skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very long time ago I heard that C is completely unreadable[1]. I went and learnt it some time later and discovered that it was bullshit. Then I heard that C++ is unreadable[2] (I mean the source, not error messages...). I went and learned it and realized this, too, was bullshit. Another couple of years forward and I heard that it's impossible to read PHP code[3]. So I learned PHP (and started earning money thanks to it) and realised that "impossible is just a word". I then heard that indentation delimited blocks in Python make the code impossible to edit (and unreadable, btw)[4]. I learned it and realized that it's rather easy to configure your editor and make this non-issue. Around that time I heard that PERL is a write-only language[5]. I wanted to check, so I went and learned PERL. It took some time, but eventually I realized that, indeed, it's possible to read PERL. To make the rest of the story short: around that time, I decided I want to go polyglot and started researching various niche languages, like Lisp, Forth, Prolog, J, Factor, Avail, Haskell, Erlang and so on. I heard (mostly) that I'm insane and that it's impossible to either read or write any such language[1][2][3][4][5]. As you probably guessed already I went and learned most of them and realized that - shocking! - it is possible to both read and write all of them!

Now, I don't know either K or Q, but I have a very, very, very hard time believing that they are too terse and unreadable because of that.

From my experience, the "improvements in readability" are of course good, but they only shorten the time to master the language. Once you learn the language well enough, it becomes readable. And the very few syntactic issues which are objectively hard to distinguish/are confusing the eye, etc. tend to be worked around with formatting and font settings.

Written Japanese is totally impossible to read if you don't know it - and it takes reasonably longer to learn it. However, once you know it, it's readable. A Japanese person reading a newspaper in Japanese uses as much effort as me reading a newspaper in my native language.

[1] From Pascal and later Delphi users.
[2] From C users.
[3] From PERL users.
[4] From PHP users.
[5] From Python users.
My 1998 Ram with 12 valve 5.9L Cummins then... Is killing us all, loudly. Gets 25mpg on the highway though.
Apollo, a laptop with Linux pre-installed from Entroware
call center hours at the globe are listed as 6AM-5PM M-f, 8AM-2PM Sat/Sun. Seems pretty generous to me.

Keep in mind this is 140 year old company which can't change all at once.
Put your family in a safe, where none of that Bad World can get to them. Are breathing holes included?
It is also seems to be an infra-red camera, so I ll be able to do pictures like those with it (http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/8539757) , not that artsy of course and make a timelapse.
Disney bets on Nokia's Ozo camera for the future of VR
Just goes to show, if your highly illegal target is roughly 100 Million, be sure to reach for like ten times that amount and try to grab an absurd 1 Billion.
This.

For custom stuff I use D3, but for the "standard"-charts I use Highcharts.

Edit: Seems like Chartjs is MIT, Highcharts is only free for non-commercial.
A quick search indeed seems to agree with the statement the number of CVE's raised against Android is below that of iOS.

Numbers from cvedetails.com:
Android 245, iOS 857

I guess it is not a direct proof something is more insecure? There are other factors that push the numbers up or down. Project popularity, the type of CVE,...

And projects depend on each-other too (Linux kernel -> Chrome OS and Android).

Am I missing anything? Can any of the downvoters please elaborate?
Casting a financial vision for your money is crucial to your financial success. "Without vision, managing your money is like trying to climb Mount Everest without a harness, proper shoes, or prior experience of climbing.

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We live in a world of extreme subjectiveness.

Cash flows are massaged and obfuscated. Dividends aren't paid, we are asked to look, instead, at earnings yield, but not too closely. Non-GAAP earnings are treated as first class citizens. Companies borrow money against themselves to buy back their own stock, in a self-referential spiral. Meanwhile, governments shamelessly intervene in the markets, to keep the (increasingly subjective) prices high and the (objective) realized cash flow rate (dividends) low.

What is the value of any cash flow, with a 0% interest rate? With a negative one? What is truth?

