skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All true.

To give perspective on where I was coming from: from the (human) perspective of looking at noise in 1/sqrt(Hz) units, the signals are actually less-than-averaged if they're less than a second in duration.

It's not like a continuous-wave source where one can integrate for months and hammer down the uncertainty to far lower strain values.
Our current ticket tracker is Project Issue (the same one used by Drupal.org, sort of, though they seem to still be running a custom version). I dislike it a lot, and it was a tremendous pain in the ass to migrate from the Drupal 6 version to the Drupal 7 version. I'm hesitant to invest any more time in Drupal-based solutions to things because of how painful our D6 to D7 migration has been and how buggy and incomplete almost every module we use has been. (And, with most developers now focusing on Drupal 8, I don't expect any of these problems to ever get fixed in Drupal 7.)

But, this looks really nice, and since I'm stuck with Drupal for the foreseeable future (I can't afford to stop everything to do another migration at this point), I will likely look into how difficult migrating our tickets from Project Issue would be. I don't suppose there's already a migration for that?

Also, using a third party for notifications as you're doing is problematic; probably even a deal breaker, for us. Though, I understand the desire to not use Drupal notifications, as they're among the most broken parts of the system and have a clumsy API and very weak solutions to common things like bounce processing and mailed replies.

Finally, I'm super impressed by how fast some experienced Drupal folks can whip something up. I struggle for days or weeks to do anything with it. It's such a large system, and it always seems to take so much code to do even basic stuff (and forms API in Drupal is deeply ugly and verbose). That's my roundabout away of congratulating you for making something awesome in a very short amount of time.

Edit: You mention forums as a feature of this. Is that the standard Drupal forum module or something else?
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Your server is up for sale on xDedic, for as little as $6
Sorry, I misread your previous comment... I'm a bit more caffeinated now.

> legally-owned and purchased automatic weapons simply aren't used in crime

Yeah, there's a problem with a lot of the news articles released mislabeling semi-automatic weapons as automatic. Even the more broad/vague "assault weapons" are hardly used (i.e., 1-2% of crimes).
Perhaps, but I can also see the middleman as a value add.

When I paid Netflix and could see most anything, it was great, though a few things I couldn't see. Now I pay Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, pay for devices (e.g. Roku) to access them, have to hop accounts, and STILL can't see everything. Heck, Netflix's library has gotten less reliable. ("Want to see Groundhog day? let's see if it's currently in or out of catalog").

Middlemen aren't evil. Middlemen that want to gouge money WITHOUT providing value coughcoughRIAAcough* aren't evil either, but they're a lot less "good".

Frankly, I'm a fan of competition, and in general when competition revolves around trying to offer more value to consumers, it's a bunch of winning (except for the companies that fall behind). Too often we see a competition to AVOID that scenario (Coke/pepsi & exclusive deals, everything about Comcast, HFT, the examples are numerous).
Unchecked vigilantism is no different than terrorism.
I found this comment on youtube by asperous helpful:
If you are on a mac you can go under accessibility -> sound -> play stereo as mono. This will balance the sound.﻿
Could black holes lose their mass through the propagation (generation?) of gravitational waves?
So how would you raw-structure a performance critical (audio) program that needs some flexible path for the data processing, like with a 128 sample buffer and about 3-10 choices along the processing path. Processing path should be switchable per buffer frequency.
The function pointers were the best solution i could come up with, but maybe that doesnt really eliminate branching cache misses and stalling and its impact on performance, but just hides it in plain-text.
> this is the moral equivalent of using newspaper as insulation: it’s fine until the completely anticipated calamity destroys everything you hold dear.

How... unnecessarily inflammatory. Hardlinked backups work remarkably well, and are incredibly simple to implement and understand. Of course they can be corrupted, but then again, so can every other form of backup in existence (that said, there are no protections built-in to a hardlinked backup).
that's not the kind of bundling people are talking about.
Apple on the other hand is collecting far more invasive data about keystrokes

Wait what?! Do you have any evidence of this or you just pulling this out of your butt?
I loved this game back in the day. Downloading even though I need to sign up, just for the memories.
Not so bad as that, but it is a large area, and it's a challenge for optical astronomers to detect a faint source in such a large patch of sky. It's about the size of your two palms held at arms length. (Or, 40 times the size of the full moon, but that sounds less optimistic.)
One of the things I've noticed is that this is very sensitive to the organizational context. How receptive is the organization to people wanting to increase seniority?
what about protecting against the physical host of the machine?
It's not only about the weight. An electric intermediate circuit can:

a) absorb braking energy - that's why I mentioned super-caps, because batteries can't ingest the vast amounts of energy that braking could theoretically produce (usually the brake power is 4x engine power, which means for a 250 kW motor a minimum brake power of 1 MW, and for sportscars likely muuuch more)

b) keep the engine, if not in idle (i.e. you're stuck in traffic), at its most fuel-efficient RPM range - this is something any cheap-ass scooter does, and every diesel-electro locomotive and ship, but no car! Not to mention it isn't just about fuel-efficiency, but also many exhaust gas treatments only work at peak performance under very specific driving conditions (esp. temperature).

