skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. For about a decade Carmack funded a significant amateur space rocket effort -- Armadillo Aerospace. That shut down because of lack of money to devote to the project. See http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/08/john-carmacks-8m-pipe... He reached $8 million put in before reaching the decision that was too expensive for a hobby.
That wasn't a scare quote, and I don't think name-calling enhanced your argument much.
Don't complain about downvotes after only 15 minutes. Your comment is fine and readable to me now, after 30.
Not saying anything, but Spanish features 'ordenador' for computer alike.
French is not that different and alienated.
Credit where credit's due.

In my time travelling in France (Paris, Nice and surrounding areas), I made every attempt to say the little things in French. "Bonjour" , "Le menu pour Anglais" or "L'Addition s'il vous plait", "Parlez vous anglais?" etc. The idea was to start any question or conversation in french and then switch to English.

Never did I have a problem over my 2 weeks with anyone. Everyone appreciated the effort to speak the language and was super polite and warm.
Sure, and to the degree that they do, they can't be accurately estimated either.

... Even if the words people are saying sound like "We want to build this; how long will it take?", the process which actually happens is "We have this much money/time, and we want to solve this problem; what can we build in the time available?" To the degree that people believe they are operating in the former mode, sadness happens, because software engineering is actually about the latter.
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I assume that OP's service would test for more than just one thing.
I was referring specifically to Kurzweil's book, The Singularity is Near. He covers various current and future techniques to analyze the brain, including imaging technologies and extremely thin physical slicing. His view is that this knowledge will inform model development.
Here is a script I use to download a lot of videos in a queue with it:
https://github.com/kissgyorgy/interactive-youtube-dl
Great idea! I will certainly try it out first thing tomorrow morning. Thanks for the feedback :)
I barely ever use uuids. As you say, it solves a fairly specific problem. Usually when you need to scale to multiple datacenters, it's easier and faster to add a datacenter column and starting using it with id as a composite key.

The only time I use UUIDs is when I need to pass that id out, but I want to hidr how many rows there are or the rate that they are being created. However, I usually use COMBs to prevent fragmentation.
"A lot of times developers get pulled into interviews regardless of whether they have some important task at hand, and nothing makes you more frustrating than losing focus."

That sucks for them and all, but get over it. At the very least, learn to fake interest. If you can't even do that, then yes, the candidate should run far away.

" I am not saying this is right, and I also think the system is broken, but it's system's fault, not the interviewer."

The interviewer is the one who's doing it. So yes, much of the blame does fall on the interviewer.
I just noticed the "documents" feature in the demo. It allows the user to upload relevant documents for each case to the system, which is basically what I was going for here.
Multiserver federation? The user's own server is the primary one, with a 3rd party one used as a backup. Much of this can be solved with delegation of tasks.
Chatbots like JEEVES will have the same problem that apps currently do: discoverability. But once discovered and installed JEEVES could potentially chime in in a conversation with offer to help e.g. if JEEVES sees friends planning to meet up JEEVES can start by offering to put it on their calendars.
No. I don't know why anyone would even attempt such an experiment. These are very subjective topics and it would be hard to even pose a testable hypothesis. My claim is based strictly on life experience.

All I am saying is that people who take on one job after another and remain unhappy would benefit from some serious introspection.

In other words, as important as it is to evaluate potential employers, it is just as important to carefully examine one's expectations and career intent.
This article should be taken with a good pinch of salt. It seems to be more speculation than anything else...
That robot is one bad...
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You know I think there is this phenomenon of "listening in the wrong language". As an American in France, sometimes I'd meet people and they'd want to try out their English with me. Every once in a while I'd meet someone and be totally confused by their French, and I'd have to ask for help. "Dude, he's speaking English to you". Then we'd both feel bad.
Ah, thanks. The Clinton Poll you referenced is one that I saw, the Sanders one was from another source (which I tried to avoid, but I was only willing to put so much effort into it).
You may not realize it, but you have proven my point.

At what point does this all become totally impractical? Should you also manufacture your own chips as well to make sure there are no backdoors at the hardware level? How about for people who have no time for any of this (99.99999999% of the world)?

At some point, you need to trust somebody in this chain of dependencies.

