skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The British government also fails to realize that by accepting the name, people might be surprised to learn their government actually listens to the people! Then in the future these kinds of events might be taken a bit more seriously.
Informant Codename: Muppet. Poor guy.
The cost to create and maintain a public good are not relevantly to its "publicness". Only the cost to access it is.

Clean air and national securty also cost money to maintain, but have no user fees.
I wonder how many of these accounts are sock puppets?
Basic styles don't mess with Reader View or other customization, so I don't see a large downside to include them, they just make it nicer for people not using such tools.

Unless the point is to get people to use different tools?
SA should get bad PR. SA has been exporting Islamic terrorism for decades with their petro-dollars. SA funds mosques, madrassas with their extreme ideologies which in turn breeds terrorists. I have seen my home country has been being Islamized which is directly funded by SA.
> Time, skill required and volume are all in favor of the finger prick method. And some people absolutely freak out about needles but would be ok with a finger prick.

Except the pain factor. Finger pricks are actually more painful, particularly when you have to draw more than a single drop of blood. Your fingers have more nerve endings than your upper arm. Also, you tend to use your fingers more than you apply pressure to your upper arm (e.g., typing, using your phone, playing the guitar - all of those require applying pressure to your fingertips, which will hurt).

Even diabetics oftentimes prefer to use the arm pricks, and they need to draw a lot less blood than more elaborate tests need. (Not all diabetics, but enough that there are literally blood glucose monitors that advertise this as a specific feature).
Actually, the simulation is running on a quantum computer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc
Yeah, It's not uncommon for execs who want some hip deal to happen to push super hard to shorten or eliminate diligence.
Experienced investors aren't going to invest much if the science isn't on a good foundation. Even if they would, that's a pretty expensive way to fund research: it's cheaper to fund it by grants or through revenue.
As I understand it, that's how it works with the VCs who specialize in biomedicine. They'll provide limited funding to scientists with a credible theory to see if it pans out, with further funding to ideally follow.

Theranos got way too far without having to prove their science.
Can't speak for BMW or ReachNow, but can tell you from working with that that no one at ReachNow wants to "lower the status of their rental cars".
High Rise to the end of the world: a brief history of overpopulation panic
But if one of your friends is not really your friend, and you won't know until it's too late, they'll know you got past the firewall and that could be enough to get you into troubles. You better have to stay fully anonymous, which limits what you do on Facebook. You probably want different accounts for different groups and an empty timeline in every account.
I have used DataGrip from OSX, Windows, and Linux to connect to MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server. This is what I found.

+ Multiplatform, including OSX
+ Multilingual, can connect to many DBs
+ Decent Ergonomics.
Queries don't lock up the UI.
Connection closing does not close the query window.
Doesn't crash.

- Doesn't seem to have code gen from entity.
- Not as robust as native clients.
Doesn't seem to comprehend Sql Server views and stored procedures
- A little weird about having to explicitly fetch schemas before you can browse a database. Can take a long time sometimes.

When I need to just query data, it is great. However, when exploring an unfamiliar database it gets weird and I can't rely on it to inform me in a decent way about the presence of non-table things in the database (like views and stored procedures). I would also not rely on it to administer the database.

Overall, it has quickly become my favorite DB tool, and I look forward to JetBrains filling out DataGrip's missing features.
Well, they'd certainly learn a lot about cats!
Gwyneth Paltrow's $200 Magical Moon Dust Made Me Smarter but Not Better Looking
Really fantastic looking program, so glad it's happening in NYC!
Getting started with OpenStack: Nutanix Integration in 5 minutes
lost+found? it's still there in each file system but i never see a real usage for it.
Hmmm....I understand what you're saying but we still use agile at my software company and as one of its managers that's not my take. Here's my view on the points you've raised:

It does allow us to track dev progress, but with great power comes great responsibility. We don't micromanage our devs but we do use the data this produces to keep clients up to speed on development progress. This allows us to be mega transparent, generates trust and this makes clients happy and less prone to worrying.

We still plan, but we don't try to plan the full project ahead of time, we all know that never ends well. We work with our clients to plan 2 x two week sprints. When those sprints are complete we pull them back in to get their feedback and decide what needs to be done in the upcoming sprints. This gives clients flexibility as they often need to change their minds when they see the finished sprint. It works for them and us.

