skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although this is good news, it will stop me from injecting a hidden breaking news banner to stop it popping up. Should still be able to block the domain, but that won't cache for as long when off WiFi. [^1]

At least this will stop ISPs like BT from doing deep packet inspection and serving stale pages from their cache. Once it's been rolled out to the news site over the next year, of course.

If they use ChaCha-Poly then the load on low power devices shouldn't be much. I did a lot of reading on this for my recent book and it's pretty good for devices lacking hardware AES acceleration.

[^1]: https://unop.uk/block-bbc-breaking-news-on-all-devices
> The private sector cannot innovate until monetization is in sight

That feels like a sweeping condemnation of R&D in the private sector in general. I know very little on the subject, is there a strong base for this position?
Did anyone else to the following when they were new to git and had to rebase?
1 - Rebase. If no conflicts, great! otherwise,
2 - Abort rebase and merge.

:-)

When I started using git I remembered feeling overwhelmed by rebase because with a merge you only resolved conflicts once, whereas with a rebase you had to continually fix conflicts without knowing when it would end.

It took me a while to finally understand how rebase properly worked and I can finally use it correctly now.
Since the original article is about an EU investigation, I would believe the relevant Wikipedia article is this one:

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

In fact, it is not about being a "monopoly" but about having a "dominant position", which is presumed given Google's market share.
A tangential question related to carbon-free energy production:

Are there companies that do software for nuclear power plant construction? Like modern project management software for nuclear power plants? It seems that a few bigger nuclear projects in Europe (namely in Finland and France) are in trouble mainly due to project management reasons.
> Afford much more of what?

Junk you can buy in a store.

Education, health care and real estate are a totally different matter.
> This is not a moral or even a principled stand against torture. It's a practical and tactical stand.

There's a question here of whether the position was articulated because it is the main reason she opposes torture, or whether it is because it rebuts the main reason supporters of torture advocate that, morality aside, it must be accepted.

Politically, there is utility to highlighting arguments which demonstrate that, even accepting your opponent's decision criteria, your policy is the correct one. So even if you believe it is always morally wrong to torture regardless of utility, it is useful (if you can defend it) to argue that torture is known to not be useful if the main reason your opponents argue for it is its utility.
But they don't need warrants to get information intercepted by Ireland - they freely trade information with their security services
Or maybe they _could_ afford much more if basic necessities such as housing did not swallow up any gain otherwise expected. (Not to mention children, education, healthcare depending on countries).

When 35-50% of your income is taken up by rent, you don't care that much that home appliances cost less than they used to.
This is somewhat available on TripAdvisor if you search for the airport itself by name, e.g. https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Airport-g187337-qFRA-Frankfurt_He...

The airport itself is not gathering ratings, but the restaurants and activities inside it are, and if there's a significant children's playground, it should show up as a rateable attraction under "Things to Do".
Germany doesn't have a command economy either, it's a combination of government incentives, private enterprise, and (semi-)public utilities all going in this direction.
And Windows defaults to IE and Bing search. I don't see any antitrust case against Microsoft for essentially the same thing you are describing.

Or Apple and Safari.
Hi GrantS:
That's pretty close to how it works. We always use the new prediction, even where it's worse than JPEG though (very rarely), to stay consistent.

As for having the mega-model that predicts all images better: well it turns out with the lepton model out you only lose a few tenths of a percent by training the model from scratch on each images individually. We have a test case for training a global model in the archive (it's https://github.com/dropbox/lepton/blob/master/src/lepton/tes... ) That trains the "perfect" lepton model on the current image then uses that same model to compress the image (It's not meant to be a fair test, but it gives us a best-case scenario for potential gains from a model that has been trained from a lot of images) and in this case it doesn't gain much, even in a controlled situation like the test suite.

However the idea you mention here may still be a good idea for a hypothetical model--but we haven't identified that model yet.
I don't disagree, but I do think that the most correct answer to "why do you think people are supporting Trump?" is xenophobia
This is where good opsec would come in. Use postal boxes in many different locations. Be wary of cameras that could get an image of you or your plate. Don't carry your smartphone.
Thats an interesting competitive advantage for USPS.
> Please provide details on funding. Specifically, how much AXA paid?

Dunno, not enough to be broken out on the reports I have. They're not an investor that I've ever met with-- we have a lot of investors. Though it's a cute technique that y'all have been using where you try asking something that would be confidential, to try to inhibit a response on the long list of leading questions that follows.

>> "A couple people out of a community of around 50-200 depending on the phase of the moon."

> Again a lie. The top Core devs are Blockstream employees.

I gave a breakout in another post; if you want to go by top you end up with three out of the top 10, all of whom were founders of the company. wooo.

> Blockstream has created a toxic environment and a huge ivory tower.

