skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You must remember that also before EME, Netflix & co. were using DRM.

EME makes it possible to view the DRM'd content (that is there with or without EME) without installing horrible and unaccessible generic binary add ons (Silverlight, Flash) and thus gives more freedom to users. Now a Netflix heavy user can choose to consume the content on Linux, too.
This is really amazing, but I still can't stop to think why there is no good text editor (with plugins like ST or atom) on IOS or Android
I feel like LZFSE is too little, too late. It would be great to have a proper comparison, but Zstd is stable, and offers a superior compression ratio with compression and decompression speeds that seem on par with LZFSE.

And Zstd is not proprietary. (This issue is relevant in this regard: https://github.com/lzfse/lzfse/issues/21)

https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd

Edit: here is a quick comparison I did on Linux with Project Gutemberg's webster (http://sun.aei.polsl.pl/~sdeor/corpus/webster.bz2).

$ time ./lzfse-master/build/bin/lzfse -encode -i webster -o webster.lzfse
real 0m1.885s
user 0m1.860s
sys 0m0.024s

$ time ./zstd-master/programs/zstd webster -8 -f -o webster.zstd
webster : 25.98% (41458703 =>10772836 bytes, webster.zstd)
real 0m1.700s
user 0m1.660s
sys 0m0.036s

$ ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 tyl tyl 12209496 Jul 7 16:26 webster.lzfse
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tyl tyl 10772836 Jul 7 16:31 webster.zstd

$ time ./lzfse-master/build/bin/lzfse -decode -i webster.lzfse -o /dev/null
real 0m0.127s
user 0m0.112s
sys 0m0.012s

$ time ./zstd-master/programs/zstd -d webster.zstd -o /dev/null
webster.zstd : 41458703 bytes
real 0m0.116s
user 0m0.112s
sys 0m0.000s

LZFSE's -h option doesn't show a flag to tweak compression. Zstd's default -1 compression is super-fast, but obviously not optimal. Its -8 is the closest I got to LZFSE's compression speed; its -4 was the closest to LZFSE's compression ratio, with a speed of 0m0.527s real compression, 0m0.101s real decompression.
It happens quite frequently because of the way ad networks work. Ads are not vetted or regulated in any meaningful way and often ad networks will serve up ads from other networks so a content provider has no way of knowing the true source of the ads they're serving.

There's been a violation of the trust between content providers and consumers. Consumers have found ad blockers as a means to protect themselves and it's up to providers to now come up with a safer arrangement.
unintentional incidents regarding malware served by
3rd party networks

If I buy some burger patties from X-mart and there are razor blades in them, I don't give a shit about whether it was a party ten levels down their supply chain or if this is the only way they can make the level of profit they want. I'm just going to stop eating their burgers.
Facebook unveils OpenCellular, its open-source wireless access platform
I wonder if this was submitted after reading today's submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12047234) about (real) Portia spiders and googling the subject.
From the ones I've used I would say Haskell. I like Elixir too, but Haskell is typed so I guess it makes it more "expressive" (or "safe", not sure what's the right term here).
Not that I fully advocate for what Heinlein believed when he wrote Starship troopers, but with the US election and the Brexit vote, I found some of the quotes pertinent to the current way people approach voting and democracy.

>"...those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted . . . and get it, without toil, without sweat, without tears.”

Now, Heinlein argued for a restrictive vote based on civil service, perhaps best exemplified by another quote from the book “Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part . . . and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.” Despite his strong libertarian beliefs, there wasn't really much in terms of traditional politics that Heinlein promoted as he wrote this, aside from the fact that citizens should work to better their country.

While I don't think restricting the vote is the right answer, I do think this mentality of a full citizen is probably a good one for people to have before they vote. Not an intelligence test, not even an issues test (though also probably an okay idea), but instead just can you be relied on to be thinking about someone besides yourself.

Heinlein doesn't flesh this out much further than "man it'd be great if we cared more for our nation", and I am not smart enough to say what this looks like apolitically either, but it's a nice dream.
>Ok, it may be RAID1+0 but, what about data corruptions?

ZFS.
why not just have an optional pdf download with the 20000 vectors, and how much they were weighted.
I've also heard (uninformed) people speculate that it's called R because r is the standard notation for a correlation coefficient.
Note sure of the state of the art with respect to any of your questions, but you may find these links interesting:

There's a project to simulate a nematode worm - http://www.openworm.org/

A bit more speculative but super interesting -
http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/brain-emulation-roadmap-report.pdf
Complexion Reduction: A New Trend in Mobile Design – SWARM Thoughts
Yeah I thought the same thing. Although, if Telegram is any indication, mass market is not a matter of how strong your implementation is, more of a marketing/business problem to be solved.
Nope. Just Craps.
How many calories should you eat per day?
Tldr: Not much changes.

