skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad there's at least one government agency that's competent and technical enough to further our encryption tech. I'm worried the FBI and DOJ will try to spin this DARPA notice into somehow justifying that 'perfect encryption should be a military-only technology'.
I think it's awesome how well the V8 team is working on these features, and how much more closely the Node core teams are working with the V8 teams. Much better coherence than in the past. (at least from the perspective of a mostly passive observer).

There are a few bits wrt ES2016/2017 that I'm hoping come in before long as well... will be nice to no longer feel the need for babel, at least on the server-side pieces of many projects.
> "Fat people just need to eat less, and the issue basically comes down to compliance.:

On oversimplification, but the crux of the issue. The astronomical failure rate is because of compliance. The prescription you seem to be suggest is "comply more! comply better!" but the biology of this is exactly why it fails so often. The type of food you eat is what sets you up for sustainable long-term success or its opposite. What you wave away with a wash of the hand--compliance--is the reason people fail and more willpower is not the issue and not a solution. It's a dysfunction of the hormones brought on by high insulin resistance brought on by excessive sugar and flour, which becomes a hunger trap, unless you add fat to your diet, which is exactly what people are told not to do. So, I do think hunger tends to differ when you suffer from fatty liver disease and insulin resistance. People can endure calorie restriction and lose weight for a while doing low-fat but they do not stay on it. Saying that people should just comply more is like telling someone with sleep apnea to sleep better. They need a different intervention.

edit--A failure rate of 80-90% is not an anomaly, it's a colossal failure. It's not something to be overcome, it's an indication of wrongness. By asking for more compliance you are asking people to fight their biology and they will lose this fight. Instead the intervention should be to employ their biology as their ally, and lose weight more easily and without much hunger and that's possible. It's just not helpful to tell people to eat less. We've been telling them that for forty years.

(Side note. The 4% bodyfat in the UofM study you mention is an assumption of yours, and not the starting weight of the people in the study. I think you're unfairly dismissing the study and presenting it as if it's a binary condition between starving/not starving, and that may be a thing, but it's not certain that it is. I'm merely cautiously using it as evidence that calorie restriction is difficult (actually more than difficult) to maintain, which anyway we all know from experience. It would be good to explore other studies on the topic). Intermittent fasting, for example, is vastly easier than consistent calorie restriction, and you're consuming the same number of calories as calorie restriction (if you design it right). That's not a matter of willpower, that's a different intervention).

Unfortunately I don't have time to continue the conversation, but take the time to explore some of the links I posted (there are tons more)--they go into way, way more detail and make the argument better than I have.
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There are already places where people walk like this, and they still have cars (even if they're a bit less effective).

With that said, I hope they phase out human driving (or require similarly ex(p|t)ensive insurance policies) once SDCs become robust; the joy of driving isn't enough, IMHO to build the entire infrastructure and compromise safety.
Would not the compiler be free to change around things during optimization? Fail secure is more a protection against logic bugs in your code.
I caught this hint from HN comments, so I thought you might enjoy it. The bookmarklet Kill Sticky Headers restores your ability to read using the space-bar, removes annoying fixed objects etc. Once I started using the bookmarklet, I couldnt stop:

https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
Terraforming Mars: Here's How We Can Turn the Red Planet into Earth 2.0
That sounds incredibly reasonable. So reasonable, in fact, that I can't see it ever being law in the US or UK.
Gusto (YC W12) is hiring a lead for our growth engineering team
Startups just make a few people very, very rich at the expense of their customers by selling them mostly crap they don't need or want.

This is laughably false for at least two of the examples (Amazon, Google) you've mentioned in your own post.

Millions of people use these services everyday to make their lives better. Thousands of employees work for good pay at these companies. Is it all scam? Of course not.
Software engineering has a strong distinction between abstract model and concrete implementation, yes? The properties of the interface of /dev/random indicate an attempt at being information-theoretically secure. I've repeatedly disclaimed that I'm well aware the implementation falls well short of such.

To me, XOR using /dev/random should be usable for a true OTP [0] whereas XOR using /dev/urandom has the security of the effective stream cipher.

[0] (malleability disclaimer, lest you think I'm arguing for the practicalities of "OTP" or something)
I can't tell if the pull quotes are satire or not. "With Gentoo, my 5s 0-60 is so much faster than your 5s 0-60."

Combined with the stated 3 day compile time, I'm thinking yes? Maybe?
I've just (re)watched with my sons the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?".

SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In the end, the detective said the villain must be a cartoon, because just a cartoon would have the stupid idea of replacing the efficient and cheap L.A. public transport system, and to build highways.
How is it not all recoverable? Are there still banks that are non cooperative?
The very concept of a "perfect encryption app" seems flawed to me. Maybe it's just my ignorance talking, but the more important the information you're trying to encrypt, the more of an active and constant process it is to protect it over the long term.

In this case, a "perfect app" would probably be a dedicated department of human beings overseeing the ongoing development and proactive defense of whatever encryption scheme they settle on.
Improved Optics for the Oculus Rift DK2
I Might Hate Slack
Highlights from the 2016 Global Security Report by Trustwave
The Birth of a Miracle – Pregnancy TimeLapse
Where to look for - Problems from your own life that you couldn't solve or suffered solving with existing solutions.

Books - Would suggest reading biographies.
O(n) is stupidly efficient when it comes to looking across all my pants (5) or my shirts (8? 9?).

Any complex effort to even bring that down to O(log n) would probably take decades to pay off.
Inefficiency of Efficiency
Vim-go 1.6
>A public police force is needed to deter thefts on a fair basis.

I won't go into the silliness of the assumption that our current public police force is "fair", but what makes you think a private police force/security guards/etc, would be less efficient at preventing theft than a public police force?
The government doesn't own "the press" in Nordic countries.

In Sweden, there are a couple of TV channels (SVT) and a few radio channels (SR) which are run according to the "public service" model.

The existence of SVT/SR is protected by the constitution and they are funded by a kind of flat tax on media receivers while still managed independently of the government (the majority coalition has no direct power over public service).

Anyone familiar with SVT/SR or the public service model understands that they aren't "state media" in an authoritarian sense, most obviously because there is a plurality of commercial channels too.

There is no state press whatsoever, and the existing commercial papers are mostly center-right liberal, except for the venerable social democratic Aftonbladet.

I work at a small startup in Stockholm so I'm existence proof that there are options other than huge corporations or the state....

Of course there are problems, but your criticism seems misinformed and exaggerated.
Because if the author isn't scrupulous he loses his credibility, then no one will take him seriously.
It's better to make something that works, and then improve performance as-needed than to try and optimize before hand. You don't always know the real world impact of a given solution until you have one, and synthetic tests aren't a reflection of real world impact.

Beyond this, I happen to like a lot of the sugar. It makes code simpler, cleaner and in most cases easier to comprehend... Sometimes the fat arrow functions returning fat arrow functions gets a little weird, but outside of that, it's a pretty big benefit. Async functions will help a lot as well once they land, for now, Babel works well enough.
Some possibilities:

* They don't know that their beans can actually sell for so much

* They don't know how to sell their beans for higher prices (e.g. they don't have access to the right middlemen)

* They aren't coordinated enough and undercut each other when dealing with the middlemen.

* Starbuck's premium prices may have little to do with the beans themselves
The point is they have consistently given money to people who are trustworthy and asking them to do their best work.

Not all branches of government share the same goal.
> It isn’t visible, but this page is yet another dark pattern, because even right before the purchase it never shows the real price

I don't agree with these practices, but the real price does appear to be on that page. At the right hand side (where I suspect many people would overlook it...), it says:

> At the end of your introductory period, continue on the weekly rate of $3.99 for your first year.
This is the exact sort of behavior that led me to use an ad blocker.
I shouldn't say too much. But more than one large firm has explored writing an in-house replacement and floated actual $ offers.

Occasionally someone pops up wanting to do a company to compete with them but they're typically offering paper of dubious value, covered in slime.

In any event, I'm not particularly interested in going to war to steal their market share. I do worry that they're going to go into a long decline to irrelevancy though -- I'd very much prefer that not to happen. I'd rather they/FD write a new generation building on the best of arthur's work plus some things more suited for new platforms and workloads. There are big opportunities there.
Then there's Trader Joe's, with a limited selection of reasonably good items at reasonably good prices to make reasonably good profits.
I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're trying to say.
Yes, they are providing a service: access to their content. Whether you read it or not is not their fault.

It's a silly situation that arises because of the (almost) zero marginal cost of providing digital media. It makes sense in the physical world: you can't claim your money back because you didn't read the magazine they sent. But these laws are much the same in the virtual world.

If they provided and you agreed to a way to cancel, and you don't use that way, they are totally within their rights to continue (passively) providing access, and charging for it. In perpetuity, yes.
If you cared to read the article, it's a girl, not a dude :)
In case you've never used one, a trolleybus is actually much closer to a normal bus, but runs from overhead electric wires.

