skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may give her a stronger online presence in a naïve sense, but it also undermines all of her genuine supporters. Now every Hillary supporter on the Internet looks like they’re being paid off.

Really makes you wonder what kind of administration she’d run. Seems like money always turns up wherever she turns up; the direction of causality is up to your imagination.
Based on Thinkpad compatibility, it's a stronger desktop OS than FreeBSD. I'm rooting for them.
Whitehorse, perhaps? I've read that Whitehorse has the highest rate of bicycle commuters. I can't fathom how that's possible, given the winters, and the fact that it's not particularly dense -- yeah, things aren't THAT far apart, but far enough that bicycling doesn't seem like the first choice in the winter.
i just processed it all... things smashed together. that is all.

you'd have a better chance at real science by watching the hydraulic press channel.

keep throwing billions at nerds, morons.
The U.S. government invented INFOSEC and funded most tech (security or otherwise) that you depend on. So what. It's the specific tech or actions that matter rather than who funds them. At worst, you increase scrutiny or consider subversion issues. Of course, high assurance is specifically designed to counter that. So, people worried about subversion should be using this stuff more than anyone.

Btw, here's two things Galois did with their contracts that mainstream security folks are mostly ignoring instead of building on or applying:

http://www.cryptol.net/

http://ivorylang.org/

And a repo with the rest that uses the magical power of open source to counter people's fears and improve the world:

https://github.com/galoisinc

At least some of them have stars in the three digits. I'm impressed an open-source crowd giving it that much attention. Maybe cuz it's on GitHub. The rest might need to go on there, too, for better odds of adoption. Using Google and Save As... are apparently major obstacles of adoption these days. Idk as I'm still trying to figure it out.
Now if only their interface wasn't limited to amazon's devices, and didn't suck...
Farewell, App Academy. Hello, Airbnb – Part 2
I've found that trying to simplify things is an impossible thing to do in the programming community (cue to "You're missing the point / You're oversimplifying / This is not what a monad is").

It's a problem that stems from being surrounded by millions of people who take disproportionate pride in the belonging to a savant elite.
What I always say to people who ask me to describe programmers: "Programmers are people who like to create metaphors, but who like to correct other people's metaphors even more".

That being said, I feel like I've progressed in my understanding of those concepts by reading the post, so thanks to the author.
Lifetime cycles are an issue for Li-ion batteries.

For example, lets look at the Tesla Powerwall numbers. The Powerwall warranty covers 85% of capacity with 740 cycles in the first two years -- whichever comes first. Then it covers 66% capacity with 1,087 cycles in three years, and finally, it covers 54% of capacity for 2,368 cycles in five years. http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/is-teslas-powerw...

Running the numbers for the Powerwall, 85%, 66%, and 54% of 7kWh is 5.4, 4.6, and 3.8kWh respectively.

(740cycles x 5.4kWh) + (1087cycles x 4.6kWh) + (2368cycles x 3.8kWh) = 17994.6kWh

Thus the cost per kWh stored is

$3000/17994.6kWh = 16.7 cents/kWh.

Not included is the shipping and installation cost, which could add another $300 - $500, which would run

$3300/17994.6kWh = 18.3 cent/kWh.
2007 I was working for a shop that only officially supported IE6. It was a health insurance company too. Your premiums at work!
I always loved how the Judge DREDD video game went batshit crazy with acronyms.
It depends how the income equality comes about. If wages of the rich are increasing but wages of the poor are staying steady or falling (I don't have numbers but that seems more likely to me given the recession/unemployment etc.) life becomes more and more unaffordable for the poor.
No, Chrome was never bundled with Windows so your argument is void.
The parent in TFA actually wasn't that far off from a legit solar oven.
"Without Stallman's foresight of the need for public domain open source software, there would only be proprietary software, all subject to PRISM."

Or proprietary, shared-source software provided by nonprofits or companies in jurisdictions that aren't surveillance heavy. No, you don't need FOSS to avoid PRISM lol. It has its advantages in resisting totalitarianism for sure but you don't actually need them. More of author or organization's intent and licensing that really matters. Many models available.

Btw, the first, secure-ish mainframe OS (MCP of Tron fame) was sold in source form by Burroughs with fixes/updates allowed to be submitted. In 1963. High-assurance stuff under Orange Book similarly had to deliver source that was reviewed and provided a way to know you had same copy. Just to support my claim that there's proprietary models for it but most just wanted money instead. ;)
Interesting. Are there any studies on this lowest-in-spring observation?
disable /= remove.
The larger the ratio of the size of the financial industry to the size of the productive economy at the same standard of living, the less efficient the economy is. Growth in the financial industry is like growth in the amount of oil you have to add to keep your engine from seizing up.
Does that mean that for small personal projects, it is acceptable to include jQuery 2 and Bootstrap everywhere, even if custom JS and CSS are a total of 100 lines of code?

