skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is more about what Acton was saying, so we're looking at good and bad from his perspective. I don't think we need to invoke moral relativity as we already have a frame of reference. He seems to have clearly indicted men of power unless there's text that I have omitted stating otherwise.
Kotlin Meets Gradle
I guess the wording got me.
Yes, and the point of self driving cars is to avoid doing that.
> it's hard to propose a workable alternative.

No, it's not. The article proposed it, airports are already considering it, and even you proposed it (see next quote).

> I'd suggest keeping the government in charge of what procedures to use, but then using private contracts to actually manage the airport security.
It may be pleasant for you, but not so pleasant for the next developer who needs to maintain your code. Perhaps he likes picking different cherries than yours...
Zeplin Photoshop Beta
You think someone checked in every line as they wrote it? I'm sure the repo update for that function is just "implemented the following API functions: ...." + a bunch of lines.

Dirt simple 9 line functions don't "organically grow" over time, they're just pounded out and the programmer moves on.
Is the depression inherent to the disorder, or is it caused by the unrelenting stress brought on by living in an environment that is actively hostile to this individual?

Either way, it's just something to consider based on personal observation/experience. It could be completely wrong, could be a bit of both. There's no harm in asking questions.

* * *

edit: to you comment below. I am suggesting that the depression itself (for example, in the case of a bipolar individual -- not in the case of major depression, which is a different thing altogether), could be a symptom not of a "disease" but rather a natural reaction to living in an environment that is toxic to him or her.

In such an environment, it is perfectly natural for this individual to lose all drive, feel "worthless", and even break down mentally.

The links between chronic stress and depression are well known. Robert Sapolsky has a great lecture on the biology of depression: https://youtu.be/NOAgplgTxfc

(tl;dw: major depression physiologically looks very little like "sadness" and a hell of a lot like chronic stress (an over-active stress response) and does indeed fit the profile of a biological disease, often caused by early trauma.

My question here is: have we built societies that are inherently traumatizing to individuals with particular behavioral phenotypes? Looking elsewhere, at societies and subcultures where these "disorders" are not as common or as debilitating to me suggests that there is at least some truth to this.)
Looks interesting - their demo shots show it running Windows 10, but the pricing shows Windows 7. Which does it run? Or some other OS?
John von Neumann's First Pseudorandom Number Generator
The Culture books pretty much define the best case scenario for an AI run society - the main control on the godlike-AIs (the Minds) running everything being the opinions of their fellow Minds. Get it wrong, e.g. by fiddling with the minds of meat beasties, and you get ostracized - which is about the most severe punishment the Culture has:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCU_Grey_Area
What makes you think they are lying?
Our view on the downsides of technology might be biased because we are (often, unless you're a moderator or a victim) sheltered from them[1].
[1] http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/13/11387934/internet-moderato...
Edit: grammar
Vladimirovich is not a second name, it's patronymic (name of his father)
Erectile dysfunction and divorce in pre-revolutionary France
There are tcp-tunnel solutions that use redundant sessions, sometimes even replicated proxies. This is one of them but YMMV. http://blog.ine.com/2008/11/06/ipsec-vpn-high-availability-w...
Create a new, different jobs program that will hire all the ex-TSA workers AND show how keeping it around will only cost money and negatively impact the economy (both local and national), so politicians won't have an incentive to keep it alive.

So become a lobbyist, basically.
> Every company tries to control its developers’ actions, but does management really know what goes into the software?

This is backwards, developers do what management allows. If management cares to know what goes in the software, they will know. There are ways to know. Whether business people want to pay for that is a different matter. Of course they don't, for this precise reason- so they can throw up their hands and say, "those darn developers!"
Find a politician who promises to get rid of the TSA and vote for them. And encourage everyone you know to vote for them. And write checks.
This is total FUD. (EDIT ND: because thoses lines of code are already out of every discussions to be held in the current retrial, they are already ruled out the only remaining question is fair use)

This trial should now be entirely focused about wether Google "stole" the API SSO under a fair use exception and shall be relieved.

The preceding phases of this case already determined that:
-thoses a nines lines are not significant
-Google used API SSO without consent of Sun/Oracle and without any license
-API SSO of Java are indeed copyrightable (this was ruled in appeal and confirmed by the Supreme Court)

This retrial is only happening because judge Aslup did a half baked first trial and the appeal court returned him the case after invalidating his bad ruling about non-copyrightability of API.

For thoses who seek deep insights about this case, take a look at Florian Mueller's blog:
http://www.fosspatents.com

He pretty accurately predict the reversal of the first ruling against the opinion of many mainstream analysts. And he frequently publish link to public court documents so you can make up you mind by yourself.

EDIT: If you downvote please argument, otherwise it's very suspicious. I'm totally open to discussion but I can't fight against a hidden lobbyst activity that systmatically downvote diverging views.

