skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the benefit of being 'completely decentralized', if the individual joining the network still needs to decide which network and set of rules to trust? Answer: none, you've just pushed the question of trust / centralization to that of choosing the particular fork you want to use.
--standalone won't inspect your web server configuration. Only the apache (and nginx, if you enabled it manually) plugin would do that.
The new version is already in beta:

https://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://www2.yahoo...
An EC2 instance is probably too much for one user. The model here is Wordpress, which is easy to install and widely used, even in its distributed form. Of course, what's happened is that more and more Wordpress sites run on centralized Wordpress.

Compare:

"wordpress.com" (hosted): "Create your new website for free. WordPress.com is the best place for your personal blog or business site. Create Website (button)"

"wordpress.org" (download): "The latest stable release of WordPress (Version 4.5.2) is available in two formats from the links to your right. If you have no idea what to do with this download, we recommend signing up with one of our web hosting partners that offers a one-click install of WordPress or getting a free account on WordPress.com."

Open source just doesn't get user-friendly onboarding.
BuzzFeed and HTTPS
I believe I was more commenting on the behavior of the period and @ ".@" to a average user I think the understanding the intention and the ability to quickly pick up this feature/behavorial cue is a toughie.
"Building straight into the sky is easy."

Except, it isn't. Construction costs of taller buildings scale non-linearly with every additional story [1]. Building skyscrapers costs upwards of $300 per square foot, whereas single-family homes cost a fifth or a sixth of that. It's so much cheaper to build low-rises, in fact, that virtually no developers will take on a high-rise project unless the property is so expensive that it can command luxury prices. This is more-or-less true for mid-rise projects as well, though at a lower price point (~$200 per square foot).

The conversation about planning and NIMBYs is misguided. As the article concludes, the city is out of land. Any new construction requires buying and knocking down something else, and the choices are all various flavors of "expensive" or "inconvenient".

For example, east of Divisadero, the density of SF is actually pretty high:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7907112,-122.424097,3a,75y,4...

But west of Divisadero, there are huge sections of the city that look like a suburb:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7468355,-122.4598049,3a,75y,...

...the problem is, everyone wants to rebuild the dense parts to be skyscrapers (which is very expensive), and transit access to the suburban parts is quite bad. Developers won't build even medium-density projects in western parts of the city, because there's no demand, because there's no transit. Instead, they build higher density in the Mission and SOMA. These buildings will always be expensive, "luxury" units, because at $300+/sq.ft. construction costs the economics don't pencil out otherwise.

[1] https://westnorth.com/2014/03/18/between-rocks-and-a-tall-pl...
100% secure

AFAIK the formal verification mechanism for EVM programs is not yet complete, so that's a risky claim. Not to mention that the people involved are interacting with it using ordinary PCs, so spear-phishing them might be the easiest way to steal the $120m.
Dynamic Swift
Looking at it, and who is backing it and what support they have, I think Swift has a pretty good shot at being an "it" language for a while. Let's face it, Swift is the iOS programming language and it looks like IBM is putting some effort into porting it. Now, historically IBM and Apple are a bit hit and miss (with a lot more misses), but I think they will succeed with this one. I do wonder if IBM is getting a bit nervous about Java these days. If Swift had its own Rails or meant for a container deployment framework then things would be a lot clearer.

This does not come from a Swift fanatic as I view Swift as my next Transact-SQL. A language I will do work in and become very proficient, but I'm not loving it.
I don't like having to use a different language (i.e. Apache Groovy) to write build scripts when using Gradle with Scala. With SBT, I write Scala to build Scala, see [1]. I can see why someone would use Groovy to build a Groovy project, but why should I use 20 lines of Groovy to build Scala?

I notice Kobalt [2] for Kotlin is still being actively developed, and Leiningen for Clojure, both using the syntax of the language they're compiling for their build DSL. If Gradle won't become language agnostic for specifying its build scripts instead of shoving something else down people's throats, people will elsewhere, or stick with Maven.

