skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VNC is a protocol, of which some implementations are GPL, others not. This looks like a new implementation of the server side.
Maybe more accurately, bones subject to survivable progressively more intense stresses are stronger. It would be like an autoscaling algorithm under increasing loads (not delta function loads).
Ohhhh shiiit! I think I might put in an application! Just have this surge of interest in improving PowerPoints suddenly. Haha.
Writing property-based tests will incentivize you to think about those things too, and it they will actually exercise your code more strenuously across a wide spectrum of inputs and corner cases.

Unit tests seem mostly worthwhile as documentation or tutorial for how to use something or for what something is "supposed to" do. But as validation of completeness, correctness, or coverage of your design and implementation... they fall extremely short and leave a lot to be desired.

In either case, if software quality and reliability actually matters to your problem domain, then mutation testing should be considered an absolute prerequisite to any kind of testing method (unit, property-based, integration, etc.) otherwise you have almost no way to measure the quality of your tests.
There's also JTRIG https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

OEV https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-op...

And my favorite psyOps which is Military Memetics/Memetic Engineering only because there's a guy in the US Army in charge of 'Meme Warfare'. As for this community bikeshedding distractions and somebody coming along with bait to derail a conversation with illogical fallacies (trolling) isn't anything new happened on newsgroups since as long as I can remember.
I think this is more about tools than process. Specifically tools to assess fragility (bad dependency patterns). You cam only manage what you can measure.
What about China? Does the great firewall also MITM the requests?
My understanding of evolution was that it wouldn't necessarily give you the best possible set of "features", only ones that aren't disadvantageous enough to put you out of the race.
Pastejacking is an interesting new exploit that was discussed last week on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11757973

I took a crack at creating a patch in the form of an extension since I’ve created some similar extensions before (Adblock Fast, Disconnect, Facebook Disconnect). The extension works by providing a small shim to override exploitable JS methods on the webpages you go to.

You can install Hardened Paste for Chrome from the Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hardened-paste/gie...

An Opera port is in review and, if there’s interest, we can also port the extension to Firefox and Safari.
Gamers' Void
Because evolution is random, and not directed. 10x efficiency is what you get when you really have a designer.
Earth as a prototype of celestial software product management (satire)
Think `sudo apt-get install [tensorflow|caffe|theano|caffe|brainstorm...]`.

This is a welcome addition to Debian and derivatives like Ubuntu.
Despite your concern, however valid, it did not deter the female author of the paper.

Honestly, anyone who is offended by the identification of this paper by a common related phrase, probably does not have a career in science or software that somebody didn't give them out of pity.
Yes, there are numerous incidents.
Interesting that you use the term 'cannibalistic tribesmen'. Generally 'uncivilised' tribes have a much more cohesive, collaborative society than the townspeople you hold up as your ideal. Perhaps that suggests there are lessons we can learn from them about how to live with others.
SanFrancisco.GayFriendly != Great???
> The Swank diet in particular, has kept people alive with the disease for 34 years.

It's not an achievement to keep people with MS alive.
People with MS have an average life expectancy that is very close to that of healthy people (literature varies between a couple of months http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1069023/ and several years, with 7 being the highest that I've seen http://www.nationalmssociety.org/What-is-MS/MS-FAQ-s). It's the quality of life that sucks for MS patients.

Uninformed statements like these make you sound even more snake oily than you already sound.
I didn't downvote you, but your comment doesn't add anything to the public conversation, it just clutters it. Just click the upvote button next time.
"Yet another news piece misrepresenting french work customs"

I mean, anglo-saxon newspieces predicting the end of France and its economic doom have been commonplace for so long that one could believe that France is the modern-time Prometheus, with its economy magically regenerating only to be shredded the next day as a divine punishment.

As for the law, it merely requires for companies larger than a given size to publish a chart on off-hours digital communications. It's not legally binding, and it's most likely not going to change the way people work.
Web Project Management: Analytics and Data
>But if hydrogen from the leaf can combine with CO2 to make alcohol fuel, the fuel can be used the way diesel is now.

Hmmmm....so bacteria breathes in CO2 to make fuel....so we can burn the fuel and release the CO2 back in the atmosphere?

Not to take away anything from this impressive scientific achievement but this application is just depressing.
Perhaps when windows gets decent font rendering, package management, and filesystems.
The methods to test intelligence is apparently all there is of it. We know we can make tests that curve-fit to a normal distribution but beyond that, we know nearly nothing of it.
Sure, but just because a type system can't catch all bugs doesn't mean it isn't valuable to use one to completely eliminate certain classes of bugs.
Tree swing pictures
My tinfoil hat is buzzing. What happens when this bacteria is released in our lakes and oceans?
Nice post. Can you clarify what you mean by proftiable, I'm assuming you're covering all costs and also paying yourself a decent salary?