People who are beating their drums about open source are in essence saying: trust no one. But in the real world, that is not realistic.
I suspect that the point here is the ratings and reviews the water test has gotten. That it doesn't work for a lot of users and they're simply out the money.
They can be consistently solved, the only problem is the endless repetition and "multiple answers needed" nonsense, which only seems to apply to Tor users.
a beautiful broken website... the first animation completely obscures the text.
Accent is fluid and can change when you are young but by the time you are 15/16 it becomes difficult to "lose" your native accent regardless of the amount of exposure you have to a different language. This has been scientifically validated (can't find any relevant papers at the moment to link you to though).
These words have not been created by regular French people people proud of the language, it is mainly due to the fact that there is a pretty powerful council creating new words and regulating the French language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_fran%C3%A7aise.
Turkish also did, the word was originally brought into Turkish as "Kompüter". But that didn't sound nearly turkish enough, so it was replaced with Bilgisayar, or "knowledge counter".

Turkey has an official government body which regulates the Turkish language and naturalizes foreign loan words. It used to be much more active but people generally still listen to it, why copy the sounds of a foreign word when you can copy the meaning and end up with a word that's much easier to say and remember?

They recently tried to rebrand selfie as özçekim, "self-picture", but I think it's a little too late for that one.
Debian stable operates under the "better the devil you know" principle.

Thus often various bugs that are not security related will not get patched because that may well disrupt production installs more than leave it be and have the local admin implement a workaround.

JWZ's definition of stable is more akin to what you get out of the kernel devs or FSF's software. A codebase that has been tweaked and fixed over time.

You can see this in how he laments the rewrite(s) of Netscape Communicator after Mozilla was formed, and CADT. Formulated after Gnome devs invalidated long standing bug reports of his, because the relevant Gnome part was to be rewritten from scratch once more.

Stable is in essence one of those context sensitive terms...
I mean that it's something most people might not think to test for, not truly unknown.
Is This How a Hacker Got the Panama Papers?
This looks so much better than Cabal.

Why have I never heard about it in all the guides and StackOverflow answers I've had to search through when trying to escape Cabal hell?
So it's not really a conference but a huge commercial you pay for, because only companies will make talks and not the open source hacker guy working on something cool and wanting to share it with you only for the joy.
I would not attend a conference like that.
Grading is definitely on a curve. My accent is terrible and I'm getting 100% on the native speech.
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That community specifically has been rude to me too. Eager to see that change for the better!
Well, for those who yesterday wanted more Government-subsidized low income housing in San Francisco, this is what it looks like. East New York is only 1.9 square miles and has twelve different New York City Housing Authority projects, with 86 buildings of 6 or more floors.
That's interesting... I've had positive experiences when I've visited. I've heard from a lot of Americans that they are treated rudely, even when they attempt to communicate in limited French. I had several years of it, though I was rusty when I went to France, but despite my mistakes I felt I was treated very warmly and they seemed to enjoy indulging my attempts to use the language.
> or think that the French accent is some kind of honorific mark they should cultivate

It impresses Americans, who unconciously assume anything European is more sophisticated. Go to a high-end restaurant in the U.S. and I'll bet your maitre d' has a European accent. Or just look at the top luxury brands; why is a Mercedes somehow more sophisticated than a Lexus? French wine more sophisticated than Californian?
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Is this open source by any chance?
Are you confused by the parent argument that Heartbleed and Shellshock is proof that open source has the same likelihood of software vulnerabilities being exploited maliciously as closed software?

Or are you confused by your own argument that software written in the mid-to-late 1990s tend to be insecure software, and thus we should disregard that some software has been more exploited historically than others?
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Almost looks like Theranos is branching out (pivot?:-).
IIRC Linus Tech Tips does take a look at a similar system for video rendering. It's probably not going to do super well in games because the bottleneck is usually at the GPU anyway.
A better example might be <<magnétoscope>>, which I learned means "VCR" when I studied French in the '90s.

Edit: accent
Woohoo, the Sanders people found some lobbyists that have a connection with a foreign bank that happen to be connected to the Clinton's. By their logic, this proves Clinton is a pawn of Vladamir Putin.

This has got to be about the least interesting thing to come out of the Panama Papers.
Ask HN: How to pick a side project?
How do you choose a theme or an issue to solve? Is it passion, or market opportunity?

I enjoy coding small projects that solve small problems that I come across. My Github is full of those, but I never seem to commit to one idea as I get bored or it reaches its limits.

How do you decide what to work on ?
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Ah okay, we have a few other vulns (that have been patched) in various other messaging apps, some required the full pattern others not.
Wasn't complaining, as in, asking for or expecting a change of behavior. Was just stating my opinion (as some are by their downvotes, BTW).
What are you doing to your CPUs? In my experience, CPUs are reliable enough to be nearly beyond reproach when troubleshooting a broken machine.
Yes, the USSR and the US had/have central banks.