[1] http://alvinalexander.com/scala/sbt-syntax-examples

[2] https://github.com/cbeust/kobalt
Once you have ossified middle management machiavelli banally evil sociopaths that only care about maintaining their miniempire, all the big companies can do is leverage monopoly power, startup gap, and government largess to persist.
Identifying Modularization Patterns by Visual Comparison of Multiple Hierarchies
3333 Broadway has 1200. It's technically five buildings, although they are all connected, so I don't know how they decide that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside_Park_Community

It's also a monster of a building. I kind of get the NIMBY vibe if it's about that, it's just too big, sucks up all the energy.

There are a few like that this (Galaxy Towers in Guttenberg). They're all old, though, they don't build new stuff like that.
What's to stop someone from putting in $108M worth of etherium coins and then voting to give all the money to that same person?
Yet another example of capitalism run amuck letting people die in the name of profits.

The phone companies COULD upgrade to newer technology right now, but that would cost money.

Or...

They could wait until it is a crisis and then DEMAND that municipal governments pay for the upgrade.

Which would you do?
On Method Ordering
Great Products Need Balance
OK, I'll bite, with a serious, practical question -- how would I do that this week?

Please assume that I have 100 BTC at a particular address or small set of addresses, and I don't like the Chinese mining consortia.

How do I actually move my value to a new chain that 1) excludes those mining consortia, 2) preserves my stored value, and 3) preserves my ability to transact with any other valid BTC address? How can I get this done by next week?
Inessential: A Hypothetical Responder Chain Written in Swift
Amazing isn't it. I get the feeling a lot of people don't look beyond film. Too bad their management seemed to have Xerox disease.
As a note though: walk down the aisles at your nearest Target and you'll find just as many single serve pureed fruits+veggies in the food aisles as the baby aisles (many coming in the same pouches and a couple the same branding). I admit, marketed toward parent who want to spend too much money trying to get their middle schoolers to eat vegetables at lunch more than adults proper.
Hey, where do I need to send in my resume? I am very much interested in the position
Why do cops do that in America anyways? Isn't it much more secure to always use a breathalyzer. It only takes a few minutes and you can drive on.
I'm also quite sure that you could train for soberty tests (if they are as "unusual" as saying the alphabet backwards) when you're drunk so the cops think you're under the legal limit.
It's very hard to explain, but a person is really an ad.

It's a sarcastic and smart commentary and meta-plot throughout the whole season about the dangers of advertisements being disguised and perceived as being something genuine.
And who is 'everyone'? Who decides who the next iteration of 'everyone' is?
Is libdispatch part of the cross-platform Swift effort? AFAIK that's a Mac technology that isn't really used anywhere else.
Producing JSON Documents from SQL Server Queries via TSQL
Turns out there are ad networks that support HTTPS, who'd have thunk it?
Accelerate InterSystems Ensemble
That 815 units was a proposal, not something that's actually been built. It appears the company intending to build it has since cut the proposed size to 646 units, and that's big even for NYC - the biggest on that list that's actually being constructed is 246 units and the sizes drop rapidly from there. So you'd be looking at a thousand or so NYC-sized buildings, in an area probably considerably less suited to them than NYC. (Oh, and the estimates I can find claim that apartments in that building are selling for about $2,000 per square foot. I think that's expensive even compared to SF prices. What's more, anyone who complains that SF housing development is too slow needs to realise that 246-unit building is part of a construction project originally proposed in the late 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside_South )
Definitely red tape.

I'm doing an expansion on my house in SF. 1 year in already, and at least another year to go before we get permits, if we even wind up getting them.

It will probably cost over $10,000 just in planning review / permitting costs when it's all done. That does not include the added time architectural costs of changing the plans as demanded by the various planning departments.
- voice recognition on the computer
- better search (apple's OSX is impressive... PC... nosomuch)
- AI-based autocorrect of entered commands that learns who you are
- better data visualization
- better web visualization
- gesture recognition without a mouse
- eye tracking without a mouse
Racism is the bogeyman
> Until they're old enough for K&R (12?, 13?, 14?)

