skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks interesting, but the title is misleading. First, they will launch the satellite in July, and after that they still have to test and prove that it works as intended. So they haven't won yet ...

Another detail is that I guess that this is only an experimental device to test the design and do some research, not something that can be applied (for example by spies or banks). Does anyone have a link with more technical details?
...I actually think it was done on purpose, as an aesthetic choice.

God, I hope I'm right. If that's how it really looks, it's terrible.

It just seems like the full image ARRIVES very early in the flashing process, and there are only minor details still arriving during all of the flashing.
My perspective is this won't have a chilling effect on real journalism.

This, to me, simply re-iterates the ingrained expectations of conduct that journalism attempts to envelop and embrace as a profession. There are newsworthy stories, and there is muck raking. They are different, and on completely different ends of the integrity scale. Personally I like that the courts are a venue for recourse when there is perceived harm; sure, things could be improved mechanics wise but at least there's an attempt at "checks and balances" the way laws are written.
If it is the same pool, you can just do a clone. Send/recv is completely unnecessary there.

As for flushing the database first, it is unnecessary as long as the database is ACID compliant. If you use MySQL, you will probably want to freeze and flush the database first to be absolutely certain of safety. DDL statements and a few minor other things in MySQL are known not to be ACID compliant.
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I'm afraid that I don't remember much after all this time but MS was of course lying through its collective teeth.

I didn't write this, but it matches what I saw close up:
http://jimbojones.livejournal.com/23143.html
So basically, DDH has #TIGERBLOOD and is #WINNING ?
According to the upgrade guide (https://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/3.0/#browser-support), jQuery 3 still supports IE 9+, not 11+.
The same company that fired all their IT people, after forcing them to train their offshore replacements, has a hard time turning a profit on quality software? Color me flabbergasted.
I believe that SoftNAS is able to do that when Windows is using Samba shares hosted on ZFS.
Hi, what PR disaster are you talking about?
It's €650 I believe. Specs are much better than Sony DP plus it runs Android so you can get apps from the app store. I thought it was 300dpi but just read a bit more and I think it's actualy 207dpi.

There are people who got devices in the preorder discussing it here: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=267140&pag...

There's also a few videos on Youtube, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glXRWQJOclI

*Edit: €585 before tax, €696 incl tax: http://ereader-store.de/en/28-13-3-display
I don't. I don't even have an account password for my windows machine. I want whoever has my laptop to have access to my PC so he can use it - in the hope that I will gather enough information about him and I will track him down to recover my laptop.

If the pc is fully encrypted, they'll have to erase the HDD and the programs I installed will be gone along with my chances of ever recovering it. On the other hand, I adopted the same behavior for my linux laptop and I'm not sure it's wise, the chances of someone continuing to use it are slim at best.
You want to be able to communicate intent to clients of the function, especially with static tooling to check for common errors. For example:

https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/blob/HHVM-3.13/hphp/hack/te...

... has an obvious code smell detectable statically:

https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/blob/HHVM-3.13/hphp/hack/te...
truth, thats how google does it
Congrats to the team for expanding their platform support. I'm still interested to see what sync looks like.

If you are interested in mobile databases, you'd do well to evaluate Cocuhbase Mobile, which is 100% open source, available for most mobile platforms, and includes bulletproof synchronization with its open source secure cloud server.

More info here http://developer.couchbase.com/mobile/
Funny, I'd actually want that feature in my phone (S7). It could easily turn Google Now into single-room Echo alternative. Without it, Google Now's voice features are pretty useless - if I have the phone unlocked and in my hands, I may as well type what I want and get to it faster.
I know of the first two examples you gave, but disagree that they're evidence of Apple not being interested in user privacy.

Let's not hijack this thread to talk about Apple's security record.
There's so much wrong with the above.

To pick a quick one: "query language which was designed to run on both single-machines and distributed infrastructure". Mongo has no fewer than THREE query syntaxes: standard, map-reduce[1], and the aggregate pipeline.