What does that even mean? or another way, how could someone falsify that claim?

> Meanwhile 80%+ of the hasrate is concentrated in a single country and in the hands of a handful of entities

Unfortunately, the block size limit was set too large and this created outsized returns for large consolidations. More recent improvements have caught things up a bit but it will take a while for the damage to equalize out.

> People associated with BlockstreamCore support censored and manipulated forums,

What the @#$@ are you talking about? Citations? Or are you just saying that anyone of the vast majority of people who are supportive of our work is "associated"?
Serious analysis irony here - your anecdote doesn't reverse the mountain of data in the other direction.
Twitch HTML5 Video Player Beta Begins Today
There is nothing stopping you from merging the mainline history into your feature branch to pull in the latest changes. In fact you should be doing this every-so-often for any long-lived feature branch, but always before merging into the mainline.
They're the same conflicts they'd have to fix if I pushed a new commit or merged a PR; assuming I made the same changes to code when I force pushed.
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Nest's new product is a $199 security camera that works outdoors
Are you claiming that Google ignores robots.txt?
> I'm a team of 1 and have been for about 4 years

What kind of work do you do?
> Education, health care and real estate are a totally different matter

Yes, and totally inaccessible to the people that the folks in this thread are saying allegedly have a better quality of life because they can afford useless commodities.
Using gwerns data I put together stats on the likelihood that vendors who sell one product sell another here:

http://ryancompton.net/2015/03/24/darknet-market-basket-anal...

All the parsed data is available as a csv as well. I was surprised how well substance relationships could be recovered from vendor co listings
They almost always are in my experience.
Yes, the show is making the world a better place.
How to approach tough conversations
I guess in that position, I'd take them with me to the handicapped stall and ask them to inspect the wall for a few minutes. :/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/core/lw/2.0/html/tileshop_pmc/ti...

Right,

What is the difference between Civil/Environmental and Environmental ?

It seems the best bet is to study something like mining since the R_0 is so low there.
Is JPEG, PNG, etc a container format that could use arbitrary compression, like MKV? Or do we need a brand new format.
Government axes climate department
Generating Functions and their applications may be of interest to you.

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

A PDF on the topic: https://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/gfology2.pdf

I was introduced to them in Concrete Mathematics by Graham, Knuth, and Patashnik, but then got to see their application in later statistics courses.
> In fact, it is not about being a "monopoly" but about having a "dominant position"

While there is a (apparently nonconclusive) presumption raised by market share, the test for "dominant position" seems to be a power-to-take-action test very similar to the pricing power test for "monopoly" -- "A firm is in a dominant position if it has the ability to behave independently of its competitors, customers, suppliers and, ultimately, the final consumer. A dominant firm holding such market power would have the ability to set prices above the competitive level to sell products of an inferior quality or to reduce its rate of innovation below the level that would exist in a competitive market."

[0] http://www.concurrences.com/Droit-de-la-concurrence/Glossair...
Cloud9 has been a great partner to the Rails Tutorial, with their custom Rails Tutorial workspace allowing readers to spin up quickly at the beginning, while also maintaining state if they need to take a break. It's also enormously less overhead that downloading and installing a virtual machine.

There's no telling what this acquisition will bring, of course, but it's a good fit for AWS, so I'm optimistic that the service will continue uninterrupted. (Both the 3rd and 4th edition Rails Tutorial screencasts use Cloud9, so I sure hope so!)

Congratulations to Ruben and the rest of the Cloud9 team!
Unfortunately, decisions are made at the margin[1], so high marginal rates cause extreme distortions and "deadweight loss"[2] -- i.e., a loss of X dollars' worth that corresponds to less than X dollars of gain for the government.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginalism

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadweight_loss
I definitely laid out what I consider the "gold standard". Most open source projects hit some, but not all of the items on the list, for various reasons – and that's okay. It's certainly time consuming to work on some of these items, and the cost/benefit of each should be evaluated individually.

But there are quite a few developers that work on SDKs as a full time job, so hopefully they'll pick up on some of the items in the talk :^)

(as for the fragmentation in the iOS ecosystem in general… that's a topic in and of itself)
right. Many top violinists do have that access, yes?
How is infinite growth physically impossible? Human demand for goods, services, experiences, etc is insatiable. And production will meet demand.
Or... The probe kept going for five years because it failed to turn up anything interesting. The length of an investigation is usually a poor measure of its merit.
> You are basically saying you are entitled to using DO's legal staff and financial resources in addition to the hosting you've paid for.

No, what I'm saying is that DO must already do this to some degree if they are handling requests, as otherwise I could send letters claiming trademark/copyright infringement for any number of things and get many customers shut down. If they have internal guidelines for what they do in cases when trademark/copyright infringement, I expect they follow those. I also expect that those policies do the minimum legally required of them. That's not because it's cheaper and garners good will from customers (it does), but because to do otherwise is taking sides in a legal situation without being an appointed arbiter of the law. Not only is this excessive, but it's anti-customer.