Agile in and of itself doesn't make us look hip unfortunately. Trello, the tool we use to map out sprints and report on progress does though. Our clients love it and it's revolutionised our relationships with them. In fact, a major reason we won another big contract just last week was due to the approach I've outlined above.
From this title; maybe hacker news needs a twitter?

Also:
You can't use average page weight when you are just looking at the top ten. That downturn could represent a single website; all others could be increasing in size.
It's nice to have a wider gamut (I'm using NEC/DELL wide-gamut displays professionally since a decade and I calibrate them regularly), but very few will notice the difference given the incredibly poor contrast in outdoor conditions.

I've recently switched to a newer laptop (lenovo x1 carbon), which is not matte (at least, the version I was given - with the touchscreen). While the resolution and color depth is much better than my previous hp elitebook, the screen is just too glossy. The added contrast is quickly lost due to the extra glare even in normal office conditions.

Nobody seems to care nowdays, but the anti-glare coating makes a huge difference in 90% of the scenarios. The claim of reduced brightness is bullshit unless you're working on a monitor in fixed light conditions.

On a tablet with a pen, which I'd really love to use outside to take notes, the added color depth is going to be useless.
The experience may not be complex, but the software that builds and displays the experience is way more complex than the Apollo guidance computer.
Interestingly, since Onion addresses are derived from the public key of the host server, Facebook had to basically brute force this address.

The process is described in "Part three" here: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/facebook-hidden-services-an...

"The short answer is that for the first half of it ('facebook'), which is only 40 bits, they generated keys over and over until they got some keys whose first 40 bits of the hash matched the string they wanted."

"Then they had some keys whose name started with 'facebook', and they looked at the second half of each of them to pick out the ones with pronouncable and thus memorable syllables. The 'corewwwi' one looked best to them — meaning they could come up with a story about why that's a reasonable name for Facebook to use — so they went with it."

(Corrected: Hash of public key not private key per itsbenweeks below)
TL;DR: they build an RFID chip with a CPU they can reprogram via RFID
Ive been finding this more satisfying and easier to do lately. http://redef.com/channel/media/feed

Keep it open, read an article when I have a free moment. Next free moment scroll to next interesting article. Dont get sucked too far elsewhere into the internet. Not always easy to do. Look where I am now.
DNS could easily become excludable, if it limited service by IP/MAC address. Most people get DNS from their ISP, for example.
Does Google allow searches from Tor network? Last I heard it didn't.
I can think of nothing more likely to turn teenagers off science than being told to study the adventures of Boaty McBoatface.
> however, is that in CL generic functions are opt-in rather than the default

In the default standard this might be true to some extend. We are talking about ANSI Common Lisp here. Though ANSI CL has several places where CLOS comes into play. In real implementations it's not true at all. ANSI Common Lisp is a minimum standard (even though it is large) and implementations are free to extend the use of CLOS - which they do.

Even though Dylan had the goal of efficient CLOS-like OOP, the Dylan spec was not very detailed about that - there were individual implementations. But how fast were they really? Difficult to say: Apple Dylan was only published as a technology demo. Harlequin Dylan was short-lived.

Julia OTOH is a language and its implementation. It brings some good ideas how to make OOP performing better. If you compare Julia with CL implementations like CCL, LispWorks, SBCL or Allegro CL - you will find that CLOS is widely used there. Much more widely than the ANSI CL standard defines. For example the base LispWorks on my Mac implements 1600 classes. It has 32000 functions of which 5182 are generic functions - and 10000+ methods.

So claiming that Common Lisp implementations are mostly not extensible via CLOS is not giving the whole picture.

I/O Streams are not CLOS based. In most/many implementations they are. There are one or two quasi-standards for that: Gray streams is one.

Conditions might be CLOS based. In most implementations they are.

CLOS is somewhat CLOS based. In most implementations it is fully CLOS-based with a meta-object Protocol.

There is a minimum ANSI CL, which makes it possible that individual implementations are mostly CLOS based. Then there is a larger Common Lisp, which assumes CLOS-based error handling, streams, CLOS itself, CLOS-based networking, CLOS based software management (ASDF).

Dylan and CLOS had different goals. Dylan was developed for application development where delivery and performance was focus. CLOS focus was on flexibility, expressiveness, extensibility, meta-object protocols, etc etc.. Performance was a topic in two ways: First: it should be possible to write large extensible libraries and applications in CLOS (like the typical GUI or networking code). Second: for applications that use CLOS for more performance critical things (like a CAD system with zillions of CLOS objects describing a 3D model) it was assumed that individual implementations provide additional features (like sealing, efficient slot access, etc.).