The efficiency loss by conversion (97% and better in efficiency class IE4, see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektromotor#Wirkungsgrad_und_...) is, taking especially the recovered braking energy into account, smaller than the efficiency delta gained by loss of hundreds of kg of weight (batteries are heavier, yes, but they can also replace "dumb weights" needed before to keep the car on the ground in the "elk test").

Also, less parts that are prone to (dirt) failure, e.g. the power-loaded joints on FWD cars, clutches, bearings, the entire gearbox system, differentials (in 4WD/multi-WD systems!). And you save on tires because in curves the individual motors can adjust speed. If done well, it should be pretty cost-efficient (less stops in the shop), too.
Moonquakes exist too... I'd naively expect a lot less noise in space, and you don't have to worry about moon dust gumming up the works. And you can just lob three satellites up one at a time and arrange them more or less as you like, rather than having to deal with intervening geography.
> It's foolish to leap from an economy's development level to the intelligence or education of individuals within it.

A relative of mine is the CEO of the Fiji branch of a major multinational B2B services company.

Every few years, the regional headquarters in Australia would send over a guy from either Australia or New Zealand to manage some department. This would almost always end in disaster.

The problem was that they would always end up insulting clients. Clients were multi-million dollar corporations, but since they were usually family run businesses, their founders/CEO's often spoke poor english. I guess this is what made these (white) men assume that they were idiots and end up talking down to them. The one time it worked was when the guy they sent was Aussie, but had been raised in Papua New Guinea.

When this relative of mine became CEO, one of his first decisions was to ask HQ to send him a guy from their Sri Lanka office instead. It's been about five years now and they've had no more problems.
Is it? Sounds like an example of what I was praising: they tried it, and found that the economics wouldn't work -- surprisingly they needed to control more of the value chain (at least it's a surprise to me).
I like Samsung's hardware.

But they seem to have some serious organizational issues when it comes to software. Probably more at the top than at the bottom. Their software requirements and design process must be crap. Perhaps there are too few people in their leadership that understand software.

I don't think they're any danger for Apple/Google/Microsoft until they fix their leadership issues.

Maybe Samsung will end up being another Nokia.
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Good point. Future versions of the project could theoretically work with encrypted blobs, with the keys (which are significantly easier to keep in multiple physical locations) only known to the Internet Archive. This would probably require some architectural changes to the Archive and might be harder to scale, plus one of the goals of IA.BAK is to not be dependent on any Internet Archive resources other than the actual files.

Definitely something to think about down the road, but in the meantime there are plenty of public datasets to back up.
Yet another brilliant argument for still using the 3.5mm jack
Here Is the Good News (Nick Denton on Gawker's bankruptcy)
How will machine learning and NLP disrupt contract management?
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useradd -m deploy

2. "PasswordAuthentication no" probably won't work as you expect if UsePAM is on.
How many permutations? If not too many, maybe just compile them all.

Sometimes you do need to use function pointers. It's just if it's in a performance critical path, you might want to consider alternatives.
> Who are these people that aren't aware that taxes, shipping, and duties are a thing?

Not every international person knows what is usual in the US. For example in Germany prices are always including taxes.
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No, this is not mere clumsiness. Applebaum is acting out his massive, repressed rage toward women -- a rage that seeks to possess and control them. Until he deals with that, no amount of "smoothness" is going to fix the problem.
React Native is "learn once, write everywhere" as opposed to "write once, run everywhere."
> sometimes they cause problems (hello, Debian weak keys).

> until recently nobody was packaging Chromium for example.

To name one example, SlackBuilds.org has had Chromium since 2010, although admittedly that's not so long ago as the Debian weak key cockup, which was 2006.

Maybe your examples could use an upgrade to the latest stable version.
See also: Kugelblitzes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelblitz_%28astrophysics%29
What's more of a surprise is that there's a browser that has such a clumsy sounding feature as this "wand". Only power users are going to bother clicking a button just to help them fill in a form, or even know that's what the button does in the first place. That kind of manually activated feature seems to be completely against Chrome's style of minimalist UI, and for good reason, it will be one more confusing button for 90% of users to look at every day and be reminded that computers are complicated.