They're still used in some cities in China and eastern Europe. They're quiet, have flexible routes, and zero pollution in the City, and are lightweight.
What a strange statement. Do you understand that for a student in graphic design or industrial design, knowing the theory is as important as knowning InDesign or AutoCAD right ? Do you understand that while you can get away with coding in a cloud IDE if you are a student in CS, some disciplines rely also on learning specific softwares which will not run on your ChromeOS computer? Or your goal is just to defend ChromeOS at all cost even with ridiculous arguments? No ChromeOS isn't the best computer for students in all disciplines.
and for the record, it doesn't have to be the next cyclical recession. Anything that makes the Japanese government abandon its last shreds of fiscal credibility may seal the deal for yen holders. How about a military build-up to confront their good friends the Chinese?
Everyone is welcome to the life they prefer, but as for the actual urban areas I'd prefer to see some efficiency. The subsidies we currently pour out to the great many people you describe are immense.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for IBM LinuxONE and IBM z Systems is now available
Raspberry Pi cameras jump to 8MP, keep $25 price
Doesn't meet all of the requirements, but the Cypherpunks-era "darknet" - PGP + Usenet - is a lot closer than a lot of current tools, particularly in terms of deniability.
I totally agree, which I why I encourage you to read the numerous studies linked in the post. Note that you've basically said: don't trust your bullshit experts, trust this random youtube search. I'm asking you to read the bullshit expert's digestion of the science, and then read the science, and then tell me where the bullshit expert has gotten it wrong.

I totally agree that the nutritional "science" community is filled with snakeoil salesmen and that you have to careful.

But also, note that there is a difference between increasing your fat consumption absent of any other changes to your diet, and moving to a diet based mostly on fats, and that those changes have been pretty well described by me, to you, in our previous posts. I would agree that if you make no other changes, for the every day person increasing fat is bad. But literally no one is telling you to do that. NO ONE.
For Node.js, define a simple function that does minimal computation, but that would blow the stack if called say a million times[0]. Run that function inside of a new vm context[1]. If it errors with a stack overflow, then no TCO.

[0] - function n(x){if(x > 0) n(x-1)}

[1] - https://nodejs.org/api/vm.html#vm_vm_runinnewcontext_code_sa...
I think I may try to do this myself. I'm working on software with a very broad potential application, and trying to make it approachable is an interesting pitch problem.
Microsoft’s excellent Windows Phone keyboard is now available for iOS
Monks read email? A big part of Buddhism is getting rid of all materialism.
Jimmy Buffet, Inc. Made $1.5B in 2015
Snippet that causes g++ to hang and use gigabytes of ram
Becaue that binding is tigher than...

(function(){
var __that = this;
return function(){
/*switch __thatthat/this ref*/
};
}());

The code in question isn't just a binding, and it will have other differences... The code above is similar to what babel does iirc.

Now, that said there are other differences, such as ensuring that let variables are properly scoped and const doesn't allow reassign... that doesn't even begin with the maps and other new strong types that require additional locking and checks that will be less performant in many scenarios.

It's more about stable software with understandable, manageable code more than it is absolute, raw performance.
Not really; a lot of the initiatives don't require your employer to do many things differently (for instance, newsletters).
Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us? [video]
> short but brutal DDoS

> blog was deluged with thousands of comments

> the target was the shared hard drive

It would be nice to know what the actual attack here was. Was it really a DDOS? Did they take advantage of an out-of-date version of Wordpress to get access to the hosting account and cause some actual damage? Or did they just post a lot of spam?
I presume it will run everywhere CUDA is supported. Draw your own conclusions.
"time to live/self delete for messages" on a "Customized blockchain implementation" seems to be contradictory. Any data deleted from a block will invalidate all blocks made after the deletion.
Whisper meets Wikipedia (Android)
Whisper meets Wikipedia (iOS)
I'm not trying to imply that offshore workers don't care about their work. If you take an existing project and send it far away from everyone who was involved with that project, that project will probably suffer, especially with software.
So where's the pull request?
How We’re Predicting AI – Or Failing to [pdf]
That's Vice talking, not DARPA.

What DARPA apparently wants is a way to hide messages in a broadcast medium. USENET alt binary groups, PornHub, and Twitter would be suitable. It should be something that gets through the Great Firewall of China, probably.
New York Times would be a better comparison. It's relevant and widely read all around the country. A city paper like the Boston Globe has stories of national interest occasionally, but its addressable market is mostly the city it reports on.
damn it. Just before mandrill going away, sendgrid goes down. Today was the day I was going to migrate a few clients to sendgrid. :(
It's satire.

