skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've given up waiting for that now, will find another way.
Transmit power isn't really what's at issue; it's radar avoidance measures like dynamic frequency selection that aren't implemented by the radio hardware and thus have to be done by the host Linux system. Existing wifi hardware is capable of limiting maximum transmit power for each channel, but unless router manufacturers want to disable half of the 5GHz band, they need to do something to ensure that the user can't turn off DFS. Existing chipsets don't allow for appropriate separation of concerns: the host system is responsible for some RF parameters like DFS, and the radio's baseband processor (running proprietary signed firmware) is being used to do packet scheduling and retransmissions.
It changes based on who knows how many factors. Benghazi was showing for me when I typed the message, now it's not.

Google's autocomplete is likely based on recent searches, so it can suggest things based on very recent events. It will vary wildly.
The EU under their new data protection regulation:

http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/The-implications-for-s...
I have found that, with sufficient experience, it is possible to get better at recognizing bad solutions more quickly. Although this is not quite the same as seeing the elegant solution right away!
TypeScript guarantees forward-compatibility with ES20xx standards, has multiple huge companies behind it, and has mature tooling. What are some reasons I would give all those things up to use JS++?
If you parse the article carefully, the entire argument is summarized as

"There are more than 10^22 planets, therefore ETI probably exists[ed] if P(intelligent life|planet) > 10^-22".

Specifically, unless the probability for evolving a
civilization on a habitable-zone planet is less than one in
10 billion trillion, then we are not the first. [...] In
other words, given what we now know about the number and
orbital positions of the galaxy’s planets, the degree of
pessimism required to doubt the existence, at some point in
time, of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization borders
on the irrational.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11449314
IIRC I had "build platform nut supported" errors coming back from iTunes Connect when I tried submitting a build from my Hackintosh.

I guess Apple can detect if you're running on a Hackintosh. For example Netflix won't play on my Hackintosh without installing Silverlight. Invalid DRM keys or something.
That is just a practical application of the old adage "a person may be unpredictable, but a large group of people is woefully predictable." Statistics from Big Data are, again, confirming that strong, completely independent thinking and decision-making is an illusion.
Sorry for my ignorance, but how does MS become lethal?
> A curated walled garden including a review process. Apple keeping the dregs out and avoiding the place turning into a cesspool means users can be more confident about the apps and that halo effect helps all apps in the store.

I switched from Android to iOS and I just don't see this at all. Yes I'm more confident installing from the app store because of the security model, but android is getting that too. I'm no more confident that an app or particularly game will be good or worth downloading or buying though, and I don't perceive apps to be high quality in general.
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> Does that count as an SDK?

A lot of big companies publish what they call an SDK, which is really just a thin, idiomatic wrapper on top of HTTP calls. Most of the AWS SDKs are like this, and sometimes the wrapper is way too thin (see: the disastrous mess that is the Dynamo JS library).

Should SDK mean more than that? I don't know. Is that kind of SDK useful? Definitely! HTTP is untyped, slow, and potentially tricky to use (like with OAuth 1.2), so it's nice to have some native code that abstracts that stuff away.
> "Whatever you want the term to mean, it shouldn't be that, because that distinguishes nothing."

It's not extremely useless when you consider most programming languages cover multiple PL paradigms.

Functional languages are a spectrum. On one end you have pure functional languages like Haskell where you're forced to use functional algorithms for all computation, but there are languages in the middle of that spectrum like C# which support a bunch of functional language constructs (take a look here for a selection: http://www.codeaddiction.net/articles/13/lambda-expressions-... ) even if they aren't purely functional.

My argument is, any definition of functional programming that ignores the mid part of the spectrum is useless, as it ignores that most languages do not strictly follow a single approach like Haskell but allow you to adapt to different styles (i.e. most programming languages are multi-paradigm). Even F# and Ocaml allow you to write in an imperative style if you so choose, and many people would class them as 'functional' languages.
Ukraine is separate country, and Moldova is separate country, and Belarus is separate country, and Afghanistan is separate country, and Caucasus is separate country, and so on...
We use the SDK generators at my company, and our partners use the SDKs. They seem to work fine.

If you get into some edge cases, it can be trickier, but it's easy to parse Swagger docs and generate your own SDK from the docs themselves.
Google half-asses all of their products except perhaps AdSense. I'm not surprised you had such a bad experience.

The galling thing about Apple is that they make so much money off of their store (and charge developers so much). With the Chrome store, you're basically getting what you pay for.
$99 is when you want to distribute via App Store. You don't need that to do the development or use the tools.
Because you want to be the one holding the factories when the end game hits.
Just wanted to point out that there is a petition to release a ME less CPU: https://puri.sm/posts/petition-for-intel-to-release-an-me-le...

