skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if it took an ancient machine 10x longer than a 2012 MacBook air, that 61 milliseconds more is really not all that much time in the grand scheme of things.

I'm sure the people using these machines that are "much older and much less powerful" than a 2012 macbook air are not expecting sites to load as fast as a newer machine, and probably don't care about the loss of less than 0.1 seconds to load time. If you're running a 6+ year old machine and expecting high performance you'd have to be insane.

Even if BBCOnline cared this intensely about performance, there are more than a few other things they could do to speed everything up. The switch from Apache to NGINX for one. I know that this takes many more developer/sysadmin hours, but if they really cared about a tens of milliseconds then it is definitely something they'd invest in. NGINX has quite a lot of support and is very stable, as well as generally known to much faster than Apache in most cases [1]. It's also not like NGINX is a hipster/unused server, it has quite a respectable share of the 'market' [2].

I also noticed on this page that they docwrite a script (probably to force it async?). This type of 'hack' is terrible for performance [3]. You could just add the 'async' attribute to the script tag and actually move it in the html and reduce the cycles wasted by a hacky solution.

[1]: https://www.rootusers.com/web-server-performance-benchmark/
[2]: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2016/03/18/march-2016-web-...
[3]: https://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2012/04/10/dont-docwrite-s...
Would I be able to run Sublime there?
You're talking about national accounting, I'm talking about a crumbling city . . .
False equivalence.

If you get into a taxi or a bus, there's still a human driver who has the same survival instinct that you have. If he has to run someone over so that he can survive, he likely will, saving you too in the process.

This isn't about systems being perfect, it's about whether the system should err on the side of protecting the car's occupants or on minimizing casualties overall.
Dr Pepper is obviously different.

I used to drink a ton of Coke and I guarantee I could tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi. These days I rarely drink soda, and while I think I could tell the difference, I could probably be fooled.
That is because they aren't a monopoly (40% US market share for phones).
I own about half of these too. Been on a little collecting spree lately. But this is a definite buy. Can keep my other Nintendo hooked up to the projector, and put this one in the arcade cabinet.
This has very little to do with graphql. The DRF is to get a solid json api up and running quickly. The standard it ships with conforms to the http://jsonapi.org/ spec. Which came mostly from the Rails community and many projects built in different stacks conform to.

If you're familiar with Rails it's like https://github.com/rails-api/rails-api which was recently merged into Rails in v5.

You could totally add a graphql endpoint to any api `/graphql?[your GQL query here]`. We're currently exploring adding that to our Django/DRF backend with one of these https://github.com/chentsulin/awesome-graphql#lib-py
"Similarly, you don't need to research your grocery store's meat selling policies to ensure you're not getting rotten meat."

That is a poor analogy. There actually is a lot of research needed in order to get right the edible food, including meat. We just did it in time, collectively, over many generations; then each of us just learned it all from others (parents, mostly). That's how we come to figure out that that piece of meat is not safe to eat if it smells bad and a lot of other important cues. And despite all that, dilettante individual observation can give us only so many results, and that's why there actually was necessary additional professional research that in time got institutionalized and the selling policies - rigorously regulated.
They've changed it, check the commit history. This entire debate is thankfully irrelevant now.
"Published" in scare quotes. By definition, preprints are not reviewed. It's like a Wordpress for scientific papers. It was created so that researchers could get their work out to their peers quickly rather than waiting for the necessarily long review process. Or mass mailing PDFs.

Unless the author(s) of something on the arXiv is established, and the paper says something like "submitted to so-and-so journal", you should take everything in arXiv with heaps of salt.
They can ban someone from using AR inside the store to protect their brand. But making it illegal for Burger King buy AR ads that display inside the store - I wonder if there's some precedent with radio
Anyways...

Part of ffmpeg open-source library

http://www.ffmpeg.org/~michael/ffv1.html
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> And Google dictates the rules of the auction marketplace.

Every company "dictates the rules" on which its sells product. Pricing power -- the key test in antitrust for a monopoly -- requires that they be able to change those rules so as to raise prices within some range without business moving to alternatives; in the case of AdWords, it would mean that Google could make it more expensive for the same results without any net migration to any other advertising vendor.

