skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I don't mind him having a modernized phone, at least he gets a GPS. Not sure if he's ever used it, he probably could, he just likes to be simple I guess. As for the 16GB my only peeve against Apple (I'm an Android user though) is no availability to add in an SD card, even if it can't be used as "permanent" storage SD cards hold their value for being portable and transferable. It wont affect me as much though since I'm an Android user.

I'm inclined to agree with you though, except hard drive space is a lot cheaper these days, for about $10 I can have a 32 GB USB 3.0 thumb drive. Eventually the cheaper iPhone options should just carry a minimal 32GB if they decide to stop overcharging for more space. Videos and images are only going to increase in file size over the years to account for 4K adaptability, granted that might take quite a while.
I was just researching this, as I want to write a small CLI script to play videos on my Chromecast (e.g. "castchrome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_05mIC3BIBc" and the TV will start playing). That way, I can outsource the hard work of discovering the URL to youtube-dl, and all I have to do is send it to the Chromecast.
Have any of the users of these databases and/or agencies committed to using/buying your tool? Have any signed a letter of intent?
I'm not in love with Brave and admittedly it takes some control from the companies, but the way they are attacking ad blockers they should be championing brave.
That entirely depends on how much entropy is in your passphrase. It's entirely possible to use one that cannot be cracked in reasonable time.
Nope — login pages have been https for many years.
That sucks. Oh well, looks like you'll need to go outside of the company. Just remember: don't badmouth your current company when you apply for jobs; just say that your ready for a new challenge. No matter how unbearable your position is, it never comes off well to gripe about it to the next person that you're asking for a job.
Vatican unveils restored catacomb with frescoes showing 'female priests'
Edit: I was very much under the impression that there were concrete regulations against private individuals using active guidance on model rockets, but after searching around, I can't find any such thing. Goes to show, trust but verify, including your own memories.
This is an art project, not a product.[1] As an arcade machine, it's at least 20 years too late. But it has potential as a casual game for tablets or very fat phones.

[1] http://sewergadget.tumblr.com/exhibition
I can see from reading the comments that I remain in the minority in thinking that such a law will actually bring benefits in terms of security since it will promote FOSS approaches which, being based upon free speech, will be beyond the reach of this law, and which being open will in any case be more secure.
One of the more interesting references linked here was https://github.com/neuroradiology/InsideReCaptcha — apparently the reCAPTCHA JavaScript snippet uses an encrypted bytecode format running on a custom-built VM, which one intrepid person has decompiled.
So then why are retroviruses so relatively rare? Why aren't they the dominant type of virus?
Somebody tweeted last week that Elon Musk is the new Steve Jobs.

I think he's the new Tony Stark.
Huh? I don't follow. We're not hiring people with whiteboard interviews either.
I think something like this is going to happen fairly soon.

It seems like speed will be an issue if this is limited to sidewalks. Maybe what's needed is something partway between a car and say a bicycle. I think it needs to move faster than walking speed to be practical in most areas (you mention suburbs but delivery restaurants in suburbs aren't usually within walking distance of very many customers). I would think something more like the speed of a moped or bike would be needed. That means it probably would need to operate on the side of the road most of the time, not on the sidewalk. It would need to be quite narrow not to interfere with traffic. Maybe some sort of tricycle arrangement would be feasible.

As for actually building this you're going to need a team skilled in machine learning, computer vision and robotics and right now I don't think there are many of those around. You say you're looking for skilled engineers but what makes you think you'll be able to attract people with the right skills ?
I think it would be quite straight forward to develop an extension that does client-side analytics of your browsing history, just to show you which sites you visit and how much time you spend per url/ TLD. It would be on your honor to choose to give 'patronage' and the code is auditable as a browser extension.
I can agree that "prove it" is preferable, in theory. But the amount of code for which we can actually prove any property we care about is much smaller than the amount of code we wish to write. An automated approach, even if not perfect, is often better than "no proof at all", and also better than "no code at all" (or "you can't have that code until I get around to proving it", which amounts to the same thing).
I think the homogeneity is a big problem. It does not take advantage of the local site to optimise for transit accessibility (through greater vertical density at transit nodes), energy efficiency (optimising for passive energy use through building geometry) and liveability (integration of mixed-use commercial functions for example). The design of these communities is a really cheap but effective way to upgrade the communities along these objectives and it's constrained here by the rigidity of using one housing type.
SpaceX makes breakthrough by landing rocket at sea
I am not too worried. CIA isn't what they show in TV dramas. It is just another incompetent organization that will go after weak. These are the same jerks who have not really achieved any strategic objectives of importance. The are one major public scandal away from serious trouble.
the math is amazing.