'homogeneous', lol.

[1] which even Mongo employees recommend people avoid like the plague https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mongodb-frankenstein-monster-...
Is your street on OpenStreetMap? As I understand it, Apple takes OSM data, so if it's not currently on OpenStreetMap, you could add it.
I don't think this is telco-specific...
Ah, decentralisation! :)
How does that work if the APK is huge (or bigger than a couple of megs at least)? That doesn't seem very "instant" to me...

Is the APK re-arranged perhaps so it can, in effect, "progressively" download the app as required?
Have you looked at building your own CDN? I've built several for clients over the years. It's not difficult and it's definitely a good investment in your case.
This happened multiple times to me in the past as well. Most likely the other person searched for my name on FB causing FB to recommend the searcher as friend to me (LinkedIn uses the same technique). Location data sounds strange, that'd mean FB would constantly recommend other people sitting in the same restaurant etc.
VP Product at Realm here. Thanks to everyone on HN for the support over the years! We came out of YC in Summer 11 and it’s been a fantastic ride growing over the past few years. Would love to hear y’alls thoughts on what we should add next. Is there any reason why you’d still use SQLite?
They're opening a facility in India for Maps specifically (probably in preparation for the car)to do the the ops work necessary for good maps.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2016/05/19Apple-Opens-Develo...
Ditto here, though we hired a nanny the last 6 months before school-age since a good job opportunity came up for my wife. Now it seems he income just goes to pay taxes.
Don’t think big. Pick a small topic for your creative project.
Since we're talking about Ubuntu, I would use the Ubuntu tools. They make it very easy to maintain several Postgres clusters side-by-side, e.g. /var/lib/postgresql/9.4/main vs /var/lib/postgresql/9.5/main. You can also control which binaries you use with the PGCLUSTER variable, like this:

PGCLUSTER=9.4/main pg_dump foo
PGCLUSTER=9.5/main pg_dump foo
Social media is vastly overrated as a "recent invention," imo. Facebook is basically a copy of MySpace and livejournal which are copies of AOL (instant messaging, profiles, and all). Blogs and microblogs (e.g. twitter) are a nice addition that appeared in the early 2000s, but even they're just a slight reformatting of BBS and forums. Most of this predates the WWW, in some format or another.

Things have definitely evolved a lot, but as far as "social media" (reminds me how much I hated that term when they first started using it, when the basic profile + messaging concept had been around over a decade) goes, it's more like comparing a Tesla to a Model T, rather than a whole new type of technology.
Realm's team, congrats for the good work.
First Look at Uber's Self Driving Car
You can't run an ad blocker in a native app.
You're right although most developers are going to get it either pre-built from here https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ios/ and add it manually to their project or via Cocoapods (also pre-built I believe)
It doesn't cause less demand. Demand should stay constant. It may even rise because the price drops and more people can now afford to buy the product.
Security chatbot startup Demisto comes out of stealth with $6M
It was a dead branch in the evolution of Sega Channel relating to XBAND. I felt like I had to enter the Witness Protection Program soon after. :)
I feel like this would have translated better as a videogame
Scientists have figured out exactly how much fun it is to get drunk
Yeah, I found the lack of discussion about possible causes by modifying atomic physics rather than go directly to new particles disappointing. Maybe there is a good reason to trust that standard theory cannot be modified to introduce bumps in the angular distribution, but I think it really should be mentioned in that case.

Honestly, this gives a very hep-th impression: "An anomaly! we solve it by adding an X-particle with properties that magically explain the anomaly. Hurray!"

Its actually in hep-ph though, which I guess shows that I'm out of touch : / Anyway, exploit hunters have there uses too I guess.
I've been trying Realm for Xamarin recently and I've got to say I'm pretty disappointed with it, compared to my previous experiences with EF.