Is that the case? I don't see compelling evidence either way.
Glad to hear that GitLab will be on top of your list if you have to start interviewing again :)
I know what a thread is. I thought you meant something special with "thread of control".
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For products of some sophistication, OEMs still use value-added resellers (VARs) because they want to address a larger market than those that can setup Linux VMs, configure advanced firewall rules, etc. Many businesses also want some sort of local support if something goes wrong.
That's nothing compared to LenPEG 3 http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/lenpeg.html

>For the standard test image the new LenPEG 3 compresses the image so efficiently that data storage space is actually freed on the computer right up to the entire capacity of the storage devices
I pay Hulu to not have ads and then we still get promos on kids channels.
I completely disagree, there is a lot of semantically valid information in the talk, like "make file paths configurable". Is that really only applicable to iOS? I think not.
Is anyone aware of any Forth or Forth-like language for JVM or (ideally) Dalvik? Ideally, with a REPL allowing to access all Android APIs and create callbacks/interface implementations... super-ideally, statically-typed... eh, one can dream. By the way, a ML-like would fit me even more. (Or a statically-typed LISP.)
I don't think you can just run 'sed' on any random iOS app, any random symbian app, any random smart-TV app, some other guy's service that hits your APIs and feeds, and so on... :)
> (or worse, they'll block everything but 80/443 outbound)

Or worse, they'll do deep packet inspection to make sure you are not using SSH. My high school did this, and I ended up stuck with Cloud9 instead of using my real server at home. Glad to be out of there.
Hi, would love to hear all the feedback. Thanks!
Thanks for posting that. I didn't read the article, because as soon as I clicked through, I got a notification about notifications and a banner ad. Closed the tab.
The biggest Polish software news site removed Maxthon from its database: http://www.dobreprogramy.pl/Maxthon-to-spyware.-Polscy-badac...
That's scary honestly. Thanks for sharing at least.
For the palette look at http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes

in general I found this talk to have some interesting recommendations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKpfO331DY4
> They did censure completely unreasoned before and lied several times about different relevant things, who cares what they say now.

Please source if you make such claims
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And then you've got former RNC Chairman and Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2010/08/rnc-chair-mehlman-ga...
This sounds like what I need. I was going to use a r-pi to run a small server to connect other security things to outside clients, but I guess I'll just build a box running debian and load it with a bunch of storage to hold video recording.
I was under the impression that blowing into it caused some moisture to get there and improve the .. conduction?
I spent double my budget on my last road bike when I decided to go all-carbon, and my rationale was I'd be more likely to ride it if I spent way too much money on it. That was CERTAINLY the case, at least for the first few years.
I'm really glad that ModelSerializer classes now require either fields or exclude. IMHO not requiring that before was one of the biggest weaknesses of the project, since it could easily lead to data being unintentionally exposed.

I know that's maybe not the most exciting change, but I think it's important that it be very obvious what the code does even if a person isn't an expert in a given technology, especially when there are privacy/security implications.
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Also, airports with family restrooms and/or nursing rooms. Nothing is more fun than enduring stares while I try to provide some semblance of privacy for my wife at the gate.
So essentially the only difference between the test that you proposed and what was conducted is that yours is longer and the conducted test was double blind?
Now, that could be a valid issue, indeed, though not sure for how long I care about those devices continuing to work without any valid upgrade path... Using things like HSTS and CSP's `upgrade-insecure-requests` would help here for clients that do support it.
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12094866
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SPOILERS:

Regarding the uncanny valley effect, the reality illusion isn't broken for me since it so much more realistic than any popular media depiction of infosec/hacking.

A lot of the details are correct: leading spaces to omitting bash commands, the use of Kali Linux by Darlene, and the basic concepts of the first season's attack. Certain corporate names are changed ("Steel Mountain" for example), but trivially refer back to real entities.

Compare it to the Matrix Reloaded, in which Trinity broke into a physical location to run an ssh exploit, with no explanation.

Regarding the website, I think it's just an humorous easter egg. There are a lot in the show. For example, the premier also contains a QR code that briefly appears in Elliot's journal. If you scan that QR code it will point you to conficturaindustries.com

Follow the white rabbit (or Google) from there. 52. Don't worry, that number will be clear later.

They don't say whether the files were decrypted. The ransom note and call imply that they did, but it was never revealed explicitly. Darlene's character is an anarchist, so it's also possible she didn't.
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LN doesn't even exist. There's no design for how it will function at scale as dishonestly advertised.
the ironic thing is that tidbits like this are a great way to teach young kids about science. instead we just had to hear about how video games made you stupid and ruin our cartridges by blowing into them or snapping them into place.
The trouble with rating flights is that unlike hotels I can't imagine too many people being minded to rate them unless they had a particularly unpleasant experience

Can't help thinking that the TripAdvisor's existing qualitative data on seat pitches from SeatGuru plus reliable statistical data on flight timings, and on time performance is going to be more informative. Skytrax have been ranking airline overall experiences for years as well.
Yes, the length is critical.
The problem with that is that as a CEO, you are responsible for the results. So you cannot ignore the problems just because one of your employees says it is the correct way.

