skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One benefit of keeping languages around is that they help us understand what the brain is capable of. I'm with you on having a universal communication language, but keeping other languages alive does have some benefits.

One example is literature - literature often does not translate well at all. Another is psychology and brain functionality, as I say above. For example, there are languages out there that don't have 'left' and 'right' as concepts. Instead people use 'east' and 'west' or 'north' and 'south'. Speakers of these languages tend to have a very good grasp of their geospatial bearing as a result. Without these unusual languages, we would be very unlikely to think of experimenting with such a concept, much less be able to test it.

I did hear of one language about to go extinct (in central america, I think). There are apparently only two speakers of it, both elderly, that live a couple of streets apart... and they don't speak to each other because of some feud :)
The thing I find odd is the bugs in Chromium. Why would google drop support for spdy if their http2 implementation contains such (noticable?) bugs?
App also supports HOTP.
Your theory is, to put it bluntly, wrong.

Maybe it applies to people slapping together node.js libraries, but otherwise developers need a working environment in which they can focus.

Creativity is not only about innovating at the bleeding edge, but also coming up with effective solutions, optimisation, designing software, organising code, etc. A lot of software development is creative work.

Besides, not being able to focus will also lead to increased stress levels, overlooking bugs and decreased productivity.
This couldn't run on my iPod Mini 1st Edition could it...
Yes, currently Chinese is the main alternative with the most population and has some of the features I mentioned. It is also great for business with many people learning it to attract some of the chinese money floating around and lots of foreigners there to make their fortunes. But just a couple of decades ago it was russian. A major war between the US and China and it might be Hindi next. Never safe to predict the future.
I only realised recently how good giffgaff's deals are. Their top package is £20 a month for unlimited everything (yes, even unlimited data, though speed is restricted after 6GB). On top of all that, you're using one of the top networks in the country (giffgaff runs on the O2 network) and all of their plans appear to be 1 month rolling contracts, so it's easy to cancel/switch plans. Wish I'd looked into them sooner.

https://www.giffgaff.com/sim-only-plans
Maybe also include a backwards link from First Steps to Getting Started, and not just a forward link to Functions.
Well, he is talking about IBM. I guess I can see why you'd confuse the two.
Technology lures ex-pats back to Vietnam
How many double A batteries did you need?
And before that Japanese.
From the article:

> You shouldn’t really hate them (Docker) because they are doing what they have to do.
How do you know it's pretty good? It doesn't even appear to be sourced (looking at the Google Cache, I suppose a footnote could have been lost in formatting)?

A non-peer-reviewed survey is just a gut-feeling with a budget, doubly so when we're reading about in a newspaper with an explicitly stated agenda on the subject.
Infocom's Z-Machine used for text adventures is another good example.
Why Belgian Police Are Warning Facebook Users About Their Reactions
Respectul intercolegial si resentimentele
Cache Sizes with CPUID on Intel CPU's
The game's developer's postmortem is great too.

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014630/Classic-Game-Postmortem...
I found this book to be a godsend. I never took statistics and always wanted to better understand the deep conceptual ideas in the field. I had so many frustrating experiences with books that came highly recommend to me, and turned out to be not what I wanted at all. They spend chapters and chapters beating around the bush, conversationally talking about general ideas around data management and measurement bias and research design and different ways of charting data sets.

I cannot tell you how frustrating this was for me. I wanted just the meat: the core mathematical concepts on which statistical models and inferences are built. Don't tell me a folksy story about gathering soil samples, show me the tools and what they can do, both their power and their limitations. I can think for myself about how to apply those concepts.

I loved this book for being exceptionally clear and terse. I was hooked from the first sentence: "Probability is a mathematical language for quantifying uncertainty." That one sentence makes the concept clear in a way that the entire chapter on probability from "Statistics in a Nutshell" (http://www.amazon.com/Statistics-Nutshell-Sarah-Boslaugh/dp/...) did not.