Convolution integral, Laplace transform, Z transform, frequency domain, impulse response, step response, digital filters... it's all amazing.
Mathics: A free, light-weight alternative to Mathematica
I completely agree but some people don't want to admit what a huge failure Drupal is after they've spent years of their lives working on it, with it, promoting to clients and defending it.
What's evolving due to natural selection in the gp comment is not Diane Feinstein nor any other member of Homo sapiens. What's evolving are patterns of behavior of legislators and elected officials. Dawkins memes as received wisdom on how to be a Congressperson or Senator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme#Origins
Is there something more you're looking for?
Did the 1st stage fire in the video? I don't see any visible re-ignition.
From this comment, I'm not sure you know what the word "puerile" means.
Phil Zimmermann used postcards as the analogy in his Why I Wrote PGP essay in 1991:

https://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html
This link was working for me before but not know maybe they shrunk the video. This does work https://youtu.be/7pUAydjne5M?t
Nothing like some "realpolitik" for breakfast.
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> Still beats AMD's high-end FX-8350 processor in all cases, amusingly enough.

A brand-new AMD FX-8350 costs around $160, while a Intel Xeon e5 2670 is sold for $1560 (newegg prices)

The Xeon isn't 10x the processor that the AMD FX is. Not by a long shot.
You may have that backwards.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/08/robert-downe...
Over a Year Later, EFF Granted Leave to Intervene in Patent Case
I must say that I have nothing against ads in general, but I am fiercely against the ads that are predatory in their nature.

This includes the ads that rely on the network of global surveillance of every web user actions in the Internet,

this includes the ads what main indention is to disrupt and control the main flow of the user who perceives the Internet mainly as the reading medium,

and obviously everything that is clearly malicious including direct malware attacks through the ad systems to the more subtle malicious attempts to market products or services that are attacking users sexual, financial or emotional integrity.
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The Burr-Feinstein Proposal Is Simply Anti-Security
Perhaps that's not what happened here - it sounds like Elon later explained that there were high winds at the landing site that might have caused the heavy lean. However, what I said about the last minute divert maneuver is possible/probable for future landings. Here is a recent discussion about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/3xzn7s/my_previous_...
I thought in most universities, the higher you are (Senior/junior) you get early/priority registration period, and it makes sense.

I find it strange not to have it.
Senate Crypto Bill called “absurd, dangerous and technically inept”
Introducing Factotum data pipeline runner
I consider iframes to be basically the most egregious ad insert.
Is Unicorn a fork which will eventually grow into another Qemu or just a fork to remove stuff and make it into something else that doesn't have the same goals. I'm confused because the website on the one hand says it's less functionality but then also that it does more than qemu. So which is it? Or is it just that they provide bindings and an API which they tout as "more than qemu".
So messing around with Python and rest APIs... Often a wrapper library for an API exists on github.. But why use it? If I use 6 APIs in my project I now just added 6 libraries that all do things like auth, connection pooling, error handling a little bit different. Meh. The actual work of code to json to API to json to code is simple (1 line usually), I would rather just learn the API and do it myself. You still need to learn the API to use the wrapper library...
> `const` is a property of the binding, not the value.

This is language-specific for Javascript.

> It's not wrong in general.

It's not wrong in general, but it's also not right in general. The pattern is completely orthogonal to purity. Whether a closure is pure depends on a lot of factors, like the types of things in the closure and the functions it calls.
Most of this is pretty solid, though not particularly insightful.

I disagree with point #1 about working a "normal schedule". I think being able to adapt to work when the mood strikes (or doesn't) is one of the best things about being a digital nomad. Personally, I schedule my times in blocks which are different on different days, and adapt to the needs of clients, team, my current timezone offset, and personal schedule (classes, dinners, etc.). I also move things around as I go, to adjust to things like nice weather to go out, having a slow morning, or being inspired to do something. Note that while I am flexible, I'm also very disciplined about scheduling work time, averaging 75hr weeks.

I also disagree with #6. I've certainly experienced being happier in some countries (and cities) than others. I think one of the great things about being a DN, is experiencing daily life (not vacation life) in different countries, and learning where you are the happiest in different areas of your life. Then, unlike a vacationer, who sadly has to return home, a DN has the ability to extend their time in those places.