My complaints are as follows:

- No enum support

- No inheritance support

- Many LINQ operations aren't implemented, no select, no aggregate, etc. I have to do a ToList or ToArray to use these operations.

And that was just what came up in the first day of usage...

Why would I use Realm if EF7 gets SQLite Code First+Xamarin support and can do all of these things? Sure, it's faster, but faster doesn't matter if I'm not speed critical on my DB (most mobile apps aren't) and I can write cleaner code. It might be better than manually writing SQL queries, but it's a lot worse than existing ORM solutions.
Es2020 – because in hindsight we don't need most of ES6
Belgium says : deal with it, you hoopy froop.

French : Fait comme, espece de heuapy freaup.

Nederlands : U bent een froopy hoop.

Long live the King - Long live Belgium.

I'm sorry : I'm talking complete bollocks. It is friday night.+
I believe that the code phrase is "Not even wrong" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong]
Normally your cynicism would lead me to downvote you, but in this case i can't do anything but agree. I see this as the main reason.
You're right. That's what I haven't considered! Something like an offset printing press. You can do all four (or more) layers with only one machine/press, but most machines have 4 layers/presses inside them in order to expedite production.
Well, they say that it will support most pay-as-you go plans and such, so I would expect it would. Haven't seen official confirmation though.
> I think this is big step back in privacy.

s/privacy/surveillance
Is it really that hard to understand success? Right person at the right place at the right time. Seriously, it's a very old idea.
Add "environment" and we may have something here. After all, ones own determination and attitudes are significantly influenced by environment.

A long article was very recently posted either here or on reddit - was it the Washington Post? Don't remember unfortunately - about mass murderers. It looked at the actual research and tried to dispel myths like "they are all mentally ill, so if we just fix health care for mental illness to discover such people early we can solve much of the problem". The actual statistics showed that less than 10% of mass murderers (I think that was "more than two") had a treatable mental illness. Turned out that the major determining factor instead was "environment". Of course, individual factors such as certain personality traits play a role - but they are the same ones that can be found in successful people (it helps to be "full of yourself" and not dwell too much on what other people think, unless it's important for your own success). Whether such traits make you a murderer depends on your environment much more so than anything else.

And here we get to "luck": Environment is a lot of luck, the initial settings matter most of all (the womb you crawled out of). Environment can greatly enhance - or dampen - whatever you inherited genetically. Who will do better, an Einstein born in a favela of Rio de Janeiro surrounded by gangs, or an average guy born to wealthy parents? Example: G.W Bush... Those are extreme examples, but even if you only look at relatively equal American middle class examples, but one ends up in a group of peers mostly interested in girls and booze, the other one in a group of kids with more academic parents and more interest in learning than party will be influenced by the group.
I really don't think the article was seriously suggesting what you think it was; showing similarities between different types of tools (usually a more familiar one and a less familiar one) is meant to be illustrative
A decent review of the events: "The Data That Threatened to Break Physics"

http://nautil.us/issue/24/error/the-data-that-threatened-to-...
I'm aware of that, yet I still consider it not working well in any other medium. Just my opinion.
Is it discounting talent that results in success? Or is it success results in discounting talent?

Or a third (overlapping) possibility: Maybe believing in hard work results in "success", but only for a fraction of people. Is the expected value of the belief necessarily positive?

Ie, take a simplified hypothetical universe where "success" is a binary possibility, with "utility" of 1, and where "hard work" is something that requires a utility investment of -0.1. Even if only those who choose "hard work" become successful regardless of talent or resources, if P("success"|"hard work" && $some_level_of_talent && $some_level_of_prior_resources) < 0.1, then it's still can be suboptimal to pursue "hard work" for the subset of the population with $some_level_of_talent and $some_level_of_prior_resources.
I couldn't agree more. I'm just back from 6 months travel around South America. The OSMAnd+ app for Android was invaluable. Complete offline maps (and Wikipedia content) for every country. The information was usually up to date. It was extremely simple to create an account and start contributing back.