"If their age is on the clock, they're too young for malloc"?
Proof that Casimir force does not originate from vacuum energy
Homomorphic Secret Sharing
I don't know about New York. I lived in a two-tower complex in Chicago, 45-stories with over 1,000 apartments total.

But you don't need tons of high-rises. Having everything be free-standing buildings is the larger problem. Blocks of mid-rises is what drives density in places like Paris: https://agingmodernism.wordpress.com/category/sarcelles.
Wonder seems to be entirely closed of within their apps.
Only available on mobile / tablets

https://www.makewonder.com/start
Yep. If I command-click a same-domain link I expect my login to be forwarded to the new tab.
More the unemployed and retired.
What I find stupid is that the length of usernames counts in the message. A message to @myfriend can be longer than a message to @myfriendblessednaycursedwithalongername
I can see how you'd say that's minimal compared to languages with really huge runtimes — but do you really think it's minimal compared to C or Rust?
9 Simple Questions That Will Improve Your Customer Experience
Why is $300/ ft2 construction costs a problem when condos are going for $1k / ft2? Even selling condos for $600 / ft2 would be a major improvement.

data: http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/San_Francisco-California/m... then click the wavy graph next to "explore this area" sales price / sqft
Why is BASIC totally left out? An entire generation was inspired by power-on basic in C64 and other platforms. More than just "inspired"... Some huge amount of today's technology wouldn't exist otherwise.

I know I'm stuck in the past, but that's what I want for my kids. Flip open the laptop and boom, theres my programming environment, except now with easier graphics/sound APIs.

Anyone know how to get this, without buying a c64 + CRT monitor?
How Samsung plans to snare game developers with its 'Made for Samsung' program
C# works a little differently from C/C++ in that stack vs heap allocation is decided at the type level (using a 'struct' or 'class' keyword when defining the type). So you can't easily have one object have a reference to an interior Point in a Point[] array, since any Point instance variable will just be copied by-value and not be a reference. A Point in an array can be passed by reference into a function using the 'ref' keyword though, in which case I'd expect the GC to keep the whole array around until the function returns? (It seems hypothetically possible to optimize but kind of a niche case). If you need to, you can also actually use raw C pointers with an 'unsafe' keyword, that's outside of the GC though (useful for working with C libraries).
The Clever UX Behind Hopscotch's Programming iPhone App for Kids
Article gone?

Well, I'd guess fundamentally it was about tying yourself to the Microsoft sociopath mothership.

Intel could have taken Linux by the reigns and made an OSX-equivalent and certainly windows-beating decades ago.

But they didn't.

So they missed the boat.
I have thought of a fundamental fallacy in my argument.
If the Universe is a computer, then it should be able to be entirely simulated within a program. Ergo, this simulation must be able to reach a point in time in which the human inside the simulation will be able to code a simulation. So the second simulation must be able to reach a point in time in which the human inside the second simulation will be able to code a third simulation....
This directly conflicts with the heat death of the Universe.
However, you can formulate a new belief. You can say that the probability of life spawning during the heat death is not 0; but rather, it approaches 0. As in, it is 1 - .9 repeating. If you can imagine, it is the largest irrational number greater than 0. So there is an infinitely small but still non-zero chance that life will occur at the heat death of the Universe. Eventually, Bayesian probability will ensure that this life will occur. The Big Bang will repeat. This is a cyclical view of the Universe : Big Bang -> Heat Death -> Big Bang. Again, I do not have any evidence for this point. It is a purely irrational view.
Atomism is a religion, not a philosophy. In terms of religions, it only really fundamentally breaks the second law of thermodynamics. That isn't that bad.
I think all atheists are atomists. If you do not believe in the afterlife, then you do not believe that your life has any meaning. Ergo, kill yourself/live as hedonistically as humanly possible. The very fact that you do not kill yourself/just fuck and drink all day signals that you think your impact on the planet is not finite. But this conflicts with the second law of thermodynamics, which insures all thought, life, and computation are finite. Ergo, your belief system breaks the second law of thermodynamics, so you must be an atomist.
> Instead, they build class I-III in the Mission and SOMA. These buildings will always be "luxury" units, because at $300+/sq.ft. construction costs the economics don't pencil out otherwise.

