skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Really? 66 different phones? Is this entire industry, except for Apple, run by imbeciles?

Out of curiosity, I went to find out how many variants Apple is currently selling[1] (model, color, storage). I counted 42 distinct combinations you could possibly choose! I guess not even Apple learned from 'St. Steven', or he was wrong.

Removing the color axis whittles down the model/memory combination to a more manageable 12 options - but the point remains.

1. http://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/
I don't think Palantir should be shamed for this. It's laudable that they invested in penetration testing - better they find out this way than by an actual APT/hacking group.
And if this were metric, it would be a 5 by 10.

(If you can't figure out what fraction of a metre this is, let me know, and I'll try to help you out.)
Isn't the problem squatters sitting on domains for free via domain tasting?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting
Architects and Carpenters use inches and feet because they're constantly dividing by 2,3,4, and 6.

Converting to miles is not practical.
What I use to stream music off Amazon's S3. https://github.com/etopian/amazon-s3-music-player

I have given up on the concept that any third party service can provide music streaming for any significant length of time.
My understanding is that these drugs were being shipped from legitamate pharmacies (not some warehouse or personal residence) and that Fedex has a metric ton of legitamate prescription drug shipping business.

So they are faced with the challenge of trying to identify which packages (of which they don't know the details of the contents) are legal and illegal. Quite difficult, so they ask the gov't to tell them which ones are the bad actors and the gov't refuses.

Good for them for fighting the charges.
Ask anyone form the UK their height, weight, or for a glass of beer. Feet/inches, stone (America never really adopted that) and some scale of pint would be the reply.

Yet ask them to do a calculation in these measurements would result in looks of scorn, "THAT'S INSANE' in the words of Moss from IT Crowd.

Because we calculate in metric, and that's because all textbooks post late 70s were in metric and 'new pence' [1].

Fahrenheit is largely dead as a common measurement in day-to-day conversation, pint the least likely to disappear, as it's treated as a countable unit, nor an interval scale; on that matter, probably stone too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_(British_pre-decimal_coi...
I'd love to be able to have the experience of writing all of the code for myself.

Just a C compiler and a text editor and needing to build a world around me.

Would be fun.
> While I agree that it probably matters most whatever you
> were brought up with, Fahrenheit is a smaller unit of measure,
> and, as a result, more precise.

Personally I've never needed or cared to know the outside temperature finer than a Celsius degree.

If you ever did have a need for something 'more precise', please remember:

https://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/decimal-point.html
Typing Test – Check Your Speed and Practice, WPM
We're not talking NIMBY San Francisco with extreme resistance to anything

Actually, NYC is little better: http://www.city-journal.org/html/preservation-follies-13279.... or see the graph here: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/11/a-tale-o....
As a consumer/dependent-based institution which benefits from increased control strives for growth and succeeds, eventually you reach a point where the most benefit to the institution can best be achieved using less literate followers/subjects.
Sounds like it.

Then again all I've ever heard about iCloud Core Data is you can't use it because it isn't anywhere near reliable enough.
Oh, I dunno. If its orbit is currently stable, then all you'd need to do is increase its velocity, whenever you add mass.

It might be a good object to seed with lunar landfill.

I'm thinking it could be like the outer space version of Sealand.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Fort_Roughs
Fun to play something I used to do when I first started learning about computers. Back then 60 WPM seems unachievable. I just hit "Speed: 103.29WPM with Accuracy: 100.00%" ....

what did you get?
I bet an analysis like that will find a ton of code that shouldn't be abstracted. Maybe at some compilation level more optimization can be done. But perfectly optimized code is likely much less maintainable.
Nevertheless, it would be very revealing and educational.
> The reason for this fundamental conclusion is as follows. All instances of smart contract theft or loss – in fact, the very definition of smart contract theft or loss, is fundamentally about differences between implementation and intent.

This is, I think, to its core the fundamental problem with any kind of rigid language in contracts. It's nice to see an acknowledgement of its existence, but disappointing to see no acknowledgement of its severity. We see this all the time, not just in code, but in law and policy as well: an overly-prescriptive law can be just as problematic as an overly-vague one. And imperatively written smart contracts are about as prescriptive as you can get.

This is of course in addition to another critical shortcoming for smart contracts: they are capable only of interacting with informational assets (of which "money" is a subset). You can't possibly create a smart contract to purchase a house, because at the end of the day the person that physically occupies the house is in the position of power. Any smart contract enforcement mechanism would necessarily rely upon some outside system, which defeats the whole purpose of the thing in the first place.

