in general, I don't see why the particular language you use should prevent you from being an engineer.
I meant in computational resource terms, on hardware. It's obviously a pain to actually write.

> The values don't need to be cached

I don't see how addition could be implemented in a semi-reasonable amount of time without table lookup, nor does it seem to be mentioned.
JetBrains will be releasing C# IDE - https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/

Right now it's not much with C# in cross platform development (ASP.NET is in total flux, it's not even renamed to Core 1.0, Rider IDE still not released), but soon™.
FWIW we spent years on mono as well, constantly chasing performance issues, incompatibilities, stupid bugs, race conditions and uncountable segfaults. All with code that worked perfectly fine on Windows (but we had to run on Linux due to cost and integration necessities).

We are about 70% of the way through a complete Go rewrite and I couldn't be happier with the outcome. For once, things just work as expected, on Windows, Linux and OSX.

I'm glad Microsoft is finally doing something to make .NET something other than a shit show on Linux, but we needed that 3 years ago, not 3 years from now.

Alas, too little too late for us anyway. I hope it works out better for others, but the ship has already sailed.
Oh wow! That's the second person who's said that.

I didn't realize Chrome would do that...I've been using the files without issue.

I'll publish it before the end of the week to avoid this problem continuing! Thanks for the feedback!
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I'll take Lao Tzu over Confucius any day.
floating point multiplications expend considerable resources... 64-bit mult on x86 is 3 cycles, IIRC.
You think that high minimum wage will somehow magically create more jobs? Could you please explain this entertaining possibility?
Very impressive. Maybe it can be used in unikernel with freestanding applications.

Some Suggestion: do not focus on GUI at first, since it will not be usable soon as desktop OS anyway.

I could imagine that a barebone ExDos to manage multiple unikernel ExDOS virtual machines as web services is quite useful.

Any comments?
STEM's reputation as unwelcoming to all is often criticised. Frequent examples include things like the headline in this article.

What value does "cock" add to blocking in this context?

While I'm not always in favor of things like renaming "master" and "slave" to "leader" and "follower" (since primary/replica is better) https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26k5la/django_...

I do think that programmers as a whole could be served by showing a little discretion. If "cock" isn't adding value & isn't particularly adding anything in terms of humor it'd be better to just leave it out.
Wish it had a 'mod' instruction :(
I agree with this, but I read that line as meaning that there needs to be a politician that can communicate a technology focused long-term view of the economy.

All of the US candidates are using social media effectively to communicate their message, but none of them actually understand technology (witness how they talk about encryption). It would be good to have a politician that could talk about the vision of where the economy is truly going.

Sanders' projects that he's telling "the truth" but his vision of rolling back the economy to the good old days is naive. But it's not surprising that a 74 year-old would lean that way.

None of this should be surprising because the main way that politicians use technology is to target their voters.
For the doubters, here's an article: http://regressing.deadspin.com/the-scientific-case-against-v... and here's a study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24357642
What do you mean?

The only assumption about librarians is that they "enjoy quiet and order". While this may be an oversimplification (although if you didn't, wouldn't this affect your chances of becoming a librarian?), but what's so arrogant about it?

This oversimplification, or stererotypization, is justified by the context anyway; obviously it doesn't refer to real-life librarians. It's metaphorical language, just as the ninja analogy has nothing to do with actual ninjas, only their image in (pop)culture
If you look at the most popular job in each state, you will find truck driving is either #1 or pretty high on the list.
You...did read the article, right?
In 1900 there were 1.6 billion people, and we had a lot less technology, with many people living in poverty.

In 2016, there are 7 billion people, we have a lot less technology, only about 1 billion still live in poverty. If technology 'killed' jobs we shouldn't have more than about 400 million people employed in the world.
Do you use a library for the multiprecision numbers?
For starters, make the rules for the first 365 days after the IPO the same as being private; which would include limiting the first year of the IPO to qualified investors.
Assuming they did not have to abide by height restrictions, why wouldn't they?
I've related this story before on HN, but it's good enough to share:

When I went and saw the new Wrath of Khan with my brother (now in Portland, at the time he was the Inner Richmond in SF), he surprised me when he told me what was most fantastic to him about the movie. It was not the space aliens, the faster than light travel, the giant spaceships, Cumberbatch's acting, no. To him, the most fantastic part was that there were highrises in SF. Space monsters? Sure. A sensible housing board? Woah buddy, you just crashed my suspension of disbelief!
That's interesting, mind expanding on your problems?

I know that as a BT (uk) ISP customer mostly I can ping google.com and it returns in 6ms from a BT IP, which would indicate they're using GGC. Sometimes it resolves to a Google IP in 12 ms.

Last month however it started resolving all the way to Amsterdam and subsequently to the US with a corresponding increase in ping time. Was this their way of saving energy by shutting down DCs, or was it a bigger problem like capacity or an outage? Either way despite the latency issues the fact it always works in a plus for their infrastructure team.
The opposite side of idealism is cynicism. Further more if there's one thing humanity has proven itself bad at, it's the ability to make economic predictions.