EDIT2: I edited the first sentence to be more explicative. I've seen I got some upvote, but silent bashing seems to continue. Again, please argument!

I don't get why the name of this blogger unleash so much passions while he actually always publish documents and link to actual rulings. Yes he clearly don't write as elegantly as some, and yes he's by now pretty opinionated but why such much hate?
A bit under $35,000 for the year.
Looks like it's going to happen. More and more government agencies are thinking about it, and airports are starting to get angry themselves.
They do benefit from visually distinct characters. They've been optimized for thousands of years and the ones that were hard to recognize morphed or were dropped. That's why recognizing radicals is just a clue rather than a rigid system (similar to how English spelling works).

In the case of brahmic scripts (disclaimer: I only learned the Marathi alphabet as a child) you don't "read" the characters any more than you do in English, but rather look at the word shapes.

There is continual evolution: in high school we studied Greek with word spacing just like modern English; I was shocked at hard it was to read original inscriptions without word spacing (and some old texts that were boustrophedon). I also thought it would be really hard to read German highway signs, but after a while (less than a year) I started to automatically break the compounds into meaningful chunks while zooming down the road.

We have an end result of a process of: consistent writing direction > spacing > punctuation > increased discrimination of letterforms (introduction of the minuscule) > regularization of spelling

Typography matters in all these languages. It's not just letterforms: word and sentence spacing varies among English, French and Russian, for instance.

Reading really exploits some deep structures in the brain. Articles like these, to me, implicitly say more about neurology than culture.
I suppose that depends on whether you are interested in developing an informed opinion about, among other things, whether we should preserve or destroy remaining stocks of smallpox virus. If not, then no, it probably will not be useful. But that probably also means you are reading and commenting in the wrong thread.
Note that I'm not advocating bind over lambda. I'm saying that one shouldn't expect a boost in performance when switching from std::bind to lambda. Switching from std::function to a templatized "Callable" could give a boost in performance, but like I said, that's orthogonal to how the callable was created.

There really is quite a difference between what std::bind returns and a type-erasing class like std::function. For the latter, the type erasure may result in a virtual call that the optimizer has a hard time seeing through.

In practice, compilers are pretty good at optimizing bind. Here are some examples where lambda and bind generate identical code: https://godbolt.org/g/dQCSeG
Ithaca
Unless you're paranoid, you can just add a single file named "LICENSE" at the root of your project.
Generally speaking the difference is in the client you connect to the system with. Most "VDI" solutions deal extremely well with latency/packet loss. A standard VNC connection... not so much. If you're just using a CLI it probably is a wash, but for a GUI there's a pretty big difference.
UCLA PhD candidate, 26 and homeless
We have been working on solving similar problems. Isomorphic rendering was very important to our needs, as was rails like generators. What started as an experiment has actually turned into a really amazing tool. If anyone is interested, in a more full stack solution, check out https://github.com/TrueCar/gluestick
My first thought was to make a tiny cheap RNG chip using ~4 different really cheap TRNG sources (diodes, etc) with this as a mixer, for embedded systems (routers and similar).

It doesn't matter if a few turn out unreliable, predictable or if they malfunction, you just need those first few hundred bits to seed your system CSPRNG with.
Has anyone actually been able to use the API?
Several people (including myself) have applied and never hear a word back. All experienced ASR hands. Curious to know if anyone has been accepted.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/06/reassessing_a...
Indeed.[1]

There's definitely a trade-off between on-boarding new programmers and teaching good software engineering practices. I think that programming language mind-share is so overvalued at this point that to some degree we are shooting ourselves in the foot. There's some point at which the number of new users you can get based on how easy your language is to learn and the average quality of the software produced in that language are at an equilibrium[2], and I think we've seen a few languages which have blown straight past that equilibrium.

1: As I suspect most Perl programmers feel when they've had to spend time writing PHP, the event can be infuriating. Here's a language that purported to take a lot of ideas from Perl, and all you can conclude is they took all the wrong things.

2: Obviously affected by other language traits as well. I think Python keeps a higher average of quality than you would think likely though strict dogmatism, so that works well for them, even if it doesn't attract me.
Anti-Reddit Platform Imzy Partners with Lena Dunham
Seat width, leg room, baggage limits, noise levels, air temperature, Internet connectivity(cell data vs airplane wifi) and the fact that you're exposed to numerous strangers at risk to your health are all factors that make an individual autonomous car more attractive than an airplane. Airlines will need to do a lot of adapting if they don't want to lose the market for shorter distance travel.
There are no patronymics in Russian passports at least, not sure about Ukrainian. But even if they are, it would be Igorevich 100%. And it's always written on American visas as in national passport.
Christos Papadimitriou
Stick a fork in ’em: Windows Phones are done
Recompiling tetris with BIGMEM option now...
Building a CNC machine
I think we see the early growing pains of a new ecosystem.

