skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think an upcoming patch is meant to greatly improve this, at least judging by this, aside from solving the boot parameter requirement issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/4c6q6w/fixing_int...

> I have finally compiled a patched kernel myself and couldn't be happier with results. Not only battery life increased (~1 additional hour), but what's more important, performance on battery improved significantly.

(Note: I have not tried this myself yet...maybe this weekend)

Some other possibly useful links I just came across related to this patch:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/4d6qj5/psa_linux_...

- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RawhideKernelNodebug
I have been using the stock android alarm clock for a couple of years (and Timely before that), both work like a charm.

I would not be too surprised if they were to fail someday (IIRC it happened multiple times with the iOS clock app), software & time are both complicated..
I'm not entirely sure how many people are actively contributing to BugVM. Perhaps it's gone a little under-loved in the last six months since forking. That might explain the lack of solid marketing and documentation. I imagine there's a chance that might change now.

RoboVM is a Java VM on iOS. It's used by some third party libraries such as libGDX - a cross platform Java game development framework which targets Android, iOS (via RoboVM) and others.

BugVM is a fork of RoboVM. In October 2015, RoboVM (a formerly open source project) announced they were making their project closed source proprietary, and as a result someone forked under BugVM.
I love how I got super downvoted for an idea that is quite possibly central to the future of computing. It's as if HackerNews never realized that they themselves are machine-learning-based scheduling algorithms. Guess that one is going to hit them pretty hard.
I've build setups like this with Ansible, but the more I use Ansible, the less likely it is that I'll consider it for future projects. I find it a lot less painful to write code to do these things directly than wrestle with Ansible. E.g. the amount of pain I went through before realising that the EC2 module at the time messed with whitespace in the user-data (great when you're transferring yaml... one more reason I detest significant whitespace; but the irony of this breaking in a tool written in Python was not lost on us), for example.
Well, as long as you get the job done I wouldn't bother about whether or not you have a degree. And quite a few of my friends are pretty good programmers though they don't have a degree. In fact degree is just a piece of paper so you shouldn't let it stop you from getting job offers. And if does, it means the employers aren't seeking for an expert. And such employers aren't worth spending time on. BTW have you thought of taking online courses in some university abroad. I heard from http://dissertationwriter.org/contact-us/ that if you are good you can join one of these courses http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/.
"In a country under the rule of law, it is not up to the government to decide," Merkel said.

"Mutti" is trying to deflect the blame again: In this very special case (§103 StGB), the law mandates that the government authorize the prosecution. Otherwise there is no case.
She could push for repealing a stupid law. Insulting world leaders (especially our own) is a celebrated past time for the western world. This is, after all, the homeland of Martin Luther (warning, visual fart joke): http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17e3edby8mik5jpg/original.jp...

EDIT: does german law allow for pardons?
Absolutely. I'm now certain what my first choice when making a game will be.
The very spirit of this law is that it is applied at the government's discretion, though.
UBI should ideally be funded by taxes on the savings by coroporations due to automation and outsourcing which reduces demand for local workers. Then it would truly scale with the times.

Alaska is doing it based on a natural resource tax. Justin Trudeau in Canada just did an experiment as well - not sure where their funda come from.

I think companies taking advantage of a public good should be taxed and the result redistributed as UBI. Personally on an unrelated note I'd try to tax non-biodegradable materials like plastic and the huge amounts of carbon being released from the ground... but that's near impossible to do politically to any great degree.
Which model? I'm in the market for a couple of new displays, and if they've come out with a lemon, I'd like to avoid it.
You are welcome. Thank you for the kind words. My email is niftylettuce@gmail.com if you'd like to get in touch or ask questions, or if I can help somehow.
No personal offense taken, and the first thing on my agenda once I figure out how to source the material of size on my budget is to build (carve) a full-scale model of the wing from styrofoam. A material type similar to toy foam gliders[0]. Using the academic research for the proprietary design and the following guides, there is a lot of math involved and resources to incorporate:

https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/WindTunnel/Activities/lift...

http://m-selig.ae.illinois.edu/ads_faq.html

Determined number crunching in the design will guide the dimensions and shape of the airfoil as much as I can humanly do with accuracy. However, due to the higher lift coefficient and lower stall point identified in the approach, there's some wiggle room I hope. I work a lot with my hands, do frequent sculpture projects, and have a basic mechanical aptitude.