Doubt that will change anything (willingness, price for probably new masks etc. etc.) but it would certainly be nice.
You guys should all switch to disposable email addresses. It solves so many problems. If your address is leaked like that, no big deal, you just delete that alias. If a password is leaked along, again having website specific emails will make it very difficult to correlate your credentials with another website. If you start receiving spam on that address you just delete it. And so it ceases to be personally identifiable information.
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This is opportunity for free courses.

Freemium doesn't just entice customers; it also denies oxygen to competitors.

The specific difficulty for courses is reputation - but wikipedia has managed it, so it's possible.
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This article doesn't explain it well, but converting fuel to energy with this sort of thermal efficiency (40-50%) is indeed much better than both normal ICE and coal power plants at around 30%.

Obviously racing engines are highly tuned and not suitable for general use, but there's no reason I can see that TJI technology could not be adapted for normal engines.
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I enjoy these quasi statistical arguments. Can anyone remind me what is the probability that God exists, or that we live in a computer simulation?
> What resources does our earth contain that are not (more easily) obtainable elsewhere? If Drake's equation "holds", then what novelty do _we_ provide?

Us. If the probability of an intelligent species developing are that low that there might only be a handful of intelligent species in our galaxy then making contact with each of them is extremely interesting if they are as curious as we are.
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>I am developing iOS apps on a 2012 Macbook Pro. Those aren't expensive nowadays.

I would be willing to bet that a used Thinkpad is even cheaper, and has the benefit of having more upgrade options.

To make a car analogy, your argument boils down to, "Well, you need a car anyway, so why not buy a Lexus?" I think a lot of the people replying to your posts are arguing that requiring luxury hardware (and, let's face it, Macs are luxury hardware) adds a pretty huge barrier to entry for software development. Trying to argue that the price difference between Apple hardware and Windows/Linux hardware is "insignificant" in the long run just doesn't cut it. Even the cheapest Apple laptop is a thousand dollars in the US. It costs even more overseas. Meanwhile, you can get similarly spec'd Windows machines for a half to three quarters of the price.

There is a Mac premium, and it is a barrier to entry for developers. You can't make that barrier disappear by blindly asserting that it doesn't matter.
There's some additional information in this article too: http://www.clarke.edu/media/files/Academics/Departments/Comp...
A developer account is free, the $99 is to publish in the App Store, receive technical support, and receive free versions of various things (e.g. OS X Server).
And, more interesting, I think, it confirms the theory of what cause the illness. That was not so clear the last time I read about it.

That in itself is a big advancement.
Why Plan 9? (2001)
Static analyzers are good for a lot more than just finding potentially unsafe memory access. In fact, memory access bugs are typically just the low-hanging fruits that static analyzers find (and which, most of the time, you can find by code review, assuming your team consists of more than two developers and that they actually get some sleep every once in a while).

It's issues related to timing constraints, incomplete branches, common but subtle mistakes (e.g. in C, suspicious memory allocations, like malloc-ing strlen(x) instead of strlen(x) + 1 bytes) and so on. E.g. http://www.viva64.com/en/examples/ . Many of these are, indeed, because unsafe memory access allowed without restriction, but they're fewer than one might expect. Most of them are either language warts which no language is devoid of, no matter what its fans would say) or programming blunders that occur because our brains work the way they do.
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In Australia Kia have their basic warranty at 7/unlimited. Which is pretty impressive.
Really well done. I'm not sure how I will use this but I copied the link.
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The Doomsday Argument implies we've got centuries or less left.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument
I have a Prius that i drive daily so I can add a few more points:
- Engine shuts off a lot during normal gentle driving.
- The air conditioning compressor is electrically driven and only come on as necessary
- Regenerative braking reduces wear on brakes. I am still on original brakes after 72000 miles.
God in the religious sense probably does not exist. On the other hand the existance of type II creatures (that can manage and direct the energy of whole galactic clusters) would not surprise me the least. Their interference with human evolution and deeds would not be shocking too.

The quantum machanics behave disturbingly close to lazy evaluation - so this would not be surprising too.

Everyone of us is a god to a colony of ants.
If it start drifting away from Russia politically emergence of pro-russian rebels (surprisingly well armed) will be arranged by Putin.
Not sure what point you're trying to make. Plus, Caucasus is not a country. Yes, Russia has a lot of international influence outside their borders, but that doesn't mean the ill-informed observation by the GP was meaningful in any way.
According to Wikipedia it's a non-profit. I believe Google donated ad-free YouTube for the channel. Income is indeed donations.

