skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The USA only has six carriers.

Nimitz, Eisenhower, Vinson, Roosevelt, Lincoln, Washington, Stennis, Truman, Reagan, and Bush make 10, with Ford entering commission later this year to make 11.
What does it look like when a Russian downloads these files? Is it PDFs? Text files? What do they see?
The users in this example are developers; developers are users of APIs.
This is the main manufacturer of the device that is being sold not the owners of the IP.
I think being part of an oppressive majority feels just like you describe. There are these insufferable dicks always screaming about how bad things are despite that you've already given them far too much. Isn't it time to teach them a real lesson?

People are always heroes in their own stories. They truly believe it. If they set out to "inspect" if that is really the case, their honest evaluation will be that, yes, they are.
If they have them available in your area Chic-fil-a's are also great for kids. Their service is top notch and their stores are almost always spotless. Also they seem to have really great kids areas, every time I see one I am so jealous of the crap kids areas I had available as a child..
I wish there was a good program advocating the effectiveness of Electroconvulsive therapy (and maybe some studies around harmful effects on long term usage). I've taken basically every drug on the spectrum (benzos, SSRIs, et.al.) for most of my life since I was a teenager and nothing helped as much as ECT.
Yeah, I somehow confused the $6 Billion number with 10 carriers. I quickly edited my post however but you Ninja'd me before my edit was complete.

In any case, the US doesn't really have that many carriers. I mean, we have more than the rest of the world. But they're so bloody useful..
Clickable: http://fictionhub.io/

To me, this looks like a project that will depend far more on community than publicity for success [for some definitions of "success"] because it requires a high levels of commitment [reading and writing long form content] and doesn't really map well onto casual use at the level of Facebook or Twitter engagement.

My advice is to engage with the users and source bloggers organically from the user base. Be highly selective. The corollary is accepting a high probability of slow growth in the near term for the sake of getting the community right.

Good luck.
DNC Opposition Research unit hacked
Bingo.

If you can't be bothered to vote in person, which I will argue needs to have fewer obstacles in its' own right, then I don't care about your vote.
However, with all of those. If there is a problem: either the consequences are not significant. Or there is a paperwork around to a problem, which includes laws and judges.

With online voting, we are deciding the judges that get to say - "everything is totally perfect with the way I got elected."
I did not claim that Haskell is not practical. I said it is not _very_ practical.

Yi is nice. There is also Leksah which looks even more appealing.

http://leksah.org/images/Bildschirmfoto-leksah-13-linux.png

I just wonder why are there are so few practical applications if Haskell is so practical and "simple".
No, but the iMac is significantly more powerful than a laptop. I cede you the video card, but there isn't a real advantage to full size RAM or internal drives.
Google announces new Enterprise Search (Springboard) and new Sites previews
Yeah, and the "slippery slope" argument is called a fallacy for a reason.
I was going to say "My son's tinnitus is not gone, but it makes him less crazy and interferes less with him getting to sleep." but I ran that past him for accuracy and he said he hasn't had tinnitus in some time. To be fair, we have done a lot more for his health issues than magnesium.

Best of luck.
Is blase indifference how we respond to national level security breaches now?

If this was somebody's health records, the organization responsible for the disclosure would be under serious investigation (HIPPA), and throwing down retainers to every law firm in town.

Thomas, is it your opinion that those responsible for securing this data shouldn't be held responsible?
I finally understand a bug on OSX which bugged me for a long time. When I stored a file with the name äöü on and HFS+ volume and wanted to access this file via ä[tab] is would work. It was eventually fixed.

But know I know why this happened. HFS+ normalise the letter and ä becomes two characters, the a and the umlaut dots. And bash didn't know that or didn't care, so it so no file with an ä but with an a at the beginning.