I'm not someone who thrives on theorems and proofs, I thrive on concepts. And I found this book dense with clear explanations of the key concepts.
> Not enabling pipelining was used as a political tool to prevent HTTP 1.1 from being on par performance-wise with the new protocol people wanted for other reasons

I'm curious, what are the politics behind this? What are the 'other reasons'?
The slow death of purposeless walking (2014)
Hi galistoca,
Thanks for your comment, I think you nailed what I was trying to say with "social environment girls and boys grow up in" and "They just want to do things that are considered cool by their peers. For boys hacking tends to be relatively higher up (probably lower than sports though), while for girls it's pretty much at the bottom."
That only works for local authentication. Which is fine, the article is about login and sudo.

But there's a problem. If I had partial access and the first factor (password) I'd race the real admin's "sudo" for the U2F touch. Poll list of processes in a loop. If "sudo" was just started, ask for U2F before sudo has a chance. (e.g. by having a pre-started sudo paused in GDB).

U2F has its problems for non-web auth. Just look at how awkward the SSH patches are. (also not secure and/or anonymous (I forget), by the way. See mailing list threads)
EU readying “record-breaking” $3.4B antitrust fine against Google
Gotta love giffgaff, even their phone program is very reasonably priced. I got my iPhone 6 by mail, the day after it was released. £17pm for my phone.
USB 3.1 SuperSpeedPlus (10Gbps) support - this is by far the most important feature in my opinion, considering that USB Type-C (3.1) is projected to be the most abundant socket on the planet.
Why would you be interested in my pitiful attempts if even the best examples of the monadic DSLs people keep pointing too are all thoroughly horrible, convoluted and unmaintainable? Likewise, why should I look at your macros if you already admitted that you do not know how to use them?

Can you comment constructively about the composability issue without resorting to ad hominem?

Do you even understand the idea if the macro-based DSL design methodology?

I guess you can have something as horrible as the CL LOOP macro in mind, instead of any properly designed DSLs.
There seems to be serious moral hazard for equity crowdsourcing. Realistically, potential investors don't have to ability to conduct adequate due diligence. The projects seeking funding are likely to be riskier/lower quality since high quality projects will probably pursue traditional VC/angel financing (less hassles, reporting requirements). In the end, you have uninformed investors betting on high risk projects where the entrepreneurs lack any real supervision from said investors.
Hah a PDF!

Nice try, folks...
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Another great idea for sabotage. Plausible deniability for awful suggestions.
While All of Statistics is wonderful in its genre, it really isn't a good place to start to learn statistics. Firstly because it focuses very heavily on the theory and contains very little on practical modeling. Secondly because the theory isn't even necessarily going to be very enlightening: frequentist statistics is a mathematical tour de force, using every possible hack you can think of to be able to draw statistical conclusions from nothing more than a few pen and paper calculations, but as a result frequentist theory won't actually give you any sort of deeper insight into the core theoretical foundations of probability and statistics.

If you're new to statistics, try Allen Downey's http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats2/index.html or Brian Blais' http://web.bryant.edu/~bblais/statistical-inference-for-ever.... Both are free.

Then, go in depth on regression. Not just feeding in the numbers and getting back a fitted model, but actually knowing how everything works, what the common issues are, how to interpret the estimates and so on. Once you've got that down, read Regression Modeling Strategies by Harrell to go really in depth.

Or if you're really just interested in prediction, Hastie and Tibshirani is wonderful of course.
If the TOTP secret key is stored in the user's home directory, then this only makes sense for login authentication, but not for sudo: an attacker with access to the user's terminal can simply replace the secret key and authenticate against the new one.
Languages are not only strictly for communication and not everything has to be linked to increasing economic value either surprisingly.
> Isn't it interesting that calls for animal rights are strongest among those who don't interact with any animals except pets?