Writing high-performance numeric code (or similar) in a CLOS based way was not really thought of. It's definitely useful to extend higher-performance implementations with an optimizing compiler (like SBCL, ACL, LispWorks, ...) so that more performance critical code can be written in CLOS. But keep in mind that not all CL implementations have this goal of highest OOP performance. Many have other goals and already lack the attempt to provide an SSC.

SSC = sufficiently smart compiler
I thought that, while Perl 6 can dispatch based on runtime types, it does candidate resolution at compile-time for functions (and thus operators) and private methods. It only adds in run-time overhead for these cases if the code uses a run-time type construct. Am I wrong?
I enjoyed this article. Interesting detail, compelling story line, easy to digest.

Unfortunately, the thesis is deeply flawed--that most stocks plummet after IPO does not a broken system make.
Skype likely uses the standard Windows components for its embedded browser which means Internet Explorer. Apps that embed browsers is a good reason to always ensure that Windows is fully up to date and you're not using an outdated version of Windows like XP or Vista which can't run an updated copy of IE11 (the current release). It's similar to the issue on older versions of Android that used the outdated browser component of the host operating system within apps... which was nearly always out of date and insecure on US carrier-branded handsets.
Alec Muffet has done a lot of work to get Facebook running on TOR and he's a true believer. I really enjoyed working with him when I was at Facebook. He also did a lot of work to get .onion domains to be recognized by registrars as a special purpose domain name. This let us issue certificates on .onion.

I don't know if the story behind the facebookcorewwwi.onion domain name itself has been talked about much, but we wanted a memorable name for the domain so we took a new cluster that hadn't been put in production yet and threw something like 500k cores at brute forcing onion names till we had a memorable domain name. Alec had a script that looked for hashes that started with facebook and then he picked the one that seemed to fit the most. And that's how we have facebookcorewwwi.onion now.
One very hard working engineer made the iOS app but we do have an iOS team so that person can take some well deserved time off.

As an engineer myself, consider that you may be underestimating the complexity of working with hardware in the car, something most apps don't have to worry about.
Hot Reloading Angular 1.x Controllers, Services and Templates
Thanks for the heads up on this. Does it have tools for working with stored procedures? This is the main thing I am looking for.
Parsing text can be hardly parallelized. Overall it will increase the price of your phone so it can show that webpage fast enough, which will be a cost of both CPU and battery. I have a shitty bi core smartphone, and it really doesn't like webpages. When you look at the source of a page, there is no justification for all of this, unless you like complexity.

I did not want to talk about HTML on smartphones, since it already seems to be non existent since apps replaced HTML, but do you really think we should have apps instead of webpages? Apps are less open. I really think HTML parsing is power intensive, and that you could actually increase autonomy and speed on HTML, instead of just having bigger batteries. Seems to be the same argument than fuel efficiency regulations.

Maybe I say all this because I like minimalism, but at the end of the day, most core formats are designed with acceptable performance in mind. In my opinion, HTML doesn't have acceptable performance.
There is! If you call the support number they'll walk you through it. There is also a retail location in Belltown where you can walk in and register.
having people in charge makes it a republic. direct democracy would be voting on everything.

most technically we call ourselves a Federal Republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_republic
Some people in DC are still annoyed by the renaming, partly because of the air controller thing, and partly because Congress changed the name against the wishes of the people of DC and then forced DC to pay for changing the signs out of the city's budget.
How about organizing closets using appropriate algoritgms from gener computer science, not by mapping it to a completely different hardware atchitecture and access pattern?

Submarines aren't fish, though both travel in water.
Offered him up during Clinton administration, too, with result being Clinton bombing some people. Got to the point that some people thought bin Laden was an informant.

In any case, bin Laden said he had nothing to do with 9/11 then a FBI spokesman in (2006?) said they had no evidence tying him to 9/11. I don't need any wild speculation to think they might be scapegoating him for something. Maybe simply tying up loose ends from CIA's prior work on things like training terrorists to beat superpowers. You bet they didn't interrogate him on purpose and not out of anger. ;)
I'm struggling to think of how to reply. This topic is both hard if not impossible to grapple and fascinating to think about. I keep going off into mental tangents about our place (and insignifigance) in the incomprehensibly huge cosmos and how you can so easily say that we humans, who have been dieing along with every other living thing for all of our collective existence, that somehow we should strive to eradicate death and live for thousands of years, much less eternity.