These are the crazy days.
I'm not judging -- I'm stating facts. Also, I was hoping to hint at that policing crime isn't the same as criminalizing being poor. It's possible to be flat out broke and not commit crimes.

Having grown up in a town where the high school graduation rate was below 80%, I can assure you that it's not unfair to expect people from low-income families to know the consequences of their actions.

This is pretty far from my statement of not excusing or ignoring crimes committed by those in poverty, especially violent crimes.
If modern IDEs are so great, why do so many developers choose not to use them?
Would anyone with deep statistical knowledge be able to comment on the validity of results based on an experiment involving 11 people?

http://www.cell.com/cms/attachment/2054006051/2060445893/mmc...
Simple, elegant, fast, secure, and cheap laptop.
Deployment Automation vs. Server Provisioning
OK it came -> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-serv...

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A lot of those who used to drive for minicabs now drive under Uber's banner.

However, for the last 30 years at least, in London there has always been the distinction between the more loosely regulated (and cheaper) minicabs with the more expensive Black Cabs providing a better service.

With the advent of Uber and the like, minicab services have been the most under pressure since Black Cabs have officially sanctioned advantages that minicabs/Uber don't, such as using bus lanes, and actually knowing where they're going (rather than using a GPS). Also, they are more spacious than almost all ordinary vehicles and can accommodate you and up to 5 of your mates/family + luggage for the price of 1.

In contrast a typical yellow taxi in NY has a tiny amount of space for the passenger, is usually upholstered with ripped plastic, and the driver is fresh off the boat, and a bit lost.

So the improvement Uber offered over the prevailing options was much greater in NY and SF than in London.
I'm curious, how many Australian websites force you to enter your shipping address before you shop? In the US to properly account for sales tax you basically have to get the coordinates of the address you're shipping to.

The most degenerate example I'm aware of, is that my boss lives on a county border. On the other side of his street, sales taxes are 7.5%. His are 9%. The zip code, city (kind of - technically one side is part of another city, but the post office recognizes it as the same city), and street name is all the same, but the county is different, which you don't collect for shipping reasons.

Every online retailer I've seen collects it wrong, including Amazon, although maybe their backend for reporting purposes calculates it right. When searching for software solutions to sales tax, most of them seem to get it wrong too.
NYT print to digital conversion
So my company was mentioned on the first page of the NYT business section last week. The article also appeared online. The online version displayed a direct link to my website, while the print version had no link (obviously). It was exciting watching my traffic more than double for the day ... But what really fascinated me was seeing how many people took to Google to learn more about my company after reading about it in the print edition. Using Google webmaster tools "search analytics" I was able to see a spike in searches for "Hearing Tracker" on the day of the NYT piece. Pretty neat!

Link to search analytics screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/sK48oIS.png
Unix hacker
roughly 60,000 people who want to know what's going on around them in terms of local government, arts, sports, ordinary people, etc. The Globe is about 50 times better at these things than any other source.
This works in the short run, but the Japanese have been in an economic hole for a long time. They are printing money to keep assets afloat, but this wont work forever and they know it. The whole thing is fake, and fake doenst last forever.
And our government shares a ton of information with contractors who are not 'in the know' about these vulnerabilities.

If they truly cared about this, they would push vendors to plug the leaks that they know about.
I tried saving this page to the internet archive (in case the blog goes down) but it seems that the owner doesn't allow bots to index/cache/mirror his content.
Right, if you can do that, why not stick NaCl + Android Runtime for Chrome on everyone's cell phone? NaCl is designed to be very low-overhead, and low-end Chromebooks are probably as underpowered as low-end phones.

NaCl is a very good isolation layer, but it's certainly possible that to make Android apps work / interoperate the way you'd expect (e.g., one app can broadcast an intent that another app can receive), you have to open up holes that are too big to secure. It's sort of like how the CPU-level distinction between kernel-mode and user-mode code is a very good isolation layer, but when you run actual operating systems that need their processes to communicate, it gets much harder to secure.
There have been a few attempts to sell ARM-based laptops, including Smartbooks (1) and the Microsoft Surface. They've all flopped horribly. This doesn't mean they can never be successful, but it does make PC manufacturers less likely to take the risk again.