That's an interesting observation. My impression is that the most intelligent humans typically move to large cities, whereas the dumbest ones remain in the rural areas. Most farmers don't seem terribly bright (there are of course exceptions). Could this have something to do with it?
I love it when people start with the important stuff, quote "(Me)". That shows team spirit and motivates others to participate. (no serious criticism intended, just do as I do, and smile a little)
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power"--Abraham
True. If it wasn't for the license war between AT&T and BSD we would live in a parallel universe where everyone is running FreeBSD everywhere.

Kind of cool how randomness creates forks in time.
Why we still hack
> "What's stopping someone from selling a phone that has a functional FM radio?"

Nothing. They already exist. You could buy one today. I'm sure if you looked on Amazon or eBay you could find plenty of unlocked phones with working FM radios. Pair that with a SIM from your network of choice and you're done.

What's being discussed is about networks disabling the radio on contract phones.
Ah, the VC4...I had the impression the toolchain for that will be a nightmare to setup outside of the "close guarded internal tools"( which were "fun" to use).

Besides except the video stuff I do not see a point of running (lets say a Linux) on the VC4.

But still fun moment to see all this being done, congrats :)
"The greater the diversity in a community, the fewer people vote and the less they volunteer, the less they give to charity and work on community projects; In the most diverse communities, neighbors trust one another about half as much as they do in the most homogenous settings."

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/05/t...
Prising out the detail
Belgium, proud of it's social protection and security, has the same problem. Delhaize Belgium bought it's chickens from an industrial farm. That farm hired a company who brought in workers for help during the harvest.
The workers were from Bulgaria, standard of living there's much lower than Slovenia.
Member states of the European Union adhere to the free trade of goods and labor principle. Which meant in this case those Bulgarian workers fell under Bulgarian labor laws.
It's really a complex matter because civil servants accused this company of illegaly employing staff to dodge taxes and cheat social security.
The Labour Appellate Tribunal of Gent imposed severe fines which would have impoverished everyone related, also "normal" workers, to the industrial farm.
The court of cassation ( highest instance court in Belgium )
judged that the court of Gent was wrong.
So the process had to be redone.
The Labour Appelate Tribunal of Antwerp judged that the defendants, Delhaize and that chicken farm, didn't breach the law so they were not guilty. Case closed.

Start rant

I' m wondering if Tesla's case will grab headlines in the European "left"press. If so that indicates that populism uses facts to give you the sentiment that you're a victim of capitalism instead of realising the complexity of postmodern times
End rant
Regular cancer cells can use ketones for fuel. Cancer cells, with damaged mitochondria cannot.
Another excellent example of why dry humour is so dangerous. Too often you risk your colleagues taking your suggestions seriously and carrying them out.

If I was in HR I'd be keeping a close eye on you.
April breaks global temperature record, marking seven months of new highs
My experience is that open office productivity depends an awful lot on who is in the office.

When it's just people coding, normally interruptions are things that make sense. How should I build this or that thing? Where can I get help with X?

However, for many years I had a guy in the office who was a pontificator. He would read some news article and start a debate about (inevitably) politics. People would get drawn into it due to his particular style (very opinionated, uninformed) and the debate could easily eat up the entire morning or afternoon. He would literally stand up and announce some funny point he'd come across, loudly.

Ate up enormous amounts of time.
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Which defeats the whole point: I'd still use my Xperia Pro with a built-in slide-out keyboard, except app bloat makes it useless (Google Play now clocks in at 190 MB? And this is representative of the other apps.) It was perfect for touch-typing "on the bus", as you say: if you have to fiddle with accessories and perhaps get a coffee table to put them on, you might as well lug a desktop computer with you ;)
For some reason they weren't planning on bombing Severodvinsk (submarine building town), which I definitely would if I was them.

Also they weren't planning on bombing Tyumen (the oil capital). Probably wasn't as important then. Still tt's funny how you can have several thousands dots and miss some essential ones.
I thought I'd written 'North America', but apparently I didn't, so yeah, point taken.

Even if there are more minority languages in SE Asia and South America, I'm not sure they're treated better there than in Europe.
Google wanting to impose SPDY as a standard and a replacement for HTTP. perhaps.