If DO is doing what they think they must by law, I have no problem with that, as long as that is clearly explained. In the case we were previously talking about, the statement from DO (at the motherboard article) is somewhat ambiguous as to why they did what they did. Per DigitalOcean’s terms of service, a final reminder was issued to our customer and, when no action was taken, access to the content was disabled. Was the take down required by law, or was DO overly aggressive in handling it? Without a statement as to why, (and I think that given some people's assertion that they went beyond what was legally required of them), their reasoning is somewhat ambiguous, and harder to call into question. If they clearly define they enforced their TOS based on what they believe is a legally required of them, then we can look at the law and their actions and evaluate whether that's true, and if it's not, DO can learn from the experience or be called out as a company that is capricious in their execution of the law.

What it boils down to is that "We received a complaint infringement. We enforced our TOS and shut down access to the content in question." leaves a lot open for assumption. I would be much happier if it was "We received a complaint infringement and as we believe is legally required of us we enforced our TOS and shut down access to the content in question." It's a small change, but it allows customers (and critics) a much clearer view on how DO handles situations like this, and allows for the public to make an informed choice on whether they think DO was correct in their actions (whether they really were legally required to do so). It's subtle, but I think it's a very, very important distinction.
It is countering your assertion that switching costs are low. It is not easy for a new player to enter the market on an equal footing with Google.
>As such, it’s critical that you write your SDK in Objective-C so that the people that don’t ship Swift can actually use your SDK.

I'm not an iOS developer but aren't Swift and Objective C files interchangeable?
Pinterest acquires the team behind Highlight and Shorts
Cryptocurrencies without Proof of Work
This is no longer true. A new feature release [0] now allows you to view page 1 of HN for a given date.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073675
It improves surface contact. That it works isn't a myth at all. Many people mistakenly put the blame on dust, thinking that blowing on it remove the dust which made it work.

It's not great for it in the long term, though, but hardly as damaging as much of the smug internet would want people to believe.
Protectionism kinda works, yeah. Globalization increases the profits of the companies that can take advantage of it, but it also has major downsides for all the local people who can't compete. On average, the "economy" might go up even when lots of individual people are being put out of work or taking much lower-paying jobs. You can either tax the increased profits and distribute them to the under-employed workers so they maintain a decent income, or limit globalization so they can keep their old jobs.
It's important to remember that this was never a first-choice treatment for seizures. VNS was only viewed as a worthwhile course to pursue after trying an exhaustive list of drugs.

From an FDA hearing on VNS: "there were patients who were very good responders, becoming essentially seizure-free, as well as patients who were poor responders, having 100 percent or greater increase in their seizure frequency," and it was very difficult to predict how a given patient would respond. [1]

[1] http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/AC/97/transcpt/3299t1.pdf p127
Because the entire point of writing a framework is for other people to use it, which is a pretty strong pull towards the lowest common denominator.
Hi - I am the Eclipse Che project lead.

Cloud 9 and Eclipse Che are different beasts. The primary difference is around the definition of a workspace. Eclipse Che workspaces have an encapsulation that include their runtimes and a self-hosted IDE. This, then, allows you to run Eclipse Che as a workspace server on any server or desktop. And since the workspaces are defined with configuration files you can move workspaces from one server to another.

The SDK is entirely open source - with no restrictoins, so there is a development model for how to customize both the IDE and the workspace.

Since workspaces embed their own runtimes, you can use Dockerfiles to create completely customized stacks. And we'll be supporting composefiles shortly.

We built Che this way to encourage ISVs to adopt for ucsotmization while also providing a simple IDE for developers. Codenvy uses Che to build out a distributed system that they host at beta.codenvy.com and also is installable by customers behind their firewall.

Cloud 9 is primarily a fully hosted SaaS with their IDE. The IDE features are similar but different, with C9 having more work around collaboration of users within the shared environment.

There is more details beyond this - but this is the essence.
I have more or less the same problem coming from vi(m). I forced myself to use Emacs for about 2-3 months to get past the "this is hard because it is unfamiliar" stage.

I found Emacs to be relatively pleasant as an environment for hacking source code but I was nowhere near the same level of proficiency at editing with it after several months of usage compared to where I was within a few weeks of forcing myself to learn vi(m).

Emacs has a lot going for it as far as out of the box functionality and the ease of installing packages but it seems that unless you want to take the time to dive deep and learn the minutiae of elisp and configuration you are never really going to become super proficient with it.