I have high hopes for cryptocurrencies, in no small part because they inherently deal with only information (again, money is a subset thereof). But I'll be honest: I remain extremely skeptical that smart contracts as we currently understand them will ever see general adoption. It strikes me as an emotionally understandable, but rationally ill-advised, radical departure from hundreds of years of political philosophy and sociology... not in a way that inspires the term "disruption", but rather in a way that evokes "out of the frying pan, and into a boiling pot of lava". I'm all for "a better contracts system", but given that a contract (even one with a non-human entity) is by its very definition a social instrument, I just fail to see a reasonable way forward for what is essentially contractual bytecode.
2 inches is a very useful measure for a lot of things. I know that the middle digit on my little finger is an inch, and my foot is actually a foot long. I have no idea what 5mm looks like unless I convert it.

Also, don't forget that wonderful measure of area, the acre. I have no idea how big a hectare is, only that it's less than an acre. And there are 640 acres to a square mile, which is convenient if you grew up in farm country where there is a road pretty much every mile.

I won't bore you with gallons, chains, rods, furlongs, or hundredweights (American or Imperial).
What a fascinating article! I wonder if the reaction to it is simply a latex reaction?
The P112 kit seems better...

http://661.org/p112

It's a nice cp/m kit and can also run a version of UNIX http://p112.sourceforge.net/uzidoc.html
"Incremental Aggregation" is just UPDATE (new value = old value + JOIN value), right? If so, yes :)
Why would someone bother to speak these languages instead of standardizing on eg English or Spanish:

Albanian, Armenian, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Estonian, Georgian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian

It makes absolutely no sense and is a large economic detriment. It leads to dramatic inefficiencies in communication and attempts to form common markets. Yet nobody dares to seriously confront ending the wildly inefficient system of using dozens of languages across Europe. Every excuse in the book is made as to why dozens of languages should be taught and maintained, it still rationally makes no sense. The point is, people do things out of custom, out of comfort, out of laziness, for all sorts of reasons that are not logical.
I feel like I missed out on something big, having never heard about this in my life. As big as if I'd never heard of this unused (for us) Fahrenheit system, except in this case base 12 is objectively superior.

I can count binary on my fingers and get much further than with decimal obviously, but it's not very practical or easy to learn. This makes fantastic sense and sounds almost as easy as decimal, the only difference being that it goes a few digits further.
For this particular cpu, a good read is [0].

[0] https://github.com/marioaugustorama/uzix-kernel/blob/master/...
Yep, around 2 milliseconds for most programs

https://sli.mg/1RmNsB
Oh, I can play this game!

"There are two types of countries in the world; those who have some sort of national paid law for new parent(s), and those that have been to the Moon (1)"

(1) and Lesotho. I don't think any country starting with an "L" has gotten to the moon.

"There are two types of countries in the world: those that use the metric system and those that have not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (2)"

(2) And Somalia.

For some more cherry-picking: "Only Communist countries have managed to put rovers on the Moon or land probes on Venus."
Apple, Google: Why do I have to move my thumb so much
Wouldn't it be easier and more beautiful if the screen was arranged bottom right to top left instead of top left to bottom right - the way my thumb moves, my most important input thingy?

Just order all icons that way and nudge app developers to put important buttons in thumb's reach - and not as far away as possible as it's being done almost always today.
i know i don't understand the specific differences between those guns to understand it.

(i didn't downvote because of i that. I just found it to be a poor one)
Turkey is giving them a true refugee status rather than allowing them to arbitrarily seek asylum, Turkey is actually completely abiding by the UN convention on refugees while the EU are playing by their own rules.
UtahWatch evaluates and rates the HTTPS support of almost 300 Utah websites
Ensure kdbus isn't used
> “It’s strange to have made something that hates you.”

Welcome to the world of being a parent.
It is fun: but I like this kind Bonzai tree thing which is not pactical but a relaxing but challenging experience. And it feel really nice to actually really understand everything for a change.
In fact, a heap of JWT libraries had massive vulnerabilities in them not that long ago, that mean you could easily forge JWTs.
Why 10 Minute Workout for Abs Is More Than Enough
The game is very latency sensitive and it makes complete sense to use a cloud and distribute the servers based on the user load : locations and that's what he plans to do as mentioned in the article.
Cherry picking you say? In fact the US put a rover on the moon nearly half a century ago. A human driven rover at that:

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

Here's a beautiful photo of it:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Ap...
Hopefully the parent of your post was joking - the site he linked to is a "joke" site - but either way, it's misleading and unhelpful (particularly to non-English speakers) to pretend that "begs the question" was used incorrectly there by tehabe. It wasn't.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/beg-the-q...

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/beg-the...

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beg%20the%20questi...
The Merge sort algorithm
As someone who's personal domain is my own name, I highly dislike this idea. It hosts my email identity and personal cloud, and would be a pain (and insult) to give up.