Of course, users can always buy an ARM tablet and add a cheap keyboard/case combo.

They needn't necessarily be slow -- see the Apple iPad Pro, for example. However, most buyers are probably looking for something that costs less than a Windows 10 laptop, and you can now get Windows laptops or 2-in-1s for $199 or less. These also have almost-instant on and can run sandboxed smartphone-style apps, albeit only a few hundred thousand of them.

In sum, it could be tough to launch an ARM-format laptop (much more expensive than launching yet another Windows 10 laptop), and the margins would most likely be thin or negative.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartbook
In what ways?
Prototyping, lean methodology and food: an awesome mix with Ben Melchionno
Dead code elimination (more or less). Important for making browser JavaScript as small as possible.
Show HN: I made a note-taking and mind-mapping hybrid
There's two models - one with an IR filter and one without. (Slightly confusingly to me, the "NoIR" model is the one that can see IR, though I suppose the pun was too tempting.)
Not directly on topic, but close, the simulation and environment is touched on:

http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/9243/what-computer-...

The above link references the AMA done by SpaceX engineers too: https://www.reddit.com/comments/1853ap
Static analysis to exclude unused imports in a bundle.
In addition, if you're still reading this, be ready for this to be not-the-most-interesting software project. Most of it will be reading vendor documentation and hunting down config errors. And compiling. And figuring out FDA stuff.

Coding-wise you probably won't learn a whole lot. You'll be using old technology and likely limited from using any fancy techniques you want to cook up. Accept that in advance. Thrive in that actually; force yourself to take the safe road software-wise so you can take the time to read through FDA docs and understand all the lingo better. Also spend time with your EE and learn more about that side of the coin. Spend time with the customer-facing side and learn the market. Learn some actual medicine so you're seeing the device as a tool rather than as a platform. All this stuff is way more valuable in the medical field than knowing the latest five JS frameworks (or Haskell plugins, or ruby test platforms, or whatever software-y stuff floats your boat).
But the word "dominates" should really be emphasized there because there is growing evidence that gut microbiota can help with breaking down lactose even when you lack the ability to produce lactase.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17927751
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11157352
I think they're taking the piss.
> I ran out of private GitHub repositories a long time ago

why doesn't OP use bit-bucket ?
So many people creating new accounts to say "great idea".

Nothing fishy here at all.
Live There: Airbnb Design
There's no doubt about it that metformin does lower your BG. Depending on the person though the side-effects can be pretty nasty. Personally I had a lot of stomach problems (which I've never had before or since) and I found that I was unable to exercise because I would have a hypo after just 10 minutes. I also had trouble staying awake, I'd often be slumped in my chair and would need to take a 20min siesta after lunch. I'm a fit 36 year old who's used to exercising a lot and having good energy levels so I found this situation difficult to get used to.
I always offer/encourage my clients to look through the repository like the article says, but people never want any part of it. They are usually taken back.

In my experience (mostly small business) there's a certain expectation that developers will work in isolation—where clients aren't expecting any involvement beyond the initial planning stages.
Shorting the yen, meaning betting that the currency will collapse has been an obvious trade for decades.

This trade is also called the widowmaker :) There is a long trail of bodies in it's wake...

As always, timing is everything.

http://www.businessinsider.com/japanese-30-year-hits-new-low...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2016-01-14/the-widowmak...
The people that were paying that money to buy the paper version of the newspaper, for example.

There are people that might find enough value in the journalism of the Boston Globe to want to spend that kind of money on it, compared to the "entire internet" that can be, broadly, not the most reliable source of information (wether the Boston Globe is a good newspaper I have no idea, but it might be for some people).