My approach is to hold myself from telling the designers what to do, and instead tell them what the problem is and let them come up with a solution.
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Looks like a product of German engineering, so what?
I thought about that, but i both used it and provided a link which is the expanded form. Granted, it's in reverse order, but /shrug.

Also, i did not complain at all - i was confused and posted it to help others. You start off assuming i had negative intentions, and i don't appreciate that. I was simply helping.
Renewable energy supply strongly depends on weather forecast so essentially one needs a good algorithm for weather forecast. Yet, forecasting energy supply is much easier if all generators are integrated into one power grid because it is necessary to predict average supply for a (large) reagion.
Great work. Ensuring bit-by-bit identical output and compressing an extra 22% is amazing.

> For those familiar with Season 1 of Silicon Valley, this is essentially a “middle-out” algorithm.

I really wish that every single compression-related blog post would stop referencing Silicon Valley.
> Freely available information, lack of privacy, and a vastly more educated populace would nip that sucker in the bud

The evidence of the popularity of some of the sillier conspiracy theories - even or especially amongst the relatively well-educated - would suggest otherwise...
It's fine for most computer users, but not most Photoshop users.
I've been playing guitar (and other stringed && fretted instruments) for around 23 years (including a music major in college).

I don't think old guitars are inherently better, and I have gotten my hands on some rather amazing pieces (1914 Gibson Loar F5, 1959 Les Paul, 1955 Telecaster, etc) and they were really fun. I've also played some guitars that people like collecting that were absolute garbage instruments, including a 1966 Gibson 330 that was just horrid.

But here's the weird thing that I do not understand, the hallmark of a great guitar to me isn't the sound, it's the "songs stored in it". Yea, that's some hippie-woo-bullshit, but almost every guitar I pick up that I like has me instantly playing something that I've never played before in my life. Some guitars, despite being technically excellent, just don't have them in there. Other guitars, if I pick them up in the studio I've suddenly written some really interesting pieces.

This probably actually just comes down to comfort, feedback loop response of sound, weight, small details, etc. I don't think there's any memory to an instrument that stores these; but at the same time, I can go through a wall of guitars and pick out my favorite ones this way. There is only a slight correlation to price/age on these.
Yes, several million Treos alone were sold, and the Palm ecosystem was much larger than just the Treo line. http://blog.treonauts.com/2006/03/sales_double_ov.html

For a number of years, Palm OS was the dominant mobile ecosystem, with sales almost double of its main competitor WindowsCE.
Not an expert, but here's a pragmatic thought for you. You probably aren't the next Notch, there's a good chance no one will pay for your game before it's done. You can put off monetization, once you have a good idea what your game will be you can look for similar games then price similarly, or use similar pricing models.
Rebasing isn't just about a clean project history, IMO. I'd much rather find out about a merge conflict I've created when applying a small commit to the tip of master, than when smashing two development histories together.
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> So why not make a service for arxiv papers or any other source of resources and have experts critique them?

Yeah I think this would be a great idea. If you had the capture ability of sci-hub with the invite ability of quora to get experts to critic papers. Then add on-top of that some simple blog features like top highlight, sharing, subscribe to citation links, and comment/discussion (that matches HN's no counter productive comments/etc).

The large obstacle would be paywalls - like sci-hub; any attractive paper would be illegal to have on the service; if you simply pulled from pre-prints (arxiv; plos pre-print, etc..) you will probably lose academic disciplines that do not value these services (biology primarily comes to mind). On the other hand, CS would probably embrace it as a complement to their conference publishing culture.
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More like Swedish.
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Yeah. For that you should try Realpython [0]. Minimal but best.
[0] https://realpython.com/blog/python/django-rest-framework-qui...
You need to trust the bank's network security more than you trust the ATM itself.

There were some high profile breaches at some retailers in the past couple years that exploited some 0days. How can you defend your POS/ATM against a 0day if the retailer/bank has bad network security practices?
don't get this one, where is the code and how can I try it out? if it's so good I would assume dropbox have found it instead of doing lepton.
That doc is dated 2010. Further proof docs lie ;)

But as other people said, no idea if it was copied and pasted into the django codebase or rewritten from scratch.. but everything South did, I believe Django now does.
You didn't mention githost.io, is it a non-significant part of revenue (yet)?
Yeah, there's no effort to direct or encode intent. It's just producing what it probabilistically wants to produce. If it happens to run...cool?

Here's a interesting example from Google DeepMind learning to generate code for Magic The Gathering and Hearthstone: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.06744v2.pdf
Great. Can we start doing this for the economy, already?
haven't people written tools to help with this?