AJAX using jQuery is so convenient. I would rather not write these in vanilla JS.
They are not "constitutional"... they are just regular laws.

Also, I imagine the ACLU would love to help someone take this case all the way to the supreme court.
Not really, if your expected adversary is your local nation state that wants to watch your Internet traffic for domestic political dissent (Iran, Ethiopia, China, etc).
Realm – now with fine-grained change notifications
You've missed the point: Growing bacterial colonies in a culture is inherently riskier than day-to-day contact with sick people.

I've worked in high-energy or high-risk systems nearly all of my career. There is such a thing as managed risk. The school didn't tell the family that they couldn't do the experiment. Instead, they owned up to the fact that the school didn't know how to manage this particular situation's risks correctly, and instead deferred to someone who did. That's a totally rational and reasonable response.
There are bookstores (both online and brick-and-mortar) with a large number of books approved for sale in China, so if Apple stuck to selling those books, it would not be a censorship issue.
What he/she probably means is that you don’t need a battery that lasts for decades in a device that would become obsolete in five years. It’s a waste of valuable resources, assuming that this battery would cost more to build.
There are certainly communities that "explain" the behaviors of mental illnesses in a way that don't help people who are at risk but instead drives them even more into the illness - i.e. certain extreme conspiracy boards, esoterics sites or misguided bulimia "self-help" groups. For sites like that, I agree.

However, as for groups which just represent off-mainstream subculture I don't see it. Well, technically they are of course "contagious" - that's how transmitting culture and ideas work. But not every bad idea or weird subculture is already a mental illness. I would think "sterilizing" the internet by taking away all "contagious" sites would not just rob it one of its core identities, but would also present serious free-speech and censorship issues as the criteria for being "sterile" don't seem clear-cut at all to me.

Or to make an example, many opinions on HN aren't mainstream either. What would make HN a safe site to visit, but Tumblr not?
This might help with some of the bloat: https://segment.com/
Nice writeup. I also like http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_....
Interestingly, this was what Alan Kay was advocating for on the web: "A bytecode VM og something like X for graphics" [1].

When Lars Bak and Kasper Lund launched Dart [2], I found it sad that they weren't more bold - left CSS and the DOM alone, and created an alternative Content-Type. So you can choose to Accept 'application/magic-bytecode' [3] before text/html, if your client supports so. Sadly, we ended up with Web Assembly, which by the few talks I've seen, appears to only cater to that of graphic/game developers, with no support for dynamic or OO languages.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvmTSpJU-Xc
[2] https://www.dartlang.org
[3] Or in Dart lingo, a VM snapshot.
Maybe the real problem is that people in this country still think that the more they hear something, the more it’s worth hearing. If they’d only keep those little slivers of truth about Hillary in mind among the sea of lies—if there were any mental permanence to their observations about her—then maybe she’d stop being able to slip through the cracks like she has about the emails, the speeches, and (foreseeably) this Big Brother-esque move.
Last night an article from popsci.com was posted that covers the same news

UCI Researchers Accidentally Make Batteries Last 400 Times Longer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11547756

http://www.popsci.com/researchers-accidentally-make-batterie...
There's the firefox addon Decentraleyes https://github.com/Synzvato/decentraleyes which is trying to solve those problems, currently only the most common versions of each library are bundled, but there are plans to create more flexible bundles.

There's no reason to hit the webserver with an If-modified when the libraries already include their version in the path.
Talk about flowery language.

1. This is a tragedy of a death of a human being and the loss for a family of a beloved one - all caused by a disease, not by a "suicide".

2. Those statistics are for overall suicides, not medical assisted ones. Even if they were for medical assisted "suicides" you would need to control for other factors.

3. Medical-assisted "suicide" is voluntary, not imposed by a third party. Its people like you, with your extremist ideas, that are imposing something by denying others the right to choose.

4. This is really not the time nor the place to discuss these ideas. Have some respect please.
Maybe.

The larger question was why did Bob have root access to people's individual laptops? He could have done a "snowden", grabbed their SSH keys including passphrases. That would have been much harder to detect.
People Expecting Higher Refunds Tend to File Tax Returns Early
Absolutely. Also, for many immigrants, the American Dream can end at being working middle class with a house and enough money to pay for their child's tuition... except, being middle class in the US is no walk in the park.
Why don't more people just ignore the gag orders? I would. I understand most people won't, but there certainly should be more than one guy who illegally revealed his NSL in the 15 years or so since they began.
> It seems odd to me that "Bob" hasn't been outed.