75% of Britain's space funding goes to, and work comes from, the ESA, which is seperate from the EU. This won't change.

The next biggest chunk is weather satelites, which are also not a part of the EU.

The possible change is the Galileo GPS system, which is run by the ESA but owned by the EU. However, given that Britain has been contributing funding for Galileo, I'm guess those involved in the project would like to see the British money continue to come in. There will probably be a seperate agreement covering continued funding from Briain in exchange for continued work on the satellites. (Other, non-EU countries have such a deal)
And I responded to the Guardian's request by subscribing. (And still blocking)

But I'm not going to do that for everything. Just the ones I think are worth paying for. You know, like I used to do for magazines. And during that time, I also read free magazines (the alternative papers that most big towns have).

Actually, that's kind of interesting. Those free alternatives are still around, and I still read them, on and offline. I haven't touched a physical magazine or newspaper in years.
I recently wrote a Greasemonkey script to do this - it changes the link text background to yellow and disables the click.

If anyone is interested, the code is posted here: http://scottlilly.com/greasemonkey-block-links-to-annoying-w....
I agree with you. The worst part is that most of the links in front page are from these big média players that have paywalls and adblockers blockers. A strange shift in HN profile.
Trump's business growth compared to Apple, McDonald's
I've followed the blackphone for a while with quite a bit of interest, and TBH I didn't get a strong indication that they knew who their target market was. BP1 was aimed at individuals I think, and when they realised they weren't selling like hotcakes decided that enterprise may be a better chance for BP2?
This explanation is solid and speaks loudly to the benefits of right to explanation. Because if the explanation is "We've found signal in the data that correlates strongly with social biases (example: surname analysis---of course there's increased risk, if the lender is operating in a country where people don't trust anyone whose name starts with "Mc", for example), and we can use that signal to basically ethnically profile without having to admit that we're ethnically profiling..." that's bad, and the law may address it.

"Redlining" practices aren't bad because they don't economically work. They do economically work; if one demographic is societally disadvantaged, you don't do your firm any short-run favors by catering to them, because they aren't where the money is. They're bad because they work by unfairly shifting the pie away from people who don't actually deserve to have the pie shifted away from them---it's a variant on "sins of the fathers" reasoning to bias on categories like surname, or race, or demographics that correlate strongly with those demographics (like geography, in cities in the United States). There are moral reasons to not allow those practices to get codified into algorithms so the people using them can excuse bad behavior as "just following the computer's orders."
While "noli me tangere" is the Biblical phrase this alludes to, "noli se tangere" would mean in context "don't touch this." It's not that the programmer misremembered "noli me tangere" but that he played on the reference.
Sounds like a limitation of their business model.
> is there any conceivable way we can get some use of it

I wonder whether there's any way of getting it into one of the autopilots for Kerbal Space Program.
Is it possible the author intended it to mean `don't touch this/it`, instead of `don't touch me`?
>> their models have 20,000 vectors in determining credit worthiness. How would you begin to break that down to something explainable?

Well, somehow they decided that their 20k-parameter model is accurate. They should at least be able to explain why they took that decision, even if the model itself is too complex.
Slavery and the limits of international criminal justice
SSTL was sold to EADS (Airbus) seven years ago [1]. Airbus is headquartered in the Netherlands with it's main office in France and so is still part of the EU [2].

1. http://www.sstl.co.uk/Press/EADS-Astrium-acquires-Surrey-Sat...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_Group
Making Faster Python Programs: Measure, Don't Guess [audio Interview]
My favorite meme has been erased from the internet by copyright claims
No doubt about it. The question is if it's worth it. Yes there is a risk - but a population that largely accepts risk from unhealthy eating or smoking should IMHO not be all that worried about the in comparison about the (a 2nd IMHO) small increase in risk when using MSE compared to an annoying product. Also, ones own behavior, like how do you handle or react to email attachments, how up-to-date do you keep your system, what websites do you visit (a 3rd IMHO) probably has a larger impact than your choice of anti-virus software.

In addition, if the anti-virus software annoys users enough they soon start ignoring its popups and always just click them away, so that they end up missing actual alerts.
> If you think about it from a network theory perspective, each of the browsers is only trying to be compatible with one other party (the specification) in this mode.

Sadly, it's usually the predominant browser (i.e. Chrome these days) that they're trying to maintain compatibility with and not the specification.
Thinking about Big Data – Part Two
If Snowden was concerned about taking 'smartest' decisions in this sense, he'll still be a well-paid CIA analyst.
I don't know about other people, but for me programming includes some googling, checking documentation, switching to terminal... basically a lot of alt-tabbing (and some copy-pasting). Can't imagine myself doing this comfortably on a tablet.
I remember Andy Glew discussing a little bit of the history of the behaviour of REP MOVS microcode in the comments of this stack overflow question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8858778/why-are-complicat...
The subscription is not to get rid of ads, it's to allow access past the N free articles per month.