I wouldn't bother trying to work out some weird button, I'd just manually type my details again and again into every form and feel annoyed that the browser isn't remembering them like other browsers do.
"Improving quicktype predictions" => "sending keystrokes with randomized response"

https://www.engadget.com/2016/06/14/apple-differential-priva...
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To be fair, the exodus was more to do with them promoting paid content and less to do with the UI changes.
"Bad service" is the surface problem. Quoting from the article:

> The House of Representatives voted to cut TSA funding in 2011. Sequestration cut TSA funding in 2013.

> In 2014, Congress passed a TSA fare increase, and used the overwhelming majority of that not to fund the TSA, but to pay down the national debt. When the TSA fare went up in 2014 (as did the prices of tickets it was attached to), Congressional funding cuts to the TSA meant the TSA cut 3,500 screener positions. And in 2015, the House voted to increase TSA funding, but cut TSA employee pay.

Pay poorly, and you'll get poor service.

As for your proposal, who will pay for the extra overhead of two teams? Will small airports need twice the staff?
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They should've also noticed that you always have to get to Ben Gurion at least 3 hours before the flight because of security. I'm not complaining, but it's probably not what americans would want in a future TSA.
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Oh yeah, with daily baryon sweeps to keep the tribbles out!
Sidekiq was recently ported over to crystal and the speedups and memory usage improvements are amazing. There's also an officially supported heroku-buildpack so it can be deployed easily.

But there's a lot of breaking changes in the language (0.18 was released a few days ago with a few breaking changes). I would not use it for a long term project (yet). But for some personal project or prototypes, for example which you'd quickly set using Ruby/Sinatra, I'd choose Crystal/Kemal.
Any good technical reason why this video isnt viewable in chrome?
Not inverse square law, but simply inverse law.

As energy radiates outwards, it becomes diluted on a sphere that increases its surface area as r^2. Thus the local energy density goes with inverse square law in the distance to the observer. But we don't measure the local energy density of gravitational waves, but the local amplitude. And in wave mechanics energy is the square of the amplitude. So the amplitude goes down with 1/r.
AI-controlled trucks can drive nearly bumper-to-bumper, because there needn't be any reaction-time delay. If the lead truck hits the brakes, every other truck in the column can brake instantly, and with exactly the same pressure. It effectively becomes a single road train with no space in between. Messy junctions can be avoided as long as you stay on the highway proper and don't pass through cities; with this plan, you'd have short-haul truckers at either end for the first-and-last mile work, with the AIs handling the cross-country part.

As for accidents or malfunctions--why can't you stop a column of trucks in the breakdown lane? I'm assuming that the trucks would have at least limited self-parking ability, since that seems to be at least as easy as highway driving for a development standpoint.
Thanks, this makes sense.
Based on my experience at small companies and large corps, being a smooth-talking B-player gets you more money and fame than being a great "hacker". However, please, I beg you, always stay TRUE to yourself! The world doesn't need any more zombies trying to climb the corporate hell, the world doesn't need more arse-kissers, it doesn't need fake smiles and interest based "friendships", and it doesn't need more conforming sheep. Stay TRUE to yourself! Peace...
What's the underlying difference which causes a typical European security check to be swift (I don't remember spending more than 5 minutes on a security control for ages) and the TSA one to be awfully long?
I believe adding a ZIL device alleviates the low free space performance issue.
It might nice if there were some cloud vendor specific addendums. For example on rackspace you almost always want to install the monitoring daemon (it's actually fairly decent and small foot print).
Samsung is nothing like Apple - my brother worked for Samsung for almost 2 years at their headquarters in South Korea after graduate school & a post-doc (Chemistry) and he wonders how they get anything done. They underpay drastically, overwork people, and treat their employees like garbage because there's an effectively endless supply of Koreans willing to subject themselves to the awful conditions for the pride of working for Korea's biggest company. Every foreigner in R&D there bails after their contract is up for greener pastures. (basically anywhere but renewing).

I'm not an Apple fanboy by any means, but I'd bet on them to be more innovative & successful in the long run over Samsung.
Confirmed. Works for me now too. I must have been in one of those gaps in the arms race when I last experienced it.
Clicked one of the vote buttons while trying to hit reply, sorry if it was a down...

Most DB vendors forbid benchmarks, Oracle, IBM DB2, etc, they claim they can remove your rights to run the software if you publish them
You seem to have completely misunderstood my point.

> Well, you don't get to decide what people find natural, they do.

I am not contending that functional/declarative is a more natural way to think; I am saying that there is nothing inherently more natural about imperative programming. Since the latter comes from imitating the machine architecture up in the abstraction hierarchy, we should consider for a moment if this is really desirable.

> And deep below, computers work under a model that's anything but functional (assembly language is basically a big mutable state machine).

This is entirely irrelevant. Computers are highly stateful but the languages we design don't have to be stateful because of this. They have to meet the criterion of easily expressing the mental constructions we designate which I would definitely say is much better handled with statically typed functional programming languages.