In the long run, that isn't true. A skyscraper has a useful life well in excess of 50 years. If you look at places like Chicago, you'll see that luxury high-rises get renovated 20-30 years in to become mid-range places.

Of course, that requires the foresight to have permitted enough high-rise construction yesterday.
50%OFF-10.5 Hours of ‪Reactjs‬ Redux, ES6‬/Babel, ‪‎Webpack‬? Included
Agree. We've told them this directly for years. Whats next?
Chomsky was never really interested in AI at all. I don't see anything in these results that has any implications for any position that Chomsky's taken. Chomsky's always pretty much taken it for granted that surface constituency structure can be extracted by statistical methods.
FWIW, the last two companies I've worked at provided everyone with noise canceling headphones as well as a privacy shawl that you can cloak over your head and monitor.
Medium sized brick and mortar companies such as Github, AirBnB, Shopify, Basecamp, Groupon, 500px, Capitaine Train (who just sold for 200 millions) and tons of other companies. Helped Twitter get off the ground as well. Now some of them might have moved some of their stuff off Rails/Ruby, but never prevented them from succeeding. It might actually have helped them iterate rapidly in the first few years. The idea that Ruby (or any other language for that matter) is only good enough for some scale doesn't actually translate into reality.
Ah, that's exactly the kind of situation where you'd want a param with a default. As an example:

PS C:\> New-Parameter SMTPSvr -TopHeader -BottomHeader -ParameterType string -DefaultValue "mail.example.com"

Param(

[string]$SMTPSvr = "mail.example.com"

) #end Param
> New York City's population density is 56% higher than San Francisco's

And even New York City is not really that dense:

San Francisco: 18 000 people per mi2
New York City: 27 000
Barcelona: 41 000
Paris: 55 000

Only Manhattan (72 000 per mi2) is dense.
Fulby – No more empty pitches
If the main worry is information loss when debugging, why not figure out a mechanism that's 98% accurate but much more efficient than a full redundant shadow stack?

For example, you could compact the stack every 200 frames it grows, but never remove frames in the top 50 or bottom 50. How often in practice would that give you a misleading view of the stack? (Assume that each frame keeps track of how many tail frames are omitted after it. If needed, assume that tail frames within X distance of a non-tail frame will not be omitted ever.)
Yippy.com (formerly clusty.com) is based on that.
Something that kind of mimics the C64 experience is load81: https://github.com/antirez/load81
It would cost billions of dollars to even attempt to go after ESPN. The primary value ESPN offers today is ownership of broadcast rights. Yahoo can't afford to outbid Disney on those rights and shareholders would never support risking that much capital on such.

What you're describing would never make money. Aggregator sites are among the worst things you could ever attempt if your goal is to make money, which is why so many of them fail and or produce mediocre business outcomes.

Drudge is a unique outcome that is nearly impossible to repeat - which is why nobody has been able to replicate it after all of these years. Its popularity occurred solely due to the Clinton impeachment scandal and two decades of brand / trust building when it comes to editing.

Having a juggernaut of articles and content in business / finance is worth very little. You could combine TheStreet.com, Marketwatch.com, Quartz, Seeking Alpha, Fool.com and Business Insider all under one umbrella and it would be worth less than a billion dollars and barely make any money. It would be a complete waste of time and wouldn't move the needle on Yahoo's business.
An American ISIS Cell: The Story of 3 U.S. Recruits – NBC News
This is all the "weird" pro-business stuff that pops up when Americans start talking about unions (or worker rights).
I'd like to hear more about this. Is it possible you could share an example that demonstrates what you're talking about? Thanks.
Our approach was to make our debugger still show those frames, and to observe that in the year since we've had tail calls in builds, we haven't seen a single compatibility issue from the change to error.stack behavior.
An hour north of SF, my single family home cost me $216 sq. ft. Prices in SF are significantly higher. Trulia makes it look to be ~ $700-$1000 sq. ft.
Silicon Valley TV show has a news updates website
>2. There is an extra layer of "curators" (kind of a misnomer) who are trusted members in the community who make sure payments aren't being funneled through an intermediary to a majority shareholder.