I don't know if hasty was the right word; I don't mean to just dismiss what you're saying. Clearly you've considered this at length.

I cannot easily accept that perpetual life is a good thing and death is something which should be avoided (obviously, in a grander sense). I don't have a concern about life as a good thing in the same way I don't have a concern about death being a bad thing. Life and death are complementary. I can't fathom anything else.
I was always under the understanding that the US provided most of his training and funding. Was SA helping the CIA?
It may be that it just isn't that strictly enforced for a variety of reasons. China allows a number of VPN services that bypass the firewall to function. My guess is that it isn't a huge deal because the vast majority of people don't care enough to go out of their way to bypass the firewall; the social effects of having that firewall are still in place.

Start enforcing it heavily and the people that DO use those services may start protesting or moving into activist roles.
Place Mecca & Medina under international Muslim custodianship* , and then proceed with your war plans. You realize that those two cities constitute only a small geographic area of the Hijaz region let alone the whole Arabia?

*: BTW this is an actual demand of Iran and many other predominantly Muslim countries to have the Islamic holy sites under int'l custodianship and not be treated as part of House of Saud's possessions as it seems the case with time passing while these people in power.
I think you are looking at the past through incredibly rose-tinted glasses. The web has been a mess for a long time, and we used to have to make sure our computer was set to 800x600 and we were using Internet Explorer 6 in order to even use it.
Are you sure that parsing HTML is the step that is the biggest issue for your phone, and not e.g. rendering or JS execution? (It's certainly possible, parsing HTML with bad parsers or pathological content can take surprisingly long, but it's generally the last thing I'd expect as a reason for a browser to be slow)
If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good "Show HN". Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Curious about the technical details, e.g. resources regarding the algorithm and its implementation.
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So the not-too-subtle suggestion in the article is that maybe Walgreens might not be struggling too hard to shake off Theranos, because W owns a piece of the unicorn. Which isn't worth much if it ends up in the meat freezer.

(I have no idea whether that suggestion is accurate.)
>Yes, it's sold as being more secure than other solutions, when it in-fact isn't,

It's entirely possible for SNAP to be 'more secure than other solutions' while still exposing users to one specific risk. There's no need for perfection in order to be able to rightly claim 'more secure'.
This looks nice. I am going to check it out. From looking at the screenshots, I'm guessing electron?
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"No NSA involvement. We promise."
There's always that one guy! I agree, he's quite annoying, but he made me laugh to be honest. At 4:20, he gets pretty crazy!
I thought .onion addresses were for anonymous hidden services, which Facebook is not. What's the advantage of accessing a .onion versus using Tor to visit the normal facebook.com?
"When a new hire joins the federal government, existing employees complete over 60 tasks to bring them on board."

"This is particularly useful in government, because we need to complete quite a few training sessions and pieces of paperwork."

I can see the value in building a tool to track all of the moving pieces in what appears to be a bureaucratic, inefficient system ... but I would love to see more work put into resolving those inefficiencies.

Can any of those tasks be automated?

Is there any way to reduce the amount of paperwork required?

Can the training sessions be replaced with online tutorials?

Etc.
Which would not surprise me a bit.
You edit stored procedures from psql? What a discipline.

(If you don't write SPs, you probably don't need DataGrip).
You could torrent a web service if the app was dockerized, the docker containers were part of the torrent file, and the underlying datastore (files or a DB) were also included.
Not clear if satire or actual founder of clothes rental company having a sense of humor.
This website itself is not far behind, weighing in at 937kb and 57 requests:
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/160422_KJ_18KN/1/details/
From what I've seen of Cavium, I wouldn't describe them as general-purpose CPUs, though they are nice for their own niche. I don't think anyone in the west has gotten hands on anything except press releases of ShenWei systems, so it is unproven as far as I can tell. If it is so great why was the Chinese National Supercomputer Center trying to get their hands on Xeons so badly to upgrade Tianhe? :P

Edit: Along the lines of Cavium, you might want to check out Tilera. They aren't exactly general-purpose either but they are more so than Octeons, and have respectable single-thread performance from what I've seen.
The diagnostics space is kind of screwed at the moment anyway by court rulings that have severely limited the patentability of diagnostics tests