> There is value in understanding both imperative and functional programming and applying each of them wherever they are the best fit...

We completely agree on this! Not all problems are best solved with functional languages (e.g., things actually involving the machine).

> there are some real world situations where sticking to immutability is a terrible choice (e.g. neural networks).

I don't see why immutability is a terrible choice for neural networks? Could you elaborate on this? It might be that almost all neural network implementations have been imperative so you have come to accept that as more normal.
It seems that it happens when they merge, since:

> The cataclysmic event saw the black holes, one eight times more massive than the sun, the other 14 times more massive, merge into one about 21 times heavier than the sun. In the process, energy equivalent to the mass of the sun radiated into space as gravitational waves.

So the final black hole had rather less mass than the sum of the original two.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/15/gravitationa...
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As it's just public engagement, I don't see that it's a critical problem that the papers are perfectly representative of the best work. It's not for tenure.

You could go crazy setting up some kind of voting system, or you could just get on with it and get some widely respected people to pick some papers, which is what they've done here.
jai, a language for game developers without gc from Jonathan Blow
I really like parinfer for this, too. After switching to it, I've had a great time using it.
One of some ambient noise generators
Hard links to directories are weird enough that many modern filesystems (including APFS) don't support them. Yes the language is perhaps unnecessarily colorful; just trying to keep things interesting.
Pasting the introduction here.

> Non-technical introduction. ActBlue is a non-profit that organizes fundraising efforts for Democratic causes; so far they have facilitated over a billion dollars in donations. This page details a security vulnerability in the ActBlue donation system.

> tl;dr This vulnerability affects over three million individuals who have donated to a Democratic cause using ActBlue Express Lane. Specifically, the ActBlue donation system can be exploited to appropriate false donations towards either the Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders campaigns. Using cross-site request forgery, previous donors can be tricked into donating to other Democratic candidates or causes.
We use the WordFence module to block brute force attacks, seems to work fine.

I cannot believe that Wordpress still ships without basic rate limiting on its login form.
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> Recently, Delta airlines designed and built, in only 2 months, a new style of TSA screening points that moves 30% faster [2].

Note that such security layouts are pretty much standard issue for any new installation in Europe, and have been for coming on for a decade now. (Also, in Europe, my experience is the belts are typically longer so you always have had multiple people loading trays at once, which I rarely see in the US.)
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Would you ever want autocomplete on, say, a field where you're inputting a 2FA response? Probably not, since any suggestions would be useless.

I find the workaround of "just put some other random bullshit for the value" hilarious. And once developers start over-abusing that as well (they will), then what's the plan?
> Ultimately, the TSA’s airport screening exists as the second-to-last line of defense for a threat that is astoundingly rare.

It didn't used to be that rare before the FAA required screening measures to be implemented: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/world/middleeast/airline-h... ("By the mid-1970s, at least 150 planes had been 'skyjacked' in the United States alone.") The first U.S. hijacking was in 1961,[1] so we're talking roughly 10 per year in the U.S. before modern aviation security.

It would be fair to point out that most of the decrease happened due to pre-TSA screening measures. But it would also be fair to point out that it's hard to separate how much of the delays post-TSA are due to the TSA itself and how much are due to the massive increase in US passengers and concomitant overloading of airport capacity.

[1] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/20/when-hijack...
The article doesn't mention that Israeli screeners are highly trained. There's a term of art in law enforcement, "hinky", which denotes the red flag that LEO's develop with experience. To fly in Israel, one stops in a bombproof room and is merely questioned by professionals, who will pull you aside if you are hinky.

The underwear bomber's father was worried that he was violent and crazy. He CONTACTED THE US STATE DEPT about his son, out of concern. His son the bomber traveled internationally to the US, without any suitcases. He was as hinky as you could hope to find.

Our relatively untrained TSA is nearly useless; at best it is security theater. I would be heavily against the underwear bomber sneaking by professionals successfully.

Also, I don't see how airplanes are not such a rich target any more. Killing a lot of people without access to the cockpit is challenging (they are sealed in the US now). A McDonald's employee could fare much better with a slow poison I suppose.

Credit where due: a great deal of this post is gleaned from Bruce Schneier writings.
> until recently nobody was packaging Chromium for example.

How recent is "recently" ? Only Fedora and it's downstream distros do not ship Chromium. Everyone else has been packaging it for a few years now.
Very excited about this! We're on the same path of Slack+ Discourse. We tried switching chat to other tools that would be more fit for purpose but just couldn't drive engagement. Slack is too sticky.

I'm planning to take this bot for a spin today. Aside from that, it's just great to hear there are other companies feeling the same pains as we are.
Speed isn't the issue here. Having an ethernet port is.
And NTFS was based on HPFS