So yes, love OSM, will probably hardly use Google Maps from now on.
That's a micro-optimisation that's absolutely worthless. Even if you do pay the cost of indexing an array every single time, that's just a single instruction to fetch the address. The compiler is absolutely capable of caching the indexing for you, either in a register or on the stack, if it deems it worthwhile.

One reason you might want to use a separate variable would be to prevent indexing mistakes, like using i instead of k by mistake in a context where i is a nested loop's counter. But apart from this and other "to make it easier on the human" reasons, there's no point in caching that in a variable. Now, if you were writing Python on the other hand...
Because they'll log the data of who logs into what, when, then sell it.

So you want your adwords for a new website called "frameworkoftheweek.com" (which surprisingly is not registered at this instant) to only appear to people who log into HN at least once per week because they'd be the ideal target market. And google says "OK we can do that".

Or you own a local supermarket and you want your adwords for "cucumbers on sale" or whatever to appear ONLY to people to log into your local hometown newspaper, because they almost certainly live there. Heck why not try the logical union operation of the local hometown newspaper, every small local bank and credit union, anything else that's local and has an account system.

In a way I'm not bothered. 99% of ads are useless to me so I block them. These ads might actually be useful to me. Ads that don't suck are an interesting thing to think about. Of course we've been promised that everything from the blink tag to popups was the magic bullet that would make ads not suck, yet they sucked anyway.
TL;DR: UK researchers studying the data coming from the Mappiness mood tracking app found a 10.79 well-being boost (on a 0-100 scale), reduced to 4 points after trying to control for all other variables[0]

[0] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953616...
It seems to me like that you could have the causality of that correlation reversed. People that don't have "talent" may consistently underperform those who do despite working hard and trying their best, causing them to realize that "talent" is an important factor.
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> I'll take reliability & stability over fancy features any day

That is why people use ZFS and OpenZFS, they are battle tested and very mature.
Here's the thing about pro sports. There are less than 500 people who play professional basketball. The distribution of basketball playing skill is logarithmic, so there might be 5,000 people with 90% of the skill of pro players, 50,000 people with 80% of the skill, etc. As a result, even if the total difference in skill resulting from talent is small, because the number of people who play basketball is so large and the number of pro players is so small, the pro ranks are going to be filled with only the most talented people.

Does that mean just because you're not naturally talented that you can't become a phenomenal basketball player? No, unless you're really short/unathletic, with enough hard work and intelligence you can probably achieve the 90% of pro skill level, which is still really freaking good. Unfortunately, most people are more motivated by the desire to be pro than the love of playing basketball, so when they are eclipsed by more talented people (a good sign you aren't going to be able to go pro) they give up and do something else.

The good news is that in most areas of life, all that matters is how good you are, and there isn't some artificially cutoff goodness below which your skill is pointless and wasted. For this reason the professional sports analogy is usually unnecessarily demotivating.
I don't think you can use ZFS as a boot volume on Macs (and only on Linux with caveats).
Exactly.

The legal situation of Google's use of Java APIs was always a tiny bit murky, but it was super-clear-cut compared to the use of ZFS-on-Linux.
This isn't correct. rkt does a VM per pod.
Good to hear. Would you mind messaging me your email over on Reddit? https://www.reddit.com/user/ezekg/ – we should be doing a beta in a few weeks, so I'll send out updates and beta-licenses then. Sorry that I don't have an email campaign or anything set up yet.
I've been working with virtual machines in production and development for well over a decade now and a lot of what works via ZFS in this article works very similarly to how it would work we used AWS or VMware style snapshots. In fact, ZFS snapshots are only so helpful if you make complicated changes across multiple ZFS volumes, for example, that require some more transactional style rollbacks. In such scenarios, it may be easier to just perform an instance-level rollback.