The one thing I did come away with after using Emacs was that swapping ctrl/capslocks is the best thing ever and helps even with vi(m) and I now do that for all my environments even though I never touch Emacs anymore.
Same as compsci students at TU Munich, if Prof. Rybalchenko does the intro to functional programming course.

I really enjoyed it and found it much better suited for students than other languages, especially with the book by Gert Smolka.
>> So when you change job of your own initiative, it is assumed that you first get a new position, then give a notice and start your new position.

> It's pretty much the same in Europe

Not exactly. If I understand things correctly, in US when your employer fires
you the very same day you're unemployed. There's no mandatory notice period.
In Europe, there usually is a notice period guaranteed in employment laws, so
if you're fired, you can still find a job before termination.
The people who distribute food aid are generally not mostly astronauts. Europe's economy is not without serious problems, yet the same people who would otherwise be charged with considering those instead busy themselves with critical study of search results. That doesn't seem to be exactly the same situation.
Tesla should deactivate Autopilot steering
What the article curiously doesn't talk about it the fact that the non-academic job market at PhD level collapsed in 2007. In the news yesterday: even more cutbacks at Merck. The degree of offshoring and outsourcing that happened since 2003 in chemistry and the life sciences is incredible to anyone not in the field.
Your FICO score
Whatever, speculation is WAY more fun than empathy. (-:
Signs of Thaw in Once-Frosty SDN Relationship Between Cisco and VMware
Line is a fad like Facebook is a fad then. Pretty much every single person in Japan with a smartphone has the app and it is the standard way to communicate. I didn't need a phone plan when I lived there because I ended up making maybe 5 actual phone calls over the course of 3 years because LINE totally served my needs.

The only people I met with a Facebook were people who liked traveling and were actively looking for English speaking friends.
Category Theory by J. Klein
Also worth a look depending on your needs:
https://codenvy.com/ (based on open source eclipse che IDE)
http://www.koding.com/ (easy hybrid local IDE and/or cloud IDE integration)
Where can one find these free bank loans? Seems like a good opportunity.
I'm not sure that's the case for Line. I've used Line only sparingly, but I live in South Korea, which has KakaoTalk, the chat app usually described as being to Korea what Line is to Japan (or vice-versa, since Line was patterned after Kakao). Their UX is very similar.

KakaoTalk is huge. It's hard to separate from being Korean. Everybody has it by default. It's the standard way to communicate. It's used for notifications. The merchandising is everywhere, from its own retail stores to branded products on every corner. The characters are beloved. A new sticker pack is a highlight of the day. Using stickers well is a significant element of social eloquence. There's no laptop screen without it; if people are seen typing into a phone it's probably what they are typing into. KakaoTalk is so fundamental to Korean daily life, it's more like ... the water supply. It's a fact of being here and not there. It's culture.

Will KakaoTalk perish one day? Maybe. The open standards and anti-surveillance ideologist in me adds "hopefully". But if it does it will nonetheless have provided the substrate for an entire generation, a vast moment in time. Innovators may shrug, technologists may shrug - but if the whole thing we do is about building civilization and facilitating culture, as I believe it is, KakaoTalk is factually that in action. Some fad that is.
Those people are wrong, and there isn't room: tax revenues has been roughly constant across enormously varying [1] rates. An increase in rates will scare marginal workers (people near retirement, moonlighters, the lower-earning member of a couple) off the labor market, and direct more efforts into reclassifying consumption as a business expense, canceling much of the increase in revenues, while leaving significant economic waste in its wake.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauser%27s_law
just like the sun burns up all its hydrogen stores eventually, the earth will eventually give up the last of its natural resources. Sooner, rather than later if we keep up at this pace. Unlike the suns nuclear process, though, our use of resources is unnaturally accelerated.
This article is about Europe - I'm guessing you are from the US, based on your Firefox defaulting to Yahoo.
Almost every person in Taiwan has LINE, too. Something like 75% of the country has an account.
I liken this to a student pilot learning to fly in brand new Cirrus. Very quickly he'll be flying advanced missions, but at the expense of fundamental stick and rudder skills.
Any time I read anything about the illegal drug trade I am struck by how much the industry would change if all drugs were legalized everywhere. So much effort is expended to keep things hidden from law enforcement and other criminals that it adds an incredible amount of friction to the purchasing process for the purchaser and the seller.

From the buyer's perspective you now have to go into business with some often unsavory people just to get high. From the seller's perspective you have to make sure that the buyer isn't law enforcement and also not someone who is going to rob you because you have zero legal recourse. It's really a shitty experience for everyone involved. Considering how shitty that experience is it says a lot about people and their desire to take drugs that the market continues to exist and basically never stops serving the customer.

It really seems like when confronted with something inevitable, like drug use and sales, the effort to prevent it may be more costly and damaging than just allowing it to happen in a more controlled environment.