Since Bob hasn't been criminally charged with anything, "outing" him is legally "libel". He could sue, and win.
If you're a business, you can't. There's a decision to make:

1. Focus on benefiting anonymous people who either don't contribute shit back to the business or barely do. Freeloaders.

2. Focus on benefiting the founders, customers, and employees (in that order). If you loose some freeloaders, then so be it. If it's their design decision, then so be it time 10. They can always set up an unrestricted forum for people like them to discuss the article and deal with security headaches they bring in.

Wait, No 2 seems to work as most readers and the company are benefiting except for the few that choose not to.
Can you expand?
I was going to be one of the people who complained about this post's shortcomings, but of course that's because I learned Haskell rather than Swift, and so the implications of monads et al. are a teensy bit different.

This is probably all you need to know in terms of Swift.

If you're talking about the actual mathematical theories, or how other languages see it, this is a gross oversimplification. But since we're talking about just Swift it's fine.
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Apple ImageIO Denial of Service
I don't know that I see one as concretely worse than the other though. I don't like either of them.
We didn't know but it wasn't paranoid to assume it. The reason was the Echelon leaks and what was done about those. The answer: nothing.
Just sign up and never post any content to it.

They'll still get -some- data off you, but frankly it's a lot of the same data they would get even if you didn't have an account.
> "Skill in software engineering, like skill in any subject, is not cultivated by limiting yourself to a narrow set of knowledge and challenges."

Except you've done exactly this by selecting tree structures, something you find intuitive, and using it as a measurement for everything else. If you hire like this you will be successful in surrounding yourself with others who think just like you. Maybe that's a strength for the product you're building but it's a strength achieved by limiting yourself to a narrow set of knowledge.
> I think that you're probably technically right (the best kind!) and probably aligned with mainstream Physics, but...

I wasn't meaning to describe my own understanding, or to endorse (or reject) the articles', only to describe what I thought was meant.

> For a kick-off it's pretty hard (impossible?) to falsify. Yes, we can all agree that something like the Big Bang happened; just by looking at the expansion, everything was obviously a lot more squished up. (Extrapolate backwards and you get 'silliness' like the Singularity... which is just a photosynthesis[1] way of saying NaN.)

Indeed, as your parenthetical points out, I think that even your second sentence might be debatable. Questions about the beginning of the universe are, necessarily, not subject to experimentation, at least not now or in the foreseeable future; so my understanding—and bear in mind, as Dave Barry would say, that I have read several books of popular physics—is that the best that we can do is to give explanations that, based on our current understanding of the current laws of physics, are compatible with the observeable consequences of the distant and (physics-ally) exotic past. Since extrapolation eventually produces results that are guaranteed mathematical nonsense, assuming that they are still valid just before they're nonsensical seems inevitably to be more an article of faith than of science in its usual sense.

P.S. Also, with folks like Max Tegmark (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Tegmark) not only 'out there', but at MIT, I don't think anyone need fear being labelled a kook for what he or she believes, or doesn't believe, about the origin of the universe.

P.P.S. Hello from the thread on Street-Fighting Mathematics, where we've also been chatting! :-)
This is excellent! Reminds me of a tool I wrote a few years back that only supported 4 languages that we used at my past company. Great to see this open sourced!
If this can extend the cycles to 100,000 (from the article), this brings it the cost down dramatically. Using a conservative half of 100k:

(50,000 x 5.4kWh) = 270,000kWh

$3300 / 270,000kWh = 1.2¢/kWh, more than a factor of 10!
All of what you say are true - phlebotomy requires actual skill (try getting blood drawn by a trainee!)

But... I grew up absolutely fearing and hating the finger prick thing the pediatrician would use. I remember getting all sorts of other scrapes and cuts that bled and wondering why they hurt so much less than that thing. From a practical perspective, if I knew a test involved that (rather than an arm draw), I'd delay and avoid it because of the pain.
When I was most depressed in life was mid-late teens. It's a rough time for everyone, really. The search for romantic love, or at least what you imagine it to be. All that. I had some really dark times, but fortunately I made it out.

It wasn't very long before I began to see that the periods of depression -- even though they felt really real at the time -- just didn't make sense. I'd keep a journal, and if I read it later (or, worse, tried to write the journal entry after the feeling had passed), none of it made sense. I mean, the words made sense, but the feelings didn't.

I wonder if part of what got me out of it was just learning to manage those times. I knew I felt terrible, but I also knew it didn't make sense, and that in 3 days I'd recognize how little sense it made. So I just had to ride it out.

Now in my mid 30s, I have some anxiety that nobody else can see, and it rarely troubles me. But it's the same pattern-- when it bothers me, I feel completely overwhelmed by the silliest little thing (or collection of things). Not only burdens that others wouldn't think twice about, but ones that I myself handle regularly without issue.

We've all got things we're incapable of dealing with. Everyone's limits are different. And I think, for everyone, they change all the time.
I don't get the point of those settings. You seem to prefer white-on-black text, but the "Only with High Contrast themes" override means that it will almost never apply.