When I think of happiness, I also think of fulfillment which is more granular than just being "happy". There are different areas where you can experience fulfillment: family, friends, hobbies, work, lifestyle. Different locations provide these in differing ratios. In one place, you may be happy that you can be near family, while in that place, you miss surfing. One of the great things about being a DN, is that you don't have to chose only one of these. You can mix them in various intervals. Last year, I spent a lot of time with family and friends in a bunch of different countries, made two trips to Peru, two trips to Japan, and a bunch of time all over Europe and Mexico. I would say I'm happier for it, than if I had been in any one place, even if I spent the whole year in one of my favorite cities.

I thought I was going to agree with #3, but agreed less the more I read of his description. To me, it's much more about being around specific selected people that I care about: family, friends, clients, partners... Also beneficial are places where I connect with people based on shared interest. Meeting random people in cafes is nice sometimes, and the universe does throw interesting people into the mix, but for me it's about more than just, "having people around is always better".

Of everything here, #8 (Invest in yourself) is the strongest. The risk-adjusted return of informed and ongoing self-investment is phenomenal.

(source: Digital Nomad since '06. 10-20 countries/year while running multiple successful service and product businesses)
> I often wonder why Microsoft doesn't just bite the bullet and adopt Linux as the kernel for Windows.

What does the Linux kernel offer them to merit the pain of doing that?

Also, why the Linux kernel in specific instead of adopting any of the other kernels intended to provide a UNIX environment such as XNU, FreeBSD's kernel, Illumos' kernel, etcetera?

They have the technology to switch in the form of drawbridge. Whether they have sufficient incentive to do that or that one option is more desireable than another is another story.
> Newspapers with big reporting staffs, yes

Economist and FT, yes. Newspapers with big reporting staffs, I'm not so sure any more, unless everywhere ends up paywalled.

Haven't we all got used to getting our news buffet style? We'll take a few articles from the BBC, the Guardian, the NYT and the Washington Post? Twenty years ago I'd have a broadsheet paper to read on the commute and over lunch. Now I'll skim multiple quality news sites to get a similar amount and breadth of content. I believe, mistakenly perhaps, that I get a better spread that way.

Micropayments don't cut it a) because I don't want all your content like I once did, and b) you want far, far too much per article compared to the £1 or two to buy your actual paper output with dozens or hundreds of articles, but nowadays I might only read a couple a day, or even a week, instead of twenty+ daily.
WPEngine, who were just recently compromised and only finally announced 2FA less than two weeks ago...

Other than that, I don't disagree with your point. :)
Why don't the Silicon Valley barons get Feinstein kicked out? She seems to be an incredibly inept and dangerous person to many of the people and industries of California.
Yeah, exactly.. I was thinking the same thing.. Make it not change, and then get rid of it..
But I think there could still be a underlying problem of having the Ca9 T cells to do this to all of the HIV infected cells..
It wasn't really meant as a smear, I can see that interpretation though.

I agree it would be quite sad for a woman of such advanced age to sell out her country for a few dollars. Any age of course, but at that age it would be extra curious.

As I said, it wasn't a smear. Just a presentation of the facts and asking a question.

There are plenty of people in Congress and yet we have the member whose husband has an interest in a government contractor that provides technical services, drafting legislation that involves the mandating of technical services.

If members of congress don't have the dignity and integrity to recuse themselves in such situations where there are obviously avenues of inquiry even if everything is above board, but really how could it be, people's biases are subtle...

So the question is, if members of congress, and other governmental bodies can't recognize these potential biases in themselves and do the right thing and recuse themselves from conflicting matters, why aren't systems in place to make sure they recuse themselves?
Hey, ES dev here. :)

The bulk API mainly helps by amortizing various overheads across many documents at once. There isn't anything "special" about the bulk indexing...it doesn't side-step the normal indexing pathway to directly dump the data directly onto disk, for example.

What happens is that the bulk request arrives at a node (which we'll call the coordinating node now, since it is coordinating this request). The coordinator will then create "mini-bulk" requests which are fired off to individual nodes who need to perform the actual indexing operations. If your bulk touches five different shards around the cluster, the coordinating node will construct five mini-bulks.

Bulk requests have an (annoying) newline-delimited format. This allows the coordinator to extract until the first newline, parse the JSON and identify the action (index, delete, update) and destination (index/type/id). Since the actual document is irrelevant to the coordinator, it can slice the buffer until the next newline straight into the "mini-bulk" for the destination node. This allows the coordinator to avoid parsing the document's JSON, which could be quite large (think 15mb PDFs, or docs with 5k fields).

Once the coordinator is done assembling the mini-bulks, it sends them to the various nodes around the cluster and waits for responses to come back. Finally, the coordinator merges the responses and sends a response to the client.