"The project is funded by donations. Khan Academy is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization,[8] now with significant backing from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Broad Foundation, Google, the O’Sullivan Foundation, Skoll Foundation, and other philanthropic organizations."
Russia already captured Crimea and eastern Moldova. They need to capture south Ukraine and part of Romania/Bulgaria.
As I see, Russians already making steps in that direction. For example, they creating fake national groups for smaller ethnic groups, e.g. for my ethnic group (I am Lemko, small Ukrainian subethnic group at west of Ukraine, east of Poland and Slovakia). To control us, they are inventing new language, new alphabet, created "World Congress of Lemko people", and so on, trying to separate us from Ukrainians.
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on other platforms where the store was free I got a very different response. Wix, Shopify even surprisingly enough Facebook. I don't think it's an excuse
Wow, no one here has mentioned Johanna Rutkovska's (Invisible Things Lab & QubesOS), "Intel x86 Considered Harmful"?

http://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf
http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2015/10/27/x86_harmful.html

Essential reading!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcwngbUrZNg
I had a similar intuition reading the article. I don't think we understand much at all about the probabilities of life forming even under the ideal circumstances. The events that took place on earth could still be one in a billion, or they could be one in an incomprehensibly high number.

Nevertheless the progress on the other factors in the Drake equation is very interesting and impressive.
I can't get to download the "C++ for C programmers" course via coursera-dl... anyone had some luck ?
> the tool chain is incredibly expensive, obsoleted frequently, and requires lots of maintenance.

The toolchain isn't expensive or obsoleted frequently. A new Mac mini is $499 and can last more than five years. When you consider a professional iOS developer can easily make $100/hr, a cost of $100/yr for equipment is beyond negligible.

Not sure where you get "requires lots of maintenance" from – he doesn't seem to have said anything about that?

Obviously in rich Western country terms.
> Even if you convert all observable universe in RNA this is still not enough for this RNA to form by chance (4^165 is much larger than number of atoms in observable universe).

Which kinda suggests there is either a mechanism that promotes that, or there are other, easier paths to get self replication. Otherwise we mostly likely wouldn't be here.
Jennifer Lawrence's persona and living are based on being extremely attractive, so was it Ok to hack her iCloud and publish her nude selfies? Strangely, Gawker crowd was very upset that no one went to jail for it.
Given the intense regulatory pressure (especially in the EU) that Google is finding itself under, this is unsurprising. The TPP would greatly help in easing 3 strategic concerns, which are:

1) Data protection regulation that would severely impact Google.

Google is kinda caught in the crossfire here. The EU is upset at the US intelligence community (Post-Snowden), and wishes to have some assurance of protection for their citizen's communication. The USG does not see why it should do this, and the data protection regulation is the EU's way of saying: If we can't get you to cooperate by being friendly, we will have to pass legislation that will hurt US companies; they can then perhaps pay lobbyists to change your mind. So it is not really Googles fault, but they are caught in the middle.

2) Anti-Trust considerations.

Google is extremely dominant in the European market, much more so than in the US. See #3. The momentum for an Antitrust case in the EU is high.

3) Industrial policy considerations.

Right now, the EU does not have an "Internet powerhouse"; there simply are no modern Internet giants in the EU. Interestingly, both China and Russia have "inadvertently" created local giants (mostly by censorship, which has had the strange side-effect of being equivalent to import tariffs, but for Internet services -- e.g. an accidental protectionist measure that allowed local competition to emerge). Some voices have been heard in recent months that advocate that the only way the EU won't get entirely left behind is industrial policy toward creating an internet giant. This could even mean blocking US-based giants for a while.

If TPP passes, Google will have a very powerful tool to wield against these three concerns. It is entirely rational of them to support it.
Building and linking is still an issue, but you can do the signing on other platforms now:

https://github.com/saucelabs/isign

Given that the Swift toolchain is now open-source and being ported to other platforms, I would expect that the building and linking issues will be solved fairly shortly. I wouldn't be surprised if there was something official announced at WWDC.
You are young and well ahead of the game.

The only good reason I can see for buying this apartment are
1. It can be easily sold when you need cash
2. It can be sold for substantially more than you paid for it.
otherwise, you will lose money and its not a good deal.
I have definite ideas for how I would grow a nest egg but they are peculiar to me and my situation. You need to find your own way.
As signposts along the way:
1.Save more with a target of E100,000
2.While saving start studying investments in general
3.Invest in properties if they meet the above listed conditions
That was extremely shallow from the nytimes.
“Whenever you see these officers come out with a use of force, whether it be a shooting or a tasering or a whatever, there are phrases that always go in those reports, that we’ve been trained to put in there,” Matt said. “And so many times that’s just like an ‘insert quote here’ in your report because that’s going to cover your ass.”