If so, congrats!
It took me like five minutes to parse what you were asking about "replicating" the cloud experience locally - the way you phrase it, you're inherently assuming that a local development environment would be superior in a few factors, none of which end up being so:

- Speed: Local development environments are just as slow as cloud ones, when not slower (due to compositor hitches, background downloads, heavyweight UI toolkits, all that bullshit). Speed is part of the reason that I ditched local environments.

I can't emphasize enough how little there is to be truly gained from offlining a workspace in terms of performance. When looking beyond pure ideal-world benchmarks and taking the intersecting outliers that impact performance during actual usage into play, the net savings, as I'm trying to convey here, are negative.

- Security: The odds are greater that somebody's going to run a buffer overflow on one of the many undermaintained and/or proprietary services and applications running on your machine (when's the last time someone ran Valgrind against f.lux?) and slipstream a rootkit into it, than that somebody's going to attack your dev server with a zero-day against CentOS (and even if they did, you'd have been just as screwed anyway).

Put another way: which machine is more secure, the one with a dedicated 24/7 threat response team monitoring port access, or the one that gets left unattended on a table at Starbucks every Tuesday afternoon?

- Control: If your development needs more control than root access to the host filesystem, you're doing something wrong, and your codebase is going to be more fragile for it. (Hell, even using root access is a sign that you're being persnickety.)

- Learning: Learning time should be allocated toward the systems involved in what I'm actually building, not a http://www.xkcd.com/1579/ hodgepodge of perpetually-obsolete periphery.

I don't know WTF you're talking about with my examples being Windows-oriented - the driver example I cited was specifically inspired by an issue with my desktop's network adapter on Linux.
The Library
Hi everyone. My name is Alan Sass. I'm the CEO of x. (x=doesn't really matter in this equation, but we’re a startup that’s a couple years old). I’d like to create something new, simply called “The Library”.

Our team and I spend our days figuring out new ways of solving problems, with our day-to-day responsibilities consisting of performing product research+distribution for tangible products. We love technology and want to continually learn more about it so here we are today. Spending time today with my family, and thinking of how to structure this post to Hacker News, a site that I visit multiple times daily seemed like a great way to spend the day.

Recently, our team realized that we needed to open up the possibilities and think of topics that we don’t yet fully understand and explore certain subjects that are unknown (to each of us, at the current moment). Multiple team members are partnering up more and more lately to learn and work on building new things together, which has sped up the learning curve for everyone, and has also been very fun at the same time.

Naturally, I started browsing Google+Amazon for ideas, and then started thinking of the problem from the perspective that we have the opportunity to create something new. The something new is a network with new distribution channels that might not have existed before today.

I’m a huge believer in combinatorial innovation, by combining two technologies that did not previously exist together before to create something new. There’s that magical, unique moment that happens only once when you create something new, with the real joy in creation is watching an idea perpetuate over a long time horizon and allowing people to experience things and situations that they never believed that could/would have happened to them before.

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I have no idea if your company is interesting, but the questions are.

-What important truth do very few people agree with you on?

That the first duty of a society is to ensure that everyone is housed, healthy, fed and educated.

-What is a great company that no one has started yet?

I'm not much of a consumer. The only things that come to mind are more like non-profits and foundations dedicated to things like cheap and widely available pharmaceuticals, and other social improvement.

-What are some of your favorite websites?

HN, NYT, fuckinghomepage.com, python.org, stackoverflow, google news, google images, google translate.

-What are some of your favorite books?

Effective Computation in Physics, Python for Data Analysis, The Ringworld Series, Gone With the Wind, Adventures of Frog and Toad, Unix Power Tools, Catch 22, Working by Studs Terkel, A Canticle for Liebowitz, Travels With Charlie, Cannery Row, East of Eden, The Beautiful and the Damned, Time Enough for Love.

-What would you do if you knew that you only had 24 hours left on Earth?

Go outside.

-What do you really believe in?

I marvel at the unfathomable size and age of the universe, and the effectively zero chance that I could ever exist. I believe that when I look out at the universe, in at myself, and around at my world and fellow beings, that it's an instance of the universe observing and knowing itself. I also believe that we humans are wasting our world and our civilization, that this could be a true paradise of love, respect and potential, and I'm skeptically optimistic that that could come to pass.
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I love discussing new books and subjects with my family/friends/team, and always look forward to any opportunity for that situation to present itself, but I believe that something or someone has to change our current position(s) to allow the situation to better present itself to each party. Then I started thinking of an offer/accept based tech system that might be able to help align many people’s interests. We’re not sure if the idea currently exists in this current form but we also like fun experiments.