Yes, "degree of control" is not at question, it's the "degree" itself that's at question. The USSR had a much higher degree of central planning for the USSR's economy than the US does. This question is worded explicitly to draw a parallel when there is none, another example of which would be, "Do both Obama and Stalin read books?"

Yes, but again, this question is not about a boolean yes/no, but rather the degree to which it happens. There's also a strong question of what "forced" means in this context. Does the US force resource allocation to the growth of corn? No. Does the US encourage the growth of corn in the form of subsidies? Yes. The USSR simply would have started growing corn, as the agriculture business was directly under the control of the government, whereas the US has no mechanisms to legally force farmers to grow crops of any kind.
> I disagree, tumblr as a social site has fluorished under Yahoo

Tumblr is a commercial failure under Yahoo. It didn't make money then, it won't make money now.

> twitter, facebook, and pinterest have shown anything

Neither of them have been acquired by another company... let alone Yahoo.

> look at flickr

Flickr has actual paid users and is one of the only service at yahoo that is still relevant.
I came to the comments to see if I was the only one feeling this way. The writing feels like the ramblings of someone who is either drunk or loves the run on sentence.
I would buy this right now if you had it. Hurry up please :-)
Which office was this?
Why not make postage free, paid for by all the garbage in our mailbox that we throw out? It works for the web.
Just realize these are basically:

https://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/dedibox-xc

1x Intel® C2750 (Avoton) with 8 cores.

Avoton cores are very weak compared to other cloud providers.
I believe that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital does a pretty good job:
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary...

https://www.stjude.org/
The tricky thing is that it could be a cause for suspicion, but you could also read it other ways.

Before John Podestra was the campaign chairman for Hillary Clinton, he was the Counselor to Barack Obama. Before that, he was the founder of the Center for American Progress (a left-wing think tank). Before that, Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff. Before that, Deputy Chief of Staff, Assistant to the President, and a senior advisor.

Which is to say, he has been a big part of the Democratic Party / progressive movement for a long time.

And before that, he co-founded a lobbying group, the Podesta Group, with his brother Tony Podesta, who still runs the Group.

So, do I think that a giant bank / nefarious Russian secret agency is likely retaining the Podesta Group because it was founded and still run by the brother of a powerful and influential member of the Democratic Party, who has served in several Democratic administrations and is likely to serve in future ones? Yeah, totally.

And it's probably worth being aware of the potential chain of influence and corruption -- client to lobbyist, lobbyist to advisor, advisor to politician -- but I find it far more likely that John Podesta is in Hillary's campaign (and potentially, future administration) because he's a good, useful guy who gets the right stuff done, rather than that he's there as some sort of corruption-conduit, proof (PROOF!) of Hillary Clinton's unworthiness.
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I would imagine most of these sales are non-public; there's little incentive for either the owner or the acquirer to publicize the data, if there are no other parties to the sale.

One that is public (assuming you mean "one-person" as in single founder, not "no employees at the time of sale) is PlentyOfFish, which sold for $575M to Match Group last year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlentyOfFish
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In defense of hyper-modular JavaScript
Garden path questions:

What's the easiest way to get a copy of your own WhatsApp private key from your phone?

What's the easiest way to get a copy of your friend's WhatsApp private key from their phone?

What if the phone is rooted, or you can root it?

What if they won't hand you the phone?

What if they are on your specially built wifi?

What if you have a fake cell tower?

What if you have a real cell tower?

What if you have a different makes/models of phone?

for fun: s/phone/debian laptop/g
How do I revoke my stolen fingerprints? And then generate new ones?
It's all virtualization/containerization/object|relational storage, no matter how you cut it.

Know the fundamentals, and you'll be fine. Everything else is rhinestone marketing.
yahoo.com is Alexa Top Site #5 globally and in North America:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/yahoo.com
So this is a company selling VPS hosting - not sure why it's newsworthy. Their ARM servers were innovative, this not so much so.
Seems like you are overthinking it a little. My company has a foosball and ping-pong table and we play it occasionally. It isn't there to trick us into stay longer and we don't work longer hours because we played a game for 10 minutes. We sometimes have a company get-together in the lunch room if we sign a big customer or have a successful deliverable, nothing wrong with a beer and some snacks. Certainly not a reason to run. I would argue that these things have brought my team closer together.
Actually the real idiom is not "handle errors where they happen" but rather "errors are values" (https://go-proverbs.github.io/). This means that there is no one true way to handle errors, but rather that it's up to you to build error management with the same tools you have to manage data. Maybe you want to process a list of stuff in parallel and report the first error that ever happens, the same way you'd want to use the first useful data that was processed by one of those parallel processes. Maybe you want to multiplex the error to multiple error processors, for some reason. Maybe you want to signal a watchdog but continue working. I believe bubbling up the error is a consequence of the Go community still being young and not having invested a lot in proper error management (especially since you don't always need something fancy) more than it is an idiomatic way of working.
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Just the idea that crypto CAN be fought indicates a misunderstanding of the technology. You can't break a technology implemented decently on every consumer computer on the planet and with many open source implementations.
I found it pretty clear... just ignore the bit in the em dashes:

> Sberbank (Savings Bank in Russian) engaged the Podesta Group to help its public image and specifically to help lift some of the pain of sanctions placed on Russia in the aftermath of the Kremlin’s aggression against Ukraine, which has caused real pain to the country’s hard-hit financial sector.
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If only there was a way to find out if people go there...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_websites

Sorry for being snarky, but seriously, not knowing that Yahoo is a top 5 destination is embarrassing if you work in the web business.
Bare Metal has lots of practical applications: Docker, CI, Databases...

However, I have no idea how Scaleaway is getting away with selling a Bare Metal server with 6 cores, 8GB memory, and 200GB of SSD disk for 10 euros a month. That's just doesn't make any financial sense.

If you're looking for a solid and reputable Bare Metal provider that allows you provision on demand all with a great control panel and API check out https://packet.net.
Low income housing comes in many forms - I don't know of anyone seriously still in favor of the 70s model of low income housing that still haunt us to this day, particularly in major cities like Chicago and NYC.

There are a bajillion problems with the "garden of towers" model of low income housing (or really, just housing in general - middle and even upper income projects following that model have largely also failed, though obviously without such disastrous outcomes).

Stuy Town for example is an example of this model being applied to middle and upper-middle class housing, and it has similarly failed to produce the communities they were originally intended to, and are now more known for being inaccessible and cheap than desirable in any particular way.

The modern model in NYC for low income housing is to mix them in to market-priced buildings, and either subsidize the building directly or offer indirect incentives (more height limit and buildable floor area being the big one). IMO this works a lot better, and is at least closer to what Jane Jacobs IMO correctly identified as a critical element of making cities work (the geographic mixing of economic classes).
What's wrong with Signal's encrypted storage? AFAIK if you set a password it will be used to encrypt local storage of your messages.
It's a well-written article, interesting to read.

But the narrative suffers from one major flaw: the residents of East New York themselves are denied any sort of agency whatsoever.

They are not treated as real human beings in this article, but rather depicted as purely inert, incapable of taking any action themselves, entirely passive, battered about by the cruel winds of fate. In this article, things are exclusively done to them, not ever by them.

The city did this to them, failed to do that for them. Drug dealers and gangs did this do them. Industry closed and did this to them. The NYPD did this to try to help, but also did that to make things worse. And so on.

All probably true. However, there is another piece that he missed: what is the community itself doing about all this?

Nowhere in this article is any East New Yorker depicted as having any sort of agency at all. The few times he actually talks with people from the area, it's to depict them as passively asking for help from outside, or passively complaining about what the outside did to them.

That's what's lacking here. Where are the voices of the people on the inside who are trying to make things better? What steps have they taken, what is working, what didn't work?
Given the breadth of ways to leak information about the private keys--side channel attacks, physical attacks, userspace (allocator, random number generator) this would be extremely difficult (impossible?) to prove.
It's a command line tool not very lambda Windows user friendly; that's why it's not very popular maybe
Volume.
French and Spanish are already rather similar languages.
Thanks for that link, really helpful.
We fixed the typo above.

Please don't go on about getting downvoted in HN comments—and especially not in Apply HN threads, where you're basically scribbling on someone's application.
Agreed. It had so many stylistic tics - intentional or otherwise - that I found it testing my concentration. A shame, as it was quite interesting. Maybe I'll give it another go tomorrow.
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We used JSConsole and Weinre

JSConsole -http://jsconsole.com/
Weinre - https://people.apache.org/~pmuellr/weinre/docs/1.x/1.5.0/
WordPress.com turns on HTTPS encryption for all websites
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I just dont see any reason why every user should run their own server. Is a waste of resources and time. It makes everything harder without all that much gain.
It's not like asking for vulnerabilities, it is demanding vulnerabilities.
Except these are ARM cores not Intel: https://www.scaleway.com/faq/server/