So he knew exactly what was happening. But I'm sure he's ~one of the~ the only good cop that never covered his ass for excessive force and unwarranted actions, right?
I'm glad to see Css source diffs in there. My workflow consists of tweaking Css in dev tools and then updating source. I've found that if I map directly so Devtools updates the source file I get lost very quickly.
Incidentally I'd be interested in knowing of better ways of writing / debugging css.
It is very confusing even though I know this to be the case. It is much harder to parse when the numbers are similar. I do not care which one, just wish everyone would use the same notation. In this case for me it would have been clearer if it said 12262km vs 12262m which is what I would have written. But he :) Interesting comment anyway.
Which reminds me of 1999 when Slackware jumped from version 4 to 7, purely to keep up with competition.
Can anybody confirm this?
I don't know about this course, in general you now have courses where the quizzes are no longer accessible unless you pay and courses where they still are.
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Indeed, it makes more sense to decriminalize obviously non-dangerous drugs, and revamp the schedules to get rid of 1930s "reefer madness" mentalities. The scientific and medical communities have a much better understanding of which drugs are actually dangerous and addictive, yet the federal government is still policing on a 100 year old level.

And I say that as someone who has never taken an illegal drug nor drank alcohol, and I avoid prescription and OTC medication as much as possible (I believe in living healthy in all aspects, though I concede that certain drugs are unavoidable for some people, including me with my wonderful thyroid issues).
Out of curiosity, why do you do this? FastMail has an amazing webmail interface and Android app. I'd never go back to Gmail.
The OS version doesn't matter as much here. There is a huge gap in API functionality betwen 2.3.x and >4.x
That's the only thing that matters for a developer as the official Android support libraries hide most of the remaining >4.x API differences.
Already posted, with many comments, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11876453
Despite the changes, the financial aid option (100% off) is still running. https://learner.coursera.help/hc/en-us/articles/209819033-Ap...
Given enough time anything can form out of random fluctuations
if it has >0 probability no matter how small.
Thanks to the author for the heads up, would be real shame if these courses are removed without someone downloading all the material first (I don't care if it's against the ToS, I still think a torrent is the way to go, free education has a greater value than copyright protection).

I'm a bit confused about which courses will be removed and which ones will stay. Is there a list of courses that are present on the old platform but not on the new platform? Also, I don't know where I'd access the old platform and where I'd access the new platform. Am I right in thinking this is a course on the new platform?

https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer

If so, where do I go to see the old platform?
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Percentage matters only if you care about the rest of humanity. If you are happy with having a prosperous minority you are fine. It's a matter of choice, you are right, there is no hard line set by the universe.
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I fixed a very similar bug in an ASP.NET site a few weeks back; email generation had a factory class where each time it wished to construct an email it would set From = this, Subject = that, Body = the other, but To was a list, so it wrote To.Add(user.Email), without a To.Clear() call at the start. So the first email went out to one person, the second to two, the third to three… someone else had made the site and on receiving a report of it once I had briefly looked through the code and missed it, then when another client complained of the addresses plus having received sixteen emails I looked again and realised what was going on.
> is pretty gross

I'm sorry you think ignoring studies because you don't like the results is the way to go, you stupid moron.
Given the cost of the devices; Probably not.

No end users will touch it, but any vulnerabilities present will be used if present. In such a market I believe you'd actually spend your money on a high quality non-wifi router that you can update on your own and dangle insecure wifi access off of it, requiring VPN or other 'from the Internet' style for entry to the 'secure' network.
In the UK at least, under case law (Hyde v Wrench, 1840), if you give a counter offer it legally voids the original offer. So if you offer to buy something for £1m and the seller responds that they will sell it to you for £2m, the original £1m offer is legally terminated - so in the UK, legally speaking, this would count as a refusal.

Unfortunately I'm not familiar with how this translates over to US law, but I'd be interested to find out.
> You've made about ~8 points which would take longer to address than I currently have to spare

You DID have time to spare to say nothing, only that you could say something. Which of course shows that you piece of shit have nothing whatsoever.
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> "All current Presidential candidates have come out against the TPP."

All current presidential candidates have come out against the TPP whilst running for office, that's not necessarily going to be their position if they reach the White House. Hilary Clinton was promoting the TPP before the current presidential race.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/...