My initial intention with creating "The Library" would be to create a new network to help create/maintain connections between people that might not have existed before. By creating it, I would start the process by purchasing a list of books that are interesting to me, and hopefully people that I know. Everyone has their own unique interest in books, and so as a collective group, I would hope to eventually have a very diverse range of book subjects. Creating and maintaining a large list of books will (hopefully) naturally help our organization grow into what we want for the future, and continually bring up the standards of learning for those involved.

Within the last few days of sharing this sheet with some of my past/current friends, we’ve had many more enjoyable interactions and conversations that might not have previously happened, without this. I hope that result would present itself for future relationships that don’t yet exist. That’s one of the reasons that I’m sharing our idea here today, to solicit any feedback, both negative+positive, with the hopes of building a new network that many people would eventually want to be a part of. I’m very thankful for this site to be around so maybe this could be a way for us to help in return.

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Or you could not eat meat.

What part do you think cognitive dissonance plays in the fact that you conclude that without it, you could not "live a life worth living"?
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Our current business allows us the flexibility to easily ship things (at least nationally!), so today I'd love to start an additional experiment where anyone in the US (all 50 states - need to limit exposure first, sorry!) can borrow any of the books listed on the sheet, free of charge. We’ll keep track of updates for rentals+returns as time goes on, but we truly believe that we needed to continually invest more and more in the future for both our team, and our company, first by allocating capital to this idea, and then allowing it time to grow on it’s own. If this project and/or experiment(s) are a failure, then the worst case scenario is we have lots of interesting books to read, that lots of people would be happy taking home, so all would not be lost.

We can’t promise anything at this point other than what we just shared with everyone. We would very much appreciate any help or ideas that anyone might have to help us move forward, or could help with what we’re trying to accomplish. We’ll continually re-evaluate the future, based on the variables that we currently have, and then re-adjust accordingly, but this offer is available until I/we state otherwise.

The technology for what we’re trying to accomplish is still very basic, and I’d love to see it continually improve with time, to remove any friction in the process. We see no end to our investment in books, or the future, so unless this gets too huge, then we’re fine. But if it does get huge, then that just presents other opportunities (assuming we could fund it until that point!).

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Sorry, xclock is not good enough. I need at least xeyes to work.
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If anyone is interested in sharing any ideas for new books to add, donating any books, or helping in any other way, please feel free to contact us as we’d love to hear from you. We’re really just trying to build a massive library at our office (or future new location), and my entire personal book collection will be transferred to this to help speed up the process of creating a large list as fast as possible, to help the network grow. The list is only a few days old (and most of it hasn’t even arrived from Amazon yet!)

Our current heuristics for purchasing new books:

Think of Subject (Google+Amazon+Wiki+?) -> Search for 3-10 highest reviewed books (Amazon) -> Purchase ($!) -> Add to Master List (Google Sheets) -> Aggregate Tons of Data (Amazon+Google+?) -> Continue Building List of Books (Referrals+Search+Reviews) -> Perform Tons of Regression Analysis to Learn (?!#?!) -> Figure out all steps for Data/Sheet to update in Real-Time (this is the largest unknown variable in the equation, and we need to get to this point as fast as possible to properly scale the idea)

We’ve self funded the books that are on the current list over the last few days, by purchasing them on Amazon, and we have 500-1000 more unique titles to add in the coming week, so I hope that this is a start to something great. Please let me/us know if there’s anything we could do to improve. Thank you for your time reading this.

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"Don't focus on the idea. Just start building what you believe is true and share it with the world."
"If you're not embarrassed by your product release, then you've released too late."

The Library - List of Books (Google Sheets - Public URL)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pLQ86vv4u0Mutcob6K24...

TO REQUEST/RENT/BORROW A BOOK: Please send me/us a private message on this forum (Hacker News), and include whatever information you’re comfortable sharing with me/us, and we’ll send the book to you this week.

We’re not sure if we’re offering return postage yet, but we’ll guarantee any initial postage for outbound shipments and hope that people return the books to us. Since this is new to us, we’re hoping that by offering this to the Y Combinator community, that we could at least have some past member history as an initial data point to start learning from.

We will not share your information with anyone. This is not a joke post. Please, limit one (1) book per member+household, at least initially. These rules could change at any time.

The most basic details that we need to send you a book are:

Book Title:
Address Information: (name not required)
Expected Return Date:

You may keep the book for up to 90 days, but we please ask that you think of other people and return the book when possible so other people can also borrow it. If everyone chooses 90 days, then we may lower the maximum number of rental days in the future. If the book that you request is currently out of stock, then we’ll add your name to the reservation list, and send the book to you once we receive it in return.