Is this analysis correct? I so hope that APFS will be a little bit more sane.
OLED has several downsides as well like burn in problems, limiting lifetime, higher power usage, doesn't work that well outside in bright sunlight, etc. I always avoided OLED and choose either IPS or e-ink.
Unfortunately you can't prove whether the decreased throughput is due to throttling or simply congested routes.
> Because fossil-fuel power plants cannot easily ramp down generation in response to excess supply on the grid, on sunny, windy days there is sometimes so much power in the system that the price goes negative—in other words, operators of large plants, most of which run on coal or natural gas, must pay commercial customers to consume electricity.

Sounds like they need to encourage EV acquisition so that the extra supply of energy can go to EVs, while the pollution is reduced by taking diesel and petrol cars off the roads. They could also make use of batteries for storage so they can retire coal plants and better handle the variability of energy use.

> The auction system is designed to reduce the rate of new renewable-energy additions and keep Germany from producing too much power. It might seem like an easy way to solve the oversupply issue would be to shut down excess power plants, especially ones that burn coal. But not only are the coal plants used to even out periods when wind and solar aren’t available, they’re also lucrative and thus politically hard to shut down. Because German law requires renewable energy to be used first on the German grid, when Germany exports excess electricity to its European neighbors it primarily comes from coal plants. Last fall, the German subsidiary of the Swedish energy giant Vattenfall started up a 1,600-megwatt coal-fired plant that had been under construction for eight years, defying opposition from politicians, environmental organizations, and citizens who want to see coal plants eliminated.

Okay, that's just stupid. This is nothing but a short term problem that could be easily solved with batteries. Anything else seems to be a political problem, not a technical one.
Differential privacy is an interesting research area. I know there have been several survey talks, including at NIPS. I wanted to point out this:

http://rsrg.cms.caltech.edu/netecon/privacy2015/program.shtm...

which has some nice slides and discussion on the "reusable holdout" ("thresholdout") which is a technique to allow one to use all of the training data to fit a lot of models, but also offers guarantees against overfitting.
I personally avoid Chic-Fil-A because of their anti-LGBT and pro-religion values, but I'm glad to hear they're pleasant for children.
OS X has like 4 commands to flush the DNS cache depending on version. It's a PITA. This script runs the right thing on each.
By design, yes -- when I was younger I worked at a Starbucks for a few years, and in training they talked about how they wanted to make it the 'Third Place' after Home and Work. Makes sense that would be the community center of a neighborhood.
I had the same question
Yeah but after sixty years of C, why should we trust an origanization like Mozilla? They've been thoroughly unwilling to come up with any sort of ANSI standard or anything, despite Rust being a reasonably mature language.

Google sought ECMA standardization when they took on Dart. Go language has an official specification, so someone could hypothetically re-implement it if they wanted to, and remain compatible Go projects.

Mozilla only wants Mozilla to be involved with Rust. They want everybody to use it in their systems, and have no input on where the language should go.
that looks really cool! any chance of you putting the code you used for that website somewhere?
Now that you know you can, should you?
Feel your pain. Worked on a video player at a previous company.

Advertising was the biggest pain point.

The fun part is when the ad trafficker would run a VPAID payload with 18 sequential ad-auction vendors. We saw delay from first byte of the player to first byte of the advertisement go from Xms on a fast connection to > 30 seconds.

And then they blamed the player for being slow \o/
I think it's awfully silly to pretend that campaign IT organizations should be falling on their swords when the largest, most-talented, best-funded software security organizations in the industry do only a marginally better job when evaluated by outcome.

But, more importantly: I meant what I said. The only interesting thing about this story is that whoever hacked the DNC got attributed. You think the GOP isn't owned up?
Test Driving Sidekiq and Crystal
As part of the R&R project?

I half won and then firmly lost a project around then to port their video serving to our web tv platform.

Lost due to severe inability to manage such a project but we had a nice multi-format video player for the time: js abstraction over different players for different platforms (flash, quicktime, windows media, ...).
[JavaScript] Kakapo is a new framework for fast UI prototyping in the browser
That's where you go to work on your novel alone with your headphones on.
OMG, I don't even know where to begin to explain why Venmo is not the answer.

http://time.com/money/4036511/venmo-more-check-than-cash/

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2015/09/venm...