Google does all sort of weird stuff. I had to disable their QUIC protocol on Chrome because Google apps stopped loading correctly or needed 15 refresh. It was driving me crazy. If some Googlers are listening, your QUIC protocol doesn't work.
Freedom is very important to me. Keeping animals locked up makes me uncomfortable. Of course, the fact that I enjoy being free, does not necessarily mean that freedom is important to animals as well. Perhaps animals are too dumb to appreciate freedom.

I have tried eating a vegan diet a couple times. I was surprised by how much delicious vegan food there is. I actually didn't miss the eating of meat much. However, my energy levels were really low, so I went back to eating meat.
The symbol formerly known as free software. Where was it again on the keyboard?

Open Source is the set of all software that is freely distributed and who is source code is delivered in readable form. And yes, there are subsets.
Gene Regulation, Illustrated
> you would need to have a really severe threat scenario such that you can't even trust RSA with your keys

Such as the one where RSA was compromised and secrets were leaked, sadly.
> No asking your friend to pull over to the side of the road to pair your phone to their car stereo

I drive rentals a lot. Like, a lot. Across dozens of brands and models, it's never taken me more than a minute to pair my phone.

Also, the 3.5mm aux plug is even easier to use than tuning a radio to any frequency, and the quality is vastly better. It's a long time since I've seen a car without it.
There's a therapy called IPT Insulin Potentiation Therapy which allows for much lower doses of chemotherapy
They do exist.

Check out rxjava from netflix, dagger and butterknife and okhttp and retrofit and picasso (and and....) from square, MVP libraries, kotlin and anko from jetbrains

What is truly holding back many developers is the above cargo cult that the path mentionned in android.developer.com is always the right one.

There have been some harsh comments on Dianne Hackborn, but I find that she is actually doing us a great service here by dissiping this myth. I find she does a great job at explaining what is the scope they really care about, and the one where you are free to discover better alternative that do not have the "Google" label on it.
Explores a 3D view of periodic table and atoms
It boils my blood when a harmless fellow developer faces trouble due to political mess created by dumb people.
This book is not between ISL and ESL. All of Statistics is an introductory course (and has a much wider scope, including advanced topics) while even the watered-down ISL assumes that the reader knows already a bit of statistics.
In Finland DVB-H was killed by the local MPAA equivalent. They demanded that everything transferred via DVB-H would need to be licensed separately - even though DVB-T and DVB-C were already licensed.

Pretty much no one paid for the licensing, thus there was no content. And as there was no content, no one bought the phones.

Then came LTE and now we can just stream stuff over the interwebs.
Andre Brahic, discoverer of Neptune's rings, dies
I'm a big fan of Ting, an MVNO. www.ting.com

We got our AT&T bill down from $120/mo (for two phones) to between $45 and $62/mo (for three phones). When it was just me (I was the guinea pig testing before we ported my wife's phone over), my bill would regularly be $25-30. Ting isn't "unlimited", but rather has a fairly simple "use your phone and we'll bill you fairly" mindset. They also have a calculator where you can have them login to your existing carrier, pull the billing details, and estimate your Ting bill. I was initially uncomfortable with the pay-per-use nature, but the reality has been that it's way cheaper for us. If you are a road warrior salesperson who never uses wifi, it may not be as good for you.

Naturally, since it's pay-what-you-use, tethering is perfectly fine.

Ting does offer a referral bonus where I think you get $25 and I get $25. I'm not shilling for them nor stumping for referrals, but if you do care to use the referral link, it's https://z9prmb2f3t5.ting.com/
Larry Ellison talked about a long hike with Jobs in USC's commencement speech
Same, but I typically take that as a cue to stand up and go outside, sitting all day is also phenomenally unhealthy.
This is what struck me when I first visited SF - such a great country, all this tech and you have homeless people on your office doorsteps?
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"The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens." - Jimmy Carter
UK? Majority of BBC is nationwide and high quality.
How our project managers manage developers
I've received Grey Goo with a recent Humble Bundle, it feels very much like an old school RTS with three different factions (Starcraft-like) with a focus on base-building and resources
But still, it's a x49 increase between code with exceptions and without. It would be logical to assume that additional exception handling code is the same regardless of the original code size — but I'm not sure about how correct such an assumption is.
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1. Don't want them sleeping in tents on sidewalks? Provide a place to pitch a tent that doesn't cost money--maybe rent a piece of land in another county, and use tax payer money for security, etc. Other counties don't want them. Problem.