React is great and a fantastic tool but by making it "just the 'V'" it opened up a lot of options and complexity in the ecosystem and Redux/Reflux/Flux/Relay each are trying to fill in the missing pieces. And yes it's hard to figure out and painful even for seasoned vets. But its getting better, the community seems to be settling on Redux for the most part over Flux/Reflux (Relay tries to solve a different problem).

NodeJS web development is kind of in the same boat. There's still no clear "winner" in the framework wars there like Django/Rails. I don't know why these trends seem to be magnified in the JavaScript ecosystem but it's similar to the early days of Java web development in the late 90s early 00s (Struts anyone?).
It's pretty nice but almost looks stringy to me.

I'm extremely used to Dejavu Sans Mono for both terminal and code usage. Every time I try to switch to something else I wind up going back.
This is some impressive astroturfing right here.
You even got in a link to a guy paid by oracle to comment on the case!
If this happens on a regular basis and people find out about it, people will stop going to the hospital to give birth, raising the rate of mortality and complications for infants and mothers.

Anyone who has a basic understanding of Bayes' Theorem can tell you that testing all new mothers for X (where X is relatively rare among new mothers) will lead to a large number of false positives even if the test has high specificity and sensitivity, simply because the prior probability for X is so low.
Pump and dump is an option, so that mom keeps lactating, but not foolproof. The baby needs to learn how to latch on and if they are given a bottle for 2 weeks will likely refuse to breastfeed (e.g. baby turns into a frustrated screaming terror while mom sobs). But the more important point is the emotional and hormonal impact of breastfeeding on the mom, and health benefits of breastfeeding for the baby.

Breastfeeding is monumentally important for some mothers. Mom has every right to insist on breastfeeding even in the face of a test she knows to be a false positive.
First you should think about what you actually want to build, then determine which features would benefit that type of application, from there you can consider the available tooling that facilitates the development of those features.

The fact that you are overwhelmed by the "start from scratch" approach makes me think you are falling into the common front-end pitfall of reaching for popular tools that you don't necessarily need (yet). These tools should be the answer to specific problems, instead of being problems that need an answer for why you should be using them.

If you find that you can't extract useful information from tutorials that don't match your exact stack, then its probably the case that you're taking on too much and don't really understand the context for why these tools were developed in the first place. You should learn to walk before you delve into the technical intricacies of augmenting your gait with a fusion powered exoskeleton.
Real programmers was the funniest shit I've read in a while. Even had jokes embedded in the references like the Lucasfilms one. I needed that laugh. :)
This is from Netflix, it downloads Netflix content and reports the speed back.

This is important because unlike your average Internet speed test (which ISPs take pains to optimize), there's a very real possibility that your ISP is happy to let your Netflix experience suffer - assuming they don't throttle it outright - as previously mentioned on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7183682

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7853603
He's not my style in the least but in referencing mainstream he's about as big as you can get without mentioning another Canadian who frequently tops the charts, just gotta point that out. I do think Houston's rep though is kind of frozen in the past, in that I agree there's not a lot of newcomers (from what I can tell) going to the top via Houston. Latest big name from Texas I can see is Post Malone and he reps 214.
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This argument always feels like "It's not a Pyramid Scheme! It's a Triangle Opportunity!"

People use the term not because it is an exact fit, but because it is the closest match we have and the intention is largely the same.

HFT being a lot about using computers to gain tiny information advantages (racing the speed of light between exchanges for example) to make perfectly safe arbitrages millions of times a day and effectively skim off of the top of the market.
Please don't give them ideas. I like relaxed train rides and would hate having to go through the intrusive time waste and annoyance anytime I step foot on a train station. I don't like flying because there are so many annoyances these days. The money grab is another problem. I cannot bring fluids through security but I can buy as many bottles of liquor and alcoholised fluids as I want before boarding. I'm surprised nobody sued to change that.
Well, thats what light rail and cars are for. I mean, how are you getting to this proposed hyperloop station? Same way.
This article is from 2012 and is very outdated. The "famous 9 lines" are not being contested anymore. Google lost that case. The current trial is about whether Google's copyright infringement constituted "fair use".
In my opinion, the TSA is basically a very expensive jobs program rather than an actual security organization. This is a big part of why it's going to be hard to get rid of now. According to Wikipedia, the TSA employs over 55,000 people, many of whom would probably have difficulty getting a similar level job if we reverted to a more sane security screening program. Anything that kills thousands of government jobs is hard to get through Congress, even if it's unpopular with the public.
Exactly! This is a really cool domain. Would be great for a delivery/mailing service :)
~25$/day. I have 10 wordpress websites on various niche topics that get a range of traffic. I'm not worried about ad blocking. Most of my sites are on topics for non-technical people who generally don't run them.
Preventing abuse is a big problem for every PaaS with a free plan.