Later comes the decision of the material / approach to construction of an actual load bearing unit (spar and canvas or composite molding technique) and adding control surfaces, with associated electronics. Likely sourced from RC industry. A couple close associates that would consult on this have background in RC and UAV development (pre-consumer interest), small-scale electronics (Pi, etc), associated coding work, and some experience with making composite (carbon fiber) type parts.

After watching years of the Moller Skycar hype[1], attempts at satisfying road and flight worthiness with flying cars, the Hoverbike[2], and the Martin Jetpack[3] I can totally understand the notion to think of this concept as vaporware. As you mentioned, physics doesn't welcome humans flying through the air. What present technology offers though - in materials and computing power for stability controls in extremely small Moore's Law packages and this academic research - is quite an exciting time to consider new possibilities.

To me, I think it should be an obvious 'given' that creating the wing unit as a tow-flight recreational idea will work, simply because mouting it to a pickup truck and mashing on the gas will provide plenty of thrust. It works with parachutes and boats - a seriously inefficient drag system - so while orders of magnitude potentially more dangerous, I don't see why the tow-flight implementation won't work as described. It's from this development that the next - powered flight - would be considered.

The amount of testing and development that this requires before putting a human on it is a genuine concern. Then again, certain types of people put on wingsuits[4] and jump out of airplanes or cliff tops. From time to time I wonder if I'm genuinely both smart and crazy enough to really put my mind to building it...but if I get started...no turning back!

[0] http://www.guillowtoys.com/uploads/2/9/7/9/29799789/31598082...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moller_M400_Skycar

[2] http://www.hover-bike.com/MA/the-hoverbike/how-you-can-own-i...

[3] http://www.military.com/video/aircraft/pilotless-aircraft/th...

[4] http://s3.amazonaws.com/iexplore_web/images/assets/000/002/2...
Since when has that stopped anybody in this business?
Thanks. This was a good summary of the problem.

Do Google et al not have any kind of rate limiting which looks at suspicious behaviour like scanning lots of short URLs?
I think that's happening too?
For people studying the brain, I would have hoped not to read the article in the highest contrast my screen can produce with pure white text on a pure black background. After the first two paragraphs I could see nothing but lines :(
> Why is being "priced out" of same place you already live at perceived as something worse than not being able to afford to move into some neighborhood to begin with?

1) The people being priced out are often the people that made the neighborhood nicer to live in. Developers don't improve neighborhoods, people do. And these people are usually the first to go when developments move in and drive up the cost, because they are often the most vulnerable to the price increases. (Your artists, musicians, students, young families, folks on shoestring budgets opening hipster coffee shops and restaurants, etc)

2) It's not so much that all these people feel like they deserve to live in this one particular nice place. You don't see people complaining that they can't live in gated communities or mansions. It's that nearly every lower-class or middle-class urban place that was even slightly nice to live in is rapidly becoming "rich-people-only". Where does that end?

Are middle class people eventually going to economically banned from all urban environments nationwide? Because that's the trajectory we're currently headed in, unless some massive correction happens.

> why people who already live somewhere (but rent and don't own)

Renters are highest risk, but it's not just renters who get displaced. Property owners can also get displaced through gentrification -- owning property does not make someone immune to this problem
Sharing a link with someone via email or chat - a private channel - suddenly becomes a share in a public channel because of the lack of entropy in the shortened link.