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/safety_net/2015/02/...

Venmo is not the solution, it's a symptom of the problem.
Home Automation is what first came to mind when I read the title. With this in mind, reading the blurb on the website sounded like, oh they're talking about building home automation software...

"build automation, IT automation, deployment automation, etc" would have saved me some confusion. Or simply compare yourself to other solutions out there will help me understand what category this new piece of utility and name fall into.
Order-Revealing Encryption
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
yep probably the better idea.
eventually we combine sessions and JWT Tokens.
The session id is kind of a refresh token that refreshes the token if it was expired and the user didn't generate a new token in less than one minute. than it will use the session id will query the database and create a new token if the session is still valid.
This is neat idea..I will definitely share this with my friends.
As I said elsewhere in this thread, blockchains/consensus algorithms won't work. If the computer/phone that the software is running on is compromised and the attackers have control of the video and/or input devices, there are many ways of misdirecting the voter to make the wrong selection - in that case the whole stack of protocols and algorithms work just as they were intended, but it doesn't matter because the selection of the candidate was decided by the virus, no the voter.

And it doesn't take much to swing an election - you don't need to compromise many machines. So you end up needing 100% security on almost 100% of the voters' devices. That's simply not possible.

People have a hard time believing that we can't fix the security problems with online voting. We can't fix them.
> And now take control of the data input

How do 3rd party keyboards fit into your narrative?
We do not require any particular form of license, although the Gnu Free Documentation License and the Creative Common licenses (in its many varieties) are what we recommend. These licenses allow the book user the greatest flexibility in making use of the material. We will approve a book with copyright restrictions as long as the book is available at little or no cost. Generally, books must be available in a format like PDF that can be printed by each user or in bulk by a campus bookstore or copy shop. It is not necessary that printed copies be available from a print on demand service like Lulu, but many students and faculty are willing to spend $25 to get a paperbound or spiral bound copy of a 500 page text. -- http://aimath.org/textbooks/evaluation-criteria
I think these days we all should use sigaction instead of signal()? why is this totally missed in the post.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/231912/what-is-the-differ...
Code = life
Why would they phase out nuclear before coal??
> the end-game of libertarian "the government should enforce property rights only"

The alternative is government, but this is clearly a case where they've failed. Federal, state, and local governments haven't provided any comparable services, only the private sector did, and with no government funding.

I think the liberal (or north-american libertarian) way, would include local community areas run by individuals within said community similar to a co-op. Remember that liberalism doesn't tell you HOW you have get together, only that politicians can't create a one size fits all solution and force everyone to pay for it.
I can't upvote this comment enough. That's an excellent answer to the question.
Statistically, self-driving cars are about to kill someone. What happens next?
Those are the main reasons I go there so often. It's a certain caliber of customer that seems to go there, and I really enjoy the atmosphere and the certainty that there won't be any weirdos or spiky-haired freaks while I'm trying to eat my food.

I'm not so big on the whole religion thing, but whatever. They've a right to think that.
> In any case, the US doesn't really have that many carriers. I mean, we have more than the rest of the world.

If you count things in the class of what the US calls carriers, the rest of the world has, I believe, 0 (some sources refer to these as "large-deck" carriers.)

If you want to include what the rest of the world has for carriers, you need to go to "medium-deck" carriers, where the US has more (even without counting the large-deck ships) than the rest of the world combined in the form of its amphibious assault ships (LHA/LHD).
It's really unfortunate, because Chic-Fil-A is arguably the best fast food option in the US when it comes to user experience (depending of course on your exact definition of fast food and whether or not you include non-franchised local businesses that nevertheless operate similar to fast food places).