It's probably a step toward making all free accounts require identity verification.
There are lots of business who fly folks around in a fairly casual way. I have to wonder how much of it is now excessive and un-needed.
The evolution of Artificial Intelligence, from science fiction to reality
Russian user here. Yes, that's weird. I would expect something like Maxim Igorevich Popov.
Under $35k per year AFTER you've paid the $98k up-front cost for a reserved instance. The blog post shows pricing for reserved instances. Hourly price is $13.338 without up-front payment.
Expensive, but still nice to have this available as an option for niche scenarios that need all that RAM.
> A pet peeve of mine is that libraries often don't document what thread a piece of code will run on. What's wrong with you people? ... Similarly, when is something blocking and when is it non-blocking?

Totally agreed about blocking calls, if something's blocking and doesn't say so: boo. Usually boo if something's blocking at all, but I'm sure it depends.

Threading ... is documenting "what thread code will run on" talking mainly whether the callback could happen on a different thread than the caller? Or is there some more specific language or context here?
There are two real-world problems hardware RNGs can solve, as far as I can tell:

1. They can give userland programs direct access to a permanently "seeded" source of entropy, so that you don't have to route requests through the kernel.

2. They solve the cold-start entropy problem for embedded systems that can't easily generate sufficient entropy within milliseconds of initialization.

The former problem is only solved if the HWRNG is part of the ISA for the platform. If you have to pull it from a device, you might as well just pull it from urandom or getrandom().

Other than that, we're not really dealing with problems real security software has. People don't break cryptosystems by attacking the quality of entropy extraction from interrupts and whatnot. I have the same reaction to proposals on LKML about improving the entropy inputs to the LRNG. I mean, great, knock yourself out. But that's not solving a problem systems programmers actually have.
IIRC that's not a whole lot more than i2.8xl, which has 1/8 of the RAM. But anyway, most likely this will probably be used for on demand "Small Data" type jobs that will benefit from running on a single machine.
I'm listening to this blast from my past: https://archive.org/download/Kool_DJ_Red_Alert_-_Radio_Mix_9...

Even has Scott La Rock up front...
That is your description of a cultural environment where someone with depression thrives? It kind of seems like you dodged the question. I am interested to hear how someone can thrive when they cant manage to get out of bed.
I'm not sure why that was downvoted. It's a reasonable assertion.
In my personal experience what slows it all down the most is the actual people flying. Every time I fly I see countless people wearing tons of metal/jewelry/belts/whatever that they have to take off, often not till they are told to do so, the laptap is tucked far away until last moment. They still carry all sorts of lotions and liquids on for some unknown reason. When they then exit the scan they clog up the line by standing right there trying to put everything back on or away.
New .blog TLD announced
Sorry, I meant the cardboard advertisements for the dealership.
… also one of the forthcoming Clang projects is a static-analysis tool (á la `clang-format`) for replacing any `auto` decls with the actual typename, so you can write lazy code without appearing unscrupulous at code reviews
I don't understand your point about money. Airline costs are the lowest they've ever been, and like the other comment said, from business/first revenue airlines are making plenty of money.

I also don't really see a reason to stop flying. There's nothing wrong with flying itself--if we simply fix the issue with the TSA it'll be as good as it ever was. And it looks like it finally might change, based on what people are saying and articles like these.
Pretty sure that the only reason they copied that code was that they didn't know how to do it themselves.
All the technology to do this already exists. I have speech-to-text on my Pebble watch -- it goes up to a server, is processed, and is returned all relatively quickly. So you combine that with text translation tools that have existed for years and then text-to-speech.

I'm sure it's really just a specialized bluetooth headset, an app, and bunch of cloud services purchased from other vendors.
This is not correct. You can still auto format just fine. It won't change indentation obviously, since that would change the meaning of the program. What problems do you have in mind?

I'm also very skeptical that they make sharing code difficult. Any indentation issues will be readily apparent in a compiled language.[1] Plus I doubt this is a serious issue in the first place. And certainly it doesn't outweigh the massive gain in the main activity: reading and writing code.

1: Sure there's always a few counter examples. But in general this isn't an issue. Just like inferring function types. It's rare to have a true mistake end up changing things but simultaneously compile fine.
I think perhaps a lot of it is also simple misunderstanding. People don't realize that publishing something is not the same as licensing it.
Is that consistent with the first condition in the function? This function accepts fromIndex == arrayLen if toIndex == arrayLen. Of course, there may be a precondition that rules it out, or it might be an acceptable postcondition.
The problem with the "there have been zero successful terrorist attack on aircraft in the U.S. since 9-11." statement is they use that for their advantage. They say that because of them this is a fact. Ugh.