Let's say you have a web page with a javascript slippy map that imports openlayers from a CDN; and openlayers then retrieves map tiles from openstreetmap.

If you serve that page over https but the javascript CDN url is http, the javascript library won't load. And if the js CDN supports https and you switch to it, the library might still compose a http URL to retrieve the map tiles - causing some browsers to block the tiles as mixed content. Other browsers are willing to load http images on https pages and will work. Unless the tool understands how the map library composes its URLs, someone will have to fix this manually.

To detect bugs like that automatically, after changing to https you'd have to spider every page in your site with several different browsers / browser configurations looking for errors and bad links. And if your archived site had a bunch of errors and bad links to start with, you'll need some way to compare the before-and-after error reports too.

TLDR: It can be more complicated than you think.
It's misleading of you to attempt to make such a blatantly false equivalence. The DNC isn't pushing or even recognizing homeopathic therapy as part of their official party platform. You know that.

The few people in the Democratic party who believe in homeopathy and UFOs are considered nut cases and marginalized -- it's not official dogma promoted by the leaders of the party and written into the official platform, the way conversion therapy and climate change denial and marriage inequality are part of the official Republican Party platform and ideology.

Don't be coy about the plausibly deniable wording. Everybody knows what the dog whistles signify.
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This is exactly the same argument as "Why go to space when there are starving children in Africa."
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"we need to accept that there is some value..."

Perhaps. What we don't need to accept are the claims of Stradivarius fanbois that insist there is some unquantifiable aural superiority to their favorite instrument that only they have been blessed with the ability to perceive. It's bunk, and this study has been a small victory for rational thinking. So feel free to cling to whatever intangible you wish, but I feel no loss here; I celebrate whenever we can finally dispense with yet another fetid accumulation of nonsense and its purveyors.
Yes, ads are annoying, a security risk, and obstruct content, but: they also are a deliberate attempt to subconsciously influence my decision making. Saying, "here is this product you may not have known about, here is what it does" is one thing. Showing me pictures of attractive people to trick me into associating <brand> with <good feels> is malicious.

Why would I agree to that?
Not. Funny.
It's a joke, as evidenced by:

> LenPEG compresses the image into a file of minimal size: one bit.
It's a hard problem. If you prioritize everything, say some decentralized source, it becomes a shit show of junk where it's impossible to discern what is relevant.

If we curate, then we're at the mercy of the curator's judgement and personal interests.
> Unless the author(s) of something on the arXiv is established, and the paper says something like "submitted to so-and-so journal", you should take everything in arXiv with heaps of salt.

This implies the broad sweep that anything that passes peer review is more valid than anything that does not. I do not feel comfortable with such an argument.
> Secular materialism is a conclusion based on evidence.

No, its not. Secular materialism is an epistemology in which conclusions based on externally-verifiable empirical evidence are held to be the only justified claims of knowledge.

> And, BTW, if secular materialism is wrong, then the way to demonstrate that is to show evidence that it is wrong.

This rests itself on the assumption that secular materialism is correct (that is, it assumes tthat conclusions based on externally-verifiable empirical evidence are the only justified claims of knowledge.)

> And if you want to claim that secular materialism is circular then the way to show that is to show how it is circular

Secular materialism itself is not circular.

The claim that secular materialism is true because it is not shown to be wrong within the epistemological framework which secular materialism defines is, OTOH, circular.
You might not care, but the BBC does — it's one of the issues they mention in the blog post.

If the BBC "channels" stopped working, but other providers' content continues to work, the BBC would be blamed.
As soon as the Ad-Network zeitgeist gets their grubby hands on this any potential future of a good gaming experience is gone. The game isn't great by itself, but the idea is gold and mated with the perfect franchise. I've been loyal with the hope that they'll introduce more content in the future and address their current problems.

The moment I saw this news about ads I uninstalled on the spot. It's dead to me now.
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Not seeing anything there that looks like a street from street level. Mostly talking-head video.
If Scotland manages to successfully secede and stay in the EU, they'll be even more effective at poaching the UK's tech world.
I will just note that the Librarian of Congress is responsible for exceptions to the DMCA.
"When presented with an image, the LenPEG 3 algorithm uses the following steps:

Is the image Lenna? If yes, delete all other data on the computer's storage devices. If no, proceed to the next step..."
They could print the color, they're just inept. There are amany printing companies around the world, even in the U.S., who can properly print properly prepared files, as I've described. And no doubt they'd like to have your business. The attachment to printing companies that do things wrong is why they continue to do things wrong rather than modernize.
Eh, these things are hit and miss. I have one of those $20 clones that accepts the original cartridges. Performance is pretty bad; the sound is miserable.
It's a "joke". Not a very funny one, though.