I'm routinely impressed with the level of customer service at Chic-Fil-A. It's frankly better than what I've gotten at many formal restaurants. On several occasions my SO and I have been given generous amounts of free food as well, and we're only semi-regulars (maybe twice a month).

One instance stands out. We ordered a frosted coffee to try it. Out of nowhere one of the employees made us a second one for free, but he made it differently from the first one with different ingredients. He gave it to us so we'd each have one and so we could decide which method of making it we thought was better. Stuff like this has happened multiple times at Chic-Fil-A for us.
Original author here. Thanks everyone for the comments! If you've got any other feedback or suggestions I am more than happy to hear it!
The Fukushima scare. Germany decided to go nuclear free afterward.
Sad to see you downvoted for expressing a great American freedom, voting with your dollars.

I too was very sad to see Chik Fil A's ownership become involved with conservative social politics, going so far as to fund anti-gay conversion camps using electro-shock therapy on depressed gay teenagers.

But as long as you're the right kind of family they are the perfect family environment, no doubt.
So many hours that I lost trying to optimize the lifts in SimTower. Loved the game.
I'm working on a Ph.D. working in GPU architecture, and this course is the real deal. It goes beyond how to run things on a GPU to analyzing the runtime and work efficiency of algorithms suited to the GPU.

Wen-mei Hwu's lectures on "Advanced Algorithmic Techiques for GPUs" (first lecture slides: http://iccs.lbl.gov/assets/docs/2011-01-24/lecture1_computat...) are a gold mine of GPU programming techniques. I believe he has published several books on the topic too, and released a benchmark suite (Parboil http://impact.crhc.illinois.edu/parboil/parboil.aspx) optimized with these techinques.
I think the way they framed The Offer is a good one. He makes it clear that he wants you to stay if you want to stay, and is giving you a way out if you're not passionate or happy in your job anymore.

Many years ago they did that at AOL (a voluntary severance package), and IIRC I don't think it came across as that sincere.
Looks like exclamation points get stripped from titles. Unfortunately, that inverts the meaning here.
> Ketamine especially would not be a good anti-depressant pill, because it is highly addictive

SSRI withdrawl effects last up to a month whereas Ketamine once a month produces no such effects.

So the current therapy for depression is more addictive, by design, than Ketamine.
Lazy loading
while I scroll
makes Chrome cry.
Level3 had an interesting blog post on this a while back: http://blog.level3.com/open-internet/observations-internet-m...

Basically certain ISPs refuse to increase connection capacity with backbone providers like level3. Instead they (Comcast) is trying to get Netflix to connect directly with them and charge them a premium in doing so.
Ask HN: Have you heard of Plug and Play startup accelerator?
What can you say about it?
I often work out of my neighborhood McDonald's when working from home. It's about the only non-faith based multi-generational space in town. The mix of kids, a few other freelancers, and retired folks is unique.
You can't see a difference between hackers talking about a hacking story and hackers talking about a shooting story, or are you just being facetious?
What We Cannot Know by Prof. Marcus Du Sautoy
Zenefits is firing 106 people and offering buyouts to more as it restructures
Interesting. Do you mind if I ask what sort of audits you were working on?

I can understand the 2 week pre-audit familiarization period. How would you price this out instead? I was operating under the assumption that the pre-audit familiarization was priced into the first week as threat modeling and discovery. This would also lend credence to the report admitting that they did not have time to investigate as thoroughly as they would have liked.

I did forget to include the post-audit report-writing period, it's been a while since that was a thing for me. I've never billed for that in my own practice because I disagree with the idea of billing for five days of work that essentially boils down to "fill in findings and application details into a long-form, templated PDF." I've also never seen a consultant really need five days to complete one of those :). I'm sure folks like Tom will come in shortly to beat me over the head for not charging for this part of the assessment.

I don't understand what you mean by this though:

> And from TFA: Conservancy and the phpMyAdmin project are proud of the results and thank Mozilla for funding and initiating the audit.