That is a completely different discussion than looking at the deceptive tactics they use to make people that don't want to pay that amount to actually subscribe.
Interestingly, I was able to save the article to Pocket. I guess the Pocket bot doesn't respect robots.txt [0]. :)

Also, did anyone else notice that the title-text for paragraphs (specifically, each <span> element) is in Portuguese? i.e. If you hover over a sentence in the article, the title-text displays its Portuguese translation.

[0] https://blog.strcpy.info/robots.txt
A gradually sinking yen might be a boon for exports. Its effects would depend on the balance of trade at the time.

But really the main reason markets aren't bailing out of the yen, as with the dollar and euro, is that there's a real shortage of better places to go. Much of the developed world is at near-zero interest rates - negative in a few places. The developing world is not stable enough to take in much investment.
To be fair, printing is hard on pretty much every device :(
"In the short term, these dishonest tricks raise revenue for newspapers that use them. But in the longer term, they do even more damage, by giving the whole industry a reputation for bad business practices. Cable companies can get away with it because of government-granted monopolies; newspapers won’t be able to."
Yes, but they're not so well funded, and their positions are fundamentally harder to communicate than simple, manipulative, well funded campaigns. It's like comparing a pre-school and a military school because they both share the words "School". You won't be totally wrong of course, but you will have missed the point.
Android always has a performance penalty because software runs in a JVM....
> Similarly, unmanned vehicles might proceed at speed through an intersection where a stop sign has been removed by college students or knocked down the night before by an impaired human.

But so would human drivers. In fact, a self-driving car may actually do better in this scenario because it would have metadata stating that the last 3,000 times a car encountered this intersection, there was a stop sign here.
Email them to cancel and if they don't, contact your CC company and have them stop payments.
>the yen is worthless

In what way is it worthless? It's not like Japan has zero productive capacity or real assets.
But whether someone knows there are vulnerabilities is not the same as exploiting the vulnerabilities for nefarious uses.

Lets say the FBI did not exist. We know those same vulnerabilities would exist, except an organization would not be aware of them as such since the org does not exist, but the vulns would still be there and software would still be as vulnerable. So them knowing is more or less neutral in terms of making software more or less vulnerable.
You're hard to please :)

Skip to slide 135 if you're looking for something worthwhile.

Sorry, didn't know it was already posted. But the blog format is certainly better for this audience than the slide deck format.
This package does not implement Python as a first-class CLR language - it does not produce managed code (IL) from Python code. Rather, it is an integration of the C Python engine with the .NET runtime. This approach allows you to use use CLR services and continue to use existing Python code and C-based extensions while maintaining native execution speeds for Python code. If you are interested in a pure managed-code implementation of the Python language, you should check out the IronPython project, which is in active development. http://pythonnet.github.io
Reads like an advertisement for Copperfield. But in terms of advancing the art form and of classic prestidigitation, I can think of no better current practitioner than Ricky Jay.
Awesome. I used Chart.js for a project a year ago or so and really liked it.

It looks like the documentation is missing some of the new 2.0 chart types.

Edit: Nevermind. It looks like they are not new types per se, but new options on old types. Scale, Stacked, etc.
How genetic editing became a national security threat
If this is your idea of the "1%", prepare to be disappointed. It's more like the 0.001% - a few thousand people in the US.

In California, one of the top income states in the US, the top 1% of households grossed $500k+ [1], which is about $250k after taxes (admittedly this is at the low end). This is nice house, nice cars, good schools for kids, and occasional first class trips abroad money, yes, but not yachts and private jets money.

[1] http://www.sacbee.com/site-services/databases/article9349178...
The website design looks great and it's a shame the video is so rushed by comparison :/
How does the money get back to David Copperfield?
Funny how the minute we don't like something it becomes manipulative.
I've never seen the fontfamous one, looks great. I thought OP was referring to https://logo.clearbit.com.

E.g. https://logo.clearbit.com/ycombinator.com
>Skinny people get Type-2 diabetes too.