And I've had requests for it. Quite a lot of requests, even though it's not a very common name. What would follow, $100 moving to $1000, $1000 moving to $10000? Offer me $100k and I'll not give it up. For companies that own a trademark, this would also be an issue, because trademarks are not general, but product specific, see nissan.com
If that's the case why not just use a flashlight? The thrust that is given out by photons is over 1 order of magnitude less than what we are getting from the EM drive.

Unless these are some kind of special photons which would mean much bigger news to the world of physics than a slightly more efficient photon rocket.

I would love to be able to dismiss this paper but the University of Helsinki is a fairly reputable university, and this paper just makes me want to scratch my head because the physics is more or less on the level i can comprehend but I've read it twice now and I still keep thinking "Whaaaa?".
I don't think they have existed for longer than what your threshold would be.
I found references in markdown incredibly simple. Using BibTex or CSL styled JSON objects. Then just chose the CSL style your institution prefers and run it through pandoc. Gives me html, latex, pdf, ePub, and even docbook or TEI for those with an XML fetish.

....but image support. Ugh don't get me started. Thankfully we use it right now for simple articles so the figure doesn't need to do much.
I'm working on something similar. I just got the display working: http://www.exusiae.com/blog/thortron.html
Except that a "2x4" is typically 1½ × 3½ . Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumber#North_American_softwood... :

> a "2x4" board historically started out as a green, rough board actually 2 by 4 inches (51 mm × 102 mm). After drying and planing, it would be smaller, by a nonstandard amount. Today, a "2x4" board starts out as something smaller than 2 inches by 4 inches and not specified by standards, and after drying and planing is reliably 1½ by 3½ inches (38 mm × 89 mm).
Show HN: Apache Beam with Docker
Apache Beam has recently released its first version [1].

I'm following the project with great interest and used it in the past [2].

The project itself is pretty solid despite being so new (not surprisingly, as it's a spin-off of Google Dataflow). Currently, there's a bit of a lack of tooling and precise documentation on how to get started.

I've created this docker image (and related starter repo) to deploy a cluster with Beam and some examples pre-packaged and ready to run. I'll probably write a bit more extensively in the next days/weeks, showing how to run more complex examples than just this basic WordCount.

Hope you find this useful!

[1] https://beam.incubator.apache.org/beam/release/2016/06/15/fi...

[2] http://oscarsdata.github.io/
If the intent of the DAO was to create a decentralized system that people could buy into so that they can vote/participate in investment opportunities presented by other members, then the big question I have is why was the system implemented in such a way as to hold all investment funds up front?

Wouldn't a more secure implementation have allowed members to buy in for a nominal fee and keep their investment funds outside of the DAO until they voted/participated in a specific contract/investment opportunity?
No, it is not typical physics paper (physicist here). Little is clearly defined. E.g. phase shift in what --- if the meaning is the same as in standard EM/QED, what is it the authors exactly propose (probably they don't work in this framework if they reject photon number change), and can the replacement they propose predict something correctly? Overall, the paper reads like a word salad, as the explanations are all over the place.

At least the second author of the paper is known also for other bunk, so grains of salt recommended.
Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry
Can't Stop the Feeling Dance Remake by Salt and Pepper
Absolutely right. My apologies. I was thinking robots only.

So, what about "more communist countries have succeeded in [said missions] than non-communist ones"?
multi-signature wallets
Isn't that largely the point of the Material action menu, so you have a thing in the lower right corner (near the usual resting position of your thumb), that either does the new or add function, or spills out frequent actions used in that app?
"System" makes it sound a lot more cohesive than it is. It's more a "collection" than a "system".
This probably won't be a popular opinion, but it seems like Google/Facebook/etc are entrenched too deeply in this incarnation of the web to be displaced any time soon.

They seem to understand where they are too - it goes beyond just buying out competitors. Look at Facebook's Internet Lite plan for India.
The Pentagon’s Cybersecurity Priorities Haven’t Changed in a Decade
Companies hire M.B.A.'s and consulting firms because management is so hard. Alas, I think the fundamental reason for this is that the human psyche was designed by evolution to operate in small foraging bands, not large, hierarchical organizations, and it is really hard to get anything so unnatural to work very well.
Basic income a sellout of the american dream; critiques YC basic income research
The thing about seeking rent, is that's domain names are not a limited resource, even .COM. Domain squatters are seeking rent, but not in a traditional sense of a limited amount of land.

A creative individual can come up with a new, memorable name. If you have a service about pets, then pets.com doesn't have to be your name.

For example, a friend really wanted [firstname][lastname].com, but there happened to be a hugely popular singer with this name, so he went with 1[firstname].com, resulting in a short, catchy registration.

In terms of land, you can't just create it (and in terms of reclaiming land from the sea for example, that land is considered capital).
There was a solution to that situation proposed here[0] where you keep using session tokens on the user end (so you can still do stuff like revoke sessions), but convert that to a signed token for all internal API calls.