"All those USE flags, CFLAGS, and optimizations are going to add speed to my car. My 5 second 0-60 will be faster than your 5 second 0-60!"
There is quite a bit and that this phenomenon is happening is not controversial. I turned this up quickly; you could probably find better sources with more careful research: http://kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/tapping-nurse-practition...
> 'utlizing' -> 'utilizing'

Dang it! We will fix, thanks.
This brings new meaning to "gentoo is for ricers".
NATO Military subsidies of European nations
60 fresh resources for designers, April 2016
What does NATO have to do with anything?
Why I'm Not Ready for the Uninformative Headline
I know I shouldn't be turned off by this, but I so am. And I'm starting to dislike the dev-community more and more for each day I try to learn programming myself. Elitism at its worst.

I guess it started a few years back when I started an introductory programming-class at university where I was supposed to learn Java. I had already tried some light-weight languages like HTML and CSS and felt comfortable modding Wordpress-solutions. At the time, I studied a non-tech minor, and worked at an it-consultancy with a bunch of guys roughly my age. We were pretty good friends, but I strongly remember how they ridiculed Java as being old and outdated, and how I was wasting my time trying to learn more than the course expected of me. And it actually turned me off a lot, mainly because I thought these guys knew what they were talking about.

About a year ago, I tried my way with python for web-scraping and some light scripting, but ran into the same ridicule by a co-worker where I had my internship.

This february I finished my liberal arts'ish IT-master degree, and decided that I needed to learn how to do some code in order to get better at my job, and understanding it and tech in general.

This time, I'm focussing on FreeCodeCamp, and I'm dedicated to learn Javascript and front-end development. Because I've realized that there will always be people who trash-talk other languages, and I've learned that no languages are better or worse than others. I just think it's so frustrating asking for advice online when you run into people who fanatically defend one coding-language as "the only one" and trash talk everything else.

So fuck the haters - I'm learning Javascript, and it's gonna help me build some super cool apps that will help a lot of people!
120 for me.
AWS vs. Azure: How do cloud services platforms compare?
Is Google Bidding Against Your?
Autograph is a machine that produces an image using nails and a single thread
Some offer them; I do not choose to use one.
It's interesting how 80 (the standard number of characters/line) comes from punchcards, where there were 80 columns. Somehow that number stuck and it's still the standard.
It's not really an argument that can be countered - in-the-clear operation is a regulation and fact of life that every amateur operator knows and must abide by.
"Media does not spread free opinion; it generates opinion." --Oswald Spengler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_the_West
Apache Apex reaches top level
"Linux" and "Ubuntu" seem to be used more and more interchangeably these days. Are there binary/source downloads for other distros?
It currently generates NVIDIA's PTX only.
Just as you can choose not to participate in a wellness program.
Pedantic correction: "less they become ..." should be "_lest_ they become..."
Well of course, but debian isn't developed by a single maintainer, there's about 260 active maintainers and I believe well over 1000 contributors per year.

Either way, I don't think we should compare either on anything other than what they produce. You're free to think Ubuntu providers a better distro but please base it on something that isn't meta such as number of paid employees, because that does a disservice to those who give up their free time.
I don't think they have enough power to dictate that kind of deal on the Internet.

It's too easy for merchants to re-organize around another platform if needed. Amazon wouldn't lose all customers to that service, but they would no longer be the only place that one buys stuff, which is pretty close to what they are now.

Going membership-only would simply leave too much money on the table for it to not be picked up by others.

Ebay I think would be ready to pick up the slack, if nobody else.
DARPA appears to be aware of the paradoxes in their request.

>> "
Q2. The criteria for "time to live/self delete for messages" is impossible to achieve with a Blockchain. Is that a problem for this challenge?
A2. [Response Pending]"

Source:
https://sbir.defensebusiness.org/topics#topic27859
Dropbox manage to do 1PB per server, why doesn't backblaze do it?
Personally my concern (with both things) is that they are going to normalize it so that it's first an option with an incentive, then it's the default and you have to opt out and pay some sort of penalty for doing so, and then before you know it there is no choice at all.
It's a reference to this: https://fun.irq.dk/funroll-loops.org/
https://github.com/elazar/asynchronous-php
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Gentoo, is in fact, GNU/Gentoo, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Gentoo. Gentoo is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Gentoo”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Gentoo, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Gentoo is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Gentoo is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Gentoo added, or GNU/Gentoo. All the so-called “Gentoo” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Gentoo.