Even more surprising is the number of people on here who don't understand why this is problematic, essentially blaming the victim for not understanding that their private channel is leaking information. It certainly is not obvious to the general public, and wasn't obvious to the people who implemented these services, that a side-effect of a shortener with insufficient entropy is leaking information from private channels.
Glacier, Nearline or B2 are "cloud" services as well, and while they're more stable than ordinary-consumer-grade services (like Google Drive or OneDrive), the it's not like their future is set in stone (affordability, service policies, etc)

I believe the way to get the best reliability is to keep multiple replicas of the archive (git-annex's great here) over storage options from as many different vendors as possible, and hope the chance of everyone going down at nearly the same time is too low. And probably schedule some periodic fully-automated checks to minimize the chance some service had degraded and had silently lost the data.
I think this is the right move, regarding separation of powers. I trust the German jurisdiction to do the right thing here.

Plus, she said that the law protecting foreign officials from defamation is obsolete and they will void it.
I need to track tasks over several members of a team.
The article even mentions that other types of plant can be much more practical than trees.
Best Buy Thinks You're a Dummy for Buying the 64GB Rose Gold iPhone SE
It's tricky but there are some nice ways to check the water quickly. Check out LUIS -
https://www.luis.ai
Look, I am not here to say that functional programming is bad, I really enjoy using these idioms. I am just speaking from experience. Since Linq has come to C#, I see things like this in my workplace:

VeryLargeList.Select(x => x.Blah).ToArray()

And people are wondering why they get OutOfMemoryException.

Before linq, people would just loop, and the array would not have to be allocated dynamically.

All I am saying is "more abstraction may lead to performace issue, and people should be aware of it"
I cant level tasks and see if resources are overallocated.
The pricing for GCE is the most convoluted I've ever worked with... And it's still 2-3 times more expensive than alternatives like DO or dedicated hosting.

A lot of the time when people want auto-scaling, the thing that strikes me is that most of them wouldn't have needed auto-scaling if they picked a cheaper provider to beging with. Often they could pick a dedicated provider, spin up 3 times as much capacity and still pay less.
Exactly. I think we should wait until they shut down Xamarin before we get out the pitchforks. The simplest explanation is that they want to focus all of their cross-platform development resources on the core product that they acquired, and it sounds like Microsoft is very invested in Xamarin's future.
There are two ways to think about the price of something: cost and value. If the services or good don't provide enough value to Turkish people, they won't buy them!

I'd say you are right to point out that it costs more-or-less the same to deliver digital services like Coursera. But perhaps because the content was largely produced in the US (I'm assuming it is) their costs align with US wages and costs.
Seconding that tool, but be sure to read all of the relevant Wiki pages before you use it, and if your IIS is hosting multiple sites do not miss:

https://github.com/Lone-Coder/letsencrypt-win-simple/wiki/HT...
Ask and you shall receive. https://github.com/robovm/robovm
Heh, funny this should come up as just last weekend I discovered Doom Retro (doomretro.com).

It has a few odd non-retro options enabled by default (screen shake on impact and translucent firey projectiles being the main ones that annoyed me, but they're easy enough to disable) but other than this is probably the closest to a "pure" DOOM experience I've had on a modern OS - not counting DOSBOX of course.

It's also Open Source: https://github.com/bradharding/doomretro
Why would they want to change much they have been successful at what they are doing. But at the same time they are changing with the times so not to be in a position completely opposed to the majority of Singaporeans population.
Just curious, why would you choose MKV over MP4? MP4 has native HTML5 support, so I figured that would have more long-term viability. And as far as I know, they're both open formats (maybe MP4 isn't and is just free to use, I'm not sure).
This article is more interesting from a UX point of view. It seems that many people think the gibberish-ly looking URL, however short, is nice and safe. That confers a false sense of privacy.

The part about automatically-generated short URLs in MS docs is (was?) worriesome. Few users understand the implication of having a public URL that directly references their document which, in all likelihood, were intended for a restricted audience.