I'm not saying your comment isn't a valuable counter-weight, just that we have a ways to go in this discussion still.
I see this as the equivalent of unit-testing React components, but for design.

1. React is built with the intention of highly-isolatable components. Using a tool like this (just like tests) can encourage developers to keep things isolated. But if that's too problematic in practice, I think you're right this tool wouldn't be useful.

2. This helps provide dummy data for visual tests. His edge cases here don't include those crazy things, but this is a much easier way to test that than doing so manually.

3. Doing it within the app is easy, but getting to the right "state" to see the component as you want is hard. And isolating a given feature can be nice for design.
`start`ing Promises, `race`ing pipelines, and `say`ing are all frequently used Perl 6 features. So we want nice simple short words for them. I think the ones we've got are well chosen but it's clearly a taste thing. You could always define aliases... :)
For straight Buddhism in modern terms, What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula and Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness by Henepola Gunaratana are good.
My experience is aligned with yours, too. That is why I specified that time-to-market must have been the predominant factor.
Whatever you do, don't move to Denver. It's just full of potsmokers and Tebow fans. Yuck
That might delay things, but (1) patents expire and (2) there are often ways around them.
This is seriously impressive stuff. "Solver-aided programming language" might sound esoteric, but it's the natural evolution of the same trend towards higher-level, more declarative programming that replaced 'goto' with 'for', and 'for' with 'map'. You can judge the merit of programming approach by how much it punches above its weight, and the list of applications written in Rosette is short but impressive[1] (especially considering it was only released in 2013). I'm particularly impressed by Chlorophyll, a "synthesis-aided programming model and compiler for GreenArrays GA144, a minimalist low-power spatial architecture":

>We used Chlorophyll to compile an accelerometer-based hand-gesture recognition application for GA144. This application occupied 83 nodes out of 144 nodes. In this demo, GA144 was running on 1.8 V, and the application drew 0.24 mA. This means we should be able to run this application using two lemons![2]

If you've never heard of the GA144, it's an amazing chip designed by Chuck Moore (inventor of Forth) that provides computational grunt comparable to an i7 for a few milliwatts, on a 180nm process no less, at the cost of an awkward architecture of a 12x12 array of chips with very little RAM whose machine language is Forth. Because of this architecture, and despite considerable interest, few have actually managed to program the GA144 to do anything interesting. This demo of an application written in Rosette might just be the most interesting thing anyone's ever gotten a GA144 to do. On that basis alone, I'd say they were on to something.

Aside: imagine a "demoscene" of who could run the most advanced application on a lemon!

[1] http://emina.github.io/rosette/apps.html
[2] http://pl.eecs.berkeley.edu/projects/chlorophyll/
Surely you're joking? The "shareholders" OWN the companies in question. Of course it is their right to demand whatever they want from the company - they own the thing. No company can tell its shareholders to fuck off, because it is subservient to them.
iOS was introduced to the world with no third party developer access, so technically Apple has only opened it up over its lifetime.

Windows has always been open and never locked down, Microsoft choosing to lock it down is a very different thing.

Look at the OS X App Store, which is a much more apt comparison. Apple introduced it and made it available to developers, but in no way has coerced it. It is no harder to make a "standard" OS X app that can also build to iOS than it is to make an app that's going in the App Store.

UWP, on the other hand, is only available in conjunction with the Windows store.
Network of Thrones
Certain degree of narcissist traits can be beneficial if it translates into taking pride in your work.

"We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris" (Larry Wall)

You don't need to be Donald Knuth - or Larry Wall - to be above average :)
It's what plants crave!
For those who want to mess around with BTS -- 900mhz (Eurospec GSM freq; US' complement is 850) is unlicensed ISM band even without a Ham license, and legally compatible with all the Siemens production gear you can get fairly cheap (everyones phasing out the BS20s and what not).

There's a 1 watt/4 watt limit, but I'm really curious how easy it'd be to get full voice 2G (Euro spec standard) coverage for Manhattan. This is all on consumer-compatible Euro/Asia and/or quad-band units out of the box too. Capacity for each BTS was around 12 concurrent voice channels (IIRC) and when I ran numbers you'd get ~1.2 radial KM coverage[edit: indoors, not LOS (which is drastically further)] at the setup I spec'd out (it was a while ago, apologies, but I think it was Yagi style capable of +70dbm).

[0]http://www.afar.net/tutorials/fcc-rules/
There's a handful of Fortune 100s I've seen that are on Oracle Linux. They've mostly gotten deals through their existing relationships with Oracle and/or Sun. These places have typically been heavy on both Solaris / SunOS as well as on Oracle. Trying to develop a new relationship with RedHat to that level would not have been possible politically, so Oracle Linux it is.
The Social Life of Genes
Magazine article about the study: http://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/Mathhorizons/Netw...
FTR, this issue has nothing to do with inhalation - it's about its use in women's undergarments, and the link between that an ovarian cancer.