I do agree it's likely that there is a discount here for future or publicly recognizable work.
>1. It is a from-scratch source build system written in rust that borrows a huge amount from nix. This means repeatable software builds with isolated dependencies.

Except the builds aren't at all repeatable in a meaningful way, judging by the example code on the home page. The 'do_build' function runs 'npm install'. This means that 1) the build container has network access (i.e. it's nondeterministic by definition) and 2) the declared dependencies do not fully describe the dependency graph. So, I really don't see how much it could possibly borrow from Nix if it threw out the most important part of it.
I was invited to pitch at one of their events.
So, never?
> Ketamine is quite different than psychedelics,

I can't really agree with this. I was given ketamine in a surgical setting. The result could really only be described as what the cool kids call "tripping balls". Totally out-of-body experience.
How is digital advertising 'better than ever' when everyone seems to agree that the situation is untenable?

I admire your optimism that putting consumers and advertisers in a directly adversarial relationship (by forcing them into an arms race around blocking) will somehow make everything great, but I have a hard time sharing it.
Like the mindset that eating fat directly makes a person increase fat percentage. Similarly to the idea around cholesterol.
Looking almost exactly the same. Rural (well rural in Germany is not the same as rural in the US) polling places might have 100 voters assigned instead of 1000 and people know each other but that's about it.
As much as I love small cafes, I have to say, Starbucks has grown on me, specifically living in a nice neighbourhood. The Starbucks near me is always very clean, has a very nice interior, plenty of outlets for laptops, fast wifi, very clean washrooms, and pleasant baristas. They even have a large communal table which they allow meetups to book. And plenty of people ranging from families to students walk from their detached homes to chill. I know that not all Starbucks are like that (one NYC location had a filthy bathroom, one in San Bruno is always packed with inventory boxes and people) but I think they were able to foster a community and place of comfort for their cafe.
Without VPN, the traceroute shows a direct connection to the destination. It's quite literally the next hop on the network.

7 hu-0-10-0-1-pe04.56marietta.ga.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.83.182) 22.233 ms 11.978 ms 10.577 ms
8 a104-72-128-31.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (104.72.128.31) 11.783 ms 11.075 ms 18.287 ms

With VPN, it's Comcast -> Corp -> ATT -> Netflix/Akamai. That's a rather longer route.
That's very short-sighted and reactionary. Shame on them. What about the every-other-day Beijing/Shanghai smog scare?
Yeah, it's not a perfect fit but quite a few GUIs these days are built on OpenGL.

Also nothing keeping the performance critical stuff being delegated out to a NIF.
I would quit just by reading this kind of terminology. "Day One", "The Offer", is this a company or a cult?
1. Suppose that I run a subscription music service, and I have no relationship with T-Mobile other than the fact that some of my customers use T-Mobile to access my service.

I track each of my customer's usage, figure out from IP addresses how much of their usage was on their T-Mobile connection, and rebate them my estimate of what T-Mobile will charge them for that usage.

Is there a problem with this? If so, how would you address it?

2. Similar to #1, except now my subscription service includes a bandwidth limit. A given subscription plan is allowed a specified amount of music data per month from my servers. Again, I have no relationship with T-Mobile or any other carrier other than some of my customers using those carriers to access my servers.

Each month I buy each customer a prepaid data card for their carrier with sufficient bandwidth to cover one month of their subscription to my service.

Is there a problem? If so, how would you address it?
S-Ketamine injected through the ear drum, into the middle ear, is currently undergoing phase III trials as a treatment for noise or infection induced tinnitus.

Chronic tinnitus is currently a condition which if one were to go to the doctor and ask for a cure one would be told to get used to it as there is not much that can be done.

The pace of medical and biotech advancement is increasing as the FDA has relaxed a bit and better understanding of human biology is creating cures for what once were incurable diseases. Exciting times, but not fast enough for me.

The most interesting question for me these days: How can we 10x the number of dollars and scientists engaged in medical research, and then 10x that?