So a bulk reduces overhead by amortizing the two network hops (one to coordinator, one to node) over thousands of documents. There are also side benefits like allowing concurrent bulks to share translog fsyncs, giving lucene larger indexing buffers to work with (helps create larger segments for less churn), less context switching, etc.

Generally, smaller documents gain more benefit from bulk, since more of the time is dominated by overhead. Super large documents, or documents with very complex analysis chains are less likely to see a huge improvement, since the latency there is dominated by IO or CPU. But you'll still see an improvement due to fsyncs, context switching, giving lucene batches, etc.

Hope that helps! Lemme know if you have questions :)
I agree, we can all sit and bitch about this all day but if you want to make a change in their policy why not go work for them?

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Just to note, the later part of this isn't directed at you @noobermin, just my own rant (sorry)
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Also, there are plenty of companies that are in their portfolio that we are happily using without complaint.

What this company is doing isn't wrong and assuming that the CIA is going to abuse it is wrong as well. Do people realize the hoops and hurdles these folks have to go through before they are even allowed to even be in the room with some of this stuff?

The people working there are everyday folks that feel the same about the abuse of technology and work very hard for little pay to ensure that they aren't infringing anyone's rights. Sure it isn't perfect all the time, but for the most part they do their job well considering we almost never hear about their successes till several decades later.
Self-driving Delivery Vehicle Raises $2M from a16z
Maybe he found a hack to get his story onto the front page and will document it in part 2.
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It's just practicality. Surely they could lease an island or two, they've done it in the past but the barge landing gives opens up much more possibilities.
Trump(Pres) and Sanders (vp)
Bernie could clean up banking, with a new emphasis on loaning to manufacturing. Trump would oversee the return of manufacturing and returning those here illegal. Sounds like a winning ticket, should both not get their parties' nomination.
> ...to the extent the service provider offers the feature that makes information unintelligible...

Hardware manufacturers as well. Say goodbye to bios passwords, hard drive smart locks, SSD encryption that permits instant formats and the only way to ensure that bad blocks don't leak your data to ebay buyers.
whatever.scalzi.com is on WordPress.com VIP—same platform, but a different segment of users. Our VIP sites often use 3rd parties (mostly ad servers) that don't yet support https, so we haven't defaulted any of those sites to https—it's an option available if they want it though!
Yep, same here coming from OCaml. MLs seem a lot more conservative with their standard libraries. Actually, with OCaml there have been a ton of attempts at making the standard library larger (Extlib, Batteries, Containers, Core, etc.) which is pretty much the opposite of what people are doing with Haskell. I always end up midsing Prelude when I'm working in OCaml, so it feels weird to me that people would want to strip it down so much.
http://upstart.bizjournals.com/entrepreneurs/hot-shots/2013/...
"CIA's Venture Capital Arm"

Stahp
In no particular order:

No sane story for request contexts. I got tired of waiting for net/http support for x/net/context.

Coercing Go structs into JSON and vice versus was just annoying enough. I felt like I was paying the price (being more explicit) for static typing without a lot of the benefits of other static typed languages.

and this: //go:generate stringer -type=Pill [https://blog.golang.org/generate]
While I totally get why actively guided rockets are prohibited, what I want to know is by what law are they able to enact this prohibition.
Inheritance and Class Methods in Ruby
Gimme a break. At some point the credentials need to be exposed to the client.
RAID is not very reliable. Here is an example that I tried the other day in MD RAID 1. I made a 2-disk array, zeroed it, wrote a sector of garbage at 1MB into one disk directly, cleared caches, ran a scrub and did not see any warning about the inconsistency. It relies on the drive firmware to verify the low level formatting parity, so things like misdirected writes (which my writing garbage was meant to simulate) go undetected. There are plenty of other problems too, but that is just one example. Anyway, at scale, you can count on RAID to be unreliable. If you want something reliable, use ZFS.
Really?

- Arianespace

- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

- Antrix Corporation

- COSMOS international

- Eurockot Launch Services

- International Launch Services

- ISC Kosmotras

- Sea Launch

- Starsem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_service_provider
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Ironically they're targeting the wrong end of the person. The sewers would be a great place to collect DNA and narrow down a manhunt in a large metropolitan area.
I think this is a large part of it. The Apollo program, and to a lesser extent the Space Shuttles, are not just historical events, but events that had a major cultural impact on the country. You cannot divorce the nationalistic response of people involved in this endeavor from the connection America's space program has to historical achievements we celebrate throughout our history classes in school. The successes of the spaceflight industry were always, from the beginning, tied to a sense of nationalism given the context in which it arose and delivered success. It's a unique industry in American culture, and I'm not surprised it's hard for individuals from other countries to immediately understand.