I should point out that Slack has the same bug, though their URLs are simply obfuscated with a longer token. Shameless plug: Cisco Spark[0] has solved that with end-to-end encryption.

[0] https://support.ciscospark.com/customer/en/portal/articles/1...
Is your grandmother "smart" enough to realize this?

I think your expectations about the "smartness" of the public are not justified. It's not actually about smartness; it's about information theory. Not everybody is as up to date as you are.
Thoughts After JuiceBox Games
Do less unnecessary work. Unfortunately that needs to be stated explicitly in the age of function-follows-form pseudo-minimalism.
Easy, tattoo your public and private keys on your body somewhere, maybe as QR codes.

Joking aside, I do use some things like hashes of works of literature and other important things to me as keys and archive hashes as their own passwords. I also send emails to myself explaining my thinking when I make certain decisions. It's like commenting my life.

And if I lost my memories, would I really selectively miss the data that belonged to former me? That's a scenario to think about.
Those don't appear to be trees, but rather other kinds of plants that the article mentions are much more practical than trees.
I agree that's a problem, but it's not really relevant to the article.
British colonization of Kenya started in the mid-19th century and ended in 1962. Before that the Arabs and Portuguese were only able to control the coasts. So "centuries of extractive imperial policies" is a bit of hyperbole.

Do the Italians owe the French compensation for Julius Caesar's campaigns? This game can go on forever.
Web Security analysis of the Alexa Top 1M sites
Reminds me of one of my very first jobs where I was to optimize some MATLAB code. I found a function that looked obviously inefficient and after a days work I'd managed to get a ~10-20x speedup on that function. I was super proud of myself until it dawned on me that all I'd really achieved was to knock 30-60 seconds of a 6-8 hours process.
Partly. As an example, well-intentioned midcentury relief workers did a lot of damage to minority communities (like you see in Malcolm X's autobiography). Eliminating means testing and data collection saves money and is significant for the people involved in the program.

There are a lot of labor market benefits as well; one of the big problems with means-tested programs is that they screw up the tax structure at the low end of the income scale. If your options are being jobless receiving welfare or getting a job that forces you out of welfare, there's a large disincentive to seek work. You would be paying an effective tax rate of ~100% by losing that payment.
If they can't consider "issues related to encryption" then that shows how superficial the committee is. Encryption is the foundation of IT security, without it, there is no such thing. It's like making a band-aid committee for people with gunshot wounds.
Or you could remove the tools at the end of your Dockerfile...

Edit: am I missing something? This is a legitimate solution to the problem. Install the tools, compile, and remove them. The parent is suggesting a very clumsy approach (build on the host and pass the binary to the container as it's being built).
If you're concerned about world stability, there's still one big problem with nuclear that you're ignoring: nuclear proliferation. Look at all the tension around Iran's nuclear energy program. It would be a lot better for world stability if we had give them energy tech that's not so easily weaponized.

> you are leaving out thorium

I'm leaving out Thorium for a couple of very good reasons:

* It's not as weaponizable as Plutonium and Uranium

* It's a lot safer, and as far as I understand, it doesn't produce the same levels of radioactive waste

* It seems to require more research before it's production ready (otherwise everybody would be using it already). It's not clear whether it will really be as practical as everybody says it is.

If Thorium turns out to be viable, and indeed a lot cleaner and safer than Uranium/Plutonium, it might well be suitable as a long term solution, whereas I consider Uranium/Plutonium only suitable for a short transition period to cleaner forms of energy. But for now, Thorium is still vaporware.
LaTeX is plain text markup so old LaTeX documents can usually just be read without processing. (The major exception is that graphics are hard to visualize as a sequence of draw commands!). Further, ordinary LaTeX from the last few decades can still be processed without difficulty. The older versions of LaTeX are still available online.