If there are humans involved that can exercise this level of control over The DAO, is it really autonomous?
Most platforms don't have a power-on equivalent, but BASIC derivatives with better sound/graphics/etc. APIs [0] are widely available (the particular selection will depend on platform, e.g., RFO-BASIC for Android.)

[*] well, maybe not better in all cases; for lots of simple things, some of the 1980s home computer BASICs had pretty good simple sound synthesis APIs.
Can you do some image-processing on the images captured from the camera, in realtime? For example: motion detection, or image enhancement or some filtering? I'm asking if the CPU is powerful enough to do a pass over the image in 30ms... or if not in 30ms, how long would edge-detection take on a Zero, on a full HD image?
so if I don't have Viking Horde or Viking Jump installed, my devices are not infected by this?
Hit F12 in a web browser.

Hit / in minecraft (more effective if you install scriptcraft first).

Open up a terminal window.
12 gamification platforms that help learn coding
This launch is from the new cosmodrome in the Russian far-east.

On an unrelated note, what happened to the 2.1v?
> Of course Alphabet would be a more logical path

Why? The only thing we know for sure is that Google has been much less secretive about its desires. That doesn't mean that it is further ahead or has a better solution (and for the record, I'm not arguing if they do or don't).
The increase in per-core performance has still less than doubled in that time span.
tl;dr: because innovation is what you have to do when you don't already have a business.
It made sense during the time period it came about. You have 160 characters for an SMS. 140 allows 20 characters for @names, commands, etc.

When my friends and I first started using Twitter, we basically used it as a group chat, similar to Hangouts/FB today.
Fork Bitcoin to change the rules to exclude those miners, either by switching to proof-of-stake or just changing the proof-of-work hashing algorithm. Like this: https://github.com/bitcoinclassic/bitcoinclassic/pull/6

As I stated elsewhere, this is impractical for Bitcoin because the value of the currency would tank. For applications like the one in this article that use general purpose blockchains, forking is very practical.
This is unacceptable on HN. We ban people who attack others like this, so please don't do it again.
The teenager who sparked an internet scandal
We detached this trainwreck from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11701731 and marked it off-topic.
We figured out such a mechanism and we call it ShadowChicken: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/199076

It works great!
> Because they aren't very good at reading yet, because they're kids.

I'm not sure, but I think it may be the case that the best solution for teaching children programming at the point where "they aren't very good at reading yet" is to address that problem first. You can be a kid and be good at reading. I've known several, both when I was a kid myself and now that I'm an adult.
>Is that a fact? I'm not sure anyone has ever shown numbers to back it up.

What? I've seen tons of profiling posts and articles showing just that thing, and it's the same thing I've also seen forever on my servers' stats. I'm obviously talking about the majority of web apps that are using DBs and doing some kind of CRUD work -- not video processing services et al...
You zoomed in on a quarter, which is not a good way to look at it. From an annual standpoint, they have been profitable for each of the last 4 years, excluding 2015. 2015 Included a massive impairment of goodwill (which is not a cash expense) at $4.4B[0] and would have otherwise been profitable.

[0] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1011006/0001193125164...
> if a company has negative value...then it is severely undervalued

Or severely fucked. Every company on the verge of bankruptcy skirts with negative equity value.

As for enterprise value, there are oil E&P companies trading below zero today. One must consider the costs of diligence, maintaining the asset until oil goes up and environmental clean-up. The economic value of some companies is questionable.

On Yahoo!, there is a difference between minority-stake investing and buying companies. Some managers are terrible. A hundred million dollars put in a box, put in a corporation, and handed to them is worth zero if they can't be replaced before the cash has been burnt.
Have you tried http://www.alice.org with kids at all? I remember it helping me when I was younger.