I tried setting this in my Firefox and visited a bunch of sites. None of them showed me white text on black background, because almost every site sets both background and foreground color styles, which override the preference setting. In fact the only site that was affected was the BMFW.

So what is the point of that setting? If you actually prefer white on black, set it to "Always" and you'll always get it--even on the BMFW.
I'm sure some crisis management PR firm has influence on everything she does right now
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Of course, but what if there are 10 such services?
> Facebook users can invite non-Facebook users by email to events, if they want to.

This stops after a while. Even when you stay a pleasant person, you'll always be "that guy" requiring an extra action to contact. The social ripple/ping of an event stays inside Facebook.

> You want to be in their social graph, but not have a Facebook account.

In the ideal form this would be a totally open protocol (with backing of Facebook, Google, ... and W3C).

In the current form, I do not know enough about Facebook to suggest a good system. Yes. I want to be in their social graph, but not have a Facebook account or be under Facebook TOS. If that is meaningless at the moment, maybe we should make it mean something.
>Bob shoplift from a store. How does the insurance company stop him from shoplifing from the store again?

When did I say an insurance company would stop a shoplifter? Whether or not Walmart will physically confront a shoplifter or not (I'm pretty sure I've seen cases in the news where they have), that's their business, but as far as I know there's nothing from precluding them from doing so.

>But private 3rd party citizens do NOT have the ability to use force on others.

Sure they do. I assume you're talking about laws here. I can't speak for the laws of every state, but most allow the the use of force in self defense or even to prevent theft.

Regardless of the laws of any given jurisdiction, is your argument that there is a market failure because the law prevents a business from taking action?

>I'm saying that the County is using taxes to pay for the Dump (and similarly, raising a "bag tax" to discourage the use of plastic bags is a good thing). And according to you anarcho-capitalists, you guys typically consider the forceful removal of money from the private citizenry to be immoral.

>I'm defending the use of taxes to solve this market failure. Because taxes are NOT a function of a free-market economy. You should know the basics of your own argument dude

You keep referring to an alleged market failure but you have failed to identify one. In your example the dump is a public institution, thereby excluding the possibility of a market failure.
Big law is usually business casual unless you're in court or client facing.
> Rust programs consume so much resources that it could
> just use a GC

I'm not sure where this is coming from. Everyone that I've spoken to about using Rust in place of managed languages has noted incredible reductions in memory usage. Indeed, this was one of the primary reasons for Dropbox adopting Rust for their core storage engine. Quoting from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11283688 :

"The reasons for using rust were many, but memory was one of them. Primarily, for this particular project, the heap size is the issue. One of the games in this project is optimizing how little memory and compute you can use to manage 1GB (or 1PB) of data. We utilize lots of tricks like perfect hash tables, extensive bit-packing, etc. Lots of odd, custom, inline and cache-friendly data structures. We also keeps lots of things on the stack when we can to take pressure off the VM system. We do some lockfree object pooling stuff for big byte vectors, which are common allocations in a block storage system. It's much easier to do these particular kinds of optimizations using C++ or Rust."

And the above paragraph is using Go as a baseline, which itself already tends to use less memory than Java.
I'm fairly sure you can just create a facebook account and enable email notifications. You'll never have to log in or upload any personal information, but you'll receive an email whenever you friends invite your placeholder account to an event.
That can be pretty easily compensated for by asking the candidate to explain their thinking out loud (which you'd want to do anyway). Someone who's seen it before will be too perfect: they'll just rattle off a solution and it'll be right. Someone who's actively working through it will pause, they'll hesitate, they'll get things wrong and have to correct themselves.

I've occasionally seen candidates who had the answers to interview questions I asked. They actually came clean and said they'd heard it before, but I was already pretty suspicious that they were actively familiar with the question.
I disagree. If the judge wanted to make a difference, he would set precedent, not this publicity stunt.

Great... he helped 1 person who suffers from a disorder. What about the other millions?

I do not mean to dismiss his act of kindness but, honestly, who do you think is benefiting more; the judge or the soldier? I would say the judge.
I'm fine with that.. however, I've seen MANY instances of websites that load multiple versions of jQuery... that's just one library. Let alone how poorly constructed most web applications are.

When it comes down to it, for so long many front-end guys only cared about how it looked, and backend guys didn't care at all, because it's just the ui, not the real code.

We're finally at a point where real front end development is starting to matter. I honestly haven't seen this much before about 3-5 years ago... which coincides with node and npm taking over a lot of mindshare. There's still a lot of bad, but as the graph show, there's room to make it better.
Why would an atheist do that?
>There is no freedom whatsoever there. Only servitude to the corporate masters who would control things.

Source?
Should g++/make really be included in a container that's used in production though?