[0] http://cryto.net/%7Ejoepie91/blog/2016/06/19/stop-using-jwt-...
When was a closed form found? Last I checked, there was none. (Quickly googling shows that this is still the case.)
OT: AK is more reliable than AR may not be true:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX73uXs3xGU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAneTFiz5WU
There should be an easy way through which you can complain against the squatters online. Maybe Google should act as a mediator here as they can blacklist any domain from their searches and thus hold about as much power as the registrars/ICANN.

In any case, what happened afterwards? Did you get back your domain or is it still being squatted?
Exactly. And has been pointed out elsewhere, pretty much every large tech firm does red-team/blue-team tests these days. It's just that we don't hear about the vulnerabilities that are found at those other firms.
>> I'm unclear - is this your parents' fault?

No, it's hindsight and regret. It's funny because it would be similar to picking that stock, yet the same poster says his parents lost a lot by picking stocks so apparently that's a bad idea. It's easy to get confused about that when "you worked there" as if that automatically should have given you insider information about a 15x increase in the stock price. No, picking individual stocks is not usually a good idea and Enron taught the lesson about investing in your employer - if they go down you have no income and no savings.
My belief is that, after working in a couple of dysfunctional companies, organization design with proper work and communication processes, and effective management, is the "secret" to company success. Almost no one seems to understand what management is and that it is a job in itself, just like being a designer or engineer is.

That being said, I've studied management and agree that as it's being taught it is indeed inane. Currently, I'm learning how to not manage a company by working as a grunt and being managed. I think this experience will be very valuable in the future as I intent to start a company.
Yes that is the main difference along with top level return statements
[Beta] Pirates War Is Recruiting iOS Beta Testers
> anti-military types

You may as well label them Nogoodniks and be done with it.
Direct Link to Application : http://goo.gl/zaSTzr
There have been many civilian, international contributions to building the modern Internet.
> Look at Facebook's Internet Lite plan for India.

Which was a spectacular failure...
No subliminal message or anything.
In the short term, you are likely right. But do you remember the days when some folks thought society might not need anything more than CompuServe, prodigy, earthling.net, aol? Long term I am hopeful about decentralization.
You just package the JVM with the application itself. Create a .bat/.exe/.sh/binary file that calls the JVM with your program as the argument. It's simple, but it will increase the download size of your program significantly (unless your program is huge - then it doesn't matter)
Ah, the bullshit american dream.

Now I have to look up who it was with the "They call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it" line. A good line. Internet, at least, believes it's from George Carlin.
React native is native
This is such bad PR - probably leaked maliciously.
4 Unique Ways Uber, Twitter, PayPal, and Hubspot Use Apache Mesos
For me, the major impact of procgen is not the effort or cost, but the translation of skillset. I can handle gigantic, difficult algorithm design problems, and still maintain engagement and happiness. If I have to do even rudimentary art or level-editing tasks for any length of time, I quickly become miserable and quit.

Although, I do also happen to believe that ultimately, procgen has much more absolute potential than hand-made content. Minecraft is only 6 years old, and imo people have barely begun to expand on the basic concept.
Too bad, the owner of Nissan Computers had to go through a lot of hardships[1], just because his family name happened to be the same as that of a crony capitalist.

Such stories make me sad, especially since there are extremely few who could empathize with those who suffered and even understand the problem faced by them. I really hope there are people in the US who would support Mr. Uzi Nissan.

[1]: http://www.nissan.com/Lawsuit/The_Story.php
Trying to create a safe harbor for apparently sexist men is not "something else".

Sure, you don't have to list anti-sexist accomplishments. But if you want to be read as somebody who has a balanced approach to the topic, you have to demonstrate that balance.
Why would an downstream project take the time to make sure an implementation of a dependency isn't used?
This is the thing. With the same background and education, I am a nobody when I am Han, and I am speaking for myself, not representing anyone. That would not be the case when I am Tibetan. I would be given a platform to broadcast my dissatisfaction with Chinese government, so on and so forth.

What does this tell you?
What I think might be useful is something like the Rust borrow checker but it would be a currency ownership checker which would check for currency ownership at compile time.
Take a pair of parallel wires carrying a current and with a potential difference such that the power flows left to right. Calculate the Poynting vector everywhere along a plane perpendicular to the wires, and you'll find that the power flux is distributed across the plane and that there's a momentum flux, i.e. a force. If you use AC or more complicated shapes, the calculation gets gnarlier.
They don't do that in the US.

On the other hand, in Canada, they do say "temperatures will be in the teens this morning" all the time on the radio without elaborating further.

But...since you brought it up, I also find it's much easier to get in the appropriate lane when the exits (etc) are indicated one mile in advance (~1 minute driving time) than 1 km (~30 seconds). 2km warning would be fine too, but since it's not a round number, they tend not to be signed that way....