Of course, things are never as simple as they should be. LaTeX is a markup language that through macro expansion ends up expanding into TeX. Since TeX 3.0 in 1989, Knuth has attempted to keep the TeX system stable. Since then TeX documents should produce the same output, pixel for pixel, as they do now running on the current version 3.14159265 (yes, the version number is converging to pi, there won't ever be a TeX 4.0).

Few people, however, produce documents in plain TeX--the LaTeX markup is so much more convenient than the lower level TeX. LaTeX has been slowly evolving and there are some backward compatibility issues, but they are minor. The first release of LaTeX seeing general use was described by Leslie Lamport (the creator of LaTeX) in his 1985 book[1]. That version of LaTeX, 2.09, can still be processed by today's LaTeX 2e in compatibility mode. LaTeX 3 is supposed to supersede LaTeX 2e someday, but it's not clear how many more years that will be.

Since LaTeX is open source the distributions from TUG (the TeX User's Group) are easily obtained and they have all the historical versions of LaTeX and TeX available.

This all makes LaTeX/TeX seem like one of the best ways to maintain a document's source for the future. A few tips:

- Fonts can be a problem because fonts evolve. Either use something like TeX's extensive collection of "built in" Computer Modern fonts or save the font files along with the source of anything that you might want to work on in twenty years.

- LaTeX has a wide number of very sophisticated third party extensions. Along with the document source it would be a good idea to keep the contemporaneous versions the extensions used by the document. (These extensions are just files of additional macros.)

- If one is only interested in the typeset results of a LaTeX document, use a LaTeX extension like pdfx (or Adobe Acrobat) to generate a PDF/A version of the document (LaTeX programs normally generate pdfs). PDF/A is a pdf specification from Adobe that is intended for archival use and rendering far in the future (fonts are embedded in the output, etc.).

- Pandoc can convert LaTeX to a wide number of alternative formats (HTLM etc.) with some success depending on the target language and the document complexity.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Latex-Document-Preparation-System-User...
I think that SV has probably been in recession for the last few quarters judging from some friends I have who have been interviewing. Everyone is interviewing like crazy but few are hiring.
URL based Bitcoin wallets proved this not to be the case. URLs get picked up by Omnibar, Skype, etc. they find their way into search results... I wouldn't even trust secret material in the fragment-id even though that in theory is safer.
How many layers of security should there be when you give someone driving directions to the abortion clinic?
I would not be so hard on the matter, but yes, making private files available by url only seems like a bad security habit. Still, sometimes one wants to avoid Registration Wall to enhance usability (doodle.com is a nice example).

This is to say that the whole url-shortening business should still be improved, even though you're probably not going to use it for your private stuff where you want access control.
It's a pity that most people don't understand the finer point s of the decision, like that it is only a "permission" to conduct investigations, and that the responsibility for anything else will be in the hands of a court. Or multiple courts, probably.
Belua is a central bank for attention and relevance
I think this is the way it should be done. Separation of power means the judicial branch needs to make this decision. Looks like the legislative branch will now revoke the law that lead to this, but either way, it should not be up to the executive to make this decision.
I thought the same, I thought it was just going to redirect to a standard login page.
How does focus on the core product prevent them from releasing the source code?
Rust binary populates ENV with secrets from Vault
Yes, Hiroshima and Nagasaki are obvious comparisons with the amount of instantaneous radiation affecting thousands of individuals.

My initial thoughts went to Marie Curie (small amounts over time), and Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin, or other Los Alamos engineers involved in criticality accidents.

Plus, other clean-up workers working in disasters like Chernobyl whose deaths from radiation caused illnesses most likely went unpublished.

So at best, that puts him in 10th place with a very loose interpretation, or otherwise significantly behind, and maybe in the top 10 of living individuals. The phrase "in history" is poor writing, however.
This is a major issue for media production. Many toolchains depend on Quicktime. Premiere and AfterEffects just got a lot less useful on Windows.