I used to pay for someone to throw a newspaper in my driveway. They still had ads. In fact when I stopped paying, they still threw the newspaper, so they could say to their ad auditors that they had N viewers of ads.
Yes, but I think the author meant "don't touch this". 'Se' is third person, but reflexive, so it should be: "noli id tangere"
Yes, the hash is a way to track referrals without relying on the Referer header, especially in situations that don't involve such headers. (E.g., when you click on a link in an email, or post to a social site like HN.) I think you are right to strip the hash before posting, for your own privacy if for no other reason.
Killing Russian Criminal Law
The state of security
That's what you think you're buying, but that's not what they're selling.
Dumb Money Is Hurting the Blockchain
@FunTasKid: I hope we see can more software being made to help people work more harmoniously with however their brains work, rather than trying to change them to some norm...
I fully agree!

Moreover, I tend to see "make install" not as actual installation command (that's indeed the task of a package manager), but more of an "extract the relevant build results".

With that in mind, I prefer packages that have a clear "build destination" folder which is filled (and updated) by a plain "make", so that "make install" isn't even needed anymore, because installation then boils down to a trivial "cp -R" command.

This, of course, requires a disciplined separation of intermediate build results from the final build results. But that shouldn't be too hard. In fact, this may be simpler than writing down a good "make install" in the first place.
Samsung unveils world's first UFS memory cards
Analysing NLP Publication Patterns
> it shouldn't have been on the "pro-leave" campaigners to implement a plan

Problem with this is it raise the bar. Who controls the resources available for plan-making?

The same thing happens in research, where certain results can be suffocated through lack of funding.

The government that raised the referendum should have prepared for either result. Seems the government figured it wouldn't survive being in power with a brexit result anyway (and might not want to), so why allow a plan to happen - the more the next party struggles the better...
I think you got your signs reversed. The spider in question has extremely good vision.

"Jumping spiders already have excellent vision and Portia’s is ten times as good, making it sharper than most mammals."
It's an interesting idea, but the whole point of a logo is to establish/reinforce a unique identity.

Once the logo is no longer unique to a thing, I don't see much value in it.
Meh, its fearmongering.

The biggest issue right now is that Brussels won't clarify anything either way until they get the article 50 declaration from London.

Effectively it has turned into a staring contest, with the hope that London will brink first.
I think that is the most depressing part...
The third book, "The Children of the Sky" was actually really good. It spent a lot more time exploring the group minds of the Tines.
AWS Lumberyard Adds VR Support (Oculus Rift and HTC Vive) and HDR Support
I think some version of this is the single biggest issue of our time involving society or really any group of people with a problem.

Problems are getting more complex, societies are getting more informed and democratic, thereby exposing people to more and more problems. People are overwhelmed and have a shorter attention span for each issue. They feel like everything is getting worse, even though it really stays mostly the same. Easy and fast answers win, you can say whatever you want, there is no time for corrections, because everyone has moved on to the next issue.
Nobody here is able to prevent you from using Forbes or other similar sites. So, your analogy is way off base and that's why it sounds ridiculous to you.

It would be more accurate to compare this to "removing a restaurant from a single list of good restaurants because their food has a high chance of making you sick or making your computer download some malware".
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The Mesmerizing Architecture of Mosques (2014)
Could you speak a little more to the point about how you feel Elixir actually adds to the complexity of Erlang? Was that comment mostly referring to the addition of those new concepts you just mentioned? Or were you referring to something else that the language does under the hood that adds to the general complexity?
Take note of the KALMAN_FILTER.s source code file. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter for details. The filter is named after Rudolf Kalman who recently passed away. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_E._K%C3%A1lm%C3%A1n)
If anyone on FreeBSD wants to try this I just added a port under archivers/lzfse

http://www.freshports.org/archivers/lzfse/
>> > And even in an OO language, no decent practitioner writes one-class-per-object.

> But that's the stereotypical example of OO design. You have duck->paint(), duck->quack(), duck->plunge() all in one class (file) and of course the dependency mess and the scattering of aspects throughout the project.

So much nonsense here. One class per object is absolutely not the stereotypical example of OO design. class != file. And dependency management is usually a problem because junior devs pull in a billion half-baked libraries to solve a problem--it's not an inherent problem with OO and it's certainly not a problem with trying to model the real world.

I'm not even particularly in love with OO. I particularly think that functional paradigms often do a better job of modeling the real world. What I'm really disagreeing with is the claim that modeling the real world is a bad practice.

> And even if you make more classes, so that your design is more like one class per concept/aspect, I think the criticism of Mr. Acton is: if you have many instances of a given class, then there must be a better way than calling a method on each individual instance.