2. Want to avoid stepping on feces/urine? Build some restrooms? Oh no? They will just have sex in them, or shoot up. Problem. (By the way, I can find a restroom in that lovely city.)

3. That study concluded most homeless are from San Francisco. "Oh, no they arn't! It's a bad study!" Problem.

4. "There here for the benefits?" What benefits? I only know of one benefit, and that benefit was for homeless animals. It was shut down years ago.

5. Every county in the Bay Area has been essentially harassing the Homeless. In Marin County, where your bosses live; there's not one square inch of land that's legal to pitch a tent, or sleep--that's free. If you have no money--you are breaking some municipal/county law by sleeping.

6. Our economy has desimated most jobs. The jobs left don't provide a livable wage. This has been going on for 25-30 years. Problem.

7. I haven't even got to drug use, or mental patients. Problem.

8. Oh yea, why is the Bay Area going to do this day of homeless awareness now? I think the writing us on the walls. I know Willie Brown is publically wondering what SF is going to do with thousands of newly unemployed tech. workers.
I've already used this for a couple of projects, and works exactly like advertised: blazing fast.
Also, it's from the guy behind Rollup, Ractive, Gobble, all tools that I use and love.
Sorry to bring it up here, but can you check your email for an email from david@daviddworken.com? I previously sent in an XSS vulnerability that you fixed quickly, but I found a second one that has not been patched yet (despite being reported on March 26th).
One of the major differences is that back then you could have complete single-cycle random access to any byte of memory, and the 6502 relied on that. Memory is a complex ball of wax today, with wide bursty buses and caches. While a 1+GHz 6502 could certainly be built today, it would have to be paired with on-chip SRAM for its main memory, which would dominate the CPU in transistor count, power draw, and silicon area.

The transistor count itself was very low even for its day, so while that isn't my forte, I would guess that gains in that metric wouldn't be all that great.
> [...] building Debian packages with the official tools can become straightforward if you bend some rules:

> 1. No source package will be generated. Packages will be built directly from a checkout of a VCS repository.

> 2. Additional dependencies can be downloaded during build. [...]

> 3. The produced packages may bundle dependencies. This is likely to raise some concerns about security and long-term maintenance, but this is a common trade-off in many ecosystems, notably Java, Javascript and Go.

Point 3. is fine for site-built packages that don't go to mainstream.

Point 1. in the long run can result in some trouble, and one really shouldn't
do that for third-party code (unless it's mirrored in own repository).

Point 2.: please don't do that. It's a stupid, really stupid idea. This way
you defeat much of the robustness provided by packaging. You can't reproduce
the build and you can't reliably rebuild the package under network outage or
leftpad 2.0 farce. It's much better to have a script (makefile?) that
downloads all the sources off-line, and package that to a single source
package (debian/source/format "3.0 (native)").

But apart from these, it's a really good overview of modern Debian package
building, especially that it doesn't show how to generate a package, but
build it from scratch.
Autonomous means that it is able to act on its own.

E.g. suppose that at some point organization members decide that it should pay do monthly payments to some address to pay for certain work. A DAO noted this decision and started to execute it.

At a later point members might change their mind, they no longer want this payments to be made. But DAO will keep making them if there is no way for members to cancel this execution.

Thus DAO members do not have a complete control over the thing. It is autonomous.
Working with a serial desk-napper eh?
Cost of living differences is irrelevant. You're still paying for this room and board regardless.