If you would like to review the book after you return it then it would be much appreciated, but completely optional. We plan on adding different metrics of reviewing the best books to read, based on past data, but that’s in the future.

Thank you again.

Moderators: If these posts are not allowed, please let us know and/or take them down.
I think a method called "create" that does in fact save the object is a bad example. Also, why is it possible to have invalid objects in the first place? Wouldn't it be the object's responsibility to make sure it's valid?
So, I see this as a rich white gal bragging about how smart her kids are, or how smart her ways made her kids be.

Because I can't escape the fact that the "bad" education that "cinderblock schools" dispense is the only one that everybody can afford. For most kids in the world today, going to a cinderblock school is their only chance at an education and their only way to slightly improve their life situation and that of their families.

To be allowed to "run wild" you have to come from a family with a certain privilege, if I may use the word. Great if you can afford that. But to then turn around and say that everyone else is made dumb by going to school is a little on the nose (and completely missing the point).

It's a bit like saying that a Ferrari is so much better as a car than what most people drive- so why doesn't everyone let go of their silly little bucket-like cars and hop into a sexy red hot Italian supercar?

Because everyone can't afford one, that's why.
previous discussion on real article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11786803
Thought I just added it?
3 killer mobile growth hacking techniques: a Digital Marketing guest post
More like "misfortune filters the bold." As in "There are bold bikers, there are old bikers, but there are no old, bold bikers."
Ada was designed for environments where dynamic allocation wasn't allowed. So, it doesn't have safe scheme for that. It offers regions, GC, or fast/unsafe deallocation. This is one area where Rust has dramatic improvement. I agree i960 is reminiscent of schemes like Rust. Very forward thinkjng.

Btw, since Im on mobile w/out links, type these into Google: capability computer systems book Levy; Army Secure Operatimg System ASOS. First is great book with many capability architectures like i432. Second is another HW and OS combo designed as secure foundation for embedded, Ada apps. It was interesting.
"Dikjstra had very good command of English for a Dutchman; far better than the average American."

Once upon a time, I read a thriller of the Cussler style where a Russian translator for the CIA or something goes to a conference and gets to exchange knowing glances with two colleagues over some mistake that only they recognized. Then I realized that there would have likely been more than a few native Russian speakers in the room.

You realize your statement is ridiculous, right?
Thanks for the screenshots. I could not find any even on the homepage of cublinux!
Ask HN: Tabs or Spaces? Vim or Emacs?
HN is a bit intuitive how they control emails. I added my email to the box marked 'email' and expected it to show up. Looks like you have to explicitly add it to your 'about' box. Should be there now.
> but Snowden was saying the spying is only on terrorists

Yet another reason Snowden shouldn't have published anything unrelated to domestic spying.
I hope he hosted the blog on its own server.
That's a little bit circular, though: "Intelligence is what is measured by an intelligence test."
A Facebook Sixth Sense
Reviewing Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Try neverware's cloudready. Far better and looks exactly like chromeOS but with wider hardware support.

http://www.neverware.com/
Gravity is such a simple but strange aspect of the physical universe.
Science of “forest bathing”: fewer maladies, more well-being?
We hugged it to death
Streaming app
Electron.js enabled application using Vue.js and WebTorrent to fetch movies api and stream.
I need feedback. Maybe you simply advice me to shut down the project. Or maybe you are interested in contributing. I have some features to discuss here.
http://getlawd.com
The double jet death of Sun-like stars
I haven't even seen anywhere to buy the A72 even though that was announced around a year and a half ago.
Talk to a lawyer before investing in this domain/product name. It likely has a risky overlap with Product Hunt.
There's plenty of undeveloped land in this world. You don't need to be rich to find a remote area where nobody cares enough to look for you.

You do need to be rich to have convenient access to nature in exactly the doses you prefer.
And he is saying the IQ test measures very little, though the test appears at least to be self-consistent.
> It's been said that the first generation

Ah, but how diluted does it get with each increasing cohort of heirs?
Researchers always go into finding what's common about who's successful. What about who's not successful?

That seems to me a very important part of the equation if you're to imply some sort of causation.

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

Edit: Did HN changed the points to start with zero or are people downvoting really fast today?
That was the brilliance of NEXT: leverage momentum of UNIX in lower layers while hiding it behind a sensible upper layer. Fixed up the graphics stack, attempted to provide better organization (failure = Mach), and provided consistent, good user interface on top. Maybe better API's, maybe not... never programmed Macs.

I've been saying for a while that a group needs to do this for one of the BSD's. Not just put KDE or Gnome on one but seriously reengineer the GUI, sounds, graphics, admin controls, and package mgmt. Smooth integration with high usability and good efficiency like Macs. Closest I've seen was Mint but had to ditch it for security reasons.