If that was Acton's criticism, then he should have said that instead of saying that "code should be designed around a model of the world" is a lie. Particularly since if you're acting on a large list of objects, then representing it as if you're going through and then each object is acting is a pretty bad representation of reality.

> In other words, the idea is that classes are fine (they promote modularization), but there shouldn't be more than one instance of each class.

Now you're just confused. Acton specifically was criticizing one instance per class in the section I quoted, and now you're saying that's what he's supporting?

And for the record, if there's only one instance of your class, you didn't need a class.
A quick test resutl(zip a 1.5GB file):

lzfse:
real	1m44.481s
user	1m17.956s
sys	0m2.852s

lz4:
real	0m28.136s
user	0m1.200s
sys	0m2.240s

lz4 is much faster somehow. The final size are very close.
Gavel is a project expo judging system
There are already gzip, lzma etc. compression libraries for javascript you could use if you really wanted to do this.
A version of this in NewtonScript http://waltersmith.us/newton/Class-based%20NewtonScript%20Pr...

Probably still one of my favorite languages and the one that taught me prototype-based inheritance was pretty nice.
When experimenting with NOWEB and Java (1.3 I believe) I discovered that one of the things that those LP systems did was encourage something like macro based code re-use, somewhat "lifting" the rather basic language up towards something a little more high level. This was good and bad; bad like unhygienic macros can be bad.

As far as I could figure out it was a poor match for OO/"inheritance oriented" programming. It was a better match for procedural style programming - "writing C in java" - then the LP "macros" didn't confuse things. But when mixing OO-style java, I found things seemed to become uncomfortably verbose.

NOWEB might in some ways be the worst of both worlds - it knows (and cares) nothing about the programming language - but that also means blocks can't be parameterized. This is annoying if you're using variables to hold iterators and state (traversing a graph stored in arrays as edge/node lists etc). You end up with dangerous variable name re-use or code duplication (and too big code blocks).
This is exactly why you are legally entitled to receive a copy of your credit report every year. You can challenge anything on it, and have incorrect information removed.
I think he means Pexels search sucks, not yours. Although he/she is not clear.

Your site does not look like it was made by a beginner. Seriously, is this what beginners can do?

I just did a side by side comparison searching for "ashtray", and your Librestock search actually finds ashtray photos from Pexels that not even Pexels search returns. So I'm quite confident that Pexels search sucks and yours does not suck.
I've tried to play with that before, it is pretty incomprehensible even after reading the descriptions and Wikipedia article.

I feel like the source is likely clearer than that interface...
people could've really used a higher-level language compiling to optimized AGC(apollo computer) assembly. Is there any reason why they didn't develop one? It seems it would've helped tremendously with the productivity and verification (and a lot of the explanations and equations would be readable as code, not as an non-executed comment)
Yes and no. Getting paid to produce a very secure device to their specs would be a great option for survival, provided they don't insert a backdoor because of their customer's demands.
Then somebody should totally install such a device near the shop owner's home. Encompass perhaps.
Second Tesla Accident Is Under Investigation
Why we still don't know our learners
Chef Mary Kay Bader’s Seafood and Coconut Chowder Recipe
Do you think I could install Ubuntu on that?
> I think it will be very hard to implement/enforce this regulation.
The regulation is quite simple and easy to enforce. If they can't explain then it is illegal.

What your example implies is that there are business that doesn't take discrimination laws into account when designing their software, even for sensitive decisions. And enforcing discrimination free decisions is exactly the goal of this law.

I worked for the gambling industry. "changing our software to meet the law is too complicated" never was a valid reasoning, even when complex and extremely hard to fine tune algorithms were at stake.
The Modern Way to Build Your Product Team
Internet porn billing/Paycom came some time before PayPal. See movie "Middle Men" for reference.
Imagine if every time a non Tesla car crashed we had news stories covering it in great detail. This is madness
We did indeed model our Portia on the real spiders. We'd like to think our version is a wee bit cuter...
The regulation element is funny because people blithely assume that changes will always be to ease restrictions. But a significant proportion of the population will reasonably think like me that restricting lead content is just common sense.

Brexit gives an oppurtunity to have more restrictive regulation at some point in the future. And the current government is suprisingly interventionist on many buisness issues. The EU neatly made various issues non-controversial and that may change. Hopefully we can finally reduce fishing to sustainable levels and ban cancer causing pesticides!
Hire for culture fit first
"We are embarrassingly unaware of how divided our societies are."

What do you mean "we", paleface?
Bionic Leaf Turns Sunlight into Liquid Fuel
Watch the landing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_OD2V6fMLQ

During the landing, you'll here mention of 1201 and 1202 alarms. Here's what that's about:

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a11/a11.1201-...

Here's 1201 being called:

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/dc4ea6735c4646...

And 1202:

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/dc4ea6735c4646...