I didn't say they didn't. The OP said "most" people who get type 2 aren't fat. I merely asked for any evidence.

Edit: OP didn't actually say that.

But:

>Just look at family and ethnic correlation.

"People of different racial and ethnic groups are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. African Americans, Mexican Americans, American Indians, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders and Asian Americans have a higher risk for these deadly diseases. This is partly because these populations are more likely to be overweight, have high blood pressure and have type 2 diabetes. - See more at: http://www.diabetes.org/are-you-at-risk/lower-your-risk/nonm...

I'd say "family" is much the same, since eating habits are learned at home.

I realize not everyone with Type-2 can help it. I also realize there are many overweight people who can.
The solution in use now is that the guest OS asks the VM host for entropy using its VM guest specific kernel drivers, to seed the CSPRNG of the guest. If you have it do that on every guest RNG request you'll get the same desired effect without adding more communication.

When you duplicate any VM guest, all sensitive key material should be replaced instantly (preferably never copied to begin with, the host should generate and inject fresh key material).

Refilling the entropy pool alone isn't enough when reuse-insecure ciphers like stream ciphers are actively used, for the reasons stated above. Some ciphers are more tolerant of reuse (see AES-GCM vs AES-GCM-SIV).
See my reply above, I'm inclined to believe that storing enough DEF for correct dosing through a 10,000 mile service interval may not be feasible for a small car.

After hearing about this regulation it seems an obvious reason why they would keep the cheat enabled even after adding a DEF system.
I think the existence of Pictionary as a game is a decent example of this.
> Why shouldn't I keep a bare Git repository in a Dropbox shared folder, use it as a folder-based Git remote, and sync it with the desktop client?

> There seem to be some articles on the Internet suggesting that this is a good idea. It's not. Using the desktop client to sync a bare Git repository is not safe. Concurrent changes or delays in syncing can result in a corrupted Git repository.

How dangerous would this be in practice? Ie, what are the chances of corrupting a git repo with this method with a small team, and what exactly must happen to cause it?
Guys here's my prediction on this.

Cities will become completely Undriveable and possibly off limits to cars once the majority are self driving.

Here's why; pedestrians will know that all cars will stop for them and people will just start crossing anytime they want and even start simply walking in the street. There might be some jaywalking enforcement attempts but ultimate they'll fail.

What do you guys think?
You need a GSM Core Network[1]. For more details, you can take a look at HLR and AuC components which are responsible for authentication.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_switching_subsystem#Au...
What if I'm trying to cancel a music streaming service?
You'll have to expand on the etc., Hearthstone is the only "professional-grade" game that I can name on Android (and even that lagged months behind the iOS version, which lagged months behind the PC client). I keep waiting for gaming to take off on Android, but it's just so inundated with P2W garbage (cue heated discussion over Hearthstone's own P2W status).
SPOF
The one thing the author doesn't seem to be taking into account is that the cities are much easier for them to change as needed. The infrastructure is more dense and (usually) more orderly designed, and access to electricity to add beacons, as well as access to all kinds of networking resources already in place for traffic work is pre-existing. Augmenting cities for self driving cars is going to be the bunny hill compared to augmenting the interstate highway system to them.
I am the OP and that's not what I said at all. I said that most people who get Type-2 are already genetically predisposed to it.

Just look at family and ethnic correlation. (rare) Monogenic diabetes is even hereditary!
I dunno, I'm a Westerner and $951M still seems like real money to me.
We all die sometime, we just gotta keep kicking the can down the road until it turns into a bucket!
The network could blindly accept any phone, and distinguish by IMEI (phone identification) instead of IMSI (subscriber identification), I think. But as the former doesn't have any cryptographical authentication, it's trivially easy to spoof a different identity.

To have "proper" user authentication, you could just buy blank SIM cards which you can provision with keys and identification as you see fit.

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/SIM-USIM-Card-4G-LTE-Blank-Mi...