One problem that didn't really occur to me before I became more ops-side was that administrators would want to heavily restrict / remove users' (read: developers and even other sysadmins) abilities to create snapshots in the first place. Why would you remove self-service temporary backups and avoid a lot of backup restoration requests? I didn't realize that other engineers could be careless and keep dozens or even hundreds of snapshots over time that gobble up expensive storage resources (SANs are not cheap regardless of manufacturer) and slow down I/O transactions over time. That was why so many of my customers deploying stuff like VMware Lab Manager and vCloud Director demanded the ability to remove access to snapshot features.

As a result of the typical usage where user abuse of a very powerful feature threw things for a loop, the typical organizational structure and siloization of these environments means that nowadays SAN-side LUN snapshots are used more often than from the VM layer (the same administrators that manage VMware environments typically have rights to the SANs). Using ZFS like this is a developer-side reaction to me, but duplication of trying to solve the same problem when technical solutions have existed and are viable is exasperating.
No. Where did you get that number from?

California has 53 representatives for 38.8 million people or 1 per 730,000 people. Wyoming has 1 representative for 584,000 people. So Wyoming is over-represented in the House as well.
Does Siri believe in God?
Anyone here think that a "ZFS in the cloud" that anyone could inexpensively export a ZFS snapshot (or volume) to would potentially be a business model (offsite backups, etc.)?
If you have been following the case, Google switched from Apache Harmony to OpenJDK saying that Oracle had no basis for claims against future versions because the code is now under license from Oracle. The original ZFS code has always been under the CDDL from Sun and later Oracle. The ZoL code is derived from that, so it should be in the same situation where Oracle cannot make claims against their own licensee.
As always biometrics are more secure usernames, not passwords.
I guess it depends on your frame of mind. When I first read it as a young man I just found it mildly amusing, and wondered what all the fuss was about. Didn't bother reading beyond the first book. But years later I read it out loud to my 11-year olds, and we were all in hysterics - they demanded the whole series.
I honestly cannot wait until these plane designs become more available .. electric flight would be my preferred way of getting around.
Yes. I've been using Realm for my work app. In my opinion it's easier than Core Data, and certainly much easier than bare SQLite.

I've expected it to cross 1.0 after 0.99 but it keeps going on to more than 0.101. So, congrats on finishing the milestone.

One request though: what about grouping functionality?
I used to teach programming to students and really enjoyed that novice people learn how to program. But when I read things such as how someone got a high paying programming job with only 5 months of learning, I can't stop thinking about an old saying in the stock markets that goes something like "when your taxi driver starts giving you tips on which stocks to buy, sell it all and leave the stock market asap"..

I don't know if it is me and I'm too stupid that I've done 12 of higher level studies (5 BSc + 2 MSc + 5 PhD) when 5 months were enough, or if I'm targeting the wrong subfield. If we look carefully, all this "boom" with shitty software practices and instability is on web development and front end tools, and this is what most of these "5 month" learners are targeting. Similarly to the taxi driver above, I guess I should leave the web development job market asap..
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I just want to add that tragedy of the commons is NOT most certainly true. It is if 'people could just take as they please', but that is not what people are asking for, and not what happens in practice.

I will refer the following article to show how tragedy of the commons did not happen in common land in the last couple of centuries:

http://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/short-history-enc...
If you're into React Native, check out Realm. Great experience for me so far.
It is better to do a clone and do experiments on that before doing anything to the production copy.
Well.. I get the funny side of the comparison , they're two different things..
Thinking the same thing regarding privacy.

I'm all for getting rid of passwords, but the idea of Google (and other service providers) keeping that much information on me would definitely push me to getting rid of smartphone. Yes, I know that Google, Facebook, etc. already know a lot about me. But I still have some control over it. And a lot of it are things that I can and do change over time (what they knew about me 5 years ago doesn't necessarily reflect who I am now).
Devonshire Research Group's Tesla Report Part II [pdf]
Some of the UB is for 'unusual' CPU's that existed long ago.